1 00:00:03,759 --> 00:00:13,439 Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks, your source of information 2 00:00:13,439 --> 00:00:17,519 and analysis to help you win your fantasy hockey league. Fuck off to step 3 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:23,839 on say lots. Here's your hosts, Jesse sup Here and Victor Nuno. 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,359 Fantasy Hockey Live back once again, and boy are we fired up? I 5 00:00:29,399 --> 00:00:34,119 am Jesse Severe fan Tracks, and across the glass it is Victor Nuno of 6 00:00:34,439 --> 00:00:38,719 Dauber Prospect. Victor, how are you doing. I'm doing awesome, Jesse. 7 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:43,000 I'm ready for us to hit our mid season stride. Here with these 8 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,280 team previews, it's like my one of my favorite times of the year. 9 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:51,399 So I know it's a little early for some, but we we don't do 10 00:00:51,439 --> 00:00:54,079 the math. Takes a long time to get them all in and we are 11 00:00:54,159 --> 00:00:58,719 nothing if not complete, right darn right? Yeah, if you don't know 12 00:00:58,759 --> 00:01:03,120 what we mean. This is the first of our thirty two episode series previewing 13 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,480 the two twenty three twenty four teams, and boy are we excited by it. 14 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,159 It's gonna take a long time. Some of you are feeling like it's 15 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:15,200 the peak of the season. It's postseason. It's after the season. For 16 00:01:15,359 --> 00:01:19,200 Victor and I. This is opening day in a sense because our previous start 17 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,400 today and we've got a wonderful format. We're bringing on, just as we 18 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:29,719 did last year, amazing guests to talk about the individual teams, experts on 19 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,000 the teams. Then we're going to go to we're going to go to a 20 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:38,519 brand new segment that nobody has heard. It is Cat's Instincts. Cat Silverman, 21 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,159 who we've had on the show, well known goalie Guru is going to 22 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,359 come on and do some breakdowns of some of the prospect goalies. And then 23 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:51,560 of course the traditional the wonderful Dynasty dig I got to break out that music 24 00:01:51,599 --> 00:01:56,840 again. I love that intro to the Dynasty dig It just warms my heart. 25 00:01:57,159 --> 00:02:01,000 So it's gonna be a great, great season. And that's not all 26 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:05,319 we have these episodes, Victor, But not only that, but we have 27 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,680 other things that patrons can enjoy, particularly or the Patreon. We should really 28 00:02:08,719 --> 00:02:14,280 mention now what kind of things are out there during the season previous series. 29 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:17,840 Yeah, for sure, we have so many good things that through the Patreon. 30 00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:22,199 You gotta check it out, see which tier might fit for you. 31 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:23,080 If you like to show, if you enjoy it, you want to support 32 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:30,400 it. We certainly have patron casts that are sometimes topic related sometimes Ama. 33 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:35,159 We also have roster doctor availability. We will help you break down your team. 34 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,639 Lots of extra perks too, like going over how to use evolving hockey, 35 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:43,360 how to use different tools that we have. Some of the people who 36 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,439 are recently requesting. On the Sellary Cap show, I was talking about how 37 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:53,319 I break down and project rosters dollar value per dollar. We'll make a video 38 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,840 for that. And of course we have our rank sheets where we have all 39 00:02:55,879 --> 00:03:01,360 of the teams and all the players rank by for defenseman, goalie and who 40 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,599 the who. The top ones are under one hundred games for skaters, under 41 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,680 fifty games for goalies, so that's all out there. We also have organizational 42 00:03:09,759 --> 00:03:15,280 ranks and team ranks. You can get hits, blocks and shot upside based 43 00:03:15,319 --> 00:03:19,879 on their tiers with this, which is a really hard thing to be able 44 00:03:19,879 --> 00:03:23,879 to find. And new this year, there's always new upgrades and improvements we're 45 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:29,080 doing. Jesse so great with spreadsheets. He really does a lot of work 46 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:30,639 with this. And one thing we're doing this year in our tears and ranks 47 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:35,639 is we're gonna be not only talking about you know, points and banger upside, 48 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:42,599 but also salary Cap, which which contracts are actually good for salary cap 49 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,080 leads and which players are maybe not worth their value, So we'll be tiering 50 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:49,319 those as we go along too. So so much goodness. Check it out 51 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,120 at patreon dot com slash Fantasy Hockey Life. For sure, you are going 52 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:58,599 to want to check those things out into Patreon if you are so inclined, 53 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,240 If you're non acliner, you just kind of want to dip a toe in 54 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,120 see what it's like hanging out with us, hanging out with a lot of 55 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,879 the listeners who are into Dynasty fantasy hockey particular, hit us up and join 56 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:15,000 our discord Fantasy Hockey Life at gmail dot com or fan Hockey Life is me 57 00:04:15,479 --> 00:04:17,839 Victor Nuno twelve as Victor. Basically, just ask one of us and we'll 58 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:23,120 give you an invite to the free discord. And there's all kinds of chatter. 59 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,720 People are forming the leagues right now, because fantracks, you can form 60 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:30,439 them all the way. Today people are talking about the Stanley Cup playoffs, 61 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:34,079 people are talking about offseason Dynasty trades, about their keeper decisions, and of 62 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:40,839 course about free agency and everything else coming up. And of course the draft 63 00:04:40,959 --> 00:04:45,759 lottery is about to happen. After this episode is released. So Victor, 64 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,839 it's wonderful times, it's exciting times to talk about fantasy hockey, and we're 65 00:04:49,879 --> 00:04:55,199 gonna do it today with a man named Ben Pope of the Chicago Suntimes. 66 00:04:55,360 --> 00:05:11,040 Today. Episode one is the Chicago black Home. Right after this, we 67 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,920 are welcoming to the show, first time guest, but a excellent writer on 68 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,480 the Chicago Blackhawks. It's Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun Times. Ben, 69 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:23,600 how are you doing today? I'm great, Thanks for having me on. 70 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,759 Well, we love having you here. We want to talk some Blackhawks. 71 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,000 Unfortunately, we tend to do this series in order of finish, and the 72 00:05:31,079 --> 00:05:35,160 bad news for the Blackhawks is we're starting with you, so like reverse order, 73 00:05:35,959 --> 00:05:42,639 it didn't go well. If you were judging the Blackhawks on the performance 74 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,759 on the ice last year, probably not a great situation. And I'll rattle 75 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,639 off a couple of stats here in a minute, but I know that wasn't 76 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,639 the point in some ways, and we'll get to that. They're bottoming out 77 00:05:55,959 --> 00:05:59,639 and they might not even be at the bottom right now given everything that's happened. 78 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:02,399 You know, there were one point out of dead last in the league. 79 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,720 And it's funny they could have had the best odds in the lottery, 80 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,800 but the second to last game of the season, they knocked out the Pittsburgh 81 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,519 Penguins by beating them with full two point win, which let the Florida Panthers 82 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,279 in, thus indirectly ruining the Boston Bruins. So congratulations on the black Hawks 83 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:26,000 for destroying the Boston Bruins. Incredible season this year indirectly anyway, on the 84 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,839 black Hawks, nobody managed fifty points. Unfortunately on this team, Andrea Satanasio 85 00:06:30,959 --> 00:06:33,519 was the top surviving points guy by the end of the season who were still 86 00:06:33,519 --> 00:06:38,839 on the team with forty. Of course, Patrick Kane Max Doomi probably would 87 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:43,040 have reached that mark quite easily had they not been traded away. The Hawks 88 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,839 had the fewest team goals, the second fewest shots, and at nine point 89 00:06:46,879 --> 00:06:50,480 one percent, the fourth worst shooting on the shots that they took. The 90 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,600 captain, Jonathan Tays retired the last night of the season. The last ties 91 00:06:55,639 --> 00:06:59,079 to those cup years are gone, but the Hawks are doing it correctly. 92 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,279 They made a lot of trades. They netted something like seven additional net draft 93 00:07:02,319 --> 00:07:06,000 picks over the next three years. They have a top lottery pick today is 94 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Sunday, Tomorrow's the lottery. By tomorrow night, Connor Badard might be headed 95 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,399 for the Chicago Blackhawks. We don't know. Bottom line, was this year 96 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,959 a palette cleanse or a disappointment for Hawks fans? Our hawksman is going to 97 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,600 have more reasons for optimism as soon as next year been. Yeah. I 98 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,759 mean, certainly, the expectations were very low, and they pretty much we're 99 00:07:28,879 --> 00:07:33,199 right on those expectations. Honestly, even finishing thirtieth rather than thirty second might 100 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,519 have been exceeding expectations in terms of on the ice, although I'm not sure 101 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,920 management would have liked to see that happen. But yeah, I think they 102 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,480 were expected to be bad, and they were bad. There wasn't too much 103 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,959 of a surprise there. Certainly. On a more specific level, there were 104 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,680 some bright spots. I think Luke Richardson really showed really well in his first 105 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:57,319 season as coach and indicated that he can really be the guy long term to 106 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,000 turn to leave this turnaround when he has a bit or talent to work with. 107 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,600 And there were some individual player bright spots as well. But from a 108 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:09,240 team standpoint, yeah, it was pretty bad across the board. Almost all 109 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:13,120 their statistical finishes were in the bottom of the league if you look at pretty 110 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:18,959 much every offensive and defensive stat special teams were not quite as terrible, but 111 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:24,000 still in the bottom third of the league. So yeah, it was not 112 00:08:24,079 --> 00:08:28,079 too surprising to see so much so much losing this year, But that was 113 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,600 kind of the point to try to get this this draft position and kind of 114 00:08:31,639 --> 00:08:35,919 reset the roster. And I think next year they probably won't be too much 115 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:41,080 better in terms of unised performance, but they probably will be more interesting in 116 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:46,320 terms they'll have more prospects starting to move up into the NHL, and more 117 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:50,200 guys where even if the team isn't succeeding, you can see them start to 118 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,279 individually succeed and build some hope for the future by seeing that. So probably 119 00:08:54,279 --> 00:08:58,759 going to be at least a couple more years before they really start to improve 120 00:08:58,879 --> 00:09:01,919 standings wise, but this probably was gonna be kind of the rock bottom in 121 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:07,600 terms of relevance at least. Yeah, for sure. And there's there's such 122 00:09:07,639 --> 00:09:11,840 a different team now from the beginning. You know, last year in the 123 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,559 team preview, I was when I was going over everything we had obviously kine 124 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:18,039 to brink it. Strome Taves, Doc GOUBA League. All of those guys 125 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,320 are gone. So when we talk about who the top fowards are this year, 126 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,399 I guess we're gonna have to start with Lucas Rachael because there aren't really 127 00:09:28,399 --> 00:09:31,600 a whole lot of other options, And certainly this may shift by the time 128 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:37,000 Opening Night happens in October, but I think it's worth talking about Richele. 129 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:41,919 He certainly is looks like a new maybe corner stone or the franchise, or 130 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:45,120 at least a pretty decent player. Maybe we shouldn't annoint him with that tag 131 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,799 quite yet, but the seventeenth overall pick from twenty twenty. Basically, he's 132 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:52,799 been a point per game or better player in the HL the last two seasons. 133 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:56,519 We got to see him with some NHL action at the end of last 134 00:09:56,519 --> 00:10:00,320 season and also this season. He put up fifteen points in twenty three games, 135 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:03,320 which was the highest point pace if anyone left on the team. Not 136 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,720 actual points, but point pace, and you know, that was pretty decent. 137 00:10:07,759 --> 00:10:11,879 You look at some of his underlying metrics and of course some of the 138 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,519 expected goals and of course he against don't look great, but the whole team 139 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:20,600 was not great. He did show some offense and show a lot of speed 140 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,159 and skills. So what do you think about Lucas Richell, especially going into 141 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,519 next season where he looks like he'll be a full timer the whole year. 142 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,360 So do you think he'll end up next year with the highest point pace? 143 00:10:33,519 --> 00:10:37,240 And what do you think his ceiling is? Yeah, the black Hawks have 144 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,519 been really patient with him the past couple of years. He was probably ready 145 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,000 to come up into the NHL a lot sooner than he did, but they 146 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,440 had just given him a few little brief stints before. Finally, after the 147 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:52,440 trade deadline, after they'd moved Patrick Kane, they decided to call him up 148 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,360 for good and put him in that role in the first line. And I 149 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:58,600 mean, yeah, he looked every bit the part. He was definitely the 150 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:03,799 team, one of their top two at least offensive players down the stretch. 