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into a horse country. Right after the we'd like to welcome to the show
a man who's going to be able to tell us all about what's going on
up with those Calgary Flames. It's Steve McFarlane up the hockey News. How
you doing, Steve heyn good? Thanks, how are you guys doing doing
awesome? Ready to talk about what is going on up in that there province
of Alberta and what happened here with this season. So here's my breakdown of
the season of the Flames. They came into the season with what seemed like
decent chances at the playoffs, but on opening night their playoff odds actually were
higher than Vancouver's were. And in the past that we're living in people listening
to this or in the future, but in the past we're living in.
Vancouver's still in the playoffs. They're either eliminated or they won the Stanley Cup
by the time people are listening, probably, But anyway, season gets underway,
Calgary starts to seven and one buried the team. They really never got
into the playoff race. Their power play percentage was seventh worse than the NHL.
They had the sixth worst save percentage. The team sold hard at the
deadline that the president stepped down in the offseason. Things we're not looking up.
Is this team of Flames still on the way down or in the recovery
mode? Or are the Flames coming maybe up off a tough luck season and
maybe even have a chance to step back into playoffs next year. I think
there's a chance. But I really do see this as a couple of years
of suffering through a little bit of a rebuild. It's a word that they'll
never use in Calgary, but it's just essentially by default, they were forcing
to a rebuild with the inability to sign a whole bunch of pending UFAs,
including Lindholm and Zadorof, who are now having some pretty big successes in Vancouver
in the second round, and they've had to focus on more of their young
players and bring a whole bunch of rookies in this year, and it was
essentially right off the start, they just they didn't have that chemistry and that
success out of the gate. And I think it was a lot of hard
lessons for a lot of the young players trying to find their consistency and fit
in with a very questionable top six, top nine offensively anyway. So despite
some pretty big years from some of the veteran players like Nasen Kawdri and Blake
Coleman, they just couldn't really find a way to get the wins and make
that turnaround that some of them expected after all of the other craziness of the
year before, where the expectations were so high and they fell so flat and
led to the dismissal of Darryl Setter as a coach and all those changes at
the top. Yeah, as you said, Nasim Kadri had himself a very
good year. You can't complain about him as being the cause of things not
going well. He was the fiftieth ranked fantasy player in our team in our
leagues this year. In less than ideal circumstances, twenty nine goals, forty
six assists in eighty two games. Those seventy five points were sixteen more than
the next highest Calgary Flame. The advanced stats were right in line. He
landed in the top twenty five in the NHL in evolving hockey schools above replacement
almost doubled up the second highest player on his own team, stepped into the
C one role with Lindholm leaving the team. It looked like has five more
years of deal ahead thirty three years old, enough to push him to the
verge of forty by the end of that contract. But anyway, is Kadri
likely to maintain this level of production next year? Steve, considering how shocking
the performance was last year, I can't see him doing it again unless the
supporting cast around him is a little better and some of the young guys click.
I think it was essentially a combination of will and ice time and just
a lack of sort of other people that could put the puck in the net
that helped propel them. And when I say will, I just mean this
is a guy who doesn't want to lose, doesn't really want to be part
of a rebuild, But he committed to Calgary, and he's stated even in
the off season here that he still committed to this team and thinks that this
team can win, and he just plushed his game the entire way through the
season to be their leader on the ice and take those minutes and take that
responsibility and put himself in a position where he could put up the points.
But it just seems like something that's not very sustainable when you look at his
prior year and his career in general, and the fact that he's approaching his
mid thirties, it just seems like something that's not going to be He matches
it, that's very impressive, but I foresee a little bit of a drop,
especially on the goal scoring side. He hit twenty nine goals this year
and was flirting with that thirty mark, and it's just that's a tough thing
to do every year. We want some good news here for Flames fans,
and I think that can be in the form of yugor Sharon Govic, because
he was acquired along with a third round pick for Tyler to Foley and listener,
go ahead and do an exercise with me, closgize and just think,
who do you think got more points this season to folly your Sharon Govic.
Yep, it was definitely not to fully. He split time between New Jersey
and Winnipeg, and he did not outperform Sharon Govich, so they got an
extra pick and potentially I don't know, dare I say, maybe a better
player At this point, Igor's fifty nine point pace last season was the best
of his career. His seventy percent shooting percentage may have something to do with
that, and that may not continue certainly, but he had the most time
on ice and powerplay time of his on ice of his career, so he
got the opportunity. So the big question here, Steve, do you think
Sharon Govich can get a sixty plus point season and or are we gonna see
some regression closer to his career age of forty seven. I think we might
see some regression on the goal scoring side of things. I don't know if
he'll hit thirty, but I think he can definitely flirt with that. Again,
I do see him as a sixty plus point player in the league,
and I think for someone who came into the year with so many question marks
and he's a player who wasn't very confident. When he came in, he
was looking for a new start. He was very excited for the new start,
but had to go through all of the ups and downs of learning a
new system, meeting a whole bunch of new players. The language barrier can
sometimes be a bit of an issue, and he did a really good job
adapting, but had some inconsistencies throughout the year. And I think he can
settle in now, have a good summer with a plan going into next year
and being more familiar with what's asked of him and what his responsibilities are going
to be and what kind of ice time he's going to get, and come
back next year and be an even better player. Like I said, I
don't know if he's going to make thirty goals again, but I think he
has an opportunity to do. And I think he will bump up his assists
as well, and probably even shoot more frequently, which with that shooting percentage,
if that drops in the number of shots rises, that might balance out
a little bit. I predicted Jonathan Huberto would have a huge comeback year,
and I don't think it happens. Steve, you're going to have to help
me out here, but fifty two points did tie for fourth on the team.
He was performing to some extent, but it was Jonathan Huberto's lowest production
since twenty thirteen, fourteen in a full season in advanced stats. He does
continue to drive positive offense, and this season also greatly improved once he got
on a line with the aforementioned sharing Govic, or at least after a night
marrish outlier December that ended with only one point in thirteen games. Huberto has
had plenty of time now to adjust to Calgary, although the thing does keep
changing around him over the last couple of years. But is what we've seen
in the first two Calgary years locked in as Jonathan Huberto's level of performance.
Now, That is a really good question and a really hard one to answer.
I like you, I thought that big dip from the one hundred and
fifteen point season in the I think the largest drop in points in NHL history
to the season Prior to this past season, I thought he was going to
rebound. I thought he was going to have a much closer to a point
per game year and it didn't happen, and his month of December was horrific.
