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Victor, you got to talk a little bit of fantasy hockey today.
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Obviously they didn't have the results that they wanted. The Wild have a
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Minnesota Wilds and our special guests are coming up right after this. We welcome
into the show our guests for the Minnesota Wild Dylan Laus of the Hockey News.
How you doing today, Dylan doing awesome? Thank you for having me
on. Yeah. Absolutely, we got to talk about some Minnesota Wild Their
season should not go unnoticed. A lot of interesting storylines, interesting things happen
to this team this year. It started out poorly with a five, ten
and four stretch career caprizof famously only two even strength goals in that time.
The team started out behind the eight ball. Over the course of the whole
year's some characteristics. The team was fourth in pims per game and second in
pims against per game. A lot of special teams going on in Wild games
this year. Generally speaking, I think the expectations coming in where the team
could make the playoffs, but they fell short in what turned out to be
just a brutal, just a nasty Central Division. They measured in the top
half of leagues, the bottom half of the league in goals for and goals
against, technically for the first time since ty ten twenty eleven, So not
a banner year for the Wild. They were, of course suffering with a
bit of a salary crunch because of fourteen point seven million dollars that they were
paying to Zach Parizey and Ryan Souters. So good to be getting off that
after this next year, I believe I think they've got one more year of
that because they're gonna have some big checks to sign. Then what are the
takeaways of this Wild season? Dylan and in Minnesota turn around and make some
noise next year. I think they definitely can turn it around. The biggest
thing this year was the slow start. There's a ton of other factors that
went into it. Obviously, they started off pretty poorly. It led to
Gan Nevison and Bob Woods being fired. They brought in John Hines and essentially
called up their assistant coach from Iowa to run their penalty kill because it was
so bad to start the season. So really it was a slow start.
But then halfway around halfway through the season, come January, under Hines,
they were playing really well and all of a sudden, capriz Off was out
of the lineup, so Courell was out of the lineup, Spurgeon, Brody,
and Felino. They all missed significant time, all in the same stretch,
and the Wild dropped. I believe it was like six of seven or
seven of eight without those guys, and that kind of just hurt their chances.
Since they already started so slow, they couldn't afford to have another stretch
during the season where they dropped a ton of games and ultimately did and just
missed the playoffs. But they played very well under John Hines. He got
a lot of guys going BOLDI started off with one goal I believe in around
twelve games, and then once Heines took over, he took off finished with
twenty nine. So next season it's probably it's likely going to be the same
team. They might make a couple of moves, but they played well under
John Hines were a full season with Hines and the coaching staff, I think
this team could rebound. There's a couple of question marks for sure, in
terms of a few players or roster spots to fill, but it seems like
they could turn it around and likely won't have the same season they did this
year. Let's hope not and if they don't. The first man I no
doubt believe we will be talking about will be Carel capriz Off. He was
outstanding this year. Don't blame Caprizov for what happened. He had over a
one hundred point pace. Of course, he missed a few games, so
it was actually only ninety six, but just burned it up. His net
goals above replacement, according to Evolving Hockey, was twelfth in the National Hockey
League. He's all up in there if you're gonna pick it a season.
I just mentioned he started slow. Hammy injury apparently dogged him at the beginning.
A rib issue messed him up a little bit around the new year,
but otherwise it's that case of I'm not sure what to say about this guy
other than he was excellent and he's in his prime. What do you make
of his season? And if anything, is there a risk that the Wild
could waste the prime of a superstar here? Actually yeah, I think that
is definitely something that could happen and might be happening. But I think at
the start of the season everyone was a little worried. He didn't look like
himself. He played hurt in the playoffs the year before, didn't look like
himself there, came into camp, he seemed fine, and then all of
a sudden the start of the season he wasn't producing how he used to,
and then had another little rib injury come into December, and then once he
came back from there, he went on an absolute tear. I mean,
he was like tops in the league and goals and points in the new year,
and it looked like he was right back to himself. He regained that
explosiveness, the skating he had before, and the creativity was there again.
So he definitely turned around his season and got back to exactly the capriz aff
we know. But, like you mentioned, if this Wild team performs the
way they did this year next year, you have to wonder if Kaprizov's not
going to be okay with that result and eventually want to maybe test free agency
instead of signing here long term. So I think the Wild have to do
a really good job of not only making Carill happy, but improving the team
where he wants to stay. Obviously, they have Mattsuk and other pieces.
Daniel, you're off, We'll come over in Minnesota soon. Mart Housnadenov is
here, Ogrin's here, obviously favors growing too. I have some younger pieces,
but Brill wants to win, and he said that this season was tough
not to be in the playoffs, and he obviously wants to be in the
playoffs every year. You worry about maybe wasting his prime. So they definitely
have to be a lot better and hope that he will stay. And if
they are a lot better, I would imagine he would want to stay.
But he's got to understand the future of this team. They already referenced him
a couple times. Matt Bowley is the next guy we're going to talk about,
and it's great to hear that he fared a little better under John Hines.
He was we have our own league, the Tier Dynasty, and he
was the seventy ninth ranked player in that Formatt, he's at seven million,
several more years until he's a UFA, so they got him locked up for
a long time. We like to see his points pace bumping up. This
season. He was up to seventy five. He was in the mid sixties
for that and it was great to see him finally get past that mark in
his third season. His time on ice, power play, time on ice
ozone starts. All of those peaked this season, But of course, Dylan,
we want to know what needs a break right for Matt Boldy to become
a point per game player next season. I think, honestly, it's just
more consistency. Like at the start of the season, he was so not
consistent. He was unconsistent, he couldn't find his game, and then he
would find his game stretches of the season put up a ton of points,
and then two about a week or two weeks go by and he's not picking
up the points and not being consistent. So I think the biggest thing for
him is making sure he can continue to be the same player game in and
game out, because sometimes he has games where it's extremely frustrating where he doesn't
look like himself, or he's not playing the way he played last month,
or and sometimes that happens with younger players. I think it's still people still
don't know. This kid is still twenty three, so there might be a
little bit of growing pains and stretches, but he understands that he needs to
be more consistent, and towards the end of the year he really was under
John Hines. So I think honestly, just another full season with his team,
full season with John Hines. I'm sure he'll round that out and he
could possibly be a thirty five goal scorer, seventy eighty point winger. Matt's
Zukarello, I keep thinking and frankly in fantasy hockey, keeps betting he will
be near the end of his seventy point days. How can he keep doing
this at age thirty six? But this season he continued to get it done,
continued to produce. The tough Norwegian. Dropped a fourth on the team
in scoring because of missing thirteen games and playing more minutes without Capriza, but
still sixty three points is pretty darn good. His last couple of months actually
slowed down, were pretty tough for him. Played a lot with Marco Rossi
this year. Actually, Rossi was his most common line mate. What do
you make you think we could get another season of high performing Mats Zucarello or
do we need to finally get ready for the end? I think you can
see another season of high performing Zucarello, for sure. He was. He
definitely struggled towards the end of the season, but I think it was like
twenty one or twenty two games towards the end of the season that he didn't
have a goal, and he scored in the final game of the year to
snap that. But yeah, he started the year playing with Caprizo Off he
was putting up the points, and then towards the end of the season he
wasn't with Carill just because Caprizov was playing with Bowdie and Eric Sinek, which
was one of the best lines in the NHL, So that kind of had
Zucarello with Rossi. But he's also playing with Marcus Johansson, who obviously didn't
have the best season at all. That's where he might see a little bit
of a dipping points, but he's gonna get top power play time again.
