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Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented
by fan Tracks, your source of information

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and analysis to help you win your
fantasy hockey league. Fuck off, that's

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a step hit on stay lot fod
gosh. Here's your hosts, Jesse Suverre

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and Victor Nuno. Jessy Hockey Live
back once again. This is Jesse Sephor

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from fan Tracks, and joining me
is Victor Nuno of daver Prospects. Victor,

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how you doing. I'm doing awesome, Jesse. We are getting closer

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and closer to the start of seeing
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makes me excited. That makes me
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you doing now? I'm doing all
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is indeed the dog days when you're
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episodes in advance, so we are
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on a beach or no, there's
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but maybe Victor found a beach somewhere. But regardless, we're all getting

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ourselves ready, doing our draft,
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Oh boy, Victor, there is
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hit us up on x at fan
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They could also join the Patreon.
I just referenced patrons. What would

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they find if they opened that magical
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fantastic. Yeah, there are patron
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Of course, the goalie episodes with
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of that on the dig the main
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the ranks, so you can look
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D twenty three guys, team top
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is all in one document, including
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how long you can wait to draft
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this point, I think we're up
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put together for that project, So
there's lots of good stuff there. There's

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also things like roster doctors. I
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so if you're wondering what to do
with your team, you can have one

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of us take a look, dissect
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one on one session with that.
So lots of good stuff. Check it

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out over at patreon dot com slash
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stuff. You can check all those
things out. Victor. We've got a

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great first time guest. I don't
want to stand in her way much longer.

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We're gonna be right back to talk
Colorado Avalanche. We'd like to welcome

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to the show Megan Angley of the
d n VR to talk a little bit

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of Colorado Avalanche. Megan, how
are you doing today? I'm doing really

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well. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. I'm doing great.

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I'm ready to talk some Colorado Avalanche
because these guys always are doing some

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exciting stuff. It's tough to follow
up. As Stanley Cup and the team

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made a lot of changes and had
to it's the winner's curse. They replaced

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their cup winning goalie with the first
time starter. They lost top six staples

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Nasa Kadyri and Andre Berkovski a free
agency capturing Gabriel Landskog had a full season

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injury. So they won five fuer
games in the regular season. That's still

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pretty darn good because they had a
heckup of regular season the year before.

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They still finished first in the Central
Divi Vision and then they lost in round

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one to the upstart Seattle Crack in
seven games. This past season, the

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past the offseason currently passing, they
retained a little more continuity, but top

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ten scores get confer Alex Nuuk,
Evan Rodriguez all out the door. We'll

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talk a little bit in a minute
about a couple of the players that came

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in to fill that vacuum. But
two years after the Cup, do the

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core remaining superstars in this team Megan
have enough support left to make a deep

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run. It's a complicated question because
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navigating roster construction in this current cap
era before the cap is set to go

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up just a little bit is a
challenge that all teams are navigating to different

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degrees now. It is really hard
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year because of how well constructed it
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intact. But they have replenished even
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in a way that I think is
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I don't believe that they're finished.
The roster as it looks today is still

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very competitive because pieces of the core
remain intact. Getting Bobiram to extend in

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this off season was a huge component
in keeping the core competitive and maximizing this

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one now that the ADS are in
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that is some of the last pieces
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around the start of camp, similar
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the Avalanche so close to the start
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that the Ads are going to look
to add a player like that who maybe

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it'd hoped to get more in free
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is still somehow hanging around come the
start of camp. And so with that

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in mind, I think that they're
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start the season. Then there's hopefully
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the bottom of that forward group in
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that put together, then some of
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I think to add really important qualities
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then the likes of Kamakar, Nathan
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especially from rant and McKinnon, are
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remain in Colorado and will keep them
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And let's start talking about them and
start with Nathan McKinnon. Listeners are

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is everybody aware that McKinnon set a
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sixty nine assists, one hundred and
eleven points. That was in only

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seventy one games. His points per
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is a bit less durable than earlier
in his career. He's missed eight seventeen

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and eleven games respectively in the past
three years, but he stars when it

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counts, maintaining a point per game
pace. Throughout the playoffs, he averages

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more than five shots a game,
which is just ridiculous, nearly fourteen per

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sixty minutes. Only David Pasternak in
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does. I ran Corey Schneider data
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four quadrants of the NHL, and
Nathan McKinnon is off the chart in terms

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of the whole NHL in shots per
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sixty, bottom line, one of
the best players in hockey. Do you

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see him scoring at the rate he
did last year? And had these injuries

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just been anomalies or should we all
play for seventy games a year from mister

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McKinnon. I think that the injuries
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because they've varied in nature, So
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that continues to bother him season by
season. It is just a wear in

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tear of the season catching up with
a player who is utilized in every situation

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imaginable because of how valuable he is
to his team. So it's hard for

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me to say that eighty two games
is possible for McKinnon just because of the

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natural wear and tear to the body
for a player that's utilized so much.

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This is true of kil mccarr as
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as the points production, it's funny
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game because this isn't a player that
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he has so much skill and has
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But in looking ahead, a little
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though in the way that he likes
to play the game. Finally breaking

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the hundred point threshold was so important
for him personally, and the way in

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which the Abs lost to Seattle is
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well, especially after one hundred eleven
point season, even in spite of missing

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eleven games. Those are the types
of things I look to jump start McKinnon

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in this next season that I'm not
sure I'm penciling him in for another one

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hundred eleven point season, though I
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point mark again just because of how
personally motivating that was for him to finally

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cross And it's because of the way
he likes to score that I'm not necessarily,

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even with consistency and health on his
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with that points total, and it's
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likes to generate in transition and then
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he likes to score and that doesn't
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each of those times. And so
the hope though, and we not to

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jump the gun, but in looking
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been added to this team that is
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six along McKinnon, is a new
look for McKinnon in this next year that

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I think will also help to the
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whole. As far as scoring though
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be comparable to last year. That
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McKinnon finally had being incredibly important.
Oh yeah, we're gonna hold off on

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the Jonathan Drew and talk, but
that is coming. That's exciting to look

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forward to that. But we've got
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and the forward ranks here with McKinnon
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gets a little bit forgotten, I
would say at times. And he is

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incredible in different ways. Definitely a
different type of player, but really amazing.

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Fantasy asset three straight seasons over one
hundred point pace for the first time

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in his career, played all eighty
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for that one hundred and five point
pace was really amazing. The three hundred

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shots is great, thirty seven power
play points is incredible. He's someone that

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he had career highs and goals,
shots, hits, and power play points.

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Really nice distribution there, and he's
someone that in the past I have

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maybe it faded a little bit in
fantasy draft because he didn't do the hits,

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shots and you know, the bash
as well. But he ended up

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seventeenth at his position for right wing, and with his high scoring, it's

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pretty great. Pretty hard to argue
with that two years left at nine point

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two five million. You look at
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is not why he's out there.
It's actually pretty poor. His course,

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he against expected goals against, but
the offensive metrics are just so high.

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The shooting percentage was a little bit
high for Ronten in but the rest of

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his quote unquote luck metrics are pretty
much right in line. So, Megan,

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I don't see why Ronton and can't
continue to be a hundred point pace

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player. Do you think that he
continues in this century club? Yes,

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he's easier to answer that question for
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which mc garantonen has grown up as
a player. Season by season. He

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has consolidated a lot of the things
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physicality component. He obviously has had
the size as a player from the beginning,

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but he has begun to use it
a lot more efficiently and that has

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helped it with some of those five
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how that line shakes out, because
I don't know exactly how Ranson is going

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to be utilized, but I imagine
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the first and second lines as needed, because he demonstrated such an aptitude in

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doing this last season when he was
relied on more than anyone else on the

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team. Because he was able to
play in all games in the regular season,

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stay healthy take on even more of
a leadership role. These are bigger

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things than just the scoring that he's
contributing, and he was able to balance

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this while being incredibly productive. Because
the other thing is you talked about luck

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metrics when you look at the whole
of the Avalanche, scoring and finishing touch

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were things that were down on the
whole for the forward group last year,

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and this was something that didn't seem
to play make a ranson into terribly and

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so when the lights shone a little
bit brighter and there was greater expectation and

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pressure on him, he met that
moment so well that in the same Vein

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after a season like last year,
exit specifically to Seattle, I think Ransonin

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is also going to be particularly motivated
to pick up where he laughed off last

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year, in the incredible year that
he had Valor Nisushkin. Last year he

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was the fifty ninth ranked fantasy player
at an eighty two game pace, and

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Victory and I are both optimistic for
him this year. I'll just get it

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out of the way. It ended
really poorly. He was taken out of

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the playoffs with an incident that somehow
involved a Seattle hotel room. Police alcohol

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and a very upset young woman.
I have no idea what happened, and

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I don't think I dare speculate too
far, but regardless, he seems to

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be back this year. An ankle
surgery last year, among other issues,

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wrecked the first half of the season, limited him to fifty three games.

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He's actually missed double digit games for
the past five years. He had three

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shots a hit in forty seven points. Yeah, three shots a game,

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a hit a game in forty seven
points overall in those fifty three games he

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was a very frequent running mate of
McKinnon. Went in who is Nis skating

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with this year? And could he
again be a point per game type guy?

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In looking at how things are tracking
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even though ankle was still giving him
a little bit of trouble, it was

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something that he was still rehabilitating even
while he was returned to gameplay through points

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last season, and the pace seemed
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pace even then, in knowing that
he is battling this injury a little bit

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of discomfort maybe it's the better word
for it. And so in seeing that,

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I do expect the pace to remain
similar and I don't want to completely

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unaddress the absence from the team during
the Seattle series last year. There is

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a component here for Nichushkin to address
with his teammates next year that is going

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to be something that I don't think
is outside of his reach in being able

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to reconnect with the group and just
repair some of maybe the disappointment or trust

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that was broken, and having had
this happen now and knowing what Nutushikan has

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meant to this group previously, this
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when Bednar is leaving after breaking down
film, Natushkin is still in the weight

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room working hard. This is a
quality in him that his teammates have come

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to know and respect and appreciate.
And so I think there is a path

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forward for Nitushkan to reconnect with this
group next year and have that support around

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him too, because with what he
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absolutely necessary. I imagine him playing
alongside a second line that could be made

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up of Ryan Johansson him, and
this is potentially where Artery Lechanin is slotted

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in there. If Lechanin is up
and drew And is down, maybe that

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is the winger on that line.
But either way, he is going to

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play an important role in the top
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and an important role in special teams, particularly on their first power play unit.

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They're going to need a lot from
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think the biggest thing is he's capable
of it. But he is going to

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need to lean on his support next
year and make sure that he's checking in

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with people around him and using them
for what they're there for, and that

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is a support. Yoh, you
mentioned leaking in. He's the next guy

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we're going to talk about. I've
been a huge fan of his since his

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Montreal days as a strong defensive foward, and I was really excited when they

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acquired him. I thought he was
one of the biggest, one of the

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best kits at the trade deadline,
and they certainly panned out with the Cup

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run. This past season, he
took an even better step personally forward,

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I would say in terms of his
point production. He ended up with a

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sixty five point pace, which was
the highest of his career and the most

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amount of total points he was also
achieved this year, though he did only

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play sixty four games because it broke
his finger in March returning the playoffs and

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had six points in seven games,
so that was nice. The sixty five

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point pace came from twenty one goals
thirty assists, which was pretty nice,

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and he also had some pretty decent
hitting block numbers. Twenty power play points

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was way more than he ever had. In fact, that was pretty much

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more than he'd had in his entire
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that was a big step forward on
the power play four years left at four

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point five million, and a huge
jump in time on ice for him.

