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And got some trade that are happening. Yeah, it's good. It's good

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gonna take a break, come back
and talk Chicago Blackhawks. Welcome mad back

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to the show. Ben Pope of
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talk about the Chicago Blackhawks. How
you doing today, Ben, I'm doing

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well. Thanks for having me.
All right, we're ready to talk some

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Blackhawks. A little bit happier talking
this year than it was a year or

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two ago. One guy, it
turns out, can't quite immediately save the

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franchise. Maybe he will, but
it won't be instantaneous. We learned this

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year the Hawks were engaged in what
we call the productive struggle once again,

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this kind of at the bottom of
the rankings in the NHL, but increasing

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their attendants nine point four percent and
becoming a fairly hot ticket on the road

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on the ice, fewest goals in
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shooting percentage. Things were not much
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Save percentage was twenty fifth and the
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and eighty nine. I could probably
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the point here because the last year's
black Hawks team was not about winning the

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Stanley Cup. We're going to get
to the man himself that's in the middle

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of this rebuild. But how do
you think Hawks fans think of this past

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year the Hawk's brass, How do
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it? And can we expect a
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I think most fans so far have
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So we're about two and a half
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and this is basically the second season
of tanking this past year. Obviously they

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had been dark, but they didn't
have a lot of talent around him,

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and they weren't really trying to assemble
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to get another top five draft pick, and that's exactly what they did.

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They'll have the number two pick coming
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was mission accomplished for this past season. But I think they were hoping to

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maybe be a little bit more successful, win a few more games than they

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did, and there were a lot
of injuries that factored in and guys that

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didn't really live up to expectations in
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any of that. It's a really
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weren't really trying to do much last
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that there is a lot of patients
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and saying at the end of the
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to start building things up and start
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signal to the fans that their patients
will pay often that things will start looking

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brighter as we go forward. So
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this coming season, then I think
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in the fan base and people will
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but for now it seems like things
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And the main guy who's definitely on
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start with him. As we're recording
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he's still only eighteen the mid July
birth date. Played all of his rookie

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season as an eighteen year old,
and I would say that he was either

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as advertised or better for most people's
money. Twenty two goals and thirty nine

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assists in sixty eight games was the
stat line. I'm not sure what impresses

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me more, the goals or the
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that's a pretty high assist total.
Seventy four point pace. Being the focal

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point of every opponent's defense, I
think was pretty special. And what did

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you think of his freshman campaign and
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Do you think he can get higher
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Yeah, the expectations and the pressure
was obviously sky high for Bdard coming

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in, and the fact that he
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is a really good sign moving forward. This was always going to be a

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year for him figuring out the NHL
and integrating in and doing it with not

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a ton of help around him.
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challenge for him. And it wasn't
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the fact that he was able to
come close to a point per game was

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really encouraging. He was doing this
most of the year with Nick Folino and

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Philip Kurashev as his linemates. Compared
to a lot of other players who played

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that seventy four point pace around the
league. That just shows how much more

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potential he has. He certainly a
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They found a bit of a connection, even though they struggled defensively together.

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Fellino was all right in that role. They tried a few other guys out,

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like Ryan Donado, even Rim Pittlick, Anthony Bovillier, but weren't able

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to find a ton of success on
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him. But Dard was certainly everything
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think when there's guys around him who
will create more space for him and can

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make better passes and finish off his
passes, we're only going to see that

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total go up. And also as
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and gets to know each opponent's tendencies
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and what he can't do at this
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ton of improvement ahead for him.
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he gets above a point per game
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he's already so close is a really
good sign for that. It's not the

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best news when the second player we're
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and that is Taylor Hall. His
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He blew an ACL in early November. He actually had already missed a couple

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games to that point. He still
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to sync with the Duard, and
he is only two years old still,

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so he's not that agent. He's
had a heck of a career and seems

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like a very nice compliment. In
fairness, his first five games were with

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Bidard, while his last five after
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and others not with Biduard, but
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coming year with his comeback, and
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he going to play with Connor?
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honestly, what Hall's role and what
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year. Obviously, coming off a
really major surgery, didn't really get to

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play much at all last year,
as he mentioned, and he had obviously

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been brought in to be Badard's kind
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guy to help him integrate into the
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At kurshev ended up being more of
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But I think if Hall checks every
box and looks like the player he used

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to be in training camp, that
role will certainly be open to him on

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the first line. We'll see who
the Blackhawks bring in this summer. I

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think they're probably going to try to
add another top six forward or to put

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a little bit more competition for that
role. But I certainly it's not out

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of the question that Hull could still
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It's just really hard to predict what
he'll look like. I know he was

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eager last year to prove that he
hadn't declined, that he still had what

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he used to have and that he
was pass his injury issues, and that

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obviously didn't really work out in any
front. So I'm sure he'll be motivated

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to do that again this coming year, but we'll see if it works out

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for him. I think the one
maybe encouraging Steign is that his recovery from

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the ACL surgery went really smoothly from
everything I heard, and he was able

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to resume practicing with the team the
last week of the regular season, so

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set himself up to have a pretty
full off season of training rather than finishing

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his rehab during the summer. So
ideally he'll come into training camp with a

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little bit more practice underneath him and
less rust to scrape off. So I

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think that that could work in his
favor. But it is going to be

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really interesting to see when training camp
rolls around, how he looks and what

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role he settles into, because it's
hard right now to really say for sure

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what that's going to look like.
Philip Kurushev an ethnic Russian born in Switzerland

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who played juniors in Canada and now
holds a significant role on a US team

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because that's hockey. For as rough
as the season was, tip your hat

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to Kurushev for a career year.
Fifty four points in seventy five games was

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more than he had scored in any
two years of his career and placed him

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second on the team in points.
Despite missing seven games. He led the

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forward core on the team in time
on ice. He has another year before

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restricted free agency, pretty cheap contract. Is Krushev just a matter of somebody

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filling the vacuum on the offense and
or playing with Connor Bedard or is Kurushev

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going to be a significant contributor going
forward in a part of the Blackhawks long

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term plan. He's certainly benefited from
being Badar, There's no doubt about that.

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But also he played well with Badard, whereas other forwards they tried in

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that role didn't have the same chemistry. So that's certainly a credit to him

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that he was able to figure out
the best way to play to compliment a

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guy like that, And I think
they developed a pretty good friendship off the

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ice too. By the midpoint of
the season, it was pretty clear that

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those were the two guys that the
Hawks were going to be running with the

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rest of the year. Barring I
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forward in terms of his finishing ability. He was a lot more efficient than

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they had been the years before.
He learned how to be more of a

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complimentary player, where has he had
the puck on his stick a little bit

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more in previous years, albeit not
in that first line role. He's always

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been the talented guy. I remember
back in the twenty twenty one season,

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with no fans in Detroit, he
just pulled off an absolutely unbelievable goal,

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deaking through three guys and scoring one
of the prettiest goals I've seen covering this

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team. And that was his rookie
year. So he's always had that dynamic

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offensive ability, but just maybe not
the consistency and the efficiency that you'd like

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to see from a guy like that, and he did find that this year.

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So while if he's not with Badard
next year, I wouldn't expect him

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to put up that same kind of
point total. I think he did unlock

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a new level in his game,
nonetheless, and also set him set himself

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up to be in the conversation to
to play with Badard and they maybe even

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if he doesn't start there, if
something doesn't click or if someone else gets

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injured, you would expect him to
probably get a shot at recreating what they

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had last year. So, as
you mentioned, he does have another year

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on his contract, and considering his
production before last season, they he wasn't

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super high value players. So if
he can repeat that or come close to

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repeating that again, he could be
in line for a much bigger payday next

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summer. Definitely another interesting guy to
watch on the forward side. Next up,

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we're going to have a points pick
him between Nick Felino and Tyler Johnson.

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Of course, Fellino scoring thirty seven
points in seventy four games last year,

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long time NHLer and Tyler Johnson also
thirty one points in sixty seven games.

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Came to the Blackhawks originally as a
captum from the Tampa Bay Lightning,

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but he's stuck around and he's played
now for quite a while. There which

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one of these two Fillino and Johnson
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year. Johnson is not going to
be on the team next year. He's

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a free agent this summer, and
exit interviews he made it pretty clear that

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he's expecting to leave. He was
talking about wanting to sign with a contender

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and being frustrated that things during his
Chicago tenure weren't very successful. I think

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in terms of the Blackhawks, obviously
Fillino is the pick. It's hard to

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say. I'm sure Johnson, we'll
get another contract for next season. I'm

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who knows what team that could be
on as far as Fillino goes another guy

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where he got significant time with Badard, but more just because there wasn't anyone

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else to really fill that role.
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for Badard and for the whole team. He's basically the de facto captain,

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and he really made a positive impact
in the locker room and bringing his experience.

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He had some of the young guys
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which I know the coaching staff really
appreciated. So off the ice, huge

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impact on the ice that he had
a decent year I think seventeen goals,

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twenty assists. We'll see what kind
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Obviously, in Boston before coming to
Chicago he'd fallen into more of a bottom

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six guy, and with the Blackhawks
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possible that he goes back to being
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year. I think potentially maybe the
third line of next to Jason Dickinson could

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be a good fit for him,
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But he is such a versatile guy
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leadership group that I'm sure they would
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need be and to fill different roles, so he could still spend some time

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hiring the lineup as well. So
thirty seven points last year probably, odds

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are he will be slightly under that
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still in the thirties range most likely. Nice. So let's talk about Lucas

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Raichel, the next forward we're gonna
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of the twenty twenty two to twenty
three campaign where he scored fifteen points in

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twenty three games, Rerychel only scored
one more point in twenty three twenty four

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while playing forty two more games.
Some fantasy gms who roster him are panicking

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a bit right now and trying to
sell their shares. I have this player

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card from Evolving Hockey up where it
lists Richel's offense as second percentile and defense

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as third percentile. It looks grim
Ben, What can you tell us about

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the future of Richel? Can he
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What do you think the future is
here? Yeah? It was obviously a

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really poor season from Reichel and a
big disappointment to probably the biggest on the

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team. They had really high hopes
for him, former first round pick who'd

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done really well in the AHL,
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stands before last year, and they
thought that he was going to be the

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second line center behind Badard from the
start this coming year, and that just

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never panned out at all. He
didn't He wasn't comfortable at center at all.