Next year. He'll be playing with Carill on the power plays. He might
start the season again with capriz Off, and if he does, then the
points will definitely be there again. But I think he should. He's shown
no signs of really slowing down. He obviously might have a stretcher two where
he's not picking up the points, but he'll pick him up on the power
play. He gets to play with capriz Off on four and fours things like
that, So I would definitely expect he'll probably be a sixty point guy.
Again. I don't know if seventy points as possible for him. That might
be behind him, but it all depends on who he's played with next year.
Tell you what for us fantasy types, we did not I did not
see Joel Eric Sinek on my Bengo card as the number thirty four player in
fantasy hockey. He has really just broken out in such a huge way.
Sixty four points in seventy seven games this year, throwing one hundred and sixty
eight hits, two hundred and sixty seven shots, and even fifty five blocks
my sixth he actually was even at a higher points rate than the year before.
And yeah, I know curl Kaprizov can make a lot of guys look
good, but Jeel Erksonek was his most effective tag team partner. If you
look at without You charts, j E made Caprizov peak Caprizov during the year.
Has Joel erks and Ek we were just talking about it. Has he
permanently sees the role online one And could he continue to put up this excellent
production in the future, Yeah, I think so. I think ever since
he got his contract extension. He's been proving every year that he has another
notch to get to. He's always been a really defensive guy, and maybe
defensive first. This year he struggled a little bit defensively, but I guess
that's not that big of an issue if you're scoring thirty goals and putting up
the points that he did. But yeah, he obviously was a part of
a very good line with Caprizov and with Boldie that was one of the best
lines in the NHL really if you look at points for sixty and points for
game and things like that. But I think more power play time playing on
the same line. He continues to grow and find aspects in his game that
he can take even higher. And yeah, I don't think there's really much
slowing down with him. I would imagine he probably wants to get back to
his ways as being a really good two way center. He obviously was when
he first started in the league, and that was playing on a third line
role playing with Jordan Greenway and Marcus Felino was a super good defensive line.
But injuries and more minutes for him, they needed him to step up.
He did. He put up a ton of points and I could definitely see
it happening again next year for sure. Yeah. I remember we've talked a
number of times about that just amazing defensive line that Joel ERKSONEK and Fellino in
them formed a couple of years ago. Ryan Hartman his season actually looked a
lot like the prior one in the stat sheet, and he played more game
aims them the prior one. He ended up with forty five points in seventy
four games. I know fantasy managers were operating with the whope maybe he would
be the one to get that top line time as he did a couple of
years ago. But instead Hartman was all over the lineup. If you look
at his parents or his linemates. Throughout the year, he was scrambled all
over the place among the wild forwards. His impact relative to teammates was fairly
neutral on this offense, although he had a slightly positive impact according to advanced
stats. On offense, he gets some respectable if not spectacular blocks, shots
and hits. You know, close to a hit and a block a game,
more than two shots a game. Not bad at age twenty nine.
Now, is Hartman pretty much going to be a third liner for this team
or could we ever see another year like his sixty five point twenty twenty one
slash twenty two. I think it depends on who or if they bring anyone
in. I think they have the cab space to maybe go out and sign
a top six for it, and if they were to do that, maybe
that pushes him to the third line. I think he's an effective player for
the Wild in terms of fantasy. It just really depends on if they bring
anyone in. Because they have Danielle Yaroff who's over in the KHL. He
signing the extension, so he won't be here next year, but the year
after that. That could be a guy that pushes Hartman down to the third
line. But I could see him starting the season in the top six again,
especially if they decide to trade Rossi, then that would open a door
for sure for Hartman to maybe be their second line center or play second line
right wing. It it just really depends on who's there opening day. If
it's the same Wild team, then I would one hundred percent imagine Hartman's going
to be a guy that they're going to rely on to score twenty goals,
have fifty points, be on their second line. So I guess it just
depends on what role they'll get him, but he'll probably be again close to
a twenty goal scorer and maybe maybe a fifty point guy as well. All
Right, we're gonna move on and talk about Marco Rossi. You just referenced
him, and certainly US prospect geeks have been really excited to see Rossi's development.
He played nineteen games last season, didn't really have a whole lot of
production. This year, it seemed like he really came into his own.
He played all eighty two games in the NHL, and some questions have been
raised about his ability to play two ways, but his defensive metrics were really
good, even though he was a bit unlucky in terms of his production.
Offensively, he generated more expected goals than he converted, especially on the power
play. His nice time could have been better sixteen forty four, as well
as his power play opportunity. He's an RFA next summer. I think you
mentioned something about possibly trading him. I don't know, do you really think
that's realistic? And what else? If he is with the Wild next year,
what do you think we can expect from him? Do you think he
could get up to a sixty point. I think you'd see more growth where
it could be a second line center in the NHL for years to come.
It's just a matter of if the Wild view him as that I mentioned.