151 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:11,279 His ability to enter the zone is truly elite. It's absolutely his strongest talent. 152 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,159 But he also has great vision once in the zone. He's a good 153 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,639 shot, a good passer, has good instincts of where to go. He's 154 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,879 not the biggest guy for sure. The Hawks have been working with him to 155 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,519 bulk up some more, get some more muscles, so that he can get 156 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:28,639 to the net front a little bit better, win some more puck battles. 157 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,159 But when he has open space, he's definitely one of the top players that 158 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,240 they have at the moment and knowing going to get better. So yeah, 159 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:41,840 I mean, it depends on depends on the lottery. I think if the 160 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:46,919 darter Fantilly, he probably won't be the most anticipated guy going into next year. 161 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:52,360 But barring that, he absolutely will be. He definitely has anough side 162 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,960 to be maybe not immediately, but at some point in his career a sixty 163 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,919 seventy point guy. I would think we'll see what he can do next years. 164 00:12:00,039 --> 00:12:01,639 Only if he continues on the pace that he produced at this year, 165 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,960 he might not be even farved from that next year, but we'll see what 166 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,200 happens with that. He could benefit FIRS serve from getting some better linemates as 167 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,919 well. He was mainly playing with Andrea s FMC when Philip Kurzev, who 168 00:12:13,919 --> 00:12:18,960 are decent players but certainly not exactly first line talent on a good team, 169 00:12:20,519 --> 00:12:24,080 So to have a little bit better supporting cast could also help him with some 170 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,360 of those underlying numbers where he could get a little bit more help defensively, 171 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:33,519 But yeah, I think expectations are really high for him. He's he's definitely 172 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:37,159 developed as hope and next year is probably going to be his real breakout. 173 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:41,600 Taylor Radish, Yes, we were already to the Tiler Radish portion of this 174 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:46,120 kind of this podcast is our second guy up. He's not a guy Victor 175 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,440 and I rank coming into the season, but he really had a pretty respectable 176 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,000 year to the point where Victor and I think, I think he's going to 177 00:12:52,039 --> 00:12:56,360 be a fringe contributor, a Tier three type guy next year. One of 178 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,639 three Hawks traded there from Tampa. He's a late bloomer for sure. He 179 00:13:00,759 --> 00:13:05,679 thrived following the twenty sixteen on the Erie Otters with future black Hawk teammates Alex 180 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,080 to bring it in Dylan Strom. Then he labored three years in h L 181 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:13,720 Syracuse in the Tampa system before breaking into the Tampa lineup in twenty one twenty 182 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:20,120 two. For that that runner up finished against Colorado. It's a pleasant story 183 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:22,039 for the twenty five year old to rise to the top of an NHL depth 184 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:28,639 chart. But is Radish going to keep a big role on this rebuilding team 185 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:33,000 and could he cracks say the fifty point mark this year. Again, it 186 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:37,320 does depend a lot on what happens this offseason, because I think if they 187 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,320 do get the Darter Fantilly, they're probably going to be a bit more aggressive 188 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,559 bringing back bringing in some free agents to give them a little bit of top 189 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:50,200 six support. But I think it's it's pretty likely that Radish will have a 190 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,879 top six role next year. He was pretty much a maiden stay on the 191 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:58,200 second line this year with Jonathan Tabs when he was healthy and Tyler Johnson that 192 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:03,120 was his most frequent linemates. And I think we went into the year realizing 193 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:07,399 that even on a pretty terrible team, somebody was going to have to score 194 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,440 some goals, just because that's the way hockey works, and it ended up 195 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,799 being Radish that was kind of one of those guys that ended up scoring some 196 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:20,759 goals. So yeah, he certainly had a pretty pretty good year for him 197 00:14:20,759 --> 00:14:26,519 individually. Took a step forward um maybe a little bit unexpectedly, and I 198 00:14:26,559 --> 00:14:30,919 think, yeah, for sure, he could be kind of a fringe fantasy 199 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,480 relevant guy next year barring a big change in role. He has a good 200 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:37,720 shot, he can get to the net, He's a decent tipper of pucks. 201 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,600 He's not going to be, you know, a game breaker in any 202 00:14:41,639 --> 00:14:45,720 regard. But um, he certainly has some decent offensive skills, and on 203 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:50,720 this team where there's a bit of avoid of that that they appreciate that. 204 00:14:50,159 --> 00:14:54,200 Um, he's probably a bit more physical than than realized too. I think 205 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,519 he was one of the better forwards in terms of hits and us. He's 206 00:14:58,519 --> 00:15:01,600 not afraid to mix it up a little bit along the wall. He has 207 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:07,080 a pretty solid frame, I would say. So, Yeah, he's definitely 208 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:11,000 once a more pleasant surprise this year, and he's still on the younger side 209 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,159 of things, even though as you mentioned, he was kind of a late 210 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:18,120 bloomer in terms of the normal career trajectory, so I would expect him to 211 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,919 still have a significant role next year as well. Yeah, for sure, 212 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,360 he did have a hit per game last year. He got close to two 213 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:31,360 shots a game half a block, so there are some good physical stats considering 214 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:35,759 the guy played sixteen or a half minutes per game. But yeah, good, 215 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:39,639 good for him, Good for Taylor Radish finally breaking in after several years 216 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,840 of trying to get to that level in Tampa was not the easiest lineup to 217 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:48,360 break into, so Anders Bjork the twenty six year old who apparently was born 218 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:54,120 a few miles from the Fantasy Hockey Light studios here in Wisconsin. He didn't 219 00:15:54,159 --> 00:15:56,000 know that sounds like he shouldn't have been born in the US with the name 220 00:15:56,039 --> 00:16:00,519 Anders York, But sure enough. He spent much of the season buried in 221 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,919 the Buffalo Sabers minor system before getting a chance to play in Chicago at the 222 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,240 end of the year. Put up eight points in thirteen games. Presumably will 223 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:11,639 be an affordable RFA this summer. Not somebody's gonna be in line for a 224 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:17,000 huge rays. I don't know. Could this guy hang on and maintain a 225 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:22,279 middle six role next year? Yeah, well, I don't think it's a 226 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,080 guarantee that he's resigned, but I do think there's a decent chance of it. 227 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,120 Like you mentioned, he won't be expensive whatsoever. He did show well, 228 00:16:30,159 --> 00:16:33,399 and his stint at the end of the year kind of unfortunate. He 229 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:38,000 missed some time with an injury right after he was acquired, which kind of 230 00:16:38,399 --> 00:16:41,039 limited the sample size he was able to put up. But when he was 231 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,519 healthy he did look good. He would look like a kind of a nice 232 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:51,120 find, considering they caught him for literally future considerations because Buffalo just wanted to 233 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:55,960 give him as a fresh chance somewhere, So yeah, I think he showed 234 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,399 well. He clearly loves playing in Chicago. As you mentioned, he's Alwaukee 235 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,519 native, he went to Notre Dame, he has a ton of family in 236 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:07,279 the area. He seemed genuinely just thrilled about the opportunity in every way. 237 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,160 So I'm sure he would love to come back, And I think he showed 238 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,880 well enough that he probably will get another contract. If they don't have such 239 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,599 a gutted lineup next year, it might be a little bit harder for him 240 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,960 to get a second or third line role, but you never know. I 241 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,200 mean, he could end up being a radish kind of guy where maybe he 242 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,680 comes in not really sure what he'll be, and he ends up carving out 243 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:33,359 that kind of middle six role and score some of the goals that somebody's going 244 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,279 to have to score. So we'll see on him. There's probably a wide 245 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,720 range of outcomes from this point, but if he manages to keep up what 246 00:17:38,759 --> 00:17:44,680 he did in March, he definitely could be a little bit intriguing. Tyler 247 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,279 Johnson another of those Tampa refugees in twenty fourteen fifteen. This is a guy 248 00:17:49,319 --> 00:17:53,519 who put up seventy two points in seventy seven regular season games at twenty three 249 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:59,680 and twenty six playoff games that was peaked Tyler Johnson. His teammates that came 250 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,480 up with that same corps have kind of gone on without him. Tampa's had 251 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:07,200 to make some pretty ruthless cuts in their salary, and Tyler Johnson was not 252 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:10,759 somebody who could hang on there. So it's been a long time since he 253 00:18:10,839 --> 00:18:14,279 produced at that raid. He's chlora closer to half point per game in the 254 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,000 last few years from Tampa into Chicago, and his twelve goals twenty assists for 255 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:22,119 thirty two points in fifty six games this year was pretty good. Actually, 256 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,720 two point zero seven points per sixty minutes was his best since twenty eighteen nineteen. 257 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:33,240 So Tyler Johnson individually when he was in there had had a decent role 258 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:38,160 in decent production. I guess my question is is this a guy who again 259 00:18:38,279 --> 00:18:42,119 we keep saying dependent on free agents because this team could change so much in 260 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:48,240 July. Could this guy have a top six scoring role just by being that 261 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,839 veteran presence next year? Yeah, for sure. I mean he's also been 262 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:56,640 pretty consistently in a top six role when he's been healthy. The past two 263 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,559 years, staying healthy has definitely been a problem him. For Tyler Johnson, 264 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:06,440 he missed a bunch of time after having a neck injury and ended up getting 265 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:11,200 ady our surgery last season, the same thing that Jack Eichel did, which 266 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:14,839 was a really interesting story actually to talk to him about, but certainly not 267 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,680 great um from an non ice perspective. UM. He's also missed some time 268 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,599 with a variety of other injuries this past season. Finally, the second half 269 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:29,480 he managed to stay pretty consistently in the lineup for the first time in two 270 00:19:29,559 --> 00:19:33,480 years, so that was good to see. He is definitely on the older 271 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:38,079 side as well, so UM, perhaps not super surprising that maybe he's suffering 272 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,160 from a little wear and tear at this point. But when he's been healthy, 273 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:47,720 he has been a solid contributor. He can, he has some good 274 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,680 offensive instincts. He's he's a very smart player. Not the biggest guy, 275 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:55,720 maybe not the most talented guy. He was undrafted way back when when he 276 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:57,799 came into the league, but he's always been able to kind of just know 277 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,079 where to be in the right play it's at the right time, and just 278 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,839 to rely on his hockey instincts and intelligence to be a successful player, So 279 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,960 if he can stay healthy, he could absolutely continue to be that. Next 280 00:20:10,039 --> 00:20:14,519 year, he's probably going to become an alternate captain with Tay's and Kine moving 281 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:18,400 on, as probably the most experienced forward they have left at this point, 282 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,480 and he is a good leader in the locker room, a well liked guy. 283 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,880 I'm definitely great to talk to from a media perspective, So I'm not 284 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,440 sure if that's stup as fantasy relevant, but he definitely has a role on 285 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,440 this team and will continue to to have one no matter what ends up happening 286 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,920 this summer. Well, your alternate captains tend not to get scratched anyway, 287 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,319 so that's a that's a good thing if he gets a role like that and 288 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,519 can stand the ice. And I guess beyond that, I mean this forward, 289 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:49,000 this forward group for the people coming back next year or is. It's 290 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,440 pretty rough, but I would throw it open for anybody else. And the 291 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,599 one guy who I think you have brought up, Philip Kurushev. He played 292 00:20:57,599 --> 00:21:02,200 a preponderance of the season for the third straight year now. From our fantasy 293 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:03,599 perspective, he's not been much of a score, So he's not a guy 294 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,039 who's been a whole lot on the radar. He averaged a point every three 295 00:21:07,079 --> 00:21:11,440 games fairly consistently over this career, half a point, half a block getting 296 00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:17,400 slightly bigger role by the end of the year. Could Philip Krishev be a 297 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:22,720 guy who is getting an increased role in the future of the Chicago Blackhawks. 