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not disappointed or annoyed at all that Vegas just walston of the league and won
a cup after a few years. It's not bothering me in the least bit.
I can tell you that, how are you doing? I'm good.
Mark was a fifty five seconds before Victor complained about the Vegas winning the Cup
on this episode, and I'm with you, Victor, I am with you
on this. I know that for some reason, Sharks fans are particularly bitter
with the Vegas Golden Nights. The Sharks fans, I know, are particularly
but we can all pile on. We can all pile on. There's no
reason particularly. But I don't tell Paul Delosantos that because he's going to be
a great guest, and we'll let Vegas have their day today. Victor.
Yeah, man, drafts continue to go on. Draft season is an absolute
blur at this point. People joke about this. I legitimately don't know how
many drafts I have going right now. I just don't or how many I'm
supposed to be paying attention to. It's not right, Victor. There's too
many, and they're in different sports, and there's at least three different sports
drafts going on right now. I've got playoff runs in fantasy Baseball and I'm
not even sure what's going on there. It's madness for the fantasy fan.
This is actually the peak time of the year, especially if you do early
drafting for fantasy hockey. Are you in such a state, Victor? I
know you're just a fantasy hockey man. So maybe life is little easier on
your side of the Sierra Mountains or whatever the heck it is over there the
Sierra Nevadas. Yeah, it is a little bit better. Most a lot
of some of them have ended. We started a whole bunch of drafts at
once, and that was crazy, But most of them are dwindling down,
and so that's not too bad. We still have a couple longer one going
for the new, brand new leagues that we're drafting in, but got a
better handle on those, so as things dwindle down, it's not quite as
crazy. Yeah, a little bit better, but yeah, it's still I'm
sure pretty crazy for you with all the different sports going on. I can't
imagine. I'll tell you the people who are playing in the Tidy and they're
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can do without any cost. Victor, we've dully dawned long enough. It's
time to face the music with the Stanley Cup champions Golden EPs bred effort.
We would like to welcome to the show a man who's break and talk some
Vegas Golden Nights. It is Paul Delosantos from the Hockey News and from NHL
dot com. How you do doing, Paul doing? Look, that's how
you guys doing today, Doing tremendous, doing tremendous, and you have to
still be glowing. I don't know if you're glowing from a fan perspective,
but this has been a heck of a team to follow the Vegas Golden Knights.
It worked. It wouldn't have had to have worked, but it worked
that There were many reasons, Paul, to suspect that the Vegas Golden Knights
might have even taken a step back last year. If Ginny Dadanov and Max
Patch, you are ready two veteran scorers left. They lost a two time
Jennings winner and Robin Lanter, their captain, played only half the regular season,
and a top defenseman missed a third of the year. Many or most
of their other top players missed significant time. But like the Who's down in
Huville, it didn't stop Christmas from coming, Paul. It came regardless,
and the Vegas won the number one seed in the West playoffs and proceeded to
dispatch Winnipeg, Edmonton, Dallas, and Florida in succession. Their team offense
was really middle of the road in the regular season. They actually had the
fewest power play opportunities in the NHL by a fairly wide margin. The refs
were swallowing the whistles, and no one player on this team scored more than
six six points. It struck me as odd. They ended up in the
top ten and relatively few major categories, but say percentage was one of them,
and they were led by a rookie eligible goalie in a cast off who
wasn't able to stick on a couple of bottom end NHL teams in Aiden Hill.
In short, there's a lot of things that could go right that didn't
even go right for Vegas last year. I guess I'll start with the question
of can they win it again? Paul, that's funny question. Because I
go back and forth about this because it's you bring back the same team,
but man, it just everything's just seemed to go right last year, Like
the defensive structure really worked out for a goalie. It's just the offense needs
to really improve if they want to make another repeat, because the teams in
the specific division are loading up again. And that's the crazy thing about it,
is that everything just went right, and I don't I go back and
forth. I bring back the same team minus Riley Smith, but everyone else
is getting better and they didn't really change your roster too much. So I
go back and forth. But I feel that they should be competitive. I
just don't know if they will need to make something happen at the trade deadline
to make it happen again. Yeah, that's gonna be fun to watch for
sure. We're gonna start talking player by player, and the first one we're
going to talk about is Jack Eichel. So last year we thought he'd be
around the nineteen to twenty three top forward range. He ended up to thirty
first, and we definitely think he can be in that range again next season,
maybe even a little better. His first full season in Vegas went well
as he and the Golden Knights had hoped winning the Cup. He did miss
some time, the only played sixty seven games due to a couple of lower
body injuries, nothing related to the neck that was such a big deal a
couple of years ago. So that's good. Twenty seven goals, thirty nine
assists for sixty six points in sixty seven games, eighty one point pace.
That's pretty nice. Two hundred and twenty three shots, fourteen power play goals,
thirty eight in block shots hit at bash at his position is pretty nice.
Three years left at ten million for Eichel, and overall his time on
ice went down a little bit actually, to the one of the lowest of
actually the lowest time average time in ice of his career along with his power
play time on ice. But he rocked a career high pedio and power play
points participation to get up to that high point total. So, Paul,
I'm a little bit torn. Part of me thinks point per game Jack Eichel
is back, and the other part of me thinks he's going to regress to
sixty five to seventy point pace. I'm which of those do you think is
more likely for Jack Eichel Next? Season. I think it's more likely that
you see if he can play a full season, that's the bigger question.
I think that's ultimately when it comes out to him. It's fifteen games last
year, and I think I don't think regressions in the books because I think
he's gonna get more comfortable in Bruce Cassidy system. I think he has a
relationship with Cassidy that's really good. So I think he's closer to the point
per game Jack Eichel than he is to regressing down to the numbers that you
suggested. So I really feel that Jack Eichel might be undervalued in a fantasy
perspective because he might actually because he believe it or not, he goes actually
on a decent pace. And then what happened was, and it happened offensively
throughout the whole season for the team. When Mark Stone went out, everything
offensively just crashed. From from a Vegas perspective, because Jack Eichel was on
a decent pace to start to see, but when the load got too big
for him and when the team started a key in on him, that's when
his pot production started to go down. There's a unique situation that everyone wonders
how Vegas went the Cup. It's basically because of their team defense and their
goal is just didn't matter who was on the net for them. But Jack
Eichel, I feel can really produce under those circumstances. Especially, it really
relies on can he take that next step and be the one hundred point player
that one day we have And the biggest question we always have, and we
asked this question all the time, is when will he start shooting the pup
more and stop being is trying to be this passive on the pire play and
that's where most of his opportunities should come from. If he shot the puck
more on pire play, maybe he is point per game well, and maybe
he can hit that one goal point per game. Let's go to Mark Stone,
the captain of this team, because he was a storyline last year.
