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I'm doing awesome, Jesse. Yeah, it's good spring weather here. It's

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I think we're all looking for some
answers of what the heck happened with these

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Buffalo Sabers. Is that right?
How do you get Oh wait, Victor,

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the Sabers aren't the playoffs. What
happened? The Sabers aren't a playoffs

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yet? No, but they did
bring back their coach from the last time

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they were. Oh we'll get into
all those things, Victor. But yeah,

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and it is that time of year. It's the weather is finally although

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we had a mild winter and now
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in rain up here. I don't
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We need to just get to some
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Victor, a place you can commiserate
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You have questions, we hope to
have answers about the Sabers right after

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this welcoming back to the show.
Walter Zarowski of Saber Metrics, ready to

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talk to them, Buffalo Sabers.
How you doing there, Walter doing great,

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Looking forward to talking about the Sabers. Yeah. Man, it's gonna

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be a good talk. It's going
to be a good talk. Bad news

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right up front. Buffalo did not
make the playoffs last year. I think

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people may be aware of that,
but there is some good news. They

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did have some areas of improvement.
Goaltending was a whole lot better than a

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lot of people expected last October and
we'll get there. And for the first

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time, I went back and counted
this on Hockey Reference, Walter and you

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could check my mat But for the
first time since twenty ten to twenty eleven,

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the Sabers scored more goals than they
gave up. That's certainly a nice

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accomplishment to have a new group of
young forwards are coming into the fold,

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becoming more established. We'll talk about
a lot of them. Yet at the

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end of the season, the coach
was gone and there were cryptic comments coming

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from players at the end of season
press conferences about maybe some guys were disengaged

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practices and things. And now,
whether for nostalgia or success, the blast

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from the past, Lendy Ruff is
back in Buffalo to replicate the glory days.

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So overall, what happened this year
to the Sabers and are they ready

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next year to take that leap into
the playoffs that we've all been waiting for

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years now. Yeah, obviously last
season was a very tough season. Just

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being a point away from the playoffs
in twenty two to twenty three and taking

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a step back this season was obviously
a disappointment. Like you brought The goaltending

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this year was fantastic. That was
something that Savers kind of struggled with in

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prior seasons, but this was the
first season a very long time, probably

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since the Ryan Miller days, where
they actually got elite results from their goaltenders,

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and that really helped their season stay
somewhat alive later into March. But

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at the end of the day,
I think it was really just their top

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line, their top offensive players that
really weren't able to replicate what they did

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in the prior season. I think
you look at guys like Tage Thompson,

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like Dylan Cousins, all guys that
have saw a drop off in their production

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last year, and I think just
really not getting that offense, really not

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getting that extra goal in those close
games to pushings in overtime and get those

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extra points, I think just killed
the team this past season. And the

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Jack Quinn injury definitely didn't help.
But there's still a lot of promise in

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Buffalo with the amount of young players
on their roster, and obviously despite missing

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the playoffs, things could have been
much worse last season. I think the

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Savers are a team that's still not
that far off from finally breaking through for

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that playoff appearance, but this past
season was certainly disappointment in coming up short

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once again. Yeah, let's get
into some of those players and disappointments,

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I would say, and it has
to start with Tage Thompson. This guy

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was incredible previously had a record breaking
season for him last season forty seven goals,

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went all the way down to twenty
nine this season. We'll ref and

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some spots the tidy rank our Tier
dynasty, so he was the one hundred

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and first player ranked player in that
format, which isn't bad, but we

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would expect it more for him,
and obviously fantasy nuts are going to be

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disappointed with the massive drop off in
the goals. Obviously he played a few

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less games and that's understandable, but
his assists were way down, his goals

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were way down. His time on
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but not too much of a drop
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IPP Power Playoff PP they were all
a little lower, but I don't think

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all of that explains how much lower
his production was this season. So Walter,

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is Tage really just more of a
seventy point guy in that ninety nine

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point pace season was a massive outlier, or should we expect him to bump

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back up closer to point per game. I think Tate Thompson, he's such

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an interesting player really, just with
how he grew up with this point totals,

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how he really came from being like
a fourth line guy in a Savors

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to be a top offensive player.
I think that question is still one that

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I don't even think most Savers fans
know. The answer will be in the

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future, what Tage Thompson truly is
He definitely I think he's got that baseline

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of being a seventy point guy.
Certainly we'd like to see that ninety plus

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point season come back again, maybe
even something better. He's still somewhat of

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a younger player at currently in his
prime, so it's not too crazy to

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expect to bounce back, but there
is Throughout most of the last season,

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I think a lot of Savers fans
just wanted more from Tage Thompson on a

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night in, night out basis.
I think there's some games where you could

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barely tell he was out there,
and for a guy who's supposed to be

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your star offensive player, was sorely
disappointing. And I think the interesting thing

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was like stuff came out after the
regular season ended about how he was playing

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through some injuries, and he said, like, maybe some stuff you probably

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shouldn't have tried playing through. So
I think that's one side of things that

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kind of plays into that his production
and regress last year just because of injury.

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And I think if you're a Tage
Thompson hopeful, I think you're really

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hoping that what happened this past season
is due to injury and not just performance

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stuff. So I think he's going
to bounce back. I think he's gonna

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have a season that was better than
last year. That's going to be difficult

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to plate to replicate that twenty twenty
two to twenty twenty three season, but

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I think he certainly got the talent
to get close to that, and I

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think with more and more talent coming
up on the wings developing the Saber system,

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I think he's have a lot of
pieces to be able to continue some

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fantastic offensive production. But Alex Tuck
actually was higher ranked forward in our Points

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formatt than even Tage Thompson was,
and he had himself a decent year.

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He is always good in the bash, lots of blocks, lots of hits

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in plenty of shots. He didn't
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of the year before. Part of
that, I think is the obvious shooting

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percentage flexing a little bit closer to
his six eleven percent rate rather than the

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spike he got last year. He
missed a couple of stretches Alex Tuck did

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early in the year, but he
stayed mostly healthy, and that's not always

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been the case for Tuck. So
that's a very big positive. Is Tuck

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now entrenched as a top line player
with this team and next to Tage Thompson,

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and can he see that point pergase, point per game pace that we

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thought we might be getting after last
year. I think Alex Tuck, I

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think he's gonna be one of those
players that Lindy Roff falls in love with.

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I think just because he's a great
team leader. He's from the area,

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he grew up as a Savers fan, while Lindy Ruff was a coach

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of the Sabers, So I think
there's like a pretty cool relationship there with

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Lindy Ruff coming back to Buffalo with
Tuck. So I think Tuck's still going

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to be relied upon to be a
top line player. I'm still expecting to

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be on Tage Thompson's wing next season. I think to start the season for

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the Savers, I think a lot
of fans are really disappointed with how Tuck

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was playing, but he really got
things going as the season went on.

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He looked more like himself. I
think he's just going to be your reliable

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player. He might not have that
crazy point per game season ever again,

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but he's always going to be that
effective player. Just with his size and

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his skating ability, He's always gonna
be a guy the Savers really rely upon.

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I think getting that power play back
to just at least league average level

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is going to help a guy out
like Tuk a lot in terms of his

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point production. I think just simply
having your lie on five points for all

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your productions tough, especially for guys
like Tuck. But I think once that

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power play gets going again, I
expect his production to increase. And I

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still think he's a really valuable player
for the Savers, and I still think

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they're gonna lean pretty heavy into him
heading in the next season. Next Jeff

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Skinner, huh, Jeff Skinner,
He is a conundrum. This guy here.

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He had twenty four goals twenty two
is sis twelve power play points,

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and yet it wasn't the types of
point pace that we sometimes have hoped to

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get from him. Lots of shots
as usual. That contract he's on,

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the nine million dollar contract is never
going to look pretty, but he always

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remains a threat to score goals every
night. This year such a dip from

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the year before, as Skinner dropped
also a minute and a half night of

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a night of ice time, shooting
percentage dropped, shots dropped, goals of

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course dropped, and assists dropped significantly. I did the old Evolving Hockey's goals

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above replacement model, and of eight
hundred and seventy nine skaters, Jeff Skinner's

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negative eight point three defensive goals above
replacement was the sixth worst skater in the

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National Hockey League. And that was
out of, like I said, eight

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hundred and seventy nine guys. The
offense, now, mind you, was

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about that much to the positive,
which was number one thirty of those eight

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hundred and seventy nine. So really
you got to remember that defiven is holding

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Skinner back regularly. This isn't news. Everybody knows this, but that was

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the by far the worst of that
measure of Skinner's career going back and the

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last couple of months of the season, Skinner went from the Tuck and Tage

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line to the Peyton Krebs line and
his power play time on ice dropped.

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What is the future of Jeff Skinner
on this team and what happened? Yeah,

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Jeff Skinner, He's probably the most
interesting player to watch for the Sabers

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next season really just because, like
you brought up, how he got demoted

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to that bottom six roles a season
and on pushed off that top line that

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he's usually on with Taje. Thompson, Alex Tuck. I think having a

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guy like Lindy come in will be
interesting because he's known as a guy who's

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pretty strict with players playing the right
way or at least how he wants to

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play, and he's not afraid to
limit guys ice time if they aren't playing

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that way. And Jeff Skinner,
he's really a guy who kind of cheats

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on the defensive end of things to
play that quick counter attacking game when he

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gets the puck back on offense,
and it works sometimes. It worked in

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twenty twenty two, twenty three when
that top line had that kind of chaotic

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but fun offense going. But when
things aren't as chaotic, when things are

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more settled down, you'd see the
deficiencies in Jeff Skinner's game. And as

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he gets up there in age,
he's going to be thirty one years old,

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he's probably leaving his prime, at
least in terms of offensive production.

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I think he's a guy where maybe
you're concerned if he's able to bounce back

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to some of the production we've seen
before. I think, just with all

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the wingers the Savers have coming up
through their system, all the young players

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we've seen JJ Peterka take Skinner's spot
on that top line to end the year,

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maybe he's a guy who will never
give up that spot again. So

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I think with Skinner it's going to
be interesting to see what happens to him.

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It's almost nearly impossible to predict what
season you'll get from Skinner because it

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feels like every season you get from
this guy, it's just like a roller

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coaster. You get a good year, a bad year, another good year,

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and it's really been like that since
his Carolina days. So he's probably

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the most interesting guy to watch,
and I think he's probably the biggest candidate

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to have the biggest falloff on the
Buffalo Savers heading the next season. Wow.

