Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks, your source of information
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Victor nun Yo Fantasy Hockey Live here once again to talk about the fantasy hockey.
It's the new season. It's twenty twenty three, twenty four, as
far as we're concerned. Jesse Severe from Fan Tracks and joining me. The
man who will prophesy everything that happens in the coming season, it is Victor
nun Yo. Victor, how you doing. I'm doing awesome, Jesse,
I prophesize. I guess that's a that's that's a good, good way of
doing it. Yeah, definitely. Hopefully people have enjoying these, uh these
team previews. We we enjoy them. There's a lot of the moving parts.
Try to make them as as optimal as possible. I know we're starting
early, but that's the way it's got to be, Jesse. You dang
right. And just like a lot of NHL teams do during the season,
the East Coast teams go and make the quote California trip where they play all
three of the California teams at once. We're going to come close to that.
We're our next couple of episodes are both trips to Cali. Unfortunately,
those dan Kings, we're good enough that they are going to be a little
bit later in the process this year. But San Jose is up today and
we're gonna talk about the team that is Victor's closest and the one that he
has followed for a very long time, the San Jose Sharks. Where do
you think, Victor, is this episode going to depress you? Or are
you going to be indifferent? Are you stoic? Are you optimistic? Describe
your emotions at this moment. Well, every team has opportunities that you can
exploit as a fantasy GM and that's how I look at it. So there's
always there's always diamonds to be mined, and that's really what it's all about.
I think in terms of the way the team has been rebuilt or retooled,
it's it's just really frustrating, I would say, because they should have
traded Meyer and Hurdle and you know whoever else years ago. You know when
they had when they had that year of Meyer where he was had a good
salary and he had one or two more years. That's when I was saying,
you got to you gotta trade this guy because you're gonna get a lot
for him. And they ended up getting, you know, a modest return
because he's a UFA. So just a little bit of frustration and how how
the team has been run. But I think the career is doing things differently,
so we will see, we will see. I was selfishly, of
course wanting but Gard to fall in San Jose because well, it is a
team I rooted for for a long time. But also I could watch him
live. I'm really close to San Jose, so I could drive thirty minutes
and watch, and so sure I could watch when the Blackhawks come to town.
That's always a popular ticket because they're a popular team. Original six teams
are. But it didn't happen, and that's fine. We'll see how it
goes with whoever they pick. Yeah, as you can tell, we are
always a little time shifted in these team previews because we have to stack them
up, but we have to get them when we can get the guests.
But we're finally living in the present that you all are where Connorbadard, it's
going to be a Chicago Blackhawk, So take that for what it's worth.
But Victor, you know, we're all fantasy hockey nihilists because when we get
far enough into this whole thing, we have to kind of move aside from
our loyalties to our favorite teams to looking at the leagues as a whole.
So I would ask you, Victor, people need to study the stuff,
and you have lots of stuff in what we call a Patreon, So why
don't you tell people as we get started today what they can find if they
choose to go way deep into that. Yeah, definitely, we got a
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That was something that patrons wanted and I'm happy to do that. So
we did one for Chicago right before they won Baguard. That was really good
timing, but we'll continue to do those. We also have, of course,
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gonna get us off to a start. Victor, I'm I'm warmed up,
I've got a little bit of a sweat on, I'm stretched, and I'm
ready to talk to San Jose Sharks with our guests right after this, join
it us once again for at least the second year in a row, in
hopefully many more. Chanpang of San Jose Hockey now to talk about the San
Jose Sharks. Shang, how are you doing today? Good? How are
you guys dying? Excellent? Excellent? Ready to talk a little West Coast
hockey. Uh yeah, it's it's interesting team to be covering, though we
got to get into him a little bit. It's rough times in San Jose.
Many they definitely sold this year. They got a few things of value
in return for Brent Burns, Aiden Hill in the preseason, Timo Meyer,
Jacob Nieto, Vladine Mestekoff, Nick Benino, mikey Esimont, while they got
Flademestecof for him on and then they flipped him again toward the trade deadline,
and they picked up some kind of depth picks in the in the draft.
Truth is, there weren't a lot of assets that you know, to move
from the team who didn't already have a really big contract like good old ek
sixty five will get to him. The performance wasn't quite bad enough to get
the top pick, but it also wasn't particularly good. In a cruel twist,
they got rid of Martin Jones, and their team save percentage actually dropped
from nine hundred to a league worst eight eighty one. Uh shang, I
hate to come in hot like this. I'm not trying to depress anybody or
throw off the start. Doing a good enough job of that, Okay,
all right, I didn't take it down too bad of a row. But
what do you does Saint Jose you think after this year, obviously we're we're
looking to the future. It's a it's it's a tank one, we're another.
Do you think they did everything they could to turbo charge this rebuild and
how do you think this season went from that perspective? Well, from the
reboil perspective, I think it went pretty well. Actually, um, especially
after the or around the trade their line after they traded Tiamo Meyer. Uh,
Mike, we really tried his best too, you know, as they
say, a players and coaches don't tank, but organizations do. Mike tried
his best there. So I know a lot of fans are upset about that
little three game winning streak that they had ended the season that took them out
of the top lottery odds. I get that, But they had four wins.
I think after the Timomyer trade it just so happened at three of them
happened, you know, right back to back to back. So four wins
was the least in the league, I believe. From from that point on,
I don't remember who they're tied with, one of the you know,
other bottom dwelling teams, but so anyway, the Sharks. The Sharks tried,
uh try to try to try to try to tank there and um they
tried to win during the off season in a kind of a bye way by
you know, adding a certain type of player, a high compete uh competent
NHL player, guys like Sturm and Benning and so on. And it worked
insofar as the team. I think most people would agree that even the eye
tests and the analytics back it up too. That up to the point the
Mayer trade or a little bit before that, the All Star break or whatever,
the team was actually playing. You know, their record wasn't great,
they weren't in the playoffs, they weren't close to it. But uh,
just watching them, they looked like a better team, a better team than
their than their record. And they did end up with a sixteen overtime shootout
losses, which is second in the league to Calgary I think, and the
record to give the idea of for that status eighteen, you know, since
the shootout was introduced. So the Sharks had a lot, they were in
a lot of close games and they just you know, manage to to lose
almost all of them. That at the end there, um, so Anyway,
the big picture of the of the rebuild once Mike saw that his team
wasn't really kind of spinning its wheels a little bit. If you remember in
November, um, you know, we we you know Eric Carlson's that admits
at the beginning of a renaissance season, it's still early in the season,
even though that the team started zero five and zero and Micros already talking,
putting out there that yeah, everybody's for a fur trade. Everybody's available,
and you know, I'll listen on anybody, and so he you know,
so so so he tried, you know, if he saw early on,
Okay, this isn't quite gonna work, and so let's let's try to get
what we can for these guys. Um. The answer the final part about
you know, the full like if they want like a full tilt for for
a rebuild wall, it's hard to because, um, even if you manage
to trade a lot of the big contracts, right Carlson, Hurdle, lastic
coutur Um, you just they're very hard to trade. And if you really
want to supercharge or rebuild, you trade those contracts, but then you end
up with lopsided deals like Red Burns which you know, fans are killing my
career four. But Mike really didn't have much of a negotiating position there.
You know, Burns had a three team trade clause, so Burns had to
agree to go to and Carolina wasn't on that three team list, so the
Burns had to agree to go where where where Careers sent him. Uh.
You know, Burns was thirty seven, three years left on his contract.
Um, it's a lot of concern about that, like how he would hold
up over the life of that contract. Obviously right now it looks like as
still for Carolina. But you know, if your shark stands and you're willing
to take you know, two quarters three quarters on a dollar uh out our
lastics case, even maybe less than that, Like if you're okay with that,
then you can super charge or red build. But otherwise, um,
you know you can. You got to kind of hold onto some of these
guys. I mean, they have more value to you on the ice than
than trading them for you know, I'd reduced a discounts. Yeah, great,
great insight there, shang it. You know, I think for me,
the only thing I would say is that I don't think Mike had a
whole lot of options. I wish and I was advocating for some of these
guys to be moved the year before, especially when Meyer had that extra year.
You know, I think he could have garnered a lot more when he
had that extra year of his contract. But at this point, as you
said, like his hands were really pretty tired, and the fact that he
got a player that we'll talk about later, and you know, for the
team of Meyer deal, and you know some of the other things that he's
been able to do. It's it's a start, right, It's a it's
a move in the right direction, right right. Yeah, Philosophically, I
think the organization is going the right direction. Uh. Last you know,
Doug Wilson might might have resigned Timo Meyer, which might have tried to,
which is uh, you know, Timo is a great player, but not
the right move for a rebuild and the Doug Wilson regime, even though it
was Joel who officially signed him, resigned Thomas Hurtle to the eight your extension.
