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I'm doing great, Jesse. I'm
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throughout this episode and not fall apart
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Oh that's cold. That's cold.
I think our guests just canceled, So

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way to go, Victor. Nope, the guests can't hear this, not

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yet. Uh yeah, Victor.
It's interesting times talking Flyers and we will

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Fantasy Hockey Life Glorious Victor. You
did point out it's going to be Flyers

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time right after this, we welcome
back to the show a guest who's been

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here before, talking Philadelphia Flyers.
Russ Cohen of Sportsology and any chel Draft

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buzz dot com. Russ, how
you doing doing great? How you guys

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doing great? Man doing great?
Ready to talk Philadelphia Flyers? The Flyers

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shocked the world up until the very
last moment, and then things didn't go

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right on opening night. Just to
give people a sense of the roller coaster

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that Flyers fans must have been on
this year. On opening night, Don

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Licisien's model of playoffs gave them a
two percent chance of the playoffs. In

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late March it was up to eighty
percent, but in the end they didn't

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quite make it over the finish line, unfortunately a couple of late losses.

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It really was a miracle. The
team rants along. If you ask me,

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the franchise goalie went away maybe forever, I don't know. In a

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dark turn of our office events,
the league's worst say percentage happened in Philadelphia.

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Multiple of their important defenseman was time
for injury. They dealt with a

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top prospect to he ended up with
a different philosophical position than Flyers management,

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and the famous John Tortorella had his
typical moments of drama figuring out how to

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push whose buttons to get the most
out of this team. So which Flyers

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team will next year's most resemble The
underachievers are the or rechievers who are one

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standing point from hosting a playoff series
on Valentine's Day, or the team that

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only managed two wins in their last
eleven contests. So they'll be the team

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that, instead of being right there
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like six. Because that's how the
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He'll get them above what projections are. But if he rides the guys as

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hard as he rode them last year
and we can get into the specific ones,

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the same thing's going to happen,
because they'll add a little more talent

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this year than I don't expect them
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they do, they're silly because they
do have talent that they need to develop

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and keep. When you keep bringing
in bottom pairing defensemen, it doesn't help

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the other guys get better and eventually
move up. But and the goaltending is

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going to be an issue, and
now really is an issue. If we

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hear this stuff about Kolo Sev possibly
going back, a lot of these things

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are in flux. I think they'll
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business for trades for the draft,
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we'll see if that happens. But
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won't be saying as bad of things
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as not going to be able to
make it again. I don't think there

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was anything wrong with that, because
in the end they didn't. So whether

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they had a two percent chance or
an eighty percent chance, they still didn't

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make it. Like you said,
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this year. I still think they
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I still don't look at them as
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of sense. That's probably the rational
way. They've got pretty good management there.

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I wouldn't be I would be shocked
if they didn't take that approach.

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Let's start with some of the players. Travis Connectney was great for fantasy purposes

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this year. He got named the
alt captain during the year, comfortably led

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the team in scoring fifteen more points
than the next highest score. Career high

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in scoring for Connectney in a sixty
point twenty sixty game twenty two to twenty

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three. He did average more than
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played seventy six games, he had
more points this time. Fun fact,

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Connectney led the NHL in shorthanded goals
this year with six, He's on a

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very reasonable contract in his prime for
the next two years, positioned to be

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a leader on this team. Is
connecty locked in as the kind of the

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top line point per game start of
this team for the moment. But because

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the time's running short on his contract
and it is affordable, I think you

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know they're they're going to look at
trading him. I don't think any end

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they will because I don't think John
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yeah, he's their number one guy. He's the guy that starts everything.

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I don't think I think he'll ever
be a seventy point guy. I think

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what you saw this year about what
he'll do every year. I think the

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shorthanded goals are something that no matter
how well you play in that and did

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he's remember he's only played shorthanded since
John's been here, So that's something that

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John unlocked and definitely gave more Fantasy
points. But as most guys go,

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that's stat fluctuate. You have six
years this year, you get two next

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year. There were always guys that
were sharks at it in the league,

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and then there were guys that sometimes
just couldn't get it done. They would

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always get these chances, and so
I think he'll still get you three or

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four shorties, but I don't think
he'll get as many as six. Yeah,

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let's talk about the next guy here, and that's Owen Tippett. We

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might reference a couple times the Tidy
Rank Our Tier Dynasty. He was number

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sixty two. That was pretty fantastic
for a relatively young player that hadn't really

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established himself quite at that level.
But he had a really great season and

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overall his second season in Philly,
his time on Iceland down by a minute,

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his goal production stayed about the same
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shots actually went up, which increased
his perferroles, which is part of what

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made him more valuable in fantasy.
I remember, Russ, I reached out

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to you back in January for a
EP ringside article, and I love the

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quote that you had, which was
basically that when Tibbett doesn't think, he

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scores, and thinking too much causes
him to miss the net. So,

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Russ, how can we get Tippitt
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Get him a shooting coach, Get
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got a lot of guys that missed
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he was one of you know,
I want to say, top five worst

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for misshots for the league something like
that for the year and still had a

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good year, but could have.
Really, he's never been able to break

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the thirty goal barrier, and you
figure he should hits her up. Like

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you said, he's figured out playmaking
a little better. Still, the hockey

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IQ at times lacks, especially when
teams starts a key on him, because

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he really he's a lot like Jeff
Carter in the younger days of only having

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one big move, and Carter,
you know, diversified his portfolio after a

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while. Tippett's trying to do that. But since he hasn't really broken through

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as a key power play guy,
those are hidden points, but just hitting

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the net are hidden points. And
the problem is he could really tantalize people

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analytically because if you go down and
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side, and a lot of times
for him it's the left and you put

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up that last second shot trying to
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it. It's still a scoring chance, right, still a high danger chance,

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but you didn't put it in and
so he has a lot of high

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danger chances every game that he just
doesn't put in. And there are times

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when they're falling, and that is
when he doesn't think you're passing the pucket

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one times and it goes in.
But the minute he's got a second or

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two, that's when things start failing. And that's why I think he needs

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outside help with that. I think
he's going to get twenty five a year,

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but I know people when they when
he got signed, and even management

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was thinking he's thirty thirty five.
But I think it was as we we've

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learned, or at least this is
my take on it. There's a lot

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of twenty goal scorers in the league, obviously there's fewer thirty, and then

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once you start getting thirty five and
up, it really starts separating the pack.

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And I don't know if he'll ever
get there. I love it.

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As Kevin Costner once said, don't
think can only hurt the ball club.

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Joelle Farrabe he had a career here
in scoring as well, landing third on

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the team with fifty points at age
twenty four. If you zoom out to

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these numbers, things sound great.
On the other hand, if you look

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at the fact he only scored one
goal in his final twelve games and ended

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up buried on the fourth line.
Looks a little different that after one point

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in twenty twenty four, he actually
led Travis Connectne in even strength scoring.

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Is Farrabee in orange and black next
year and is the potential there for a

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jump in production? Russ He should
be there, But I think they're gonna

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shop him because I think John got
up set with him, like with on

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his own entries. But my feeling
is this, you put Farabi on the

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power play. He's a very good
power play performer. He didn't get enough

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time there this year. Those two
goals in the last eleven Yeah, go

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look at who his linemates were on
the fourth line. It wasn't going to

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produce much. And the team,
as far as John goes, probably looked

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at Farabi's year like, yeah,
it wasn't that good. But Farabi was

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only three points behind no and Tippett, so it was pretty good. And

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it probably would have been better had
he played somewhere between first and third line

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all year, and that's where the
coach took away seven to ten points.

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I think on his season having him
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He's not that guy. I think
we all can see what Joel Farraby can

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do a miraculously same as other players
with that same neck injury. He's come

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back strong with Jack Eichele and so
I think that's those are the two most

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notable in the right they're the NMA
guy. I don't know if I don't

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think anybody else in the NHL's had
it, So that's an amazing thing.

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Later we'll talk about Cam Mackinson who
had to get the the next fusion and

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that doesn't work as well. That's
pretty much proven at this point too.

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So yeah, I like the kid. There's still upside. There's definitely upside

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on the fantasy side, but I
don't know if the team sees it,

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and it's because of the coach.
The coach he sometimes upsets the coach and

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so that could cost him. We'll
talk about the team not seeing it and

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upsetting the coach. That also applies
to Morgan Frost, who's the next guy

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we're going to talk about his You
know, I think there's been a big

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miss narrative here that he's a bad
defensive player. He actually has been really

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good defensively. And maybe at the
expense of some of his offense, which

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is what he was known for initially
and in junior, and he was certainly

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much better at that, but back
to back fifty seven point pay seasons.

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But I think with the growth in
the defensive area is a huge asterix there

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that must be pointed out. He
lost about thirty seconds of time on ice

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and only had the seventh total amount
of ice time for all forwards I mentioned,

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and quite good expected gold against for
sixty So what do you think we

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can expect from Frost next season?
Do you think he can finally get over

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that sixty point pace. I think
he could be there if they just keep

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him at second line center. Just
keep him there, leave him there,

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give him good linemates. His play
for wait from the puck is better.

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He's one of their best own entry
guys. When they have him on the

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top power play, leave him be
man, let him create. You're right,

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he's had to focus so much and
keep the coach happy that it has

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cost him some of his offense.
But towards the second half of the season

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he was already figuring that out.
The worry is he's the guy most likely

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to be traded and again, if
I'm a fantasy owner, I'm watching out

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for that because if he goes to
the right team who plays a little bit

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more offensively, man, he could
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there. It's just waiting to happen. And again, we'll see what John

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wants to do with that, because
I know Frost was frustrated this year,

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held it in. He's a pro
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that to the kid so many times, scratching. I'm putting on this doing

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that change. But he's better than
that. But you're in John's world,

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so there you go. We always
do a couple of points pick'ems between two

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forwards, and boy, this one
kind of breaks my heart because the two

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I'm gonna put up against each other
Sean Couturier and Scott Lawton. Oh Cuturier.

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That's how far the Mighty have fallen
here, thirty eight points in seventy

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four games last year. He's the
captain at one point Towardorella says he's our

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leader, and then he's healthy scratched. It used to be a reliable seventy

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ish point pace guy. But after
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boy, the return year just didn't
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And then on the other side,
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I guess he's twenty nine. He
had the second highest point total of his

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career with thirty nine points in eighty
two games, but played third line minutes

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his expected goals for and again pointed
in the wrong directions. Does get some

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great hits though, which fantasy players
appreciate. What do you think of these

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two? All right, so let's
start with Katurier. He was one of

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those guys I was referencing that really
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when they played him so much early
on, and John tried to tell the

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media he wanted to if I'd have
said him, he wouldn't have gone for

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that. Yeah, I'm not sure
of that. So all I'm saying is

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they needed to have it worked out
with a trainer. Hey, maybe he

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plays six on one off, maybe
he practices twice every four weeks, whatever

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it is, come up with something
a game plan. There wasn't. The

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only game plan was, Oh,
look, looks like we're playing Sewn too

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much, so let's sit him for
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a little while then let's put him
just on the fourth line. Let's just

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put Sean on the fourth line.
This point, he can't play. And

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it's not true because when he was
out there, he was playing well.