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They tried in there for about ten
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and even then it didn't really help
much. He just lost confidence,

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and that it's hard to predict.
Confidence is an intangible thing, and it

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just wasn't there for him for the
majority of the season, and that undermined

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him in a lot of ways.
They tried moving him down to the fourth

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line for resets. They tried scratching
him to send a message. They tried

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having him work with assistant coach Derek
King individually and the skills coach at different

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times and trying to just try anything
really to jumpstart him, and nothing really

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worked that well. So it was
close to a disastrous year for Riichel,

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But if you're looking for positives moving
forward, he's still very young. He

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is three years since signing his contract, just got a new contract for two

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years this summer, which the fact
that was two years instead of won the

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Hawks hope as a sign that they
do still have some faith in him,

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and the last month of the season
was definitely his best. They sent him

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down to Rockford and finally after exhausting
other options, and he played fairly well

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there, then came back up in
mid March and was definitely better the last

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month of the year. He scored
a beautiful goal the season finale in Los

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Angeles and had a few other really
nice plays during that time. Still maybe

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not as consistent as you'd like,
not putting up tons of box score stats,

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but he was having more of an
impact on the game and his underlying

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numbers were a little bit better,
and he just seemed more confident and talking

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with him late in the year,
he mentioned how he's had to learn that

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mistakes are inevitable and that you can't
beat yourself up over that, that even

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the greatest players make mistakes, and
he's gotten better at flushing that and moving

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on. So it feels like it
was a year he learned a lot in

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terms of just the psychology of being
an NHL player, and I'm sure he

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and the Hawks are really hopeful that
but with that under him and with having

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gone through that adversity, that it'll
benefit him next year. Certainly have to

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lower expectations from what they were a
year ago, just seeing such a larger

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sample size where he wasn't productive,
but I think there is still hope that

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he can progress and be a solid
second or third line guy, even if

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it doesn't seem so much like he
would have first line potential moving forward.

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And I'm sure they're going to work
heavily with him as they have to try

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to unlock that talent because they had
seen him as a big core part of

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their rebuild up until a year ago, and just one bad year isn't really

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always a good reason to give up
on someone. So another guy where it's

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hard to predict exactly what his role
will be like next year, but it

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certainly has the potential to be an
im back player. Nice, all right,

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we'll keep the faith. That's good
to hear. One guy that also

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is coming, and we saw a
little bit last year after a really excellent

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season at Michigan is Frank Nazzar.
He played a few games. I think

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he had even a goal in his
first game, maybe in his first shot

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there, but only three games.
Do you think he'll have a role with

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the Blackhawks next year or do you
think he needs some HL seasoning? What

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do you think we can expect from
the Zarara. That's another thing that they'll

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have to figure out during training camp. I wouldn't be surprised if he does

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spend the first couple months of the
year in Rockford, but I also wouldn't

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be surprised if he makes the NHL
team right off the bat. He did

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look good in those last few games
of the season. And the thing with

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him is he missed pretty much his
entire freshman year at Michigan with that surgery,

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so he really set his development back
a little bit as timeline wise,

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So he's really only had one year
of college coming into this coming season,

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so that would be kind of reason
to be patient. And take things slow

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with him. But he does have
a pretty refined game for being such a

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young and relatively inexperienced guy. He
looked good defensively in his last few NHL

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appearances, which is something that can't
be said for Badard and Kiroshev and Reichel

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and a lot of the other Hawks
on forward. So I think that fact

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that he is a little bit further
along in that aspect of his game will

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help his chances of making the NHL
roster, And even if he doesn't make

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it right off the bat, I
would certainly expect him to get significant time

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in the NHL next year once he
has a little bit more pro experience at

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the least, And he is a
guy that I think, with as we

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talked about Richel maybe not being projected
to be this anymore, I think they

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now are hoping that Nasar can be
that long term number two centered behind Bedard.

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So the high hopes for him for
sure, and another guy where you

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know, along with the whole team, it's just going to be a wait

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and see thing because there is so
much uncertainty with with what next year's roster

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will look like. Awesome, that's
good to hear about Nazaar, we'll see

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what happens with him. Let's move
over to the blue line. Of course,

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we'll start with Seth Jones. His
point paces have trended down in Chicago.

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He had fifty four, forty two
and now thirty eight point pace.

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His career point pace is forty two, so he was below that last season.

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Of course, that was bumped up
by a few early ones in Columbus,

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or relatively early ones. I should
say. Obviously things were rough last

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seas in his peripheral floor remains high. He's still someone who hits blocks and

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shoots a lot. But do you
think that we should have optimism that Seth

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Jones can get back to his forty
two point pace, his career point pace

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of forty two, or maybe even
higher. Ben, Yeah, it's set.

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This an interesting case because you look
back at each of his three seasons

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in Chicago, and the second half
has been a lot more productive than the

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first half. All three seasons,
particularly the last two were just pretty much

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exactly In mid January, he started
producing a lot more And I asked him

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about that towards the end of the
year, and he didn't really have a

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good explanation, but he seems like
almost a guy where it just takes him

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a little bit longer to get in
a rhythm, but in the second half

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of the year can be really productive. He struggled with the with his shooting

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this past year, especially early on. He'd switched to a whippier stick in

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the offseason, thinking that would allow
him to have a faster release as he

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shifts away and the league shifts away
from more slap shots. It didn't really

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pay off at first. He didn't
have a single goal until January, and

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he missed some time with an injury, and I know that was really weighing

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on him to be sitting out and
just staring at that goosegg and the goals

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column. He definitely is a guy
who looks at staff. But the second

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half he was a lot more productive. And as you mentioned, he has

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a pretty secure role, getting power
play time, getting first pairing time,

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and the Blackhawks trust him to shoot
a lot from up top and be aggressive

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offensively. But just a matter of
him being efficient with those opportunities. And

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again, it seems to just take
him some time every year, but it

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doesn't really seem to be necessarily like
a decrease in opportunities or even ability.

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It's not like he's really that old
yet, it's just a weird pattern with

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that. I would expect him to
continue to be in the first pairing with

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Alex Blastik next year. Those two
guys are pretty locked in, and they

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were together probably the brightest spot on
the team this past season, just in

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terms of consistency and stability, and
one is specific relying or pairing. I

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think that seems pretty locked in.
And you know what you're going to get

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with Jones at this point. It's
just a matter of him bearing his opportunities

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maybe earlier in the year the way
he has in the past few years.

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Okay, And I just want to
clarify what I think I heard you say

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is that you think he'll retain that
top power play role because obviously Korczynski is

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there. I'm not sure that de
Vlasik has that same profile. But there's

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some other guys in the system that
and including who they're going to draft,

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which we don't know right now,
but those guys will be a couple years

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away. But do you think Jones
maintains this role at least for next season.

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I think at least for the start. They try Kortinsky a little bit

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there from time to time, especially
when Jones was injured, and it really

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didn't produce much. I didn't really
click that well to give up a few

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short handed goals with him up there
too, And so I think Jones will

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start the year as the number one
power play guy. We'll see as the

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year goes along, but I think
with Korchynsky, I'm sure we'll talk about

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him more soon. It's more that
they want to focus him to focus on

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the defensive side of the game and
improving there, and I think the offense

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will come in time. They don't
really have to worry about that as much.

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Obviously, it's hard to predict the
exactly how things will go as the

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season goes on, but I think
for now Jones will probably continue to hold

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the top role. Talking about him
soon means talking about him now. Let's

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move to Kevin Korchinsky. Ben I
did not for one realize he was going

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to be a full time NHLer last
year, but maybe that's just because I

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was out of the loop. But
that was an awfully quick transition, kind

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of a coup to get the third
most minute skated on the team from a

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twenty year old. His stats they
look like a rookies. He's got a

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little bit of Jones. He got
a little bit of time with Set Jones

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and or Connor Murphy or win in
the year, but he moved to a

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depth role later on in terms of
being on a different line. What's the

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word on year one of Korczinsky and
you talked about working on the defense.

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What is the expectation for year two. Yeah, it's not so much that

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he changed roles in the second half. It's just that they didn't have anyone

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to play with him. So they
just claimed Jacob Megna off waivers from the

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Kraken in January and just plopped him
next to Kortinsky and the second pairing for

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the rest of the year. And
Megna had been a healthy scratch the entire

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first half in Seattle and then suddenly
was like the number four defenceman in the

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Hawks. So that was definitely a
big hole in the roster and that definitely

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did not help Kortenski. I think
moving forward this summer, one of their

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biggest priorities is going to be to
bring in a more established, proven second

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pairing defenceman that Kortinsky can play with
next year because Megna He tried his best

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and it wasn't terrible, but it
wasn't really a great fit in that high

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of a role. As far as
Korchinski, there were a lot of growing

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pains defensively, which it was to
be expected. I don't think the team

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really knew either going into the year
that he was going to be a full

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time NHL guy, but they didn't
have the option to send him to the

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AHL. It was either back to
juniors or in the NHL, and he

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had dominated junior so much the year
before that I feel like they thought that

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if he showed any ability to hold
his own in the NHL, that it

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would be worth it for him to
get that trial by fire, and that's

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pretty much exactly what happened. He
trailed off a little bit as the year

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went on. I think the first
month or two was probably his strongest,

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but he pretty much looked the way
you would expect from a talented offensive guy

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who maybe wasn't quite qualified to be
at that level, but was holding his

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own more or less. There were
bright spots. There were areas where they

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thought that he improved, particularly with
using his stick and his positioning in the

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defensive zone. The frustrating part,
I'm sure, especially for a fantasy perspective,

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was that he didn't really produce a
lot, and it was more that

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he was in his own zone so
much that he didn't really get that many

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chances to produce. And I think
that's another thing that as he improves getting

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the puck, moving the puck,
just getting more time and possession in the

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offensive zone. I think that scenario
where he'll get more opportunities and where his

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talent and his sort of best attributes
the reason they drafted him, will be

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able to sign more and just obviously
as he gets more experienced and has a

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more experienced partner. I don't know
if he's going to be anywhere close to

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a finished product this coming year because
he was in the NHL a bit ahead

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of schedule. I think maybe with
another team this coming year would be more

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like his rookie year, and I
think it's still going to take him some

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time to get to what they think
he will be, which is a top

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four offensive defenseman and power play quarterback. So that goes in with what I

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said about Jones, is that I
think Jones will probably have that role at

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first, just because Korchinsky is still
a ways away from reaching his ceiling,

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but you would expect him to take
a step forward this year. And I

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think it'll be really interesting to see
who they bring in to be his partner,

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because that player's tendencies could be pretty
indicative of the role that Korchinsky will

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have next year. And Alex blask
you talked about how he was locked in

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with Seth Jones. He had the
second most minute skated and placed second on

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the team in expected goals of a
replacement with some excellent advanced defensive stats.