I don't know, maybe his back will never be right, but the surface
stats here forty three games, thirty eight points, one hundred and thirteen shots,
thirty one hits. Despite missing half a season, Stone is a huge
impact on this team, the highest goals above replacement according to the Evolving Hockey
Model, and his defense was just crazy good. The team went from just
slightly below average at five on five when he was on the ice, to
just a stone cold two point two five expected goals against per sixty when he
was on That would have been the second best defense in the league. The
stone minutes were better than anybody in the NHL except line up in terms of
a team defense. It wasn't completely ridiculous for a guy playing forty three games
then to even get Selkye votes. And the bottom line is, I guess
I'll ask you over one hundred seventy games next year over one hundred seventy points
under in the games on the points. And the reason why I say this
is not necessarily I think you might see a couple like situations where I just
feel that they're gonna have to watch his they're gonna have to watch his minutes,
and I feel that he'll have a linear injury. He had a broken
rist in Game five of Static Cup Final, and that was one of the
things that came out after the five. So he's very much an injury prone
kind of guy, and I feel that he's going to get hurt at some
point in the year. I feel that at some point he's going to miss
games, and I don't think he has a seventy game season left in him.
I think it's one of the things where when he's on too I he's
going to impact as much as he can, but when he's off it,
it puts the load on Jack Eichl, and that's when Jack Eichel falls back
into buffalo mode and he goes back into and he goes back into that hole.
I'm the star now and I think that's the biggest credit to mark Stone
is that he takes pressure off of players. He takes pressure off of Janner
Stevenson for example, which we'll talk about later. But when Channer Stevens Mark
stolen down, Channer Stevenson's production went down as well. And it's just it's
amazing to me how mark Stone makes this team run and Mark Stone makes Vegas
a contender, but without him, they're just an average team. Chandler Stevenson,
for sure, he turned in another excellent season. Overall third on the
Team of Gold replacement. He rated out well and even Strength offense and even
Strength defense as well as power play offense overall led all forwards on the team
in total time on ice because he was a guy who wasn't missing games,
he played eighty one of them and speaking to power play, also led the
team in power play time on ice with his fourteen power play points, tied
for second personal records with sixty five points as well, and anyone games played
actually was also a career high. He averaged one and a half shot close
to a hit. He spent the first half of the season skating with Stone
and Eichel, but after Stone went out, he moved on to play with
Phil Kessel in a rotating cast of third forwards. Who do you think Stevenson
will skate with this year? In what kind of production are you expecting from
him? I think he skates with Mark Stone and probably Brett Howden because that
is literally Bruce Cassier said, it's plan A. That is Plan A when
it comes to Stone and when it comes to Stone and Stevenson, I feel
those are two fours he'll skate with this year. And as for production,
it really it's weird because when stoneing down, Stevenson hit was peaks and valleys.
When Stone down, he was peaks and vallees. But when Stones on
the ice, he's incredible because they have just a student, just incredible chemistry
that they just seem to know over each other's on so I feel his production
like I think Stevenson could have had a better year had Stone played more games.
He had a good year, but I think he can be better than
what he currently is. And if it really relies on Mark Stone, because
if Stevenson on that line is not the target of everyone else, because Stone
really once again takes that pressure off of him, and Stevenson can actually become
a lot better player if Stone could play sixty games. Jonathan marshas, so
there you go, you're rainy con smythe winner. He had a very good
year followed by an amazing playoffs twenty eight goals, twenty nine says, fifty
seven points in seventy six games, three shots and a hit per game in
the regular season. He has one year remaining of one of those midd level
contracts that has made Vegas's cap situation at least manageable to date, but a
lot of those guys have been casualties. Turning thirty three this upcoming season.
He is the eldest of this core group of forwards and quite established quantity at
this point. I suppose the question is whether the playoffs or potential new linemates
coming in will mean something new for him, some sort of momentum coming into
this year, maybe more or less than sixty points. And likelihood of him
being a Vegas School to Night in fall twenty twenty four, likelihood of being
a Base Gold in fall twenty twenty four is ippy. That's I will say
that. I don't know how they're gonna work out. Maybe he give us
a hometown discount because line is pretty much set. I think he's gonna play
with Ichael and Barbershef. I think they just I think fast as he's going
to roll out the same lines he went with that one in a cup,
and he's gonna go and put Barbershev, Marshall, Stowe and Ichael together because
that line is really good together. It just gets what he wants from a
line, from a top line or even a second line. It really depends
on what you consider Stan Stevenson's line, and it really goes back and forth.
It really there's no real best who's the top line of the second line,
But overall I feel marsh so once again it's Vegas has been ruthless,
like they don't care if you are original misfit, as the case of Riley
Smith. They don't care as long as you can help them win games.
They will keep you on the team as long as you can help them win
games. And I feel Marsha Stow is a little safer than Riley Smith.
But it might be if he that the contract doesn't work out, they're not
gonna They're not They might even. It depends on how the season goes.
But if the season doesn't go as planned, he may even. He could
be as gone as a trade deadline, or he could be gone in the
fall, or he could be signed. So there's a lot of things that
can happen with Johnson Marsha Stow. And it's really telling you that they don't
have the cap space or even had the plan to resign them to a new
contract, which I think is frustrating. So I think Marshall's playing for a
contract this year. Thank god's my winner playing for his contract. Okay.
William Carlson, the other of the three misfits, is still hanging around.
One of four remaining expansion picks from this franchise, Inception still under contract for
his age thirty one to thirty four seasons, the fourth highest v on the
team, probably less impact to winning in terms of things like evolving hockey stats
than being the fourth highest on the team last year fourteen goals, thirty nine
fifty three points in all eighty two games. He only takes two shots a
game. His eight point seven percent shooting percentage is probably some sort of cosmic
balancing for that twenty three point four percent forty three goal season in the first
year of Vegas's existence. It's regressing. Carlson is quite effective in the face
off circle, actually, fifty five point three percent last year. One misfit
is gone. Another spent half a year on a different line. This year.
Is Carlson a two SEA sounds like maybe you're thinking he's a three C
on this team and you see something similar in store for this year. Is
last year's fifty three points with a ton of minutes played. I think it's
I think he's a three C. I think that's where he slopped and properly.
I think he played out of his mind that first year and really just
really bought himself a decent contract to get that av up to be the fourth
highest. But I think overall, what Carlson brings that third line is going
to be a steady player who's gonna he's gonna just played well defensively and he'll
chip in periodically on offense. I think I really will depend on who plays
on his right side now, because Michael Madio will be on that line.
