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Jesse Sevier and Victor Nuno Fantasy Hockey Life. Once again, it is Jesse
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Victor Nuno VP ringside Victor. How you doing? I'm doing great, Jesse.
Yeah, it's been it's been a fun week these last two weeks.
Most of my dynasties are in playoffs. I have six in the semi finals.
I think a few of them are gonna survive, but not the one
where I'm against you. That's looking like it's looking you're gonna take that one.
So you must be feeling pretty good. How you feeling, Victor attempting
the reverse jinks with twelve hours to go in our grueling matchup, It's gone
back and forth. I made a comeback yesterday, but we'll see, we'll
see you. The numbers favor me today, Victor, but I would not
count you out, sir. You have the luck of the Irish. You're
going to come back on me. Let's see, I would need Alex toabrink
it, Brock Nelson, Frank Fatrono, Seth Jones basically to all get hat
tricks, and then I might have a chance. So there's a chance that's
very small, yeah, I think, yeah, Or, And I've got
two goalies going. All it takes is a couple of goalie implosions to drag
a person down two in this league. But yeah, Victor, it's exciting
our common league where we co manage a team. We've already gone down and
you're still alive though in the league that we're both in individually, I'm long
since extinct. But you're scheduled to win this week, right, I haven't
looked recently. Yeah, we have the most points by far, and so
that's the one way I co manage with Elon. We're going to be in
the finals against Jarno's gonna be a tough competition. He led the league most
of the season, so that's gonna be tough. Yeah. But luckily in
two week matchups are where it's at because even though this one that I'm gonna
lose to you, you feel better about it because you have more of a
chance. You guys played like enough game, so it's yeah, you tip
your hat, but but it's this crazy, like one week like randomness.
I really hate that. Yeah, I don't mind it, but it's nice
to have enough time to actually feel like you can have a little bit of
a chance, obviously, since you were crushing me as of last Sunday.
And I'm not saying I'm going to win, but if I end up winning,
I will completely be in line with It's a good thing. We didn't
just play one week. It's been up and down, it's been back,
and there were times where I was way ahead and you were way ahead,
So it'll be close. Anything can happen. That's what fantasy Hockey's life.
It's life where it's like I meant to say, like it's a Freudian slip
Victor. Sometimes when you're in these matchups, you need people to commiserate with,
you need people to talk with. Nobody in your family doesn't want to
hear about your fantasy team. To believe me, I tried telling the fantasy
hockey wife, this is a really tough matchup. Right now, I really
need to watch I really need to watch Saber Senators right now. Honey,
we just we don't need to go out on a day tonight and she doesn't
buy it. You need people sometimes where everybody knows your name, and that
includes the people in the Fantasy Hockey Life discord, and so you can come
in there, you can talk about your matchups, you can get that sort
of emotional support that you want and need. All you have to do is
join our discord. We're just a bunch of people. It's not just a
comfort group. It's just a place to talk fantasy hockey talk. Fantasy prospects
a great place for that, and you can do that by emailing Victor and
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Fanhockey Life or at Victor Nuno twelve. Victor. There are also things that
people might be wanting to do this time of year in our patreon. Tell
them about that. Yeah, lots of great stuff going on with the patreon.
You can check out. We're trying to move everything over to our website,
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lists in terms of our prospect ranks, so that's going to be super fun,
and there's going to be more information about the twenty twenty four guys in
terms of who's what our ranks are there, and hopefully we'll have some bash
for those guys too. We have our player cards, which this is the
whole reason I did this, Jesse. You would because there's no information about
hits, blocks and shots, so you can see for some reason, I
have Daniel Goushen pulled up here right now and you can see that he does
not hit at all, but he does some other things pretty well, like
shooting and blocking. So that's good information that you can't really find elsewhere very
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play in the tidy over at patreon dot com slash Fantasy Hockey Life. That's
right. I know it is the white wave of many of you out there,
the bash of the prospects, and Victor and I are trying to get
to the bottom of it. Victor, let's take a break, comeback.
We've got some ex gamers to cover X gamers. That's the time on the
show when we talk about some of the analysis that Victor's been doing in his
great articles on ep rnks side, and basically it's just an opportunity and excuse
to discuss some players who are either in prospect status or perhaps have established themselves
a little bit as a younger NHL or trying to figure out the heck's going
on here? Is this guy anything? Are we gonna need to worry about
him in fantasy hockey or what? Victor. The first guy we're going to
talk about today is one of these young up and coming Russians over in Columbus,
Cariill Marchenko. Karel Marchenko is having himself a decent year. It's been
a rough year in Columbus generally speaking, at least a last by length in
the East Michigan won the National Football Championship. It's just rough to be in
Columbus this year. But there's a nice little Russian line coming together for the
team. Ronkoff, Chinnikov and Marchenko had the most minutes together at five on
five last I checked, of any Columbus line, and they were among the
top fifty in the league at time on ice. This is a line that
plays together and plays together well, despite everything else that's happened around them in
the Columbus lineup. The good news is that Marchenko has scored pretty well.
He said about a half point per game pays this year staying up in the
NHL. He's got more goals than assists seventeen fifteen thirty two in sixty three
games is what he is sitting on as of the time that we're recording this
today. There are good things happening with him, and of course he's still
young. We're a little down the funnel now with Marchenko, but maybe we're
looking at a sixty points Celand or something for this guy. I'd sure take
that. What do you think about Curl Marchenko Victor? Yeah, I really
like him. It's funny. Recently the coach was talking about the Russian line,
as you mentioned, have been playing really well, but I guess a
little too well. He called them they're playing too much like the Globetrotters,
which is really hilarious because someone brought up that the Harlem Globetrotters have this like
insane record because they's the Washington General or something that they play like yep and
always win or something like that. It's something like a twenty seven thousand wins
and three hundred and forty five losses or something like that, so like nine
eighty seven win percentage. They're like, yeah, they're pretty good. What
are you talking about? What's wrong with playing like the Globetrotters was basically the
response to that. But yeah, I know they are a really fun line,
and Marchenko is it's hard to separate who you think the best of all
those guys that are I think Ronkov is clearly part of the guy who's really
driving the bus there in terms of hoping to create, but Marchenko is clearly
the most skilled finisher. I would say on that line, he's the one
who generally is able to That's what he did a lot last year without getting
any assists, and we kept I remember, we said, like all he
needs to do is get a few assists and he's going to be much better.
