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Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented
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and analysis to help you win your
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Here's your hosts, Jesse Souvier and Victor

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Nuno. Fantasy Hockey Live back once
again. I am Jesse Sapara fan Tracks

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and joining me my good friend,
my buddy, Victor Nuno of Dabber Prospects.

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Victor, how are you doing today? I'm doing awesome, Jesse.

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Definitely excited to dig into some more
our team previews here. How are you

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doing? I'm good man, Team
previews season. We love talking about the

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team previews. And we're on to
number two out of thirty two and adrenaline

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is still running strong. Today it's
going to beat the CBJS, the Columbus

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Blue Jackets. Victor. This is
just a crazy time because not only do

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we do these episodes and these he
used to become a laborate over the years.

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Man, we got all kinds of
parts and pieces of this episode coming

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coming through. You're gonna love this. It's not just me and Victor sitting

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here talking the whole time. We
got guests, We've got segments, we

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got all kinds of things. But
Victor, in addition to that, it's

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like it's like there's an accompaniment to
the whole thing. It's like when you

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when you were a kid, did
you ever do that thing where you got

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the little record or tape and then
it came with a book and you could

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listen to the one while you were
reading the other. Did you ever do

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that? Oh? Definitely. I
love looking at the little booklet that came

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with it and reading all the the
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there. It's a good time.
Yeah. So our CD liner notes come

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in a particular format and with a
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would tell tell the people about our
patreon, Victor. Yeah, so much

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goodness over at the Patreon we got
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up for. You can look at
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never looked at our show notes,
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graphs and tables and and stuff easy
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what the guests say, so in
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go back to listen to the whole
thing, you can find that. We

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also have patron casts. We have
roster doctors where we can help you figure

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out what's going on with your team
and how to dissect what to how to

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move forward. We also have a
lot of great stuff on the prospect rank

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sheet, which has been redesigned and
redeveloped thanks to Jesse, because I'm not

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very good with the spreadsheets, but
I put in all the data and he

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helps me make it look pretty and
make sense. There's organizational ranks in there.

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There's ranks of each prospect on each
team based on who the best are

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and then also looking at forwards,
goalie, and defense and based on you

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know, who has the most upside. So this is constantly being updated.

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I'll definitely be refining it as we
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twenty three ranks integrated after the draft, and one of the few places you

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can find information on hits, blocks
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really hard to find out there.
So looking at their bashed potential is something

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that's really good for those of us
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a lot of great stuff. If
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want to feel like you want to
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patreon dot com slash fantasy Hockey Life. Well, we've got a lot to

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get to today, so we will
tarry no longer. Let's get to talk

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about the Columbus Blue Jacket with our
guests. You can read along with me

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in your book. You will know
it is time to turn the page when

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you hear the chimes ring like this. Let's begin now. Pleased to welcome

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tonight Mark Shy from the Hockey Writers
to talk about the Columbus Blue Jackets.

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How you doing their? Mark?
Oh, Jesse and Victor are good to

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be with you. Guys doing well
all things considered. Oh man, you

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sound glum. Mark. We gotta
get you up. We gotta get you

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to talk about some Blue Jackets hockey
here. Man, it's it's an exciting

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time. Maybe I'm sounding like the
pessimistic Blue Jackets fans is you know,

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we're talking on the night before the
draft lottery, so they've already resorted thinking

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that they're going to have the third
or the fourth pick and lose out on

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Connor Badarts. So maybe I sound
like them. But we'll get it going

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here, I promise. Hey,
Look, I know the feeling I was

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supposed to have good odds and win
Connor badarts tonight in the lottery. And

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you know my partner here, Victor, he just you know, he holds

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me out of the pick. He
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I'm gonna be just like the Blue
Jackets the man, right, I just

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kind of tease. Anyway, we'll
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a little more relevant mark. They
had, no doubt a rough season,

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there's no question. Only the Ducks
allowed more shots against or goals against goals

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four percentage was the worst in the
league under thirty eight percent, and they

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were also very, very injured.
Pulled this from a Twitter account NHL Reviews

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that said the in game man games
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Blue Jackets was the third highest in
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and one, behind Arizona last year
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two thousand and nine. Just crazy, crazy, bad injury luck for this

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team last year. Best news for
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we're going to be talking about tonight, A whole lot better and more less

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depressing than it was when we talked
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hope for the fans. We we'll
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But nation Wide Arena couldn't have been
the happiest place on earth this year?

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Did Jacket fans see all this is
necessary medicine for the next step forward this

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year? And does this club look
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of it depends on the ping pong
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Mark and the day of this broadcasts. Guess see, you know what,

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So there's two things going on with
that question. So is their future bright?

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The answers absolutely yes, even prior
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have one of the deepest young prospect
pools in the league. You consider players

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like Kent Johnson, players like Cole
Celinder. I know we're going to talk

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about them later. I'm David,
you're a checking Dentim tay check on the

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back end, who are going to
really help with that blue line coursing Coolman's

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as well, talking about our first
round picks that you know they're building within

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the draft. So even before we
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draft coming out in twenty twenty three, they're still in really good shape.

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But with that said, the ping
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yes, they're guaranteed to pick within
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add one of the best players in
the world. And they're at that age

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too already one of the best prospect
pools. But you're talking about rma Gard,

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then you're talking about a couple steps
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talking about maybe a step or two
down to the likes of Leo Carlson,

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Will Smith, Matt v Mishkoff.
However, whichever way they want to go

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with that. So, yes,
it's very important because they need a player

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like Connor Bdard. They've never had
a player like Connor Bdard ever in their

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franchise history, with all due respect
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They need some luck to go on
their side. They have a thirteen

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and a half percent chance to add
you know, when many people consider to

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be a generational talent to this prospect
pool and if they want to take the

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next step. Even though you guys
saw the Hurricanes Devil's game that happened as

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Game three, that's the class of
the Metropolitan The vision, and you know,

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how are they built. I mean
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Jack Hughes, Nico hesher Sebastian Aho, Jordan Stall. They're solid down the

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middle, as solid as you can
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the Blue Jackets that have them behind
the rest of the pack, it's right

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down the So that's the importance,
right, They're going to get a center

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like we mentioned along those names,
but getting someone like Connor Badard is necessary

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if they actually want to make up
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in their division, in the league
and where they are now. So they

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absolutely knew luck if they're going to
get somewhere. They do have some stars

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still on this team, and they
start with Patrick Lyone. Victor ranked him

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coming into the season last year number
thirty five. I said sixty two.

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He ended up one twenty two in
fantasy terms, but with an asterisk.

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He was actually pacing out to be
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and Victor and I both see him
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next year. In fifty five games, he had twenty two goals thirty assists

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for fifty two points. Not really
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much. He missed stretches for an
elbow and then another undisclosed illness and then

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an ankle. Generally, he's been
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except for the first half of the
twenty twenty one season before Winnipeg sent him

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to Columbus, and then again this
year. Line eight lost the final twelve

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games the year to a triceps On
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Hockey at the top of the Columbus
production chart. And we'll talk about mister

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Goodrow here coming up in a bit. A point three plus shots a game,

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great stat profile for Patrick Lyoney in
fantasy, recently turned twenty five,

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one of the three big money players
on this team. Do you expect Line's

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recent status quo of a point per
game? Do you think he could be

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even better in a full healthy season
for this club? Mark that you just

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nailed it. Can he stay healthy? And in fact, the team announced

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on Sunday that he will not play
in the World Championships, even though the

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tournaments in his hometown of Tempere,
Finland, because he's still recovering from that

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said triceps injury. So it was
a very choppy year. I mean it's

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from game one. He left the
first game of the year injured, then

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he had to deal with loss of
his father, and then he said he

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only played in fifties some games.
Was still almost a point per game player

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if they land Connor, but Dark
he absolutely could be a lot better.

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We're talking forty goals, maybe even
more than that, because now you're talking

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about having a top flights center that
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He had those numbers. You know, no offense to boon General always played.

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You know that the team is done. To ask him at center ice

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For him to be a point per
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with who was at center is borderline
miraculous because you're talking about guys that normally

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on a good team would not be
a top six center. So it actually

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goes to show his upside. He
can still shoot the puck, one of

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the best in the world. He's
still an underweighted playmaker. I think not

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enough attention to being given to how
good a playmaker is. I think a

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lot of people look at Goodrow as
the playmaker. But when Lyney has the

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puck and you know, the defenses
start to play a shot, he can

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get the puck two spots where he
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So the upside is definitely there.
The key is going to be can they

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finally find consistency with him and Goodrow
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they find a top sixth center that
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So in terms of next year and
if Badar joins them, there's a lot

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of upside there. If it's Fantilly, you know, he could he could

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step right in and play. The
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away, and then it'll be really
curious to see if they go the trademarket,

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if they go to free agents,
say no, Kevin Hayes's name,

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has burn brought up a lot,
somebody that Goodrow is familiar with. But

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Lenny's production is going to be based
on how he does with Goodrow, and

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then if they can bring a center
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I think it'll be a little bit
better. But he really he has

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to take the summer, and I
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World Championship. He needs to make
sure that he's healthy, that he has

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a good summer of training, and
that he's ready to go because you know

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they need him. He's being he's
one of the best paid players on the

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team for a reason. You know
they need him to score thirty five forty

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goals. He can't be missing chunks
of the season due to injury. So

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a lot of questions there, but
the upside is certainly can't deny it or

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sure hot upside there, and let's
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We already kind of referenced him.
Of course we have to talk about

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him next. A bit of a
slow start for Goodrow he had, but

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he eventually had a pretty strong season. Coming into it. I had him

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ranked as the twenty sixth best for
Jesse thirtieth. He ended up actually seventy

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eight, and so a little bit
lower than some expectations. We both see

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him as a Tier one guy going
into next year. His seventy six point

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pace was probably a bit of a
disappointment compared to the one hundred and fifteen

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point pace he had in calgaryes last
year, but really on par with half

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of his Calgary seasons. If you
just look at what he did most of

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the time in Calgary, it was
about that it was about, you know,

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high mid to high seventies. He
had a great time on ice,

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but his shooting percentage was three percent
lower than his career average, his PDO

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was low, and his ozone starts
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that was on purpose. I think
it was more likely a team effect than

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a deployment choice. If you look
at his rampum charts on Evolving Hockey,

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he excels an offense as we know, and his defensive metrics are pretty poor,

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So you really do need that offensive
deployment for him. Need probably need

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more just offensive zone starts in general
to allow him to flex his skills.

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And that was pretty much on par
with what his career trajectory has looked like,

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although generally a little bit better defensively
and even more offensive production. So

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his numbers are just a little worse
than his expected three years average, but

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pretty much on par with what you
would expect from goodrow on this suppressed offensive

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team. So Mark, as the
team improves around him, should we expect

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a floor of maybe seventy seventy five
points with maybe upside for a point per

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game plus one hundred percent. Agree
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that where a lot of the outside
fans don't realize. You know, there

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was obviously the decision to leave Calgary
and joined Columbus. There was an adjustment

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period when you're going from a place
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a brand new city. You know, you know, his wife they just

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had a new baby at the beginning
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about adjusting to a new city,
adjusting to a new home, adjusting to

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new teammates, adjusting to a new
coaching staff. We kind of expected a

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slow start because of all those adjustments
of the brand new world for him.

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That's exactly how it played out.
But then to his credit, and I

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think that's where kind of his greatness
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numbers were you know, obviously not
to the standard where they were at Calgary

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because there wasn't much better team around
him than considering all the injuries seventy some

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points, it did points to the
skill that he has, the way that

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he just created on the ice,
that he can make everybody better. And

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then consider the injury factor. You
know, Liney was gone early. Like

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we've already talked about virtually every put
it to you guys, this way.

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The Blue Jackets did not have a
single person, not not one player played

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all eighty two games. I mean, that's absurd to think about that.

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Everybody missed at least a couple of
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the iron Man streak, got caught
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He had a lower body injury and
a couple of different occasions and had to

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miss the games. So nobody was
a man. But he was still able

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to produce quite frankly, one of
the better seasons in Blue Jackets history,

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just to kind of give your perspective
on you know, there haven't been very

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many great seasons, but that one
was up there because you know, he

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produces on the power play. You
know, he's still a great playmaker.

