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Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented
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sup Here and Victor Nuno Fantasy Hockey
Live back once again to talk about fantasy

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Fan Tracks, joining me across the glass.

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Victor Nunio of so many things,
Stopper Prospects, EP ring Side.

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I think we could say, Victor, how you doing today? I'm doing

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awesome, Jesse. And yeah,
this is with this announcement of ep Rinkside

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came out in between when we had
a bunch of shows backed up, and

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so this is the first time you
and I are being able to talk about

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it. So yeah, thanks for
mentioning that. I'm very excited. By

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the time this episode comes out,
I think so hopefully an article or two

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or three should be out then,
So yeah, it's going to be a

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lot coming and I definitely I'm excited
about that. And if people have suggestions

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of things they would like to hear
or have me write about, then please

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share. Well deserved, Victor,
you are going to add something to that

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outfit and yeah, it's must read
reading anyways, Victor, Yeah, we're

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back at it. Man. We
can see we can see the finish line.

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I once ran a half marathon and
they did this thing where I got

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close to the end and I thought
I was at the end, and then

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there were lots of little twists and
it was much farther. And that's what

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it feels like this morning. But
we're going to press through. We got

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a lot to do, and Victor, this is a fun place to listen

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to us. But in addition to
just listening to the show, people can

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do a lot of other things to
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they could join our discord. Our
discord is free. All you have to

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do is hit Victor and myself up. I hear now some people are having

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trouble on x dming us because our
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are open, but there's like some
problem where if you're not verified, you

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can't DM people anyway. If you
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did. I'm happy to get your
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try Fantasy Hockey Life at gmail dot
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to send you a link, and
there's a bunch of people talking hockey,

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talking fantasy hockey, talking dynasty fantasy
hockey, setting up leagues for the coming

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year. If you're just starting to
get in that mood where you want to

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do a startup, or you're thinking
about your rookie drafts, anything like that,

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now would be the time to come
and find some like minded individuals.

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Our listener leagues are set for the
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but there are people of course matchmaking
themselves and trying to get things together.

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But Victor, that's not all.
There's also a Patreon. Why don't

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you tell people where we got going? There? Yeah, tons of great

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stuff through Patreon. We just did
a patron cast, which is really fun.

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By request, we look back at
last year's draft and try to pick

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out some gems for people and guys
that you can add. There's, of

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course, then there's the sorry prospect
ranks and so you can look at forward

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goalie d you can look at the
twenty twenty three guys. A lot of

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people still haven't done their drafts yet
or waiting that's an option. So there's

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lots of good content there. You
can see hits, blocks and shots tiers,

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which is always difficult. We also
were talking recently, I don't know,

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maybe we should add face off Lens
Jesse. That's something that we're always

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amenable to suggestions. There's potential issues
with that though, but we're always open

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to suggestions and we're trying to make
it as best as possible. We have

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top ten lists that we record,
so there's a lot of good stuff there.

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Content for other shows, like I'll
be doing some regular appearances on some

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other shows and so you can always
have the show notes for that. And

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of course the tidy the tier dynasty, so that's going to be that's full

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right now, but we are gonna
probably add another division next year so you

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can get in on that. And
it's a super fun league. The guys

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that have been drafting had a really
great time, and we're going to be

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featuring that a little bit on the
show with some trades and some things that

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go down there because it's a really
great league. So we can check all

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that out at patreon dot com,
slash Fantasy Hockey Life, Premendous Victor.

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That is something that people definitely should
keep their eye on. Oh now I'm

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trying to scoop into our dynasty dig
type phrasing, Victor, we gotta talk

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about the Carolina Hurricanes. It's quite
a team to talk about, and we're

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gonna do it. Right after this, we'd like to welcome to the show

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a man named Ryan Henkle of the
Hockey News. We're ready to talk some

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Carolina Hurricanes with us. How you
doing today, Ryan's doing good? Thanks

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for having me on. That's right, that's right. We gotta talk a

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little bit of Carolina. This is
the really excellent team. In fact,

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I would posit to you Ryan that
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year, we'd have to talk more
about what a dominant regular season Carolina had

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because they really aside from that freak
season from Boston blew it up. There

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were second in standings points, third
in shots, the fewest shots against,

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second fewest goals against, second best
penalty kill, only the twelfth best say

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percentage, but a league leading nine
shutouts. There were a couple of amazing

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runs for this team. In a
sixteen game stretch from US Thanksgiving to New

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Year's Day, they went fifteen oh
and one, and after a short four

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game losing streak, they rattled off
a nine oh and one run to close

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out January. In the playoffs,
the Canes beat the Aisles in a tough

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six game series, crushed the Devils
in five, and then dropped four straight

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one goal games to the miracle Florida
Panthers, the first of them in quadruple

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overtime, So it should count as
a five game series in my mind,

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the sixth longest NHL playoff game.
Ever, this continues to be just a

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regular season juggernaut. Are the Hurricanes
in the golden age for the Canes,

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even though they maybe haven't had the
success they have at other points in franchise

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history. Ken the Keynes win a
ship this year, Ryan, I think

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they have probably the best shot that
they've had in the last five years of

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making the playoffs. They have a
deep roster, good in every facet of

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the game, and like you said, defensively are one of the most stout

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teams in the entire league. From
penalty killed, two goals against, two

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shots against. Say they say defense
wins championships, but we'll see if that

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can prove to be the case this
year. Again, because as we all

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know, hockey is just such a
predictable sport. Yeah, of course,

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Sebastian Ajo. Let's start with the
forwards, and Aho possesses the most lucrative

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contract in franchise history, so maybe
he gets to go first. And it's

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not even gonna kick in for a
whole another year. That contract is going

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to run until he's thirty five years
old twenty thirty two. Who said the

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Kings were cheap. If it is
paid out all the way, it'll be

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one hundred and twenty five million dollars
totally invested in him by this franchise over

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his career through that contract. Anyway, he's also very good. It's not

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just about the money. And last
year was this fifth straight scoring in the

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neighborhood of a point per game.
He had thirty six goals thirty one assists

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for sixty seven points in seventy five
regular season games. Those thirty six goals

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came on just under three shots a
game. Hosts got a fifteen percent career

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shooting, and nine of those goals
came in three hat tricks. If you

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can believe that his seven miss games
equaled the sums sum of miss games in

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his first six full years, this
guy's incredibly durable. The advanced possession stats

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on this team for everybody or crazy. All of Carolina advanced stats for Corsy

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Fenwick are crazy, but Aho standout
even among that group. Watching this guy

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in a nightly basis, do you
see him as effectively a finished product or

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is there even improvement projection left beyond
this point per game? Sebastianaho, That's

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a question that I feel like we
asked Rod almost every year and started seasons,

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Knaho get even better? And I
think, honestly yes, because I

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think this year, especially our last
season especially, we saw he put up

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thirty six goals, sixty seven points, miss seven games, and his wingers

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were not super consistent. Sep Jarvis
had a down year from scoring, Tavo

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tery Vinen had a really down year
himself. Those usually his normal two linemates,

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and neither of them could really get
it going. And still Aho just

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on his own, was just pushing, pushing, And this is just a

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guy that hates to lose. It's
not that he likes to win, he

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just hates to lose more than anything
else. He's ultra competitive, uber competitive,

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and he's just all around a complete
player both special teams, all three

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zones, and I think He's a
player that we could see get even better.

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The Canes are on a team that
has super They're not going to be

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the super offensive team with guys fifty
sixty goals because the system they play,

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But it's if Aho was let free
offensively, I think he could push forty

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fifty range. But I think he's
a player that could turn it up another

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notching get even better. Absolutely,
he's super fun. And the next guy

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we're going to talk about also really
great, and that's Andres Fashnikoff. Of

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course, we had him around.
I had him around the fourteenth best four

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Jesse thirty second, and he ended
up around forty third, so a little

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bit lower. We both him had
as Tier one guys, but more as

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maybe Tier two. This season,
he played sixty four games. He had

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the knee injury. It was really
unfortunate in March, and obviously surgery that

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kept him out. I'm not sure
about his availability for camp. You can

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fill us in with that, but
that was certainly sorely missed during the playoffs.

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Past four seasons, he's been pretty
consistent around point pace around seventy seventy

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five, except for the sixty three
point pace in twenty twenty twenty one,

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pretty decent number of hits and shots
and power play points, fifty first at

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bash at his position and six years
left at seven point seventy five million,

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and looking at his underlying they're all
really good. More expected goals and actual

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goals. He's really good defensively,
good on the power pay. His luck

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metrics were pretty in line, and
so I'm guessing we can probably expect another

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seventy to seventy five point pace from
spash Nikov. That's the unfortunate thing with

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a lot of these Carolina forwards that
they don't get more time on ice,

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because to me, spash Nikov is
a forward who should be playing twenty one

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twenty two minutes and if he was
on another team he probably would, but

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I don't know that he will in
Carolina. So do you think he will

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be in that range or do you
think he can increase his point pace.

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I think he can increase his point
pace, And also, like you said,

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he should be available started the season. He's been skating since July,

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and per GM Don Wadell, he
says he anticipates spashi Nikov to be ready

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come training camp, which starts in
about a week. But I think He's

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a player that we're going to see
take another step. Just he's I think

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he just turned twenty three recently.
He's just a young player. He'll be

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playing with Martin Nachus and yes,
Perry Coconami, most likely on the second

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line for the Canes power play time. It's and he's just a player that's

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gone better and better of a year. He's had those immature droutes where he'll

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go like fifteen games about a goal
and like it's just one of those ones.