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All right on to Jack Quinn.
Of course, Quinn a former first

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round pick just from a couple of
years ago, still pre restricted free agency.

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As this guy, he had pretty
much a lost season I think is

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the short version here. Nine goals
tennis is four power play points that would

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pay us out to fifty eight points. But of course he only played a

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few games, but the scoring rate
at least improved. That was even better

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than his half point per game rookie
season where he had only thirteen fifty one

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average time on nice What do you
make of Quinn the season we only saw

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a little bit, and could we
dream of him being on the Dylan Cousins

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Casey Middlestat track to post high breakout? Yeah, I mean, I think

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guy like Jack Quinn, he's just
a hockey player. It's really easy to

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like. He's always playing the game
the right way. He's always getting the

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dangerous areas of the ice. He's
got a pretty crazy shot too, that

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allows him to score goals from areas
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So I think a guy like Jack
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last season was supposed to be his
breakout year, but the injuries destroyed that.

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But he still had decent production in
spite of that. I think he's

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a guy who just with his shooting
ability, I think if he's placed higher

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up the Sabers lineup, if he's
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on the top power play unit,
I think he's a guy whose production

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could just explode. I just think
he has that offensive skill set that allows

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him just to score goals, to
accumulate points. I mean, we saw

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him in his draft year in Ottawa
and the Ohl just the amount of goals

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he's able to score down there.
I think he's a guy who just has

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that. He's got that knack to
find the soft areas of the ice,

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He's got that knack to finish off
his opportunities. And I'd say he's probably

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one of my favorite savers forwards.
And I think a guy like Lindy Ruff

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coming in is gonna love the way
Jack Quinn plays. I think he's going

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to be given a lot of opportunities
went fully healthy to contribute higher up in

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the lineup. Definitely looking forward to
seeing more Jack Quinn. Next season,

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let's move on to a couple of
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So after last season, we might
have thought Dylan Cousins was going to

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continue being that seventy ish point guy. I definitely was one person who was

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suggesting that it was going to regress. He went from sixty nine point pace

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to forty nine point pace and coming
the other way. JJ Peterka, I've

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always been a fan of his game. He ended up with a fifty point

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pace this season after a thirty four
point pace last season. These two are

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a bit different in terms of what
they bring to the team, but they

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actually ended up with similar ice time. They ended up with similar point paces,

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And wondering what you think about these
two between who might get more point

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who would you bet on more for
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Dylan Cousins and JJ Peterca, this
one's a tough one. I think he

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got two guys trending in opposite directions
with how they played last season. I

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don't really think either of those trends
will continue next season. I still think

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Pitt Turko is a great player.
Cousins is a great player. Cousins obviously

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had the very frustrating season. It
just seems almost everything was going wrong for

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him. He's on the ice just
like weird puck touches, not great passes,

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just didn't really seem like he's utilizing
a skill set like he was in

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the season prior. And I think
a guy like Dylan Cousins, the huge

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question around him is what's his true
shooting ability. I think we really saw

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those gold totals explode in twenty twenty
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a lot of people expected that to
maybe continue because for a lot of young

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players, once they learn how to
shoot in the NHL, they continue at

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that level. It's just about making
that jump. Of Dylan Cousins, it

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seemed like he made that jump to
be able to score goals the NHL level,

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and then his shooting percentage regress back
down again. So he's a guy

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where it's a big question of what's
this guy's overall game, because what's his

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baseline. I think he's a guy
who's a great athlete, is a fantastic

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skater, big forward, But in
terms of that game in, game out

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type of play, I think there's
still a lot of questions that need to

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be answered there. I think the
one benefit he does have is that he's

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signing Buffalo long term, and he's
also a center, so naturally he's always

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going to be giving opportunities in the
top six. I think a guy like

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Paterca, he's just a guy who
consistently has been having great games for the

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Savers. I think he's a player
who as a prospect, a lot of

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people did not know the dimension he
had to his game or the dimension he's

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been able to add to his game
as a prospect. He's really just a

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fantastic rounded player. We've seen the
production take off a little bit last season,

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and that followed a great World Championships. You have Jeremy in twenty twenty

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three where he was the player of
the tournament there. I think he's a

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guy who's just very fun to watch. I think a coach like Lindy Ruff

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coming in is gonna love a guy
like Patka. I think in terms of

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point production, I'd say Paterka is
a safer bet just because I think he

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has a higher baseline than Dylan Cousins. I think Dylan Cousins is probably more

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of the boom or bust guy,
just because I think with his skinning billion

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and his size. He's got that
higher ceiling. But I think they're going

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to be two valuable pieces for the
Savers moving forward. I think they're both

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going to be second line players for
the Savers next season, and we'll always

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have that ability to work their way
up onto the top power play unit.

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Yeah, definitely good point. I
think the contract dictates, so you would

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think you'd lean Cousins, but I
really love Peturka's game and I think i'd

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bet on him. I like the
trajectory he's going in, but they'll probably

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be similar, I would think like
they were this season. Let's move on

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to the next guy. One of
my favorites, Zach Benson and this kid.

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He was lowly ranked in the tidy, but that's because he didn't play

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a full season, or he played
a lot of the season, but some

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of his priiffs aren't quite there yet. But he does so much and I

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think it was just a huge surprise
that when I first met him at the

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draft, I thought, there's no
way this Scrinning little kid is ready for

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the NHL. He looks so small, But man, he did he ever

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show us. He played the whole
season as an eighteen year old, and

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there are a lot of stats that
you could point to show how good Benson

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was this season. My personal favorite
is that amongst all Sabers forwards, he

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was second behind Peturca actually in terms
of expected gold differential per sixty minutes,

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so as a rate stat he was
pretty much better than just about everyone in

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all situations. That's bonkers considering his
age and how many other good players that

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are on the Sabers, or maybe
they're not that good, I don't know.

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Maybe that says something more about the
other players on the team. I'm

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not sure. Anyhow, I don't
think you should look at his thirty five

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point pace and be disappointed. I
think you should realize how impressive that is

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for such a young player, and
that the upside is pretty high there.

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What do you think Zach Benson's upside
is long term and maybe going into next

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season. I truly think Zach Benson
has the potential a little bit further down

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the road to end up being the
Sabers best forward. I think that's just

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how confident I am in him as
a player. I think he's still got

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a lot of runway left in his
development in terms of production. It's crazy

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that he was eighteen years old for
the entirety of the last NHL season.

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He didn't turn nineteen until Actually I'm
not I man, sure he's ninety year

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I think his birthday is in May. So that just shows how crazy it

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is that he was both able to
crack the Sabers roster and be a fairly

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productive player and the Sabers roster and
it really wasn't just like the defense for

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him. He was a pretty valuable
player for the Savers on the defensive end

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of the ice. And I think
to already get that from a player at

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his age, I think it's fantastic. And he really just knows how to

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play the game the right way.
He knows how to tilt the ice in

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his team's favor, he knows how
to get under the opponent's skin. He

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knows how to win puck battles and
turn that into positive plays for his team.

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I think he's got all of those
skills to be a fantastic NHL forward.

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He's not the biggest guy, he's
not the fastest skater, but he

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knows how to use his skill set
and leverage that into being a really valuable

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player. So I just think that
the sky's a limit with him. I

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think he definitely has potentially be the
savers best forward. I think his production

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is definitely going to increase next season. I think he may even be given

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a larger role, like a permanent
second line role for most of the next

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season. I think he's a guy
who Lndy Ruff's going to absolutely love playing

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the style that he wants to play. I think Zach Benson he's just a

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great player. Once he figures out
his shooting at the NHL level, I

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think we'll start to see those goals
increase, and once the Sabers finally figure

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out that top power play unit,
I think a guy like Zach Benson will

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definitely be featuring on that unit,
if not next season, the season after.

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Back to the blue line. Rasmus
Dollin is the first one we talk

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about. He's a star, paid
like a star, plays like a star.

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Fifteenth ranked in tidy and so well
worth it. Fifty nine points this

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year, twenty eight of them on
the power play. Lots of blocks,

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lots of hits, lots of shots. He was excellent with the general twenty

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five percent scoring discount. Everybody on
the team seems to have taken from the

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year before. If you aplied that
to him, he basically kept up with

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that pace and when he's on the
ice, he greatly lifts the team's offense.

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It's amazing. You can get a
chart of Buffalo's five on five offense

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with and without Rasmuss Dollin and it
goes from very red to very blue when

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he goes and skates off. So
what was the deal was Is there anything

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notable about Zach or about Rasmus Doalin's
season to bring out or is he just

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steady as she goes one of the
better defensemen in the NHL. I think

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one of the better things with Dolling
last season was I think he got affected

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by really just being unlucky when he's
on the ice. I think the team

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probably should have scored more goals when
he's on the ice and given up less,

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given like the expected opportunities that we're
out there. But other than that,

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I still think he's just that guy
for the Savers. I think he's

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probably their best player, their most
talented player. He's going to be a

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guy that the Savers really rely on
in a leadership role in the future.

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Most people believe that he's going to
be the next captain of the Buffalo Savers,

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So he's going to be a guy
who's going to be leaned upon a

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lot for the Savers, especially as
they hope to take the jump next season

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new playoff spot. It always gets
big ice time, fantastic offensively, has

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really just done it all for the
Savers, and I think last season having

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that be his dropoff year, I
think is pretty encouraging for Sabers fans because

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we've seen some bad drop off years
for him before, but that was earlier

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on in his career. So now
that I think he's entering his prime as

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a player, I think he's a
guy he can consistently rely upon to just

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be one of the best defenders in
the league and be a very valuable piece

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for the Savers. And when those
forwards start producing a little bit more,

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I expect those point totals to increase
for him as well. And on the

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flip side, owen power, he
maybe did not blow up the league and

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the way that some of us hope. Maybe I'm being too negative. He

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has also gotten paid. He's under
contract for eight years eight point three to

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five mill per. This year,
he put up thirty three points nine of

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them in the power play, he
had one hundred and fifteen blocks, forty

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five hits, one hundred and eight
shots. His point base was actually consistent

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with his rookie year, but he
ticked down fifty three seconds of average time

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on ice, which was surprising to
me. How does Owen Power fit in

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with the there's one big defenseman we're
going to get to and one of them

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we already have. How does Power
fit in on this blue line now?