I just don't know if he's the same player that he was in Florida,
and I think partially that's maybe a little bit of the age, the
giant change in lifestyle, all of the elements that go along with essentially being
told you're not wanted in Florida with that trade, And I think it's just
there's going to be a rebound year. It would be next year because now
he's had a year under a coach that is much more player friendly than Darryl
Sutter was, so he could have used that as an excuse the previous year.
He didn't have that. This year, it was really much more on
him. So I think that unless he proves otherwise with a big rebound next
year, I think what we're seeing with Jonathan Huberdo is what we're going to
see for the remainder of his career, at least in Calgary, if he's
here in Calgary for all of those remaining years on his massive contract. Blake
Coleman also he actually quietly had a career year at age thirty two. You
mentioned him earlier as well as one of the high performers are surprises this year
fifty four points was third on the team, as well as easily his career
high that was thirty goals and twenty four assists. There are a number forwards
moving up in the lineup. We'll be talking about a couple of them here
in a minute. My question is, at age thirty two, is Coleman
going to maintain as prominent a role as the young guys on their way up?
And what are you basically expecting for Blake Coleman next year? Interestingly,
Blake Coleman has been one of their best players since he arrived as a kind
of one of the bigger ticket free agents few years back, and he just
hasn't quite had the point production, like all the underlying metrics have been really
strong. Him and Andrew Manjaponi and Michael Backland have been the team's best line
six consistently throughout the last few years, creating tons and tons of chances,
limiting the opposition and just not really getting that translation into points of their own.
So this year was a breakthrough for him and talk about a super late
bloomer, but I think that is the one line that they never touch or
rarely touch, and especially in tandem with Michael Backlan, I just I could
see Blake continuing to get lots of ice time, lots of matchups that favor
that line, which can essentially be a first, second, or third line
at any point, and find mismatches. He scores shorthanded goals. He's just
in the kind of in the fabric of the game and all the corners doing
all the hard pieces that are needed to create opportunity and score goals, and
it just all clicked for him last year. And I could see him putting
another year like that together next year, because the young guys should only improve
and help date the other parts of the game for the team, and so
Blake will continue to get those opportunities and maybe get them against even more lines
that are more of a mismatch for him, not always going against the other
teams. Now, we're going to pose to you a little bit of a
points pick them. Andre Kuzmenko and Connor Zeri. In many ways, these
guys couldn't be more different, but they had somewhat similar point paces, so
we'll put them together here. Zari had a fantastic rookie season forty four point
pace. At times he was really fantasy relevant. Sometimes he wasn't. Went
through some stretches where it looked like he was hitting the rookie wall a little
bit. Kuzmenko at this point seems like a bit of a reclamation project.
He had a stellar seventy four point pace season last season in Vancouver, as
a lot of people talked about. We knew he would request with that shooting
percentage, and he did down to fifty two. Neither of these guys shoot
a lot, which makes getting points a little bit more volatile. I would
say their defensive acumen is also quite different. Zeri is pretty confident defensive player.
Husmenko. It's been pretty well documented he doesn't pay as much attention to
that side of the ice, But the underlying metrics offensively are pretty similar in
terms at least at evenstrength, whereas Kuzmenko seems to be much better on the
power play. But a lot of this is going to depend on opportunity ice
time, Steve, who are you taking here, Zari or Kuzmenko. I'm
going to go with Kuzmenko and the primary reason and there are a lot of
caveats. This is actually a really challenging pair that is nicely pitted against each
other here because Connorsery could play center next year, which would be a bit
more of a challenge for him, but could also lead to even more opportunity
depending on how he adapts at the NHL level to that transition from the wing
where it's a little easier for young players to get into things and not have
the same defensive responsibilities. And Kuzmenko is playing for a contract and that's something
that's along with for somebody as talented as him to add that extra motivation of
showing other teams that he is the player he was in Vancouver and not the
one that struggled there at the start of this year. With Calgary, he
was even better for the most part. He came in and started scoring goals
right away, had a little bit of a downturn in the second and third
week, I think, and then down the stretch was fantastic. But by
that time all the pressures had been removed from the team. They weren't making
the playoffs, and he was able to just go out there and have fun.
And that's the kind of player he is. I could see him putting
up a lot of points again next year with the Flames, and he found
some chemistry as well with his line mates, and I think that if he
comes into camp, they get that sort of hit right off the bat and
aren't auditioning young players and get rolling with their lines, and he could come
out of the gate pretty hot and maintain that confidence all the way through the
season. I think Zeri will also improve his own numbers, and if he
can stay healthy, could be somebody who matches that that potential to get up
above the sixty point plateau, and I think that would be a win for
him as well. But I just think that Kuzmenko probably puts up somewhere around
seventy if he's playing the way he played at the end of the year with
the Flames. Let's do another points pick him. Andrew Monchiupani, Michael Backland
man Gio Pani's run on the twenty one to twenty two Pacific Division champs does
seem a little bit like the outlier of his career, but his profiles offense
heavy. He produces half a point per game. He gets in well over
a hit a game, so that's nice. On the other hand, Backland,
he had thirty nine points in eighty two games last year, takes a
fair number of shots almost to hit a game. He's got the opposite profile.
He's a very positive defensive player less known for his offense probably, but
came within one point of Maggiopani, the twenty eight year old. Which do
you see as better for their point production? Next year? You guys really
came up with challenging pick'ems because these guys are traditionally on the same line feed
off each other. If Manjupani is scoring a goal quite often back when had
a part in that as a setup person, I'm going to go with Andrew
Manjupani and primarily excuse me, not just because he's the younger player, but
so magic happened for him when he was playing for Team Canada a couple of
years back, and he translated that international success into a really great career season
with the Flames. And this year he's playing with Team Canada. He's rediscovering
his game. He was struggling with a bit of an injury last year to
his shoulder that nobody really knew about. Nobody knew how serious it was.
He was healthy enough to go and play overseas this spring, and I think
it's going to translate into a more confident, to better start and we might
see a little bit more of the twenty plus goal scoring Andrew Manjupanni that we
were to watch for a couple of years and then unfortunately dropped off in the
last couple of seasons. You seem to be enjoying our pick'ems, so we'll
give you one more and this is a little bit more of the young guns.
A lot more unknowns here, obviously, but we're going to talk about
Matt Coronado and Jacob Peltier. It's interesting between these two though, because Peltier
has been kicking around the organization for quite a while now. He's been one
of their lone top ish prospects for a while. He's twenty three. Coronado
much younger, he's just twenty one, and he a little bit higher.