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I can't say that Mark Eduard,
Blastic's cousin was also was on my radar

418
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,759
either as a big performer for this
team this year. He's six' six,

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he was very good on defense.
And what do you think the Hawks

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have in Blastic Do you expect him
to, say, in the top four

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as this team develops, As you
say, as they continue to bring guys

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in, sounds like you think he's
gonna stick with Seth Jones for the long

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term. Yeah. The Blackhawks were
hoping that Blassa could earn an NHL spot

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this past season, and not only
did he did that do that, but

425
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he was arguably their best defenseman if
he was a rookie and he was one

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game outside of rookie eligibility, I
think he legitimately would have pushed to be

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a finalist for the Calder alongside but
guard like. He was just as good

428
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as brock Favor in my opinion,
and he was just doing it on a

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team where it was such a train
wreck around him that it was hard to

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appreciate. But as you mentioned,
his defensive analytics were fantastic, and even

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when the eye test, he was
just impeccable at breaking up plays and being

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in the right spot, and he
cleaned up so many messes around him.

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He was truly a revelation in probably
the brightest spot of all from this team

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00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:21,359
in terms of exceeding expectations, even
brighter than but Dard and the Blackhawks showed

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that they think that he's a long
term poor piece by giving him a six

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year contract extension a month or two
ago, so you can see their commitment

437
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,799
and their enthusiasm for his future.
So he's absolutely locked in the top four,

438
00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:37,799
most likely the top pairing this coming
year. And the thing is that

439
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while he is a defensive defenseman and
probably never going to be a huge point

440
00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:45,839
producer, He actually had quite a
few breakaways, a surprising number for a

441
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defenseman, and he just wasn't able
to finish any of them, a very

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small blemish in his impressive season.
But I think there is a possibility that

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he could produce a bit more,
particularly in the goals column, this coming

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year, if he can figure out
how to be a little bit more of

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a finisher at the NHL level.
That's something that is probably never going to

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be a huge part of his game, but there is a little bit there

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and we'll see how that goes.
I don't know if his rate of creating

448
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:17,160
breakaways is quite sustainable, but I
also don't know if his zero percent conversion

449
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,240
rate on those breakaways is sustainable either. Another guy where maybe not from a

450
00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:25,720
fancy perspective as exciting, but from
a team building perspective, a really big

451
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piece of the black Hawks are excited
about. Yeah, that contract I think

452
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is going to age really well for
what they are paying for him. And

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also I think the US being on
the USA World Championship was a huge vote

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of confidence for him. What an
upward trajectory for Blasteca. I'm really happy

455
00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:45,880
for him, and you're right,
he was incredible considering the context of what

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was around him. That was fun
and as you mentioned, some of the

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defense help I think is going to
help these goalies. We'll talk about them

458
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now. They were ranked the thirty
first team and expected goals against for sixty

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and they conceded the thirty first ranked
actual goals. They couldn't do worse than

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the Sharks, So good on them. And of course we're talking mainly about

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Mrazek and solder Bloom here. While
both goalies saw similar in terms of shots

462
00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:18,440
per game, Razek had fifty six
games played to star Bloom's thirty two.

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The high shot volume was similar,
but there was a big difference between these

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two goalies. Not only did Razek
play twenty four more games, but his

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raw numbers and advanced metrics showed he
was way better. Razek had thirteen more

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00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,680
wins, eighteen more quality starts,
and nearly twenty seven more goals save above

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expected at all strengths fourteen at fourteen
point six positive from Razek and negative twelve

468
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point nine for Solder Bloom. And
in January, in the middle of the

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season, David said gave him an
extension. The establishes some stability and experience

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for the rebuild. So I know
the black Hawks don want to miss the

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playoffs forever. And after watching Razik
this season, do you think he's part

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of the future or do you think
he's the guy who can carry the rebuild

473
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and help them be a little bit
more respectable. What do you think?

474
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Then? Well, I gave him
that extension to twenty twenty six, and

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they did the same with Felino and
Dickinson, and that really was the final

476
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signal that twenty twenty six is the
year they really expect to pivot from rebuilding

477
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:20,519
and ideally improving the next two years
to really being a contender beyond then.

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And he'll be on the old side
by then. He's already on the old

479
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side now, Moraazik, and I
don't know if he is going to be

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a part of the rebuild past that
point, but they do see him as

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a guy that they can rely on
in the meantime. I don't think anyone

482
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expected to be him to be as
good as he had as he was this

483
00:32:38,799 --> 00:32:42,960
past year. It was up there
with among the best years of his career.

484
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He did set a new career high
and starts. I know that,

485
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,759
and we've seen that from him before
He's had the odd year in Detroit and

486
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Carolina where he was a well above
average in NHL goalie, and he's also

487
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:58,400
had years where he was a well
below average in HL goalie, and this

488
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,400
past year turned out to be one
of the well above average years. He

489
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:06,240
was really solid for that team in
front of or behind a pretty difficult situation,

490
00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:09,240
behind a leaky defense, and he
handled it well. He's struggled with

491
00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:15,000
groin injuries for years and years,
and he didn't have any of that this

492
00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:17,160
past season. Not only did he
not miss any games, but he talked

493
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:22,319
about feeling really good in that area, not even dealing with any discomfort or

494
00:33:22,319 --> 00:33:24,799
pain at any point, and I
think that helped him feel more confident and

495
00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:29,359
feel more mobile in the crease and
just creates a snowball effect wheor he just

496
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,960
was able to improve in every area
because he wasn't dealing with any issues with

497
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,000
that off the ice, really funny, down to earth guy provides some levity

498
00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:42,440
in the locker room, and I
know the Blackhawks really like him in that

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00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:45,319
role as well. So he did
prove himself to be, at least for

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this interim period there, starting goalie, and I would expect him to continue

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to have that role next year,
barring a big drop off in performance,

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which obviously we have seen before from
him at various times in his career.

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But if he can a healthy I
think the odds are that he will be

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able to repeat an above average It
was pretty impressive this past year and I

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would expect that to continue. Ben, this has been some great intel on

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the Blackhawks. How can people follow
all the work you got going out there?

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00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:19,880
You can find me on Twitter at
Ben Pope CST. And you can

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00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,679
also find me on the Chicago Suntimes
website. Pretty much anything under the Blackhawks

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00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,400
section is going to be written by
me. Two easy ways to find my

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00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,920
work outstanding. Thanks so much for
coming back on talking Blackhawks. Yep,

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thanks for having me. Thanks will
since Ben, that's getting fired, pasp

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Oh my goodness, walk with a
cat we grap Now it's your weekly goalie

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00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:57,880
talk. But Kat Silverman, Kat's
Instincts. Kat's Instincts with Kat Silverman from

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NGOL mag Chicago black Hawks edition,
which means we got to start with one

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of the pretty one of the better
prospect goalies. I would say at least

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I think they have high hopes for
him and that's Drew Comeso twenty twenty second

517
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,639
round pick, six to two hundred
and one pounds, So I has first

518
00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:15,800
professional action this season thirty eight games
played, nine zho six A, save

519
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:21,480
percentage two six' five GAA.
That was for the Rockford Ice Hogs of

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the AHL. And last season last
year you mentioned how he transition to college

521
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,760
really in his game and game and
how he needed some HL seasoning, which

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he got, So there you go. Nice. His hockey prospecting has him

523
00:35:34,119 --> 00:35:37,400
trending up or at least stabilizing in
the low to mid thirty percent. So

524
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,480
there's some pretty decent comps in this
range. Corey Schneider is someone who I

525
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:44,760
think maybe looks a little bit alike. So what do you kat, What

526
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,800
do your instincts tell us about Kumeso
And is he peg to be the future

527
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,800
starter here? You think? I
think he has to be. Not to.