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And is he really going to end
up having the primary role that some of

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us thought he might whin he was
drafted so highly. Oh, It's definitely

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going to be interesting to see own
Power's role moving forward. I still think

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he's firmly that number two guy,
but I think on a lot of other

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NHL teams he'd already be being groomed
and being that number one defense fan on

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the roster. I think having a
guy like do Lean in front of him

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maybe suppresses his production a little bit. The interesting thing with Owen Power is

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that he's a pretty fantastic offensive player. It just doesn't really show up on

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the scoreesheet for his individual stats like
goals and assist. He's a guy that's

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at a kick starting a breakout with
a great zone exit pass, and just

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the little stuff in the game like
that. So when he's on the ice,

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the team scores. I guess the
issue with him is he's not always

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getting a point when his team scores. But I do think he's a guy

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who took a jump really just in
his goal scoring ability last season. I

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think earlier on in his career with
the Sabers, we saw a guy who

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was able to get to the dangerous
areas of the ice, especially for a

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bigger defenseman, but he just didn't
really have the shooting ability or the confidence

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to finish off those chances. And
he was also a guy who's pretty hesitant

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with shooting early on his NHL career. Now he seems a little more confident

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in getting that shot off when he
has the opportunity. So I think that's

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definitely a positive development in own powers
game. I think he's going to be

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a guy who is a great NHL
defenseman for a very long time, but

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he's definitely going to have a unique
development path with having a guy like Rasmus

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Dalli in front of him. But
I do think he's still a guy that

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a lot of Sabers fans want a
little bit more from him, especially on

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defensive end of things, but I
think most people would say they're pretty happy

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with his development so far. But
he's still a guy he's expected to take

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that next step. Speaking on about
a guy we've expecting to take a next

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step for a while now, is
Bowen Byram the newest one of the newest

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members of the Buffalo Sabers has been
one of my favorites for a long time.

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Obviously, he was great in the
playoffs for Colorado when they won the

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Cup, but he's had some pretty
inconsistent regular seasons. I think that's fair

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to say he's had some pretty decent
point paces without playing a whole lot of

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games. This season, he actually
played the most games he's ever played and

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still ended up only at a thirty
three point pace combined. We only saw

406
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eighteen games of him in Buffalo,
but some of them were really fun.

407
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I've always been a fan of his
the health issues, and another thing that

408
00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:57,079
was really weird this year is typically
his underlying numbers have been good. His

409
00:28:57,119 --> 00:29:00,000
great stats have been good. It
hasn't just translated based on time on ice

410
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:03,359
and some other factors, but this
season they were really not good. So

411
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I'm wondering, Walter, what you
think about Byron fitting in long term?

412
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,400
You know, will where will he
fit on the depth chart? Will he

413
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:17,079
get second power play time ahead of
power or potentially lose some of those opportunities.

414
00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:19,880
What do you think about Bow and
Byron moving forward? Bom, Byron's

415
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:25,559
definitely an interesting piece on the Savers. Obviously they got Dollying in power already,

416
00:29:26,119 --> 00:29:29,480
both Latannah shots and out of there
Bow and Byron to that mix.

417
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,359
When Byron first got traded the Savers, they're using him on a parent Rasmus

418
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,960
Dolling. They're giving him power playtime, and he scored a few goals on

419
00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:41,359
his first few games as a Buffalo
Saver, and things were looking great in

420
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,039
terms of Byron's future outlook on the
Sabers as a season. When on he

421
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:51,319
cooled off a bit production wise,
and he really wasn't as noticeable on the

422
00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:56,000
ice towards the tail end of the
Sabers season, and I think he played

423
00:29:56,079 --> 00:30:00,079
more like the guy that you've seen
some Colorado Avalanche fans talking about. Towards

424
00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:04,359
the end of his time in Colorado. It just seemed like something was like

425
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:10,079
a little off there. He's obviously
a fantastic skater, has a great mind

426
00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:14,079
for the game, but it just
didn't show up every night for the Sabers

427
00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:18,240
and the Avalanche this season as well. So he's a player who I think

428
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:22,519
the Savers are going to lean upon
in a bit of a softer role,

429
00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:26,079
probably that number three role. I
think he's a player that could maybe fit

430
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,240
very well into Lindy Rouff's system.
We've seen Lindy Ruff when things were going

431
00:30:30,279 --> 00:30:33,279
well in New Jersey. The way
that team played was they really just killed

432
00:30:33,319 --> 00:30:37,480
plays early, use their speed,
use their skating, and I think a

433
00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:41,319
guy like bo and Byram, with
his skating ability, with his speed,

434
00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:45,480
I think maybe he could excel in
a system where you're killing plays early in

435
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,599
the neutral zone with your skating,
with your speed and turning it up ice

436
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,920
quickly and hopping in the play as
a defenseman. I think that's where he

437
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:59,559
really thrives. And the Sabers really
relied a lot on that inverted offense last

438
00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:03,200
season, where the defenseman come down
from the point, the forwards go back

439
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,160
to cover the point when in the
offensive zone, and anytime you do that,

440
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,000
you're really looking for a defenseman who
can't finish off their scoring opportunities,

441
00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:15,880
and bom Byron has been a guy
who consistently throws NHL career for a defenseman

442
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:22,559
has been able to finish off those
scoring opportunities, So I think there is

443
00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:26,039
some potential there with him. I
think the big thing is that he's got

444
00:31:26,079 --> 00:31:30,640
two big names like Power and Dollan
in front of him. If he could

445
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,200
possibly hop on a pair with one
of those two, like the Rasmus Dallion

446
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:37,559
pair we saw early on in his
tenure, I think he's a guy who

447
00:31:37,559 --> 00:31:40,559
could see some pretty good production.
And I think he's a guy who could

448
00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:45,880
still see second power play unit time
even with own power already being on that

449
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:51,200
unit. I think they may even
run two defensemen on that unit. Good

450
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,720
point. We've seen that before,
so maybe we'll see all three of them

451
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,000
get power play time. It'll be
fun. Let's finish up with the goalies.

452
00:31:56,119 --> 00:32:00,920
So the Sabers were ranked twenty fourth
in terms of exp goal against per

453
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:06,000
sixty with two point seven seven,
but they conceded the eleventh actual number of

454
00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:12,039
goals, so that was a little
bit better. And looking at the goalies,

455
00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:15,160
Ukapeca Lucan and obviously had a pretty
nice you know bounce back season.

456
00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:21,680
I think to his game he had
fifty four games to Devin Levi's twenty three

457
00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:27,480
and er Comery played ten, and
the row numbers were pretty good for Ukapeca.

458
00:32:27,519 --> 00:32:30,680
Lucan In his goal save above expected
was really nice nine point seven to

459
00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:36,240
six point two four Delta Fenwick.
He's an RFA this summer. I'm pretty

460
00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:38,359
sure he earned himself a raise,
so that was pretty nice and a lot

461
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,200
of us had a lot of high
expectations for Levi coming into the season.

462
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,480
Obviously it was maybe a bit too
much of him early on or too much

463
00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:49,079
for him, but I think he
really showed out. If you look at

464
00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:52,200
the whole body of work, it
was actually quite good. Seven point nine

465
00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:54,960
two save percent sorry, goal save
above expected that's really nice, as Delta

466
00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:00,319
Fenwick was point eight. Those numbers
are solid, even though we were remember

467
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:05,440
potentially some maybe not so good performances
and the team maybe relying on him a

468
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,359
little too heavily at the beginning.
What do you think the goalie ten I'm

469
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,839
going to look like next season,
Walter and what can we expect from UPL

470
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,119
and Devin Levy. I think the
goalies are probably the most exciting part about

471
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:20,799
the Sabers team at this time.
I actually remember coming on this podcast for

472
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,119
last season talking about Eric Comery and
UPL and about which goalie I think is

473
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:29,240
going to get this starting job.
And I was actually someone who was maybe

474
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,359
a little more confident in Eric Comery
than I should have been, and wasn't

475
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,799
as confident in UPL. So that
kind of really shows the season UPL had

476
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,720
last year. He was in his
last trial as a Saverers goalie before they

477
00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:45,720
would potentially move on from him,
and he really just excelled. I don't

478
00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:49,759
think we've seen him play like that
at the NHL level yet in his career,

479
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:52,519
and he was just always solid.
It always seemed like he was in

480
00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:57,559
the right place, just seemed very
calm out there. This was really great

481
00:33:57,559 --> 00:34:00,039
at keeping the game in front of
him, and he gave the Saber a

482
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,799
fighting chance and nearly every game he
played in, which as an NHL team,

483
00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:07,159
that's about the most he good asked, very, goalie is just saving

484
00:34:07,159 --> 00:34:09,639
what you should save, maybe a
little bit more, and just giving your

485
00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:13,480
team a chance every night to win
the game with their offense. And that's

486
00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:16,239
really what UPL did for them last
year. And I think he's a guy

487
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,559
who's definitely gonna be the number one
next season. In terms of the backup

488
00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:24,119
role, I think it's got to
be Devin Levi, and he's another exciting

489
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:30,039
young goalie. He had some rough
games in Buffalo to start off the season,

490
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:32,360
mixed in with a few good games. They called him up later on

491
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,079
in the season, he had some
even more good games. I feel like

492
00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:39,960
the bad games got filtered out with
the time he has been able to put

493
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,639
in down in Rochester and now was
a guy who's down in the AHL right

494
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:49,639
now in their playoff run, and
he's been absolutely incredible for the Rochester Americans

495
00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,960
and their playoff run has really kept
that team in a ton of games.

496
00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:58,639
Just had a sixty save performance the
other night. So he's another just fantastic

497
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,039
young goalie. I think with the
Savers goalie tandem, I think you definitely

498
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:07,360
look at a team like Boston with
Olmark and Swayman, and you look at

499
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,800
a team like Vegas with Aiden Hill
and Logan Thompson. I think if you're

500
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:15,119
a Savers fan, I think you're
really hoping that those two guys can be

501
00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:20,679
the next great NHL goaltending tandem.
And what we've seen from UPL last season,

502
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,199
with the numbers we've seen from Devin
Levi throughout his college career, even

503
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:29,840
in his time in the NHL and
Ahl, I think you're really hopeful that

504
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,440
those are the two guys who can
really push the team to the playoffs next

505
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:39,000
season. I think getting twenty five
to thirty five games from Levi next season,

506
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:43,679
giving UPL the rest of the starts, I think that's just going to

507
00:35:43,679 --> 00:35:49,199
be huge for the Savers because you're
getting two very solid goalies that I'll be

508
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,719
playing every night for this team.
And that's something that we really didn't even

509
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:58,440
get for the Savers last season because
Eric Comedy wasn't that great and it seemed

510
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,639
like the Savers really excelled and out
that great goalie player in front of them.