You're off who's was playing center in the KHL. If they bring him over
and try to play him as a center, then that would bump Rossi to
the third line. Now do you want Rossi as your third line center,
and maybe you want more of a defensive guy. That would also bump who's
a d enough likely down to the fourth line. But Rossi has shown that
he can play in this league. Sure he's a smaller guy, Sure he's
not as physical, but you mentioned the defensive metrics. He was actually really
good analytically defensively that wasn't really much of a concern. So obviously a smaller
center, he's not very physical, but he can produce and he didn't get
much ice time. Hines talked about it at the end of the season that
he did really like Rossi, and Rossi spent all summer he training, working
his butt off to try to prove to the Wild that he can be the
player that they thought he could be when they drafted him. But there obviously
has been a question that maybe the Wild decide to trade him. Now,
if they do trade him, it's probably gonna be for a guy around the
same age. It's I wouldn't think they would trade him for a veteran or
anything like that. Maybe they trade him for a twenty four year old winger,
or they trade him for another center, a bigger or stronger center.
That definitely seems like that's something that the organization really likes, is having bigger
guys and stronger guys. But Rossi proved that he can still be productive and
effective even though he isn't bigger, strong. But I definitely could see him
taking more gross and whether it's in Minnesota or not, I think he can
be a fifty point guy. I don't know if he's a thirty goal center,
but twenty goals as as your second line center, isn't that that bad
A fifty point guy? Yeah, I could see him being fifty point guy
if they continue to play him in a role they did last year. All
right, now, I want to post to you a pick up Marcus versus
Marcus, Felino versus Johansson, and obviously these two men are a different at
the later stages of their career, they're a little bit on the downswing.
And Marcus Johansson or sorry, Marcus Fellino. Start with him first. He
obviously brings a lot in terms of the peripheral coverage, so his worth in
leagues may be skewed based on that, but his points pace has been really
trending down there. There's been seasons where he's in the fifties, but last
couple he's been closer to thirty and last season was thirty three. And then
yeah, then we have Marcus Johanson, who similarly has had some very different
point paces throughout his career, but he has been the same spot thirty two
point pace. So between these two, which do you think is going to
get more points with the Wild next season? I would probably lean towards Johansson
only because he's going to be on the second power play unit again, and
we saw it this season that they didn't have much depth, so that could
change next year if they bring in more guys. But Johansson was regularly playing
second line or third line minutes pretty much the entire season despite his struggles,
so I don't think he'll be the player that he was this year next year.
I think he understands he has to be better. I know the organization
wants him to be better, and they do believe that he can be.
In terms of Felino, I think he is what he is. He's probably
going to be a third liner again next year. And he's a guy where
I guess, sure it was nice when he put up that many points and
scored that many goals a couple of years ago, but he's the type of
player that is going to be super good defensively and physical and that's his role.
He doesn't need to put up those points. But on the other hand,
Johansson has to be that guy. He has to be the guy who's
going to score and put up the and put up those points. I would
lean towards Johansson having a more productive season offensively next year. Yeah, and
just as a thought exercise, I imagine if I said either of the marcus
Is against Marco Rossi, you're taking Rossi there, right, yes, yeah,
just checking. All right, that's it for the forwards. I think
we're going to move on to the defense now, and of course we're going
to start with one of my absolute favorites, brock favor What a season this
guy had. He was ranked one hundred and twenty seventh and our Tier Dynasty
rank, and he was incredible. Led Wild rookies in time on ice as
a defenseman. In fact, not only did he lead the Wild in time
on ice, but there were only a few players who had more time on
ice in him. Rasmus Dallinge, Seth Jones, Mike Matheson, Drew Dowdy,
and John Carlson. Those are the only defensemen who played more on average
than brock Favor. It's crazy all those guys season vets, obviously, and
then if you look at according to Evolving Hockey, he had the eighth toughest
minutes of any defender. Some of the guys ahead of him, guys like
mattiasak Holme, Kill mccarb and Bouchard just some average players there. And he
also ran the top power play for Minnesota, had pretty decent preperal coverage.
Maybe would have liked him to shoot a little bit more, but his blocks
were pretty solid, creeping up on two blocks per game and close to one
hit per games. Hard to argue with what Faber delivered, especially in his
first full season. He played two seasons two games. At the end of
last season and some playoff games, but basically this was his first taste of
NHL action. Dylan, do you think Fabor can replicate his calder Worthy season
or maybe even take a step or two forward. Yeah, I think he
could take a big step forward for sure. I think the step that he
would be taking would likely be defensively. He started the season super good defensively,
and as the season kind of went on, his numbers dipped a little
bit, but the offense took a huge jump. This is a guy that
started the season not even like in the conversation for playing power play minutes or
anything like that. Yet once Spurgeon got hurt, once John Hines came in,
he said, rock Favor is going to play on the power play,
and look well he did. So if he plays a full season as the
number one power play guy, I would expect his numbers to be even higher
and be more productive next year. So he's gonna take a big step.
He's probably even gonna get more and more minutes. Spurgeon should be completely healthy
next year and be in the line of game long, so maybe he's not
on the top power play to start, but with how well he did as
running the top power play. I would imagine they would likely keep him there
as well. All right, let's move on with our defenseman, and we're
going to talk about Jonis Brodean. And the deal with mister Brodean is he
looks like he's locked in for a pretty prominent role again next year. He
missed about a month from mid December to mid January. He's never going to
burn up the score, but he did have a career high in points per
game at point four to five I believe, or twenty seven total points in
sixty seven games played, along with career highs just raw career highs despite only
playing sixty two games in both shots and blocks for his career, Brodein played
the first half of the season with Brock Favor, but much more frequently paired
with Zach Bogosian after his return from injury. What role and what kind of
production do you foresee for Brodein in this coming year? Yeah, I think
what he did with Favor was super super good, and then when playing with
Bagosian was more because Spurgeon was out. Spurgeon played a lot of time with
Middleton he has the last couple of years, and once Spurgeon went out with
an injury didn't play the rest of the season. In Favor took that role
as the number one right shot d so he played with Middleton, which had
Brodean play with Pagosian. But Brodean's always been the same guy. He's one
of the best defensive defenders in the entire league. He's probably gonna pick up
more blocks. He's not a super physical guy, and he's also not a
guy who's gonna rack up a ton of points or be a power play guy.
