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Now let's take a little break,
come back and talk to Saint Louis Blues.

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I'd like to introduce our next guest, Mike Meyer, formally of the

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Hockey News and this guy covers the
Saint Louis Blues a lot, so he

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has all the inside scoop for us. Mike, how you do it today?

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Hey, I'm doing great, appreciate
you having me on, Yes,

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sir, The Saint Louis Blues are
an interesting team to follow it. It

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was a rough year, rough year
for the Blues. I think that's probably

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fair to say on the whole.
They fired their coach early on, a

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guy who led them to a Stanley
Cup and four playoff appearances in his first

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five seasons, and even after replacing
him, there were a lot of things

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at the end of the year that
the Blues didn't net out very well at

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areas where they were among the ten
worst teams in the NHL. Included shots

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taken, shots allowed, power play
efficiency and goals scored and moreover, the

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top talent on the team was relatively
healthy. Justin Fauken Scott Prunovich missed a

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pretty good stretch. But overall,
their team was their team this year,

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I believe. So that was a
tough start. On the flip side,

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there were some good things to say
about how the results came out. Not

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many power play attempt opportunities against,
they gave up a few power plays relative

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to other teams, and because they
were one of the least penalized teams and

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their goalie player will get to but
the results there surprising, some very positive

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things. I know I've just hit
you with a lot of negatives there,

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Mike, But there's a lot of
good and a lot to learn about this

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team. What do we make all
in all of the blue season? And

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what do you think is coming next
for this team? You're remaking, You're

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making me relive all of the fun
that went this past season. I'm sorry,

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I guess no, it was I
said, you know before the season

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started, before twenty three twenty four
started. As long as we see some

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statistical improvements, I'll be happy.
We saw a couple of different guys who

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moved the needle here a little bit. We saw some progression. It was

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not going to be a year that
I expected them to to make the playoffs,

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and the fact that it came down
to was like Game eighty where they're

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like still in it. This was
for year one of a retool. Was

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actually quite surprising. I think for
a lot of people, including myself,

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I really didn't think that this season
was going to be chalked up as a

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negative here by any stretch of the
imagination. The defense you know here on

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the whole, if you consider two
years ago was like an this season here,

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I would give it like a C. It wasn't great. It wasn't

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mind blowing. We saw a whole
heck of a lot less backdoor passes for

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goals. We saw better performances here
from the goaltenders. We saw a little

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bit of particular in some scoring.
So again it wasn't mind blowing, but

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it moved the needle here a little
bit, and I think that's what most

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fans were looking for here in this
year one retool. Yeah, I guess

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I was pushing just the overall take, but you're right. They were a

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frisky team late the year, and
that sexual division was brutal, and so

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it's not surprising that it didn't quite
work out. But yeah, they were

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in it until the very end.
And one of the reasons they were in

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it up until the last few games
of the season was Robert Thomas. He

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had another stellar year, finishing over
a point per game and fifteenth in the

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National Hockey League in assists. His
shots. That's something that we've harped on

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the show. Year after years he's
not taken enough shots. His shots per

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game did increase quite a bit this
year, forty three percent increase over two

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per game. He was consistent over
the course of the year in terms of

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his overall play, and so a
lot of good things to say about Robert

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Thomas. What did you see from
him this year and what do you expect

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from him going forward? I think
that you hit the nail right on the

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head, because everybody who would watch
Robert Thomas play would simply say, point,

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if this guy could just shoot more
like you'd watch him in warm ups

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like that is a heck of a
release. And you just you were you

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could see it, You could see
it happening. You could be able to

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see his hand eye coordination, able
to see what he was capable of.

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Just was it just something just was
holding him back. He would rather make

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the pass than be able to just
put the shot on net. And so

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finally now that he I think has
taken the reins here as the team's number

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one and let's be honest, probably
number two center here as well, just

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because that's where the Blues center of
depth is here. At this point in

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time, he's easily a top twenty
or just sky of the top twenty point

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producer here like in the NHL,
and now he's again taking that number one

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center here across across the Saint Louis
Blues franchise. I think that he's still

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going to be a very valued member
here in fantasy. With him completing eight

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hundred and seventy six face offs wins, it was like just over fifty three

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percent here of a success rate.
I still think that he maintains and being

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one of the most underrated centers across
the NHL who is just now hitting a

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stride. So for guys who are
in the yearly fantasies, I think you're

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going to get a heck of a
value pick. You're still for him because

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I think there's a lot of people
who still undervalue him, and for guys

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who are in dynasty leagues, if
you have not tried to buy on him,

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trust me, his owner realizes his
potential right now because I really liken

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him to this generation's Claude Drue and
I think that he's going to end up

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becoming It's a lofty goal, I
know, but I really think he's got

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that kind of the potential here in
him. Wow, that would be outstanding

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if we get that out of him. The other main name, I guess,

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the big name and the forward ranks
of this team, Jordan Cayrou Thomas

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led the team in points and assists. Kyrou led it in goals, with

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thirty one and sixty seven total points
in a full complement of eighty two games.

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There was talk that Kyru might not
have been as consistent as guys like

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Thomas were for the team this year, and maybe as team Brass would have

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liked him. But similar to Thomas
in terms of an overall profile, not

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a lot of blocks and hits,
but Kyru is the one who really takes

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the shots. He takes more than
three a game, and unlike the other

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big two on the team, where
we'll get to the next guy in a

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little bit. Kyru has a reasonably
positive impact not only on even strength offense,

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but on even strength defense. If
you look at the goals above replacement

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models from Evolving Hockey, that's a
good thing that he does. What's the

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word on Jordan Cayrou and what are
you expecting next year? Looking back at

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last year, it was almost a
tale of two seasons with him before Urube

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was fired, and that was on
the December twelfth, after that six or

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four last year against At that point
in time, Kiro had five goals seventeen

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points through twenty eight games, averaging
just over three shots here per game.

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If you continue that pace, you're
looking at a guy who went from over

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thirty goal scored to fourteen to fifteen
goals here on the season. It was

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a large underperformance here from him.
Brubeys fired, Bannister comes in. It

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wasn't an immediate fix. But Kyro
then scores twenty six goals and fifty points

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over the last fifty four games of
the season, a thirty nine goal seventy

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five point pacer from him. Again, tale of two different seasons. I

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don't know if we're going to necessarily
see a seventy five to eighty point pacer

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from him this coming season. But
I think you could be able to easily

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chalk him up for again close to
thirty goals, if not exceeding thirty goals.

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Shoot, people in Saint Louis were
expecting him to be a forty fifty

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goal scorer. Bill just keep seeing
this progression here from him. So now

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that Bannister has excited and his two
year contract extension here with the Blues they

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picked him up, I think you
we're gonna be able to see the Jordan

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kyr that we have become expected to
be able to see. So could we

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see him be able to hit forty? Yeah? Absolutely? Could you be

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able to see fifty? Just depends
on his linemates, I think, in

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the opportunity, But I think you're
gonna be able to see the same goal

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scorer that you saw within that Drew
Banister era. Oh, there are on

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some big numbers getting us excited over
here. I love it. Lofty goals.

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Yeah, we're going to move on
to Pavel Butchnievich and he you know,

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has been on the older side.
Now he's going to be thirty this

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upcoming season. Still a really decent
contract for one more year that the Blues

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have him for we've we're referencing our
tier dynasty. He was one hundred and

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sixteenth, a little bit on the
low side, and I think that's an

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important factor here because Buchnavich the first
two seasons in Saint Louis after coming over

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from the Rangers, which I still
maintained was such a steal for the Blues.

