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Severe and Victor Nuno lead to see
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Nuno. Victor, how you doing. I'm doing great. I see light

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in the flame. I love it. I love it. Coming in hot

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already, that's right, we're gonna
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a minute, I see what you
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boy. The takes are flying fast
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renewed if they haven't already got to
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You're going to make some trades.
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blocks and shots. I just happen
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Fantasy Hockey Life. It's time to
go up north of the border, up

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into a horse country. Right after
the we'd like to welcome to the show

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a man who's going to be able
to tell us all about what's going on

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up with those Calgary Flames. It's
Steve McFarlane up the hockey News. How

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you doing, Steve heyn good?
Thanks, how are you guys doing doing

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awesome? Ready to talk about what
is going on up in that there province

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of Alberta and what happened here with
this season. So here's my breakdown of

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the season of the Flames. They
came into the season with what seemed like

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decent chances at the playoffs, but
on opening night their playoff odds actually were

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higher than Vancouver's were. And in
the past that we're living in people listening

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to this or in the future,
but in the past we're living in.

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Vancouver's still in the playoffs. They're
either eliminated or they won the Stanley Cup

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by the time people are listening,
probably, But anyway, season gets underway,

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Calgary starts to seven and one buried
the team. They really never got

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into the playoff race. Their power
play percentage was seventh worse than the NHL.

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They had the sixth worst save percentage. The team sold hard at the

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deadline that the president stepped down in
the offseason. Things we're not looking up.

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Is this team of Flames still on
the way down or in the recovery

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mode? Or are the Flames coming
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maybe even have a chance to step
back into playoffs next year. I think

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there's a chance. But I really
do see this as a couple of years

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of suffering through a little bit of
a rebuild. It's a word that they'll

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never use in Calgary, but it's
just essentially by default, they were forcing

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to a rebuild with the inability to
sign a whole bunch of pending UFAs,

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including Lindholm and Zadorof, who are
now having some pretty big successes in Vancouver

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in the second round, and they've
had to focus on more of their young

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players and bring a whole bunch of
rookies in this year, and it was

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essentially right off the start, they
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success out of the gate. And
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lessons for a lot of the young
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in with a very questionable top six, top nine offensively anyway. So despite

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some pretty big years from some of
the veteran players like Nasen Kawdri and Blake

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Coleman, they just couldn't really find
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that turnaround that some of them expected
after all of the other craziness of the

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year before, where the expectations were
so high and they fell so flat and

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led to the dismissal of Darryl Setter
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the top. Yeah, as you
said, Nasim Kadri had himself a very

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good year. You can't complain about
him as being the cause of things not

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going well. He was the fiftieth
ranked fantasy player in our team in our

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leagues this year. In less than
ideal circumstances, twenty nine goals, forty

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six assists in eighty two games.
Those seventy five points were sixteen more than

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the next highest Calgary Flame. The
advanced stats were right in line. He

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landed in the top twenty five in
the NHL in evolving hockey schools above replacement

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almost doubled up the second highest player
on his own team, stepped into the

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C one role with Lindholm leaving the
team. It looked like has five more

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years of deal ahead thirty three years
old, enough to push him to the

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verge of forty by the end of
that contract. But anyway, is Kadri

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likely to maintain this level of production
next year? Steve, considering how shocking

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the performance was last year, I
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supporting cast around him is a little
better and some of the young guys click.

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I think it was essentially a combination
of will and ice time and just

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a lack of sort of other people
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that helped propel them. And when
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is a guy who doesn't want to
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of a rebuild, But he committed
to Calgary, and he's stated even in

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the off season here that he still
committed to this team and thinks that this

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team can win, and he just
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season to be their leader on the
ice and take those minutes and take that

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responsibility and put himself in a position
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But it just seems like something that's
not very sustainable when you look at his

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prior year and his career in general, and the fact that he's approaching his

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mid thirties, it just seems like
something that's not going to be He matches

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it, that's very impressive, but
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especially on the goal scoring side.
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and was flirting with that thirty mark, and it's just that's a tough thing

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to do every year. We want
some good news here for Flames fans,

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and I think that can be in
the form of yugor Sharon Govic, because

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he was acquired along with a third
round pick for Tyler to Foley and listener,

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go ahead and do an exercise with
me, closgize and just think,

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who do you think got more points
this season to folly your Sharon Govic.

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Yep, it was definitely not to
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and Winnipeg, and he did not
outperform Sharon Govich, so they got an

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extra pick and potentially I don't know, dare I say, maybe a better

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player At this point, Igor's fifty
nine point pace last season was the best

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of his career. His seventy percent
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that, and that may not continue
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on ice and powerplay time of his
on ice of his career, so he

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got the opportunity. So the big
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Sharon Govich can get a sixty plus
point season and or are we gonna see

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some regression closer to his career age
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see some regression on the goal scoring
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he'll hit thirty, but I think
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I do see him as a sixty
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and I think for someone who came
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and he's a player who wasn't very
confident. When he came in, he

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was looking for a new start.
He was very excited for the new start,

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but had to go through all of
the ups and downs of learning a

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new system, meeting a whole bunch
of new players. The language barrier can

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sometimes be a bit of an issue, and he did a really good job

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adapting, but had some inconsistencies throughout
the year. And I think he can

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settle in now, have a good
summer with a plan going into next year

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and being more familiar with what's asked
of him and what his responsibilities are going

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to be and what kind of ice
time he's going to get, and come

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back next year and be an even
better player. Like I said, I

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don't know if he's going to make
thirty goals again, but I think he

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has an opportunity to do. And
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as well, and probably even shoot
more frequently, which with that shooting percentage,

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if that drops in the number of
shots rises, that might balance out

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a little bit. I predicted Jonathan
Huberto would have a huge comeback year,

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and I don't think it happens.
Steve, you're going to have to help

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me out here, but fifty two
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He was performing to some extent,
but it was Jonathan Huberto's lowest production

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since twenty thirteen, fourteen in a
full season in advanced stats. He does

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continue to drive positive offense, and
this season also greatly improved once he got

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on a line with the aforementioned sharing
Govic, or at least after a night

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marrish outlier December that ended with only
one point in thirteen games. Huberto has

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had plenty of time now to adjust
to Calgary, although the thing does keep

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changing around him over the last couple
of years. But is what we've seen

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in the first two Calgary years locked
in as Jonathan Huberto's level of performance.

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Now, That is a really good
question and a really hard one to answer.

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I like you, I thought that
big dip from the one hundred and

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fifteen point season in the I think
the largest drop in points in NHL history

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to the season Prior to this past
season, I thought he was going to

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rebound. I thought he was going
to have a much closer to a point

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per game year and it didn't happen, and his month of December was horrific.

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I just don't know if he's the
same player that he was in Florida,

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and I think partially that's maybe a
little bit of the age, the

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giant change in lifestyle, all of
the elements that go along with essentially being

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told you're not wanted in Florida with
that trade, And I think it's just

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there's going to be a rebound year. It would be next year because now

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he's had a year under a coach
that is much more player friendly than Darryl

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Sutter was, so he could have
used that as an excuse the previous year.

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He didn't have that. This year, it was really much more on

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him. So I think that unless
he proves otherwise with a big rebound next

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year, I think what we're seeing
with Jonathan Huberdo is what we're going to

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see for the remainder of his career, at least in Calgary, if he's

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here in Calgary for all of those
remaining years on his massive contract. Blake

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Coleman also he actually quietly had a
career year at age thirty two. You

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mentioned him earlier as well as one
of the high performers are surprises this year

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fifty four points was third on the
team, as well as easily his career

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high that was thirty goals and twenty
four assists. There are a number forwards

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moving up in the lineup. We'll
be talking about a couple of them here

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in a minute. My question is, at age thirty two, is Coleman

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going to maintain as prominent a role
as the young guys on their way up?

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And what are you basically expecting for
Blake Coleman next year? Interestingly,

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Blake Coleman has been one of their
best players since he arrived as a kind

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of one of the bigger ticket free
agents few years back, and he just

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hasn't quite had the point production,
like all the underlying metrics have been really

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strong. Him and Andrew Manjaponi and
Michael Backland have been the team's best line

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six consistently throughout the last few years, creating tons and tons of chances,

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limiting the opposition and just not really
getting that translation into points of their own.