And he's already almost quadrupled his assists from last season in a similar number
of games, so that's pretty good. And he's at a similar goal total,
so he's running out the playmaking that's really good. And yeah, he's
at one hundred and twenty two NHL games, he's past that one hundred game
mark. Closing in on that two hundred, so he's getting a pretty good
idea of who he is. He can score a thirty goal pace with sixteen
minutes time on ice, that's really impressive. If he gets closer to eighteen
plus, could he be a forty goal scorer, I think is the question.
Maybe he also is getting some power play time. It's not usually with
the top unit, so maybe all of those things could round him out to
be a little bit even more more of a scorer. So I think the
future is really bright here. I think you should we should all be pretty
excited about him. The power play points are usually if you can get closer
to twenty, that's for a more of a top line player. And he's
at ten and he has at eight last year. I think all these things
are pointing in the right direction. His shooting percentage has regressed a little bit
from sixteen to eleven, but he's still able to score a similar amount.
So I think there's a lot of reason to be excited about Marchenko. And
I think this idea that he's just the one trick pony he's shown a lot
this year that's not necessarily the case. And I think it also says a
lot to click with a certain line. I think it can show a little
bit more of your well routed potential. And Mason Black the NHL ranking always
puts together a pull for us. This week's theme, apparently for Marchenko is
the misery loves Company comparison, because he's up against the Arizona Coyotes Mattias Mitchelli,
another fantastic young player who is shall we say on a struggling NHL franchise,
Marchenko versus Mitchelli. Drum roll, the winner is Marchenko sixty nine to
thirty one. Basically in that result, Marchenko in a landslide victor Do you
think the same way Marchenko that strong over Michelli. I think it depends on
the kind of league, right. I believe when Mason puts this out,
he says points only. If you're talking points only, I think you got
to take Michelli because he has already scored at a much higher pace. Last
season it was sixty four point pace. This season fifty five. Marchenko,
I think having a pretty decent season. Currently only at forty two, and
he was at thirty five last year because of the lack of assists. I
think the points only play is still clearly Michelli, but that's the problem is
he doesn't really do anything else. Michelli has increased his shots. He was
generally shooting at one or under one for the first eighty ninety games of his
career. In this season, he's still under two per game, but he's
getting closer to two. That's still really low and not what you want,
you know. Marchenko, on the other hand, is like two and a
half shots per game, so it's not just the shots though, it's the
hit some blocks, which Marchenko does a pretty decent amount of bashing. It's
not like amazing, but he's closer to hitting the block per game with two
and a half shots, so that's like closer to average to decent, as
opposed to Michelli, who doesn't do much. If it's a banger's preferle heavy,
I'm taking Marchenko all day because he's going to give you something else,
and Mitchelli is. It's so difficult to roster in those formats, especially in
categories leagues where he's literally hurting you in almost every other category. I'll think
Marchenko if there's periffs, but if it's points only, I think you gotta
go Michelli. I just I love this kid. He's such an amazing passer.
And what's funny is that everyone knows he's going to pass all the time,
but he still does. He still makes it work, he still finds
the best play, so he's just super creative. And he actually has scored
a little bit more. He has eleven goals, actually eleven goals the last
two seasons, so he still assists heavy, but he is putting the puck
in the net a little bit more. And last season Mitchelli had a crazy
eighteen percent shooting percentage because he just wasn't shooting enough. And he's nearly doubled
his shots and kept the same number of goals. So that's always good to
see. You love to see when they increase the shots and they still score
the same amount. Yeah, they hit. They're good in different formats.
I would say the hockey prospecting clearly favors Marchenko and Mitchelli is looking a little
lower. The NHL ranking PNHL it also favors Mitchelli, although they're trying to
be a little bit more similar. But I love the spider grafts that he
has on those on the app because you can really see the peripheral coverage that
Marchenko has compared to Mitchelli, who's basically just assists some power play points.
Everything else is pretty low. And yeah, we also have our FA the
FHL. The FHL cards are also showing for guys that are early in their
career. We do have them for guys like Marchenko. They're a little bit
past the one hundred NHL games wort just in case you're injurted, and it's
nice to see the peripheral coverage. But that's what I think, Jesse,
what do you think? Do you think you agree with that assessment? It's
tough. I like both of these young players. Mitchelli is the one that
I'm probably more excited about among the two. He's certainly been a little more
sizzling early in his NHL career, but I'm certainly not really not Marchenko.
Probably Mitchelli over Marchenko for me at this point, but I certainly do not
discount the latter victor. Up next, we got ourselves Tanner Mullendyke, the
first pick of the second reign of Barry Trotz in Nashville. Long may he
serve, and Mollmandyke was the first round pick last year for Nashville. Nashville
loves their defenseman. Maybe they've got another good one on their hands here.
It's his fourth year in the Saskatoon Blades of the WHL. He's got a
letter on his sweater this year and assistant an alternate captain, i should say.
And he's gone from a third of a point per game his first full
year there to a little over half a point now this year, he's way
over a point per game. That's pretty amazing for a defenseman, even in
the Canada Hockey League. One of the top scorers on the team that had
at last check, the best record in the Western Hockey League. So he
is a successful player and a successful team. He's on the com victor is
Tanterer. Mullendyke all that he is definitely a really good player. And yeah,
you're talking about defenseman or national loving defenseman. I think they know how
to draft them and develop them pretty well. Maybe not as well as Anaheim,
but I do think that there's some trends there. They really have picked
some good ones and there's some other ones we're gonna talk about later. But
Mullendyke, he's an amazing skater, really good already NH Already his transition defending
is elite, I think you can say. And in that respect, he
could already play in the NHL, but he has some other things that he
still needs to work on. No rush there. He's still nineteen, got
at least another year of the CHL and then maybe a year in the HL,
so it's going to be a little bit. The other thing that I
like about Mullendyke is that he does have a perferle floor. He blocks an
amazing amount for the WHL, and hits and shots are also pretty good,
So there's some floor there. And when you're going to play as many minutes
as he's going to play in the NHL, and I think he's gonna he's
going to be twenty two plus minutes a night, maybe even a lot more,
then you're going to rack up a lot of riffs if you're if your
base of priffs is already pretty good. I do think though, that Mullendyke
is going to always be more of a real, better, real life player
than he is a fantasy asset. But when you're out there that much,
you're still going to be able to rack up a decent number of points,
even if you're not the most amazing score. I think his scoring is a
little bit overblown right now. Like I don't think he he's going to be
like a fifty sixty point guy, but I do think that he's gonna He's
got a really nice Perferle floor and the points will come a little bit.
