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how you doing. I'm doing awesome, Jesse. Yeah, exciting times.
It's hot, it's warm, and it's hockey weather, isn't it, Victor?
For us, it's always hockey weather. But in California you've got like
one weather, so I've got no sympathy. I keep saying that, you
keep claiming that you have different weathers, and you've got fires and floods and
stuff like that. So I guess I gotta leave you alone. Fire season
and yeah, it changes throughout the day. But I actually I had a
little bit of a taste of the opposite weather in Mexico because it was at
least on the East coast, it was raining NonStop. So we went from
geese how it's normally here, which is where it pretty much never rains to
it rained constantly, and we were walking around in some places with shin deep
water just like several inches. It was crazy. So I got a little
bit of that and I realized that sucks. I don't want to live in
that. Yeah, is Mexico one of those countries that has a monsoon season?
I know Southeast Asia lots of monsoon seasons going on. But what was
that? Just a weather pattern on the east coast, like in Kancun and
the Yuca Damp Peninsula. That's where a lot of the hurricanes start tropical storms
and they swirled through the Gulf and they come up to southeastern USA. It's
similar to that Florida, Louisiana, Texas and all that. So that that's
what it was like, and it was it was I guess the nice thing
is that it's it was never really that cold. It's not like it was
cold and rainy. It was just rainy all the time, almost never stopped
the whole time we were there. Yeah, yeah, all right, this
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to take a break now and come back and talk Toronto, Maples. We'd
like to welcome into show. Our guest who's going to talk about the Toronto
maple leaves from Lexpress dot Ca. It's Cindy Calon Cindy, how you doing
today? Hi am good arn, thanks for having me, very good,
very good. Ready to talk some leaves. Who's ever done it? There's
no talk about leaves out there in the world. I'm sure this will be
something that people will be starving for. Where did it start with? This
year? The Leafs made famously their eighth straight playoffs, but lost in the
first round as the underdog. Mind you, okay, let's just get that
straight. In so seven games, they had the fifth most standing point in
their history. They were one goal away from leading the league in regular season,
scoring three hundred and three goals, but their bottom ten save percentage led
to their status as fifteenth in goals allowed among the sixteen teams that made the
playoffs. The only team in the playoffs who allowed more goals was Tampa Bay.
Can you believe that anyway? That's a rabbit hole. There were spectacular
individual performances. We're going to get into them. There was also blame to
go around at other moments. Coach Sheldon Keef was a victim of the year.
He departed a year after his former gn did. What is the mood
in LEAs Land and what do you expect for next year? The mood here
is the same every year, to be honest, It's just the summer doesn't
matter that much. The season doesn't matter that much. It's all about the
spring in the playoffs. When playoffs comes around, everybody's excited. There's a
big buzz around the city as soon as the leafs are out, and it's
everybody's going to get fired. There's a panting button with the fans here.
But right now, the people in Toronto are so used to it, to
see the same thing year after year that is just okay. We'll get excited
when April comes around. So it's a little bit sad in a way,
but they're just so used to it. It should be interesting for next season.
We'll see what happened this summer with free agency and everything. But I
think with the new coach coming, there should be some some new Obviously there's
gonna be a lot of changes, but we've seen some changes with the coaching
staff in general. But I think we might see a new culture and a
new vibe in general. With this team this season. One player about whom
there will be no free agent drama this summer, because that was already solved
is Austin Matthews. All he did this year was capture a third rocket,
Richard with sixty nine goals, and set a new career high in points with
one hundred and seven. Remember I'm old enough to remember when Jamie Benn won
the art Ross with eighty seven points and now Austin Matthews gets one hundred seventy.
He actually was not close to the art Ross, but anyway, he
is one of the absolute best. In what we call bash blocks plus shots
plus hits, Austin Matthews is with elite showing in all three of those.
Actually, his contract is about to get huge and maybe make it a little
more boss level for the Toronto maple LEAs to assemble a championship team around him.
But it's pretty hard to argue that Austin Matthews does not deserve thirteen plus
million dollars if you make any equippal with his stats, if you're trying to
pick at it, obviously the assists are not going to be there in great
measure. That's not necessarily his game maybe because every time he's on the offensive
end, he's the one who knocks the puck in, So how is he
going to get assists because he's the one who's always scoring Anyway, Is this
peak Austin Matthews, Cindy, and is it gonna come back the same way
next year? I don't think we've seen the peak yet. It was an
amazing season for him, sixty nine goals. That seventy goals watch was awesome
to look at. There was a big buzz in the city here around that
in the lead obviously, but he's injured on enough pretty much every year.
Even if they say it or they don't say it, there's always something.
So I don't think we've seen the peak yet. He can do better than
that, and he wants to do better than that, even though it's insane
that he's got a rocket Richards so many times in the sixty nine goal.
But I think there's a lot more to Austin Matthews, and I think he's
just going to keep going from here. On the flip side, a player
for whom there will be some offseason drama, at least so far as i've
heard, it would be Mitch Marner. All this guy did. I don't
know what we think about, but all he did was score in the top
twenty in points per sixty in the NHL. Last year, he led Toronto
and assists despite missing a dozen games to an ankle injury. He's very definitely
not a guy who's the bash master, block shots and hits, but he
is unquestioned on the score sheet. Now he seems to be in the middle
of a lot of trade speculation. I guess, if you're a leap watcher,
you look and you say, which one of those big four Big five
contracts could use the oreetically move a year away from his free agency, and
that it's Marner who's the only player, the most likely player to be able
to move. But I'm sure having three points in a seven game playoff series
did not help Marner's case among the fans. Is Mitch Marner going to be
a leaf going forward? Keep in mind people are going to be hearing this
several weeks after we record it. Maybe he is already not a leaf.
I apologize for that if that's the case, But do you expect he's going
to be a leaf going forward? And if so, are we going to
expect the same type of production. So this is interesting because if you would
have asked a few weeks back, everybody was on the same page that there
was no chance of seeing Marner back with the team next season. But what's
going around in the city right now is that they might have started to talk
about a contract extension, which is not really making fans happy because Marner ended
up being he's the one that everybody wants to see go away. Unfortunately,
He's a kid from Toronto that got everything on silver platter. He could be
a hero with a banner in the rafter, but because of his poor performance
in the playoff or at least like this year was not great. Usually he's
almost a pointed game, but he's just the type of play he's playing in
the playoff is not as good as he is in regular season, and quite
often you just don't see him that much in the playoffs because of the type
of money he's going to commend. People want him to go. But it's
been a lot of drama around Mitch Marner in the last few weeks, and
I think it's going to keep going for a few weeks again. But I'd
say we're at fifty to fifty right now. Of him coming back in September.