But he's consistently been like the steady Eddy. I guess every season kind
of seems like it's the same for him, and he showed no signs of
slowing down or regressing or anything. So I think it can continue to be
the same guy. And maybe when the season starts, because of how well
Faber played with Middleton, maybe they go with Brodian Spurgeon pairing and keep Middleton
with Favor, or they could go back to Middleton, Spurgeon and Broadan in
favor, which is a fantastic shutdown deep hair. But Jared Spurgeon, let's
talk about him. He was the veteran, he was the highest paid defenseman
and he only played sixteen games. As you said, the whole lot of
time. He played just some games between November tenth and January tewond but then
he's had back injuries. Hip injuries ended in a surgery, ended in a
lost season. I don't like hearing about a smaller d man with those types
of injuries. Although apparently what I've read is he's supposed to be back for
the new year. I believe he'll be thirty five this year, thirty four
to thirty five. What are you expecting in the comeback season from Jared Spurgeon
and what kind of a stat line will we see next year? I think
he can get back to the Spurgeon that we all know. He only played
sixteen games this year, and a lot of them he played pretty much,
very hurt so, and he still looked like himself. He's still playing very
good defensively. His point and production wasn't really there, but there was times
where you could see that he was back to being that offensive guy that we
know. So a full season out of Spurgeon, he's likely going to be
a thirty forty point guy. He might be getting less minutes only because of
the emergence of Faber, but He's still a guy that you're probably gonna put
out their top penalty Kill mentioned the power play before. He could either run
the top unit or he could be on the second with Faber on the top.
So he's a guy that has some offensive value. He's also got good
defensive value in blocking shots. He isn't as physical, but the expectation is
for him to be one hundred percent ready at camp. He told the media
after the season with our sort of media exit interviews that he would be one
ready to go to to start the season and he believes that he can be
the same player that he always been has always been. And there the sample
size that he had this year, even though it was light, he still
looked like the Jared Spurgeon that we all know he can be. So a
full season out of him, would you would expect to see him be the
same guy we've always seen him to be the last couple of years. All
Right, We got to talk goalies now, and some people might be surprised
to hear that the While were the number one the best team in the NHL
and expected goals against for sixty, but they conceded the seventeenth ranked actual number
of goals. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the goalies were
part of the problem here for sure, and it really was both of them.
I wouldn't say that, maybe you can argue a little bit one was
better than the other. I think Fleorri probably was, but you look at
they were both not good. They both were offered outstanding product protection and didn't
really do as well as they could have with it. Gustafson played a few
more games, five more games, then we saw Fleury play. They wanted
to run with him at the beginning, but he just he unfortunately was not
able to build off of the solid season that he had last season when he
actually looked pretty promising. It looked like he could step up and take the
load. That was not really the case. Unfortunately. Gustafson was well under
expected and his delta Fenwick was negative quite a lot, and Fleury was closer
to average, but still not able to come close to the protection that was
offered for him. You know, in the end, either goalie was really
great. It seems like they're going to run this back with the tandem for
with forty year old Marc Andre Fleury for one more year. Gus has two
years on his contract, and we did see a little bit of Jasper walstat
which, of course, you know, I think we all know is the
future here, but it's probably not quite time for him yet. So Dylan,
how do you see the goalie situation shaking out next year? And can
they be the at least in the top half of the league this year,
closer to their expected numbers. Yeah, I think they'll be a lot better.
And specifically Gus like, he had stretches of the season where he looked
really good, but he'd follow that up with the game that he allowed five
goals, and then his next start he allowed five again, and then the
start after that he would look incredible, have you know, close to forty
saves, and then the next start he would let up five again, and
it was like the consistency level with him was just not what it was the
year before. He struggled to start the season the coaching change. He was
on fire once Hines took over. He kept starting every single game, and
then his production started to dip even more. He was starting to allow more
goals and things like that, and the Wild were pretty frustrated with him.
And he's a guy that honestly might be traded this summer, and if they
were to trade him, I certainly don't think a tandem of Walsted and Flurry
can push this team to the playoffs. But maybe that's what they view that
ken if Fleury's played in forty games this year, so maybe he could play
thirty again next year. But do you really want to put that load on
Walstead as a young goalie. I certainly wouldn't, but maybe that's what they
think. But there is a real possibility that Gustisen does get traded. If
he doesn't, I do think that he'll have a bounce back season for sure.
He was completely honest. In our exit interviews, John Hines said that
Gus was really understanding that he needs to be better next year, and Heines
talked about this big plan they had in place for Gus to work on things
in the offseason with Hines and with Freddie schabat their goalie coach. I would
expect Philip to be a lot better next year. It's just a matter of
if he's on the Wild or if he's on a different team. But if
he is with the Wild next year, the Flurry and gust Handhem I don't
think will be as bad as it was this year. In terms of Flurry,
I think he is what he is. He had stretches where he looked
fantastic. When Gus was hurt, Flurry stepped up. He played a ton
of games and he was fine for the Wild. But then he would maybe
have a stretcher two where he was letting in four or five goals a night.
But obviously that comes with his age two that maybe those numbers will keep
going down a little bit. But he's still a pretty decent goalie if you're
only playing him thirty thirty games a year, so it I would think that
if they keep Guss and Roll with that tandem, it will definitely be a
lot better next year. Tre mendous Dylan, that's been some great information on
the Minnesota Wild. How can people keep up with all the things you're doing.
Just go over to the Hockeynews dot com. You can first of all,
tons of awesome coverage there with all the NHL teams, juniors and everything
like that, and just keep tabs on the Wild pages, a ton of
new stuff, offseason stuff, things like that, And you can also follow
my Twitter too, Dylan looks for but yeah, just keep tabs on the
Hockey News website. Tremendous. Thank you so much for coming on to catch
us up on the Minnesota Wild. Wilson. That's good, fire past off.
Oh my goodness, wrong with a cat cram. Now it's your wingler.
Goalie talk with Kat Silverman. Kat's instincts joined once again by Kat Silverman
from INGL mag to talk goalie prospects and Kat, I think you can agree
we're at the point where one of our favorite goalies is going to be discussed.
Just for waalstat just love this guy. Twenty twenty one, way too
late. Twentieth overall should have been much higher, but Minnesota Wild really smart.
Way to go. Six foot three, two hundred and fourteen pound.