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He was third on the AVS for
forwards and five more minutes than his previous

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career high and tripled the amount of
power play time. So I think the

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question here is does that top deployment
continue for leakin In, Because if it

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does, I think he can continue
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numbers. So what do you think
about leakin In's role in twenty twenty three,

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twenty four Megan, Oh, yeah, it's definitely like you said,

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top deployment. I imagine we'll continue
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that are currently slotted in there.
The only one that is a little bit

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of a question is Joanne, but
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and especially in looking at his contract, that is the hope that the

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Apps have for Lechnin two is to
continue on this course. He is someone

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too similar to Valetukin. That heavy
four checking physical role that he plays is

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also sometimes exactly what a line needs, and not every player can bring that

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right, especially in a top six. You're looking at a lot of players

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with a lot of skill upside.
Now Lechnin is obviously producing, so that's

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not to demerit that quality of his
game, but the physical component that he

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brings about, the reliable defensively component
that he brings to a line are going

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to be things that the top six
will always need, whether that be from

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Valetu, Lechnin and both. And
so that is absolutely going to continue having

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him seen him miss some time last
year too. The expectation from my perspective

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is even just slightly higher, and
I'll probably reference Lechnin and talking about some

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of these other new additions because there
is something of a boost in production that

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can be awarded two players when they
come through Colorado, even someone like JT.

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Kahfer in a contract year when given
top six opportunity, depending on how

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players utilize it. They do see
those career high numbers like you're describing with

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Lackanen, and I expect it to
continue because stylistically, this is exactly the

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role that he was meant to play, and I think that's why it complements

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him so well. Is Colorado is
able to grant him that opportunity that he

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especially shines in the top six.
Ryan Johansson is a guy who you didn't

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get to watch on Colorado, but
he was in the division in Nashville for

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the last few years and he had
a rough year. But really his year

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was a lot like a lot of
the years of his career, except the

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year before last, where he absolutely
played out of his mind fifty five games.

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This past year though, twenty eight
points, eighty six shots, forty

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nine it wasn't It wasn't particularly a
great year. His season ended in February

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with legs injury and jury and a
buyout. He's off the Predators now presumably

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lined up to be the two CE. Pretty good for Nasim Kadri's career in

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the past, so two s in
Colorado is and not a bad gigs recently

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that career year. But are the
ads expecting him to get back to that

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type of form, maybe a sixty
five point form, or what are the

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ads exactly expecting out of Brian Johansson. I think the sixty point mark is

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a little ambitious just because of the
context of that season for Nashville as well,

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just the shooting percentage and a benefit
of some IPDIO numbers, but also

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taking into account the injury that he's
rehabilitated, could affect speed, something that

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is already a little bit in question
with the way Colorado likes to play,

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which is very fast. Ken Ryan
Johansson hang with the speed of Colorado's top

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six, and I think there absolutely
is potential for this. But what I'm

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really looking for and what I imagine
Colorado targeted in wanting Ryan Johansson is one

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more simply someone who could hang in
the face off dot and help them down

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the middle in that regard, and
that is something that I think Ryan Johansson

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is going to bring and situationally that
is going to be so helpful for the

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Cardo Avalanche and something that they needed
and lost in JT. Comfort and the

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other part of it that has also
been lost in the absence of Gabriel Landskog

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has been something of the physical and
NetFront presence that Landiscog brought about. Ryan

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Johansson can help to replay that because
he is a really difficult player to play

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opposite of, and he is going
to make it a very punishing decision if

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that is somebody that you take on
in the offensive set. As far as

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the production, though, like I
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there is something of a boost in
production and coming through Colorado, but I'm

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not ready to say that it is
going to rival that sixty three point season

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that he's just one removed from having, though I do think that something in

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the forty five to fifty point mark
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I just hope he can hang with
the speed of the top six drive play,

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be a physical presence. Those two
things are going to be really important,

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and that's where my expectation is right
now. You've mentioned Jonathan drew on

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a few times, and that really
intrigues me because this is a guy who's

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tantalizing talent has never seemingly come to
full fruition. He's twenty eight now,

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clearly it was time to move on
from Montreal. He had twenty nine points

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and fifty eight games last year,
twenty nine hits, sixty nine shots,

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very few shots for a guy who
played fifty eight games, skated under fifteen

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minutes a night for the first time
in six seasons in Montreal. Over his

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career, he's been a mild positive
and expected goals on even strength offense,

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a mild negative on defense. According
to the evolving hockey data, Still in

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his late prime, expectations are likely
to be a little more realistic than they

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were for a Quebec native who has
hyped up a lot and played in Montreal

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these years. Do you see a
fifty point season for Drouet sounds like maybe

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with McKinnon. What do you expect
out of drun this year in Colorado?

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It's interesting because of the value contract
that they got him for. If things

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were not working out in the top
six, I could see him being utilized

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very effectively in the third line role
where there is a little bit of an

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opportunity also to be filled for the
ABS, And if that were to be

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the case, I wouldn't have maybe
the fifty point season expectation, but that

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would also mean that something went wrong
and he didn't work in the top six,

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and I'm not counting on that until
I see it in reality. And

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so with drewn Won, the context
of last season for him in Montreal was

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another team more so than the Avalanche
plagued by injury, and so to see

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something close to a thirty point season
in the context of what Montreal was dealing

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with last year is actually a little
bit encouraging because of the things I've alluded

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to in players being able to observe
a boost in production and coming through Colorado,

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and then of course the stylistic fit
then of what Colorado will allow Drouette

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to do with the runway to play
alongside players like McKinnon, It is hard

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not to see an inevitable boost of
production in that way as well. But

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the other part of it is Colorado
is going to make demands of their players

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to buy into the way that they
like to play, and of course the

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speed and the high acting offense that
they look to up top are part of

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that. But the other part of
that is becoming more reliable defensively. This

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is an area of Juranne's game that
he could stand to improve, and I

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believe is going to be asked of
him in Colorado. And I think that

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this is where players like Vanituchkin,
who through three seasons in Colorado, you

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really began to see the potential that
was there that was not being realized in

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Dallas. And so sometimes players like
that are described as something as a rehabilitation

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project, and I can see something
like that for Juranne in Colorado. Parts

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of his games that maybe weren't touted
as the best parts before could become improved

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upon. And so all of that
put together is an exciting potential for the

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top six. I think that the
production is there inevitably in playing alongside Ranton

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and McKinnon, even if it's going
to end up being something like a Nachuchkan

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or Johansson. I'm still seeing the
points upside to rival some of his early

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seasons in the league when he was
closer to fifty points. I won't get

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carried away and suggest that he's there
out the gate, but I'm targeting forty

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point season for Jonathan Duran if things
go according to plan, and the thing

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is McKinnon vouch for him. He's
wanted here in Colorado, and so those

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things put together also are why I'm
excited, and there's so little risk here

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in Colorado taking this chance on him, because he can be buried in the

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depth if if things really didn't go
according to plan, and it's at very

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little expense to the Avs. Let's
put a couple more forwards. We'll talk

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about a couple more here and just
put him up against each other and say

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which one you think we'll have the
better season? Ross Colton Miles Wood.

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Colton came in a trade with Tampa
Bay. He's about to be twenty seven,

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but he put up thirty two points, close to two shots a game,

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more than two hits a game in
only twelve minutes. Miles Wood is

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a long term, low dollar signing
away from New Jersey, providing some roster

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stability maybe a little bit of salary
control for Colorado. He was really squeezed

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for minutes because New Jersey's lineup has
just gotten so deep. But he put

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him about the same numbers in about
the same minutes, though with half the

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hit rate one year older. He's
got a much longer track record in future

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term. But which of Ross Colton
or Miles Wood would you take for next

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year? Making Ross Colton, I
think this is not to demerit Miles Wood.

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They definitely sought him out for a
specific reason as well. But even

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in evaluating how Colorado got Russ Colton
in essentially losing Alex new Hook to make

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this happen, Ross Colton is highly
coveted by the Avalanche. The contract that

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he signs, the term that came
with it also supports the belief that they

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have not only a high expectation for
Colton going into next year, but a

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future plan for him in the AVS
Forward Group too that I think has promotion

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at the end of it. But
in looking at these things, I think

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Ross Colton can have a greater impact
and offensive contribution. I think that he's

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going to be looked to on both
special teams. The AVS Power Play has

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lost some personnel that are going to
be important to replace, and I'm not

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going to get ahead of myself and
say that he is going to be a

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PK specialist, but I think there's
potential for that with Colton as well.

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And so all of these things put
together are going to be of tremendous value

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and utility to Colorado. That's why
I'm looking to Colton as being really important

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between the two of those, and
just got to ask you, Gabriel Landi

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Scott long term, it's going to
be back for the playoffs? Is he

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going to retire? What's the deal. I'm not talking about retirement with Landi

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Scott just yet, and I'm also
not talking about any sort of return to

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the playoffs. And the reason being
I watched last year as information changed so

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quickly surrounding his status and his return, and it was, as I came

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to know, as honest as they
could give us, like the situation was

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so fluid and changing at that time, he was genuinely trying to evaluate moment

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by moment if he could return to
play, and ultimately, of course,

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it ended with the decision to have
the cartilage transplant surgery to his knee.

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But in knowing just how fluid the
situation was before the surgery decision got made,

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and also recognizing the nature of this
surgery specifically being a bit unknown,

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especially as it relates to professional sports, we are learning in real time what

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recovery for this injury or and then
surgery. Sorry, looks like it's just

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too uncertain. I don't even think
Lando Scogg is entertaining the idea of retirement.

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Yet this is something that I think
after a few months of rehabbing this

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specific surgery, will also begin asking
those same questions. And he is the

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type of player who obviously has such
a passion for the game that is going

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to be the hope, that is
going to be really incentive lies. But

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he's also very honest about what his
body is capable of and isn't going to

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push it unnecessarily unless he feels properly
ready to return to play. I know

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that's such a middle of the road
answer, but I do believe it to

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be true of land discog that it's
just going to be a few months before

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we can know what comes next for
him. And it's just because we're in

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very unknown territory with the recovery of
this surgery. But I'm not thinking in

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terms of retirement, and I don't
think Landi Scoggy is either. All right,

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great stuff on the full words,
we're going to move over to the

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d and of course we're going to
start with kil mccarr. It's such an

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incredible player and we had him,
of course rated as one of the top

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players. He actually in our format
finished as the second fantasy defenseman. But

405
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,160
he definitely when that top conversation.
He only played sixty games, so lower

406
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,279
body injuries in March and April limited
him slightly, but seventeen goals forty nine

407
00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:12,680
assists for sixty six points in those
sixty games for a ninety point pace thirty

408
00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:17,759
power play points is pretty incredible,
and the hits, blocks, and shots

409
00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:22,720
are actually pretty decent, leaving him
twenty eighth ranked at his positions for BASH

410
00:30:22,759 --> 00:30:26,880
and pretty similar to last season.
He's been in the ninety point pace neighborhood

411
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,440
the last couple four years. Left
at nine million, I think that's obviously

412
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,400
one of the best contracts for such
a high point producer. You look around

413
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,799
the league some of the other high
contract d and he definitely would rather have

414
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,119
him a car, just for lots
of reasons, but also for that.