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He gets frustrated easily, and he
can feel that and see it in

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his game clinching the stick. But
I think with the maturity, with the

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age, he's coming around and he's
just becoming a more and more consistent player

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and he knows how to play in
every facet of the game. And I

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think it's just one of those ones. You know, you get bigger,

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you get stronger, you get older, you learn how to play the game

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more. And I think with him
playing with somebody like Martin Chas, who

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also had a breakout season last year
and could potentially keep that pace, he's

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gonna see his point total also bounce
up. Let's talk about that guy,

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Martin Nachas because the second best regular
season team last year was led in points

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by Martin Nachas. Did anybody have
that on their bingo card? Coming into

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the year. He led the team
in evolving hockey goals above replacement, believe

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it or not, and in the
overall NHL rankings he was nestled between Patrice

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Bergeron and Alexander Barkoff on the NHL
leaderboard. Pretty darn good company. The

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year prior, in terms of goals
above replacement, he was nineteenth of twenty

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three Carolina skaters. Talk about a
huge jump up. Has average time on

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ice increased from sixteen eleven to eighteen
twenty five. More than half of that

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increase came on the power play.
His shots per game went from two to

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three. His points, of course, the result went from forty to seventy

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eight to twenty eight goals, forty
three assists, seventy one points in eighty

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two games. A hot start seventeen
points in his first eleven games helped that

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momentum for the year. Eleven point
seven percent shooting was actually below his career

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at twelve percent rate, so it
wasn't just freak shooting. Wasn't as though

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a dominant line was carrying him.
He split up ice time. A lot

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was spetchnikof, but also lots of
kot Kanemi and stastny time. Is Nachas

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going to regress this year or did
we just see a star being born a

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flourishing last year that's going to remain
consistent into the future. That is an

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excellent question, and that's another one
that has me and a couple of other

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people Carolina puzzle too, because we're
like, we have been seeing the talent

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from him for years. He's such
a fast skater. He's one of the

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fastest skaters edgework that I've seen,
you know, in Carolina. He's got

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tremendous upside offensive instincts. He can
walk a blue line, he can take

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the puck. He loves carrying the
pock. He's a winger. He grew

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up as a center playing at CESA, and he's just a puck dominant kind

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of player and he loves it on
his stick and he can just make these

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crazy plays. But it was always, you know, he seemed his body

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maybe moved a half second faster than
maybe his brain would be moving. But

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now we're seeing it's all moving in
unison and he's got guys with him that

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can compliment his speed and his smarts
as well, and so it's a player

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I think maybe he's reaching close to
where his peak is. I don't know

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if he's I don't know if over
seventy will be anywhere where he's going to

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flirt with. But I think seventy
sixty points is a kind of guy that

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we could see Nature's being consistently,
especially with how you know, Rod is

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becoming more are more trustworthy with him, top power play six on five situations,

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things like that. He also gets
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a more rounded player. And whenever
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going to get a boost in every
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sure, very important part of Carolina
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So let's me want to the next
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an interesting guy. He after a
breakout in the Desert. Bunting played with

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some of the top players that Toronto
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he had a sixty five point pace. Last season, he dipped to forty

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nine. I think what's a little
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more points than he deserved even in
that down season in Toronto. Now he

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goes to Carolina, who likes to
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not sure he'll have the same opportunity, so I'm worried that he might get

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it a little bit lower than that
forty nine point pace. He did have

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a pretty decent shots and okay for
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really overall not great for his bash
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left at four point five million,
good pay day for him, but you

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know, defensively he was a little
weak. According to the evolving hockey metrics

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a coursie against and expectacles against was
pretty low. And we know, as

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you just said, that's important for
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Ryan, that Bunting is going to
play in the lineup and what do you

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think we can expect from him at
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actually start on the top line with
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the fact that of how bad of
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I think he played with Mitch Martiner
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have those complimentary players I think of
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that, those guys that just can
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to have those kind of guys slought
in. So I could see him definitely

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starting on that top line, especially
if that's like the Pettie and what Carolina

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saw with him being able to play
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Jarvis or Austin Matthews, but it's
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not on the top line, I
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could slot in with him as a
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it's a hard to say because Rod
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likes to shuffle things around. He'll
make he'll move guys around anywhere, and

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because like you said, the ice
time gets spread out so evenly, it

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almost works out in the end for
a lot of guys to be similar types

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of deployment. Let's set up a
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you pick which one you think will
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you have on them toivo with Terra
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guys who really are around that half
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credit to kot Kinyami. He did
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forty three in eighty two games,
and was playing a pretty decent role for

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the team. And then tarav Einen, as you said, wasn't quite as

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strong as he had been in years
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year before was great, thirty seven
and sixty eight. Last year a little

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bit lesson, a little bit less
ice time. Between those two, who

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do you think is going to have
the better year next year? That's a

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good question. If I had to
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I might have to go if he's
very cooking at me, simply because I

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think it's a more concrete kind of
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line center position is his to have. There's nobody else really threatening him for

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that position, and he'll be playing
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and we saw last season first half
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come. He was playing with those
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up, scoring at a credible rate, but he just wasn't getting any points.

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But he's always been one of those
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by doing the little things to help
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also the second half of the Carolina
season, he Sparre coconame. He was

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actually one of the most dependable players
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He was I think third and points
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season, and he was really good
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his points came from. And I
think that could just be a development from

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him where he's learned to play the
Caroline system. He's learned to play fit

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his role, and that could be
a thing. Where as now he's more

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comfortable playing with two guys who has
stocks are shooting up, that his points

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will go way up as well,
because when you're hit your wagon to a

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couple of stallions, you're gonna get
pretty far. And it's not that I

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don't think table taborline is gonna do
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if he's gonna play in the top
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line. I don't know where he's
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And then another two guys that we
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Seth Jarvis maybe having a little bit
of a down year last year, thirty

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nine points in eighty two games,
also a half per game type guy,

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as Stefan Nelson also thirty six points
a seven DA games, a little bit

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less time on ice out there,
but he did have some good power play

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time that he'd get. Which of
those two you see us potentially having the

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better twenty three slash twenty four,
hands down, it's I think it'll be

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stef Jarvis. I think even with
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it was almost solely from a points
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restructuring his game. I talked to
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last season, and just one of
the things he talked to me about was

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just that how he was working with
the coaching staff almost to reform at his

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game is what he described it as. The way he played just because of

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his size and the way he was
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Take the pluck, rush it down
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fast, straight A to B.
But that doesn't work in the NHL.

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That's guys are a lot bigger,
a lot faster, and you have to

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learn to play that way, especially
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I think he learned to play in
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And he also the defensive game came
way up for him. He got

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penalty killed time. He started learning
to do all these little things, and

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I think we saw that new play
playoff time. He had a pretty good

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playoff run for the Hurricanes. Good
production from him, solid production, and

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I think the regular season is going
to be one where I believe he takes

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off. I think he's putting it
all together. He's getting more mature and

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he's learned to change his game to
fit that NHL style. I think Stephen

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Nason had a career year last season, and I think tremendous player, really

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good kind of role guy fits.
He can play that gritty fourth line,

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he can get on the powerplay,
just be that NetFront presence. But I'm

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not sure, especially with adding guys
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that I don't know how much more
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Brent Burns came in last year on
the blue line and just had another

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great Brent Burns season at thirty seven. He led the team in time on

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ice, managed a block at three
shots a game, and sixty one points

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in his season. Paradip defensively with
the defensively solid Jacob Slaven is not a

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bad place to put him, and
his first year away for Norcali since twenty

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eleven then was rock solid. The
Keynes shaved almost three minutes off his nightly

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totals from San Jose, even though
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team in time on ice, and
moreover, Burns feasted on power play time

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more than three minutes per game twenty
two of those sixty one points, burrying

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any other defenseman on the team.
He was definitely given the reins for power

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play one. Mind you, he
led San Jose in power play time on

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ice even when even with Eric Carlson, but this was definitely a better power

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play lately to be a part of. Sorry, Victor, is Burn's going

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to be able to do this again
for the Carolina Hurricanes this year or was

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it a late fun echo of an
amazing career. I think call me crazy,

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but he just doesn't look like he's
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But I think when he came into
camp, all the Hurricanes do a fitness

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testing kind of benchmark to see where
they're at. I believe he was second

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in fitness testing coming to Carolina Hurricanes
camp, a team run by Rod brenda

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More and of head strength conditioning coach
Bill Burnaston, who's worked with like USA

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Olympic Baseball and all that, and
he was second in fitness testing. This

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guy is just a fitness monster,
and he just doesn't look like he's slowing

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down. Tremendous playoffs and I'm not
betting against him until I see him break

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down. I think that's where I'm
at with him. Wait, Ryan,

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and he's saying this coming in now
or coming in last year? He last

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year, he was all right,
we'll be observing that. Yet again,

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you got to tweet that out to
us when you see that thing. Man

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Tony D'Angelo, I guess would be
his competition for or the other guy who

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presumably will slide into some power play
time. The last time Tony D'Angelo was

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a King, he was second on
the team and goals above replacement first in

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evolving hockey War including all the forwards
even strength war for the team, even

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strength offensive war. How about that
too, including the forwards for this team.

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And so the Canes once again grab
him off the free agent scrap peep

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after the Flyers were thwarted from trading
him by NHL rules that prohibited it.

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De'angelo's offensive talents did not disappear,
certainly, even in a miserable Philadelphia Flyers

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season, but forty two points and
seventy games last year were a step back

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from fifty one in sixty four games
his year in Raleigh. Last time he

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wore a King's jersey, though,
as we said, Brent Burns was not

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in town yet. What are you
expecting Tony d'angelo's role and production to be

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this year? Ryan? That is
an excellent question because I think the Kings

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are currently carrying nine NHL defenseman on
the roster, and everyone's what is the

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plan here? Because they were like, are they gonna trade Bret Peschi,

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They're gonna trade Brady Shay. Now
nobody's getting traded. There's nine guys.

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What's gonna happen? And I think
a big question is where is Tony D'Angelo

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gonna spit in here? They obviously
wanted him. They obviously sought him out,

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but then they also got Dmitri Orlov
And it's like, you know,

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Jalen Chatfield, who's blossoming to a
rockstar player. And I'm not too certain

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and where D'Angelo. The Canes need
more offensive production. That's everybody knows that

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they need a little more goals here
and there, and de'angelo is definitely a

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guy who can provide that. Yet
I think fifty one points for the Hurricanes

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his first season there set a new
team record for points by defenseman a single

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season. Brett Burns one up to
him this year. But does D'Angelo get

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consistent playing time on the Canes this
year? And I don't know, because

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the Canes are such a defense first
team. They love defense, and I

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don't pick D'Angelo defensively over anybody in
the Carola Is top six. If he

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gets to ployment time, I think
they do. They staple him with Jacob

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Slaven to pretty much nullify all the
problem areas. Maybe does do they want

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two powerlic quarterbacks so they want' angelo
and Ben Burns to both playing the same

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game? Do they want just one
guy to play? Is D'Angelo is just

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like there in case somebody gets injured. I really don't know, because I

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have no idea what the Hurricanes are
doing with their litany of defenseman. Yeah,

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I'm very confused about that too.
But I also think that you don't

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have Tony D'Angelo on your team unless
you have him in that offensive role.