Wow, if Mitch Marner isn't back, and you might know this by
the time you're hearing this. Luckily they already have another first line right wing
ready to take his place, and that would be William ne Lander. Obviously,
Big Willie got his payday already. He finished just behind Marner in terms
of point pace this past season and thirteen ahead and total points to the Marner
missing some time, and I think most hilariously called him out on the bench
in the middle of the playoffs. That went all around the internet. That
was quite funny and maybe not so funny to some of the Marner lovers.
Statistically, this was his best season, was neilanders and as he nearly crested
one hundred point mark. He's been above eighty the past three seasons, and
his offense looks really good, even though maybe defensively he isn't the best,
but we don't need to worry about that right now. His offense is so
great. So do you think, Cindy, that Neilander can be closer to
one hundred point pace or will he be closer to eighty next season? I
think he's gonna hit one hundred last season he was great, sorry the previous
two, but the forty goal season this year was quite something for him,
and we see in the way he plays he's just really finding himself more.
I think he was in the shadow of Matthews and Marner a bit, but
now that he's got his extension and everything, we're seeing another level to his
game. And he's just a guy that loves to play. He's a gamer
and he wants to be here. And for the last two playoffs, two
years in the playoff, he's been the best guy for the Leaf. So
I think we're just going to see more and more from Nilander and I would
almost bet that he's going to hit one hundred point next year. That's how
come Fit and nfefeel about that. And then there's John Tavares. John Tavares
slotted in right where one would hope, as far as I'm concerned, in
an outstanding second center on an elite offensive team that make a contract has aged
well enough, I would say eleven million dollars. Sure, you might argue
that's a bit more than the production was last year, but it ain't far
off. Considered when you sign one of those long term contracts, you typically
expect that in the out years it's not going to quite hit the level.
But he was excellent twenty nine goals thirty six assists in eighty games. He's
one of the better defenders among the forwards on the team at even strength according
to the advanced stats, and led the team in individual expected goals on the
power play. How do you expect Tavaris to go forward? Are they going
to sign him? Is he going to get that gentle and j Copitar contract?
Slowly going down treatment after this one? And will another sixty to sixty
five points be in the off Yeah? I do think Tavarius will sign again
with the Leaves and take a discount for sure to stay here. He already
said there was not a chance he was going to wave his no move clause.
He wants to stay here. He wants to end his career in Toronto.
He's been great for the Leaves. As much as people don't like the
contract right now, when you look at his production, it's not bad at
all consider ring and when he signed, there's a ton of other teams that
wanted it, that offered him more money, So there was no issue back
then, and obviously with that length of contract. At some point the production
is going to go down a bit. But when you look at Tavara's number,
it's steady every year. You know what you're getting. He leads by
example. He's a good captain, good player. He always works hard even
if the puck doesn't go in, and sometimes there's a few slumps here and
there, you can tell that he just always worked really hard. And I
think even if that contract is expensive and it's still going to be a lot
of money next year, it's worth it. And I do think he's going
to hit the sixty point for sure again next season. He's just so steady,
so constant all the time. Now there's a ton of offensive players to
talk about it on this team, So we're going to do the next couple
and they'll pick them. Format here, give you two players and tell you
or ask you which one of them you think is going to be the better
performing for next year. We got Max Domi revitalized himself a little bit last
year with nine goals and thirty eight assists across eighty games, and you got
Tyler Bertuzzi twenty one goals and twenty two assists over eighty games. Do you
think those guys will be you expect. What do you expect for them in
the future with this team and or without this team? Up to you?
Yeah, right now, they've both been in talks for a new contract with
the Leaf. They both said that they want to they would like to stay,
So I think there's a big possibility that we'll see both of them back,
at least one of them for sure. Max Domi is an interesting case
because for the first part of this season, everybody thought that maybe it was
a mistake to have brought him to Toronto and maybe there was too much pressure
on him because of his father. But then he turned around. When he
started to play with Austin Matthews, we saw a new player that it really
helped Matthews as well, and it became just a fit. He became a
fixture on the first line. And now it's a no brainer that everybody wants
him back and he brings something different to the team. So I wouldn't be
surprised to see him back. And he ended up turning things around and he
ended up ended the season with forty seven points, so it's not too bad.
And then for Bertusey, it's a bit of a question mark. I
think everybody thought he was going to be better than he was. There was
a long stretch where he couldn't even buy a goal. He was just quite
unlucky. But same thing him Bertusy and Domi. They both bring some things
that the Leaves were lacking a bit more moratality and they're just more aggressive and
that grits that the Leaves don't have that much. I wouldn't be surprised to
see both of them back, but I would pick Max Domi over Bertus for
the Leaves for next year. And the second pick em Matthew Nice versus Bobby
McCann. Nice with or with thirty five points across eighty games, the young
whipper snapper breaking into the NHL. Bobby McCann, a bit more of a
journeyman player, actually had more points at forty seven in eighty games. So
which of those two are you expecting more from next year? I'd say probably
Bobby McCann. It's interesting with McMahon because he's older. He's twenty eight years
old. He never really had a shot, and this time when they called
him up there was injuries and ended up playing longer, and he just took
full advantage of the opportunity for him and it worked really well and we saw
what he can do when he gets ice time and not just a bottom six
role here and there. So I think it's going to be interesting to see
what he does next year now that he's got an extension and he knows he's
secure for a little bit for the first time in his carrier basically. And
then for Matthew Nis, he's younger, he hasn't played that much yet,
we see what he can do, especially in the playoffs. We get flashes
from Knives that are really good. He's a gamer and we can tell that
he's going to be great. I think he just needs a little bit more
time with the NHL and everything. I think McMahon might be better next season,
but it depends on what canon role and what kind of ice time they
give to Matthew Nice, because I think he's going to be He's going to
be someone to watch for sure as well. I think I said McCann instead
of McMahon. I don't know what's wrong with me today, Cindia. My
apologies there. Let's switch to the blue line and I'm pretty sure I can
get the name Morgan Riley correct today. Even in my befuddled state. He
is one of the most proficient defensemen on the power play and at even strength
in the National Hockey League. Scoring against was objectively much better when he was
not on the ice. In other words, not so great with the defense.