I think I don't think you gonna see a difference on Michael Madio, which
is gonna be unique because I feel they they might look at some players at
that spot, But overall, I think you can see William Carlson just falling
into this whole. Like forty five to fifty point range. I think that's
I think that's a safe but his value is totally defensively. I think his
value in the Cassidy system is a defense two a center, and I feel
that I think it's going to get better for him. I think fifty three
points is a little high for what I feel he could do, but I
think forty five is probably a safe number because he just it feels like he's
better than he is, like offensively than he's shown. But I feel there's
something lacking. I don't know what it is. I think it's maybe it
just feels like he has another good offensive season in there. All right,
we already mentioned him, but we got to talk about Ivan Barberschev, so
obviously came over mid season from Saint Louis and really helped him. When the
Cup, we thought that he'd be not as good as he was. We
thought he'd be over the one hundred best player, but he was the ninety
first best player, and so that was pretty good fantasy wise. The forty
five point pace with similar time on ice compared to last season his sixty one
point pace in Saint Louis, so a little bit of a downtick there,
but there were definitely times where that were much better for him. He ended
up with sixteen goals twenty nine sists for that forty five point pace, a
decent number of hits, really good for hits, pretty decent for blocks too,
And if you just isolate his Vegas time, that's sixteen points in twenty
three games for fifty seven point paced during the regular season, and obviously he
had some good production in the playoffs. So five years left at five million,
and we saw Barbaraschev play a lot with Ichael and March. Still you
mentioned that's going to be the plan moving forward. So based on that,
do you think Barbara Scheff can continue to get over sixty point pace. Playing
with those two, primarily, it's gonna be close. I think it's I
think, truthfully like he does the things that Bruce Cassidy wants his lines to
do. And I think Ichael and Marsha Star are going to shoot, and
Barbarashev is going to be there for the rebound. He's gonna clean it up,
He's gonna do all those things. So the reason why I say it's
going to be close is that I just don't know what's going to happen because
of how often Ichael will defer to pass. And it's one of those unique
situations where if Ichel shot more, Barbershchev's production because he's gonna be doing a
greasy goal beginning the VC goals. So sixty points doable. Likely, probably
not, but it's gonna be close. Let's put a couple more of these,
maybe more depth defensemen up against each other. See who you like more.
Pavlodropia Nicholas Wa Nicholas roy Gropev, a twenty two year old left wing.
I should know Stanley cup playfus. I watched it, but Stanley Pavlodropiev
left winger half point per game eighteen games last year. Watt twenty six years
old, but has established himself in the NHL with a similar pace of half
a point per game. Which one of them do you like better for next
year? Paul? I think I like Waw just a little bit more because
he is the offensive driver on his line. I think I think Carlston is
still the driver, and I think that's where Dorothy will play if he makes
if if he can beat out, if he can beat out, which I
think he will beat out, Paul Cotter and Brendan Bisson. I think it's
I think Law is just I think he's offensive driver, Wall plays on a
power play. I think Law is gonna just edge him out in terms of
points. But I think Dorphev is due for a good year. I think,
based on the small sample size, we soft fign Dorophev. I think
he understands what Bruce is asking of him. I think he understands what's his
role on the line, and I feel that he will have a good first
full season that should be mixed. I'm assuming he gets a spot. I
have that pabitat nice. I was going to ask you specifically about Braisson because
he's someone who seems like he's on the Cosps too, did pretty well in
the HL last season. Definitely plays a different kind of role, of more
specific kind of role. So you think he'll lose out to Doorphev, But
do you think he'll get a look in a specific situation this season. I
think he'll get a look. I feel there's outside of Riley Smith spot.
Michael Imadio spot is the only other spot that he could realistically take because the
way it goes that the fourth line is gonna be walked colostar and carry A's
that's just a line that Bruce loves. He starts games with it. You
got Michael, Barbaschev and Marshall Stow together, you got out In Stone and
Stevenson. So there's basically the third line is wide open with Carlson anchoring it.
Kenny get a look. Yes, he'll need to have a good camp
and kind of show Bruce that he can play both ways, because that's what
Bruce looks for. And I think that's where the Riley Smith trade and are
hurt a little bit. Is that defensively, the guy you're gonna put in
there win. It's Michael and Maddio, Paul Potter and Brenda Bifano, Paveldoa,
Foyev, whatever two senate, whatever two wings you put with Carlson,
you automatically take a lower hit on defensive stat on defensive responsibility, But offensively,
I feel they're gonna be better with Smith because Smith had peaks and valleys.
So Brassan I think he the way I talked to him and during development
of HAMPI is that he is looking forward for an opportunity and he just wants
to prove that all the improvements he has made. So he's right there.
It's just man, I don't know if he can. I don't know if
he'll break camp with him, but you will see Brandon rossoon this year at
the n HL level. Let's go to the blue line, Paul, and
we'll start with Alex Petranjelo. He was the fifteenth best defenseman for US fantasy
types and the thirty three year old VET led all Vegas Gold Night starters and
time on ice at seventeen fifty one skaters. I should say his average time
on ice was more than two point five minutes over the second place guy on
the team. He was some minutes hog for this team. He did miss
time during the season, but not for injuries. He had a family emergency
that took him out for half of December, and then there was a little
bit of a later suspension. Despite missed time, eleven goals, forty three
assists, fifty four points and seventy three games placed him fourteenth among defensemen in
scoring and for us bashed lovers of the peripheral stats. Two and a half
shots, two and a half blocks, and a hit rounded out that portfolio.
One of the two big defensemen on this team, he's the one who's
getting paid a lot and for a good while longer. He's going to be
under contract till Kingdom come and his advanced that's have never quite reached the heights
of the Late Saint Louis rum, But as we just heard, he's pretty
darn good. Is this guy Petra Angelo going to be the power play one
quarterback fifty point score again next year? Yes? I feel he's gonna be
the powerplay quarterback. I think they just settled into that role. I think
they experienced with Jack Eicle at that point for a little bit, but they
just discovered its Plow is the guy and he can really quarterback that powerplay really
well. And I feel that he doesn't seem like he's slowing down. I
think that's the bigger thing is that when you watch him play, it doesn't
feel like he's lost step. He stays healthy. He basically plays well when
he's on ice, and he does exactly what's expected of him in that role.
And it's really telling that at his age that he's still playing at a
high level. And I feel that, yeah, he's going to hit back
fifty point mark again and he's going to give you some value wherever you take
him. And I think and the thing about Cassidy's system is that block shots.