Pick thirteenth overall, Peltier was twenty six, and they both got their first
legitimate taste of the NHL this season. Coronado had thirty four games, Peltier
just thirteen. Both have been stellar in the AHL, though, So I
guess a lot of this is going to come down to who gets a bigger
role. But what do you think Who do you think that will be?
Who gets a bigger role, who will have a higher point pace? Matt
Coronado, Jacob Peltier. Yeah, I think they're really going to be going
into camp competing with each other, maybe not so much for the same position,
because Cornado will play the right wing and play is more of a He
can play both, but I think he's tagged more as a left winger with
this group. With the chemistries that they found so far, I think Cornado
has an opportunity next year to be one of the best young players in the
conference, if not just the Flames for the team. I think that he
learned a lot this year. He was up and down, but he can
score. He can shoot. His release is one of those things that you
just can't teach right So I think that his potential as a goal scorer if
he can put all those other little things into place and earn that spot as
a consistent top six forward, which is just staring him in the face here
because right wing has been a problem for Calgary for basically since Jerome mcginnill left.
I see really promising things from Coronado as a shooter, just once he
gets his skating in order, and I think this offseason will have a lot
to do with that. The plan that they sent him away with was to
work on that speed and strength and in the skating because he is one of
those guys who if he's in the right position and he has an opportunity and
he gets to the puck, he can fire it under the bar very quickly
and have a lot of success there. Pelchi is a strong player as well,
but I think that shoulder injury really set him back and derailed his progress
to a degree, so he's starting over. He hasn't looked the same this
year when he came back and then reinjured it again, and then was out
for a little bit and then came back again. He started to look a
little bit better at the end of the year, but I just think he's
more of a third line energy player and probably not as offensive as we're going
to see from Cornado, who's going to be very much a goal scoring Calgary
Flame in the near future. Let's move to the blue line and start with
Mackenzie Weiger. Fifty two points playing eighty two games. That's tremendous. Only
Cal mccarr and Roman Yosi I read, scored more goals among defensemen this year.
Wow Wow. Soaks up big minutes, influences positive offense from his teammates
as much as Flames fans might love him, us fantasy managers must love him
more because the bash the Blacks plus shots plus hit this guy had or our
peripheral fantasy scoring was number two in the NHL with nearly triple two hundreds.
That was just crazy. We'll shortly get to a guy who got more power
play Tom and Ice than Wiger did later on in our Calgary defenseman segment,
But what I want to know first is will Weger be able to do this
again? I don't see why not. He was brought in to solidify a
really strong top four with eyes of going to the playoffs with Noah Hannafin and
mcken and Rasmus Anderson and just Chris Hannef being the fourth as well. Once
those trades were made and tannev was gone, and you Knowah Hanathan was sent
to the biggest Golden Knights, it cemented him for next year as their top
guy. And he'd already proven well before those trades happened that he was capable
of being that top guy. And he just took every minute that he was
given this year and made the most of it and just puts it all out
there every single game He's just the most simple, sort of fun loving player
that there is. He just loves going out there doing what he can to
help put up the points, and he'll lay down in front of the bucks
and make the blocks. He really is such an underrated all around defenseman but
that offensive ability. Doesn't have a really hard shot, but he has a
very accurate shot, and being third in goal scoring in the NHL as a
defenseman is no easy feet with the number of elite players that are out there,
I don't think anyone would have predicted mcken's Ueiger being up there at the
start of the season, But to next year, I think he still has
the ability to be right up there in the top three to five. The
man who spoils a little bit of the fun that Wiger loves on the power
play anyway, is Rasmuss Anderson. I'm sure they get along fine, but
Anderson did get the power playtime on ice, especially early in the year.
That said, after Hannafin and Linholmer traded, he got somewhat less time later
in the year. Anderson's at prime age at twenty seven, eats a ton
of minutes for this team. He dropped ten points from the prior year thirty
nine and seventy eight games, probably largely because his power play points dropped in
half and drew let's say fewer Rave reviews for his play last year. I've
seen a little bit of criticism out there. You'll have to tell me about
it. I've heard that might have been in part because of a foot injury.
Will Anderson be back to his power play scoring ways next year, and
what do you expect out of him? There are a lot of wrinkles into
that. I think ideally, he's such a hard shooting defenceman and he has
such great vision. I think they want him to return to that number one
power play defenseman role and be that quarterback. But I'm not sure they're entirely
confident that he's going to do what they want him to do on every shift
to make that happen. And they definitely have competition. Number one McKenzie Wieger
is there, and he has that ability to set things up and take some
of that time away. They also have a prospect, Daniel Miramanov, who
has a booming shot from the point and got some audition time later in the
season as well, which is partially why I think Anderson's time went down was
they wanted to see what Mira Amountv has and they wanted to see Mackenzie Weaker
get to twenty goals. Right, So were some of those team out of
the playoff luxuries that we're working against. Anderson, who yeah, also probably
was a little bit more injured then he led on in most games. But
I think it's going to be a challenge for him because he's going to have
a lot of competition and I still think he's going to have a big season.
I still think he's a forty point player. I think he's going to
get a lot of his points on the power play, but also has that
ability to produce at five on five. So it really just depends on whether
or not he can secure that quarterback role on B one, and that'll have
to come early in the season where he shows that he's willing to take that
shot. One of the big criticisms from the coaching side of things is he
just wasn't He just wasn't using a shot to his advantage, and he wasn't
doing the things that he had done last year to sort of set that tone
on the power play and get the looks that they wanted to get so he
was what penalized because of that. You talked about we're gonna have one more
pick them. We're gonna throw a whole bunch of defensemen at the wall and
see who sticks. Because we got Ilya Solavyov who played ten games and had
three assists last year. He's twenty three, Daniel Miromanov you just mentioned,
he's twenty six, and he had seven points in his twenty four games.
And then you have old Oliver Shillington, who I believe is up for the
Masterson as we talk here, and he had eight points in his thirty three
games. Very little time he was able to get in this year, but
great that he made it back. Who do you take out of that tidy
group of defenseman? Yeah, another good one, And I think for me
it's between Miramanov and Shillington, and it'll be really challenging to predict until you
see how their pairings shakeout in training camp. But I leaned towards Miramadov just
because I think that he's someone that was very specifically targeted by the Flames as
a very strong defensive prospect who was buried in a fantastic system in Vegas.