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I absolutely agree with your assessment about
the four seventy some points. Just imagine

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if they're able to get Badart and
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That's a deadly combination. And there's
folks out there that say that Badart

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could get thirty goals as a rookie
if he has to play with Goodreau,

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Goodrow could approach eighty, maybe even
ninety or more points of him and lining

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and Badard become a line and they
find chemistry. That's just some insane skill

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that you'd be able to put together. But going into the new year,

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though he's now used to Columbus,
now he's going to have a lot of

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the same teammates. Now they're looking
for a coach, So that's certainly going

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to be a factor here whenever they
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to be, how he's going to
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But he's not facing the same challenges
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I think that it's expected that he
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And he's Johnny Goodrow. He's still
going to produce, and I think

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that he'll produce at around a point
per game, and then if you put

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the right linemates around him, you
know it's possible that he could do better

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than that. Let's talk about Boone
Jenner. He's been mentioned a couple of

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times already. I just still missed
on the Boon Jenner train. Victor predicted

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him one thirty two this year.
I said one hundred. Guy even hit

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the over on that for fantasy purposes
was the eighty first best fantasy forward,

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and Victor and I are going to
give him a tip of the hat by

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putting him a Tier three for next
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Boone, Jenner, the odometer is
going to flip over to thirty years old

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this summer, the captain of the
team three more years in a modest three

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point seventy five million per A rare
example of a guy to me who plateaus

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for years in terms of production and
then increases it at a later point in

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his career. He was basically sixteen
to seventeen average time on ice, half

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a point per game guy for years, and then for the last two years

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as Columbus has kind of torn down
and needed somebody to step up, Like

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you said, into that center one
vacuum, he's gone over twenty minutes,

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shooting percentages are well over ten fifty
five point paces, three shots of block,

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and two hits. His fantasy gold
for a real world leader type.

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He's got a lot of nice stats
up there for us fantasy folks. Is

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this recent Jenner production the Jenner you
expect to see next year or once again?

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Is it all got to come down
to ping pong balls, Whether he's

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going to get twenty minutes a game. Well, certainly injuries had a lot

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to do with his role last year, and yeah, he got hit by

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the injury bug two. But he
was their top line center, you know,

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when he was available, so that
gave him the extra minutes he plays

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in all situations. He's their spark
plug. He was on their top power

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play and saw success in the net
front. There's he was able to get

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a lot of the six feet away
and under goals, tips, deflections,

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mentioned the hits and the blocks.
That's the stuff that he's willing to do.

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But here's the question about moving forward. Besides you know the ping pong

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balls and how that's all going to
work out. You mentioned that he's thirty.

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There's all. You know, he's
had some back issues and the injury

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that he dealt with a little bit
in the last couple of years has been

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his back and that has been something
that creeped up a few years ago,

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creep up again last year. They
asked to play a ton of minutes.

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He's not getting younger here. You
just wonder are they going to look to

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put him possibly on the wing.
You know, he's absolutely willing to play

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center if the need is still there, So they brought in a guy.

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You know, if you guys saw
the news or not, this is widely

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expected. But from the KHL,
they signed one of their draft picks by

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the name of the Pitri Bronkoff just
played in the Gaggering Cup Final. Why

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are we bringing him up? Which
because they expect him to play center.

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So if Sean Crowley is a bottom
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sixth center, that means there's only
two spots available for the other centers.

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And if you land Connor Badard,
suddenly there's only one Cole Cylinders there.

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Kent Johnson's there. We need to
mention Patrick Laney playing center a little bit

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last year and a little bit of
an experiment. He might Jenner might end

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up on the wing. Is the
whole point, depending on how everything shakes

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out. So you're still going to
get a lot of the hits, you're

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going to get a lot of the
blocks. The shot that's still generally going

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to be there. But are the
days of him playing twenty minutes a night

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over. That's the biggest question that
we have. If they don't land Badard

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and they end up third or fourth, and the guy that they get is

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not ready is going to be a
year or two away. Very possible Jenner

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goes back in that spot and we'll
have every opportunity again to produce. But

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that's something that we need to see
how the draft goes. We need to

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see if they go out and acquire
somebody. The one thing that they said

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they want to overhaul the center ice
position. They're not happy with it when

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they admit that on the record,
it's a top priority. So given the

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back situation, given what they're looking
to do with center, do not be

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surprised if he's deployed on the wing, but stay tuned. That's just something

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that has to develop well. And
one centerman there who I would feel called

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out if I was in that talking
about that group of people. Jack Rosselovich

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is another sentiment on this team and
not a great year. He was the

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victor and I didn't have the highest
hopes of him coming into the year and

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he really didn't end up stepping it
up in a big way. You know,

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during that COVID season when Rosslovich found
his way at Winnipeg and closer to

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his Ohio roots coming in with Patrick
Leaney, things were just so positive and

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from a high fifties pace that shortened
year, he's kind of drifted down into

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the mirror up or forties type of
scoring. Got top six minutes all year

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with the best wingers on the team
last year even at up up to big

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minutes when when Boone Jenner did miss
that time that you're talking about, then

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four percentage of five on five was
one of the lower on the team,

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although only line A was on the
ice for a lower goals against per sixty

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among the big boys. So for
whatever reason, Rasselovitch was on there in

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some good defensive stance, maybe from
his offensive deployment. Anyway, one more

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year, a four million dollars to
go. Is he going to get bumped

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out of his top six by the
center crunch you see coming and is he

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going to even be a part of
the Blue Jackets in the long term?

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Well, I was to say he
might be bumped off the Blue Jackets,

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Jesse. It's something we're watching for
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You know, we talked with him
and you know, he's very frank

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and came out and said that based
on the interview that we had, we

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feel like that there's going to be
a bit of a culture even when it's

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first saying that quote, I'm not
there yet, but I hope to be

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soon, meaning what they kind of
expect. And I just thought that that

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it was a strange comment to me
because it makes me question if he's even

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a part of the future plans.
You mentioned that he's got the one year

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left, but look at last year, all the injuries, how far they

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had to go into the depth chart, and yes, he very much could

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not find the consistency that they're hoping
to get. They signed him to a

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kind of a prove it contract to
see could he be a solution at Centirise.

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Now, to his credit, he
finished with a career high and assistant.

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I think that kind of gets lost
in everything because of his struggles and

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all the injuries, still been of
a playmaker, still can stay very well.

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Consistency has very much been an issue
for him, and especially if they

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land but Dard or Fantilly, I
could very much see a scenario where one

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he's not a center on the Blue
Jackets anymore and they'd be relegated to the

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wing. If they can't find a
trade partner for him, he could possibly

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be in the bottom six or possibly
be even a healthy scratch. It really

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depends on I know, we keep
coming back to the ping pollen balls here,

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but he's a case where just something, it's just something that we have

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to watch. Based on his comments, based on his play, they expected

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a lot more from him. I
mean, you're paying a guy four million

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dollars to possibly be either on the
bottom six or not even part of the

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plans at all. So the preference
there could be to see if there is

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a trade partner out there somewhere that
could give him possibly a top six opportunity

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summer, because there just simply might
not be any more room on the Blue

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jackets depending on how it goes.
A stay tune in that one flip a

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coin. It can go either way, whether he's even on the team or

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not. Yeah, for sure,
we're gonna have to track that one.

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The next guy we have to talk
about we have mentioned him already a couple

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of times, and that is mister
Cole Cylinder. He we I had him

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ranked one fourteen Jesse one fifty two. He was actually three hundred and thirty

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seventh. He had a really massive
sophomore slump. We have him, we

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have a little belief in him going
in the next season Tier three. His

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point pace was cut in half this
season, although his hidden block pace went

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up, but his shots went down. Hasn't really ever been a big shooter

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in the NHL. He struggled to
drive play and he was ninth in time

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on ice for Fords for Clembus.
That's pretty bad if you look at his

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underlying metrics. All of his pers
sixty stats are pretty pretty bad, and

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much worse than his three year average. I don't really know what to make

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of Cylinder. I was really impressed
when he was, you know, eighteen

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years old in the NHL, kind
of holding his own, looked like,

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you know, doing really good work
in a limited role that first season,

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and then he just kind of seemed
like he struggled a lot more. I'm

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not exactly sure what happened, but
I feel like probably have to get him

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a little bit of a break because
he's still really young. I mean,

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he's still still only nineteen, and
so he still has a lot of bright

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future ahead of him, I think. But I think there's hope for him

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being a fifty plus point player with
pretty good hits and blocks. I mean,

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you tell me, is that a
little bit too much to ask for.

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Is that what we can hope for
for Nicole Cylinder a little much next

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season? But I think you're right
in the future, So kind of fill

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everybody in on his season where you
know, big things were expected off the

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eighteen year old season. Ended up
just under twenty goals in the eighteen year

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old season, and there's Patrice bergelon
like numbers, so there were a lofty

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expectations. But then coming and then
does the year has started? Here,

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all the injuries happened. Suddenly he's
playing with guys that he had never played

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before. Sometimes he found himself playing
with other rookies, so they're trying to

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find their way in the National Hockey
League against established players. So when you

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look at it from that lens,
it certainly points to a downtick. But

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first, for a long period of
time he was fighting it. He lost

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confidence, he was still trying to
make an effect on the game in other

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ways, like you mentioned with some
of the hits, and but yeah,

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that the time, he was not
consistently in a second or third line center

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role. He sometimes was down on
the bottom six, and in fact,

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he found himself eventually scratch and it
got to us questioning is he going to

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end up in the American Hockey League
at some point? And then real late

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in the year and he ended up
finishing the season with the Cleveland Monsters with

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the hope that the Monsters would make
a playoff run. They didn't even make

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that. So definitely a tough year
for him, but there's still certainly a

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lot to Like you mentioned how young
he was, the upside is certainly still

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going to be there. He's going
to He's a type of player that's going

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to provide hits once he gets into
a position where he's got better linemates around

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him. I think the rest of
the numbers will come. But next year,

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specifically, with so many questions,
I think we have to temper our

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expectations a little bit. You know, you'll be interesting to see the new

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coach that comes in. You know, there's a lot of talk out there

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that the Blue Jackets will look at
or Gland, who has just recently had

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a mutual parting of ways with the
New York Rangers, and you know him

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and Alexey Law for an yeer.
That's always been kind of the discourse about

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how Gallant handles young players and development
and would go on, he'd be coming

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into a team that's very, very
young. You know, there's kind of

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the fine line. The Blue Jackets
need an experienced coach, but they also

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need someone that's going to be able
to develop their young players, and Cylinders

408
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at the top of the list of
guys that need to be developed. So

409
00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:51,079
we need to see who the coach
is going to be, how he's going

410
00:28:51,119 --> 00:28:53,400
to be deployed, and then he
needs to be able to use this summer

411
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,079
to just flush last year away and
to be able to focus and get ready

412
00:28:57,079 --> 00:29:03,000
for this year. You know,
let's tymp our expectations for twenty three twenty

413
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four, but I think we're going
to start to see the upside come later

414
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,480
in the year and then moving forward. He was a twelfth overall pick in

415
00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:14,599
the first round for three reason.
He's still expected to be a top sixth

416
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:19,440
center eventually. It's just now he
has to have the right people around him

417
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,839
to be able to develop. And
we're going to hear a lot of this

418
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:29,279
out of Columbus for how young everybody
is. Proper development and cylinders right at

419
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the top of out this. So
let's tymper expectations for now, though for

420
00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:37,279
next year, another one of those
hot rookikies who haven't quite blown up yet

421
00:29:37,279 --> 00:29:41,680
at the pro level. Kent Johnson
I had high helps of him in the

422
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,880
preseason. He didn't have the greatest
production year, but we'll get to that.

423
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:48,240
Victor and I both see him as
Tier three for next year. Nine

424
00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:52,799
game audition the year before, and
then a full season this time. Ice

425
00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:56,240
time gradually climbed over the course of
the season, and he ended up with

426
00:29:56,319 --> 00:30:00,359
sixteen goals twenty four assists for forty
points in seventy nine games head for a

427
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,400
rookie. That's an only fourteen thirty
one average time on ice too. On

428
00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:07,960
scoring rates, he was fourth on
the team after the top three guys that

429
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,240
we've already mentioned. He was rabbit
low and secondary assists too, so he

430
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:18,480
would jump jump Jack Roslovich for third
on the team if you did primary points

431
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,519
only and took off the e twos. He's going to turn twenty one at

432
00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:23,960
the beginning of the season, and
for those who hoped he would jump straight

433
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,039
into an elite scoring role, it
was just more of a steady debut.

434
00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:32,519
Why don't you see of Kent Johnson
as a rookie mark and how much improvement

435
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,240
would you expect in the coming year. Depends on how he does in the

436
00:30:36,279 --> 00:30:40,480
gym this summer. That's going to
be the biggest thing with Johnson. He

437
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,440
actually declined an offer to play with
Team Canada at the World Championship, citing

438
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,480
the need to have a full off
season to be able to get stronger,

439
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,839
to get in the gym, and
to get ready for the new season.