They led the league in block shots. So if you love your block
shots, watch the Golden Knights because now all they make it easy on their
goaltenders by blocking a lot of shots. And I feel Petrangelo is basically adjusting
to how Bruce wants to play. And I feel with that in mind,
I feel what's crazy to me is that they did this with a first year
coach. The second year you expect only because they feel they're going to be
in the system longer, so they're gonna understand what's more, roles. They
had a couple of games of their laugh. I feel Paulo is going to
be what you expect them to be wherever you take him in a fantasy perspective.
Tremendous. Theodore the other guy here, excellent defenceman in his own right,
especially on the offensive end. At two point zero nine points per sixty
he was fourteenth in the NHL among defencemen, but he missed a lot of
time. He only played fifty five games, but in those fifty five he
had eight goals thirty three assists for forty one points. Two point five shots
a game one point five block per game is very nice as well. His
season was abbreviated by hurting a leg. He missed six weeks around January and
another couple of weeks at the end of the regular season. And he's two
years out from a new contract, having fulfilled five of seven very affordable years
five point two million dollars per Considering the talent of the player, one has
to think that he's getting close to being a pretty hot ticket hitting the market.
And like you said, Vegas is ruthless with their contracts, and they
have to be because they're always running up against the peak of it. He's
just short of his thirtieth birthday he'll be just short of his thirtieth birthday when
that contract comes up. Do you think she's gonna fitted to the plan for
Vegas long term? And what kind of results do you think will get from
hopefully a full season to help this year. I feel he is a part
of the plan. I feel I think if you ask me between who's more
likely to be a Golden Night in two years, in three years, it's
gonna be marsor Theodore, it's gonna be Theodore. I feel there's just I
think just his age, and they got him. They resigned him to that
contract at value like they got him, and they got him locked down after
that first season on value. And as for his offensive production a full season,
I think Shaye Theodore is a very underrated offensive player. I think they
don't value he's not valued enough in that space. I think he can actually
eclipse fifty points in a full season. I think last year the fact that
he did what he did and abbreviated season shows and he's not afraid to shoot
it, and I think that's I think that's a mindset that's that really carries
and I think he has got a good shot. I think he just understands
and he it's well from that perspective on that as as that number two deepair
with Brandon McNabb. I think the expectation of him is played good defense,
but also periodically chipping on offense. I think expect like if you're taking shape
theadore from a fantasy perspective first of all, and you know what you're gonna
get if he plays a full season, which is probably about fifty points.
I think fifty point mark is a good number for him, and I think
a full season and I think he can only go up. I think he's
still getting better, which is insane to me, as he's a sponge and
he's learning from Protrangell and learning what to do in that situation. He's on
the power plays as the as the on the power players second unit, so
he's so it'll get plenty of opportunities to score goals and get points. This
is a team that's got two big defensemen and then a lot of physical defensemans.
But do you think anybody else on this bootline can get over like a
thirty five point pace Paul not this season. I think Nicholas Higgs got a
good shot. I just don't know. It's a powerful shot. I don't
know if it's good enough to score. I think that I think the roles
and the defense are pretty much said. I think they'll shoot when they need
to, but I think it's pretty much to try and play off the rush
and periodically playing his own. So it's just thirty five points is steep for
a Vegas defenseman because before, like the playoffs, they only had two before
the Standing Cup final score goal, they'll have Patrangel and Theodore score goal.
So it's just the offense. Really, if you're asking for defensive defenseman's scoring
from Vegas, it's gonna be Theodore and Patragel. But HI don't still like
if you're taking If you're taking a defenseman from Vegas, you're taking them for
what they do outside of scoring. You're taking them for You're taking them for
bash and that's what you're taking them. Well, you're not taking them for
much else. Yeah, for sure, that makes sense. Let's talk about
the goalies and the Golden Nights gave up the tenth ranked expected goals against for
sixty but conceded the eleventh actual goals. Pretty game, and the goalie carousel
in Vegas seems like it continues. They had Aiden Hill finished obviously, and
he won the Cup and he got the big contract when the Cup. Get
a contract two years at four point nine million. That's a pretty good pay
day for a guy who basically played the most games he ever had in a
season, which was twenty seven, which is not a lot. And if
you're expecting him to be the workhorse moving forward, I don't know how that's
gonna go. Obviously, Logan Thompson is here and he has had a little
bit more of the load, but he was injured and couldn't come back.
He's got two years left at a very reasonable sub eight hundred thousand dollars contract.
So what do you think is going to be the split between these two?
It seems like Hill might have the job to lose based on his performers
in the playoffs, but Thompson was so good on the regular season at times.
So what do you think is going to happen in that in terms of
who's going to play and how good they're going to be able to do with
this great defense in front of them. I think it's gonna be just like
it just basically take what was last year's when both Hill and Thompson were healthy,
it's a sixty forty split. I think, except reverse the roles this
time. I think Hill's gonna get to sixty and I think Thompson is the
forty. And I think that's mostly out of not necessarily out of out of
respect for their abilities. I think it's more just to keep them both healthy.
I think that's the biggest question right now with Vegas is that can they
get eighty two full games from two guys they based on last year they barely
got by. Hill played out of his mind, got the big contract,
and it's just and I looked at it, and I'm like, they're just
gonna do what they did last year. When the both these guys are healthy,
They're just gonna flip the roles and Hill's gonna be the starter and Thompson
will fill in every fourth game or on the bend of the back and back.
But I feel a sixty forty split. I think they both understand.
I think they understand what they have. They're not gonna trade Logan Thompson.
His contract is too good to trade. Like I know, there was rumblings
and people were saying he might be traded. I'm like, no, I
don't think they're going to trade the contract that good, and I think that's
just the way it is, and ask for performance probably the same. I
mean, it's just I don't know, because the reason why I say I
don't know is that the sample size on both these guys is so small.
It's basically neither played a quote unquote full NHL goalie season. He saw in
the Hill in the playoffs, play out of his mind. He played probably
the best hockeys to ever play in his life. It's still a question mark.
It's going to be a question mark because if there's still two relatively young
goalies in a system that's goalie friendly, so they're going like system quarterbacks in
the NFL. I think they have two system goalies and it's going to be
it's going to be interesting to see how they perform over the course of the
year. Yeah, one more question on the goal always there. So obviously
we don't really know exactly what's going on with Robin Lenner. He missed the
whole season, Is he gonna miss this upcoming season? Is he gonna play
again? What do we know about him? What we know and I'm working
on I'm trying to figure this out. I just based on the salary.
He's gonna be LTI R based on the salaries, just because they signed eighty
Hill to that five million dollars close to five million dollars at four. He
has to be an LTI R Kennedy, he just has to be. The
numbers don't work out like with him on the books. So it's either he's
gonna be LTR, he's gonna retired like it's just from the way it sounds
like he's still working through his injury. And I don't think we see Robin
Lennar again in this season. I don't think we see him this season.