511
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:06,719
So I think next season, I
think the goal tanks be huge for

512
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,280
the Savers, and I think there
are two guys who will continue to be

513
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:15,360
great. The hockey world is a
better place with Ukupek and Luken in with

514
00:36:15,519 --> 00:36:19,639
relevance because I just want to keep
saying that name for an entire fifteen year

515
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,119
career. That is going to probably
do us. Wrap us up on the

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00:36:22,119 --> 00:36:27,559
Buffalo Sabers Walter, this has been
some great information once't you tell people how

517
00:36:27,599 --> 00:36:31,559
to follow you out there in the
greater world. Sure you could follow me

518
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:37,039
on X at Sabermetrics s A,
B R E, me et ri I

519
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,599
X and you can also find some
of my written work at the Charging Buffalo.

520
00:36:40,639 --> 00:36:45,519
They could also be found on X
and Instagram. So yeah, looking

521
00:36:45,519 --> 00:36:52,079
forward to hopefully a good Buffalo Saviors
season next year. Absolutely, we're we're

522
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:54,840
pulling for you. Good luck and
thank you so much for coming on Walter,

523
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:06,599
Thank you Wolf. Since then,
that's good fire pass up. Oh

524
00:37:06,639 --> 00:37:15,159
my goodness, world long ago with
a Kat gram. Now it's your wingley

525
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:20,440
goalie talk but Kat Silverman. Kat's
instincts joined once again by Kat Silverman of

526
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,320
ngal mag to talk some prospect goalies
here and there's some interesting ones here with

527
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:30,480
Buffalo. We are going to start
with Scott Ratzlaf and he's six foot one,

528
00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:32,400
one hundred and seventy four pounds.
They just picked him last year in

529
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,119
twenty twenty three in the fifth round. Good time to take a goalie.

530
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:42,039
This was his third season with the
Seattle Thunderbirds of the WHL, and so

531
00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:46,079
far he's been doing pretty well.
In terms of his equivalency, it's up

532
00:37:46,159 --> 00:37:51,800
to around the twenty six percent mark, which is not bad for a goalie.

533
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,679
Overall, Seattle has been a really
good team. He hasn't played the

534
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:59,800
most games the last couple of years, but this last year he played fifty

535
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,239
two nine oh five say percentage,
he was you know, overall not bad.

536
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,800
There's a couple of interesting comps for
him in that hockey prospecting model.

537
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:13,239
I would say Ryan Miller is an
interesting one. Obviously Ryan Miller was great

538
00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:15,719
and maybe he won't quite live up
to that, but also a Buffalo Saber.

539
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,159
The numbers are actually a little bit
better for Rats Left at the current

540
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,280
level of the same development time with
Miller. That doesn't mean he'll be better.

541
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,199
One of the things that I think
is fun with the FHL player cards

542
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:32,360
that we have for goalies is you
can see passes per sixty and that stands

543
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,920
out right away for Rats Left.
He likes to play the puck, I

544
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,320
can assume only just by looking at
this card. I don't know that,

545
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,719
but this is one of the fun
things you can tell about the card,

546
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,679
is that you can tell he likes
to play the puck, which is nice

547
00:38:45,679 --> 00:38:47,480
because sometimes you don't know that about
goalies unless you watch them like you do

548
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:52,119
Kat, and so for us ignorant
people, that stands out. His expected

549
00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:55,960
goals per goal against number is also
great, and some of his other numbers,

550
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,119
like say percentage. So overall,
this player card looks like pretty strong

551
00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:05,239
for him. But what do your
instincts tell us about rats Luff? He's

552
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,639
one of those goaltenders who can be
a little frightening to watch, but it's

553
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:15,840
a lot of fun to watch because
he isn't super super huge, and so

554
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,159
he really likes to make sure that
he isn't standing still at any point.

555
00:39:20,519 --> 00:39:23,920
He wants to make sure that essentially
his opponents aren't given the chance to really

556
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:29,639
pick his corners and pick his weaknesses
and exploit things. So tends to be

557
00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:32,360
a little more aggressive, which we
really don't see from too many goaltenders at

558
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,239
this point in time. We're seeing
a lot of them, We've talked about

559
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,199
this in the past, almost get
a little too over technical with their gameplay.

560
00:39:40,199 --> 00:39:45,280
He has no issues with that.
He I wrote down that he does

561
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:50,639
like to challenge the way that the
shooter comes at him, and he doesn't

562
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,760
get his arms moving too much,
but he does like to come out of

563
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:59,400
his crease a little more, and
he does like to play the puck,

564
00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:04,920
and that's something that I'm always interested
to see how that translates beyond essentially the

565
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,920
major junior in the minor league level, just because there are some teams that

566
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:13,679
really do that that In the past, we've talked about some NHL teams that

567
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,440
do better at playing a pass first
game with the goaltender. Saint Louis was

568
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:22,480
always really good at that with some
of their older goaltenders, and that's something

569
00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:27,159
that he could be really good at. That's not something that we see from

570
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:30,960
too many of the Buffalo goaltenders,
though, so I'm interested to see how

571
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:35,639
he fits into their system because that's
not something that their current era apparent.

572
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:38,280
Devin Levi, he's certainly not a
past first goaltender. He tends to play

573
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,360
the game a little more. I
have my job, you guys have yours.

574
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,360
Will divvy up the responsibility pretty evenly, and rest Off's a little bit

575
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:50,599
more of a jack of all trades
there. I am a little more optimistic

576
00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:55,320
about where that will go for him
looking at how the Rochester Americans have done

577
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,639
Now that Devin Levi is in their
system because for a while their goaltenders were

578
00:40:59,639 --> 00:41:04,239
really struggling at the minor league level. But I do think that he needs

579
00:41:04,639 --> 00:41:07,039
a little more technical seasoning. I
know that some of the goaltenders that we

580
00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:10,199
talk about, we say great,
their technique looks great, they just need

581
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:14,840
to work on their confidence or their
decision making, or they need to really

582
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,239
add in their high end game.
And I think for him it's still he

583
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:23,199
needs a little bit more work on
that technical foundation. So it's he could

584
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:29,559
get there. It's just surprising to
see a goaltender that still needs technical work

585
00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:36,440
like he does, which might explain
why he was I believe he was a

586
00:41:36,559 --> 00:41:38,519
later round pick. Yeah, so
I think they're going to just keep an

587
00:41:38,519 --> 00:41:42,920
eye on that one for a little
bit. Yeah. I love late round,

588
00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:46,280
fifth round swings on someone and let
them sounds like he allows a lot

589
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:51,760
of right raw talent and confidence and
needs a little refining, which is great.

590
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,559
He's got probably one more year in
the WHL. He is with the

591
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:58,719
Rochester Americans right now during their playoff
run. Not sure he'll get into any

592
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,159
games, just like he was with
Canada for the U twenties even though he

593
00:42:01,199 --> 00:42:05,039
did not play, But he might
get some of those opportunities next year,

594
00:42:05,079 --> 00:42:07,599
which would be really good for him. So let's move on to the next

595
00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:12,440
guy, to Pious Leninin and I
have to say I was a little bit

596
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,039
more optimistic about this guy when they
drafted him. I thought that he I

597
00:42:15,039 --> 00:42:17,760
thought that it was a pretty decent
pick and that he would work out.

598
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,639
Obviously, still too early to tell, but I don't think it's gone particularly

599
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,159
well since then. He's six foot
five, two hundred and thirty four pounds,

600
00:42:24,159 --> 00:42:29,360
twenty twenty two second round pick.
And yeah, so this season was

601
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:30,440
he didn't play a whole lot of
games, so that's part of it,

602
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:34,400
but he was all over the place. He was split between the U twenty,

603
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,679
the Liga, and the Mestis and
he had a total of to what

604
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,880
twelve games across all those leagues,
so not a lot, and that kind

605
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:45,599
of made his equivalency trend down.
It has been trending down since his draft

606
00:42:45,599 --> 00:42:50,119
season, where he actually played a
decent lot of U twenty games. But

607
00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:54,079
his draft season he had a couple
of Liga games already and some really strong

608
00:42:54,119 --> 00:42:58,519
performance in his U twenty, but
he's been trending down. His best comp

609
00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:01,800
right now looks like Mike Condon,
which obviously wouldn't be great, and his

610
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:07,480
FHL player card is hilarious because all
of these, like almost all the numbers

611
00:43:07,519 --> 00:43:10,880
look really bad except his goals against, which looks pretty good and that we

612
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,239
know is typically more of a team
stat than an individual goalie stat. And

613
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:20,039
then he had a fair number of
saves. So that's it's like you were

614
00:43:20,079 --> 00:43:22,400
in goal. That's what we can
say about your performance. But I'm sure

615
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,079
you have more eloquent things to say. Katz, the whata your instincts tell

616
00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:30,679
us about Tapius Lennon in He's Oh, he's a really weird one because he

617
00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:37,639
the way he played, looked like
he was going to do pretty well and

618
00:43:37,679 --> 00:43:43,079
it's just not panning out. He's
one of those guys that I thought he

619
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,480
he looks like he has decent size. I know that I was reading up

620
00:43:45,519 --> 00:43:49,719
on some other reports that were done
on him by some other goaltending scouts,

621
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:54,840
and they were talking about how he
had really good puck handling skills and that

622
00:43:54,880 --> 00:44:00,239
does not show up in his numbers
at all. He didn't have a ton

623
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,480
of available film to look at this
year just because he didn't get to play.

