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Nunio from EP ringside. Victor, how you doing today? I'm doing awesome,
Jesse. Yeah, definitely been fun to continuing to watch the games and
see all those stats pile up on your fantasy teams. How are you doing,
Jesse. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Just yeah, getting
through lineups. By the time people are listening to this, I'll be setting
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over twenty total lineups that I'm setting most of them on a daily basis.
The spare thought. Spare thought for me. But anyway, that's the life
I choose to live. Victor, I don't know, man, I don't
know, man. How are things in in Cali? Is Is it fall
yet? That's it's the weather check. That's that's my go to. On
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which is nice because you know, we're definitely into fall, past past
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and it's like close to Thanksgiving and all that kind of nonsense. So it's
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back right after this. Get admired, Welcome be to the show. Our
guy from Short shifts over in the Keeping Carlson Network, but he is a
loyal fan of us certicipant over here in Fantasy Hockey Life as well. Jeremy
Brisillo, how'd been doing there today, Jeremy, I'm doing great. I'm
excited to be on the show. I do love Keeping Carlson, but I
also love Fantasy Hockey Life for all of my Dynasty needs. I don't think
there's another podcast in any fantasy sport really that goes as deep and as awesome
as FHL does. Wow. Wow, it's not a competition. We're all
buddies out here, but appreciate the kind words. But yeah, man,
you are not only a listener, you are also beating the absolute tar out
of me right now in the original FHL Dynasty League six fifty nine to five
point forty five, coming into the last day of a two week match of
Jeremy, why shouldn't I kick you off the show right now? For doing
that to me? I think that if my Dynasty team's doing well, it
must mean I know something. But maybe I just got lucky this week.
No, that was never in doubt. You know something. I think I
can confirm that. In fact, I think looking through the league. I
don't feel bad because you are beating the tar out of absolutely all the other
eighteen or sixteen teams, not as part of our matchup. So I think
it's fair enough to say that something. Let's know something today about some guys
who are trying to get their selves established in the National Hockey League. We're
not necessarily hitting it at exactly one hundred GAMER or two hundred GAMER, but
we are talking about some guys who are I guess they're between they're roundabout between
one hundred and two hundred games. And these are guys who we have interest
in and we want to talk through. And we both had some takes on
and I see that the first one is a guy I saw playing for the
Red Wings yesterday. I think he got bonked out by by somebody in the
other team, but it is Lucas Raymond. Tell me, Jeremy about your
hopes for Lucas Raymond. So last year, in the beginning of the season,
Raymond looked well on his way to a breakout with thirty points in his
first forty one games, but slumped really hard in the second half. This
year, he started off shooting well but still doesn't have that PP one slot.
He's on the younger side for a two hundred gamer. He's only twenty
one. He'll be twenty two in a couple months. I believe the one
thing he's just got to do is shoot more. He's averaging two point one
shots per game for his first one hundred and fifty games. That's not really
going to cut it for a fantasy relevant winger. If he does get up
to that two and a half to three shot per game mark, I do
think he can be a really solid asset. I think he's got seventy eighty
point upside, a lot of goals, a lot of playmaking skill, and
as we've seen this year, the Wings may be a good team now and
are just going to get better. Yeah, the Wings are looking exciting so
far this year. I think, if I don't miss my guests, they
lost to Ottawa pretty badly, no, and they beat Outawa pretty badly yesterday,
and so that's a good sign. Those are the teams trying to be
on the make over there in the Atlantic divisions. I like that Raymond was
a guy who faded a little bit from consciousness. I feel like with the
Brinket coming over there and everything, but yeah, I like that as a
guy who's going to maybe be able to do something, but like you said,
it's not a sure thing. So Dawson Mercer is the first guy I
was going to talk about. Came into the year with a really red hot
reputation, but the Wingers slash center will turn twenty two this coming week.
He's got ninety eight points in one hundred and sixty eight games. Nineteen Devils
have been on the ice more than one thousand minutes in the two plus years
Mercer has been in the league. So I ran this on Evolving Hockey,
and his two point one to one points per sixty ranks fourth on the team,
above even Dougie Hamilton over that time spans. You have to consider when
ninety eight points in one hundred and sixty eight games, that he's not getting
the minutes that the other guys are. It's just about the pace. He
played with Hesher and Meyer for a bit at the beginning of the season,
but now it was Holtz on Saturday because he's here was out. I can't
really say he's lost the gig in the early season with New Jersey trying to
figure it out and get themselves going for this year, Jack Hughes just laid
waste on Friday as well, and Mercer wasn't part of it, so he
didn't get to be in on that. As I look at the heat map
for the season so far this year with Mercer, he the team is not
doing very well. They're way below average offense, whereas in past year as
they've been way above league average offense. Expected goals per sixty has been two
point eighty five in the past this year one point eighty seven. So Mercer's
just off field. Cold start is the point He's still in the mix at
the top of that roster that makes him relevant. Bottom line is if you
have to choose relevant or irrelevant, I believe he's going to be a startuble
fantasy player, even if he is off to a cold start this year.
I think he's definitely not somebody you want to lose track of. What do
you think Jeremy Dawson Mercer. Is he somebody you want to have on your
team? I think Dawson Mercer is a really good real life player, but
may not be as relevant in fantasy. First of all, he's a natural
center and the Devils already have too elite tier all star player centers. Secondly,
just he does everything so well that I worry he's not going to get
deployed in the best offensive situations, as we've seen a little bit of this
year, trying to anchor a third line at times. All Right, moving
on, next up, it looks like we are going to the desert and
Barrett Hayton. Tell us about Barrett Hayton and how he's doing at this point
in his career, Jeremy. Barrett Haydon was actually a sneaky second half breakout
last year that I didn't hear a lot of people talking about. In the
final thirty nine games of his season, his time on ice jumped by four
minutes and he put up a twenty nine goal, thirty two assist, seventeen
PowerPoint play point two hundred and eight shot pace. On top of some solid
Banger stats through four games this year, which I believe does not count last
night if they played last night, because I didn't update my stats. He's
playing nineteen and a half minutes a night, taking three shots a game,
playing on the first power play. He doesn't have a hit yet, which
is odd. I'd expect eighty two one hundred over a whole season and from
him. The big concern with Hayten is Logan Cooley's presence, because Logan Cooley
is going to be the top line center there. But remember that Hayden was
also a top five pick in his own right. And I see a lot
of upside here. I see point per game, power forward, kind of
line two power play too. If you look at his expected goals charts on
hockey Viz. He does have a positive impact on the team already, and
Arizona's got a lot of prospects and it's going to keep building up behind him.