528
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He never want to put that much
pressure on a young kid like that,

529
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,280
but he has to be. He's
the best option in their system right

530
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,679
now. I loved watching some of
his Ice Hoogs games last year. It

531
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:07,760
was interesting because there were a couple
moments where I was watching some overall game

532
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,400
footage of them and of him,
and it looked like he was facing a

533
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,559
shootout, because it would be.
And the only reason I would know that

534
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:19,800
the clip I was watching wasn't a
shootout is because it wasn't just one guy

535
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,440
from the other team heading towards him
alone. It was like three, And

536
00:36:22,519 --> 00:36:27,760
so the Icehug's defense is just nonexistent. There were times where they were just

537
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:34,960
completely gone, and he did a
really good job of holding his positioning,

538
00:36:35,039 --> 00:36:38,639
didn't get too panicked about it.
Fantastic reads, really good at you can

539
00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:45,519
tell when guys have played multiple different
levels, have played against some of the

540
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:51,079
really tricky players at the AHL and
NHL level. Because he is lucky that

541
00:36:51,119 --> 00:36:55,679
he's able to get some of those
practice development camp reps against Connor Bodard,

542
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,559
which I think has helped him with
some of his just reads in reaction timing,

543
00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:07,119
just getting to practice with someone like
that, because there were times when

544
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:12,599
it looked like he just had that
really confident knowledge of who he was supposed

545
00:37:12,639 --> 00:37:15,280
to be tracking how many guys on
the other team were able to come into

546
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:21,880
his zone, were ready to receive
passes. It looks like he was able

547
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:27,519
to tell that his team's defense at
times was just not even there, which

548
00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:30,400
sometimes it looks like some of those
younger goaltenders who are a little more unseasoned

549
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:37,000
at the pro level aren't really expecting
to see that much defensive breakthrough from the

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00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:40,239
other team. I thought he looked
great. I'm excited to see what he

551
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:46,400
can do. I still don't think
that they necessarily need to move him up

552
00:37:46,679 --> 00:37:52,480
immediately, just because I'd love to
see him get a chance to just fully

553
00:37:52,519 --> 00:37:59,440
develop into their next Corey Crawford.
He only gets comparables to Corey's here Corey

554
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,039
Crawford Schneider. But yeah, I
think I thought he looked great. I'm

555
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:09,039
excited to see a lot of the
really aggressive positioning that he had with the

556
00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:15,239
US National Development Program seems to have
been worked out of his game. It

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seems like he's good enough at reading
his opponents that he doesn't spend a whole

558
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:23,199
lot of time floating outside the blue
paint challenging too aggressively, which is something

559
00:38:23,199 --> 00:38:28,000
that I was worried he wouldn't be
able to shake or we would see slip

560
00:38:28,079 --> 00:38:31,800
back in during times where there were
defensive breakdowns and he was just in panic

561
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,440
mode. And it seems like he
has officially restructured his game well enough that

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00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,519
he's playing that nice, confident,
more conservative game, but you still see

563
00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:45,840
a lot of that, just that
confident movement that he had even back when

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00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:50,559
he was playing a more freewheeling,
aggressive style at the National Development Program level.

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00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:53,840
Nice. Yeah, that's good to
hear, and yeah, definitely some

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00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,880
high hopes there for COMESO. Let's
talk about a couple of the other guys.

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00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,000
So Jackson's Stauber as another guy.
He was six ft three, one

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00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:07,519
hundred and seventy four pounds first full
season in the HL this past season,

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00:39:07,039 --> 00:39:10,800
nine or two save percentage, two
eighty five GA and one point one four

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goals expected goals per goal conceded.
I have to say I was floored when

571
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I read the Greg Ballos ep ring
Side top fifteen affiliated goalie list, and

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frankly, I had never really heard
or thought about Jackson Stalbert and he was

573
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number thirteen on that list I was
back in fall of twenty twenty three.

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00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:36,760
I was just really surprised by that. And he has had some NHL Action

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00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,960
six games last season where he did
pretty well, and he had a pretty

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00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,320
good career of providence, but to
me, he didn't stand out as being

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on this list amongst the walstats,
and this was a list with Jill Hopfer

578
00:39:49,519 --> 00:39:53,039
and she Lov's and some of these
guys that seemed like to me made a

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00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:55,079
little bit more sense. So I
don't know, Kat, what do you

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00:39:55,119 --> 00:40:00,159
think about Staber? Do you think
he has that upside of being like a

581
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starter or timeshare guy. I do
know that Greg has been a huge Jackson

582
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,440
Stauber guy. And every good goaltending
analyst has someone that they hold dear to

583
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,800
their heart, someone who they think
is they saw something good when they were

584
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:15,880
watching some of the highlights, decided
to do a deeper dive and really see

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enough promise there that they want to
throw their throw, all their weight behind

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them. And I know that's one
of Greg's guy's right there for that.

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I like how he plays. I
do think that the Blackhawks one thing that

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essentially from the inception of goaltending coaching, they're a team that has been that's

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00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,760
a high priority for them is having
good goaltending coaching from top to bottom.

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They try to make sure that they
keep consistent communication between their NHL and AHL

591
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,719
goaltending coaches. They try to make
sure that they're on ice coaches for their

592
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,719
offense, their defense. Their head
coaches are all on the same page as

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their goaltending coaches, so you're not
seeing a mismatch and style development with the

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way that their team is playing,
which obviously the Blackhawks are at the moment,

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00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:14,280
will work in progress, obviously,
and so we haven't always seen that

596
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,119
match up perfectly because we haven't seen
the skill level there from some of their

597
00:41:17,519 --> 00:41:22,239
especially some of their defensive guys.
Unfortunately, that's what we saw with guys

598
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,199
like Colin Delian. There are other
prospects in the past, they were stuck

599
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,920
behind some kind of tough systems.
But everything I saw from Stubbur when I

600
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:34,239
was watching some of his highlights,
he looks good. I think that Cameso

601
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,639
looks more refined, but I think
that Stubber looks really good as well.

602
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:43,519
So they're a team that they have
choices. That's one of my daughter's favorite

603
00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:45,360
things to say, is what are
my choices? And the black Hawks have

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00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:52,320
them, which some teams don't have
any. So I think they really Between

605
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,440
Comeso and Stouburt, both of them
could play at the NHL level next season

606
00:41:55,920 --> 00:42:02,480
and do pretty well. I don't
know what Stauber's ultimate upside is because I

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do think that he's a little less
refined than Kumesso when it comes to just

608
00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:12,360
overall technical skill. But his reads
looked good. He's a little more aggressive

609
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:17,000
depth wise, it doesn't look like
he's over committing too too much, doesn't

610
00:42:17,039 --> 00:42:22,079
have to make a ton of recovery
saves, so we'll see where that goes.

611
00:42:22,159 --> 00:42:24,800
But he's a really good option for
them to have in their system.

612
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,960
Awesome good to know. All right, Let's move on to the last guy.

613
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,960
Adam Guyane twenty twenty three, second
round pick, first goalie taken I

614
00:42:32,119 --> 00:42:36,800
remember correctly and twenty twenty three.
It's a bit of a surprise to some

615
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,000
of us there. Overager six,
three hundred and eighty seven pound Great World

616
00:42:40,039 --> 00:42:45,119
Junior Championship. I think that was
a big reason why he got picked so

617
00:42:45,159 --> 00:42:52,280
early. He was incredible in that
tournament for the Slovox, and he went

618
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,519
back to the was back in the
USHL this season with the Green Bay Bag

619
00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:00,960
Gamblers, whose numbers were really not
great. Over All, the row numbers

620
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:04,400
took a bit of a dip,
but the underlyings were still decent. He's

621
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,960
committed to the University of Minnesota Duluth
next season. So that should be a

622
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:14,119
big change for him. His equivalency
is really low. He had a junior

623
00:43:14,119 --> 00:43:19,519
Slovak League, the NAHL and the
USHL as his comm so those equivalencies are

624
00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:22,480
very low. So his number is
percent. So not a whole lot of

625
00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:27,199
NHLers came out with that percent,
but Kevin Weeks is one as an average

626
00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:30,519
starter. So what do you think
about Guyanne? Did you think he is

627
00:43:30,559 --> 00:43:34,760
he someone who still could be a
starter someday or how much kind of work

628
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,679
does he need to get there?
He needs a lot of work. Even

629
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:42,360
at the World Juniors, some of
his safe selections were a little questionable.

630
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,800
His style kind of reminded me a
little bit of there was a guy a

631
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,480
couple of years ago, Dennis Godla, who was just an absolute star at

632
00:43:49,519 --> 00:43:52,320
the World Juniors, but did not
look like his game would translate super well

633
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:57,519
to the NHL because there was a
lot of falling on the puck and covering

634
00:43:57,559 --> 00:44:00,679
the puck, which at the NHL
level you can't do that. You can

635
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:04,679
make some of those saves when it's
an absolute last resort, but you can't

636
00:44:04,679 --> 00:44:08,559
be doing that all the time.
His skating looks decent, but he looks

637
00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:14,639
a little uncontrolled. The good news
for him is number one the Green Bay

638
00:44:14,679 --> 00:44:19,320
Gamblers. And you said it's the
University of Minnesota next year, du loose,

639
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,760
But yeah, University Minnesota Louth.
So he's he's going to be close

640
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:29,000
to Chicago when it comes to where
he's playing in both of his post draft

641
00:44:29,039 --> 00:44:34,760
seasons, which is huge because I
do think that sometimes when the Blackhawks draft

642
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,679
goaltenders, the positioning with which they
draft them can be a little questionable,

643
00:44:38,199 --> 00:44:44,719
and sometimes they take some really they
take some flyers on guys that maybe aren't

644
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,079
going to pan out. But we
can never accuse the Blackhawks of not trying

645
00:44:47,159 --> 00:44:52,519
to get goaltending prospects. And that
is a minor shot at Dominic Bass.

646
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:54,880
That was how was a draft pick
for them, for sure. I think

647
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,880
he needs a lot of work.
We'll see what happens. I think he's

648
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:04,960
a long term project them for sure, which if he's playing NCAA's they potentially

649
00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:09,079
have at least four years before they'll
really need to look at where he fits

650
00:45:09,119 --> 00:45:14,000
in their system. I think he
maybe could have some upside just because he

651
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:19,599
very clearly can kick it into high
gear and half games behind a weak defense,

652
00:45:19,679 --> 00:45:23,639
which the Blackhawks have proven that maybe
they need some of that in their

653
00:45:23,679 --> 00:45:28,559
system because they have a little bit
of a weak defense at times. But

654
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,400
I don't think he's anywhere close to
being in the conversation, at least with

655
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,159
the other two that we've talked about
so far. I think that we have

656
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,199
Jackson Stauber and Drew Camesso on one
tier, and then we have Adam guy

657
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,400
on just He's in the conversation,
but he's not in the same conversation as

658
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:51,519
them. He's in a conversation,
though it's in a side conversation in the

659
00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:55,559
corner by himself. He's in the
side chat. Maybe you can make it

660
00:45:55,599 --> 00:45:59,920
to the main chat next year,
Adam. Good luck at the ris Miss

661
00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:02,880
d luthe than thanks Cat so much
for giving us your takes on the Chicago

662
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:25,800
Blackhawks coolies. Will be back right
after this dig the Dynasty Dig Victor.

