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Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented
by fan Tracks, your source of information

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and analysis to help you win your
fantasy hockey league. Fuck off, I

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just step hit stay lots. Here's
your hosts, Jesse Sevier and Victor Nuno

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Fantasy Hockey Live. We're back once
again. Jesse Severe, Victor Nuno talking

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hockey. Victor, how are you
doing today? I'm doing awesome, Jesse.

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We are living the life going through
the teams. We got a team

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that doesn't have a big fan base. Today, I hope people listen to

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this episode. How are you doing? Oh, I'm doing good. I'm

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doing good. It's the right time
of year. I've never been there,

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but I assume this is a beautiful
time of year to be in Quebec,

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and we're going to go up there
to visit the Montreal Canadiens. Les Lei

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Abitan. It's not Low Sabitan.
That can't be right. No, they

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would never stand for that. No. Instead, it's Lei Habetan and we're

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gonna talk about those Montreal Canadians.
It's a rough year, but it's one

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of my absolute favorite guests. I'm
not ashamed to say. Recurring guests that

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we have on this show to talk
about them. Yeah, Victor, we're

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plugging through. We got a lot
of these to do. Just so people

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know, we're going to record a
bunch of these over the next couple of

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weeks, and they're gonna keep coming
out all through June. But we love

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life and we love getting these things
out, Victor. Other things that you

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love I happen to know because I've
seen you do it this week is the

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stuff for the Patroon. You've been
a madman working those Patreon sheets and doing

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some of these new things. Why
didn't you tell people what you're doing that.

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Let's tell them right up front.
We're not gonna wait till the end

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today, We're gonna tell them right
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Yeah. I recently had someone reached
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do Prospect rankings, and I was
like, yeah, I sure do,

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and you should check it out.
They're pretty good. But for those of

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you who don't know, we absolutely
that's one of the perks of the Patreon

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It's behind a paywall, so if
you're just a discord listener, a regular

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listen, you're not going to see
it. But there's some pretty good stuff

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in there. We are also hear
us quoting the organizational ranks, the team

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ranks. That's something that we have
in there, and you can see each

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prospect where they rank within their team
based on their position as well. And

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then we also haven't broken down by
forward, defenseman, and goalie, and

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not only can you see their points
upside, but also whether they're a volume

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shooter, hitter, or blocker.
So you can see all of that,

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which is really hard stuff to come
by. I don't really know of any

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site that or any other aggregator that
puts that together. You can pay for

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access of sites against that that'll give
you that, but that's several thousand dollars.

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If you want to go and pay
for that, you can. Anyways,

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this is a bargain to be able
to get all that. In addition,

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we're doing team top ten lists for
the patrons, so we'll be talking

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about out each team's top ten.
We also have roster doctors. I got

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a couple of those coming up with
people going over their team making a plan

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for how they need to move forward
with their team. And of course we

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have patroncrass. We just did one
on Thursday. It was Jesse and I

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am walking up the who we think
is going to go where. We'll do

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another one in May and June with
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This was a mock to see who
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life and their fantasy upside. But
in June it's going to be that.

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As news is going down, people
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Nuno twelve is Victor. You just
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point. You need a link to
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Victor. We're gonna take a break, we're gonna come back and we're

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gonna go to Montreal to talk about
the Canadiens. We are very pleased once

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again for several years in a row
we've had who is I think I could

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say my favorite team preview guest.
It is Ryan Spoor of the hockey writers

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for the Montreal Canadians, my best
French Canadian friend. How you doing,

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Ryan, I'm good, I'm good. Thank you for having me to be

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there. We are terribly glad to
have you here. I love talking Montreal

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Canadians with you. And unfortunately we've
had one year it was under really good

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circumstances, and then a couple of
years where that hasn't been yet. But

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let's talk about the Canadians and how
they did last year. They gained nine

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wins and thirteen standings points from the
prior year, so that's good, except

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they were still last in the Atlantic
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overall, not first as it was
in twenty twenty two. They were in

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the worst five statistically in the NHL
for several areas, shots for shots against,

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power play goals for power play goals
against, total goals against. They

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had a ton of significant injuries.
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and the number one overall pick had
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I'm sorry, there's a lot of
bad news to start out, but there

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were some happier surprises that we will
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It's not all bad news. But
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The Canadians are just coming through,
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transition year? What we expected,
a disappointment, a happy surprise? What

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did you get out of last year? I think that they, to degree,

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the Canadians outperformed based on expectations.
They weren't. Don't get me wrong.

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They were obviously a non playoff team, but they also sustained an incredible

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amount of his league leaders in man
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row. And in spite of all
that, they showed significant progress in terms

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of where they've ended up in the
standings. And I think that ultimately it

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was the scene as a next step
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when they finished in the last place. So all in all, I think

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they did well relatively speaking. Of
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This is the start of the team
right now. He is a guy who

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preseason I think Victor had him about
fiftieth as a fantasy player. I had

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him ninety first, he actually ended
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next year, I've got him Tier
two victor Tier three, but twenty six

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schools, forty assists, sixty six
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and his points topped his young career
highs. On the flip side, his

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batch, his black shots and hits
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a bit over half a hit and
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rated out poorly in some of the
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But at least the sources I've been
reading, it doesn't seem he's been

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beaten up too badly by PABs fans
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at him. He's only twenty three
and the Canadians are committed to him for

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seven more years at seven point seven
eighty five billion per Do you think Nick

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Suzuki is meeting expectations that you have
now that the team has now for this

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team and can you see further improvement
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I think he's living up to expectations. He was the own This is not

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even an exaggeration. He was the
only player to play all eighty two games

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this season only. I think Jonathan
kova Savic was next, and in Kovisavich's

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defense, I think he only thought
taking out of lineup because he was a

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part of a rookie defenseman rotation in
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that to say, Suzuki was the
only player. He was for all Inton's

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purposes, the epitome of consistency and
for him to perform the way he did,

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scoring a career high in points careering
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ideal circumstances, to say the least, with the revolving gore of blind mats,

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I think everyone would say that he
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very fair, very fair. First
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talk about his often his running mate, and that is Cold Caufield. End

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of the season with an injury,
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I had him ranked around sixty,
Jesse around eighty. He was right in

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that range, seventy eight. I
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We both have him tier two coming
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similar to his point pace, and
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on a sixty four point pace,
which he's built on that every year.

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Going from four one two I was
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to sixty four. He was shooting
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that's a couple percentage points above his
average. His PDO was also a touch

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high, so maybe a little bit
of reasonable regression coming. He also was

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pretty bad defensively, just in terms
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his actual coursie. He actually scored
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I think that's something that he can
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good shot, strong shooter. But
what worries me a little bit more is

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that his powerplay impacts were very bad
compared to the league average. His expected

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goals on the power play went well
below league average. So I guess two

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questions for Kaufield. He is an
RFA, So what do you think his

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contract will look like? And do
you think he can continue to improve his

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point pace? Maybe you get close
to seventy. I think that the Canadians

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need to lock caught Field, so
forget any don't forget it. But in

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my opinion of Bridge deal would be
a mistake. I can't really determine where

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he would end up in terms of
a capit, but I think it's realistic

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for fans to expect north of seven
if following in Suzuki's footsteps in that regard,

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because as you said, running mates
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the power play his lack of power
play success on his shoulders. The power

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play as a whole was garbage on
the Canadians and special teams in general and

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overall. If he's producing like he
was, I'd say that he's going to

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be at all right. And at
one point the season before he sustained his

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shoulder season ending shoulder injury, he
had been just a few goals shy of

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scoring fifty in eighty two games under
Saint Louis Martens, samily the head coach

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of the Canadians, when samely,
of course, place Dominique arm late last

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season. So Caufield was basically doing
all that was expected of him and more.

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And I feel like he's going to
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He's gonna be a star for the
Montreal Canadians and there, if they're smart,

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they're gonna lock him up right now
for what may be interpreted as an

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overpayment but will probably come to be
a bargain in just a few seasons.

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Well, a guy who the Canadians
picked up last year, Sean Monahan,

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was taken from the Calgary Films basically
just to eat the contract. They got

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a first round pick to eat that
contract, and it expired, of course,

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at the end of the latter That
was the end of that contract at

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the end of this year. But
actually Monahan was okay when he got in

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there. Six schools, eleven assists
for seventeen points at twenty five games,

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a much improved role in Montreal over
the last one in Calgary. He was

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definitely trending down late in his Flames
years, better production rate than his last

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few years there. Unfortunately, you
talked about health. Monahan is exhibit A.

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He broke his foot and then apparently
messed up his groin trying to skate

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with a broken foot and didn't play
again after December fifth. Monahan's never really

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last year. He never really settled
into a consistent line either between injuries and

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looks like maybe Saint Louis just trying
different things. But his numbers was Josh

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Anderson were actually quite nice. That's
who he was settling in with before he

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finally went out for the year.
Is Monahan coming back next year, Ryan,

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And if so, what do you
think you're going to see from him?

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Could he be a fifty five point
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again next year? I think if
the Canadian resign him, I think those

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realistic figures. I don't believe that
Canadians will resign him or that, or

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at least that they should resign him
because of his injury history and the fact

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that he's boldies. He's going to
be twenty nine, I believe, and

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I'm thirty eight, so that makes
me feel old. But whatever, the

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fact is, he was healthy for
the first time in a long time to

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start the season. He went underwent
tip surgery the last two seasons, and

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he was finally healthy, and he
showed what he could do when healthy,

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and he provided stability ian down the
middle. When the Canadians lacking that number

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two centermen they did acquire Kirby Dock
at the draft last season, and initially

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the thought process had been that he
would be that number two center. Of

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course, then general manager Kent Hughes
made that deal with the Flames, and

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no one really expected much out of
Monahan, but when he got in,

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he showed how valuable he could be
effectively insulating doc in the process us And

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just to an anecdote as to just
how valuable Monahan was, you mentioned,

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I believe that December fifth as his
last game. It was against the Vancouver

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Canucks and the Canadians were up for
nothing in the game, and I think

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that Monhan even scored in that game, and with the lead, he decided

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to leave the game because he growing
injuries and whatnot, and the Canadians ended

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up losing that game, I believe, seven to six in overtime. Yeah,

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they gave up a four goal lead
without Monahan. And up until that

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point the Canadians were also in the
playoff hunt. There was a point in

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early to mid November when they were
when many they were in a playoff spot.

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So it was without Monahan, basically
they went through a downward spiral in

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the standings. And I wasn't just
him. There were obviously multiple other injuries.

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All that to say, with Monahan's
injury history, the fact that he's

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as old as he is, If
I'm Monahan, I'm looking for some semblance

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of job security. I'm looking for
a medium to long term deal if one

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exists, and if I'm the Canadians, I don't want to commit to a

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player who has his injury history,
who's probably going to be in decline in

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a season or two. And the
Canadian would bet would want to be contending

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in that time span, and I
don't think the timelines fit. So in

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my mind, I think, don't
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number two center, as originally planned, and that should be what they do.

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I think you're right on there.
It was a great idea, I

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believe to make that trade. I
give all the credit in the world for

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that, because what did you risk. You got yourself a player who could

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stabilize the team, a nice,
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It was a tank here anyway,
Let's admit it. It was a

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tank here. So all you're really
out is a little bit of money.

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Get you got a first round pick
and somebody to help develop your young guys

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and fill in the gaps for a
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it was a nice bit of business. And whether he comes back or not,

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I don't know what the market's going
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were talking about Kirby Doc and he
definitely, he definitely was a positive story

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for this year for these Montreal Canadians. Victor and I didn't have many expectations

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coming into this year, but he
came out with fourteen goals, twenty four

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assists, thirty eight points in fifty
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last part of his season, but
things really look pretty great before that.

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He had his best campaign in this
his fourth year in the NHL and first

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in Montreal. He'd fallen out a
favorite. Seems like in Chicago at least

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not produced maybe at the expectations people
had. Doc played a lot beside Suzuki,

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so you're talking about him being a
centerman, but definitely this year he

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was getting some time with Suzuki.
He actually had one of the expected goal

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four percentages, one of the best
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advanced that's rated out well relative to
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nobody on the team looked exceptional this
year. But what do you think

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of the jump Kirby Doc made this
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this a guy who someday could be
a seventy point player for the next playoff

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Canadians team. Ryan, I think
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not out of the realm of possibility. I think he could really, very

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possibly hit that. It's interesting that
Doc did find his greatest success playing with

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zukin Coffield. At one point,
the three set a franchise record as the

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first three players twenty three or younger
to hit seventeen points or more in the

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first twenty games of the season,
which is a mouthful but still impressive.