So I really like him. I think if you're thinking of him as your
next study, that's probably a little bit unrealistic. But you got a guy
who's going to play and could return pretty decent value. That's that's right.
Absolutely, he is looking pretty good. Let's put him to the NHL rank
King test in a poll. Tanner Mullendyke up against Oliver Bonk, who has
certainly showed us more also than I think people expected out of him on draft
day, and Bonk has upset. I don't know if it's an upset.
He was probably a little more well known or talked about maybe at a round
draft time, at least among the people I hung out with. But Bonk
defeats Mullendyke fifty six two forty four in the NHL Rank King Pole victor do
you want Bonk over Mullendike. Yeah, I think so. He is better
in some respects. I think he was drafted two positions earlier than Mullendike.
They're a little bit different players. I think that Bonk has a little bit
more offense, and even though they're both probably punching a bit above their way,
they're both on a really good cochl teams. Bonk with the London Knights,
he's incredible, and Mollendike with the Blades. As you mentioned, I
think that they both have a pretty decent floor for priffs too. Maybe Mollendike
is a little bit more, but I think the scoring with Bank is going
to translate a little bit better. He at least when I wrote this have
I think it's still true he led the OHL in power play goals, not
just defenders, but for all players in the OHL. That's ridiculous that he
needs that prolific. You love that his equivalencies are slightly higher than Mullendyke's,
and I do think the way that he's generating his offense is a little bit
more as the way that you could create in the NHL. A lot of
Mollendyke's comes more off speed and transition that he isn't necessarily going to beat NHL
players that way. So I think that the offense is going to be a
little bit more translatable for Bonk. But I still don't think we're talking about
like a fifty plus guy. I think it's more like probably thirty five to
forty five is your bline there. I think there's upside for maybe a little
bit more with Bonk, So I like him a little bit more and compared
to Mollendyke in terms of how well the offense is going to translate. But
I think Mullendyke winded up playing more minutes on average just because he's he's such
an incredible skater. So both of these guys are going to be good.
It's not like one is great one's terrible, and that kind of shows out.
I think in the poll it's relatively close, and I think that you
probably couldn't go wrong with either one of these. But I would lean Bonk
just in terms of the offense translating a little bit better. What do you
think, JESSI, Yeah, let's correct a perception here, Bonk. We
joked at the time of the draft that it's nice to have a player who
does exactly what he sounds like Bonk. You think of him as that's a
name that belongs to a hitter. Actually, Bonk's bashed is great, but
it's not based on hits at all. He's far lower in hits than Mulandike.
He's that's actually probably his lowest category. His shots are excellent and his
blocks are pretty good, whereas Mullendyke's a little bit more balanced in the three
great in terms of blocking, he's got a ton of that, but hits
are better than Bonk, but not elite, and shots are a little more
in the middle of the Fantasy Hockey life player cards are where you can see
this visualization very well. Don't think of Bank as a defense only type guy.
In terms of at least the physicality of the defense. Mullandyke is probably
a little bit superior to him, But like you said, such a score
as Oliver Bonk right now that you have to take that very seriously. Next
up, Victor William Eckland. I recall that during draft year you were sky
high and William Eckland as perhaps not necessarily in the strongest draft, but as
a guy who had some serious offensive upside From there, surprise he got just
short of those ten NHL games that he would have needed in the first two
seasons. That was while he was on the entry level slide. This year,
finally we are getting the full Eckland and it's been it's been pretty good.
He's had thirty points in his first sixty four games, obviously on quite
a struggling team. He's had reasonable power play time on ice, and he's
also getting blocks. He's getting about a block per game, about half a
hit and not quite two shots a game. But again, he's still fitting
his way into the NHL in his first full year. Two cameos, but
the production is not quite caled or worthy this year, but it ain't nothing,
and I think we're starting to see maybe a little bit more. And
obviously he's still a very young player at twenty one years old for him to
have an opportunity to become a strong player as the Sharks continue to mature.
What do you think of William Ecklund these days, Victor, Yeah, Eckland
is amazing, especially considering, as you said, generously, a struggling team,
the worst team in the NHL right now. They are rough to watch,
and they lost Hurdle CoA Church sounds like he might not ever play again.
That's really sad. But he's doing Ecklun's driving play as well as he
can. He's really good defensively, which I know sometimes people say, oh,
it's good defensively. I don't want that kind of player, but that's
what they've needed him to be right now. And he's still neutral in terms
of generating offense, which may sound like a backhanded compliment, but the team
just is such so bref of anyone that can do anything. That's still a
pretty positive statement. One of the visualizations I love is from hockey viz Michael
Blake McCurdy. He has this thing called synthetic goals where he includes all kinds
of different factors including play driving, expected goals for and against both. It
even strengthen the power play, and there's a bunch of other things in there
too in terms of shots against, penalties drawn, basically your full impact on
the game. And he has a plus two point four synthetic goal mark,
which is really high, especially on a bad team, and pretty much no
one else left who's playing has that impact for the Sharks. So her hurdle
was pretty good too. But this just goes to show, and then there's
other things like the Cory Schneider's All Three Zones projects show some really specific things
that William Ecklin is good at, like shot assists. That's a really underrated
category, and right now the Sharks don't have people that can invert his assists,
and once they do, Eckland's points are gonna skyrocket because he's really good
at creating. He's really good at passes to the center lane, which is
another thing. He's really good at high danger assists. All these things are
really good once he has a co you know, running mate that can actually
finish. Right now, he's he doesn't really have much to work with.
McColl Grantlin has been decent, Zetelent has been an improvement, but these are
not a top top line players on most teams, so most good teams anyways,
I think Eckland's potential is still pretty high. And yeah, he's basically
still under one hundred and HL games because them sliding his contract the first couple
of years, and there are some more reinforcements coming. Bordelow is looking pretty
decent and will Smith is destroying the NCAA. So there are some other guys
that are going to be coming soon, and I think when they get enough
reinforcements, Eclin is going to look a whole lot better. So I think
there's still good reason to be optimistic. I've always said I see him as
like a round seventy point guy, you know, around there is I think
where he'll be at his peak. Right now, he's at a thirty eight
point pace. I think he's getting not nearly enough assists for what he's producing.