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But he was over point per game, looked fantastic, and this season

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it didn't go quite as well sixty
five point pace. His shooting percentage was

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the lowest that's been in the past
four years, so that was probably part

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of it. But his time on
ice was good. It's the most he's

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ever played. His power play time
on ice was the most he's ever gotten,

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so it seems like he was getting
really good opportunity including offensive zone starts

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and power play time and things like
that. So I guess the question,

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is he someone who's gonna be with
the team long term? Do you think

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they might trade him at the deadline? And can he get back to being

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that point per game player that we
were so happy about in fantasy. That's

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the I guess you could call it
the eight million dollar question. That's what

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they're expecting that booch Dan which is
going to be able to earn here on

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his next contract extension. Do I
want him to stay as a member here

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of the Blues. Yes, absolutely, Do I expect him to stay?

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Boy I am about if I had
able to answer that question, I'm about

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twenty five percent optimistic that they're going
to be able to keep him. He

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doesn't necessarily match the core here of
this team simply due to his age,

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and that kind of worries me.
However, we have seen Doug Armstrong put

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out a lot of contracts here for
a lot of players that kind of leave

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us with our head scratching here a
little bit, and so it wouldn't necessarily

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surprise me that they try to be
able to retain the rights and be able

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to keep Bochnavich here long term.
Again, like you said, he produced

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really well when he first came in, start slowly dipping even though he saw

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the increase here in an ice time, he only had forty two points in

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fifty four games underneath a Banister after
twenty one and twenty six under Berube.

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So I would expect here personally,
contract seasons are usually good for production.

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You know, they want able to
really go all gung ho here Ford able

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to help make sure that their value
here is increased. I think he's still

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going to be a very valuable asset. But again that's the eight million dollar

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question whether or not that they're gonna
be able to retain him. So we'll

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see. Let's talk about Braden Shin
because us fantasy managers, we might like

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Braden Sheen more than the average people
because he throws hits. We love the

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one hundred and sixty nine hits and
one hundred and seventy shots and even for

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forward, fifty one blocks is pretty
nice. He played a full eighty two

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last year, forty six points,
and so he's thirty two years old now,

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and the signs of where at age
thirty two we're there a little bit.

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I always worry about somebody who reaches
their mid thirties and they throw that

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many hits and use their bodies so
much over time and their potential longevity.

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Those forty six points that he had
marked his lowest total in a full season

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since twenty thirteen dash fourteen. He
signed for several more years, just spent

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his first as the captain of the
Saint Louis Blues, And so what I

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post to you, Mike, is
Shen due for a bounce back in his

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second year with the captain c or
are we expecting just this physical half point

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per game scoring era of Shen's career
just going forward. Whenever I was looking

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here at his point totals, I
like you, he's reaching here his mid

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thirties. Get very nervous. I
look at him mora along the lines here

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with David bachist type that he's a
big power forward. But boy, we

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saw a wicket drop off with David
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and I'm hoping that God that does
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the Blues cannot go to a Ford
having that large of a contract and him

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producing at a bottom six forward type
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get the opportunity. I think he's
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to play here second line. He's
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year, but they may need to
him to be able to move off with

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the wing if they can find somebody
to help play the center position. He's

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still very valuable, but it just
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who are going to potentially able to
come up, so you could still maybe

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able to count him in around twenty
goals. It took him until roughly the

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very last game here the season,
don't to score this twentieth, but at

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that point in time you may be
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a point to fifty points. But
yeah, production year after year beyond that

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age thirty to thirty one season,
it's rough. All Right, we're gonna

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go to a bit of a pick'm
here. We're gonna go Brandon Sod against

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Jake Nighbors. And these two are
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Brandon Sod's quite a bit older,
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aside from the point pace that was
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Sod forty one for Neighbors, the
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are completely different for these two.
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that sod Is really seems allergic to
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way of putting it, he doesn't
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hits, but he does shoot.
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so and defensively you have both of
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I'm wondering if that factors into But
between these two that have both averaged a

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round a half point per game,
do you think we'll see one of them

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take the lead here? Certainly Neighbors
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where he looked great and then he
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points, potentially, and what do
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games into his NHL career, Sad
obviously a seasoned veteran. What do you

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think between these two? I think
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time of the deployment tier Neighbors was
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the very beginning of the season,
he was on the fourth line. He

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worked his way here up to the
top line, earning every single minute that

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this guy here was getting. At
this point, Sods slowing down, veteran

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on the team, he's looking like
that he's going to be probably relegated down

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to a bottom six role, probably
finding a good home here consistently on the

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third line. And while like you, you hit the nail in here on

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the head while sod end of the
year, he had twenty six goals,

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forty two points and he only outscored
neighbors by four points still while playing five

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more though, And so should Jake
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going to continue to maintain that role
right in front of the net. He's

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going to be that disturber that's right
there, taking the eyes away here from

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the goalie. And I think that
he's going to continue able to just bang

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away. I really want him to
be able to try to pick up his

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assist game here just a little bit
more as he gets a little more comfortable

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here in the NHL. But I
think you're going to be able to see

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Jake Nabors continubal to stay twenty plus
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forward, as long as he continues
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and on the power play. That's
good to hear. He was one of

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my favorites this past season. He
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him up and down from the miners. But that's not going to be the

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case for him moving forward. He's
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Let's move on to another young player, Zach bul Duke and bull Duke So

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he only played twenty five games this
season. He was a former first round

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pick, the seventeenth d We're All
twenty twenty one. He led the que

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in goals. He had fifty goals
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the AHL, twenty five in the
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point pace game in the AHL.
So, I guess the question is what

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is the Blues Brass seeing in his
development? Where do they want to give

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do they want to give him NHL
minutes? And is this something that we'll

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be seeing next year? Will he
play more than twenty five games? What

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do you think we can see for
bull Duke next season? There might bull

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Duke, and I think any of
these young guys who that you started to

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see make their way up to the
NHL near the I guess, in like

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the fourth quarter here or so of
the season, I think you're going to

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see these guys earn every single opportunity
and be able to get every single opportunity

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here rather available to them here in
training campfield to earn that rossterspot. I'll

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be honest. I had him pegged
midway through the season of saying, yeah,

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he's going to start twenty four to
twenty five in the AHL. Again,

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just continues growth in development, playing
the top six role, top power

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play unit for Springfield Thunderbirds, and
I had zero issue, and I would

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have said that until it blew in
the face. He came up. He

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made a lot of really good strides
offensively, and while they didn't necessarily show

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up on the score sheet, he
really showed like that he belonged and that

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he is going to get every single
opportunity able to earn that role. Whether

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or not that's going to be on
the second line like he was playing here

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for a little while throughout the season, that's to be determined. I would

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think that he's going to play in
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line, and especially because he finished
the season his final five games he had

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four goals, five points. He
was huge for me in fantasy. I

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love that I was in the in
the finals here for my league and he

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was a great roster addition here for
me, and I came this close with

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the winning my championship, but he
made it really close here for me,

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and so with his five points in
five games. Again, obviously he's not

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gonna be an eighty point player.
He's just not like he's not going to

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have that kind of a pace here. But again, as long as as

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long as he continues to put the
work in here throughout the offseason, the

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Blues are going to give him every
single opportunity to be able to earn that

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role here within probably the middle six. I don't think he's obviously ready able

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to play that pop line here just
as of yet, but he's definitely one

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that I would certainly be able to
keep an eye on here in any sort

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of a streaming capacity over to the
blue line. Tory Krug season a little

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bit of a mixed bag in some
ways. There was some discussion that he

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battled injuries. He played the most
games of a Saint Louis tenure at seventy

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seven, had hies in his shots, blocks and hits for his four year

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span in the Gateway City, but
points this year. Only four goals thirty

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five assists for forty one points in
those seventy seven games, And if you

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look at his with or without you
numbers, he was not driving grade five

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on five defense. Maybe that's not
necessarily his role. There's other defensemen we're

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going to get to. But what
do you make overall of Tory Krug's year

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and what are you expecting from him
as he rolls into his thirty four year

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old year. He remains steady,
like you said, like this last year,

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half point per game again, seventy
seven of eighty two games. It's

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definitely the most he's played here in
the Blues, and the most since the