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So this year was a breakthrough for
him and talk about a super late

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bloomer, but I think that is
the one line that they never touch or

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rarely touch, and especially in tandem
with Michael Backlan, I just I could

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see Blake continuing to get lots of
ice time, lots of matchups that favor

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that line, which can essentially be
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at any point, and find mismatches. He scores shorthanded goals. He's just

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in the kind of in the fabric
of the game and all the corners doing

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all the hard pieces that are needed
to create opportunity and score goals, and

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it just all clicked for him last
year. And I could see him putting

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another year like that together next year, because the young guys should only improve

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and help date the other parts of
the game for the team, and so

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Blake will continue to get those opportunities
and maybe get them against even more lines

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that are more of a mismatch for
him, not always going against the other

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teams. Now, we're going to
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points pick them. Andre Kuzmenko and
Connor Zeri. In many ways, these

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guys couldn't be more different, but
they had somewhat similar point paces, so

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we'll put them together here. Zari
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pace. At times he was really
fantasy relevant. Sometimes he wasn't. Went

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through some stretches where it looked like
he was hitting the rookie wall a little

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bit. Kuzmenko at this point seems
like a bit of a reclamation project.

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He had a stellar seventy four point
pace season last season in Vancouver, as

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a lot of people talked about.
We knew he would request with that shooting

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percentage, and he did down to
fifty two. Neither of these guys shoot

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a lot, which makes getting points
a little bit more volatile. I would

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say their defensive acumen is also quite
different. Zeri is pretty confident defensive player.

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Husmenko. It's been pretty well documented
he doesn't pay as much attention to

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that side of the ice, But
the underlying metrics offensively are pretty similar in

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terms at least at evenstrength, whereas
Kuzmenko seems to be much better on the

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power play. But a lot of
this is going to depend on opportunity ice

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time, Steve, who are you
taking here, Zari or Kuzmenko. I'm

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going to go with Kuzmenko and the
primary reason and there are a lot of

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caveats. This is actually a really
challenging pair that is nicely pitted against each

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other here because Connorsery could play center
next year, which would be a bit

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more of a challenge for him,
but could also lead to even more opportunity

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depending on how he adapts at the
NHL level to that transition from the wing

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where it's a little easier for young
players to get into things and not have

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the same defensive responsibilities. And Kuzmenko
is playing for a contract and that's something

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that's along with for somebody as talented
as him to add that extra motivation of

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showing other teams that he is the
player he was in Vancouver and not the

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one that struggled there at the start
of this year. With Calgary, he

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was even better for the most part. He came in and started scoring goals

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right away, had a little bit
of a downturn in the second and third

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week, I think, and then
down the stretch was fantastic. But by

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that time all the pressures had been
removed from the team. They weren't making

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the playoffs, and he was able
to just go out there and have fun.

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And that's the kind of player he
is. I could see him putting

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up a lot of points again next
year with the Flames, and he found

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some chemistry as well with his line
mates, and I think that if he

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comes into camp, they get that
sort of hit right off the bat and

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aren't auditioning young players and get rolling
with their lines, and he could come

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out of the gate pretty hot and
maintain that confidence all the way through the

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season. I think Zeri will also
improve his own numbers, and if he

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can stay healthy, could be somebody
who matches that that potential to get up

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above the sixty point plateau, and
I think that would be a win for

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him as well. But I just
think that Kuzmenko probably puts up somewhere around

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seventy if he's playing the way he
played at the end of the year with

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the Flames. Let's do another points
pick him. Andrew Monchiupani, Michael Backland

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man Gio Pani's run on the twenty
one to twenty two Pacific Division champs does

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seem a little bit like the outlier
of his career, but his profiles offense

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heavy. He produces half a point
per game. He gets in well over

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a hit a game, so that's
nice. On the other hand, Backland,

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he had thirty nine points in eighty
two games last year, takes a

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fair number of shots almost to hit
a game. He's got the opposite profile.

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He's a very positive defensive player less
known for his offense probably, but

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came within one point of Maggiopani,
the twenty eight year old. Which do

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you see as better for their point
production? Next year? You guys really

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came up with challenging pick'ems because these
guys are traditionally on the same line feed

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off each other. If Manjupani is
scoring a goal quite often back when had

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a part in that as a setup
person, I'm going to go with Andrew

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Manjupani and primarily excuse me, not
just because he's the younger player, but

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so magic happened for him when he
was playing for Team Canada a couple of

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years back, and he translated that
international success into a really great career season

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with the Flames. And this year
he's playing with Team Canada. He's rediscovering

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his game. He was struggling with
a bit of an injury last year to

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his shoulder that nobody really knew about. Nobody knew how serious it was.

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He was healthy enough to go and
play overseas this spring, and I think

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it's going to translate into a more
confident, to better start and we might

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see a little bit more of the
twenty plus goal scoring Andrew Manjupanni that we

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were to watch for a couple of
years and then unfortunately dropped off in the

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last couple of seasons. You seem
to be enjoying our pick'ems, so we'll

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give you one more and this is
a little bit more of the young guns.

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A lot more unknowns here, obviously, but we're going to talk about

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Matt Coronado and Jacob Peltier. It's
interesting between these two though, because Peltier

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has been kicking around the organization for
quite a while now. He's been one

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of their lone top ish prospects for
a while. He's twenty three. Coronado

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much younger, he's just twenty one, and he a little bit higher.

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Pick thirteenth overall, Peltier was twenty
six, and they both got their first

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legitimate taste of the NHL this season. Coronado had thirty four games, Peltier

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just thirteen. Both have been stellar
in the AHL, though, So I

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guess a lot of this is going
to come down to who gets a bigger

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role. But what do you think
Who do you think that will be?

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Who gets a bigger role, who
will have a higher point pace? Matt

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Coronado, Jacob Peltier. Yeah,
I think they're really going to be going

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into camp competing with each other,
maybe not so much for the same position,

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because Cornado will play the right wing
and play is more of a He

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can play both, but I think
he's tagged more as a left winger with

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this group. With the chemistries that
they found so far, I think Cornado

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has an opportunity next year to be
one of the best young players in the

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conference, if not just the Flames
for the team. I think that he

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learned a lot this year. He
was up and down, but he can

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score. He can shoot. His
release is one of those things that you

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just can't teach right So I think
that his potential as a goal scorer if

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he can put all those other little
things into place and earn that spot as

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a consistent top six forward, which
is just staring him in the face here

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because right wing has been a problem
for Calgary for basically since Jerome mcginnill left.

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I see really promising things from Coronado
as a shooter, just once he

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gets his skating in order, and
I think this offseason will have a lot

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to do with that. The plan
that they sent him away with was to

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work on that speed and strength and
in the skating because he is one of

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those guys who if he's in the
right position and he has an opportunity and

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he gets to the puck, he
can fire it under the bar very quickly

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and have a lot of success there. Pelchi is a strong player as well,

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but I think that shoulder injury really
set him back and derailed his progress

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to a degree, so he's starting
over. He hasn't looked the same this

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year when he came back and then
reinjured it again, and then was out

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for a little bit and then came
back again. He started to look a

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little bit better at the end of
the year, but I just think he's

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more of a third line energy player
and probably not as offensive as we're going

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to see from Cornado, who's going
to be very much a goal scoring Calgary

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Flame in the near future. Let's
move to the blue line and start with

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Mackenzie Weiger. Fifty two points playing
eighty two games. That's tremendous. Only

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Cal mccarr and Roman Yosi I read, scored more goals among defensemen this year.

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Wow Wow. Soaks up big minutes, influences positive offense from his teammates

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as much as Flames fans might love
him, us fantasy managers must love him

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more because the bash the Blacks plus
shots plus hit this guy had or our

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peripheral fantasy scoring was number two in
the NHL with nearly triple two hundreds.

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That was just crazy. We'll shortly
get to a guy who got more power

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play Tom and Ice than Wiger did
later on in our Calgary defenseman segment,

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But what I want to know first
is will Weger be able to do this

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again? I don't see why not. He was brought in to solidify a

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really strong top four with eyes of
going to the playoffs with Noah Hannafin and

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mcken and Rasmus Anderson and just Chris
Hannef being the fourth as well. Once

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those trades were made and tannev was
gone, and you Knowah Hanathan was sent

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to the biggest Golden Knights, it
cemented him for next year as their top

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guy. And he'd already proven well
before those trades happened that he was capable

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of being that top guy. And
he just took every minute that he was

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given this year and made the most
of it and just puts it all out

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there every single game He's just the
most simple, sort of fun loving player

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that there is. He just loves
going out there doing what he can to

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help put up the points, and
he'll lay down in front of the bucks

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and make the blocks. He really
is such an underrated all around defenseman but

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that offensive ability. Doesn't have a
really hard shot, but he has a

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very accurate shot, and being third
in goal scoring in the NHL as a

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defenseman is no easy feet with the
number of elite players that are out there,

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I don't think anyone would have predicted
mcken's Ueiger being up there at the

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start of the season, But to
next year, I think he still has

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the ability to be right up there
in the top three to five. The

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man who spoils a little bit of
the fun that Wiger loves on the power

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play anyway, is Rasmuss Anderson.
I'm sure they get along fine, but

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Anderson did get the power playtime on
ice, especially early in the year.