624
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:07,880
He really didn't play much this year, and I don't know with him

625
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:15,199
how much attention Buffalo should focus on
potentially keeping him around because they do have

626
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:20,559
a really intriguing younger prospect in their
system. Obviously, Devin Levi's doing very

627
00:44:20,599 --> 00:44:24,239
well for them, so I think
they don't necessarily need to cut ties with

628
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:29,800
him, but I think he needs
to show at least this upcoming year that

629
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:35,440
he's going to play consistent games,
and that may just be a byproduct of

630
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,719
the system that he was in.
Once again, he was like some of

631
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:43,760
the other goaltenders over in Finland.
He was a guy who got shuffled around,

632
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,440
and they've done that to him for
three straight years now, where he's

633
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,199
played you twenty games, he's played
in the Mestas and then he's played in

634
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,760
the Liga, so he has to
do a lot of travel, has to

635
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:57,880
do a lot of moving around between
the juniors, the minor leagues and their

636
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:04,599
top league, and also had some
international games in there, nothing World Junior

637
00:45:04,639 --> 00:45:09,679
related, but did play just was
on their U twenty team at the national

638
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:16,840
level. And I don't think that
giving him that many bounce arounds for three

639
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,719
straight years is doing him any doing
him any favors. I think they need

640
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,480
to stick him in a league and
leave him there for a year, just

641
00:45:23,519 --> 00:45:28,000
to give him a chance to get
some reps in, get some consistency in,

642
00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:30,679
because he does have good speed when
he's on his skates. The film

643
00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:35,000
footage that I did manage to find
him, he looks fast for his size.

644
00:45:35,679 --> 00:45:38,960
He looks like he can control his
game. He just hasn't gotten a

645
00:45:39,079 --> 00:45:44,320
chance to really establish it. And
he's at that kind of sweet spot age

646
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,880
wise where if he doesn't get a
chance to play a lot, I think

647
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:52,519
we'll start to see that backslide a
little bit, and he certainly won't become

648
00:45:52,639 --> 00:45:57,480
a high quality prospect for them if
he's not getting the chance to really get

649
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,000
in those reps. Don't love what's
being done for him. His gameplay is

650
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:05,440
not doing him any favors. But
he could end up being good. He's

651
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:13,039
got the overall physical attributes to be
good. He just hasn't been. It's

652
00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:15,320
all about asset management. Is this
a case where you think a by low

653
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,920
is appropriate, like, either as
an NHL team or as a fantasy manager?

654
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,320
Do you think it might be?
Because the cost to acquire him in

655
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:27,039
fantasy is probably nothing right now,
because he hasn't been good, even though

656
00:46:27,039 --> 00:46:31,800
he had a decent draft pick draft
pedigree. Would you take a low probability

657
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:36,760
but low stakes bet on that on
the prison if you have the availability to

658
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:43,159
do it, maybe, But once
you see a guy who's struggling that much,

659
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:49,079
if there's a chance that Buffalo is
going to take other goaltenders to essentially

660
00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:52,880
fill in their minor league ranks,
the way he's playing overseas right now,

661
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,480
it doesn't look like he is making
a good case to come over to North

662
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,599
America. So I think I think
you could run the risk of him not

663
00:47:00,639 --> 00:47:07,199
making his way over at all.
And even though he was drafted pretty aggressively

664
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:13,679
high, I don't know if other
teams would necessarily take a flyer on him

665
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,480
unless he really wanted to come over, and then it would probably be a

666
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:20,800
minor league only deal unless it was
Buffalo themselves. I guess maybe i'd give

667
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,440
it. I'd say he probably still
has a little bit of a flyer chance

668
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:30,440
there for another year or two.
But I certainly wouldn't be looking at his

669
00:47:30,559 --> 00:47:34,159
numbers and saying this is going to
be my sleeper pick because I don't think

670
00:47:34,159 --> 00:47:39,400
he's going to be Yeah, makes
sense as a really low probability flyer.

671
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:44,039
You could got him to your team. Wait a year, maybe two,

672
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,639
don't expect much. There's still a
chance because he's still huge and has the

673
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:52,719
size and on the pedigree and all
that, so you never know. Thanks

674
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,519
so much for giving us your instincts
on the Buffow Saber Goalies. Cat will

675
00:47:55,559 --> 00:48:16,079
be back right after this dig nine
of those Sabers edition. The Sabers they

676
00:48:16,159 --> 00:48:21,400
are set up with the eleventh.
Eric Johnson netted them an extra third this

677
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,920
year. Their fourth has gone away. Otherwise, they've got the normal and

678
00:48:24,039 --> 00:48:30,679
full complement of draft picks and their
prospect system in the Victor Nunial model is

679
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:35,800
tied for tenth best in the National
Hockey League. We start with our no

680
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:39,400
brainer. Who is in Victor One
of my favorite players, Jury Kulik.

681
00:48:40,079 --> 00:48:44,440
He was a twenty twenty two to
twenty eighth overall pick sixty one and eighty

682
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:51,119
five pounds. He had a fantastic
season in the AHL up to scoring from

683
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:54,280
forty six points to sixty two games
to forty five points in fifty seven games.

684
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:59,199
He got one NHL game, didn't
score any points, and he was

685
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:04,239
awesome for Chechia at the World Junior
Championships. He was just incredible for them.

686
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:08,039
Twelve points and seven games really helped
push them forward as much as he

687
00:49:08,079 --> 00:49:14,440
possibly could. It's interesting looking at
his playing his tracking data from that World

688
00:49:14,519 --> 00:49:17,880
Juniors. He it looks like he
had really poor transition data, which is

689
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,199
not something that I usually think about
him because he's very mobile. He skates

690
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,199
fast and he usually gets the puck
going quickly. But his transition data was

691
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:30,760
awful seventeenth percentile his controlled exits and
entries. Of course, this is a

692
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,440
small sample size because Mitch tracked all
seven games he played in, but still

693
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,639
it's only seven games, so it's
not that big of a sample. So

694
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:42,400
interesting that his transition game looks poor, but his offense and defense look great,

695
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,519
and that's what I've always thought him
a good two way player, and

696
00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:49,519
that's that's a good thing to know
about Coolick. Looking at his FHL player

697
00:49:49,559 --> 00:49:52,639
card from the HL time, his
shots and goals are what stand out the

698
00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:57,199
most. He's got a really good
shot. He had twenty seven goals this

699
00:49:57,199 --> 00:50:00,960
season in fifty seven games, so
that's a pretty nice number, almost half

700
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,760
a goal per game, which is
great. He wasn't as high in the

701
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,360
blocks and shots, but it isn't
a total vacuum there. It's just a

702
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,599
little bit less than average. So
overall he's looking pretty strong. I have

703
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:15,760
him as a seven out of ten
on my ranking, and his World Junior

704
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:21,079
Championship player cards showed his numbers.
We're pretty much the same, except maybe

705
00:50:21,079 --> 00:50:22,599
a little bit more hitting from him. But let's find out a little bit

706
00:50:22,599 --> 00:50:29,119
more about your Koolik from OURFHL Scout
Jesse Indeed, and all of today's Scout

707
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:34,280
reports on the Buffalo Sabers by the
way, our courtesy of Joshua Rosa FHL

708
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:39,320
Scout Joshua. Thank you, Surah
stick taps. In terms of mister Koolik,

709
00:50:39,639 --> 00:50:44,719
he is a big guy and so
the skating means he uses a big,

710
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,920
powerful stride to make it up and
down the ice quickly. Kulik is

711
00:50:49,079 --> 00:50:52,840
usually one of the first forwards back
in his own zone for defensive help and

712
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:57,880
has speed to break away from defenders
on the fast break. Kulik has some

713
00:50:58,039 --> 00:51:01,599
surprisingly soft hands in tight space is
whether it's deaking around defenders along the wall,

714
00:51:02,119 --> 00:51:07,079
undressing goalies, and breakaways. His
passing is solid, quick and accurate,

715
00:51:07,119 --> 00:51:12,000
but he lacks the standout vision in
pinpoint accuracy of the very best fuck

716
00:51:12,159 --> 00:51:15,679
distributors. In terms of shooting,
Kolik has a hard rister that can be

717
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:21,079
tough for goalies to handle and can
reliably be used to create rebounds and second

718
00:51:21,199 --> 00:51:24,519
chances. Joshua says he's good at
getting his shot off quickly and in tight

719
00:51:24,559 --> 00:51:29,039
spaces, not afraid to get to
the center of the ice and the slot,

720
00:51:29,559 --> 00:51:31,519
which allows him to make the most
of a shot. In terms of

721
00:51:31,559 --> 00:51:35,960
iq being a big body, Koolik
is willing and able to get to the

722
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,840
front of the net for screens and
high danger shots. On the power play.

723
00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:44,239
He's frequently the fulcrum with the puck
or directs traffic with his stick when

724
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:49,480
others have possession. Very positionally aware
whether it's getting too high danger areas in

725
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:54,280
the offensive zone or covering defensively,
Kolik knows he has multiple skills and ways

726
00:51:54,320 --> 00:52:00,920
to get out of dangerous situations and
keeps his head in awe checking. He

727
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:05,199
uses a combination of speed and size
to be an effective ford checker. Kulika

728
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,480
always finishes his checks in the offensive
zone to keep defenders honest. He can

729
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:14,559
keep up with his skating. He
also has excellent hand eye coordination, which

730
00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:17,960
he uses multiple times to break up
saucer or cross ice passes. In terms

731
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,800
of defense, the standout ability for
Kolik corded Joshua is the two hundred foot

732
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,400
game. Generally one of the first
forwards to help back on defense, will

733
00:52:27,559 --> 00:52:31,760
usually cover for pinching defenders in his
own zone. Kolik is fast and physical,

734
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,760
good at footing pressure on opponents,
not afraid of puck battles, and

735
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,559
difficult areas in the ice to make
a defensive play. So that was the

736
00:52:40,559 --> 00:52:45,599
best as set overall that two hundred
foot player ability able to help out defenders

737
00:52:45,599 --> 00:52:50,400
in his own zone and chip in
offensively, big, quick, able to

738
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,280
jump in the fast break and make
it back to break up a play going

739
00:52:53,320 --> 00:53:00,000
the other way. The biggest concern
Joshua was not sure how well his offense

740
00:53:00,119 --> 00:53:02,119
of game will translate to the next
level. He has a good shot in

741
00:53:02,159 --> 00:53:06,719
a good pass, but it might
not be as effective against NHL competition,

742
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,920
and a lack of offensive output may
keep him from being a top line center.

743
00:53:12,599 --> 00:53:16,960
The top outcome that josh twas sees
is a point per game score sixty

744
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:22,559
to eight point score with Elite Bash, a top six center. Ooh,

745
00:53:22,559 --> 00:53:27,679
that would be nice, and that
would be because he's an effective defensive forward

746
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:32,480
in the NHL, the question of
course being the offensive output the fiftieth percentile.