Yeah, for sure, Hayton is a guy who we need to maintain
interest in. It's going to take a long cold simmer in the desert before
maybe he will break out. So I like that one. Rasmus Sanden a
defenseman down there for my Washington Capitals. He made it into town just in
time for the whole team to just collapse around him. The Caps are rough
this season, and last year after joining the team, he scored fifteen points
in nineteen games for a team in tanking disarray. The Caps aren't getting much
of any power play production as of this recording. Now we should say I
should set this up and say we are recording this about a week before it's
being released, so hopefully nothing dramatic happens between now and then. But nonetheless
we're talking about the starts, but we're talking about the long term. Think
about these guys and Rasmus Sandein four blocks, three shots, no points over
his first three games. Here's the deal. Rasmus Sandein is plenty talented.
I wouldn't be surprised for him to produce better in terms of fantasy value than
Demitri orlof you ever did, not to say he's a better real life That
was quite good, but it's wonderful if he gets three more minutes of ice
time with the Caps than he did with the Leafs. That's what's happened since
he came over in trade, and he's playing with John Carlson. That's real
good. You want to be on the ice with John Carlson. Assuming that
old Johnny C comes back, he hasn't been his same self since that horrific
injury he had last year. The danger to me is that Rasmus Sandan ends
up being that defense tweener who kills us. Not enough bash to be a
banger, not enough power play to be a score because he's stuck behind John
Carlson. So a lot is going to depend on Carlson's longevity, either to
hold the power play role or to click with Johnny at even strength to the
point that he's picking up a lot of secondary assists, or otherwise be involved
in scoring just for the volume of scoring on ice. But with the Capitals
in the state that they are right now, I'm pessimistic Sandan may be a
guy who is able to be there for the next somewhat competitive Capitals team.
He could maybe help bridge that gap, because I think he's quite good and
probably will be worth rostering, but near the bottom of your roster, I
would say, in the near term, how about you, Jeremy are you
You've mentioned John Carlson a couple of times. I want to clarify for the
listeners that Rasmus Sandin's red hot pace at the end of last year was mostly
while he was on Powerplay one replacing John Carlson for that horrific facial injury he
sustained. I think Sandan will eventually take over that power Play one. Carlson's
thirty three, san Den's twenty three, twenty four something like that. He's
got a lot of talent, and I think you said a tweener was a
potential outcome. I see less of a tweener and more of a points only
guy, like a Tory Kruge maybe, or what we want Caylin Addison to
be there you go, But that really only is going to come around,
especially with this Caps team. It's only going to come around once he replaces
John Carlson. I don't know, Maybe the Cap s ends up in a
spot where they trade John Carlson in the next couple of years. They're really
a team built around getting over chicken that goals record, and I don't think
they have much of a path to playoffs, and their prospect pool is pretty
weak. I don't really see anyone in the Caps prospect pool who would make
a better power play quarterback than Sandein. Maybe Cameron Allen, who they drafted
this year but he's probably four to five years out, or Ryan Chesley from
the US development program. But again, those guys are really young and kind
of fifty to fifty shots I think to stick in the NHL as power play
one quarterbacks, so path is clear. He could end up five years from
now as fifty to sixty point power play quarterback on a bad team, Oliver
Ekman, Larsen Klein, Addison, Tory Krue. I guess those aren't bad
teams. But he's not going to be a guy you're drafting in the first
five rounds. Ever, I don't think yeah, I would totally agree with
that. I think that's a very reasonable take. And he's gonna start getting
expensive here. He's got one more year at one point four million than he's
in restricted free agency. They're going to have to start paying him to keep
him around. Carlson's still got three more years left, and believe it or
not, Nick Jensen, Trevor rand Reemsdyke, and Martin Faerivari are all under
contract for the next three years as well. So the Caps are stocked up
on guys who but mind you, those guys are right shot and Sandin is
left, so there's better place for him. Next up, Jeremy, we
are going to talk about a guy who, unfortunately, I think between the
time we selected who we were going to talk about and the time that we're
recording has incurred a bit of a tough time, and that is gave Vallardi
up in Winnipeg tell us about mister Vallardi. Yeah, I had to change
my entire speel on Valardi because of the injury he sustained this year. Because
he started with some fantastic deployment and pretty high hopes even free draft leagues,
I saw him getting drafted in the tenth or eleventh round in a lot of
places. Fallerti is a twenty four year old winger who came from LA to
Winnipeg this past year. Last year in LA, he had some pretty good
numbers and was playing on the top line in Winnipeg. The problem is he's
missed a lot of time in the past due to injury and obviously not looking
good with another injury here, so I think the upside is a bit capped.
Also, the isolated numbers aren't really standing out on hockey viz. He
seems to be about a neutral impact in the offensive zone and a strong negative
impact in the defensive zone. So I don't think he's long for that top
line in Winnipeg. Personally, maybe I'm lower on Valarti than most people are,
but he's twenty four. I don't think he's I think he is who
he is. I don't think he's going to change much the way we sometimes
see that two hundred game breakout. He's at two hundred games because he missed
so many due to injury. If he hadn't, he'd be at two fifty
three hundred three to fifty by now. Yeah, totally. That has been
the rap on Valardes since day one, is the injuries. Just keep him
out there, and even up in Winnipeg, apparently getting out of LA did
not help with that problem for him. Next up, talking Cole Cylinger.
I had so much hope for Cole Cylinger and he had such a hot ricky
senor at least a start to his career, and I'm pretty worried he's convisible.