440
00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:56,240
But man, I'll tell you what, guys, we might be talking about

441
00:30:56,319 --> 00:31:00,400
the one of the best top two
three player on the entire Blue Jackets.

442
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:06,839
As it is, the upside there
is very tantalizing. He got more confident

443
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,680
as the season went on. You
cited the low timeline ice Brad Larson had

444
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,279
a little bit of a struggle putting
him out there, and kind of in

445
00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:18,319
the early going is there's some strength
issues, some defensive issues, and a

446
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,960
kind of typical to see out of
a rookie. But just overall, he

447
00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:27,839
just kept improving and improving and eventually
became one of the better Blue Jackets on

448
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:33,359
a team that was completely decimated.
There's a lot of excitement around this player,

449
00:31:36,079 --> 00:31:38,480
a lot of comparisons to Patrick Kane. I know that's a very lofty

450
00:31:38,519 --> 00:31:42,960
expectation. Here. But this guy
is the real deal of anyone that's followed

451
00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:48,839
him from his Michigan days. Playing
at the World Junior Championship getting the golden

452
00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:53,359
goal. This guy just has creativity
written all over him. He is prioritized

453
00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:59,079
shooting the puck more. But if
he's going to find a rule, you

454
00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:01,960
know, the question is can you
eventually become a center? Now you know

455
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:07,079
he's interested in the Blue Jackets will
certainly explore it. He has to gain

456
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,599
ten fifteen pounds of muscle. He
was muscled off puck's way too easily.

457
00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:15,640
So that's that's the story with him. If he's able to hang in there

458
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:21,200
against bigger and stronger guys moving forward, we could be talking about one of

459
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,039
the best players on the Blue Jackets, And if him and Bdard get back

460
00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:28,839
together, that would be being reunited
up from the World Juniors on Team Canada.

461
00:32:29,039 --> 00:32:32,920
Two of them could really hit it
off as well. We might be

462
00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:37,759
vastly underestimating this guy, you know, and that's not just me saying it.

463
00:32:37,799 --> 00:32:43,799
There's a belief out there that he
could really pop. It's just at

464
00:32:43,839 --> 00:32:46,480
what point will it happen? Will
it be this coming season? You know,

465
00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:50,319
we'll be the season after that,
But we need to kind of be

466
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,000
on guard with him that it's going
to click at some point, and it

467
00:32:53,160 --> 00:33:00,640
started to click as the year went
on. So just pay attention to him.

468
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,880
You know, the earlier that folks
see the way that he can perform,

469
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:07,880
the better off it's going to be
for them. So I'm telling you,

470
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:12,400
guys, I'm telling you fans right
now, pay attention to Johnson,

471
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,680
pay attention to his deployment. There's
going to be a moment in the future

472
00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:20,519
that he's going to absolutely pop.
I'm giving me that fair warning right now.

473
00:33:20,839 --> 00:33:23,279
If you pay attention to him and
you catch him at the right moment,

474
00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:29,440
you're going to be handsomely rewarded.
This guy's got immense, immense upside

475
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:35,440
and you heard it here first for
sure. I love that guy. Definitely

476
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,599
agree with the huge upside for Kent
Johnson. And another guy that I've been

477
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,960
following for a long time is kil
Marchenko. He's someone that we've been very

478
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,839
interested in. He's been in the
KHL for a long time, having signed

479
00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:51,240
his contract with Scott and then he
told them he wasn't resigning last year he

480
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,960
planned to come to North America.
They kind of monkeyed with his deployment at

481
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,359
the end of last year because of
that, but he still had a pretty

482
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,240
strong showing he at some time in
the HL this year. Nineteen points in

483
00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:05,920
sixteen games clearly proved that he needed
to be in the NHL, and when

484
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,880
he came up, he looked really
good. I mean, I remember watching

485
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:13,039
some of the goals and stuff that
he had. He has definitely NHL scoring

486
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:16,559
talent, no doubt about that.
He had twenty one twenty one goals in

487
00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:21,000
the fifty nine games. He played
only four assists, really going for that

488
00:34:21,079 --> 00:34:25,280
Cy Young award there, and he
got decent deployment sixteen minutes time when I

489
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,039
was two thirty nine on the power
play. You know. Overall, his

490
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:34,440
defensive impact also wasn't bad. He
was actually you know, he's someone who

491
00:34:34,559 --> 00:34:37,119
the narrative has kind of been like, yeah, he's not the best defensively,

492
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,920
but it really was was good.
He was he was beyond not bad.

493
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:45,239
He was good. And he probably
had a little bit of luck not

494
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,360
go his way too. He probably
could have had a lot more assists,

495
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,920
certainly secondary assists, and so anyways, his thirty five point pace may seem

496
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,480
a little muted to some but he's
someone I could see really going off next

497
00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:01,440
year and beyond. So tell us
what you think of Carol Marchenko's you know,

498
00:35:01,559 --> 00:35:05,920
upside, and what do you expect
from him next year and beyond.

499
00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:12,079
Yeah, so a little aside on
him before we jump into what we expect

500
00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:15,760
next year. You want to talk
about somebody in a dark year for the

501
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,760
Blue Jackets who just lit up a
room. That's Carol Marchenko. Like,

502
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,559
this guy just had such a positive
outlook on everything, like you walk into

503
00:35:23,559 --> 00:35:29,199
any room. He was always wearing
a smile that rubbed off on his teammates.

504
00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:31,760
So he's just a big ball of
positive energy. And I bring that

505
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,320
up because that's how he approaches everything. I mean, it's no accident that

506
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,480
he scored over twenty goals away that
he did. He is super, super

507
00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:45,840
talented. He can shoot the puck. You already cited the unkind of underrated

508
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,440
defensive metrics that he has. You
know, he played overseas. He has

509
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,840
an understanding of the game and so
when he came over we kind of expected

510
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,239
that it would be a quicker transition. He started the year in the HL,

511
00:35:58,039 --> 00:36:02,159
quickly became one of the better players
on the Monsters and that earned in

512
00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:05,519
the call up, and then he
justo was so good that he ended up

513
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:08,480
staying for the rest of the year. He eventually ended up in the top

514
00:36:08,559 --> 00:36:13,199
six, even spent some time on
the top line with Johnny Goudreaux as a

515
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,239
little bit of a reward, but
he earned it. He earned top power

516
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:22,280
play time, he was deployed in
important situations, and there's no reason to

517
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,960
believe that that's going to derail The
one thing that we will say is,

518
00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:30,679
you know, is he going to
be in the top six to start next

519
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:36,400
year. I'm not one hundred percent
sure of that because in Pong balls,

520
00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:39,760
I Alex Texier's back on the team
after spending last year in Switzerland, you

521
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,880
know, dealing with a bit of
a personal situation for Roncos on the team.

522
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,079
Now we kind of wonder if there'll
be an all Russian line, and

523
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:51,719
we might talk about Ginnikov later,
but chinikof for Ronkoff, Marchenko and all

524
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,239
Russian line guys that are kind of
familiar with each other, that could be

525
00:36:54,239 --> 00:37:00,400
a potential third line. So I
think with Marchenko you need to be excited

526
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,039
about the upside. He can absolutely
score. I know he only had the

527
00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,719
four assists, but you know when
you know his focus is scoring goals,

528
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:12,719
but he can pass the puck when
necessary. But it's going to be where

529
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,519
does he kind of fit in deployment
wise? He might end up starting on

530
00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:21,000
the bottom six, which could limit
him a little bit, but there's no

531
00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:24,719
reason to believe that there will be
a real sharp drop in where he can

532
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,000
go. He can easily get the
twenty goals again. If he ends up

533
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,719
playing in a bit of a higher
role. He could even approach thirty like

534
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:37,119
he's got a legit shot, like
it's borderline elite, and that's how good

535
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:42,639
he is, And just a matter
of word they decide is best for his

536
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:47,760
deployment next year. Sure, yeah, definitely definitely like to hear all those

537
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,119
inside notes too. I wanted to
pose to you a quick points pick up.

538
00:37:52,199 --> 00:37:54,440
These are a couple of depth guys. Justin dan Forth, who looked

539
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,519
really good in the limited time he
had before he injured I think was his

540
00:37:58,599 --> 00:38:02,320
shoulder. He had just three points
in six games forty one point pace I

541
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,960
mean obviously small sample size. And
Chinnikov, who we had a little bit

542
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,840
more hope for for thirteen points in
thirty games for thirty six point pace.

543
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,199
Who would you pick between these two
to get over a forty five point pace

544
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:22,719
If you had to m of the
two, I would say chiennikoff. Dan

545
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:28,679
Fourth coming off an injury. I'm
not even sure he's guaranteed a spot in

546
00:38:28,679 --> 00:38:31,840
the top twelve at the beginning of
the year, depending on how they handle

547
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:37,760
the off season. He almost made
it back at the end of last year

548
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,000
coming off of major surgery. I
think forty five's kind of high base.

549
00:38:42,039 --> 00:38:46,719
Still certainly could work his way into
bottom six depth roll, but I just

550
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:52,159
think that that's a little high on
the point side. Chenikov, he's coming

551
00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:55,119
off an injury as well. He
ended up in the AHL, but some

552
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,840
and if you want, if you're
asking who has the better chance, I

553
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,440
think Chenikov does. He's got the
shot, got a really elite shot when

554
00:39:01,519 --> 00:39:06,280
given the opportunity. And I think
that he also has the opportunity to play

555
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,880
higher in the lineup than Dan Fourth, just given the overall situation. So

556
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,239
you better chance at forty five.
I don't know. I don't think either

557
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,760
of them will get there next season, but better chance, I would say

558
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,639
very much. Chennakaugh over game,
gotcha? Yeah, And now it's time

559
00:39:23,639 --> 00:39:27,760
to move to the blue line,
where of course we have to start with

560
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,239
Zak Warnski. In the preseason,
Jesse and I had really high hopes for

561
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:36,400
him. I ranked him as the
fourteenth bestde Jesse twentieth. He was actually

562
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,679
two hundred and fourth, but that's
based on him missing so much time.

563
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:43,519
If you pace it out that thirteen
games he played, he was he was

564
00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:47,159
on pace to be the twenty fourth
best defenseman, So that was pretty good

565
00:39:47,159 --> 00:39:50,480
in the limited time. We both
have him as a Tier one guy going

566
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,360
in the next year. As I
mentioned, thirteen games before the injury,

567
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,760
but eight points in those thirteen games
on you know, well, when ended

568
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,119
up being a really tough team and
early on in the season, and it

569
00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:04,639
didn't quite look that bad, especially
with Warnski there fifty point pace. So

570
00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:07,000
I guess, first of all,
does he seems like he'll be fully healthy

571
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,119
and you know, what can we
expect from him? If you look at

572
00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:13,480
some of the metrics from his small
sample size, it looked great both defensively

573
00:40:13,519 --> 00:40:17,119
offensively. Everything kind of looked as
it should. I have always thought,

574
00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:21,719
you know, Zach was super talented, especially as one of the defensemen who

575
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,960
could actually score a lot of goals. You know, typically defenseman don't don't

576
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,280
scores a lot of goals, a
lot more assists. But he has such

577
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,559
a good shot and he can get
it off so well. So should we

578
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:40,360
should we expect a return to fifty
plus point zach Warenski next season? Great

579
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,639
question, just because he's coming off
of the injury. So let's talk about

580
00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:46,079
the injury first. You know,
we talked to him at the end of

581
00:40:46,119 --> 00:40:52,559
season. He says he's doing well, spent a lot of the year between

582
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,400
Vail, Colorado and Columbus and a
little bit of extra travel for all the

583
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,559
rehab now, so there's certainly good
news there that he should come into training

584
00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:07,280
camp one hundred percent ready to go. He even starts skating with the team

585
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,000
at the end of the season,
and some of like the morning states of

586
00:41:09,039 --> 00:41:14,000
the practices, he wasn't going to
return, but it was a good sign

587
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,599
that he was able to do that, which means that he was on point

588
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:20,679
and on schedule. He's expected to
miss six months, so in that sense,

589
00:41:21,199 --> 00:41:25,519
to go into the season confident of
him at least scent. As for

590
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:30,440
next year itself, though, now
that's it. You know, he's going

591
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:35,039
to be playing his first few games
in gosh, almost a year, you

592
00:41:35,079 --> 00:41:37,840
know one by the time the preseason
the regular season get there. So I

593
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,920
would actually expect a little bit of
an adjustment period for him to kind of

594
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,480
shake the rest off. But then
the other important question we have to consider

595
00:41:45,519 --> 00:41:51,360
with Brensky is what about who's his
partner going to be in As we sit

596
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,599
here right now, we don't know, you know that, is it Adam

597
00:41:54,639 --> 00:42:00,599
Boquist, Is it going to be
David Yurichek, possibly someone who's just completing

598
00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:06,360
his nineteen year old season in the
American Hockey League, to someone else that's

599
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:12,079
not even on the team yet.
So there's a lot of questions around who

600
00:42:12,079 --> 00:42:15,360
he's going to play with. Now. There's been a lot of chatter about

601
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,880
him out there saying that, you
know, maybe he hasn't performed like a

602
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,440
number one defenseman. Well, that
could be further from the truth. They

603
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:25,199
paid him over nine and a half
million for a reason. You cited the

604
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:30,400
numbers. He very much was a
when he played, he was excellent.