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That said, after Hannafin and Linholmer
traded, he got somewhat less time later

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in the year. Anderson's at prime
age at twenty seven, eats a ton

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of minutes for this team. He
dropped ten points from the prior year thirty

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nine and seventy eight games, probably
largely because his power play points dropped in

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half and drew let's say fewer Rave
reviews for his play last year. I've

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seen a little bit of criticism out
there. You'll have to tell me about

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it. I've heard that might have
been in part because of a foot injury.

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Will Anderson be back to his power
play scoring ways next year, and

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what do you expect out of him? There are a lot of wrinkles into

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that. I think ideally, he's
such a hard shooting defenceman and he has

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such great vision. I think they
want him to return to that number one

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power play defenseman role and be that
quarterback. But I'm not sure they're entirely

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confident that he's going to do what
they want him to do on every shift

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to make that happen. And they
definitely have competition. Number one McKenzie Wieger

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is there, and he has that
ability to set things up and take some

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of that time away. They also
have a prospect, Daniel Miramanov, who

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has a booming shot from the point
and got some audition time later in the

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season as well, which is partially
why I think Anderson's time went down was

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they wanted to see what Mira Amountv
has and they wanted to see Mackenzie Weaker

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get to twenty goals. Right,
So were some of those team out of

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the playoff luxuries that we're working against. Anderson, who yeah, also probably

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was a little bit more injured then
he led on in most games. But

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I think it's going to be a
challenge for him because he's going to have

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a lot of competition and I still
think he's going to have a big season.

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I still think he's a forty point
player. I think he's going to

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get a lot of his points on
the power play, but also has that

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ability to produce at five on five. So it really just depends on whether

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or not he can secure that quarterback
role on B one, and that'll have

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to come early in the season where
he shows that he's willing to take that

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shot. One of the big criticisms
from the coaching side of things is he

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just wasn't He just wasn't using a
shot to his advantage, and he wasn't

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doing the things that he had done
last year to sort of set that tone

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on the power play and get the
looks that they wanted to get so he

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was what penalized because of that.
You talked about we're gonna have one more

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pick them. We're gonna throw a
whole bunch of defensemen at the wall and

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see who sticks. Because we got
Ilya Solavyov who played ten games and had

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three assists last year. He's twenty
three, Daniel Miromanov you just mentioned,

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he's twenty six, and he had
seven points in his twenty four games.

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And then you have old Oliver Shillington, who I believe is up for the

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Masterson as we talk here, and
he had eight points in his thirty three

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games. Very little time he was
able to get in this year, but

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great that he made it back.
Who do you take out of that tidy

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group of defenseman? Yeah, another
good one, And I think for me

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it's between Miramanov and Shillington, and
it'll be really challenging to predict until you

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see how their pairings shakeout in training
camp. But I leaned towards Miramadov just

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because I think that he's someone that
was very specifically targeted by the Flames as

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a very strong defensive prospect who was
buried in a fantastic system in Vegas.

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And also was recovering from a knee
injury that really he'd only started to get

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closer to one hundred percent. I
think as the season was winding down,

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he was still probably I think even
he said eighty to eighty five percent for

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most of his time in Calgary.
After the trade to come here regaining his

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confidence in his game and still looking
pretty good, and I think, I

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really think he's going to be one
of those people who's just challenging for that

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number one power play role, and
if not there, he'll certainly get significant

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time on the second unit. I
just big shot, lots of ability,

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just fantastic skater. If he's at
one hundred percent health and comes out confident

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to start the year, I just
see him as a really a sleeper fantasy

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pick for defenseman across the league this
year. That is great information on those

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depth defencemen. We're going to move
on over to the goalies, and the

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Flames are ranked twenty first in terms
of expected goals against per sixty not great,

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and it got a little worse when
you look at how many of they

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actually gave up because it was the
twenty fourth ranked actual goals per game.

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We know that Jacob Marstrom was the
main guy here forty eight games played,

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Vladar had twenty, and Dustin Wolf
got in seventeen, which was cool.

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It was definitely a bounce back season
for Mark Strum he played those forty eight

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games. As I mentioned, twenty
three, twenty three and two may not

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sound that good, but his underlying
numbers were fantastic. Twenty point thirty nine

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goals save above expected one point twenty
seven delta fenwick is an absurd number.

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That means he was performing everything in
front of him that he was getting.

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Ladar was not great in his twenty
appearances, and as much as I absolutely

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love Dustin Wolf as a prospect,
he did not look great in his NHL

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viewings this season. He's been stellar
in the AHL the past couple seasons,

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but it hasn't looked good. When
you look at the Repham chart for the

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at Evolving Hockey for goalies, you
can see that Jacob his expected say percentage

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was incredibly low, one of the
worst in the entire league expected and he

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well outperformed that by a dramatic margin. So just goes to show he was

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great. Wolf, on the other
hand, had some of the best protection

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in the league and well underperformed that. So I don't know, Steve,

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what do you can we expect the
same thing from goalies and calorie next season?

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What is going to happen? Is
Markstrom going to get fifty starts?

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Will we see more Wolf than Vladar? What do you think is going to

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happen. It's a really interesting position
to watch in the offseason because I'm truly

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not sure if Jacob Markstrom will be
starting the season as a flame. There

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was lots of talk about him becoming
a member of the New Jersey Devils before

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the trade deadline. It didn't sit
well with him the way it was so

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publicly out there with some of the
details, and his performance, I don't

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know. I know he had really
strong numbers if you look at the season

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as a whole, but I think
his numbers down the stretch after the trade

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deadline dropped significantly in comparison to the
first sort of two thirds of the season,

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And I just don't know what his
future. He's a stellar goal He's

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an elite goalie. He was as
in the finalist two years ago. I

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think he's certainly capable of that every
year, as long as his mind and

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his heart are into it, and
I think he struggled a little bit with

421
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that. Last year. There were
a lot of things going on on a

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00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,960
personal level as well, and he
was expecting the birth of his first baby,

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and I don't think that was an
easy process for him and that played

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a lot into some of his struggles. Play overall, this year was very

425
00:31:36,119 --> 00:31:37,759
impressive as a rebound, and I
don't think a lot of people gave him

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00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:42,440
enough credit for him for what he
did coming back from that off season the

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year before. And he's definitely capable
of being a fifty plus start, high

428
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:53,000
volume goaltender that is super trustworthy back
there and is going to make most of

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the saves. He also has a
really elite puck handling skill, which you

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don't get from Denilodar or Dustin Wolf. So I'm really curious to see if

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he stays with the Flames, if
they can put everything from the past behind

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them and move on, And I
think that all depends on their sort of

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00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:15,599
trajectory as a rebuild or a refresh
or a retool or whatever you want to

434
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,640
call it, and how confident they
are in Dustin Wolf. For me,

435
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I love Dustin Wolf. I think
that he is one of those underdogs you

436
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:28,200
always want to root for. He's
so incredible in the AHL, like none

437
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,640
of that can be disputed. At
the NHL level, though, obviously,

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as you mentioned, the numbers haven't
been great. He's made some pretty big

439
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:40,039
saves and he's had some sort of
really strong one or two starts here and

440
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there that show the promise and the
athleticism and that potential. But he's still

441
00:32:46,359 --> 00:32:52,799
Odds are still stacked against him,
just from the size issue and the experience

442
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,319
level. It takes time for goal
Is to develop. I'm not sure he's

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a guy that I would roll out
as a number one. Ideally, I

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think you bring back Markstrom and you
let Wolf be the backup next year and

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give him some starts in that capacity. And I'm not sure what becomes of

446
00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:13,160
Dan Vladari in that situation, but
he's certainly the third best option in Calgary.

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00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,680
He's just he's a great guy,
but he's the third best option in

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00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:20,119
Calgary and goal I think, and
ideally you bring back Markstrom, have Hi

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00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,240
mentor Dustin Wolf for the first half
of the season and see where the team's

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at and then re examine the trading
of Jacob Markstrom closer to the deadline again

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00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:32,720
if that's something that both sides would
like to do. This has been some

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00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:37,160
great insight on this Calgary Flames team. Why don't you let people know where

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they can continue to find your work. You can find me at the Hockey

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00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:47,960
News running the Calgary Flames site,
so it's the Hockey News dot Com backslash

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00:33:49,039 --> 00:33:54,160
NHL backslash Calgary Dash Williams, or
you can find me through Twitter at mcferland

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00:33:54,400 --> 00:34:00,440
HKY. All right, thanks for
coming on and talking to us about these

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00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,400
great players. Steve, Hey,
my pleasure. Guys, thanks for having

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me Wolf. Since then, that's
good fire passed up. Oh my goodness,

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long with a cat quick gram.
Now it's your weekly goalie talk.