I watched the CBJS the other day and like halfway through the second period,
I was like, Oh, shoot, Cole Cylinger's plan. I forgot
about him and he used to be a big fan of the guy. I
ran the shots on goal that This is another Micah Blake McCurdy hockey Viz chart
that I enjoy looking at the shots and goal on offense and the suppression of
shots and goal on defense, and Cylinger is like all the way at the
bad end of the chart. He's not looking good. He's at the wrong
end of the rainbow in this thing. I know it's difficult to describe a
chart. A visual chart went on the air, but trust me, in
terms of the shots when he is out there on the ice, it is
not going well for mister Cillinger. He's going to low line up and it
worried me. I saw him in a game earlier this year and he was
in a fight and I was like, oh, great, fourth line center,
and now he's in a fight. I think I see where this thing's
going, and I don't like it. I don't see how he climbs up
the lineup because Columbus Sneaky has a decent amount of talented players and more that
they need to get into the top six in time. One assist, I
think two assists. Actually I think he assisted on a goal yesterday as I'm
recording this. But basically, he's declined statistically every year he's been out there.
I'm holding him, in fact, i'm holding him right now in a
cap league because he's still they're cheap in just hopes that he's going to develop
along. But I'm getting more and more pessimistic that this guy's going to live
up to what we hope for any Cole Cyllinger takes Jeremy, I was with
you. I was so high on him in his draft year. I had
him bumped way up my ranks, especially for fantasy, because he was billed
as an NHL ready forward who was going to hit a lot. He's just
stagnated, though. But you mentioned the rainbow chart that you have from Hockey
Viz. Some of the names that he's closest to geographically in that chart are
Corallly, Foodie Robinson, and then he's a little bit further away from like
Jack Roslovic. But there's no upside when you're getting compared to those guys.
Sorry, yeah, for sure. And by the way, Justin dan Forth
way up there. But he's getting to play with some cool players lately.
All right, mixed up for you, sir. We've got a guy who
moved out to the west coast of from Nashville last year and he's doing pretty
well from himself. Who is that Dailey tauvenin the steal of a waiver claim
for my hometown Kraken. He's honestly in a mold that Seattle has so many
players like I feel like it's just becoming the Kraken player archetype, the guy
who shoots really well and is just a second third line guy. But let's
take into of the stats. Despite the third line deployment, his shot metrics
last year were really strong at five v five, with a fifty five point
six Fenwick four percent and a fifty four point eight Course four percent, both
good for top five on the Kraken, who worked known as a five v
five juggernaut. Last year. The expected goals was a bit more average,
but I think that's more because the York Strand Gordon Toovenin line played a key
role as the energy line, similar to the HBK line in Pittsburgh, so
they didn't necessarily get the scoring deployment or the good matchups Tolvin. It also
gets powerplay deploytment. I forget if he's on Powerplay one or power Play two
right now, or should I say power Play one A or Powerplay one B.
I think he's got thirty thirty upside. He shoots really well. At
one point he was the triggerman on one of those power Play units, getting
those one timer passes to shoot. I just worry that Seattle has a lot
of players that can play that power play, shooter, scoring winger role.
They got rid of Daniel Sprong because they had so many players like that.
It's the same type of player that Jared mccanna is. The added Kaylar Yamamoto
this year, who is pretty similar, and even Oliver b. York Strands
has been doing that sort of thing for the team. So I think he's
got to differentiate himself. The good news is he's on the younger side,
so yeah, maybe the new life and new energy allows him to blossom into
a true top line or second line player. Yeah, I like it.
Yeah, the age is the hope for this guy, right because there are
a lot of guys up in the lineup that he's got to compete with for
those minutes. But Seattle's been rough times, although I saw Tolbinen got an
assist against the Rangers last night and the one goal that Seattle scored and Peyton
Crabs is the last one of them that I was going to talk about today.
Jeremy one hundred and thirty nine games, forty nine points. None of
those have come in the first four games this year, only one shot over
the first four games, and he's playing with the cool kids out there,
John Jason, Peterca and Victor Olifson. Victor is not that cool anymore.
He used to be, but he's not one of the kids necessarily. But
he does have some scoring upside, so you would think maybe there would be
some more positive production at this point, but there is not necessarily. I
guess if you were going to take the hopeful take on Peyton Krebs, you
could say we had to wait a while for Dylan Cousins and Casey middles that,
so why not Crabs? But he came over like Alex Duck did from
Vegas. He is actually he's had plenty of time to be able to break
into this and I just feel like with all the talented forwards that Buffalo has
coming in, Krebs is not going to get those opportunities. He's going to
be relied on more as a lower line player. I don't know, man,
do you see any more for Peyton Krebs than hopefully a little more than
what we're getting right now? But do you ever see this guy breaking out
of forty point at his peak? If he does, I think it's as
a third liner, just one of those third liners on a juggernaut who puts
up maybe fifty to fifty five points with power play two time. Buffalo's just
got an embarrassment of riches at this point. I am extremely jealous of their
prospect pool and their young talent. They're such a fun team to watch.
But you've got even a what's face Jack Quinn also coming back. So I
think Quinn will easily slide into the lineup ahead of Krebs, and I'm not
even sure there's room in the top six for Jack Quinn. Wait right now,
So now I think you're talking about third line upside. Unless all of
their players get too expensive and they have to let them walk to free agency.
That seems like an unlikely scenario. Crabs. Yeah, because there's just
too many guys coming by. And look, some of those guys may be
extremely hot, they may not be by the time we'll get there, but
regardless, they are going to get their chances, and presumably one or two
of them are going to pop. Now we're headed out to Philadelphia and you
have a couple of guys that you want to talk about. Who are how
are they? Jeremy, I'm talking about Morgan Frost and Owen Tippett. I
wanted to do a little two for one here, because they played on the
same line most of last year if I remember correctly, and they're both about
the tippets. A volume shooting winger with a bit of a feisty side.
Morgan Frost is a more of a playmaking center, but also uses his body
pretty well. I was actually I had stereotyped Morgan Frost as a non physical
center, and he actually has about a hit per game most of the time.
I do think, though, that Morgan Frost is falling out of favor
in Philadelphia. He has spent some time on the fourth line last year.
I believe he's been scratched two of their games already this season, and his
shooting impact is completely negative. It's blew in a lot of places, both
offensively and defensively. I also, just from what I've seen and heard of
him as a prospect coming up, he is not a John Tortorella guy.
He's not the type of person who's going to run through a wall for the
sake of running through a wall, which is the type of player that Tortorella
likes. The Brandon Dubinski's, the Boone Jenners. So I think Frost is
a change of scenery hopeful. I think he's got some talent. I think
he could be a second line center on a team, but I just don't
think it will happen in Philadelphia. Tip It, on the other hand,
I'm extremely excited for He's got more like the crashed and that power forward winger
type. I've liked him since his days in the Florida system. His shots
a great ask on the power play. He's got that always on motor.