298 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,680 Ban Yeah. Talking to Kyle Davidson the GM after the season, I was 299 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:33,319 a little bit surprised to hear how happy he was with Karishev's season. To 300 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,160 him, I think he said that he went into the year not really sure 301 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,480 what kind of player Karishev was going to end up being, and left the 302 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:47,599 year really confident that he is going to be a solid NHL contributor moving forward, 303 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,599 which was a pretty big, pretty big praise coming from Davidson. You're 304 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,920 right to Statistically, this season was pretty much the exact same as his first 305 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,440 two seasons. He's been pretty much the exact same guy statistically all three years. 306 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,319 But it sounds like internally the team really believes he can take a step 307 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,799 forward moving forward. He's in RFA this summer, but it sounds like he 308 00:22:07,839 --> 00:22:14,279 absolutely will be brought back, probably on a multi year contract, and he's 309 00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:17,039 still on the younger side. I mean, he came into the league fairly 310 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,920 young, so I think he's only twenty four or so right now, so 311 00:22:21,559 --> 00:22:25,000 it sounds like they're kind of penciling him in for a bigger role. He 312 00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:27,400 definitely but played on the first line a lot down the stretch when they really 313 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:33,319 had so few forwards available. He and Riitkol have a good bond because they 314 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:37,480 both speak German, and I know that that the Hawks were using Kurashev a 315 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:41,599 lot to kind of help him acclimate into the locker room and everything, so 316 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:47,160 and they become close friends. So I think with Rachel's upside and the fact 317 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,160 that they probably want to keep Kurashev playing with him a lot of the time, 318 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:56,039 that could also help Kureshev from a production standpoint, So certainly someone to 319 00:22:56,079 --> 00:23:00,599 keep an eye on. I think obviously he hasn't shown a lot of potential 320 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:03,880 statistically to grow, but perhaps that finally could come next year in his fourth 321 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,400 seasons. So we'll see how that ends up playing out. But he's definitely 322 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:14,960 some of the team has high helps for that's great stuff with the with the 323 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:18,720 language, and the bonding there. Let's let's move over to the blue line 324 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:21,680 now, where we don't We didn't have a whole lot of data on this 325 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,480 and some of the fours because most of the ones Jesse and I ranked last 326 00:23:23,519 --> 00:23:29,359 year are gone. But in the preseason we ranked Seth Jones me twenty third, 327 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,319 Jesse eleventh. He finished twenty ninth, and Seth Jones is the only 328 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,559 player on this team that he and I have faith it can be a top 329 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,799 tier fantasy producer. And so he's the only Blackhawk under contract beyond twenty twenty 330 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:45,400 six. If you look at their cap friendly page, it is it is 331 00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:48,319 gonna change a lot in the next few years, and I think that was 332 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,599 kind of the point. And even though this team wasn't wasn't great, Jones 333 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:56,799 put up pretty decent numbers. His forty two point pace, I'm sure was 334 00:23:56,799 --> 00:24:00,759 a little disappointing compared to the first season in Chicago, where he had fifty 335 00:24:00,759 --> 00:24:04,160 four point pace. He actually got pretty unlucky though His shooting percentage was a 336 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,519 touch high, but his PDO was low, and his expected goals per sixty 337 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,440 far outpaced his actual goals for per sixty, So give him a few more 338 00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:17,880 secondary exists and maybe another goal or two and his numbers look a lot better. 339 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,079 Plus the fact that he could keep his head above water defensively and actually 340 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:26,279 drive play as a net positive on such a weak team was says a lot 341 00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:30,279 about him. So he actually, I think probably did quite well, but 342 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,880 in terms for fantasy gms probably underwhelmed their expectations just because of all the noise 343 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,319 around him. So the big question is what do we expect from Seth Jones 344 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,680 moving in the next year? Ben, do you think he could get back 345 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,880 to that fifty ish point pace. He still continues to put up monster hits 346 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,920 and block numbers, and the shots are pretty good. I don't think those 347 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,519 are going to change, So it really depends on the point pace. What 348 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:56,039 do you think he has in store for us next season? Yeah? I 349 00:24:56,039 --> 00:25:00,119 agree. He probably could have had some more points this season than the it 350 00:25:00,279 --> 00:25:03,640 up with. He was a little bit unlucky shooting wise, particularly on the 351 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,720 power play. The Hawks had an outrageous streak of not scoring a powerplay goal 352 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:15,599 by a defenseman that lasted the entirety of his first season and a half on 353 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,960 the team. Just kind of ridiculous, And finally they broke that in around 354 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:26,279 New Year's but I think definitely in the power play he's probably due to get 355 00:25:26,319 --> 00:25:30,279 a little bit more production there. His partner is going to change for sure 356 00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:36,160 next year. He was with Jake McCabe a lot of this year and really 357 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,640 that did that did help him out. Those two were united and early December 358 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:45,200 and Seth Jones really play really improved after that point. Obviously, McCabe was 359 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,240 dealt to Toronto at the deadline and then he had kind of a rotating cast 360 00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:52,079 of partners down the stretch. Next year, I think it's almost absolutely going 361 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,519 to be one of the two top defensive prospects the Hawks have moving up into 362 00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:03,240 the NHL, either alex of Blastic or Kevin Korchinsky. If it's Korchinsky, 363 00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:07,079 that would be great news from a fantasy perspective for Jones because he is a 364 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:14,519 very complete offensive defenseman. Seventh overall pick last year has really dominated the WHL. 365 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,400 He's the top prospect in the system. He's probably going to come in 366 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,119 and put up quite a few points already as a rookie, So if he's 367 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,920 with Jones, that would certainly help Jones out. Lastic is a bit more 368 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,279 of a defensive guy, but he can skate well for his six six size, 369 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:33,039 so maybe that would free up Jones to be a little bit more aggressive 370 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:37,920 offensively, with Lastic backing him up, kind of the way McCabe did this 371 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,599 past season. Really, though, not too much is going to change for 372 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,799 Jones. I don't think other than the maybe his linemate and his luck. 373 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,559 He is locked in on this long term contract for better or worse, and 374 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,559 he is the number one defenseman is going to continue to be for a long 375 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,640 time. So pretty much you know what you're going to get with him. 376 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,880 He is the one constant on this team moving forward. He could be the 377 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,680 captain. We'll see what ends up happening with that. But yeah, I 378 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:11,319 don't think anything that's going to change too drastically with his situation. Oh, 379 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,640 I didn't know you were going to talk Kurtynsky that. That's pretty exciting. 380 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,720 He's definitely on the top prospects. I'm curious about that, because, yeah, 381 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,160 we were going to talk about him later. I didn't really I don't. 382 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,640 I mean, obviously he is tearing up the WHL, but I guess 383 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,640 it certainly depends on what happens in camp whether he can actually make the team. 384 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,279 That is a there's a pretty big jump. But if you're saying that 385 00:27:32,319 --> 00:27:34,680 there's a good chance of that's that's pretty exciting. And him being a lefty 386 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:38,559 and Jones being a variety that might seem like a pretty obvious pair. You 387 00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:44,519 think that's somewhat possible. Yeah, I think definitely. I mean, yeah, 388 00:27:44,519 --> 00:27:47,799 it's no guarantee he makes the team, but at this point I would 389 00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:52,440 say it seems fairly likely just based on how well he's played in the WHL 390 00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:55,599 this year. I'm not sure he has much more to gain at that level 391 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,720 and just how high the Hawks are on him in general. We'll see what 392 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,559 happens as summer. We'll see in camp he's he's going to have to earn 393 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,519 a spot, but it seems like he probably will be able to earn a 394 00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:08,759 spot, And if he does, I think they would be very inclined to 395 00:28:08,839 --> 00:28:15,799 put him with Jones to to just help out his development by having the best 396 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:19,160 possible partner and someone that he can learn from and gain confidence from and can 397 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:25,759 mentor him. I think that would be a very very likely situation for him 398 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:27,920 if he does move into the NHL. It's not like this is a team 399 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:33,839 where they're gonna want to protect themselves by having their rookie play in the third 400 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,160 pair. I mean they're they're not caring too much about the results. They 401 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,640 just want those guys to develop. So they would have no reservations at all 402 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,880 putting him on the first pair with their best defensemen and letting them got to 403 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,359 figure it out in the fly, because that's just what's going to be best 404 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,480 for him long term, even if it's going to create some short term struggles. 405 00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:56,160 So he's definitely a very intriguing, very intriguing guy. I mean, 406 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,720 he's he's look amazing since being drafted. I think it's stock as only Risen 407 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:06,119 from last year. He's a guy where the expectations are really through the roof. 408 00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:10,160 Will he meet those immediately maybe not, But I think at some point 409 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,079 down the line he's going to be a top offensive defenseman in the NHL most 410 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:21,279 likely, and it could come as soon as next season. Yeah, that's 411 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:26,000 very exciting. I'm interested too in the guy. I thought that you were 412 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,880 going to mention and I wanted to bring up and that's why At Kaiser, 413 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:33,359 who was a twenty twenty third round pick. He's been at University of Minnesota 414 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,160 Duluth the last of a couple of seasons, and he represented the US and 415 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,359 the twenty twenty two World Junior Championships three points in five games. We did 416 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,440 see Kaiser after the NC double a season, suited up for the Blackhawks nine 417 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,559 games, got three assists. He looked pretty good out there. He's a 418 00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:56,240 great skater, pretty pretty good mobile defenseman. He's also a lefty. Actually, 419 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,920 all the guys we mentioned Kurtynski, Blastik, and Kaiser are all lefty, 420 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,279 So I guess any of these guys could be I'm sure that's going to 421 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:06,960 be everyone's desires to play with Seth Jones. But you know, like you 422 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,039 said, there'll be a lot of reasons considered who gets that spot. But 423 00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:14,359 do you think that Kaiser could make the jump or do you think he goes 424 00:30:14,359 --> 00:30:15,960 back to the HL for a year, And what do you think his upside 425 00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:21,720 is? Yeah, Kaiser is definitely a great skater, as you mentioned, 426 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,200 that is definitely the strongest part of his game. He's he's really good on 427 00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:30,920 the breakouts. That's something that immediately impressed the Hawks. As far as next 428 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,240 season, I think he probably will spend at least a decent amount in the 429 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:40,920 NHL. I wouldn't be shocked if he spends some in Rockford just to get 430 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:45,680 a little bit more ice time and more confidence built up, considering how patient 431 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,599 the Hawks have been with their prospects. But it also wouldn't be surprising to 432 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,960 see him spend the full year in the NHL. He was kind of in 433 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,519 and out little lineup down the stretch there after coming up from Duluth. Just 434 00:30:57,839 --> 00:31:03,559 Luke Richardson to kind of give him some chances to just watch from afar and 435 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,920 just settle into the league without overwhelming him. But I think he responded well 436 00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:11,119 enough, and next year he'll probably be a bit more confident, a bit 437 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:15,400 more comfortable, and could end up being a regular. We'll just have to 438 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,319 see how things sort out in camp, but definitely another guy that the Hawks 439 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:25,240 have high expectations for. Really the whole defensive prospect pipeline is pretty exciting at 440 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,279 this point. Definitely the strongest area of the franchise really between those two guys 441 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:33,839 and Plastic as I mentioned, and even other guys like Ethan del Mastro. 