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Defensively, he was doing well on
faceoffs. As one he wasn't but as

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a two he was doing okay.
He was good and shootout like, he

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was really good in shootouts. But
there is still some offense there. Look,

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the skating was never great with Katie. It's no better than it was.

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It's probably, you know, a
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he used correctly, could get fifty
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because he's smart enough to be able
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problem with Sean is there was a
problem with the agent and John and him.

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They all could put a happy face
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problem, but there was scratching him
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And then John says, I did
say talk to him, and there's two

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sides to everything. But at the
end of the day, it hurt his

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season a little bit, and I
think they have Look, they have to

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come to grips that Sean could do
just so much. John is the kind

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of coach, unfortunately, that doesn't
want to hear about limitations. He just

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wants to hear if you're ready to
play, I'm gonna play you, and

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I'm gonna play as much as I
could play so that we win. And

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that was great. That was great
with that early part of the season where

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they got up to eighty percent and
then all of a sudden you had guys

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starting to drop because they just weren't
able to keep up that pace, block

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all those shots, play that wave
hockey. And John even admitted he had

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to change the way he coached and
played the game in the second half because

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things changed. Teams start playing playoff
hockey, and that's true. So early

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in the season. What was happening
a lot with the Flyers. They were

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facing the second goalie, a lot, they were being under I think teams

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were not taking them seriously for a
little while, maybe for a few weeks,

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and they did get to pile up
some wins, and Katerrier was playing

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as much as twenty two minutes some
games, and it was just too much.

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And I was saying at the time, this is crazy. It's not

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going to end well. And it
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he can't play, because I think
he can. His ego has been hurt,

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though. It's great that he came
back, and I think he feels

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good about that, and I feel
good for him because there was a question

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whether he could even make it back. But now it's you got to change

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your game. I'll just liken it
to my favorite athlete of all time,

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Tom seaver So. When he left
the Mets he went to the Rights.

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He was still at the height of
his career. By the time he left

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the Reds, his fastball lost two
three miles an hour. He had to

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all of a sudden learn a couple
more pitches. So now instead of having

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three or four pitches, he had
five pitches. He learned another pitch,

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he changed speeds, he painted the
corners even better than he did when he

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was a fastball pitcher, because all
of a sudden he realized that's how I

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have to get through these games.
And he did, and he elongated his

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career like another three to five years, three of them which are really good.

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Last couple, yeah, not so
great. So Katurier has to figure

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that out too, same way.
I can't do it the same way anymore.

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I got to do it differently,
maybe even talk to his dad,

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because his dad's a coach. He's
probably dealt with players who have gone through

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this and get his head right mentally, and then it's up to the coach

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and the team. The team never
really stepped in and said, hey,

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John's doing something wrong. They just
all said at the end, yeah,

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Strong not playing right now, so
that's why he's getting benched. Okay,

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but it wasn't fair. That was
fun. Let's do another points Pickham so

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the literally David reference to but he's
a Hall of Famer so whatever. Yeah.

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Yeah, Well, these guys a
little less well integral to the team.

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But the young guns that are coming
up next, So Tyson Forster and

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Bobby Brink, both these guys on
the younger side, both have broken into

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the NHL and a little bit different
in terms of what they bring. Obviously

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being a little bit of a smaller
guy five eight, very feisty though in

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Forster six two two fifteen, bigger
and a little bit more physical, but

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both of them ended up around the
same thirty three and thirty five point paces

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respectively. Who do you think between
these two is going to have a larger

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role next season? And therefore probably
more point it's Forrester. The thing about

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it is the fact that he's six
to two, the fact that he hits

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some people and has that shot.
That's what John's looking for. So he

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has the instant leg up. Just
because of the those three things. Bobby

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can't get any taller. It's not
his fault. Bobby's not the goal scorer

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Tyson is. It's not his fault. But the way the Flyers are,

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they need that goal scoring. So
he gets top power play, he gets

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great chances. He's going to get
him next year too, so he'll probably

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have twenty five to thirty goals,
which is really what you would expect Forrester

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to get from the time he was
drafted because he always had that great shot.

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Now he misses the nets too.
He's another guy that could use a

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shooting coach because he's got the kind
of shot that really could get forty one

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year if everything broke. But we
not at that point. He's just figuring

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excuse me, he's just figuring out
the game. So right now where he

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is, yeah, I think next
year you're probably looking at that twenty seven

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goal mark. I think he's figured
out a little bit where his feet should

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be before his shot. Some guys
don't get fully set and they just shoot.

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They've worked on that with him,
and he's done a pretty good job

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of making sure he's like, how
do he stick down ready to shoot?

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Feet in good position? And he's
definitely picked up his pace. So all

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these things have helped him out.
So Brink is on the brink, Like

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I think they're going to give him
a one year deal, and I think

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this is it. If he doesn't
prove it, he's gonna he'll get traded

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or just not resigned. He look
going way back to when they got him

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the two things that were going to
be a question about Brink where he always

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put himself in a bad position,
meaning he plays feisty like you said,

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but he's not the biggest, strongest
guy and as a result got hurt a

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lot or got hurt enough, dinged
up enough that it would take him off

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his game. He has built up
his body to some degree. I still

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don't think he's good in the corners
where he really can handle himself that way.

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At times you see these flashes where
yeah, he can play with high

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end guys and can really move the
puck, can really take a great shot

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with a risk shot. He has
talented on the power play. If he

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give him the time, he knows
how to do that. But with John

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you have to earn it, and
I don't know if he'll put up enough

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to keep a spot in the top
nine. He can't play fourth line,

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but he's a top nine or bust, and right now he's on the edge.

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Let's move to the blue line and
start with Travis Sandheim. Boy.

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Sandheim had a career high in scoring. He gets the sweater out there every

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single night. He doesn't miss more
than two contests in any of the last

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six seasons, led the team on
time on ice. Now, I tend

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to think of him a little bit
more as a real hockey guy than maybe

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a fantasy guy, although he did
fine in both this year. He's the

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power play two defenseman if I'm reading
things right. That said, hits and

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blocks make him really relevant too.
He does a lot of both of those.

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Signed for many years to come.
What kind of a role you anticipate

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We're going to get into some more
defenseman who will presumably be making moves for

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big roles on this team. But
is Travis Sanheim going to maintain this role

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in this level that he maintains.
Now, what do you see coming forward?

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I mean he has to. They
don't have a choice. They don't

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have a number one defense and he's
not a true number one defenseman. But

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he has bulked up. He's definitely
blocking more, He's definitely handled himself in

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the corner better. There were spurts
where he was getting more confidence and so

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he was getting more goals. I
forget how many he had, might have

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had eleven something like that, but
what was he at sixty points something in

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that range, And yeah, he
got that because he had the opportunity and

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he was putting up points five on
five. So I think end of the

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day he gets some power play points, but his bread and butter is going

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to be five on five in the
fact that he's getting an order amount of

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ice time because he is their de
facto number one. I think he'll do

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the same thing next year. He
actually he did have a good year.

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I think a lot of people think
that Cam york isn't as good defensively as

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he is. He's an ex guy
we want to talk about. But york

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Is was actually quite good defensively,
and his corsi against above league average.

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Of fact, The only player who
had a better corsi against than Cam York

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was Eager Zamula, and that might
have been at the sacrifice of some offense.

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I think some of us who saw
there wasn't a whole lot blocking Cam

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York this season, we're really excited
that potentially he could run the top power

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playoff season and get a lot of
points. And we know what happened.

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They moved that roll all around and
we saw lots of different people hold it

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at different times. But it was
encouraging to see York get three extra minutes

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of time on ice and more power
play time on ice, But that still

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ended up in the same place thirty
point pace, which was basically the same

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that he had exactly the same as
he had last year, even with all

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that extra time. So, Russ, what do you think we'll see from

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York next season? And can he
finally get to that forty point pace.

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It's going to be tough. He
might be able to the things that are

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going against him is he's playing on
the off side, he's playing on the

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top pairing right, he's really a
second pairing guy and on the other side

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guy. But he's worked it out
right every team John Twitter has ever had.

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He's always asked one or two defensemen
to play the other side. So

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right when you do that to me, you're already negating some points. He

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did play great defense, no question
about it, and probably could be better

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if he gets physically stronger, because
he still loses some puck battles. But

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he's another guy. His point shot
isn't that good. It misses than that

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a lot. He actually scores more
goals when he moves in. If he

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can improve his point shot over the
summer, I think he would get more

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power play time. He's a great
distributor on the power play, so he's

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going to get assists that way,
but he's not getting goals that way.

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So yeah. In short, I
think forty might be the limit for him

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this year. With the players they
have and everything else. He gets the

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ice time, it should happen,
but it's probably going to be right around

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that same mark, between thirty and
forty one more pick him on the blue

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line. Igor Zamula Jamie Drysdale.
I'll tell you there was a goal that

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Zamula scored. I think it was
against the Senators, which was my wife's

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favorite highlight of the year. Where
is Zamula shoots absolutely nobody else is looking,

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and it goes in from the point
wonderful times. It was the fourth

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year that Zamula suited up for an
NHL game, but it was really his

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first full season. He had twenty
one points in his sixty six games.

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Advanced stats suggests that he did alright. Victor just referenced that. On the

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other end, Jamie Drysdale, the
kid the top prospect at one point for

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the Anaheim Ducks, made it over
to the Flyers, and unfortunate injuries waylaid

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his return. Drysdale very recently was
one of those top guys, but the

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shine wore up prior to the trade. He didn't really get a chance to

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adjust to the system of his new
team. Some people say, so,

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what do you Thinkisdale or Zamula.
You still have to take Drysdale, although

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I think Zamula is underrated and last
year, the only reason Zamula got the

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playing time he did is because they
couldn't send him down because he was out

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of options. Some team would have
claimed him based on that. They played

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00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,119
eleven to seven a lot, and
he got a lot of that playing time.

407
00:26:56,319 --> 00:26:59,559
It wasn't all tremendous minutes, but
they were good minutes. He also

408
00:26:59,599 --> 00:27:03,400
got pretty good power play early time, early on, because he's just got

409
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,559
a shot that gets on net and
a great shot, but he gets there.

410
00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:10,319
Drysdille, when he's on the power
play has not been allowed to be

411
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,880
Jamie Drysdale. Look, I can
talk about Rocky Thompson for you. Give

412
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,279
me an hour. I'll tell you
how bad he is for the next hour.

