Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks, your source of information
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joining by my partner, the man himself, Victor Nunyo of Jobber Prospects.
Victor, how you doing. I am doing awesome, Jesse, as we
sit here and record and as the people listen. We're just days away from
the NHL Draft and I am going this year with my buddy Peter Harling over
at Dabber Prospects Report and a bunch of other Dabber colleagues. It's gonna be
It's gonna be awesome. I'll be repping Fantasy Hockey Life though you know it
for sure. And we haven't talked in a long time. People peeking behind
the curtain. Jesse's been out of the country. We haven't had a chance
to catch up. So how are you doing, my friend? I'm still
catching up with myself, Victor. I'm still trying to get over jet leg
and all those types of things. But I had myself a fun couple of
weeks. I spend a day in Bratislava, Slovakia, Victor, I just
want to tell you I was trying to figure out how these guys beat us
in the Olympics. I did a full investigation in Brodoslava. I haven't figured
it out yet, but it was still pretty fun. No, it's it's
good times being back, Victor. And I'm really excited that you're going to
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That's awfully cool this year. Yeah, it find to Nashville. That's my
old stopping grounds too, Victor. Have you been to Nashville before? I
have never been in Nashville, and our whole family's going and my wife's family
lives not too far so we're having a big, little mini reunion. So
that's fun. But definitely excited to I wouldn't say that I love country music,
but I find it interesting and you gotta take it in when you're going
to nashvill So I'm excited to hear some great music and taking the culture and
the scenes and all that. It's just going to be an amazing experience.
You can't wait for all that. Yeah, you're going at the worst possible
time of your of course, the middle of the summer is fairly miserable.
Sometimes a natural maybe a hood, a nice snap and the glass. The
grass is very fescuee, Victor, if you haven't been around Tennessee grass,
it's a whole different situation there. It's very fescue. So just keep that
in mind. It's not that Kentucky blue grass. I don't know what is
that what you have in California. Let's talk about grass. I don't even
know what word you're saying. Fescuee. What does that even mean? Fescue?
It's like a it's the grass in people's yards is more like a little
viny thing than it is those individual blades of grass that you're used to in
the North. So it's just a whole situation. I'm just trying to prepare
you, Victor, just the big things. The little details we can skip
over with the big things you need to be aware of. I would say
that a lot of people here, because there's rainfall issues and California, tend
to opt for more like garden front yards or fake grass or whatever, because
it's really hard and takes a lot of water to maintain that. When you
don't get precipitation, unlike in the Midwest and parts of the east of the
country where there's more precipitation and humidity and stuff like that. Yeah, I
don't know that we have that kind. But we even don't have a lot
of the regular sort of grass in the fields and stuff like that. It's
different, but not in people's yards. It's often and I should say the
fantasy hockey wife that is my wife. She is into now, not planting
grass, but planting like clover in like wild type things, because number one,
they take up less water, they're more efficient on the ground, and
they also pollinate, beats a lot of stuff. She's not spraying the yard
and she's growing all this stuff. I was out having to mow around some
of it today, but there's a bunch of like tall clover stuff sticking up.
This has been your horticulture minute on Fantasy Hockey Wife. This is fantasy.
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Part of the idea behind this episode is, of course, to get
too excited about the draft. That's why we're bringing our draft expert Hottie in.
But also as you follow the draft, there's a bunch of really cool
storylines and different themes that you might want to follow, and so you can
have some advanced knowledge and idea of what it means if these certain guys fall,
or what does it mean with these different defenders, how should you value
them? Because there's going to be an NHL draft orders and that's gonna influence
you. But also they have certain fantasy upside and depending on who they go
to, that might also influence it. So it's just going to help you
track the draft in a way that will help you even more for kind of
understanding what it means for everyone's fantasy value. So that's the idea not just
to get you hype, but to give you more background information on what's about
to go down in Nashville. You dog on right, Let's take a break,
comeback, and we're going to talk to hide. It's the most wonderful
time. We are back and ready to talk a little bit more, a
little last talk about the NHL Draft and to do it. How much better
of a guest can you get than Hattie Callakesh of Dabber Prospects, the director
of North American Scouting. How you doing it today? I'm doing great.
I'm doing great, up and coming, really exciting. A bunch of articles
and stuff to write, a bunch of podcast appearances of course, so busy
time, but I'm making it work. It is it's Christmas, it's the
birthday. It's all the good things at once, all ready to pop later
this week. So it is that special time a year, and I'm glad
that you're here to share it with us. We're going to go over just
a few different questions. We've got some listener questions, some patron questions,
and just some overall talk about the draft that we wanted to talk to you
about today. I'm going to set up some questions. Victor has also got
some takes that he's going to want to ask you, But as we get
started, hottie, let me just ask you the big one. Any overarching
thoughts on this draft does compare to other drafts in a particular way, positions
that are better this year's draft or worse this year, especially for people who
have been following this as closely, or takes that you're starting to develop as
we're getting closer and closer to the day. Yeah, so, first or
foremost, this is a center's draft, and it's been pretty obvious throughout,
especially for the weaker teams, the teams that are gonna be picking in the
top ten, top fifteen, Lots and lots of centers I pick from.
Not at the start of the year it was, how does less of a
defenseman's year? But I've got two in my top ten, I've got three
in my top fifteen. In terms of defenseman you're not getting You're not having
the worst end of the stick of any draft year. Ever, it balanced
out and there's more and more risers that came through as the year went on.
Obviously, David Reinbacher, no one had heard of him before this year.