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Nonetheless, I think that with the
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Kauffield were and I have number here, they were controlling fifty two of the

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shots with him as a trio,
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with someone else or without him for
purposes. So he definitely provided a lot

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of value to that top line.
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the Canadians to go with him as
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they have in him, and they
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they turned to Doc and he just
has a propensity to make the players

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he plays with better and I think
he showed that both on the top line

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and at the center position. And
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bring Monahan back, it just that's
second line position. It's this position he

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was acquired to play. She was
went on record as saying that when he

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acquired him at the draft last season. I think that they might have theoretically

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drafted Sleeri Slavkovsky to compliment Kauffield and
Suzuki. So I think that ultimately you're

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trying to find someone else to play
with those guys and just spread spread the

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wealth, so to speak. Yeah, that's good. That's good to know

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about Doc. It definitely felt Chicago
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so good to see him turn things
around. The next guy we're going to

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talk about, he came out of
nowhere. That's Raphael Harvey Pinnard. We

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didn't rank him. We didn't really
know about him, I would say,

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to be honest, we didn't really
think about him. He ranked in at

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the ninety fourth best forward, which
was pretty great considering all the forwards out

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there this year. I don't think
Jesse has him ranked. I have him

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as a tier three guy. I
think he might be able to sneak into

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that range. He had a forty
eight point pace. They're twenty points in

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thirty four games. So if he
can get above fifty with all of his

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hits and shots, and he has
quite a lot of blocks for a forward,

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I think he could get to that
tier. It sure seems like they

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found a gem here. The Cabs
did with Harvey Pinard. He was also

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a significant play driver. His expected
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as was his offensive impacts surprisingly pretty
great underlying numbers all the way across the

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board, and as I mentioned,
the strong peripheral floor gives him an opportunity

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to be pretty valuable fantasy asset.
So, Brian, I guess we have

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to know first of all, he
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the Albs are bringing him back.
He's only twenty four years old. But

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it seems like found money here.
I don't think they're going to have to

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pay him a ton. And do
you think he can going to get a

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similar kind of role to get close
to that fifty point pace with all those

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great hits, blocks and shots.
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It's hard to say where he'll end
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to, a great rookie season.
He had fourteen goals in twenty points and

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thirty four games. So the fourteen
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the fact that they came in thirty
four games. He ended up ninth among

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rookies, with Why Johnson and Mattie
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the players above him, so numbers
one through eight, had played at least

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sixty seven games, almost double,
so he was really putting them in.

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But on the flip side of that
coin, he was also he had the

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benefit of playing with Suzuki a lot
because of all those injuries. And I

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don't know how healthy the Canadians will
be. I don't know assuming and I

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think it's a fairly safe assumption the
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a third straight season. It's possible
that Harvey Pinnard simply slots in into a

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bottom six roll and provides a depth
scoring there, which would be fine.

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I personally think he's got enough upside
to warrant putting him in the top six

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beside Doc, but it remains to
be seen like what happens there. I

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think that Slavkovsky has might have the
inside track to that spot because of his

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pedigree, whereas Harry Pinardi is a
late round drop pick. And I wouldn't

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say he came out of nor because
he's been the worst kept secret in the

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Montreal Canaans organization among their fans,
as someone who's been nicknamed Lavallagher based on

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how he replicates his game after Brendan
Gallagher, and he was plying his trade

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and with Laval Rocket in the NHL, and everyone knows how much the Canadians,

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how much Canadians fans love Brendan Gallagher. So I'd say that all we

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know about harrypan Art is that he's
going to make a team next year.

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I don't see any way around that, based on how much success he enjoyed

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with the Canadians this year's it's his
spot to lose. It's just a matter

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of which spot that is. I'm
gonna throw a little bit of a grab

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bag. Three guys at you at
once here, Ryan, the forwards who

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maybe we're the next level down,
maybe didn't all perform as exceptionally as we

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would have hoped. You got your
Mike Hoffman a carbon copy of his last

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season half a point fifteen games,
missed. You got your Jonathan Druan.

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He has done a restricted free agent. I gotta think he's not coming back.

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He missed some time for injury,
but he also ended up on the

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fourth line sum or even healthy,
scratched at times. And then you got

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Josh Anderson, a personal favorite of
mine because he hits a lot of people,

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but his defensive indicators are very bad
in terms of some of his things.

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There's Hoffman, drew In, Anderson. Are you optimistic about any of

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these guys in a future role with
the Canadians, Ryan, I don't see

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Joanne coming back, so like you, so right the bat, I'd say

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he's off the table. It just
it was a mistake to bring him to

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Montreal. And I say that with
all due respect to Dreem, because he

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just wasn't There was too much hype
surrounding the Canadians acquiring a French Canadian player

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of his skill level, and it
just was doomed a failure, especially when

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they tried to put him force round
peg into a square hole and make him

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their number one center when it just
wasn't meant to be. And add to

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that the fact that they gave up
Mikael Sigachev to get him. It was

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one of Mark Bergerman, the ex
general manager, one of his worst deals.

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Barn On Joanna obviously missed the Canadian
stan runted the Stanley Cup final with

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the mental health issues, and it
just hasn't worked out at all. So

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I think just as much as the
Canadians wouldn't want to bring back, he

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wouldn't want to stay. So he's
it's a fair bet that he's going elsewhere.

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I don't have Hoffman hasn't worked out
either. He's got a few years

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left. This is the last year
of his deal, I think. Actually,

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so, I think that he's kind
of got a second line spot locked

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in, if not in middle six, just because Canadians would want to want

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to have him build up his value
as much as possible for the purposes of

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a trade if possible. I'm sure
Hughes would love to trade him this offseason.

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I don't think that's going to happen
because really, Hoffman hasn't done enough

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to warrant interest from other teams across
the league. I think he's going to

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be on pace for similar production or
to what we we witnessed from him over

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the last two seasons. Anderson is
an interesting case and that I think that

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he's a twenty goal scorer, but
he his production tops out at mid thirties,

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maybe forty points. And yet the
Canadians love this guy because he's Some

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seem to think of him as a
unicorn because of his combination of speed and

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size. He's a valuable power four. I'll give him that. I just

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feel like the Canadians should capitalize on
the trade value he has right now and

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trade him because I don't see him
contributing the way he has, which is

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from production standpoints, not all that
significantly in two three years when the Canadians

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are going to be looking to compete
not just for a playoffs, but potentially

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for more. And I think he's
going that contract of his is going to

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be an Alba Albatross contract, and
that's a few years down the road.

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For now, I think he's going
to get his looks. I don't think

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the Canadians have anyone play on that
top line with Kauffield and Suzuki aside from

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him and Doc, and like I
said, I think Doc belongs on the

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second line. Yeah, I think
Anderson is probably going to be good for

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twenty goals, assuming he stays healthy. You'd think he'd get more assists if

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he plays on that line with Kaufield, but I don't think so. So

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let's say in my mind, he's
going to get twenty goals and maybe ten

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fifteen assists this year next year.
Yeah, a twenty nine year old power

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forward with defensive maybe it's not a
strength of his and not able to equal

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his goals with assists and be under
half a point per game at four more

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years at five point five million per
it is going to be a tough point

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of trade. But maybe he'll get
off to a hot start. They'll be

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able to get something back. Boy, you mentioned the other guy, and

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this is a guy who has broken
my heart, Ryan, because Brendan Gallagher

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is also one of my favorites.
But it has been a rough go for

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the last couple of years. Fourteen
points in thirty seven games, he's down

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to fourteen seventeen average. Tim on
Ice used to be a hit per game

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guy that's fallen off, definitely.
He said he broken ankle this year,

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which cost him multiple stints that kind
of added up to the majority of the

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season in the end, if I'm
reading the reports right. But he's now

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in his thirties. He's under contract
for four more years, but the production

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just hasn't been there for a couple
of years. Is Brendan Gallagher done or

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are we going to see a comeback
from this guy with help this year?

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I think he's done in the sense
that I don't see him enjoying career resurgence

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from a production perspective. He did
score career low fourteen goal fourteen points and

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through seven games this past season,
and over the last four seasons he's missed

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one hundred and three games if my
calculations are correct. Just for some additional

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contexts, he only played fourteen seventeen
per game this season, which was twenty

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third on the team, and it's
not something you might have expected did out

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of him on his peak. Here
is just a few seasons ago. But

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he's dropped down the depth chart and
he can still provide value in a bottom

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sixth role, just not value worth
the CAP's cap it. I think he's

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staying put. He has no movement
clause. He does bring value as a

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leader on this team, part of
leadership corps, but no, he's as

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far as I can tell, he's
this is the role he's going to play

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from here and out. Unfortunately,
let's shift to a guy who's certainly not

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done and hopefully there's a little bit
more optimism about and that's your I Slavkovski,

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who is a pretty rough season for
the number one overall pick, just

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thirty nine games and ten points to
show, played just over ten minutes a

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night. His offensive impacts were pretty
bad than the bottom a few percentiles of

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the league and didn't provide a whole
lot else. He had just over a

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shopper game. He had a fair
number of hits, although he also received

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a lot of hits too, and
that was a big issue. Two questions,

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Ryan, was Muntra All the right
place for Slafkowski in twenty twenty two

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twenty three and what should we expect
from him in twenty three twenty four.

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In my humble opinion in regard to
your first question, f No, he

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should not have been played with the
Canadians. I felt like the American Hockey

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League was the right place for him
for him to actual mats to the North

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American game, first of all.
Second of all, I think it's hard

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to say that he even got played
with Canadians, so you have to wonder

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what the hell they were thinking.
I'm sure there was some justification in their

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minds. I just I'm not sure
what it is. I had mentioned that

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Gallagher was ranked twenty third with fourteen
seventeen per game, and I sat Slavkovski

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was ranked thirty with twelve thirteen per
game, and again for additional con text,

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a team like the Calgary Flames only
had twenty nine skaters, So that's

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messed up. I don't know.
Maybe they just felt like there was value

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and in experiencing a full season with
the Canadians, and maybe there is.

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But yeah, I think that if
you draft a guy number one overall,

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you need to develop him with his
best interests at heart and by extension,

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the best interests of the franchise.
I don't think they did that. And

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what do you think he can accomplish
next year? Do you think they'll put

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him in the A. It seems
like they're committed to keeping him up.

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But do you think he can come
around and have some impact, maybe get

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a little bit more ice time,
a little bit more opportunity. I'd like

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to think so. I think,
like you just suggested, the Canadies are

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probably committed to keeping them up.
I think that with a previous high draft

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pick. But there's just Barry Cockinghammy. They demoted him his sophomore season,

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and I think there's value in that
if they take that route. But if

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I'm in betting man, I'm not
generally in betting man, so take that

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with a grain of salt. But
I have to think that they're keeping him

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up and probably going to give him
more opportunities to succeed. I hope,

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so if they do in fact keep
him up. I also mentioned that the

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Harry Pinard might be in line for
a top six role or second line role.