415
00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:47,039
And you look at some of the
underlyings, like his defensive metrics are actually

416
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:51,119
really good, so so his offense
as you would expect. Although one of

417
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,559
the interesting things is that his expected
goals for per sixty is like league average,

418
00:30:55,599 --> 00:30:57,960
which shocked me. I think he's
way better than that, at least

419
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,960
the eye test tells you that,
So that's a little bit interesting. But

420
00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:04,119
Megan I guess I have a few
questions about macar that are all conto related.

421
00:31:04,359 --> 00:31:08,400
One is he healthy to start camp, which seems like he probably is.

422
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,079
Can he finally play a full eighty
two game season, and then can

423
00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:15,480
he continue this ninety plus point pace? What do you think about those?

424
00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:22,759
Yeah? So, as first the
health, Fortunately, this sort of longer

425
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:26,160
off season has allowed him to be
healthy to start next year. That was

426
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,759
something that started to compound by the
end of last year, and a lot

427
00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:34,519
of that is in part because of
usage, and so in talking about what

428
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:40,640
he's capable of for next season and
the possible points production, it's going to

429
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,200
seem like a weird start, but
it really relies on the health of the

430
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,400
rest of the decorps, and that
is Josh Manson being at the top of

431
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,000
that. And then of course can
bo Byron play a more complete season as

432
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,319
well? And the reason being,
kil mccar's usage is quite unbelievable. He

433
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:02,880
leads the league in ice time year
by year, and last year it was

434
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,640
so heightened that he was being worn
down and deployed just so much in every

435
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:14,079
situation game by game. I think
that is what sort of led to his

436
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,359
body wearing down on him by the
end of the season then, because it

437
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,759
did begin to compound. And the
other part of that too is it affects

438
00:32:20,759 --> 00:32:24,759
his points production because he is being
used on the ice in all situations and

439
00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:30,440
relied on more defensively. It doesn't
allow him to do the kil mccarr things

440
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,200
that he's capable of, and that
is the offensive side of the game that

441
00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:38,039
we know to be so excellent for
him. And it is because he is

442
00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:43,079
being counted on for so many different
things that if he can, if that

443
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,279
workload can be more balanced among the
decor, then I think you can see

444
00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:52,200
him play a more complete, close
to eighty two game season. Though I

445
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,839
still think that his usage is going
to be quite high just because of how

446
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:59,440
valuable he is on both ends of
the ice. You see him return to

447
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,640
form when there's a little bit more
balanced to the decor. And that's my

448
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,200
hope for him next season then,
and that is in the hands then in

449
00:33:06,279 --> 00:33:13,200
the health of bo Biram and Josh
Manson. In particular, Devon tays he

450
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,680
didn't keep pace with his extraordinary twenty
one slash twenty two, he was still

451
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:23,359
the number eighteenth score among NHL defenseman
last year. Two hits just short of

452
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:28,240
two blocks all I'm sorry. Two
shots just short of two blocks and a

453
00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:32,599
hit per game is glorious for us
fantasy folks too. It doesn't hurt that

454
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,319
his number one defensive partner was Kale
mccarr. No way he was going to

455
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:39,480
get the top power playtime on ice
on this team. But one hundred and

456
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:45,359
sixty three minutes is not quite buried
either. He had plenty of opportunity even

457
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:50,440
if the results only comprised seven of
the fifty points he put up. Unlike

458
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,480
a couple of other guys on this
blue line, this contract is brenning short,

459
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,720
and there's an awful lot of guys
coming up behind Tays only one year

460
00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:00,599
left on this contract. Is he
going to stick the car again this year

461
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,759
and produced similarly? And is he
a part of a long term plan for

462
00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:10,519
Colorado or at risk of being a
cap casualty. He's certainly at risk of

463
00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:14,480
being a cap casualty. But I
know the hope is for him to stay

464
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:20,280
in Colorado. It's just the value
that he brings as a bona fide top

465
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,599
payer defenseman anywhere in the league,
but especially in getting to play alongside a

466
00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:28,400
player like macarr. Is going to
be hard to make a competing offer for.

467
00:34:29,079 --> 00:34:32,920
But the Colorado Avalanche we're building something
right now. They're in this window

468
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,599
of wanting to compete for more,
and I think Devonteves is going to want

469
00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:40,239
to be a part of that past
this season, so in it being a

470
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,920
contract year for him, there's a
lot to play for just generally speaking,

471
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,960
even if the next steps aren't with
the Colorado Avalanche, He's looking to have

472
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:53,920
a big year. And I also
am linking him to Macar for the upcoming

473
00:34:53,920 --> 00:35:00,360
season just because of what those two
do so well together, and Byron pretty

474
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,159
versatile. He's the other the third
there in mind for who would play then

475
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,320
on the top pair in Colorado,
and because he's versatile and we are also

476
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:13,480
still looking for him to have a
full season. I'm still having the car

477
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,519
and Taves as a locked in pairing
for next year, and the hope is

478
00:35:16,639 --> 00:35:21,599
that Colorado will be able to make
it. It happened for him to stay

479
00:35:21,679 --> 00:35:25,079
in Colorado past this year, but
how things go for him on a personal

480
00:35:25,159 --> 00:35:29,559
level is going to influence that a
lot. I'm sure they would have liked

481
00:35:29,599 --> 00:35:32,679
to keep jt Comfort after the year
he had last year as well, and

482
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:38,519
it just wasn't possible, and so
it's hard though, like with defenseman,

483
00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:45,039
it is positionally so coveted, especially
to have a player like Taves who can

484
00:35:45,079 --> 00:35:49,039
be so reliable defensively, and I'm
expecting a little bit of a boost in

485
00:35:49,079 --> 00:35:52,159
production from him as well, especially
on special teams, because so much of

486
00:35:52,159 --> 00:35:58,000
their second power play unit was in
flux last year with all of the injuries,

487
00:35:58,199 --> 00:36:01,480
and they were really trying to experiment
with something and three defenseman on PP

488
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:07,079
two with Taves, Gerard and Byrom, and they weren't able to fully realize

489
00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:10,480
that dream because of all of these
injuries, just then shaking up both the

490
00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:14,599
power play units. And with that
in mind, if there's a little bit

491
00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:17,599
of health on Colorado's side, I
think this is an area where Devon Taves

492
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:23,000
could really contribute offensively on the power
play and so there's more to give there

493
00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:28,400
in that sense. But he's certainly
a really important part of Colorado's de corps

494
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:35,480
and really important to kill mccarr absolutely. The next guy we are going to

495
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:40,079
talk about is Beau Byrom, one
of my absolute favorite players, and when

496
00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:45,079
he was a prospect, he was
one of my favorite prospects and he has

497
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:50,920
been pretty incredible for the Avalanche.
He only played forty two games, though

498
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,039
he had a lower body injury November
than miss time for undisclosed reasons in December

499
00:36:54,159 --> 00:37:00,159
January. We know that he has
had concussion issues and so that's often the

500
00:37:00,199 --> 00:37:05,679
speculation whenever he has missed some time
here and there. But durability continues to

501
00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:09,039
be an issue for Byrom for sure. Ten goals in fourteen assists for twenty

502
00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:14,039
five points in the forty two games
he played for forty seven point pace definitely

503
00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:19,079
has left all of us fantasy polies
wanting more consistency and in the lineup time

504
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:22,280
for Byrom the six power play points, and we know he's not going to

505
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,400
necessarily get the biggest role there with
the other with mccarr and some of the

506
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,559
other defensemen on the team. His
bash has been a little bit weak,

507
00:37:29,679 --> 00:37:32,800
hundred and tenth paced out for his
position. He did the Bridge deal two

508
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,599
years at three point eight five,
so in cap leagues, really pretty nice

509
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:42,480
if he actually plays, but definitely
going to get need to be paid after

510
00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:45,280
that couple of years, it would
seem. And he has been someone that

511
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,599
when you look at the underlyings,
he's been pretty good defensively on the power

512
00:37:49,639 --> 00:37:53,599
play, he excels offensively. His
even strength expected goals for sixty though,

513
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:58,239
hasn't been quite as good. So
it's been a little bit interesting to look

514
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,079
at those analytics versus the eye test
because I know when I watch him,

515
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:05,719
I just see how great he is
at to move in the play and transition.

516
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,239
Megan Byron, He's been so fantastic
when he plays, but he has

517
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,960
really struggled. Do you think he
can stay healthy? And if he can

518
00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:17,199
stay healthy, can he get over
that fifty point pace hump. He's so

519
00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:22,199
hard to talk about with respect to
injury because it's been such a heartbreaking road

520
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,719
through Colorado so far. But the
thing that gives me a little bit of

521
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:30,880
optimism is last year's injury and the
time mist was related to lower body in

522
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,719
its entirety, and so there wasn't
any concern of anything relating to the head

523
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,559
last year with respect to his absences, and so in knowing that, I

524
00:38:39,599 --> 00:38:45,039
feel a little bit more comfortable that
I won't say that we're past the concussion

525
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:49,920
part of the conversation, but last
year was just a little bit of a

526
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,960
fluke in terms of the injury that
was bothering him. The hope then is

527
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,960
that it's just a clean slate going
into next year, because you're not the

528
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,119
only one left want with Byram,
especially in what he teased in the twenty

529
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:07,239
twenty two Cup run, even though
there were so many opportunities that he was

530
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:13,239
on the doorstep of that he wasn't
able to fully complete or finish that the

531
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,639
potential was teased so much there that
something like a fifty point season I wouldn't

532
00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:22,280
even bad eye at that as it
when it comes to Byram, it's just

533
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,320
been a matter of unfortunate circumstance and
injury that has brought us here, and

534
00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:30,840
it's reflected in the contract too that
he's going to play for now. I

535
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:37,559
think the av is valuing Byram appropriately, but the term is so short that

536
00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:42,360
it is a contract where he has
a lot of runway to prove himself if

537
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,480
he wants to continue in Colorado or
even get the nod to be a top

538
00:39:45,519 --> 00:39:51,360
paired demon elsewhere. These next two
years, his health and his performance are

539
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,920
going to be incredibly important for him
because I think no one believes in himself

540
00:39:54,960 --> 00:40:00,280
more than Bill Byron believes in himself. He has tremendous confidence and has just

541
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:05,840
been held back then by some of
these injuries that everybody is hoping for more

542
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,280
from him and he's capable of it. His body has just betrayed him a

543
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:15,400
little bit in the seasons before.
But still everyone around who watches this player

544
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:19,000
is hoping for big things for Byram
and it's not misplaced. It's because we

545
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:22,559
see those moments on ice where he
teases a potential that is so much more

546
00:40:22,639 --> 00:40:29,719
than we've been able to see so
far. Sam Girard I was told there

547
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,800
could only be so many relevant defenseman
a team for production, and Colorado just

548
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,880
keeps going because Sam Girard, way
under the radar, is still skates twenty

549
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,239
one and a half minutes a night, puts up half a point one and

550
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,480
a half shots, one and a
half half blocks, and it hit even

551
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:49,239
though he feels more established to me
somehow, maybe because he's more anonymous.

552
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,000
He's only six months older than kil
mccarr, so hein't exactly old, and

553
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:55,800
he's the second highest paid demon on
the team. To me, he's the

554
00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,440
picture of a very good second par
defenseman. I don't know will he continue

555
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,719
to play this role that he has
played, and is there any path the

556
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,679
more production, or are the Byrons
of the world going to end up squeezing

557
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:13,400
him out of the top opportunities.
It's funny to hear how you opened it

558
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,679
because within the APPS fan base there
are a lot of complicated feelings about Girard.