So if you know, close to double his assists, he'd be there,
and I think that's not unreasonable. If he had players who could convert
his passes, let's get Mackland Celebranian intel, that would probably give Ecklund some
more opportunity. Hope, Yeah, Mason Black the NHL ranking put out the
poll Kent Johnson versus William Eckland. Of course, Johnson has had less of
an opportunity in terms of usage out there in Columbus. He doesn't have to
fill in an offensive vacuum quite the way that William Eckland has been asked to
do. But he had a similar season really last year to what Eckland did
as far as half a point just closing in on two shots. In terms
of rates, he had smaller bash, but given his opportunity, was a
little bit better this year, not so much. He's a bit down from
then, but placed up against William Eckland, Kent Johnson comes out ahead fifty
six to forty four. Victor you want Kent over William at this point,
I think that's an interesting poll. I still think that Kent Johnson has a
ton of upside, and I don't think that his play on this also really
bad team is necessarily indicative of what he can do long term. But also
I think he needs to be showing a little bit more, and I think
that right now I would probably take Eckland, which seems crazy in terms of
that synthetic goal stat Eckland plus two point four on literally this the worst team
in the league, worse than Columbus and Kent Johnson minus six point six in
that Saint metric, arguably with a decent amount more talent around him. And
as we're recording this, Columbus did play San Jose last night, and I
watched painfully some of that game, and it was pretty clear that Columbus is
currently a little bit ahead of where the Sharks are, and Johnson isn't as
much of a factor of that, and so that's a little bit frustrating to
see because I do think he still has so much talent, but sometimes he's
content just luck handling in the periphery instead of getting through the inside, instead
of really forcing the play. He went down to the HL early in this
season and tore it up, and I was and he came back and I
was like, all right, he's gonna tear it up now, and he
didn't. He still hasn't. He still only has sixteen points and forty two
games for thirty one points. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure what
Columbus is going to do. I wonder if they try to make a blockbuster
trade and move him, because I'm just not sure it's been the right fit.
I don't think that they're trying to do that, but I think that
they're frustrated with where he's at and what he's been able to do. But
he's still only at one hundred and thirty NHL games, so it's not like
it's time to give up. But I do wonder if Johnson's offense is going
to fully translate. The other question here is if you are in a priffs
league. Ken Johnson is a black hole of Perferle coverage, so if he's
not scoring, he ain't doing much. Whereas Eklund he mentioned I think a
bit surprising to me because I didn't necessarily think that when he was coming up.
But he is really good at blocks. He's almost at a block per
game. That's really solid for forward. That's incredible for a forward. I
mean, some defensemen don't even get that, don't even get that many blocks
and half a hit. So there's definitely more Perferle coverage from Eckland, who's
also playing a ton, which helps that. But yeah, you know what
these guys are after the same draft, fifth overall and seventh overall for Johnson
and Eckland, and at this point it's looking like Eckland's going to be the
much more competent in NHLR. So that's pretty surprising. But yeah, I
think that it's pretty clear right now. The trajectory may change moving forward,
but that's where we are. Jesse. Is that where you're at with this?
Yeah, I think that's fair. It's just we've seen so little of
Ecklund. He's been such in such a bad situation that it's hard to tell.
I still find it incredibly amusing, though, And this isn't aside every
time that Columbus fans have to cheer for a Michigan player on their team.
If you're not familiar with American college football, that is about as big a
rivalry. They won't even refer to each other's cities, so that is usually
pretty fun. And they elsewear so many jesse they have so many on the
Actually I saw this interview. This is a fun aside. I'm glad you
brought it up. Because they're having an outdoor game next year and they were
talking about how they were going to do some tribute to Ohio State because they're
playing I believe they're playing at the Ohio State Stadium, playing at the Horseshoe.
Yeah, yeah, And I can't remember how many Wrenski, there's Ken
Johnson, Oh my god, there's so many. I'm forgetting everyone else now.
And they were joking with him, so are you gonna do like the
Ohio State fight song? And Wrensky just looked at him like that ain't happening.
You're gonna have to find some other way to promote you a thing,
because these Michigan guys are not going to stand for promoting Ohio State in that
out. They're not playing the Michigan song for him, So yeah, definitely
not. It should be fun, Yeah, to highlight that by putting them
in the Ohio State stadium is pretty hilarious. Elsewhere in the Big Ten,
Victor Cruz Lucia's out there playing for the Wisconsin Badgers. We talked about him
in the tidy trades in earlier in this offseason, and we also talked about
him or referenced him I believe in the trade deadline trade because he's a guy
who I believe was traded at that trade deadline, and he is one of
the up and coming players who's moving to Pittsburgh now to try to fill in
their gap maybe be one of the best prospects that they have Wisconsin Badger.
He is exactly the same number of points this year as last year, thirty
fourth last year thirty four. This year, He's played one more game this
year, which bothers me because earlier we had perfect symmetry and I enjoy symmetry.
That makes him one of the leading scores on the Big Ten strong team
of Wisconsin. Cruz Lucius is an exciting player, maybe looking a little better
than brother Chaz. What do you think, Victor, Is this guy gonna
breathe life into the Penn's prospect system. Yeah, definitely that system was hurting,
but so that we and if you want more discussion on that, you
should check out the Dabber Prospects Report with Peter Harlan because we talked all about
the prospects on the movie in this past episode and it absolutely helped the Pittsburgh
prospect pull a ton Branden Jaeger is still incredible and Blomquist is a great goalie.
But after that they Pickering maybe is a guy. So they got Lucius,
Coevenen and Panoramarev and Lucius is definitely going to help them out a lot.
He's an interesting case study. The more I dug into Kruz Lucius,
the kind of less I liked, which is surprising and not ideal for him.
And by the way, we talked about during the Chaz Lucius draft,
because he was a much higher pick, how it sounded like an evil villain
name. And I wonder if Kruz is like his sidekick the cruse Lucius.
Yeah, you kind of admire the parents going for that naming system. I
like that that's courage. Sometimes it's the younger brother who turns out to be
the stronger if they play each other growing up, just because they're the one
who have to struggle to keep up with big bro. Ye're up a lot.
Yeah, so I don't. So it's a little bit surprising with Cruz.
Like you said, point per game player over two seasons, and it's
it seems crazy to say that a point per game college player maybe doesn't have
the upside that you think. But man, when you start digging into some
of his defensive metrics and his off puck play, it is at times brutal.
And I think the thing you can say about Cruise is that he's very
opportunistic in his scoring. He knows how to get the right places, but
when the puck isn't around him or in a scoring position, he seems lost
and disinterested. And that is just not going to fly at the next level.