I think he's gonna be LTR or traded to retire. I think it's just
those are three options where they're not gonna buy him out Vegas, Vegas for
some reason. If they were gonna buy him out, they would have already
done so. So the fact they hadn't bought them out, it's very telling.
It's very telling to me that they don't want to have anything like that
under books. They Kelly mccrimmin has said he doesn't want any bad contracts,
and this is a bad contract and they are working their magic their salary cap
Magic. Their cap specialists are probably working double time right now trying to figure
out how can we cap compliant and they are technically CAP compliant if they LTI
R. Robin Lanner. You've given us some great insight on the Stanley Cup
champions, Paul. Why don't you let people know how that they can continue
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Silverman, Cats Instincts and for another edition of Cats Instincts with Cat Silverman and
in gold mag Vegas Golden Night Edition, we are going to start with Carl
Linbaum. He's a twenty twenty one seventh round pick, six one ninety pound
goalie. He's been in the Drew gardens IF system. Last season he was
really great for them in the Hockey El Spenskin. He definitely wasn't the reason
they didn't earn promotion back to the SHL, just lost out to Moto in
the qualifying there. Even if his team won't be in the SHL though Lindbaum
will be back. He will be on loan to Farjerstad b K and so
that'll be nice to see him back in the SHL. And looking at his
equivalency, it's weird he doesn't have any for his draft season and then it
slowly crept up to about twenty percent, so it looks like a little bit
lower for him unfortunately. But some guys like Johan Hedberg is one he looks
similar to. He was a replacement level starter. So Kat what do your
instincts tell us about Carl Lindbaum? Is he the best goalie prospect in Vegas?
I think he's got the best long term out look. They have a
bunch of good what I would consider like B two C prospects in their system.
I think everyone that they have is good. I don't think they have
anyone who's a like a shining star. Linbaum's kind of an interesting one for
me because I really enjoyed watching film for him his draft ear but he also
made me a little nervous. He kind of reminded me, from a decision
making standpoint of Mad Soguard, the Danish goaltender who had gone over to the
WHL and I believe is now an Attawa's system. And he nbum plays a
really smooth game. He has good skating, he's fluid, he's quick,
and his decision making is just sometimes baffling. He just he allows a lot
of goals up high because he drops to his knees too quickly, he loses
sight of the play. Sometimes he'll make a really baffling safe selection when he
could have made a really simple one. And while I admire his creativity sometimes
and think he's a lot of fun to watch. Made me a little nervous.
I think he's starting to improve in that area, but I think we'll
get a clearer picture for just what he is for Vegas when he's playing in
the SHL. Essentially, I think that he played well in Hockey Fenskin,
but in Sweden in particular, there's a big jump between that Tier one league
and then that Tier two league. You see some of those teams that are
in the Tier two league that probably are able to hold their own in the
SHL, and then obviously you'll see some teams in the SHL that really need
to get relegated like yesterday. But for the most part, you're getting a
very different quality of competition. So I think that being able to see how
his decision making progresses in the highest tier league is going to be hard determining
factor there. Yeah, I wonder about that because I imagine playing at lower
levels, maybe there's less talent less structure. Maybe he's feels like he's forced
to make more creative decision choices, save choices. I don't know if that
could be part of it, but like you said, it will be really
interesting to see him in the SHL with presumably better structure and talent around him.
That's the hope. It'll just be interesting to see, conversely, if
the better shooters are able to take advantage of him as well. With the
double edged sword there for the goaltenders, yeah, of course, yeah,
that's a big factor. Let's talk about the next guy, Isaiah Seville,
and he was a twenty nineteen fifth round pick by Vegas, six ninety five
pound catches on the right side. Case anyone was wondering, this was his
full first full season as a pro and he did well in the HL,
although he got loaned to the ECHL. I'm presuming to get a little bit
more playing time. He's someone that I remember watching a bit back in his
NC double A days. He went to the powerhouse University of Nebraska Omaha program
really good, they're really consistent, and came over to the HL and has
been in his limited time in HL decent and then was in the ECHL.
His save percentage was high though even though, which is good there, even
though his goals against was a little bit high as well, unfortunately, but
some of his calms he looks like a thirty currently a twenty percent chance of
being NHL, which is low a lot of his comps. There's some replacement
level guys here. One of the guys I picked out is Thomas Vocoon,
who really popped up at the end, but was similar and lowish to begin
in terms of his equivalencies, and also a right catching goalie if I remember
correctly, Kat, What do your instincts tell us about Isaiah Saville of the
Vegas Golden Nights. That was an interesting year for him this last year Vegas,
and I understand why because they did have some more injury prone guys on
their roster. But Vegas seemed to essentially decide that they were going to go
all in on winning the cup and the work, but by essentially stockpiling goaltenders
so that if anybody got hurt, they weren't left out essentially hung out to
dry. So, just quickly looking at it, this team played one two,
three, four five goaltenders in the end HL, and then in the
HL they played one two, three, four, five six seven. So
that's an unreal like, almost respectfully stupid number of goaltenders to have, and
there's some overlap there. You saw guys like Lauren Brasois who had to play
both in the HL and the NHL. You had Aidan Hill who played a
game in the HL. You had I believe, Yuri Petera, Michael Hutchinson.
A lot of those guys are overlapping. But that did leave guys like
Isaiah Saville out in the wind and so putting him in a place where he
was not just getting the start, but getting consistency with his routine. He
wasn't essentially living out of his suitcase going back and forth and back and forth.
I think that can help a goaltender that's his age and at his ability
level more than just constantly bringing them back to the HL just over and over.
Anytime there's a chance for him to start, especially because if I remember
correctly, the ECHL team for Vegas is in Georgia and their HL team is
in Henderson, Nevada. So that's a multi time zone shift. In order
to just go back and forth, that's a plane ride. That's not something
that you can do by car. So giving him that chance to consistently play
and he performed right. Pat I believe in nine twenty unadjusted save percentage in
the ECHL. That comes after having a good smattering of games after he signed
and went pro. The year prior after his third year in Nebraska. I
did think it was funny we said consistency. While he was playing for Nebraska
Omaha, he had an identical save percentage every year he played there. It
was a nine oh seven across the board, and I think that's I thought
it was a misprint, and so I'd be go and look at a different
stat site too to make sure that I wasn't looking at something wrong. But
he's a lot of fun to watch. He's not overly active when he plays,
but he's not super conservative either. He just he makes his decisions,
he sticks by them. He doesn't get too predictable. I saw him I
get a little spicy, for lack of a better word. I didn't love
his raw technical skills. In some of the games that I watched, it
looked like he was still relying a little bit on athleticism and instinct. But
I watched him improve with each game I play, or with each game I
was able to essentially get film on. You see a linear progression for him
and some guys you don't really see that direct upwards movement, and I think
that stands for something. So I'm excited to see what he's able to do
there. I'm hoping we'll get to see him soon. He's only twenty two.