747
00:53:32,519 --> 00:53:37,320
The median outcome that Joshua sees here
would be a sixty to seventy point

748
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:42,559
score with below average BASH or a
fifty to sixty point score with above average

749
00:53:42,679 --> 00:53:47,400
or elite BASH, and that would
be the case if the genuine question marks

750
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:53,000
on his offensive game translating do not
work out well. If Kooley struggles to

751
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:58,159
score like he did earlier in his
career, the ceiling could be only mid

752
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:04,239
six, shutdown type role stylistic comparable. He's got the body and physicality and

753
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:09,199
speed of Pierre Luke du Bois and
the defensive awareness of Philip Denil. Those

754
00:54:09,199 --> 00:54:14,320
would be nice and the final thoughts. Progression that Koulik has made since being

755
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:19,559
drafted has been phenomenal. Originally drafted
as a defensive forward, but since has

756
00:54:19,599 --> 00:54:24,119
added a lot of offensive skill translated
into hl's success. If this upward trajectory

757
00:54:24,159 --> 00:54:29,440
continues, he could very easily become
one of the better second line centers that

758
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:34,239
plays in all situations in all zones. Mason Black the NHL rank. King

759
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:39,199
dared to put Yurie Kulik up against
Maverick Bork of the Dallas Stars, and

760
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:44,719
wouldn't you know it, Koulik came
out ahead of Ork in the end,

761
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:49,679
fifty seven to forty three percent.
Victor, you like mister Bork quite a

762
00:54:49,679 --> 00:54:54,000
bit too, right? Is Koulik
your favorite in this contest? This is

763
00:54:54,119 --> 00:54:59,679
just mean. This is mean by
Mason to put these two up against each

764
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:04,800
other. They're two of my favorites
for sure. Mason's passionate passive aggressiveness has

765
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:09,159
manifested early in the previous season.
I see, no, it's good.

766
00:55:09,199 --> 00:55:14,039
It's good to have two guys that
are both interesting and similar. Bork is

767
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:17,719
two years older than Kulick. They're
both in their second year of the AHL,

768
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,000
and Bork was the player of the
year. I mean, he was

769
00:55:22,039 --> 00:55:25,280
incredible. He was phenomenal for the
Texas Stars. Seventy seven points in seventy

770
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:30,079
one games, four points and two
playoff games are playing tonight as we're recording

771
00:55:30,079 --> 00:55:32,400
this, and he's back in and
they have a really good chance of winning.

772
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,679
So he's awesome. I think it's
hard to compare because he is just

773
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,880
a little bit older, but I
do think that Bork has a little bit

774
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:46,039
more offensive, dynamic offensive ability than
Kolick. That's kind of something that Josh

775
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:51,039
was hinting at as well. Coolick
might just be a better middle six,

776
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,159
energy type, shutdown center, and
I think that's reasonable. I think he

777
00:55:54,199 --> 00:55:58,079
has offensive pop. I think he
could be like a field to o who's

778
00:55:58,119 --> 00:56:02,280
still fantasy relevant but mostly gets defensive
deployment, and you'll hate that as a

779
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:07,440
fantasy GM because you want you always
want your players to have more offensive zone

780
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,119
starts and whatever. I like both
of these guys. I would really want

781
00:56:09,159 --> 00:56:12,360
both of them on my team.
But if if push came to Shoven,

782
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,559
I really had to choose, I
would lean Pork just because I think he

783
00:56:15,679 --> 00:56:20,159
has more of that offensive pop and
I really like the situation in Dallas.

784
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,880
He is a center, I think, but they could also move him to

785
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:28,199
the wing. They're gonna need some
center, some true centers. We've seen

786
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,719
a little bit of that already with
Why Johnston moving to the wing or playing

787
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,920
some center, and they can do
that with Pork too, So it's a

788
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,119
good problem to have. I like
that. In terms of Koli his star

789
00:56:38,199 --> 00:56:40,960
potential, it's been a little bit
low and part of the issue with that

790
00:56:42,119 --> 00:56:45,280
is that Byron didn't have an equivalency
for his D minus ones season, or

791
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,719
really low equivalency, so it looks
poor. But since he's come to North

792
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,760
America, his AHL production has been
solid, and I think you can lean

793
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:58,159
a lot from that and his PNHL
being in that seventy range. He looks

794
00:56:58,199 --> 00:57:01,719
a little bit like Carterifer Hagey in
the Hockey Prospecting model. He also looks

795
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:07,079
like a lot of the guys that
are average producers or busts. He looks

796
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,400
decent in the top down Hockey model
twelve percent chance of being a star,

797
00:57:10,519 --> 00:57:15,800
with eighty three percent chance of being
in NHL ors You'ury Coolick is definitely someone

798
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,119
that I'm interested and I actually got
a couple of shares of him last offseason

799
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,199
when people weren't believing his strong AHL
production. I think that the other issue

800
00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:25,199
is where does he fit in this
Buffalo lineup, because they do have a

801
00:57:25,199 --> 00:57:30,079
lot of skill forwards coming along,
and we I don't know exactly where he

802
00:57:30,119 --> 00:57:32,960
will fit. He might end up
just being more of a matchup player,

803
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,960
which would be that's the reason to
maybe be a little bit worried about coolick,

804
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,440
but I think his skill will shine
through and I think he'll still be

805
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:43,280
a relevant player. If not,
maybe he won't be a seventy plus point

806
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,800
per game guy, but still be
relevant. Lector, I've got him in

807
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,719
the diesel. Come talk to me, Come talk to me. You're a

808
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,239
coolick. Here he is, Victor. Next up, we've got your need

809
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:59,719
to know prospect. Who is it? Need to know? Is Matthew Savoy

810
00:57:59,079 --> 00:58:04,239
twenty two, ninth overall pick.
He's still small, only five and sevy

811
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:08,760
nine pounds. Played mostly in the
WHL. He did get one NHL game,

812
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:12,400
played a few HL games. He
was all over the place, but

813
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,679
he did have five points in six
HL games, which was nice. Then

814
00:58:15,719 --> 00:58:23,320
he went back to the WHL where
the franchise moved from Manitoba to Winachi to

815
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:28,320
be the one Acchi Wild and he
then got traded to Moose Jaw. So

816
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,039
he's been all over the place.
I think that's tough for a young player,

817
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:35,000
but he's handled it well. He's
produced really well for Moose Jaw and

818
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:37,719
looks like really good in the playoffs
as well. That's pretty much what you

819
00:58:37,719 --> 00:58:43,840
could ask from him from what he
had to go through, and he his

820
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,039
NHL his player card from Mitch Brown, it looks stellar. I mean his

821
00:58:47,119 --> 00:58:51,360
offense, transition defense, it all
looks really good. There's a lot of

822
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:55,280
blue on the card seven percent overall. The transition games a little bit low,

823
00:58:55,280 --> 00:59:00,280
but offense defense both similar, and
that's great to see. You look

824
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,039
at his FHL player card and you
can see that the hits and blocks are

825
00:59:02,039 --> 00:59:06,840
a little bit low, but the
shots are high, the points are high.

826
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,320
All that looks really good. And
we need to hear a little bit

827
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:13,840
more about what makes Matthew Savoy tech. So let's hear that from OURFHL scout.

828
00:59:14,719 --> 00:59:19,920
Yes, Sir Joshua once again says
of Savoy's skating. While he's not

829
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,000
an out and out speedster, he
is a fast skater who regularly uses his

830
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:28,880
breakaway speed to create distance between himself
and defenders. Takes advantage of fast breaks

831
00:59:29,239 --> 00:59:34,440
in terms of passing in handling.
Savoy's offensive skills those are his bread and

832
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,559
butter, the passing and handling.
They really shine on the bower play with

833
00:59:37,599 --> 00:59:43,199
plenty of time and space. Killer
combination of skill and IQ slash creativity that

834
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:46,719
it can be difficult to tell what
Savoy is going to do next. He

835
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:52,480
can beat defenders with slick stick handling
or make small adjustments to get the perfect

836
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:58,000
shot or pass off around defenders.
For shooting, there was one goal where

837
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:00,639
Joshua said he had rewind a couple
of times to see where and how exactly

838
01:00:00,679 --> 01:00:05,880
the shot even went in. Savoy
can get a heavy, accurate shot off

839
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:08,920
really quickly, definitely second to stick
handling in terms of his top skills,

840
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:13,280
but a big enough threat to keep
defenders and goalies true on the shot.

841
01:00:14,159 --> 01:00:17,719
For the IQ, Savoy has a
brain for offense, excels in all facets,

842
01:00:17,719 --> 01:00:22,280
seems to live for the puck on
his stick and pretty much always makes

843
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,559
a good decision with the puck.
Sometimes he can force passes, but generally

844
01:00:25,599 --> 01:00:30,719
he has the skill to pull off
some beautiful and surprising passes in plays,

845
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:35,639
especially dangerous on the fast break,
whether that's alone and depending on his handles

846
01:00:35,679 --> 01:00:38,320
and shot, or with a teammate, giving him even more options for for

847
01:00:38,559 --> 01:00:43,880
checking. While Joshua doesn't see Savoy
as a standout for checker, he can

848
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,960
use his speed in low center of
gravity to be quite unannoying presence to opposing

849
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:52,760
defenders. For defense, Savoy did
get penalty kill time this year and it

850
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,239
didn't look out of place. He
has an active stick in the defensive zone,

851
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:59,719
but sometimes with that lack of size
only being five to ten one seventy

852
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:05,360
nine, that got him into trouble. Best asset the offensive IQ and skill

853
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,719
in all facets of the offensive game. The biggest concern once again the size

854
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:14,719
and the defense, and josh Joshua
says he's never going to be a Selki

855
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:19,320
nominee, and big defenders might cause
some trouble when there's less time to work.

856
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:24,199
The top tier outcome tier one point
per game plus player elite offensive talent,

857
01:01:24,559 --> 01:01:29,000
and that would be what would happen
if all of his potential skills to

858
01:01:29,039 --> 01:01:31,679
be an elite first line player came
together. He could skate, he could

859
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:36,079
score, he could pass, not
a liability in his own zone. That's

860
01:01:36,119 --> 01:01:39,159
what it would look like for him
to come out in his top outcome fifty

861
01:01:39,199 --> 01:01:45,480
percentile roll seventy to eighty point score
with below average BASH or a sixty to

862
01:01:45,519 --> 01:01:50,519
seventy point score with above average or
elite bash. The justification. That's what

863
01:01:50,559 --> 01:01:53,360
would happen if he's at least a
power play specialist and a middle six forward.