559
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,920
I personally find his contract to be
of great value to the Apps.

560
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,679
To get a second pair of Demon
for the money that they have for as

561
00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:30,079
long as they've been able to has
been hard for other teams to replicate,

562
00:41:30,119 --> 00:41:36,599
and I think people under value having
a bonafied second pair Demon in Girard for

563
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,880
that value, often because he is
pretty well rounded all things considered. There

564
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,679
are some moments that I think he's
a lightning rod for being a scapegoat.

565
00:41:45,679 --> 00:41:47,960
If there is a mistake that gets
made defensively and he is on the ice

566
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,239
when it happens, people remember that
a little bit more readily than they might

567
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:58,519
for other players. But we're going
with this is he is still a second

568
00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:01,559
pair defenseman. I don't know if
the production can rival that of Byron's just

569
00:42:01,639 --> 00:42:07,920
because of the natural instinct that Byram
has demonstrated for that side of the game,

570
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:13,480
but where I think Gerard has value
in that role as a second pair

571
00:42:13,519 --> 00:42:16,000
of team man is the well rounded
parts of his game, and that is

572
00:42:16,039 --> 00:42:21,960
then going to ask him to step
it up to be more sound defensively.

573
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,239
I don't think this is the worst
part of his game, but a lot

574
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,800
of people look to his size they
see, okay, you should be a

575
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,800
small, puck moving defenseman. So
we really want to see that offensive side

576
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,000
of the game flourish. All of
that is still true, but with like

577
00:42:34,119 --> 00:42:37,559
you mentioned, the likes of mccartaves
and Byram around him, that's where I'd

578
00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:43,719
really like to see Gerard button things
up and just lock things down defensively because

579
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,320
that is going to be a need
for the Avs next year or two.

580
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:50,800
Without knowing the health of Josh Manson, if he can play a full season,

581
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,159
then that sort of third pairing in
that seventh man Jack Johnson is going

582
00:42:54,199 --> 00:42:57,800
to return. That's great veteran presence, but there's still a little bit of

583
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,960
mystery, especially now with Eric Johnson
gone for the bottom of the DCOR that

584
00:43:01,199 --> 00:43:07,000
there's room for Gerard to make some
really memorable moments in this next season with

585
00:43:07,079 --> 00:43:12,519
Colorado as a really important player.
Even with the likes of mccarr and Tave's

586
00:43:12,559 --> 00:43:17,599
environment alongside him. All right,
great stuff on the d We're gonna switch

587
00:43:17,599 --> 00:43:22,280
over to the goalies now. And
the Avalanche gave up the sixth ranked expected

588
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,679
goals per sixty two point four according
to Evolving Hockey, but conceded the tenth

589
00:43:27,039 --> 00:43:30,079
actual goals according to NHL dot Com. And of course we got to talk

590
00:43:30,119 --> 00:43:36,320
about Georgiev. It was his first
season in Colorado, his first season with

591
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,360
a starters workload, so that was
a bit of a difference for him,

592
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:43,400
playing nearly double the number of games
he's ever played. He's played in the

593
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,079
thirties low thirties a couple of times, and playing sixty two was a big

594
00:43:46,159 --> 00:43:50,599
jump for him. Overall pretty well
forty wins, two point five one GA

595
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,000
n nineteen save percentage. He also
saved almost sixteen goals save above expected,

596
00:43:55,159 --> 00:43:59,480
and had a delta Fenwick of point
seven eight. All of that really good

597
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:02,280
and not being paid a whole ton, which is nice for those of us

598
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,920
in Cap League. Three point four
for a starter on a really good team

599
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,599
is pretty darn nice. And he
overall outperformed most of his expected metrics,

600
00:44:10,639 --> 00:44:15,320
which is really hard to do when
the Avalanche plays such good d in front

601
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,559
of you. It was a little
bit worse on the penalty kill, but

602
00:44:17,079 --> 00:44:21,480
overall he was still really good there. What do you expect from Georgiev next

603
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:24,559
season? Can he maybe improve a
little bit? Is the defense is going

604
00:44:24,599 --> 00:44:28,480
to be similar? What kind of
I imagine he's still going to be the

605
00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:31,480
volume guy because Franco's behind me.
I'm not sure how much he's going to

606
00:44:31,559 --> 00:44:36,239
be pushed in terms of being the
volume starter in Colorado. What can we

607
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:40,920
expect from Georgiev? Megan? It's
interesting because I don't think that was the

608
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,159
initiation for Georgiev that the Apps are
expecting, especially in having Francos. I

609
00:44:46,199 --> 00:44:52,719
think they were going to balance that
workload between both goaltenders a bit more evenly

610
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,400
than it actually played out, and
that was in part because of Francos experiencing

611
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,719
an injury, and so they became
very lion on Georgiev and it put him

612
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:06,320
in that starting role pretty solidly,
though his play at the start of the

613
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,800
year also earned him that right.
So Georgiev was just such a great gamble

614
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:14,079
for the Avalanche, and it is
why in looking at some of the new

615
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:17,719
additions in this offseason, though there
is some mystery and a lot of hope

616
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:22,480
that players will exceed expectation, and
looking at what the Avs were able to

617
00:45:22,519 --> 00:45:25,320
do in their tandem with Georgiev and
Franco's, I have a lot of high

618
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:30,400
expectation then on some of the risks
that they take, because Georgy of adapted

619
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,039
so well with the way that Colorado
likes to play, because there is some

620
00:45:34,119 --> 00:45:37,159
adjusting, not only in him newly
being a starting goaltender that's a lot more

621
00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:40,760
work than he's used to taking on, but also with the way Colorado likes

622
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:45,440
to play in front of him,
and part of the context for last year

623
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:49,480
and I forget what it was,
it ended up being something close to four

624
00:45:49,559 --> 00:45:53,320
hundred main games lost for Colorado Avalanche
because of injury. That was not Colorado's

625
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:58,679
defense at its finest. The team
defense too, specifically not at its finest,

626
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,480
and so Georgy IV was tested a
lot and there were some low points

627
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:07,119
for Colorado before they won the Central
There were some panic, there was panic,

628
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:12,719
and Georgy was one of the most
consistent parts though in all of that.

629
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,639
There were a couple of rough games
in December and then thinks stayed pretty

630
00:46:16,639 --> 00:46:21,000
consistent and so you knew what to
expect then with Georgia. So where I'm

631
00:46:21,039 --> 00:46:25,880
going with this is he had such
a solid first year with a healthier lineup

632
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:31,079
in front of him, I think
it only goes up from here. Yeah,

633
00:46:31,159 --> 00:46:35,679
for sure, and I would agree
with that. I'm also curious about

634
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:39,119
the backup role. And we have
Friendso's he's been there for a long time,

635
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:43,920
he's been very experienced, he's been
with the team. All of those

636
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,840
things are really nice. They also
have Justice Nann, who I would love

637
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:51,639
to get your take on because he's
someone that for a long time we were

638
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:55,239
thinking slash hoping that he could be
the next wave, that he could be

639
00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:00,960
the next potential starter of a really
good color or Avalanche team. So of

640
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,920
course that's always going to generate interest. And he had a bit of a

641
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:10,559
tough time adjusting initially to the North
American game, but he definitely did a

642
00:47:10,599 --> 00:47:15,199
lot better in the HL last season
and was really good with the Eagles.

643
00:47:15,199 --> 00:47:20,000
So I'm wondering if you think that
or what the organization seems to think of

644
00:47:20,039 --> 00:47:22,559
an and in do you think he
could compete a little bit for starts with

645
00:47:22,639 --> 00:47:28,159
Friendsos and maybe earned the backup role
and potentially challenge for a starter spot.

646
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,559
Someday. It's an interesting question,
and I'm glad to hear you talk about

647
00:47:31,599 --> 00:47:36,400
last season and the improvement for Estas
because in the American League last year the

648
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:42,360
Cardo Eagles also struggled quite a bit, but his individual game I think took

649
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,480
a step forward, and some of
that was in his first year, making

650
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,519
the adjustment to North American ice and
also having a new goaltending coach in the

651
00:47:49,519 --> 00:47:53,360
middle of the season around January on
he started working with Peter Boudai, and

652
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:58,920
I remember he talked about how valuable
it was working with Budda because Budda is

653
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,159
not so far removed which from his
playing days that there was a very modern

654
00:48:02,199 --> 00:48:06,199
approach in what Buddha I was able
to do. And Buddha also made a

655
00:48:06,199 --> 00:48:09,480
transition as a goaltender to North americanized
as a player himself. This was all

656
00:48:09,519 --> 00:48:14,800
really beneficial for Usis on it in
so in year two, even with a

657
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:19,119
lot of the injuries that the trickle
down effect also affected things at the American

658
00:48:19,199 --> 00:48:24,719
League level. Used this stay in
the top goaltender conversation within the American League,

659
00:48:25,039 --> 00:48:29,880
especially because you would compare the volume
of shots that Usis would face compared

660
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:34,320
to other teams. A lot more
was being allowed, but he was stopping

661
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,599
more comfortable, confident and assumes something
of a starter role. I'm still not

662
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:44,719
prepared, though, because at age
twenty three, I think the organization recognizes

663
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:49,440
the trajectory for goalies can be a
longer route. I look at someone like

664
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,440
Logan Thompson who had to rise to
a level of success at the American League

665
00:48:53,559 --> 00:49:00,760
level first before making that leap to
the National League and getting that consideration,

666
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,840
and that's where I'm at with Eustacean
and in As. I still think he

667
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:07,239
has to demonstrate a high aptitude at
the American League level before we're in that

668
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:13,679
conversation of graduating him. And part
of that is because of Pablo Friendsos,

669
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,840
the experience that he has. He's
so well liked and well loved in this

670
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:21,679
organization that I think they'd like for
him to continue on here as long as

671
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:23,719
they can keep him, unless someone
gets silly and would like to have him

672
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:29,639
as a starter. But I do
think because of how they sought goaltending for

673
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:34,599
Loveland and bringing on a young goaltender
and Arvid Holme to work alongside Eustace,

674
00:49:35,079 --> 00:49:38,880
that we're going to see Ustace get
more games with the Avalanche this upcoming season

675
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:44,039
to see how he performs on that
stage. But I don't think it's with

676
00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:47,000
the idea that he's ready to graduate
to back up someone like her yet.

677
00:49:47,079 --> 00:49:52,800
I think he's going to settle in
that third string role for now, and

678
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,280
he's still auditioning even for that in
my eyes, and it's just because he

679
00:49:55,440 --> 00:50:00,880
is still so young for a goaltender. Megan, this has been some great

680
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:06,000
insight on the Colorado Avalanche. Why
don't you let people know how they can

681
00:50:06,039 --> 00:50:09,880
follow all of your work out there? Absolutely all my writing gets posted on

682
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:16,199
the DNBR dot com and a lot
of my updates come about on x I

683
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:21,639
am at meg angle on there,
and yeah, just follow along on any

684
00:50:21,639 --> 00:50:25,599
of those two platforms for the upcoming
season. Tremendous people should definitely go out

685
00:50:25,599 --> 00:50:29,840
and do that. Thank you so
much for being on Megan. Thank you

686
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:42,480
guys. Wilson. That's good fired. Oh my goodness, Wan go without

687
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:52,079
quick grab. Now is your weekly
goalie talk with Cats Silverman Cat's Instincts.