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Yeah, he's definitely not there to
shut anyone else down. Everyone knows.

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Let's move on to Orlov' You already
mentioned him, and he had a career

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year in points last season split between
Washington and Boston, thirty six points and

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sixty six games for forty five point
pace. And that was the seven goals,

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twenty nine assists, one hundred and
thirty seven blocks or hits, eighty

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five blocks, two hundred twenty five
shots, So decent prepher roles, but

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on the lower end of overall bashed
just eight power play points. Signed with

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Carolina just two years for a decent
cap hit seven point seven five. You're

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getting a really good player, but
definitely paying a little much there. I

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think the big question, like you
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and Orloff has always been a secondary
option in terms of offense. He's

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been in that thirty five to forty
point range. It seems like that's where

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he's going to be again, unless
he just plays so many minutes and gets

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more opportunity. I think it's difficult
to say. With Burns and DeAngelo and

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whoever else there, what do you
think we're going to see from ortol Off

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this season? Do you think he
can get close to that forty five point

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pace we saw last season? I
don't know if there's just enough ice time

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going around for him to get that
same point pace production. I think maybe

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like a twenty year thirties is what
we're gonna see because I think again the

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question is I think he's gonna pay
play either second pair or like I said,

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maybe third pair minutes. But I've
had people be like, you don't

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pay a guy that much money to
play third pairing. But again, Carolina

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rolls all three pairs similar kind of
deployment times, So I could just be

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an option just because you don't want
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who are an excellent pair. But
I don't see him having enough ice

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time in deployment. I don't there's
there. Don't He's not get a powerplay

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or anything like that to warrant that's
that sort of pace. Carolina's defense last

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year highest scoring defense in the entire
league. They love shooting from the blue

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line more than anybody else. But
I just don't. I just don't see

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him being able to put up that
sort of production, especially on a team

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like Caroline with the ice time hill
demand. Yeah, I'm pretty skeptical too.

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And yes, they do love shooting
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Jose when he did that, and
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and Burns love just flinging the puck
from anywhere it works. Well, all

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right, let's move over to the
goalies, and the Hurricanes had the number

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one expected goals against per sixty according
to Evolve these Evolving Hockeys metrics. They

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conceded this second actual goals, so
a slight downtick but not really too significant.

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Of course, they have this three
headed monster heading into the season.

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And I'm sure you're well aware,
but they have obviously Freddy Anderson, who's

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their starter, and he's only signed
for two more seasons three point four million,

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and then they signed Kachekov to two
million for four seasons. And then

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Ronta is still there for just this
one season and he's just at one point

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five millions, So Kachekov now making
more, but he is still minors eligible

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or waivers exam so that's a bit
of a complicating issue. So it seems

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Anderson as a starter, and he
did well, obviously, but Anderson and

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Ronto both injury prone, and we've
seen some of Chekov. It just seems

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like a bit of a complicating picture. And in fantasy it seems hard.

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You want the guy that's going to
just play a lot. It doesn't seem

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like any of these guys are going
to play fifty to sixty games, which

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is a bit of a concern for
me. But do you want to just

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let us know what you think the
splits will be for these goalies and how

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do you think they'll perform. Yeah, I think Anderson's definitely gonna be your

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one a goaltender. I think probably
a little like thirty forty games. Essentially,

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you'd said Ronto probably like twenty to
thirty ish and Katchkock filling in ten

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00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:53,279
to fifteen barring an injury. Because
especially having watched both these goaltenders over this

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00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:56,759
course of their careers, and especially
last year in Carolina. Health is a

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major concern with them. That's why
you have Kotchkov here even in the first

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place. Both goaltenders are great when
healthy. Anderson had a tremendous playoffs,

428
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:11,400
just an absolutely insane run, overshadowed
by Sergey Robowski, just because and Anti

429
00:29:11,519 --> 00:29:15,559
Ronta is no slouch either. He's
a stream athletic goaltender. Just every time

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he stretches out, he's pulling that
groin. Unfortunately, he had a good

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00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,319
run against Islanders in the playoffs two. He was nearly perfect at PNC Arena.

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00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:26,720
At home last season, he had
I think one overtime loss or something.

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00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:33,599
But these both both goaltenders that can
produce when needed. Sometimes some goals

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00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,960
go in here there. Their numbers
never looked tremendous because the knes will only

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00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,240
allow twenty shots. But if three
goals get by head here, your numbers

436
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:44,480
are gonna look too pretty because of
it. But yeah, I see,

437
00:29:44,519 --> 00:29:48,319
I foresee Anderson's gonna get the bulk
of the starts. Rants is gonna fill

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00:29:48,359 --> 00:29:49,839
in. They're gonna want to get
Kotchkov maybe some games here and there,

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00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:55,240
just to give the other two guys
some rest. But the odds that one

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of them gets injured and misses a
stretch of ten to fifteen games is I

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00:29:59,599 --> 00:30:07,799
think very high. Yeah, definitely
difficult to say. And what I just

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wanted to know about what you think
about Kotchekov in the future, because he

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sure seems like the goalie of the
future, right it seems like he is

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00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:21,160
going to be the starter. I
love just personally the way they handle this

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00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:25,519
in the way in the sense that
if Kotchekov is their starter and he's locked

446
00:30:25,599 --> 00:30:29,319
up for three more seasons after this
one, you're talking about a two million

447
00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:33,480
dollars starter. Who that's an amazing
value, which is of course the Carolina

448
00:30:33,519 --> 00:30:36,039
way, right. They love to
get great value out of these guys.

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00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:38,440
But is that sort of the plan
or are they thinking maybe after will they

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resign Anderson or will they go get
someone to compete with Kotchekov. What do

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you think the plan is long term
there? I think they definitely foresee kotchkovs

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00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,640
the start of the future. And
I think Don Woodell himself has said that

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00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:53,119
he's been like, Kotchkov is right
now our goaltender of the future, and

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00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:59,160
they, for all intense purposes view
him as that that he's he's really good

455
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,440
in spurts. I think he's his
tremendous athleticism and really good anticipation. If

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00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,920
you watch his highlights, he's got
like these crazy saves he'll make. He'll

457
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,480
like diving poke checks, kind of
hashagesque, just crazy. He just goes

458
00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:12,960
for the pock. He's got these
crazy little spurts. I think it's about

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00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:18,799
refining it. Can he become more
stable in his play thinks a lot of

460
00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:23,160
times his five hole especially is kind
of a little iffy glove sometimes can be

461
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:30,039
a spotty spot. But I think
overall he's got the athleticism and the anticipation

462
00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:33,200
in the smarts to be an nitil
goaltender. It's just about can you clean

463
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:36,799
up the rest of his game to
be a consistent initial goaltender. They see

464
00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:38,319
him as that, they want him
to be that future, but it's just

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that you can't ever predict the goaltender. And I think right now they want

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him to be and they'll just keep
playing it safe, give him some playing

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00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:48,079
time, see how it goes,
and we'll see how it plays out.

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00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:53,200
Tremendous, Ryan, These are some
great insights on the Hurricanes. You're watching

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00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,799
them very up close all year.
Why don't you let us know how we

470
00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:01,039
can keep up with your work.
You can find me on the Hockey News

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00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:05,720
Carolina Hurricanes team website. I think
there's a little drop down over there if

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00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,279
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473
00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:14,200
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00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:22,000
me on Reddit sometimes the Canes subreddit
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476
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,680
same name. Those where I'll post
works or if you have questions about the

477
00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:30,599
Hurricanes, you can always shoot me
dms or comments on my posts and stuff

478
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,880
like that, and I'll always feel
free to talk to people about it.

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00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:37,480
Tremendous. Thanks so much for being
on today, No worry, Thanks for

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having me, Wilson. That's good
fired passed up. Oh my goodness.

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Grab Now is your weekly goalie talk
with Cats Silverman Cats Instincts. Time for

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00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:05,799
another Kat's Instincts with Kat Silverman in
Gold mag and Carolina. Addition, of

483
00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:10,319
course, we have to start with
Pietr Kchekov, who is obviously well known

484
00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:16,200
in the NHL already. He's played
for a number of games, especially this

485
00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:22,640
past season, and looking at his
equivalency man he has some really great comps.

486
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:27,559
Sergei Bobrovski is someone who looks really
similar to Frederick Anderson, which is

487
00:33:27,599 --> 00:33:31,920
funny because it's his teammate now Andrey
Vassilevski. So he's done really well,

488
00:33:32,039 --> 00:33:37,079
but unfortunately he has the roadblock there
of Anderson and Ronta two more years of

489
00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:40,319
Anderson at three point four million and
one more of Ronte at one point five

490
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:45,359
which is actually less than Kotchekov is
making this season two million. That wasn't

491
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:49,480
true last season, but Kotchekov is
still miners exempt, so that might be

492
00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:53,400
an issue for his playing time.
Looking at the evolving hockey rampam charts,

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00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,839
he has pretty consistently outperformed the protection
offered him, which is great. The

494
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,839
stats are always a little want in
Carolina because they don't really allow too many

495
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,880
difficult shots. But Kat, I'm
curious what you think of the ceiling for

496
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:12,320
Kochekov, and this might be the
last chance for fantasy gms to buy low,

497
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,920
especially if he has a bob Vassilevski
type upside. So what do your

498
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:22,320
instincts tell you about Peter Kochekov.
Yeah, I think he's an interesting one

499
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,559
because he got overlooked. I remember
correctly, he got overlooked at the draft

500
00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:30,159
a couple of years in a row
because he wasn't particularly big. But he's

501
00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:35,880
just like a really solid, technically
sound, just structured goaltender who likes to

502
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,599
have fun. He's not one of
he's almost of the error where we saw

503
00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:45,320
some of those goaltenders really struggling with
not being willing to get creative when tricky

504
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,719
shots did come their way. And
I thought he looked like just a really

505
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,800
well rounded goaltender who looked mature up
to get drafted, and then he didn't

506
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:59,559
for a while, and Carolina took
a flyer on him there, and at

507
00:34:59,559 --> 00:35:02,480
the time I wasn't really sure what
their plan was because they had obviously an

508
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:07,360
Adolkovich at the time, and I
assumed that was their heir apparent. And

509
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:13,760
then they surprised all of us by
booting him to Detroit and I believe now

510
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:19,000
Philadelphia, so maybe that worked out
in their favor. I do think that

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00:35:19,079 --> 00:35:25,280
he's going to get more playing time
than the current lineup suggests he would just

512
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:30,960
because both Frederick Anderson and on Ti
Ronto struggle so much with their health.