I'm not sure if he'll end up as a top liner, but I definitely
think he could be a second line power play one guy score a bunch of
goals because he shoots anything that moves. Yes, I'm in on tipp It
and out on Frost. That's fair. And Tippitt really has been revelations since
he came over from Florida, so I like that one. He's a man
on the up. He's the kind of guy we might have talked about on
something like this a year ago and been like, uh, tip It's not
going to turn out to be a guy. And this is a good corrective
to the idea that guys like this never turn out because he really has made
a comeback and bonus coverage. We've got one more guy that you want to
talk about. Let's go to Carolina and a guy who made it out of
that prospect system, Seth Jarvis. Tell us about Seth Jarvis, Jeremy,
This one's almost cheating because everybody knows who Seth Jarvis is already. He's fantasy
relevant in your fourteen team redraft leagues already. It felt like he was on
the cusp of a breakout after a huge twenty one to twenty two playoffs,
at which time he was nineteen only. I believe from that lens it looked
like a step back last year because he scored less points and didn't build on
it. But he also only shot seven and a half percent, so it
was a little bit of bad luck masking a pretty good season. Now this
year, he looks like he's really breaking out. He started with six points
in five games, had three point two shots per game. I think he's
got the highest ceiling of everyone we've talked about so far. Is one hundred
point potential to bullish on him? Like, I just think the sky's the
limit for Seth Jarvis. Good stuff, Jeremy. This has been a good
check through some of these guys. Every once in a while, we've got
to go in and take the pulse of some of these players. We're trying
to decide whether to give up on them or not. Why don't you let
people know where they should keep up with the great work that you got going
out on the internet this year. If you want to keep up with me,
you can listen to Keeping Carlton short shifts, which I am on about
half to three quarters of the time. We've got a rotating cast of hosts.
You could also if you are an ultra lighter patron for a Fantasy Hockey
Life, you can check out the scouting reports, which I help coordinate and
schedule people to do scouting reports, and I also do a couple of month
myself and read some of that. You can also hit me up on discord
anytime. I'm Jeremy Vee in the Keeping Carlson and Fantasy Hockey Life discords,
and I'm open to private messages or tags and channels if you have any questions
about specific players or want to talk about the Kraken. What is that avatar?
Is that a triforce from the Zelda? It is? Yeah, look
for the triforce. People look for the triforce, and Jeremy is doing yeomen's
work on keeping all the scouting stuff moving along. We tip our hats to
you regularly on this show, Jeremy, or we should appreciate everything you're doing.
All right, we're gonna come back right after this with a little bit
more save me Safe starts. Billy, what do you think of Benafro.
I'm gonna let you have them for almost nothing. I would do that,
Billy, because I'm amazing. All I want is a couple of bucks in
the sweeten Man throw in, say Henderson Anderson. I like it. No,
you don't. Nobody likes me. I don't even know why I'm doing
this, and let's just do it, okay, Ben and bro from Michaelson
Henderson Anderson's I don't even know his name. I'll break you, Bob,
think about it and call me back. All right, everyone, Time for
Tidy takes our segment where we focus on the Tier dynasty, and to do
that, we have to bring in our Tidy Admiral Ryan Downey. How are
you doing, Ryan? Hey, Victor great as usual. Some of you
may know, I'm coming off a bit of a cold here, so I'm
going to try and stay nice and resonant and supported in my sound, and
hopefully this is an enjoyable listen for everyone. I'm sure we'll be. We
have a few trades and a lot of discussion to go through, so why
don't you take it out take us do that Ryan excellent. Before we get
started, I do want to just thank everyone for the feedback we've received on
the Tidy Takes segments so far. I want to remind everyone that this is
a segment by the community and for the community, and for the broader community
beyond the Tidy. If we want this to be interesting for everybody, regardless
of whether you're a manager in the Tidy, you want to be a manager
in the Tidy in the future, or if you're just looking for more fantasy
hockey insight. And we're hoping to make this relevant to everyone. And thanks
again for your feedback. And as you mentioned, Victor, we do have
a lot to talk about today, so let's get to it. At the
end of our first episode of Tidy Takes last week, I teased a way
too long list of exciting young prospects and young pros that we would be discussing
this week. We've been able to sort it into five different trades we're going
to look at today. Some are a bit more involved, those will go
last. We'll start with a trade involving Seth Jarvis and Liam Ogrin as the
kind of two main prospect pieces that we're going to discuss. And this is
a trade that happened in Tidy Yager eat Jamie Ben on our discord. Not
the real Jamie Ben at least I'm not one hundred percent sure, but it
could be. But JB acquires Pavel Francius and Ryan Graves of the Pittsburgh Penguins
from State of Hockey managed by Corey. Corey acquired Liam Ogrin and Seth Jarvis
for Francus and Graves. Our Tidy community has voted pretty favorably for the Corey
side acquiring Ogrin and Jarvis. JB had this to say on the deal.
I really like Ogrin. He's going to be really good, and Jarvis is
good as well. Jarvis gets cold and it's annoying. He's a bit like
Pacaretti in this particular context. I paid a high price, but it's hard
to obtain goalies and good d men. I had injuries last season among my
goaltenders and want to add depth at the goalie position. I also bet that
Ryan Graves is going to be more like he was in Colorado. Victor,
what do you think about Ogrin and Jarvis for France Sus and Graves. Yeah,
definitely true about the San Francos situation. You know, he's injured often.
And I also definitely agree about the Jarvist situation. He can be so
good, but Carolina is so annoying and how they deploy their forwards that it
can be very frustrating. And then he can also get cold, but that's
what happens when you're playing. Not enough time on ice as far as I'm
concerned, So definitely hard to get goalies. And it seemed and it still
might be the case that Franco's plays twenty to thirty games for Colorado this season,
but he has been injured. He consistently is injured, so that's a
frustrating one. I like the bet that Graves is going to be able to
do more, and if he is able to ascend in the next year or
two, then ogram is probably irrelevant to this discussion. If that is the
case, if he can win promotion, of course, if you don't,
then it might might look a little bad. And I know that Corey is
a big Minnesota fan, and so I think that's one of the reasons why
he really wants Ogrim. And Yeah, it does seem pretty even in the
sense that the value for d is it's pretty hard to get some that are
relevant, and so if Graves can increase that fantasy points, he'll be close
to Jarvis at a more premium position. So I feel like it's pretty even.