A third of the three long term contracts addressed in this episode already and
the upcoming remaining six years will all play out while Riley is in his thirties.
But again, last year fifty eight points in seventy two games. That's
top tier for scoring in this league. Do you anticipate any change in Riley's
usage or production with this team? And is his defense really that bad?
Is it going to impact the way that the treat him. No, I
don't think his defense is that bad. It's just funny with the Leaves in
general, every time there's a big name missing, there's someone else that step
ups, and the Leaves are really good when Raley's not there. They're really
good when Matthews is not there. For some reason, I don't think it's
anything on rally necessarily. I think he's just so stable. He's their main
defender for the Leafs. He's just solid, but he needs help, like
he needs a good partner. That's what we haven't really seen for Rally in
the last few seasons. He always ends up playing with players that are a
little bit on the decline or they're having enough year. So I'm pretty sure
they will try to get a solid defenseman to play with him on the first
pair. They've been trying to do that trade deadline. It just didn't work
out. But I don't think we can expect anything different from Morgan Rally next
season. He's just been constant and I think it's just the type of player
he is, and if they find him a good partner, it's going to
get even better in terms of fantasy on the leafs. On the blue line,
there's no one really close to Riley in terms of point pace, but
Lulagren was the only one that was over halfway there, so I guess we'll
talk about him. He matched thing Lilogrand match his career high of twenty three
points, but did it in eight fewer games. His time on ice was
the most of his career, went up from seventeen fifty five to nineteen forty,
and that was pretty significant. He also had the best expected goal differential
of anyone who played as much as he did, though he did have the
worst course he against for sixty if any one on the team, so you
can see there that was pretty much all driven by the course he four,
the offensive production, the shop share production there the worst Fenwick on among the
d during the playoffs minus twelve, second worst than the team next to Reeves.
So that's not great, but there was some improvement and he's about to
go over the two hundred games played mark, which often is something that we
look at as potential breakout. There when you look at his overall impact,
he seems to be pretty even in terms of offense defense in terms of his
underlying metrics from Evolving Hockey, which is interesting considering what I just referenced.
So, Cindy, do you think there's a breakout potential here coming for Lilogrand?
And could he get over that forty five point Paig, It's hard to
tell. The thing with the link ren is, first of all, his
name is in the trade rumor quite often. He's RFA now and it seems
like the leaves are a little bit tired of waiting for him to get to
the potential that they taught that he could reach. So there's a bit of
a maybe a rocky relationship there, and this season was supposed to be his
big season to prove himself and establish himself and everything, and he got injured
and he did okay, but he got scratched a few times too, So
it's it's weird with him. It's hard to it's hard to think about what's
going to be for next season because as of right now, we're not even
sure he's going to be in Toronto next season. So he's got a lot
of potential. He's a good defense defenseman, but because of injuries and because
of other player that took his spots, like it's really hard. It's really
hard to say on this one. I guess I'm not sure at all if
he's going to be here next year. And it seems to be like he
was great. He was always great, but when Rasmus Sendin, his good
friend, got traded, it seemed like it affected him quite a bit.
And that plus the injuries, it seems like we haven't seen the best Linigren
yet. But he's been with the organization for so many years that I was
just wondering if they're going to pull the plug on him. Unfortunately, pick
them on the blue line, Connor Timmins, Jake McCabe. Connor Timmins last
year not a whole lot of time, twenty five games and ten points.
Jake McCabe played in seventy three and had twenty eight points. Which of these
two you think will have the better impact next year? I have to say
Jake McCabe. He's just solid. They're relying on him more, more and
more. And Connor Timmins, he had a really good stretch that he had
a lot of points, but same kind of thing. He got injured and
unfortunately couldn't get his spot back, and when he came back it was not
good enough. You could tell he was behind. So they scratched him a
bunch. But McCabe is just solid. They see him as one of the
pillar for the blue line. So I would always pick mckabe over Timmins unfictionally.
And just one more question. Is John Klingberg going to be back for
the team next year? City Probably not. He said he wanted to,
He was open to coming back, but that experiment was a big fail.
It just didn't work. He got injured, But even before the injury,
it just didn't click. He didn't fit well with the team and the fans
were not very happy with him in the contract as well, so I'd be
very surprised to see him back, just because it really didn't work out and
he's probably going to get more money somewhere else. Moving over to the goal
he's The Maple Leafs were the sixteenth ranked expected goals per sixty and conceded actually
exactly the sixteenth amount of actual goals per game. We know that the main
players here are Samson Off Wall, Martin Jones actually had a fair role forty
games for Samson Off, twenty five for Wall, twenty two for Martin Jones,
and so sam sona played the most games and had the worst raw metrics
and underlying metrics. Wall was good, though he was oft injured, especially
when they needed him the most there at the end, which was un fortunate.
Joanes somehow had the best goalsave above expected at seven point sixty seven.
I still don't really understand that as of now, Wall is the only one
signed for next season. They also have Matt Murray somehow cylinder contract, but
I don't know that he's a factor. So we've seen some really interesting numbers
here while RFA next summer, Simpson off no contract. What is going to
happen with the crease in Toronto? Are they going to bring someone in?
Are they going to let Wall take the role and maybe play fifty sixty games?
What do you think is going to happen? So the goldending situation has
been weird for years with the Leafs. They always have someone in the farm
team that they have they really want that person to be the next number one,
but it never pans out. Now it's Wall. He's great, but
like you said, he's injured quite often. And even bradtre Living mentioned it
at the exit interviews that they love him. Nicky's great. You can see
that he's going to be a very good number one one day, but he
can't stay healthy, and that's that's starting to be a big concern for the
Leafs. Now some soon of the chances of him coming back are very slim.