Not sure obviously that was the right move for for a rebuild. And
so yeah, so I think at least Mike is um. Mike is doing
things the right way, even if you have him, liked all the returns
that he's gotten for Birds and you know Admyer definitely. And speaking of one
of those players that we just mentioned, Thomas Hurtle, we're gonna start with
our forwards and he's the first guy we're going to talk about. The one
of the one of the best forward is one of the best players left on
the team. We'll mention some of the ranks and stuff that we had so
last preseason I had him at eighty third and Jesse had fifty five. He
was kind of in between their ranking seventy one for fantasy. We both have
him around that for a Tier two type player next year. The fact that
Hurtle's point pace held steady at sixty five point pace from previous year sixty four,
that was pretty impressive with far less talent around him. He had similar
time on ice and power play, and an increase in power play time on
ice, and the twenty two power play points he had this past season were
a career high, though most of those were with Timo Meyer and certainly Eric
Carlsson helped out a great deal in that area. One thing that I noticed
is that his defensive expected goals against per sixty went way down this season,
normally a really good two way forward, and certainly the environment around him had
a lot to do with that, I am sure, but overall, still
a very impactful forward. His PDO and shooting percentage actually suggests that Hurtle might
have deserved a few more points, maybe a little bit closer to seventy or
over that. So, Shan, what should we expect from Toomas Hurtle next
year? Yeah, I think about what he's done to the last couple of
years in terms of fantasy, maybe a few more goals. Like you mentioned,
he kind of took on more of a shooting shooting role when Timomayer left,
and the Sharks aren't I don't believe they're gonna have anybody of a teamost
Paliber this offseason, and so Tomas Turtle will be looked to to score some
goals here, and so I think that he will. He will kind of
a meet that past a head on. And you mentioned that even though this
was considered a down year for Tomash that he still was a pretty productive and
so yeah, I expect this and actually maybe a little bit more next year.
Logan could sure is the next guy up. Victor and I both had
him kind of back into the top one hundred and tier three guys. Last
year, actually he was the sixty sixth best Fantasy hockey forward and for the
coming year. Victor says tier two, I say tier three. He had
twenty seven goals, forty assists sixty seven points in eighty two games as the
centerman. There a really kind of a sneakily decent year for the captain,
his best scoring rate per minute since twenty eighteen nineteen, A solid eighty two
game season even in rough waters for the Sharks. Of course, he'd better
be good. He's eight million per year for another four seasons after this one.
But unsurprisingly, with his week surrounding cast, things went way better with
him on the ice than without him. The Sharks were much worse when he
wasn't out there. The power play, for example, dropped like a rock
when he wasn't on the ice. If you look at the wowie the with
or without you rates of cture, the two guys he was best with last
year, Esimon and Meyer, are both gone, so that's a bad sign
for his continued production. So I guess you know, we don't know what
this team is going to bring back or bring in next year. But are
we gonna be able to see another year of sixty five steady points with good
black shots, hits, Bash or will age and the attrition of talent around
Coacher finally chip away at his expected production. Well on the age party,
you'd never know, because Logan is you know, approach right pretty much right
at his mid thirties. I think he's gonna be thirty four, So it
can happen anytime, but we really have no idea when that will happen.
Based on this year, we did not see too much slippage or any really
at all, and so yeah, so I think there's a good chance that
Logan can repeat this. I think he's as good a players as he was
this year, a couple of years ago, three years ago. I think
the two big questions for Logan are first, if he can stay healthy.
He managed to stay healthy this year, which is not always the norm for
a guy that walks a lot of shots and is always involved on the two
way end. You know, it gets himself hurt that way, and so
don't don't know if he can repeat that part of it. And the second
part of it, this goes for tomash hurdle too, right now, the
Sharks are bringing back one, one competent, one guy that we know can
score points at NHL, and that's Alexander Barrabona. They have not learned to
to clone or to triplicate at bearer bon Off, So they're gonna have to
one of the one of these centers is gonna get bar Bonds to play with
one of them, won't um Glass year Tomash Hurdle for most of the season
played with Chimo Meyer until Chimo was treated, So Hurdle had that, you
know, to kind of uh to kind of pick up his points and to
help him out. But then again, next year they're looking like they might
only have one such one such player, unless, of course, one of
the younger players steps in and feels that role. I know we'll talk about
William Ecklin and in a little bit, but uh so that could That's I
think those are the two kind of challenges for well, you know, for
birth, both Hurdle and Quatre both just health and um just aren't enough NHL
you know, uh, possible top six wingers to play with. Well,
you said it. The it's inevitable. The third forward we talk about coming
back because it's Alexander b H. Victor and I really didn't see this guy
coming as far as ranking him last year, but he was one hundred thirty
first best forward, and Victor and I are both going to consider him tier
three type players coming in the next year. In his second full season at
twenty eight years old, the five ten winger Brebanoff ended up the fourth leading
scorer on the team at year's end, fifth if you count Timmer above him.
He didn't come over from the KHL until he was twenty six, so
that's part of the reason he's such a late bloomer so to speak. Fifteen
goals thirty two assists for forty seven points in sixty eight games, although didn't
have much bash seventeen minutes on ice. He and Coachure were glued together virtually
all year, and he was fourth in power play time and I so he
had the opportunities with the best player or one of the two best players on
the team and a season wrap nine games early due to some lower body injuries.
I know this because I looked on rhodowire and all of the reports were
there from this guy, Shang Peng. He had lots of good tips on
the stat bear Bonoff, so you should look into him. So not to
be rude to bear Bonoff, but is this a guy holding up a top
six role by default because there're just no other guys there, or is this
kind of a sneaky talent of the Sharks found who's gonna retain a role even
when the Sharks stock back ups. He's on a very good contract and presumably
will be good from that element. So what do you think shank bear Bonoff?
Well, I think it's a little bit of both. Obviously, bar
Bonoff has received a higher role when the Shark straight for him in the twenty
twenty one season because the Sharks didn't have a lot of a lot of great
wingers back then. It still don't, and the Sharks aren't looking to I'm
not sure when the Sharks will have a slew of great wingers again, but
probably won't be soon. And so I think the Alex will come in and
have a elevated role once again. And um, he's been sneaky good though
still, and so I think he's gonna be productive once again. There's no
no reason why why he shouldn't. He gonna get plenty of time, and
he's been productive in every you know, uh, in the parts of three
seasons with the Sharks. Right, he's been productive in all those, all
those stretches of time, and so there's no reason why he shouldn't. He
shouldn't be right there. And the forty, you know, was gonna hit
fifty this year if he had stayed healthy. Well, now we're now,
we're moving. Now we're getting there. Shang uh, next guy, I'll
up, I'll talk about it's Jacob Peterson. We're in dark waters. Yeah,
I don't know if it's shark infested waters or shark less infested water.
I'm not sure which. Anyway, not to insult mister Jacob Peterson because he
came over from the Dallas Stars of the trade deadline and what did he do
to me? Nothing? Jacob Peterson probably a nice guy. I don't know,
he's been It's good. He'd been buried in the HL all year was
his problem. But after a couple of weeks skating for Saint Jose's HL Barracuda,
he got eleven games on the big club, scored eight points in those
eleven games, with two shots in a hit per game, almost eighteen average
timonized almost three minutes of power play time per game. He only turns twenty
four this season. Could he be good this year? Maybe fifty points if
if you look at the smooth ice time for this team. By the way,
he was at the top with Coucher by the end of the year,
Like he was getting the best average ice time with Coucher and Hurdle at the
very end of the year if you look at it. So anyway, fifty
points score. Come on, tell me Jacob Peterson is going to be a
guy next year? You know, I think he's definitely a sleeper for sure.
San Jose has a lot of opportunity. Like we said, the only
established winger, that established oring winger that they're bringing back is Baron Bonoff.
He Jacob was good in that little sample size, and actually he might have
reminded a little bit of Barre Bonof because one a shark for bart Bonoff.
In the twenty twenty twenty one season, I think bart Bonoff came in had
seven points in nine games next to a Hurdle and Evander Kane, and he
looked like the player next to them. And the next year I think he
had a bare bonaf had with thirty nine points or something. Like that,
and he was hurt too, so so you know, forty point paced guy,
so I don't know, fifty points. You know, he's got to
stay healthy. A lot of things got to go right for that. But
um Peterson's gonna get air opportunity, I think um to uh. And he's
RFA so they haven't even signed yet, but I assume that they're gonna bring
him back, and they're gonna, they're gonna they're gonna let let him,
let him roll a little bit and see if if he is if he is
somebody, And once again, yeah, I think he's, you know,
gonna be somebody that's gonna benefit from a lot of opportunity that the Sharks can
can offer. But then he's also on on the other side that he's gonna
get to show some of the some of the skills that were buried a little
bit in the Dallas organization. Martin count is our next guy. He was
part of a deal that sent Ryan Merkley and Matt need Not Jacob Matt Miedo
to Colorado along with Jacob McDonald. So this is a guy that the Sharks
went out and got this year in January, and then the right winger Count
mostly labored in the AHL after arriving. You did get a little run though,
when Ginny Svechnikov missed a few games at the end of the year.
Had five points in nine games in San Jose after only one after only three
and twenty seven for Colorado, so he's a little more productive there, but
a very small sample end of the season back in the h L. Is
count a guy who could fall into a gap and get some minutes this year
if San Jose doesn't decide to sign you know, a bunch of kind of
stop gap type guys. Yeah, yeah, I mean you put it right
right. The San Jose Wingler situation is a lot of guys that are honestly
would be seen as stop gap guys, or they're the younger prospects that you
hope established themselves, like Ecklen and Bordelo and etc. So, you know,
Count, I think it's definitely at the moment, you know, behind
the Peterson. But can can account catch up and make up that ground quickly?
Yeah? You know, I don't think. I don't think Jacob's portfolio
work last year, you know, was so you know, so impressive that
that that cow can't can't make up that ground in training camp. So so
I think, yeah, I think Colt's a little bit of a sleeper too,
though I would say they'll just based on last year that Peterson was more
on a night to night basis, more impressive, which is part in part
why Peterson just kept getting more playing time and was not sent down once he
got called up, whereas Colt. You know, I think he was sent
down and called back up twice, a little bit of a you know,
revolving door for him, um, you know, and even just the eye
test, I you know, Peterson looked a little more. Peterson was consistently
making plays more uh you know, playing with high skilled players like Hurdle,
Eric Carlson that's the ruth than Colt. So Peterson was more consistent dad regarded
a night to night basis, even though Cout has more size and dack kind
of stuff. But but Cout definitely is a caundidate though, you know,
another a good kind of sleeper condidate. Yeah, Victor, I should say,
uh, you know, Victor and I kind of trade off these.