Tom Vilander actual signing Pelica Dmitri Simachev's it's not a bad year for defenseman,
but mainly primarily throughout the top five, top six, top ten,
you're getting a high end center. So yeah, just a very deep draft
as well. I say there's like forty five, maybe even fifty first round
caliber players available in the draft. So any team has cut three picks in
the top forty five, top fifty is getting three first round talents, which
is awesome. Yeah, for sure, I definitely agree. I think it's
really great for high end forwards. I think there's always value at defense.
I do think though that last year's top five ish defenseman would probably go ahead
of this year's top defenders. I don't know if you fully agree with that,
but it's always probably similar. No, there's definitely more upside among defensemen
in last year's draft than this one. But in terms of the profiles,
again, it depends on what you're searching for, and we don't have anyone
of Nemets or ear checks level of quality, especially of upside. But I
like to meet your Simischev. I like what he brings to the game.
So he's one guy putting maybe in that conversation, but not too high in
that conversation. But in terms of forwards there's five, six, maybe even
seven fowards I would take above Furisolkovsky and Shanewright and Logan Cooley from last year's
draft. So yeah, I know a lot of quality. Fascinating. Yeah,
this is interesting to hear, especially the defense is rising in your inestimation,
because that is still I think a perception out there that this is a
bad defense draft. But one of the most interesting storylines this year HATI,
M and M. It's not just a chocolate candy anymore. It's not an
abbreviation for Mickey Mouse or Mighty Mouse's name. It is Matt Vey Mitchkoff,
and that is a storyline of this draft, regardless of where he goes.
Should he be considered a second overall in a dynasty fantasy draft if you were
going for the upside or if you're you're a real NHL team and you were
going for the upside, is Matt Bay really the second best player in this
drap He's neck and neck with Adam Fantilly. For me, I'd say Miachkof
has more offensive upside. So for talking points only, he's up there with
the guard. He's gonna be coming in on a team that's had the time
to build itself out after four years of mediocrity. Usually a team evens out
finds some quality either in free agency or in the draft, in order to
make themselves a contender. I'm thinking San Jose. I'm thinking perhaps with Montreal
Canadians, and he's gonna been coming in in his prime in twenty six,
is going to be about twenty two twenty three on an entry level contract,
so that's going to be cheap, and he's going to have developed and improved
this game even further, and that goal scoring ability, that sixth sense,
he has to just find soft ice to work for the six feet around the
net. I don't think there's a better prospect six feet around the net than
matemichkov Is, So I think that would be an excellent pick and appoints only
dynasty league that kind of thing. But if you want if you want a
player right away, he's not your guy because of a contract situation in the
KHL. He's going to take a while to come over. But whichever team
gets him needs to be a team that's patient, and I think teams that
don't have the opportunity to wait that long for a prospect or just aren't going
to touch Miashkov. But I'm thinking if he goes in the top five,
it's San Jose or Montreal going that direction. If it's not them, I'd
be very surprised. If Arizona takes him, then I'll think that'd be good
for his career. But that's another story. But yeah, no, it's
just for me Mishkov. The whole situation in Rusha's overblown. He's just so
good offensively, such flare with the puck, and again that's sixth sense to
just sniff danger before it occurs. So yeah, no, he's just absolutely
wonderful to get to watch, especially when I started, when he moved over
so chief, that was when you really saw different mat fam Mishkov. Mishkov
that knew he was not going to be on the ice fifteen minutes later,
he was going to be in the on the ice a minute and a half
later. So more comfortable, less urgency, less adrenalin, and he really
just came out of a shelves. Yeah, no, I've been really impressed
with Mishkov. Yeah, definitely. I totally agree too. I had a
very different impression of him before he went to Sochi, and sometimes it's hard
to sift those opinions. But I totally agree now, and I have a
four D chess question to pose to you here any because I definitely agree,
and not only as you said, is he right up there with one of
the top players in the draft. His equivalences in many models look similar to
the darts. The guard is going to a team that is much farther away
from being relevant, even if he's in the league this year, which we
all assume badart is. I think that if you're let's not contract league's salary
cap right, if you're looking at the dard on his ELC, the production
he's going to put up is going to be good. I am quite sure
of that, and so his value per dollar will be high. Mitch kov
comes over in three years, and I'm pretty confident comes over. Let's not
really entertain that alternative, but he comes over, He's three years older,
more mature, probably putting up point per game numbers in the KHL. He's
going to step onto a much better team farther along in the rebuild. I
think his points upside and value per dollar and contract leaves is going to be
far above what Bedard is going to do. So my question for you is
A do you agree with that? And B would you have the stones to
trade like a first overall pick for number two? Take Mitch Cooff and maybe
another relatively early pick. Let's say it's somewhere in the five to ten range,
so you can still get a really good second piece and delay that that
value that you're going to get from Mitch Cooff in a few years. What
do you think about that idea? That's man, that's a tough one.
I still am betting on Bedard having more offensive upside. At the end of
the day, no one shoots like Badart does. And I've been really high
on Meachkoff school scoring ability. But man Connor Badard is so adaptable, and
Mishkov isn't too adaptable. He tries to up the intensity, tries to up
the urgency in his game when he's limited a nice time, but he doesn't
change his game based on the situation, based on what's ahead of him.
But Dard is adaptable to a point where I think there's a chance he goes
a point a game in his first year. He's that good. He usually
players that skilled, with that much goal scoring, playmaking, stick handling hockey
sensibilities, they don't need to adapt at all. They don't because they can
just outplay everyone at their level when they have that quality of play. But
but Dard doesn't just do that. But Dard when he gets triple teamed,
quardruple teamed by opponents, starts to play given Gomar, starts to dishaway the
puck, starts to move off puck, fine space, enters pockets, leaves
them, enters them again. It's just such a multifaceted and extremely refined game
that he's going to find ways to score no matter who he's playing against.