But I do like the risk of trying to get a position. Yeah,
I always find these deals difficult to evaluate when you have two rookie pieces
or young pro pieces. I guess I should say because of Jarvis Jarvis,
I'm very high on I love the player. I've always loved him. I
remember reading something about last year when he went cold last year that this was
a function of Brenda Moore asking him to play a more complete game and to
focus less on the offensive output. Looking at the beginning of this season,
offensive output is the name of the game, and for me, for my
personal taste in players, I would prefer the Jarvis side. I just love
the player. It does look a bit lopsided because Franzos is injured right now
and Graves being more of a defensive defenseman. But I would prefer the prospect
side myself. All right. On to the next deal here that happened over
in Tidy Gretzky. This is a deal between Fred and Hatfield. Fred the
man for one, if Byrom two, If Byfield, you might have to
change the emphasis on the salable for that name to make sense. Fred acquires
Anton Forstburgh and Matthew sam or Mackis. Fred acquires Anton Forstburg and Mackie Samuskvitch
from Portland Pirates Hatfield, our old friend from last episode, for Philip Headel
and Jordan Spence. This deal was voted pretty favorably for the Hatfield side acquiring
Heatl and Spence. We have some commentary here from Portland Pirates saying that he's
trending more towards competing for next year. This is a continuation of what we
were discussing last week. It's a tough balance of getting prepared for the future
while making sure I don't get relegated and all my plans go out the window.
He's a big believer in Hetl in the long term and that Spence will
likely be up with the big boys here and there throughout the year and should
be a starter next year, and he's comfortable moving on from Samuskavich because he
doesn't feel him being a starter anytime soon. This did happen prior to the
season, before Sama Skavich popped off and joined the Florida Pro roster for now.
Finally, Hatfield added that he doesn't trust Forstburg's knees long term and why
would you after an injury like last season, feeling that he has a plethora
of one B goalies and feels like this is a home run for the future.
Victor, What do you think about this deal where Hatfield gives up Hetel
are What do you think of this deal where Hatfield acquires Heatel and Spence for
Forstburg and Sata Skavich. Yeah, I think this one's really interesting. Goalies
can have a massive point production, and so if you just look at the
fantasy points, then Forstburg was nearly seven per game when he played, which
wasn't all that often. This is Anton Forstburg obviously the goalie, and Philip
Hetel. The thing about Heatel is that he seems like he's ascending to that
second line role he was stuck always as more of a third line behind Trocheck,
but it seems like that is shifting as we speak, and he's getting
more time on ice, getting more upper tunity, getting better linemates, and
so you really like that for Heatl. It is a center which depending on
your team, Like I tend to build my teams through the wing and d
and so sometimes this could be like a really nice play to have a more
depth center, but sometimes you have too many centers and then he might not
play very often, especially because in the tidy we don't have a skater position
and so you can't have too many centers. That's always a bit of an
issue. So that's something to think about. I personally think that Corporsolo is
overrated and is not gonna live up to that contract that he signed, and
so you have to weigh that in. I think because Fordsburg I think is
as good, if not better than Corpusolo, even though he's not getting the
contract. And so I like the bet on Fordsburg because he could end up
playing roughly half the games for what seems like a pretty good team, so
that could be pretty nice. I also like Ketel. I'm not really talking
too much about the other two pieces because I don't think they matter as much.
S'm a. Skevich did get a short run at a training camp,
but he already got sent down. I don't think he's going to play a
major factor this year, and Spence certainly could if there's an injury. You
got Clark there ahead of him, and they've got other guys like muv Are
so who knows. I don't think that Spence is going to factor in too
much this So it's basically Forstburg for Hetel, and they're just so different in
different situations and different positions that it seems pretty even. Yeah, Edward and
I had Forsburg for portions of last season in the tidy or division when we
did win. Of course, I'm going to keep reminding everyone that we did
win that division last year. But there's from my perspective, having that young
center with tons of upside is very exciting. It's great to have that kind
of player to root for. Heatl has been upping the ante through the beginning
of this season, centering the line at points with Lafrenier and Panerin, and
it seems like he has a really good chance at supplanting Trocheck this year.
So for me, I would certainly prefer the certainty of a young player coming
into his prime in a perfect situation for him. But I definitely understand,
especially in this league where we really prioritize goaltending, I can understand making that
move and giving up on that upside over to Tidy Yager. For the last
of our first section of these trades, here, we're going to talk about
Can York, who is a very exciting young player playing in Philadelphia on the
d line, played for portions of the past season, and is really looking
like he's going to get a great opportunity this year. We have a trade
from nine to one one nine one in our discord, but the team name
is nine Juan Wan acquiring Philip Grubauer for Can York, Alix Protas and Eric
Comray from Yoger's mullet managed by Blair, a favorite in our discord, Victor,
what do you think about Grubauer for York, Protas and Comery. Yeah,
I think that it's the Protas and Comery or not super relevant. I
think maybe part of the thought there was that Levi wasn't gonna be the man,
or it was gonna be split and you were gonna get some games from
Comrie at UPL. So far to start this season that has not happened.
I put it out there that I thought Levi was going to be the volume
guy, and he pretty much has been, and even though they haven't won
as many games, it really has not been Levi's fault. So I don't
think that Comrie is going to play a significant factor here. So I think
that that piece and the pro Toss, who is just more a flex up
and down kind of guy, I think. I don't imagine that he's gonna
play a significant role with the Capitals, which is who he plays for.
They do, although have some significant need at center, I would say,
and so that's something to consider, is that he has a you know,
maybe they're thinking that KU's nets off backstrom Strom, like maybe he could play
with some of the higher end talent on Washington, but it hasn't really born
out yet, and I think he's just more of a depth piece. So
anyways, all that to say, I think it really comes down to Grubauer
and York is really a strong player. And I know that some people like
the focus on the fact that he's small and he's young and he plays for
Tortorella, but I think Torts really likes him because he's he really is the
two way guy. He's not all offense, and there's really no one else
there that's going to run the power play in Philly. So I actually really
like this one for York. I think this could be a real for Blair,
for yarn Mullet, I think that could be a real sneaky way to
get a productive, top end power play back at the end of the season.