And I'm a little concerned about how his offense is going to translate to
the next level. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope he's great,
and I do think that he's a really strong option for the Penguins, But
I'm just not sure that it's going to he's going to continue to produce at
this level. I'm actually thinking you might be able to trade him or because
of this strong and CAA season that might be My move is see what you
can get from if anyone is buying the hype for a fourth round pick Mason
Black. Put him up against the guy who's got a lot in common with
in a way, he was drafted one year earlier by the same team in
the same fourth round. But victory. You don't like point per game our
NCAA players, how about one point five point per game players? Jackson Blake
of North Dakota is up against Cruse Lucius in this poll, but Cruise pulls
it out fifty one forty nine effectively, Victor, do you want Cruise over
Jackson Blake? Based on what I just said, probably not surprising to hear
that. No, I don't prefer Lucius. But both these guys, yeah,
they're really late picks, fourth round picks, different drafts. They're both
slightly undersized, Blake a little bit more at five point ten whereas Lucius is
six to oh. They're both forwards. They're both wingers, not yours,
not a center, but I think Blake has a little bit more to offer.
His play driving numbers have been much better. He's playing, they're both
playing on good. Last year Wisconsin was not good, and this year they
are. But this year and last year, note Dakota has been a competitive
team and that's where Jackson Blake plays. And he's been over, as you
guys you alluded to. This year he's way over and last year he was
even over as a freshman. His production, so he's been good. He
also was on last season's World Junior Championship for the Americans, maybe a bit
of a more of a depth role, but he still had six points in
seven games. I think it's pretty telling that Cruz was not invited to the
team in his year. He was at the UA teams in his draft season.
But yeah, a little bit more of a nod to Jackson Blake there.
And I think his off puck today, he's got a little bit more
of a motor. He's a little bit more of a puck retriever, but
he can still put the puck on the net and a little bit more playmaking.
Yeah, I'm gonna go Jackson Blake here. And the peripheral coverage actually
also quite nicely leans towards Blake. Both of them shoot a fair amount,
but Blake's got a little bit more in the blocks. I guess Lucius hits
a little bit more, but I just think that the offense is going to
translate a little bit better for Blake. And if I had both of these,
I would try to trade Lucius and keep Blake. What about you,
Jesse? Just to be fair in terms of our cards, both of them
barely have a pulse in hits and blocks, but Blake's got a little bit
stronger pulls than Cruise Lucius. But they're both at the bottom, but they
both shoot like crazy. And to be fair, the year that Jackson Blake
made the World Junior's team, obviously the United States never has a unloaded team,
but this year the US team was so loaded. I think there were
maybe even tougher to make for Cruise than it was for Jackson last year.
But I think that's fair. I think Jackson Blake's got a little bit lesser
known of a name, but the performance is way higher. Victor, Let's
take a break, come back and talk a few more of these guys,
Seth Jarvins, We just can't get away from those crazy old Carolina Hurricanes.
Everybody loves them some Carolina Hurricanes prospects. So that's the next guy we have
to talk about. He had a big old jump in this year in the
NHL. Is way up there on points fifty two so far in sixty seven
games. That is not too dissimilar to his rookie year or his twenty twenty
one to twenty two year, but it's a big improvement over last year.
He had a shooting swoon and that's what killed him. He's had a career
twelve percent. Last year, he was only down at seven point five this
year fifteen point three at twenty one years old. In a way, this
is a pretty linear path to NHL success that sometimes we don't seem to get.
The power play points sort of steadily rising, the hits up fifty percent
the time on ice, the power play time on ice, most of the
stats have been pretty consistent in terms of rate stats in his first three years,
aside from that shooting. But all this is despite having moved from He
played with Sebastian Ajo mostly for the early part of his career. Now he's
pretty much consistently with Jordan Stalin Toylo Terevnen. He leads the Canes in a
lot by goals above replacement in the top twenty in the National Hockey League.
If you look at the evolving hockey goals above replacement charts, pretty good.
Seth Jarvis Victor, are you encouraged that this guy is making at least a
serious star turn, maybe creeping up in close to the point per game category
at career peak. Yeah. Jarvis is such a good player, and part
of the discussion in the article is that I think he'll always be a better
in real life player than he will be in fantasy. He's so good,
and his contributions to the KNES I think will always be more than his contributions
to your fantasy team, unless you're looking at him as just like a super
great depth piece in a really deep league. I don't think he's gonna be
that important to your dynasty win. And I was referencing that synthetic goals metric
for Jarvis. He is amazing at that as well. He's one of the
best on the team, just behind I guess you could imagine Seth Sebastianajo and
Andre Sweesshnikov. Those two are better but beyond that, he's really the only
one who plays such a significant role that has a high number there. And
what's great about Jarvis, and something we talked about in his draft season was
just like his habits, like he's always tracking back, He's always you know,
pickpocketing players. He's really smart. He knows how to drive, and
he knows when to like delay and circle back and wait for reinforcements. He's
just he's a really smart player. He seems to always make the best play.
I think this step forward here is really good and you can see it
coming and as time on ice is up and you know, all the things
that you like to see are looking pretty good, except the shooting percentage is
a bit high. But overall, you know, this sixty four point pace
seems pretty sustainable. I think you can get to seventy. I'm just not
sure that he can do that consistently, and I'm not sure that the Kanes
are going to want to put him in a position to always do that.
And so that's why I'd be a little hesitant about pushing your chips all in
for Jarvis. This is true for a lot of Keynes players, right.