442 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,799 So we'll see how that all shakes out in terms of the pecking order of 443 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:42,400 those guys into the next season, But I would definitely expect Kaiser to play 444 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,359 at least a significant mount in the NHL and be able to show off his 445 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:52,119 is skating ability. Well, a couple of guys who are at least gonna 446 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,400 remain in there. We got until all these guys appear from the miners. 447 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:02,200 Caleb Jones not just an epotism high because the brother of Seth had a reasonable 448 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:07,839 season. There's some good things. Don Lucian's model showed that he performed higher 449 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,799 than his salary of one point four million. He's worth two million according to 450 00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:15,200 that. Last year, he soaked up a lot of minutes for this franchise 451 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:20,519 and had sixteen points and seventy three games, both career highs ninety first in 452 00:32:20,599 --> 00:32:23,200 bash. That's blocks, plush shots plus hits among defensemen in the NHL. 453 00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:28,759 One imagines he wouldn't have had quite as much oxygen on a different team in 454 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:34,440 quite as many minutes. But could Caleb Jones be a reasonable player for this 455 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,920 team again next year? Yeah, that's actually one of the biggest questions of 456 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:44,160 the summer for me. He is an RFA and with the number of prospects 457 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,680 coming up, it seems like his fate is kind of lying in the balance. 458 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,240 It might end up being determined by whether they buy out someone like Nikita 459 00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:55,559 zeit Sev, who they took on to get a second round pick with from 460 00:32:55,559 --> 00:33:00,880 Ottawa at the deadline, or if Cortsinski makes a team, or if they 461 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:06,039 keep Zeitzev and Korchynsky makes the team. I'm not sure the numbers necessarily work 462 00:33:06,079 --> 00:33:10,160 out for keeping Caleb Jones, but um, if it's certainly possible that they 463 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,599 do resign him, he seemed at least kind of confident at that talking to 464 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,440 him late in the season that he would be back. And like you said, 465 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:22,680 he plays a pretty high event game. I would say there's there's always 466 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,519 something happening when he's on the ice. Some of it is not always great 467 00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:30,279 for the Hawks. Sometimes it's some coals against, but um, he does 468 00:33:30,319 --> 00:33:34,359 create offense, he does take some shots, he he does give out some 469 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:39,640 hits. He's definitely a noticeable player one way or another, and I think, 470 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:44,559 yeah, he continues to if he resigns, he could have a significant 471 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:47,680 role next year, just because someone has to play minutes and he has now 472 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,119 been here for two years. There's a little bit of familiarity and he does 473 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:57,200 have some strong areas in his game. He is. He does have some 474 00:33:57,279 --> 00:34:00,799 talent offensively for sure. We'll see how that sorts out. I feel bad 475 00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:04,519 for saying that for every single player, but like you mentioned, there is 476 00:34:04,559 --> 00:34:08,039 a lot of change coming. But yeah, definitely a guy worth keeping an 477 00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:14,079 eye on. He I think when he when he was a choired in summer 478 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,039 before last, it didn't seem like kind of just fother to get Seth Jones 479 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:21,719 to come. But he has definitely shown that he can hold his own and 480 00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:27,960 be an impactful defenseman in his own way, for better or worse. A 481 00:34:28,039 --> 00:34:32,280 guy in the defense who's even longer tenured than him, Connor Murphy. He 482 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,159 came all the way back in the days of the Nick Nicholas Helmerson trade to 483 00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:43,519 the Arizona Coyotes. Six years Connor Murphy was number twenty seven a batch. 484 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,639 This guy throws some hits and blocks. He gets a lot of those things, 485 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,199 not a ton of points. Thirteen and eighty games. That sums up 486 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,320 the stats that they print in the newspaper, but the advanced stats weren't real 487 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,599 great with him. With his possession numbers. They were kind of buried this 488 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,079 year as a lot of Blackhawks numbers were they weren't to win in the Fenwick 489 00:35:02,079 --> 00:35:06,159 Battle, or of course he battle on a nightly basis. He's going to 490 00:35:06,199 --> 00:35:08,159 be around for a little while longer. Three more years. At four point 491 00:35:08,159 --> 00:35:13,800 four million, marks the second longest commitment contract commitment on the club right now. 492 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:17,320 So is Connor Murphy going to continue to be a mainstay and is he 493 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,039 going to be here the next time that the Hawks get good again. Yeah, 494 00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:24,960 as far as the final question, there will have to see kind of 495 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:30,159 on the timeline of things. But he definitely is a big leader on this 496 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:35,880 team. It's really going to come down to him or Seth Jones to replace 497 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,480 tays as captain if they decide to name a new captain. I think it's 498 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:43,199 certainly possible they go a year or two without one, but if they do, 499 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,920 it would be one of those two guys. Murphy is extremely well liked 500 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,000 around the team, great leader in the locker room, really active in the 501 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,760 community, just an extremely popular guy on all fronts. So, and he 502 00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:01,119 does have that contract stability moving forward. He's another guy where you probably know 503 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:06,719 what you're gonna get. He's he's thirty now. He's definitely on the defensive 504 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,880 side of things, but yeah, he does it does to give out some 505 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:15,079 hits. He can fight even occasionally. Um, and yeah, he's he's 506 00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:19,519 he's really a rock on the defense for the Hawks. Um, someone that 507 00:36:19,519 --> 00:36:24,239 that is valuable just for his consistency and his leadership. So I will have 508 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,079 to see what happens. Certainly, his advanced numbers were poor this year. 509 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,280 I think playing with Jack Johnson most of the year might have been a factor 510 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:37,360 in that. Unfortunately for Jack, who the nicest guy but does kind of 511 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:42,840 have a reputation of tanking people's advanced stats, so that that did not help 512 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,480 Murphy much. But yeah, I don't know if he's going to be super 513 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,639 fantasy relevant. He kind of is what he is at this point. But 514 00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:53,280 um, definitely someone that in terms of actual hockey, the Hawks really do 515 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:59,960 appreciate having a round. All right, now, let's move into the goalie. 516 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,039 So this was definitely we kind of knew going into the season it might 517 00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,519 be a little bit of a rough go for all Chicago goalies, and we 518 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,360 saw a few different ones. We saw most of the games go to Mrazik 519 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,800 and then Alex Daylock actually played twenty seven. That was a bit surprising. 520 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,920 I'm not sure, there's much to say about him because he's a little bit 521 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:23,920 older and not in a contract than we saw Jackson Stabber and Arvid Solder Bloom 522 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,000 and so I kind of want to, you know, dig into each one 523 00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:31,039 of these. So Mrazik, based on the cap hit, he is the 524 00:37:31,079 --> 00:37:35,920 starter, and so I guess we'll think about him that way for now. 525 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,639 He did play the majority of the games I mentioned, had some injuries. 526 00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:44,800 He also was quite clearly the worst goalie by goal save above expected and save 527 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:49,039 percentage. What do you think we can expect from Marazik moving forward? He 528 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,519 is the not only the highest paid but the only one at this well the 529 00:37:53,880 --> 00:38:00,519 main goalie under contract for another year. Yeah, we're just about waiting the 530 00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:06,199 goalie situation overall. I think Stalock was great this year, but it does 531 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,840 sound like he will probably not be back just based on the contract situation, 532 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:15,920 which is unfortunate because he was. He was a joy to deal with, 533 00:38:16,079 --> 00:38:22,519 a really fascinating story coming back from missing two years with a myocarditis and then 534 00:38:22,639 --> 00:38:27,159 overcoming a concussion and vision issues this year, and he really did perform extremely 535 00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:31,239 well behind a pretty rough shot defense. But it does look like Marozik and 536 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:37,159 Soda Bloom will probably be the two goalies in the NHL next year, just 537 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,360 Marozik based on having another year in a contract, and then soda Bloom being 538 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:46,920 really the guy that the Blackhawks see is their potential long term starter, whether 539 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:52,599 that's next year at some point in the future. He's he's an RFA, 540 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:58,320 but he's definitely gonna be extended, and he's really the guy among the current 541 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,840 NHL goalies to keep an eye on. In terms of him, he's his 542 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,920 big size, he's very calm in the net, he has good reactions. 543 00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:08,920 His numbers took a little bit of a hit at the NHL this year just 544 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:14,039 because he was kind of thrown into the fire in the first half of the 545 00:39:14,079 --> 00:39:21,840 season when things were especially rough on the ice. He was just taking a 546 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,239 lot of scoring chances that not many goalies were going to stop. But in 547 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,800 terms of his his long term upside, the Blackhawks have really high host for 548 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,960 him. His stats at every level up until this season had been spectacular. 549 00:39:34,119 --> 00:39:37,239 He was really good down the stretch for Rockford in the AHL after dealing with 550 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:42,000 some adversity in the winter there um and he's really the guy that whether he 551 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,960 becomes the starter next season or the year after that is really the one with 552 00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:52,079 some long term relevance. Marazik is who he is. Certainly his numbers weren't 553 00:39:52,119 --> 00:39:55,079 great. They did get better the second half this season, and he will 554 00:39:55,119 --> 00:40:00,440 be back next year. It might be more of a fifty fifty split season. 555 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:05,199 He dealt with some groin issues this year, which has been a recurring 556 00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,599 problem for him throughout his career. I think he missed like three or four 557 00:40:08,639 --> 00:40:14,320 a different stints with different groin injuries, so definitely a concern with that, 558 00:40:14,519 --> 00:40:17,000 But it does seem like, barring any surprises, it'll be him and Soda 559 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:22,280 Bloom as the two goalies next year, with Stauber is kind of the third 560 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:27,800 string to get called up at other times. For Stauber, there's there's definitely 561 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,519 some optimism with him too. He went five and one this year. He 562 00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:34,920 was that was the best start to a career in Hawks goalie history. He's 563 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,000 probably not as high as touted a prospect as Soda Bloom, although he was 564 00:40:38,119 --> 00:40:45,119 good at Providence in the NCAA before signing this past season and kind of adjusting 565 00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:50,079 to the pro level. So between those two guys and then Drew Comesso, 566 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,280 who's kind of be coming in from BU next year and was a second round 567 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:58,440 pick in twenty twenty, another fairly highly touted prospect. They they have some 568 00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:00,800 guys starting to move up in the goal a side that the has some long 569 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,599 term potential. Obviously, goalie is gonna be pretty unpredictable, so well, 570 00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:09,000 it'll end up seeing what happens with that, but I would expect that once 571 00:41:09,039 --> 00:41:13,519 we get past next season, it'll probably be some combination of those guys with 572 00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:17,639 Marazik is basically just a stop gap for for another year or two. But 573 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,960 for next year, I would expect Marazik to still play a significant amount. 