Hopefully we get to see more consistent starts at the HL level, because
I would assume he's going to be there their number one option there this year,
unless they decide to stockpile a bunch of emergency callups once again, which
they might do. Who knows, it's been I guess is m s since
they started. They just have all these goalie issues and they just run through
seems like a never ending stream. And it was so the other guy was
gonna talk about. You mentioned Arty Uri Petera, and he was a twenty
seventeen sixth round picked by Vegas six two, two hundred and ten pounds.
He played a couple of games this season and they went really well. And
I think one of the biggest things I was just surprised that I was surprised.
I'm not surprised that he was the call up, right, because a
lot of times you'll call up the guy who you don't want to disrupt the
other guys who are getting consistent starts, and maybe you want to just leave
him down there to marinate, and you call someone else up who may or
may not be ready, but you don't really worry too much about it.
So I'm not sure if that's who your Petera is because a lot of his
equivalences look extremely low, like it was really hard to find anyone that was
interesting at all or that anyone would know. The only one I came up
with is someone named Frederick Narena, who was a backup finished goalie that is
that was born in seventy three, so he's a bit older and he's been
good though Euri, Petera and Henderson, and I guess what I want to
know about him? Was he just a stop gap? There? Is he
someone who's just going to be an hller or does he have upside to potentially
be like maybe a backup or a one B at some point, I think
he has upside. A lot of times the check goaltenders, I have a
little bit of trouble getting a read on how they're going to play over a
larger sample size, because a lot of the check goaltenders are incredibly good at
instinctive plays. They because essentially the check leagues are I would argue, the
most chaotic of the major European pro leagues. So when you look at Finland,
Sweden, Russia, in the Czech Republic, I would say the Czech
Republic is the one that's the most chaotic when it comes to defensive structure,
when it comes to consistency, when it comes to even the quality of competition
difference between the teams, you get just this huge range. And so sometimes
those goaltenders really thrive on chaos, and when you call them up, they
have this adrenaline rush and they're able to really because they're so good at making
those desperation saves and they're good at just getting in the zone and just going
with it. They end up putting up really good almost emergency call up performances,
so to speak. And then when you need them to play a more
consistent game night after night, if they aren't able to essentially rain in that
structure, you see their game fall apart a little bit. And so I
think David Riddich was a really good example of that, someone who in games
where it was just like an absolute must win emergency call up situation looked amazing.
And then when you tried to get a larger sample size out of him
the game, the wheel started to fall off a little bit and there's a
chance that's what will happen with Ptera. But he looks better than some of
the other chech goaltenders that have essentially been called up and just go nuts.
They almost play like the Alex Saylock style where you don't know what's going to
happen, but it's gonna be fun. He looks a little more control than
that, and so I think they were rolling the dice by giving him a
call up and saying, worst case, we're not disrupting Seville and some of
the other guys, but best case, he plays a good game and we're
able to really get a feel for what he's able to do. So it's
a win win for them making a call up like that because he is still
pretty young, but he's not I don't think he's their number one prospect moving
forward, but I do think he's got some upside. So if they can
have a couple of young guys without having to respectfully to Jonathan Quick, without
having to trade for Jonathan Quicks to get them through the end of their seasons,
I think it's a win for everyone. Yeah, that sounds good.
Thank you so much for giving us your instincts on the Vegas Golden Night goalies.
We'll be back right after this the dynasty dig. Vegas Golden Knights are
ready to talk dynasty. And there's a few things that we can say about
this Vegas Golden Knights team. The very first of which is, even though
they're the Stanley Cup champs, they're in the middle of the pack in terms
of a prospect system. It makes sense they've had a few years to assemble
one and even though they've traded some prospects away, there's a lot of good
players left on this team. They've done a decent job drafting. But it
starts out and the ranked eighteenth if I didn't say that, but it starts
out with their no brainer. Who is it? Yeah, a new brainer
for the Vegas gold Knights. Lucas Cormier, twenty third round pick by Vegas
five, ten hundred and seventy six pound left handed d first finished his time
in the queue this past season after four there the previous season I should say
over two point per game seasons and a U twenty gold and he was with
the Henderson Silver Knights this most recent season where he would over a half point
per game, which was pretty nice. Ten goals, twenty five assists for
thirty five points in sixty two games was pretty nice. Two years left on
his entry level deal. He could push for a position in camp with the
Vegas Gold and nice, but I feel like that's probably a little less likely.
Terabously a really good team, and they have a bunch of defensive pieces
that I think are going to be pretty hard to pass up near the bottom
kind of seventy eight guys. Certainly, I think he could challenge them,
So if there's an injury, he gets in the lineup. But let's hear
a little bit more about Lucas Cormier from our FHL scout. Definitely we should,
and this time it is Sasha talking about Cormier skating in transition. The
skating has improved from one year to the next. Super agile with his edges,
uses deception in his upper body to freeze opponents. Not overly explosive in
his crossovers, but an efficient transition player who should focus his offseason training and
gaining more explosiveness. General backward skating still a concern. He gets be to
the outside more than one would want, especially with larger and stronger players and
his pivots of the weak side need work as well passing and handling. Probably
his best tool is his ability to pass the puck with precision at all times.
Cormier is an amazing talent when controlling the puck and his handling has transitioned
seamlessly to the pro level. He uses a mix of deception and smarts to
find seems that was his bread and butter with the Charlottetown Islanders of the queue
shooting. He loves to shoot the puck, and Cormier shoots with authority.
He has a knack defined holes to feed the puck toward the net, doesn't
shy away from using his slapshot when he has the time and space to do.
Takes chances with his shot, which Sasha loves to see. Intern Offensively
driven player IQ super high offensive IQ with a puck seen as the best offensive
defenseman prospect in the Night System by a large margin. Used on power play
one, penalty kill two, leads the team in ice time on three.
He has ex vision with a puck evident in all his all around transition game
while not panicking with a puck in any zones. Off puck habits are pro
ready big reason why he was able to rack up thirty five points and only
sixty five games. Is a rookie. Defensive IQ has improved from his draft
year off puck habits like defensive zone scanning have improved defense. As explained in
the IQ, he needs to improve gap control and aggressiveness in the defensive zone.
Tends to be too passive and opponents tend to expose that passiveness by attacking
the net in the middle of the ice with little concern. Best asset then,
as we look back at it and sum it up, the offensive tool
kit, the vision and the passing abilities, and the biggest concern is that
defensive game, especially when opponents come in with speed on the outside. The
top tier outcome for Cormier is a middle pairing top power play producer in the
NHL. He has the making of quality power play quarterback while not having to
focus on playing against the other team's best players every ship and the middle outcome.