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twenty seventeen eighteen season, like with
the Bruins. The problem though, is

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that you saw him produce. It
was fifty nine sixty points here I believe

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in about seventy six games at that
point, and so when you're not seeing

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that type of a production, I
don't think that you're gonna be able to

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see that moving forward here from him. He's regressed her quite a bit,

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really in areas all across the board, but for some reason, like not

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necessarily in block shots. He put
up career year in block shots. So

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that's always great with one hundred and
eleven year of them, but I think

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that we're far removed from the days
where we're gonna see him cross fifty points

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and perhaps even forty points if I'm
being honest, depending on if he remains

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in Saint Louis or if he continues
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blue line. It's a lot of
ice time to be given out and a

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lot of ice time demanded. And
unfortunately, if you're not producing, you're

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it's gonna be the up and who
can produce for me? Because there's a

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lot of guys who can be able
to do it, and I just don't

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see Tory Kruge really getting that opportunity
on a consistent basis. All right,

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let's talk about Justin Falk. I
feel every year I talk about Justin Fulk

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I'm wrong about him. I don't
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I'm either too low and then he
surprises me or I get excited about him

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and he disappoints. That was the
case this season. I was a little

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bit more excited about him and he
kind of disappointed. Forty one point pace

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after a back to back fifty plus
point pace seasons, and some of that

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you could look at time on ice. This time on ice did go down

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a little bit as powerplay share went
down a little bit, but it was

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actually more than two seasons ago.
When he had a fifty one point pace.

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His bash is still consistently pretty decent, so that always keeps him relevant

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and leagues that count that kind of
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he obviously fell off quite a bit. And as they continue to retool

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rebuild around, is he someone who
is going to be continue to be given

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this role or is he gonna are
there is a team to try to look

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for maybe bring in someone else that
can offer a little bit more in that

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realm. What do you think,
Mike about Falk next season? He along

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with Tory Krug, are the two
veteran defensemen. I firmly believe that one

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of them is going to be gone. The Blues cannot be able to continue

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to move forward here with having both
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so that's one of the biggest questions
that you need be able to ask yourself

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here when analyzing and projecting out what
Fulk is going to end up doing here

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for this coming season. I think
that there's again a lot of quality ice

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time that's going to be given out, but Falk was starting to lose that

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ice time here to young players like
Matthew Kessel and Kessel may not be as

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strong of a point producer, but
Falk certainly losing ice time as he is

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not seeming to be as strong here
on the backcheck. He's not looking here

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as so good in his own zone. And so Kessel here is filling that

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role here for him, at least
defensively. And so again that's losing some

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ice time and some powerplay opportunity here
for him. So I don't think that

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you being down on him is necessarily
a bad thing. And I if you've

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got shares here of him and you
need able to trade him, I would

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try able to trade him now,
absolutely now, and be able to get

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what you can here based here,
like off of namesake again, point six

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here at point six to two point
that's what it was here. Point per

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game pace here in twenty one,
twenty two, half a point per game

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pace last season. WI could drop
off, like you said, two goals.

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He's just he's not really fantasy relevant
here too terribly much outside of like

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blocks hits that's not even that many, that's underneath of that's what was he

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at. He had one point seven
blocks per game last year and one point

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three one point three one point four
year hits per game, you know,

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even in the areas if he's not
point producing, you know, can you

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be able to get me something else? No, I can able to find

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other guys who can able to get
me more So, Falk is not really

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a guy that I would be pitting
my hat to and it will say,

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hey, go out there and Bill, get me fifty points here. Again.

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So as high as I was here
on some of the forwards, I'm

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that low sometimes on some of these
defensemen, especially the aging ones. Unfortunately,

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it hasn't been pretty on the back
end. It is not that's certainly

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true. We're not really going to
talk about Pranco because he isn't so fantasy

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relevant, but he is at least
has been more consistent, at least in

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that realm. So let's talk about
another guy that you said maybe they look

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at some other options. Scott Prunovich
is someone we've been excited about for a

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long time. The issue with Scott
is staying healthy. That has continued to

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be an issue, and this season
he's currently an RFA. I think it'll

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be interesting to see what happens with
him. He did play fifty four games,

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the most he's ever played in the
NHL. He had a twenty six

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point pace, which is the same
he had last season twenty six point pace,

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but he only played nineteen games after
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So despite putting up such great numbers
in the NCAA and in the AHL,

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he's still I would say, has
not really fully proved it at the

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NHL level, and can he really
be a full time NHL er. A

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lot of people look at him as
he could be the next Tory Krue.

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Okay, but Tory Krue didn't really
miss this much time and he continued to

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play and continues to play consistently.
So I think that's the biggest question with

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Prunovich. Is he gonna Do you
think he'll be able to stay healthy?

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And can he take this role,
especially if they move on from Kruge?

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Is that something do you think is
feasible here? Should we be excited about

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Prunovic season? I am still excited
about Prunovich here at this point in time.

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Expectations here has been tampered here down
just a little bit. He is

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probably one of the biggest X factors
here on this Blues blue line. It's

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truly hard to believe that this guy
is twenty five. He's going to be

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twenty six very shortly into the season. But he's only played seventy three regular

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season games and as a second round
pick here in twenty eighteen. Like you

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said, he's proven he can be
to play and produce here in the AHL,

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but he really hasn't been able to
fully ra just as of yet.

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He has really good, strong stints
for just a couple of games, and

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then he disappears, and then he
shows another couple and so you're riding that

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wave here a little bit with Scott
Pronovitch here right now. So he's a

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great streaming option when you start to
see that he's getting hot, but sometimes

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those bursts are very few and far
between. They're quick there. You have

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to just grab him really quick,
like when you see him start to put

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one to two points here up here
right now. So I'm still a firm

409
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,640
believer that he holds on and we're
gonna be able to see a good uptick

410
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,079
in production, especially if Armstrong can
able to move on from Valkerkrut before next

411
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,759
season. He's going to firmly cement
himself. I believe he's going to get

412
00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,039
a really good shot here at the
power play one. He did that last

413
00:27:45,079 --> 00:27:48,400
year near the end of the season, but again that's because there was some

414
00:27:48,519 --> 00:27:51,799
injuries here to a couple of the
veteran Blue Liners, and he field it

415
00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:53,279
and he looked great. I really
had no issues here with him. But

416
00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:57,559
age is not on his side here
already, and with a couple of defensemens

417
00:27:57,599 --> 00:28:03,240
starting to peck their way up up
there, Prunovich has abilt to earn the

418
00:28:03,279 --> 00:28:07,400
eistime. He just has to.
But they also need point producing defenceman and

419
00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:11,119
right now, outside of Krug and
Falk, there's not very many point producing

420
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:17,400
defenseman here available. So Prunovic maybe
that guy if they don't look externally at

421
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:22,599
least. Yeah, I heard you
counch that excitement several different ways, which

422
00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:26,039
I think is appropriate. Yeah,
So let's move on to the goalies and

423
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,319
hope the best first got Prunovich.
The Blues were ranked twenty eighth in terms

424
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:36,079
of expected goals against for sixty,
but they conceded this eighteenth ranked actual goal

425
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,400
So the goalies, both of them, I would say, performed above expected.