605
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:36,079
Now the goal scoring from the past, you know, he was with Seth

606
00:42:36,199 --> 00:42:39,599
Jones, now he's without him.
I sort of get the feeling that he

607
00:42:42,159 --> 00:42:45,920
is playing more of a true number
one defenseman where he's not just a rover

608
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:50,440
like he used to be, where
he would roam around the offensive zone looking

609
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,079
for his shot. He's admitted that
he's being more selective and when he pinches

610
00:42:54,119 --> 00:42:59,719
in because he has to try to
decide when to stay back, when to

611
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:06,480
pend. So to go back to
the old scoring that he had or he

612
00:43:06,559 --> 00:43:10,039
was around twenty goals a year,
I think that's a little rich. I

613
00:43:10,079 --> 00:43:15,360
think it's more realistic to look at
him maybe ten to fifteen goals, maybe

614
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:20,159
a bunch of assists. He's going
to get some certainly top power play time,

615
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:23,800
so the production is certainly going to
be there. I just think he

616
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:28,039
has to shake some of the rust
off. He has to get chemistry with

617
00:43:28,119 --> 00:43:31,320
his new partner. Plus he's trying
to be an overall number one defenseman.

618
00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:35,960
That's the thing that he's been working
on he's going to continue to work on.

619
00:43:36,519 --> 00:43:40,360
So there, some of the numbers
might dip just because you're going to

620
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:46,239
see maybe some more production on the
other side of the puck defensively, so

621
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:52,000
temper the expectations offensively, but still
go into it, you know, treat

622
00:43:52,079 --> 00:43:59,679
him like a number one defensive one
of those other defensemen you mentioned Adam Bokwist.

623
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,360
You know, we thought of him
maybe as a top one hundred ish

624
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,400
Victoria were a little bit outside of
the top one hundred. Turned out to

625
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,599
be a bit below that, but
he was pacing out to eighty nine.

626
00:44:08,679 --> 00:44:13,159
Because stop me if you've heard this
one before. He did miss some time.

627
00:44:13,639 --> 00:44:16,960
He went from a coveted prospect to
kind of an afterthought in Chicago.

628
00:44:17,039 --> 00:44:21,199
It seemed like at one point he
seemed untouchable, and then suddenly he was

629
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,360
moved in the Seth Jones deal.
By the way, that trade right now,

630
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:28,039
pending any other low level breakouts,
was one year of Seth Jones at

631
00:44:28,039 --> 00:44:31,079
five point four million dollars. That
then gave them the opportunity to pay eight

632
00:44:31,119 --> 00:44:36,800
years at seventy six million in return
for Adam Bokwist, Cole Cylinger, and

633
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,960
David Yurachek. That's what we got
going so far. Not bad Columbus anyway.

634
00:44:42,199 --> 00:44:45,480
Bokwist moved to a prominent power play
role after missing a good part of

635
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:50,119
the twenty two season with a broken
foot. Ended up with five goals,

636
00:44:50,199 --> 00:44:54,000
nineteen assists in twenty four points in
forty six games. That is, he

637
00:44:54,039 --> 00:44:58,119
missed the twenty twenty two half of
the season. He was back in the

638
00:44:58,119 --> 00:45:01,519
twenty twenty three half eighteen thirty eight
average time on ice a block shot in

639
00:45:01,559 --> 00:45:05,920
a half per game. Team actually
performed well with him on the ice five

640
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,840
on five goals four per sixty If
you extend the sample to at least twenty

641
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:14,000
games, he was on the ice
support a team high two point nine nine

642
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:17,119
four goals per sixty if five on
five good offense when he was out there.

643
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,000
Still just twenty two, but the
blue line is about to get really

644
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:24,599
crowded in Columbus. What's the future
for Adam Boqwist as a Columbus Blue jacket?

645
00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:29,679
Mark, Yeah, Jesse. He
has to take this summer has to

646
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,559
be the most important summer of his
life. He admitted as such at the

647
00:45:31,599 --> 00:45:36,320
season end, because right, I
mean, he was one of the injured.

648
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,719
When he was out there, he
played well offensively, struggled a little

649
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,840
bit defensively, just didn't have the
strength to be able to knoxt some of

650
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,199
the tough guy top guys off.
So he has to get stronger, just

651
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,559
like everybody else. You know,
the team has parking on these guys.

652
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:55,079
You know they have some skill there, but they have to get stronger if

653
00:45:55,079 --> 00:45:58,880
they're going to last in the National
Hockey League, and Focust is up there,

654
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,480
but Blue Jackets Stu certainly believe in
what he could become. He could

655
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:07,679
become an elite offensive defenseman. Now
there's still been some comparisons to kind of

656
00:46:08,639 --> 00:46:13,840
Eric Carlson of yesteryear. You know, it's very high praise and he certainly

657
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,159
has a lot of work to do
to get into that point. But he

658
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:21,519
showed some flashes. See him the
way he carries the puck in the offensive

659
00:46:21,599 --> 00:46:24,199
zone, he can create space for
himself, he can find the open area

660
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:29,000
to get a shot off, and
he's able to finish even from distance.

661
00:46:29,599 --> 00:46:31,920
You know, it's easy to see
why that there's some pop around him.

662
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:38,039
You know, when given the opportunity
and now, can he be the guy

663
00:46:38,079 --> 00:46:40,880
to play with Varensky? You know, he's a right so he certainly would

664
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:45,960
have the advantage and an opportunity to
get there, but he has to prove

665
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,079
that he belongs there. He has
to be consistently available. He's had not

666
00:46:50,159 --> 00:46:52,760
just injuries, but the kind of
injury where he's had to miss weeks in

667
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:58,960
many games, so it's really hindered
his development. So he's kind of behind

668
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,119
the eight ball and has to really
focus on getting caught up in that sense.

669
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:07,920
So this year is certainly going to
tell a lot about you. Where

670
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:09,280
is he going to go? Is
he going to be part of the future

671
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,360
plans of the Blue Jackets, because
they're gonna have to make a decision on

672
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,519
him. Your check's going to be
up full time when my taycheck comes probably

673
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:22,320
next season twenty four twenty five for
him. You know, Cooleman's is in

674
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,280
that mix, and there's something like
Andrew Peaks under contract for a couple of

675
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:30,920
years. The only some of spots
that can go around, So they will

676
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:35,599
eventually have to make a decision now. But in terms of if you're looking

677
00:47:35,639 --> 00:47:39,440
for an offensive defenseman is kind of
a little bit under the radar when you're

678
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:44,519
compared to the rest of the league. You could certainly do worse some vocust,

679
00:47:44,639 --> 00:47:50,119
he's got some upside there. He's
going to get some power Play time.

680
00:47:50,159 --> 00:47:53,400
You expect Rensky to run power Play
one. We would probably expect Boqust

681
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,840
to play Power Play two at least
at the start of the year, not

682
00:47:58,039 --> 00:48:01,679
out of the question that he can
deliver another ten goals, but we'd like

683
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,719
to see some of the other elements
of his game developed, and that's where

684
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,320
I think is going to be the
focus, and that'll determine if he's a

685
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:14,519
part of the Blue Jackets future.
He'd be a coin flip on two other

686
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:19,760
depth defensemen on this team. He
got your Jake Bean and your Marcus Bjork.

687
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,880
If Adam Boucovist has declined from a
sparkling shine to a cloudy finish,

688
00:48:23,039 --> 00:48:28,639
Jake Bean has fallen all the way
to a sit covered matte. It's not

689
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,079
looking good for mister Bean. He
debuted five seasons ago and he's had one

690
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:36,360
hundred and twenty five games in the
NHL, appearing in four of those last

691
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,840
five seasons. This year it was
only fourteen games because he tore a laboram

692
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:43,920
in November. Pretty wich, that's
pretty unfortunate. He got six points in

693
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,639
those first fourteen games. On the
other hand, you got Marcus Bjork after

694
00:48:46,679 --> 00:48:51,119
four years in the SHL, he
came to the United States this year.

695
00:48:51,559 --> 00:48:53,360
Eleven points in thirty three games with
a shot, a hit and a half

696
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:57,159
in a block and a half.
Pretty nice stats for US fantasy types.

697
00:48:57,199 --> 00:49:00,840
But of course he's an older player
making a debut. Of course, you

698
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,159
got all these other right shot defensemen
you're talking about who are going to be

699
00:49:04,159 --> 00:49:08,519
contending for spots. Hard to say
whether these who you know who among these

700
00:49:08,519 --> 00:49:12,960
guys is going to be the one
with the opportunity. Which do you prefer

701
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,679
of being or Byork going forward?
And how much production do you think they

702
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:20,360
could manage. I think we've seen
Byork's upside. Had it not been for

703
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,960
the injuries, I don't think he's
in the NHL. So assuming that everybody's

704
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,639
back, and there's even a couple
of guys like Nick Blankenberg, they'll be

705
00:49:28,679 --> 00:49:31,000
able to talked about. That is
somebody that could very much compete for a

706
00:49:31,039 --> 00:49:37,519
spot. I would still pick being
but that's something like we got to be

707
00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:39,599
careful with that because he's got to
come back from injury. He's got to

708
00:49:39,679 --> 00:49:46,079
prove that he can stay healthy.
Still under contract the spot on the left

709
00:49:46,079 --> 00:49:51,159
hand side of the defense. Now, what's interesting is that the Blue Jackets

710
00:49:51,159 --> 00:49:54,519
are going to prioritize that spot that
Vladislav Gabrikov vacated, you know, once

711
00:49:54,559 --> 00:49:59,880
he was traded to the Los Angeles
Kings. Now that they didn't say anything

712
00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:07,719
about being going there, it looks
like that they're going to possibly use that

713
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,079
second first round pick that they got
from the Kings is part of that return.

714
00:50:10,679 --> 00:50:15,400
That pick is available, and they
would love to be able to get

715
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:21,239
an established top four defenseman like a
guy this is just a random thing and

716
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,440
thinking about who could fill that spot, whether it be free agency or a

717
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,760
trade. I think of a guy
like Ryan Graves in New Jersey, a

718
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,239
left hand defenseman that a little bit
over to be able to come in and

719
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,800
seamlessly fit in that spot. I'm
just not sure being fits in that spot.

720
00:50:35,199 --> 00:50:39,199
So there's a question about where he
fits. But York, I think

721
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:45,440
man I had to pick between the
two in terms of just overall upside on

722
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,960
the Blue Jackets. It's being but
my confidence level that he would be able

723
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,119
to produce anything will come down to
where he slots into the lineup, and

724
00:50:54,320 --> 00:51:00,280
to me, that's either going to
be on the bottom pair or might be

725
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:05,079
sub of three defenseman were as York, same thing with so much competition.

726
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,840
I just don't see a defined rule
for him at this point. But I

727
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:15,239
picked Bean of the two, but
I don't feel great about it. Something

728
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:20,719
else to not feel great about is
the Columbus goaltending this year, it was

729
00:51:21,079 --> 00:51:23,480
pretty rough, the worst in the
league, letting in three point four seven

730
00:51:23,519 --> 00:51:28,440
goals per sixty, just beating out
the Ducks and Sharks. They were actually

731
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,880
the third worst teams in terms of
protection, with the Ducks and Canadians being

732
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:37,239
a little worse. So they had
pretty poor protection and they slightly did poorly

733
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:45,000
then expected based on the expected numbers, and Corpuslo, who's no longer on

734
00:51:45,039 --> 00:51:47,559
the team, did by far the
best of any of the blue jacket goalies,

735
00:51:47,559 --> 00:51:52,199
and he was over with the Kings
who got eliminated by the Oilers,

736
00:51:52,599 --> 00:51:55,639
and they had saw a couple other
goalies. They saw some Jet Grieves,

737
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:00,639
John Gillies, Michael Hutchinson. I
think the main guys to talk about though,

738
00:52:00,679 --> 00:52:05,559
or obviously Mrs Lickins and Tarisoft.
And we know Elvis really struggled this

739
00:52:05,639 --> 00:52:07,400
season. I know he's dealing with
the death of his friend over the summer

740
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:13,280
and mattis Kavlennox very unfortunate, very
I'm sure that weighed on him very hard.