In his second HL season, he was good. He was killed it.
He killed it. His expected goals per goal conceded one point five to six
and last season one point three to nine. Just as a reminder this stat
anything over one is good, so one point five to six it's just absurdly
good. His hockey prospecting equivalency has been really high since he was drafted the
forties up to sixty two. He was slightly down to sixty fifty to six
this season, but pretty much all his comps are really good goalies that either
were star starters or at least like starters in the NHL, and one of
the comps that he currently looks a bit like is Connor Hellibuck, who,
obviously winning the VESNA again this season, most likely looks great his Fantasy Hockey
Life player card, I have him ranked as my top goalie. I don't
think there's any secret there. I think he's amazing. It looks pretty good
across the board. His best stat is the expected goal per goal allowed,
which is I think if you're going to have one be the best, that
would be it, because that's the one you most control how you can perform
against expected. But some of the other numbers are pretty good too, So
Kat, what do your instincts tell us about wallsteat? We saw him in
the NHL a few games this season that was whatever he did okay, won
a couple games, lost one, but really too early to tell all about
his NHL performance. I would say, but I think he's on track.
When you say yeah, I think he looked really good when he made his
way up to the NHL. For a guy who's as young as he is,
he looked confident. He didn't make every save he needed to, but
he didn't get rattled by those I know that in the past, I've pointed
to Aiden Hill's struggles making his way up to the NHL is something that I
look at to see as a good evaluation tool for whether a guy's ready to
make the jump to the NHL, because he would have a bad goal and
that would become a bad game. And I think for Walstett, he would
have a bad goal and it was just a bad goal, and that's really
what you're looking for from a maturity standpoint for these goaltenders. Obviously, Said
is one of the few goaltenders who has scored a goal in the last couple
of years. That always makes me happy. He does a lot of fun
to watch. He's super well rounded in the same way that someone like Connor
Hellibuk and Igocious Stirk and Ilias Aroken and all of our other really good quality
young goaltenders are nowadays where they're not playing. I know that everybody really loves
the great era from essentially when goaltending made the shift to butterfly first, your
Jonathan QUICKX, your two garrasks your Marc Andre Fleury's, your Henrik Lunquist's,
but they all had such aggressively distinctive styles, and now I think you have
to be more of a jack of all trades, where your style has a
little pinpoints in it that say, oh, that's I can tell who's playing
right now. But ideally you can't exploit those weaknesses because shooters have spent so
much time evaluating how these guys play now, and they do take the time
to watch the game footage and to really pick out these weaknesses and these tendencies.
And see, you can't afford to be a goaltender who has like a
characteristic depth level and the characteristic timing for when you drop into butterfly and when
you play the puck. And I think that whilst it looks like that well
rounded plays every style of game. Well does a good job of elevating when
he does need to make a high dangerous save and can scramble when he needs
to, but isn't Jonathan Quick. Isn't super overly athletic about it, and
he can play the puck when he needs to, but he hasn't made that
his entire game. And that's something that I like to watch. So I
think he did a good job of taking on a pretty monster workload at the
AHL level this year. He played forty five games. That's nothing to scoff
at for guys who essentially have to play in smaller barns with less luxurious travel.
And then he did spend some time up in the NHL as well.
That had to have been an exhausting year. And that's adding in that he
played at the AHL All Star Game this year and had a blast doing it.
So looks like he's having fun, looks like he's doing a good job.
Looks like at least the AHL skaters can't really keep up with him.
I think he's going to be a besan, a winner. Not to be
dramatic, I think he's going to be great, And I think next year
we're probably going to see more of him at the NHL level for sure.
Yeah, that's the question really is not if, but when will he be
good and how and how frequently? We really want to make sure he doesn't
just get thrown into the fire. We don't want to see him make his
NHL debut and then have to play sixty five games that year. Ideally,
we want to see him eased into it without stalling out as a guy who
only plays like the Jack Campbell in LA where he only played ten to fifteen
games each year until finally he got moved to another team. That's ideally something
that we don't want to see for Walstat. We want to see if he
does make his way to the NHL full time. I'd like to see him
as the full backup or in a tandem position. I think he's ready for
that next year. I don't know for sure, but it looks like they're
doing a good job with him. They didn't bring him up and just leave
him upsided. I'm excited to three games this year. Maybe he could get
ten to twenty or so, not too much. That would probably be good,
maybe even a little more depending on how he does. But you obviously
don't want to overuse him and spoil his confidence or anything like that. All
right, let's move on. They don't really need anyone else in this system.
We could just end it now, but they do that. A couple
other goalies that I guess we could mention. Then this is an interesting one.
So Samuel Levy. So he's a check and he was not drafted,
but he's six foot four, two hundred and eighteen pounds, really big guy.
He plays. He's been playing over in Slovakia and Czech Chechia. He's
Slovakian, Slovakian, and he's he was playing on the hc Plison team.
The only thing I really know about that is that's where the year Check's played
played and played. So it's a pretty good league though, the Czech league,
and he did pretty well in terms of his overall numbers. But I
don't really know much about him other than he's another guy in their system.