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00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:29,119
But Kat Silverman Cat's instincts joined once
again by Kat Silverman of Ingold mag to

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00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:34,960
talk prospect goalies. We are,
of course talking Calgary Flames, and that

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means you know what that means,
Kat, That means the Big Bad Dustin

463
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,880
Wolf Flames twenty nineteen seventh round pick
six foot maybe and one hundred and seventy

464
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,280
four pounds. As I mentioned,
I love calling him the Big bad Dustin

465
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,760
Wolf. You finally got some decent
number of NHL games this season, but

466
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it did not go particularly well.
We know he's not big, but he

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00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:57,800
was bad in the NHL. Unfortunately, that is was a fact. His

468
00:34:58,039 --> 00:35:04,400
expected say percent or sorry Delta Fenwick
based on his expected safe percentage was radically

469
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,599
terrible. Basically, he got some
really good protection and he was not able

470
00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:10,400
to meet it. There were some
games. I watched a couple of these

471
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because I'm really interested in him,
and it seemed like there was some times

472
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where he was performing pretty well and
some where he clearly was not. And

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00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,440
obviously you're going to break it down
for us a little bit more, but

474
00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:25,599
I think that there was probably some
team effect there too. His hockey prospecting

475
00:35:25,639 --> 00:35:30,119
continues to look really strong, sixty
percent chance of being an NHLer at this

476
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,559
point. The comp that I have
for him here is Roman check Monk,

477
00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:37,119
who was a really good starter in
the league for a long time. So

478
00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:39,960
we have a little bit more data
now about wolf Kat what your instincts tell

479
00:35:40,039 --> 00:35:45,960
us about him and his NHL potential. So it was funny I watched his

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00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:50,480
NHL debut, where he obviously was
super stellar. I think he posted like

481
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:53,800
a sixty or nine fifty save percentage
nine fifty eight and I was like,

482
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,679
Ah, he's here, He's arrived
perfect. And then this year it looked

483
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,159
like he almost put too much pressure
on himself because watching him play in the

484
00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:06,639
AHL, he has so much control
and so much consistency, and sometimes it

485
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,239
almost looks like he's not bored.
But when we talk about some of the

486
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:16,119
goaltending prospects who do too much and
don't really know when to back off and

487
00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:20,360
just make those simple saves, don't
know when to wait, don't really have

488
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,400
their depth management under control, he
always looks like one of those guys who

489
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:29,880
knows exactly where he stands, knows
what his best positioning is to make himself

490
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,199
look as big as possible, knows
when he needs to make a desperation save.

491
00:36:34,159 --> 00:36:38,519
And then he hit the NHL and
it looked like it wasn't that his

492
00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:42,559
technique was thrown out the window.
It just looked like he was doing too

493
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,679
much and it may have been a
team effect thing there. Like you said,

494
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:50,880
it's not like Calgary was the league's
most powerful team this past year.

495
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,840
They went through it a little bit
and it looked like he which is really

496
00:36:54,840 --> 00:37:00,679
bizarre because for all intents and purposes, he looks like a goaltender who the

497
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,960
world is waiting for him. It
looks like he is ready for ready to

498
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,800
become the next starter in Calgary.
It's not a matter of if, it's

499
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:13,039
a matter of when. And it
looked like he was auditioning for his life

500
00:37:13,079 --> 00:37:16,760
there. There was a game that
I was watching where he was even when

501
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:22,199
it was very clear that the puck
wasn't going to be able to clear the

502
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,840
zone, he was making like a
last second desperation reach save doing two pad

503
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:30,280
stacks, windmills, poke checks.
Just he was all over the place and

504
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:35,360
I've never seen him play like that
before. And so it may have been

505
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,559
the pressure. It may have been
just wanting to turn that seat, that

506
00:37:38,599 --> 00:37:45,199
team season on its head and become
their next hero. He may have been

507
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:50,239
just so desperate to not have to
play anymore AHL games because he's been doing

508
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,880
so well there. He might have
been like, come on, let me

509
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:58,360
prove that I can stay in the
NHL. But he just it looked like

510
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,280
a completely different player, and not
because he was reading wrong. It wasn't

511
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:07,599
like he was misreading angles and just
like missing shots. He was just doing

512
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:15,280
so much and I've never seen that
from him, So I'm assuming that was

513
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:20,000
some nerves that was knowing that if
things didn't go well for him at the

514
00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:22,079
NHL level, it was back to
the AHL for the remainder of the season,

515
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:27,239
and just really not wanting to do
that. But whatever it was,

516
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,079
I'm assuming that when he makes it
to the NHL full time, we won't

517
00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:36,639
necessarily see that unless he steps into
the saddle Dome and just undergoes a brain

518
00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:38,840
transplant every time. But it was
interesting to see that because I think that's

519
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:44,000
one of the first goaltenders that I've
watched who went up to the NHL and

520
00:38:44,039 --> 00:38:47,679
it's not like their style looked ill
suited to the NHL. They just completely

521
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:54,039
changed the way they were playing.
And so I think once he feels a

522
00:38:54,039 --> 00:39:00,639
little more confident and in control of
his spot on the Calgary Flames, he'll

523
00:39:00,679 --> 00:39:06,239
looked like because in the AHL he
looked seamless. Again, It's not like

524
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,960
he was rattled at the NHL level
and then went back to the HL and

525
00:39:09,079 --> 00:39:13,719
was continually rattled. It's not like
he had to change his form back.

526
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:19,280
He just quietly went back to the
HL, and I believe during the postseason

527
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,360
he's got a real monster run there. Yeah, nine twenty four save percent

528
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:28,760
and she's doing fine. I don't
know. I assume he's desperately trying to

529
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,719
tell them that if they send him
back to the AHL, he's gonna panic.

530
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,480
It was really fascinating to see that, just because that was such an

531
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:43,039
anomaly when it came to prospect goaltenders
that are so highly touted. But it's

532
00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:46,000
always an adventure with him, so
that was still it was still entertaining to

533
00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:51,280
watch, just a little stressful if
you're someone who's really rooting to watch him

534
00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:58,159
win the next Peesna. Yeah,
it was disappointing at times to see him

535
00:39:58,159 --> 00:40:00,840
struggle and as you said, seems
like wasn't decision making, which is good

536
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:06,079
because a lot of the things that
you mentioned seemed correctable. Hoping that he

537
00:40:06,159 --> 00:40:08,840
gets another long shot and hoping the
team can be more stable around him.

538
00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:14,960
Let's move on to the other goalie. We're going to talk about Igor Egorov,

539
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,760
which again ten out of ten name
congrats on the parents from going that

540
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:22,960
direction. Flames twenty twenty three,
six round pick sixty three hundred and eighty

541
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:28,480
three pounds played in the MHL again
this past season for MHK Dynamo Muskva.

542
00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:32,239
No VHL or KHL time still very
young, won't be nineteen until August,

543
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:37,599
his equivalency still trending up twenty five
percent. He's got a David Riddick comp

544
00:40:37,639 --> 00:40:42,119
here who turned his season around this
season. Hard to tell, I know

545
00:40:42,199 --> 00:40:45,960
sometimes with those MHL goalies, But
what do your instincts tell us about Yugorov

546
00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:52,360
kat So It's always really fascinating when
we see a young goaltender who, especially

547
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:58,079
over in the Russian league's, doesn't
get any VHL time, even if they

548
00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:01,760
don't end up in the in the
cage, especially when you play in a

549
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:07,639
seeds, when you're playing in Moscow. There are so many good goaltenders that

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00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:14,440
play within those top Russian systems that
it's understandable to see, especially the really

551
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:19,039
young kids, not necessarily make their
way up to the top league. But

552
00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:22,360
not even seeing him get some minor
league time as an NHL draft pick was

553
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,840
surprising. That being said, he
played really well and it did give him

554
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:30,840
consistent start time, which is something
that I think is probably a good thing,

555
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,079
especially for a kid who, if
I remember correctly, he just barely

556
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:37,559
made the cutoff for getting drafted in
twenty twenty three because he turns Yeah,

557
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:40,599
he was I believe the very last
kid who was eligible to be drafted.