574 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:27,719 Right on. Yeah, definitely. You answered almost all my questions right there. 575 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,840 So it sounds like you think there's definite a chance that that solder Bloom 576 00:41:30,559 --> 00:41:36,119 competes for the net this upcoming year. And I'm also wondering if if you 577 00:41:36,159 --> 00:41:38,400 have any thoughts of what his r fake contract will look like. Said you 578 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,599 said, it sounds like the team is going to resign him. Do you 579 00:41:40,639 --> 00:41:45,400 think that will be like a one to two year or do you think they 580 00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:47,280 might be ready to long term commit to him? And what you know in 581 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:52,079 terms of how much do you have any idea. Yeah, I think it 582 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:57,199 is going to be in the two year range, just because goalies are unpredictable 583 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,599 and they'd like to see how we can do as a full time NHL player 584 00:42:00,639 --> 00:42:07,159 before making any crazy long term commitments. Um. But I wouldn't take it 585 00:42:07,199 --> 00:42:09,480 as a sign that they're that they're out on him or anything. I think 586 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:14,719 that's just kind of the standard operating procedure for a guy moving up into the 587 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,280 NHL, and if he performs well, which there seems to be every indication 588 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,880 he could do, um, then I would fully expect them to make a 589 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,119 long term commitment to him in two years when he comes back to our face 590 00:42:25,199 --> 00:42:30,320 status again. Um. But it does sound like there's there's a lot of 591 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,679 optimism about what he can bring and with his size and with his calmness and 592 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,159 with his reactions, he really checks every box. He's been compared a lot 593 00:42:39,199 --> 00:42:45,320 to Corey Crawford by Jimmy Waite, the Hawks goalie coach, which is high 594 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:50,199 praise obviously. I mean, Corey Crawford is one of the best goalies in 595 00:42:50,519 --> 00:42:52,599 franchise history, so if he can be anything close to that, that'll be 596 00:42:53,159 --> 00:42:58,639 huge for the team moving forward. So we'll We'll see how that goes, 597 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,199 but yeah, definitely a guy to keep an eye on moving forward. Okay, 598 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:07,599 Ben, thank you for these wonderful insights into all these Chicago Blackhawks players. 599 00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:10,960 It's going to be, oh, quite a quite a ride to go 600 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,199 through free agency, in the draft and everything this summer and see what kind 601 00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:17,079 of product gets back on the ice. And I think it'll probably be a 602 00:43:17,159 --> 00:43:21,880 couple of years before we see the black Hawks back where they intend to be. 603 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,079 Tell people where they can follow your work and what you got going out 604 00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:30,000 there in the internet. Yeah, you can find me on Twitter at Ben 605 00:43:30,079 --> 00:43:35,760 Pope's CST and you can also read my work in the Chicago sometimes online and 606 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,239 in print. Well we still print every day here in Chicago. I'm not 607 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,360 sure how many people are are going to be picking that up from this podcast, 608 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,760 but I love if you would. And yeah, I'm just looking forward 609 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:52,360 to what's going to be an eventful offseason. Um, certainly tomorrow's draft lottery 610 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,360 is going to have a huge effect on that, but even beyond that, 611 00:43:55,400 --> 00:44:00,960 the Hawks still have an additional first round pick from the Lightning and then they 612 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,880 have four stuckond round picks some two third round picks, so it's gonna be 613 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,280 a busy, busy summer and um, it'll be interesting to see how everything 614 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,000 plays out. But yeah, thanks for having me. I appreciate coming on, 615 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:22,719 all right, Thanks Ben Wilson. Then I'll lets get fired passed off. 616 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:30,079 Oh my goodness, low wo go with a cat quick grab. Now 617 00:44:30,079 --> 00:44:37,760 it's your weekly goalie talk with Cats Silverman Cats instincts. Please to have a 618 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:43,400 Cat Silverman back from End Goal mag to talk about Cats instincts. We're gonna 619 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,360 talk about the prospect goalies, of course for the Chicago Blackhawks, and the 620 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:52,280 first one we're gonna talk about is Drew Comesso and Comeso, twenty twenty second 621 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:58,360 round pick for the Hawks. Six foot three, one pound goalie. He 622 00:44:58,519 --> 00:45:02,679 had three strong seasons at BU ending in the frozen four appearance this season a 623 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:08,199 stellar twenty eight twenty four and eight record to four AGA nine thirteen save percentage. 624 00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:13,920 We'll reference this a lot in these team previews. Expected goals per goal 625 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:19,000 conceded is something that instat provides, and it was above about one point four 626 00:45:19,079 --> 00:45:22,039 his entire college career. Anything over one is really good, and looking at 627 00:45:22,119 --> 00:45:28,159 his hockey prospecting, Drew Comeso hovering in that twenty seven to thirty two percent 628 00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,360 chance of being an NHLer, which may sound low, but for goalies that's 629 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:36,079 not terrible. He's got some comps, guys like Charlie Lingren, who's kind 630 00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:40,320 of coming around these days. So I imagine Comiso needs some HL time now 631 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:44,079 that he's kind of done with his collegian career. But Kat, how have 632 00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:47,199 you liked his progression and is he looking like a potential starter for the Blackhawks 633 00:45:47,199 --> 00:45:52,239 in a few years. I would say so. I think just taking a 634 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:59,000 look at the Blackhawks future and just the bigger picture for them, he's their 635 00:45:59,079 --> 00:46:06,719 best bet moving forward. I think he was interesting because he was right below 636 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,320 Spencer Night. They were on the US national development program together. He was 637 00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:15,960 one year younger, and they just played like polar opposite games. Night was 638 00:46:16,119 --> 00:46:23,400 known for being just this really almost controlled goaltender who stayed a little farther in 639 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:28,159 his crease when he wasn't handling the pock, but was a really skilled puck 640 00:46:28,199 --> 00:46:31,239 handler. And Camso's big strength for me was his skating. I thought that 641 00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:36,880 he was a little aggressive at times, got a little over excited, and 642 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:42,800 sometimes made a few of those creative saves. I guess is the best way 643 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:47,440 to put it, where technique isn't something that he necessarily stays super rigid on 644 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:52,760 on some saves that maybe he didn't need to, but he showed that he 645 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:58,159 could reign an end when he needed to and didn't really see any dips in 646 00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:02,760 his game when he transitioned and from playing in the juniors to playing at the 647 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,840 collegiate level. And I know he's signed, so he's technically with Rockford now, 648 00:47:08,199 --> 00:47:15,000 UM, so his his career view has fully wrapped up. I think 649 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:21,159 that he's he looks good and I thought that it was a really fun test 650 00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,920 that we don't usually get to see for goalies that are his age. That 651 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:30,960 he was able to join the Olympic team, UM, that's something that obviously 652 00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:37,719 not endorsing what Gary Bettman did with holding the NHL he's out of the Olympics, 653 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,039 but it was it was cool getting to see some of the guys that 654 00:47:40,119 --> 00:47:45,159 really we wouldn't have expected prior getting a chance to play at the Olympic level 655 00:47:45,199 --> 00:47:50,519 and getting a chance to see the experience and getting just they're through the international 656 00:47:50,559 --> 00:47:55,239 tournament. UM. I do think that he probably needs some seasoning at the 657 00:47:55,480 --> 00:48:01,400 HL level, partially because of his game, just because I think he needs 658 00:48:01,559 --> 00:48:07,280 that adaptation decision making wise, because he does like to get a little aggressive, 659 00:48:07,159 --> 00:48:10,519 but also because there's no need to put him on the Blackhawks right now 660 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:17,280 because they're bad. There's no need to take a goaltender who really likes to 661 00:48:19,119 --> 00:48:22,480 kind of do it all, like he really likes to make sure that everything 662 00:48:22,519 --> 00:48:25,760 from the hash Mark's back is something that he is in control of, and 663 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:30,079 take a team that's controlling almost nothing and throw him in there. I think 664 00:48:30,079 --> 00:48:35,599 that's a really easy way to essentially create some bad habits for him that they 665 00:48:35,599 --> 00:48:39,800 would then essentially have to undo as the team progressed in what I'm sure they're 666 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:47,159 hoping is a forward moving, a linear moving rebuild. Yeah, for sure, 667 00:48:47,519 --> 00:48:51,679 you're right. It was really fun to see him at the Olympics, 668 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,239 and he definitely didn't look out of place. He looks strong, but as 669 00:48:54,239 --> 00:49:00,159 you mentioned, definitely needs like a structure in front of him to make some 670 00:49:00,199 --> 00:49:04,800 of those you know, aggressive acrobatic saves. Yeah. I like him. 671 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,280 I definitely am eager to see him in the pro level. The next guy 672 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:14,039 that we're going to talk about we have seen professionally, Arvid Solder Bloom is 673 00:49:14,039 --> 00:49:17,039 apparently how you say it, or Solderblom. I think it's Solderblom. Actually 674 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:24,960 he is undrafted and he signed with Chicago, got into fifteen games this season 675 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,280 with the Hawks three last season. The raw numbers don't look so hot, 676 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:35,119 but under the hood, he was outperforming his expected goal His delta Fenwick is 677 00:49:35,199 --> 00:49:38,760 positive at even strength on the penalty kill, it was kind of a disaster, 678 00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,679 but hey, that's okay. That's a tough situation for a goalie. 679 00:49:43,199 --> 00:49:49,840 And it's really interesting when you look at solder Bloom. Solderblom's hockey prospecting, 680 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,519 he was kind of hovering in the high twenties until last season in the SHL, 681 00:49:53,639 --> 00:49:58,000 and then this season this past season also in the HL, where he 682 00:49:58,039 --> 00:50:00,960 shot up to nearly seventy three percent, And that gives him some really nice 683 00:50:01,039 --> 00:50:06,519 comps guys like oh, I don't know, Martember dur O'Connor Hellabuk, Elias 684 00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:09,679 sampson Off, and Henrik Lundquist. So I think kat we buried the lead 685 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:15,760 and Arvid Soderblaum is the next Henrik Lundquist. Right, that's a that's such 686 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:21,559 a bold thing to say, even though I mean he's he's from that system. 687 00:50:21,559 --> 00:50:25,000 He played for Flundo, Over and Sweden before getting signed by Chicago. 688 00:50:25,679 --> 00:50:30,599 I thought that was a savvy signing by them, which was kind of making 689 00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:37,920 up for some really lukewarm goaltending decision making choices that they've sort of exhibited over 690 00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,679 the last couple of years. They drafted kind of questionably for a little bit, 691 00:50:40,679 --> 00:50:45,440 which I know we're gonna talk a little bit about one of those prospects. 