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I think Slavkovsky. It comes down
to between him and Harry Pinard and

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Slavkovsky for that spot on the second
line. I could be wrong, but

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I think that's what makes the most
sense. Let's move to the blue line,

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Brian Mike Matheson boy, I technically
Victor and I overrated him in terms

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of the preseason. We didn't know
what to make of this blue line,

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and we both victory. I'm forty
nine, I at M sixty. He

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ended up one twenty one, but
really that's only because he missed a lot

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of time. But he was darn
productive when he was out there. Exceptional

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year. Eight goals, twenty six
assists, thirty four points in forty eight

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games, two and a half shots
a hit, one and a half blocks

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a game. Great numbers for defenseman
pro rated out to number thirty eight in

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bash Dom's market value of nine point
three million dollars, shows how well his

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numbers played up. Mattheson really just
the revelation last year. Is he the

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power play quarterback of the future for
this team. I don't think he's going

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anywhere, that's your question. He
had a career high thirty four points in

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just forty eight games. And just
for some comparison, Jeff Petrie, the

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guy who went the other way in
the trade Petre Penguins had thirty one points

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in sixty one games. And Petrie
is six six years older and matthis matth

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Siddons capit his four point seven five
million versus six point two five million for

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Petree. So all in all,
it was a great trade for Kent using

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the Canadians. And I believe Ryan
Paley also went the other way to the

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Penguins, and I might be forgetting
another piece. But all in all,

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considering the circumstances surrounding the trade with
Petree having requested out of town. I

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think Hugh was couldn't have done any
better. I think though, the one

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issue is that Matheson it plays the
left side, whereas Petrie played the right,

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and the Canadians are very deep on
the left side with Caden Gooley,

445
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,159
Jordan Harris and Arbor jack I all
three rookies this past season also and Joel

446
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:22,199
Edmondson of course the veteran presence on
the left side. So it's a stacked

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left side for the Canadians. But
all that to say, Mattheson has established

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00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:31,320
himself as the most productive defenseman left
or right on the team right now,

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and I think, yeah, he's
going to stick around and continue to lead

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the way offensively for this team.
His skating is incredible and as he proved

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as he's proven timing again, he's
not too shabby with the puck on a

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stick. The next guy we're going
to talk about one of those rookies,

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Caden Gooley. Solid rookie season for
Gooley before he got injured high ankle spring

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shut him down in March. He
was logging over twenty minutes a night and

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00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:07,679
massive hitting block numbers, becoming kind
of a bash Darling. For those of

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us who care about such things,
his defensive metrics were quite good, especially

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considering these were his first forty four
NHL games. He was well above average

458
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:21,800
and expected goals against and coursie against
for sixty. His offensive impacts were quite

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a bit lower, but that's okay. Expected goals for were quite low based

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on their depth chart. I don't
see any reason why Googlie can't play twenty

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plus minutes a night next season,
giving us all those sweet hits and blocks.

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Ryan, What do you think twenty
four has in store for Googli and

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can he improve on that thirty four
point pace? I mean he. I

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think it's maybe unfair because it was
just one season, but I think it

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wasn't just an ankle injury. He
also stand knee and shoulder injuries this season,

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so his health is concerned. But
like you suggested, based on how

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he played when he was in the
lineup, have to believe that he's going

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to get his looks and if he
stays healthy, for sure he's going to

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produce. And I think that pace
you mentioned thirty four points, I believe

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it's very much realistic. He heading
into last season, he was seen as

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the team's top defensive prospect, and
he's obviously graduated in that regard. Yeah,

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I think he's a potential top pairing
defenseman on the future. Maybe not

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00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:30,079
next season, but he's definitely trending
in that direction again, assuming his health

474
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:37,000
is okay. Justin Barron four goals
eleven it says, fifteen points in thirty

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nine games. He's young. Nice
to see a first rounder getting some traction

476
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,599
with the team. He only got
called up halfway through the years, so

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this was a growing pace for him. Is Justin Baron going to be in

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00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:52,239
for a bigger role When he started
to get minutes, it didn't really come

479
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,639
with the scoring production yet, But
I don't know if that's how his game

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00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,880
is just going to look all the
time, or is just the way that

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you're one looks for him him and
we expect a continued growth. So what

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do you make of Justin Baron?
Ryan my colleague Land Potman from Hockey Ritters.

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We also we cover the Canadians together
in his mind, and I think

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he's had first on exposure to Justin
Barron and his developmental years. He suggests

485
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that Baron's game is similar to that
of Jeff Petrie and Petrie was a kind

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00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:30,760
of a late bloomer too. He
really only Petrie was course drafted by the

487
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Boilers and it came to the Cannes
via trade. And it was only after

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he came to the Canes where he
started to put up the points like he

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did. I think Barron and his
production wasn't too bad. He had thirteen,

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sorry, fifteen points and four goals
in thirty nine games, so at

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thirty point pace for all oftense purposes. I think he's going to get more

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00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:58,599
ice time next season. I think
he's established himself as a better right side

493
00:37:58,599 --> 00:38:04,079
option than Chris Widman, who's relegated
to death defenseman's status and justifying Blues.

494
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:08,280
In my opinion, I think he
Baron obviously came up from the Colorado Avalanche

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00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,400
to trade deadlines ago, and I
think it was the right move then to

496
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,079
trade our tour leaking in for him
to shore up I get some additional depth

497
00:38:17,079 --> 00:38:20,920
on that right side because it was
lacking at the time. And I think

498
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next season Baron is going to do
well to further justify that trade. I

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see it. I see him as
a fixture on the right side four years

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00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:35,119
to come, and yeah, I'm
still happy with that trade. Yep,

501
00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:37,480
I think it worked out well for
everyone. I think Artur's pretty happy with

502
00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:42,119
the cup as well. So the
next guy we're going to talk about is

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00:38:42,199 --> 00:38:45,039
Arbor Jackie. You included to him
earlier. If you like the bash of

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00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:50,239
Googlie, then you probably like jack
I as well. Not quite as many

505
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,719
hits are blocks, but pretty solid
banger type guy. Although his underlying metrics

506
00:38:54,719 --> 00:39:00,960
are quite different than Googlies. He's
not really good played ever, his defensive

507
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:07,599
impacts are pretty negative. He has
expected goals per sixty are pretty close to

508
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:12,360
the bottom ten fifteen percent of the
league, So that was really not so

509
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,719
good, and that kind of worries
me that he won't get the same number

510
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,400
of minutes, he won't get the
same time on ice moving forward. He

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00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,679
played fifteen sixteen this year. I
don't know if that's going to increase because

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of his poor defensive play, and
it's not like he's offensive genius or anything.

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00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,800
His offensive impacts were pretty similarly bad. So Ryan, what should we

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00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:36,280
expect from the man they call WiFi? Since no one would really guess jack

515
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,320
I as your password, it's hard
to say he's ingratiated himself with fans.

516
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:45,519
As fan favorite based on his style
and the fact that he drops the gloves

517
00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:52,440
and he's a heavyweight, and his
production wasn't too bad and he was actually

518
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,960
fourth among defenseman and power play ice
time per game and second and powerfulay points

519
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,760
among defenseman with three, which isn't
much, but again, the powerploy suck

520
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:07,480
to get what you get. I
think Jack guy is between him and the

521
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other rookie defenseman on left side,
Leean Harris, he probably has the lowest

522
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:15,320
ceiling of the three. But I
also think that I also know that he

523
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:20,719
crew me wrong this past season and
established himself as a as at least an

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NHL caliber player, and kudos to
him for that. I think he is

525
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an undrafted player for the record,
so he's been proving people wrong all along.

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I think that the Knaser going to
continue to rely on him to a

527
00:40:34,639 --> 00:40:37,800
degree. Last season, they deployed
a rotation in and out of the lineup

528
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:43,960
among the rookie defenseman, and I
think that he's going to get in that

529
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,800
way. But see the HL is
being out of the question for him.

530
00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:52,519
But again, like if he stays
like the fans won't mind, because again

531
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this coming season, no one's really
expecting much and they'll love to see him,

532
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:05,239
and he's going to you to produce
decently if he does, and I

533
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,360
don't think there'll be any complaints because
to a degree, he's playing with house

534
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:14,360
money and he's winning. He sure
is. He's doing better than you and

535
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,880
Iran, that's for sure. So
it's also funny because, yeah, as

536
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:22,880
you mentioned, undrafted kind of earned
a role for himself. And he also

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00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:28,559
has a brother who is in junior
right now. He's eighteen, and his

538
00:41:28,639 --> 00:41:30,480
named Florian jack Eyes, so at
least I want all know how to say

539
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:35,639
his name now. He's also playing
for Hamilton, so he was. He's

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00:41:35,679 --> 00:41:37,400
eligible for this year's draft. Will
be interesting to see if he gets drafted

541
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:42,679
or if people are going to just
continue to sleep on the Jackai brothers for

542
00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:46,800
longer. But let's move on to
the goalies. The Canadians had the thirty

543
00:41:47,079 --> 00:41:52,239
first expected goals against for sixty in
the league. Their goalies, though,

544
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:58,280
outperformed this mark by allowing only the
twenty ninth most goals yay. The goalies

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00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,239
that were there, Montembo and al
both played about the same number of games

546
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:05,679
in the forties. Kingen Primo got
into three games. If you look at

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00:42:05,679 --> 00:42:10,320
the numbers, Primo was a non
factor. Alan was pretty good at negative

548
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,360
two goal save above expected, not
too bad. He was neutral, and

549
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:20,679
his delta Fenwick Montembo completely surprised me. Ryan, I don't know. I

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00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,000
did not see this coming for him, even as it was happening. I

551
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,400
didn't really believe my eyes when it
was happening. I didn't really understand why

552
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,079
he kept doing well. He played
forty games and had had fourteen point seven

553
00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:36,760
eight goals save above expected. It's
incredible, and his delta Fenwick was point

554
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,639
nine eight, really good stuff.
He well outperformed his expected save percentage.

555
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,880
Continuing on Montebo, he has never
had a positive goal save above expected and

556
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:51,800
his next best mark was negative three
point two five. So I don't understand

557
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,000
what happened with these goalies. Alan, I thought, did fine for what

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00:42:54,079 --> 00:43:00,480
was expected of him, and Montembo
way outperformed his expectations in a way that

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00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:05,079
makes me wonder what the future holds
for these Twombo has one more year at

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00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,320
one million, so pretty affordable,
especially in cap leagues. If he's if

561
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,480
you're telling me he's going to play
half the games, that's a huge value.

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00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:15,400
And Alan has they just resigned him
two more years at three point eighty

563
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:20,119
five. By the numbers, Alan
is for sure the starter, but it

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00:43:20,199 --> 00:43:22,519
didn't work out that way this year. So what do you expect in terms

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00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:27,079
of the split for these two and
is anyone else going to play a significant

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00:43:27,159 --> 00:43:30,440
role. It doesn't sound like Caiden
Primo is in the good gracios of the

567
00:43:30,559 --> 00:43:35,039
organization, and there's also Jacob Dobash, but I'm not sure he's ready yet.

568
00:43:35,039 --> 00:43:39,119
So what do you think of the
Canadians goalies? See, that's it's

569
00:43:39,159 --> 00:43:44,679
complicated. It's always complicated, but
it's even more so with the goaltenk situation

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00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:50,760
because Primo is no longer waiver exempt
this next season, so the Canadians have

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00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,880
a decision to make as to whether
they want to try and slip him through

572
00:43:55,440 --> 00:44:00,000
waivers, and I don't think he
makes it through waivers. After another solid

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00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:01,679
season in the American Hockey League,
started off slowly and he got injured,

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00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:07,280
but I think he picked up the
pace late in the season and in the

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00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:12,440
Color Cup playoffs in twenty twenty two
he had a nine three six percentage and

576
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,119
expectations had been for him to further
establish himself as the number start of the

577
00:44:16,159 --> 00:44:21,159
future this past season and he didn't
really do that, but he's still in

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00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:23,840
the conversation. And I think that
if you're the Canadians, you can't simply

579
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:30,920
ignore the potential he has as a
Mike Richter Award winner and the college ranks.

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00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:34,639
I think that he's never going to
be another carry Price. If you

581
00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:39,079
can ever claim to be another carry
Price, I think that the kids have

582
00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:42,639
to resign themselves to the fact that
they're probably not going to find another one,

583
00:44:42,679 --> 00:44:49,199
and Primo has potential to be a
decent, if not unspectacular starter in

584
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,199
this league, and the Canadians can
simply just throw that away, or at

585
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:58,320
least risk throwing that away, just
because they have Alan and Montamble under contract.

586
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,960
And I think Alan, all due
respect to him, I think that

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00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:06,159
he is the odd man out,
at least he should be, unless the

588
00:45:06,199 --> 00:45:08,440
Canadians determined that they would go with
three gold goalies, and I don't think

589
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:15,360
that's realistic, but it's a possibility. Montambo has effectively earned the number one

590
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:20,039
job in my eyes and the eyes
of many people based on how he's played.