True A Living made comments that would make us believe that there's not a
chance they're offering him an extension, and Samson of said he wanted more than
just a one year. He'd liked to be stable somewhere and get a few
years, a contract for a few years. So I don't see that happening
at all. And then for Jones and Murray, it's weird because all the
guys, they all want to come back when when you look at the option,
Jones was great for the Leafs. He he really helped them with the
kind of saved a little bit of this season. It could have been quite
ugly for the Leaves if Jones was not there to help when everybody else was
injured. And then Matt Murray's the same thing. But I don't think.
I think the Leiefs are going to try to go get possibly a real number
one or at least to do a one a one be with Wall, but
I don't. It's hard to tell if Wall is going to be number one
when the season starts because it all depends on his health. And yeah,
it's a bit that's a bit weird. It's a weird one. They have
another number one goalie since Frederick Anderson, so they need something like that.
But we'll see. They tried to get Jacob marks Strum and that the Flames
preferred New Jersey's offers, so that didn't work out. But basically for now,
the number one spot is Joseph Walls to lose, So we'll see.
How it depends out for us the summer. If they obviously we don't know
who they're gonna get, but if they get so, if they bring someone
in as you mentioned, obviously like a Markstrum, guy would have really tanked
Wall's value obviously because he would have, like Markstrom, would have been the
for sure starter. Do you think it's more likely with Mark Trum off the
board now that we get someone more like Markstrum or someone who will see more
starts to Wall. I guess what I'm what I'm asking is how likely do
you think it is that we'll get forty to fifty starts as opposed to fewer?
Yeah, I think it depends on what their next move is. So
we know that they tried to get Mark Strum it didn't work. So if
they tried to get him, that means they want to get a number one.
So I would be surprised to see them try to get Cerro's from Nashville.
If this doesn't work, then they're probably looking at a guy like Laham
Rossoir who was with the Jets. Apparently there's interest with the Leaves in him,
and you would like to come that what makes it more like attendem instead
of a true number one. I think wall is most likely going to be
the goalie for Game one. But it's a tough one, yeah for sure,
tough. You trade for sorrows, you're gonna end up having to pay
sorrows. That's the problem with all the good players. Is there expensive anyway?
Cindy, this has been some great stuff talking maple leaves. Why don't
you let people know how they can follow all your work? That's Twitter.
I think it's the best place to follow people. Just c I n c
ar o and but yeah, I post up on Twitter quite a bit.
I apologize for people. There's a lot of French content because I'm French Canadian
and works for a French paper. But yeah, it's it's just social and
that's pretty much it for mendus. Thanks so much for being with us today,
Cindy and talking leaves. My pleasure. Thanks for having me, Thank
you, Wil Since then, that's good fire fat, Oh my goodness,
long a gram. Now it's your wingler goalie talk. But Kat Silverman,
Kat's Instincts. Time once again for Katz Instincts. With Kat Silverman and n
gold mag we're talking maple leafs goalies that means we're starting with Artur Aktiamof twenty
twenty fourth round pick by Toronto, sixty one and eighty sixty eight pounds.
He's now twenty two years old, had another great season in Russia. Last
season he finally got seventeen KHL games and was great. Last year. You
had mentioned that you thought he was great, though a bit undersized, and
we agreed that he was already better than Martin Jones, which at lowbar.
The plan for him is to be in the HL this season. It sounds
his equivalency has hovered in the high forties, low fifties, and he's up
to fifty three percent. Got some really good comps. One of them that
might be appropriate is Thattridenko. Obviously, he's looking pretty good in the NHL
right now, Okay, what do your instinct tell us about Aktyamov? Now,
Thattrick Dunko, who's that guy? I still love Aktaamov. I stand
by what I said. I think he looks better than Martin Jones already.
I had a lot of fun watching some of his highlights because he is spicy.
He is a little on the undersized side of things. He's listed at
six to one and one hundred and sixty eight pounds, which is like the
size of the average moderately athletic human, but is not quite the same as
a six foot eight, two hundred and twenty five pound goaltender, which is
what some other teams have in their system. And he is not afraid to
get a little scrappy to control and defend his space. He does a good
job of staying fairly conservative with his depths. He's really good at reading the
play and if it seems like people are getting a little too aggressive in terms
of trying to box him out and screen him. He actually got a slashing
penalty during one of the games in the VHL playoffs this year, and I
appreciate seeing that from a goaltender who really needs to defend their space and can
easily get boxed out. I'm curious to see how well he does once he
moves to the AHL, because we always talk about how there are a couple
AHL teams that the atmosphere in the arena their games and the pressure that's put
on their minor league team is comparable to some NHL teams, and that is
for sure, the Toronto Marleys. So once he's in the AHL, he's
not necessarily going to be given a free pass if he has a rough start,
and he's going to be watched really aggressively because the Leafs don't have have
a ton of clear cut long term star talent at the NHL level in that
although Joseph wall is doing his best to to finally claim his throne there,
in a perfect world, we don't see Acdaiamov at the NHL level for at
least a year. But the way that Leaf's goal tending has been going,
I feel like we're gonna end up seeing him for ten games next year and
I don't want that, but we'll see how it goes. Sometimes it can't
help themselves, all right, Let's talk about the next one. Keith Petrozelli
six't six hundred and ninety pounds now twenty five years old, had a
bit of a regression last year in the HL. Has expected goals per goal
conceded went from one point thirty seven to point nine to three. His hockey
prospecting has waivered from thirties to forties now down to thirty percent. Looks a
little bit like Sam Montembo, who is listed as a replacement level starter in
the system. But we know he's having a bit of a resurgence now in
the NHL, but it took a very long time for that to materialize from
Montembo. Anyways, Petrozelli interesting guy here, interesting trajectory that he has had,
and he's been in the system now for a couple of years. What
are your thoughts on him? He's a tricky one because I actually knew his
collegiate coach and I talked with him a little bit about what Petrozelli's development was
looking like. And he's a guy who had a lot of raw talent.
I'd love to see what would happen if he worked with had him Francilia during
this offseason, because he is all limbs, and you can tell when he
is off his game because he reminds me a little bit of Matt Murray and
that his game will from a tracking perspective, he gets a little bit off
and his movement is not nearly efficient enough to suppress that and cover for that.