413
00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:19,759
The fact that he's come back is
ridiculous. But that's John's in charge

414
00:27:19,759 --> 00:27:22,839
of that. He's oh, yeah, we'll get better at it. They've

415
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,000
been bad for two years at it, and Rocky for those You look at

416
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,240
it and you say, okay.
When Drysdale gets the puck, he needs

417
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,400
to be able to get into the
offensive zone. If he has to go

418
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,519
behind the net, if he has
to go to the other side and mix

419
00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:38,319
it up, he's not been allowed
to do that. He has to stay

420
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:42,759
stationary. It's not his thing.
As far as five on five, maybe

421
00:27:42,759 --> 00:27:47,839
he turns into the number two at
some point. If he's not, if

422
00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:51,119
he's on the second pairing, that's
fine. He should get more five on

423
00:27:51,319 --> 00:27:55,440
five points this year. He will
be healthier. I worry a little.

424
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:56,680
I'll tell you, if you're a
fantasy owner, you have to worry a

425
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,559
little bit aft that shoulder. It's
the second time he's he's getting core.

426
00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:03,480
Is he getting core surgery? We
don't know, but he might need it,

427
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000
So who knows if he starts the
year on time or fifth heels over

428
00:28:07,039 --> 00:28:11,039
the summer. That will find out
later down the line. So I think

429
00:28:11,039 --> 00:28:12,640
as a fantasy owner, you have
to take him like in the middle rounds.

430
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,720
Don't get crazy about him. There's
a lot of upside there, but

431
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,720
we have to see which Jamie drives. They'll hits the ice. I do

432
00:28:19,759 --> 00:28:22,559
think he'll be a good fit for
them, and he'll definitely get more points

433
00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:26,400
than Samula, but he could get
a lot more points if they use him

434
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,519
differently. But again that would take
a philosophical change and the way they're running

435
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:33,559
their offense, and maybe that will
happen. I don't know. All right,

436
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,519
time to move on to the goalies, and the Flyers were ranked the

437
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:42,039
seventh in the league and expected goals
against per sixty That is solidly a playoff

438
00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:47,720
team, but they didn't concede that
number. They conceded the twenty fifth ranked

439
00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:52,240
actual goals per game, definitely solidly
not a playoff caliber. We already know

440
00:28:52,279 --> 00:28:55,359
what happened it was. It was
good at times, but definitely overall not

441
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,720
good. Samuel Erson had the most
load fifty one games played. Carter Hard

442
00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:03,240
played twenty six. We know that
he's no longer an option out of the

443
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:07,480
picture. Kyle Peterson played five games, Felix Sanstrum five, and even Fetotov

444
00:29:07,599 --> 00:29:11,240
at the very end played three,
and none of these guys really performed well

445
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,319
or better than expected, and even
though they had some pretty decent protection,

446
00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:19,319
it was overall not good. We
know that it seems to me next season

447
00:29:19,319 --> 00:29:23,640
the tantem's gonna be Erson and Fetotov
in the NHL. And we thought that

448
00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:27,319
maybe Kolosoff would have some play,
but it seems like that is vertly up

449
00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:30,160
in the air. So it's probably
between Ersen fetotovh Is that how you see

450
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,559
a play out russ And can we
expect better next season? Yeah, that's

451
00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:40,039
the only way it's going to go
right now. And the twenty six games

452
00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:45,599
that Heart played is like the missing
ingredient here. How many of those games

453
00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:49,599
did Carter Hart win? If you
go back and you look how many wins

454
00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:55,359
did he get and can they replace
those wins between the two goalies they have,

455
00:29:56,079 --> 00:29:59,039
because that's a big thing because ursa
On I don't know if he could

456
00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:02,640
play much more fifty one games.
They knew they were overdoing it at the

457
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:03,759
end. He was dead at the
end. Now, every year, sure

458
00:30:03,799 --> 00:30:07,720
a goalie gets some better shape,
but there's always a limit for every goalie.

459
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,519
I think Freddie Anderson, we've seen
you push him too much in the

460
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:15,920
regular season. He doesn't have much
in the playoffs. There's a lot of

461
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,160
guys like that in the NHL,
and they have to be managed. And

462
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:22,759
so the Flyers weren't managing our son
until they just couldn't just way everything was

463
00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:26,480
going. So they knew they piled
on games and so that was a problem

464
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,279
for DoD Off is an issue because
look, two years ago, there was

465
00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:34,400
a lot more hope from me as
far as what his play was. Then

466
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,519
all that stuff went on, he
didn't get to play regular minutes, he

467
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:42,079
wasn't training in the same so then
of course he comes over. Yeah,

468
00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:45,559
he's lacking sleep or whatever. So
he has a bad game, Fine,

469
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,200
you put him in again. He's
not great, Okay, I get it.

470
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,519
He's just getting his feet wet in
the NHL. The problem is they

471
00:30:51,519 --> 00:30:56,920
give him a contract like he's a
bona fide NHL backup, but you don't

472
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,359
know that he is. He probably
doesn't know if he is. Now you've

473
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,799
got a situation where somebody's got to
make up these wins for Carter Hart and

474
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,920
Ersa. You're hoping to be the
same, And I can't tell you right

475
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,400
now for Dodolph's that guy. Nobody
can. And I don't know how their

476
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,880
backup goalie's going to be because if
Kolosoff goes back, let's just say he

477
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,640
does. Flyers say they don't know
anything about it right now. Maybe they're

478
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:25,000
right, maybe it dies down.
Cal Peterson's not your guy either, he's

479
00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:29,359
not. He's barely an HL goalie. He did play in the playoffs,

480
00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:32,920
fine, but he's not a future
guy. The minute of his contract's up,

481
00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:36,319
it's over for him. And maybe
they buy him out this year,

482
00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:40,640
but I don't think they can now
because with Kolosoff hanging in the balance,

483
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,200
so he probably still gets to play, and then there's nobody. So like

484
00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:51,440
my whole thing was, you had
Felix Anstrom there who you didn't play for

485
00:31:51,759 --> 00:31:56,000
big stretches and then you sent them
down. He didn't look great, so

486
00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:59,519
Peterson won the job. So then
all of a sudden, Peterson was the

487
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,359
only guy. Kolosov plays one or
two games, Peterson the whole way.

488
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,160
Sandstrom, I don't know where he
was in a hotel. I'm not even

489
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,200
sure where he was, so I'm
not sure he's getting signed by the Flyers.

490
00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:14,640
But you have to point out that
in recent years, Antonys Delars got

491
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,599
that treatment. I don't know,
he's turned into a pretty good backup.

492
00:32:17,039 --> 00:32:22,279
Alex Lyon got that treatment. I
don't know, He's turned into a pretty

493
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:27,039
good almost a one B kind of
goalie. One A, one B.

494
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,640
He's somewhere in between. We probably
need a new designation for a guy like

495
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,119
Lyon. So I can't tell you
for sure. Sandstrom's that guy, but

496
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,559
he's better than he was last year, and they probably won't resign him,

497
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,000
So I don't know. I don't
know what they're gonna do for the backup

498
00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:45,519
spot there. Maybe maybe it is
Kolosov, but if it is and Fidodoff

499
00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:49,400
doesn't look good, they got to
wait at least half a season to him

500
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:52,759
really playing in the AHL before they
could just throw him in the NHL.

501
00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:54,960
Anyhow they're gonna have they're gonna have
an issue, and they're gonna have to

502
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:01,240
decide how they handle Fidodoph and me
personally, I would play him always on

503
00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:06,319
back to backs and against the weaker
teams until he could prove that he could

504
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,240
beat some good teams. So that's
probably the way they're gonna go. Arsun's

505
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,559
a good pick. I think he's
bottom fifteen in the league, but he's

506
00:33:14,599 --> 00:33:19,440
certainly not the bottom. I think
he's probably in the twenties. So you

507
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,119
could take our son and you'll get
a certain amount of wins. Excuse me,

508
00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:27,880
but you're still gonna need another stud
goalie to go along with them,

509
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,880
because that won't be enough to feel
your team, at least it wouldn't be

510
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:37,119
for mine. Great stuff for us. Appreciate all these insights into the filida

511
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:42,119
if your flyers. Where could people
find your workout there? Sportsologia dot com,

512
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,240
NHL Draft Buzz dot com. I'm
on Sirius XM every Tuesday twelve fifteen

513
00:33:46,319 --> 00:33:50,759
with mcckern. You can go to
eat p rnkside dot com. Those are

514
00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:53,160
the main places, all right.
Thanks Russ, hope to get you back

515
00:33:53,160 --> 00:34:02,759
to talk some flyers again in the
future. Absolutely, see you guys.

516
00:34:00,039 --> 00:34:08,360
Wilson. That's good myer fast off. Oh my goodness, long with a

517
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:17,039
quick gram. Now it's your wingley. Goalie talk with Kat Silverman, Kat's

518
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:23,400
instincts. Time again to get Kat's
instincts on the prospect goalies, Cat Silverman

519
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,119
of in gol Mag. We got
a lot of goalies to talk about.

520
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:30,679
I think oftentimes when you talk about
multiple goalies, it's like you have if

521
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,519
you have five goalies, you have
no goalie. But I think there are

522
00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:36,599
actually some pretty interesting ones here,
and the first one we're going to talk

523
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,519
about. I've been Fetatov six foot
eight, two hundred and twelve pounds,

524
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:45,400
twenty fifteen to seventh round pick,
played a couple two of the three last

525
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:51,000
seasons with CSK Moskva, the Red
Army team. We also tracked a little

526
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,320
bit of this story. He lost
the twenty twenty two to twenty three season

527
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,280
when he's tried to come over and
then he was I believe, forced into

528
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,039
some military service. Anyways, there's
a whole saga. There was a lot

529
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:05,239
of people who thought he would never
come to North America and then boom,

530
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,920
one day he was here and it
was awesome, and so we got to

531
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,800
see a little bit of his NHL
performance this season. He had three games

532
00:35:14,159 --> 00:35:17,920
eight to eleven save percentage, five
four point ninety five GAA, one and

533
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,639
one. I don't know that was
necessarily all on him, because the Flyers

534
00:35:22,639 --> 00:35:24,480
were seemed like they were trying to
not make the playoffs at that point.

535
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,440
They were just bad. They were
just trying to take everyone else out of

536
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,239
the playoffs with them. At that
point, it seemed like no one wanted

537
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:35,239
to make the playoffs in the East. They were crumbling around him. But

538
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,800
he anyways, so he was good
in the KHL this past season. Nine

539
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:44,400
fourteen save percentage was good two seasons
ago. He's basically had pretty great KHL

540
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,000
numbers going all the way back to
four or five years ago. So his

541
00:35:47,079 --> 00:35:52,719
equivalency in the hockey prospecting model is
insanely good. He ended at seventy six

542
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,320
percent chance of being a starter.
There's some pretty good comps in here,

543
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,199
and one of the ones that I
just put on here was Alexander Georgiev,

544
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,440
who he looks a little bit alike, who maybe isn't the most amazing goalie,

545
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:07,480
but certainly an NHL goalie and looking
at his Hockey Prospecting card, this

546
00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:10,639
tells me that he likes to play
the puck, because that's pretty high.

547
00:36:10,679 --> 00:36:15,360
His passes verse sixty. Some of
his other numbers are pretty good, including

548
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,480
his expected goals, And it seems
pretty clear we're going to talk about him

549
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,519
the main We talked about him in
the main part of the show, Kap,

550
00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:22,800
but I want to get your instincts
because you've seen him before this.