591
00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:22,960
I don't know if he replicates the
same success next season, because,

592
00:45:22,039 --> 00:45:27,159
as you pointed out, Wow crazy. I don't know if anyone expected that

593
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,000
he was a career of third stringer, and all of a sudden, yeah

594
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,320
again, he's proven me wrong,
like Jack I before him, But I

595
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,920
never envisioned him playing like an NHL
caliber goalie, and all of a sudden

596
00:45:38,159 --> 00:45:42,840
he's in the conversation to be the
team's number one goalie. Of course,

597
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,800
this team's number one goalie is not
necessarily a number one caliber goalie in general.

598
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,159
And I think Montambo is the future, is a quality backup. And

599
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,880
I don't know if the Canadians can
again turn their backs on the potentially displayed

600
00:45:54,960 --> 00:46:01,079
last season. And Alan at thirty
three, I believe he's not getting any

601
00:46:01,119 --> 00:46:05,840
better. He's in fact, only
getting worse if you look at his the

602
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,559
superficial stats or since he started,
since he joined the Canadians. And I

603
00:46:10,679 --> 00:46:15,400
think that you can try trading Allen. I think his cap hit goes up

604
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:20,599
to three point five million next season
from two point eight seventy five millions,

605
00:46:20,599 --> 00:46:22,639
so you're gonna it's gonna be hard
to find takers. So I think you

606
00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:29,360
have to maybe consider burying his contract
in the HL, just so you don't

607
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:34,760
risk Premos Premo getting claimed. I
think that's the logical course of action.

608
00:46:35,039 --> 00:46:40,840
There is value in Allen's leadership.
I just don't know if it is more

609
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:45,000
valuable than premost potential. In fact, I would hazard against that it is

610
00:46:45,079 --> 00:46:50,960
not. So I think it makes
the most sense where the Candians ago with

611
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,400
Montambo and premoting goal next season.
I don't know if they do that.

612
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:59,119
I don't think they will. I
think that they'll try and sneak Premo through

613
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:06,480
waivers and get bitten as a result. That's my two cents. Wow,

614
00:47:06,559 --> 00:47:09,000
Yeah, that was going to be
my question because it my follow up question

615
00:47:09,079 --> 00:47:15,440
because it I don't disagree with you. I think they probably should go Montembo

616
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:22,360
and Primo to not risk losing Primo
for nothing. In my discussions with Kat

617
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:30,599
Silverman, who's prospectially person she really
thought that Primo has plateaued and while not

618
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:36,000
disagreeing that he what the like what
you said, but what the Canadians should

619
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,320
do with him is different from maybe
what his upside is. But she really

620
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:45,000
likes this Jacob Dobesh guy, even
though he's really not ready for a role.

621
00:47:45,159 --> 00:47:46,960
I would say, so he probably
needs to be in the AHL,

622
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:53,559
and so yeah, he maybe Dobesh
in the hl and having Alan down there

623
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,840
could be good for his development.
And maybe if they started with Primo and

624
00:47:59,079 --> 00:48:02,000
Montembo, if someone gets injured or
whatever, they could always bring one of

625
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,920
those guys up. That certainly seems
like the right It seems like a reasonable

626
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,639
plan. But I also agree with
you, I'm not sure that they follow

627
00:48:09,679 --> 00:48:14,840
through with that. They probably don't
in all honesty, because the Canadians are

628
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,159
about as traditional an organization as you
can get, and that doesn't sound like

629
00:48:17,199 --> 00:48:21,400
a traditional move. All right,
Very good, Ryan, thank you for

630
00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:25,360
sharing all this knowledge and analysis on
the Montreal Canadians. Whyn't you let our

631
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:31,039
listeners know where they can keep up
with you and follow your work. Yeah,

632
00:48:31,079 --> 00:48:35,639
so I'm the Montreal Canadians columnist.
I'm Montreal Canadians columnist at the Ocurators.

633
00:48:36,039 --> 00:48:38,480
You can find me there. I
write every few days, even during

634
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:43,760
the offseason, and you can find
me on Twitter at My handle is our

635
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,199
Scorer. So my first initial and
my last name are sz P, like

636
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:52,639
Peter O, R E R.
Very good. Thanks so much, Brian.

637
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:58,039
Good luck to your Canadians in the
coming year. Thank you very much.

638
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,480
Then I'll that's get buyers. Oh
my goodness, with a cat quick

639
00:49:10,559 --> 00:49:20,400
grab. Now it's your weekly goalie
talk with Cats Silverman, Cats Instincts,

640
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,360
And now it's time for Cats Instincts
on the Montreal Canadians, joined once again

641
00:49:25,559 --> 00:49:30,400
by Cat Silverman, and we're gonna
talk Montreal goalies. We've got a few

642
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:35,000
good ones here to talk about.
We're gonna start with Emmett crow Too,

643
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:37,960
twenty twenty two, sixth round pick, six foot four, two hundred pounds.

644
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:45,559
He was in the USAHL this past
year playing for the Waterloo Blackhawks.

645
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:51,119
He had twenty eight games, nine
seventeen saver centers two point four eight Jaa's

646
00:49:51,159 --> 00:49:57,480
committed to Clarkson. He's got actually
a pretty high hockey prospecting equivalency at thirty

647
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,840
five percent, it's pretty decent for
a goalie. He looks like a couple

648
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:06,480
of NHL starters. Alex ald is
one comp So nothing that's blowing the doors

649
00:50:06,519 --> 00:50:09,480
down. But what can you tell
us about Emmett kroto Cat. Yeah,

650
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:14,199
he's headed to Clarkson. I'm assuming
that's a long term project for Montreal,

651
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:20,480
and I know that they are probably
hoping they have something a little sooner than

652
00:50:20,559 --> 00:50:23,599
him and the works, but I
think he's done a good job of adapting

653
00:50:23,599 --> 00:50:27,960
at each level. Because he was
with the Waterloo Blackhawks last year, he

654
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,440
took a little bit of an unconventional
path in order to ensure as one of

655
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:36,159
the Canadian players that he was able
to play in the NC Double A.

656
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:42,000
So he played minor hockey and then
moved to I believe it was a private

657
00:50:42,119 --> 00:50:45,920
school for high school in the US, and then moved to Waterloo and now

658
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:49,280
he's headed to the NC Double A, and it looks like he's done a

659
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,199
really good job of adapting at each
level. Obviously, it's a little tricky

660
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:57,480
with goaltenders that go through some of
those smaller leagues to find some of those

661
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,239
videos, and the ones that you
do times look like they were filmed on

662
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:06,360
a pinhole camera. But what I
saw, it looks like he does a

663
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:13,280
good job of essentially using his size
to his advantage when he's when he's facing

664
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,559
new competition. But it looks like
it takes him a little bit to get

665
00:51:15,639 --> 00:51:20,920
used to each level. I found
just little clips like with Waterloo, and

666
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,599
I found a couple of clips of
him from back news playing in Canada,

667
00:51:23,679 --> 00:51:28,920
and he doesn't seem like he has
a ton of instinctual flow to his game

668
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,760
yet, but he does play to
his physical strengths right, Like he looks

669
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:37,559
like he's the opposite of Caden Primo, who we're gonna talk about too,

670
00:51:37,599 --> 00:51:44,679
who. I think that Emmett Croto
just looks like someone who he knows his

671
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,920
speed and he knows his agility level
and he just rolls with it, and

672
00:51:47,039 --> 00:51:51,159
so it sometimes takes a little reining
in and it takes him a little while

673
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,400
to read his opposition. But once
he gets settled in, he looks really

674
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:58,199
good. So I'm excited to see
how that goes for him. But I

675
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:01,199
do think that we see some of
those guys who play year at Ventsa sometimes

676
00:52:01,199 --> 00:52:07,599
they played two or three. I
think unless something really drastic happens, he's

677
00:52:07,639 --> 00:52:09,800
probably going to be best served playing
all four years. So he's a ways

678
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:14,079
out for Montreal. But I mean, he's had to do a good school,

679
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,800
it's got a good foundation behind him. And didn't see anything in the

680
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,880
games that I did watch at Waterloo
that looked like an O to me,

681
00:52:21,079 --> 00:52:24,920
just looked like he he sometimes gets
a little too fast and loose with his

682
00:52:25,039 --> 00:52:29,360
technique and maybe needs a little bit
of raining in here and there, but

683
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:35,480
not a ton. All right,
that's really good. Hears maybe a guy

684
00:52:36,079 --> 00:52:38,719
in deep leagues to add and hold
on to Emmet Croto, good name to

685
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:44,320
know. Let's move on to the
next guy. Jacob Dobesh or DoBeS,

686
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,800
d OBEs. It's probably Dobesh in
check but people, I'm sure over here

687
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,880
are going to say it differently.
He was a twenty twenty fifth round pick

688
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,880
from Montreal, came to the United
States and to high school from the check

689
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,239
Chekia, then to the USHL,
then to NTABA. He is now twenty

690
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:06,400
one and he's been at Ohio State
for the last couple of years and looked

691
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,039
really good. Last year. His
numbers were a little bit better at nine

692
00:53:08,119 --> 00:53:14,119
thirty four saved percentage in thirty five
games this year nine eighteen in forty games.

693
00:53:14,519 --> 00:53:20,199
Ohio State certainly not the class of
the Big Ten in hockey as they

694
00:53:20,199 --> 00:53:23,440
are in football, so maybe a
little different there, and he should be

695
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:29,920
with the leval Rocket next season.
Dobeesh has a pretty decent hockey prospecting profile.

696
00:53:30,039 --> 00:53:35,679
He looks like a couple of NHLers
Corey Schneider, David Riddett and Martem

697
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,880
bern Is one who he looks a
fair amount alike, at least at this

698
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,760
point. Broun, it should be
noted, was in the NHL and his

699
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:45,920
D plus five season and his equivalence
he shot way up. But that's probably

700
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,599
not gonna be the case for Dobesh. What can you tell us about him?

701
00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:53,079
What are your what do Kat's instincts
tell us about Jacob dobeesh oh So

702
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:59,760
I felt on a rabbit hole watching
him. He's no Jacob Dostal but Lucas

703
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:04,920
stalled. But he's good. He's
a lot of fun. I had to

704
00:54:05,039 --> 00:54:12,440
double check his stats something like three
different times because I didn't believe his physical

705
00:54:12,559 --> 00:54:16,199
stats as they were listed. Because
every highlight reel I watched, every game

706
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:21,519
I was watching, I was like, this guy's huge, this guy's enormous,

707
00:54:21,519 --> 00:54:27,400
and he's taller than most, but
he's not He's not a been Bishop

708
00:54:27,519 --> 00:54:30,599
sized goaltender. He's six four two
o five pounds. There's literally another guy

709
00:54:30,639 --> 00:54:36,719
in Montreal's system who's bigger than him, and he just he takes up so

710
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,679
much space and does such a good
job of being exactly where he needs to

711
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:46,519
be to maximize his size. So
he's not a super speedy goaltender. He

712
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:50,920
but he moves smartly with his size. He reminded me a little bit of

713
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,519
watching Darcy Kemper. When Kemper is
playing well, stayed within his crease,

714
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:58,840
stayed within the blue paint really well, didn't seem like he was oversliding.

715
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:04,280
I wish I saw a few more
games with some explosive speed from him,

716
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,000
just because I wanted to see what
happens when he really needs to just get

717
00:55:08,039 --> 00:55:12,440
across the creased split second. It's
a good thing that we that I didn't

718
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,840
have to see a ton of that, because obviously that means that he wasn't

719
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,440
putting himself in that position very often. But I did want to see it

720
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,480
just because when he does move up
to the big leagues, that is something

721
00:55:21,519 --> 00:55:24,519
that's going to undeniably happen at some
point. I wanted to see how he

722
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:29,679
can make those upper tier desperation saves
and just didn't get a huge feel for

723
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:34,039
it, but loved what I did
see and assumed that he's headed at the

724
00:55:34,039 --> 00:55:39,159
age I decided at the Laval Rocket, I'd assume he's probably outside of Kayden

725
00:55:39,199 --> 00:55:45,159
Primo, their closest NHL ready goaltender
in the system, just because he looked

726
00:55:45,199 --> 00:55:50,039
like Everything about his game was just
clean and tidy. All those things that

727
00:55:50,159 --> 00:55:53,159
I said I kind of want to
see from Emmett Croto over the next couple

728
00:55:53,159 --> 00:55:57,559
of years. Here is what I
saw from Jacob Dobesh, And he just

729
00:55:57,639 --> 00:56:01,719
looked like everything he was doing was
crisp and confident, and he looked like

730
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:06,079
he wasn't having to adjust himself too
much. It wasn't having to second guess

731
00:56:06,159 --> 00:56:09,840
himself. He was making it tricky
for the defense on the opposition to open

732
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:15,519
up space for themselves to just sneak
the puck in because he does take up

733
00:56:15,519 --> 00:56:17,079
a little more space in the nuts. So I was exciting to watch.