So when he starts getting off on his tracking, he moves a little
too much. His spatial awareness becomes a little less efficient. And I remember
I watched one game for him in the NCAA against Arizona State, and I
was at the game and I had to double check a couple times to make
sure that he was the goaltender who was in net, because I kept thinking
to myself, this isn't an NHL prospect. This is clearly their third string
guy that they put in for a game just to throw them a bone.
And it wasn't. It was Petro Dellie, and I was really horrified by
that. I do think that from a skating perspective, he is really fast,
and he is good at getting across the crease with a ton of speed
and then stopping. He doesn't really over overslide a ton, so he doesn't
over commit. He just sometimes his reads are really off and his angles get
really strange. And maybe he can commiserate with Martin Jones and they can talk
about that together and he can tighten up his game physically. But right now
I don't have him in terms of the leaf steps chart. I have him
as a minor leaguer, and it'll be nice to see him if he's able
to improve that like Montambeaux who really took his game and almost reshaped it from
the ground up, and I do think that it helps that Petroselli has lost
a lot of his draft stock and lost a lot of his potential NHL expectations.
He really doesn't have a lot to lose by stripping his game and recreating
it. But as of right now, love his game. I'd like to
love his game because he seems really nice, but I don't love his game,
beir, but honest I love it. So let's move on to the
last guy here, and that is Dennis Hildebye, the hilde Beast as he's
known. Twenty twenty two fourth round pick, six foot seven two twenty three
pounds, turns twenty three this season, and it was his first AHL season,
and it went I would say pretty well. He's been in Sweden before
that, playing in a couple different levels. Definitely had some SHL action,
also some J twenty and super elite time in there, and got a little
taste of the HL last season. It didn't go quite as well, but
had some pretty strong stints this season. His equivalency was in the high twenties
until it shot up this season with that really strong HL performance up to forty
nine percent. So that trajectory looks a little bit like Darcy Kemper who's a
big similar size, not quite as big I would say Hilleby I think has
an int or two on him. Anyways, should Toronto fans be as excited
as they are about the hilde beast Cat? What are your instincts to tell
you? That's a really interesting comparable Darcy Kemper, because there's a similar playing
style there. Actually, I have, for better for worse, seen a
lot of Darcy Kemper's games, like almost too many, and he's a guy
who every analysis I had to give of his game was that from a size
perspective, he needed to play a really conservative, controlled game, and so
physically he was a big goaltender, but mentally he was an Alex staylock and
he really wanted to just be free. And so it was like watching him
war with himself in terms of staying conservative and staying on his goal line,
really not moving up a ton of challenge, not going down to his knees
as often, not falling forward to cover the puck. And that's how hill
to Be plays. Honestly, watching him play, he looks like he is
having to physically contain himself in order to stay playing this more controlled, contained,
conservative game that his size really necessitates because at six six two thirty four,
he can't be playing super far out of his crease. He doesn't have
the super quick agility to get back there without running the risk of injuring himself,
which unfortunately is what we've seen from Darcy Kemper in the past. You
can tell when his game is getting a little too free wheeling because he doesn't
up with these little tweaks, these little bumps and bruises and injuries. I
think Mike Smith is another one of those who really wants to be free and
wants to rock and roll and should be playing the most boring structured game.
And that's what hill Deby wants to do too, just based on the way
he's playing. So we'll see how that goes. I think that's a really
interesting playing style for a goaltender to have behind the Toronto Maple Leafs and their
system, because they're another team that kind of like the Chicago Blackhawks, likes
to keep their coaches on the same page from the top to the bottom,
and so they try to keep their goaltending coaching style consistent, their coaching style
consistent. Their coaches are in constant communication. I mean they're in the same
city, so they're able to watch their prospect really closely. So it's not
like his game style will lend itself really well to the Marleies and then not
to the Leafs, So it'll be fun to see how that goes within the
leaf system. I think it could become an injury prone style, but I
like his game a lot more than I like petriz Ellie's no offense to petriz
Ellie's catching all the strays for me today, I'm so sorry, but I
like the hill de Beest. I think he's fun. I just I watch
him play and I'm almost expecting to see something get tweaked somewhere in there if
he really hits Goblin mode, essentially, because he the way he plays looks
like he's just constantly ready to just throw it all out the window and go
Marc Andre Fleury on us. That'll be a lot of fun for Leafs fans,
though they I don't want to say they deserve some fun in their lives,
but they it's fun when they get to see some reliable, exciting goaltending,
because Martin Jones and Matt Murray are not necessarily reliable exciting goaltending, so
that's awesome ending on Martin Jones and Matt Murray. Things that are looking up
Toronto. Thanks so much, CAF forgiving your instincts on the maple Leaf Coollies.
We'll be back right after this Digs the Dynasty Dig the Toronto Maple Leaves
edition. We got a hot take on the Maple Leafs. Their system is,
oh no, absolutely right in the middle. That's the worst possible hot
take is to say that something is right in the middle. And it starts
out with the no brainer. Who is the Toronto Maple Leafs no brainer prospect?
Victor? What's their most recent first round draft pick? Easton Cowen twenty
twenty three to twenty eighth overall pick. We were there at the draft.
I was at the draft when they made this pick. We were all pretty
surprised, except some of the Ohl scouts that turn their head sideways a dog
hearing an interesting noise and being like, yeah, that makes sense. And
he proved those people right. Five to eleven hundred and eighty five pound left
shot center, left wing. He had a really dramatic increase in his points
this season playing for the London Knights. He went from fifty three points in
sixty eight games to ninety six points in fifty four games and almost hit the
two points per game in the playoffs. He was awesome. He really had
a massive point uptick there. He won the OHL title with London and was
pretty good in the Memorial Cup as well. Unfortunately they fell just short to
Saginaw, but he was awesome. Looking at his FHL player card this season,
he really increased his defense from last year. His defensive metrics went from
thirty two to seventy three, and he upped the offense and transition game to
basically just about as good as anyone in the league ninety eight and ninety ninth
percentile overall. Really fantastic stuff. Massive impact on the game, game score,
expected goals, assists, all of that, his transition games great.