741
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,239
And Elvis has signed for four more
years at five point four million.

742
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:20,679
I know he really tried to dedicate
the season to his friend. It didn't

743
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,079
work out. A lot of it
was beyond his control for sure, but

744
00:52:23,159 --> 00:52:28,360
he's also trended down the past four
years, so kind of need to figure

745
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,119
out what he's capable of and what
you would expect from him. He was

746
00:52:31,199 --> 00:52:37,079
someone who way underperformed the expected protection
that was in front of him, and

747
00:52:37,119 --> 00:52:40,719
that was unfortunate to see it.
And maybe you can just wrap that in

748
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:45,760
with what you think of Tarisoft,
because Tarisoft is someone I've been tracking for

749
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:50,280
a long time. I think he
has pretty good upside. Only seventeen games

750
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,360
played this season didn't quite work out. I know that there was a lot

751
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:57,480
going on in front of him and
it's hard to hard to put a goalie

752
00:52:57,559 --> 00:53:00,280
like him in that situation. But
you got the highly paid vet who's been

753
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:06,280
trending down and the young prospect who
struggled a bit. What do you think

754
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,840
about the goalie situation in Columbus moving
forward? Boy, if they're gonna recover

755
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:16,920
from their rough years here, that
has to be the top priority in getting

756
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,840
them right. And yeah, you
bring the two of them together. They

757
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,320
you know, Tearasoft would need waivers
to get to the HL, so that's

758
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:28,760
why they trade corpor Salos he was
apending UFA and he was, you know,

759
00:53:29,119 --> 00:53:31,880
probably the best goalie of the three, and they would have preferred not

760
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:38,079
to trade him, but the contract
situation spoke, so they actually when they

761
00:53:38,119 --> 00:53:42,960
dismissed Brad Larson, the head coach, they also dismissed Manny Legacy, who

762
00:53:43,599 --> 00:53:46,719
had a pretty strong connection to um
Elvis Mrs Lecans, you know, both

763
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:51,400
on the ice and off the ice. You know, he was actually at

764
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:55,400
Legacy's house where that firework since that
happened, so there's a lot of connection

765
00:53:55,519 --> 00:54:05,079
there. When we asked Mrs Lecans
you know about Legacy, he confirmed that,

766
00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:07,440
you know, he understood that it
was a business and that he knows

767
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,000
that he has to be better and
said he was going to torture himself.

768
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,079
So he said all the right things, but the time is now that he

769
00:54:14,119 --> 00:54:15,400
actually has to prove it. You
know, they paid him to be the

770
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,000
number one. He put up some
great numbers when he first came into the

771
00:54:20,079 --> 00:54:23,480
league as under John Tortorello, who
was a kind of a goalie friendly coach,

772
00:54:23,559 --> 00:54:29,320
plays defense first, so he benefited
from that. Larson's system was nothing

773
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,239
like Tortorella's in terms of the way
that they played defense, so he struggled

774
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:37,960
with that for sure, and we
have to sit the end. We have

775
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:42,480
to include the injury situation too,
because the defense was in shambles. They

776
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,400
gave up so many shots. There
are a lot of times that he'd see

777
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:49,199
forty forty five fifty shots a night, he'd give up six and still have

778
00:54:49,199 --> 00:54:52,360
a nine hundred safe percentage. There's
only so much that a goalie can do,

779
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:57,480
but then a lot of knights as
well. He just I just think

780
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,519
there are some trust issues there.
So he's had a lot to work through.

781
00:55:00,639 --> 00:55:05,599
So this goalie coach that they bring
in is going to be of utmost

782
00:55:05,639 --> 00:55:09,320
important because they have to get him
technically sound. They have to make sure

783
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:14,000
that he's mentally ready. So there's
a lot of work that has to go

784
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:20,480
in there. But then we have
to note that Kekolina admitted that it's something

785
00:55:20,519 --> 00:55:24,760
that they're going to address. You
know, are they prepared to go into

786
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:30,280
the season with those with Tarasoft and
Resleikans as their goaltenders. They need somebody

787
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:35,960
that's got some NHL backup experience in
the event of injury, because then they

788
00:55:36,039 --> 00:55:39,039
have to go with Tarasoft be ready
to start all the games given his injury

789
00:55:39,079 --> 00:55:45,239
situation. You mentioned Grieves and Hutchinson
and Gillies when we don't expect Hutchinson or

790
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:49,639
Gillies back at all for the record, but are they prepared to go down

791
00:55:49,639 --> 00:55:52,400
to the American Hockey League again.
They have to make sure that the goaltending

792
00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:57,920
is more stable, so that means
Reslikans has to be better. Tarastoft has

793
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,639
to use the summer to make sure
that he's ready to go. But then

794
00:56:00,679 --> 00:56:05,840
they need someone else that can come
in and help them win some games as

795
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,280
well. So I would not be
surprised if they bring somebody else in from

796
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:15,440
the outside to be able to stabilize
that situation. But vers Leakins knows that

797
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:19,039
it's all on him. He's got
to use the summer to be able to

798
00:56:19,079 --> 00:56:22,760
do that. He's proven he can
be a good goalie. So I think

799
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,599
a lot of it's going to have
to do with the coach that comes in,

800
00:56:27,119 --> 00:56:30,119
if what kind of a system they're
going to be dealing with. So

801
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,840
that's a developing story. But just
based on what we've seen here in the

802
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:40,599
last couple of years overall, especially
what you mentioned with the Kivalinic situation,

803
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:50,199
pretty pessimistic but it's not a lost
cost. So it's kind of one of

804
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,800
those wait and see sort of situations
to see who the coaches are going to

805
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:58,480
be, who's going to be with
him day in and day out, and

806
00:56:58,519 --> 00:57:02,800
then eventually, if the right people
are in place, there's still talent there.

807
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:08,079
It just can they unlock the talent. So I would not jump all

808
00:57:08,119 --> 00:57:14,039
over the situation at the beginning,
but maybe a little bit later on,

809
00:57:14,039 --> 00:57:20,000
when things are more settled out,
maybe there's something there. So just keep

810
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,360
your guard to the beginning, but
later on watch out for it, and

811
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:28,679
you know there might be something there. Well, Mark, you've given us

812
00:57:28,679 --> 00:57:32,119
some great insight on the Columbus Blue
Jackets. Why don't you let everybody know

813
00:57:32,159 --> 00:57:36,719
what you got going on out there
on the internet and how people can stay

814
00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:39,400
caught up with you. Oh wow, it's a great time a year to

815
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:44,360
be following along. The playoffs are
going on, the Draft, we've got

816
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:50,760
the Draft lottery coming up, We've
got the combine the Draft. I am

817
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:55,480
at Mark underscore shag on Twitter.
I'm actually going to have the blue check

818
00:57:55,519 --> 00:57:59,280
mark comes down here in the next
little bit. We're not going to pay

819
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:00,679
for that thing any more. There
are a lot of people that aren't going

820
00:58:00,679 --> 00:58:04,920
to do that, but we're going
to be doing a lot of stuff.

821
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,719
We got the Draft Guide already out
there, so if you want to get

822
00:58:07,719 --> 00:58:10,320
to know not only the two of
the top prospects are, but some of

823
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,280
the other ones are. We hope
to have run one hundred and eighty draft

824
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,159
profiles ready to go by the time
the draft gets here. We're going to

825
00:58:17,239 --> 00:58:21,920
have boots on the ground in Buffalo
at the combine. You know, we're

826
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:28,000
going to have a team in Nashville
at the draft. We've got articles about

827
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,599
the playoffs, about the different off
seasons. We've got a lot of shows

828
00:58:30,599 --> 00:58:35,079
going on. We have a round
one hundred writers that are out there putting

829
00:58:35,159 --> 00:58:38,519
content out every day, so it's
at the Hockey Writer on Twitter. If

830
00:58:38,519 --> 00:58:42,440
you want to see what's going on, feel free to reach out if you've

831
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:45,079
got any questions. But right now, there's just no short of storylines.

832
00:58:45,119 --> 00:58:49,880
Between now and free agency. We
are slamming and we got a lot to

833
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:54,639
talk about. Awesome, Thanks so
much, Mark, it's been great talking

834
00:58:54,639 --> 00:58:58,840
with you about the Columbus Blue check
is tonight. Yeah, I'm Jesse.

835
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:08,119
Always a pleasure join you really appreciate
the time, Wilson, that's good.

836
00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:13,400
Buyers passed off. Oh my goodness, walk go with a cat, quick

837
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:22,000
grab. Now it's your weekly goalie
talk with Cats Silverman, Cats instincts.

838
00:59:22,599 --> 00:59:27,880
All right, back for another Cat's
instincts. Thrilled to have you again,

839
00:59:28,039 --> 00:59:32,320
Kat Silverman from Ingle mag And we're
talking, of course Columbus goalies and and

840
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:36,360
this is really fun for me because
we get to talk about one of my

841
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:40,440
favorites, and that's Daniel Tarasov.
He has he's been one of the top

842
00:59:42,159 --> 00:59:45,559
prospects outside of the NHL for a
while, but we can't say that anymore

843
00:59:45,599 --> 00:59:50,679
because the twenty seventeen third round pick
has gotten into some games now he's he's

844
00:59:50,719 --> 00:59:53,800
really big, six five one ninety
six now twenty four years old. He's

845
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:58,000
a little bit more mature, kind
of split in time in the NHL AHL

846
00:59:58,079 --> 01:00:00,280
the last two seasons and the raw
numbers don't don't look good. But frankly,

847
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,800
no one's did in Columbus this year, although somehow, you know,

848
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,199
Scorpusalo looked like an amazing goalie.
Again, I don't know. That's a

849
01:00:07,199 --> 01:00:12,760
different story for a different day.
But Tarasov's expected goals per goal conceded in

850
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,679
Cleveland of the HL have been the
last three seasons one point one four,

851
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:20,639
one point four five, and one
point one three, So he's consistently saving

852
01:00:20,679 --> 01:00:24,639
more goals than expected, although if
you look at his NHL time, he

853
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:29,480
definitely did not do that. But
you know, I think that was a

854
01:00:29,519 --> 01:00:32,800
really rough situation in Columbus this season, so maybe we'll give him a pass

855
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:37,679
on that. If I look at
his hockey prospecting, he has gone from

856
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:44,039
basically the twenty to thirty percent in
his draft plus one in two season to

857
01:00:45,079 --> 01:00:49,039
seventy three and sixty six percent the
last two years, which is really high

858
01:00:49,119 --> 01:00:52,519
for goalie. He has some really
decent comps. You know, there's Trevor

859
01:00:52,599 --> 01:00:58,440
Kidd, Philip Grubauer, also some
Jonathan Quick and they're not stylistic comparables.

860
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,920
But what can you tell us about
Danielle terrasoft development and how excited are you

861
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:09,480
about him as a prospect? Oh
so, I truly have have a note

862
01:01:09,519 --> 01:01:15,920
on here that says was injured and
this team was so bad, and I

863
01:01:15,039 --> 01:01:21,679
underlined so in bad twice a piece, just because I don't think it's possible

864
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:28,920
to overstate just how bad Columbus was
like we talk about expected goals allowed,

865
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:35,960
expected goals saved, and I think
we need to talk about expected performance for

866
01:01:36,039 --> 01:01:42,079
that team because he was put in
a situation that, to me, hampered

867
01:01:42,119 --> 01:01:45,400
his development in just a massive way. I think he looked really good when

868
01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:50,679
he first came over to North America
when he was because he's kind of been

869
01:01:50,719 --> 01:01:53,920
splitting his time in the last two
years. Two years ago, so the

870
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:59,880
twenty one twenty two season, I
thought he looked pretty good. Then he

871
01:02:00,079 --> 01:02:04,840
got injured. I believe he was
just coming back from injury when the season

872
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:15,960
started, and the situation with Unice
Corpusolo and Elvis Muslikins was tricky to watch

873
01:02:15,039 --> 01:02:22,320
and tricky navigate because it was hard
to tell who was who was essentially the

874
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:27,000
better bet, because at any given
point one of them was vastly underperforming and

875
01:02:27,039 --> 01:02:31,280
one was slightly overperforming. And then
it's like the moon would shift and they

876
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:35,960
would switch places and one of them
would start overperforming while the other one just

877
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:42,480
absolutely tanked it. And I didn't
necessarily want to see Tarasov playing at the

878
01:02:42,559 --> 01:02:45,840
NHL level just yet, just because
I thought he had a lot of really

879
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:52,400
good athletic agility. I thought that
he had some really good decision making examples

880
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:58,559
in his game. You'd see him
really really control his movements when he needed

881
01:02:58,599 --> 01:03:02,559
to in some really high stakes moments
where like you said, he's a big

882
01:03:02,559 --> 01:03:08,239
guy, he can very easily get
caught doing a little too much. And

883
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,719
I thought he looked like he was
doing a really good job of not doing

884
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:15,639
that. And then he's someone who
I thought the more time he spent at

885
01:03:15,639 --> 01:03:20,320
the NHL level, you just kind
of watch him panicking. And there were

886
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:22,760
a couple games that I really just
I watched him play and I was like,

887
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:27,119
he needs to go back to the
HL, like he needs more development

888
01:03:27,199 --> 01:03:30,599
time. And I know that they
had a massive shake up in Columbus recently

889
01:03:30,639 --> 01:03:37,159
and that Manny legacy has gone now
that was their goaltending coach. I'm curious

890
01:03:37,199 --> 01:03:43,400
to see how that goes because in
theory they have really good goaltenders that just

891
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:49,360
we're not getting it done. And
I really want to see what happens now

892
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:53,599
that we're seeing this massive personnel shake
up, in particular for Terrosof because I

893
01:03:53,639 --> 01:03:59,360
think that the raw talents there,
I think that the consistency can be there.