551
00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:25,760
It seems like he's going to be
splitting stars with Erson, so we're going

552
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,320
to see him in the NHL most
likely. But what do your instincts tell

553
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,360
us about fetetav? Are we super
excited about him still? Does he have

554
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,760
that star starter potential that we thought
he did? What do you think I

555
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,960
think he does? I assumed he
was NHL ready a couple seasons ago.

556
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:45,760
He was of their prospects, the
one who I thought had the most nhlready

557
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:51,280
game, had the most versatility and
adaptability to the way he was playing.

558
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,840
And then, of course he was
reportedly put into a military prison and then

559
00:36:54,880 --> 00:37:00,880
hospitalized and had a real interest go
of it for a couple of years there

560
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:06,320
where I truly didn't. I you
can count me as one of the people

561
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:07,880
who didn't think he was going to
be able to make it over to North

562
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:13,639
America. I truly thought that he
was going to end up being a goaltender

563
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:16,079
that Russia wouldn't allow to come and
play in North America, and so I

564
00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:20,320
was a little nervous about the fact
that it looked like Philly had put all

565
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,239
of their eggs into that basket.
But obviously he has made his way to

566
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:29,559
North America. Now he is playing
over here, and I think that's going

567
00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:34,119
to be a good thing for them. They didn't rush him up too quickly,

568
00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:39,840
not because they weren't, not because
they exercised restraint, but because Russia

569
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:45,119
exercised restraint for them and didn't allow
them to bump him up to the NHL

570
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:50,559
immediately. But yeah, I think
he should be good. He is unfortunately

571
00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:54,280
a little bit older now for a
guy who is making his NHL essentially season

572
00:37:54,400 --> 00:38:00,760
debut next year. So I think
we'll have to see how many years he

573
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:07,480
has left of high level hockey because
he's coming in as essentially a twenty seven

574
00:38:07,559 --> 00:38:12,920
year old era apparent, and that's
a little bit of an alarming thing for

575
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,440
Philadelphia. But that's part for the
course for that team, So we'll see

576
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:22,559
how it goes. I think he
plays his debts management pretty well, but

577
00:38:22,639 --> 00:38:28,159
I do think that Philadelphia will have
to He's essentially going to be getting his

578
00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:34,480
first North American starts while getting his
first NHL starts behind a team whose defense

579
00:38:34,599 --> 00:38:42,440
I do not always trust to ease
someone into playing a new style on a

580
00:38:42,519 --> 00:38:45,519
new ice surface dimension. So we'll
see how that goes. Hopefully it'll go

581
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:50,280
well for him, though, because
I would love to see him finally get

582
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,079
his chance to be an NHL or
and have it go really well. So

583
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:58,559
we'll see how that goes. Me
too, I was really skeptical as well,

584
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:00,679
but I kept telling people, just
hold this guy, hold him you

585
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,760
never know, just hold him for
one more year. Yeah, And I

586
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,559
ended up we actually started a couple. I was in a couple of New

587
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:10,840
League drafts where I got him really
late in a prospect draft, and now

588
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,079
he's one of our starters or one
of our main goalies. It's a really

589
00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:16,320
deep lead too. Yeah, if
you can get him, I think it

590
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,639
is worth I think it is worth
paying up a little bit for that.

591
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,199
The next guy that we're gonna talk
about, though it might have something to

592
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:27,920
say about that, not right away, but Alexei Kolosov is another really good

593
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,960
one. And I what was hilarious
about this is we thought that neither one

594
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,360
of these guys might come over,
or we weren't sure, and then they

595
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,360
both came over at the same time. It was like they went from none

596
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,079
to both. And they're both,
I would say, two of the better

597
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,719
prospect goalies out there, or at
least goalies that hadn't played in the NHL.

598
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,719
So Kolosoff is a bit smaller though
six foot one hundred and eighty five

599
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,639
pounds. He was a twenty twenty
one third round pick by Philly, so

600
00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:52,760
he's quite a bit younger. He's
been playing in the KHL for the last

601
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:59,679
several seasons to really great success,
good numbers. He plays for Dinamo Minsk,

602
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,000
and he actually did come over.
He's five years younger than Fedotoph By

603
00:40:04,039 --> 00:40:06,960
the way, he came over and
played a couple HL games. It didn't

604
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,519
go particularly well, but they did. And he's also Belo Russian or no,

605
00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:15,559
yeah, yeah, he's Beli Russian. Yeah, compared to Russian,

606
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:22,079
and his hockey prospecting chart looks like
a steep ascent has gone from zero.

607
00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:24,079
They didn't have a equivalency the first
league he played in that way, That's

608
00:40:24,079 --> 00:40:27,559
why it was zero and then up
to eighty three percent. Looking at his

609
00:40:27,679 --> 00:40:31,039
comps, I picked out Nikolai Habibullin, who was a pretty good average starter,

610
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:36,119
and his hockey prospecting card it looks
similar to Fedotov. It's a little

611
00:40:36,119 --> 00:40:38,880
bit lower in some areas, but
his expected gold numbers are really good as

612
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:43,039
well as his He plays a pucket
fair amount, maybe not as much,

613
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:45,840
but I have him just a little
bit lower on my personal ranks just because

614
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:51,000
I think we need to see a
little bit more from him, because he

615
00:40:51,079 --> 00:40:53,039
is a bit younger. So what
do your instincts tell us about Kolosof?

616
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,199
I do think, though I should
just put this out there before you say

617
00:40:57,199 --> 00:41:00,519
anything. I have a feeling that
Kolosoft could be the better of to and

618
00:41:00,559 --> 00:41:02,920
he certainly has a longer trajectory,
as you pointed out, being younger.

619
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,480
What do you think about close Offen? What do you think about how these

620
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:08,360
two are going to play out over
the next several years. Oh, I

621
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:14,639
for sure think that he has the
higher promise at this point, largely because

622
00:41:14,679 --> 00:41:17,760
he does have time on his side, he's able to he's able to make

623
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:25,000
his way over to North America five
years younger, and especially playing for Belarusian

624
00:41:25,039 --> 00:41:30,840
teams that he's been playing on a
much larger, much more open ice surface.

625
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:35,199
And he's a smaller guy, so
he has really good skating capabilities,

626
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,639
but he has had to use them
more than he will need to in North

627
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:42,760
America just because he's had to cover
more ice surface. He's had to challenge

628
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,519
people more. I thought he's looked
really smart about how he does that in

629
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:50,039
games that I've gotten to watch him
play. I love how he plays.

630
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:58,800
I think it's going to take some
time to essentially adapt to instinctively making plays

631
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,280
in North America just because it's different
situationally, it's like changing to a new

632
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:07,559
team that has a completely different system. That's what he's having to do here.

633
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:13,440
And I think he doesn't have that
size on his side to occasionally just

634
00:42:13,519 --> 00:42:15,800
park himself in front of the net, and while he's adapting to it,

635
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:21,519
hope that his body will absorb more
of the shots because he just doesn't have

636
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,880
that luxury at his size. But
that being said, I think he's a

637
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:30,159
really smart looking goaltender. His decision
making has always been pretty high end.

638
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:37,639
I've enjoyed watching how he handles high
danger saves because he doesn't handle them entirely

639
00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:42,960
based on adrenaline. So I think
that he has a lot of promise in

640
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,079
his game for how he'll be able
to adapt. I'm just glad they're not

641
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:52,199
hopefully going to be putting him in
the NHL anytime soon, because I do

642
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:57,800
think that it will benefit him to
get some seasoning in those lower stakes games,

643
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,400
because obviously it's never a lower,
low state game when you're playing for

644
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:06,079
Philadelphia as a goaltender. Every game's
in audition to beat their next number one.

645
00:43:06,199 --> 00:43:09,320
So I think they giving him a
chance to play some of those smaller

646
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:14,920
games will be a good thing for
him for sure. Nice. Yeah,

647
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,960
I'm really excited about him, And
yeah, I definitely glad to hear you

648
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,840
agree he has the higher upside.
There's another goalie, another Russian goalie that

649
00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:30,320
probably took a bit of a hit
when these other two Russians came over because

650
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:36,000
we thought that igor Zawrigan it was
going to be potentially a little bit higher

651
00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:39,079
up the chain. But he's also
pretty raw because he was just drafted in

652
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:43,800
twenty twenty three six p two hundred
and eighty three pounds. He's still eighteen.

653
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,199
He won't be nineteen until August,
so there's still a lot of time

654
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:50,960
for him, and I think he's
pretty and pretty interesting player played primarily in

655
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,079
the VHL this season, also got
some MHL time with really outstanding numbers.

656
00:43:54,559 --> 00:43:59,800
His equivalency looks super high. Based
on a seventeen game sample of one point

657
00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:04,840
six zero GAA and nine to forty
three save percentage in that VHL, that

658
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,760
has given him a fifty two percent
NHL equivalency, which is super high.

659
00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:14,159
The only other interesting comp I've pulled
for him was also Nikolai Happy Bullin's maybe

660
00:44:14,159 --> 00:44:17,239
a little redundant there, but he's
Russian and it had actually not even as

661
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,000
good numbers. Averagant looks even better. So what do your instincts tell us

662
00:44:22,039 --> 00:44:23,840
on him? Obviously, probably a
bit of a weight. But what do

663
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:30,880
you think I obviously, I think
they're going to be holding off on bringing

664
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:35,880
him over for understandable reasons. They
don't need him over here yet. It

665
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,960
would really make no sense to bring
him over. His numbers look unreal.

666
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:46,599
I do think it's interesting that Philadelphia
is going so Russian heavy with their goaltenders,

667
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:51,199
but I think that might actually be
to his benefit. Hell, both

668
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,199
benefit from the fact that it looks
like he's a good player. So far.