864
01:01:53,679 --> 01:01:58,519
The biggest problem fantasy wise, is
that if he's not producing points,

865
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:04,760
he likely won't be doing much else. The stylistic comparable hold on to your

866
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:08,679
buckets here, Savoy could become a
Brayton point type player, great versatile forward

867
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:14,480
that threatens one hundred points. Oh
boy, it would be shocking to Joshua

868
01:02:14,519 --> 01:02:19,679
if Matthew Savoy isn't a full time
NHL player soon and not having a positive

869
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,719
offensive impact, especially if he's paired
with another great young offensive talent who tilts

870
01:02:23,719 --> 01:02:30,599
the ice and drives play like no
one else. M Zach Benson him the

871
01:02:30,639 --> 01:02:32,679
futures Bright and Buffalo. Savoy is
a big part of that. Our friend

872
01:02:32,719 --> 01:02:39,440
Mason Black the NHL rank King pot
Matthew Savoy up against one of my favorites,

873
01:02:39,519 --> 01:02:43,239
Danilla, You're off, and I
think Victory you might be coming onto

874
01:02:43,239 --> 01:02:46,159
You're off, although he's still my
off. Not You're off Matthew Savoy versus

875
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:52,239
Danilla You're off of the Minnesota Wild
and You're Off actually defeats Matthew Savoy.

876
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:58,360
I think maybe the twitterati might have
a little lower opinion of Savoy than our

877
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:02,440
guy Joshua did. What about the
deciding voat of Victor Nunill. Yeah,

878
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:07,000
we've come on a long way from
the moment where I declared that you're off

879
01:03:07,039 --> 01:03:10,559
your rocker for liking Danilla so much. Jesse, I think he has come

880
01:03:10,599 --> 01:03:15,519
a long way. Actually just wrote
about him for a ramblings for ap Rings

881
01:03:15,559 --> 01:03:22,320
side. It's actually incredible what you're
off has done. He just played for

882
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:28,960
He just had the most points on
his KHL team Metalluric Magnetic Gorsk. He

883
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:34,400
had the most points on the team, which maybe is okay, maybe that's

884
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,440
not impressive, but remember there's a
lot of older established players on this team

885
01:03:37,519 --> 01:03:40,599
and he is not that. And
he had forty nine points in sixty two

886
01:03:40,639 --> 01:03:44,639
games. So some players had more
games than him and didn't have more points

887
01:03:44,639 --> 01:03:47,719
he had. He beat the next
best by eight points, and he did

888
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:52,199
so while having the twelfth most ice
time twelve. He was only twelveth in

889
01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:58,880
ice time for the leading scorer.
That's ridiculous to me. And what's even

890
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:01,960
worse is I think he had who
was the thirteenth most power play time on

891
01:04:02,039 --> 01:04:06,280
ice. These are absurd numbers that
he had and he made the most of

892
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:12,800
it on the KHL winning Gargan Cup
championship team. So It's not like he

893
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:15,320
was doing it for some no name
team that didn't matter and wasn't trying to

894
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:20,760
win. He's leading his team to
the Cup with very little ice time,

895
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:25,440
So I'm very impressed by that.
With your off, I do think the

896
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:29,079
Pinochilly of eighty four that might be
slightly inflated. But do you think he

897
01:04:29,079 --> 01:04:31,599
can be a seventy to eighty point
guy. And I think there's more proof

898
01:04:31,599 --> 01:04:38,039
of concept there for him than there
is with Savoy, who's still playing against

899
01:04:38,119 --> 01:04:42,639
junior competition. So I would definitely
take your off here, and I think

900
01:04:42,679 --> 01:04:46,599
that there's a really good chance that
he gels with Courtel Caprisov on that top

901
01:04:46,639 --> 01:04:50,159
line from Minnesota. Now we are
going to have to wait, unfortunately,

902
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:56,280
because he is signed You're off is
signed for one more year in the KHL,

903
01:04:56,679 --> 01:05:00,519
so that's going to be unfortunate.
But it's not too much much longer

904
01:05:00,559 --> 01:05:02,400
that we'll have to wait to see
him come over. And remember he still

905
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:06,079
is pretty young, so you love
to see that. But back to Savoy,

906
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:11,400
I know that back in the day
we talked about the comparisons of Braiden

907
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:15,719
Point and Joel Henderson said all the
reasons why Matthew Savoy is not going to

908
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:19,719
be Braden point two point zero,
but it seems like he has made some

909
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:24,440
improvements in the areas that were question
marks for him. So you love to

910
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:28,039
see that. He loved to see
players improving. Of course, we need

911
01:05:28,079 --> 01:05:30,360
to see him in the AHL,
which will happen this year. He turned

912
01:05:30,639 --> 01:05:34,320
on New Year's Day, he turned
twenty, so he'll be in the HL

913
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,960
next season, so it'll be really
good to see how his offense translates.

914
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,239
So yeah, he's definitely still a
really good smart player. It's just a

915
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,880
question of how well all that offense
is going to translate. He looks really

916
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,199
good in the Hockey Prospecting Model,
sixty six percent chance of being star.

917
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,599
Looks really good, basically a lock
to be in NHL or his equivalence.

918
01:05:51,599 --> 01:05:56,039
He looks a little higher than your
offs actually in this model. But I'm

919
01:05:56,079 --> 01:05:59,480
not going to vote against the guy
that who just lit up the KHL with

920
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:02,360
very few minutes. That was really
impressive. But in terms of Savoy looking

921
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:06,960
at his comps in the Hockey Prospecting
Model, gradon point is there that is

922
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,159
one mkil Grantlin I think is one
that's maybe a little bit more realistic.

923
01:06:11,719 --> 01:06:14,760
And of course Grantland's still playing not
the player he used to be, but

924
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:17,000
had some pretty relevant seasons, and
I think Savoy could end up being like

925
01:06:17,039 --> 01:06:21,079
that. The top down Hockey model
really likes Savoy has him at thirty two

926
01:06:21,079 --> 01:06:25,320
percent chance of being a star,
and he's number six in this data set.

927
01:06:25,679 --> 01:06:29,639
Pretty high. Yeah, I think
that there's a pretty good likelihood that

928
01:06:29,719 --> 01:06:32,719
Savoy is amongst those top forwards in
Buffalo. That's going to be very crowded

929
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:36,440
here very soon, Jesse, yep, and you're off. By the way,

930
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,440
his team did win the Gagarian Cup. They are the champions of the

931
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:45,000
Gaugel right now, Victor last up
to keep your eye on prospect? Who

932
01:06:45,039 --> 01:06:50,719
is it? Noah Oastland is the
keep your eye on. So he was

933
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:55,920
twenty twenty two to sixteenth overall,
pick five to eleven hundred and sixty three

934
01:06:55,920 --> 01:07:00,199
pounds, twenty three points in thirty
eight games for Valuo Vaccio value. I'm

935
01:07:00,199 --> 01:07:04,079
not sure how to say that Lakers
of the SHL. He also played in

936
01:07:04,079 --> 01:07:08,159
the World Juniors for Sweden ten points
in seven games. He was really great

937
01:07:08,199 --> 01:07:12,960
in that tournament. He played a
couple games for the Rochester Americans. He's

938
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,639
on loan right now and getting in
some games in North America, which is

939
01:07:15,719 --> 01:07:19,639
really nice to see. He's also
ap peered in a couple of playoff games.

940
01:07:20,519 --> 01:07:25,519
In his tracking data from the World
Juniors, he was outstanding. A

941
01:07:25,519 --> 01:07:30,360
lot of blue there, a lot
of offense transition game looks excellent. His

942
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:32,360
defense a little bit lower. But
I do think he's a good two way

943
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:39,599
center and his primary port involvement and
game score all that looks excellent. If

944
01:07:39,639 --> 01:07:42,960
I look at his Fantasy Hockey Life
player card, one thing that isn't represented

945
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,960
here that I know he is pretty
good at his face off wins. He

946
01:07:45,079 --> 01:07:48,239
is a center. I do think
he'll be a center at the NHL level,

947
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:51,639
even though he's five to eleven.
I think he's probably good down the

948
01:07:51,639 --> 01:07:56,639
middle. For that. His FHL
player card doesn't show anything as a major

949
01:07:56,719 --> 01:07:59,840
standout skill. He is playing in
a really tough league, the SHLS.

950
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:01,400
A young player. He played most
of this season as a nineteen year old,

951
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:05,039
so he'll be twenty next season.
But most of his metrics didn't look

952
01:08:05,119 --> 01:08:08,960
that great. He's not a volume
shooter. He doesn't hit a block too

953
01:08:09,039 --> 01:08:12,599
much, so some of those other
peripheral things aren't super great for Oceland,

954
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,520
but he is a pretty good play
driver. So let's find out a little

955
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:20,960
bit more about Oceland from rftel Scout
Indeed, and what did Joshua have to

956
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:26,680
say about Noah Oaceland his skating.
He's a dynamic and fast skater, able

957
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:30,239
to pick up a lot of speed
quickly, maneuver at high speeds, uses

958
01:08:30,239 --> 01:08:32,359
his speed to break in on a
pass, break make it back on the

959
01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:38,159
defensive end. Strength for Oceland has
improved since his draft yere, allowing him

960
01:08:38,199 --> 01:08:44,039
to withstand more physical pressure from defenders
and even add more explosiveness in his stride.

961
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:47,439
As far as passing and handling,
Oceland's main strength in the offensive zone

962
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:53,039
is that passing in handling, sometimes
to his detriment. In the offensive zone,

963
01:08:53,239 --> 01:08:56,479
he is the clear setup man,
and he does that very well with

964
01:08:56,560 --> 01:09:00,319
his slick hands to handcuff defenders in
great vision to execut who passes to teammates.

965
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:05,439
His fast hands open up tons of
passing lanes which he attacks constantly.