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00:35:32,039 --> 00:35:37,679
I respect that Anti Ronta is never
willing to play a game where his physical

514
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:42,039
status is anything less than one hundred
percent. If he has any sort of

515
00:35:42,039 --> 00:35:45,280
a tweak, bump, bruise,
he'll sit out the game. And I

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00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,440
think that's why he's looked so consistent
over the years, because he really doesn't

517
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,360
play. He doesn't pull the Pilcastle
and Warrior through it, but he really

518
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:59,079
does sit out almost a frustrated number
of games for a GM and for a

519
00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:02,199
head coach really, So I don't
think we have to worry as much about

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00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,039
Kotchekov not getting the starts that he
needs because Anderson's been getting a little bumped

521
00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:10,880
and bruised along the way too.
I think both of them ended up having

522
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,039
to sit out a chunk of last
year. But yeah, I assume that's

523
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his net to take. If I
remember correctly you said that Ronto only has

524
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,719
one year left on that deal,
I would assume they aren't going to renew

525
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,960
that that. I would be shocked
in Florida if Carolina said, no,

526
00:36:27,639 --> 00:36:30,320
after this, you keep getting injured, go ahead and come back for another

527
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,280
year or two. We want to
ride this train as far as it'll go.

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00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,920
So I assume he's done after this
year with Carolina at least maybe a

529
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minor deal at like a very short
term, low cost deal after that,

530
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:52,920
but pretty much done after that.
And yeah, I know, would assume

531
00:36:53,039 --> 00:36:58,519
that's going to be Kotchekov and Anderson
until Anderson's deal's done, and then we'll

532
00:36:58,519 --> 00:37:04,280
see them essentially usher someone else in
at that point. So we're getting close

533
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,519
to this being Kachekov's net, I
would say, primarily and seeing more of

534
00:37:08,519 --> 00:37:15,360
a supporting staff from everyone else on
the roster. Yeah, and do you

535
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,679
think that he has that kind of
super high end upside where he could be

536
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,840
like a top five goalie in fantasy
like Bob and Vassimore Vassilevski. Bob is

537
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:30,000
a little inconsistent, but does he
have that kind of talent? It's tricky

538
00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:37,719
because I think he I don't think
he'll be given the same opportunity that Basilovski

539
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,559
is, and not necessarily in a
bad way. But I do think that

540
00:37:40,679 --> 00:37:51,079
Tampa has a really alarming tendency to
almost ride their goaltender too much, and

541
00:37:51,119 --> 00:37:53,719
it works for Vassilovski. He manages
to play seventy five games year and then

542
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:59,199
still play twenty five games in the
playoffs. But for most goaltenders that doesn't

543
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:04,239
work out quite as well, and
I would assume that we just we're not

544
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,760
going to see many teams doing that
anymore. So I don't think we're going

545
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,760
to see that per se. But
I do think that we're going to see

546
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:15,000
cut chet Kava as a clear cut
starter, and the way that he's performed

547
00:38:15,199 --> 00:38:20,840
up to this point, i'd say
he's, if not top five in terms

548
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,360
of consistency, maybe we'll see him
as a top ten in terms of a

549
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,760
guy that you'll want to snack because
you know he'll get the starts, you

550
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:30,079
know he'll get the wins. He
hasn't really shown that he's going to have

551
00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:35,360
any kind of major regression, and
that's big. We don't really see any

552
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,760
anything about his game that suggests that
once the adrenaline wore off, he'd start

553
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:45,239
to start to have exploitable holes,
and that's that's huge. So yeah,

554
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,159
I'd like to see that, So
it definitely might be a good opportunity for

555
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,840
him. All right, let's move
on to the next guy. They have

556
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,880
a few not nearly as exciting,
I would say, but Ruslan Kajayev is

557
00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:00,840
the next one. Kha z h
e y Ev, and he's Russian if

558
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:05,480
you couldn't tell by me trying to
pronounce that name. And he was a

559
00:39:05,519 --> 00:39:08,000
twenty twenty three fifth round pick,
six four two hundred and one pounds.

560
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,679
He is in. He was in
the MHL this past year and so put

561
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,719
up really nice numbers nine twenty three
save percentage two point three j which helps

562
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:22,400
his equivalence. He looks super good
right now, according to Hockey Prospecting,

563
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,400
fifty nine percent chance of being a
NHLer, which is super high for a

564
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:30,639
d season. Some may say that
MHL equivalence he is overblown, but he's

565
00:39:30,679 --> 00:39:36,800
got some pretty nice comps now to
guys like Braskalov lettin In. But he's

566
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,760
a long way off. He still
has to play professionally, which he still

567
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,440
hasn't this the Russian season has started, he's still in the MHL, so

568
00:39:44,599 --> 00:39:46,800
maybe he'll get some VHL time this
year, or maybe he'll just stay in

569
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,559
the MHL. The MTEL is a
weird league though, because they have really

570
00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:54,679
a discrepancy in talent, and sometimes
that goes both ways. Getting scored on

571
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,599
and scoring, so he looks good
in that league. But what do your

572
00:39:58,599 --> 00:40:04,360
instincts tell us about Kasayev Kat.
It's hilarious that he's starting the season in

573
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,199
the MHL because he's putting up like
stupid numbers. So far, he has

574
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,960
a nine forty three save percentage in
his first two games played. He just

575
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,920
continually keeps putting up better numbers every
year. I'd assume we'll get to see

576
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him in the VHL at some point
this year. He's an interesting one because

577
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when he does play, he's a
big guy, but he plays like a

578
00:40:28,039 --> 00:40:32,599
smaller goaltender, which at the very
least makes him exciting. I don't know

579
00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:37,119
how well it will translate to North
America. I want to see him play

580
00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:44,760
in the pros overseas first before I
really give a vote of confidence to what

581
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,079
he'll look like when he comes over, if he comes over, obviously,

582
00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:53,760
but it's almost like when we see
some of these guys that are a collegiate

583
00:40:53,800 --> 00:41:00,880
goaltender playing against the USHL teams,
like when the National Development Program has seventeen

584
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,920
and eighteen year olds playing against twenty
four and twenty five year olds. He's

585
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,199
a big guy with fast reflexes and
a lot of speed to his skating,

586
00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:12,719
and he's playing against some kids that
are like fifteen sixteen, so it looks

587
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,599
funny. I think that we will
get a better gauge for just how quick

588
00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:20,440
those reflexes are and how good his
read is when he's having to read trickier

589
00:41:20,519 --> 00:41:22,559
shots, because right now he's having
to read some good shots, but not

590
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:28,519
on a consistent night by night basis. Yeah, for sure, that's hopefully

591
00:41:28,519 --> 00:41:30,960
we get to see him very soon
in a higher level league. Let's move

592
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,000
on to the next guy, yanev. Peretty. He is Canadian, so

593
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:42,320
I don't think you pronounced the t, but it's p r e t S

594
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,480
and he was No, I'm not
drafted. He's twenty three years old,

595
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:51,800
six foot one hundred and eighty one
pounds, and he is the reigning national

596
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:57,840
champ with Quinnipiac. So that team
was basically all old men for college stakes,

597
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,440
right, they were all like they
stacked their team with I think it

598
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:04,760
was five super seniors. Anyways,
had a really old team. They were

599
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,039
really good and he kudos to him, he won. He did it with

600
00:42:08,119 --> 00:42:12,079
a really good team in front of
him. If you look at the equivalency,

601
00:42:12,159 --> 00:42:15,840
though, it's awful. He has
one of the lowest I've seen here.

602
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:20,239
He's been consistently under ten percent chance
of being an NHLer. The only

603
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:24,159
equivalent guy that even really played in
the NHL that I found as someone named

604
00:42:24,199 --> 00:42:30,199
Frederick Narena, who was a backup
for Tampa and I almost made cats bit

605
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:35,480
her water out on accident, but
he was He's so anyways, it doesn't

606
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,000
look very good for him being exciting, but people are asking about him because

607
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,320
he did just win the national championship
at the nc DOUBLEA, which is no

608
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,679
small feed. So what do your
instincts tell us about JANEV. Perette.

609
00:42:46,679 --> 00:42:51,920
I love when a good, a
super senior team manages to just run roughshot

610
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,280
over everyone else in the NCUBA.
It's funny to watch, especially in the

611
00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:00,239
last couple of years here, just
because obviously guys were given a next year

612
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,920
of eligibility after COVID, we saw
some teams that had nobody play for an

613
00:43:05,039 --> 00:43:08,559
entire year, especially up in the
Northeast, because the Ivys didn't play for

614
00:43:08,599 --> 00:43:12,920
that entire COVID year. Quinnipiac I
believe was one of the teams that did,

615
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,519
though, so they had a little
bit of extra playing time and then

616
00:43:15,599 --> 00:43:20,039
still got that extra year of eligibility
anyway, So it's almost like seeing a

617
00:43:20,079 --> 00:43:23,400
guy who's in his pre draft year
playing up against draft plus two guys.

618
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:29,280
So obviously I take that with a
little grain of salt. But that being

619
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,480
said, there were some really good
players in the NC DOUBA this last year,

620
00:43:32,119 --> 00:43:36,960
and I don't think we can discount
the fact that he managed to win.