669
00:44:54,960 --> 00:45:00,360
I found very little in terms of
film footage on him, but looked

670
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,800
fine. But he's going to be
coming into a system that is essentially going

671
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,679
to be shaping itself around a number
of Russian goaltenders coming up just ahead of

672
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:15,480
him. So when it comes to
fitting into a system that would potentially benefit

673
00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:21,440
his gameplay and what he's used to
in his development style, that gives him

674
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,679
an advantage over the other two just
from the get go, because he's going

675
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:30,039
to be coming into a system that
is already prepped to allow him to succeed

676
00:45:30,079 --> 00:45:32,599
as much as possible. I just
don't think he'll be over at least in

677
00:45:32,639 --> 00:45:37,039
the next couple years here. I'd
love to see him play in the KHL

678
00:45:38,119 --> 00:45:40,960
in the coming years, just to
see what he's able to do, because

679
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:47,800
his numbers at the VHL and MHL
level are so comically good that it almost

680
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:53,000
makes no sense to have him playing
against the lower quality of competition at the

681
00:45:53,039 --> 00:45:55,639
moment, if that makes sense,
So I'd love to see what he can

682
00:45:55,679 --> 00:46:02,000
do against essentially the best of what
the Russian League cast to offer. Indeed,

683
00:46:02,559 --> 00:46:06,320
it'll be fun to watch him over
time, and that's a good point

684
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,800
about them going so Russian heavy,
and that could really benefit him. They

685
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:15,280
also did got another goalie in twenty
twenty three that was not Russian, and

686
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:20,519
that was their second round pick,
Carson Bjarnison, who by some accounts was

687
00:46:20,679 --> 00:46:23,440
the best goalie available in that draft. I don't know that certainly wasn't consensus,

688
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,599
but six foot three, two hundred
and three pound, he was back

689
00:46:27,639 --> 00:46:30,719
in Brandon of the WHL this season
and did well. Obviously, there's a

690
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:35,400
long way to go here for Bjarnison
and there's a lot of really strong goalies

691
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,519
ahead of him, but I just
wonder if you had any quick thoughts on

692
00:46:37,599 --> 00:46:43,639
him. I think that's I'm glad
they did finally draft a North of European

693
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,000
goaltender, just so we can if
things do happen to go south with some

694
00:46:47,119 --> 00:46:52,079
of the player loan agreements and some
of the signings with the Russian goaltenders,

695
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:57,159
they have someone who is close by. He's a very skating heavy goaltender,

696
00:46:58,199 --> 00:47:06,119
which is good because that as far
as North American goaltenders go puts him as

697
00:47:06,199 --> 00:47:10,199
close to thriving with the other three
that we've talked about, essentially as they

698
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:15,519
can. He does tend to move
a little more than I would love to

699
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:22,119
see, but I think he looks
really good. I just it's almost an

700
00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:27,599
overload of goaltenders here, and he
does look good enough that I would worry

701
00:47:27,599 --> 00:47:30,760
about them. And I don't want
to say i'd worry about them having a

702
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:37,039
logjam of goaltenders in Philadelphia because we
haven't seen them ever have a logjam.

703
00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:42,239
They are always scrambling to find someone. But it could potentially create a logjam

704
00:47:42,519 --> 00:47:45,599
if he ends up hitting his stride
looking like he's ready to hit the NHL

705
00:47:46,199 --> 00:47:51,840
at the same time that all of
their other goaltenders are in their heyday,

706
00:47:52,079 --> 00:47:55,679
which might be a good thing for
them. They'll finally be able to trade

707
00:47:55,719 --> 00:48:00,840
away goaltender instead of constantly having to
trade for them. But I do think

708
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:06,840
that he looks like he's probably i'd
say three or four years away, which

709
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:12,000
is where I would put Zabragen,
and honestly about where I would be put

710
00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:14,960
in Kolosov too. I'd put him
two to three years, and then i'd

711
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:20,880
put three to four years for Zabragen
and then probably for is It Bernescent as

712
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:25,920
well. Yeah, they're all in
that three to four year range and that

713
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:30,320
could create a really interesting situation for
Philadelphia in a couple of years. Speaking

714
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:37,039
of goalies that they traded for,
cal Peterson, I don't know if we

715
00:48:37,079 --> 00:48:39,719
should just be done with him,
but he was in the HL this season.

716
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,880
They buried his five million dollar capit, which he has another one next

717
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:47,159
season. But he was pretty good, we should say, in HL nine

718
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,559
or two save percentage two point seven
one GA. He did get five games

719
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,920
during that meltdown that Philly had and
was not good. He was three point

720
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,960
nine zero gaa sixty four to save
percentage. But I don't know. It

721
00:49:00,039 --> 00:49:04,840
just feels like this might be the
end or close to the end. I

722
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,280
feel like I doubt he gets another
contract in the NHL. But what do

723
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,639
you think about cal Peterson if anyone
still has him on their team? Should

724
00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:17,639
they? I do think that he
is going to reach a point where and

725
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:22,960
I believe when this current contract expires, which that was a contract for sure,

726
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:28,079
I still can't believe they did that
twenty nine, so he's twenty nine

727
00:49:28,119 --> 00:49:34,920
this year, he'll be thirty when
his contract expires, he's going to be

728
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,360
an unrestricted free agent. There will
be no requirement for a qualifying offer.

729
00:49:39,519 --> 00:49:44,639
He'll be able to just sign wherever. He could maybe be a good league

730
00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:47,679
minimum tweener at that point. But
I haven't seen a season from him where

731
00:49:47,679 --> 00:49:53,159
I really liked how he played in
We're going on three years now, he's

732
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:59,519
unfortunately pulling the Martin Jones here,
where he had some really good technical strengths

733
00:49:59,519 --> 00:50:01,000
to his game, he had a
couple of weaknesses that he just needed to

734
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:06,519
clean up and then said they're what
seemed to develop more strongly within his game.

735
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:09,800
And some of that was the way
that he over aggressively challenges for some

736
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:16,599
of the shots that he faces.
He tends to allow too many rebounds without

737
00:50:16,679 --> 00:50:21,719
having the agility to get back into
the crease in time to get that second

738
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,719
shot or third shot against. And
I don't know he's reaching a point age

739
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:28,880
wise where obviously Martin Jones has received
another contract, so I don't see why

740
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:34,239
cal Paerson won't as well. But
these are guys that at this point we

741
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,559
know what we're getting from them,
and I don't know why teams are continuing

742
00:50:38,599 --> 00:50:43,400
to take chances on them, but
that doesn't mean that teams won't. I

743
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,719
don't think Philadelphia is going to let
go of him though, because they,

744
00:50:49,119 --> 00:50:53,800
as we saw this year, need
to have insurance on top of insurance on

745
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:59,599
top of insurance. So they're at
the point where, unfortunately, I think

746
00:50:59,599 --> 00:51:04,559
they're going to on to him until
his contract expires and then find a new

747
00:51:05,559 --> 00:51:09,199
Cal Peterson or Martin Jones to add
to their system, whoever that may end

748
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:13,519
up being. Yeah, that's fair, feel bad for the guy, but

749
00:51:13,599 --> 00:51:15,800
this also seems like a theme that
La has done. You know, makes

750
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,000
some goalies look good and then they
go away from that system and they look

751
00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:22,880
not so good. But yeah,
we'll see that. The last guy I

752
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:27,000
wanted to ask you about Felix Sanstram. Last year we were talking about him

753
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,039
and Erson, and clearly Erson emerged
as the better of the two. But

754
00:51:31,119 --> 00:51:35,480
it seems like we've forgotten about Sanstrum. I've once forgotten about him, and

755
00:51:35,519 --> 00:51:39,760
now there's there's Betotah and there's Colosoff, and it seems like he's not going

756
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:45,039
to get much much interest. But
should we still have interest in him?

757
00:51:45,079 --> 00:51:46,639
Do you think he has potential to
be like a backup or a one bee

758
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:51,199
or is it like he's just been
passed by everybody now. I'd love to

759
00:51:51,199 --> 00:51:55,039
see him get a chance with another
team because the way he's been playing with

760
00:51:55,119 --> 00:52:02,199
Philadelphia, I would say no,
but Philadelphia, like if to compare it

761
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:07,719
to showing a home that's for sale, there some real estate agents that are

762
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:12,119
really good at staging a home that's
for sale, and then there are some

763
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:17,119
that leave the home with unwashed clothes
on the floor, the homeowner is still

764
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:22,039
home, and you've got empty beer
bottles on the kitchen counter. And that's

765
00:52:22,039 --> 00:52:24,719
what Philadelphia does. They set a
lot of their goaltenders up to fail when

766
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:30,039
it comes to showcasing their abilities.
So I don't know if he has the

767
00:52:30,119 --> 00:52:35,960
ability to be really good, but
i'd love to see another goaltending coach take

768
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:37,840
a stab at him. I don't
think he has a chance to fully turn

769
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:42,400
his career around at this point because
he is I think he's twenty seven now,

770
00:52:43,199 --> 00:52:45,639
so he would really have to strip
down some of the bad habits that

771
00:52:45,679 --> 00:52:50,440
he has with some of his recovery
and some of his reads and some of

772
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,280
his debts management too, honestly,
but I think he could probably do better

773
00:52:53,280 --> 00:53:00,400
in a once again a slightly lower
pressure system because every game is not in

774
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:05,159
Philadelphia, and for a guy who
already had some holes in his game and

775
00:53:05,199 --> 00:53:09,880
some exploitable weaknesses that obviously did not
go well. But maybe behind a team

776
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:15,719
that it isn't do or die every
game, things might go a little better.

777
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:21,599
Hopefully. Maybe I was wondering where
you're going with the homestaging analogy,

778
00:53:21,679 --> 00:53:24,840
but I was very happy when you
got there, So I agree. They

779
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,760
didn't do a very good job of
showcasing him or really any of their goalies

780
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,400
this season. So let's hope that's
better for them in the future. And

781
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,559
thanks so much, cav for giving
us your instincts on these Philly goalies.

782
00:53:37,519 --> 00:53:57,480
We'll be back right after this.
The Gianasy did Philadelphia Flys the edition,

783
00:53:58,119 --> 00:54:01,440
Victor, You love, love,
love this system, and I know why

784
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:07,079
it's your number two in all the
NHL. They're going to pick twelve by

785
00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:10,599
virtue of the unfortunate missing of the
playoffs late in the season, and they

786
00:54:10,639 --> 00:54:15,199
have not only their own but also
the Florida Panthers first round pick. They

787
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:19,800
could have as many as two second
rounders hashtag it's complicated, and they also

788
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:23,360
have a couple of additional late round
picks. This starts with the no brainer

789
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:28,599
of no brainers. Who is it
Victor? It's Matt ve Mitch Gooff and

790
00:54:29,199 --> 00:54:32,159
Matt B. Mitchalff, who had
quite the saga last season. We know

791
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,760
how high would he go. A
lot of us thought he was as good

792
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,199
as second overall, but he fell
all the way to seventh, to Philadelphia

793
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:43,920
twenty twenty three, seventh overall pick. He's a five foot ten hundred and

794
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,599
seventy six pound right winger, and
we know some of the reasons were certainly

795
00:54:46,599 --> 00:54:50,800
the Russian factor, but also the
fact that he had signed a contract that

796
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:55,159
was three years after being drafted to
stay with SKA. But what we're hearing

797
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:59,840
actually right now as we're recording this
so you might know more by the time

798
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,400
you I hear this, is that
it sounds like SKA is going to terminate

799
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:07,079
his contract and he's going to come
to North America as early as this season

800
00:55:07,159 --> 00:55:10,599
twenty four or twenty five, which
would be really exciting for anyone who took

801
00:55:10,639 --> 00:55:14,800
the leap of faith that we encourage
you to take him. Regardless of that

802
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,840
contract issue. We had reports about
a month ago that he was not going

803
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,599
to stay the entire time at SKA, but that he might stay one more

804
00:55:21,679 --> 00:55:24,440
year, and now we're hearing that
he's pretty much done so he might come

805
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:30,280
over immediately, which is pretty exciting. He did play this season one game

806
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,719
with KHL SKA before they loan him
to Sochi. He's been on loan to

807
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:39,320
Sochi basically the last two seasons,
and he's been incredible. Twenty points in

808
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:44,679
twenty seven games for Sochi last season, this season, forty one points in

809
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:51,000
forty seven games again for Sochi of
the KHL, really outstanding production. If

810
00:55:51,039 --> 00:55:53,320
you throw out that one game he
played for SKA, he had the best

811
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:57,559
points per game mark by any nineteen
year old in the KHL. Ever,

812
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:04,159
if you do count that one game, he's one slight percentage point behind corodll

813
00:56:04,159 --> 00:56:07,280
Caaprisoft. But this is the neighborhood
that Mattvey Mitchcoff is living in. That's

814
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:13,039
pretty outstanding production. You love to
hear that. You look at Lassie Allenin's

815
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:17,320
tracking data for Mitchkoff and you can
see that his offense and transition game is

816
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:22,480
elite. His defense is questionable.
He's in the twenty first percent tile there.