688
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:59,519
Here we are again with Cat Silverman
in Goal mag to talk Colorado Avalanche prospect

689
00:50:59,559 --> 00:51:04,360
goalies and the first one we're going
to talk about is Justice Nann, and

690
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,440
he's a six four, twenty nine
pound goalie. Taken back in twenty eighteen,

691
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:13,320
he's been in North America for the
last couple of seasons for NHL games

692
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:19,159
in that time all went pretty poorly. Unfortunately. His hockey prospecting has him

693
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:24,239
covering in that mid twenty to thirty
five range of NHL or probability. He's

694
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:30,320
got some decent comps, mostly replacement
level guys. There's a Vesta Toscola in

695
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:34,320
there, which I know makes you
happy, Cat, and yeah, in

696
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,199
the HL the last couple of seasons, he's been a little bit better this

697
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:44,840
past season compared to his first.
He played a similar number of games forty

698
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,280
eight in twenty one twenty two and
then twenty and then forty one in twenty

699
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:53,440
two twenty three, and looking at
the stats on sport contract, he actually

700
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:59,599
had one of the best save percent
above expected in the night in the AHL

701
00:51:59,679 --> 00:52:02,039
this season. So that's good,
Kat. What do your instincts tell us

702
00:52:02,039 --> 00:52:06,079
about Nann? Do you think he's
eventually going to be a starter one day

703
00:52:06,159 --> 00:52:09,559
in Colorado? I think that's at
the very least I think that's their expectation.

704
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:15,679
It was mine too. When he
got drafted. He's a bigger kid.

705
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,559
He's six four two ten. I
remember when he got drafted. I

706
00:52:19,599 --> 00:52:22,039
was actually speaking with his goalie coach
over in Finland, and he said that

707
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,079
the number one thing that they really
wanted to work on with him that year

708
00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:31,199
was his conditioning, just because from
a longevity standpoint, it seemed like he

709
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:35,639
had the technique down, but he
had the instincts. He really did a

710
00:52:35,679 --> 00:52:38,559
good job with tracking and reading,
even at the higher level, because he

711
00:52:38,639 --> 00:52:44,239
was playing up until the year he
got drafted, he was playing one,

712
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:49,039
sometimes two essentially levels above where his
age group was, and so he ended

713
00:52:49,079 --> 00:52:53,039
up playing his first league a game
in Finland his draft year, played most

714
00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:59,400
of the next year at the essentially
finished HL level, and then moved up

715
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,320
to the high level Liga the following
year, and they really just wanted to

716
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:07,960
work on his condition and getting him
through longer hauls, through essentially larger bodies

717
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:15,239
of work. And unfortunately the COVID
season through things a little a kimbo for

718
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:22,559
him, and then he also got
injured, so he had a pretty pretty

719
00:53:22,679 --> 00:53:27,360
lengthy injury. I believe it was
lower body, but don't definitively quote me

720
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:31,559
on that. Finland's a little more
reserved with sharing info about player injuries sometimes.

721
00:53:31,679 --> 00:53:36,639
And when he came back, he'd
been out for like half the season.

722
00:53:37,199 --> 00:53:39,320
He missed I believe most of his
off season because of it, and

723
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:45,559
then it was just a long adjustment
to getting back to the level that he

724
00:53:45,679 --> 00:53:46,920
had been at. And by the
time he got back there, he then

725
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:52,639
moved over to North America, so
he had that learning curve of then after

726
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,480
spending a season kind of recuperating and
getting his game back where it had been,

727
00:53:55,679 --> 00:54:00,239
moved over to North America. And
it seems like once he got his

728
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,639
feet under him in North America,
his stats have looked better. Like you

729
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:07,559
said, he from the underlying numbers
looked much better last year than he had

730
00:54:07,599 --> 00:54:12,599
the year prior. He's fun to
watch. He's a weird one because a

731
00:54:12,639 --> 00:54:16,800
lot of the finished goaltenders we think
of as being really exciting to watch and

732
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,599
having that super fast paced game.
We think about the Kari letton AND's and

733
00:54:21,639 --> 00:54:27,880
the anti Miamis and the anti Rontas
and when it comes to and then he

734
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:32,079
plays a really controlled game a lot
of the time where he gets himself positionally

735
00:54:32,199 --> 00:54:37,519
set and he can move quickly if
he needs to. He's got good skating

736
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:42,639
power, he just doesn't always use
it too much, which can work in

737
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,079
his favor, especially when it comes
to that conditioning area. I just think

738
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:51,079
they were trying to make it so
that he didn't have to rely on his

739
00:54:51,199 --> 00:54:53,880
techniques so much. He was he
felt confident in playing a game that did

740
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:59,199
need to move a little faster paced
without timing himself out throughout it. So

741
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:05,039
if he hits that level where it
seems like he is able to play that

742
00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:10,760
controlled technical game at a faster pace
over forty games fifty games this season,

743
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:16,400
I think he could easily be a
starter. I just haven't gotten to see

744
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:22,320
him do that yet. I think
he had some ebbs and flows last year,

745
00:55:22,599 --> 00:55:28,079
so I don't want to throw all
my cards in his basket right now.

746
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,320
But he has a lot of fun
to watch, and he's one that

747
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,159
I've been hoping will make it to
the NHL within the next year or two.

748
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,639
Here, i'd say, yeah,
definitely. He's someone we've been tracking

749
00:55:37,679 --> 00:55:42,400
for a while, so that would
be fun to see. Hopefully he'll get

750
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:46,880
a couple more opportunities, but this
next guy might eat into his chances because

751
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:50,800
Arvid Holme is the next guy we're
going to talk about. He was a

752
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:57,880
Winnipeg draft pick, sixth rounder,
and yeah, yeah that it could have

753
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,519
used him. He was drafted way
back in twenty seventeen. He's six seven,

754
00:56:00,599 --> 00:56:05,440
two hundred five pounds and they let
him go. He's signed in Colorado

755
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,079
on the off season. It was
a great pickup for them. I think

756
00:56:07,519 --> 00:56:12,679
I was getting excited about him in
Winnipeg, but I think his path might

757
00:56:12,679 --> 00:56:15,639
be even clearer in Colorado. We
just talked about and an end a whole

758
00:56:15,679 --> 00:56:22,480
other major roadblocks. I guess Georgiev
he seems like not the setting stone starter

759
00:56:22,639 --> 00:56:27,199
forever and home has some really good
equivalencis if you look at it. He

760
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,719
started off in the twenty thirties and
the model, and he ended in the

761
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:35,119
sixty seventy or five percent range of
being an NHL, which is really high.

762
00:56:35,199 --> 00:56:37,880
He's got some really good comps,
guys like Jose Theodore or martem Burn.

763
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,840
I think he looks a lot like
anders Nielsen in this model, who

764
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:45,599
was more of a backup but could
take the reins and play if needed.

765
00:56:45,199 --> 00:56:51,159
And Holmes underlyings were near the top
of the league and saved percent above expected,

766
00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:53,360
which is really nice, So,
Kat, what can your instincts tell

767
00:56:53,400 --> 00:57:00,119
us about Arvid Holme. They still
think it's hilarious that Whinnipeg Spritley needs young,

768
00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:07,920
good goaltenders with the Connor Hellabook era
coming to an end and they're letting

769
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:13,280
these guys go. But he's an
interesting when I always get a little nervous

770
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:19,559
when a guy's that big because of
guys like Andrew's Nielsen and Jacob mark Strummond

771
00:57:20,159 --> 00:57:23,960
Andres Lenbach, who once you reach
a certain size level there's that injury risk.

772
00:57:24,199 --> 00:57:29,000
Obviously, Connor Hello books not small
and he's done just fine with that.

773
00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:35,599
But I like some of the essentially
watching some of the film on him,

774
00:57:35,639 --> 00:57:38,719
I thought he looked good. I
wasn't really sure why he was allowed

775
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:43,480
to walk. May have been that
he just didn't want to stick around.

776
00:57:43,719 --> 00:57:47,360
And I believe Colin dalia is headed
to Winnipeg as well, so they were

777
00:57:47,559 --> 00:57:52,639
They already had that kind of tweener. That guy who could essentially split time

778
00:57:52,679 --> 00:57:55,480
between the HL and NHL for them
and home figured that he didn't really have

779
00:57:55,519 --> 00:58:00,559
a spot there and got crowded out. Yeah, I don't really understand Colorado

780
00:58:00,599 --> 00:58:06,719
has been doing because they keep picking
up guys that other teams let walk instead

781
00:58:06,719 --> 00:58:09,679
of trading for goaltending prospects. I
think hoping that they'll find a diamond in

782
00:58:09,679 --> 00:58:15,280
the rough there somewhere. That always
makes me a little nervous when it's a

783
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:19,880
guy that they can pick up for
free versus someone that's coveted. But I

784
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,679
don't think he can be worse than
some of the other prospects that they've had

785
00:58:22,719 --> 00:58:27,199
Over the last couple of years.
I've been a little, almost a little

786
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:34,400
hypercritical of some of the goaltenders that
Colorado has chosen to essentially enter their seasons

787
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,920
with as their number threes and fours. They very notably had Hunter Miska,

788
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:45,599
who couldn't break a starting role in
the HL for the Arizona Coyotes, and

789
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,639
they picked him up and ended up
having to play him for a chunk in

790
00:58:47,679 --> 00:58:51,960
the NHL during the year, and
that really didn't work out in their favor.

791
00:58:52,159 --> 00:58:55,239
And then they had a one of
the Buffalo Sabers guys who couldn't really

792
00:58:55,239 --> 00:58:59,800
hold his own there and hoped that
might work out in their favor. They

793
00:59:00,039 --> 00:59:04,679
spent to Martin who really struggled for
them, And I'm hoping that this is

794
00:59:04,679 --> 00:59:07,679
a sign that maybe they're taking things
in a different direction, because Home did

795
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:14,239
look good during his games with the
Moose, so we'll see. He's one

796
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:19,360
that I think he hasn't done anything
to stand out over Italy for me,

797
00:59:19,639 --> 00:59:22,079
And when a Peg needs goaltenders so
badly that I'm a little nervous when they

798
00:59:22,159 --> 00:59:28,679
let someone go. But yeah,
I don't think that. I think the

799
00:59:28,679 --> 00:59:31,039
good news is that Colorado doesn't meet
him immediately, so they can pick up

800
00:59:31,079 --> 00:59:35,440
a couple of guys like him and
just kind of see what happens, see

801
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:42,519
if they can make magic with someone
that really is getting overlooked elsewhere. Yeah,

802
00:59:42,559 --> 00:59:46,000
that sounds good. Do you think
it's still an nan in the projected

803
00:59:46,119 --> 00:59:51,559
potential start of the future or do
you think that Holme has some say in

804
00:59:51,599 --> 00:59:58,119
that. I think Home could surprise
us, And do you surp Anon?

805
00:59:58,239 --> 01:00:00,639
And I think that the overall plan, and that might be why they haven't

806
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:07,320
traded for someone who's essentially a Tier
one prospect of some kind, is that

807
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:12,239
they are trying to make sure that
they don't block In and then from getting

808
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:16,400
his opportunity. So they're bringing in
guys like Holme who are going to be

809
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:22,119
solid for them. But aren't necessarily
going to make it hard for their true

810
01:00:22,159 --> 01:00:25,400
prospect to get a shot. But
I think if he outperforms and in this

811
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:30,000
year, I think it's time to
take a hard look at whether or not

812
01:00:30,079 --> 01:00:35,840
and then really is what he initially
was advertised as being, which is the

813
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,800
starter of their future. So I
think he founded his last year to prove

814
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:45,360
to us that he is really able
to establish himself confidently in North America.