558
00:41:40,599 --> 00:41:45,320
He's in August thirtieth birthday. So
it's a good thing that he saw really

559
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,599
consistent starts because his numbers looked really
good, and he's in a system that

560
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,639
I'd love to be able to see
him playing against that higher level of competition,

561
00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:59,280
which I'm assuming once he's nineteen and
twenty will see him start to get

562
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,559
some of those tougher games in.
But he's in a powerhouse system right now,

563
00:42:02,559 --> 00:42:07,400
so he's getting good coaching. He's
getting consistent coaching, even at the

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00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,519
essentially the junior level. There are
some of the under eighteen teams and the

565
00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:16,519
under twenty teams in Russia don't have
super consistent coaching from top to bottom when

566
00:42:16,519 --> 00:42:20,880
you go from the cage all the
way down to the juniors. So it's

567
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,280
good to see that he has consistent
development and coaching, and he's on a

568
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:30,920
team that has produced a few NHLers
here and there, so I'd love to

569
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,880
see him playing against the higher quality
of competition before we really feel confident on

570
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,119
what he's going to be for Calgary. But the fact that he got in

571
00:42:39,159 --> 00:42:45,880
a ton of starts as essentially a
brand new eighteen year old, and it's

572
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,719
smart that they drafted him when they
did because they have so many years before

573
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,599
he'll essentially reach full maturity. He's
going to be in a full nineteen year

574
00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:58,559
old season this year, and then
I would say we really shouldn't even start

575
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:02,119
to wonder about about what he could
do in North America until too, maybe

576
00:43:02,159 --> 00:43:07,079
even three years down the road.
He's for sure to put that pot on

577
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:12,280
the very back burner and landed simmer
for a little bit. But it's a

578
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,599
good system, so that's exciting.
Yeah, if you can be patient with

579
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:21,039
him and keep him in your league
for a long time, then Newgraph might

580
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:24,559
be someone that could be really good
in a few years. So thanks again,

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00:43:24,639 --> 00:43:29,559
Kav for giving us your instincts on
the Calgary Fling Gullies. We'll be

582
00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:51,639
back right after this dig Dynasty jig
Calgary Flames, and we've got interesting Calgary

583
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,920
Flames. It's always interesting my band. The word good in our prospect,

584
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,239
reports Victor, because there was too
much good going on. I'm gonna have

585
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:02,159
to ban myself on using the word
interesting because I think it's my own problem.

586
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:07,519
In fact, it should be banned
on all podcasts. The prospect system.

587
00:44:07,599 --> 00:44:09,719
You like this Calgary Flame system.
It's the number eight according to you.

588
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,599
In the NHL. They have the
ninth pick in the draft, so

589
00:44:13,639 --> 00:44:16,400
they should make it better. They
also, because of the sales we talked

590
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:22,840
about, have a Vancouver first rounder
and extra second rounder, extra third rounder

591
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,079
and extra fourth rounder. How are
you going to be on the clock a

592
00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:29,840
lot? It starts right now with
their current system and the no brainer victor.

593
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:35,800
Who is it? It's Jeremy Poirier
and he was a twenty twenty third

594
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,199
round pick by the Flame. Six
foot one hundred and ninety pounds left handed

595
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:45,360
d This was his second season in
the AHL. It was limited to injuries.

596
00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:47,159
We'll hear a little bit more about
that later. But he'd had just

597
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,679
twenty three regular season games where he
was over a half point per game,

598
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:57,239
which was good, and he had
thirteen points in twenty three games. It

599
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:01,519
was an arm laceration that requires their
missed October all the way through early March,

600
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:07,400
and then he came back to the
playoffs and unfortunately Coachella Valley defeated the

601
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,079
Calgary Wranglers, but he had four
points in six playoff games. So overall

602
00:45:10,559 --> 00:45:14,800
that was pretty nice. Last season
in the AHL forty one points in sixty

603
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,079
nine games and nearly a point per
game in the playoffs, so he's had

604
00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:22,239
some really solid production as a professional. Looking at his Fantasy Hockey Life player

605
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:28,599
card, you can see that he's
really pretty good points only option. He

606
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,239
has a lot of assists for sixty
according to the league, and his goals

607
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:36,280
are actually pretty nice for defenseman.
He had nine this season in sixty nine

608
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,360
games. He doesn't block hardly at
all, and his hits are fairly low

609
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,719
below average. His shots are not
as high as you would like. He's

610
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,559
only a seven out of ten there, so not the volume shooter, so

611
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:51,360
basically more of a points only option. I have him as a seven out

612
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,320
of ten in the overall rankings,
so I'm fairly high on him. But

613
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:58,719
let's hear a little bit more about
why that might be from our scout FHL

614
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:04,000
scout Jesse and it's our I believe, our lead scout Jeremy V coming in

615
00:46:04,079 --> 00:46:07,599
off the top rope talking Jeremy Poitier
a defenseman to it. We just talked

616
00:46:07,599 --> 00:46:12,800
about the one he was drafted skating. He's smooth both then a street line

617
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,199
and in small places should be a
nice piece in transition. Offensively, passing

618
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:21,159
and handling. Jeremy saw some miscues
on a few stretch passes, but he

619
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,719
is comfortable skating with the puck consistent
with the end zone passes. This is

620
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,719
probably one of his better skills.
Shooting, not a booming shot, but

621
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,519
a nice rister that can find its
way through traffic. Jeremy doesn't see fifteen

622
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:37,480
to twenty goal talent here or anything. He had four goals this year,

623
00:46:37,519 --> 00:46:42,559
and three of them were bad slash
lucky goals last on a five on three

624
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:47,239
one timer. IQ vision with the
puck is very good. He patient always

625
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,639
knows where his teammates are. His
danger meter could use some fine tuning,

626
00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:57,360
though, as sometimes he makes risky
plays in the zone. Defense that's where

627
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,840
Poitier struggles, seems much more loss
then when Jeremy watched him last year.

628
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:06,840
Maybe the long injury hurt the development, but he was out of position a

629
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,480
number of times, only overly aggressively
into two on ones, got out muscled

630
00:47:09,639 --> 00:47:14,119
on the boards. The best asset
the pucket, handling and passing. The

631
00:47:14,159 --> 00:47:20,119
worst again the defense, top row
potential sheltered offensive d man and the justification

632
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,880
for that. Tools are there and
Jeremy could see him making ways on a

633
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:27,840
power play one, but just doesn't
see the defense hitting top for n Eaheller

634
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:34,159
level and the sort of media outcome
fiftieth percentile D five to six powerplay two.

635
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,599
That justification doesn't hit an offensive upside. He could struggle to get more

636
00:47:37,639 --> 00:47:40,880
than fifteen minutes a night, and
if he doesn't fall into a power play

637
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:47,199
one choice that is gonna cost him
a lot of minutes. Stylistic comparable Tony

638
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:52,840
DiAngelo without the behavioral problems. How
about that, Jeremy And final thoughts really

639
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,119
thought Jeremy really thought that it was
the injury cost him the first half of

640
00:47:55,159 --> 00:47:59,320
the season, did him no favors. It was a skate last ration October

641
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,400
twenty first that required surgery, didn't
play again until March third, and in

642
00:48:02,559 --> 00:48:07,400
four games per injury seven points.
Will be continued to watch him next year.

643
00:48:07,599 --> 00:48:10,400
We'll see if he has a full
training camp instead of the mid playoff

644
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,159
push arrival and with the openings Calgary
could have a nice role. But if

645
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:20,480
he contiders this dround, we'd trend
he is out. Our friend Mason Black,

646
00:48:20,559 --> 00:48:24,599
the NHL rank King put out the
poll. Jeremy Poitier versus Lucas Cormier

647
00:48:25,199 --> 00:48:30,840
just the battle of the Yas I
think, and comier of course of the

648
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:35,960
Vegas Golden Knights. And he's even
debuted in the pros and in this battle

649
00:48:36,119 --> 00:48:40,480
the people of x have spoken Jeremy
Poier sixty two to thirty eight over Lucas

650
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:45,559
Cormier. Victor. Is that how
you rank him? Yeah? I think

651
00:48:45,599 --> 00:48:50,280
so. And I wonder if we
can get Kanye to write that song about

652
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,960
these two. Oh my gosh,
yeah, be a good life. Yeah,

653
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,360
these two are similar. Actually,
this is a really great comparison from

654
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,639
Mason and Lucas Cormier. For those
who may not remember, one of the

655
00:49:02,679 --> 00:49:07,880
few remaining decent prospects in the Vegas
pool. That's going to be that's gonna

656
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:12,400
be a rough one when we get
to Vegas. But he was drafted by

657
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,159
Vegas twenty twenty third round pick,
and he has been in the AHL the

658
00:49:16,199 --> 00:49:21,480
past two seasons. He hit over
a half point per game in his first

659
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,559
season last season, and then he
progressed a little bit this season twenty points

660
00:49:23,559 --> 00:49:29,760
in fifty eight games. Similar in
terms of offensive defenseman that struggled defensively a

661
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,880
little bit. I really liked Quarrier's
first season, as Jeremy noted, it

662
00:49:35,079 --> 00:49:37,719
was a big step forward. I
was really high on him, which is

663
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,360
why my ranks went up quite a
bit for him this season. I agree

664
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,239
with Jeremy. I think the injury
hurt Quarrier a lot. I think he

665
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:49,039
really struggled to come back and find
his game a bit, and maybe seems

666
00:49:49,039 --> 00:49:52,960
like he regressed in his defensive game. I was just looking at his underlyings,

667
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,519
and his fenwick was actually really good. Last season. He drove play

668
00:49:55,559 --> 00:50:00,880
fifty seven percent. This season he
was still over fifty, but just barely.