817
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,599
You look at his FHL player card, and you can see that he

818
00:56:25,639 --> 00:56:29,559
shoots a ton. His shots per
sixty are one of the tops in the

819
00:56:29,639 --> 00:56:32,400
league. His assistant goals are also
really high, so super high in terms

820
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:37,559
of points. His BASH is mainly
driven by his shots, but he'll be

821
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,599
close to replacement level for blocks and
he'll throw a hit every now and then,

822
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:45,639
so he'll be decent for BASH,
but it's mostly based on his shots.

823
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:50,679
Looking at his tracking data, you
can see that his scoring chances in

824
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,480
a bunch of different areas. Passes
to the slot, high danger passes,

825
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:58,880
inner slot shots are all really high. A lot of his transition data is

826
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:02,480
pretty good as well. Some of
his defensive metrics are okay, like breakouts

827
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:06,679
and some of his breakouts via passes
are pretty good, but some of the

828
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,360
other ones are not so good,
and a lot of his play driving is

829
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,719
pretty weak. Definitely has some work
to do to round out his game.

830
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,719
But let's hear a little bit about
what makes Matt Vey Mitchcalff so exciting for

831
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:22,719
our FHL scout. FAHL Scout James
had the pleasure of scouting Matt Dave Mitchkoff.

832
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,440
Here's what he says about the skating
he loves to use the edges behind

833
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:30,440
opposition goal to slip away from defenders
and rek havoc in the offensive zone.

834
00:57:30,559 --> 00:57:35,320
We'll have no problem adjusting to the
speed and pace of play in the NHL.

835
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,280
For passing and handling, e Elite
would like to see him pass the

836
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:43,679
puck sooner sometimes, as he has
a tendency to want to maneuver his way

837
00:57:43,719 --> 00:57:47,199
out of trouble instead of making the
simple pass. For shooting, James says

838
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:52,519
most of Mitchkoff's shots came within five
to ten feet of the goal during the

839
00:57:52,559 --> 00:57:57,000
games he watched Mitchkoff scored. In
three games, he scored five goals,

840
00:57:57,039 --> 00:58:00,440
all within five feet of the goal. The IQ Elite at times you look

841
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:04,960
too smart for the players around him, as he attempted to do too much

842
00:58:05,079 --> 00:58:07,880
on his own. His anticipation is
very good. Even when playing defense,

843
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:13,400
you can tell he's thinking about offense. For checking, surprisingly, a very

844
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,000
solid four checker, according to James, gets in the zone and behind the

845
00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:21,400
opposition goal quickly, as it seems
he really enjoys playing behind the goal.

846
00:58:22,159 --> 00:58:25,280
Watched him. James watched him create
multiple turnovers and deep one of which led

847
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:29,719
directly to a goal. Mitchkoff maybe
on the smaller side, but he's tenacious

848
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:34,559
for sure. Defense, Mitchkoff plays
defense like a player who's always thinking about

849
00:58:34,599 --> 00:58:37,239
offense plays defense. According to James, he made sure he's in the right

850
00:58:37,239 --> 00:58:43,760
position most shifts and seems to be
always anticipating bad passes from the opposition.

851
00:58:44,239 --> 00:58:47,559
In his own zone. He could
be better along the wall and more physical

852
00:58:47,679 --> 00:58:52,920
to help turn over the pock.
So the best asset that IQ magician offensively,

853
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,679
as he not only reads the ice
extremely well, he creates chances for

854
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,119
himself and teammates seemingly out of nowhere, and the biggest concern, of course,

855
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:07,599
is the defense or lack thereof in
the defensive zone. Top tier potential,

856
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:14,199
without doubt, he's an NHL star. Justification is the elite offensive instincts,

857
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,559
the talent to produce major goal in
point totals to go along with it,

858
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:22,559
and fiftieth percentile James is not coming
off it. He's still a point

859
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:29,199
per game plus guy in the NHL
stylistic comparable nikkity Kucharov, we have Mason

860
00:59:29,199 --> 00:59:34,280
Black putting out the NHL ranking poll, be Mitchkoff versus Ivan Demidov, and

861
00:59:34,559 --> 00:59:38,719
how did that work for his opposition
over on the Flyers team as well,

862
00:59:39,079 --> 00:59:43,159
Mitchkoff. This is a little surprising, one hundred and forty five votes.

863
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:47,079
He only Mitchkov wins, obviously,
but he only wins sixty six to thirty

864
00:59:47,079 --> 00:59:51,320
four. Victor, I assume that's
the way you go. Is it that

865
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:57,800
close? You assuming correctly, because
I would actually take Demodov here. But

866
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,079
these two, yeah, I know, I've been having this discussion. I

867
01:00:01,079 --> 01:00:05,159
thought about this a lot. Obviously, it's a natural comparison, right,

868
01:00:05,199 --> 01:00:09,679
these are the two top Russians that
we haven't gotten to see internationally. We

869
01:00:09,719 --> 01:00:15,199
did get see Mitchkoff internationally several years
ago at the Ivan Linka and he was

870
01:00:15,239 --> 01:00:17,280
outstanding, but we haven't gotten to
see them at the UA teams. We

871
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:22,000
haven't gotten to see them at the
U twenties, which Mitchkoff certainly would have

872
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,239
been last season, and probably Demodov
as well, So we haven't really gotten

873
01:00:25,239 --> 01:00:29,159
to see as much. And I
think there's a huge difference here in the

874
01:00:29,239 --> 01:00:34,519
sense obviously that we have seen Mitchkoff
in the KHL. We have not seen

875
01:00:34,559 --> 01:00:37,199
Demidov in the KHL. Really,
we've just seen him in the MHL.

876
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:42,360
So it's really hard to gauge,
and we will certainly talk a whole lot

877
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,159
more about Demidov as we get more
into our draft coverage. I think the

878
01:00:45,159 --> 01:00:49,639
bottom line between Mitchkoff and Demidov,
you can't go wrong. Both these guys

879
01:00:49,719 --> 01:00:53,159
are great. I think the question
once we know the team that Demidov is

880
01:00:53,159 --> 01:00:57,119
going to, is he going to
Chicago and playing with Connor Bodard that's going

881
01:00:57,199 --> 01:01:00,000
to make a difference. Is Chicago
going to pass on him and they made

882
01:01:00,079 --> 01:01:02,400
you go a different direction? That's
going to matter a little bit for Demodov.

883
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:06,639
Mitchkoff, I'm not sure he's going
to have as much with Philly.

884
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,559
He's fantastic and he's going to have
a really high and upside. The reason

885
01:01:09,639 --> 01:01:14,480
I like Demodov a little bit better
is that he has I think more dynamic

886
01:01:14,519 --> 01:01:17,239
one on one skill. He reminds
me more of Patrick Kaine type in terms

887
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:22,079
of his ability to make guys miss, his ability to see the ice in

888
01:01:22,159 --> 01:01:24,760
so many different ways and beat you
in so many different ways. He also

889
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:30,119
is pretty dogged defensively. He's a
guy almost like stankovin who can steal pucks,

890
01:01:30,119 --> 01:01:35,199
Mark Stone, create turnovers, create
offense generate that way, he's a

891
01:01:35,199 --> 01:01:37,599
pain in the ass to play against
in all zones. And even though he's

892
01:01:37,599 --> 01:01:42,960
playing in the NHL, he Demodov
uses his teammates very well. He makes

893
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:46,000
his teammates look like really good,
almost like they should be at a higher

894
01:01:46,039 --> 01:01:50,519
level, and you don't see that
as much from Mitchgoff. Mitchkoff playing off

895
01:01:50,559 --> 01:01:53,920
his better skilled teammates a little bit
better, which is nice, and using

896
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:59,320
those higher skilled forwards to his advantage, which you like to see. Again,

897
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:00,679
I don't think you can go wrong
here, but I just think Demodov

898
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:07,519
has more game breaking ability and the
ability to have more gaudy point totals because

899
01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:14,280
he's a cheat code that way.
Whereas Mitchkoff is really good at seeing the

900
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:16,639
ice. He has some really good
skills, but he's not as dynamic with

901
01:02:16,679 --> 01:02:22,119
the puck. He's just better at
seeing the ice using his IQ, breaking

902
01:02:22,159 --> 01:02:28,000
down the defense tactically, which is
good. Again, both these guys outstanding.

903
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,320
In fact, I just got as
we were talking, as you were

904
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:36,360
talking, Jesse, I just got
a message from our buddy Elon over at

905
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:39,360
Keeping Carlson. He was asking who
would you take between Celebrini and Mitchkoff,

906
01:02:39,559 --> 01:02:44,639
which I would take Mitch Goff there. I think that's interesting. I think

907
01:02:44,679 --> 01:02:49,519
Demodov has that higher offensive ceiling and
Celebrini the more all around, even though

908
01:02:49,559 --> 01:02:52,159
it's high points. I think I
would take Mitch Gooff. There lots of

909
01:02:52,159 --> 01:02:54,320
comparables to think about. I could
see why people are taking Mitchkoff. That

910
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:59,719
KHL production is remarkable and nothing to
sneeze at. If you look at the

911
01:02:59,719 --> 01:03:05,480
hockey prospecting between Mitchkoff and Demodov,
it's basically a pick em of who which

912
01:03:05,559 --> 01:03:08,400
superstar do you want? They're both
ninety nine percentile. They're both all the

913
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:13,199
comps are Hall of famers, Mario
lem Conor McDavid, John Tavares, Paul

914
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:19,000
Korea, all superstars. If you
look at Mitchkoff's other comps, there are

915
01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:24,480
some other ones like Jack Hughes.
I think is probably a more reasonable outcome

916
01:03:25,079 --> 01:03:29,880
for what he could be in terms
of his point production, in terms of

917
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,679
what we can expect from him.
Remember, Mitchkoff is five to ten like

918
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,480
Jack Hughes, so a little bit
smaller. Demidov is one inch taller.