734
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:22,480
I do know that obviously, at
twenty one, we've only seen him play

735
00:56:22,559 --> 00:56:25,760
collegiate hockey. It's a different ballgame
when they hit the pros. But from

736
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:30,280
what I saw, look like he's
set to be good to go for Montreal

737
00:56:30,639 --> 00:56:34,239
at least at the HL level to
start and them we'll see where he goes

738
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,679
from there. Yeah, it should
be fun to watch the ball and see

739
00:56:37,679 --> 00:56:43,039
how they progress. But Jacob Dobesh
definitely good name to know. He's Yeah,

740
00:56:43,079 --> 00:56:45,000
like you said, he's someone who
who might sink into some games and

741
00:56:45,079 --> 00:56:49,360
at the pro level depends on how
far they have to reach down the depth

742
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:53,360
chart. You never now, it's
happened before, happened before, so we

743
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:58,320
already alluded to him. Caden Primo, he's someone who has been on the

744
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,519
radar for a while now. He
was drafted all the way back in twenty

745
00:57:01,559 --> 00:57:07,280
seventeen seventh round pick, and yes, in casa wondering, he is the

746
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,679
son of Keith Primo and Wayne Primo
is his uncle. Maybe he should have

747
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:15,239
been a skater cat. Maybe that's
the problem, but he's six foot three.

748
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:19,960
This past season was his fourth split
between the HL and NHL. He

749
00:57:20,639 --> 00:57:23,320
really has I guess you could say
fail to establish at the NHL level,

750
00:57:23,639 --> 00:57:28,320
but it's not like he's had a
ton of opportunities. Twenty one games in

751
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:32,000
four years is not a lot,
and so mostly he's been at the HL

752
00:57:32,119 --> 00:57:37,760
level. His equivalency is now tapped
out at five years and he's at twenty

753
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:42,440
seven percent. He actually looks a
lot like Jordan Bennington, who obviously has

754
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,920
been a starter, but he also
looks like a lot of other guys who

755
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:49,400
haven't progressed to that point. I
guess what do we make of him at

756
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,000
this point? With all the bouncing
round. He seems like a guy who's

757
00:57:52,119 --> 00:57:55,039
unlikely to end up being an NHL
starter. But does he still have one

758
00:57:55,119 --> 00:58:00,000
b upside or maybe back up?
What do you think? What's your instincts

759
00:58:00,039 --> 00:58:06,360
tell you about Peyton Primo? That's
it's so frustrating because he was their guy

760
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:10,199
for me. I assumed he was, especially with some of the signings they've

761
00:58:10,199 --> 00:58:15,039
made over the last couple of years. I assumed that they were looking to

762
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:19,440
get him in the very least by
this last year. And like you said,

763
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,280
he's played split between the NHL and
the HL for four years now.

764
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:27,840
He's played a total of one hundred
and twenty three HL games At this point,

765
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,719
I feel like there's not a whole
lot more he can do at the

766
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:35,800
HL level from a development standpoint,
just because he's tapped out there. I

767
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,719
don't know why they've stalled out on
him like this. He's never looked super

768
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:44,000
remarkable in the NHL games he's gotten
into, but he hasn't gotten a whole

769
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:45,880
lot of time, like you alluded
to, just to find consistency at the

770
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:52,960
NHL level. I think he he
looks like a goaltender who, for lack

771
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,719
of a better term. He looks
like someone who's had really good trainings throughout

772
00:58:55,760 --> 00:59:02,519
his career, which makes sense given
his hockey background. But he tracks well,

773
00:59:02,559 --> 00:59:06,880
he reads well, he does a
good job of making sure that he's

774
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:15,320
staying with the play through traffic.
He just sometimes his recovery in his structure

775
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:21,719
level once things start to go poorly
doesn't look amazing. And I don't know

776
00:59:21,719 --> 00:59:24,800
if that's just because he hasn't been
given a chance to develop that NHL confidence,

777
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:30,159
or because Montreal really really thought he
looked fine in a few games they

778
00:59:30,199 --> 00:59:32,760
saw but didn't meet him at the
NHL level yet, or I don't know

779
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:37,480
what it is, but once he'll
have you twenty four, when this upcoming

780
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:43,199
season starts, that's not necessarily old
for a goaltender, but you'd assume he'd

781
00:59:43,239 --> 00:59:45,000
at least be in the running for
their backup role at this point. And

782
00:59:45,239 --> 00:59:50,000
I don't know if that's their plan
right now, but if he's not in

783
00:59:50,039 --> 00:59:53,199
a backup role by this year,
i'd assume it's maybe not a good fit

784
00:59:53,239 --> 00:59:58,000
for him, just because we've seen
everything we can and I think he doesn't

785
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:02,400
need a whole lot more structurally and
technically development wise. He just needs to

786
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,840
get the reps at the NHL level
to see if he can do it,

787
01:00:06,599 --> 01:00:08,639
and I assumed he could. He
was a guy that I was pretty high

788
01:00:08,679 --> 01:00:12,559
on when he first hit the HL. I assumed he'd get a year or

789
01:00:12,559 --> 01:00:16,360
two of miners and then make it
to the NHL. But at this point,

790
01:00:16,639 --> 01:00:21,280
I don't know that he's I'm very
confused when it comes to him,

791
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,920
because I assumed he'd be at the
NHL level by now, and nothing that

792
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:30,760
he's done at the NHL level has
been so egregious that I think he deserves

793
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,679
to be banished back to the miners. So I don't really know what the

794
01:00:32,719 --> 01:00:37,440
hold up is, but clearly Montreal
doesn't feel the same way. They don't

795
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:42,840
necessarily see eyed eye with me on
that. So something has to be holding

796
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,760
them up and holding him up,
and it might be his decision making,

797
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:49,960
it might be the way that he
recovers from games. I don't know what

798
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,800
it is, but I don't know. I'm losing a little bit of faith

799
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:57,639
that he'll be that NHL starter.
Like you said, I think he probably

800
01:00:57,679 --> 01:01:00,199
still has n HL backup potential in
him, but I don't know if that's

801
01:01:00,199 --> 01:01:02,159
what he's looking for. So I
don't know what sort of reaction he'd have

802
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:08,199
to that. Yep, sounds like
Cat's instincts are confused. That's that's never

803
01:01:08,239 --> 01:01:14,360
a good game. But good to
know that it's nothing developmentally or any specific

804
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,119
thing. Maybe there's something unseen,
as you said, with the team,

805
01:01:16,199 --> 01:01:22,400
that's always hard to know. One
more guy from Montreal, just briefly let

806
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,480
us know if this is a guy
we should even worry about. But Joe

807
01:01:24,639 --> 01:01:30,039
Verbedeck, who is a six foot
six, one hundred and eighty pound twenty

808
01:01:30,119 --> 01:01:34,280
twenty one seventh round picked by Montreal. He is someone who was in the

809
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,519
OHL and this year he spent most
of the years in the ECHL. I

810
01:01:37,559 --> 01:01:44,119
think primarily because they had enough at
Levall, but maybe not. He had

811
01:01:44,119 --> 01:01:46,639
four games in the HL didn't look
so good. But should we even worry

812
01:01:46,679 --> 01:01:50,960
about him? Is he someone that
is of any interest or should we just

813
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:57,519
focus on the other three? I
don't think he's like I've we've talked with

814
01:01:57,599 --> 01:02:02,280
other teams about some guys that I
think or I don't understand why teams have

815
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:07,559
signed them to pro deals. I
don't think they're worth looking at all.

816
01:02:07,679 --> 01:02:10,199
I don't think that's necessarily the case
with Joe Verbedic, but he's not one

817
01:02:10,239 --> 01:02:15,719
that I'm super high on, and
he kind of made a somewhat unremarkable shift

818
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:20,079
to the Pros, and he didn't
have super remarkable numbers in North Bay with

819
01:02:20,119 --> 01:02:24,719
the OHL, which sometimes those OHL
teams, the numbers can be a little

820
01:02:24,719 --> 01:02:30,039
skewed just based on the quality of
teammates versus quality a competition. But when

821
01:02:30,039 --> 01:02:37,360
you then also see struggles to put
up good numbers once they hit the Pros,

822
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:43,239
that becomes something where I don't think
he's worth completely discounting. But I

823
01:02:43,239 --> 01:02:45,559
don't see any reason for us to
focus on him a ton at this point,

824
01:02:45,679 --> 01:02:49,920
just because he hasn't done anything to
shoulder his way ahead of the other

825
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,119
three that they already have in their
system. Awesome, thanks so much for

826
01:02:53,199 --> 01:02:59,719
giving us your instincts on the Montreal
Canadians goalies. Of course, we'll be

827
01:02:59,719 --> 01:03:20,400
back right after this that dynasty dig
Victor Nudio. We are ready to talk

828
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:27,960
about the Montreal Canadians hockey in the
miners. According to your rankings Fantasy Hockey

829
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:32,079
Life rankings, the Canadians have the
fourth best system in the NHL. Look

830
01:03:32,079 --> 01:03:36,559
at that. Good job, guys. They also have picks. They've got

831
01:03:36,599 --> 01:03:40,440
an extra first rounder, two extra
fourth rounders, and an extra fifth round

832
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:46,599
pick for this upcoming year's draft.
So Canadians, there's something bright on the

833
01:03:46,639 --> 01:03:52,079
horizon. I know it starts with
their no brainer victor one of the hottest

834
01:03:52,119 --> 01:03:58,320
prospect names out there in the world
today. That's right, Lane Hudson is

835
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:02,480
your Montreal Canadian no brainer. If
you have been living under a rock for

836
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:06,320
the last year, maybe you don't
know about Lane Hudson. But the man

837
01:04:06,519 --> 01:04:13,719
is an exciting prospect and he had
an amazing season one for the record books.

838
01:04:14,159 --> 01:04:17,679
I feel compelled to mention that we
did tell you about him last year.

839
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:23,280
We told you that you should probably
draft him with the late first or

840
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:26,719
early second round pick, even though
we know he went almost in the third

841
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,239
round. I ranked him twenty third
going into last season, and I wasn't

842
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,360
even high enough on him. It
turned out to be not nearly high enough.

843
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:39,840
I know that in Mason Black's pnh
Elly overall rankings, overall of all

844
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:45,400
the prospects, he's currently number four
of the anyone any prospect. That's pretty

845
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:50,000
ridiculous. So he's awesome. Forty
eight points in thirty nine games for Boston

846
01:04:50,119 --> 01:04:56,199
University. He scored the most points
by a defenseman in the ncuble A since

847
01:04:56,400 --> 01:05:00,519
Brian Leach, who turned out to
be pretty good player. He was a

848
01:05:00,599 --> 01:05:05,559
Hobie Baker finalist was Lane Hudson,
First Team All American U twenty World Junior

849
01:05:05,639 --> 01:05:10,599
Championship bronze medal. Oh and right
now he's playing in the World Championships against

850
01:05:10,679 --> 01:05:15,840
men and scored at least at this
point when we're recording probably the goal of

851
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:20,760
the tournament where he actually blew past
and deeked out four different defensemen and then

852
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:26,599
one handed it by the goalie.
Ridiculous stuff. He's really good. We

853
01:05:26,719 --> 01:05:30,199
have some Mitch Brown tracking data on
Lane Hudson. His overall scores A ninety

854
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:36,480
nine. His offense rates out as
one hundred percentile. He has the highest

855
01:05:36,559 --> 01:05:41,960
expected goals per sixty and expected assist
per sixty of anyone in the NC DOUBLEA.