669
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:02,960
So. He definitely regrets defensively,
but it still seems like a huge

670
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,360
improvement. When I watched him in
junior, it was an adventure. Every

671
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,840
shift was like someone was going to
score either on him or with him,

672
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,480
against him, or for his team. But that doesn't seem to be the

673
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:19,199
case anymore. He's still generating some
offense, but not a total liability.

674
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,360
So that's why I would take Pore
here. I think he's translated it better

675
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,719
to the professional ranks. The one
reason to like Cormier, though, is

676
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:31,239
that Cormier is one of the few
decent prospects left in that Vegas system.

677
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:35,639
So if you're one of these people
who believes that I just want the top

678
00:50:35,679 --> 00:50:40,400
dog in another eise bereft pool of
talent, then you definitely want Cormier because

679
00:50:42,119 --> 00:50:45,719
that is true, and not that
Calgary has a ton of other options,

680
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:47,599
but they do have some other decent
defensive options, some of them that we

681
00:50:47,679 --> 00:50:52,519
talked at on the main show with
Smeramanov, and there's another guy we'll get

682
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:54,920
to in a minute. So that's
one reason to really like Cormier. He

683
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:59,760
stands out head and shoulders amongst the
crowd. When you look at the hockey

684
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:04,440
prospect between these two, it's pretty
clearly Cormier he graduated the Model with twenty

685
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,280
three percent chance having a star in
Poirier with just four. But I think,

686
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,320
as I mentioned a lot, I
think you have to take into context

687
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:15,400
what has happened since then, and
that was the Model ended both of them

688
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,400
in their first AHL season. But
I think there's a little bit more that

689
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,840
you can say. If you look
at the P ANDHL between these two,

690
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,800
it's clearly in Puarier's favor. Anyways, I think that's that I like the

691
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:30,800
Tony di Angelo comp The main one
that you can see on hockey prospecting is

692
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,039
Shane Gosta Spear. I think that's
also fair. That's what we're talking about

693
00:51:34,039 --> 00:51:37,920
here, someone on the level of
Shane Gosta Spare and Tony Di Angelo,

694
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,480
where the defense is never great but
it could be passable and there could be

695
00:51:40,519 --> 00:51:45,760
some decent power play opportunities, and
it depends on how good that defensive game

696
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:50,239
gets and how much the offense translates. I agree with Jeremy. I think

697
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,280
it's probably closer to a five to
six defenseman with power play two time,

698
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,400
but maybe he flexes that up to
top power play. We'll see. I

699
00:51:55,400 --> 00:52:00,719
think it's going to be interesting.
The j freshcards is much more pessimistic here,

700
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,360
just two percent chance of being a
star, a twenty seven percent chance

701
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,119
of being an NHL or so.
Overall, Prairie is definitely an interesting prospect,

702
00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:12,119
someone who's really close to being NH
already, and you got to like

703
00:52:12,159 --> 00:52:15,199
that because he could get an opportunity
as soon as next season. But there

704
00:52:15,199 --> 00:52:20,119
are definitely still question marks that need
to be answered. Moving on to our

705
00:52:20,199 --> 00:52:23,280
needs no prospect victor who is It's
none other than the guy I was alluding

706
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:28,360
to that there are some other prospects
in this system, and it's Hunter Rustevitts.

707
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:34,920
Hunter Brustevitz, who was a twenty
twenty three third round pick by Vancouver

708
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,199
and he was traded to Calgary and
the Elias Lenholm deal, which is looking

709
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:42,119
pretty great for both sides right now. I'd say Lindholm doing really well in

710
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:45,960
the playoffs. As we're recording this
six foot er one hundred and ninety pounds

711
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,079
right handed D. He had a
pretty bonkers D plus one season. It

712
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:55,920
was really incredible, and that I
think Vancouver capitalized on the hype that was

713
00:52:55,960 --> 00:53:00,639
going around rust Evicts. He had
ninety two points and sixty seven games for

714
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:06,360
Kitchener. I believe at one point
he was leading the OHL the entire OHL

715
00:53:06,519 --> 00:53:09,559
and power play goals or something to
that effect. He was really outstanding.

716
00:53:09,599 --> 00:53:14,239
It was really an outstanding season,
no question about it. Really good offensive

717
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,360
vacuumen. There were some question marks
of like why he didn't get chosen to

718
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:23,320
represent USA at the U twenty World
Championships. We know that USA usually doesn't

719
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:27,079
favor the guys that go the Ohl
route, so that was probably part of

720
00:53:27,079 --> 00:53:30,440
it. And he's a very early
birthdate, so this was his last opportunity.

721
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:31,920
He's a November birthdate, so he'll
be twenty next year. He won't

722
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,840
be able to play, but on
the good side, he could play in

723
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,400
the AHL, which is nice nice
step for him since he did so well

724
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:42,119
in the OHL. But I think
there's also a reason to assume he might

725
00:53:42,159 --> 00:53:45,039
be back because there's still some work
that he needs to do in his defensive

726
00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:50,360
zone. There's still some question marks
there. But looking at his FHL player

727
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:55,000
card, you can see that Brucet
Evicts is really good for scoring. He

728
00:53:55,079 --> 00:53:59,760
has more assists. No one has
more assists for sixty than him. Really

729
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:05,400
good for goals as well. He
ended up in the OHL with thirteen goals

730
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,599
for Kitchener in sixty seven games.
His shots are pretty decent to seven out

731
00:54:08,599 --> 00:54:10,880
of ten, but he doesn't really
hit her block very much. So another

732
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:15,199
guy who's probably more of a point
soill only option, and I also have

733
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,519
him as a seven out of ten. I think obviously he's much farther away

734
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:23,920
than Quariyer, but I think there's
a similar like Hockey IQ and defensive acumen.

735
00:54:24,039 --> 00:54:29,320
Question marks, probably fewer than Quarrier
at this stage, but we'll have

736
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:30,679
to see how the rest of the
development goes, and we'll have to see

737
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:34,960
what also makes this such an interesting
player. And to do that we'll hear

738
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,480
again from our lead scout, Jesse. Not our lead scout, Jesse,

739
00:54:38,519 --> 00:54:43,360
our lead scout, Jeremy. But
I understood your point. And here's what

740
00:54:43,519 --> 00:54:46,159
Jeremy has to say. Not the
fastest guy, but not a bad skater.

741
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:51,840
Positioning and anticipation help him look faster
than he really is. Strong on

742
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,199
his skates for the passing and handling, high end puck schools of puck skills,

743
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,920
effective at getting the puck up in
transition in the zone, seems to

744
00:55:00,119 --> 00:55:04,039
know where he's going with it before
receiving it. Shooting, he's not a

745
00:55:04,039 --> 00:55:07,199
big shooter, but he can pick
a spot when creeping in from the point.

746
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,519
IQ solid always knows where he needs
to be both offensively and defensively,

747
00:55:12,599 --> 00:55:15,559
doesn't get out of position often.
Defense strong body for a guy of his

748
00:55:15,639 --> 00:55:20,880
size, and should continue to grow
into that. Also good at positioning and

749
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,960
with his stick. Jeremy was more
impressed with his defense than he expected to

750
00:55:25,039 --> 00:55:30,800
be given the point totals. So
the biggest asset was that IQ and anticipation

751
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:37,960
biggest concern lack of any one defining
skill top tier. Jeremy thinks that the

752
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:42,400
top outcome for this guy's perennial Norris
candidate, and that is, if his

753
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,000
offense pops in the next two years, he could be a big time NHLer

754
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:50,119
doesn't think that's the likely outcome,
but he's one skill jump away from it.