621
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:42,719
I do think that Quinnipiac has some
weird goaltending past. They have some

622
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:49,480
really good collegiate goaltenders who don't quite
look like NHLs to me. Keith Petrizli

623
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:53,000
was one of them for me that
I think was really good, but not

624
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:58,480
quite better than college for me.
Yeah, I don't know. I enjoyed

625
00:43:58,519 --> 00:44:01,800
watching the championship this year. I
didn't get to watch a ton of it.

626
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:06,199
I thought he looked fine. I
thought it looked like a team of

627
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,800
adults playing against children. Yeah.
I think he at the very least gives

628
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:16,440
them some depths in the miners,
which teams need. It prevents them from

629
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:22,440
needing to put prospects down at the
HL level just to get appearances. So

630
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:28,119
we'll see that might just be a
filler there. Since obviously Katchakov has no

631
00:44:28,159 --> 00:44:32,559
business being in the miners right now. He does not. I think her

632
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,920
is therefore, but we'll see.
Oh, which, by the way,

633
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,039
reminds me. I think earlier you
said Nadelkovich went to Philly. He went

634
00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:43,840
to Pittsburgh. I'm sure no Pittsburgh
or Philly fan would there would never be

635
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,679
mad about that, that isn't so
I just figured i'd clear that up for

636
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:52,519
everybody. So yeah, next we
have one more, and that's Nikita Quop

637
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,880
and he is so they have have
a few goalies, but yeah, it's

638
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,239
basically a Checkov. But we should
mention these other guys. So Qua was

639
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,199
actually drafted in twenty twenty one six
round. He's six foot four, two

640
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,960
hundred and three pounds and he's German. He has been in the second division

641
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:12,519
in Germany. He did play at
the U twenty World Juniors and looked pretty

642
00:45:12,519 --> 00:45:15,840
good in that tournament for a very
overwhelmed German team. And of course I

643
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,960
like to look at comparisons to other
German goalies, so too much Gryce as

644
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:23,239
someone he actually looks a little bit
like in this model. Of course,

645
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:29,719
his equivalency beforehand before this season looks
better than Gryce's and right now in the

646
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,199
D plus two season, they actually
looked the same in terms of their equivalency,

647
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:36,280
which has interesting. So Grice,
you know, ended up being a

648
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,800
average starter and he had some good
seasons on Long Island when they protected him

649
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,679
really well. But what do your
instincts, Kat tell us about Nikita up?

650
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,519
First off, elite name, absolutely
incredible name. You could have given

651
00:45:49,519 --> 00:45:53,199
me twenty guesses as to what nationality
he was and I would have gotten it

652
00:45:53,360 --> 00:46:00,360
completely wrong. It's interesting because the
German League is almost like to finish league

653
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,639
in like the Czech League, where
you get this huge variance in quality of

654
00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:09,440
competition, but almost on steroids because
you get some German teams that I remember

655
00:46:09,599 --> 00:46:14,800
very notably Tobias Reader, who played
for the Coyotes and the Buffalo Sabers and

656
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:20,440
the Oilers, telling me that his
dad was the team's bus driver. He

657
00:46:20,599 --> 00:46:23,559
was from like a really small town
outside Munich and played for his hometown team,

658
00:46:23,599 --> 00:46:28,679
the I believe the lunch At Tigers, and that was a top tier

659
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,400
like that was a d L team
and he played for them as a teenager

660
00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:36,199
and then made the NHL. I
always want to see some of those younger

661
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:42,039
guys that are playing in the German
League get loaned somewhere else before we really

662
00:46:42,079 --> 00:46:45,480
know what they're going to look like. Nicholas Treuler was a really good German

663
00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:50,239
goaltender who was still pretty young,
signed in North America and then just got

664
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,360
absolutely lit up when he was here. I think for German goaltenders, we

665
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,679
have to see them play somewhere else
first. It's a fun league, though.

666
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,280
There's some really fun guys that when
they're finished with their North American crews,

667
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:05,199
go play over there because it's a
really gorgeous area to play and the

668
00:47:05,199 --> 00:47:09,400
teams treat them really well. I
looked it up and the team that Nikki

669
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:15,519
da Kapp plays for has Zach Boycheck
of the Carolina Hurricanes and most notably of

670
00:47:15,559 --> 00:47:20,199
the Twitter fame. I followed everyone
on hockey Twitter for a while there.

671
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,079
He's currently on that team, so
maybe that's how Carolina found this kid.

672
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,880
But yeah, I'd love to see
him get loaned somewhere else. Just I

673
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:34,320
don't love The German League is a
development league for goaltenders, so we'll see

674
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,320
how that goes for him. Awesome, Thanks so much, Kat for giving

675
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:43,760
us your instincts on the Carolina Hurricane
goalies. We'll be back right after this

676
00:48:01,119 --> 00:48:07,960
the Dynasty Dig the Carolina Hurricanes edition. It's just not fair, Victor,

677
00:48:07,079 --> 00:48:10,840
It's just not fair. The Hurricanes
are good, but they draft good.

678
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:15,679
We like their draft every year,
and they are ranked ninth in your rankings.

679
00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:21,760
They've just got too much posse on
this year. This year Dynasty Prospect

680
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,960
System, and it starts out with
your no brainer, Victor, who is

681
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:31,480
it? The no brainer for the
Hurricanes is Alexander nikishin twenty twenty third round

682
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:36,280
pick, he was sixty ninth overall. He's six foot four, two hundred

683
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,239
and sixteen pound left handed, d
very old for his draft season. He

684
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:43,840
almost could have been drafted the previous
year, which is always interesting, and

685
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,239
so maybe some of his equivalency he
is a little overstated, but he's a

686
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:52,679
marinating over in Russia. He's now
twenty when he's about to be twenty two,

687
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,199
so he's a little bit on the
older side, as mentioned, and

688
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:58,960
so when he was drafted, he
hadn't really done much. He played some

689
00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:02,280
KHL games, but real points.
He followed the next season up with a

690
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:07,079
lot of KHL games and no points, and same with the D plus two

691
00:49:07,079 --> 00:49:09,800
season. But then the last season, which was D plus three, he

692
00:49:10,039 --> 00:49:15,559
exploded fifty five points in sixty five
games, massive production for a defenseman.

693
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:22,199
And this year, the season has
already started with SKA and he has six

694
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,400
points in six games. And yeah, I should mention those first few seasons

695
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,079
where he didn't have a lot of
points were with a different team, and

696
00:49:28,119 --> 00:49:30,039
then he moved to SKA and he
had a lot of points. We've seen

697
00:49:30,079 --> 00:49:34,000
this, We've seen this movie before, Jesse, this tends to happen.

698
00:49:35,159 --> 00:49:38,519
I'm a little skeptical that all of
these, all this production is with a

699
00:49:38,639 --> 00:49:44,280
very dominant KHL team. That doesn't
that also doesn't mean that he's bad and

700
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,360
overrated. I think that maybe the
truth is somewhere in the middle. It

701
00:49:47,519 --> 00:49:51,800
is also true that in August twenty
twenty two he signed a three year extension

702
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,679
to stay in Russia through the twenty
twenty five season, so twenty four twenty

703
00:49:54,679 --> 00:49:58,679
five seasons, so that means two
more seasons this one and one more where

704
00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:01,639
he will not be in the NHL, and then possibly after that will be

705
00:50:02,599 --> 00:50:07,519
The indications are that he is interested
in coming over just when his deals up,

706
00:50:07,519 --> 00:50:10,000
so we'll have to see if that's
true. Anyways, we need to

707
00:50:10,039 --> 00:50:14,440
learn a little bit more about Alexander
Nikishan, and from that we go to

708
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,960
our FHL scout and our good buddy
Brandon is responsible for this one past the

709
00:50:19,679 --> 00:50:23,400
guest on the patron cast, I
believe Brandon the skating Nikishan is a workhorse

710
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:28,960
of a skater, powerful stride,
deceptive acceleration. When in stride, he

711
00:50:29,119 --> 00:50:35,039
maintains nearly as sturdy as he is
at lower speeds or a standstill passing and

712
00:50:35,119 --> 00:50:37,159
handling. His passes can carry a
fair amount of force behind them, though

713
00:50:37,159 --> 00:50:43,039
he tends to default to finding simple
passes to complete, very poised and comfortable

714
00:50:43,119 --> 00:50:47,000
holding onto the puck and making the
right pass. When scoping out targets with

715
00:50:47,079 --> 00:50:52,079
time and space, he deploys an
interesting way of shifting his weight between skates

716
00:50:52,159 --> 00:50:54,880
is off using his feet to fake
pass attempts. Brandon's unsure if this is

717
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:59,159
a conscious and effective trader, a
trick of sorts that could be cleaned up

718
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:04,880
anyway, he is very good in
that area. Shooting. Nikishan can unleach

719
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,400
a howitzer of a one timer that
almost seems to pick up force and speed

720
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:14,199
the longer the puck travels. His
slapshot is strong, but he's usually tempering

721
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,440
the amount of force put behind it, as it seems he is using it

722
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:22,519
to generate rebounds and deflection attempts rather
than beat the goaltender. Also could be

723
00:51:22,559 --> 00:51:27,400
said about his wrist and snapshot.
Although they appear to be firm attempts,

724
00:51:27,559 --> 00:51:30,119
seems like they're released a little bit
below one hundred percent effort that he could

725
00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:36,880
be put into them. IQ intelligence
stalwart that is often in the perfect place

726
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,599
at the perfect time. Poison unwavering
sense of calm is evident during the vast

727
00:51:40,639 --> 00:51:45,280
majority of his shifts. For checking
in a rare currency may activate to be

728
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,679
one of the first thing the fore
check, but this is usually tied to

729
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:53,760
generating a turnover. Defense often in
motion swoops into the right position with impeccable

730
00:51:53,760 --> 00:52:00,559
timing allows him to effortlessly intercept a
pass with a conveniently placed stick, or

731
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:02,840
to remind the puck carrier that he
is in fact made of bricks and will

732
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,000
explode a man in open eyes.
Nice phrasing, brand and I like that

733
00:52:07,599 --> 00:52:13,159
best asset. Then overall, the
powerful stride mixed with an extremely solid and

734
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:20,320
punishing physical foundation. Biggest concern higher
end passing and playmaking complexity. The top

735
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:24,440
tier role is a top four two
way defender in the thirty five to forty

736
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:29,880
five point range, with a role
on special teams above mid range shots and

737
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:36,239
plenty of hits fiftieth percentile more likely
outcome. Bottom four shutdown d assignment with

738
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:40,639
the ability to chew up minutes and
the stylistic comparable hybrid between Johnny Boychuck and

739
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,480
Alex Petranngelo. Let's talk about the
NHL rank King and what he has to

740
00:52:45,519 --> 00:52:51,719
say here. The NHL Rank Kings
p NHL E here is off the charts.