919
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:39,360
I'm not sure that makes a huge
difference. They're pretty much both slightly undersized,

920
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:45,559
but not terribly. But Mitchkoff's pretty
pretty thick. He's he's pretty strong,

921
01:03:45,679 --> 01:03:47,000
so you don't see him getting pushed
around too much, So I don't

922
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:52,960
know that'll be a huge issue.
Looking at the J Fresh model, Matthew

923
01:03:52,039 --> 01:03:57,880
Mitchkoff one hundred percent a chance of
being an NHL star, one hundred percent

924
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:00,000
chance of being an NHL R.
I don't know that I've seen this from

925
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,880
the J Fresh card. This is
breaking news. He's the number one forward

926
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:09,480
in this prospect data set, number
one rank. Basically, everyone knows,

927
01:04:09,559 --> 01:04:12,639
everyone doesn't know, everyone thinks they
know, and it's assumes that he's going

928
01:04:12,679 --> 01:04:15,400
to be a superstar, and I
have no reason to doubt that. I

929
01:04:15,719 --> 01:04:18,880
agree, and I'm very excited that
it seems like he's coming over asap.

930
01:04:19,239 --> 01:04:25,960
So yay Matvey Mitchcoff. Maybe it's
a bit of a shock to hear me

931
01:04:26,199 --> 01:04:29,360
to say that I would take Demidoff, but I think that really between those

932
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,960
two you cannot go wrong, So
don't read too much into that. But

933
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:36,400
if I had to choose, I
think I would take demodof. Wow,

934
01:04:36,599 --> 01:04:42,280
you know what, if you don't
have a ninety nine percent or one hundred

935
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:45,840
percent. Then you're not using all
the percentages. As far as I'm concerned,

936
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,440
maybe that's not how percentages work.
Nonetheless, Victor, that is a

937
01:04:49,679 --> 01:04:53,880
wonderful endorsement of mister Mitchkoff. Let's
move on to the need to know.

938
01:04:55,000 --> 01:05:00,119
That would be emmel Andre eml Andre
twenty twenty fifty, fourth overall pick in

939
01:05:00,159 --> 01:05:01,599
the second round, five nine,
one hundred and eighty one pounds. He

940
01:05:01,639 --> 01:05:05,159
was five foot nine a little bit
slighter when he was drafted. He hasn't

941
01:05:05,199 --> 01:05:10,639
really grown in height. But don't
let the lack of vertical size full you.

942
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,519
This man is thick, and he
is strong, and he did not

943
01:05:13,599 --> 01:05:17,280
get pushed around. And after several
successful seasons playing professionally in Sweden, Andre

944
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:20,719
came over to North America at the
end of last season played a full season

945
01:05:20,719 --> 01:05:25,360
in the AHL for the Lehigh Valley
Phantoms. This season, he scored thirty

946
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,320
two points in sixty one games,
twenty seven of those assists, and three

947
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:31,480
points in six playoff games. I
think one of the most impressive things is

948
01:05:31,519 --> 01:05:35,039
he led the Phantoms by well over
a minute in total time on ice and

949
01:05:35,119 --> 01:05:39,800
he led he nearly led all skaters
a couple of one of the forwards beat

950
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:43,159
him out in power play time on
ice, and he definitely had the most

951
01:05:43,159 --> 01:05:47,000
of any defender, so really strong
numbers in terms of his time on ice

952
01:05:47,119 --> 01:05:51,239
as play driving was good. Looking
at his FHL player card, it's pretty

953
01:05:51,239 --> 01:05:57,000
interesting he has really high assists for
the league. His hits are actually really

954
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,920
strong. I mentioned he's physical,
even though he's a bit smaller, knows

955
01:06:00,119 --> 01:06:02,480
how to separate the player from the
puck, and he's not afraid to hit.

956
01:06:02,519 --> 01:06:05,320
So his hits are eight out of
ten. His shots are just above

957
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:09,960
average at six, so overall his
bash is a little bit lower, but

958
01:06:10,239 --> 01:06:15,239
some of those priffs may turn around, and overall the points are pretty good

959
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:17,159
and that's really the question here is
how much of the points are going to

960
01:06:17,159 --> 01:06:20,039
translate and how high is he going
to play in the lineup. Maybe our

961
01:06:20,119 --> 01:06:26,719
FHL scout James can help us with
those questions. Your dog gone right,

962
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:30,280
James can help us with those questions. Andy will skating excellent skater and sharp

963
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:33,760
edge work. Agility and burst of
speed allow him to cover a lot of

964
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:39,719
ice. Enables him to excel in
both offensive and defensive transitions. Passing and

965
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:44,159
handling exceptional, always seems to know
where he's going with the puck before it

966
01:06:44,239 --> 01:06:47,679
comes to him. His passes are
crisp and precise, which makes Andre great

967
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,519
for getting out of the defensive zone. Shooting decent shot can get it to

968
01:06:51,559 --> 01:06:56,920
the goal from the point, which
is extremely important. It's far from a

969
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,320
bomb, but Andre possesses the ability
to find seams and get it through bodies.

970
01:07:01,719 --> 01:07:06,280
IQ. Andre's IQ and hockey minor
perhaps his greatest ability, as he

971
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:11,440
reads the ice extremely well, putting
himself in the right position to disrupt plays

972
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:16,239
defensively or create plays offensively defense.
The IQ and positioning go along with the

973
01:07:16,239 --> 01:07:20,639
active stick to allow him to breakup
plays defensively, which maybe compensates for his

974
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:26,079
lack of size and physicality. So
the best of the assets, just like

975
01:07:26,079 --> 01:07:30,159
we've been saying, it's the IQ. Extremely smart player, may even possess

976
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:34,679
future leadership qualities for an NHL team. But the biggest concern five nine.

977
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,760
That's the concern is that he gets
knocked around, bullied around the goal,

978
01:07:39,199 --> 01:07:42,480
and he's shown that not to be
the case so far in the AHL,

979
01:07:42,599 --> 01:07:45,920
but obviously we're gonna have to wait
to see him do it in the NHL

980
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:49,559
top tier. Outcome could be a
excellent second pair defenseman in the NHL who

981
01:07:49,599 --> 01:07:54,800
could see time on a team's power
play and PK unit. That would be

982
01:07:54,880 --> 01:08:00,559
if his IQ and ability to quarterback
a power play make easy justification for second

983
01:08:00,639 --> 01:08:04,880
pair defenseman a fiftieth percentile that could
be a Level two or Level three like

984
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:11,559
a thirty plus point defenseman with above
average bash. Black assists in shots should

985
01:08:11,559 --> 01:08:15,800
be there. Not quite sure about
the hitting and the stylistic comparable. If

986
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:18,279
we're going to talk about a WEI
defenseman Tory Krug, who's going to come

987
01:08:18,359 --> 01:08:25,319
up and that is somebody that James
sees as a potential comp the NHL ranking

988
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:30,920
Mason Black Emil Andre puts him up
against Ethan del Mastro Chicago Blackhawks, and

989
01:08:31,199 --> 01:08:35,840
as it turns out, Andre comes
out ahead fifty four point five to forty

990
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:41,079
five point five for del Mastro Victor. Is that the way you rank them?

991
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,720
Yeah? Definitely. I definitely am
al Andre here. As I mentioned,

992
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,640
he has played professionally in Sweden for
several seasons since being drafted. He

993
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:51,880
was in the SHL with HB seventy
one, and then of no fault of

994
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:57,119
his they got relegated to the Hockey
House fenceman came back to the SHL he

995
01:08:57,199 --> 01:09:00,720
was with them and then went over
to the AHL with that we have valley

996
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:04,159
phantoms that as we talked about and
see some NHL action. I totally agree

997
01:09:04,239 --> 01:09:08,880
with James that it's only going to
take a few times of getting bullied in

998
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:13,439
front of the net by a big, giant NHL forward to raise serious questions

999
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:15,920
for the flyers. But as he
also said, we haven't seen that yet.

1000
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:19,439
And he is pretty physical used as
a low center of gravity, doesn't

1001
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:24,199
really get pushed around too much and
is usually in good position so he will

1002
01:09:24,199 --> 01:09:27,520
hold his position. Someone will really
have to displace him from that spot.

1003
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,439
He engages really well physically, even
better than someone like Tory Krug has in

1004
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:36,680
the past, who even though Krug
otherways, he definitely still struggled with getting

1005
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:40,720
pushed around a little bit at times
because of his stature, you don't really

1006
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:45,239
see that from Andre. I don't
think he'll have the offense that Tory Krug

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01:09:45,359 --> 01:09:48,600
had, but not many guys do, so yeah, I definitely like Andre.

1008
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:53,399
In terms of del mastro meed you
mentioned him, He's someone who is

1009
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:57,920
really interesting because fourth round pick by
Chicago in twenty twenty one. He's big,

1010
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:00,479
he's six four, two of five. He's played in an nationally for

1011
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:04,039
Canada. He generally just plays a
good matchup role. He doesn't really score

1012
01:10:04,079 --> 01:10:08,239
a lot, but he's really mobile. He's really good at shutting down other

1013
01:10:08,319 --> 01:10:12,880
top forwards, and I think that's
what del Mastro is, someone who has

1014
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:17,760
been really good at just being out
on the ice, shutting down other top

1015
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:21,239
forwards, but isn't necessarily going to
score a lot. He did have thirty

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01:10:21,279 --> 01:10:26,199
seven points in sixty nine games in
the AHL this season, so that was

1017
01:10:26,319 --> 01:10:30,199
nice to see. That was his
first professional season. I think that he's

1018
01:10:30,239 --> 01:10:32,680
going to have a little bit of
a tougher time translating his offense, but

1019
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:36,399
I do think he's someone who's going
to earn some NHL time, and I

1020
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:41,680
think that he's someone who will be
a good depth osh And I don't know

1021
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:44,520
that he's going to have the priffs. I think I would bet more on

1022
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,279
Andre. I think that he's neither
one of these guys is going to command

1023
01:10:47,359 --> 01:10:50,479
top power play, so you're looking
more at some depth scoring and some priffs,

1024
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:55,359
which Andre does seem to provide.
If you look at the hockey prospecting

1025
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:59,640
between these two, Andre definitely has
a higher equivalent. See when he graduated

1026
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,079
in the model thirty three percent chance
of being a star compared to just one

1027
01:11:02,079 --> 01:11:06,800
percent for del Mastro. Definitely Andre
there. Looking at some of his other

1028
01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:12,279
comps, you can see mL Andre
looking quite similar to someone like Thomas Shabbat,

1029
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:15,760
which is a pretty high praise for
him indeed. So I don't know

1030
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:21,079
that he'll be quite that level superstar
producer, but I think people are a

1031
01:11:21,119 --> 01:11:24,760
little bit low on mal Andre,
and he's proven it at every level and

1032
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:28,039
I think he's going to continue to
even as he goes up to the NHL.