And also was recovering from a knee injury that really he'd only started to get
closer to one hundred percent. I think as the season was winding down,
he was still probably I think even he said eighty to eighty five percent for
most of his time in Calgary. After the trade to come here regaining his
confidence in his game and still looking pretty good, and I think, I
really think he's going to be one of those people who's just challenging for that
number one power play role, and if not there, he'll certainly get significant
time on the second unit. I just big shot, lots of ability,
just fantastic skater. If he's at one hundred percent health and comes out confident
to start the year, I just see him as a really a sleeper fantasy
pick for defenseman across the league this year. That is great information on those
depth defencemen. We're going to move on over to the goalies, and the
Flames are ranked twenty first in terms of expected goals against per sixty not great,
and it got a little worse when you look at how many of they
actually gave up because it was the twenty fourth ranked actual goals per game.
We know that Jacob Marstrom was the main guy here forty eight games played,
Vladar had twenty, and Dustin Wolf got in seventeen, which was cool.
It was definitely a bounce back season for Mark Strum he played those forty eight
games. As I mentioned, twenty three, twenty three and two may not
sound that good, but his underlying numbers were fantastic. Twenty point thirty nine
goals save above expected one point twenty seven delta fenwick is an absurd number.
That means he was performing everything in front of him that he was getting.
Ladar was not great in his twenty appearances, and as much as I absolutely
love Dustin Wolf as a prospect, he did not look great in his NHL
viewings this season. He's been stellar in the AHL the past couple seasons,
but it hasn't looked good. When you look at the Repham chart for the
at Evolving Hockey for goalies, you can see that Jacob his expected say percentage
was incredibly low, one of the worst in the entire league expected and he
well outperformed that by a dramatic margin. So just goes to show he was
great. Wolf, on the other hand, had some of the best protection
in the league and well underperformed that. So I don't know, Steve,
what do you can we expect the same thing from goalies and calorie next season?
What is going to happen? Is Markstrom going to get fifty starts?
Will we see more Wolf than Vladar? What do you think is going to
happen. It's a really interesting position to watch in the offseason because I'm truly
not sure if Jacob Markstrom will be starting the season as a flame. There
was lots of talk about him becoming a member of the New Jersey Devils before
the trade deadline. It didn't sit well with him the way it was so
publicly out there with some of the details, and his performance, I don't
know. I know he had really strong numbers if you look at the season
as a whole, but I think his numbers down the stretch after the trade
deadline dropped significantly in comparison to the first sort of two thirds of the season,
And I just don't know what his future. He's a stellar goal He's
an elite goalie. He was as in the finalist two years ago. I
think he's certainly capable of that every year, as long as his mind and
his heart are into it, and I think he struggled a little bit with
that. Last year. There were a lot of things going on on a
personal level as well, and he was expecting the birth of his first baby,
and I don't think that was an easy process for him and that played
a lot into some of his struggles. Play overall, this year was very
impressive as a rebound, and I don't think a lot of people gave him
enough credit for him for what he did coming back from that off season the
year before. And he's definitely capable of being a fifty plus start, high
volume goaltender that is super trustworthy back there and is going to make most of
the saves. He also has a really elite puck handling skill, which you
don't get from Denilodar or Dustin Wolf. So I'm really curious to see if
he stays with the Flames, if they can put everything from the past behind
them and move on, And I think that all depends on their sort of
trajectory as a rebuild or a refresh or a retool or whatever you want to
call it, and how confident they are in Dustin Wolf. For me,
I love Dustin Wolf. I think that he is one of those underdogs you
always want to root for. He's so incredible in the AHL, like none
of that can be disputed. At the NHL level, though, obviously,
as you mentioned, the numbers haven't been great. He's made some pretty big
saves and he's had some sort of really strong one or two starts here and
there that show the promise and the athleticism and that potential. But he's still
Odds are still stacked against him, just from the size issue and the experience
level. It takes time for goal Is to develop. I'm not sure he's
a guy that I would roll out as a number one. Ideally, I
think you bring back Markstrom and you let Wolf be the backup next year and
give him some starts in that capacity. And I'm not sure what becomes of
Dan Vladari in that situation, but he's certainly the third best option in Calgary.
He's just he's a great guy, but he's the third best option in
Calgary and goal I think, and ideally you bring back Markstrom, have Hi
mentor Dustin Wolf for the first half of the season and see where the team's
at and then re examine the trading of Jacob Markstrom closer to the deadline again
if that's something that both sides would like to do. This has been some
great insight on this Calgary Flames team. Why don't you let people know where
they can continue to find your work. You can find me at the Hockey
News running the Calgary Flames site, so it's the Hockey News dot Com backslash
NHL backslash Calgary Dash Williams, or you can find me through Twitter at mcferland
HKY. All right, thanks for coming on and talking to us about these
great players. Steve, Hey, my pleasure. Guys, thanks for having
me Wolf. Since then, that's good fire passed up. Oh my goodness,
long with a cat quick gram. Now it's your weekly goalie talk.
But Kat Silverman Cat's instincts joined once again by Kat Silverman of Ingold mag to
talk prospect goalies. We are, of course talking Calgary Flames, and that
means you know what that means, Kat, That means the Big Bad Dustin
Wolf Flames twenty nineteen seventh round pick six foot maybe and one hundred and seventy
four pounds. As I mentioned, I love calling him the Big bad Dustin
Wolf. You finally got some decent number of NHL games this season, but
it did not go particularly well. We know he's not big, but he
was bad in the NHL. Unfortunately, that is was a fact. His
expected say percent or sorry Delta Fenwick based on his expected safe percentage was radically
terrible. Basically, he got some really good protection and he was not able
to meet it. There were some games. I watched a couple of these
because I'm really interested in him, and it seemed like there was some times
where he was performing pretty well and some where he clearly was not. And
obviously you're going to break it down for us a little bit more, but
I think that there was probably some team effect there too. His hockey prospecting
continues to look really strong, sixty percent chance of being an NHLer at this
point. The comp that I have for him here is Roman check Monk,
who was a really good starter in the league for a long time. So
we have a little bit more data now about wolf Kat what your instincts tell
us about him and his NHL potential. So it was funny I watched his
NHL debut, where he obviously was super stellar. I think he posted like
a sixty or nine fifty save percentage nine fifty eight and I was like,
Ah, he's here, He's arrived perfect. And then this year it looked
like he almost put too much pressure on himself because watching him play in the
AHL, he has so much control and so much consistency, and sometimes it
almost looks like he's not bored. But when we talk about some of the
goaltending prospects who do too much and don't really know when to back off and
just make those simple saves, don't know when to wait, don't really have
their depth management under control, he always looks like one of those guys who
knows exactly where he stands, knows what his best positioning is to make himself
look as big as possible, knows when he needs to make a desperation save.