741
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,920
It's gone way above superstar potential.
Poor Mason had to draw brand new

742
00:52:55,960 --> 00:53:00,239
lines to get him in here based
on that production last year. He's that

743
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,840
high up. And some of the
guys in the mix there, Matt Donovan,

744
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,400
Justin Falk, Dion fan Enough as
similarity guys. And so we're going

745
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:15,119
to compare Alexander Nikishan to Kayden Gooley
of the Montreal Canadian and Edmonton Oil King.

746
00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:19,679
And who would you rather have on
your team Alexander Nikishan in a walk

747
00:53:20,039 --> 00:53:25,599
seventy to thirty over Ghoul Victor.
Is this how you see it? No?

748
00:53:27,079 --> 00:53:30,639
I don't know that it's that discrepant, right as you canto Dad with

749
00:53:30,679 --> 00:53:36,719
your intonation there. I think that
Nikishin what he did last year was ridiculous

750
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,559
and people are falling all over themselves
to get him wherever they can, which

751
00:53:39,559 --> 00:53:44,960
I understand because he's a third round
pick and explode it out of nowhere and

752
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:49,519
looks awesome. As Brandon said,
he looks like it could be a really

753
00:53:49,679 --> 00:53:53,119
great asset, lots of bash,
decent points. Sounds like a really great

754
00:53:53,679 --> 00:53:59,239
prospect and guy that you want on
your team. But it's also possible that

755
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,679
some of this kind came out of
nowhere and there's more of the environment,

756
00:54:02,159 --> 00:54:05,599
and you have to wait two years, so you factor all that in.

757
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,519
I'm not sure it is so clear. I'm in a couple of leagues where

758
00:54:07,519 --> 00:54:10,719
you want to win, we want
to be competitive. Now. I would

759
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:15,159
take Kaden Gouli in those leagues any
day, because I get two years of

760
00:54:15,159 --> 00:54:21,400
Guli and by the time Nikishan comes
over, will I be a little bit

761
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,119
sad? Yeah? Maybe, But
you got two years of great production out

762
00:54:23,159 --> 00:54:27,119
of Guli, who I think is
no slouch. I think he's a really

763
00:54:27,119 --> 00:54:31,800
good player. He also has great
bash he's been effective at the NHL level.

764
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:36,639
Last season, he was really great
in his forty four games, decent

765
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,119
number of points, almost half point
per game, with lots of bash,

766
00:54:40,159 --> 00:54:43,960
and I think that he's going to
settle into at least a top four,

767
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,159
if not a top pairing role with
the Canadian So you really like to see

768
00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:52,199
that. The other thing about Nikishan
and the Carolina Hurricanes as a whole,

769
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:57,400
while they do draft really we also
know that they don't seem to be particularly

770
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,840
loyal to a lot of their players, and you know, we'll let guys

771
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:05,559
go if they're too expensive or difficult. So that may mean that his role

772
00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:07,280
may be a little bit muted when
he gets to that point. I don't

773
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:12,239
know. We'll have to see about
that, but we have seen that with

774
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,000
the Carolina that even guys as good
as Seth Jarvis have a little bit of

775
00:55:15,039 --> 00:55:19,039
a tough time breaking in like he
finally has, and he's got a decent

776
00:55:19,159 --> 00:55:22,840
role, but even with their deployment, it's been a little bit, it's

777
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,960
been a little bit muted, right, So I really like Guli. I

778
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,880
don't think it should be this far
off. I think if you're a team

779
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,360
that's not ready to compete for a
couple of years, then I think it's

780
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:37,000
I would take Nikishan, yes,
but if you're want to be competitive sooner

781
00:55:37,079 --> 00:55:40,239
than I think Guli makes a whole
lot of sense. And I think that

782
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,559
in the end they might end up
being similar, And I don't think it's

783
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:45,960
going to be so discrepant that you're
going to say, Wow, this is

784
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:50,320
a no brainer, I'm taking Nikishan. I think it's a little bit closer

785
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,280
than that. If you look at
the hockey prospecting between these two, it's

786
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:59,920
actually really even. And that's partly
because Nikishan was so black his first few

787
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:05,079
seasons. He had basically the minimal
star potential five percent, five percent,

788
00:56:05,119 --> 00:56:07,440
four percent, and then jumped up
to nine percent this year. And I

789
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:12,840
know that may seem like so little
based on his NHL E went from twenty

790
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,679
one to seventy one, but I
note that Byron also regresses that hard if

791
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:20,800
they haven't shown a progression year to
year, that's why his star potential looks

792
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,079
so muted. And for Guli,
you know, he missed a year in

793
00:56:23,119 --> 00:56:27,880
the middle. Yeah, basically from
the WHL the COVID year, he didn't

794
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,360
have enough games to really qualify,
and so that made his numbers look a

795
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,880
little wonky, and that's why it
went down for him a little bit.

796
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,039
But he basically graduated eight percent of
the model. But we've also already seen

797
00:56:38,079 --> 00:56:42,840
him in the NHL, and so
that makes it a little bit easier to

798
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,599
stomach. And then Nikishin if you
just look at his comps, he's got

799
00:56:46,599 --> 00:56:51,639
a lot of kind of comps in
the Hockey Prospect the model. Travis Sanheim

800
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:58,119
is one that's there now, Marketwood
Vlastic is another, Johnny Oduya. These

801
00:56:58,119 --> 00:57:00,960
are not super exciting names, and
so if you look at the entirety of

802
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:05,519
the picture, it looks a lot
more muted in terms of what your excitement

803
00:57:05,599 --> 00:57:07,639
level should be. So I just
want to caution people. I've seen people

804
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:14,679
trading for Nikishan and giving up massive
guys that are really competent, good players

805
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:19,159
now like Ghoulie, and I would
just I would be a little hesitant about

806
00:57:19,159 --> 00:57:22,480
that because it's nice to have that
security of the guy who's already in the

807
00:57:22,519 --> 00:57:25,000
league doing really good stuff, or
guys that are closer. And also,

808
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:30,000
if you look at the Jay Fresh
card from top down Hockey, Nikishan has

809
00:57:30,079 --> 00:57:32,719
just two percent chance of being a
star and ninety five percent chance of being

810
00:57:34,679 --> 00:57:38,199
an NHLer. So as usual,
the top down hockey model is just a

811
00:57:38,199 --> 00:57:44,039
bucket of cold water. Jesse,
Yeah, it seems like a trap to

812
00:57:44,079 --> 00:57:49,079
me. We're talking about good bash, but is the guy going to end

813
00:57:49,159 --> 00:57:52,199
up with the top power play role. I don't know. It feels like

814
00:57:52,239 --> 00:57:54,639
trapped to me. It really is
going to come down, as you said

815
00:57:54,679 --> 00:57:59,000
to do you believe last year or
do you not? Because if you don't

816
00:57:59,039 --> 00:58:02,679
believe last year, it's a world
of hurt mixed up victor, who is

817
00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:08,920
your need to know prospect? Need
to know is Cruise Lucius twenty twenty two

818
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:13,840
fourth round pick by Carolina, six
foot, one hundred and seventy nine pound,

819
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,000
drafted out of the USNTDP, where
he was definitely more of a role

820
00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:21,960
player than his brother Chazz, as
Jesse has called him the evil villain Chazz

821
00:58:22,079 --> 00:58:27,559
Lucius and he's the one gay prospect. This was Chazz. I'm sorry.

822
00:58:27,559 --> 00:58:31,639
Cruises first season at the University of
Wisconsin eleven goals, twenty three assists for

823
00:58:31,639 --> 00:58:35,840
three to four points and thirty four
games point per game. And it should

824
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,639
also be noted that the Wisconsin program
wasn't a bit of a disarray this season

825
00:58:39,719 --> 00:58:43,280
they had. They really struggled a
lot of guys that really didn't do well.

826
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:47,360
The team didn't do well, and
they got the Minnesota state head coach

827
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,559
who took them was it all the
way to the final or They've been a

828
00:58:51,599 --> 00:58:54,239
really good program for the last couple
of years. So it seems like Wisconsin

829
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:58,840
will be better this upcoming season.
We'll have to wait and see about that,

830
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,000
but it seems like they'll be better. And he already seemed like he

831
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:05,599
had a pretty good season. And
we're talking about a fourth round pick here

832
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,760
who went point per game in his
D plus one, So that's pretty fantastic.

833
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:13,199
But we need to know a little
bit more about Cruise Lucius, and

834
00:59:13,239 --> 00:59:16,320
so we need to talk to our
FHL scout and our FHL scout this time

835
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:21,960
is William Speed is not an issue
as far as skating, but he's not

836
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,519
necessarily a great skater. When trying
to go full speed, he swings his

837
00:59:24,599 --> 00:59:29,320
arms to gain momentum, hands appear
to be faster than his feet, and

838
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,159
he often stopped skating to perform a
dec puck handling. He's got good hands

839
00:59:34,159 --> 00:59:37,920
that can make a great pass shot, not a shot first guy, decent

840
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:42,559
shot, but it's nothing that William
really would say stands out or he would

841
00:59:42,559 --> 00:59:47,199
say anything special about the IQ.
The panic level is either super high or

842
00:59:47,239 --> 00:59:52,440
way too low, and to me
that's a little unpredictable. He tries to

843
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:54,800
make too much when it's not the
time, sometimes just get rid of the

844
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:59,159
puck when he could just hold it
in delay. During a game against Michigan,

845
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:01,119
William has example, with two forty
nine left in the game in a

846
01:00:01,159 --> 01:00:05,880
tie game, he tried to throw
a pass while exiting the zone on his

847
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,199
back end, led to a massive
turnover and to go ahead goal. Against

848
01:00:09,559 --> 01:00:14,639
defense, he's not involved in defensive
play. During the Michigan game, he

849
01:00:14,719 --> 01:00:17,400
was on Luke Hughes's side and he
was able to do anything he wanted in

850
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:22,719
the zone because Lucius couldn't keep up
that his Hughes was able to do anything

851
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:27,280
he wanted, but Luke Hughes that
that's a tough matchup. Best asset his

852
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,440
hands. Biggest concern probably won't be
able to translate his play at the next

853
01:00:30,519 --> 01:00:34,920
level. He's not a play driver. Compete level, not great top tier

854
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,480
potential. In a perfect world,
he could make it to the top six

855
01:00:37,639 --> 01:00:42,639
role as a playmaker, but would
still be a low tier three player because

856
01:00:42,679 --> 01:00:45,039
as an NCA player, he's already
not shooting, hitting or blocking shots.