We've seen even Smeshnakov have a hard time consistently hit these highs, and the
only one who really seems to be able to is Ajo, who's a total
superstar. But even Smeshakov, who's really great, he's in that seventy this
season. He's a bit above that, but he's toiled in the low seventies
and below that for years, and so I'm not sure that Jarvis is at
that level. But maybe he could be in that range too. So I
think he's a great player, but I do worry a little bit of just
and this is true for a lot of guys. Are they just too good
in real life to be a superstar fantasy asset. That might be the case
for Jarvis. Well, Carolina seems to know what they're doing with the deployment
of their players, and Jarvis is a important part of that mix. If
you ever want to feel good about prospects and our ability or the desirability of
them, go back and look at the twenty twenty draft. It'll just make
you happy. Seth Jarvis was picked thirteenth, but the guys above him almost
basically none of them above him drafted before him have been complete bus or non
NHL players, and many of them have been very good. I won't go
through the mall right now, but funny enough, it was the guy who
went number one in that draft, Alexis Lafrenier, who in some way has
been the struggler coming in the NHL. One might argue, so Mason Black
put Seth Jarvis against Alexis Lapregner, the guy who teams were tanking for,
the guy who are our buddy. Ben Burnett came on after the Rangers won
the lottery and did a happy dance about Although Victor did not have Lafrenier ranked
first, Seth Jarvis now in a landslide over Alexis Laprener unsurprisingly seventy seven to
twenty three percent in current day, Victor, is that the same thing you
would do? Yeah, definitely. I definitely did not have Lafrenier first in
that draft. I was and remain a byfield stand. But also I remember
just talking about the ways that Lafrenier was creating offense and Junior. I just
wasn't sure that it would translate, and it hasn't really when you look at
Jarvis and the way he was generating, and it just seems so much more
sustainable. Highs haven't still haven't been that high for him, but you do
like the trajectory a little bit better. It's funny because I would take Jarvis
here easily. But imagine this question during their draft season, you would have
been laughed out of the room. Even the year after, or maybe even
in twenty twenty two, still you would probably be laughed at. There's no
way that Jarvis is going to be better than Lafrener, but I think it
is. It has come to pass, and I think that Lafrenier could still
get to that point. I think he could still get to being a seventy
sixty five to seventy ish point player. But I just think that Jarvis is
so much more certain to get it and get every opportunity he can get,
all the ice time he can handle. He's the coach's dream. They're going
to put him out in every situation. Lafrenier he struggled to find the right
fit and the right deployment and all that. Because he is a specific player.
He has flexed his tools a little bit more. He has improved some
of the things that were struggling, that were making it hard for him to
produce. He hasn't proved that, so I still think there's a decent amount
of hope there. In fact, David set Louis did a great video on
Lafrenier and one of the things he talks about in there, which is so
true, is that when he was playing in junior he was so much better
than anyone else. He never had to learn some of those tools. He
never had to learn to create in different ways. And Jarvis already knew that
in the WHL level and has just been able to continue to improve that.
So I think it's pretty pretty telling. So, yeah, easily seth Jarvis
here, but I think for those Lafarnier truthers out there, there's still some
hope there that he has some decent production. Yvonne Monroe Deshenko in Washington,
Victor, everybody knew this guy was hanging out there during the draft year.
It was illness that kept him out of the spotlight in Washington. Washington took
the chance, and very quickly he has made his way into DC. Caps
rushing forward are like Sith Lord's always two there are so now that Ageny Kuznetsov
has moved on, Yvonne Muroshnishenko is there to be Alex Ovechkin's understudy, and
he's playing in a line with the Caps increasingly depleted top forwards with Dylan Strom
and Tom Wilson. That's pretty good deployment. I guess I did not appreciate
it, and it sounds like others did, but I did not appreciate how
physical this guy was going to be. Two hits a game so far,
and the hits are consistent with his scouting report, although the ahl perrips were
not absolutely outstanding. But the scoring has come slowly, but he has.
He has been scoring goals since he was called up. He has now hit
his ten games, which means he's no longer an entry level slide candidate.
That's very solid. That means the Caps can keep him around and they're not
going to be playing service service time games with him. Victor, what are
your thoughts on Yvonne marush Taschenko. Yeah, I love this guy. I
remember saying at the beginning of the season that he was pretty NHL ready and
that he might might get to see him for some stretches. And then we
saw a brief call up, and then he went back down, and then
now he's up and he's up for good. And these darn Capitals. No
one told them that they're supposed to be rebuilding now and that they shouldn't be
competing for a playoff spot. They're right there with Detroit. Between the Islanders,
Washington, Detroit. I think one of those three is going to make
it looks like Tampa's in maybe Philly Falters they're in it. They're right there.
They won, they beat Vancouver last night. As we're recording this,
they're right there. And Murshashenko is contributing in a positive way. It's not
just the goals. His defensive game is not amazing, but he's average,
close to average already for an NHL player, that's all you need to be
is average. If you can shoot like he does and you can finish,
which he's shown he can do. So I think that, yeah, he's
a really he's a really fun player, and yeah, the priffs are a
nice welcome bonus. It gives you something else to hold on to. He's
had a pretty strong Perferle floor. His HL numbers are really good. Before
that, he had some physicality there, so I like that. My concern
with him was always how much talent would they be around him when he arrives,
So far so good. Obi's still kicking. They've got some great contribution
from the Strom Dylan Strom and some of the younger guys have started to play
a whole lot better with Protas and McMichael and Hendrix. Lapierre looks like the
player he was before he had the injury issues in his draft years. So
things are coming around for marsh Nashenko. I can see him sticking in the
top six. I think he has top six upside and maybe like a Chris
Krider type, could be a good someone to think about in terms of what
to maybe expect he I don't think he's quite the skater that the Crider is,
but maybe that type of production. Mason Black's poll, the theme seems
to be for this one the men who equipment managers hate because how do you
get this many letters on the back of their jersey. Yvonne marish Nichenko versus
mart Kho's Nadenov Victor Mirichenko in a landslide sixty five point five to thirty four
point five almost doubled him up. Is that what you think about these two
players? Yeah? I like both of these players. I've been a fan
of Who's Nadenov since his draft season he was a bit smaller than I think
he was five nine and now I think he's closer to five to eleven,
So the fact that he's grown a little bit really helps him. He was
really looked over in his draft season. He fell to thirty seventh overall,
and good on Minnesota to draft him. And who's nadenof has really impressed with
his KHL time effect. I just wrote an article about him too, so
if you want to read about him de peering side, you could read about
Marat and he just had his NHL first couple of games. So both these
guys are good. I think I would lean Marshashenko a little bit more because
he's destined for top six duty, I would say, and I think the
Caps have a lot more space for him to be a clear top six player,
whereas kuzanidinof I guess he goes by Kuzzi, So there you go another
Kouzi. If he clicks with caprice Off, that could be incredible when they've
they've long been, you know, looking for this compliment to caprice Off.
Maybe a countryman would be a good fit. A lot of us thought maybe
with Marco Rossi could be it. Not no one has really fit that Ryan
Hartman did for a while, so you never know if it could. If
Husandinov jives with Caprice off, it could easily be him. But other than
that, I think there's just more likelihood in more ways that that Marshashenko can
be a positive there. And yeah, the peripheral floor is good with shots
and and hits. You like to see that, and his play driving has
been decent. Kevin, who helps us with some of these show preps,
put in here a nice comp to Hendrix s Lapierre, just to kind of
show where these two are since they're both playing right now and they have almost
identical hockey prospecting cards, which is pretty funny. They look almost exactly the
same, And of course they were in very different leagues coming from Russia,
from Urushiashenko and the queue for a lot of Pierre's it's quite a bit different.