And then he hit the NHL and it looked like it wasn't that his
technique was thrown out the window. It just looked like he was doing too
much and it may have been a team effect thing there. Like you said,
it's not like Calgary was the league's most powerful team this past year.
They went through it a little bit and it looked like he which is really
bizarre because for all intents and purposes, he looks like a goaltender who the
world is waiting for him. It looks like he is ready for ready to
become the next starter in Calgary. It's not a matter of if, it's
a matter of when. And it looked like he was auditioning for his life
there. There was a game that I was watching where he was even when
it was very clear that the puck wasn't going to be able to clear the
zone, he was making like a last second desperation reach save doing two pad
stacks, windmills, poke checks. Just he was all over the place and
I've never seen him play like that before. And so it may have been
the pressure. It may have been just wanting to turn that seat, that
team season on its head and become their next hero. He may have been
just so desperate to not have to play anymore AHL games because he's been doing
so well there. He might have been like, come on, let me
prove that I can stay in the NHL. But he just it looked like
a completely different player, and not because he was reading wrong. It wasn't
like he was misreading angles and just like missing shots. He was just doing
so much and I've never seen that from him, So I'm assuming that was
some nerves that was knowing that if things didn't go well for him at the
NHL level, it was back to the AHL for the remainder of the season,
and just really not wanting to do that. But whatever it was,
I'm assuming that when he makes it to the NHL full time, we won't
necessarily see that unless he steps into the saddle Dome and just undergoes a brain
transplant every time. But it was interesting to see that because I think that's
one of the first goaltenders that I've watched who went up to the NHL and
it's not like their style looked ill suited to the NHL. They just completely
changed the way they were playing. And so I think once he feels a
little more confident and in control of his spot on the Calgary Flames, he'll
looked like because in the AHL he looked seamless. Again, It's not like
he was rattled at the NHL level and then went back to the HL and
was continually rattled. It's not like he had to change his form back.
He just quietly went back to the HL, and I believe during the postseason
he's got a real monster run there. Yeah, nine twenty four save percent
and she's doing fine. I don't know. I assume he's desperately trying to
tell them that if they send him back to the AHL, he's gonna panic.
It was really fascinating to see that, just because that was such an
anomaly when it came to prospect goaltenders that are so highly touted. But it's
always an adventure with him, so that was still it was still entertaining to
watch, just a little stressful if you're someone who's really rooting to watch him
win the next Peesna. Yeah, it was disappointing at times to see him
struggle and as you said, seems like wasn't decision making, which is good
because a lot of the things that you mentioned seemed correctable. Hoping that he
gets another long shot and hoping the team can be more stable around him.
Let's move on to the other goalie. We're going to talk about Igor Egorov,
which again ten out of ten name congrats on the parents from going that
direction. Flames twenty twenty three, six round pick sixty three hundred and eighty
three pounds played in the MHL again this past season for MHK Dynamo Muskva.
No VHL or KHL time still very young, won't be nineteen until August,
his equivalency still trending up twenty five percent. He's got a David Riddick comp
here who turned his season around this season. Hard to tell, I know
sometimes with those MHL goalies, But what do your instincts tell us about Yugorov
kat So It's always really fascinating when we see a young goaltender who, especially
over in the Russian league's, doesn't get any VHL time, even if they
don't end up in the in the cage, especially when you play in a
seeds, when you're playing in Moscow. There are so many good goaltenders that
play within those top Russian systems that it's understandable to see, especially the really
young kids, not necessarily make their way up to the top league. But
not even seeing him get some minor league time as an NHL draft pick was
surprising. That being said, he played really well and it did give him
consistent start time, which is something that I think is probably a good thing,
especially for a kid who, if I remember correctly, he just barely
made the cutoff for getting drafted in twenty twenty three because he turns Yeah,
he was I believe the very last kid who was eligible to be drafted.
He's in August thirtieth birthday. So it's a good thing that he saw really
consistent starts because his numbers looked really good, and he's in a system that
I'd love to be able to see him playing against that higher level of competition,
which I'm assuming once he's nineteen and twenty will see him start to get
some of those tougher games in. But he's in a powerhouse system right now,
so he's getting good coaching. He's getting consistent coaching, even at the
essentially the junior level. There are some of the under eighteen teams and the
under twenty teams in Russia don't have super consistent coaching from top to bottom when
you go from the cage all the way down to the juniors. So it's
good to see that he has consistent development and coaching, and he's on a
team that has produced a few NHLers here and there, so I'd love to
see him playing against the higher quality of competition before we really feel confident on
what he's going to be for Calgary. But the fact that he got in
a ton of starts as essentially a brand new eighteen year old, and it's
smart that they drafted him when they did because they have so many years before
he'll essentially reach full maturity. He's going to be in a full nineteen year
old season this year, and then I would say we really shouldn't even start
to wonder about about what he could do in North America until too, maybe
even three years down the road. He's for sure to put that pot on
the very back burner and landed simmer for a little bit. But it's a
good system, so that's exciting. Yeah, if you can be patient with
him and keep him in your league for a long time, then Newgraph might
be someone that could be really good in a few years. So thanks again,
Kav for giving us your instincts on the Calgary Fling Gullies. We'll be
back right after this dig Dynasty jig Calgary Flames, and we've got interesting Calgary
Flames. It's always interesting my band. The word good in our prospect,
reports Victor, because there was too much good going on. I'm gonna have
to ban myself on using the word interesting because I think it's my own problem.
In fact, it should be banned on all podcasts. The prospect system.
You like this Calgary Flame system. It's the number eight according to you.
In the NHL. They have the ninth pick in the draft, so
they should make it better. They also, because of the sales we talked
about, have a Vancouver first rounder and extra second rounder, extra third rounder
and extra fourth rounder. How are you going to be on the clock a
lot? It starts right now with their current system and the no brainer victor.
Who is it? It's Jeremy Poirier and he was a twenty twenty third
round pick by the Flame. Six foot one hundred and ninety pounds left handed
d This was his second season in the AHL. It was limited to injuries.