692 00:50:46,519 --> 00:50:51,159 I think he does need some time to develop. To me, I 693 00:50:51,199 --> 00:50:58,519 assumed they signed him as a stopgap for Commisso who by all accounts seems like 694 00:50:58,559 --> 00:51:01,079 that's who they drafted to their air apparent they used a second round pick on 695 00:51:01,199 --> 00:51:07,280 him. I do think that the numbers looked pretty good. I thought that 696 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:15,199 he looked It was telling seeing that when you looked at essentially how he was 697 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:20,159 performing given the team in front of him, he looked like he outperformed really 698 00:51:20,199 --> 00:51:24,880 the last two prospects that we saw attempting to to salvage their own development path 699 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:30,880 in Chicago, which was when they had Colin Delia and Kevin Lincoln and essentially 700 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:37,199 trying to trying to get their their feet wet in the pros at the NHL 701 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:42,239 level with Chicago. Both of them really sort of crumpled the longer they were 702 00:51:42,559 --> 00:51:45,719 behind that team. And I think that Soderable, I'm really looked like he 703 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:51,440 was looked like he was staying at least consistent. He was making mistakes, 704 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,119 but wasn't seeming like he was compounding on them, like you'd watched him throughout 705 00:51:55,159 --> 00:51:59,440 a game, and it didn't seem like he would make a mistake and then 706 00:51:59,519 --> 00:52:01,639 make a new one that you hadn't seen him make before. He was really 707 00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:07,280 just sort of sort of shaking off some of the some of the decision making 708 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,800 things that really you have to get used to when you're moving over to North 709 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:15,960 America. And I think that he's got a good teacher in Rockford. I 710 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:20,960 think that the goalie coach that Chicago has down in Rockford, that's Peter Aubrey 711 00:52:21,079 --> 00:52:25,679 last I checked, does a really good job of establishing good habits for those 712 00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:31,079 guys so that when they do make it to the NHL level, they're prepared 713 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:38,039 for it's preparing them for a unique situation on the ice in front of him, 714 00:52:38,079 --> 00:52:43,480 because that team's kind of become the new perennial rebuilders here over the last 715 00:52:43,519 --> 00:52:50,159 couple of years. But I think he. I wish I'd seen a little 716 00:52:50,199 --> 00:52:53,480 more HL seasoning for him to really know what would have happened when he'd come 717 00:52:53,519 --> 00:53:00,239 into the NHL and like a just just like a golden opportunity. I think 718 00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:04,159 it would have been nice to have seen like an exemplary trajectory for him. 719 00:53:04,199 --> 00:53:07,360 But I think he's done well with what he has and he hasn't seemed like 720 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:13,119 he's back split at all. Some of the goaltenders that come over from Sweden 721 00:53:13,199 --> 00:53:16,800 seem like they get caught a little flat almost. They really like to drop 722 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:21,440 to their knees. They like to make a lot of those lateral movements through 723 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,920 the paint. I don't really like to hit their marks super crisply. They 724 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:29,760 like to play a more fluid game. And when you're playing behind a defense 725 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,960 that can kind of crumble on you throughout the game, that can get really 726 00:53:32,039 --> 00:53:37,639 messy looking. I think that we saw that with Anton Forceburg for sure in 727 00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,400 Chicago a couple of years ago, and I think that Soderball managed to avoid 728 00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:46,039 that, which was reassuring. It's just I mean, he's still young, 729 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:51,360 but he's he know, has two years of North American pro hockey. So 730 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,480 I want to see him take just a little step forward next year in order 731 00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:59,360 to really feel confident that he could challenge Comesso and sort of usurp him as 732 00:54:00,159 --> 00:54:04,800 the guy that they hope to be their next number one. Yeah, definitely, 733 00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,199 And I'm kudos for not taking the bait on the lun Quis comparison that 734 00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:13,800 was obviously a joke. And you're right, it seems like trial by fire, 735 00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,039 right, It's like, hey, if you can survive playing in front 736 00:54:15,039 --> 00:54:19,440 of this team, good, you know, good on you. And it 737 00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,679 seems like what, I don't think that. I don't think that was really 738 00:54:21,679 --> 00:54:24,639 the plan. But with Razak's injury and the inconsistencies they had, they you 739 00:54:24,639 --> 00:54:29,039 know, they kind of threw him out there. And kudos for him for 740 00:54:29,199 --> 00:54:32,239 doing still well. But yeah, it does seem like he's the in between 741 00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:36,519 guy. Although sometimes that in between guy will surprise you, right, Sometimes 742 00:54:36,519 --> 00:54:39,320 a stop gap ends up being a little bit better than you thought. So 743 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:45,239 I'm definitely still interested in him. The next guy you think you kind of 744 00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:50,599 alluded to him is dominic bass or basset. I'm not really sure if it. 745 00:54:50,679 --> 00:54:52,159 Do you know which one it is? I don't. I think it's 746 00:54:52,199 --> 00:54:57,519 bass m but I'm I'm not entirely sure on that one. Yeah, I 747 00:54:57,559 --> 00:55:00,159 wanted to be Bassie, so we can just assume his nickname his Count, 748 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:07,320 so we can call him Count Bassie. But anyways, he's a twenty nineteen 749 00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,639 sixth round pick by Chicago. Six foot six ninety two, big guy. 750 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,079 Played a color college for two seasons, but then now seems like he's he 751 00:55:16,159 --> 00:55:21,239 transferred over to Saint Cloud. Steak had state, had one season there and 752 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,679 I did pretty well, you know, his say percentage kind of trended up 753 00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:29,320 this past season. His hockey prospecting has him in kind of the low thirties, 754 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,360 high twenties. UM some comps of guys like Cure Schmid who's developing still, 755 00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,199 Michael Hutchinson, and Jonathan Quick, but it doesn't really look that similar 756 00:55:37,199 --> 00:55:43,760 actually, because Quick really kind of ascended at the end. But anyways, 757 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:50,920 what can you tell us about Dominic b A s s um. He was 758 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,000 a really strange pick for me. I was at that draft covering it, 759 00:55:53,079 --> 00:55:59,360 and when he got picked, I it's that was a really strong year for 760 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,960 goaltending. There were a lot of really good goaltenders available in that draft class, 761 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,079 and when they picked him, I texted a couple of goalie coaches that 762 00:56:07,119 --> 00:56:13,280 I knew and said, what am I missing here? At the time, 763 00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:17,360 he played for Gonzaga Prep, which is a high school in DC. He 764 00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:21,679 played for the Maryland I think it was like the U sixteen and then the 765 00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:28,400 U nineteen team, in which I'm from Baltimore. Like, I love the 766 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:34,679 DMB area, no disrespect to it, that's not a hockey hotbed. I 767 00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,239 was wondering, just, you know, kind of what I was missing there, 768 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,639 and a couple guys got back to me and said, honestly, the 769 00:56:39,639 --> 00:56:43,440 only thing I can think of is he had really it looked like he was 770 00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:50,239 playing at a level below what he could. His numbers were above and beyond 771 00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,280 everyone else playing at that level, and he's huge. He's six foot six, 772 00:56:53,639 --> 00:56:57,920 he's listed at one eighty. I think he's probably a little more than 773 00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:07,320 that. He's really solid guy, but technically, like from a technique standpoint, 774 00:57:07,519 --> 00:57:10,920 watching him plays pretty frustrating. I didn't get to see much of him 775 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,039 this year at St. Cloud State. I'm hoping that he's started to trend 776 00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:19,920 upwards a little bit, because it seemed like he's stalled out with Colorado College 777 00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,199 for sure. I watched him a lot when he was playing for the Phantoms 778 00:57:23,199 --> 00:57:28,079 in the USAHL get an eight eight seven that year when he made the move 779 00:57:28,719 --> 00:57:31,599 to playing at you know, just a slightly higher tier than he had been 780 00:57:31,719 --> 00:57:37,400 prior to the draft. He just struggled a lot with reflex speed. You 781 00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:44,159 see that with some of those bigger guys who their advantage is that they take 782 00:57:44,199 --> 00:57:45,840 up a lot of space in the crease, not necessarily they can get to 783 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,719 the puck quickly. So it's kind of the opposite end of the spectrum from 784 00:57:49,719 --> 00:57:52,599 a guy like Drew Comso, who can get anywhere as quickly as you need 785 00:57:52,679 --> 00:57:57,119 him too. But I didn't really see that improving during the games that I 786 00:57:57,119 --> 00:58:01,639 caught him at Colorado College, So don't really don't really know where that one's 787 00:58:01,679 --> 00:58:07,320 headed. I think that's they need more depths in net at the minor league 788 00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:12,079 level, and I'd assume that's where he's going to end up falling. It 789 00:58:12,119 --> 00:58:17,000 would be a best case scenario Saint Cloud State really manages to essentially give him 790 00:58:17,039 --> 00:58:22,679 some of that foundation that he was missing and get him up to speed a 791 00:58:22,719 --> 00:58:24,840 little bit more, give him some creativity to his game because he was missing 792 00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:29,760 a lot of that just just that upper tier when watching him. Um, 793 00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:35,440 but I don't know that's He's a guy that I assumed when they drafted him 794 00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,719 that he wasn't even gonna end up signing. Um. Maybe they'll, maybe 795 00:58:38,719 --> 00:58:44,800 they'll end up using him in a depth role. But I for sure think 796 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:50,559 that it's the comesso sodable embrace here to see who who really stands out the 797 00:58:50,599 --> 00:58:54,880 most? And then no, no disrespect to Dominic, but I think he's 798 00:58:55,760 --> 00:59:15,400 he's a level below the rest of them for sure. Dig then dynasty Dig 799 00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:21,400 Victor. I missed this. I missed talking the dynasty. Dig this if 800 00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,719 you are with Fantasy, if you're a lifer for the first year this year, 801 00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,480 if you don't know, this is the time when we talk about a 802 00:59:28,519 --> 00:59:31,400 couple of the top prospects. We talk about the system of the Chicago Blackhawks. 803 00:59:31,719 --> 00:59:35,800 And here's the deal with the Blackhawks. They have a top lottery pick, 804 00:59:36,199 --> 00:59:38,400 which maybe by the time you've listened to this you know where it lands. 805 00:59:38,679 --> 00:59:43,320 They have Tampa's pick, which Ben referenced in the first half, and 806 00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,159 boy, it turned out to be a better pick than Tampa would have thought. 807 00:59:45,159 --> 00:59:49,960 It's gonna be picked twenty I believe. Plus they have three extra second 808 00:59:50,119 --> 00:59:52,039 round picks and an extra third. They kind of a triggered away a couple 809 00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:54,920 of their late picks, but that's okay. They'll get plenty of prospects out 810 00:59:54,960 --> 01:00:00,159 of this draft victory. You have their system ranked as tie knight. That's 811 01:00:00,199 --> 01:00:04,119 part of the cool thing about Victor's new ranks is we actually have Victor's rank 812 01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,480 for systems kind of summed up from the top ten prospects and how highly you 813 01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:13,400 have them rated. Tell us why this system is so good, and then 814 01:00:13,559 --> 01:00:19,760 let's move to your patented three man formats starting with the new brainer. Yeah, 815 01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,079 for sure, they got a lot of really great prospects. I mean, 816 01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,400 in my mind, they're kind of doing it right. You know. 817 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:28,800 They they really traded away a lot of their long term contracts. They got 818 01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,840 a lot of great assets, and you look at their you know, top 819 01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:37,360 guys, and they have some really good ones we will talk about them, 820 01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,000 but they also have some great depths beyond that. Guys that we are going 821 01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:43,679 to talk so much about, Sam Ronzel, Ethan del masstro both look like 822 01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:47,440 NHL ors, Ryan Green a little bit, and Drew Comesso, who we 823 01:00:47,599 --> 01:00:52,159 alluded to why at Kaiser's in there, Alex Regula, Alec Regulam, Colton 824 01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:57,519 doc. Even so, they have some pretty decent upside guys and a decent 825 01:00:57,559 --> 01:01:00,079 amount of depth too. So they got some good guys at the top would 826 01:01:00,079 --> 01:01:04,599 talk about in a minute, and some decent depths. Not the best. 827 01:01:04,639 --> 01:01:07,360 That's why they're not in top five, but they're they're up there. They're 828 01:01:07,519 --> 01:01:12,039 kind of retooling this and doing it right. And in terms of their no 829 01:01:12,119 --> 01:01:16,239 brainer, he's actually the top prospect that I have, and that's Kevin Krtchinsky. 830 01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:20,960 Ben already alluded to him. Couldn't keep him out of the pro part 831 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,119 of the conversation. That was great to hear that he thought that he had 832 01:01:23,119 --> 01:01:27,639 a pretty good chance, Kortynsky, of making the team. That's great. 833 01:01:28,159 --> 01:01:31,519 He was drafted seventh overall by Chicago twenty twenty two. Cortchinsky, he just 834 01:01:31,559 --> 01:01:37,599 had an insane as having an insane season. It's still going for the Seattle 835 01:01:37,639 --> 01:01:40,880 Thunderbirds of the WHL. Seventy three points in fifty four games of the defenseman 836 01:01:42,119 --> 01:01:47,599 is just incredible, and so that's I mean, that's just incredible to think 837 01:01:47,599 --> 01:01:52,639 about right now. He also looked really good for the for Canada in the 838 01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:58,440 U twenty World Junior Championships as well. So those are those are all really 839 01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:06,159 good good things that think about it, looks like his Seattle Thunderbirds have just 840 01:02:06,199 --> 01:02:10,559 been thumping the wall competition too. I mean the first two rounds that his 841 01:02:10,639 --> 01:02:15,400 team won four games to zero. Right now it looks like it's a little 842 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:20,440 bit closer against cam Loop's three games to two. But I think most people 843 01:02:20,599 --> 01:02:23,360 fully expect Seattle to win the WHL Championship and be a contender for the Moroyal 844 01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:28,320 Cup. We will see if they make it that far, but Kevin Kotchinsky 845 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,039 is doing everything for them right now. Just kind of looking at some of 846 01:02:31,079 --> 01:02:37,880 his underlying numbers. Two in case you're curious, he is someone that doesn't 847 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:43,159 really hit a whole lot. He has barely a hit every five games. 848 01:02:43,159 --> 01:02:46,280 Are still his blocks are pretty decent, though close to a block per game, 849 01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:50,559 but you expect someone who played as much time as he did to have 850 01:02:50,719 --> 01:02:54,159 more in the realm of blocks. Two point six shots per game is pretty 851 01:02:54,159 --> 01:02:58,280 decent, But it's really mostly about the points for him. He's going to 852 01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:02,039 be a little bit of an empty calorie a guy. As we'll see later 853 01:03:02,159 --> 01:03:06,119 that is alluded to, but his Corsi and Fenwick is just absurd. I 854 01:03:06,159 --> 01:03:09,760 mean, sixty five percent play driving. That's just completely tilting the ice in 855 01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:15,079 the other direction. Let's hear a little bit from our FHL scout Jeremy about 856 01:03:15,159 --> 01:03:21,440 Korchynsky. So there's a great full skyding report on the one note on that 857 01:03:21,519 --> 01:03:23,199 you could access through through Patreon. So I'm not going to read the whole 858 01:03:23,239 --> 01:03:27,199 thing. But in terms of his skating, he's a really good skater. 