That's pretty great to see. Looking at his World Junior card, it's also
pretty great. Small sample size, but that was also he was definitely one
of the better players there for Canada. Looking at his FHL player card for
London, his goals and assists basically no one better in the league. His
shots are pretty strong, his hits and blocks are average, so he should
be a bit above average for bash. Not amazing he actually has a bit
more penalty minutes, which is negative in our system. So if you like
that, then that's good. Looking at some of his advanced metrics, it's
all pretty awesome. His play driving, transition game, high danger chances,
and pucked work, all that looks pretty fantastic. But we need to learn
a little bit more about Eastern Cowen and to do that we'll hear from our
FHL scout very good and our FAHL scout today for the Toronto Maple Leafs is
Craig. Here's the deal on Eastern Kowen. Skating is above average. He's
able to hit the puck with speed and Cowan is able to use his edges
to elude defenders. He has top end speed to break away from defenders and
win the puck races. Passing or in handling, Kawen is above average.
Always seems to be one step ahead and able to find an open teammate or
make a quick one touch pass that creates an offensive rush. On shooting,
Kawen loves to shoot, snapping the puck toward the net whenever he is in
the offensive zone. He has an average shot, but he is not the
go to shooter in the power play. That being said, when the puck
does come to him, he's able to beat goalies with a quick one timer.
IQ average to above average is Kalen. Cowen's passing in tight coverage shows
very little panic. However, being a skilled player, he also makes more
mistakes than the average player. The majority of careless turnovers that Craig saw were
early in the season, and it did seem like Kallen improved as the season
went along more checking average. He's not going to be the hard four checker
chasing down defenders, but he sure is great at getting in passing lanes and
causing turnovers. When the opportunity or a hit presents itself, Cowen will take
it, especially late in games and down by a few goals. And Craig
watched a game live against Sarnia and as the score got further apart, you
could see his demeanor change and it got chippier and chipier until he finally dropped
the gloves defense average. Being a winger, he sure is active and covers
well in his own end. He is a great penalty killer, getting in
the lanes and not afraid to block shots. Cowen's best asset is his shifting
us that is eluding defenders finding an open teammate, and the biggest concern Craig
has is him being able to do this at the next level with more skillful
and faster defenders. Greater than think this will entirely be an issue. Just
might have to refine and play a safer game. Top tier outcome for Eastern
Cowen sixty five to seventy five points with a top six outcome, that would
be if he's showing he has the moves and passing ability to fit into that
role. With an average shot, he'll be able to finish off a few
goals as well. The median outcome for Cowen fifty five to sixty five points,
still a little bit lower, maybe in the top six. His style
of play isn't suitable for a bottom six role, so that's where Craig thinks
it's still a top six even if it's the median outcome, because that's where
he's going to have to play to succeed. Stylistic comparable, he's a Mitch
Marner light with his shiftingess and smooth passing ability in addition to him causing turnovers
by shifting the lanes of oncoming passes. And fearless ability on the penalty kill.
With that said, Craig doesn't expect the points Marner puts up. Obviously,
Cowen plays more of a game to the outer edges, unlike Marner finding
open space in the center. So the leaf should be happy with their first
round pick. Looks like he can be contributing to the team in the next
two to three years. Boy, how the tides have turned. We gave
the Leafs a beating last offseason for that Easton Cowen pick. He came up
in every one of our overrated talks I think after the draft, and now
he's the top prospect of this team. Let's take Easton Kawen and comp him
against another guy from last year's draft who had a little bit more buzz even
though he was drafted later, Andrew Christal of the Washington Capitals. The people
have spoken, and Cowen narrowly edges out Christall fifty one to forty nine percent
in the Mason Black NHL Rankking Hole Victor. Is that how you rank him?
Yeah? I think so. There's a couple of things going for Kawen
here. In one, he plays for one of the most popular teams in
the league, so you can always find yourself a trade partner, a suitor.
Not that's the reason to draft somebody or to hold somebody res rights.
But I do think that he's a first rounder and he plays on a really
good team. I think he has a really good chance, as Craig said,
to be more of a middle to top six player. I think he
has a skill and he has the two way responsibility to do that. The
questions with Christaal have always been not about his talent, but about his ability
to be an all around player, because he really excels offensively, but he
needs to fit a certain role and he can be a bit of a liability
on both ends. It'll be interesting to see how he progresses and how that
works. But that's not going to be a question for Cowen. Maybe the
offensive upside isn't as high, but the security is much higher in terms of
him being an NHL or I think that I would probably take that, maybe
give up a little bit of that upside that Christall has, and have a
little bit more security. Although I could understand why a lot of people voting
for Crystal because the gaudy points, totals and upsides are just they're enticing they're
enticing, But I think Cowen did a lot to prove people wrong and show
that he is a little bit better than they thought. So I think that
that makes a lot of sense. So yeah, I would stick with Cowen
here. Looking at the hockey prospecting between these two, it is interesting.
Cowen has increased up to twenty percent, so still a little bit lower,
but increasing your draft or your equivalency and your deep plus one years always and
he went up almost by three times the amount, so that's pretty dramatic.
He increased his NHLer probably to fifty two percent. Krystaal lowered his equivalency just
a little bit, even though he had another massive points season one hundred and
eleven points of sixty two games for Kolonna. He has a fifty four chance
percent chance of being a star and seventy one percent chance of being an NHLer,
so he looks like it. But as I said, there's still some
other some questions about his all around game that I think need to be answered
before we get too excited about Kristal. Looking at the other comps run Cowen,
there's some interesting ones here. One is Burret, not that Burret,
it's Valeri Burret. Unfortunately that's maybe not as exciting. He was more of
an average producer. In fact, a lot of his comps are just kind
of a replacement level to average. I think people need to maybe lower their
expectations a little bit. But I do think that if you have Cawen and
you look at his awesome production, you might see what you can get if
you can get a better prospect, because I think it's probably best to trade
him when the iron's hot, because I don't think even though there's talk of
Mitch Marner comparison, and Craig even said, I don't think the points upside
is quite to that level, so you're probably you know, I know the
PNHL here is listed as eighty, but I don't think he's going to hit
quite that. I think he's probably more of a sixty fifty five to sixty
five ish point player, depending on his role, especially if he's more of
a middle six guy. So yeah, if someone will give you more of
a top twenty prospect for the for eest in Cowen, then I would take
that. Jesse no word on whether the Valerie Bret comp would extend to marrying
a famous American actress, but to mister Collen. We'll see what how that
works out. For him. Next up, Victor, we have the need
to know prospect. Who is it? Yeah, that would be Fraser Minton.