815
01:00:46,199 --> 01:00:52,519
Sounds good. Thanks for giving us
your instincts on the color Avalanche goalies will

816
01:00:52,599 --> 01:01:16,519
be back right after this. Dig
the dynasty. Dig Colorado Avalanche dynasty talk.

817
01:01:16,639 --> 01:01:21,440
This is such a good team,
one would expect that they probably don't

818
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,039
have the best farm system in the
world, and they don't. It's rank

819
01:01:24,119 --> 01:01:29,360
twenty six according to Victor's ranks.
Nonetheless, as usual, there are some

820
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,840
players you should be interested in for
your dynasty purposes that all starts out with

821
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:38,599
your no brainer, Victor, who
is that for the Avs. The no

822
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:44,480
brainer for the Avalanche is Sean Barons, twenty twenty one second round pick by

823
01:01:44,519 --> 01:01:49,440
Colorado. He's a five ten,
one hundred and seventy six pound left handed

824
01:01:49,519 --> 01:01:52,920
d so maybe slightly undersized, I
guess you could say in terms of the

825
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:59,800
height and the weight. He was
drafted out of the usn TDP was Barons

826
01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:02,159
and he spent the last two seasons
at the University of Denver. His point

827
01:02:02,159 --> 01:02:07,039
pace went from sixty four as a
freshman to fifty five as a sophomore,

828
01:02:07,519 --> 01:02:12,119
but he did have a larger defensive
burden to carry and so his role shifted

829
01:02:12,159 --> 01:02:15,039
a little bit. And this season
he had three goals, eighteen assists and

830
01:02:15,119 --> 01:02:19,280
thirty one games. That's how he
got there, and he represented the US

831
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,719
at the U twenty World Junior Championships, where he had three points in seven

832
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:27,199
games. Definitely not the offensive centerpiece
of that team. From the back end.

833
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,599
With Luke Hughes, it's unclear whether
he's returning for his junior season.

834
01:02:30,679 --> 01:02:35,400
He certainly could, that seems like
a pretty viable option. He also could

835
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:38,559
turn pro and playing the HL.
It seems like more likely he'll go back

836
01:02:38,599 --> 01:02:45,960
to college is it probably needs a
little bit more seasoning there and get those

837
01:02:45,199 --> 01:02:50,760
point totals up, but that's remained
to be seen. He's unsigned at the

838
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:52,719
moment. He didn't get any HL
games at the end of last season,

839
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,800
which was a possibility for him,
so that's another reason to make me think

840
01:02:55,800 --> 01:03:01,159
he'll do one more year of college. Looking at Brown's tracking data, well,

841
01:03:01,239 --> 01:03:05,199
the defense is really good, which
is good, he's a defenseman.

842
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:10,800
He has a ninety eight overall scores
and really excellent at entries prevented defensive play

843
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:16,639
corsi against retrieval success. Also really
top notch for some of the offensive metrics

844
01:03:16,679 --> 01:03:22,960
like expected primary assist per sixty super
high on one of the best in the

845
01:03:22,039 --> 01:03:24,960
NC DOUBLEA, so that's pretty cool. Some of the things too, like

846
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:30,119
slop pass is good. Expected goals
per sixty also pretty good and really not

847
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:35,800
a lot of negatives. His transition
game rated and at seventy eight, and

848
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:40,480
really the only negative thing was cross
lane plays per sixty, So some specific

849
01:03:40,519 --> 01:03:45,440
types of transition, but overall the
transition game is good and his overall scores

850
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:50,119
in ninety five, so looking really
good in college based on seven games tracked

851
01:03:50,119 --> 01:03:53,239
by Mitch Brown. Both offense and
defense I think definitely in this chart even

852
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:58,440
shows he leans more towards the defensive
side, but I think the offense is

853
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,239
maybe a little underrated. So let's
hear a little bit more about Sean Barrens

854
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:06,159
from our FHL Scout Yeah, absolutely, University of Denver pretty good team to

855
01:04:06,159 --> 01:04:12,559
be a part of. Last year
our FHL scout Jeremy says this of mister

856
01:04:12,679 --> 01:04:15,719
Baron's skating is above average, very
strong into skates and good edgework, fast

857
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:19,760
enough to keep up with most players. Passing and handling elite, very strong

858
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:25,519
entry and exit skills, shooting above
average. He's got a good release from

859
01:04:25,519 --> 01:04:29,559
the point, but not a sniper
IQ elite. Great vision, knows when

860
01:04:29,559 --> 01:04:33,440
to jump into play, good at
reading plays Defensively. As far as defense

861
01:04:33,559 --> 01:04:38,320
is concerned, Jeremy says above average, very good rush defender average in zone.

862
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:42,920
Best aspect asset is his anticipation of
where the forward wants to go with

863
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,920
the puck, often stepping into them
or cutting off passing lanes before they happen,

864
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:50,119
and the best asset is vision and
lack of panic with the puck.

865
01:04:50,199 --> 01:04:54,119
The biggest concern He's got to get
a little stronger. He's willing to be

866
01:04:54,159 --> 01:04:59,239
physical, but still is easy to
out muscle. The top tier outcome for

867
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:03,840
this guy. Second pairing power Play
two sixty points says Jeremy probably needs a

868
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:09,320
trade to out of Colorado to hit
this though, as he probably won't surpass

869
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:13,199
mccarr or by in Jeremy's estimation,
may get some chance as soon if Tays

870
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:18,440
goes to unrestricted free agency and the
middling outcome the fiftieth percentile, a bottom

871
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:23,960
pairing, puck mover with powerplay to
opportunities, stylistic comparable, but he's not

872
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,519
going to go on even another roster. He's gonna say sam Gerard Swift,

873
01:05:27,639 --> 01:05:32,599
skating zone exit machines, cool under
pressure, not elite scores. So Sean

874
01:05:32,719 --> 01:05:36,880
Barrens, let's go to the NHL
rank King Mason Black, who has provided

875
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:43,679
some p NHL E similarity scores some
pretty sparkling names for this guy, mister

876
01:05:43,719 --> 01:05:46,559
Sewan Barrens Owen power is the number
one as it comes out, and Jamie

877
01:05:46,639 --> 01:05:51,800
Drysdale and Shay Theodore right behind.
So very nice. It's between a first

878
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:59,119
and second line potential as far as
first second pairing for his equivalency. And

879
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:04,320
he compared Sean Barns in the poll
to Jackson Lecombe, the twenty nineteen second

880
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:10,119
round pick of the Anaheim Ducks,
because Anaheim has all the defenseman. Mason

881
01:06:10,199 --> 01:06:15,679
Black's poll Barons versus Lacombe comes out
Barns fifty three percent to Lacombe forty seven

882
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:20,599
percent. Victor, is that what
you would do Barons over Lacombe. I

883
01:06:20,639 --> 01:06:25,639
would I like Barons a little bit
more. I think he's, as we

884
01:06:25,679 --> 01:06:31,519
mentioned, a little maybe underrated Offensively. Both these guys are several steps back

885
01:06:31,599 --> 01:06:34,679
or seven paces back on the pecking
order. I would say they're not the

886
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:40,039
top prospects, but both really good
and I think probably both a little underrated.

887
01:06:40,119 --> 01:06:45,159
Jackson Lecombe is probably one of the
most underrated prospect defenseman. The thing

888
01:06:45,239 --> 01:06:48,280
though, is he probably is going
to be better in real life than for

889
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,880
your fantasy team, and so that's
one reason why maybe people a little less

890
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:57,280
excited about him or just not as
not thinking about him as much. And

891
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:00,119
I'm not banging the table for him
because even though he is great, he's

892
01:07:00,199 --> 01:07:03,400
probably not going to be super exciting
in terms of fantasy, but you are

893
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,880
going to like having him on your
team in terms of playing a NHL games,

894
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,960
and he's going to get a little
bit of a runway there. So

895
01:07:10,559 --> 01:07:15,360
don't forget about Lacombe. I think
he's he's someone to notice and to mention,

896
01:07:15,159 --> 01:07:19,280
but I think I'm taking Barons.
He has more offense, depending Yeah,

897
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,039
we don't know what the blue len
is going to be by the time

898
01:07:21,079 --> 01:07:26,440
he gets there in Denver. It's
probably going to be another couple of years.

899
01:07:26,639 --> 01:07:30,519
And yeah, maybe Taves moves on, so he's not going to take

900
01:07:30,559 --> 01:07:33,679
over m carr. But and there's
byronim too, obviously, but he could

901
01:07:33,679 --> 01:07:38,760
get some nice secondary scoring. So
I like Barons. If you just look

902
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:43,800
at the hockey prospecting between the two, it's much higher for Barons in terms

903
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:47,960
of the star potential. He's at
nineteen percent and Lacombe was basically in the

904
01:07:48,039 --> 01:07:53,320
five to eight to five to three
percent of being a star, So Barons

905
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,800
is much higher. And both were
in an NC double A a similar time

906
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:01,320
Jackson lacomb one year older and NHLO
probability is actually higher for Barons. Just

907
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:08,599
looking at the comps for Barons individually, he's got some guys like Adam Clyndenning,

908
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,480
Joe Morrow, Michael Benning that aren't
that exciting. Cal Foot is someone

909
01:08:12,559 --> 01:08:16,199
he looks a little bit alike,
who's the defenseman drafted by Tampa didn't quite

910
01:08:16,239 --> 01:08:21,159
work out too offensively but became an
NHLer, So you know, maybe there's

911
01:08:21,199 --> 01:08:26,199
some similarities there and the Jay fresh
card just two percent chance of being a

912
01:08:26,239 --> 01:08:29,079
star for Barons forty two percent chance
of being an n Chiller. A lot

913
01:08:29,079 --> 01:08:34,039
more pessimistic as usual, Jessey,
Yes, sir, talk about two systems

914
01:08:34,119 --> 01:08:39,359
where guys are getting buried in the
systems as far as defenseman, Anaheim and

915
01:08:39,399 --> 01:08:44,079
Colorado would be pretty high on that
list. Picker up next. I believe

916
01:08:44,119 --> 01:08:47,079
we're ready to talk about the need
to know prospect. Who is it need

917
01:08:47,119 --> 01:08:50,600
to know? Is Calum Ritchie the
first round pick from this past year twenty

918
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:55,680
seventh overall? They actually had a
couple of first but he was the twenty

919
01:08:55,680 --> 01:09:00,000
seventh overall six two hundred and eighty
seven pound point per game and fifty nine

920
01:09:00,199 --> 01:09:06,000
games for the Oshawa Generals. Was
Kellum Richie of the OHL, and he

921
01:09:06,039 --> 01:09:11,119
had slightly more assistant goals twenty four
goals thirty five assists in fifty nine games.