857
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:51,079
Most likely tier oh no, william
says, doesn't even reach the NHL.

858
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:54,880
So Cruz Lucia's getting panned a little
bit here in our scouting report. The

859
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:02,239
NHL rank King echoes that sentiment.
He's he is technically somewhere between the first

860
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:07,039
and second line potential, but his
top similarity score is Christian Fisher. And

861
01:01:07,079 --> 01:01:10,360
then we got Nick Shore and Joel
Ferraby in terms of our comparison, and

862
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:16,079
Mason Black put out there on ex
Cruz Lucius versus Philip Mechar. It's all

863
01:01:16,199 --> 01:01:21,760
Kenes versus Canadians. Today we know
that is a rivalry. Those two franchises

864
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:24,679
really do hate each other a little
bit. And in terms of that comparison,

865
01:01:24,719 --> 01:01:31,039
Philip Mischar wins fifty nine to forty
one percent over Cruz Lucius. Victor

866
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:37,280
Lucius the lesser. Is he really
going down that heartened flames? I love

867
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:40,760
that. That's a good one.
Yeah, I don't know about this one.

868
01:01:43,159 --> 01:01:46,559
He's, you know, interesting,
He's one of those players that was

869
01:01:46,639 --> 01:01:52,360
drafted. He was drafted in twenty
twenty two, several of the Slovakians there

870
01:01:52,559 --> 01:01:59,800
with obviously the number one overall picks
Lefkowski and then Ms and there was there

871
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:00,800
was another one too. I can't
remember if the top of my head,

872
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:07,239
Rangers pick anyways, So Meshar he's
always felt more of a middle six kind

873
01:02:07,239 --> 01:02:09,519
of a player two. And it's
going to be really hard to track his

874
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:14,679
trajectory because he went from the Silakian
Pro League into the OHL and so,

875
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,519
yeah, he looked great. There's
that's a bit of a step down in

876
01:02:17,599 --> 01:02:22,760
terms of equivalency. He did have
a bit of a lower p and HL

877
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:27,920
E than Cruise. I think part
of this might have just been also people

878
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,119
looking at draft pedigree and Meshar being
a first round pick and Lucius being a

879
01:02:31,119 --> 01:02:37,039
fourth round pick, So I could
understand that. But I think that even

880
01:02:37,039 --> 01:02:39,599
though there's all these concerns that we
heard, I think that was a big

881
01:02:39,639 --> 01:02:44,239
step for Lucius and he could even
build on that next year and round out

882
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:49,440
some of those inconsistencies in his game
and effort issues and you know, turn

883
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,880
out to be a decent player.
And he's definitely more like Cruz. Lucius

884
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:57,119
is more of the type of player
that you're going to want to give offensive

885
01:02:57,159 --> 01:03:00,320
minutes too, as opposed to Meshar, who would be just fine in a

886
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,960
bottom six role. And so that's
one reason why I don't think I would

887
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:06,960
want Meshar, just because, yeah, I think he's more likely to be

888
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:08,960
an NHL or, but he's also
more likely to be in the bottom six

889
01:03:09,039 --> 01:03:14,239
and not a point score. So
I would take Lucia's here, and but

890
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:19,000
also knowing that I'm probably not relying
on either of these guys on my prospect

891
01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:22,440
pool to do much. They're definitely
more I always think of my prospect pool

892
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,760
in terms of tiers, like the
guys that I have high confidence they're going

893
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:29,360
to be great, and then maybe
the guys that I know we're going to

894
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,199
play but maybe don't have a high
upside. And then there's like the variable

895
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:36,000
tier that's like there's maybe upside there, but who knows. So they would

896
01:03:36,039 --> 01:03:38,840
be in that last category, both
these guys. If you look at hockey

897
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:44,920
prospecting, it's a tale of two
trends. Lucius trending up from fourteen to

898
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:49,039
nineteen percent, mesh Are trending down
from thirty to fifteen percent, and that's

899
01:03:49,079 --> 01:03:52,400
mainly because, as I mentioned,
going from the Slaki League to the OHL,

900
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:57,519
his NHL E basically was the same. And so when you don't improve

901
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:01,599
your point production or your equivalent lency, then Byron kicks you down. So

902
01:04:01,679 --> 01:04:08,280
that's going down about half less than
half of the star potential, So that

903
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:12,079
definitely points to Lucious. And then
if you just look at Lucious comps,

904
01:04:12,159 --> 01:04:15,400
a lot of them, as in
the ranking app are boring, but Dave

905
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:20,360
Boland is maybe the most exciting one
who was not very exciting at all in

906
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:25,920
fantasy. There's Adam Deadmarsh, There's
some other guys that were turned out to

907
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:30,320
be starsh but took a while and
didn't really look like it until they were.

908
01:04:30,039 --> 01:04:33,719
So there's a chance for Lucious,
but most of them the most likely

909
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:40,000
outcome is replacement the ravage level producer, or just as William mentioned, not

910
01:04:40,079 --> 01:04:43,880
even an HLLER. And if you
look at the bucket of cold water over

911
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:46,519
at j Fresh, it is pretty
pessimistic. Three percent chance of being a

912
01:04:46,559 --> 01:04:50,239
star, twenty four percent chance of
being an NHLer. And yeah, I

913
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:54,360
think that this is a big wild
card. But the reason I wanted to

914
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:57,119
bring him up is that, Yeah, he's a very late pick, and

915
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:02,119
he's got some family pedigree and all
of these things make him interesting and it's

916
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:06,480
worth grabbing him and throwing him on
the on the roster if if you have

917
01:05:06,519 --> 01:05:13,079
space. I shall also mention that
Cruzlucius is pretty young for his draft year.

918
01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:17,679
He's in April birthday, so he's
basically played every season he's played to

919
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:24,039
date as younger than most of his
peers. So while April isn't super super

920
01:05:24,119 --> 01:05:27,519
late, that's it's definitely significant compared
to a lot of the guys that are

921
01:05:27,519 --> 01:05:30,440
born for five six months earlier,
like that can be a big difference at

922
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:34,440
that age. So maybe there's a
little bit more room to grow still here,

923
01:05:34,559 --> 01:05:41,400
Jesse or sure. And finally,
we've got to keep your eye on

924
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:45,519
prospect Victor. Who is that?
Scott Morrow is our keep your eye on

925
01:05:45,559 --> 01:05:50,039
twenty twenty one second round pick by
Carolina six foot two hundred, ninety four

926
01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:57,719
pound right handed d drafted out of
the Shattuck St. Mary's High school system

927
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:03,000
there and that's a really prominent high
school system that develops a lot of NHL

928
01:06:03,079 --> 01:06:06,079
ers. And then he was also
in the USHL and his draft year,

929
01:06:06,199 --> 01:06:13,880
so it was hard to evaluate those
guys with high school equivalences, but he

930
01:06:14,079 --> 01:06:18,880
was obviously dominant there and looked not
terribly out of place in his USHL time.

931
01:06:19,079 --> 01:06:21,639
He only played six playoff games with
the Fargo Four, so it wasn't

932
01:06:21,679 --> 01:06:26,719
like he played a significant amount.
But then he went back to back thirty

933
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,480
plus point seasons at UMass, which
is pretty phenomenal. That's pretty good.

934
01:06:31,239 --> 01:06:35,000
And nine goals and twenty two assists
for thirty one points in thirty five games

935
01:06:35,079 --> 01:06:41,360
last season, which was a slight
improvement on his previous season. Looks like

936
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:45,199
he's headed back to UMass for his
junior season, and I have to say

937
01:06:45,239 --> 01:06:49,119
that's an impressive transition going from high
school to the nc double. A.

938
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:53,880
I know that a lot of us
did that, Jesse, I went from

939
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:57,360
high school to college, but not
playing that level of hockey. That's a

940
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:02,960
big difference. So that's a massive
increase in the quality of competition, like

941
01:07:03,079 --> 01:07:08,280
even guys that go from the OHL
CHL to SHL to the nc Double as

942
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:12,239
a big transition high school to NCUBA
is crazy and he did fantastically. But

943
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:16,039
let's hear a little bit more about
Scott Morrow from FHL Scout. Yeah,

944
01:07:16,079 --> 01:07:20,079
I definitely had difficulty translating from high
school to college. I just turned up

945
01:07:20,079 --> 01:07:24,199
my bash. I just hit everybody
in my college classes. That's how I

946
01:07:24,239 --> 01:07:30,239
survived. FHL scout Wade is our
man on the street for this prospect.

947
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:34,000
Mister Morrow skating good foot speed,
uses it nicely to generate offense when carrying

948
01:07:34,039 --> 01:07:38,599
the puck out of his own end. Good use of crossovers to laterally create

949
01:07:38,679 --> 01:07:43,519
space for himself for the IQ,
very intelligent the offensive zone, sees the

950
01:07:43,519 --> 01:07:46,599
ice well, generally in good position, rarely puts himself in a position to

951
01:07:46,599 --> 01:07:51,440
get burned by opposing forwards. That
said, his defensive game is considerably further

952
01:07:51,519 --> 01:07:56,239
behind normally. Having any panic meter
isn't a good thing, but Morrow might

953
01:07:56,280 --> 01:08:00,320
benefit from exhibiting some sense of urgency
in his own end, especially after losing

954
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,599
a puck battle. For checking,
does a good job supporting the ford check

955
01:08:03,719 --> 01:08:09,480
as a secondary attacker from the back
end, but it's surprisingly useful when pinching

956
01:08:09,599 --> 01:08:13,559
and acting more as a winger.
He doesn't lose pucks very easily when pinching,

957
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:17,079
and acts as a sneaky offensive outlet
from the blue line following an initial

958
01:08:17,159 --> 01:08:23,479
rush in defense. Somewhat passive defensively, both off the rush and end zone.