Grubuer, on the other hand, I have Grubauer in many leagues,
and he is incredibly frustrating because even though Seattle has been mostly pretty good,
the Seattle limits the high danger chances and shots in general, but then when
they do get scored on it, it's usually something like fifteen shots against the
three goals, and you're like, dang, So the points end up not
being as good as it could be for someone who gives up a ton more
shots. That's a bit of a frustration. And we have said that he
doesn't really have any challengers, but Decord has played pretty well, and so
I think there's a legitimate concern that Grubauer may not be the volume guy that
we once thought. So I prefer the York side, but basically just because
of York, not the other pieces. Yeah, just to go in really
quick on the ancillary pieces on the York side pro TOAs he's not going to
be a flex guy for much longer. We flexed him up and down a
lot, and I've had him and somehow I've managed to own him in several
leagues. He's going to be gone shortly from those rosters, and I understand
the com replay, but yeah, I don't think he's going to get much
played this year. Blair has been trying to move Grubauer since last season and
specifically was looking for some help on defense, and York fit the bill as
a young rookie coming into his own. So I think both sides can be
happy here. Certainly, our Tidy membership has voted this deal as pretty even
fifteen votes for the Grubauer side, twelve votes for the Yoger's mullet can York's
side at the time of this recording, so I definitely can see it.
And the joey Oka factor in Seattle is certainly scary to Groubauer owners, and
so I definitely see the rationale behind this deal. Victor these last three deals
are all pretty cut and dry, with players who are somewhat known to the
fantasy hockey world already, Jarvis, Headel and York being the prospect centerpieces of
these deals. Victor, how far up the lineup do you think these guys
can get let's say this season, Jarvis, Headel, and York, And
how would you rank these three players in terms of fantasy impact now and in
the future. Well, that's a really good question. I think that it's
hard to separate the player from the situation because you have to factor that in.
I think that I would probably take York just because that is the one
of the most difficult positions to get a high end point producing defenseman, and
he's actually much better for bash than a lot of people think. And when
he's getting a ton of time on ice, I think that's gonna really work
out. And we do think that he's gonna play with I guess that may
not help too much Entidy, but when he's playing with Mitchkoff, I think
that the upside there is pretty high. But I like him. I like
Jarvis, but I just really dislike the Carolina situation. So I would probably
put him last, just because of that reason, even though I love him
as a player, I think I would just be so frustrated, and I
have been frustrated with Hurricanes in the past, so I just steer away from
them in general, even though I have a couple of shares sprinkled out through
my league. So I would put Hetel second just because I think he's a
sending and zabana Jad is fantastic, but he is not going to be this
same level of producer forever and he's not like super old. But he's already
thirty is gonna be thirty one this season, So I think in the next
couple of years, Heatl could be a soft one. See what I mean
by that is maybe not a a no doubt one seed, but situationally,
and he could end up playing with some really good players. So I would
go your Hetel Jarvis, And that's not necessarily the order that I think that
they're the most talented in just based on the team situation. That's what I
would say. What about you, Yeah, I tend to agree with you.
I think I'm higher on Jarvis than you are. Just the talent of
the player really stands out to me. But then if you look at Carolina
guys like Andre Spechnikov, who many say is one of the most talented players
in the league. He can do everything. He can shoot, he can
score, he can hit, but because of his time on ice, he's
not going to be that kind of first round pick that we all expected he
would be. And so I think Jarvis suffers similarly here, and I agree,
cam Yorke is the type of player that I really can get behind.
Not only is he very talented offensively, he's great defensively. He's a former
captain of the gold medalist Team USA and twenty twenty one in the Bubble,
so there's a lot of intangible elements there that make him a very exciting player
to own. You can count on his delay ployment possibly going forward. So
I think I'll agree with you with your ranking a York Heel Jarvis, but
with the little caveat that, I just have a soft spot in my heart
for Jarvis Victor. We've got two more deals to discuss here, and each
of them have a ton of moving pieces, so we'll have to talk about
them separately. Unlike the last three, many of these players are still early
in the funnel, and so we're opening ourselves up to old takes exposed here,
but that's okay, that's what you're gonna get at Tidy Takes over to
Tidy Yager, where we have a deal between Gambler's Anonymous and Mystics. We
have Gambler's Anonymous acquiring Otto Stenberg, Joel Hoefer and Matthew Potras from Ontario,
although we will pronounce it Patra. According to the media Guide for Jacob Bernard,
Docker, Marc Andre Fleury, and Shane gosssber So, we have a
straight up rookies for veterans trade here. Mystics has this to say, although
I'm fairly new to this type of league, being that my previous leagues have
been mainly points only and keeper leagues, I felt that my team looked to
be fairly competitive after the draft, so I decided to try to strengthen my
team when possible while still trying to retain a good number of prospects. I
really hesitated to give up Hofer and even Poatras. I thought it was worth
attaining a good d in Gost's bear, and I think Flury still has something
left to prove even at his age, and he includes that he sure hopes
so with the fingers crossed, probably for the Flurry element more than the others.
Gampler has this to say, I wasn't convinced that Flurry will play more
than thirty five games this year, and perhaps mistakenly thought goss Is Bear might
struggle in Detroit. I think Hofer will be a starter one day, and
I'm just rolling the dice on Poatras in Stenberg. I also thought I had
the debt to deal those guys. That's a heck of a dice roll on
Poastraw Victor, what do you think of this rookies for veterans swap? Yeah,
so this happened before the season, right, can you confirm that was
earlier? Yeah, that this happened before the season before Matthew Potras was playing
on the second line with smershand. Yes. Yeah, so, I mean
talk about seeing the future and taking a well calculated gamble that sure seems to
have paid off pretty well. Yeah, that was a fantastic move. There
were definitely rumblings. There were people talking about this rookie Quatra and how good
he was, But I don't think anyone seriously thought he was this good.
Right now, with how poorly Zaka has played. I don't think it's too
crazy to imagine that Puatra might stick past the nine games and be a top
six center rest of season, which would be incredible for what the price of
acquisition here. I like both sides here. I like pieces on both sides.