I have no concern about him at the NHL level from year one. I
think he has an opportunity to make the Blackhawks his team from day one.
What we saw with McDavid and the Oilers before dry sidles a closure, etc.
But Man, for me, there's no doubt at all Bidart has the
quality in order to uplift the Blockhawks. Maybe absolutely not into playoff position,
they're in no position to make a playoff run, but absolutely to put them
in the ten to fifteen range in the draft and be a point of game
player. That's the kind of quality that Bidart is. So I love Miatchkov.
I love what he brings to the game. Then, obviously, in
contract leagues, yards contract bids, ALC is going to be done by the
time Measkov's starts, right, So for the first three years of Meshkov's contract,
you're getting much much better value per dollar, but you're also waiting three
years where your dynasty is not profiting from this player. You're also losing three
years of an incredible quality of Connor Badard, who's just only going to get
better, who's going to be used to the NHL. He's not going to
have to adapt to the NHL. And like I mentioned, meach Comv's adaptability
I says more on part with vantillies and bad Arts. So for me,
it's just meach covs in a precarious situation where, yes, this floor is
high. It'd be very surprised if he doesn't score twenty five thirty goals again
a season in the NHL, But he's going to need time to adapt.
He's not going to be a point pergam player off the bat at twenty two
twenty three when he comes over. It's going to take a bit more time,
whereas Badard has at eighteen, the ability to score a point a game
in the NHL. In my opinion, yeah, you make good points.
I actually have this potential in one of my leagues. But the other issue,
as you pointed out, is that I'm emerging from a rebuild and I
want to compete this year, so it doesn't really make sense to entertain this
type of trade. But if I was not quite ready to emerge and had
the time to wait, I think it's an interesting thought experiment. I think
you'd have to get a lot more than just one for one. That's not
that doesn't make sense. If you could get a lot more, I do
think, though I might slightly disagree with you in the sense that I think
when Mitchkoff comes over, obviously we don't know, but I think he has
a pretty good chance of going point per game in his first season. Of
course, it depends on the team, the situation, a lot of things,
but he will have had three years of full time KHL experience, and
I know it's not the same, but it's a really good league. Of
course, the ice a little bit different in terms of how much space they
have, but I think he's got a pretty good chance of doing a pulling
a caprice off when he first comes over, and that's in that range,
right, So maybe plus or minus a few points, but close to that.
Yeah, no, that makes sense. So I'd say, though,
the KHL and young players and nice time, and it's a concern. So
it's one thing I would personally keep in mind, and I'll keep a close
sound Meachkov and how much he's playing, because that'll change a lot. Because
if he's playing three minutes a night, it doesn't matter how much time he
spends in the KHL, is not going to learn much. Whereas if he's
playing fifteen, eighteen, nineteen twenty minutes a game and excelling and scoring well
above a point per game and all the thing we know he's capable of.
He's money. Again, I love love Meachkoff, and I would pick him
a third overall. I'd even say there's an argument for second overall. But
but Dard's an animal, just a different piece. He's just it's hard,
it's I can't. I can't vote against Badark. There's no way for me
to do that in any situation. He's the pack points only multi caat dynasty
fantasy contract leagues, any league you have, I it'd be hard pressed to
find a more impactful player on your dynasy with the Baddard. He's just that
good. Yeah, it's fascinated. This is the time of year that we
get every few years. We had this probably the year that McDavid came out
for one of the best fantasy hypotheticals you can have, which is, if
I have the pick that I know will be bidard, how much could I
get with it? And what would be worth it? At what point is
the reality of what you get out of one fantasy hockey player who is not
in fact immortal. There's a limit, There is a Capere's even Gretzky there
was only so many. What is the limit of what you could get for
the dart in a fantasy league? And how much will it be? So
that's a very fun psychological experiment, and I know at least some players in
some of our leagues have been doing that in dynasty. But but how do
Let me move on and talk about another one of the major sources for prospects
in this year's draft, the US national team development program. There's several forwards
coming out of that program this year. Who will be significant high picks in
the draft? Will Smith, gave Perow, Ryan Leonard, Oliver Moore,
Hotti, can you make the case for each one of these guys? Why
how they could be the first of the group taken for example, if they
reach their top potential, why would they be the best of the quartet?
How do you rank these guys? Smith, Pero, Leonard Moore? So
for me right now, it's Smith, Moore, Leonard prone order. I
have him in and Smith, Moore and Leonard are really close. It's just
about what you prefer and what you're looking for as a team. It's almost
that much. Will Smith pure skill, one of the best to handlers in
the draft, if not the best, A great playmaker, a solid shot.
Really I have some concerns with this game. He relies a lot on
spacing and in terms of his foot speed, he plays at Trevor's Egress Logan
Coolie style of hockey without the foot speed of a Tregor. Trevor's aakres Or
Logan coolie. So it's just about how much he's going to be able to
add to his footspeed. Have his hands and his brain matches feet. But
he's got thirty goal ninety point potential in the NHL, which if you're in
points only, he's your guy for sure. Oliver Moore the most impactful of
the four if you like Dylan Larkin, but he's basically Dylan Larkin. Blistering
speed, great defensively, really good hands and playmaking as well. Not to
the level of a Will Smith, but he's got some flashes and that gets
you out of your seat sometimes. So primarily getting a guy who he's the
type of guy who has a solid impact. And if I had one game
to choose one guy in order to Game seven Stanley Cup Final, of those
four, it's Oliver Moore. He's just so intelligent, so refined, so
defensively responsible. He's going to win you a diesel face off and just carry
it the whole way to a goal. Then you've got Alliver Moore, who
if you're looking for a power forward of those four, he's the guy.