922
01:09:11,359 --> 01:09:15,479
Nice step forward from his D minus
one season. He's a January birthday,

923
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:19,000
so two more days, two more
years of the OHL. And I

924
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:23,039
don't know if people remember, but
you got to listen back to the draft

925
01:09:23,039 --> 01:09:27,000
content we did, and when I
talked with Tony Ferrari of the Hockey News

926
01:09:27,039 --> 01:09:31,439
He discussed how Richie had a shoulder
injury all season and he debated shutting it

927
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:34,159
down, but he wanted to show
a little bit of what he could do

928
01:09:34,199 --> 01:09:39,239
to help his draft stock, so
he played through it and it really affected

929
01:09:39,239 --> 01:09:42,199
his shot, his ability to puck
handle, his ability to do everything,

930
01:09:42,279 --> 01:09:45,399
so he was really limited. And
we talked about Richie as someone who could

931
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:50,720
absolutely pop off next year because he
should be healthy offseason surgery, and he

932
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:55,439
couldn't actually shoot the puck without pain. He can puck handle without pain,

933
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:59,600
so that'll be fun to see and
maybe he'll be someone that'll really take a

934
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,640
step. I've been drafting Richie and
a lot of drafts and with my second

935
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:09,159
round pick, and I'm really hoping
that he does big things next year and

936
01:10:09,159 --> 01:10:13,560
then maybe I can trade him for
a closer asset. But I'm expecting big

937
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:18,159
things from Callum Richie. Looking at
his tracting data from Mitch Brown's data set,

938
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:23,399
he overall ranks at a ninety three. Offense is really good. In

939
01:10:23,439 --> 01:10:29,119
particular his expected goals for sixty.
The slot passes are good, the expected

940
01:10:29,159 --> 01:10:33,279
primary assists aren't as good. He's
definitely more a goal scorer that had trouble

941
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:38,439
scoring because he had an injury with
his shoulder, so that should improve next

942
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:44,600
year. The defense is okay,
sixty three percentile, not amazing, but

943
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,359
some of his transition game is really
good and also some of the hottikel Cash

944
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:51,279
likes to say, if you look
at the bottom box, it's what's called

945
01:10:51,279 --> 01:10:58,600
the translatability factors, and so things
like advantages created off puck assists, which

946
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:00,159
is a big one that we always
talk about aspects what do they do away

947
01:11:00,199 --> 01:11:04,319
from the puck? That's huge,
and he does really well on that department.

948
01:11:04,399 --> 01:11:10,880
And expected primary point involvement percent was
also off the charts, So Colin

949
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:15,399
Richie really good and some of these
tracking track data areas. But let's hear

950
01:11:15,399 --> 01:11:21,000
a little bit more about what makes
him special from our FHL scout. Yes,

951
01:11:21,079 --> 01:11:27,399
indeed our scout is Punitte on this
one. And what did Punite have

952
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:31,840
to say about our guy, mister
Ritchie. He says average skating isn't the

953
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:35,359
most dynamic, but that offsets based
on his size being a positive factor.

954
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:40,880
Passing and handling. His passing and
stick handling is elite. He's very well

955
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:44,439
known and adept to maintaining puck possession
when the puck is on his stick.

956
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:47,239
He was dealing with a shoulder injury
the season, which resulted in surgery this

957
01:11:47,279 --> 01:11:53,560
off season. Nonetheless, still possesses
the skills for shooting. It's something that

958
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,960
would be a skill he needs to
work on, says Punit. Typically focuses

959
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,119
on driving the play, making plays
for teammates, passing. His solid does

960
01:12:00,159 --> 01:12:03,800
have a strong and heavy wrist shot
that is deceptive, but because he does

961
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:08,479
not shoot as much as a center
typically shoots, he's able to throw off

962
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:14,079
the opposition goalie IQ very low panic
meter demonstrated top tier hockey. IQ good

963
01:12:14,079 --> 01:12:17,199
at breaking down the play, assessing
his options when moving up the ice or

964
01:12:17,359 --> 01:12:21,640
checking. This is one where Putting
says something's up here because he's not using

965
01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:25,920
his large frame to knock players off
the puck. Maybe something to do with

966
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:30,000
that injured shoulder that played into part
of his game last year. So difficult

967
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,319
to assess what his for checking game
will look like. However, when the

968
01:12:32,359 --> 01:12:35,680
offensive zone, he is certainly not
afraid of going into the corners to get

969
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:41,640
puck or maintain puck possession. Defense, very good defensive game, strong on

970
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,880
the face offs, very well aware
of his surroundings in the defensive zone.

971
01:12:45,279 --> 01:12:48,479
Best asset, the large frame allows
for him to keep the puck away from

972
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:54,640
opponents. He plays very strong fundamental
hockey. The biggest concern at times he

973
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:58,079
can be too unselfish. He's a
great teammate to play with as he helps

974
01:12:58,199 --> 01:13:00,680
dishof passes to his fellow wingers,
but he does need to at times just

975
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:04,479
pull the trigger and take more shots
himself. He can also at times be

976
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:09,720
inconsistent from game to game that needs
to be worked on top tier outcome potential

977
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:13,760
to hit her a top tier top
two ceiling. With this style of playing

978
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:17,920
with the talent that is on Colorado, his creativity would certainly flourish. Taking

979
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:21,079
Colorado out of the equation, he'd
still be able to drive a first or

980
01:13:21,159 --> 01:13:25,560
second line with tier three as the
floor, presumably if he got the role

981
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:30,119
in Colorado we're talking about here fiftieth
percentile of the median outcome. The skill,

982
01:13:30,199 --> 01:13:32,239
talent and driver definitely there. He
has the potential to be a top

983
01:13:32,359 --> 01:13:36,520
or second line center on most teams. For this Colorado Avalanche team, it

984
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:40,840
may be a little hard to get
there, but he could certainly still be

985
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:44,720
a second or third liner. Stylistic
comparatable on the very high end on j

986
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:47,000
Kopatar, but that's shooting for the
moon on the lower end, more realistically,

987
01:13:47,199 --> 01:13:51,159
closer to a Boon Genner type of
profile is what Poon needs, says,

988
01:13:51,319 --> 01:13:56,800
And now onto the NHL ranking.
Our guy Mason Black, who gives

989
01:13:56,880 --> 01:14:01,319
us the p NHL E equivalences and
for call him Richie Patrick Sharp is the

990
01:14:01,399 --> 01:14:06,399
number one equivalence. He followed by
Michael Latta and Vincent Trocheck. So that's

991
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:12,079
interesting, kind of a just above
second line potential outcome as far as the

992
01:14:12,119 --> 01:14:15,920
translation. And for a comparison for
a vote for the people, for the

993
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:20,520
public, for democracy, we have
Kelham Richie versus Gavin Brindley who was taking

994
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:27,880
seven picks after Richie in this year's
draft, and when the results were received

995
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:31,760
off the internet, Gavin Brindley had
defeated Kelham Richie fifty five to forty five

996
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:36,119
percent. Is that how you see
this one? Victor? Definitely not.

997
01:14:38,079 --> 01:14:42,600
I love it. I like Kevin
Brindley. He's fun, he's a big

998
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,960
ball of energy. He's really difficult
to play against. He's someone who is

999
01:14:47,119 --> 01:14:51,399
the coach's dream. When we talked
about him in the draft episodes, we

1000
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:56,560
talked about how he was used a
ton at Michigan, one of the top

1001
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,920
used forwards, and they had a
bunch of really high skilled, high scoring

1002
01:15:00,039 --> 01:15:02,920
forwards, and Brindley was one of
the guys who commanded more ice time than

1003
01:15:03,039 --> 01:15:06,840
maybe some people would have expected,
and he did do a little bit better

1004
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:11,920
in terms of the equivalency, scoring
a pretty good clip. I think the

1005
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,880
big issue is that Kevin Brindley is
five foot nine and I'm not sure how

1006
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:18,119
much more he's going to grow.
He's really small, and he is someone

1007
01:15:18,199 --> 01:15:21,359
who is going to have a lot
of barriers to playing and he skates all

1008
01:15:21,399 --> 01:15:25,000
the defense things that she talked about. He's got offense, so he has

1009
01:15:25,039 --> 01:15:27,880
a lot of other things that you
like. There's really not a whole lot

1010
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,359
of downside other than his size,
but that is going to be a big

1011
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:35,920
limitation, and especially the style he
plays is more of a bottom six energy

1012
01:15:36,079 --> 01:15:40,640
type forward, so I'm not sure
that's going to command power play time.

1013
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:45,680
Richie. I feel like we didn't
really see everything that Callum Richie can do,

1014
01:15:45,119 --> 01:15:49,840
and so I think that I'm more
excited about him. I think he

1015
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:53,439
has a higher ceiling. I think
he's going to be a goal scorer.

1016
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:58,039
I could see him. I could
see Calum Richie really taking things to the

1017
01:15:58,079 --> 01:16:01,760
next level this season. Talked about
the injury and how much he scored,

1018
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:06,039
and the fact that he had more
assistant goals in his draft season and clearly

1019
01:16:06,079 --> 01:16:11,479
had trouble shooting the puck. I
really expect him to do a lot more.

1020
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:15,520
He had twenty four goals this season
after only after nineteen and his D

1021
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:20,439
minus one season. He could potentially
double his goal total in the OHL,

1022
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:26,079
and I think that wouldn't be too
incredibly surprising. With his shot, he

1023
01:16:26,159 --> 01:16:29,000
just needs a little bit more support
around him, but that would help.

1024
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:32,640
But yeah, I would definitely take
Colum Richie. He doesn't have the size

1025
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:38,199
issues, he doesn't have the other
limitations that Brindley has, but definitely a

1026
01:16:38,279 --> 01:16:43,000
decent prospect in Brindley. Of course, it also helps that Calum Ricci is

1027
01:16:43,039 --> 01:16:46,479
like the only good forward basically left
in the Colorado Valanced system, So you

1028
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:49,680
gotta like that when you look at
the hockey prospect in between these two,

1029
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:54,880
Calum Richie has a twenty percent chance
of being a star, Brinley twenty five.

1030
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:57,920
They both have a similar NHL or
probabilities, so they look pretty similar

1031
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:03,600
in this model. If you look
at just Ritchie by himself, there's some

1032
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:09,039
not super exciting comps. A lot
of them are replacement level producers, guys

1033
01:17:09,039 --> 01:17:14,239
like Austin Watson, which wouldn't be
terribly exciting. The Top Town Hockey model

1034
01:17:14,399 --> 01:17:16,840
from Jay Fresh has Colin Ritchie at
seven percent chance of being a star,

1035
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:20,279
thirty five percent chance of being in
an each other. It's pretty skeptical,

1036
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:25,319
but again I would say he was
injured and we have to wait and see

1037
01:17:25,359 --> 01:17:30,199
what he's gonna do next year because
all those things could really come up very

1038
01:17:30,239 --> 01:17:33,520
good. And finally, to keep
your eye on prospect picture, who is

1039
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:38,960
keep your eye on is the other
first round pick for the Avalanche. Mikhail

1040
01:17:39,079 --> 01:17:42,800
Guayev twenty twenty three, first round, thirty first overall, five, ten

1041
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:45,640
hundred and seventy two pound, left
handed d late April birthday. So he

1042
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:51,000
played this whole season as a seventeen
year old. Basically, he was in

1043
01:17:51,079 --> 01:17:55,880
Russia and primarily played in the MHL, where he was way too good for

1044
01:17:55,920 --> 01:18:01,199
that league. Then he split time
basically between the VHL and KHL, where

1045
01:18:01,239 --> 01:18:04,920
obviously things didn't go quite as well. It's not as easy, but two

1046
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:11,079
goals twenty three assists in twenty five
games in the MHL for over point per

1047
01:18:11,119 --> 01:18:15,680
game is actually twenty two games is
way good for the MHL for a defenseman,