So he was the twenty twenty two to thirty eighth overall pick six two
and ninety four pounds left shot center. He was just under a point per
game in his draft season for the kam Lukes Blazers of the WHL D plus
one, he had sixty seven points of fifty seven games for Kamloops and then
this season D plus two, he had a four game trial with the Maple
Leafs. Then he went back to Camloops for ten games before he was traded
to the Saskatoon Blades for the playoff aspirations, and it worked out pretty well.
Fourteen points in sixteen games for Saskatoon in the playoffs, who gave the
Moosjah Warriors the WHL champs their toughest challenge in the entire WHL, So that
was pretty good. And he kept in that underwhelming Canada team at the U
twenty World Junior Championships, so that was a bit disappointing for him and for
Canada, but he's still a strong prospect. Looking at the tracking data for
Minton, it's interesting his early tracking data looked poor except for his defensive impact
early on in the WHL. Then last season it looked a little bit better,
but still his transition game was good, his offense was only a fifty
three percent and Mitch didn't have one for this season. But his World Junior
tracking data was really not so good. Defensively pretty good, but transitional pretty
bad and his offense was just sixty three percent. That was a bit disappointing
for Minton obviously. And looking at his FHL player card, we can see
that his goals were a nine out of ten, is assists eight out of
ten, his shots are really high ten out of ten hits, and blocks
also really good. So this is a guy Minton with a strong preferrale floor
and there's also some pretty good decent points upside there. His advanced stats in
the WHL look really strong too, really good play driver, really good puckwork
and also good in the getting the puck to the high danger zones and strong
faceoff guy as well. Takes a lot of face offs and does well with
that. But let's hear a little bit more about Minton from our FHL scout
and Craig has this to say about Fraser. Minton skating above average shows how
fast he is by pulling it away from back checkers or taking defenders wide.
The passing and handling is elite. Fraser is able to draw defenders in making
no look past to the open teammate. A few times it looked like he
missed his pass to the streaming winger, but rewatching the play. Craig's thinking
now is he starts playing better with better players, they'll be able to catch
and be prepared for what's coming. Craig didn't see it too often, but
did notice that when Minton was one on one for the defender, he was
able to make a skilled move and create a scoring chance and shooting beverage nothing
flashy, but he could snap it quick when needed. He loves to shoot,
and Minton is also in low danger scoring areas, so maybe that shot
not maximized there. Don't think this will be a strong suit, but when
he makes the jump to the next level, that won't necessarily be a strong
suit. In IQ above two elite IQ for Minton very low panic. Meter
takes his time with heads up to survey his options, uses quick cuts to
evade and create time and space for himself. You can tell he really understands
the game by the way he directs his teammates verbally and points in the direction
he wants him to cover. Is for checking his average. He's not afraid
of playing the body, but he's smart about it. Fraser doesn't go looking
for the big hit, but he will take the hit if it helps to
cause a turnover. On defense, it's above average. He rarely finds himself
out of position, and Mitton is strong on the face off tot. When
he causes turnovers in his defensive zone, he's able to slow it down and
start the breakout. The best asset then was his defensive play. Coaches are
gonna love it. Responsible with the puck and once he's in the attacking zone,
he's able to create chances without being a liability defensively. And the biggest
concern is he taps out as a third line center. I don't have any
doubt he makes the NHL or Craig doesn't anyway with that defensive play, but
worries coaches will stick him in a checking role because of that physicality. The
top tier outcome would be Tier two second line center on a second division team,
perhaps with sixty to seventy points. That's because he has the ability to
make it as a playmaker racking up forty assists as long as he is given
a deployment in that top six. The median outcome tier three third line the
center that is defense first and a forty point type guy. The justification there
his defensive game is so strong coaches will probably slot him to shut down other
lines. He doesn't have the offensive game to force coaches hand into giving him
the top six opportunity. The stylistic comparable is Philip Deo, defense first,
able to put up points if he's given the right line mates an opportunity,
that'd be a pretty good outcome. And Craig and Some says Fraser he's certain
will make an NHL team, but he's not overexcited for the points he's going
to add to fantasy teams. Mason Black sent out the NHL ranking poll for
the public. Fraser Minton versus Esac Rosen of the Buffalo Sabers and Rosen in
a landslide sixty one to thirty nine over Fraser Minton. Is that how you
rank in rack and stack pictor. No, I do not, sorry to
say, I don't really have that much faith in Rosenne. I think it's
interesting to look at these two. So Rosen was a twenty twenty one for
Trump pick fourteenth overall, and he was in Sweden for a long time,
came over last season and this is the second season in the AHL. He
had a fifty points in sixty seven games, which is probably what a lot
of people are focusing on. And of course that looks pretty good, but
I don't know. I just really don't believe in Rosen's ability to translate his
game. There's a couple of issues here. He's so one thing, well,
for one thing, he's he's he doesn't necessarily I don't think drive play
all that. When I was looking some of his underlying metrics, and they're
quite poor actually in terms of him getting to the high danger areas and play
driving. So I would be very worried about that. I know that looks
like a really strong production, but I'm just not convinced that he's going to
be able to translate to that to the NHL. Of course, on the
other hand, I'm not very I'm with Craig, I'm not convinced that Minton
is going to be any sort of high point producer in the NHL. But
I do think he's more likely to be a steady NHLer because he does a
lot more away from the puck, where Resent is someone who doesn't really do
much away from the puck, and he's someone who needs to be in a
very specific role. So I think I would probably take Minton here just because
I think he's more likely to be a middle six forward who you know,
like you said, if he ends up being to know, that's not the
most exciting fantasy outcome, but at least he's in NHL or so if you're
thinking about that. But otherwise, I think both and neither of these guys
have super high points upside. So in my HL player card, I have
Rosenna as a four out of ten in terms of fifth points upside, whereas
Minton is a six. So that gives you some idea of how excited I
am about both these guys. Not much for either, but a little bit
more for Minton. Looking at the hockey prospect between these two, Minton has
Minton has a two percent chance of being a star. That's gone down for
fifteen from his draft season, thirty nine percent chance of being an NHL or.