856
01:05:42,079 --> 01:05:44,960
His offense is just off the charts. It looks like he's trying to

857
01:05:45,039 --> 01:05:49,719
escape the page. His transition zone
game is pretty good. The biggest asset

858
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:55,559
is his controlled entries. The other
things like exits and things like that are

859
01:05:55,599 --> 01:06:00,239
pretty good but not amazing. Miscellaneous
things like board battles, advanced and just

860
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:06,440
created expected primary involvement game scorer all
off the charts as well. The main

861
01:06:06,519 --> 01:06:13,920
bugaboo is his defense entry zone prevention
is pretty bad, so is his retrieval

862
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:17,079
success in defensive plays, so he
rates out of the thirty four for defense.

863
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:23,239
For a little bit more on him, let's hear from our FHL scout,

864
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:30,000
Austin. FHL Scout Austin has this
to say about Lane Hudson. Skating

865
01:06:30,119 --> 01:06:33,840
is strong. Hudson is very deceptive, high motor player who uses his skating

866
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:38,760
effortlessly to beat opponents. Doesn't have
the elite skating motion, but does a

867
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:43,159
good job at catching up on opposing
rushes. Puck Handling above average. Hudson

868
01:06:43,239 --> 01:06:46,679
has very good puck skills and has
great patience at both ends, although at

869
01:06:46,719 --> 01:06:51,480
times Austin noticed that he gets a
little lost with the puck when challenge and

870
01:06:51,559 --> 01:06:56,400
doesn't maintain full control. Shot above
average for a defenseman. Hudson has a

871
01:06:56,519 --> 01:07:00,679
very strong shot that looks that he
looks comfortable with and he isn't afraid to

872
01:07:00,719 --> 01:07:05,320
shoot. He's doing that more than
he did at the usntdp IQ Borderline Elite.

873
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:10,119
Hudson is incredibly calm on the ice. His awareness for what he has

874
01:07:10,159 --> 01:07:15,159
to do is sensational. He always
understands the correct play, puts his fundamentals

875
01:07:15,199 --> 01:07:17,679
to good use. It's rare to
see him make a mistake that you can

876
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:21,800
chalk up to size, and his
ability to create high desure height injured moments

877
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:26,559
is top notch. Defense is average. Is not the most physical player,

878
01:07:26,599 --> 01:07:29,280
but he isn't afraid to play with
a bit of grit at times, and

879
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,760
his size can be noticeable, though
it mainly holds up at one v one

880
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:36,239
against bigger competition, though it remains
to be seen and he has noticed Hudson

881
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:40,079
lose control of the puck at times, but he's not really sure if that

882
01:07:40,199 --> 01:07:45,280
size related. Best asset offensive IQ
biggest concern size and defensive game top tier

883
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:51,440
potential Tier one plus all star level
potential with natural speed and IQ defensive growth

884
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:57,360
could turn Hudson into a legitimate Nors
Trophy candidate most likely Tier maybe Tier one

885
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:02,400
could fall to Tier two if his
defensive hinders him. He is a and

886
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,920
then his stylistic comparable. It's tough
to find a strong comparable to Hudson.

887
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:10,440
There isn't a player too similar to
his game as a smaller, offensive minded

888
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:14,280
defenseman, but there are some similarities
with Quinn Hughes in terms of both skill

889
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:18,680
and being offensively intelligent. And there's
a whole lot more written that I will

890
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:21,720
say. I did go back to
Austin and querry him a little bit more

891
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:27,880
about the skating because some of the
skating and defensive questions have been an issue

892
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,960
for Hudson in the past, and
he said that it has really improved throughout

893
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:35,079
this year and what he saw was
some pretty good edgework and skating and really

894
01:08:35,119 --> 01:08:39,079
able to keep up with most rush
defenders, and some of the in zone

895
01:08:39,159 --> 01:08:43,520
play was an issue at times,
but overall pretty good, so that's good

896
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:47,319
to hear. He also notes that
his one point three points per game in

897
01:08:47,359 --> 01:08:51,239
the NC DOUBLEA is the highest for
a D plus one defensive prospect in the

898
01:08:51,279 --> 01:08:57,159
last twenty years. The only three
that are even comparable are Adam Fox,

899
01:08:57,359 --> 01:09:01,720
Quinn Hughes, and Zach Warenski,
all HL star defenseman. So pretty good

900
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:06,239
stuff there. Thank you Austin for
that awesome report. Now we look turned

901
01:09:06,279 --> 01:09:11,399
to the NHL ranked King himself,
Mason Black, who sent out this poll

902
01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:17,079
Lane Hudson versus Brant Clark. We
have star studded matchup here. Brant Clark

903
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:21,840
tearing up the OHL this season,
sixty one points in thirty one games.

904
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:26,800
He also got in some NHL games. His PNH chile is ninety nine.

905
01:09:27,399 --> 01:09:30,600
We already know that's not going to
be higher than Hudson's because he's the highest

906
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:34,199
of any defenseman, and his PHLI
at the NCAA level is one hundred and

907
01:09:34,199 --> 01:09:40,000
eleven points. That means in his
peak years at this point right now,

908
01:09:40,039 --> 01:09:42,920
he's projected to put up one hundred
and eleven points as a defenseman in the

909
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:46,920
NHL. That's crazy talk. He
definitely has this upward trajectory if you look

910
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:50,239
at his PHL e and by When
I say crazytock, I don't mean to

911
01:09:50,279 --> 01:09:53,960
say Mason's wrong. I just mean
to say that's crazy to think that he

912
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,800
could do that. We have to
wait and see, of course, but

913
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:00,399
Hudson definitely looks like he's grown from
a second to a first line to a

914
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:03,960
superstar, and his current p initially
equates to those two of the guys I

915
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:09,079
already mentioned, Zach Warenski Adam Fox, and the other one is Tye Smith,

916
01:10:09,159 --> 01:10:13,000
which is not working out so great, right Now, if you look

917
01:10:13,039 --> 01:10:16,399
at the Hockey Prospecting bottle, this
one definitely leans towards Brant Clark a little

918
01:10:16,399 --> 01:10:21,199
bit, although in their D plus
one year they were almost identical with having

919
01:10:21,239 --> 01:10:27,319
the same amount of star potential.
Although brand Clark's NHL probability is a little

920
01:10:27,359 --> 01:10:30,199
bit higher, that's probably mainly due
to the fact that he's three to four

921
01:10:30,239 --> 01:10:33,159
inches taller. Anyways, at this
point, brand Clark has raised his star

922
01:10:33,199 --> 01:10:36,680
potential from seventy four to eighty eight
percent, so just a little bit higher,

923
01:10:38,199 --> 01:10:41,720
but overall pretty similar in this model, with a slight edge towards Clark.

924
01:10:42,319 --> 01:10:46,960
The people voted and it was relatively
close. They went Brant Clark fifty

925
01:10:47,039 --> 01:10:56,560
seven to forty three. Jesse,
what say v This comparison on the Hockey

926
01:10:56,560 --> 01:11:01,840
prospect on the Byron Beater is so
weird because it's got basically the star probabilities

927
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:05,399
are equal for the D one year, and of course brank Clark hasn't just

928
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:09,279
had his D two year. But
if you look at the full comps,

929
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:14,720
Lane Hudson's are a bunch of superstars
and Brank Clarks you got Victor Hedman,

930
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:18,359
Evan Bouchard, Tony D'Angelo, it's
fine, but the other side, she

931
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:23,560
got Pronger and Leech and Bork compared
to Lane Hudson. Anyway, I don't

932
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,479
know what that means, but you
talked about the heights, some of those

933
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:31,279
types of things, Victor. I
find this weird because I would think that

934
01:11:31,319 --> 01:11:34,960
the Montreal fan base would be a
bit stronger than the LA fan base.

935
01:11:35,359 --> 01:11:40,479
In chiming in and maybe juicing these
stats a little bit, but man,

936
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:44,600
I like Lane Hudson. I think
I'm gonna take Lane Hudson over Brank Clark

937
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,960
in this comparison. Both of them
are likely to become power play quarterbacks for

938
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:51,680
their teams in my opinion, and
both of them were likely to be very

939
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:57,680
successful in that role. But what
the Hudson did this year, like you

940
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:00,760
said, you just can't deny,
and at a higher level of competition,

941
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:04,600
not NHL has Clarke did a little
bit, but the ncaa higher level competition

942
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:09,039
than some of the Ohl stuff that
Clark did. So I am going Hudson,

943
01:12:09,119 --> 01:12:14,560
Victor. How about you? This
is really hard because they're both stars

944
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:16,319
and you don't want to have to
choose between either of these. I think

945
01:12:16,359 --> 01:12:23,319
both of these guys are going to
be impact HLS. It's hard to imagine

946
01:12:23,399 --> 01:12:27,720
that Hudson will have an easier path
to start him than Brent Clark because there

947
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,880
isn't really anyone in the LA system
like him, and he has decent size.

948
01:12:31,039 --> 01:12:34,920
Is skating has come a long way
and he just looks the part right.

949
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:40,279
He doesn't really have any major deficiency
like Hudson has the size thing.

950
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:45,840
I do think Hudson has better offensive
IQ and some of his tangibles are just

951
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:49,359
incredible, but he is gonna always
have that tag of just being too small,

952
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:56,159
so it's hard to imagine that he'll
get the same opportunity and runway to

953
01:12:56,279 --> 01:13:00,159
be a star in the NHL.
But I personally like Lane Hudson better as

954
01:13:00,159 --> 01:13:04,760
a fantasy asset. I think that
you have to include the volatility risk between

955
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:09,039
these two, and there's more risk
with Hudson, but I think the reward

956
01:13:09,199 --> 01:13:14,319
is slightly better. If you think
the reward is the same, then I

957
01:13:14,319 --> 01:13:17,159
would imagine you would just go Clark
because the risk would be less. But

958
01:13:17,279 --> 01:13:20,600
I think it's worth it to take
the risk on Hudson. He has defied

959
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:26,640
the odds every single place he's gone, and he has not only made it,

960
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:31,279
but excelled and broken records everywhere he
plays, and so that's that's pretty

961
01:13:31,279 --> 01:13:33,880
crazy. And I should also mention, since we're talking about Lane, he

962
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:39,199
has a brother, Cole at the
USNTDP who's going to be draft eligible,

963
01:13:39,279 --> 01:13:43,560
I believe next year, and he's
already looking as good or better than Lane.

964
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:47,039
So we're going to have this conversation
again on repeat for the next several

965
01:13:47,119 --> 01:13:50,399
years. But Lane Hudson is incredible. I don't think you can go wrong

966
01:13:50,399 --> 01:13:54,640
between these two. It depends on
how risk averse you are and looking at

967
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,760
the teams. And I should also
mention that I don't think Matrell has anyone

968
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:01,640
like him in their system either,
and there's far fewer defencemen blocking his path

969
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:05,560
than there are in LA. So
there's maybe a reason to go Hudson Jesse

970
01:14:08,239 --> 01:14:14,560
onto the needs no prospect Victor who
is it? Joshua who continued his strong

971
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,039
play in the queue this season.
He was pretty great at the U twenty

972
01:14:17,079 --> 01:14:23,319
World Championships for Canada, who brought
home gold. Often sorry of the guys

973
01:14:23,359 --> 01:14:27,560
that were drafted on that team,
he was drafted the latest fifth round.