663
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,960
It is the Chicago Blackhawks edition.
You had this system ranked fourth, but

664
00:46:31,519 --> 00:46:36,840
that's with an asterisk because at the
time the ranks that we're computing from I

665
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,480
think still included Conter Bdart, So
I got to go back and see that

666
00:46:39,559 --> 00:46:45,719
might have changed subsequently, but there's
still some very relevant prospects in the system,

667
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,760
they start out with a solid no
brainer. Who is it, Victor?

668
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,960
That would be Frank the Tank Nazar
twenty two to thirteenth overall pick five

669
00:46:55,119 --> 00:47:00,760
nine and seventy four pounds center right
wing had a great rebound season at Michigan

670
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:05,440
after an injury duled campaign the previous
one. Forty one points in forty one

671
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,519
games was pretty strong. He also
had one point in three games for the

672
00:47:07,559 --> 00:47:10,199
Hawks. I think he scored on
like the very first shot on his very

673
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:14,239
first shift or something like that,
but it wasn't like the cleanest It wasn't

674
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,280
the cleanest release or anything like that. Also if someone skate or something.

675
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,280
But anyways, that was fun to
see him in the NHL at the end

676
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,920
of his NCAA season, and since
he turned pro, he is going to

677
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:29,440
be either in the NHL or the
AHL next season, so it'll be fun

678
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,079
to see him play professionally. He's
already twenty, so he has that opportunity

679
00:47:34,119 --> 00:47:37,360
as well. Who was also pretty
great at the U twenty World Junior Championships

680
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:43,800
for the US, and Mitch Brown's
tracking data had him looking like pretty amazing.

681
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,440
Overall, his rank was one hundred
out of one hundred ninety five percent

682
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:52,199
tile on offense, ninety six in
defense, transition was one hundred percent amazing

683
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,400
expected goal expected assists for sixty had
probably one of the best assists I've ever

684
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,880
seen in that tournament where he liked
bag of the puck around someone and Saucer

685
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:06,199
passed it across his body. It
was just an incredible thing. We talked

686
00:48:06,199 --> 00:48:09,159
about it before go watch it.
He also had really strong game score advantages,

687
00:48:09,199 --> 00:48:13,760
created boards to the middle play,
all that stuff was just incredible for

688
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,480
him. Eight points in those seven
World Junior Games and at times I would

689
00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:20,039
say, definitely the best player on
the ice for the Americans, So that

690
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:23,159
was pretty fun. Looking at his
FHL player card based on his NCAA season,

691
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:28,280
really strong across the board. Points
scoring was high. His shots are

692
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,960
an eight hits five lock seven,
so overall his bash should be a little

693
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,920
bit of a a have average,
but that's not going to be the biggest

694
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,360
thing for him. He's definitely a
stronger points option. Looking at some of

695
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:44,119
the advanced metrics, really strong as
well, really good play driving and transition

696
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,199
game as well as getting the puck
to really high danger areas. That's a

697
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,400
really strong feed of his. But
let's hear a little bit more about Franknazar

698
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:57,000
from OURFHL scout. The FHL scout
today is Austin and here's what he has

699
00:48:57,039 --> 00:49:00,440
to say about Bizar. Skating really
good. Is fast, plays with a

700
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:05,679
lot of energy, really strong first
step, consistent mobility with the puck.

701
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,559
He can just weave around everybody around
him. He does well finding holes in

702
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:15,719
opposing areas. And Nazar is not
as fast as fellow black Hawk prospect Oliver

703
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,599
Moore spoiler alerts, but he's probably
around the same tier. Nazar is a

704
00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:25,320
high end playmaker, one of the
best passing prospects in hockey. Has great

705
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:30,320
hands, good elusiveness. Smaller stature
helps add to his ability to weave past

706
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:36,519
defenders and create plays, and Nazar
has good transitionability with a puck. In

707
00:49:36,639 --> 00:49:40,039
terms of shooting, some strong shooting
moments, Bizzar seems more of a playmaker

708
00:49:40,079 --> 00:49:44,159
than scorer, but he has a
few nice looks at the net. He

709
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,159
doesn't create his own chances a lot. It would be beneficial to him to

710
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:52,480
do. Probably has to increase his
shooting volume to be a more consistent goal

711
00:49:52,559 --> 00:49:57,079
scorer. In terms of IQ,
Austin says Nazar is a very intelligent player,

712
00:49:57,159 --> 00:50:00,840
has good vision and awareness on the
ice. He's shown good maturity in

713
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:06,039
a very experienced Michigan team and held
his own at times in the NHL,

714
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,519
holding glimpses of seeming to fit into
place. He's calm and mature and plays

715
00:50:10,559 --> 00:50:15,440
a hard working game. In defense, Nazar can get a bit overwhelmed in

716
00:50:15,519 --> 00:50:20,400
physical battles and playing the Pocket's not
the biggest guy and against a bigger,

717
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,679
stronger opponent, it can show.
Intensity is the biggest asset in the Nazar's

718
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:29,840
game. There's a few areas he
excels in, but Nazar really does give

719
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:35,119
it his all each ship, and
he's constantly engaging and showcasing his effort.

720
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,519
With his size, you need to
be able to consistently be on, and

721
00:50:37,559 --> 00:50:44,320
Bazar has shown he can play at
a high level. Playmaking ability seems to

722
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:49,280
be a standout tool creative passer should
be able to translate it to the NHL,

723
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,519
which is ironic given technically he's done
nothing but score goals in the pros.

724
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,719
Honorable mentioned to his maturity. Obviously
smaller and younger than most on the

725
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,960
ice, both in the NCAAA and
NHL, but held himself well enough in

726
00:51:02,039 --> 00:51:07,199
both. The biggest concern we keep
talking about the size. He's not big

727
00:51:07,599 --> 00:51:10,280
or physically dominating. He's not going
to have it easy starting off in the

728
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:15,559
NHL. He's highly skilled, but
it remains to be seen if Nazarre will

729
00:51:15,599 --> 00:51:20,239
be able to play his full style
consistently in the National Hockey League. In

730
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,719
his debut he looked a bit unprepared
for the intensity, but he also had

731
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:28,440
a goal, So who's to say
what that meant. What's the top tier

732
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,760
outcome? If he's able to overcome
the physicality concerns, Nizar could be a

733
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:37,960
tier two forward with power play one
opportunities, twenty five goals, forty assists,

734
00:51:37,039 --> 00:51:42,400
sixty five points, perhaps creating offensive
chances netting a few goals if he's

735
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:46,519
able to get them. More potential
to be a second line center behind Bidard,

736
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,880
but he's going to have to fight
for it with Oliver More spoiler alert.

737
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,239
Like More, he could end up
on the wing as a complimentary option

738
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:59,360
for the first line, and that
would be because how would he get there?

739
00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:01,920
Because he's a hard working and energetic
player. He's got the intensity to

740
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:05,519
make up for that lack of size
In a big way, and if you're

741
00:52:05,599 --> 00:52:09,320
able to give him teammates we're bigger
and can provide that finishing touch. He

742
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:15,000
could very much thrive with the right
pieces around him. What's the median outcome

743
00:52:15,039 --> 00:52:19,960
for Nasar power play two potential Tier
three forward depending on how much his shooting

744
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,480
can come out, he could average
out to a forty point player with around

745
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:28,199
ten to fifteen goals. That's more
than median possibility. That would be something

746
00:52:28,199 --> 00:52:31,679
that would happen if a Nazar can
push the offense forward with his size.

747
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:36,920
There's moments he looked overwhelmed, which
is natural for a small youngster. But

748
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,440
will it persist will come down to
how he responds to the size of NHL

749
00:52:40,519 --> 00:52:45,000
pros. It could also mean that
he ends up a winger full time stylistic

750
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:51,960
comparable, a bit of a faster
krou Terry, strong dual threat offense with

751
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,239
the ability to play the game in
full and have consistent energy. Terry had

752
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:59,599
that one year in twenty twenty two
where you look like a great goal scorer

753
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:02,920
on a high shooting percentage. Good
chance the same happens to Nazaar and getting

754
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,000
the numbers up and finally will be
interesting to see the development of him and

755
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:13,039
Oliver Moore. Two similar players fighting
for essentially the same responsibilities and having very

756
00:53:13,039 --> 00:53:17,119
similar play styles. It's going to
be interesting to see which one of them

757
00:53:17,199 --> 00:53:22,639
wins out in the end. Both
are streaky playmakers with really strong skating.