426
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,079
I think the protection that hope for
God was a little bit better and

427
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,119
so he didn't have to perform his
say percentage and his expected goals quite as

428
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,640
much. I think Bennington had a
little less to work with. He also

429
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,680
played more games, but he did
quite well. And Bennington played fifty seven

430
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,880
games. Hope had the one and
or Sorry had the thirty games, and

431
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,519
yeah, so both of them overall
looked pretty good. Bennington had a bit

432
00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:08,400
of a bounce back season. We'd
been tracking this over time, and ever

433
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,359
since he went on that run and
won the Cup, he'd been trending down

434
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,480
and looking worse and worse every single
season. He stopped that this year and

435
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:21,119
he finally had a really good season. It wasn't quite as good as the

436
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:25,200
thirty two game sample where he was
on an absolute tear, but it ended

437
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,519
up being his second best statistical season, which is pretty great and hopefully had

438
00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:32,480
a bit of a coming out party. Solid numbers in thirty games, goalsave

439
00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:36,480
above expected was good, Delta Fenwick
was good, and goaltending really wasn't the

440
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,519
issue. I think scoring the twenty
seventh number of actual goals it was really

441
00:29:40,559 --> 00:29:45,039
more of the problem. Bennington has
three more years left on his six million

442
00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:48,559
dollar cap hit deal. Can't really
see him getting moved. Maybe with his

443
00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:51,599
bounce back season, I don't know
if that's something that the Brass would explore.

444
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,680
So, Mike, what do you
think about the goaltending situation moving forward

445
00:29:53,680 --> 00:30:00,599
between these two? So I have
to take away my homer my home goggles

446
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,680
here he will to look at this
one. Here. I'm going to make

447
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,279
a controversial statement. People may or
may not like this here, but Bennington

448
00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:11,000
probably was one of the most underrated
goaltenders in the NHL this year, and

449
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:17,000
to be honest, robbed of a
Vesna finalists not nomination when you look here

450
00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:21,799
at it. A twenty eight twenty
one to five record doesn't ultimately scream Vesna

451
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,880
finalist, but he was third in
the NHL here and goals saved above expected,

452
00:30:26,079 --> 00:30:32,319
right behind Hellibuck and Demco six and
save percentage versus expected second and save

453
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:37,160
percentage on scoring chances. I think
the Blues have their goaltender here right now.

454
00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:41,200
I think that they have their goaltender
here through the end of their contract,

455
00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:45,759
because if you're looking at potentially moving
on from Bennington, you're only looking

456
00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:48,880
to be able to do it simply
just because of his contract. That's the

457
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,279
only reason. And last year they
gave he gave the Blues front office and

458
00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:56,920
the fans a great reason to stay. Hey, I'm still here, this

459
00:30:57,039 --> 00:31:00,920
is my net. Hover came in. He looked great, but Bennington looked

460
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,279
that much better. So I think
that if you're going to be able to

461
00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:07,759
look here at a fantasy goaltender,
he's still going to end up being a

462
00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:11,480
goaltender here, able to add one
of your solid starting netminders. I don't

463
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,279
know if he's going to be like
your complete number one goaltender, because personally

464
00:31:15,319 --> 00:31:18,519
I don't trust here just yet.
Give me another season able to show me

465
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,640
that last year was not a fluke. But they seem like they have tightened

466
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,440
things up here defensively and that he
has reaped the benefits here of it.

467
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,920
Joel Hofer here on the other end, like you said, huge coming out

468
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,920
party. He looked great at that
point in time, but he's only twenty

469
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,799
three and he I don't think it's
completely readible to take over the helm here

470
00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:41,440
just as of yet. I love
to hear that because in the league that

471
00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:44,440
Jesse and I are against each other, he traded me Bennington on my way

472
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,839
to the championship, and I'm pleased
to hear that. I have a few

473
00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:51,519
more good seasons to enjoy him before
I have to figure out what else I'm

474
00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:55,960
doing after. I should say,
Mike, I couldn't give away Jordan Bennington

475
00:31:56,079 --> 00:32:00,640
a year ago. He definitely his
reputation has turned around one hundred eighty degrees.

476
00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:02,799
I've loved the attitude the whole time, but Victor finally acknowledged it.

477
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:07,039
That's really what happened here. Yeah, I could not say that I blame

478
00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:09,440
you one bit. I had several
different offers here in a couple of my

479
00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:13,559
Dynasty leagues here for Jordan Bennington,
people knowing that I was a Blues fan,

480
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,519
and I had to turn out every
single one of them, just because

481
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:19,160
I did not trust having him here
on my team. I didn't want him

482
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,079
ruining my stat lines. And that
was just a guy I just could not

483
00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:25,119
justified able to bring in. But
again, if you're looking at potentially getting

484
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:29,400
in on a goaltender of the future
here in Saint Louis, grab stock and

485
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,200
shares here of Joelhofer is he is
looking very good. And even if you're

486
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,960
looking at a guy here who's coming
up the pipeline, Colt Nels is making

487
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,200
his way up. He was in
the ECCHL here to go to start the

488
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,000
season, and then he worked his
way up to the AHL, and he

489
00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:45,200
maybe taking some spots away from Zarenko, the other goaltender here in the AHL.

490
00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:51,240
Small little tidbit here of some future
watch and I have a feeling we're

491
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,000
going to be hearing a little bit
about them later in this episode, So

492
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,400
everybody tune in. But for now, Mike, you've done a great job

493
00:33:00,039 --> 00:33:02,599
and it's caught up on this Saint
Louis Blues team. I know right now

494
00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:06,640
you're a little bit between things,
but I know people should be watching this

495
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,279
space because you might have some things
coming up in the future. How can

496
00:33:09,319 --> 00:33:13,839
people follow your takes on the Blues
right now? The best place to be

497
00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:19,279
able to follow me here is just
simply on Twitter at m underscore Meyer three.

498
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,799
I've tried a couple of the other
socials, and Twitter is just the

499
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:23,319
one I just keep coming back to. You know, it's that huge love

500
00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:29,279
hate relationship. But if some time
before it's here to me later on here

501
00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:32,160
throughout the off season and towards next
season, I'll be looking to start up

502
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:37,119
a couple of other ventures. So
just gol to stay tuned, Just stick

503
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,839
with that X follow because Mike has
great takes on the Saint Louis Blues.

504
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,720
Thank you so much for coming on
our show today, Mike, Yeah,

505
00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:46,200
again, truly appreciate it. Guys, love the work and just able to

506
00:33:46,240 --> 00:34:00,519
keep it up. Wilson, that's
good fed my goodness. Long Yeah.

507
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,800
Now it's your wingley goalie talk.
But Kat Silverman, Kat's instincts back again

508
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:15,840
to get Kat's instincts from NGL mag
on the Saint Louis Blues goalies, and

509
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,960
we're going to start with Vadim Jerenko
six foot four, one hundred and ninety

510
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,800
six pounds, twenty nineteen seventh round
pick, really late, and he has

511
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:30,599
been really good in the HL the
last two seasons. His equivalency has been

512
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:36,440
in the high twenties to mid thirties
throughout his five seasons of development here.

513
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,440
And he's got some decent comps,
some that didn't work out. He's got

514
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:45,039
a Camp Talbot camp comp here that
looks pretty decent and as I mentioned,

515
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:51,760
springfield of the HL the last two
seasons, and pretty decent numbers overall in

516
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:57,039
terms of his his say percentage.
What do your instincts tell us about Jerenko?