894
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:04,039
We've seen it numbers in the past. I just I think he was

895
01:04:04,079 --> 01:04:11,280
put in a position where he really
wasn't given an opportunity to develop him to

896
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:15,239
progress forward because the team really didn't
put him in a position to do so.

897
01:04:15,239 --> 01:04:18,199
So we'll see. I think he's
he's for sure in NHL, though,

898
01:04:18,239 --> 01:04:24,840
which is promising for Columbus. Be
his best case, he becomes their

899
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,559
next starter. Worst case, he
becomes a really good trade chip for them

900
01:04:27,559 --> 01:04:30,800
as they continue to rebuild. Yeah, it might actually be a really good

901
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:35,039
by low time for him, because
he definitely looked terrible at times just because

902
01:04:35,039 --> 01:04:40,199
of the team. But yeah,
like in a dynasty league, you might

903
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,760
you might be able to acquire him
now, whereas a couple of years ago

904
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,880
it might have been hard because things
were looking really good. I was going

905
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,159
to ask you about viny of a
hillin in but it turns out not with

906
01:04:49,199 --> 01:04:53,800
the team with the team anymore,
So we can just skip that one.

907
01:04:54,199 --> 01:04:57,480
I added someone instead. If you
want. Jack Grieves is there in his

908
01:04:57,559 --> 01:05:01,360
place, and he's very fun.
Is he more or less fun than Sergey

909
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,480
ivan Off, because that's the next
one I was going to ask you about.

910
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:09,440
Uh, he's more fun because he's
in North America already. Um and

911
01:05:09,519 --> 01:05:18,559
He's my up for anything guy.
Yeah, So Jed Grieves Uh every year

912
01:05:18,639 --> 01:05:24,039
has shown improvement in his game year
over year. UM. He was an

913
01:05:24,119 --> 01:05:28,760
undrafted signee. I believe UM was
put into a game in the HL and

914
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:32,440
like a really wonky circumstance where I
think both of their goaltenders had been injured,

915
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,440
and so he just ended up in
it. I believe he ended up

916
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:41,280
playing his one NHL game in a
similar situation where he just ended up having

917
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:45,039
to play the game for them,
UM, and he just rolls with it.

918
01:05:45,679 --> 01:05:48,559
I've never seen him play a game
where he looks like he's just panicking.

919
01:05:48,719 --> 01:05:51,920
He had nine thirty nine in his
one NHL game. So far,

920
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:57,199
he's been predominantly at the HL level
for them, which is exactly where he

921
01:05:57,239 --> 01:06:02,119
should be. UM. But he's
from all accounts like I've talked to a

922
01:06:02,119 --> 01:06:05,519
couple goalie scouts about him. I've
talked to a couple of goalies about him.

923
01:06:05,679 --> 01:06:09,400
Everyone says he's just like a really
nice dude. And I feel like

924
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:15,400
we can't understate how important it is
for Columbus from a locker room perspective to

925
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:20,400
have some goalies in their prospect system
who are just able to roll with it,

926
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,840
and I think he's he's got good
technique, he's got like a really

927
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:28,920
sturdy looking game. There's nothing overly
spectacular about him, but he doesn't do

928
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:33,440
anything wrong either, and he's just
he's fun and I think they need that.

929
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:39,519
That's something that Columbus fans have almost
been starved for. And he's so

930
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:43,800
like up for anything that I wouldn't
be surprised to see him end up in

931
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:48,440
like a long term callip role,
and I feel like he could outperform expectations

932
01:06:48,519 --> 01:06:51,920
just because he's he's willing to do
it. He doesn't seem like he has

933
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:58,920
any chips on his shoulder. Yeah, it seems like a very affable guy

934
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:02,159
who'd love to hear that great,
so good good on that one. And

935
01:07:02,199 --> 01:07:06,320
so yeah, then we'll go to
Sergey Ivanov, Columbus's fifth round pick in

936
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:11,440
twenty twenty two, so just very
recently. I'm actually kind of shocked at

937
01:07:11,519 --> 01:07:15,599
that a five eleven goalie got drafted. It seems like that's not allowed anymore

938
01:07:15,639 --> 01:07:19,039
in this NHL. But he's also
very young, just turned nineteen. He's

939
01:07:19,039 --> 01:07:23,559
in the SKA system, so you
know that has pluses and minuses in my

940
01:07:23,599 --> 01:07:26,360
mind, very good system, but
also sometimes they don't let him come over.

941
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,360
He played five KHL games this season, sixteen VHL and six MHL games.

942
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:35,199
His raw stats look amazing. In
each one. He's already up to

943
01:07:35,239 --> 01:07:39,480
a forty two percent chance of being
an NHL or, which is really incredible

944
01:07:39,599 --> 01:07:43,280
for goalies to be that high in
their D plus one season. He's got

945
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:46,119
some pretty good comps, you know, guys like Chris Strijer, Aiden Hill.

946
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:50,800
Maybe those don't sound very good.
There's some other ones too, but

947
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:56,480
it's a really high percentage and equivalency
right now. But I think part of

948
01:07:56,480 --> 01:08:00,320
the reason, part of the reason
some of the comps and stuff are are

949
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:02,360
lower is that he is just five
elevens. So what can you tell us

950
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:08,320
about Ivan Avn? Can Can he
be the Russian? U see sorrows?

951
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:13,920
Oh? I sure hope so.
Um. I have a admitted soft spot

952
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:20,000
for our shorter goalies because I feel
like they aren't afforded as many opportunities to

953
01:08:20,039 --> 01:08:25,840
do things wrong. Um Like,
we've talked about a couple bigger goalies who

954
01:08:27,039 --> 01:08:30,760
the techniques not there, the consistency's
not there, but they're like six foot

955
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:32,199
eight, and so coaches are like, yes, we will take him.

956
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:36,199
Can you see these guys that are
like five to eleven and they get a

957
01:08:36,239 --> 01:08:44,159
little overlooked U. I think in
Calgary Dustin Wolf is a perfect example.

958
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:49,399
That's right now my number one prospect
across the league. Um and seeing another

959
01:08:49,399 --> 01:08:54,479
guy who's five to eleven, who's
just putting up just top tier numbers,

960
01:08:55,479 --> 01:09:00,960
Like if I had this team was
so bad written for Danielle Teasov under Ivanova

961
01:09:00,079 --> 01:09:04,760
have great numbers in Russia, would
probably keep him overseas right now, to

962
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:10,800
be honest, written as my two
notes for him, because he's doing well.

963
01:09:11,199 --> 01:09:18,399
That Saint Petersburg system is one of
the best prospect situations you can find

964
01:09:18,399 --> 01:09:24,399
yourself in in Europe. I think
that the goaltenders that are in their system

965
01:09:24,399 --> 01:09:30,880
are it's almost like the Carpot system
in Finland, where just the structure and

966
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,520
the rigidity in the order and the
way that they move their guys from juniors

967
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:39,640
to miners and miners to the KHL
and they have consistent coaching between the three

968
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:43,159
that keeps the systems the same and
keeps the technique the same. Whereas you

969
01:09:43,159 --> 01:09:47,279
see some other guys who unfortunately end
up on teams where you know if they

970
01:09:47,319 --> 01:09:51,560
get loaned to the minor league team
within their own club system, they get

971
01:09:53,319 --> 01:09:56,439
maybe moved to a team that doesn't
have a goalie coach at all. And

972
01:09:56,479 --> 01:10:00,520
I think that Scott is one of
those teams that that's a perfect situation to

973
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:06,720
be in. It's a powerful team. Whether that's something that you know is

974
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:13,239
by design intentionally or not is another
conversation entirely. But when it comes to

975
01:10:13,319 --> 01:10:17,479
having a goaltender that you want in
your system, when essentially your NHL club

976
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:24,319
is really struggling to put up a
consistent environment for your prospect, Ivanov is

977
01:10:24,319 --> 01:10:28,399
in the complete opposite situation. He's
playing for a team where he's getting that

978
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:34,000
consistency and he's getting the controlled environment
to really just continue improving his game and

979
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:43,279
continue improving his overall performance and confidence
levels. I think that Columbus's biggest mistake

980
01:10:43,319 --> 01:10:48,079
would be trying to rush him over, which as we know, Scott doesn't

981
01:10:48,159 --> 01:10:51,640
let that happen if they don't want
it to, so I don't think there's

982
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:58,960
any real concern of that, But
I think that he's definitely someone that I

983
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,079
think Leewide will probably have to watch
out for in the next couple of years.

984
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,840
Yeah, he's already rushing. We
don't need to rush him. There

985
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:11,359
you go. Oh all right,
well, thanks for those insights on the

986
01:11:11,399 --> 01:11:32,560
Columbus goalies. We'll be back right
after. This good dynasty did back once

987
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:36,960
again to talk about a couple of
the top prospects in this year's system that

988
01:11:38,079 --> 01:11:43,279
we call the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Victor, in terms of this overall system

989
01:11:43,319 --> 01:11:45,560
and where this team is at,
they have lots of picks. They've added

990
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:49,680
the King's first round pick, the
Flames third rounder, the Jets fourth rounder,

991
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:53,479
the Bruins fifth rounder. They traded
away a couple of their own picks

992
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:58,560
a little bit later. And you, Victor, Nuno ranked this system tied

993
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:02,479
for first in the NA Chill.
Wow, Victor, why are Columbus so

994
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:08,079
high? And why does it start
with your no brainer? Well, it

995
01:12:08,119 --> 01:12:11,199
starts with a no brainer because it's
the top. But why is it so

996
01:12:11,279 --> 01:12:15,039
high? Is they have just so
much, so much goodness in their prospect

997
01:12:15,119 --> 01:12:17,159
system. I mean, that's really
what it comes down to. They have

998
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:21,479
elite talent at the top. You
know, guys that are already in the

999
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:27,640
NHL performing that we talked about on
this episode, Kent Johnson, Carol Marchenko.

1000
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,199
We also saw little Danielle arras off. But they have so many other

1001
01:12:30,239 --> 01:12:33,760
guys too. They have great elite
talent and great depth, and that's what

1002
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:38,199
makes it so fantastic. Some of
the guys will talk about on this episode,

1003
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:40,720
and some other guys that we're not
going to have time to mention,

1004
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:43,960
like Luca delle Belle. Blue still
has some pretty good upside, Dennis Slavs

1005
01:12:44,039 --> 01:12:47,680
Fosal of course, some Suleiman's,
Samuel Nashco. You know, all of

1006
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:53,760
these guys, even Foodie down there. And so that's really what makes it

1007
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:58,000
one of the top systems. Is
you need great elite talent and you also

1008
01:12:58,079 --> 01:13:01,560
need depth in the middle and towards
the bottom. And so that is the

1009
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:06,399
Columbus Blue Jackets they are. They
have a fantastic prospect system. You love

1010
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:12,039
to see it in Victor. You're
no brainer. My no brainer is one

1011
01:13:12,079 --> 01:13:15,039
of my favorite prospects for sure.
David Yiddi check I was team meet to

1012
01:13:15,119 --> 01:13:19,359
check all the way since the draft. I continued to be undeterred by that

1013
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:24,439
notion. He was a sixth overall
pick in twenty twenty two Canada North America

1014
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:28,880
and played mainly in the NHL this
season HL this season, thirty eight points

1015
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:32,399
in fifty five games for the Cleveland
Monsters of the HL. He played over

1016
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:36,159
twenty minutes with half a hit and
point eight blocks per game with two shots

1017
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:41,159
nearly four minutes of powerably time on
ice. That's pretty awesome for a rookie

1018
01:13:41,159 --> 01:13:45,600
in the HL. I we documented
earlier this year what an outstanding HL season

1019
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,560
he had as a teenager. Just
really rare to see that kind of production

1020
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:54,079
as a teenager, and he played
most of the season as nineteen, part

1021
01:13:54,079 --> 01:13:58,600
of it as eighteen year old,
so really strong production. We got to

1022
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:01,039
see him in four NHL game and
he looked, you know, kind of

1023
01:14:01,039 --> 01:14:04,079
will like what you would expect as
a nineteen year old in the NHL.