758
00:53:23,159 --> 00:53:27,880
Both could end up fighting for the
two C spot in Chicago, Both could

759
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,159
end up on the wing. And
our friend Mason Black, the NHL rank

760
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:36,920
King, sent out this bowl to
the people out there on ex Frank Tazarre

761
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:44,360
versus Dalliboard Divorski of the rival Saint
Louis Blues and Nazar comes out on the

762
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:50,039
winning end fifty eight point five percent
to forty one point five percent Nazar over

763
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:54,719
Divorski, Victor. Is that how
you rank them? Yeah, definitely,

764
00:53:54,719 --> 00:54:00,239
I'm taking Frank all day here.
I think Kadavorski had a really strong long

765
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:06,320
season with Sudbury. I think he
he has an interesting development curve. He

766
00:54:07,079 --> 00:54:10,960
was in Slovakia playing and then he
went to the SHL and he didn't really

767
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,599
get the best off. Well.
He was in Sweden Hockey al Swenskin in

768
00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:16,639
the draft season and then he went
to the SAHL early this season and he

769
00:54:16,639 --> 00:54:20,840
didn't really get as much of an
opportunity. So then he went from the

770
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,880
SHL to the OHL, which is
the massive drop in competition level, and

771
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:29,920
he dominated, which he should,
so that was good, but it wasn't

772
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:35,599
like totally unexpected, especially being you
know, someone who has played in a

773
00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:38,599
much higher level. He is a
June fifteenth birthday, so he's really young

774
00:54:38,639 --> 00:54:43,000
for his draft years. So I
still think there's some decent upside here.

775
00:54:43,039 --> 00:54:47,159
But I think that Nazar is more
dynamic, He's more offensively gifted, and

776
00:54:47,199 --> 00:54:51,760
I think the Vorski is going to
be a little bit more of a competent

777
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:53,920
down the middle type of guy,
might end up even being a three C

778
00:54:54,599 --> 00:54:58,320
in the NHL and they might look
at him more for that role, whereas

779
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,599
Nazar, I don't I think he's
the center. I think he's going to

780
00:55:00,679 --> 00:55:05,320
be more of a scoring, playmaking
winger, which could which is much better

781
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,320
for fantasy anyways, So maybe not
as good for the Blackhawks. They have

782
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,800
some other center options as well,
and they might take someone in that role

783
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,480
this year. We'll see, or
they may already did. You'll know that

784
00:55:15,519 --> 00:55:21,400
by now. But looking at these
two, I know that the PNH lee

785
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,199
has Divorceki much higher. But I
think some of that was really inflated by

786
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:29,760
him playing with especially Quentin Musty,
who had an outstanding season. I'm not

787
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:34,440
sure that all that's going to fully
translate for Divorski, but I think Nazarre,

788
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,280
being more of a sixty to seventy
point guy, is a little bit

789
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:42,119
more realistic. So that's why I'll
take him. Looking at hockey prospecting between

790
00:55:42,119 --> 00:55:44,360
the two, I know it's pretty
low on Nazarre, but part of that

791
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,000
is because he just had such a
disappointing draft plus one season because of the

792
00:55:47,039 --> 00:55:52,880
injuries, which I don't think it
can totally hold against him, and Divorski

793
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:57,320
looks much better seventy eight percent chance
of being an NHL or star potential I'm

794
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,039
sorry, eighty eight percent chance of
being an NHL or so it looks a

795
00:56:00,039 --> 00:56:01,880
lot better for divorce Ki. But
I think this is an opportunity that you

796
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:06,199
could use to get Nazaar maybe ad
a little bit of a value because people

797
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:10,719
are maybe underrating him. Looking at
some of the other comps for Nazar you

798
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:15,119
can see that he's doesn't have a
lot of great ones. One of the

799
00:56:15,119 --> 00:56:19,360
biggest ones is probably Cliff Ronning,
which is not super exciting. There's some

800
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,480
other guys like Kyler Yamamoto Sean Katurier. So he's looking more like an average

801
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,039
producer, but I think there's more
offensive pop there. I think there are

802
00:56:25,079 --> 00:56:29,440
some questions of how it's all going
to translate, but I still think there's

803
00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:31,320
a lot of upside here. I
think you should be pretty excited about him,

804
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:36,280
and I would take him looking at
the j fresh card five percent chance

805
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,440
of being a star, five percent
chance of being in NHLer. I think

806
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:45,280
there's more than that, Jesse,
yes, sir. And there's also more

807
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:49,760
to find out about this prospect system. So who is the need to know

808
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,639
prospect? Victor is? If people
didn't know are already all of them?

809
00:56:53,639 --> 00:56:58,599
More is with already reference and he's
going to be our need to know twenty

810
00:56:58,599 --> 00:57:01,639
twenty three, nineteenth overall pick five
to eleven hundred and ninety four. Pounds

811
00:57:02,159 --> 00:57:07,719
had a really strong season with the
us NTDP and appropriately modest freshman year at

812
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,880
NCAA, scoring thirty three points in
thirty nine games from Minnesota, second most

813
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:15,440
assists on the team behind only Sam
Marinzel, so pretty strong production there for

814
00:57:15,519 --> 00:57:20,480
him. He was also at the
UUSA World Junior Championships. I'm playing more

815
00:57:20,559 --> 00:57:23,639
of a depth defensive matchup role,
which is a little bit more understandable.

816
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:30,199
Looking at the twenty twenty two to
twenty three us NTTP players on the under

817
00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:36,199
eighteen side, it's pro Smith,
Leonard and then Moore and then there's a

818
00:57:36,199 --> 00:57:39,039
big drop off to Danny Nelson.
So that's pretty great, but you're pretty

819
00:57:39,039 --> 00:57:44,519
excited to see that really strong production
in the past for him. Looking at

820
00:57:44,519 --> 00:57:49,000
an FHL card from college this season, you can see he really stood out

821
00:57:49,039 --> 00:57:51,920
in terms of the assists, which
was already referenced. His goal scoring was

822
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,239
a little bit lower. I'm not
sure he has the best or most deceptive

823
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:58,880
shot, so that is something that
probably isn't going to translate super well.

824
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,480
He does shoot a fair amount,
though, so you get some decent shots

825
00:58:01,519 --> 00:58:05,199
there and some decent blocks for four, but doesn't really hit that much.

826
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,639
Part of that's because he skates so
fast and he's always got the often got

827
00:58:07,639 --> 00:58:12,000
the puck, so that might be
a little bit lower. But let's hear

828
00:58:12,039 --> 00:58:17,039
a little bit more about Oliver more
from OURFHL scout Jesse Austin has this to

829
00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:22,840
say about Oliver Moore for the skating
exceptional. He's always been a great skater

830
00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:27,440
it's transitioned well to the NCAAA.
Moore already looks like one of the best

831
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,079
skaters in the NCAAA. In fact, says Austin, he has an incredible

832
00:58:31,119 --> 00:58:37,639
pace with good natural foot speed.
His glide is effortless and has strong ten

833
00:58:37,719 --> 00:58:42,440
to two turns. Probably the most
exciting part of Moore's game for Austin is

834
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,400
how fast he is with and without
the puck. Just being able to carry

835
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:52,280
the puck with that burst is valuable
enough passing and handling. A very strong

836
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,679
playmaker is more. He has good
vision in overall hockey sense with the puck

837
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,159
that makes him a strong passer both
in close and from one wide. Does

838
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:05,639
well in transition in part due to
his quick speed, making him a very

839
00:59:05,679 --> 00:59:09,320
capable puck mover. He's naturally skilled
at puck carrying, which he likes to

840
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:14,000
do a lot. Mostly he works
it up the ice himself. Moore is

841
00:59:14,039 --> 00:59:17,599
good at setting up from his own
end and quickly creating chances the other way.

842
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:24,119
In terms of shooting that Austin says
more as really nice goal scoring vision.

843
00:59:24,239 --> 00:59:29,280
He does not do well cutting through
the ice and spotting chance is not

844
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:34,599
always the most high volume guy More
looks a bit more passive, perhaps because

845
00:59:34,599 --> 00:59:39,400
of snuggerout his teammates goal scoring ability
being the focus some shots that have gone

846
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:45,000
wide. More can get better at
being more accurate with In terms of the

847
00:59:45,039 --> 00:59:49,440
IQ mores of very smart player,
says Austin, who does really well reading

848
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,480
the game. His quick speed allows
him to target plays at blazing speeds.

849
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:57,760
His processing seems to be going as
fast as his legs. Many times.

850
00:59:58,079 --> 01:00:00,400
He does seem a little too quick
in getting the shot off at times,

851
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:05,519
leading to some shots going wide.
In terms of the defense, More is

852
01:00:05,519 --> 01:00:07,599
five to eleven and one hundred and
ninety pounds, so he's not a physical

853
01:00:07,679 --> 01:00:13,559
dynamo, but he has shown at
very least the willingness to battle for pucks

854
01:00:13,599 --> 01:00:17,320
and be a bit tough in positioning
battles. More is not overly physical in

855
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:22,239
terms of using his body, so
the best asset for More that high end

856
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:28,440
skating. Previously mentioned the obvious answer, but big credit also to the anticipation.

857
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,599
It's one thing to be a fast
player, but another to be able

858
01:00:30,599 --> 01:00:35,920
to read plays and know how to
disrupt and break out. More is highly

859
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,199
intelligent and aware of his surroundings.
He plays with a lot of purpose.

860
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:44,920
The biggest concern for Austin Moore is
a small skill guy, so he takes

861
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,599
a lot of hits he can't always
match up on. Even with conditioning,

862
01:00:47,639 --> 01:00:52,599
he'll likely be a bit light.
He didn't have a perfect transition to the

863
01:00:52,639 --> 01:00:58,079
strength change going from the National Development
Program to the NCAA. He's still clearly

864
01:00:58,119 --> 01:01:01,199
a work in progress, perhaps two
to three more years until he's NHL ready.