1048
01:18:15,199 --> 01:18:19,479
and he's in the avant garde OMSK
system there. He's currently unstein who

1049
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:24,560
he's staying in Russia, who knows
for how long, but he definitely needs

1050
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,920
a little bit more work to do. You want to see him in the

1051
01:18:27,039 --> 01:18:30,119
KHL for at least a year or
two before expecting to come over. But

1052
01:18:30,279 --> 01:18:33,840
let's hear a little bit more about
what makes mckel gy of so interesting from

1053
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:41,159
our FHL scout. Our FHL scout
for this guy is Brandon, and Brandon

1054
01:18:41,199 --> 01:18:45,560
has this to say about McKiel gould
gayev he's as far as skating light on

1055
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:48,359
its feet, takes advantage of his
smallest frame by having a quick, crisp

1056
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:53,319
acceleration. Rarely has to show off
his edge work in tight as he is

1057
01:18:53,359 --> 01:18:57,840
so spatially aware that he tends to
avoid being in close quarters when carrying the

1058
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,800
pucket at top speeds, easily can
shift into the lanes that open up as

1059
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:06,520
he encroaches the opposition coverage, passing
confident and heads up puck mover that makes

1060
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:13,399
receiving his passes look easy. When
breaking the puck out, he tends to

1061
01:19:13,399 --> 01:19:15,880
skate the puck from behind the net
to near the top of the circles before

1062
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:19,279
moving the puck. This allows him
to set the tempo and dynamically change the

1063
01:19:19,279 --> 01:19:24,199
look of passing lanes. Long stretch
passes across two zones are a rather rare

1064
01:19:24,199 --> 01:19:28,760
occurrence, although they are executed with
accuracy and gusto when they are made.

1065
01:19:29,239 --> 01:19:31,800
He can make quick rangy passes in
the ozone to set up one timers that

1066
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:38,119
forced the goaltender to dramatically move laterally. Shooting shot of all varieties are not

1067
01:19:38,159 --> 01:19:43,000
necessarily hard or fast. They seem
to be made as a strategic puck movement

1068
01:19:43,079 --> 01:19:45,680
choice that puts the puck in a
more dangerous and dynamic position near the net

1069
01:19:46,039 --> 01:19:50,600
via rebounce. His shots also seem
to be set up to be easily tipped

1070
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:56,800
by a NetFront presence. IQ attentively
poised in a semi laid back manner at

1071
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:00,720
a distance, often reads plays well
spatial and is often in the right position

1072
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:04,119
relative to the puck and puck carrier, and he rose to the occasion and

1073
01:20:04,199 --> 01:20:10,520
elevated his game intensity traumatically across the
board in the viewing during the playoff series

1074
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:14,920
versus Scott. For checking, he
primarily contributes by moving the puck up the

1075
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,680
ice to the forward group after taking
a couple of moments to alter the pace

1076
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:21,319
of the game. Shows the ability
to keep control of the puck and to

1077
01:20:21,399 --> 01:20:27,720
skate with it into gain zone entry
before passing it. Often he makes it

1078
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:30,880
look easy at times, and Brandon
would actually like to see him attempt more

1079
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,439
often to carry the puck deeper into
the zone and allow teammates to get in

1080
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:41,600
more dangerous pass option positions. For
defense, he stays very square to the

1081
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:45,640
puck carrier entering the zone, uses
excellent gap control, quietly active stick to

1082
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:50,000
disrupt the time and time again.
After Guyaya frees up the puck, he

1083
01:20:50,079 --> 01:20:54,800
is quick to make a short pass
to when open its supportive teammate to initiate

1084
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:58,279
the transition game, and if it
is a first attempt to thwart the puck

1085
01:20:58,319 --> 01:21:01,880
carrier fails, he ends up causing
a wake of spatial disruption that can result

1086
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:08,079
in the puck carrier stopping short and
mishandling the puck. The best asset for

1087
01:21:08,119 --> 01:21:13,880
Guliayev positioning and play disruption facilitated by
subtle edgework and patients. The biggest concern

1088
01:21:14,199 --> 01:21:18,000
the shot is not that threatening.
The top tier outcome for Guliayev middle pairing,

1089
01:21:18,159 --> 01:21:23,479
few goals, many secondary assists to
flirt with forty points low peripherals aside

1090
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:28,399
from takeaways and the middle outcome fiftieth
percentile depth. Defenseman that could catch lightning

1091
01:21:28,399 --> 01:21:30,560
in a bottle for a stretch of
games or a season and be seen as

1092
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:36,760
a hidden gem or underrated. The
stylistic comparable shades of an offensively passive Liligrin

1093
01:21:38,039 --> 01:21:43,439
mixed with the skating and posture of
Spurgeon. So Gliayev in the NHL Rank

1094
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:46,960
King courtesy of Mason Black, Where
does he come out? His number one

1095
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:51,800
comp in terms of p NHL E
equivalency is Hampas Lindholm, followed by Jeff

1096
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:59,319
Petrie and nick Yannick rathgib And it
is actually low. It's actually below second

1097
01:21:59,319 --> 01:22:01,920
line potential, pretty low, which
is just surprising given some of the names

1098
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:08,159
that I just said. But in
terms of a comparison, Mikael Guyayev was

1099
01:22:08,319 --> 01:22:12,039
selected in the second to the last
pick of the first round this year,

1100
01:22:12,319 --> 01:22:15,920
is being compared to ty Nelson Seattle
Crack and Pick from the third round of

1101
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:20,920
the twenty twenty two draft, and
in that comparison, that competition out on

1102
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:26,840
the internet one hundred and fifty seven
votes, Mikael Guyaye decisively winning that poll

1103
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:30,359
seventy three to twenty seven percent.
Is this one as much as slam dunk

1104
01:22:30,399 --> 01:22:35,560
for you, Victor as the Internet
makes it look? Yeah, I think

1105
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:40,000
so. I think that's maybe a
little disrespectful to ty Nelson. I think

1106
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:45,600
he's better than getting almost three times
as many votes, more than three times.

1107
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:49,119
I do think that Nelson is a
decent prospect, and he's got a

1108
01:22:49,199 --> 01:22:53,880
lot of truculence to his game,
and he seems pretty likely to be an

1109
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:58,119
NHLer, even though he's slightly undersized. We've talked about him a bunch actually

1110
01:22:58,800 --> 01:23:02,039
on this show and the DPR Show. He's come up a couple of times.

1111
01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:05,199
I really do like him. I'm
not sure that the offense is going

1112
01:23:05,239 --> 01:23:08,600
to be the biggest thing. I
think ty Nelson is much more likely a

1113
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:14,399
little pairing, tough defenseman to play
against kind with some offense, not too

1114
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:17,119
much. Michael Giliayev, on the
other hand, you're not really going to

1115
01:23:17,199 --> 01:23:23,600
have out there unless he's pushing play
getting some offensive chances. In some ways,

1116
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:26,720
he actually reminds me a little bit
of Byrom, just how he's so

1117
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:30,359
offensive, so creative, so good
in transition, pushes the pace. But

1118
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:33,119
he definitely needs to round out the
rest of his game. He was a

1119
01:23:33,119 --> 01:23:38,920
little adventurous at times in the MHL
and needs to learn how to play that

1120
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:41,520
more structured game, and you don't
know how to defend better. But I

1121
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:45,319
think the upside with Glia is definitely
higher. Definitely a secondary offensive piece that

1122
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,199
Colorado could be pretty good there.
Maybe they end up moving him too and

1123
01:23:49,239 --> 01:23:54,159
he goes to another team and is
their top power play quarterback. So there's

1124
01:23:54,159 --> 01:23:57,119
a lot to like with Gliayev.
He definitely I think it is a little

1125
01:23:57,199 --> 01:24:02,600
less secure in terms of his projectability, but he is looking really strong in

1126
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:05,800
terms of the upside. If you
look at Hockey prospecting, he has an

1127
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:10,600
eighty three percent star potential, which
is crazy high. But I think that's

1128
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:15,239
entirely based on his MHL data,
which is a relatively small sample size but

1129
01:24:15,319 --> 01:24:20,199
looks really elite for high point producer
in the MHL. Nelson, on the

1130
01:24:20,279 --> 01:24:25,000
other hand thirteen percent chance of being
a star seventy percent chance of being NHLer,

1131
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:29,199
so a little bit lower, but
actually pretty decent. That Nelson was

1132
01:24:29,239 --> 01:24:31,239
able to raise his star potential from
his draft season, which is really hard

1133
01:24:31,239 --> 01:24:36,279
to do. Looking at some other
comps, GUI I have has three I

1134
01:24:36,319 --> 01:24:40,880
think we mentioned this in the Draft
episode three hilarious comps, which are Michael

1135
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:45,560
Dale's Otto, Scott Niedermeyer, and
Ryan Merkley. Those three almost couldn't be

1136
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:51,079
more different, right like NHL bus
like pretty average NHLer and then all time

1137
01:24:51,239 --> 01:24:56,079
legend. So yeah, probably somewhere
in between all those, right, Like,

1138
01:24:56,119 --> 01:24:58,800
I don't know where a GLI I
have is Gonna Land. I don't

1139
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:02,720
think he's Scott Nieddmyer, but I
also I think he can defend better than

1140
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:06,079
Merkeley, which is not a high
bar to pass. So we'll have to

1141
01:25:06,119 --> 01:25:11,920
see if he can improve that well
enough and translate that game to the professional

1142
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:14,800
ranks, because he really didn't do
that too much. Most of that high

1143
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:16,119
end production was in the MHL,
so we need to see it in the

1144
01:25:16,199 --> 01:25:20,920
VHL and the KHL. The Jay
Fresh Car has mckail guy have at eight

1145
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:24,880
percent chance of being a star,
sixty seven percent chance of being in NHL

1146
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:30,439
or so not bad for just draft
a guy. But yeah, Jesse,

1147
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:32,960
there's more guys we could talk about, but there's no time. If you're

1148
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:36,800
a patron, you can listen to
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1149
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:42,079
We'll break down all thought prospects on
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1150
01:25:42,119 --> 01:25:45,079
in doing any scouting, you can
shoot me a DM on Twitter, discord,

1151
01:25:45,239 --> 01:25:49,880
or email us. There always are
more, Victor, there always are

1152
01:25:50,079 --> 01:25:55,000
more. We're gonna come back after
just a minute, and cools out.

1153
01:25:55,000 --> 01:26:08,119
There are always a couple more things
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1154
01:26:08,159 --> 01:26:13,880
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01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:51,119
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1165
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1168
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People come on. Fantrak's HQ has
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1169
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:13,279
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1170
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1171
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1172
01:27:20,279 --> 01:27:25,439
couple in the hopper, but there
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1173
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:28,319
maybe check that out if you haven't
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1174
01:27:28,399 --> 01:27:30,720
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1175
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:34,159
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Full Count Fantasy Baseball, the Prospect
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1180
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:59,039
But you know, there's also this
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1181
01:27:59,079 --> 01:28:02,920
now, Fastball, Anasy Baseball,
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1182
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:08,479
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01:28:14,199 --> 01:28:18,399
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1195
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1196
01:29:00,359 --> 01:29:04,520
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1197
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1198
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thing you use to find your podcasts. You should keep listening. You should

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keep preparing for your draft. You
should keep getting your draftless ready and your

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projections at hand and the information in
your head because you're gonna need it to

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keep living that fantasy hockey life.