Ryan Leonard just fantastic. He's eighty one, pretty average size, but he
plays way bigger than his size. He looks way bigger than he's listed,
and he can muscle players off, blistering shot and he's also got very underrated
playmaking which doesn't show as much because he's playing with Will Smith and Gabe Perow,
two of the best playmakers in the draft, so it doesn't get a
lot of opportunities to showcase his playmaking. But it's genuinely solid and he can
drop the shoulder drive than that all that stuff. So if you're looking for
a big boy, I'm looking at Philadelphia. This is their kind of wheelhouse
of players. So that's one guy who definitely exemplifies that. And then you've
got Gay Perow. Of the four, it says the smartest and the better
playmaker. I just struggled to see much outside of that in his game,
which is why he's twenty fifth in my rankings, whereas the other ones are
six, seven and nine. So he's going a different tier there for me.
But I really like the intelligence of playmaking. I just struggled to see
how his pace is going to keep up. I struggle to see how his
effort level is going to keep up. He's not a very driven player,
and it's when he is, it's only in flashes and last minutes of games
and stuff like that. So I'm less high on Pero than the other three,
but I understand why a team would take him in the top ten,
for example, but I don't think there's a chance he goes first out of
the four. Yeah. I wanted to just follow up on a couple of
things that I love that overview, and particular Ryan Leonard. He's someone who
rates out as elite for multi category and I think there's not really a debate
about that. But I think the question with Leonard comes back to how much
more is there? And I think there's some people who look at Ryan Leonard
and they say, yeah, he's a third line checker, and so that's
not someone I want to invest a top fantasy pick in, and I personally
don't agree with that. I'm wondering if you can be if you can specify
a little bit more, why you think Leonard maybe has a little bit more
upside than that. How does he leverage more of that skill to be more
of a top line player along with those multi category numbers which make could make
him an a lead fantasy asset and not just a third line banger. Yeah,
So I don't think I think Ryan Leonard's floor is a third line banger
for me, He's already got the goal scoring ability to score twenty five thirty
thirty five ish goals at the NHL level. I think that's going to compound
and improve as he grows as well, and that's some weight and grows into
his frame and etcetera. But like I mentioned, the playmaking is so underrated
because he's constantly finishing Smith and Pero's game it plays, so he's not getting
a lot of opportunities to dish the park and to connect with teammates and open
space and etcetera, etcetera. The skill set is underrated. I think he's
got about sixty five sixty sixty five seventy point a game appont a season kind
of potential which puts him firmly on a first second line in the top mainly
as a complimentary piece. The one thing I'd love to see him do is
what Will Smith does, which is he was spacing rather than constantly drop the
shoulder, drive the net, bulldos through players, etc. Just getting comfortable
hanging onto pucks, cutting to the middle slowly and in a kind of a
surgical manner, which is what Smith does so well. As I feel like
that's what's missing in Leonard's game in order to make him a true top line
Bona fide prospect. Yeah. No, I love the skill set on Leonard
already think that's not going to be a concern. But the only thing I
could really point to that prevents him from being a true first line potential player
is that issue with spacing. He loves to drive the net, but at
some point we saw it, We've seen it with Josh Anderson. You need
to slow the game down a bit, makes it passes laterally neither to just
be a pure North South player. So I'd love to see a bit more
of that Letter's game in order to uplift his projection, make him more dangerous
in the middle of the ice, in the high slot and below slot,
that kind of thing. Yeah, I love that. And the only other
thing I would love to is with respect to Will Smith. I don't think
there's any question he has the highest offensive upside, but I think one of
the things that maybe gets overlooked a little bit is his lack of sort of
defensive refinement. And yeah, he's going to college, he's got he's got
time to figure that out. And I know that like at the program,
he didn't that's not really what he was asked to do. But I think
if you look at what he is right now, he's like not a first
line center because he can't really he's not really that adept at both sides.
I think that My question is, do you think he can get all the
way there and round out his two hundred foot game be that true one seed
which plays both sides of the puck and is really impactful defensively. Because if
he can do that, oh man, I think the sky's the limit.
But if he doesn't, then he's just a really good offensive forward that you
only deploy situationally. Yeah, miss why I prefer Zack Benson to him personally,
It's just said, Zack Benson has that nailed down plays exactly the way
he should at the pace, at the pace he skates Rose will Smith does.
He is a liability right now in his own zone. I don't think
he needs to become good in his own zone. I just think he shouldn't
be a liability. And I usually players. If Gunny kuznets Off is a
first line center, Steven Stamkos is a first line center who all was in
his best years. If you're good enough offensively and you're paired with the right
linemates, all that matters is that you guys connect regularly and get to the
offensive zone and then from there you just work your magic. Right, Will
Smith has that ability to dominate play offensively and to connect with his teammates in
good areas, get them out of trouble with his passes rather than put them
into trouble. That kind of thing. All I'm looking for will Smith is
just for his defending to become a baseline average, just for him to not
be a complete liability, which he's not a complete liability. He is too
often and that's preventing him from having a decent impact and from really showcasing his
offensive ability even more. Because if he begins to put just a bit more
effort, if he learns to improve his positioning a tiny bit, he's spending
less time in his own which means he's spending more time in the neutral zone
and offensive zone, which is just great for his game. Right. So
it's just about tweaking his game in the right areas, just so that he,
like I said, he doesn't have to be perfect defensively, but just
not be a liability. So that's what I'm looking for from him in his
college years. That's the main thing I'll be looking at in swith in Smith's
game in order to see whether or not he has the capabilities to become a
first line center, which I think he does. Usually players up their anti
improve their effort level as they grow as immature, learn some more habits and
develop some new kind of habits that allow them to have at least a baseline
average defensive game. So I'm not too worried with Smith regarding that. All
right, let's talk a little bit about the defenseman. You mentioned him already.