755
00:55:50,559 --> 00:55:54,199
Fiftieth percentile second pairing power play one
guy, and that's because his game

756
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,960
is really mature for a nineteen year
old. He's still got to make the

757
00:55:58,039 --> 00:56:01,079
jump to the AHL and then the
NHL. But Jeremy is really impressed with

758
00:56:01,159 --> 00:56:07,599
how well he does many different things. Stylistic, comparable Shaye Theodore, and

759
00:56:07,039 --> 00:56:13,840
yeah, that's high praise. Mason
Black the NHL ranking put hundred Bristovitch out

760
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:19,559
against Riker Evans in an X pole
and Hunter came out just slightly ahead fifty

761
00:56:19,559 --> 00:56:23,800
two to or fifty eight to forty
two percent. Is that the way you

762
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:29,920
rat can stack these two, Victor? This is a really difficult the question

763
00:56:30,039 --> 00:56:34,480
to answer because these two are very
at a very different stage in their development.

764
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,920
We've already seen Evans kind of break
through the into the NHL. We

765
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,679
saw, we talked about him in
the Seattle episode in thirty six NHL Games,

766
00:56:42,679 --> 00:56:46,079
So he's already made it, and
so that's good to see where brucet

767
00:56:46,079 --> 00:56:50,920
eevits. Obviously he's still in the
OHL. The potential seems sky high,

768
00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:54,000
but we don't really know how well
he's going to be able to translate that.

769
00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:58,920
So this probably depends on where your
team is at, you know,

770
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,960
in terms of are you someone who
can wait on a prospect like your is

771
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,480
your competitive window two three years from
now? In that case, you might

772
00:57:05,519 --> 00:57:09,800
take Brustevitz and just hope for a
higher probability outcome than what Evans is already

773
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:14,480
doing. But I think I would
probably take Evans just for the security of

774
00:57:14,639 --> 00:57:19,119
he's already shown that he's pretty great
and he's already in the NHL. Of

775
00:57:19,119 --> 00:57:22,519
course, he's got a little bit
of events done problem, but there's no

776
00:57:22,639 --> 00:57:28,280
guarantee that Hunter Bruceevis is going to
translate fully to the NHL and overtake whoever's

777
00:57:28,679 --> 00:57:31,679
running the Calgary Powerplay at that point, which could be someone who's currently with

778
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,800
the organization, or it could not
be right, So we don't really know

779
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,280
the answer to that. I agree
that it's probably close and part of that

780
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:43,880
people probably answered based on where their
team contacts would be. But I do

781
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:50,400
think there's a much higher outcome.
However, unlikely that Bruce Evitz is,

782
00:57:50,519 --> 00:57:53,760
as Jeremy mentioned, a solid close
to point per game, if not at

783
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:58,360
point per game producer. It's just
how likely is that outcome? And we

784
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,960
already know that Ryk Revne is quite
adept at running the power play and pretty

785
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:07,000
decent in other areas as well.
So I have to decide whether you want

786
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,599
that security or whether you want that
volatility and that high upside. So that's

787
00:58:10,639 --> 00:58:14,760
how I think you would think about
those decisions. If you look at the

788
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:19,519
hockey prospecting between these two, there's
no question that Hunter Brustevitz has a much

789
00:58:19,639 --> 00:58:22,280
higher Actually his D plus one is
where he has right now nineteen percent chance

790
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,519
of being a star. Evans was
thirteen. In that same season he finished

791
00:58:25,519 --> 00:58:29,960
with ten percent. I remember Evans
was drafted as an overager, so that

792
00:58:30,039 --> 00:58:32,199
D plus one is when he was
drafted, that's when his point spike was.

793
00:58:34,039 --> 00:58:37,440
But and if you look at Bruce
Eviks as other comparables, it's really

794
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:42,960
interesting. One of his main ones
is Pavel Minchikov, who also killed it

795
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,079
in the EHL in his draft season
and had a fantastic D plus one,

796
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:51,559
and then now is in the NHL
looking like a superstar, and the percentages

797
00:58:51,599 --> 00:58:53,760
are actually exactly the same at least
through their D plus one seasons. I

798
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,760
don't think that Brucevitz is going to
be in the NHL next year, so

799
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,599
we won't have that exact linear comparison. But obviously, if he's anything like

800
00:59:01,679 --> 00:59:05,199
Minchikov, that would be an incredible
outcome. I really don't think so,

801
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,800
because he's not as defensively aware or
capable as Minchikov, I don't think,

802
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:14,280
but he is probably more offensively dynamic, or at least similarly offensively dynamatic dynamic.

803
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,480
Some other comparables for Bruce Evitz Rasmus
Standin, which I think is also

804
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:22,519
a pretty reasonable comp and then some
other guys that didn't quite make it his

805
00:59:22,679 --> 00:59:24,760
j fresh card, Bruce Evitz looks
like a five percent chance of being a

806
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:29,159
star forty four percent chance of being
an NHL are so a bit more pessimistic

807
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:32,719
on Proustevix, but overall definitely high
upside. I think you just need to

808
00:59:32,719 --> 00:59:36,719
temper your expectations, though, if
you're confident he's going to be a point

809
00:59:36,719 --> 00:59:40,480
per game perennial defenseman, because I
don't think that's the most likely outcome,

810
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but he certainly has the upside for
that. And to keep your eye on

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prospect Victor, keep your eye on
is Samuel Hanzik. This was the twenty

812
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twenty three sixteenth overall pick just from
this past draft. Six to three hundred

813
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and eighty one pound left shot center
wing. He missed the first twenty five

814
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games of the season with an injury. Once he returned, he had a

815
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:04,760
modest thirty one points in thirty three
games for Vancouver Giants, wearing the Sea

816
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I was actually really bund when I
went to Vancouver and went to the Vancouver

817
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Giants game. I was all excited
to see him and then didn't realize that

818
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he was out with an injury.
Would have loved to see him live,

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01:00:14,639 --> 01:00:17,519
but it didn't happen, and I
think that really affected him the rest of

820
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the season, not me not seeing
his game, but him not missing the

821
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first part of the season. His
production really tailed off. He was over

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01:00:27,039 --> 01:00:29,920
point per game with the Vancouver Giants
in his draft season, and he fell

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01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,599
to two points under a point per
game that's a pretty big regression for a

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D plus one guy. He did
play a few games with Calvary Rangers of

825
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the AHL, didn't have any points, and so because of his November nineteenth

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birthday, and he could play the
full next season in the AHL as he'll

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be twenty. But I feel like
since he had this regression and didn't quite

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01:00:46,559 --> 01:00:49,920
pop off in his D plus one, I think he might be good to

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go back to the OHL for one
or sorry for the WHL for one more

830
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season and really dominate. If you
look at his tracking data for Mitch Brown

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01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,639
this season, it looks pretty pretty
awful actually, like his transition game looks

832
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really sluggish. His offense is only
at forty nine percent. His defense looked

833
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,519
at sixty four percent tile so decent
defensively. I know that Vancouver Giants team

834
01:01:10,599 --> 01:01:14,559
wasn't as good as it has been
in the past, so it was really

835
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struggled to generate some offense. So
they might have been relying a little bit

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01:01:16,719 --> 01:01:22,360
too much on him, but anyways, he struggled to drive that. If

837
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:23,960
you look at his Fantasy Hockey Life
player card, on the other hand,

838
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though, it looks really solid in
terms of his peripheral coverage looks outstanding.

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He doesn't shoot a ton, but
his hit some blocks are outstanding and that

840
01:01:31,639 --> 01:01:35,199
leads him to a nine out of
ten for the bash. So even his

841
01:01:35,239 --> 01:01:37,320
shots, even if it's not amazing, it's an eight out of ten.

842
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,280
So all of those the perferal covers
for Honzik looks good. He looks like

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01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:44,079
he's tracking to be a center at
the NHL, so face off wins can

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01:01:44,119 --> 01:01:46,519
be another thing. His assists are
pretty strong, but his goals are the

845
01:01:46,519 --> 01:01:49,920
only thing that are a little bit
lower. But still, if he can

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01:01:50,119 --> 01:01:52,320
bump up that point scoring, he
could still be a really solid option.