Rosen has been zero percent for the last three years, so it's been
pretty dire for him and some of his other comps for Minton. I know
Craig mentioned Dano, which I think is reasonable. David Bachus is another one
who shows up on here that could be reasonable. We mentioned Zach LaRue in
a different show. That's someone who shows up, Tommy Novak, Tyler Johnson
maybe more like that ILK And we should mention the FHL player card six percent
chance of being a star, thirty nine percent chance of being an NHLer very
good victor. Who is your keeping on prospect for the Leaves keep your eye
on is Topi Niamella. He's a twenty twenty third round pick, six foot
one hundred and seventy nine pounds right handed d The now twenty two year old
just played his first full season in North America after several in Carpot Finland and
after two points in six AHL games last season, he scored thirty nine points
in sixty eight games for the Toronto Marleys. That's pretty strong production and nice
to see him over in North America already having a little bit more proximity to
the NHL. It's always really nice. So yeah, Looking at his FHL
player card, you can see that his assists are really high for the league.
His goals are actually pretty high too. He doesn't really hit, shot,
shoot, or block that much, which is the unfortunate thing with Niamella.
His bash is going to be pretty low. He's going to be one
of these guys that might just be a negative value for those, which is
unfortunate. But the points should be there, at least to some extent.
I don't know how much it's going to translate to the NHL, but he
has been he has had. He has a really good point scoring right now
in the AHL, and he's had a couple of decent seasons in the Liga
with okay scoring. He's also had a couple with not much at all.
I don't really have a whole lot of faith that he's going to be a
big time scorer, but he could be one of these thirty to forty point
guys every now and then. That's reasonable. Looking at the underlying metrics,
some of them are not so good, like his transition game and his puckwork,
but he does have some decent play driving and some power play time.
But let's hear a little bit more about Namella from Craig and Craig has this
to say, skating average to below. Often pinches in on the rush,
but doesn't have the speed to catch back up when the puck is turned over.
Topy plays the angles very well, which makes it hard to notice when
speedy forwards are coming at him. This might not translate to the NHL,
but you can bet coaches won't stand for him pinching and not being able to
get back. Craig says that the passing and handling is average to above.
Niamella is able to read the play, make a solid first pass to spring
the offense into an odd man rush. His puck handling pretty solid when walking
the blue line, but nothing flashy like dangling defenders. Shooting below average here,
Niamella doesn't shoot too often. Hard to get a sense of how well
he shoots when he only gets one shot on net per game. IQ bridge
to above average. He's pointed out in the passing he is great at reading
the attack and getting the offense going with a long stretch pass to the forward.
Niamela doesn't carry the puck up the ice too often for an offensive minded
defender, so it's hard to judge the panic meter for checking. As a
defender, he's usually the second or third guy in looking for a drop pass.
This might be a good area to mention his lack of hits. Being
a smaller guy, Niamela doesn't shy away from being hit, but sure doesn't
finish hits either. Defense is average. He plays the angle great one forwards
are coming down on him as he isn't the fastest or biggest guy. This
is his bread and butter. Nothing stood out when watching Niamella's defensive game,
and that's a good thing. Seem to handle himself well on the corners and
in front of the net with bigger and stronger competition. So the best asset
is his first pass out of the defensive zone. Finding seems that the average
defender would not have seen and the biggest concern the offense doesn't translate to the
NHL. Currently, he's half a point per game player with nineteen minutes of
ice time, with a sure drop in playing time in tougher competition. This
is a guy who Craig seizes twenty five points in no Bash the top tier.
What would be the best possible outcome for topy Numella he be maybe a
top four second power play guy, putting him at forty to fifty points with
minimal bash. That would be everything breaking right the defensive game giving him minutes
and that slight offensive ability landing him power play two. The median outcome,
though, is Tier three or four second or third pairing touches a power play
time twenty to thirty points minimal bash. That's because his defensive game is solid
enough to keep him in the NHL, but the size and speed are going
to hinder him from making the top four. The game doesn't scream on offense,
but can be seen when given the opportunity. So the stylistic comparable Crag
comes up with Travis Dermott, a smaller guy who struggles was stronger competition,
but was able to put some points on the board at the AHL level and
below, and there was a time point in time. Craig says he thought
Namella could be a fantasy option, but he is not on that train any
longer. Our friend Mason Black, the NHL Rank King, put out a
poll tope Niamella versus Stanislav Sivosal, who is a Columbus Blue Jackets prospect and
what came out here Niamella fifty three, Siposal forty seven, Victor. Is
that how your racking stack? Yeah? Sure, But I also agree with
Craig. I think the biggest takeaway here is you should just move along and
probably try to find someone else, because even though Niamla I think will probably
play, he'll probably be like a bottom pairing guy, or maybe he's like
a number seven or eight type of guy who gets in maybe plays a role,
But I don't think he's going to be a big fantasy up. And
for one, the lack of bash is going to make him really hard to
roster because then you're just hoping that he gets on the power play, but
he doesn't really demand that opportunity either, so he could be a little bit
frustrating to add and to hold. But I think that there's still some potential
there, there's some some level of interest that is reasonable. But for the
most part, I don't really think he's going to be someone who you're going
to be missing in fantasy or you're going to be regretting trading him away or
anything like that. So yeah, I take him a little bit of against
Fosal. I think he has a little bit more upside than Disposal. I
think he's a little bit more well thought of as well, and I like
the production in the HL. But Disposal is also someone who's a little bit
interesting. They have a lot of great defense in Columbus, though, so
that maybe hurts him a little bit. There are a lot of guys that
are ahead of him, and if they take another defenseman here in this draft,
which I don't think they will, then that could even hurt him further.
But yeah, I would nea MLA, but I also think I'm going
to go somewhere else. If you're considering these two guys. The Hockey Prospecting
has the mL add five percent chance of being a star and Disposal three percent.
So both these guys are really low. Most of their comps are just
replacement level guys. One guy that is interesting for him is Jake Walman.
That's maybe someone who he could end up being a bit like. But I
think there's more bash there even for Walman, So yeah, that makes them
a little bit easier to hold. So that's it for the Toronto Maye Pleief
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