But I do think that Maroshiashenko has looked the part so far and has
some pretty decent upside. What have you seen? You've watched him quite a
bit, Yeah, No, I like him. Yeah, it's exciting to
see these guys come into play. It seems like the capitals a lot of
these teams have drafted these first and second round guys in the past few years,
and we just haven't seen them where they play out. It seems like,
even though the Capitals have not been beloved for some of their top picks,
all of them seem to be making it pretty consistently to the NHL.
In one role or another, Murshiashenko could be the best of the bunch.
Victor. And the one other thing I will say about this is normally I
would be panning the creativity of NHL players just calling this guy Kuzy. We're
not couzing the dan off. But let's face it, that name is so
long that if you tried to pronounce the whole thing when you're asking him to
pass the puck or something like that, the power play would run out.
There's just no way. So let's just go ahead and let them have their
abbreviation fun. Brant Clark, he is another guy you have been taking a
look at. He has been the most prolific scorer among AHL defensemen. He's
just burning it up and he's had plenty of time in the NHL. He
is doing nothing to diminish his prospect ranking, not to blow up. Scott
Wheeler spot behind his paywall over at the Athletic but he has ranked Bran Clark
is the number three prospect in the NHL drafted by a team that it gives
you a sense of how highly Brent Clark is perceived already at this point.
Victor, what do you think of Bran Clark. I think he's amazing.
He's really talented. That overtime game winning goal a few weeks back, a
couple of weeks back, I think where he was in the penalty box and
he got sprung and went down and put an amazing move on and won the
game. That was That's the kind of talent he has, game breaking,
season altering talent for the Kings. He hasn't quite been able to fully show
it. He's only played sixteen games and he's definitely had the He's definitely had
some really good moments. He's had some not some good moments in terms of
there was one play where he got completely walked around by I forget who the
forward was. But he's had some really bad performances too. Cam Robinson,
who put a quote in on the article that I wrote, I think summed
it up really well in the sense that Clark has always been more of a
sum more, he's been more impactful than the sum of his parts. When
you put it all together. He really knows what to do and how to
move, even though his skating has always been a bit wonky. He's so
smart and he just know he sees the ice so well, and he can
deliver on some really great passes and some really great moves. So he's really
dynamic. And I think he will be able to play defensively enough to be
that top pairing guy that can be in all situations, because that's really the
question. Can he play enough minutes that he can actually score enough points and
be that elite value. I think he can. He's not there yet,
and the big problem is that Drew Dowdy is still kicking around. He's still
doing pretty well when he's getting up there, but his contract, his contract,
there's eleven million reasons for the Kings to still want him to be producing
really well and there's no reason for him to. He's thirty four, so
it's not like he's terribly old, but he still has three more seasons at
eleven million for Drew Dowdy. So that's part of the issue is Clark isn't
going to get full fully, the full complement of his value and his potential
until doubt he's a bit out of the way, so we'll see. We'll
have to wait a little bit longer for him. I think next season he'll
probably be a full time We've only gotten to see glimpses so far, and
the glimpses have been super fun. They got a couple of defensemen that maybe
might move on and give him some space within the next year or two.
That'll be really good for Clark to be able to really show what he can
do, because I think his upside is tremendous. As Scott Wheeler put in
his rank that there aren't really any other defenseman that I could think of that
you'd rather want as a young, up and coming defenseman on your fantasy team.
And the competition this time Bran Clark versus long time favored of the show,
Olin Zelwegger. Zelwerger's kind of moved down the prospect ranks a little bit,
and Bran Clark trounces him seventy six twenty four in this one victory.
Even in the Mitschikov error era where he surpassed Zellweger in some ways as a
prospect. Do you see the gap between these two is this wide? Not
really, but I do think that Clark has a very clear path once dowd
he's out of the way to elite production, and for zel Weger it's a
little bit cloudy now that Minchikov has assumed that role. There was also worries
about Drysdale, but now he's gone. I do think that there's an opportunity
for both zel Weger and Minchikov to be extremely valuable. They probably won't play
on the same pair. They'll probably both play like twenty five minutes like half
the game and run the power play at times, so I don't think that
needs necessarily has to be in either one or the other. I think they
can both be super valuable. But for Clark, he'll just get all the
best deployment and opportunity, so I think for that reason, because it's so
clearly his throne to sit on, I would lean him. But that doesn't
mean that zel Wegger is chop Liver anymore. In fact, this might be
a really good time to acquire Zelweger if people are down on him. He's
nearly scoring a point per game in the AHL as a defenseman. That's pretty
incredible, And yeah, I still think he has pretty good upside, So
I don't begrudge the poll because I do think that it's pretty clear who has
a clear path to relevance and it's Clark. But I think this presents a
really great opportunity to go ad Zelwegger and just remembering how young he was,
he's so young for this draft class that he's like a year behind in many
ways, but every year and level he plays that he continues to dominate,
so that hasn't really bothered him at all. He continues to be amazing.
Some of the comps that Bran Clark has, though, are really ridiculous,
like Evan Bouchard victor headman of all guys that he looks like in the Hockey
Prospect Team model and his pH and Lee looks like like eighty point guy out
of which I don't think he'll score quite that much. But everything looks really
good for Bran Clark, and I think you're going to be very happy if
you have him on your roster. Yeah, and Brian Clark was drafted about
a round ahead of Zelwegger that year, so you can't fault Anaheim for that.
Very good player. They got last one for today, Victor Philip Broberg.
Here's an enigma for us to talk about. And I was glad to
see you wrote him up because I'm trying to figure out what to do with
him. I know, and at least one fantasy roster. It's not great.
It's not great. He's been used less in the NHL the last two
years. He's going down in what the Oilers are allowed to do. Last
I saw no points ten in the last ten games AHL scoring pace, even
as declined in baseball. We'd call this guy a threat to be a quad
A player, right the up and down types who are too good maybe or
very good in the AHL, but not good enough to establish himself in the
NHL. If he's in fact great in the AHL, or is he just
a guy who needs a better shot with the Oilers change the scenery somewhere else.
I think it's probably the latter. I think it's possible he becomes a
quad A guy, but I do think he should be in the NHL.