The defenseman maybe are not quite so bad as they've been sold. I'm
going to dump of a few of them out on the table in front of
Beihati, and you tell me how to differentiate these guys what we're looking at
here. You got Dmitri Simachev over in the MHL Axel, Sandy Helica in
the SHL, Luca Cagnoni in the WHL, mckill, Guyayev over in the
K David Rheinbacker. We hear a lot about him these last couple of weeks.
And then Caden Price, who's in the DUB, tell us about these
guys and how we should keep him apart, and who you like out of
us group. Yeah, So Simischev is my favorite out of that crop.
He's eighth overall in my rankings, and for me, Dmitri Simischev is everything
people think David Rheinbacker is. He's as good, if not better, defensively
than Ryan Backer. He's a better skater than Ryan Backer, which is saying
something given how good of a skater Rheinbacker is. On top of that,
people think of Rheinbacker and think, okay, really good defensive defenseman with great
skating and some offensive potential that's untapped and all that. I disagree on that
last statement, but when it comes to Simischev, that's absolutely true. He's
got small habits in the offensive his own where he's playing. The small given
goes from the point he's accessing the high slot. He's faking his shots and
rolling his to go laterally and open up a new shooting lane. All these
little habits that show up from time to time in this game that really show
me that he's got untapped offensive potential. Whereas Ranbacher, he scored more points
than Simashev at the pro level, of course he did. He's playing in
the Swiss National League and not the KHL, which is more difficult to first
earn ice time in a second to earn points. And but a lot of
the points that Ryanbacker got in the Swiss National League were also a result of
a lot of collapsing that happens in defensive structures in the Swiss National League.
So we'll see a lot of compact defensive boxes and on a very large ice
surface. And what that does is it gives Ryan Backer the freedom to circle
the offensive his own seven eight times if he wants, and we saw that
a lot this year. So what would usually happen is they circle the I
sevent eight times and find a lane or just throw a puck near the goaltender
and have a teammate bang in the rebound, the kind of thing. So
for me, the projectability of Simaschev's offense is better and the flashes are more
frequent in this game. So Simashev for me, is clear of Ryanbacker.
They're in two different tiers. AXL Sending Pelica is in the same tier as
a Simischev to me, but they're completely different players. Simashev is pure offense,
really needs to work on his defensive game. Reminds me a lot of
a John Klingberg in terms of the output on the ice and his abilities.
Fantastic breakout player. He rarely misses a breakout pass and just has the abilities
in the offensive zone that I'm looking for. A decent shot, great lateral
mobility, and a deception and manipulation from the blue line. So if you're
looking for an offensive defenseman sending Pelica as your guy, then, like I
mentioned Ryan Backer, he's solid. I have a hard time seeing him not
become a second pair of defenseman, but also have a very hard time seeing
him become anything more than that. So it's just about how much you value
a second pair of defenseman. Would you trade a sixteenth overall pick in this
draft for a would you trade I've heard talks of him going in the top
five. Would you trade your fifth overall pick and a draft this deep for
a second pair defenseman? The answer a clear and resounding no. So I
just can't justify having him higher than sixteenth At sixteen, yeah, I would
trade a sixteenth overall pick for a very good, very mobile, very defensively
responsible second pair of defenseman. And then you've got Kanyo and who have got
ranked just after Ryanbacker and Kenyone. He's the smartest defenseman in this shraft,
just by decent margin. He is so intelligent. But the thing is he's
small and not the fastest, and there's not a market for defenseman like that
in the NHL. So he's probably going to be available in the early second
round, maybe mid second round. But he is incredibly intelligent. If you
develop him, well, you've got a top pairer defenseman. And then we
got Kaden Price, who you never know what you're getting with him. He's
a dice roll with him. You'd never know what Kating Price are getting because
some games he looks unstoppable. He looks like a top ten pick. He's
making passes through multiple screens, he's putting pucks on net through multiple guys,
deeking his way into the offensive zone, using a skating defensively as well to
shut down players. And then there's other games where every decision he makes is
bad. So he's outside of my first round right now, barely. He's
a thirty fourth overall, just because I'm betting on the frequency of those good
games getting better and better as he leaves Kelowna. But yeah, that's my
current kind of evaluation of those defensemen that you mentioned. All right, next,
Hotti, which board do you think is going to fall in this draft
and be a tremendous value in fantasy And the victor would like to know why
it is Jaden Parron. I was gonna say Andrew Christal as well. Both
avery the same boat. They're absolutely just there are two small guys who play
a very different style. Jaden Prawn is smaller than Christal, but better physically.
He's one of those guys, was one of those small guys who isn't
hindered at all by his physical frame. A very Chicago Steel type of player.