I think Victor was just too depressed to cover the next guy. He planted
this question with me, and not only did he plant the guy he planted
the question, and it is is Kevin Lebank done? Uh, let's describe
Kevin Lebank's here, because it's it's just rough. It just hasn't turned out.
I think the way a lot of us, including mister Lebank, I'm
sure, had hoped fifteen goals, eighteen assists for thirty three points and seventy
two games for the twenty seven year old right winger. He really had some
struggles in March. I kind of wonder. Apparently he had a child at
that point, and I wonder he really really both had to take some games
off and just did not score. You wonder about some of these things,
And I'm not you know, I should be careful with my narratives, but
look, it's a real thing. Sometimes you can't get very good sleep when
you have a new kid, when you're about to have the new kid,
after you have the new kid. Maybe it was, you know, a
disruptive time off the ice for l Bank or something like that. I don't
know. I don't want to get into his personal business, but in any
event, it wasn't a great season for mister Lebank. Do you think we
could maybe see a little bit more from him? Next year, Is this
just what la Bank's going to be. Yeah. Well, first, yeah,
he and his wife, Kelly had a child. I believe it was
in January. And also to Kevin, Lebank's father actually had a pretty unfortunate
accident and around Thanksgiving had a went into a medically induced coma. Thankfully,
by the end of the season his dad was out of it and you know,
in much better shape. Um, but that was something that was very
hard for you, I'm sure for for Kevin to deal with throughout the year.
Um, in terms of just you know, I know now we're you
know, kind of a jarring transition. But in terms of just on the
ice though, Um, Kevin has a lot of offensive talent. I don't
think there's any doubt about that. Uh. You know, most of those
points, those thirty three points that you mentioned were when he was on a
line with Thomas Hurdle and Tim o'meyer, and that was in mid season or
you know, a little before mid season. They were very productive. If
you look at at least the analytics, uh, that suggests that that was
one of the best lines in hockey obviously. David Our David David Greer at
something David Allen gred as somebody else obviously, Uh, David Quinn didn't didn't
didn't didn't didn't see enough or didn't think enough of that line to keep it
together. And so uh you know, after after that point of Lebank on
the first line, then Lebank's ice time started getting yo yo all around,
taking off the power play third fourth line most a lot of fourth line.
And so we know that once again that that lea Bank has a lot of
offensive talent. And this team, as we as we mentioned is uh you
know, it has a lot opportunity for for a scoring winger and so Kemn's
gonna get another chance at it. Probably, Um there's a chance that le
bank is is traded this offseason. Um, I would think that I would
think that that, you know, maybe he might want a fresh start,
I don't know, And I would think that the Sharks might might want to
move on from him too. But uh, he has he has a contract
that makes him hard to move. He's got one more year at four point
seventy two five million. Because it's at one more year, it makes him
easier to move than it was say this past season, when I think it
was pretty much impossible to move him, But so you could see a swap
of kind of you know, not great contracts, right Connor Garland. Right,
just just just for example, um or, I don't think they'll retain
on him because already using one of their retainment spots on Brent Burns, and
they might need to sabers him in spot for Eric Carlson. So I don't
think that they would. I don't just don't see much reason for them to
do that, uh for for the bank, but um so that is possible.
Another it may also would be a wise and a lot of ways to
let Kevin play out this year and hope that by the trade deadline he's built
his stock up that you know, as expiring contract. The UFA to b
that team will be like, yeah, we'll give you a you know whatever
round pick just to have an extra, you know, that offensive forward just
in case you have an injury. We can plug in a guy that's capable
of playing top six minutes you know, at least four stretches there. And
so so I could see that happening too. Um Uh if things work out
that you know that that Kevin can be productive and consistently consistently in the lineup
up to the deadline and then he gets moved there. So I don't think
it's the na Chevin L. Bank. I mean, he's an offensively a
gifted player. Um. But I think though that there's always going to be
that struggle with him. You know, he's twenty seven already. He's never
going to be it seems like that, you know, you hope that two
way winger just you know, his his frame makes it harder. Maybe his
engagement you know on a two way side, you know, kind of wack
his waxes and wayns too, and so he may never be that kind of
guy, um, but he is, you know, he's going to have
his offensive gifts and uh and so that's going to be of some value to
somebody, whether it's where the Sharks or another team. Yeah. I didn't
even know about his father. Gosh, that's that's awful. And and I
don't want to overplay the narratives because it's not like Lea Bank had been blown
it out of the water before this year when all these persons. But I
think we forget sometimes these people are humans. Yeah, and you know,
things that happen in their lives are impacting probably their ability to concentrate and do
their jobs just like they would everybody. The last couple of guys that I'm
just gonna throw at you, Victor and I in a later thing, are
gonna talk about some of the prospects. But you got William Eklund, you
got Thomas Bordelow, a couple of big prospects, and then Andreas Johnson.
He's a UFA, but maybe they bring him back. I mean, he's
part of the whole New Jersey situation. Can any of those guys you think
make this team and maybe put up a fifty point pace shing is there is
there hope for another winger to pop up who's already on this roster somewhere.
Uh you know, of those three, I would say the most likely is
Eklin. Even though Equlin did not score a lot when he was up,
he was I think very h He looked like an anhel player. He had
a lot of chances, he was around a lot of stuff. Just you
know, Puck wasn't going in or he wasn't getting that that assist there,
and so I think that can happen next year. Um And you could see
and how the Sharks used him compared to stay in border though they trusted Elyn.
David Quinn called the Equlyn an honest player, which from David Quinn is
a real compliment when he calls a player that, you know, he reserved
that compliment for guys like a tour and Sturm and just guys like that and
just because And what he means by that is just Equlin's commitment to two way
hockey, playing hard all the time, not taking shortcuts to cheat for offense,
that sort of thing. Um. And that's the kind of thing that
keeps a guy in the lineup, you know, like if he's not producing
h if he's still good defensively and he's still you know, he's not you
know, turning the puck over all over you know, all of these careful
with the puck um that keeps a guy in alive up so then he can
start producing UM. And so I anticipate that Equelin should have a regular role
with the Sharks next year, and a pretty safe role with the Sharks next
year, and that could lead to UH, that could lead to a good
amount of offensive production once again, a lot of opportunity on the Sharks.
So so I think, um, I think Eklin is a very very good.
Uh, sort of a a roll of a dice there if you're you
know, a drafting him late. Um, Bordelo is definitely not a safe
Bortolo has a lot of offensive offensive talent, but uh, you know,
in contrast to Ecclin, you know, a scout told me, um of
of of Bordelo, he is not an honest player, and he is a
guy that cheats for offense and doesn't is not always committed defensively. And um,
he's the kind of guy that if he's not producing offensively for you,
you know a little bit like La Bank, then uh, you know,
what is he doing there for you there? And that's the kind of player
that can can struggle even with a with a shallow Sharks lineup, you know,
can can struggle to gain a lineup on a nightly basis. I think
there's a little bit more of a standard that the Sharks are trying, like
any team is trying to uphold, of having guys that you know, backcheck
backcheck hard, that give you one hundred ten percent in all zones of the
ice. And so I'm not sure Bortolo has a big summer ahead of him
to show the Sharks that his game his body. That's sort of he's a
smaller guy too. All that stuff has taken a leap next year to kind
of match with sort of his offensive gifts. So Bortolo has a shot at
that just because he has offensive talent to score a decent amount. But in
terms of just where they are in the development or progress, I think eqlan
Is is pretty well ahead of Bordolo at the moment based on this season.
Johnson is Obviously Johnson has had good years before, but and he's relatively young,
but those good years were a couple of years ago, and otherwise he
has you know, been in a you know, he's in the agel this
year. Last year, I think for New Jersey, I think he was
maybe like a twenty thirty point scorer. So even though yeah, so I
don't know, I'm not even sure they'll they'll bring him back, and I
don't think he was so good in his sort of a cup of coffee with
the Sharks before he got hurt that that tells like, oh, we got
to bring this guy back, just unlike the Peterson you know, who I
think did well enough in that short stint that you got to bring that guy
back on cheap and Peter soon will be cheap. He's an RFA. Johnson
is a UFA, but he also should be very inexpensive too, So so
there's a chance obviously because we've seen in a past with Andreas. But I
wouldn't count on it though, And so I guess if I were to go
in order of if you had to pick of that trio Eklyn way above,
I would put Eklyn with You should draft him because he's going to get a
lot of opportunity this year and he is a good, pretty good defensive player,
which means that he's gonna stay in the lineup. That's that's that's that's
what that means, and that should allow him a chance to, you know,
let the offensive skills start to flourish. So Ecklin by far and then
Bordelo and Johnson. I'll put a little ahead of Johnson, but yeah,
either way, I think both of those guys have a lot of question marks.