517
00:34:57,199 --> 00:35:01,519
Cut I think for starters, the
the Blues really did a great thing

518
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:09,000
with him when they essentially used the
like the flight connection through Finland where they

519
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:15,519
moved him from playing MHL and VHL, which is those minor league levels and

520
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:22,119
the U twenty level over in the
Russia system. They moved him over to

521
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:29,480
play for Illness during the twenty twenty
one twenty twenty two season, which gave

522
00:35:29,559 --> 00:35:37,800
him a chance to play in a
slightly more North American friendly league, because

523
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:42,960
I do think that the Finnish Pro
league has the goaltenders who were playing the

524
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,679
closest comparable style to North America,
and that's something that I am always very

525
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,320
happy to point out there. And
it seems like it paid off for them

526
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,920
because they did that. They then
brought him over to North America, dumped

527
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,239
him in the AHL, and he
had a seamless transition. We played twenty

528
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,320
five games, is for twenty five
his second and has had pretty decent numbers

529
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,840
throughout both. He is, like
you said, he has a former seventh

530
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:12,559
round pick, so worst case he
doesn't pan out, and oh no,

531
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,079
they wasted the fourth to last pick
in the NHL draft that year on a

532
00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:21,760
guy who was a really serviceable AHL
goaltender for them, But based on the

533
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,559
numbers and based on how quickly he
was able to pick up playing at the

534
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:30,559
North American level, I think that
looks really good for them, especially because

535
00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:36,840
he is only I think he's twenty
three and didn't take any backsteps when he

536
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,760
came over in North America. He
didn't need that adjustment season. Obviously,

537
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:47,280
they have Joelhofer in their system as
essentially their NHLer right now, so he's

538
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:53,719
not necessary at the moment at the
NHL level, but I think it's worth

539
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,079
keeping an eye on him because he
did play so well for them in their

540
00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:01,079
first two AHL seasons that they had
their on him there. Yeah, it's

541
00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:06,159
nice to have the option to bring
someone up but may not need him right

542
00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:09,960
away. Nice. So the next
guy, that's the second guy and only

543
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,519
other guy we're going to talk about, is Colton ellis six foot, one

544
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:16,639
hundred and eighty seven pound twenty nineteen
third round pick, and he's been in

545
00:37:16,639 --> 00:37:20,920
the ECCHL for the greater part of
three seasons. This season, he was

546
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,599
much better both in the ECHL and
his little AHL time. His equivalency has

547
00:37:24,679 --> 00:37:29,039
really been trending down. He started
at twenty five percent after coming out of

548
00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:32,280
the queue, and then it's been
trending down, down, down, until

549
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,800
just eight percent, So it seems
like a long shot right now. What

550
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,920
do your instincts tell us about Colton
Ellis? He did a really good job

551
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:47,480
in the AHL this year. That
is a really low overall prospect for him

552
00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:51,199
there. I don't know. I
thought he looked fine. I think we've

553
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,639
talked about him in the past and
I said he's there. I'm happy for

554
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:58,199
him that he's there, but he's
never really stood out in any way.

555
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,960
I would say he was their best
option this year at the AHL level,

556
00:38:02,199 --> 00:38:08,679
but he also did end up spending
a chunk of time in the ECHL,

557
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:14,039
which is something that you never want
to see for a goaltender who ideally you

558
00:38:14,079 --> 00:38:16,079
would like to be moving up.
I don't know if they did that to

559
00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:22,559
give him the games, though,
which because he did really well in the

560
00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:27,880
ECHL and really well in the AHL
this past year, so I think it's

561
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:34,159
worth giving him maybe a look at
more extended playing time in the AHL this

562
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,679
upcoming year, just to see if
Saint Louis has this really gnarly habit of

563
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:44,840
almost overcooking their goaltenders at the AHL
level, waiting until we think that goaltender

564
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,239
isn't necessarily going to be anything because
they're just fine. I believe I've said

565
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,000
that about two or three of their
guys who made it to the NHL or

566
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,719
they just looked They looked solid,
They didn't look like anything super flashy,

567
00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:00,199
weren't doing any super exciting saves,
and they made it up to the NHL

568
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,880
and they were just cool as a
cucumber and ready to go. I think

569
00:39:04,079 --> 00:39:07,800
that happened with Jordan Binnington, that
happened with the VILLI who so, and

570
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,599
it could happen with It could happen
with Colton Ellis too. I just think

571
00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:16,960
it's wild that they split him with
the ECHL this last year because I don't

572
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:21,000
think it looked like he needed it. We'll see that was a really strange

573
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,039
move for them, But I would
say they're the team that makes the strangest

574
00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:29,400
moves with their goaltenders and have a
lot of guys who look almost a little

575
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,119
forgettable there and then end up wowing
us at the NHL levels. So I'm

576
00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:36,840
not ready to write him off yet. All right, thanks for your insights

577
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,679
on the Blues goalies that it will
be fun to watch going forward. We'll

578
00:39:39,679 --> 00:40:01,039
be back right after this big,
good dynasty. He did talkin Saint Louis

579
00:40:01,079 --> 00:40:06,440
Blues. The Blues are going to
pick sixteenth in this year's entry draft.

580
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,239
They've got an extra second, third, and seventh round pick. They're down

581
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:15,280
a sixth. Thank you for your
service. Flag Tarasenko and Ryland O'Ryan O'Reilly

582
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:21,679
and Victor here ranks the team's prospect
system fourteenth overall in the NHL. Let's

583
00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:25,719
start Victor with your patented no brainer. Who is it? Jimmy Snugaroo getting

584
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,199
snuggy with it is who we're going
to start with twenty twenty two to twenty

585
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,639
third overall, pick six, two
hundred and eighty seven pounds right wing.

586
00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:37,440
He regress slightly this season at the
University of Minnesota. That was with less

587
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,440
talent around him. He had no
Logan Cooley, he had no Matthew Knys

588
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:45,039
because they were killing it in the
NHL. He did gain some Oliver More

589
00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:49,440
who had a really nice season,
but it's not terribly out of the ordinary

590
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,519
that he would go from fifty points
in forty games to just thirty four and

591
00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:57,119
thirty nine, still a solid season. I don't think there's any panic button

592
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,280
needing to be pushed or anything like
that. He actually did not. The

593
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,039
team in scoring that was Rhet Piblick
and Bryce Bradzinski, who were juniors and

594
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:08,679
super seniors respectively, so a bit
older, and again the team not quite

595
00:41:08,679 --> 00:41:12,239
as good. They also lost a
bunch of defensemen that I didn't mention.

596
00:41:13,039 --> 00:41:15,079
But we don't have his tracking data
from the NC double A season, but

597
00:41:15,119 --> 00:41:19,559
we do have from his World Junior
time, which he had eight points in

598
00:41:19,639 --> 00:41:22,920
six games as part of the USA
team and route to a gold medal.

599
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:28,199
I believe he went first in one
of our World Championship pools. I don't

600
00:41:28,199 --> 00:41:30,760
think that worked out as well as
that person thought, because eight points and

601
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,760
six games is good, but it's
not. It wasn't the most so.

602
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,719
Anyways, Snuggarud looked really good offensively
and defensively. In the tracking data for

603
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:43,079
Mitch Brown, shots are really high. Game score is really high. Some

604
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:46,599
of the transition numbers a little bit
lower though interestingly enough, but overall a

605
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:52,199
stout two way flow forward. Looking
at his FHL player card, you can

606
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,559
see how amazing his shots are.
In the NCUBLEA that continues to be good.

607
00:41:55,639 --> 00:42:00,000
His hits and blocks are average as
slightly above average, so that gives

608
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:02,480
him a really good bash, but
mostly that's driven by his shots, and

609
00:42:02,559 --> 00:42:07,000
his goals are much higher than his
assists, so overall looking really solid.

610
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,440
I haven't raded it as an eight
out of ten ten being Conor McDavid level,

611
00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:15,280
so that's pretty good, Jesse.
We need to learn more about our

612
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,719
player here, Jimmy Snugrews. So
we need to hear from our FHL scout.

613
00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:24,920
Yes we do, and today's NHL
or FHL featured scout is Patrick.

614
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:30,599
All three of the prospect scouting reports
you're going to hear about today are from

615
00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:35,760
him. So as to the skating, Jimmy snugger Rud is a good skater,

616
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,599
per Patrick. He's not going to
fly by defenders, but he can

617
00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:43,440
put on some speed when needed.
Passing and handling, it's a somewhat underutilized,

618
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:47,320
an underdeveloped part of snug Root's game. He's good at handling the puck

619
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:52,840
and passing, but is rarely driving
play. Snuggerroot is a volume shooter with

620
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:58,119
an excellent shot excels getting in a
good position to get quick and accurate shots

621
00:42:58,519 --> 00:43:01,880
for the IQ. That's vision,
innticipation, panic, poise, He's good

622
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:06,880
at getting in position for a breakout
pass or a scoring chance in the offensive

623
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:12,039
zone, often finds his way to
a space by a faceoff dot for a

624
00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:15,400
prime shot for checking. Snugger Reed
is not often the first forward in the

625
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:21,320
zone or down low defense, not
the first forward back or great at breaking

626
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:27,119
of breakouts, but he sees.
Patrick sees some signs of defensive engagement at

627
00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:30,440
least from Snuggaroo that has promised for
the future. So overall, the best

628
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:36,079
stasset Patrick sees is that shot.
The biggest concern lack of playmaking. However,

629
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,360
Patrick thinks there's evidence he can pass
well and develop into this ability.