A power play specialist with limited five on five minutes stylistic comparable Tory Krug
or Tyson Barry. Perhaps, so let's go to the NHL rank king and
say what we're gonna have for Lucas Cormier's top comps, top comp Derek Pugliat,
and then Tye Smith and then Shay Theodore. And that's going from a
couple of years ago when he had superstar potential. Now he's trending down where
he's going through the funnel and he's more between a first and second line potential
in his equivalency in terms of the head to head matchup that Mason put out
on the Internet for you all to vote on, and you should look for
those every week because he's putting these out there as we go to our team
previews. Lucas Cormier versus Carson Lambos of the Minnesota Wild guy who was drafted
one year later and two rounds higher than Cormier was, and Cormier versus Lambos
in one hundred and eleven vote poll came out to Cormier sixty seven percent,
doubling up Carson Lambos is thirty three percent. Victor, Is Cormier that big
of a favorite over Carson Lambos in your mind? No, I don't think
so. I think it's closer. I do think that Cormier is more offensive
than Lambos. He has a little bit more offensive upside, but he also
is a little less well rounded, so Lambos like if you're if you're looking
at in real life likelihood probability, Lambos is almost a lock. I would
say to play. He's just so good at everything he does. He'll at
least be a bottom pairing option for the Wild, which is good. Cormier,
it needs some work on some defensive aspect gap control skating, as we've
heard. He Actually it's funny that ty Smith is one of his comps,
because I think that's not an unrealistic outcome. We all are watching in real
time what's happening with ty Smith. He never really learned some of the skating
and gap control that he needs to be able to defend the RUSH and the
NHL, and he's struggling now trying to get better at that. And that's
to limit him from being an NHL or because he literally gets turnstyled often.
I don't know if that's going to happen necessarily with Cormier. He seems a
little farther along in some aspects, and ty Smith went straight from if I
remember correctly, went straight from the WHL to the NHL, so that was
a little bit of a difficult transition for him. So I'm not sure that
it's going to be as difficult for Cormier. It seems like he had a
pretty decent transition, so that was nice to see. Sorry, I was
just checking on ty Smith. Yeah, he went straight from the WHL to
the NHL, which is always tough. So I like that Cormier got the
middle stop off in the HL, and I think he could really round out
his game and be Shay Theodore light, which, funny, which is one
of his comps. Obviously, they still have Theodore and he's not going anywhere,
so maybe another several years until he could potentially take over a power play,
or maybe he splits with Theodore and they stopped giving into Petrangolo. Any
of these things are possible. But I really do if he can round out
the rest of his defensive game a little bit more than he can be a
really solid option and definitely has more offense, I would say, than Lambos.
So if you're looking at the high percent outcome, you like that Looking
at these two in hockey prospecting, Cormier has consistently been above twenty percent star
potential and Lambos has been in the mid teens, so just a little bit
higher, not too much different. Frankly, and the NHL or probability is
similar. So I like that for both of these guys, But yeah,
a little bit leaning more towards the offense with Cormier looking at some of his
individual comps, no one too exciting, a lot of replacement level or average
producers. Nathan Bellie is one that he looks a little bit like in the
system who came out of the queue, and obviously he hasn't really translated much
offense, so not too exciting there. And the Jay first card also not
too exciting at just three percent chance of being a star, forty five percent
chance of being an NHLer, So a little bit down the line there for
Lucas Cormier, very good victor. And next, who is your need to
know prospect? Yeah, I need to know would be pavel A dodo Fiev
Dodrofiev. He is a twenty nineteen a third round pick by Vegas, and
he's a six one, one hundred and seventy six pound left wing and he
is someone who played mostly in the HL last year but got a decent run
in the NHL for Vegas. He had eighteen games, seven goals to assist
for half point per game, which was pretty nice. He was shooting a
couple of times, got just a few hits in there, not too much
in the PRIF category. Got a little bit of power play time but not
too much, just an under two minutes, got three power play points in
that time though, so a little bit of a limited role. And then
in Henderson he had thirty two games for seventeen points in that span for Henderson
and that was a pretty good little over half point per game there as well,
which is nice. And he probably should be at least competing for a
role in the NHL as early as this season. He definitely has a couple
of You got a good roster too, to try to step over some guys,
step ahead of some guys, but I think near down the bottom of
the lineup, like your Howden's and carriers, he might be able to leap
frog a couple of them. So there's some space there. One year left
on the entry level deal, so in a cap league, he's looking really
good. He's definitely someone I would be eyeing because he'll be playing, but
he potentially could get a top six spot that would be obviously really exciting.
I just was looking up the hockey viz of all his opportunity and it definitely
shifted around. He played with a lot of different players. He got some
Carl Sinson Smith, He definitely got some March or so An Ichel time here
and there. That was really exciting when he was playing with March and Ichel.
Obviously that spot was Barberschev a lot too. Yeah, it's gonna be
interesting to see what he gets. But he should get some offensive play.
He was really helping the team on the power play with him on the ice.
His expected goals for increased the teams percent by twenty one chance of scoring.
So I think there's some pretty good upside here with Doropiev, and let's
hear a little bit more about what that could be from our FHL scout.
FHL scout Tony reporting in on Papeldrofiev skating, good lateral movement and decent speed.
Passing and handling very good as well. Good one able to do one
on one deeks of opponents, shooting, good shot, good variety of shots,
IQ skills, vision and offensive anticipation. Didn't see a lot of defense,
hardly any shorty ated time. The panic meter seems to be minimal.
He looked a little more comfortable in the HL, but not out of place
in the NHL. For checking, didn't see a whole lot of it.
Tony didn't, and he needs to be more aggressive to be successful at the
NHL level. And the same with defense, Tony didn't see much from Dourofiev.
Maybe he should say he saw modern day defense using your stick to ble
shots. Best asset was that play in the offensive zone, vision and puck
handling in the biggest concern lack of defense, lack of aggressiveness in the ozone.
So once the top tier potential for Pavoldropiev, Tony says tier two offensive
passing, Deakin shooting all on the positive and lots of power play time middle
outcome fiftieth percentile if he does not get more aggressive in play, d probable
tier three power play time, limited third line minutes and stylistic comparable. Why
not pick a former Vegas Golden Night in Riley Smith, the NHL ranking Mason
Black coming in to give us some information on Pavlo Doropiev. He's peeked out
in Mason's model just above a second line potential, but last year as he
debuted in the NHL, or is he played a lot in the NHL,
he's dipping a little bit below that, down below second line potential. In
terms of a comparison, We've put Pavlodrofiev up against Vasili of the Carolina Hurricanes
the twenty twenty second round selection of the Canes. Who's playing for the Chicago
Wolves and which one would you rather having a span on your fantasy team?