1033
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,680
We'll see what the state of the
defense is in Philly when he gets

1034
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:33,600
there, but it'll be interesting.
There's another small forward, they have Cam

1035
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:38,479
York, and they have some other
bigger options, so it'll be interesting to

1036
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,319
see how it plays out. But
I like Andre. The j freshcard has

1037
01:11:41,359 --> 01:11:44,119
him at six percent chance of being
a star fifty two percent chance of being

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01:11:44,119 --> 01:11:47,119
an NHL er, which I think
is a little bit lower in terms of

1039
01:11:47,159 --> 01:11:54,039
the star potential, but the NHLer
probability seems pretty right on Victor. Let's

1040
01:11:54,039 --> 01:11:58,279
stay on the blue line, where
you keep your eye on prospect. Yeah,

1041
01:11:58,319 --> 01:12:02,640
so this is Oliver Bonk twenty twenty
three, twenty second overall pick sixty

1042
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,760
two, one hundred and seventy six
pounds, right handed d playing for London

1043
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:12,079
of the OHL. London who is
going to the Memorial Cup. And as

1044
01:12:12,159 --> 01:12:14,560
the time you're hearing this, you
might know how they did there, but

1045
01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:17,520
they're just about to start as we're
recording this. So, yeah, he

1046
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,960
had a really great season, sixty
seven points in sixty games in the regular

1047
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:28,079
season, thirteen more points and sixteen
playoff games for London. They swept the

1048
01:12:28,119 --> 01:12:31,840
Oshawa Generals in the OHL Championship,
and he currently leads London in total time

1049
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:34,319
on ice, has the most power
play time on ice of any defender,

1050
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:39,560
and his course he is fifty five
percent. But I think there's some interesting

1051
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:44,239
caveats here because even though this all
sounds really good for Bonk, I think

1052
01:12:44,279 --> 01:12:46,159
a lot of this is team effect, because London is a really good team

1053
01:12:46,279 --> 01:12:50,520
as we are seeing they're trucking through
the OHL. But a lot of the

1054
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:56,399
underlying tracking numbers for Bonk are really
not great. His defense is thirty fourth

1055
01:12:56,479 --> 01:13:00,239
percentile transition, forty fifth percentile offense, forty fifth percent centile, which are

1056
01:13:00,239 --> 01:13:04,159
really not good for someone who is
playing so much and racking up so many

1057
01:13:04,159 --> 01:13:08,640
points. You'd think that all these
numbers would be better and that he'd be

1058
01:13:09,239 --> 01:13:12,039
blue in all these categories. But
there's a lot of red here, sub

1059
01:13:12,399 --> 01:13:17,359
below average, particularly things like retrievals, controlled exits, shots per sixty,

1060
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:21,439
slot passes, success, primary point
involvement, advantages created. All these are

1061
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:26,880
below or well below average, So
that's not something you like to see for

1062
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,560
Bank. Looking at his FHL player
card, you can see that he does

1063
01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:33,159
shoot a lot per sixty anyways,
which I think is at odds with what

1064
01:13:33,279 --> 01:13:36,880
Mitch is tracking here. So I
don't know how to reconcile that looking at

1065
01:13:38,199 --> 01:13:41,279
but I do know I can tell
you that Brandon, who helps with these

1066
01:13:41,319 --> 01:13:44,560
cards, the data that we use
tracks it for the whole season, not

1067
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:47,640
just per game, so maybe there's
a sample size issue with what Mitch looked

1068
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:53,560
at. The goals and assists per
sixty are tops of the league for all

1069
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:58,399
over Bank. I believe he had
one of the best power play scoring of

1070
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:02,680
any defenseman in the OHL, or
anyone in the OHL actually, so points

1071
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:05,800
are really high, his shots are
good, his blocks are just above average,

1072
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:10,680
but his hits are low. So
overall his bashes pretty good, mostly

1073
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:14,119
driven by the shots and a little
bit by the blocks. Looking at some

1074
01:14:14,199 --> 01:14:17,520
of his play driving numbers in the
FHL card, some of these are a

1075
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:21,840
little bit better, but his fenwick
and COURSI are a little bit lower.

1076
01:14:23,279 --> 01:14:26,279
Some of his zone entries are good, some aren't so good. He's creating

1077
01:14:26,279 --> 01:14:30,079
a decent number of chances, and
some of his devents and metrics are plus

1078
01:14:30,119 --> 01:14:32,399
minus. Really a mixed bag here
with Bonk. It's really a confusing picture.

1079
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:35,680
So I'm hoping that our FHL scout
James can help clear up some of

1080
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:41,880
this misunderstanding. Perhaps let's hear from
him. James says, a Bonk skating

1081
01:14:42,119 --> 01:14:45,079
good, smooth strides, covers a
lot of ice quickly, almost deceptively,

1082
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:50,720
passing and handling stick handling is very
positive for a defenseman, as Bonk maneuvered

1083
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:55,680
himself out of trouble a few times, even drawing a penalty while being stuck

1084
01:14:55,720 --> 01:15:00,079
in a less than ideal situation.
His passing is very as he moves the

1085
01:15:00,119 --> 01:15:05,119
puck deliberately and rarely turns it over. The shooting a good shot uses it

1086
01:15:05,199 --> 01:15:10,600
quite often from the bumper position on
London's power play even picked a corner or

1087
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:14,640
a gold earn a rush play,
and James believes the scoring can continue in

1088
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:17,960
the NHL, maybe not at the
current pace. IQ Bank's ability to read

1089
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,279
the ice is a huge aspect of
his game, as he can jump into

1090
01:15:21,319 --> 01:15:25,159
a rush at the blink of an
eye, as well as shutdown a play

1091
01:15:25,199 --> 01:15:29,319
before it starts. On the defensive
end, he makes smart decisions with the

1092
01:15:29,359 --> 01:15:33,199
puck and also make sure to be
in the right position without it. Defense

1093
01:15:33,399 --> 01:15:38,600
bonks size and long reach allow him
to break up plays, and his IQ,

1094
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:43,680
combined with his skateing ability, make
him extremely formidable on the back end.

1095
01:15:44,119 --> 01:15:46,479
I expect Bunk to fill out a
bit more, which only will help

1096
01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:53,079
him continue to win more board puck
battles. Best asset then he could be

1097
01:15:53,159 --> 01:15:57,239
a good two way defenseman in the
NHL. Right now, the asset is

1098
01:15:57,279 --> 01:16:00,680
the IQ, reading the ice well, mapping out play before they unfold,

1099
01:16:01,279 --> 01:16:06,880
and ensuring he's in the best position
available. The biggest concern he's a well

1100
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:12,720
rounded right hand ed obviously concerned,
would be that his current offensive production may

1101
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,800
not translate to the NHL, but
only time will tell. The top tier

1102
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:20,239
outcome flashes of a potential top pair
defenseman, but at the very least a

1103
01:16:20,319 --> 01:16:27,119
top tier second pair defender. That
would be if the offense translates at the

1104
01:16:27,119 --> 01:16:32,720
pro level and the fiftieth percentile level
one, which forty plus point defenseman with

1105
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:38,279
elite bash as. Block shots,
hits, hits and assists are all things

1106
01:16:38,279 --> 01:16:41,640
he does very well now, could
score five to ten goals, twenty five

1107
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:46,640
to thirty plus assists. And the
stylistic comparable was Colton Pereco Mason Black the

1108
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:53,760
NHL rank King hits Oliver Bank versus
talent Tanner Mullendike, and in that competition,

1109
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:59,960
Oliver Bank comes outhead fifty four to
forty six, Victor Bank over Mullendike.

1110
01:17:00,119 --> 01:17:05,279
For you, I think, so
this is interesting in terms of both

1111
01:17:05,319 --> 01:17:11,159
these guys have a similar NHL E
close to seventy. Mollendike's is a little

1112
01:17:11,199 --> 01:17:15,279
bit higher. He played for the
Saskatoon Blades who took the Moustraw Warriors who

1113
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:19,880
just won the WHL, took them
to seven games, So the Saskatoon Blade

1114
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:24,880
is really good. Mollendyke really strong. Basically, molendike skating is already NHL

1115
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,159
level. He's really solid. I
think he's going to be more of a

1116
01:17:27,159 --> 01:17:30,079
transition defender. I'm not sure how
much his points are going to translate,

1117
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,560
but I think the same can be
said about Bonk. I'm not sure how

1118
01:17:33,159 --> 01:17:36,359
realistic it is for his points to
translate either. I think that there's some

1119
01:17:36,399 --> 01:17:40,560
concerns there. I mentioned some of
that in the tracking data that Mitch found.

1120
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,640
He's on a really good team.
Is all that going to fully translate?

1121
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,479
I don't know, but I would
pick Bonk here between these two because

1122
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:51,039
I think Mollendyke is just going to
end up being more of that transition great

1123
01:17:51,079 --> 01:17:55,680
skating, but isn't necessarily going to
have the offense. He might, but

1124
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:59,279
I don't know that he's dynamic offensively
enough. And right now he's getting all

1125
01:17:59,279 --> 01:18:01,239
the great opportunity on the power play, He's not going to command that in

1126
01:18:01,279 --> 01:18:05,119
the NHL necessarily, So we'll see. I think there are question marks about

1127
01:18:05,119 --> 01:18:08,760
both these guys, but both seem
like they're going to be NHL ers.

1128
01:18:09,319 --> 01:18:12,840
It's just a question of how high. Looking at the comps here in the

1129
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:16,479
PNHLE model, Oliver Bank has a
Sean Dersey comp which I think is pretty

1130
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:23,119
realistic and reasonable, especially with the
peripheral coverage and the sort of scoring and

1131
01:18:23,159 --> 01:18:27,359
form Molandyke is Braden Schneider, which
I also think is reasonable because he's a

1132
01:18:27,399 --> 01:18:30,600
really excellent skater, he's an excellent
defender, but he doesn't really he didn't

1133
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:34,760
really produce that much in terms of
points and perffs, so that's maybe what

1134
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,880
you have to expect. They're looking
at these two in the hockey prospecting model.

1135
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:42,359
It's funny they have exactly the same
numbers in terms of the star potential

1136
01:18:42,399 --> 01:18:45,680
which is eight up to thirteen percent
this season, and the NHL are probability

1137
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:49,960
forty seven up to sixty six.
They're in different leagues, they had slightly

1138
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:55,119
different equivalencies, but their percentages are
exactly the same, which is pretty funny.

1139
01:18:55,199 --> 01:18:59,079
Not much help there between the two. Looking at other comps for Bank

1140
01:18:59,279 --> 01:19:01,920
in this model, I think Justin
Falk is another reasonable one. Someone who

1141
01:19:02,359 --> 01:19:08,800
is a really strong producer but isn't
it wasn't ever really like the main guy,

1142
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:12,680
but is a pretty good secondary option
and certainly can't produce when given the

1143
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:15,479
opportunity. I think that's reasonable for
Bonk. Looking at the j freshcard,

1144
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,680
just one percent chance of being a
star eight percent chance of being an NHL

1145
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:25,800
or so. Still pretty decent overall. And that's it for our flyers dig

1146
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,960
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1147
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,520
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1148
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1159
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1160
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1161
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1162
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1163
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1164
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1165
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1166
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1167
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1170
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1175
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1176
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