959
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:27,840
Would ideally like to see him use
his larger frame to angle opponents off

960
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,560
of pucks as well as keep a
more active stick. Doesn't have a very

961
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:34,439
high sense of urgency. Again,
and finally, the biggest concern from way

962
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:39,640
defense is the biggest glaring hole that
could be a problem, which concerning to

963
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:43,239
do that have that problem even at
the NCAA level. There's one hope of

964
01:08:43,279 --> 01:08:47,039
the Canes developing him into a bona
fide NHL defenseman, even offensively minded one.

965
01:08:47,119 --> 01:08:54,720
He needs to improve his defensive game
leaps and bounds the NHL rank King

966
01:08:54,760 --> 01:09:00,319
Mason Black compares Scott Morrow in terms
of his equivalency. He's still tracking on

967
01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:05,880
first line potential in terms of this
production and his comparables shathid Or ty Smith,

968
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:10,439
Tyson, Barry Boy. I'd like
to have those comparables in terms of

969
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:15,039
if I were a prospect, And
he's going to compare Morrow to Denton Mettay

970
01:09:15,119 --> 01:09:19,159
Chuck in terms of a cop Matay
Chuck, of course was taken a year

971
01:09:19,239 --> 01:09:26,039
later and around higher than mister Marrow
was, but he also trounced mister Morrow

972
01:09:26,279 --> 01:09:31,640
in the Mason Black ex Pull Matay
Chuck sixty eight, Morrow thirty two Victor.

973
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:38,600
Is this how you see it breaking
down between these two choices? This

974
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:44,079
is hard because I do absolutely love
both of these players, and so that

975
01:09:44,119 --> 01:09:47,760
makes it a little bit hard to
choose, like asking to choose your favorite

976
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:51,680
child. Sometimes Jesse's really hard.
But I think that when you look at

977
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:58,159
the progression of the two prospects,
it actually leans a little bit Morrow,

978
01:09:58,239 --> 01:10:02,319
So I don't think that this should
be so astronomically different. I think that

979
01:10:02,359 --> 01:10:06,680
they're closer, and then it becomes
a little bit a question of preference,

980
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:13,079
and since both of them are maybe
a couple of years away, it's a

981
01:10:13,079 --> 01:10:16,039
little bit hard to take into account
the team effect. So that's something sometimes

982
01:10:16,039 --> 01:10:19,800
you use as a tiebreaker, but
I don't necessarily like doing that when it's

983
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:24,880
so far away. When they're both
farther away, if they're a year apart,

984
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:27,199
I think you could look at that
a little bit more closely. But

985
01:10:27,239 --> 01:10:30,439
anyways, let me just talk about
these before I say who I would take.

986
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:33,279
But if you look at Moro,
he his equivalency at a high school

987
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:38,439
was not terribly impressive, and then
really good the last two seasons in the

988
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:45,000
NC DOUBLEA, so his star potential
has been like a upward trajectory to thirty

989
01:10:45,039 --> 01:10:47,680
nine percent, nine twenty and then
thirty nine, so that you love that

990
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:53,520
progression year of a year. Mateychuk
started at fifty three percent and maintained,

991
01:10:54,079 --> 01:10:57,880
which is also hard to do because
usually it goes really down after the first

992
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:01,439
season, especially if it's that high. So even though his second season or

993
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:05,680
his D plus one season at Mousta
didn't look that much different, he's basically

994
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:09,199
just over a point per game and
he was just under a point per game

995
01:11:09,239 --> 01:11:11,680
this season. Before you look at
that and say, oh, he didn't

996
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,479
increase by that much, but it's
still really impressive what he's done, and

997
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:17,439
he's still a really an impressive player. They're a little bit different, and

998
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:20,840
Metaichuk, being a little bit undersized, might have a little bit of trouble,

999
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:25,600
but he's such a great skater and
such. So smart Morrow has a

1000
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:29,239
little bit more of the physical tools
with the height and the skating. But

1001
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,960
I think that for me, I
personally do Mataichuk better, so I would

1002
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take him, but I don't think
it should be sixty eight to thirty two.

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01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:42,680
I think if you think about value
though I think Morow represents probably a

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01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:47,279
better value because as a mid second
round pick, he's probably not on as

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many people's radar as Mataichuk, who
went twelve foot for all to Columbus,

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01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:56,039
and so that you have that to
think about. I also, if you

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01:11:56,079 --> 01:12:00,479
think a little bit about the team
and who's there, obviously Columbus has some

1008
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:05,800
pretty stacked players there with Wrenski and
obviously your Check who's looking great. So

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they have some decent guys potentially blocking
him. I don't like to think that

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01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:14,039
far in advance, but it is
something to consider. Whereas more on the

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01:12:14,039 --> 01:12:17,720
other hand, Yess Carolina has some
really great defenders and the Keishaan we just

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01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:20,720
talked about, but when is he
going to come over? Morow might beat

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01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:24,720
him to the NHL, and then
you know you have the inside track and

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01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:28,119
then you know, maybe a little
bit more offensive chops and then you're running

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01:12:28,159 --> 01:12:31,560
the powerplay. So I really like
Morow for that potential upside. If you

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01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:36,800
just look at some of other of
Morrow's comparisons, some of them are not

1017
01:12:38,079 --> 01:12:42,399
terribly exciting, but Mike Green is
someone who he looks a fair amount like,

1018
01:12:43,119 --> 01:12:45,720
and that would be obviously a really
great outcome. If you look at

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01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:49,199
the Jay Fresh card, one percent
chance of being a star from Morrow sixty

1020
01:12:49,239 --> 01:12:53,039
one percent chance of being an NHLer, though it was pretty high NHL or

1021
01:12:53,079 --> 01:12:57,159
probability. Maybe a little bit lower
star potential. Yeah, but Morow is

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01:12:57,199 --> 01:13:00,000
definitely someone who I think you should
have your eye on. I was one

1023
01:13:00,039 --> 01:13:02,479
who when they drafted him. Who's
this guy at a high school? I

1024
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:05,960
don't really know anything about him,
but his transition to the NC DOUBAA and

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01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,840
what he's done since has been super
impressive. School. I'll get yourself some

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01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:14,239
Scott Morrow if you can. And
that's about it for this Jesse. There's

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01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,800
more guys we could talk about,
especially on the Caroline Hurricanes. I should

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01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:19,960
also just say that I definitely want
to listen to the top ten on lists

1029
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:24,560
on this one if you're a patron, because they have so many players,

1030
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,640
and that's one thing that, yes, for a team that's great, but

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01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:30,359
also they have a lot of guys, but none of most of them don't

1032
01:13:30,359 --> 01:13:34,279
really stand out again amongst the pack. So it's one of these things where

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01:13:34,319 --> 01:13:38,560
they have a lot of good guys
but not a lot of great guys.

1034
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:41,800
And so some pools are actually a
little bit more exciting because they have three

1035
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:47,159
four excellent prospects and then maybe overall
the averages in his high But that's always

1036
01:13:47,159 --> 01:13:49,680
been the case for Carolina. They
just have a lot of guys and so

1037
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:55,319
they end up replenishing their you know, their coffers really well. So anyways,

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01:13:55,319 --> 01:13:57,880
listen to that top ten list if
you're interested, if you want to

1039
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:00,039
become a patron, you can check
that out. If you're interesting to do

1040
01:14:00,199 --> 01:14:04,000
some scouting, shoot me a DM
on Twitter, Discord, or email us.

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01:14:04,079 --> 01:14:16,479
Very good. We'll come right back
close up the show. Hey everybody,

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01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:19,800
as we get out of here today, just a couple things to remind

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01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:24,760
you of. One of them is
fantracks dot com. It is the place

1044
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:28,840
where this podcast is presented. We're
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1045
01:14:29,239 --> 01:14:31,640
and it is a website to play
all of your fantasy sports leagues. Now's

1046
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:35,760
the time to start yourself a fantasy
hockey league. It's great time to do

1047
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:39,840
that. You can move your existing
leagues over there. Pretty much. It's

1048
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:43,159
the best, if not the only, place to play a real dynasty league.

1049
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:47,159
All kinds of different scoring options,
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1050
01:14:47,159 --> 01:14:50,760
would want to do. Anything you
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1051
01:14:51,319 --> 01:14:57,840
in your default league, you can
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1052
01:14:58,199 --> 01:15:01,640
is the wing of Fantracks that does
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1053
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:06,239
tons of articles coming out right now
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1054
01:15:06,279 --> 01:15:11,000
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1055
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:15,880
addition to ours on the network,
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1056
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:20,520
Baseball, and The Fly Fantasy Football. There are several several different podcasts you

1057
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:26,000
should listen to there. We'd like
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1058
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:30,119
who's been helping out with our show
Prep. It's been indispensable as we've

1059
01:15:30,159 --> 01:15:33,239
gone through these team previews. We're
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1060
01:15:33,359 --> 01:15:40,640
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1061
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:45,199
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1062
01:15:45,319 --> 01:15:48,600
Prospects Report, that he does with
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1063
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:54,079
solo show, Dynasty Sports Life.
I talk for different Dynasty sports on that

1064
01:15:54,199 --> 01:15:58,800
show, sometimes multiple even at the
same time, you should follow Victor and

1065
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:03,600
myself on x at fan Hockey Life
is Me at Victor Newno. Twelve is

1066
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:10,720
Victor. Subscribe, Rate and review
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1067
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:15,640
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We appreciate your listening, We appreciate your

1068
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:18,600
thoughts on the Carolina Hurricanes. We
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1069
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:30,439
until next time, keep living that
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