They love those shorter guys that they develop into playing twice or size,
and that's definitely Jaden Prawn. I have a very hard time naming a weakness
of Jaden Prawn. He's just solid defensively, he holds his own physically,
some of the best hands on the draft, decent speed and agility, and
great playmaker, great goal scorer. He's about He's got every offensive tool you
need and some defensive tools as well that are pretty enticing. So I've got
him twelfth. Overall, I'm almost certain he's going to be available past the
fifties, So definitely going to be one guy who's going to drop a lot
and be of great value, and especially multi cat leagues. He's probably gonna
end up playing some time on the penalty kill at the NHL level. If
he makes it, then you got Andrew Crostaal, who's got a top five
skill set in this draft but is extremely inconsistent. And if he can get
a team first, if you can get him out of Cologna, great,
Just get him at least a teammate that can finish his chances. But yeah,
fantastic shot, great hands. Jadehunterbadarts called him the smartest player he's ever
played with, and it's very evident on the ice, but the effort level
isn't always there, and I don't blame him. Colowna was really rough to
watch this year, both for Kadam Price and Andrew Ristal. Kind of the
same diagnosis of they're not well surrounded and they're left to their own devices,
so when they have a stinker, they stand out like a sore thumb.
Right. So I've seen Christall in the sixties and the seventies on some rankings.
I just can't justify it. He's too good offensively and too smart within
without the puck to be anywhere below. He's eleventh O for all my rankings,
and I can't justify dropping him any lower than that. I'm a big
fan of Parantu, and I've heard you extol his virtues. I just worry
that as he and when he gets drafted, and what the NHL teams think
of him and his size limitations, if that continues to be more and more
evident as he rises in the ranks, and that just might end up being
prohibited for the type of style that he wants to play. So that's my
realistic concern with him, and I just don't know if it's feasible that he's
going to be able to overcome all that. Yeah. No, it's just
like I mentioned, I'm not worried at all about his size because you watch
him play. He watched the leverage that he brings to board battles he wins.
I believe in the games I've tracked, he's won more than fifty percent
of his board battles against bigger, stronger, tougher defenseman than he is.
I just think that NHL teams are completely turned off by size, and that'll
affect his development path, that will affect the amount of time the teams spend
on him. So it's unfortunate because the Chicago Steal have become such a good
program at taking those smaller players and making them play a translatable, projectable game
that it would be truly unfortunate for Paran to become overlooked or not taken as
seriously as a prospect just because of his size, because he's got everything else,
and I love his game, just the control he has on games.
At times, it's not all the time. There are some relative inconsistencies,
but he's still got that baseline of defensive play that he can fall back on.
But in terms of controlling play with the puck, he has some games
where he's not just the best player in the USHL, he's the best player
in the US period. But then that's the thing is that size does have
an effect on team's rankings, and if he's picked in the fifties, it's
different than the player that same team is going to pick in the first round
in that same year. They're going to treat him differently. They're gonna there's
gonna develop him differently. They're going to give him the different objectives, not
some weight hit the gym. YadA YadA. Whereas the things he needs to
work on our power skating, working on a stride, improving that top speed
in order to be one of the speediest players in the NHL when he hits
it. Yeah, no, it's unfortunate with Prawn, but I really believe
in the upside. So, hottie, we just talked a minute ago about
would you spend the fifth pick on a guy you knew was going to end
up being a second pair of defenseman And the answer is no. For real
NHL GM it is heck no, pardon my French, hottie, in fantasy
because a second line defenseman or a second pair of defenseman is not of great
value in most fantasy leagues. And so a lot of times we're going into
the drag, we're thinking about these guys who have a big upside. They
might not ever become regular NHLers, but if they hit, they're gonna hit
big. They're gonna be a lottery ticket. And so I guess what we're
looking at here. Do you see anybody maybe a second or third round or
a guy who just might turn out to be nothing but might turn out to
be fantasy gold steel falling that late and anybody you can think of who might
hit that type of sweet spot, I would say probably will Whitelaw. I've
seen in a couple of first rounds, but not in nearly enough first rounds
that I would pin him as a guy who's going to be picked in the
first round as possible. But he's another smaller player who is extremely adaptable.
I talked about adaptability with Badard. Whitelaws certainly has it. He's able to
modify his game based on what he's facing, based on the structure as opponents
are taking. And one thing I mean they look out for hockey sense is
does a player get better in the third period than they did than they were
in the first, Because if so, usually it's because they've read the opposing
structure, they've adapted their game to their structure, and they're now able to
work through it. And Whitelaw consistently this year has been better in the third
period than he was in the first in any given game of watch of his
just incredibly smart. He's got puck skills, he's got a wicked shot,
he's got great playmaking, he's got the offensive tools. It's just he's one
of those guys who's absolutely going to job because the size as well. But
mainly what makes me think that he's one of those guys in the second third
round, so that could end up being a gem, a pure true gem,
is just he adaptability. He's constantly finding ways to improve his game and
to work through opponents hurdles that come up in front of him. The name
that I would throw out there, I like that one is Grayson Sachin.
Oh yeah, he may not last of the second round, but I think
there's a good chance he does get faded a little bit because the numbers aren't
all the way there. I point per game on the Seattle Thunderbirds with a
much diminished role playing twelve to fourteen sometimes a little bit more minutes a night
is part of the reason there. But he's awesome, he's super smart,
a little bit undersized, but I think he's someone who could really pop off
next year and go from point per game to close the two points per game.
I don't think that would be totally unrealistic. And so if you're looking
at the at projecting four, I think Grayson schen is another one to think
about, Oh for sure. And I'll throw one last name and throwing there.