We'll hear a little bit more about that later. But he'd had just
twenty three regular season games where he was over a half point per game,
which was good, and he had thirteen points in twenty three games. It
was an arm laceration that requires their missed October all the way through early March,
and then he came back to the playoffs and unfortunately Coachella Valley defeated the
Calgary Wranglers, but he had four points in six playoff games. So overall
that was pretty nice. Last season in the AHL forty one points in sixty
nine games and nearly a point per game in the playoffs, so he's had
some really solid production as a professional. Looking at his Fantasy Hockey Life player
card, you can see that he's really pretty good points only option. He
has a lot of assists for sixty according to the league, and his goals
are actually pretty nice for defenseman. He had nine this season in sixty nine
games. He doesn't block hardly at all, and his hits are fairly low
below average. His shots are not as high as you would like. He's
only a seven out of ten there, so not the volume shooter, so
basically more of a points only option. I have him as a seven out
of ten in the overall rankings, so I'm fairly high on him. But
let's hear a little bit more about why that might be from our scout FHL
scout Jesse and it's our I believe, our lead scout Jeremy V coming in
off the top rope talking Jeremy Poitier a defenseman to it. We just talked
about the one he was drafted skating. He's smooth both then a street line
and in small places should be a nice piece in transition. Offensively, passing
and handling. Jeremy saw some miscues on a few stretch passes, but he
is comfortable skating with the puck consistent with the end zone passes. This is
probably one of his better skills. Shooting, not a booming shot, but
a nice rister that can find its way through traffic. Jeremy doesn't see fifteen
to twenty goal talent here or anything. He had four goals this year,
and three of them were bad slash lucky goals last on a five on three
one timer. IQ vision with the puck is very good. He patient always
knows where his teammates are. His danger meter could use some fine tuning,
though, as sometimes he makes risky plays in the zone. Defense that's where
Poitier struggles, seems much more loss then when Jeremy watched him last year.
Maybe the long injury hurt the development, but he was out of position a
number of times, only overly aggressively into two on ones, got out muscled
on the boards. The best asset the pucket, handling and passing. The
worst again the defense, top row potential sheltered offensive d man and the justification
for that. Tools are there and Jeremy could see him making ways on a
power play one, but just doesn't see the defense hitting top for n Eaheller
level and the sort of media outcome fiftieth percentile D five to six powerplay two.
That justification doesn't hit an offensive upside. He could struggle to get more
than fifteen minutes a night, and if he doesn't fall into a power play
one choice that is gonna cost him a lot of minutes. Stylistic comparable Tony
DiAngelo without the behavioral problems. How about that, Jeremy And final thoughts really
thought Jeremy really thought that it was the injury cost him the first half of
the season, did him no favors. It was a skate last ration October
twenty first that required surgery, didn't play again until March third, and in
four games per injury seven points. Will be continued to watch him next year.
We'll see if he has a full training camp instead of the mid playoff
push arrival and with the openings Calgary could have a nice role. But if
he contiders this dround, we'd trend he is out. Our friend Mason Black,
the NHL rank King put out the poll. Jeremy Poitier versus Lucas Cormier
just the battle of the Yas I think, and comier of course of the
Vegas Golden Knights. And he's even debuted in the pros and in this battle
the people of x have spoken Jeremy Poier sixty two to thirty eight over Lucas
Cormier. Victor. Is that how you rank him? Yeah? I think
so. And I wonder if we can get Kanye to write that song about
these two. Oh my gosh, yeah, be a good life. Yeah,
these two are similar. Actually, this is a really great comparison from
Mason and Lucas Cormier. For those who may not remember, one of the
few remaining decent prospects in the Vegas pool. That's going to be that's gonna
be a rough one when we get to Vegas. But he was drafted by
Vegas twenty twenty third round pick, and he has been in the AHL the
past two seasons. He hit over a half point per game in his first
season last season, and then he progressed a little bit this season twenty points
in fifty eight games. Similar in terms of offensive defenseman that struggled defensively a
little bit. I really liked Quarrier's first season, as Jeremy noted, it
was a big step forward. I was really high on him, which is
why my ranks went up quite a bit for him this season. I agree
with Jeremy. I think the injury hurt Quarrier a lot. I think he
really struggled to come back and find his game a bit, and maybe seems
like he regressed in his defensive game. I was just looking at his underlyings,
and his fenwick was actually really good. Last season. He drove play
fifty seven percent. This season he was still over fifty, but just barely.
So. He definitely regrets defensively, but it still seems like a huge
improvement. When I watched him in junior, it was an adventure. Every
shift was like someone was going to score either on him or with him,
against him, or for his team. But that doesn't seem to be the
case anymore. He's still generating some offense, but not a total liability.
So that's why I would take Pore here. I think he's translated it better
to the professional ranks. The one reason to like Cormier, though, is
that Cormier is one of the few decent prospects left in that Vegas system.
So if you're one of these people who believes that I just want the top
dog in another eise bereft pool of talent, then you definitely want Cormier because
that is true, and not that Calgary has a ton of other options,
but they do have some other decent defensive options, some of them that we
talked at on the main show with Smeramanov, and there's another guy we'll get
to in a minute. So that's one reason to really like Cormier. He
stands out head and shoulders amongst the crowd. When you look at the hockey
prospect between these two, it's pretty clearly Cormier he graduated the Model with twenty
three percent chance having a star in Poirier with just four. But I think,
as I mentioned a lot, I think you have to take into context
what has happened since then, and that was the Model ended both of them
in their first AHL season. But I think there's a little bit more that
you can say. If you look at the P ANDHL between these two,
it's clearly in Puarier's favor. Anyways, I think that's that I like the
Tony di Angelo comp The main one that you can see on hockey prospecting is
Shane Gosta Spear. I think that's also fair. That's what we're talking about
here, someone on the level of Shane Gosta Spare and Tony Di Angelo,
where the defense is never great but it could be passable and there could be
some decent power play opportunities, and it depends on how good that defensive game
gets and how much the offense translates. I agree with Jeremy. I think
it's probably closer to a five to six defenseman with power play two time,
but maybe he flexes that up to top power play. We'll see. I
think it's going to be interesting. The j freshcards is much more pessimistic here,
just two percent chance of being a star, a twenty seven percent chance
of being an NHL or so. Overall, Prairie is definitely an interesting prospect,
someone who's really close to being NH already, and you got to like
that because he could get an opportunity as soon as next season. But there
are definitely still question marks that need to be answered. Moving on to our
needs no prospect victor who is It's none other than the guy I was alluding
to that there are some other prospects in this system, and it's Hunter Rustevitts.
Hunter Brustevitz, who was a twenty twenty three third round pick by Vancouver
and he was traded to Calgary and the Elias Lenholm deal, which is looking
pretty great for both sides right now. I'd say Lindholm doing really well in
the playoffs. As we're recording this six foot er one hundred and ninety pounds
right handed D. He had a pretty bonkers D plus one season. It
was really incredible, and that I think Vancouver capitalized on the hype that was
going around rust Evicts. He had ninety two points and sixty seven games for
Kitchener. I believe at one point he was leading the OHL the entire OHL
and power play goals or something to that effect. He was really outstanding.