865
01:01:01,639 --> 01:01:06,320
He played wing a bit for Minnesota, and there's potential he ends up

866
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:10,360
as a wing and not as a
center. The top tier outcome for more

867
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:16,320
Tier two top six forward twenty five
goal forty Ass's sixty five point total is

868
01:01:16,519 --> 01:01:21,079
a potential peak for Oliver More.
He could end up as the number two

869
01:01:21,199 --> 01:01:25,840
center behind Connor Bedard in Chicago.
As previously mentioned, That would be because

870
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:31,079
he's a highly mobile and electric talent
with great two way ability. There are

871
01:01:31,119 --> 01:01:36,679
flashes of a very deceptive player who
will not only move the game but also

872
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,920
self create. The transition to college
hockey wasn't always smooth, but if he's

873
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:45,199
able to refine his game more,
he may actually be very hard to stop

874
01:01:45,199 --> 01:01:49,920
in the NHL. He'll have to
be able to keep himself out of trouble,

875
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,039
but if so, he can be
a very exciting option for a team

876
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,800
that needs players who could score when
Bedard is not on the ice, a

877
01:01:55,800 --> 01:02:02,480
potential long term second line center option
or even a first line wing. The

878
01:02:02,519 --> 01:02:07,719
median outcome or Oliver Moore is tier
three middle six forward, twenty goal thirty

879
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:13,719
sis fifty point. That's the median
outcome. Hard to see his speed not

880
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,360
translating, but the rest will have
to show up consistently and the justification.

881
01:02:17,679 --> 01:02:21,599
He could just be a winger at
the NHL level, being able to create

882
01:02:21,679 --> 01:02:25,000
with speed and puck handling, but
he hasn't been the most consistent goal scorer.

883
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:29,199
A bit of an uncertainty in shooting, in physicality, and it could

884
01:02:29,239 --> 01:02:34,440
take a short while to determine how
much of that can grow, especially without

885
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:38,719
an elite goalscorer in snuggaroot, where
Moore has the reins still projects to be

886
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:44,639
a good setup man, regardless stylistic
comparable There's not a lot of players who

887
01:02:44,679 --> 01:02:47,480
seem to be similar to Moore,
says Austin. He has the skating of

888
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:52,239
a Dylan Larkin type, with the
size and well roundedness of another former golfer

889
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:55,920
star in Logan Cooley, he may
be a bit more likely to move to

890
01:02:55,960 --> 01:03:00,960
the wing as opposed to those other
two, and in Austin's own personal view,

891
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:05,280
More has shown moments that he could
develop into a much better player.

892
01:03:05,599 --> 01:03:09,000
It's all about being able to showcase
he can handle finishing play and driving a

893
01:03:09,039 --> 01:03:15,440
line. He got to the lead
on the second line at the National Development

894
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:20,760
Program and looked completely fine taking charge. That's who you hope Oliver Moore can

895
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,599
be. Mason Black. The NHL
ranking put out the call for people to

896
01:03:24,679 --> 01:03:30,960
vote on who was going to have
the better time, Oliver Moore or Marco

897
01:03:30,039 --> 01:03:35,840
Casper of the Detroit Red Wings.
Oliver Moore won that one easily, sixty

898
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:42,519
five to thirty five. Oliver Moore
over Marco Casper. Victor do you agree?

899
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:45,719
Yeah? I do? I do. I think that Casper he's someone

900
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:50,880
who we were he who was drafted
pretty early, quite a few ten spots

901
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:54,159
earlier, eleven spots earlier in the
previous year. Then Moore and someone we

902
01:03:54,159 --> 01:03:59,280
were pretty excited about. Had some
professional success in Sweden and he's looked okay

903
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:04,039
and thirty five points and seventy one
games for Grand Rapids. He also represented

904
01:04:04,079 --> 01:04:10,000
Austria and did pretty well there.
But the reality is that he's just looking

905
01:04:10,039 --> 01:04:13,599
more and more like a three C, which is great for the team.

906
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,400
That's great. You want you need
centers, you want someone who can play

907
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,679
down the middle. That's what Marco
Casper can be. I'm just not sure

908
01:04:19,719 --> 01:04:25,079
that there's enough offense there. The
funny thing is that Oliver Moore may end

909
01:04:25,119 --> 01:04:28,480
up being almost the same a year
from now, we may be saying the

910
01:04:28,519 --> 01:04:31,360
same things about him, But right
now there's more upside and more promise for

911
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:35,480
more. So I would definitely take
him if I had the choice, and

912
01:04:35,559 --> 01:04:41,079
I do think that he looks better
than Casper even did at that time.

913
01:04:41,119 --> 01:04:45,719
But a skating is one hundred percent
translatable. Whether he can adjust his pace

914
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,360
and slow down and get some of
those looks that was mentioned there by Austin.

915
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:53,440
Sometimes he does defer, Sometimes he
passes those up. Sometimes he doesn't

916
01:04:53,519 --> 01:04:56,159
leverage all his skills as best as
he can, but I think he's still

917
01:04:56,239 --> 01:04:59,199
learning it. He can get there. I think college is a good place

918
01:04:59,239 --> 01:05:01,280
for him. The professional leagues,
as good as they are, they can

919
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:05,719
be difficult to develop in because you
already need to be good already. Anyways,

920
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:09,559
I still think there's a little bit
more hope for More. Looking at

921
01:05:09,599 --> 01:05:13,960
the hockey prospecting between these two thirty
he went from fifty nine to thirty nine

922
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,679
percent chance of being a start at
Oliver Moore and held Steady had seventy percent

923
01:05:16,719 --> 01:05:19,800
chance of being an NHL or.
Casper has been trending down since twenty one

924
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:24,400
percent chance of being a star in
his draft season down to three percent,

925
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:29,119
so pretty low for Casper. Most
of his comps are looking like replacement level

926
01:05:29,159 --> 01:05:31,840
guys. Oliver More, on the
other hand, has a lot of stars

927
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:38,039
on his comp list. He's at
already mentioned his star potential, but Eric

928
01:05:38,079 --> 01:05:41,960
Stall is someone who took a huge
jump after his Draft plus one season,

929
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,000
so I'm not sure how realistic that
is. But he looks similar Brendan Shanahan,

930
01:05:45,079 --> 01:05:50,039
Jayden Braydon point Mkhil Granlin. These
are all guys who have similar who

931
01:05:50,159 --> 01:05:55,519
had similar equivalency in their D plus
one season. There's still the opportunity for

932
01:05:55,599 --> 01:06:00,320
a really massive points producer here for
More. I'm not sure that I've fully

933
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,199
see it. I definitely see him
more of the middle six matchup type transition

934
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:08,079
guy, but I think there is
a little bit more offense there than we

935
01:06:08,119 --> 01:06:11,599
originally thought, and I think he
can continue to develop that. So I'm

936
01:06:11,639 --> 01:06:15,559
taking more all day, and I
think that there's more potential there. His

937
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:19,239
j freshcard six percent chance of being
a star, twenty four percent chance of

938
01:06:19,239 --> 01:06:23,960
being an NHL aer. All in
all, more is a pretty interesting guy

939
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:27,519
to keep it, keep your eye
on, to know about and to hopefully

940
01:06:27,679 --> 01:06:30,559
we'll see how he develops. I
think there's still some great potential there.

941
01:06:30,599 --> 01:06:35,119
And lastly, to keep your eye
on prospect, keep your eye on is

942
01:06:35,119 --> 01:06:39,800
going to be Sam Rinzel twenty twenty
two to twenty fifth overall pick six,

943
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:44,039
four hundred and seventy six pounds,
d can a D. As a freshman

944
01:06:44,079 --> 01:06:45,840
from Minnesota, he had twenty eight
points and thirty nine games, which was

945
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:49,440
enough to lead all defensemen and the
sixth most for the entire team. He

946
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:55,039
also led the team in plus minus
and assists, so overall looking really good.

947
01:06:55,079 --> 01:06:59,119
Previous to that, Renzel played in
the USHL and he had some pretty

948
01:06:59,119 --> 01:07:03,280
strong production for the Waterloo Blackhawks.
He also played on that World Junior team

949
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,000
for Team USA, and he was
really good. I think he opened a

950
01:07:06,039 --> 01:07:10,639
lot of people's eyes at how good
he was on that big stage. He

951
01:07:10,639 --> 01:07:13,199
didn't score a lot of points,
just one assist in seven games, but

952
01:07:13,599 --> 01:07:15,719
he played a lot of important minutes
and he looked really good in them.

953
01:07:16,159 --> 01:07:20,280
Looking at his FHL player card,
he has really high assists for sixty as

954
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:24,559
we already mentioned. His shots and
hits are also pretty strong eight out of

955
01:07:24,559 --> 01:07:27,480
ten, and his blocks are kind
of closer to average, so overall he

956
01:07:27,519 --> 01:07:31,000
should be pretty good for BASH eight
out of ten overall, mostly driven by

957
01:07:31,039 --> 01:07:34,199
the shots and hits and a pretty
decent points upside. I have him as

958
01:07:34,199 --> 01:07:36,800
a six point five out of ten
in terms of the up side. But

959
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:43,360
let's hear from Austin about what makes
Renzel so interesting. Renzel, according to

960
01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:47,159
Austin, skating fast paced skater with
a good burst, quick first step,

961
01:07:47,159 --> 01:07:51,360
but at times he'll just move the
puck down the ice and not worry about

962
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:55,719
speed if he doesn't have to,
which is a good tool. Very natural

963
01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:00,000
skating, stride, does well keeping
puck control, good transition puck movie.

964
01:08:00,519 --> 01:08:04,599
Not overly crafty in his skating,
but the fundamentals are strong in terms of

965
01:08:04,639 --> 01:08:09,480
passing and handling. A good playmaker
who sees the ice well, patient,

966
01:08:09,719 --> 01:08:14,320
able to wait to find the right
to man transition, puck carrying is a

967
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,520
great strength. Passing is good more
than it is great, but a lot

968
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:24,960
stronger than expected. And Austin in
terms of shooting, Bronzel has really come

969
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:29,239
into his own as a shooter,
a lot more confidence in taking chances and

970
01:08:29,359 --> 01:08:33,520
hitting shots that he'd usually differ on
in the past. And Brinzel's still not

971
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:38,039
scoring a ton and a lot of
it seems to be in relation to accuracy

972
01:08:38,079 --> 01:08:41,079
issues, a lot of wide shots, not enough juice on his shots.