You will see if those question marks can be answered, great rundown on
those players. Shang, let's let's make this a little bit of a happy
turn because we're going to talk about defense, and of course we have to
talk about Eric Carlson and that was pretty fun. So, you know,
I gotta remember coming into this season, he'd had a bit of a down
year, so I had him ranked as a Tier one player, but thirty
first Jesse fifty five second tier. Well, he finished as this second best
defenseman in fantasy, So yeah, we were a little bit wrong on that
not but going in the next year, hard to imagine he'll do the same,
But we still have him ranked as the top tier player, both of
us. What a season he had. I have to imagine he wins the
Norris. We will see. I know, Shang, you made a really
good case in your March twenty eighth article on San Jose Hockey Now about how
he should and there's some updates since then, obviously, But Carlson end of
the season with the career high one hundred and one points twenty seven power play
points, which was not a career high, and he's only the sixth defenseman
to do it one hundred times. Bobby Orr and Paul Coffee did it five
times each, and then Al mckinnis, Brian Leech, and Dennis Potvin did
it once each, which is still crazy impressive. One of the most impressive
things to me about his season, Shang is that he had sixty five even
strength points, which was twenty more than Josh Morrissey and twenty three more than
Vince Donne. And there are other guys on that list like Dougie Hamilton that
he had way more than And you're talking about doing this with a far inferior
supporting cast. I think we could all agree. So that was super impressive.
His evolving hockey graphs are just hilarious, so because it looks like his
offense is trying to escape the page on top and the defense is trying to
just fall out the bottom. It's all offense all the time with Carlson.
And the other really impressive thing to me is, you know, Don Lucision
does these player cards and he looks at all the impact of the players based
on salary and everything. And Eric Carlson making eleven point five million is a
lot, and some people have argued myself included that it's a little too much,
and I didn't love the contract at the time. But this year in
particular, he had a surplus value at three point four million, which is
just crazy to think that he put up in fourteen and a point nine million
dollar market value season just crazy. We could go on and on about Carlson
Scheng, but we should probably talk about next year, and specifically, we'll
feel free to mention anything you want about this year. But how do how
do we see him going into next season? Do he First of all,
do the Sharks move him? I know there's been talk about that. Obviously
a little bit prohibitive with the contract, but based on the season he just
had makes it a little bit easier. So do you think he'll be with
the Sharks next year? And if not, um or if he is,
what kind of role do you think he'll have? Um? Yeah, I
think if Eric stays healthy um And that's always a big question mark with him.
But if Eric stays healthy, he's gonna be just fine. Uh.
We even even last year right where the production wasn't as as much, but
I think a lot of that was was was histemic block. Bogner, I
think, was a lot more defensive than David Quinn, whereas David Quinn David
Quinn system is more offensive leaning, more offense encouraging, which is perfect for
Carlson's sort of sort of skills. But even under Bogner's system last year,
in the first half of the season where Eric Carlson was healthy, he had
twenty six points in thirty three games, and the Sharks were in the playoffs.
They had the last wildcard spot in the first half of a last year,
and then Eric got hurt and then the Sharks all out of the standings
and and so yeah, so that that just sort of, uh, you
know, Eric's play dipped after that. But as long as Carlson stays healthy,
I think he's gonna be he's gonna be pretty pretty productive. Um.
The second point though, in terms of whatnot he's with the Sharks anymore,
I would you know, again, he's got three years left at eleven point
five million. Um, that's that's tough to move, even if the Sharks
recame a lot there. But I would think though, I would guess that
he gets moved this summer. So so I I uh, and I think
whatever team obviously takes him on, he's going to be a you know,
a number one defenseman and top power play option, and so he should be
productive and he should play with much better players, much better wingers and centers
and all that stuff. So so he should be going to a good situation.
And so um, I think, uh yeah, in respect where he
is playing. As long as he stays healthy, Um, then he's going
to be productive for you. Yeah, for sure. I have to think
that Greer was trying to get the best value from the trade deadline and didn't
quite get it. So he's waiting for the summer to make that move.
We will see, I wanna. I guess The next question is if Carlson
moves, which it seems like he might, who do you think steps into
that role and gets that that juicy power play time with all those stars started
forwards? Well, uh, you said that, you know, we're getting
out of the pressing territory talking about Eric Carlson's twenty two twenty three season.
Well, now we're we're back. We're a hello Darkness, my old friend
again. So um, here's an illustration. Um so uh. Eric Carlson
had one hundred and one points. Second on the Sharks among Sharks defenseman was
Matt Benning with twenty four points. That's a seventy seven point difference between first
and second place. Give you an illustration on how big that gap was.
In the overall defenseman scoring race, Quinn Hughes and Josh Morrissey were second to
Carlson was seventy six points and so there was a Quinn Hughes Josh Morricy gap
between Eric Carlson and and second place Matt Benning on the Sharks. Um so
if Carlson leaves, honestly, it's you know, it's a call nine one
one. I don't know. Um, Matt Benning did play power Play two
last year. He was the main guy on power Play two. Um,
I mean he could he couldn't move up. And in fairness to Matt,
actually if you look at his five on five production, he actually was most
of his production maybe I think maybe all of it was was what none of
it was on a power play, So not great going on power Play,
but even strength five on five, I think he actually was like fifteenth among
defensemen in terms of a point scoring rate. Um. So, so he
actually did okay there. But my guess if if Carlson leaves and they don't
really add anybody actually a sleeper, there is a guy Jacob McDonald, and
McDonald has you know, he's a multi mut multiple time HL all starting the
HL. Jacob McDonald is basically Eric Carlson or Brett or Bret Burns. If
you look at his stats. I mean, he's you know, he's he's
very productive in HL from the back end and in the In the HL,
he shows some good offensive instincts, you know, hasn't really converted into production
yet. But I would actually guess in that situation, if Carlson is dealt
and they don't really add anybody, and you know, they go in on
the tank for another year, which is it makes sense for the Sharks,
that I would think that Jacob McDonald actually would get the first shot at uh
at a pp one. Uh. Like I said, though, going from
Eric Carlson to Matt Benning or Jacob McDonald is uh, yeah, that's a
that's top. So so you're saying the Sharks are getting Macklins Cellabrini next year,
That's what That's what I That's what I heard you say right there.
I got to try too. I think arcalism and I'd be fine too.
Um So, the yeah, like you said, real big drop off.
I think one of the things that might is a little bit interesting to me.
I don't really think that any of the guy is currently on the roster
scream. I can be really good at running a top power play, but
a couple of new guys and maybe you can just comment on them briefly,
and that is their recent acquisition, Henry Thrunt and Shakier mccamah doulan. Both
of these guys either ran the power Play in college or at least had some
power play time in the KHL with mccamadoland. So they, you know,
obviously have done it at this level. But maybe maybe they get a role,
and you know, maybe it's unlikely because they're a little bit new,
but also they have that skill set whereas most of these other guys except maybe
McDonald don't don't so much. So what do you think about those two and
just beyond what do you kind of expect from them? Yeah, yeah,
though those are two a great possible options that you bring up there. David
Quinn really likes Thrun's game. Throun looks like he has a very age already
game, and so I can see Thron on the Powerplay next year, especially
if Carlson isn't what the Sharks anymore. Throun is not a the one weakness
in his game and he's not a great skater, so um, you don't
know if you're necessarily how much you wanted to quarterback to powerplay and whatnot.
You'll need to support him a bit with other forwards on the breakout, and
so that's going to be a little bit of a weakness. But in zone
though, he's a pretty smart guy. Smart puck mover. Uh, you
know, I think, you know, should be able to get the puck
through. And so I could see Throun with a powerplay role. Uh and
look am a duel And actually, you know, when the Sharks frustrated for
him, you look at his profile, he's you know, six five sixty
six. Um, you think that, oh, this is gonna be a
more defensive guy or whatever. Right, Actually, with the baracuta, I
think he had like nine points in twelve games, and he looked more comfortable
with the puck than without the puck. So he's a guy that I think
there's a very good chance in the future that on a good team he could
be maybe not your top power play guy, but a very good u PP
two guy PP two guy. And so I could see that in Muka mcdoulan's
future. I don't know about this year. That could be a little bit
of a tough a tough thing to forson into his game is not as like
I said, not as mature as a defensively and not as mature as as
the runs. And so I think another a full year down with the Baracouta
or most of the year the Baracuta could be could be good for him.
But again if Carlson is dealt, and even with Carlson there, there's a
lot of opportunity in the blue. I know that they have a lot of
guys signed there, the Sharks, but really only Carlson you know, you
know is you know, it's a guy that you're not going to take ice
time away from him, but everybody else you can, you can in theory
a leap frog for more, for more a playing time, um and so
uh so yeah, so I think there's definitely gonna opportunity there for for Shakire
and both of them have bright features. Both of them look like uh,
there's a pretty good chance that that that they will be top for ANHIL defenseman
for for a long time. And not just because the Sharks are you know,
a bad team, but even on a good team. Uh you see
those guys having having roles, uh good roles in NHL. But you know
it's gonna be again a little tough next year because uh, to Ron and
mccamoolan are young, um, and so yeah, so I would still guess
it would be uh McDonald first in line uh for for PR play one,
if the Sharks still make any additions and just subtract you know, Carlson from
the roster. Yeah. Frankly, if if the Sharks want to get Celebrati
or Eiserman, they should leave Thrown and mcama dulan in the HL all of
next year. Yeah, I think they're their best options. And I mean,
honestly, you know, the tank plans were really the rail by Carlson.
I mean, imagine, uh if if Carlson had his typical like uh
you know, he had his you know, I think he's been hurt in
uh for three of the first four years the Sharks, uh Carlson like you
know, like heard for for significant stretches of time. And I don't think
people were counting on I don't think Mike persons be counting on Eric Carlson uh
playing eighty two games and scoring one hundred one points for the tank, you
know. And so yeah, you know, Eric Carlson enemy of the tank.
So yeah, seriously, all right, Well let's move on to an
even more depressing topic, and that's the Sharks goaltending. And the Sharks actually
they had the twenty fourth best expected goals against per sixty at five to five.