859 01:03:28,119 --> 01:03:31,719 Jeremy saw him blowing by forwards effortlessly at times at the WHL level. Puck 860 01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:37,000 handling is a very solid entry exit guy above average there. Shot is pretty 861 01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,559 average, doesn't use it too often, but he's good at getting the puck 862 01:03:40,639 --> 01:03:44,480 on net, you know, and kind of floating the shots in. Not 863 01:03:44,599 --> 01:03:49,440 a big slapper kind of guy. IQ is elite offensively and kind of just 864 01:03:49,599 --> 01:03:52,760 average defensively. His defense is pretty average. He's got good size, but 865 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:58,440 he doesn't use it quite as well as Jeremy would like. He isn't really 866 01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:02,159 aggressive for rebounds or loose us or board battles. Best asset definitely his offensive 867 01:04:02,159 --> 01:04:05,719 instincts. There's no doubt there's some talent there for making great passes, joining 868 01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:10,840 the rush. Biggest concern for Jeremy's a compete level. He just looks disengaged 869 01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,599 out there at times, not battling for pucks or fighting hard. Top tier 870 01:04:14,639 --> 01:04:19,079 potential for Korchynsky. Tier one definitely has that sixty seventy point upside thinks he'll 871 01:04:19,119 --> 01:04:23,639 have if he has a good surrounding cast. He could definitely do that, 872 01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:27,599 but he's not seeing him in the vein of Romagnosi or Jacob chick Rand, 873 01:04:27,639 --> 01:04:30,519 guys that lead bad teams in scoring and also have all those peripherals. That's 874 01:04:30,519 --> 01:04:35,920 probably not going to be Kortchinsky and most likely tiers. Maybe Tier two doesn't 875 01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,840 have the strong press as I mentioned, but the points in power play points 876 01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:43,639 should be there. Diilistic comparable, he has his Keith Yandel, a big 877 01:04:43,639 --> 01:04:46,800 guy who doesn't really hit, offensive defenseman who doesn't shoot as much, and 878 01:04:47,239 --> 01:04:53,760 without those blemishes, Kortchynsky can become the kind of guy who constantly is expected 879 01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:58,400 to be more impactful than he actually is. He should be a regular though 880 01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,480 in the NHL and on good teams. He could accumulate a ton of stats, 881 01:05:00,639 --> 01:05:04,320 but not sure. He's a fortune changer in Chicago, maybe a taller 882 01:05:04,519 --> 01:05:08,320 Tory Crewe. And for a little bit more on that, we're going to 883 01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,800 hear briefly from Jeremy himself on how he's Krtchynsky running a power play in the 884 01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:19,639 NHL. I wanted to elaborate a bit further on my comments about Kevin Kritchynski's 885 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:24,760 ability to run a power play. My issue is that he isn't really a 886 01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,960 threat on the power play. He's a very good distributor, but that's all 887 01:05:29,039 --> 01:05:31,440 he is. He stays within a foot of the blue line and moves back 888 01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:34,960 and forth like a pong paddle, and he's used to switch fields like a 889 01:05:35,079 --> 01:05:40,199 soccer. He's not really a shooting threat and never creeps in to put peresher 890 01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:45,000 on tired penalty killers. An NHL comparable to that is Tyson Barry or Tory 891 01:05:45,079 --> 01:05:49,440 Crue. It can be successful, like these guys are players who get a 892 01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:55,559 lot of power play points and have run pp ones for many years, but 893 01:05:55,679 --> 01:06:00,639 it's entirely reliant on playing with other good players and picking up assists and especially 894 01:06:00,679 --> 01:06:06,039 secondary assists. I feel like he's always going to be the default choice, 895 01:06:06,159 --> 01:06:12,159 but he's not going to take the power play from anyone else. Compare that 896 01:06:12,199 --> 01:06:16,800 to Kale Makarr on the power play, who holds onto the puck, attacks 897 01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:21,559 downhill and forces the defense to account for him. Otherwise he's suddenly ripping a 898 01:06:21,559 --> 01:06:28,000 shot from the high slot and probably scoring even looking at like Evan Bouchard. 899 01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:33,480 Evan Bouchard will creep in and get passes from the high slot and really cramp 900 01:06:33,559 --> 01:06:39,119 the box and put pressure on the defense to catch. In another way, 901 01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:43,880 when Makar receives the puck on the point on the power play, his first 902 01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:48,800 step is always forward towards the net, while Kurtchinsky's is always sideways to make 903 01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:55,760 that outlet pass. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's very boring 904 01:06:55,960 --> 01:07:00,000 and very low ceiling. So now I'm moving on to the US the NHL 905 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:05,559 rank King. Our buddy Mason Black ran some comps for Krtchinsky, and I 906 01:07:05,599 --> 01:07:10,679 also, before I did that, actually wanted to just mention the tracking data 907 01:07:10,719 --> 01:07:15,039 that Mitch Brown has for Kortchynsky. And you know, if you're not familiar 908 01:07:15,079 --> 01:07:17,000 with these, you're you're basically just looking at how he compares in a bunch 909 01:07:17,039 --> 01:07:21,360 of different metrics to the rest of the league. And passing and shooting is 910 01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:27,719 elite for Kortchynsky. He's also really good at you know, total game score, 911 01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:31,519 expected power play, involvement, advantages created. These are all really strong. 912 01:07:31,599 --> 01:07:35,039 What's not so strong for him is like preventing entries, which is kind 913 01:07:35,039 --> 01:07:39,000 of interesting because he's such a good skater. He's tally is a long stick 914 01:07:39,039 --> 01:07:45,480 that kind of speaks to the disengagement that Jeremy alluded to. He also probably 915 01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:48,119 should be much better in transition than he is according to this data based on 916 01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,480 how he plays, so that's a little bit disappointing. So defense rates out 917 01:07:51,519 --> 01:07:55,719 at a fifty four, but overall he's a ninety nine offense and ninety six 918 01:07:55,800 --> 01:08:01,400 overall. And the comp that Mason came up with is Lane Hudson. So 919 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:08,199 if we look at Kevin Korchinsky's p NHL, it is it was ninety seven 920 01:08:09,239 --> 01:08:16,039 this season and it was eighty seven last season. And Lane Hudson, if 921 01:08:16,079 --> 01:08:23,159 you hadn't heard, had a pretty historic season at Boston University, breaking records 922 01:08:23,279 --> 01:08:27,800 and setting news standards, things that we haven't seen since to Brian Leach days, 923 01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,880 you know, thirty years ago, thirty forty years ago. And he 924 01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:35,159 has PNA Chili. Lane Hudson's is one eleven, really high. If you 925 01:08:35,159 --> 01:08:40,479 look at the Hockey prospecting, they actually look pretty similar. Korchinsky's star potential 926 01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,840 shot up from twenty six to seventy eight percent. That's a really high star 927 01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,239 percentage, and you always love to see these guys increase in their D plus 928 01:08:46,279 --> 01:08:49,399 one year. Most guys go down, So when you see a big jump 929 01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:55,399 up, that's a huge, huge bonus. Lane Hudson went from fifty three 930 01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,520 percent chance of being a start to seventy four percent. That's also huge, 931 01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,399 especially going from the usnt P to the NCAA. It's really hard to increase 932 01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:06,880 your star potential there. So the poll went as such, sixty four percent 933 01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:13,880 to Lane Hudson and just thirty six percent for Kevin Kortinsky. Jesse, do 934 01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,600 you agree with that, Well, here's what I'm going to say about this 935 01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:21,760 victor. These two guys. In addition to this season where Lane Hudson just 936 01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:29,039 got all the oxygen, their hype coming into the season was in exact opposite 937 01:09:29,039 --> 01:09:33,359 directions. Kortchinsky was the guy who Chicago shouldn't have traded Alex to bring it 938 01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:36,960 to the number six pick to take him. Everybody was shocked. It was 939 01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:41,319 a reach. Lane Hudson was such a value, and I think that plays 940 01:09:41,319 --> 01:09:45,479 into people's heads of Hudson is so much better because he was drafted low, 941 01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:49,439 and while that draft capital, it doesn't matter where you were picked, it 942 01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:54,880 only matters who you are. Now. I think that the narrative on Kortchinsky 943 01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:59,560 is so negative Hudson so positive, that the values are a little bit crossed 944 01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,840 up in I see an arbitrage opportunity here. I know what you said about 945 01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:10,760 Lane Hudson potentially or Kortchinsky not necessarily having great bashed potential, and Hudson does. 946 01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:15,640 Weirdly enough, though, Hudson's four inches shorter and twenty five pounds lighter 947 01:10:15,039 --> 01:10:19,239 than Kortchinsky is. So yeah, are we gonna get the Keithy handle? 948 01:10:19,279 --> 01:10:24,520 I don't know. I think if the poll is spread this widely, I 949 01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:29,159 like them closer together than this. Maybe there's an opportunity for me to train 950 01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:33,479 Lane Hudson for Kevin Kortchinsky. Plus in my league probably are umabled to get 951 01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:39,439 that, So it's very even to me. I think I might actually like 952 01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:43,640 Kortchinsky, although probably somebody will convince me of Lane Hudson when we get to 953 01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:47,520 our Montreal episode. Have a feeling he'll be featured rather significantly in that episode. 954 01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:54,039 So I'm gonna take Kurtchynsky by a hair victor just because I you know, 955 01:10:54,079 --> 01:11:00,680 I want to stir it up. Yeah, that's really fair. I 956 01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:05,079 don't actually disagree with you at all. I think there's a lot of hype 957 01:11:05,119 --> 01:11:08,399 going on right now for both of these guys, and that's why this is 958 01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:10,960 a really fun poll. I'm surprised that it's so close. I Mean, 959 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,600 the thing is that as fun and as good as Lane Hudson is, he 960 01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,399 is still very small. And even though he's grown a little bit, and 961 01:11:18,199 --> 01:11:21,199 some of the data that he's showed based on his bone age and all that 962 01:11:21,279 --> 01:11:25,199 suggests he could even grow a little bit more. I mean he's now five 963 01:11:25,279 --> 01:11:28,760 ten. Supposedly, if he gets you know, five ten, five eleven, 964 01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:31,479 much better chance. But he still has a lot of deficiencies in his 965 01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,840 game, things that the Kevin Krtchynsky is just not going to have to worry 966 01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:40,159 about, you know, the skating, the physicalness, his body size, 967 01:11:40,159 --> 01:11:43,479 So all of those things. I agree with you, though, Like if 968 01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:46,840 someone wanted to give me Kurtynsky plus plus for Hudson. I would do that 969 01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:50,880 in a heartbeat, but I'm not sure that I would invest the other way 970 01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:55,159 so heavily. If I had Kurtchinsky, I might just hold, you know, 971 01:11:55,319 --> 01:11:58,640 because he has such a first of all, as Ben mentioned, he 972 01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:00,920 might be ready as early as next year, so I don't have to wait 973 01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,880 two or three years for the Lane Hudson to arrive, right, And so 974 01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:09,800 I really like that aspect of it. So I think that I am I 975 01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:13,960 personally like Lane Hudson more and I think that he has a higher upside. 976 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:16,680 But if I had to choose in my league, unless I was like really 977 01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:23,119 rebuilding and ready to be patient for the highest possible outcome, I think I 978 01:12:23,119 --> 01:12:27,159 would just go Kurt Chinsky too. Next up, Victor, who is your 979 01:12:27,239 --> 01:12:32,359 need to know prospect need to know? Is Frank the Tank Nazarre. He 980 01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:38,720 didn't play much this season, he had injury, suited up for just thirteen 981 01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:43,359 games for Michigan, scored seven points. Still has a very high pedigree. 982 01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:47,840 He's the thirteenth overall pick from twenty twenty two. Still very small, He's 983 01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:51,279 also he's just five nine and so that's a big concern for him. Not 984 01:12:51,279 --> 01:12:55,079 only is he five nine, but he's a little slight one hundred and seventy 985 01:12:55,079 --> 01:13:00,239 four pounds. Definitely needs to improve on those things. Probably needs an another 986 01:13:00,319 --> 01:13:03,199 year or two of college and then maybe another year or two of the HL. 987 01:13:03,319 --> 01:13:08,279 So he is a ways away. I think if you look at some 988 01:13:08,359 --> 01:13:13,199 of his numbers at Michigan, half a hit per game, not really much 989 01:13:13,279 --> 01:13:15,640 in the way of blocks, and not really much in the way of shots 990 01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:17,000 per game either. I mean, this is just a nine game sample size, 991 01:13:17,039 --> 01:13:23,479 so who knows, but there's some there's some concern there for lack of 992 01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:26,640 lack of bass. He probably is going to be one of these empty calorie 993 01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:30,439 type forwards that you know does a lot of playmaking but can certainly give you 994 01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:34,399 those cardio shifts where you know he doesn't really do a whole lot if he's 995 01:13:34,399 --> 01:13:39,600 not scoring. Let's hear a little bit more about Frank Nazar from our FHL 996 01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:45,039 scout Jeremy. His skating is above average, really good north south puck handling 997 01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:48,640 is elite, seems to not even lose speed when he's carrying the puck, 998 01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:54,279 has really quick hands, and his shot is average. Didn't shoot that much 999 01:13:54,319 --> 01:13:59,600 there are definitely some games where he didn't really see this too often and not 1000 01:14:00,159 --> 01:14:03,399 not something that he defaults too very often. I Q is elite. He's 1001 01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:08,960 infinitely patient with the puck master has mastered the art of holding on to it 1002 01:14:09,079 --> 01:14:12,520 for guys to get open worth without losing it or holding it too long. 1003 01:14:13,079 --> 01:14:15,439 Defense is above average. He's a responsible player in his own zone, but 1004 01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:19,760 not stand out. Best asset is his puck handling and vision. He's good 1005 01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:24,399 at finding the open guy and not over stick handling. The biggest concern is 1006 01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:27,520 that he gets muscled off puck's pretty easily still and loses some battles in the 1007 01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:32,600 corner. Top tier potential definitely Tier one has Nazarre has one hundred points stealing 1008 01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:38,199 upside according to Jeremy and the most likely tiers. Tier two thinks that he'll 1009 01:14:38,239 --> 01:14:42,159 settle nicely with at least like seventy ish points, but his biggest concern is 1010 01:14:42,199 --> 01:14:44,960 the bash. He doesn't, as I mentioned, hit or block much, 1011 01:14:45,399 --> 01:14:47,199 and there's a pretty big drop off from the NTDPT the NC double A, 1012 01:14:47,359 --> 01:14:54,279 although of course small sample size stylistic comparable. He has jack q's and even 1013 01:14:54,279 --> 01:14:57,880 though his head is always up and he's moving with his feet with him without 1014 01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:00,079 the puck, he's going to be a headache to cover once his body fills 1015 01:15:00,119 --> 01:15:04,439 out and adjust to the NHL game. So that's a little bit more on 1016 01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:09,239 that, Thank you, Jeremy. Let's look at some comps. So NHL 1017 01:15:09,279 --> 01:15:15,520 rank King Mason Black has the following comp for Frank Nazar and that is Rutger 1018 01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:21,479 mcgrorty, former usn TDP teammate, and mcgrordy is a Winnipeg Jet prospect. 