You voted? You said Dorothea by a wide margin seventy three to twenty seven
percent. Victor. Is that what you had to say in terms of this
comparison, Yeah, definitely I would take dorothy of any day. I think
he has a lot more offense to give. He's definitely a more creative offensive
player. Panamarov is definitely more of a two way guy. He could be
like a bottom six pivot for them, And yeah, so he's not I
don't think he's going to have as much offense in the NHL. Did really
well in the HL for Chicago and that's great, but I'm just not sure
that's going to translate to the NHL. Whereas Dorothea of being a winger and
being more creative power play specialist could be that kind of player. So he
has a little bit easier row to you know, relevance, and so I
really like him. The star potential, he's kind of down for both of
these. It's six percent for Dorofy of one percent for Panamaryov, so definitely
a little bit lower for both, but it still remains higher for Dorothy.
Of looking at just Dorofy of his hockey prospecting has some pretty interesting comps.
He actually ended the model with a few interesting comps. Alex Turcott, Keith,
Primo, Elis Lenholme. Yeah, interesting mix there, probably nowhere near
is likely to end up like Lenholme or Primo Turcott. Maybe he's a little
bit better than that. So hard to say, but I do like him,
I think especially right now as his opportunity is there for Vegas and he's
already broken in a little bit, so he'd love to see that. The
Jay Fresh model has him just at two percent chance of being a start,
eighteen percent chance of being an NHL or so a little bit lower, all
right, Victor, who is your keep your eye proce b keep your eye
on? Is Brendan Bressan twenty twenty first round pick by Vegas, six ft
hundred and eighty five pound winger, first full season with the Henderson Silver Knights
this past year, and it was pretty decent. Eighteen goals, nineteen six
thirty seven points in fifty eight games. With Henderson two years left on that
entry level contract, he could compete for a spot in camp, although again
very good team and Brassan's role is also a little bit unique because he's basically
a trigger man with his good shot. I don't know that there's as much
around the rest of his game to be that exciting, but we need to
hear about that from our FHL scout. Indeed we do in our FHL scout
in this case is Brandon, and Brandon said the skating Brassan is a rather
textbook the ordinary skater, no glaring mechanical issues, but also not necessarily dynamic
and explosive, gets around the ice well enough and ends up where he ought
to be positionally aggressive hustle if in pursuit of the puck carrier passenger in handling,
a delicate puck handler with a light touch, not known to hold onto
the puck and carry it beyond one zone, but would rather move the puck
deliberately and accurately to free himself up to get into open spaces and lanes.
He's the ant in give and go. I like that phrase, holding onto
the puck. Prone to slowing the play down a notch or two to match
his tempo and shooting, Raissan possesses a will pippy, an accurate wrist shot,
one timers and one touch shots are crisp and pack some punch, though
he could stand a dial in his accuracy to hit the net more often displayed.
The ability to shoot at full speed off the rush positions himself as a
potential pass target in the mid to high slot, and I would like to
see him develop more plays on his own accord instead of relying on others to
douce That way, he can unleash that shot more often. Brandon says in
terms of IQ, he tends to circle around and near the play to observe
the happenings. Looking to capitalize in a bounce or pass in his favor,
he will activate to help out the puck is caught up in a scrum along
the boards. Although he's more comfortable hovering a sticklinked the way that gives him
the most flexibility to adapt for checking. Braissan provides a willingness to take initiative
and provide disruptive pressure is f one, especially during the moments where the opponent
is trying to set up a breakout well, he doesn't really use his body
to separate the puck from the carrier. He does engage physically and finishes the
vast majority of his checks. Defense, willing to contribute to scrums along the
board, although often seen in a spatially supportive role, and he used as
a short range outlet pass option to can one touch the puck to a teammate
building up steam, so the best asset summing that up. Supportive, adaptive,
opportunist, opportunistic positioning, and Brandon says the biggest concern reliance on teammates
to do most of the heavy lifting and play generation. Top tier outcome for
Braissan, according to Brandon, top six supportive winger with a scoring touch,
high slight, dual threat, bumper role on the power play, twenty to
thirty goals, sixty to seventy points and shot on goal potential has a wide
range of variants depending on the quality of the linemates, and although he plays
physical, he might not provide as many hits as he doesn't use his body
to knock the puck loose the middle outcome fifty percentile middle six opportunistic score thirty
to forty points could provide a scoring threat on a depth of checking line impaired
with aggressive for checking puck retrievers. Stylistic comparable Sergei sumson Off crossed with Brock
Besser all right, and the NHL ranking Mason Black given us some similarities.
Philip Chlappic is the top one, Boon Jenner, Kirby Dock following it.
After that, the potential has trended down just a little bit below second line
in the last year for Brasson, and we're going to compare him to owen
Beck and the vote owen Beck selected two years after him and a couple of
picks behind him, and Beck decisively with the victory Hero over Braissant sixty three
to thirty seven percent victor. Is that what you think of these two guys?
No, not really. I think that's a little skewed in my opinion.
I like Beck, and he was someone who I actually talked about as
potentially popping off in his D plus one season which he just completed, and
he definitely did. He increased his point potential for Mississauga up to forty one
points in thirty games, where he was going well over a point per game,
but then he got traded mid season to Peterborough and that went down a
little bit. His world shifted, so he didn't be able. He wasn't
able to fully just pop off there, but definitely it was looking pretty good.
He's definitely farther away, and beck is someone who has a lot of
good offense, but it definitely I think it's going to be asked to do
more two way than Brasson. Brassan is really just a nice complimentary piece,
and I don't think he's gonna be asked to do as much. He can
backjack. He can be the one timer on the power play, he can
be the score, be the guy who sets up gets set up. So
I think it'll be a little bit easier for him to break in because of
those things. And he's a lot closer and managed to keep his star potential
a little bit higher throughout the year. So he's down at seven percent back
already down to two after just two seasons in the model, So I think
there's a little more likely outcome that Braisson is relevant in fantasy than going back
and just looking at Braissan's regular hockey prospecting. He's got some interesting comp skys
like Trevor Lewis, Steve Bernier, not that exciting. Jeoffrey Loophole is one
that's pretty decent average producer though. So yeah, the Jay Fresh card has
him at just four percent chance of being a star and twenty four percent chance
of being an NHL So a little bit less optimistic as usual, I would
say for the Jay Fresh card. But yeah, that's the Vegas Golden Knights.
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