Nothing to write home about, and that was probably better too a mid
season two you know, after the trade deadline, a team really became a
mess in sort of just you know, uh, just how they played,
you know, and the players that they had to play, just they weren't
a you know, a good team together. But before that, though,
that twenty fourth I'm fairly sharked in was it was a bit higher, you
know, closer to average, you know that what we're talking mid season,
Yeah, exactly, a good point. They were actually thirtieth though in goals
allowed per game, so that the expected numbers were quite a bit better.
And if you look at the individual goalies, Aaron Dell only played four games
but had the best goal save above above expected Shan what year is it?
Aaron Dell had the best numbers on the Sharks tide twenty Yeah, marn Jones
that year. It's very weird. Anyways, James Rhymer of course, and
keble Kachinen did the line's share of the work, and you know, we
can just talk about both of these together. And kakin In, you know,
he's he's the only one under contract for next year. Rhymer is a
UFA unclear whether they'll they'll bring him back or not. Both of these guys,
as you as you might imagine, struggled. They didn't get the best
protection and didn't outperform it by any means. In facted much worse than expected.
So I think, you know, for kapping In, obviously a little
bit younger, maybe there's a little bit more you know, room for like,
okay, maybe he can still continue to improve. He's got one more
year at two point seven five. Certainly it's not over for Rhymer being an
older veteran. I don't know that it makes sense to bring them back.
The Sharks have like twenty seven prospect goalies that they seem to be acquiring,
so maybe they'll give someone an opportunity. But what do you think, who
who think's going to be in a tandem next year? What goalies are going
to be there aside from kachin In, and what can we expect from them?
Is it just going to be a massive shelling on the goalies again?
Yeah, I think there's a good chance of that that whoever goalie they bring
in is uh going to be under siege every night. Um Er has has
said that he doesn't put on bringing back the same goalie tandem, and Kachinin
is the only one who signed, So you can do the math there that
probably they let Rhymer walk, even though it is conceivable that they can,
you know, resigned Rhymer and trade kachin In. But you know Capatin had
such a bad season last year that you know who who would want him anyway,
So I think it's likely that they give Captin you know, he's younger,
a little upside there, give him, give him a shot. Uh
don't know though who they would bring in as a second goal if they do
let Rhymer walk, and uh man, you know, like it's gonna be
it's gonna be a tough, tough sledding for for whoever whoever comes in,
um because there's also, like said, a good chance that you're not gonna
have you know, Carlson may not have been spectacular on the defensive end,
but you have a Carlson tilting the ice for the offense at least, you
know, more than more than half the time that that helps a goalie too,
and you're gonna be missing that and so um, yeah, so it's
gonna be it's gonna be a tough situation. It's got to be a goalie
that comes in, has a great attitude and doesn't mind basing thirty five shots
at night. So do you think any of their prospect goalies are close enough
to actually earn a Kandem spot? No? I mean I'm not based on
what I saw last year. The closest with making the EMI but making Amy
for the second straight season his season and prematurely with an injury, you know,
knocking AMI's last game was in February. And you know, I'm totally
expect the full recovery, but you know, I think there's a definite question
mark there. Um. You know, you can, you can play Aarondell
more games, that's fine, he's a NHL competent goalie, but that you
want to see Aarondell for thirty or games? Z out there? No,
I don't. I don't think he is. And all the other prospects are
well, you know they're they're they're definitely behind the mocking the emy and you
know, strous Nan I don't know if he's coming back anyway. And you
have a couple of guys in Crona and Romanov that they signed, but those
guys I've never played professionally and so um yeah, so no, I'm not
really seeing anybody in there unless one of these guys surprises in the fall,
which could happen of course, but based on this past season, no,
none of those guys are close. All right, Shang, Well, that
is a tour to force around the San Jose Sharks. Appreciate all of your
insight on this team. Why don't you let people know where they can continue
to follow your work and track how those San Jose Sharks get through this offseason
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Awesome. Thanks so much for coming on today's Shane. Yeah, thanks,
guys, Wolfson. That's good. Buyers, pass up, Oh my
goodness, walk go with a cat quick grab Now it's your weekly goalie talk
with Cats Silverman, Cat's instincts. All right, we're pleased to welcome back
Cat Silverman for her Cat's instincts she's from in Gold, maag And of course
we're talking San Jose prospect goalies, and just a little preview of this,
uh, this prospect pool. I feel like they have a lot of options,
and sometimes when you have a lot of options like this, it's like
you have no option, almost like maybe there are too many guys that are
just kind of okay and no one rising to the top. Maybe you're gonna
tell me if I'm wrong about that. But the first guy I want to
start with is Mason bo Pete. He's their twenty twenty two fourth round pick,
fairly old for the draft. He's also huge, six foot five.
His numbers in the WHL don't look amazing, but according to instad he basically
has been over his expected goals allowed per game in the WHL. So even
though you look at his ROS stats that basically tell you for the Spokane Chiefs
and when a Pig Ice he's been a sub nine hundred goalie for the past
couple of years, that there's actually a little bit more to that story and
he's perhaps been a little bit better than that would suggest. The Hockey prospecting
model, which definitely gives a couple of percentage point boost to Talera goalies has
him at a thirty seven percent chance of being a NHL goalie, and his
compserve guys like Ricky phro See Mason. Also, Matt Murray kind of looks
a little bit like him in that model, who was also pretty tall six
four. Of course, Murray has had an up and down career, but
he was an NHL starter and still is kind of he's not injured, but
he hasn't signed yet bo Pete, but I think he might be their best
long term option. I don't know, what can you tell us about him,
kat So. I think that when it comes to who the best long
term option is for San Jose, that's kind of a kind of a loaded
question because I was looking through that list and it's truly like a laundry list
of goaltenders, and it just looks like there's a wild lack of preparedness by
San Jose for the future because they have no one who looks ready now,
like no one looks ready for the NHL right now, and they, I
would argue, have no one really at the NHL level who's They have James
Rhymer, and he's year by year it's hard to tell when he's going to
be ready to retire. I think every one of their goalies, when looking
at them in the system, is among their prospects extremely tall. I think
that that being their primary reason forgetting guys is a massive red flag. So
I don't know how much credit I'm willing to give them for any of their
picks, but I think that the WHL is it's It's always hard to tell
with the Canadian Hockey League goaltenders in general, because you can have a sub
nine hundred safe percentage and be one of the best goalies in the league just
based on the team in front of you. If all of the NHL ready
guys graduate out of the system and you're stuck with almost like an inner like
a gap year roster in front of you, and then the team that essentially
you play most often throughout the season has most of the first round prospects on
their team. That makes it really hard. And I think that the Winnipeg
Ice were not a primary landing spot for a lot of those premiere nhlors.
But I didn't really see anything about his game when I was watching film that
made me think, Wow, thank goodness they drafted this guy, I think
it's it's going to be kind of a wait and see. I appreciate that
they have so many in their systems, so they have a ton to choose
from. I just was a little underwhelmed by what they're giving us to choose
from, so to speak. Yep, that was a really great burn,
by the way, about how their NHL goalies aren't ready either. I definitely
think that's accurate. The next guy we're gonna talk about is actually not huge,
though, one of the few I would say. You're right, though
in general it seems like they have basically drafted or signed based on hype.
But strauss Man is not super tall. He's six feet. He was a
free agent signing. He was undrafted of course because he's smaller, and in
they ended up signing him. He's the twenty four to ten twenty five this
summer. He was really good at Michigan. Then he went over to the
SHL last season with Celeftia and he played in the Olympic Games in the World
Championships, so he has had some international experience and then he had basically split
time between the HL and ECHL this season that Barracouta team was pretty bad this
year, so I don't know that that was necessarily all him, but his
number didn't look great. His hockey prospecting has him graduating the model at a
thirty five percent chance of being a NHLer, which isn't terrible guys like Eric
Comrie, Devin Dubnik, pop up Curtis Joseph. So the question, I
guess I already asked you with bo Pete, But is Strouss going to be
the man for the Sharks? Based on so I like his game, I
don't think he I think he still needs some development. That's another team that
I think is probably going to see some personnel shifting. But I don't know.
I like his game, but based on where they had him this year,
I don't know if they do. He is six feet tall and he
split his time between the h and the ECHL this year, which given what
they had to work with this year. I think that sometimes you see guys
where you know a team is just so loaded. I think the Boston Bruins
were a good example of it four or five years ago. They had so
many good goaltenders that they had some of their prospects in the ECHL just because
they didn't have room for them. I don't think that's the case with San
Jose though, so seeing them essentially leave a guy in the ECHL for chunks
of the season isn't necessarily something that I consider to be a promising sign.
In terms of what they like, I don't know. I like the numbers
that he put up leading up to the pros. Like you said, the
Barracuda were not a good team, so it's kind of hard to tell.
I'd like to see more for him, but I also know that they have
loaded up their systems so much that I almost wonder if he's I wonder what
they what they have in store for him, just because I know that they
have some guys that they have signed that I can see them pushing ahead of
him, even though I think from a style perspective, I like his game
a little more than some of the others. Yeah, that's fair. Shorter
goalis tend to have a little bit, you know, more in the technique
refinement because they have to um. The next guy is Magnus Crona, and
Magnus was a really good choice by his parents for him because he's huge six
six two fifteen twenty two year old drafted by Tampa in twenty eighteen in the
fifth round. He was traded last deadline deal. And he's been at University
of Denver for the last uh four. I mean he's been there all four
years and won a national title in twenty twenty twenty one with that team,
and I know that was last season twenty one in twenty two, he's basically
been their starter all four years, although he played fewer games as a sophomore.