I really love Hope for. I think he although he's coming off a
pretty bad outing as we're recording this, but I still think has a lot
of upside and a lot of it really just boils down to whatever you think
of Hope for. Bennington has just continued to not be good, and so
that is something to consider, although he did have a couple of decent starts,
but and the general trend is negative, so we'll see if he If
that continues to be the case, where Hope For improved, Middington improves and
Hope For struggles, then this Hope For acquisition is not going to look so
good. And Stenberg is probably a non factor for the next year or two.
So it seems so far like a home run with Potra, but also
the other side, and miss Sticks is actually one of our few female competitors
in the tidy, by the way, so she got Gossips Bear, who
probably is the best part of this whole deal, although it really depends on
what happens with Pratra because he could end up being better. But I like
Gossi Spear, and I figured he was going to get power play time because
you don't bring Gossips Spear in to not play the power play. So even
though some people were skeptical based on his based on other guys being there obviously
like Cider, he was still going to get some opportunity, and so he
has and he's made the most of it. They've had both on the power
play, So you could eat all of that so far early in the season
just a couple of games in Puatra has the same fantasy points as Gosta Spear
if you just look at positional scarcity, then d probably the tie goes to
gost the Spear, I would say, because that's a little harder to acquire.
But I think both these guys, both of these gms are going to
be pretty happy with the early returns. Puatra might get the edge though,
just because you can flex him up and down from minors to the regular,
although Boston doesn't have a ton of off night games, so you're probably deciding
between him or some other pretty decent centers. I don't know that Flury is
such a big a factor. I mean, as we're recording this, both
Flurry and Gustafson have had great and terrible games, so they might alternate a
bit. But I do think Gus is going to win out and play most
of the games and be more valuable. But yeah, Flury is going to
give you something and it's nice to have. And the tidy. I generally
have lots of goalies because just getting some goalie starts here and there can be
extremely valuable. So I like both sides. I really want to applaud the
foresight to acquire Puatraw as a well calculated gamble that is so far paid off
massively, and gossaspar also, I think. So I think both sides have
really good pieces. What about you? Right before I give my thoughts on
this, and we're really excited about Poatraw and I did a little bit of
research, I want to share a fun little tidbit about the player that I
found. And this story starts in two thousand, when a talented center named
David Crachi was drafted by the Bruins in the second round. After an impressive
draft season in the CHL with the Gatine Olympics. The QMGHL a partner league
there. Another thing that happened in two thousand and four was Poatraw being born,
and now he debuts as the second line center after being drafted in the
second round after an impressive draft season in the CHL with the gwelf Storms.
Coincidence probably, but it's still fun to know, and it's I don't think
any of us expected Poatraw full transparency. Victor Patraw was your one hundred and
twenty eighth ranked forward on your prospect spreadsheet, which is available if you're a
patron at fantasy hockey. So even you, who spends all your time on
fantasy hockey among other things, probably didn't have him this high. But who
else are they put in a center? There was a story in The Athletic
over the weekend about Charlie Coyle being fine with the demotion to the third line.
Clearly he's not it. Zaka has not been great. I know people
are really trying and hoping that Zaka is going to be it, but I
don't think he is. If anything, this gives Don Sweeney time to work
out what the more permanent solution is at center, and maybe Platraw goes back
to junior, but I can't see it. I think he's going to stick
around. When it comes to Flurry v Hoefer. I think one year of
subpar Flurry for all of Hofer is a big win for the Hofer side.
I'm high on the player. I think he's a stud. He's going to
push Bittington this year. Bittington knows it. He's had a pretty strong start
to the season. He's about to be pushed, just like he was pushed
by who was just like he was pushed by Charlie Lindgren. The only question
I have is will Hofer get shipped out of town like those goalies before him?
Who knows hard to say. Saint Louis is always thinking they're going for
it, so Hofer is certainly an interesting piece, But I prefer the Hofer
side. And you're right, Stenberg, You're eighty eighth ranked forward who was
ranked higher than Poatra is a great all around player, should eventually perform well
in this format, but is probably irrelevant for this year, probably next year
too. Yeah, you're absolutely. I did definitely did not see the Patra
thing coming. Everyone was focusing on Zaka and Coyle and Beacha, which I
was skeptical about all those. I really didn't see it coming. I thought
that, yeah, maybe he could be a bottom sixer. That's what makes
it so fun. And yeah, that's really fun about Crazy. There are
people saying like he's an I don't really listen to anyone if they say he's
next Bergeon because that's a crazy comparison. But could he be the next Crazy?
Okay, that's more reasonable, that's more reasonaby I could get down with
that. I still doubt it, but it's pretty fun to think about.
I don't blame you. We're not used to thinking of the Boston Bruins prospect
system as anything to get excited about, especially in recent years. You've just
named some of the top prospects on that team. John Beecher, he's an
NHL player, sure, but is he going to is he going to move
the needle? Probably not if he was behind, if Patras was behind Beecher.
I totally understand why this is such a surprise to everyone. It's exciting,
and as you said, it looks even right now, we'll have to
reevaluate next season. Perhaps I'm interested to see what happens with Pratra this year
though, over to Tidy Lemieux where we have our last deal where we're going
to discuss today. This is another doozy with lots of moving pieces. I
think both sides are going to be very happy with this. It's another veteran
selloff. We have Joe x Bondo acquiring Max Paciretti, Jared mc can and
Brian Dumelin, Nellie Din acquiring Alex Newhook, Cole Perfetti, Helga Granz and
a first round pick which was used to select Braden Yaeger. Lots of moving
pieces here that we'll get into first to the manager's commentary on the deal,
Joe feels that there's no sense in keeping your number one pick for next year
if you won't even be there next year, taking the promotion and relegation into
account here, Joe last season lost in the first round to Clay, but
felt that he gave him a good run and with everyone moving up, feels
like he has a really good chance of winning it all this year, and
so he was comfortable moving that first round pick among those future pieces to pick
up some high scoring veterans. He picked up new Hook on waivers, so
that was found money and Perfetti, in his opinion, won't be top line
this year. Barring any kind of shifely trade. Seems like that won't be
happening, so it made sense to him. He loves McCann for this year
and was comfortable paying the first Profetti and new Hook for the package of Patriretti,
McCann and Dumalin Victor. What do you think of this deal? With
so many moving parts and so many players who were not actually sure what's going
to happen with them, That's always what makes it fun, right when you're
not really sure what's going on and what to expect. So yeah, I
think that this is as you mentioned, even there were definitely a lot of
votes on either side in terms of people liking one versus the other. And
I think a lot of this is going to depend on what happens with Patuaretti
and when he comes back, and if he can be a real difference maker
towards the end middle end of the season and give you tons of points in
your fantasy matchup or your playoff matchup or close to them, that could make
a huge difference. I really love McCann. I think he's pretty solid.