It was really an outstanding season, no question about it. Really good offensive
vacuumen. There were some question marks of like why he didn't get chosen to
represent USA at the U twenty World Championships. We know that USA usually doesn't
favor the guys that go the Ohl route, so that was probably part of
it. And he's a very early birthdate, so this was his last opportunity.
He's a November birthdate, so he'll be twenty next year. He won't
be able to play, but on the good side, he could play in
the AHL, which is nice nice step for him since he did so well
in the OHL. But I think there's also a reason to assume he might
be back because there's still some work that he needs to do in his defensive
zone. There's still some question marks there. But looking at his FHL player
card, you can see that Brucet Evicts is really good for scoring. He
has more assists. No one has more assists for sixty than him. Really
good for goals as well. He ended up in the OHL with thirteen goals
for Kitchener in sixty seven games. His shots are pretty decent to seven out
of ten, but he doesn't really hit her block very much. So another
guy who's probably more of a point soill only option, and I also have
him as a seven out of ten. I think obviously he's much farther away
than Quariyer, but I think there's a similar like Hockey IQ and defensive acumen.
Question marks, probably fewer than Quarrier at this stage, but we'll have
to see how the rest of the development goes, and we'll have to see
what also makes this such an interesting player. And to do that we'll hear
again from our lead scout, Jesse. Not our lead scout, Jesse,
our lead scout, Jeremy. But I understood your point. And here's what
Jeremy has to say. Not the fastest guy, but not a bad skater.
Positioning and anticipation help him look faster than he really is. Strong on
his skates for the passing and handling, high end puck schools of puck skills,
effective at getting the puck up in transition in the zone, seems to
know where he's going with it before receiving it. Shooting, he's not a
big shooter, but he can pick a spot when creeping in from the point.
IQ solid always knows where he needs to be both offensively and defensively,
doesn't get out of position often. Defense strong body for a guy of his
size, and should continue to grow into that. Also good at positioning and
with his stick. Jeremy was more impressed with his defense than he expected to
be given the point totals. So the biggest asset was that IQ and anticipation
biggest concern lack of any one defining skill top tier. Jeremy thinks that the
top outcome for this guy's perennial Norris candidate, and that is, if his
offense pops in the next two years, he could be a big time NHLer
doesn't think that's the likely outcome, but he's one skill jump away from it.
Fiftieth percentile second pairing power play one guy, and that's because his game
is really mature for a nineteen year old. He's still got to make the
jump to the AHL and then the NHL. But Jeremy is really impressed with
how well he does many different things. Stylistic, comparable Shaye Theodore, and
yeah, that's high praise. Mason Black the NHL ranking put hundred Bristovitch out
against Riker Evans in an X pole and Hunter came out just slightly ahead fifty
two to or fifty eight to forty two percent. Is that the way you
rat can stack these two, Victor? This is a really difficult the question
to answer because these two are very at a very different stage in their development.
We've already seen Evans kind of break through the into the NHL. We
saw, we talked about him in the Seattle episode in thirty six NHL Games,
So he's already made it, and so that's good to see where brucet
eevits. Obviously he's still in the OHL. The potential seems sky high,
but we don't really know how well he's going to be able to translate that.
So this probably depends on where your team is at, you know,
in terms of are you someone who can wait on a prospect like your is
your competitive window two three years from now? In that case, you might
take Brustevitz and just hope for a higher probability outcome than what Evans is already
doing. But I think I would probably take Evans just for the security of
he's already shown that he's pretty great and he's already in the NHL. Of
course, he's got a little bit of events done problem, but there's no
guarantee that Hunter Bruceevis is going to translate fully to the NHL and overtake whoever's
running the Calgary Powerplay at that point, which could be someone who's currently with
the organization, or it could not be right, So we don't really know
the answer to that. I agree that it's probably close and part of that
people probably answered based on where their team contacts would be. But I do
think there's a much higher outcome. However, unlikely that Bruce Evitz is,
as Jeremy mentioned, a solid close to point per game, if not at
point per game producer. It's just how likely is that outcome? And we
already know that Ryk Revne is quite adept at running the power play and pretty
decent in other areas as well. So I have to decide whether you want
that security or whether you want that volatility and that high upside. So that's
how I think you would think about those decisions. If you look at the
hockey prospecting between these two, there's no question that Hunter Brustevitz has a much
higher Actually his D plus one is where he has right now nineteen percent chance
of being a star. Evans was thirteen. In that same season he finished
with ten percent. I remember Evans was drafted as an overager, so that
D plus one is when he was drafted, that's when his point spike was.
But and if you look at Bruce Eviks as other comparables, it's really
interesting. One of his main ones is Pavel Minchikov, who also killed it
in the EHL in his draft season and had a fantastic D plus one,
and then now is in the NHL looking like a superstar, and the percentages
are actually exactly the same at least through their D plus one seasons. I
don't think that Brucevitz is going to be in the NHL next year, so
we won't have that exact linear comparison. But obviously, if he's anything like
Minchikov, that would be an incredible outcome. I really don't think so,
because he's not as defensively aware or capable as Minchikov, I don't think,
but he is probably more offensively dynamic, or at least similarly offensively dynamatic dynamic.
Some other comparables for Bruce Evitz Rasmus Standin, which I think is also
a pretty reasonable comp and then some other guys that didn't quite make it his
j fresh card, Bruce Evitz looks like a five percent chance of being a
star forty four percent chance of being an NHL are so a bit more pessimistic
on Proustevix, but overall definitely high upside. I think you just need to
temper your expectations, though, if you're confident he's going to be a point
per game perennial defenseman, because I don't think that's the most likely outcome,
but he certainly has the upside for that. And to keep your eye on
prospect Victor, keep your eye on is Samuel Hanzik. This was the twenty
twenty three sixteenth overall pick just from this past draft. Six to three hundred
and eighty one pound left shot center wing. He missed the first twenty five
games of the season with an injury. Once he returned, he had a
modest thirty one points in thirty three games for Vancouver Giants, wearing the Sea
I was actually really bund when I went to Vancouver and went to the Vancouver
Giants game. I was all excited to see him and then didn't realize that
he was out with an injury. Would have loved to see him live,
but it didn't happen, and I think that really affected him the rest of
the season, not me not seeing his game, but him not missing the
first part of the season. His production really tailed off. He was over
point per game with the Vancouver Giants in his draft season, and he fell
to two points under a point per game that's a pretty big regression for a
D plus one guy. He did play a few games with Calvary Rangers of
the AHL, didn't have any points, and so because of his November nineteenth
birthday, and he could play the full next season in the AHL as he'll
be twenty. But I feel like since he had this regression and didn't quite
pop off in his D plus one, I think he might be good to
go back to the OHL for one or sorry for the WHL for one more
season and really dominate. If you look at his tracking data for Mitch Brown
this season, it looks pretty pretty awful actually, like his transition game looks
really sluggish. His offense is only at forty nine percent. His defense looked
at sixty four percent tile so decent defensively. I know that Vancouver Giants team
wasn't as good as it has been in the past, so it was really
struggled to generate some offense. So they might have been relying a little bit
too much on him, but anyways, he struggled to drive that. If
you look at his Fantasy Hockey Life player card, on the other hand,
though, it looks really solid in terms of his peripheral coverage looks outstanding.