630
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:45,119
So what is the top outcome for
him? First line power play one would

631
00:43:45,119 --> 00:43:47,880
be a top outcome for Snuggaroo,
possibly a forty goal scorer with twenty to

632
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,559
thirty assists, that type of a
breakdown. The justification if that happened,

633
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:57,199
it would be because of the shot
and the potential to improve his playmaking and

634
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,400
defense. The ability may be there, it just hasn't been tapped into yet.

635
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:07,320
His median outcome fiftieth percentile. Maybe
he's a thirty goal thirty assist type

636
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:12,000
guy, and the justification there would
be if he was limited to a second

637
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,239
line, second power play role.
Can't prove the playmaking and his defense.

638
00:44:15,599 --> 00:44:22,920
That's just going to limit his ability
to make that NHL impact stylistic comparable with

639
00:44:22,039 --> 00:44:28,440
his goal scoring ability. He could
be a Tarasenko like impact that type of

640
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,719
a profile. Anyway, who shoots
a lot scores a lot light on peripherals.

641
00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:37,159
So the overall thoughts in the first
two games that Patrick watched, the

642
00:44:37,199 --> 00:44:39,440
overall game didn't look that great and
he had a great shot, good at

643
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:44,360
getting a position for good shots.
In the third game, Patrick saw more

644
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,599
stick handling than such he recently,
Snugger had said he's going back. The

645
00:44:47,639 --> 00:44:52,039
reason he's going back for his junior
year is that he recognized he's not ready,

646
00:44:52,079 --> 00:44:58,559
he's not good enough yet, and
that kind of self reflection Patrick believes

647
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,400
bodes well for his future development.
Our friend Mason Black, the NHL Rank

648
00:45:02,519 --> 00:45:08,000
King, gave us his patented pole
Jimmy Snugger RUD up against Quinton Musty,

649
00:45:08,679 --> 00:45:15,920
and the outcome of that poll,
Quentin Musty of the San Jose Sharks wins

650
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:20,360
in a nose over Jimmy snuggerrud fifty
three to forty seven boy, Victor,

651
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,280
I'd see that as an upset.
Is that how you see it? First

652
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:28,239
of all, Mason just mean for
putting two great players like this together that

653
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,320
I like. But I do think
it's close. Yeah, I do think

654
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:35,159
it's close, actually, and I
actually do think that I would lean Musty,

655
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,760
even though that may surprised some people, but Snugger Ruod, I think

656
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:44,440
we all got a little bit ahead
of ourselves with that amazing freshman season.

657
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:49,239
It was fantastic, and I think
he raised his profile. He was an

658
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,880
afterthought in his draft season. He
did okay at the us n TDP,

659
00:45:52,039 --> 00:45:55,159
but he wasn't really that exciting,
and then he had this crazy season at

660
00:45:55,159 --> 00:46:00,320
Minnesota. But I think you can
clearly tell that he was booed a little

661
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,840
bit by Cooley and Knyes and that
great Minnesota team. Not that he isn't

662
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:07,960
a great player, but I think
that maybe that increased his stock just a

663
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,559
little bit too much, And maybe
what we saw this season is a little

664
00:46:09,559 --> 00:46:13,840
bit more realistic, as Patrick said, maybe more of a thirty thirty kind

665
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,119
of guy, maybe someone who's like
a fifty to sixty point player. I

666
00:46:16,119 --> 00:46:20,119
think that's reasonable. He's he could
be a top line payer player, he

667
00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:23,400
also could just as easily be a
second liner. I think the same with

668
00:46:23,559 --> 00:46:28,559
Musty. He's had a pretty incredible
season. When we talked to Lauren Kelly,

669
00:46:29,079 --> 00:46:31,880
we talked about how the sky's a
limit. She sees him like he

670
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,880
has all the potential in the world
to be a top line winger. And

671
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,119
of course the Shark's getting Celebrini and
having Will Smith, and they have some

672
00:46:40,159 --> 00:46:45,760
really good prospects, some really good
young players now at Bordelo Eckln's it's filling

673
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,480
out nicely. I think he Musty
is the top left winger, unless Will

674
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,360
Smith is a winger, then maybe
he gets bumped down a little bit.

675
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,159
But I think both of these guys
are great. If I had to pick,

676
00:46:57,199 --> 00:47:00,440
though, I would lean slightly towards
Musty. In the hockey prospecting model,

677
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:06,559
he Musty looks quite a bit better
double the equivalency of a star potential

678
00:47:06,639 --> 00:47:10,280
as snuggrud right now forty six percent
to twenty one percent, Snugaru looking a

679
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,559
little bit more average. One of
his better comps in this model is a

680
00:47:14,559 --> 00:47:17,880
guy like Marco Sturm actually, who
was a Shark, and he was much

681
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:22,159
more of an average producer so a
boring fantasy asset, but a really good

682
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,280
real life player, and that couldn't
up be what Snuggroot is. And the

683
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:30,519
j Fresh card is pretty pessimistic,
I should say about snugreoed it's only four

684
00:47:30,559 --> 00:47:35,079
percent chance of being a star and
thirty one percent chance of being an NHLer.

685
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,440
These are always tough questions picking between
these two, but I think that

686
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,119
I would like to have either one
of them on my team. But if

687
00:47:42,119 --> 00:47:45,920
I had to really choose, I
would go Musty Jesse. Boy, Yeah,

688
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,679
that's boy. These people are down
on Snugs. I don't love it.

689
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,480
Next up, Victor, the need
to know prospect is who? The

690
00:47:54,679 --> 00:48:00,000
need to know prospect is Dalabor Divorce
Ki. What happens when your marriage comes

691
00:48:00,039 --> 00:48:04,760
to an end, You get divorce
skied. These nicknames are getting dark.

692
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,679
I liked to when it was getting
stanky in here, Victor, I just

693
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:12,719
work with what comes to me.
Divorce Ki twenty twenty three, tenth overall

694
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,280
pick six one two and three pounds
center right wing. Really late birthday June

695
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,559
fifteenth, so he's still only eighteen
and will be for another month or so.

696
00:48:19,599 --> 00:48:22,239
As we're recording this. He was
in the hockey Esvenskin last season,

697
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:25,880
which was that's where he was mostly. He was at the Jay twenty in

698
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:30,519
the Svenskin last season, or sorry, that's where he was last season.

699
00:48:30,559 --> 00:48:35,679
This season he started in the shl
on loan, but that didn't really last

700
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,119
and he wasn't really getting a whole
lot of ice time, so he came

701
00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:43,920
over to North America and joined the
Sudbury Wolves who had his OHL rights eighty

702
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:47,199
eight points in fifty two games.
Ended up having a fantastic season there with

703
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,880
Quentin Lusty as we were just talking
about, and he was great. You

704
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,800
would expect him to dominate in the
OHL after coming over from Europe. Ten

705
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:59,519
points in nine playoff games as well. He also was at the World Junior

706
00:48:59,599 --> 00:49:02,559
CHAMPIONSI for Slovakia and he was really
great in that tournament as well, really

707
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:07,440
a driving force for them six points
in five games. Looking at his tracking

708
00:49:07,559 --> 00:49:12,400
data from the World Juniors, his
transition and offense game, we're outstanding.