847
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:57,679
But let's hear a little bit more
about what makes Hanzik tick Jeremy Jesse from

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Jeremy Yes Indeed, Jeremy says of
Hansick skating surprisingly strong for a guy of

849
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,920
his frame. Bit of a wide
base, but moves well in transition,

850
01:02:07,199 --> 01:02:10,920
good stop, start game passenger and
handling positive but not elite. Stick skills

851
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:15,000
can compete at the NHL level,
but won't be a dynamic creator. Shooting

852
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:22,159
powerful shot definitely one of the strengths
of Hansick Iq. He holds onto the

853
01:02:22,199 --> 01:02:27,239
pocket a bit long for Jeremy's liking, but defensively, the anticipation and awareness

854
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,840
is fantastic for checking. Jeremy would
like to see him improve the skill.

855
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:35,480
Willing to pressure and use his body, but isn't as tenacious as many of

856
01:02:35,519 --> 01:02:39,800
his ilk. It may be his
sense of defensive responsibility keeping him from over

857
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:45,280
committing on the fore check. Defense, hard worker in the zone, collapsing

858
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:50,000
back toward the dot as necessary,
but also pressuring d with his long reach

859
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:54,480
and sliding to block shots. So
the best asset here was defense. Biggest

860
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:59,119
concern needs to up his pace of
play. Plays at a slower pace,

861
01:02:59,119 --> 01:03:01,760
but doesn't have the skill to slow
the game down Crosby or Barkoff, for

862
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:08,440
example. His top outcome line two
seventy ish point guy with big two way

863
01:03:08,559 --> 01:03:14,000
ice time in responsibility. That's if
his coaches and teammates. He thinks his

864
01:03:14,039 --> 01:03:16,920
coaches and teammates really like this guy, but he doesn't see in Hansick the

865
01:03:17,039 --> 01:03:22,079
dynamism that he sees in other first
round picks and a fiftieth percentile outcome third

866
01:03:22,119 --> 01:03:27,079
line everyday guy thirty five to forty
points. That's if the offense doesn't pop.

867
01:03:27,159 --> 01:03:29,880
He should still have an NHL job, but more of a role player,

868
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:35,119
typic guy who changes teams every few
years but is largely replaceable, stylistic

869
01:03:35,239 --> 01:03:40,480
comparable and Tom Lindell and Mason Black. The NHL ranking put out the poll

870
01:03:40,519 --> 01:03:46,360
of Samuel Honsick versus Matthew Would of
the draft rights of the Nashville Predators from

871
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:52,519
last year, actually picked one pick
before Hansick, and the poll came out

872
01:03:52,559 --> 01:03:59,039
decisively on the side of Matthew Woods
seventy three two twenty seven Victor that how

873
01:03:59,039 --> 01:04:04,280
you see it? Yes, yes, yes, I think so. Sorry,

874
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:08,159
I had to think about that fully. I really like what Jeremy said

875
01:04:08,159 --> 01:04:13,480
there. I do think that Hansik
is a much more likely NHLer. He

876
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,280
has the size, he's defensively responsible, but I also agree with what he

877
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:21,960
said. I see him much more
as a third line matchup type center who

878
01:04:23,039 --> 01:04:27,039
has some depth offense. But I
don't know it's kind of guy that you

879
01:04:27,119 --> 01:04:30,039
really want in fantasy. In many
ways, he could end up being like

880
01:04:30,079 --> 01:04:32,920
a poor man's Michel Backland. And
if Michail Backlan is your first line center,

881
01:04:33,079 --> 01:04:38,199
you're not a very competitive team.
He's a good player, he's solid,

882
01:04:38,599 --> 01:04:43,000
but he's not really first line material. But the Flames have needed to

883
01:04:43,079 --> 01:04:46,119
use him in that capacity, but
an excellent depth matchup center right. And

884
01:04:46,199 --> 01:04:51,039
so that's who I see Hansac And
then that's if he continues to develop and

885
01:04:51,519 --> 01:04:55,480
rediscovers some of that offense. The
way he was this season, he's more

886
01:04:55,559 --> 01:04:59,199
like a fourth liner. So there's
some question marks there. But there are

887
01:04:59,199 --> 01:05:01,960
also some question with matthew Wood.
I've watched Wood a bit, and he

888
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:08,280
is just really slow. He's slow
in his movements, clearly, his louder

889
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:12,360
movements, his explosiveness. Sometimes he
seems a little slow to recognize things.

890
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,840
But the things that he does have. He's huge, six' four,

891
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,519
just under two hundred pounds, but
he's really he's got a heavy shot,

892
01:05:17,559 --> 01:05:20,760
and he's really strong. So in
the right role, in the right position,

893
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:25,119
with the right teammates and people who
can transport the puck for him and

894
01:05:25,159 --> 01:05:27,639
all these things, if there's a
lot of caveats that go his way,

895
01:05:27,679 --> 01:05:31,199
he could be an outstanding power forward. But the movement, the mobility,

896
01:05:31,239 --> 01:05:34,920
the skating I think needs to improve. He had a bit of a rough

897
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:40,880
season at Connecticut. Did matthew Wood. He had a really strong draft season,

898
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:45,480
thirty four points and thirty five games
for a not super strong. NCAA

899
01:05:45,559 --> 01:05:47,760
team is really good production and that, but that regressed this season to twenty

900
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:51,199
eight points in thirty five games.
But the big wildcard here is that he's

901
01:05:51,239 --> 01:05:56,159
going to University of Minnesota next season, and that is a much better program,

902
01:05:56,199 --> 01:05:58,320
and I think it's really going to
help his development. I think they'll

903
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,360
work with him on a lot of
the things that he needs, and I'm

904
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,440
not sure that he was really getting
that at Connecticut. I don't know that

905
01:06:02,519 --> 01:06:08,000
for a fact, but just watching
his lack of progression makes me question that

906
01:06:08,079 --> 01:06:12,159
a little bit. Both of these
actually I can see why Mason picked these

907
01:06:12,159 --> 01:06:16,280
because the PNHAE is similar. But
I think that the upside is unquestionably higher

908
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:20,800
with Wood because, as Jeremy mentioned, the upside for Hanseac, I don't

909
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:26,119
know that there's the offensive dynamism there. I think he's at best a two

910
01:06:26,159 --> 01:06:30,039
C with limited offense. So I
would definitely go Wood, but I have

911
01:06:30,079 --> 01:06:32,280
a lot of question marks with him. Looking at the Hockey prospecting model,

912
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:36,559
they're actually pretty similar sixteen percent to
twenty percent Hansick to Wood in terms of

913
01:06:36,639 --> 01:06:42,639
their star potential, So slight favor
there for Wood. Looking at Hansec's other

914
01:06:42,719 --> 01:06:46,360
comps, He's got some interesting ones
Logan Brown and some other guys that didn't

915
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:50,559
quite make it. Steve Bernier,
who is a replacement level to Jeremy's point,

916
01:06:50,599 --> 01:06:56,400
and I think probably his best comp
is Alex Wenberg, who I think

917
01:06:56,519 --> 01:06:59,679
we can all agree is an NHLer
because he's in the NHL, but he's

918
01:06:59,679 --> 01:07:03,000
definitely more of a depth option and
more of a guy that's a little bit

919
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:06,440
frustrating in fantasy, especially because he
doesn't shoot, hit or block much.

920
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:12,079
So that's different between Weinberg and Hansek
because Honzick definitely seems like he'll be relevant,

921
01:07:12,119 --> 01:07:15,920
just in the sense that he will
provide some peripheral coverage, so you

922
01:07:15,119 --> 01:07:19,159
like to see that. But yeah, how much offense is there is really

923
01:07:19,199 --> 01:07:25,440
the question mark and the J Fresh
card looking like he's just nine percent chance

924
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,920
of being a star there fifty eight
percent chance of being an NHL A,

925
01:07:28,039 --> 01:07:30,679
so actually pretty decent. The Jfresh
cards are always a bit more pessimistic,

926
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:34,960
so it's actually a little bit more
optimistic here for Hanzak. So that's it

927
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:40,119
on Hansick definitely looking more like a
middle to bottom six center slash forward to

928
01:07:40,119 --> 01:07:42,639
me, he might not even be
a center actually, depending on how his

929
01:07:42,679 --> 01:07:46,079
development goes. So we'll see.
But that's Hanseak. That's the Calgary Flames

930
01:07:46,119 --> 01:07:48,679
Prospect dig. If you're a patron, you can listen to my top ten

931
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of things I'm going to mention to
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Or you know what, if you're
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you can set your league up right
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01:08:28,079 --> 01:08:30,159
thinking about college football. You can
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they just opened that up. Obviously
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that is fully ready for prime time, but still all the options you're going

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We have a Tidy League commission team
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