And we'll talk about a couple of other options they have which I don't think
are going great. So what do you do? What do you think about
Levi and a as some depths potentially behind Wall said at some point I thought
that was a really smart pickup for them. Slovakia and Czech Yer are both
countries that have a really strong hockey culture, but not a super strong pro
hockey presence. Their pro hockey leagues are really the wild West. If we
talk about the KHL and Sweden as being the two leagues that have I would
say the most consistency throughout them, and then you have Finland is the league
that has some really competitive teams and then some that are almost like a Tier
two or three team all playing against each other. Czechia and Slovakia are both
countries that their leagues are really all over the place, and I saw that
we did have a brief period where he did come over and play first for
the USHL Lincoln Stars. Then he played for the Sherbrooke Phoenix of the QMJHL
for two years and then made his way back over to play pro back in
Slovakia. And I like his numbers. I like him a lot. The
Slovakian national team is not exactly a powerhouse, and he played at the World
Championships last year, got three games in and had a nine to thirty two
savee percentage. Every once in a while there's a guy who has a really
low level overall quality of shel possibility to their game and they just kill it
at the World But those are usually guys who have a really high talent level
and don't have this size. I think it was Dennis Godla who just absolutely
crushed it at worlds. I think it was the World Juniors in twenty eighteen,
and he's five foot seven, so he just was not going to make
it over to the NHL. But Havai is huge. So if he's playing
that well against international competition on a team that respectfully to the Slovakian team,
it's like playing really well behind the German national team. You have a couple
NHLers in your ranks, you have a couple high level pros, and then
you have a lot of guys who just are not at the same quality of
competition, and you have a lot of older guys playing too, so you
don't necessarily have a ton of young guns playing on those national teams. So
he managed to crush it for them. He had really good numbers and at
all of the other international games he's played so far. He played six international
games for Slovakia this year, had one eight five goals against average and a
nine to twenty three save percentage. That's great. Had pretty decent numbers in
the Czech Ye too, So I would love to see him play in North
America. I think worst case, he's a really good depth option for them
because they do have the best young goaltender outside of Dustin wolf in her essentially
headed to the NHL this next year, so they don't necessarily need another great
a prospect to his NHL ready. They need someone who's going to do really
well at the minor league for them, and that I think could very easily
be him. And they got in for nothing, so that's a huge depth
to add for them. Yeah, I agree, really smart, really smart
pickup and probably available in a lot of leagues too, So go check him
out. H la Vaj Samuel b By the last two. We've talked about
Hunter Jones and Zane McIntyre for a while. I just want to pose them
to you as a pair. Are either of these guys worth holding? Because
Hunter Jones has really decreased in his equivalency playing in the ECHL not going super
well, and then Zaye McIntyre running his course in the NCAA. I'm just
not sure that either these are going to be super relevant. But that's what
I'm here to ask you about. If someone's holding these guys on their team,
should they How likely are they ever going to see meaningful NHL action.
So Zane McIntire's thirty one at this point, I don't think he's necessarily the
prospect for them at this point. I think he is their Richard Bachmann,
which I love teams having a guy like that, because he is a really
good quality, like locker room presence. From what everything anyone's ever told me
about him is that he's really great for that Hunter Jones, I'm a little
mad that he is not doing as well as I had hoped he would.
He's a guy who I saw was going to do really well. He continued
to improve each year that he played ohl hockey, and then he just has
not been able to put it all together at the pro level. And some
of it I know when he was getting drafted. He is really big,
but he was not super fast, and he had a really controlled game.
But it looks like he just hasn't been able to get himself up to the
essentially the speed and pacing for the desperation saves, for those high level saves.
So I think at this point he's only twenty three, he could turn
things around, but he's very clearly not who they are focusing their attention on
at this point, and it doesn't bode well for him that they just brought
in this hot shot from Slovakia who's crushing it in international competition. That certainly
doesn't lend credence to their confidence in Hunter Jones. So I think at this
point he's probably and the Richard Bachmann for them, so they probably don't need
a ton of those. But he has only twenty three, so I think
maybe he's got potential NHL backup prospect level at this point, but he really
hasn't shown that he has the essentially the speed when they need it the most,
and so I think he would get lit up if they brought him to
the NHL right now, And that's not a good sign for a guy who
is what five years past his draft. Yeah, definitely it doesn't look good.
So yeah, focus on Whilstead and Levey. Thanks so much for giving
us your instincts on the Minnesota Wild goalies. Guy, we'll be back right
after this. Digud giinas Be digs a st a Wild Edition. Victor,
here's a couple of things you got to know about the Wild. They're gonna
pick thirteenth in the draft, assuming no trades between now and then. They're
missing their own third and seventh round picks this year, but they do have
an extra Buffalo fifth rounder, and Victor, I don't need to tell you
this, but I need to tell the listeners this is your very favorite highest
rated prospect system in all the land Minnesota number one, and it starts,
Oh, I just want to hear you say it with the no brainer.
Who's the no brainer? Victor Danilla? You're off, Jesse, Yes,
we have come bull circle on Danilla. You're off twenty twenty two to twenty
fourth overall pick six foot, one hundred and seventy two pounds. His overall
scoring last year was really good. He actually I'm just gonna read what I
wrote about him for EP Ringside. Last season, he had only twelve points
and fifty nine games from Metallurg Magnetic Gorsk. This season, his ice time
nearly double from eight thirty one to fifteen fourteen. With that came a huge
surgeon points from forty nine to sixty one games played, which also forty nine
and sixty nine sixty one games played, which also led the team. Leading
the team in points while being seventh and ice time is truly impressive, and
you think that you're you'd give your player, your leading scorer, a little
bit more ice time with the man advantage, but they did not do that.
He was only twelve on a nice time on the power play. This
is often the playbook from KHL teams. If the player plans to leave the
NHL for the NHL, which is exactly what You're Off plans to do,
although he will be back with metal Urg next season, so that gave you
some context of what he did. It was super impressive, Jesse, what
he did for metal Urg Magnetigorsk. And he's got one more year. We
heard it referenced by Dylan at the top of the show how ere Off is
coming over next season. Everyone's going to be excited about that. But he
does have one more year. If you look at his Fantasy Hockey Life player
card, you can see that his shots are really good. His goals and
assists and blocks are actually really solid for You're Off. Overall, that gives
him a pretty nice floor. His hits are a little bit lower, but
he's got some nice bash floor. Eight out of ten is where I have
him at. Overall, he's looking pretty solid in a bunch of different areas,
including his scoring chances, transition game, and puck battles. But let's
hear a little bit more about what makes your Off interesting FROMFHL scout Jesse,
and our featured scout today on this episode is James. Here's what he has
to say about Danilla. You're off excellent skater stands out right away when you
watch him. Great on the edge, his powerful strides and fast acceleration.
For passing and handling, You're off. Knows where he's going with the puck
before he gets it. The handling is very good. Looks like an NHL
player already. For shooting, he shot a puck off the goalies back in
the game that the first game James watch, resulting in a goal. Otherwise,
he didn't take a whole lot of shots, so James didn't have a
whole lot to base that on. For IQ was outstanding, smart player.