1019 01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:26,319 He was taking fourteenth overall and Nazar at thirteenth overall, so pretty close here 1020 01:15:26,359 --> 01:15:32,279 in draft pedigree and the p n h L for Nazaar well based on based 1021 01:15:32,279 --> 01:15:36,119 on his University of Michigan time, it was only thirty one, so pretty 1022 01:15:36,159 --> 01:15:41,720 low, but it was higher than that at the usn TDP and mcgordy this 1023 01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:47,319 season at at Michigan also a teammate there fifty nine. So between these two 1024 01:15:47,359 --> 01:15:51,119 the star potential both went down from draft season to now. For Nazar it 1025 01:15:51,199 --> 01:15:56,199 went from twenty to five and from mcgrordy went from thirty two to twenty, 1026 01:15:56,319 --> 01:16:00,560 so both went down a pretty fair amount and they a McGroarty still has a 1027 01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:05,399 slightly higher potential now but also he had a much bigger sample size and a 1028 01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:13,600 much better season between the two. The people out there a couple hundred votes 1029 01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:18,359 voted pretty handily for Frank Nazar sixty four percent to Rugram mcgorty's thirty six percent. 1030 01:16:19,119 --> 01:16:24,279 Jesse, are you with the people here? Man? I must be 1031 01:16:24,359 --> 01:16:28,039 starting rough this year because I'm gonna go McGroarty. Look, he proved it 1032 01:16:28,119 --> 01:16:30,760 this year. He was the guy who's doing it on the ice. They 1033 01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:34,520 were both in the same situation in Michigan. Michigan course had a pretty good 1034 01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:39,880 season of a stacked team. But how are you gonna fault what mcgourty did 1035 01:16:40,319 --> 01:16:43,399 based on the fact that Nazar wasn't as much on the ice this year, 1036 01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:45,439 And it's it's not a perfect game that he Scott. It sounds like there's 1037 01:16:45,479 --> 01:16:48,279 some good things going for Nazar. But yeah, right now, I'm gonna 1038 01:16:48,279 --> 01:16:54,479 take Gordy Victor, how about you, and I'm gonna disagree with you. 1039 01:16:56,720 --> 01:17:00,520 I hear what you're saying, and yeah, I mean it's it's definitely concerning 1040 01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:02,760 that the Nazarre missed so much time. It's also hard to evaluate that Michigan 1041 01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:06,239 team because they had said so many good players, and it's like, you 1042 01:17:06,279 --> 01:17:10,720 know, it's kind of hard to know who's who's all doing what, But 1043 01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:14,560 and you can't discount what mcgordy did. I certainly think that he opened a 1044 01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:17,840 few more eyes than I think some people thought that he could be. And 1045 01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,600 so yeah, this isn't really a knock on mc gordy. I just think 1046 01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:27,000 Nazar still has more upside. So if you're okay being in if you're in 1047 01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:30,399 a league that you're not going to be so punished for not having those perpherles, 1048 01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:34,039 especially like in a points league where you know the goals and the power 1049 01:17:34,039 --> 01:17:39,199 play points might count a little bit more than Nazar is clearly the choice here. 1050 01:17:39,279 --> 01:17:44,159 If if having a sixty ish point forward that it hits and blocks a 1051 01:17:44,159 --> 01:17:47,520 lot is more valuable than a seventy five point player that doesn't really do much 1052 01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:51,960 else, then you know, then mcgordy might be just fine, because I 1053 01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,800 think he definitely looks like an NHL. He doesn't have the size concerns. 1054 01:17:57,239 --> 01:18:00,560 You know, he plays really rough and physical, and he's he's already a 1055 01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,159 little bit more mature. So I like that. But in terms of pure 1056 01:18:02,239 --> 01:18:05,159 points upside, I think it's got to be bizarre for me. So it 1057 01:18:05,239 --> 01:18:09,000 kind of depends a little bit on what you're what you're looking for, I 1058 01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:13,880 guess. And last picture, who is to keep your eye on? Prospect? 1059 01:18:15,199 --> 01:18:16,520 Yeah, well, we already kind of talked about rachel but we're going 1060 01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:21,199 to talk about him a little bit more in the context of him still really 1061 01:18:21,279 --> 01:18:25,520 being a prospect, and so we'll talk about Lucas Riche one hundred and eight 1062 01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:30,479 points in one hundred and eleven HL Games. Incredible production. I know last 1063 01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:32,399 year Caleb and I talked a little bit about his lack of elite skills, 1064 01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:36,560 but it's hard to kind of deny the production that he has done. And 1065 01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:42,760 you heard a little bit from Ben already about what he thinks from Richel moving 1066 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:45,680 forward. I definitely think he's going to be one of the features of this 1067 01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:48,000 offense moving forward for the next several years. But I do think he is 1068 01:18:48,039 --> 01:18:54,800 still more of a complimentary player or not someone who drives the bus entirely himself. 1069 01:18:55,359 --> 01:18:59,640 And you know, we had a different scout take a look at Rachael 1070 01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:02,960 this year. So this Skydi report is from Tony and mentioned his fact that 1071 01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:09,079 he's a good skater, great shot, great passer, but he also gives 1072 01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:11,760 up the puck a lot, is about as many times as he keeps it, 1073 01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:14,920 so that's a little disappointing. His shots are good, both wrists and 1074 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:19,800 snapshots, has a pretty medium panic meter. He does play really really fast, 1075 01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:25,239 so that's part of it too. His defense needs works and what needs 1076 01:19:25,239 --> 01:19:28,880 work and probably is more of a third or fourth liner according to Tonya, 1077 01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:30,399 so that means he's going to have to play better defense, which I agree 1078 01:19:30,399 --> 01:19:35,239 with. Best asset is his offense, snap and wrist shots. Biggest concern 1079 01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:40,960 again here is this is and I didn't coach Tony at all on this, 1080 01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,439 but he saw a lot of the same things that I've seen with Caleb, 1081 01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:46,319 is that nothing in his game is outstanding. It's all just good. And 1082 01:19:46,399 --> 01:19:50,279 so that's a little bit of a concern that there isn't one of these elite 1083 01:19:50,279 --> 01:19:54,439 skills. Now, sometimes these guys that are just all around good do kind 1084 01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:58,399 of produce pretty well, but I think it's more rare. Usually you have 1085 01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:04,279 one great or exceptional talent, top tier potential, tier three offense, good 1086 01:20:04,319 --> 01:20:09,760 offense, good shooter. Probably he says thirty points that might be a little 1087 01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:12,880 low. I think he can get a lot more than that, but bottom 1088 01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:16,720 six forward with average bash most likely tier tier three average player will have to 1089 01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:20,800 work on defense, hits some blocks to be a regular player stylistic comparable, 1090 01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:27,760 he says Darren Darren Helm without as much speed, and a good bottom six 1091 01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,840 forward needs to work on defense, is what Tony says. So again, 1092 01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:32,319 these are some of the concerns. I mean, we see the production, 1093 01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:38,439 but also the question is how high is the ceiling for Lucas Richele. I 1094 01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:42,560 definitely think that he's someone who I'm a little bit more excited about than I 1095 01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:45,600 was last year seeing what he's done at the HL and now a little bit 1096 01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:47,880 at the NHL level, But I still have those concerns of like, Okay, 1097 01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:51,840 how high can he go? Because even Ben mentioned him being a sixty 1098 01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:57,079 to seventy point guy might be the high water mark for him, and I 1099 01:20:57,119 --> 01:21:02,000 think that that's probably accurate. So anyways, looking at comps for a Richle, 1100 01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:10,319 we have NHL Rankking Mason pitting Ricle against Cutter Gautier, and so Gautier, 1101 01:21:10,399 --> 01:21:14,520 one of the NTDP guys from last year, ended up being the highest 1102 01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,720 drafted fifth overall by the Flyers. He had a pretty nice transition to Boston 1103 01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:23,239 College this year with thirty seven points in thirty two games, really nice freshman 1104 01:21:23,319 --> 01:21:28,039 season. His pH LE is up to sixty nine percent, and Richele with 1105 01:21:28,119 --> 01:21:31,479 his HL time has a sixty two pH L and with his NHL time has 1106 01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:34,840 a sixty seven p LE. So in that's sixty to seventy point range, 1107 01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:43,960 so pretty similar to Gautier. Richel has increased his NHL star potential on hockey 1108 01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,560 prospecting up to a fifty six percent with a really strong season. That's this 1109 01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:54,359 equivalence he is based on his NHL time, and Gautier is keeping pretty steady, 1110 01:21:54,359 --> 01:21:57,079 went up just a tiny bed from twenty five to twenty six percent star 1111 01:21:57,159 --> 01:22:02,720 potential with his NC double a season. The people like Gotier here sixty five 1112 01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:08,479 percent to thirty five percent. All of these Chicago ones are pretty clear, 1113 01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:11,479 Jesse, and I don't know if it's as clear to you, but the 1114 01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:15,119 people like Lucas Rachel here pretty handily. What about you, ye? First 1115 01:22:15,119 --> 01:22:20,840 of all, I find this incredibly depressing that we literally let off the episode 1116 01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:27,159 with Lucas Reichel is like the top guy in the pros and not only not 1117 01:22:27,199 --> 01:22:30,279 only does he make the minor section, but he's the third guy in a 1118 01:22:30,399 --> 01:22:32,800 minor section to keep your eye on. I will take Lucas Reichel here. 1119 01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:36,119 Look, he's produced in the pros Cutter. Gautier was great in the World 1120 01:22:36,199 --> 01:22:42,079 Juniors, he was great at Boston College this here, But I like Lucas 1121 01:22:42,079 --> 01:22:46,199 Reichel better than him. How about you, Victor, Yeah, I mean 1122 01:22:46,239 --> 01:22:51,640 I definitely agree Rachael here. I was never really a huge believer in Gotia. 1123 01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:56,319 I thought that that was a little rich picking him at fifth overall. 1124 01:22:56,920 --> 01:23:00,399 I think we talked about that in last year's draft series. I still think 1125 01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,920 can be a good player, but I'm just yeah, he needs to prove 1126 01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:06,119 it a lot more. I like how close Ricle is. I mean, 1127 01:23:06,199 --> 01:23:14,520 Rachael is basically now ready. He's someone who can who can It's really just 1128 01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:16,159 going to depend on the cast around him, as we've talked about all season, 1129 01:23:16,399 --> 01:23:21,239 all episode. But I really think that he has a high floor. 1130 01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:25,720 He isn't NHLer. He has a lot of tools that maybe he can refine 1131 01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:28,359 a little bit. I don't think he's in point per game guy, but 1132 01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:31,399 I definitely I like his floor with upside for more, and that's why I 1133 01:23:31,399 --> 01:23:35,920 would definitely take Lucas Racle. All right, so there's more guys that we 1134 01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:39,680 could talk about, but there's not much time. If you're a patron, 1135 01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:43,920 we're gonna do some top ten prospect recaps for each team on Patreon, so 1136 01:23:44,039 --> 01:23:46,079 listen for that. And if you're interested in doing some skiding with us, 1137 01:23:46,119 --> 01:23:50,600 you can shoot me a DM on Twitter, Discord, or email us. 1138 01:23:50,600 --> 01:24:01,680 So my bag to cools out of the show. Hey, before we get 1139 01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:04,560 out of here, Before we get out of here, after this great episode, 1140 01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:10,840 a couple of things to remind everybody of here. On Fantasy Hockey Life, 1141 01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:14,680 we are sponsored by Fantracks. They are good stuff out there. You 1142 01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:16,479 should start a new league on fan tracks. That would be a great thing 1143 01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:19,039 to do. You can move your existing leagues over to fan tracks, so 1144 01:24:19,079 --> 01:24:23,279 they will help you move your leagues. 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They used to have something called Dauber Prospects Radio. 1178 01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:39,840 Now it's the Dauber Prospects Report, and Victor and Peter are going to 1179 01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:46,159 be bringing you all kinds of great prospect information on that place Twitter. Follow 1180 01:26:46,279 --> 01:26:51,199 Victor and myself at Victor Nuno twelve, viic t O R and U n 1181 01:26:51,239 --> 01:26:57,960 O one two or me fan Hockey Life. You should give us a follow 1182 01:26:58,039 --> 01:27:01,239 on Twitter. You can DMUs questions a little bit, although we spent a 1183 01:27:01,239 --> 01:27:04,359 little bit more time in discord, but we're still answering to those things. 1184 01:27:04,359 --> 01:27:10,880 And also subscribe and listen to this podcast wherever you're listening to it today, 1185 01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:13,640 wherever you like to listen to your podcast. Give us five stars and some 1186 01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:18,039 positive ratings. We appreciate that the season has just begun for Victor and myself. 1187 01:27:18,079 --> 01:27:24,520 We're going through all thirty two teams. Chicago Blackhawks were first but not 1188 01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:33,079 the last in this Fantasy Hockey Life