966
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:10,520
Unfortunately, he can rely too much
on his passing and often passes up premier

967
01:09:10,640 --> 01:09:14,800
shooting opportunities. So as far as
the shooting, the worst part of the

968
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,760
shooting is that he doesn't do it
often enough, says Joshua. Definitely runs

969
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:24,279
far more comfortably as a passer and
that limits his offensive potential. Generally uses

970
01:09:24,319 --> 01:09:28,880
his speed and hands to put himself
into high dangerous situations where a quite accurate

971
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:32,079
risk is his best weapon. While
not a particularly heavy shot, it's a

972
01:09:32,119 --> 01:09:38,640
pretty accurate one in terms of IQ. This is Osland's greatest skill. According

973
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:43,399
to Joshua, everything in his game
stems from the IQ in division. Constantly

974
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:47,880
finds weak points in the opponent's defenses
attacks them quickly, whether with speed or

975
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:54,399
hands to turn defenders inside out on
the fast break or opening up passing lanes

976
01:09:54,399 --> 01:09:58,479
and firing a cross iized pass onto
the stick of a teammate. For for

977
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,800
checking, Ostland does an admirable for
checker, using his speed and work ethic

978
01:10:02,159 --> 01:10:06,199
to be a pest for opponent defenders. He doesn't always have the greatest read

979
01:10:06,279 --> 01:10:11,319
on defenders, but at least puts
pressure and takes away time for the breakout.

980
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:15,479
The added lower body strength has helped
them with physical pressure, which will

981
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:18,960
only continue to improve. For defense. Similar to the Ford checking Oceland is

982
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:23,760
a dogged defender who can get a
little bit of tunnel vision and does get

983
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:28,399
caught watching. His speed makes him
an asset when getting back for the backcheck.

984
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:30,960
He rarely takes a shift off in
either zone, which makes him at

985
01:10:31,039 --> 01:10:35,920
least an adequate defender in all shifts. So the best asset was the terrific

986
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:41,960
passing and the stick handling, using
those along with speed to find offensive opportunities

987
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:46,760
for himself and more frequently for his
teammates. The biggest concern it was the

988
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:50,760
goal scoring Oceland, it will likely
never light the lamp consistently at the top

989
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:55,760
level. Per Joshua, size could
be an issue. He also tends to

990
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:59,920
stay outside the offensive zone and could
use a bit more presence in the center

991
01:11:00,039 --> 01:11:03,479
of the eyes to become fully effective. The top outcome that Joshua says could

992
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:10,880
come from Oastland's game would be a
point per game elite offensive talent. That's

993
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,000
if he's paired with an elite goal
scorer. He could be a dominant setup

994
01:11:14,039 --> 01:11:18,439
man and rackup asss like crazy,
and can compete and muscle defenders on the

995
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:23,439
for check. The fiftieth percentile that
would be a bit lower than that,

996
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:28,800
maybe to sevent to eighty with above
average. Bash Olslan drives enough play,

997
01:11:29,119 --> 01:11:32,560
provides enough positive impact on both sides
of the puck that he should have a

998
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:38,000
solid middle six potential. May struggle
to find the net enough to reach first

999
01:11:38,039 --> 01:11:44,479
line potential, relies on teammates to
finish his passing and setups. Stylistic comparable

1000
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:47,159
and again I don't know if we're
talking about the outcome quite so much as

1001
01:11:47,159 --> 01:11:53,119
the archetype here, folks. Henrik
Sedin stylistically Mitch Martner in the stickhandley,

1002
01:11:53,199 --> 01:11:59,920
skills and passing and preferences set up
rather than shoot. And Joshua just comment

1003
01:12:00,119 --> 01:12:02,479
he's such a fun player to watch. His Oastland combination of speed, skill

1004
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:06,479
and tenacity makes him very entertaining.
And when he makes it to Buffalo,

1005
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:13,199
josh Will predicts Noah Oasland will be
a fan favorite. Mason Black put out

1006
01:12:13,239 --> 01:12:17,159
the pole, put out the call, no Oasland, Fabian Lisell of the

1007
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Boston Bruins, and Oceland came out
in a decisive victory sixty five to thirty

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five percent victor. What do you
think of that result? Yeah? I

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like it. I think that if
you depending on what you want here,

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because I think Oceland being a center. That's a little bit trickier to project

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01:12:39,399 --> 01:12:42,640
because where is he gonna fit down
the middle? Is he gonna get bumped

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down the lineup because they already have
some other centers there. That's that's conceivable,

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01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:49,800
right. You could see him maybe
having to play more of a third

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01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:54,720
line role because of that, but
he could also stick in the top six

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and slide over to the wing.
I do think he's a pretty great play

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driver. He's one of the Swiss
Army knife players that you can put in

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any situation. As a coach,
you're really happy and comfortable with him.

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So I think that, as Josh
said, he'll be a fan favorite player.

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01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:13,159
The fans will really like him.
He's never takes a shift off.

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He's always any situation kind of player, which is great for the team.

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01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:20,199
Does he have that huge offensive dynamic
offensive ability. I don't think so,

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01:13:20,399 --> 01:13:26,560
but he's just so good at leveraging
all his skills to put it all together

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and be productive. Lisel is very
interesting because I do think he's done really

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01:13:31,079 --> 01:13:35,479
well for Providence and he's shown that
he can hang in the HL. I'm

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01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:40,079
still surprised that he hasn't gotten more
of a look in the NHL so far

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01:13:40,239 --> 01:13:45,600
to this point, none, but
Boston is a really good team, and

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that may be maybe why they'll be
a little bit more cautious with Lisel.

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01:13:48,359 --> 01:13:51,840
I think if I was an NHL
team, obviously I'm taking Oastland. If

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01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:56,399
I'm a fantasy GM, I think
I probably would lean Lisel, just because

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I think there's more ability for him
to slide up the depth chart, especially

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01:14:00,039 --> 01:14:02,520
on the left side there. I
mean, Marshan's getting up there like that

1032
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:06,000
potential, whereas Oslan, I'm not
sure he could slide all the way to

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the top line because being a center, unless he just becomes a pure winger,

1034
01:14:11,239 --> 01:14:14,279
which I doubt, I think they'd
like him more in that two or

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01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:17,960
three C role, and so that
might limit his opportunity a bit. He

1036
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:24,039
does have a little bit more fantasy
hockey or hockey prospecting star potential does Oslan

1037
01:14:24,159 --> 01:14:28,159
than Lisel? Like twelve percent compared
to the one percent that Leasel has,

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01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,119
and Oslan actually a pretty good comparable
here to Lucas Raymond. I think that's

1039
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a pretty reasonable outcome. The main
difference here is Raymond's definitely a winger and

1040
01:14:36,159 --> 01:14:41,279
Ocelan seems more like a center.
But I think you could expect similar outcome,

1041
01:14:41,359 --> 01:14:44,840
especially if Ocelan slides over to the
wing a little bit. And I

1042
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:48,840
should mention that the j Fresh card
is a little less optimistic about Ocelan,

1043
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:53,199
has him had just two percent chance
of being a star and six percent chance

1044
01:14:53,239 --> 01:14:56,800
of being in NHL or so a
little bit more pessimistic on him, but

1045
01:14:57,119 --> 01:15:00,079
Jesse, that's going to wrap up
our dynasy digg for the Buffalo Sabers.

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If you're a patreon you can listen
to my top ten prospect recap per team

1047
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,560
on Patreon, and if you're sending
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01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:12,239
DM on Twitter, Discord, or
email us. Right after this, we'll

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01:15:12,239 --> 01:15:24,119
close out the Sabers. A couple
of things to mention before we get out

1050
01:15:24,159 --> 01:15:26,680
of here today. One of them
is are shows brought to you by fan

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tracks. You can move leagues over
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1052
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,680
If you're playing Dynasty in some other
inferior platform, you can start new

1053
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:35,720
leagues. There's ten different sports you
could be playing there, most options for

1054
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:41,600
scoring, salaries, contracts, rookie
eligibility. It's pretty much where I'm trying

1055
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:45,079
to play everything these days because it's
the only platform that can handle me.

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01:15:45,279 --> 01:15:50,159
Fan Tracks has lots of fantasy content
in their fantracks HQ feature. There's articles

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01:15:50,159 --> 01:15:55,279
on fantasy hockey and other sports.
There are a lot of people helping us

1058
01:15:55,319 --> 01:15:59,680
to do what we do. We
thank our entire FHL crew content curator Kevin

1059
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:03,239
Adams, no Buffalo fans, not
that Kevin Adams what I think Kevin put

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01:16:03,279 --> 01:16:08,439
that in the notes our Kevin has
been helping out with show prep and automation.

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01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:12,760
He's doing some cool things for this
prep. I know only I care,

1062
01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:16,319
but still, Ryan Downey helps COMMISSI
our Tidy League's affectionately known as the

1063
01:16:16,359 --> 01:16:21,199
Tidy Admiral. Jeremy Vee is our
lead scout. Jason helps with the prospect

1064
01:16:21,319 --> 01:16:27,439
ranks. Brandon demand behind the curtain
for the website Fantasy Hockey Life dot com

1065
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:31,319
and he's a scout and is helping
with prospect ranks and visualizations. If you've

1066
01:16:31,319 --> 01:16:34,520
got skills you'd like to lend the
show, I think we could be looking

1067
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:40,600
for some extra help coming up soon. Victor. That's not a bad thing,

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01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:45,000
it's not ominous, but Victor will
always take your talents, take your

1069
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:48,600
willingness to put your hand up hit
him up in the discord at email or

1070
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:54,319
on X We're brought to you also
by Daber Hockey and Daber Prospects. Victor

1071
01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:58,279
is an editor there. Followers work
there as well as his other podcast,

1072
01:16:58,319 --> 01:17:02,560
Dabber prospect Report Peter Harling. Be
sure to check out Victor's articles at EP

1073
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:08,039
Ringside, where he's part of the
fantasy team with Cam Robinson and Mike Clifford.

1074
01:17:08,399 --> 01:17:11,439
I do a solo show, Dynasty
Sports Life. I talk multiple different

1075
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:15,800
Dynasty Sports sometimes multiple at the same
time. Not entirely sure how this week's

1076
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,479
gonna go, but we'll see.
Hang on with me. Hopefully there'll be

1077
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:23,119
an episode out on Tuesday. Follow
the show on X I am at Fan

1078
01:17:23,239 --> 01:17:29,319
Hockey Life. Victor is Victor Nuno
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01:17:29,319 --> 01:17:33,000
two. You can rate and review
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1080
01:17:33,119 --> 01:17:38,199
else you get podcasts. It's much
appreciated at this time of year to keep

1081
01:17:38,279 --> 01:17:41,439
us a little bit, a little
bit of spotlight, a little bit of

1082
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:45,600
sunshine showing on this show, because
we're already thinking about twenty twenty four,

1083
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:50,079
twenty five, we're already on Team
three. I believe is this two,

1084
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:55,520
this is three. I don't know. It's just another stage in this fantasy

1085
01:17:55,600 --> 01:18:06,159
hockey life.