709
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,880
His defensive game was really not good, and that was really true in his

710
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:20,360
OHL tracking data as well. In
my mind that Divorski was a little bit

711
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,159
better of a two way player,
but this tracking data for Mitch does not

712
00:49:22,199 --> 00:49:27,920
support that. Assertion at all,
it's actually quite poor. In the OHL

713
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,800
tracking data, his expected goals per
sixty were outstanding for Divorceki, much better

714
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:37,440
than his expected assists, and his
transition game was elite one hundred percentile for

715
00:49:37,519 --> 00:49:42,880
his transition game fantastic, and a
lot of his other games like Boards played

716
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,480
in the middle, off puck assists, primary port involvement, game score all

717
00:49:45,559 --> 00:49:51,280
that was phenomenal for Divorski. Looking
at his FHL player card, you can

718
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,960
see that his bash is entirely driven
by his shots. He doesn't really hit

719
00:49:54,079 --> 00:49:59,000
or block very much. He does
take faceoffs though, if you're interested in

720
00:49:59,039 --> 00:50:02,519
faceoff players. He was taking eighteen
face offs per game for Sudbury and winning

721
00:50:02,519 --> 00:50:06,039
ten to eleven of them. So
that gives you a little bit more context

722
00:50:06,119 --> 00:50:08,119
about Divorski. But Jesse to hear
a little bit more. We're going to

723
00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:13,800
hear from Patrick ur a Fatel scout. What did Patrick say this? As

724
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:19,440
far as skating, Divorski excellent.
Smooth stride looks effortless. He goes north,

725
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:24,599
south and east west, skillfully uses
his skating to continuously get in position

726
00:50:25,079 --> 00:50:30,880
for passenger and handling. Also a
positive displays puck handling skills, makes the

727
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:35,719
right passes at the right times for
shooting. Not only does Patrick like the

728
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:40,199
shot, but says Divorski gets in
position to get great shots. Scores from

729
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:45,559
multiple positions. Sometimes he shoots from
the face off dots, other times crashes

730
00:50:45,599 --> 00:50:50,280
the net or the goal line.
For the IQ. Divorski has it the

731
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,039
hockey IQ he needs. He has
patience, He's aware of where his teammates

732
00:50:53,079 --> 00:50:58,159
are and are going. He doesn't
have the puck, he won't move to

733
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,480
the correct area for a pass or
where the puck is likely to come.

734
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:07,400
For checking dalibor positive check again on
that one can separate the puck from the

735
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,679
defenseman, support his teammates, or
be in position on the boards to receive

736
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:16,079
a puck that comes loose. Divorski
is positive getting back on defense to take

737
00:51:16,079 --> 00:51:20,719
the puck away, or to support
his defenseman when they win a puck,

738
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,840
or making a breakout. The best
asset for Devorski. Probably a shot can

739
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:29,960
score for multiple places on the ice, and the concern is possibly the skating,

740
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:34,159
possibly the defense is possible one or
the other won't be good enough to

741
00:51:34,199 --> 00:51:38,920
elevate him to the NHL. So
the top tier outcome Hey Tier one once

742
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:44,559
again one seed point per game type
score. That would be maybe not the

743
00:51:44,559 --> 00:51:49,400
most elite player of all time,
but every aspect of the game is very

744
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,119
good. Maybe it comes together for
a greater than the sum of its parts

745
00:51:53,559 --> 00:52:00,760
package fiftieth percentile Tier two Center two
tops out at sixty to six seventy points.

746
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,559
That would be if the total sales
cut skill set makes it hard to

747
00:52:04,599 --> 00:52:08,239
believe he'll be anything lower than that, which would limit that scoring ceiling.

748
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:12,519
It's possible he'll be more of a
high end to see that gets a scoring

749
00:52:12,559 --> 00:52:17,360
boost from being on power play one. So the stylistic comparable bohorbat. Maybe

750
00:52:17,639 --> 00:52:22,199
Patrick says he's fooling himself in Divorski
won't be as good as he thinks,

751
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:24,480
but he's fun to watch. Has
a well rounded game, might not be

752
00:52:24,519 --> 00:52:28,400
the fastest skater, but he does
a pretty good job getting around the ice,

753
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,719
has a very positive work ethic,
committed to improving all the parts of

754
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:38,559
his game. Mason Black puts out
the poll Dallaboard of Orski versus Braydon Yaeger

755
00:52:39,039 --> 00:52:45,840
of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and the
result of that Dallaboard of Orski in a

756
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:51,679
ROMP seventy one to twenty nine over
Yaeger. Of course, Pittsburgh Penguins prospect.

757
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:52,880
We know none of them are any
good right now, Victor, is

758
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:58,559
this how you see it Divorski in
a romp? No, actually I don't

759
00:52:58,599 --> 00:53:01,719
see it that way, but I
could see why people are excited about divorce.

760
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:07,079
He certainly improved his stock quite a
bit this season, and he looked

761
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:12,079
great in the OHL. It's hard
to know if that's just a Rye product

762
00:53:12,079 --> 00:53:15,679
of him already playing some professional games
in the level of competition, being a

763
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,159
little bit lower, and having frankly, some really great linemates to work with,

764
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,400
so all of that seems hard to
know. Jaeger, on the other

765
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:28,119
hand, he is I guess you
could say some similar things about him.

766
00:53:28,159 --> 00:53:30,840
He plays for moose Jaw and moosjar
Is in the WHL final. They might

767
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:35,440
win the WHL go to the Mornal
Cup. He's got some really great teammates.

768
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,639
He's only third on the team in
scoring behind Furkus and an overager,

769
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:44,239
but he's looking really great. And
he's a winger, which is a little

770
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,880
bit easier sometimes for I guess he's
listed as a center, but I think

771
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:51,800
he might end up being more of
a winger. Where's divorce Ge I think

772
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,639
is pretty clearly going to be a
center, or certainly seems that way to

773
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:59,440
me. Both of these guys.
The NHL ranking app looks similar, close

774
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,679
to point per game, but personally
I Jeger a little bit better. I

775
00:54:01,679 --> 00:54:05,920
think he's got that better shot.
I think he's got that shoot first mentality

776
00:54:06,079 --> 00:54:08,159
as a goal scoring winger forward.
I like him a little bit more.

777
00:54:08,199 --> 00:54:12,280
If you look at the Hockey prospecting, it has divorce scheme much higher,

778
00:54:12,679 --> 00:54:16,199
especially based on this high Ohl equivalency, whereas Jaeger's. It's interesting because their

779
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:22,480
equivalencies look similar, but the percentages
are much lower for Yeager, so that's

780
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:29,119
interesting. And the comps for Divorski
are all pretty pretty solid. Guys like

781
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,599
Braidon Shen, Jayden Schwartz, those
are all guys that he looks quite a

782
00:54:31,639 --> 00:54:36,039
bit like in the model. I
think Braidon Shen he mentioned Horvat, I

783
00:54:36,039 --> 00:54:38,639
think that's reasonable, so's Braiden Shen. I don't think he doesn't hit as

784
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:42,840
much, hit or block as much
as Shen did, but getting that getting

785
00:54:43,039 --> 00:54:45,679
being a good faced off guy,
being a center and similar point production I

786
00:54:45,679 --> 00:54:51,719
think is reasonable for Devorski. Looking
at the j Fresh card, there's a

787
00:54:52,199 --> 00:54:54,599
thirty five percent chance of being a
star in that model, So it really

788
00:54:54,679 --> 00:54:59,960
likes what Divorski did this year and
is pretty high on him. I think

789
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:02,800
either of these guys would be pretty
exciting. I just personally like Yegor a

790
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,880
little bit better, and I doesn't
hurt that he's in a system that has

791
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:12,079
literally no one else. So either
Pittsburgh's gonna trade him, or they're gonna

792
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,000
let him play in the NHL and
give him. He's gonna have all the

793
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,079
opportunity to play as much as you
want. Now they might have anyone to