He wasn't great in his NHL time, but he was better than Nurse and
CC defensively, which I know maybe isn't saying a whole lot, but he
needs to regain his confidence. It's been pretty shot. He's gone through a
lot of situations where he's gotten some time and then he gets punished for a
bad mistake, and then he's stable to the bench and he doesn't really get
to learn on the fly, and there's just there's been a lot of there's
been a lot of stress in Edmonton when he's been out there, and it's
hard to gain your confidence. He's been up and down. He's gotten limited
time on ice. Looking at his game log is it's thirteen minutes, ten
minutes, nine minutes, twelve minutes, seven minutes, five minutes, ten
minutes, five minutes. Like you can't learn playing that limited time and worrying
that any little thing you do is gonna pull you out of the lineup.
I do think he needs a change of scenery. I was hoping that Edmonton
would trade him at the deadline, maybe for some other competent defenseman, since
they don't want to play him. But I think also because they drafted him
so high, and because some of the players that went after him, I
think there's always that bug in the back of oiler fans head. They in
twenty nineteen they could have had some other really good players, including Trevor Zegers
who went right after, and there were guys like Matt Bowley, Spencer Knight
who could have used the goalie Thomas Harley. There were some good players who
went after Broberg, but they went for the big, good skating defenseman who
hasn't really quite panned out. And so there's this like bust feeling that people
want to throw at him. But I just I think he needs to play
more, and I think that there might be some untapped offense. But I
think he's an NHLer and he's got decent bash, so you know, if
he goes to another team, I don't think he's going to blow the doors
off. But I think he could be a forty ish point defender who can
run a power play and have decent bash, which is decently valuable. And
that's not where he's being valued right now because he just isn't getting the opportunity
in Edmonton, and I wonder if he's ever going to get it, because
it seems like they hold him to this really high standard that seems unrealistic.
Yeah, looking back, we talk about Edmonton has had some regime change in
some ways, since twenty nineteen, but I believe looking back, ken Holland
did make the pick, so it is still he was still part of that
sheet. Sometimes when teams move on a lot, and obviously they moved on
from some coaches in that time, but they become less attached to their prospects.
Victor Soderstrim is his competition. Talk about two guys. It's good that
I have a fairly thick head of hair of Victor, because both of these
guys have caused me to tear a couple of them out over the years.
Broberg versus Victor Soderstrim of the Arizona Coyotes. Broberg almost two to one,
sixty five to thirty five. That's pretty impressive for a guy who hasn't established
himself much in the NHL. Is that the order you would put Broberg and
Soderstrum in? Yeah, I would take Brower pretty easily here, as I
still think there's a pretty decent upside. It's always fun to play armchair GM,
especially when it's five years later and in twenty nineteen Byram and Cider were
taken as the first two d Those two I think are doing pretty well,
I would say, And then after that it was these two, Broberg and
Soderstrom, and I think both these teams have regretted a little bit or at
least not gotten the value that they thought that they were getting. And it's
funny because right after that, Cam York and Thomas Harley were taken, and
those two seem to be doing pretty well. At least they played a lot
more NHL games. They seem to be contributing a little bit more. Then
it's funny because there were a couple of whiffs after that, Lastie Thompson,
Villie Heinola to be as Bjorn Foot, and then after that, there are
a bunch of guys who have played about as many games in the NHL as
Soderstrom and Brober. Those would be Ryan Johnson, Jackson Lacombe, Kayden Korjak,
Alex Flascik, who's turning into top pair defender practically in Chicago. He's
looking amazing, Samuel Bulduke Nikita Juk, Jordan Spence, Henry Thrun and Zach
Jones. They've all played about the same number of games. I don't know
what this means other than it's just really hard to draft and hit on these
guys. But both these teams I think have been frustrated with what they've gotten
out of these two Swedes. And Soderstrom is a bit more undersized, and
that was always the question with him, is that he was a little bit
more of an offensive guys, a little bit smaller, maybe not as competitive,
but a good skater, and Broberg just had the size and the skating.
But I think that there's a bit more upside still with Broberg. As
I mentioned, I think he might have some untapped potential offensively. I'm not
sure that's true for Soderstrum. His production in the AHL has been pretty good,
though he's been roughly half point per game the last several seasons. He
just seems stuck in the AHL, and he I think is more likely to
be a quad a guy than Broberg because I'm not sure that Soderstrom has much
more to give in terms of another year, So I would take Broberg if
I were buying between the two. I did actually get Victor Soderstrom back in
one deal, just as a throw in, because I was like, why
the heck not I was getting I told him just give me whatever back,
and he chose Soderstrom, which probably says a lot in terms of what he
thinks. That will tells me everything about what he thinks about him. That
there's no chance. But I still think there is some chance. I just
don't think it's very likely for Soderstrom, and I would lean Broberg. What
about you, Jesse, Yeah, that's fair. Roberg at least can cite
the competition he's got among defensemen in Edmonton. Darnell Nurse pretty good, Evan
Bouchard really good. Whereas Victor Solderstrom. Whenever the Coyotes have developed a great
defenseman, they seem to be traded away the last few years, So you
would think he would have plenty of opportunity to rise if he had that sort
of upside Victor. I think that's all we have time to get to today.
But we thank everybody for listening to this. You should go back and
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what we do here at Fantasy Hockey. Live. Content curator Kevin Adams has
been helping with show prep. Admiral Ryan Downey. You hear him on this
show. He is doing yeomen's work, keeping the tidy tiered Dynasty leagues rolling
as we get through the conclusion. Jeremy vi is our lead scout. Jason
has been helping with prospect ranks. Brandon has been killing it with our website
and creating visualizations we've got the new prospect cards. You've heard about him.
He is also a scout with us, and if you have skills you'd like
to lend the show, hit Victor up in the Discord, email or Twitter.
We love to come up with new things to keep making this a better
and better space for people to hang out in. Follow Daber Hockey and Dauber
Prospects. Victor is an editor. Heck, I'm even writing there. Follow
his work there, as well as his prospect Dauber Prospects Report with Peter Harling.
You can check out Victor's articles at EP Ringside. He's part of the
fantasy team there, Cam Robinson, Mike Clifford, all kinds of great folks
writ in Fantasy. I do a solo showed Dynasty Sports Life. I talk
all the Dynasty sports there, not just hockey, sometimes multiple at the same
time. This week, I think we'll be talking a little bit of baseball
as the baseball season starts out in Korea. I think in a couple of
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