974
01:14:28,039 --> 01:14:30,920
I remember a couple of years ago
they had a team of all first rounders

975
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:32,880
and Jordan Spence. This year,
they had a few guys who were taken

976
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:35,439
outside the first round, but most
of them were first rounders. You had

977
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:41,039
Cayden Bank here as a third Jack
made here and Ethan deal Mastro was fourth,

978
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:45,720
but Joshua was the fifth round pick
and all he did was finished tied

979
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,800
for second in points with Logan stan
Coven, just behind Connor Berdard ahead of

980
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:56,600
Dylan Gunther. So anyways, Joshua
just continues to prove everyone who doubted him

981
01:14:56,640 --> 01:15:00,479
wrong. But I think there's still
reasons to have some town and we're going

982
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:02,479
to talk about them. So if
you look at Mitch Brown's tracking data,

983
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:06,239
his shot numbers aren't great. They're
a little bit above average, it's pretty

984
01:15:06,279 --> 01:15:12,640
good. His slot passes and expected
assist for sixty are really high. His

985
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,279
transition game is poor, and that
probably goes to his main issue, which

986
01:15:15,359 --> 01:15:19,199
is his skating. It has been
an issue since his draft here, which

987
01:15:19,279 --> 01:15:24,439
is part of the reason he fell, and some poor production and it's gotten

988
01:15:24,439 --> 01:15:28,079
a little bit better, but it's
still not great. His entry and exit

989
01:15:28,159 --> 01:15:31,840
numbers are really poor. His defensive
game is actually pretty good in terms of

990
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:35,800
his offensive zone retrievals, but his
defensive plays of course against is not great,

991
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:42,399
so overall it's he has an overall
score of eighty six high offense at

992
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:46,279
ninety five percentile and thirty two percentile
for transition zone, even though his defense

993
01:15:46,399 --> 01:15:49,680
is at ninety four, So a
mixed bag there for WA. For a

994
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:56,359
little bit more on WA, let's
hear from rfil Scout Nate skating is average.

995
01:15:56,359 --> 01:15:59,199
He doesn't have high end speed.
You'd like to see a skating standout

996
01:15:59,239 --> 01:16:02,560
in junior, but even in junior
he looks slow. It's hard to say

997
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:05,399
whether this is a lack of effort
or if his skating just needs a lot

998
01:16:05,399 --> 01:16:09,159
of work. Because there are times
where he can get moving pretty quick.

999
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:13,600
It's just not consistent enough to say
that he's any more than an average skater.

1000
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:18,000
An average junior skater. Puck handling
elite the positive in his game,

1001
01:16:18,199 --> 01:16:21,720
as he turns defenders inside out off
the rush, has a puck puck on

1002
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:26,039
a string when going through traffic in
the new school of players. He likes

1003
01:16:26,079 --> 01:16:29,560
to pull off some flashy moves to
beat the defense, and they often work

1004
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:33,159
in his favor. Shot above average. It's accurate that finds the net often

1005
01:16:33,239 --> 01:16:36,439
in his high danger scoring opportunities.
He's shown that he can beat junior age

1006
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:40,600
goalies with ease, but might need
to work on it a bit more to

1007
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:45,640
beat pro bolies on a consistent basis. IQ above average was a perfect example

1008
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:49,439
of someone who makes up for average
skating by having an excellent hockey IQ.

1009
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:55,319
He always finds himself in the correct
position on the offensive end, turning nothing

1010
01:16:55,359 --> 01:16:58,479
plays into scoring opportunities that usually end
up in the back of the net.

1011
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:02,600
His IQ and this area is a
big reason why his inconsistency and average skating

1012
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:06,600
don't bother an eate as much because
they as much as they should, because

1013
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:12,800
they think he'll always find a way
to contribute defense average, he sometimes while

1014
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:16,520
sometimes loses himself in coverage at the
defensive end or at even strength, leaving

1015
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:20,640
his man open for shots to the
net and struggling to get the puck out.

1016
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:24,000
Will even when get him in the
opportunity, he tends to cheat for

1017
01:17:24,079 --> 01:17:27,840
offense, trying to beat the defender
the defense for opportunities at odd man rush,

1018
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,319
which isn't rare for a player of
his offense. Skinsett at junior he

1019
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:35,640
often bailed out of his coverage with
hits or and his coverage issues with hits

1020
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:39,760
or blocks, but that won't be
easy once he moves up in the ranks.

1021
01:17:40,399 --> 01:17:43,840
Biggest asset is the lead hands in
playmaking. Biggest concern is consistency.

1022
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,039
It's easy to be inconsistent in junior
when you're as long as you're putting up

1023
01:17:46,039 --> 01:17:49,439
one hundred points like while he will
still get plenty of ice time and opportunity

1024
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:51,760
because there's always a chance he can
break through and put up a game.

1025
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:56,399
He references this one game that he
watched, which I think is a great

1026
01:17:56,399 --> 01:18:00,239
example in this year's playoffs, where
he was a complete non factor in the

1027
01:18:00,239 --> 01:18:02,640
first two periods, then he exploded
in the third period for three goals and

1028
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:06,119
assist. Once he gets to the
pro level, taking off large portions of

1029
01:18:06,159 --> 01:18:11,199
the game like that will not afford
him those third period opportunities, which is

1030
01:18:11,239 --> 01:18:15,039
an excellent point, and that could
really limit his ability to live up to

1031
01:18:15,119 --> 01:18:18,680
his potential. So top tier potential
for Joshua tier one elite second line winger.

1032
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,640
If Walking clean up his consistency issues, there's no reason he can't put

1033
01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:26,760
up sixty to eighty points per season
with his offensive skill set. He won't

1034
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:30,119
do that by taking shifts off at
the NHL level, though most likely tier

1035
01:18:30,399 --> 01:18:32,680
tier three middle six winger. From
what he's seen, Wa can be a

1036
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:39,600
contributor to the offense at the NHL
level, even if he isn't consistent stylista.

1037
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:45,439
Comparable Jonathan Druanne, he finds that
Wa reminds him a lot of Duranne.

1038
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,720
His ability to cut through defenders and
find the open man is something that

1039
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:54,359
Durand was doing in the same league
during his time at Halifax while being a

1040
01:18:54,399 --> 01:18:57,560
bit of a liability of the defensive
end, and what interests him in the

1041
01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,199
during comparison is his concerns and potential. Many said Duane would be a high

1042
01:19:00,239 --> 01:19:04,399
point producer from pro even after leaving
junior, but consistency issues and his game

1043
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:09,079
not translating to the pro caused him
to not live up to his expectations,

1044
01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:14,119
and he fears that Wa will have
the same issue as Duanne. I have

1045
01:19:14,279 --> 01:19:17,279
those same issues as well. One
thing that he notes is that for why

1046
01:19:17,399 --> 01:19:19,880
is coming into the fifth round pick
and doesn't have the weight of being a

1047
01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:26,159
top five pick. That will help
the pressure situation in my opinion, but

1048
01:19:26,279 --> 01:19:30,840
it won't afford him the same opportunities
like it did for Duanne. So thanks

1049
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:33,159
Nate for that awesome report. Now
we turn our attention to the NHL rank

1050
01:19:33,239 --> 01:19:40,800
King Mason Black himself and the pole
and data Joshua in this case going against

1051
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:45,920
Connor Geeky. Connor Geeki who was
taken eleventh overall by Arizona just last year,

1052
01:19:45,399 --> 01:19:48,720
and Wa, as we mentioned several
times, taken fifth over a fifth

1053
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:54,960
round in twenty twenty one, so
with his time and sure Broke coming off

1054
01:19:56,680 --> 01:20:00,520
a pain actually of seventy this season, and Connor Geeky with the pig ice

1055
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,359
this season to pile a fifty four, so not exactly the same and was

1056
01:20:03,399 --> 01:20:09,159
Pachilli has hovered above and are below
and then above and then right hat first

1057
01:20:09,199 --> 01:20:14,720
line potential the pah Lei equivalents for
Waugh, Anton Londell, Connor, Garland,

1058
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:18,600
Payton Krebs, so pretty decent but
not standout performers, and looking in

1059
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:24,119
the Hockey Prospecting model, they're pretty
similar. Geeky went from twenty eight to

1060
01:20:24,119 --> 01:20:27,159
twelve percent star potential, so he
went down quite a bit. This year.

1061
01:20:27,239 --> 01:20:30,560
Wa has gone up and then back
down and he's currently sitting at sixteen

1062
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:36,000
percent. So pretty similar there,
and in this poll with hundreds of voters,

1063
01:20:36,199 --> 01:20:42,399
Joshua came out pretty handily the favorite
sixty four percent to thirty six percent

1064
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:45,479
the fifth round pick, taking it
to the first rounder Jesse, What do

1065
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:51,199
you think you talk about how much
lead he's going to get, how much

1066
01:20:51,239 --> 01:20:57,520
opportunity he's going to get. Victor
Dude's name is wa he's playing in the

1067
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:01,039
queue and he's playing for Montreal.
All this guy is gonna get all the

1068
01:21:01,159 --> 01:21:08,359
opportunity he needs. We need a
French Canadian hero up there in our Quebec

1069
01:21:08,399 --> 01:21:12,119
team. It's it's tough because,
yes, there are these flaws in the

1070
01:21:12,159 --> 01:21:14,800
game. On the other hand,
you got Connor Geeki here, who's the

1071
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:18,439
bigger guy physically, should be the
more imposing guy, but nobody trusts Arizona

1072
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:23,960
and there's Wartz. Con Geekie gets
picked apart, and again Joshua is the

1073
01:21:24,039 --> 01:21:27,840
underdog because he's coming up from this
later round pick. I don't know that

1074
01:21:28,119 --> 01:21:32,199
there's just enough I worry about with
Connor Geeky that I'm gonna take my chances

1075
01:21:32,359 --> 01:21:38,000
with Joshua. But I could see
this going either way. I don't mind

1076
01:21:38,039 --> 01:21:42,119
if somebody likes geeky, but I
think that Wa has shown us a lot

1077
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:47,720
so far. Yeah, I have
big concerns about Connor Geekie. I think

1078
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:51,800
that he's a big guy, so
he doesn't have any of those concerns.

1079
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:56,680
His skating is a little awkward,
he doesn't really impose his physicality as much

1080
01:21:56,680 --> 01:22:00,279
as I would like. But he
is probably to get a lot of opportunity

1081
01:22:00,359 --> 01:22:02,560
in Arizona. They're not going to
rush him. They're going to let him

1082
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:06,680
play probably a year or two in
the HL, and then whether the team's

1083
01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:10,760
still there in Arizona or not,
we'll see, but he's gonna get opportunity.

1084
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:14,319
I still just think that Connor Geeki
screams like bottom sixth center to me.

1085
01:22:15,039 --> 01:22:18,279
I don't think that he'll have the
opportunity, whereas Wa has those issues

1086
01:22:18,319 --> 01:22:20,960
too. You're not playing Wall unless
it's in a scoring role, even if

1087
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:25,079
it's a third line scoring role.
There's no really real reason to have him

1088
01:22:25,119 --> 01:22:28,479
on the ice unless he's going to
get powerplay opportunities or at least some sort

1089
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:31,000
of offensive deployments. For that reason, I don't really have much interest in

1090
01:22:31,039 --> 01:22:35,119
Geeki. I would rather take the
risk on Joshua, even if he doesn't

1091
01:22:35,159 --> 01:22:39,239
pan out to be everything I hoped
he could be. I think this is

1092
01:22:39,239 --> 01:22:44,159
a philosophical thing, Jesse. I
would rather have someone on my roster like

1093
01:22:44,239 --> 01:22:47,359
Joshua that I'm gonna know is either
going to get the best opportunity or flame

1094
01:22:47,399 --> 01:22:50,880
out and do nothing, as opposed
to someone like Connor Geeki, who will

1095
01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:55,439
probably. I think Connor Geeki is
much more likely to be a regular NHL

1096
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:59,520
or and have a longer career than
Joshua. But I don't think that's going

1097
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:02,920
to be as valuable to fantasy because
if he's a bottom sixth center who's scoring

1098
01:23:03,279 --> 01:23:08,640
twenty to forty points a season with
some peripherals, I can just go get

1099
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:10,960
it out on the wire. I
don't need to have him on my team.

1100
01:23:11,359 --> 01:23:13,560
I think you agree with that,
right, Yeah, I do.

1101
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,520
Does he have some Christian Fisher in
him, Victor? Would that be the

1102
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:18,880
kind of role he could fill into? Yeah? Though I think Risin Fisher

1103
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:24,279
might even be a better player,
but he's similar. Yeah, a poor

1104
01:23:24,319 --> 01:23:28,239
man's Christian Fisher. That's what we're
going with Connor Geeky. So I think

1105
01:23:28,319 --> 01:23:31,399
everybody can draw their conclusions from there. Keep your eye in, Victor.