Knows where everyone is on the ice at all times. Ces plays before they
happen. For checking euro Off's got size and skating ability to get in and
rekavoc on the Ford check. For defense, you're off seems to be in
the right position a lot does not shy away from the physicality, often wins
the puck. Best asset toss up between the skating and the IQ, but
James ago with the IQ. He's such a smart player. Biggest concern I
guess James would say he would have liked to see play move through Europ more
often than he did. Top tier outcome. You're off top line, that's
for sure, and that's because he's got the size, speed and IQ to
play in that level. In the NHL fifty percentile level two, that would
be a sixty to eighty point score with potential for above average bash and the
stylistic comparable. James was having trouble locking onto an exact, but he could
see maybe a mark Stone type, so very interesting. We saw lower on
the hits when we looked at the data based here, but what James saw
on the ice was a bit different from that. Mason Black put out the
poll the NHL Rankking put this out on X for ust Danila eurof was matched
up against Matthew Savoy, who we've heard about on a recent episod, and
the result was You're off over Savoy fifty four percent to forty six percent.
Victor you're off or Savoy. Yeah, I'm going you're off here. I
do think that what he's done in the KHL is really exciting, and I
think Savoy he's been really good for the last several seasons in the WHL.
That's not anything he can change. He's bound by that NHL COCHL agreement,
so he can't really be anywhere else. After this season. He will be
over in the HL. We just talked about Moose Jaw. Moose Jaw is
another team is the team that he's on, and he's done fantastically driving them
to the WHL Championship series against Portland. We'll see. I have a feeling
Musjah is going to win, but we'll see. But he will be in
the AHL next year and it'll be good to see how he performs against bigger,
stronger, faster Players's already doing that and really excelling in that role,
even though his trajectory has been straight up. I think I would take him.
He's also a bit bigger. He's four inches taller, a bit thicker
than Savoy, so you don't have to worry so much about maybe getting pushed
around. He also is pretty feisty, so you like to see that.
Looking at the hockey prospecting between the two, it is pretty similar, although
Savoy does have a higher star potential. I think I would trust Eurovs,
though a little bit more based on the league that he's in. Looking at
Eurov's other comps, there's some really good ones. One of the ones that
I think might be realistic, is former Wild player Maren Gaberick. I think
he could end up being a bit like that, which would be pretty phenomenal
obviously, and we heard Dylan reference it. If he could jive with crillical
Priestoft, that would be incredible countrymen playing together, and maybe they could make
some sweet music and really increase that production for euro Off. So the last
thing I'll mention is that his j fresh card top from top down hockey's pretty
pessimistic. Just three percent chance of being a star, twelve percent chance of
being in NHL. Are so a little less excited about Danilla? You're off
in that model, you said Marion Gaberick, and a bunch of Wild fans
just say he dead away. But they already know about Danil You're off,
so I guess they're not too surprised. Victor moving on, Who's the need
to know? Need to know? Is Riley Hite twenty twenty three second round
pick five to eleven hundred and eighty three pounds followed up his incredible draft season
by and even more bonkers draft plus one season. He had ninety seven points
in sixty eight games as a draft eligible, which is crazy. One hundred
and see hundred and seventeen points in sixty six games in the regular season so
far for Prince George, not so far. They're out now, but that's
pretty amazing, almost two points per game. Definitely raised his stock and looking
at his player card. For Mitch Brown, the defense that's always been the
issue for him. It's thirty eight percentile, not great, but the offense
is just so ridiculous, and it's pretty much all the expected primary assists.
Like, he's definitely more of a playmaker. He doesn't shoot a lot,
his goals are never going to be that high, but he is an incredible
playmaker and he's always involved in the points. Percent primary point involvement is like
off the charts, so it's his game score and advantage is created. He's
just an incredible junior player. He looking at his FHL player card, his
assists really high. You know, his goals for the league he plays and
are actually pretty high, even though he's not a big shooter, but his
bash is always going to be a little bit on the lower side. Hits,
blocks and shots are all a bit lower. Blocks are actually the highest
of the three relative, which is interesting, but the bash overall is really
low, so Let's find out a little bit more about what makes Hyde pick
Jesse. All right, let's go to such great Heights with James our scout.
The skating definitely more noticeable, definitely noticeable for him. Height skated,
passed behind the defense and showed off silky edge work behind the goal before finishing
passing and handling. Height moves the puck, quickly, protects the puck well
shows off his puck handling during his goals that he scores and shooting. He
noticed that Heights goals tend to come from close up, one in a wrap
around, another slammed home in a loose puck. He's seen many instances where
those shots have come in from close but good shooting. IQ a smart but
feisty player who pairs the skill aspects of the game with some edginess for checking.
Heights got the ability to be a very good four checker, as he
gains the zone quickly and does not shy away from physicality. But James didn't
see that much for checking in his scouts. Defense positions himself well away from
the puck, putting himself in passing lanes and anticipating errant passes. So the
best asset overall for height, smart and opportunit tunistic hockey player, and those
two things prier together could make him a successful in Eacheller. Biggest concern you
got to talk about the size. James liked to see him fill out just
a little bit more to have a more solid physical role. So the top
tier outcome. He still sees primarily as a third liner, flexes into the
top six when needed, can play the second power play as well as the
penalty kill. He's a solid hockey player, but James says he's not sure
he's going to be able to replicate the style he uses right now at the
NHL level to the same degree. Probably a thirty to forty plus point player
unless he can sneak onto a team's top power play and the fiftieth percentile would
be a level three. That's a thirty to forty plus point player unless he
can. He'll produce hits, assists, some goals, but he's not going
to produce over fifty plus points at that level. And he's saying Brendan Gallagher
as a potential Brandon Gallagher has tortured me these last few years. So don't
say that, James, you're hurting me Riley Height in the Mason Black NHL
Rankking Pole faces off versus Gavin Brindley of the Columbus Blue Jackets, and the
people have spoken just barely, and said Gavin Brindley fifty point seven to forty
nine point three over Riley Hyde, Victor. Is this dang near a tie?
I don't think so. Personally. I would take Hyde pretty easily here.