I like Carolina the Seattle situation frustrates me. But if I had to pick
one forward, it would definitely be McCann because he's more of the goal scorer
and he's a pretty high floor kind of guy because he does enough of the
other preferle and generally when Seattle was good last year there Fenrok was really high
and so that helped drive some of the points for him. And he also
has decent time on ice, so all that's looking good. I right now
he's at six point five to five points per game, and so he has
Paturetti was higher, but he's not going to play as many games, and
so McCann is probably the best overall asset when you just look at it from
that lens. But Profetti he's someone who could challenge that by the end of
the season. He has played some top line right wing, but mostly he
has been on the second line center or wing, and so that's a and
with a decent number of power play point time so far. So I do
like that. But I also agree with Joe that probably and Nelly din as
well that if you're thinking about next year, these are all going to look
a little bit better. Right The Profetti the new hook who seems to be
finding his voice space in Montreal. So you like all that, And this
is probably one of those just win trades where the pieces that Joe sent are
good pieces, but they're just not quite there yet. They probably need another
year or two and then they'll be even better. And for Nellydn, why
not sell high where a piece that might be more valuable now, although on
McCann I think will retain his value for years to come. But you got
to spend a little to get a little back. I don't know that Jaeger
will make an impact soon enough, but it's possible. He was close to
making an impact this year, so it's possible that he's D plus two in
the NHL. That is possible. Grond's I'm not the biggest fan of.
I don't know that he's gonna have a huge role, but if he could
at least play in the NHL. But you got two solid pieces with new
hook and proffetti on this side, and so I like that for the long
term. But McCann I think will probably continue to be the best asset for
the next several years. Overall, pretty even though, right, what do
you think? Yeah? I love these dels where it's clear what both sides
are looking for, and I like being able to go through them and figure
out, Okay, what pieces were added for what purpose here? And I
look at Helga Grants for Brian Dumelin, I think that's pretty even. You
have a respected veteran who he's at the very thin edge of rosterruble. He
was a streamer d for us last season in the tidy on our team,
we had him at points last year. If you're trading Helga Grants who his
ceiling might be just that fringe NHLD. I think that kind of makes sense.
And then you look at Perfetti for McCann, I think that's that could
be even as soon as next year. It could also depending on Perfetti's injury
history and lineup placement. It could also take a bit of time. I
can understand Profetti for McCann a little bit in a vacuum. And then you
see the Max Pachuretti inclusion. You have Alex Newhook. Both players have question
marks. I think Pachuretti, if he's healthy, he had six point seven
Fantasy points per game in the twenty one to twenty two season according to our
scoring here in the tidy was not much of a factor last year. I
think you can see new hook and a first for what Pachuretti could be.
I think it's pretty fair. I think for myself, I would probably lean
the prospect side. I get really excited about prospects. I don't have the
patience to deal with Pachuretti and whether he'll be in, whether he'll be out.
Although it sure looks like Washington could use him right now they need something
going on the offense. McCann is a great get. I do agree with
you. I think he is the best player in this deal. A bit
of a later breakout than some would expect, and certainly took a couple of
teams to get there, but debuting with the Kraken achieved relevance. I guess
the only question about him is was last season his peak? Did he overperform?
It's possible, but I think you're still looking at a sixty five point
guy for years and years to come. Like I said, Profetti could be
a sixty five point player fairly soon. He was your eighth ranked prospect forward
for a reason after all upside, certainly for point per game multiposition elibility.
Eligibility is certainly exciting for him, and there is the potential for more as
this team turns over time. Just because these veteran players like Scheiffley and Hellbuk
have signed these huge, long deals doesn't mean that they'll play the entire time
in Winnipeg. I think it is fairly even. And then when it comes
to Yeager, who knows, right, he's your fifty fourth ranked forward.
He was just drafted. He might is he's still eighteen. I think he's
still eighteen. He might make it, he might not. He's still at
the very fat edge of the funnel. It's a hard way to the top
six through all of these wingers. You have Rikelly, have Rust, It's
oh, you have Riley Smith, who's been really great to start the year.
Yeager is a big shooter, which is always fun. It would be
super fun to watch a young Jaeger with an ancient sind and Gino and see
how that works out. He's so young, it's hard to imagine him making
an impact before those guys are gone see the end of the Yeah, you're
right, it would be. But I think that was one thing that was
discussed. I know we were talking about the draft of all the guys that
Pittsburgh had available to them. That was something that was discussed at the draft
at fourteenth. Overall, they did think that Jaeger was one of the closest
to be NHL ready, and they even thought he had an outside chance of
playing this year, which was probably pretty optimistic. They figure, maybe one
more year dominate in the WHL for Moosejaw and then be maybe even ready at
the end of this season, and that would be pretty fantastic. If they're
in the playoffs, maybe he could help them go on a run at some
depth and then be ready next year. So it is possible that Yeager does
contribute sooner than later, but yeah, it also might just not be a
factor. If both of these teams are going for a promotion in the next
couple of years, then he might not factor in. It's clear what Pittsburgh
is trying to do with Yeger maximize the Crosby window by getting a good,
young, talented NHL ready forward screaming down the wing and scoring off of the
rush from a pass from Sid I hope we get to see it happen,
and I think these managers are hoping that will be relevant for them as well.
The day, Nellie didn gets perfetti and a great lotto ticket in Jaeger
and some grist for the mill. Nellie is also one of our more eager
managers to trade in the tidy I went back and just had a look at
some of our draft conversation and Nelly Din is always ready to mix it up
and change things up, and you've got to respect that as a fantasy manager.
And I think a good deal has been achieved by both parties here.
Victor, thanks so much for having me on again this week. The tidy
Take segment is growing and changing as we speak. We're finding out what works
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Thank you Bryan, and thank you for doing this. We all very
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