794
00:55:17,079 --> 00:55:21,400
play with once he gets there,
Jesse, that could be a problem for

795
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,360
sure. That would not be That
would not be the greatest thing. Who

796
00:55:24,599 --> 00:55:29,880
Victor is to keep your eye on
prospect, keep your eye on his Auto

797
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,679
Stenberg twenty twenty three, twenty fifth
overall pick, five, eleven hundred and

798
00:55:32,679 --> 00:55:37,239
seventy two pounds six center, left
wing. He was young for his draft

799
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,840
year. It's good to remember May
twenty nine, so as recording this,

800
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:45,320
he's still eighteen, and he was
eighteen all year. Twenty three games played

801
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,920
in the SHL last season, seven
to forty one average time on ice and

802
00:55:49,039 --> 00:55:53,599
just three points. This season thirty
one SHL games played, eleven thirty six

803
00:55:53,679 --> 00:55:58,039
average time on ice and six points. He also went to the World Junior

804
00:55:58,159 --> 00:56:01,880
Championships for Sweden nine points and seven
games. Looking at his SHL player card

805
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:06,440
from Fantasy Hockey Life, it doesn't
really look very good. It doesn't really

806
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,199
score a lot. His hits are
pretty decent. He's got some physicality there,

807
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:13,360
but there isn't a whole lot else. He doesn't shoot a ton,

808
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,360
doesn't block a bunch, and the
bash is a little bit low. His

809
00:56:16,159 --> 00:56:21,360
projection is more like a five out
of ten that I have him at.

810
00:56:21,679 --> 00:56:25,440
And looking at his player card from
Mitch Brown's tracking data from the World Juniors,

811
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:29,599
it looks okay. His overall is
a sixty eight. You'd want it

812
00:56:29,639 --> 00:56:34,079
to be a little bit better for
high end prospect offenses seventy transitions sixty four,

813
00:56:34,199 --> 00:56:37,639
defense seventy three. There's a decent
amount of blue here though, especially

814
00:56:37,679 --> 00:56:40,480
in the expected goals and shots that's
really nice, And some of the transition

815
00:56:40,559 --> 00:56:45,480
game is good, although some of
it is really not good. And overall

816
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:50,199
the assists and playmaking doesn't look very
good. Toronto Stenberg. But Jesse tell

817
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,960
us a little bit more about what
Patrick had to say about Oh yeah,

818
00:56:53,039 --> 00:56:57,320
what did Patrick? What did Patrick
have to say? He says this for

819
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:02,639
skating, Stenberg smooth stride skating not
a concern in that area. Passing and

820
00:57:02,679 --> 00:57:09,000
handling puck handling skills are a positive. Good touch, passes well and facilitates

821
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,360
the breakout by passing it to one
of the other forwards. Skating up the

822
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:17,280
ice with speed on the power play, sometimes mans the point and distributes the

823
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:24,000
puck effectively. The shot is a
positive, and Stenberg can score via slap

824
00:57:24,039 --> 00:57:28,880
shots from the left faceof dot or
by going to the net for the tip

825
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:34,480
or shots inclose. The hockey IQ
positive. Also, the hockey sense is

826
00:57:34,519 --> 00:57:37,440
there, Stenberg says calm. Sometimes
he holds onto the puck too often,

827
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:44,400
but usually anticipates well and passes at
the right time. For checking, often

828
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,639
the third forward into the zone will
try to get in position for a shot,

829
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:52,280
but he will also support the fore
check and can be effective on board

830
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:57,559
battles defense. That's a plus for
Stenberg. Often the first forward back on

831
00:57:57,639 --> 00:58:01,679
defense gets deep into the defensive zone, so the best asset was either the

832
00:58:01,719 --> 00:58:06,119
shot or the compete. Patrick is
up in the air on that shots.

833
00:58:06,159 --> 00:58:09,239
Not at the same level as some
other Blues prospects, but this still likes

834
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:14,519
it pretty good because concern is the
overall game enough to get him to the

835
00:58:14,639 --> 00:58:17,199
NHL and to be successful. Possibly
he's more of a tweener, or that

836
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:22,719
scoring doesn't translate the absolute top outcome
that Patrick foresees. Second line, that's

837
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,800
if the skill set comes together well
enough, he can be a depth score.

838
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:30,800
Maybe on the second power play the
fiftieth percentile tier. Maybe it's a

839
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:36,039
third liner. Stenberg's overall skill set
solid, but in the end the offense

840
00:58:36,079 --> 00:58:39,760
may be lacking, he says.
Maybe Michale Backland. Michael Backland, they

841
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:45,760
say, is a good comparable.
Stenberg was drafted as a center but played

842
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,639
this season on the wing. Future
in the NHL may be a wing.

843
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:51,800
According to Patrick, played some in
the SHL, didn't get a lot of

844
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,000
ice time in some games, did
well with the World Juniors, didn't look

845
00:58:54,039 --> 00:58:59,960
out of place in Alspensken seems likely
to get another year of seasoning in swim.

846
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:04,760
He played the sole season is eighteen, which perhaps means he has still

847
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:12,559
more runway ahead. So Mason Black
puts Otto Stenberg versus Yegor Sidorov of the

848
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,880
Anaheim Ducks, and who would you
rather have on your team? That was

849
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:22,320
a sixty five to thirty five victory
for Stenberg over Sidorov. Is that your

850
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:27,760
pick? Victor? Well, I
feel like I'm disagreeing with their listeners all

851
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,400
all day today. No, I
don't think I would pick Stenberg's. I

852
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:36,480
think Stenberg is one of these guys
who's clearly, as Patrick said, good,

853
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,159
defensively, always on the right side
of the puck. He's someone who

854
00:59:38,199 --> 00:59:42,159
I think is more likely to be
in NHL or and someone you can plug

855
00:59:42,159 --> 00:59:45,920
in your bottom six. But Sitarov
is certainly much more exciting, so for

856
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:49,239
those of you that aren't familiar with
him. Twenty twenty three to third round

857
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,800
pick by Anaheim just this past season. He's Belarussian playing in the WHL.

858
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:58,400
Last season he had a pretty decent
he's actually played there a couple of years

859
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,800
now, really good season last year, seventy six points, fifty three games,

860
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:05,480
eighty eight and sixty six this year, and they had a really good

861
01:00:06,039 --> 01:00:09,440
and close series with Moose Jaw,
who was just rolling over people and saks

862
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:12,639
Don gave him all they could handle, and sitter Off was part of that.

863
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:17,079
He's a really good, strong potential
and I think that Anaheim did it

864
01:00:17,119 --> 01:00:22,719
again with another really good pick,
late mid round pick that looks really solid.

865
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:27,159
So his panchily, Yeah, it's
looking pretty good so far. I

866
01:00:27,159 --> 01:00:30,239
think a little bit better than Stenberg's
and I think he's more of a scorer.

867
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,159
So if you look at the hockey
prospecting, both these guys are low,

868
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:37,320
but citter Off's a little bit higher, so I would be more interested

869
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,599
in him, even though he was
drafted as a as an overrager. He's

870
01:00:40,639 --> 01:00:45,880
really young. Citter Off June eighteenth
birthdate. I like him. I would

871
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:50,079
bet more on him in terms of
a score. Looking at Stenberg, his

872
01:00:50,239 --> 01:00:52,599
equivalent seats are really low, and
most of the pretty much anyone you pull

873
01:00:52,679 --> 01:00:55,760
up on hockey prospecting, they're all
like busts or replacement level. This guy,

874
01:00:55,840 --> 01:01:00,679
like Chris Verstig, is maybe the
most you could hope for. That's

875
01:01:00,719 --> 01:01:04,519
not very exciting. And the j
freshcard two percent chance of being a star,

876
01:01:04,599 --> 01:01:08,159
seven percent chance of being an NHLer, again not very exciting for Stenburg.

877
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:12,920
I would go sitter Off, and
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878
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,639
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