He as I mentioned, he's huge, and his equivalency has some kind
of in the thirties twenties. He doesn't look like a lot of NHL rs,
frankly, but I'm really interested to see what happens when he turns pro.
As you mentioned, there's kind of a log jam. So where is
he gonna play? Is he gonna get HL time? That might be someone
might need to move here. But what do you think about Magnus Crona and
his chances. He's an interesting one because I liked when he was in San
Jose or in Tampa Bay system. Rather, I watched a couple of development
camps where he was sort of tandeming with a Hugo Alnifeldt and I had on
there extremely tall, because they love their tall goalies. I thought he looked
good in Denver. I think that's a really hard team to evaluate just how
prepared he is for the pros though, because that's a really structured, regimented
team and it's really not easy to look good there because there's still obviously plenty
of skill required. But that's a team that gives him a lot of opportunity
to kind of like looking at a looking at some of the guys that are
playing, like in Saint Petersburg for Scott and you know, a goalie playing
for the London Nights, stuff like that. It's it's a very good environment
for getting consistent numbers. I am curious about where they're going to put him
because I do think that based on just he's a bigger goalie who's a little
on the slower side at times, I don't want to see him in the
NHL next year. I ideally don't want to see him year after that either,
And I don't know where they're going to put him. I really have
no idea. They have a lot of goaltenders who really need to be in
the AHL this year, and nobody that should be in the NHL, and
I don't know where they're going to put them all. I'm worried that he's
one that since he played four years of collegiate hockey, they're going to just
toss him into the NHL and see what happens. But well, we'll see
how it goes. He seems very unshakable watching him in games, like he'll
allow a bad goal and he kind of goldfishes it away. He just also
sometimes doesn't seem like like he's got that desperation element to his game. He
doesn't have that extra gear that maybe he hasn't been given as many opportunities to
showcase it, just because Denver hasn't really put him in a situation where he's
been hung out to drive very often. But I'm waiting to see what will
happen when he's playing behind some of the rosters in the San Jose system,
because I think regardless of where he is in that system, we're going to
see him hung out to drive once or twice. Yeah, very fair.
Maybe they'll loan some of these goalies to the Chicago Wolves of the HL since
they don't have an affiliate. My workout the next guy E two Mciniemie.
This is a guy that I've seen most often in person, and I've gone
to the Barracouta games. He was drafted by Carolina in the fourth round twenty
seventeen. He's sixty three one seventy six, so maybe not quite as huge
as Corona, but still big. Came over in the Burns deal. He's
now twenty three year old. Developed in Finland, but he's been in North
America the last two seasons. He played for the Wolves. Funny I mentioned
that for in twenty one, twenty two and this season for the not so
great Baracouta. But his expected goals per goal conceded if you look at the
last several years one point two one, one point four eight, one point
through seven, one point six seven the last two there went back to his
league days. He's been awesome basically than the underlying numbers. I'm not really
sure why, but his hockey prospecting has a really low percentage. Basically all
the comps are busts for him, and so that doesn't that doesn't bode right.
Well, I couldn't find any of them that were actually legitimate that The
best one was probably some guy named Anti Jokola who was a bust so anyways,
Mciniami is a is a very dark course. I would say to maybe
be one bye or something like that in the near future. But what can
you tell us about him? That's really funny because so I got to watch
him a little bit when he was playing for Elives over in Finland because he
was actually on the same team as another prospect who has been playing in California
recently, Lucas Dostall, who's in the Ducks system. I don't think that
he was the better goaltender of the two, but he was the goaltender that
had been in that system for longer, and I thought that was a that
was a fun system to watch because some of the Finnish goaltenders get a little
aggressive with their prior I marry positioning. You know, they like to essentially
stand skates right out of the blue paint, can wait for the puck to
come towards them, then start retreating into their post, sort of leaving themselves
a little bit hamstrung if there's a lot of cross ice movement in front of
them. And I didn't really see that from him. A lot of the
guys that are in that system, like Dostyle, did a good job of
it too, played just a little bit more conservatively, just from the get
go, they stay a little bit closer to the actual goal line itself.
They start from the inside and hinge out as they go, so essentially starting
from the central location, giving themselves more room to move without having to recover
across the crease. I don't know if, once again, I don't know
where he's going to be this year, because I don't know how they're going
to have room for him and Magnus Corona and Shaussman. I don't know,
one of them has to go somewhere. Um. But I mean he he
was the most statistically successful goaltender on the Barracuda last year, which is a
really low bar because they had him, they had Aaron Dell, and they
had strauss Man, which oh my god, Um, that's a that's a
roster right there. Um. But I don't know. I I think he's
he's good. I don't think he's anything spectacular. I don't necessarily see him
as this guy's the future of their team. But maybe maybe they have him
there as you know, insurance for for the HL. Seeing the way that
he's performed, um makes me all the more worried that Magnus Crona is going
to start in the NHL um just because I don't see anything about his game
that suggests that he's like NHL already right now. But he's a good stop
gap to have at the HL level, they just don't need a stopgap.
So I don't know. I don't know what he's doing there. Yeah,
and my opinion doesn't mean much. But from the games that I watched,
because it's the team closest to me, mcnamy definitely looked like the best goalie
on a really bad team. The goals that he let in were like two
on one, three on two, three on ones, you know, and
he'd stop most of those and let a couple in, and it's like,
well, at some point he just you know, what are you gonna do?
So I definitely think yeah, But again, I don't know that he's
amazing either. That was fun. I got to watch him and Dostall in
a game against each other that I'm so jealousy. It was a good time.
It's a good time. Anyways, Let's move on to the next guy.
Benjamin Goodrow Sharks twenty twenty one, third round, pick six, two
one seventy four. Also again not huge, but definitely you know, decent
size. He was once considered the top goalie prospect for the Sharks, and
I don't know if he still is. I mean, he's a the bottom
of my list here. Maybe you'll tell me that's wrong, but he is
doing quite well for the Sarnia Sting right now in the OHL playoffs. And
even though when you look at Ben Goodrow's numbers they look pretty awful for Sarnia,
I mean eight ninety ones day percentage last season, eight eighty nine.
This season, he went to the World Juniors. Everyone thought it was going
to be his team to lead Canada gold and he just kind of flopped and
well, he still got a gold medal, but he didn't really do much
to earn it himself, unfortunately. But I will say that his expected goals
for goal conceded numbers and Sarnia are good. So maybe it's one of these
things you were talking about how it was just hard to evaluate on the team
he plays for, which is not so good. His hockey prospecting percent chance
of being an NHLer is another one of these that's just awful, Like there's
really no there's no one statistically that looks like him who was a strong NHLer.
So maybe he just needs better team and structure in front of him.
I mean, this is again one of those things where his birthday kind of
worked against him because he was just a couple of weeks too too young to
be able to be in the h L. I don't know that was the
right place for him. But he will finally get to play some HL or
perhaps EHL games this season. But what have you thought of his progression and
is he still like a viable top prospect? That was that was such a
weird one, um I remember, so he was considered one of the top
prospects his draft year just across the board. That so he ended up a
third round pick. Um that had twenty twenty one draft was absolutely awful for
goaltenders because any goaltenders playing for the IVS had no season. Any goaltenders playing
for the OHL had no season, and that was him. Any goaltenders playing
in the QMJHL had a half season, in the WAHL had a half season,
and then you had a bunch of guys playing in the USAHL who essentially
guys who played for the IPS or we're going to be moving on to other
teams, bumped back to the USHL because they had nowhere to play that year.
Um, so Benjamin Goodreau had an entirely lost season that was essentially his
draft year. I think he's looked fine. I don't think he's looked like
anything really exciting. I I know it sounds a little a little shocking,
but I think that not having him as the main starter at the World Juniors
was the right move, um for a team Canada. Thomas Militch, who
was the goaltender that ended up sort of usurping him on the way to that
gold medal. That's who That's who I had wanted to see, and that's
an undrafted goaltender he managed to get overlooked entirely last year, which was he's
a shorter goaltender. I believe he's listening. Yeah, he's listed at six
feet one seventy four. I think he's probably a little shorter than that.
Um, I don't know. Benjamin Goodreau in theory, meets a couple years
of HL time. To me, he kind of reminds me of like a
almost like an Aiden Hill, a guy who needs plenty of time at the
minor league level before making it to the NHL. But like we said,
every guy that we've talked about so far, we've talked about how they're they're
headed for the San Jose Barracouta next year, and either they're going to have
each goaltender played once a week, which is an awful way to develop your
goaltenders, or they're gonna loan people out, or they're going to trade someone.
I don't know, he could, he could maybe get something done in
the ECHL. I don't think that's necessarily confidence inspiring for the guy that you
claim to be. Is your task for a guy that essentially is supposed to
be the top prospect, But nothing I've seen from him so far has made
me think that he needs to sort of jump ahead of Magnus Our, Straussmann,
per se. But none of them I necessarily see is the air apparent.