He doesn't shoot a ton, but his hit some blocks are outstanding and that
leads him to a nine out of ten for the bash. So even his
shots, even if it's not amazing, it's an eight out of ten.
So all of those the perferal covers for Honzik looks good. He looks like
he's tracking to be a center at the NHL, so face off wins can
be another thing. His assists are pretty strong, but his goals are the
only thing that are a little bit lower. But still, if he can
bump up that point scoring, he could still be a really solid option.
But let's hear a little bit more about what makes Hanzik tick Jeremy Jesse from
Jeremy Yes Indeed, Jeremy says of Hansick skating surprisingly strong for a guy of
his frame. Bit of a wide base, but moves well in transition,
good stop, start game passenger and handling positive but not elite. Stick skills
can compete at the NHL level, but won't be a dynamic creator. Shooting
powerful shot definitely one of the strengths of Hansick Iq. He holds onto the
pocket a bit long for Jeremy's liking, but defensively, the anticipation and awareness
is fantastic for checking. Jeremy would like to see him improve the skill.
Willing to pressure and use his body, but isn't as tenacious as many of
his ilk. It may be his sense of defensive responsibility keeping him from over
committing on the fore check. Defense, hard worker in the zone, collapsing
back toward the dot as necessary, but also pressuring d with his long reach
and sliding to block shots. So the best asset here was defense. Biggest
concern needs to up his pace of play. Plays at a slower pace,
but doesn't have the skill to slow the game down Crosby or Barkoff, for
example. His top outcome line two seventy ish point guy with big two way
ice time in responsibility. That's if his coaches and teammates. He thinks his
coaches and teammates really like this guy, but he doesn't see in Hansick the
dynamism that he sees in other first round picks and a fiftieth percentile outcome third
line everyday guy thirty five to forty points. That's if the offense doesn't pop.
He should still have an NHL job, but more of a role player,
typic guy who changes teams every few years but is largely replaceable, stylistic
comparable and Tom Lindell and Mason Black. The NHL ranking put out the poll
of Samuel Honsick versus Matthew Would of the draft rights of the Nashville Predators from
last year, actually picked one pick before Hansick, and the poll came out
decisively on the side of Matthew Woods seventy three two twenty seven Victor that how
you see it? Yes, yes, yes, I think so. Sorry,
I had to think about that fully. I really like what Jeremy said
there. I do think that Hansik is a much more likely NHLer. He
has the size, he's defensively responsible, but I also agree with what he
said. I see him much more as a third line matchup type center who
has some depth offense. But I don't know it's kind of guy that you
really want in fantasy. In many ways, he could end up being like
a poor man's Michel Backland. And if Michail Backlan is your first line center,
you're not a very competitive team. He's a good player, he's solid,
but he's not really first line material. But the Flames have needed to
use him in that capacity, but an excellent depth matchup center right. And
so that's who I see Hansac And then that's if he continues to develop and
rediscovers some of that offense. The way he was this season, he's more
like a fourth liner. So there's some question marks there. But there are
also some question with matthew Wood. I've watched Wood a bit, and he
is just really slow. He's slow in his movements, clearly, his louder
movements, his explosiveness. Sometimes he seems a little slow to recognize things.
But the things that he does have. He's huge, six' four,
just under two hundred pounds, but he's really he's got a heavy shot,
and he's really strong. So in the right role, in the right position,
with the right teammates and people who can transport the puck for him and
all these things, if there's a lot of caveats that go his way,
he could be an outstanding power forward. But the movement, the mobility,
the skating I think needs to improve. He had a bit of a rough
season at Connecticut. Did matthew Wood. He had a really strong draft season,
thirty four points and thirty five games for a not super strong. NCAA
team is really good production and that, but that regressed this season to twenty
eight points in thirty five games. But the big wildcard here is that he's
going to University of Minnesota next season, and that is a much better program,
and I think it's really going to help his development. I think they'll
work with him on a lot of the things that he needs, and I'm
not sure that he was really getting that at Connecticut. I don't know that
for a fact, but just watching his lack of progression makes me question that
a little bit. Both of these actually I can see why Mason picked these
because the PNHAE is similar. But I think that the upside is unquestionably higher
with Wood because, as Jeremy mentioned, the upside for Hanseac, I don't
know that there's the offensive dynamism there. I think he's at best a two
C with limited offense. So I would definitely go Wood, but I have
a lot of question marks with him. Looking at the Hockey prospecting model,
they're actually pretty similar sixteen percent to twenty percent Hansick to Wood in terms of
their star potential, So slight favor there for Wood. Looking at Hansec's other
comps, He's got some interesting ones Logan Brown and some other guys that didn't
quite make it. Steve Bernier, who is a replacement level to Jeremy's point,
and I think probably his best comp is Alex Wenberg, who I think
we can all agree is an NHLer because he's in the NHL, but he's
definitely more of a depth option and more of a guy that's a little bit
frustrating in fantasy, especially because he doesn't shoot, hit or block much.
So that's different between Weinberg and Hansek because Honzick definitely seems like he'll be relevant,
just in the sense that he will provide some peripheral coverage, so you
like to see that. But yeah, how much offense is there is really
the question mark and the J Fresh card looking like he's just nine percent chance
of being a star there fifty eight percent chance of being an NHL A,
so actually pretty decent. The Jfresh cards are always a bit more pessimistic,
so it's actually a little bit more optimistic here for Hanzak. So that's it
on Hansick definitely looking more like a middle to bottom six center slash forward to
me, he might not even be a center actually, depending on how his
development goes. So we'll see. But that's Hanseak. That's the Calgary Flames
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