He has the height advantage. I know I've made that joke before,
but he you know, Brinley is a bit smaller. I love the kid,
I love how he plays, but he's only five to nine. He
has that high energy, he has that high compete. He's just screams bottom
six player to me, and he definitely has some skill, but maybe he
could be a middle six player height. I hear what Jimmy's saying. I
don't know that you really have height on your team unless you have him in
a scoring role. So I think that's someone who he could be. He
reminds me in some sense of l Ryan Spooner, who was like always like
a bottom sixer, but top line power play kind of guy. I think
Height is maybe a little bit better than that, but I think that could
end up being his role maybe like bottom bottom to middle six, top power
play, because you don't really have him on the ice unless you have him
on the power play, because he's that's what he does. He's a scorer,
he's he's a playmaker. I definitely prefer Height. I think he has
more upside, even though the floor is much less certain. And Brinley seems
he's already played, so he's already played one NHL game, he signed an
entry level he might be in the AHL next season. But he's definitely a
more likely to play in the NHL. But I'm just not sure it's going
to be the best role. And if you look at the hockey prospecting between
these two, Riley Height is almost double what Kevin Brindley is, so that's
interesting. And Height has some pretty good comps in the hockey prospecting, guys
like Dylan Cousins, who's plus minus right now, Kent Johnson, we don't
really know about Tim Stouchla, Alex Tangay. Those are pretty good, So
there's some pretty good ones there. Still, I think he could end up
being more like those guys. The j freshcard has him at twenty two percent
chance of being a star which is pretty high in this model, sixty five
percent chance of being an NHL or so. Overall, I think that there's
there should be a little bit more optimism on height. I think, yeah,
I agree with Jimmy. I'm not sure that all of his offense will
fully translate, but you're betting on upside there and there's a lot of it
with height. Okay, Victor, let's move on to the third and final.
Keep your eye on prospect Liam Ogrin, who's the twenty twenty to nineteenth
overall pick by the Wild six foot one hundred and eighty seven pounds left wing.
I actually wrote about him in a recent ramblings titled the Swedes Are Coming.
He had a really great season over in Sweden. All the three guys,
Lekatamachi, Ogrin, and Oaceland were all part of their Jew Gardens trio
when they were drafted. They all played for different teams this season in the
SHL, because Your Gardens is still down in the eight al spencekn after being
relegated, and Ogrin had a really nice bounced back season after a rough season
last year which Your Gardens where he only had twenty points in thirty six games,
and he had nineteen points in twenty six games this season. He had
an injury that delayed him. He had a so he didn't start until November,
but he really came on strong at the end and he actually got into
some games in North America. So it was great to see him come all
the way over to North America because we saw him in a few AHL games
and two sorry four NHL games where he had two points, a goal and
assist, So that's awesome to see. We love to see that he's already
here and looking to play already for the North American team. Looking at his
tracking data from Mitch Brown his World Junior Championship tracking data, it looks really
good. Overall, the transition and defense game is the best. His offense
is at a sixty nine, so still decent but not amazing. He shoots
a fair amount, but his expected goals is a little bit lower, and
his transition game is awesome. Looking at his FHL player card, I have
him out of the seven at a ten overall, but his goals being really
high and overall his bash is decent. Shotspots and hicks are a little bit
above average but not incredible amount. A decent Purferle floor, but not as
much as you might like. Let's hear a little bit more about Ogrin from
URFHL scout James. Let's do that. In what James had to say about
Liam Ogrin skating above average, the speed does not stand out as much against
the NHL type competition passing and handling. Plays the game so fast that at
oftentimes the puck comes off a stick just as fast as it comes to him.
I'm not yet sure. James is not yet sure if this is an
asset or a detriment, and would like to see him be a bit more
patient shooting. Was able to show off his shot once again, positioned himself
in front of goal on more than one occasion, which he did a lot
of in Sweden. Scored his first NHL goal on a loose puck rebound four
or five feet from the goal. He plays the game as far as his
IQ at such a heightened pace that, once again it's hard to tell if
he's reading the ice properly or not forour checking. Has potential to be a
for checking beast, as he's not afraid of physicality and flies into the zone
for defense. Still an incomplete as this positioning doesn't look quite right on a
new team will be easier to give an opinion as he gets more settled in
the best asset the willingness to play round goal. Olgrin picked up his first
NHL goal and recorded a secondary assists in the goal. James was reporting on
biggest concern his willingness to slow down, read the ice and change speeds.
The way he currently plays will be predictable and is mentioned previously as speed does
not stand out at the NHL level the way it did in Sweden. The
top roll Ah James says maybe a middle six NHL or was second line potential.
That's because he possesses desirable skills such as speed, shot, willingness to
play in the tough areas of the ice. But the fiftieth percentile more of
a level three a forty to fifty point player, if put in the right
situation, may be a less physical Ryan Hartman. So what is the NHL
ranking poll that Mason Black put out for? Is Liam Ogrin versus Yanni Nyman
of the Seattle Kraken. What do you think happened there? I'll tell you
what. Liam Ogrin eighty five percent to fifteen percent, huge wipeout. What
do you think of that battle, Victor. I definitely lean Ogrin here,
and I believe it's pronounced Newman like Yanni Newman, but I do hell Newman.
There you go, I do ogre in quite a bit. I actually
I think this poll might be giving Newman or doing Newman a little bit of
disservice, because he had a fantastic season in the Liga, which I'll be
writing about or at this point when you're listening to this, go read that
on EP ring side. But he forty three points in forty eight games for
the Liga in a very low scoring league, and then he came over to
North America and played for Coachella Valley in the playoffs. I think he's someone
that definitely you should be interested in, even though I'm preferring Ogrin here.
Ogren is just a smart, strong player. He's a good play driver.
He said Hartman as a comparable, I actually think he's a little bit more
like Matt Boldie. Matt Boldi light is who I think of Ogren as he's
not. He doesn't have the big physical presence as much. He's not built
quite the same way, but he doesn't impose his physicality. But I think
you know he probably has a similar play style and a similar upside. I
think he can I think he may be more of a score depending on what
the team needs. But he's one of these guys that can do anything that
you need him to do, which is great for a team player. Ogrin's
hockey prospecting looks much better than Newman's a twelve percent chance of being a star.
He bumped that up after going down to ten last season. Not Newman
is just four percent chance of being a star. And looking at some other
comps of his and hockey prospecting, there's some other ones that he looks a
little bit like, like Pablo Demitra, Max stmy Thomas Hurtle is someone who
I think he is probably a reasonable comp in terms of what to expect point
wise. And his j fresh card has him just one percent chance of being
a star four percent chance of being NHL are so much more pessimistic, but
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