It's Brad Lenado, top five release in the draft, just a fantastic
goal scorer. And beyond that, he's able to make plays. He's able
to up the anti effort level wise in order to win back pucks for his
team. He's doing it in the BCHL, yes, which doesn't have the
biggest, strongest defenseman, but I have no doubt that he'd be able to
do it in the WHL or the NC Double next year or wherever he ends
up playing. He's just he's a pure sniper. And if you get him
in the set in the mid second round and he ends up being a forty
goal scorer in a very alex to bring it style of pick, this could
be another one that you're talking about, being like, how did he drop
that low? Because he's definitely got the skill set, and obviously it's the
league. Pent Tickton was the BCSL. The BCHL was basically a one team
that year, so it's he's one of those guys who just didn't benefit from
playing in a more visible market. And yeah, no, I still think
he's got a top five release in the draft. He's just a fantastic goal
scorer. I'm gonna take a real quick break, come back and finish off
the show. Hattie, we have a few questions for our patrons. I
know we're running short on time, but we want to throw a few of
your way. First from doctor Hook Nate Danielson. He wants to know if
if Nate Danielson's the best two way player in the draft, and what the
upside for Danielson is the best two way player in the draft is Zack Benson.
Without a doubt, Nick Danielson's really good defensively, but I'm not very
much sold on his offensive upside. I don't think he's got that at high
end potential. There are some flashes, and they're very occasional. Sometimes you'll
pull out a Deek that really surprises you or that kind of thing. But
he just strikes me so much as a middle sixth center, and he has
a baseline defensively that makes him pretty solid. But if you're talking best two
way forward in the draft, a Sack Benson by a decent margin, then
you got Oliver Moore behind him, a couple other guys, including piranhu I
have him there, but man if Danielson had a tiny bit more, dare
to his game, he would be so good, and it's so tough to
teach that mindset. A mindset and a prospect is usually a very fixed thing.
You have it or you don't. I've very rarely seen prospects improve their
mindset in terms of how they approach the game. So I'd say Danielson has
a He's a very safe pick if you're a contender, you're picking in the
late round, in the late first round, Gopher, He's gonna be in
each other. But I'm not sold on the offensive potential. I think he's
at most he's got fifty fifty points in him from patron Edward. What do
you think about Adam Vantilly returning to Michigan for his DP plus one season?
Sure? Absolutely no prospects perfect And yes he won the Hohoby Baker. Why
not win it twice? He's that good and at second overall, there's no
concern. It's not like it's going to hinder his game at all. I
think there's such a thing as rushing a player to the NHL. There's no
such thing as keeping a player in an extra year at a level they're too
good for worst case scenario, they dominate, don't learn much and then they're
the same player when they reshoot you the next year. But I think the
fantility does have some things he can improve in his game, playing between checks,
learning how to not rely too much on his frame and really just play
the off put game the right way, because he's good in terms of two
way ability. He's good in terms of physical ability, but it's mainly because
he relies very much on his physical frame rather than his mechanics, as we
see like with a guy like Zach Benson or Japon Prawn. They're smaller guys,
but they're mechanics, they're technique, and board battles is better than fantilities
in some respects. Yeah. No, I'm not worried at all. And
either way, worst case, you wait a year to get a franchise center,
I'd do that any day, So I'm not concerned at all. Yeah,
it seems like a lot of those Michigan guys have gone back and then
teams are just waiting on Michigan season Dan, he hit him up in the
pros from tim Ay. You have mentioned Andrew Crystal already. His projections are
all over the plays of people and tim Ay, maybe this is repeating some
of the things you've already said. But why are you right to have him
all the way up at sixth in this draft? Hime? Yeah, I
had him sixth before bringing him down five spots in my final rankings. But
yeah, like I said, he's got a top five skill set and in
the shaft, and I think that it's more likely that the inconsisty, the
inconsistencies in this game get worked out as he gets surrounded with better and better
players, rather than those inconsistencies being a staple of his game. As he
moves forward, a lot of players usually find the consistency. Usually it means
that I still have the flashes, but their worst games are less bad,
which is basically what you're waiting for from Christall in order to have him be
a top end NHL player is just for his bad games to be less evident,
And I think they're going to be less and less evident as he becomes
more and more well surrounded, learns to trust his teammates a bit more,
because there were a lot of moments where he was barreling down the line,
he was trying to create something out of nothing because he didn't trust his teammates
and finitious chances, but I think that in a vacuum, if you'll get
a skill set in a vacum, if you'll get his hockey sense in a
vacuum, they're both top five in this shraft and that's why I had him
six to Overall, the more I watched, the more a song consistencies,
the more a song concerns. Obviously, skating is an issue, and at
five ten hundred and sixty five pounds, if you're not consistent and you're not
skating as well as other players, you need to have an elite skill set
in order to be in the top fives, and he definitely has a skill
set that the inconsistencies are concerning enough that he dropped out of it. Zach
Benson's one guy who he's got as good a skill set as Christall, but
is way more consistent, the way more dependable on his own zone. And
they both have about the same skating. So just to give you a comparison
as to where I see them right now, if god Zach Benson at five
and Christal at eleven, and the difference is consistency, that's what consistency does.
Absolutely, some questions from Patron Danique the best bit for Montreal at number
five? Is it Leonard Mitchkov, Dvorsky, Ryan Backer or some of the
names that Danique suggests, who's your guy? Were thereof and I don't,
I don't even think twice about it. He's third over all my rankings for
a good reason, and they HAPs have the time to wait for him to
be the player that we know he can be. If it's not Matt Famishkov
and Leo Carlson's off the board, which he probably should be. After the
top four, it's got to be Zack Benson. You talk about a player
who's going to win you Cups, it's Zak Benson. He's, like I
said, the two way forward of the draft, probably the best playmaker in
the draft. And that's saying someone something giving who's going first and second?