1024
01:14:04,159 --> 01:14:08,239
He looked really good at times and
he looked really bad at times, got

1025
01:14:08,239 --> 01:14:13,039
turnstyled a couple of times, but
also was really physical and made some nice

1026
01:14:13,079 --> 01:14:15,479
plays. Stood up Nathan McKinnon on
that one play that I still remember,

1027
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:20,279
just knocked him cold, just stopped
his momentum, which is something that's hard

1028
01:14:20,279 --> 01:14:25,000
to do for someone moving that fast
and that strong. Let's hear from my

1029
01:14:25,119 --> 01:14:31,279
FHL scout Sasha about Yiti check and
this was like this his skating report or

1030
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:36,960
skating is above average. Really big
concern with like the way that he slouched

1031
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,439
over. We've always kind of talked
about this. He kind of has his

1032
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:44,960
hunch skating style lacks full extension,
but he's able to keep his balance when

1033
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:46,880
skating backwards. That might be a
little bit of a concern moving forward.

1034
01:14:47,359 --> 01:14:51,479
It isn't really ideal, but it
has kind of improved in the HL this

1035
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:56,199
year, he saw consistent growth in
his transition play and his skating improved a

1036
01:14:56,199 --> 01:14:59,520
little bit, so that was really
good. To see his puck handling average

1037
01:15:00,279 --> 01:15:03,479
decent skills to manipulate other defenders,
which was nice to see him incorporate.

1038
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:09,079
That would really Sasha would really like
to see him improve his puck reception skills,

1039
01:15:09,079 --> 01:15:13,199
as he tends to fumble way too
many pucks that he should compare to

1040
01:15:13,319 --> 01:15:17,600
an offensively gifted defenseman like him.
His shot is elite and really what separates

1041
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:21,439
him from all defensemen in his draft
year. It's heavy, it's accurate,

1042
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:25,520
and makes him deadly on the power
play, something that a lot of other

1043
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,359
power play qbs don't have, which
is you know that that deadly shot.

1044
01:15:30,079 --> 01:15:34,319
He is also making a little bit
of a correct shot selection instead of just

1045
01:15:34,399 --> 01:15:39,199
bombing away from the point. He
also is really getting is improving more and

1046
01:15:39,279 --> 01:15:42,600
more. Always about finding the best
option, creating, making plays, and

1047
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,520
so that's good too. His IQ, his offensive IQ is where he really

1048
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:51,239
excels compared to the defensive game hasn't
really seen. He has seen him blow

1049
01:15:51,319 --> 01:15:55,960
coverage or pinch at an inopportune time
on defense, and that's a little bit

1050
01:15:55,960 --> 01:16:01,479
disappointed to see. But overall,
he has pretty good defensive acumen. Loves

1051
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:04,680
his gap control. His long reach
allows him to recover in the neutral zone

1052
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:09,960
and on turnovers. However, his
off pug habits were lacking in the last

1053
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:13,279
month of the season. While low
in his defensive zone, he tends to

1054
01:16:13,319 --> 01:16:15,720
lose his man and that forces him
to cheat at times, which is kind

1055
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:18,880
of unfortunate. So definitely some work
to do there. On the defensive side,

1056
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:24,000
his best asset is his offensive instincts
and shot. The biggest concerned is

1057
01:16:24,039 --> 01:16:29,159
backwards skating and pivots and top tier
potential, probably a top pair demon who

1058
01:16:29,239 --> 01:16:31,560
can quarterback a powerplay. He could
be a point contributor, but will also

1059
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,640
be an absolute bah monster, which
is what I love about him. That

1060
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:39,640
high floor, especially if he gets
used on the penalty kill as well.

1061
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:43,600
I definitely think gar checks an all
situations defenseman, and so that really helps

1062
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:47,279
with all the peripheral coverage for Sasha. What will most likely hold him back

1063
01:16:47,399 --> 01:16:51,960
or what most likely tier top tier
is or top four will probably be the

1064
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:57,720
worst case scenario with monster Bash and
potential power play here and there, But

1065
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:00,239
there are a lot of guys in
Columbus who can run a power place,

1066
01:17:00,239 --> 01:17:02,159
so that's a little bit of a
thing against him, I guess, and

1067
01:17:02,239 --> 01:17:05,560
Stylist is comparable. He has a
more outsider, not as good as a

1068
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:12,159
skater, but certainly with the monster
Bash and points upside. Great comp And

1069
01:17:12,279 --> 01:17:16,800
let's move over to Mason Black at
NHL rank King, who has of course

1070
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:21,640
the two guys drafted high last year
David ed to check Simon Nemic. Both

1071
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:27,600
of these guys had pretty good seasons
primarily in the HL this season. Since

1072
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:30,199
they're both European, they could go
right into the HL not having to worry

1073
01:17:30,199 --> 01:17:35,039
about the HLHL NHL CHL agreement.
And you need to check with the Cleveland

1074
01:17:35,039 --> 01:17:41,479
Monsters had thirty eight points in fifty
two games for one hundred and nine PNHL

1075
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:47,000
that's incredible. Simon seventy three points
or sorry, twenty nine points in sixty

1076
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:51,279
two games for seventy three phl E. And if you look at hockey prospecting,

1077
01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:56,960
Nemis basically kept his star potential let
around eighty three percent. That's really

1078
01:17:57,039 --> 01:18:00,640
high, virtually a lot to be
an NHLer and need to check increased his

1079
01:18:00,079 --> 01:18:04,800
star protection from seventeen to thirty four. The hockey prospecting model didn't like YEI

1080
01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:10,560
check as much, and that's partially
due to his a little bit lower equivalency

1081
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:14,640
in the pro league that he played
in his draft season. When we put

1082
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:17,279
the vote to the people, Jesse, it was sixty seven percent to thirty

1083
01:18:17,279 --> 01:18:21,560
three. David Yidicheck. Who you
got here, Gussie, Yeah, the

1084
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:27,560
people are right this time. Your
Acheck has surpassed Nimaic in you know,

1085
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:30,279
in prospect, dumb I was wrong
last year on my rankings. I think

1086
01:18:30,319 --> 01:18:33,600
I had Image a couple of spots
higher than Euricheck. You have been on

1087
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:38,479
him all along, but he's already
I thought, he you know, he's

1088
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:42,079
already broken into Columbus, and I
think he's going to be a good player,

1089
01:18:42,079 --> 01:18:45,640
and I think he is going to
be the man despite the big fella

1090
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:49,000
Zach Warrensky. We talked about him
the first part of the show where his

1091
01:18:49,119 --> 01:18:56,399
nimic is not going to surpass Luke
Hughes anytime in the immediate future, nor

1092
01:18:56,520 --> 01:19:00,439
perhaps Dougie Hamilton for at least a
while. So your check is my guy,

1093
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:03,640
Victor, I imagine you were the
same way. Oh yeah, for

1094
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:09,359
sure. I definitely mt yet check, as I mentioned um and and not

1095
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:12,920
even because of the things you mentioned
with with Hughes and having a little bit

1096
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,960
of a blockage. They're not only
Hughes but Hamilton for namtch. I just

1097
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:19,439
think I love the high floor of
YETI check. I love how he can

1098
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:24,720
be put out there in every situation. Net isn't quite that way. So

1099
01:19:25,399 --> 01:19:30,640
yep, definitely got me some Yudi
check onto the need to know prospect,

1100
01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:36,119
Victor, all right, So need
to know is Jordan Dumay cbj's third round

1101
01:19:36,119 --> 01:19:40,760
pick in twenty twenty two. So
far, he's pretty much turned into the

1102
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,840
steel of the draft getting him in
the third round. He's one of the

1103
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:47,319
prospects who has raised their stock a
ton. I can't think of anyone who's

1104
01:19:47,359 --> 01:19:50,720
who'd raise it more than Dumay,
Right, now. He increased his point

1105
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:55,239
pace in his draft season from his
draft season of one hundred and nine points

1106
01:19:55,279 --> 01:19:58,960
in sixty eight games to one hundred
and forty points in sixty four games,

1107
01:19:59,399 --> 01:20:02,119
and this is while playing for the
Halifax Mooseheads. This season he was an

1108
01:20:02,159 --> 01:20:08,199
assistant captain. He also put up
sixteen points in eleven playoff games. So

1109
01:20:08,279 --> 01:20:11,479
far, He's still only five ft
nine one hundred and seventy four pounds,

1110
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:15,239
but that doesn't seem to be bothering
him too much. Let's listen to a

1111
01:20:15,319 --> 01:20:19,840
scatting report from Tony says. Skating
is good, quick skater, good passer,

1112
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:23,880
good shots, puck handling. He
doesn't overhandle it, but he has

1113
01:20:24,159 --> 01:20:29,199
good hands. Shot is both wrist
and snapshots in one timers. All of

1114
01:20:29,239 --> 01:20:32,680
those are good. IQ high to
very high, lots of offensive upside.

1115
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:36,359
Panic meter is pretty low loaded,
medium, sees things before they seem to

1116
01:20:36,399 --> 01:20:43,680
be happening, very perceptive hockey IQ
is his best asset, anticipates open areas

1117
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:46,319
to get his shot or pass off, and the biggest concern is his defense

1118
01:20:46,439 --> 01:20:53,079
or lack of puck pursuit against players
top tier potential, probably tier one seventy

1119
01:20:53,119 --> 01:20:57,279
to eighty points top six forward,
maybe not top line, but power play

1120
01:20:57,319 --> 01:21:00,960
time super smart can see things before
they happened. Skills are above average and

1121
01:21:01,279 --> 01:21:05,560
below average bash though unfortunately most likely
tiers maybe more of a Tier three.

1122
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:09,920
You'll have to work on his defense, hits some blocks to get stronger,

1123
01:21:10,359 --> 01:21:15,000
and in summary, good top six
player high IQ average skills, needs to

1124
01:21:15,039 --> 01:21:23,359
work on defense, hit some blocks. So and Dume's CHL tracking data according

1125
01:21:23,399 --> 01:21:29,319
to Mitch Brown, you have pretty
elite slot passes. That's like his strongest

1126
01:21:29,319 --> 01:21:33,159
thing. His shooting is actually pretty
below average. A lot of his transition

1127
01:21:33,199 --> 01:21:36,760
data is also a little bit below
average, including his defense, but has

1128
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:43,239
some other really strong things, including
his powerplay involvement. His advantage is created

1129
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:48,560
and his boards to the middle of
the play per sixties. So overall he

1130
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:53,640
rates out as a ninety out of
one hundred and fifty five on defense eighty

1131
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:58,840
seven on offense. So a little
bit of a mixed picture there. And

1132
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:03,680
looking at the p NHL with Mason
Black at NHO rank King on Twitter,

1133
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:11,840
the comparison he has is Joshua of
the Montreal Canadiens, drafted in twenty twenty

1134
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:15,279
one fifth round, so both these
guys were drafted a little bit later one

1135
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:20,039
for some size concerns Dumay and the
other josh is skating was a little bit

1136
01:22:20,159 --> 01:22:26,760
off. And so this year the
pH leave for Dumay was ninety five based

1137
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:33,319
on his production in the que and
for Joshua at seventy for Sherbrooke Phoenix.