973
01:08:41,359 --> 01:08:44,239
There are some positives in taking those
shots, but you'd like to see him

974
01:08:44,279 --> 01:08:48,960
get better at connecting. If he
can't, Rinzel's offense may just be limited

975
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:54,920
to playmaking. In terms of IQ, Rinzel has good hockey sense. He

976
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:59,119
knows how to speed up and slow
down the pace it does well controlling himself

977
01:08:59,119 --> 01:09:02,680
with the puck, has a good
panic meter, reacts well to rush chances

978
01:09:03,079 --> 01:09:09,279
and to loose pucks. For for
checking, Austin says that Renzel has decent

979
01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:13,159
for checking. An active stick game
uses his body more than a stick,

980
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,680
but he's shown he can shut down
opponents without needing to be physical. For

981
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:23,039
defense, Brinzel does show some good
shutdown ability He's physical and engaged in his

982
01:09:23,079 --> 01:09:26,760
own end, but he doesn't have
the dominance you'd expect from a six to

983
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:30,840
four defenseman, so the best as
set here. One thing about Rinzel's game,

984
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,800
according to Austin, is he's not
trying to wow some other players.

985
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:38,039
He's quick when he needs to be. He shoots when he needs to,

986
01:09:38,239 --> 01:09:41,600
he passes when he needs to.
He doesn't do things to be flashy.

987
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:45,439
He's smart and calculated in how he
plays each shift. He's very mature in

988
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:51,199
his tools in Brinzel's hockey sense looks
to be very translatable long term. He

989
01:09:51,239 --> 01:09:56,359
may not be ready for the NHL
just yet, but he could surprise without

990
01:09:56,439 --> 01:10:00,600
quickly he progresses from the A to
the end. The biggest concern he is

991
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:08,439
not getting much getting many goals despite
being more comfortable as shooter and Renzel can

992
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,520
get knocked down a bit. Yeah, he's young, but he does need

993
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:15,119
to bulk up more for his size
and potential shutdown defender and six to four

994
01:10:15,199 --> 01:10:18,720
you'd want him around one hundred and
ninety pounds minimum right now. He's at

995
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:24,039
one seventy five to one eighty depending
on where you check. The top tier

996
01:10:24,079 --> 01:10:30,439
outcome here that seems like maybe a
second or third defenseman tier two potential ten

997
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:34,920
goal forty five assists fifty five point
player at the very best forty five to

998
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:41,239
fifty more likely that would come if
even though he doesn't have the offensive dominance

999
01:10:41,319 --> 01:10:44,159
in creation to be a first defenseman, he should be able to play on

1000
01:10:44,199 --> 01:10:47,119
the top four given his IQ two
way potential. Possibly he's on the first

1001
01:10:47,159 --> 01:10:51,119
line for a team. If he's
able to get to two hundred pounds,

1002
01:10:51,399 --> 01:10:56,319
but you're likely putting him in a
shutdown role, then there's value in the

1003
01:10:56,359 --> 01:11:00,199
offense too. There's positivity in how
well he's hand go in from high school

1004
01:11:00,279 --> 01:11:08,159
to being a top NCAA player in
two years fiftieth percentile tier three. The

1005
01:11:08,159 --> 01:11:12,880
scoring doesn't come. Maybe more realistically, five goals twenty five assists thirty points.

1006
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:17,600
That type of player who anchors the
second line despite having some decent scoring

1007
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:21,800
looks. That would come because Renzel
has struggled in getting goals. He may

1008
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:26,960
just be a playmaker at the NHL
level, which could make him lean more

1009
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to being a second liner. Adding
to his frame will be necessary to get

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the projection that he'll need. Stylistic
comparable, there's some similarity to Brock Favor,

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01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:41,800
who took a while to mature his
game before the NHL. Renzel probably

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01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:46,359
isn't on Favors level, but could
potentially have a similar early breakout. So

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overall, Austin says, Renzel was
a very off the board pick for Chicago

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01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:55,279
who traded up for him, but
after this season it's a clear lesson to

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trust Blackhawks scouts could be a long
term partner for one of the Korchinski Mastro

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players in the NHL. Perhaps Renzel
could be there, Brent Seabrook for the

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future. Woof our friend Mason Black
the NHL rank king. Yes he is

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our friend, Yes he is the
King. Sam Renzel versus Lucas Dragonsavitch of

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01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:21,880
the Seattle krak and Rizzel is not
able to overcome Dragonsavitch, who wins in

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a vote of fifty five to forty
five percent, Victor, Is that something

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01:12:28,039 --> 01:12:33,199
you would agree with? No,
I don't think so. And I think

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people are still really excited about Dragosovitch, but I don't think you should be.

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01:12:39,079 --> 01:12:44,359
I know that he had really strong
production in his draft season. Did

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01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:48,079
Dragasovitch? He was second round pick, fifty seventh overall but he had really

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01:12:48,119 --> 01:12:53,920
incredible that was twenty twenty three.
He had really incredible production for tri City,

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01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,960
seventy five points in sixty eight games
that went down this year, fifty

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01:12:57,039 --> 01:13:00,319
and sixty six. I think it's
really telling that he was not selected to

1028
01:13:00,359 --> 01:13:04,039
be part of Team Canada for the
U twenty and I think that the big

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01:13:04,079 --> 01:13:08,439
issue with him is that he just
he can't really defend. So he's six

1030
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' to two. He has a
lot of good offense, but if you

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01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:15,319
can't defend, it doesn't matter how
good your offense is. We've seen a

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01:13:15,359 --> 01:13:20,159
lot of guys fall and have issue
with this very recently, so I just

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01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:26,720
as we're recording this, I just
thowt Ty Smith signed in Carolina for his

1034
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:30,399
like third chance here. Remember when
Ty Smith was a thing. Yeah,

1035
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:32,680
he was a great whler. He
had a lot of points upside. But

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01:13:33,079 --> 01:13:38,399
guy can't defend at the best at
the time, even at the professional level.

1037
01:13:38,399 --> 01:13:42,880
Ahl So, Caitlin Addison, these
are guys that struggle two way,

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01:13:43,239 --> 01:13:45,000
and it doesn't matter how good your
offense is if you can't do that.

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01:13:45,199 --> 01:13:49,880
So I would caution anyone who's still
super excited about Dragon Savage because I don't

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01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:54,560
think it's going to happen like at
all, So you get not an NHL

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01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:58,760
or on one side, and maybe
Sam Frenzella isn't the most exciting in terms

1042
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:01,439
of points upside, but he should
be playing in the NHL. And I

1043
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:09,359
really like what Austin said too about
the pair because one of the comps that

1044
01:14:09,399 --> 01:14:15,479
comes out for Samrenzel in the hockey
prospecting model is MITIASX home and we're seeing

1045
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:20,680
MITISX home star for the Edmonton Oilers. We're seeing what a fantastic partner he

1046
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:24,000
can be. And there's a little
bit offense there. It's not nothing,

1047
01:14:24,039 --> 01:14:28,880
but he's a really strong player and
I think Renzel could be something like that.

1048
01:14:29,079 --> 01:14:32,119
Brense Brook is certainly a high praise
as well, but yeah, I

1049
01:14:32,119 --> 01:14:38,119
would definitely take Brinzel, even though
it looks from a lot of equivalency models

1050
01:14:38,119 --> 01:14:41,039
that Dragon Savage is better. He's
up to forty four percent chance of being

1051
01:14:41,039 --> 01:14:45,239
a star. Renzel has grown his
equivalency up to ten. Part of that

1052
01:14:45,359 --> 01:14:48,359
is his equivalency was so low in
high school and then USHL. But at

1053
01:14:48,359 --> 01:14:55,000
a really strong CAA season and I
would definitely take him. As I mentioned

1054
01:14:55,079 --> 01:14:59,199
the comp to Eck Holme. There's
some other comps in here of some reasonable

1055
01:14:59,239 --> 01:15:01,560
guys that are more like average producers, but still, do you want an

1056
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:08,079
NHLer or someone who's not going to
be the j freshcard A little less pessimistic,

1057
01:15:08,199 --> 01:15:12,399
more pessimistic on Ranzau one percent chance
of being a start, eight percent

1058
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:15,159
chance of being an NHL or so, a little bit not as exciting.

1059
01:15:15,159 --> 01:15:18,079
But I think they do have a
really strong prospect here and someone who should

1060
01:15:18,079 --> 01:15:21,640
play a lot and should have a
pretty decent role for the team, So

1061
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:29,000
that's exciting, and should have some
pretty decent peripheral coverage as mentioned earlier.

1062
01:15:29,079 --> 01:15:32,399
So that's it for the Blackhawks dig. If your patron, you can listen

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1064
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some Scottie with that, shoot me
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1065
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email us Victor Drags Dreg gonna say
that that's how I saw that discussion.

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We'll be right back to close out
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can contact me fan Hockey Life.
Okay, well, I've got a serious

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topic that I want to bring up. There's no unawkward time to mention it.

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But this week it would appear that
one of our longtime patrons, a

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friend named Dennis, who was hook
and Scramble in the Discord forums has passed

1099
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away. He was a competitor in
our Tier one of our dynasty, a

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great fantasy hockey player, and Victor
and I really want to send out his

1101
01:18:40,159 --> 01:18:45,239
thoughts to his family. Now,
in the modern era, when it comes

1102
01:18:45,279 --> 01:18:49,840
to social media, it's very difficult
to find out when somebody disappears from something

1103
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like a discord, what's going on. Our tidy team did a lot of

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research. They found an online obituary. They found multiple confirmations that this happened

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01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:05,159
with Dennis. But if you knew
Dennis, he was well loved in this

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and every other fantasy hockey space,
it seems, and many people enjoyed interacting

1107
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,359
with them. These people you play
with are real people, and so Victor

1108
01:19:15,359 --> 01:19:20,680
and I want to send out our
best thoughts. And it's a sad day

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01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:27,560
Dennis, who can scramble on the
discord. Well, no good transition from

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there, but a couple other things
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