So those would be the two guys I would consider first. I would not
touch Dvorski with this fifth overall pick. Trade down, get a Tom Vilander
in the twelve to fifteen range. They're pretty much the same player. Jemitri
Simischev. It's going to be available in the twenties probably. Why would you
waste a fifth overall pick on a second pair defenseman as a GM just doesn't
make sense to me. Same for Davorski's the same type of player as Ryan
backer Butt the forward version, where I'd be very surprised if he doesn't make
a middle six. But I have trouble seeing him competing well against top pair
defenders at the NHL level, Which why would you do that at fifth overall?
When you've got Will Smith and Zack Benson, you have eighty ninety point
potential and Zach Benson has the two wayability of no one else in this draft.
It's just it's a no brainer for me. It's Mishkov, Benson,
Smith. If it's anyone else, I'm disappointed. Danny's next question, This
can go a lot of ways. Bore Yahidi sleeper picks in the top ninety
six. I guess that there's another wild card. Play another wild card here?
Really like in this thing? Oh righty, let's go Felix Unger of
Lexans in the SHL in the j twenty League, one of the some of
the best playmaking metrics in this draft year. On top of that, he's
really good defensively, really responsible and mature in his game, really good pro
habits as well, he's one guy that I would consider I would say I'm
higher on than most. I've very rarely seen him in the top forty.
He's forty second in my rankings. The highest I've seen him is fifty first,
I believe on Bob McKenzie's rankings. Everywhere else he's in the nineties.
So that's one guy I'm higher on the most. Matthew Mania as well,
we'll have fiftieth is usually in the seventy eighty ninety range. He's one really
good right handed defenseman, really good mobility, almost always is trying something with
the puck, which I love to see. He's always he's adding so much
to his game just by exploring on a daily basis. Other than that,
probably Joey Willis. He's a a beta version of Owen Beck. Really good
defensively, one of the best motors and work rates in the draft. Year
shorter player, but really doesn't hint for him at all. He's going to
be the type of guy who can just place on D's own face. Offs
is going to win most of him, and then if he loses him,
he's the Puck's going to be out of your own very soon. With his
involvement. Those are three guys I'd throw him there. One of his other
questions actually feeds on Joey Willis, and that is was that the hardest player
to scout this year? That's what Donig's impression was. Do you agree with
that take of his No, I'd say Joey Willis. You could pretty much
see what type of player he was from day one. Just in terms of
his defensive involvement. I'd say I have him sixty fifth the sixty the sixty
six player in my rankings was the toughest player to scout this year. It's
Andrew Strathman of Young Sound. You never knew what player you were getting that
day. One day he's a shutdown defenseman. The other day he's a puck
mover. The other day he's making mistakes in his own zone that he wasn't
making a month ago, just all over the place, And every viewing I've
watched I had to check the number on his back multiple times to make sure
I was scouting the right player. He's that unpredictable, so I still don't
have a full grasp on him. But I'm an optimists, And there's the
optimistic take of it, which is he's versatile, and there's a pessimistic outlook
on it, which is that he's very inconsistent. And I'm more of an
optimist, so I'll just say that he's versatile. But yeah, I've got
him sixty six overall, awesome, rapid fire. Here thoughts on the top
five goalies. Is this going to be a good goalie draft? And well
we have any idea before say twenty and thirty. The answers no to that
second question. That first question, it's just an average draft, ye for
goalies. I got Trey Augustine thirty eighth as my top goaltender. I really
love his game. Smaller player, but really good in terms of mobility,
in terms of puck tracking, in terms of awareness, He's all over the
place technique wise, so he needs to work on that. But the tools
themselves are so solid that if you get his technique up to par, which
most goaltender coaches are able to do, you've got a solid one. After
Augustine, you've got her ball. Jacob Fowler, Adam Gayan, Carson Biarniston.
There are a couple options in the third, fourth rounds. It could
be pretty good, But if you're talking second round early second round or maybe
late first round. It's Augustine in a rawball at the top there, all
right, And one more you mentioned earlier about some of these guys getting out
of Cologna that different things that could be happening after the draft, and the
question that Dana poses last question was who could really rise after the draft this
year and in his post draft year. Who do you see potentially taking a
jump based on It's hard to say, but who could you see taking a
big jump next year? Nichol Ardis would be one. Maybe we're talking about
Luca Panelli in a couple of years as being a guy who dropped a way
fer than he should. And Phileix Nielsen is another guy. Throw him there.
Nielsen reminds me a lot of Marcol Casper, And now we look at
Marcol Casper and we're like, man the rings we thought initially just like more
excited that the Red Wings had reached for him and reached hard at what was
a ninth overall, and now he's looking like a fantastic prospect. Felix Nielsen
is from the same program as both Cider and Casper played in Rugla and really
similar to Casper in terms of his board game, in terms of his defensive
abilities, in terms of his four checking game, and he's got a sneaky
good skill set. So I've been on and off on him, but he's
grown on me late in the year, and I think that if I were
to redo my rankings now, he'd probably be in the late thirties rather than
mid forties. So that's already arise, and I think he's one guy who
could really up up his value in the next year. All right, that
is all the listener questions that we have time for, Hottie. This has
been amazing. Thank you so much for giving us some great insights as we
get close to this draft. Yeah, it's been a great time. Why
don't you let people know I think people know your work pretty well, but
let people know how they could go about finding more of your draft and your
prospect takes out there for sure. So the one stop shop is a Twitter.
It's Hattie k Underscore scouting everything. I post a podcast, articles,
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YouTube channel, Patti Kalakash If you just look up my name on YouTube with
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video on each of those picks, breaking down the strengths of weaknesses of each
picks. Yeah, but yeah, even that's going on Twitter. So if
you just swim by Twitter, everything's there. Absolutely everybody should Thanks so much
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