That's that's a team that desperately needs. They've needed an air apparent since
since Martin Jones's fall and have not provided themselves with one. So maybe maybe
that will be incentive for Goodrow to sort of establish some consistency at the pro
level. But nothing I've seen so far indicates that he's really anything to write
home about. Yet he's still got some work. Yeah, this whole system
needs some work. But thanks for the insights on the Sharks goalies. That
definitely nothing super inspiring coming there, but a lot of wait and see And
apparently the job playing goalie for the KUDA is going to be one of the
most sought after, so to see how that works out. We'll be back
right after this. Do you the Dynasty day dick in eight into the San
Jose Sharks. Here's the deal. The San Jose Sharks, as you heard
earlier on this show, made a few deals this year. They came up
with an extra first round pick from the New Jersey Devils. They also have
an additional three to four additional picks kind of depends on some choices other teams
have to make between rounds four to seven. And the Fantasy Hockey Life ranking
that Victor puts based on their top ten prospects is twelfth in the National Hockey
League. So Victor, the state of this system and the state of it's
no brainer. Who even my brain doesn't need to be a brain to know
who the no brainer is. Who's it going to be? Yeah, no
brainer is William klnd and yeah. The system. Yeah, okay, it's
got a a lot of pretty decent depth, I would say, but some
of the elite talent at the top isn't maybe quite as elite, and so
that's part of the issue. But there's some really good there's some really decent
mid the deep gems in here, I would say. The first guy though,
of course, eck Lend. You know, he's someone we've been pretty
excited about for a while. Some of us me thought that he would be
on the Sharks most of the season and that didn't happen. But I think
it was kind of smart of the Sharks to let him, you know,
really dominate and get his confidence back in the HL. Remember he had he
had a couple of seasons after his draft season just not super amazing production in
the SHL, then coming over here and kind of being back and forth between
leagues. So it was good to leave him down there most of the time.
Forty one points in fifty four games for a Barracouta team, which was
really not very good. I watched a few Baracouta games and they were just
bad most of the time. And when Ecklen and Bordelau were not on the
ice. They were just getting throttled and you'd see multiple I can't one of
the games I went to, I think they had six odd man rushes against
that almost all ended up in goals. And it's pretty hard to try to
generate offense when you're just getting caved in like that. Eklin also had three
points in the eight HL games, and Shank kind of mentioned that he looked
really good when he was there. I totally agree. He looked confident,
he looked, you know, dangerous offensively, two way, responsible, just
to really good all around forward. And of course a lot of us are
wondering where he'll be next year. I imagine he'll be in the NHL,
but we'll see. And for a little bit more on what to expect from
Eklen, let's hear from our FHL Scott Brandon skating smooth, efficient with a
deceptively high motor puck handling. Besides his own entries, he doesn't keep the
puck on his stick very long. He's letting the puck do the work through
passes. Very capable with some high skilled deeks playmaking, and utilizes backhand passes
when at least expecting. Brandon says Ecklin's shot is a lethal one timer,
crisp release without a lot of wind up. I would add that I really
wish he's shot more often. He's usually clocking it a couple of shots per
game. Part of that might have been the bad team, but he has
a great shot and should use it more. Eklen's IQ is the avant garde
went on defense, very creative, very innovative, constantly looking for and sensing
options the shift to the shift and the play makes passes and the seams that
he knows are developing. He finds the seams, he creates them, Calm
under pressure and able to find a creative outfit outlet. Defensively, he uses
his efficient skating and timing of his active stip to be pesky threat to the
opposing team and trying to set up a breakout. Best asset is his shark
like motor that is tied to the cerebral side of his game. It's what
opens up chances for him and thwarts opponents. Biggest concern is pro durability for
Brandon. He's still only five ten eklyn and one hundred and eighty pounds,
was still on the smallish side and might might get a little beat up.
Top tier potential definitely has the potential to be a four to forty forty guy.
So forty goals, forty assis, eighty points, nearly point per game,
all situations player, powerplay guy, sharpshooter heavily would heavily benefit from playing
with a gravitational centerment, someone who will bring attention to him and away from
Ekland. Most likely tier might be more of like a fifty point guy fifteen
goals, thirty five points, something like that, special teams deployment, second
line complementary player with the fair amount of shots, but not much in the
way it hits or blocks. Stylist a comparable Brandon says a cross between Nikolai
Eelers and Jordan Everley. Well, that sounds pretty fun, doesn't it.
Looking at some of his data from Don Lucision, he had some really good
offensive metrics, but he just really didn't have enough of opportunity to fill out
much else. But he still looks like a solid player. We're gonna move
into our comp section, so thanks to NHL rank King Mason Black for pumping
these out. So we have William Eckland versus Marco Rossi. This is gonna
be a fun one, both highly touted prospects. Rossi drafted ninth overall in
twenty twenty by the Wild Ecklin twenty twenty one seventh overall. So this year
in the Barracuda, Ecklin's equivalency was a fifty seven p NHL and for Marco
Rossi, the pH elee was fifty eight, So fifty seven fifty eight pretty
similar. Rossi had fifty points in fifty one HL games. I think the
equivalency is just slightly lower because he's one year older than Eklin, but pretty
similar. And the polls actually went William Eclin's way. We had a couple
hundred votes and we went It went fifty four percent to William Eclin and forty
six percent to Marco ross See, Jesse, what do you think about this?
I think I'd side with that. I'll take William Eklund in this deal.
I did a fun thing, Victor, just just for fun, and
I won't do the read the whole thing. But I typed into Google bar
this morning Who's going to be better William Eklund or Marco Rossi? And it
came out with a whole scouting report for you. So I'm sure it.
Sometimes these things are completely made up, but it's kind of fun. You
can you can look at there, and it didn't come out to a definitive
decision on it. But liked both of the players, but Eklund. I
like the I like the winger possibility there that I think we'll get some out
of Eklund. I like the fact that he's a year younger. He's been
in the NHL a little bit less than Rossi, but he's kind of,
uh, you know, he's kind of Rossi's had a rough time. He's
had a much rougher time in terms of scoring in the NHL than even Eklund
has. So I think he's to a little bit of a hotter start,
even though Rossi has outproduced him in the HL. So I don't know.
Sometimes when you have seen less of them than the NHL and they've produced more,
I mean, I guess you sort of have to take that as evidence
that they are off to a quicker start. So it's not a huge difference.
I think Rossi is by low right now, to be honest, but
Eklund is still a guy I would like more than him. How about your
victor. I think both these guys are probably a little low. I think
gms are fantasy. Gms are a little frustrated with how long it has taken
them to get to prominence, and I think you can capitalize on that.
This is really hard for me because I still really believe in the upside of
Marco Rossi and he has been incredible in the HL over the last couple of
years. It's a little frustrating that he hasn't broken in as much, and
I think to some extent, there's a really good reason for that, and
that's because the Wild are a much better team and so they are pushing,
you know, for to win every night for playoffs, and the Sharks don't
really have that. It's a little bit frustrating that they kept him in the
HL rather than let him, you know, kind of learn more with the
with the big club. And Rossi has been pretty close to a point per
game in both of his seasons in the HL, so I think there's a
little bit more peer upside there, though I do think, as you mentioned,
it might be a little safer with Eklen being a winger. I think
his positionality is a little bit more flexible. I'm sure Rossi could play wing,
but he really is more of a true Centerman in my opinion. So
this is hard Jesse, but I think I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Marco
ROSSI. I just believe in his peer upside more. And what the heck
is Google Bard I don't know what that is. That's it's like chat GPT.
It's another one of those AI things. You just go into Google and
you type bard and you go in there and it's AI. It reads the
entire Internet and generates this for you. Victor, I'm living in the future,
man. You can now get simple, simple summaries of things, sometimes
wildly inaccurate by doing that, but it's a lot of fun, Victor.
The next guy is He's been mentioned so many times on the show. You've
generated so many wonderful nicknames for your need to know prospect. Maybe his new
nickname should be by him Low. Who is the need to know prospect?
Victor Thomas Bortolow. Like Eckland, we thought he might get some NHL time,
but he was a little bit more in need, I would say,
not having played against professional competition. He was with the NCAA until last season.
He did a good a couple of Kuda and Sharks games last year,
but he really needed that full year of development. He was asked to do
a lot on this poor Baracuta team, but he was able to keep his
head just barely above water. Fifty percent of corsi as a rookie in the
HL really not bad. Forty one points in sixty five games again while having
to do a lot of defensive work and getting getting a lot of strong competition
against two points in eight games. And the NHL was nice too. And
for a little bit more on Bordeloau, let's hear from our FHL scout Nate
and so skating for Bordelo, Nate says, very smooth skater, uses his
edges well to gain body position down low and in the corners. He also
was very impressed by the fact that he was able to match up against other
teams top lines. His game against Connor McDavid was very impressive. It's it's
a little interesting to hear what Shank said about the poor defensive effort because that's
a little bit contradicted by what I've seen and what Nate says. Here we'll
get to that puck handling for Bordelo elite, elite level hands and playmaking.
Surprise that he didn't put up more assists in the HL, but that was
probably because of the linemates, and I definitely agree with that those numbers should
improve with better, better linemates. And there were sometimes in the HL where
he would attack defenders and they would have no answer for his puck control.
So we'll interesting to see what happens next. The shot for Bordelo above average
close to putting a lead tag on him, but he needs to use it
a little bit more, and when he gets the opportunity that he can really
rip it, but sometimes he defers to his teammates and passes. He's definitely
more of a playmaker than a shooter, and if he starts using a shot
a bit more to adapting to scoring on HL goalies, he can turn this
into a real weapon. Some of the viewings in the HL, the shot
would really explode off his stick. So for IQ, for Bordelo above average,
defensive, IQ jumped out immediately to him. He's always below the puck,
always in the right position to make a good play. Panic meter at
the NHL was a little bit concerning him maybe rushing the play a little bit,
but that's probably not a long time concern, considering he figured that out
pretty quickly at the HL level. He thinks the Sharks could put a bit
of a better positional strategy on him to succeed in terms of stepping up in
these situations. Defense above average always seems like a stick is in the proper
position and the defensive zone, stays below the puck and doesn't cheat, not
afraid to get in the shot lane and block shots. So see, this
is different from what Shang said, and this is what I've observed as an
asside on borderlow two. I do think he's a strong two way center.