1138
01:22:33,359 --> 01:22:35,920
Both these guys in the queue,
so that makes the comparison a little bit

1139
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,600
more. Even Dumay has a star
potential of forty six percent. He increased

1140
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:45,319
that from twenty up to forty six
this season, and while went down a

1141
01:22:45,359 --> 01:22:48,960
little bit, he was basically at
nineteen for his draft season, went up

1142
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:54,640
to twenty five and then back down
to sixteen this season. And so the

1143
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:59,000
people, this is a close one. Jesse, Jordan Dumay and a nail

1144
01:22:59,079 --> 01:23:02,039
biter. Actually one of the most
votes we've seen on a pole like this,

1145
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:08,720
several hundred votes and it went fifty
two percent to do May and only

1146
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:13,119
forty percent for Joshua. Pretty close. I'm not sure which one you're which

1147
01:23:13,119 --> 01:23:15,399
way you're going here, Jesse seems
like a coin flip. Hey, I

1148
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:18,239
think we woke up the Montreal fans, is what happened here? Victor,

1149
01:23:18,319 --> 01:23:23,319
because I like de May and I
traded for him in a couple of leagues

1150
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:28,640
late this year from that production.
Why wouldn't you want him? He's blown

1151
01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:33,159
away wha in production this year.
He's a year younger, he's a year

1152
01:23:33,239 --> 01:23:36,560
behind, they're both playing in the
queue. So I don't I don't quite

1153
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:41,319
get the statistical argument. I mean, DeMay is smaller, and like you

1154
01:23:41,359 --> 01:23:45,720
said, there's the defense of concerns, but I definitely would take him at

1155
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:49,479
this point over wa. How about
you, Victor? Yeah, I've never

1156
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:55,680
quite been a full believer in Joshua. I mean, I think you can't

1157
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:59,880
deny a lot of his production.
And for a lot of people, he

1158
01:24:00,159 --> 01:24:03,760
was undrafted, so in their fantasy
leagues he's basically found money because you probably

1159
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:08,920
just added him and he still has, you know, decent potential, but

1160
01:24:09,039 --> 01:24:12,479
he just and you saw him at
the World Championships, like he is a

1161
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:15,119
good player and he can produce.
But I think he's just one of these

1162
01:24:15,159 --> 01:24:19,199
elite complimentary players, like he can
work well with really strong players, But

1163
01:24:19,279 --> 01:24:24,920
I don't think he's You don't put
him on a line like Timo Meyer and

1164
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:27,960
he drives the whole line. You
know, that's not or David Posture now

1165
01:24:28,039 --> 01:24:32,359
like that doesn't happen with Joshua.
I don't think so that's in that mayor

1166
01:24:32,359 --> 01:24:35,960
may not be the case with dou
May. But I think du May can

1167
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:39,760
do a little bit more of that
play driving. He's super smart and he

1168
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:44,720
can really drive the bus and I
love the love the production. He is

1169
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,079
smaller, so maybe a little bit
more concerned there, and some people might

1170
01:24:47,159 --> 01:24:50,520
lean towards the taller guy just because
he has a cleaner path, But I

1171
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:54,239
would take dua du May. Hear, but both of these guys are a

1172
01:24:54,239 --> 01:25:00,159
little bit lower in terms of their
actual potential of being an impact NHL for

1173
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,720
different reasons. But yeah, and
a nail biter. I'm taking to May

1174
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:13,079
and next Victor last the three we
have your your keep your eye on prospect.

1175
01:25:13,079 --> 01:25:16,960
Who is it? Denton Mette Chuck
so twenty twenty two, twelfth round

1176
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:21,720
pick for Columbus, still only eighteen. His birthdate is so late, it's

1177
01:25:23,079 --> 01:25:26,399
it's really I think one of those
things you have to keep in mind.

1178
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:30,880
July twelfth, and so he was
seventeen his entire draft season. He's eighteen

1179
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:34,920
sententre d plus one season and he
had a just awesome season for the Moosha

1180
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:40,000
Warriors of the WHL sixty five points
in sixty three games as the captain,

1181
01:25:40,279 --> 01:25:45,279
he had sixty four and sixty five
as in its D zero to his draft

1182
01:25:45,399 --> 01:25:49,079
here, So improved on it,
but you know, maybe not a ton.

1183
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:55,000
Still a lot of production for a
defenseman and for moosejaw, you know,

1184
01:25:55,159 --> 01:25:58,960
looking at the peripheral coverage really great
for blocks, nearly two blocks a

1185
01:25:59,039 --> 01:26:02,760
game, but under a half hit
per game, so that's not great.

1186
01:26:03,159 --> 01:26:08,000
His shots were close to three,
just under three, so that was pretty

1187
01:26:08,039 --> 01:26:12,039
good. Overall, his bash should
be pretty decent. Let's hear a little

1188
01:26:12,079 --> 01:26:18,199
bit more about his production from FHL
scout Brandon. So his skating very flow

1189
01:26:18,239 --> 01:26:24,000
oriented with a pension for effortlessly changing
gears. Not an explosive skater, but

1190
01:26:24,199 --> 01:26:28,560
very opportunistic. Puck handling, simple
and effective when carrying the puck, quiet

1191
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:31,720
hands, poised to make a play
shot, pulls his wrist, shot in

1192
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:36,800
close his skates before releasing with a
large wind up one timer for the puck

1193
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:41,920
or taking a slapshots. It's somewhere
between underutilized and not a legit threat for

1194
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:46,239
his shot IQ by far Denton's biggest
gift, very adept at being in the

1195
01:26:46,319 --> 01:26:50,560
right place at the right time,
especially during broken plays or turnovers. Defense.

1196
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:57,520
An incredible spatial defender uses his positioning
an active stick as his prime defensive

1197
01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:02,319
weapon. Best asset intelligence and processing
speed the biggest concern that keeps his game

1198
01:27:02,359 --> 01:27:06,079
to the perimeter even when actively engaging
the puck carrier. Easy to get to

1199
01:27:06,079 --> 01:27:12,119
the middle into the dangerous aerias a
little bit more top tier potential probably number

1200
01:27:12,119 --> 01:27:16,720
two complimentary d assist machine, especially
secondary assists, would benefit greatly if tertiary

1201
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:23,079
assists were tracked. He says much
higher tier if considering takeaway in passes,

1202
01:27:23,359 --> 01:27:27,119
but middle of the pack in terms
of shots and attempts, low tier in

1203
01:27:27,239 --> 01:27:30,720
terms of other peripheral covers like hits
and blocks, although we did mention that

1204
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:33,159
his blocks were actually really good in
the DUB this year, so we'll see

1205
01:27:33,199 --> 01:27:36,960
if that continues. Most likely tier
is second or third. Pairing can certainly

1206
01:27:38,039 --> 01:27:41,520
run a powerplay. Columbus has so
many guys that can run a powerplay.

1207
01:27:42,079 --> 01:27:47,960
Stylistic comparable as Tyson Barry with less
knack for shooting a shifty evasive level to

1208
01:27:48,159 --> 01:27:54,039
Kewen Hughes and Eric Carlston with less
flashy hands and deacon capacity. Looking at

1209
01:27:54,079 --> 01:28:01,920
the tracking data from Mitch Brown,
you see that Denton Metaichuk is basically breaking

1210
01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:06,159
breaking off the page in most categories. He has an overall rating of ninety

1211
01:28:06,239 --> 01:28:12,199
nine out of one hundred. Defense
is ninety six, transition ninety nine,

1212
01:28:12,239 --> 01:28:15,479
and offense is only eighty. And
that's partially because of his shot, because

1213
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:19,199
he just doesn't use it enough.
But his his slot passes per sixty,

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01:28:19,359 --> 01:28:24,000
his expected assists per sixty, you're
all pretty good. His transition play is

1215
01:28:24,039 --> 01:28:28,840
elite, and his defensive play at
breaking up entries and retrievals are all really

1216
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,439
really good. It's mainly the fact
that he doesn't shoot enough, so that's

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01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:34,600
something that maybe can be worked on. But a little bit of a concern

1218
01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:44,960
there, I guess. Looking at
the NHO rank king pull here on Twitter,

1219
01:28:45,079 --> 01:28:48,920
so you have Metaichuk against Pavel Minchukov. So both these guys drafted last

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01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:55,199
year, Minschikov with the Anaheim Ducks
at tenth overall, Metaichuk at twelfth overall

1221
01:28:55,319 --> 01:29:00,840
and Somataichuck seventy four PNHLI this year
based on his WHL time and Mentukov got

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01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:06,800
traded. He was with the Ottawa
sixty seven's for part of the year and

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01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:12,399
he was with the Saganaw Spirit the
rest of the year, so you have

1224
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,439
both equivalences for both. He was
with Sagonaw first and so that was a

1225
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:21,960
ninety one PHIL based on thirty fifty
four points in thirty seven games. When

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01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:25,600
he went to Ottawa, he was
a little less of the focal point and

1227
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:29,079
kind of more of a balanced part
of the attack, so his pH lely

1228
01:29:29,159 --> 01:29:30,760
went down a little bit. He
had thirty four points in thirty two games,

1229
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:35,640
sixty six pH Chile. It's a
little bit down there. Mettaychuck on

1230
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:42,279
the Hockey Prospecting Model kept his star
potential pretty much even fifty three to fifty

1231
01:29:42,359 --> 01:29:47,560
three percent and start in NHL probability
still around seventy eight. He looks like

1232
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:51,119
a couple of really good stars in
this league. I mean he has some

1233
01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:56,079
comps of like Paul Coffee, not
sure about that, but Bowen Bayram is

1234
01:29:56,119 --> 01:29:59,600
one that he looks a fair amount
alike, and that would be pretty great

1235
01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:08,720
as he a pretty big star producer. And the poll between Metaichuk and Minschikov

1236
01:30:09,279 --> 01:30:17,000
actually went pretty handily towards Minchukov sixty
nine percent to thirty one percent over Metaichuk.

1237
01:30:17,279 --> 01:30:21,319
Is that What do you think about
that, Jesse? I apparently am

1238
01:30:21,359 --> 01:30:27,439
throwing the wisdom of the crowds to
the side, because I don't quite get

1239
01:30:27,479 --> 01:30:31,319
that Minchkov had an amazing start to
the season with Saganaw and then they traded

1240
01:30:31,439 --> 01:30:34,680
nine draft picks for him to get
him to Ottawa, and from that point

1241
01:30:34,680 --> 01:30:39,279
they had pretty similar production, except
one played in Ottawa and one played in

1242
01:30:39,359 --> 01:30:42,640
moose Jaw. Maybe a little more
out of the public light, but I

1243
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:48,439
don't think it's it's strange to me
that Metaichuk is that far discounted. I

1244
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:54,119
like him just as well as Minchikoff, if maybe maybe a little bit better.

1245
01:30:54,199 --> 01:31:00,359
Victor, how about you. I
definitely like Metai Chuck here. I'm

1246
01:31:00,359 --> 01:31:02,720
a big fan of his game.
I like Minchukov, but I think that

1247
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:08,840
he just has a little bit He's
a little bit more of an all offense

1248
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:11,479
kind of guy, you know,
and I want to see that more well

1249
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:15,760
roundedness. I think Metai Chuck has
strong offense, but also he is like

1250
01:31:15,960 --> 01:31:18,680
he could pretty much play in the
NHL right now. He just seems a

1251
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:24,560
little bit more physical maturity. But
I like those guys that have a pretty

1252
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:27,680
well rounded game. It just means
that they're more likely to be in the

1253
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:30,760
NHL and the guys that have to
work really hard. I didn't mention this,

1254
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:33,960
but one of the comps from Matai
Chuck was Ryan Merkley, and I

1255
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:39,079
think he's nowhere near like Marian Murkley
in terms of the overall style of play,

1256
01:31:39,159 --> 01:31:44,159
because Merkley was basically like Minchukov in
some ways where he was just all

1257
01:31:44,159 --> 01:31:47,520
offense and didn't ever care or give
any effort for defense, and that's not

1258
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:51,920
Metai Chuck at all. You know, He's very defensively, alert and responsible

1259
01:31:53,319 --> 01:31:57,399
and helps turn defense into offense.
So that's one of the reasons I really

1260
01:31:57,439 --> 01:32:00,720
like Mittaichuck in terms of just pure
offense. Sure, Minchukov has more,

1261
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:04,039
but he also has a lot of
work to do to improve his all around

1262
01:32:04,079 --> 01:32:08,840
game, and that may leave him
in the Ryan Merkley train, where five

1263
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:11,640
years later he's still not in an
each other and that is kind of a

1264
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:15,880
wasted draft pick. So that's a
little bit of a of an issue for

1265
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:19,279
me, and so why I'd shy
away from Minchukov a little bit. But

1266
01:32:19,520 --> 01:32:23,840
Jesse, there's no more time to
talk about these guys. If you're Patren,

1267
01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:27,560
you can listen to the top ten
recaps per team that I'll be doing.

1268
01:32:28,119 --> 01:32:31,640
And you can also subscribe on Patreon
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1269
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:35,760
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1270
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:39,600
you're doing some scouting with us,
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Discord, or email us Darting Wright. You can. Let's come back

1272
01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:57,600
and close up the show. May
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1273
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