1106
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:35,359
I want to keep my on a
Montreal Canadians prospect. Which one should I

1107
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:41,439
do? John Farrell is a good
one. And John Farrell he's someone we've

1108
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,560
talked about for a while. He
was drafted way back in twenty twenty in

1109
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:47,119
the fourth round. Another kind of
small guy, five nine. He's now

1110
01:23:47,199 --> 01:23:50,720
twenty one. He'll be twenty two
this season. He really popped off this

1111
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:56,640
season, putting up fifty four points
in thirty four games for Havid over there

1112
01:23:56,760 --> 01:24:00,119
in the NC Double A. This
was his second season at HAVID. His

1113
01:24:00,159 --> 01:24:01,840
first one he was over a point
per game two at twenty eight points in

1114
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:06,239
twenty four games, and before that
he was with the Chicago Steel He mostly

1115
01:24:06,279 --> 01:24:10,560
had assist this season, but he
did pop twenty goals in those fifty three

1116
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:13,399
points. That's not bad. And
he got into six NHL games with the

1117
01:24:13,399 --> 01:24:15,119
Canadians and scored a goal I think
in his first game, if I remember

1118
01:24:15,159 --> 01:24:18,000
correctly, and I saw that live. It was definitely not a shot on

1119
01:24:18,079 --> 01:24:21,960
goal that just ricocheted weird and went
in. But he got a goal.

1120
01:24:23,079 --> 01:24:27,560
That's better than I've ever done.
So good for Sean Farrell and looking at

1121
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:30,399
his tracking date in the NC DOUBLEA, it's pretty good except for his defense.

1122
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:36,159
His defensive play is so bad it's
like worse than almost ninety percent of

1123
01:24:36,199 --> 01:24:42,239
the rest of the ncuble a cohort
that Mitch Brown track. That's pretty terrible.

1124
01:24:42,279 --> 01:24:45,119
His offensive numbers are awesome, not
he's not going to be a goal

1125
01:24:45,159 --> 01:24:46,960
scorer. As I mentioned, his
expected goals are just a little bit above

1126
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:54,039
average, but his expected primary assists
are incredible. He's like ninety nine percentile

1127
01:24:54,119 --> 01:24:57,720
there, so that's looking really awesome. He also was pretty good in transition.

1128
01:24:58,039 --> 01:25:00,880
He has pretty good entry and egg
its success. He also has some

1129
01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:04,880
other intangibles that are good, like
board battles and off puck assists and things

1130
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:09,359
like that that Mitch tracks, that
are all looking really good. So overall,

1131
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:13,760
ninety nine percentile is really good.
And for a little bit more on

1132
01:25:14,039 --> 01:25:17,920
Sean Farrell, we're going to hear
from Austin ur FHL scout skating above average.

1133
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:21,760
Farrell was a player who fell because
he didn't have great skating during his

1134
01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:25,840
draft here, but he thinks that's
really improved. He isn't an elite skater,

1135
01:25:26,039 --> 01:25:28,920
but he has moments where he's quick
on his feet and he thinks he's

1136
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:33,680
looking close to being NHL ready.
Puck handling is very good. Farrell's puck

1137
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:39,840
skills maybe his best asset. He's
a calm and relaxed player who rarely makes

1138
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:43,840
a mistake with the puck on his
stick. His composure and control are very

1139
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:47,239
strong, and he does some great
job connecting with the right play, rarely

1140
01:25:47,279 --> 01:25:51,960
causing turnovers your errors. Shot above
average. Farrell doesn't rely on his shot

1141
01:25:53,039 --> 01:25:57,319
much given his Harvard limate Matt Coronado
being able to do that work for him

1142
01:25:57,319 --> 01:26:00,920
on the scoring end, but that
doesn't mean Farrell can't be issued or he

1143
01:26:00,039 --> 01:26:04,319
has a decent risk shot that he
can control. He has good control over

1144
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:08,760
IQ above average. Farrell has a
strong hockey mind. On the offensive end,

1145
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:13,439
He's very mature and patient in both
puck and stick handling. It's impressive

1146
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:16,640
how glued Farrell can be to the
puck. He's constantly has his eyes on

1147
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:21,239
the puck's movements throughout the ice,
always knowing where he needs to be and

1148
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:25,880
whether that's in the offense or a
defensive end. And I will just add

1149
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:29,119
that I think that's mainly because he's
not a good skater, so he needs

1150
01:26:29,119 --> 01:26:31,279
to figure out where he needs to
be, so he can get there as

1151
01:26:32,199 --> 01:26:35,680
quickly as possible, so I'm adding
that into Austin's report. I don't think

1152
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:42,239
he would disagree with that. More
defense for share for Farrell. Average may

1153
01:26:42,239 --> 01:26:45,520
not be Farrell may not always stick
to his guy, but that seems to

1154
01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:49,800
be more him analyzing the game and
deciding what move to make next. He's

1155
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:54,399
very analytical player who likes to be
mobile, but he also has the IQ

1156
01:26:54,520 --> 01:27:00,439
to challenge players defensively, best asset
IQ vision playmaking. Biggest concern size.

1157
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:03,000
As I mentioned, he's five foot
nine, one hundred and seventy four pounds

1158
01:27:03,039 --> 01:27:09,159
at almost twenty two years old,
so doubt he'll grow more. Top tier

1159
01:27:09,199 --> 01:27:12,760
potential Tier three possible with his continued
growth, but being that he's small,

1160
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,359
he faces an uphill battle. But
he has the benefit of being defensively sound

1161
01:27:16,479 --> 01:27:19,800
enough to hold his own two to
three inches taller and you'd be considering him

1162
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:23,960
on your second line. Still possible
for him to m up there, but

1163
01:27:24,039 --> 01:27:28,720
more likely a third line option,
most likely tier below Tier three, i

1164
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:31,359
e. Not tierrible like forty to
fifty points, so that is a very

1165
01:27:31,399 --> 01:27:36,680
realistic outcome for him. Stylist is
comparable. Austin sees some similarities with fellow

1166
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:41,560
Harvard alum Alex Kerfoot. Coming out
of Harvard, Kerfoot was a high IQ

1167
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:44,840
playmaker who worked to improve his shooting
towards the end of his NT double A

1168
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:48,000
career. There's also a bit of
similarity with him and Jake Neighbors, both

1169
01:27:48,039 --> 01:27:51,479
being which are puck moviers will have
great read for offensive defensive side of the

1170
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:58,279
game. Moving over to our NHL
Rank King data, we have Sean Farrell

1171
01:27:58,359 --> 01:28:03,520
and Atu Ratu. Farrell having a
sixty seven PNHILLI for his Harvard time,

1172
01:28:04,039 --> 01:28:10,640
Ratu with the Bridgeport Islanders forty three
phil just fifteen points in twenty seven games

1173
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:13,920
this year. For Ratu, looking
at hockey prospecting, this is the no

1174
01:28:14,119 --> 01:28:16,960
contest. We have Farrell, who's
covered in the low teens to eleven percent

1175
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:24,760
star potential, though his NHLAR probability
has climbed to seventy five percent in his

1176
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:29,079
D plus three season. Ratu,
on the other hand, came in at

1177
01:28:29,159 --> 01:28:33,760
zero percent star potential, has maintained
that zero percent star potential and he's up

1178
01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:40,720
to only thirty seven percent NHLAR probability. So things look much bleak bleak for

1179
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:45,520
Ratu and the people voted and it's
pretty close. Of course, we should

1180
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,720
mention that Ratu had a higher pedigree
coming into the draft, even though he

1181
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:54,239
fell to fifty second. Overall,
the people picked Sean Farrell fifty four percent

1182
01:28:54,319 --> 01:28:59,600
to forty six percent. Is that
correct, Jesse Victor, I got to

1183
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:03,520
fly to Ratu. I am a
Ratu guy. Ratu is my cheeseball.

1184
01:29:04,119 --> 01:29:09,840
I was happy for him to get
out of the Island and to move to

1185
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:14,319
Vancouver this year. I think he's
going to have an opportunity. Vancouver.

1186
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:17,880
Please stop dropping bags of money in
front of the likes of Tyler Myers and

1187
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:23,680
try playing at Ratu's and giving them
an opportunity to be your secondary scores,

1188
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:28,600
because I think he didn't get the
opportunity that he needed. Yet he's still

1189
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:31,439
growing into it. He's still younger. He's a year younger than Sean Farrell

1190
01:29:31,479 --> 01:29:35,720
and he's played in more NHL games
already. But I think that pedigree will

1191
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:41,039
shine through. He's four inches taller
than Farrell and like you said, there

1192
01:29:41,039 --> 01:29:45,119
are some serious warts in Farrell's game. The pedigree is going to shine through

1193
01:29:45,199 --> 01:29:48,079
at Ratu. For me, Victor, I don't care. Mason Black,

1194
01:29:48,159 --> 01:29:53,520
I love you I trust you,
But this zero percent star probability, man,

1195
01:29:54,319 --> 01:29:59,720
it's at least one percent. Mason
admitted it's one percent star probability.

1196
01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:04,760
Just I'll take your corrections off the
year you got to direct that hate mail

1197
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:10,199
to Bayron Bader. He's the one
that has him at zero percent. Mason

1198
01:30:10,279 --> 01:30:13,159
doesn't have him quite that low.
He has him as a phil of forty

1199
01:30:13,159 --> 01:30:16,199
three, which is still not very
much, but it's better than nothing.

1200
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:20,760
Yeah, I hear what you're saying. He has the size Atu does.

1201
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:25,600
He's six two and one hundred and
eighty pounds, so he's probably gonna get

1202
01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:29,119
that opportunity and it's gonna come easier
than Farrell. I still would rather have

1203
01:30:29,119 --> 01:30:31,439
Ferrell because I think that if he
does pop off, he could be a

1204
01:30:31,560 --> 01:30:38,880
really great small play making winger center
and I'm taking him over Ratu. I'm

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glad you believe in him. I'm
sure his family does, but I don't.

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Jessie. Victor is off the show
now, but me and Atu Ratu's

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family will come right back after this
tow pulls off of the show. Hey,

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everybody getting out. He here today. Just a couple of things to

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mention to you. One of them
is our shows brought to you by fantracks

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dot com, the best place to
play all of your fantasy sports. Move

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your league's over there. It's a
good time. You'll enjoy it, and

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if you're playing dynasty, you will
be amazed at the difference all the things

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that you can do over there.
Start up a new league. They'll have

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all some promotions. I know as
the season comes up, there'll probably be

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some giveaways, some things like that
there were last year, so stay tuned

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to that. But it's never too
soon. You can set up your league

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right now and there's all the settings
you could possibly want. Fantrak's HQ lots

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of fantasy content in there. We've
got other podcasts on fantasy baseball, basketball,

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and football. Are is this the
one and only hockey show? But

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there are also articles, some of
which are about fantasy hockey, some of

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which are about all the other sports. My goodness, is there a lot

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in the fantracks HQ area there for
you to check out. We're also brought

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to you by Dabber Hockey and Dauber
Prospects. Victor covers the Detroit Red Wings.

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He's covering the draft, He's writing
a whole bunch of profiles right now.

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You could check out his work there. You should check out our Patreon.

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We mentioned that a little bit at
the outset of the show. Victor

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and I both have side projects.
At this point. There is a Drabber

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Prospects Report, where Victor Nuno in
front of the show Peter Harling talk on

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a weekly basis about all the things
you want to know about hockey prospects.

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That's a wonderful companion show to this
one. They're focused a little bit more

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strictly on the prospect talk. We
hit the prospects, we hit everything around

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here, so they are complementary efforts. Listen to Victor wherever podcasts are found.

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I do a show called Dynasty Sports
Life, which is about all the

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dynasty sports. Hockey is not discussed
as much because we have so much Dynasty

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hockey content here, but I have
guests on to talk about dynasty baseball,

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basketball, football, and multi sport
leagues. We're starting a four sport league

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including hockey Dynasty this summer. You
should follow Victor and myself on Twitter at

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fan Hockey Life is how to get
a hold of me at Victor Nuno twelve

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viic t O R n U n
O one two is the way to get

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hold of Victor, Rate and review
us on Apple, podcast, Spotify,

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or wherever else you get your podcasts. To keep supporting us out here in

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the world. We are through Montreal
and rare to go. We're just hitting

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our stride. Keep listen so that
next year you'll be living a full fantasy hockey Light