I don't think that he necessarily cheats for offense. Maybe some of the maybe
some of the games that we had our viewing Ze and Eate and I maybe
he was being more responsible because of something the coach said, But I've always
seen that in him. He is a more offensive leaning player, but generally
defensive responsible. Anyways, back to the report, best asset for Bordolo and
lead hands and playmaking. Biggest concern in a small sample sized this season,
Nate saw him being too defensively responsible at the NHL level, which muted his
offensive potential, and he really needs to be more willing to take risks like
he does in the AHL. Not a huge concern, but should continue to
improve. Top tier potential first line center if he can open up his offensive
talent and most likely tier and middle sixth forward who will be a good complement
nary player, but not maybe the guy generating sixty five seventy five points a
year, being defensively responsible middle sixth forward who can earn power play time and
increase his fantasy value realistic comparable. He agrees that in the past people have
talked about him versus Ryan ju J Hopkins, and he sees that as a
as a pretty good comp especially considering he could anchor first line, but he's
much better suited to being a really good second line center, though he wouldn't
rule out being an offensive star someday. Like Ryan nu Jen, Hopkins has
sort of exploded this year. So thanks Ryan, Thanks Nate for that report.
Let's move on to the comps with NHL rank king. We have Thomas
Bortolow versus Brennan Othman and so we have Bordelow with his forty one phl E
at the HL level this year so not super high, and Othman with the
Peterborough repeats he had a thirty five p and actually in the Firewood Flints before
that fifty p h Lly. And if you look at hockey prospecting, it
is definitely in favor of Bordelow. It's he still has about a seven percent
chance of being a star, sixty eight percent chance of being a Nacheller Authman,
down to just one percent chance of being a star, and thirty two
percent it's a chance of being an Eachellar. So very you know, Bordolo
has almost doubled the odds of even being an nhlor and I would say he's
for sure an NHL quality player Authman, I think the jury is still very
much out on that. Looking at Bordolo two, he in terms of the
comps that he just generally looks like in hockey prospecting, he looks very much
like Alex new Hook. I would say new Hook maybe not the most exciting
player, definitely an Nheller, but sort of a you know, middling or
math fantasy asset. He also looks a little bit like Anthony Manta at least
points wise, which would at least be more exciting from a fantasy perspective.
Looking at the poll though, the people very handily gave this, or maybe
not very handily, but fairly handily gave this to Brennan Authman fifty six percent
for Athman and only for Bordelo. So who you got on this one,
Jesse, You're going with the people and take an Othman. I've been back
and forth on the fence with this. I know one thing that you have
turned up is that Bordelo is or Athman's a little bit better for bash which
is something I certainly like to see in my prospects. Othman's a little bit
earlier in the funnel, a full year younger, and he's still up in
the OHL rather than NCA and the HL. Kind of a tougher crucible for
Bordelo to have gone through. And frankly, the NHL Bordelo has already gone
too. I think right now I probably am going to go Bordelo, because
even though Athman really has I guess he's got my attention. He really blew
away the OHL this year, and I think that he will be a guy
who makes the NHL. Bordelo's probably got a stronger case for staying there.
And yeah, I think I'll take Bordelou at this point, Victor, and
not just for the puns. He is more than just a good pun generator.
Yeah, and absolutely I don't really see this one as being that close.
Frankly, I would take Borlow in a heartbeat, mainly because he's like
pretty guaranteed to play NHL games very soon. Authman, Yeah, the jury
is still very out. I would say, like, I think he might
end up just being a fourth line banger, like a tweeter kind of guy.
I'm just I'm not convinced that he's a for sure, for sure NHLA
and that's someone that's a little bit risky in my opinion to invest in.
As you mentioned, Authman on my sheet rates out as a lead for bash,
so you know, if you if you like that, but that's really
only super helpful if the offense translates. As you've pointed out many times,
you can always go go get a fourth line banger and and fill in those
stats if he hasn't also providing points, and so that's really the question mark
there. And also just a reminder that Bordelow is going to be borderline elite
for faceoff wins, So if you track faceoff wins. You definitely want Borderlow
in your league. And I shall also mention that I have on my prospect
ranking sheet. I actually had to update this yesterday because he was a little
bit lower, but I moved Bordlow up to thirty three and Offman at fifty
one, So it was a bit of a discrepancy there, I would say,
And in my mind, third up Victor, you have your keep your
eye on prospect. Who is it? Yeah, we talked about this guy
a little bit with Shang and that's Henry Throun. Thron had a pretty stellar
season at Harvard, nearly a point per game, similar to last season.
And in case people are wondering, he's six foot two, left handed.
D's twenty two years old. When it was announced that he wouldn't sign with
the Ducks, the Sharks swooped in and traded a third ride pick for his
rights. I was fairly convinced that they were going to sign him where they
wouldn't have made that investment, and sure enough they did. He suited up
for eight NHL games, had a couple assists. I imagine he's in the
NHL next season, but he could easily win a spot in camps as Shang
kind of alluded to, his tracking data through Mitch Brown's system had him at
an eady overall, really good at creating dangerous passes in the slot, pretty
good at transition zone entries, creating entries, cross lane entries, pretty good
defensively to preventing entries, and good in the defensive zone, and some other
miscellaneous stats. So pretty much everything was positive except some of his Some of
his slot passes had a little bit lower success rate, but he was trying
really dangerous passes. In terms of the scouting report, we have Jamison submitting
this report average skating for Thron. His skating mechanics are awkward at times,
but his skating is sufficient to keep up the play. We did mention Shang
mentioned that that was a bit of an issue for him. Puck handling for
Thron is as effective as a handler in a puck mover. This is an
area where he shines. When the puck is on his stick. He's good
at protecting the puck and quickly moving up ice. Thron can get pucks on
net pretty well from the point and from Jamison's viewings. He doesn't have a
big bomb shot, but it is accurate and He's good at getting pucks on
net and creating scoring chances that way. He didn't have any significant scoring chances
in any of these games, but he isn't effective. He's more effective as
a distributor than a shooter. Iq Thrown is a smart player with good vision,
which shines mostly on the offensive side of things. On defenses, anticipation
can be a bit slow and reactive. Defensively, he asserts himself physically and
he's engaged. His tendency is to be reactive rather than proactive sometimes, but
that puts him a little bit back. He makes questionable decisions at times,
and coverage and his d zone maybe gets a bit burned. This might have
been a little bit because he's playing at a higher level than in the NCAA.
The biggest asset. Throun is a strong puck mover and great at holding
the blue line in the offensive zone. The biggest concern is the decision making
at times, prone to make prone to being more reactive defender than proactive,
and consistency can be an issue. Top tier potential can't see him scraping the
top tier threshold, but he likely tops out as a top four guy.
Shang Als will mention that assists and blocks could be significant if he grabs a
big role and progresses in some of the weaker areas. Not a huge shooter
or a major hitter, though, so that might hold him back a little
bit. Other more likely tier tier two. If he doesn't progress much pass
his current state, he'll be a modest producer with average to slightly about of
average. Bash stylist a comparable he lists as olimata, so decent, someone
interesting, but not super super exciting. Let's move on to our comps.
So we have Henry Thron versus Dominic Fensori. So Thron fifty five PHL based
on his NC double a time. Fensori has sixty bass is ncuble a time
this year. Last year his PLI was seventy three, so pretty high but
similar looking at hockey prospecting, the actually almost identical if you look at most
of their numbers. They've both kind of gone up and down in terms of
star potential, both ending at about twenty six to twenty seven percent star potential.
Thron has a slightly higher NHL or probability, and I think that's mostly
driven by the fact that he's six foot two and Dominic Fensorius five foot seven,
and I know that that factors into the model. The guy I think
he looks most like in the hockey prospecting model is Kendrew Miller Candre Miller,
an awesome defenseman, a little bit pushed down the lineup in New York because
of all the other great defenseman around him, but still good in his own
right. And in this case it was a landslide. Henry Thron won sixty
eight percent to thirty two percent. Jesse, are you in concurment? Yeah?
It is for the reason. I mean, he basically had the same
production line is Fentzer in there within six months of age of each other.
And then you throw in an addition to that that he's a much bigger boy,
So why not. I think that's you probably need to see. Plus
he is going to have, I think, a smoother path with the rebuilding
Sharks then Fensoria was going to have with the contending Carolina Hurricane. So thrown
it is, Victor. Yeah, let's thrown it up. This one's easy.
I think I really like some of Fenn Suri's game. He has pretty
good offensive acumen and some good instincts, and I think he's a really good
junior player. I'm not sure that he's going to be a good pro player.
We will have to see if his game can translate to the professional levels,
because to this point he's been he's been pretty awesome at Boston University.
He's been there for four years, he's been the captain. Last year they
went on a nice run, and he has been okay at that level in
terms of, you know, all around. But in the HL it's going
to be a different story. And he's still hasn't grown. He's still he's
still one hundred and fifty pounds and five foot seven, so pretty small.
Um So, I think this is easy, easily thrown just just an actual
NHL frame NHL player, So this might be an opportunity if you have been
sorry to go ahead and trade him and Victor. Um. I just have
to ask. I thought Thrunt was going to be the new Star Wars villain,
So I'm a little bit confused that you did a comp with him today.
The new Star Wars villain. Yeah, there's there's gonna be an Admiral
Thrunt who's going to be the new Star Wars villain. Anyway, Sorry,
two people out there left, go on. Well, there you go.
I guess I guess we'll have to bring in some Star Wars jokes there too,
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