1 00:00:03,839 --> 00:00:13,400 Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life presented by fan Tracks. Here your source of information 2 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,079 and analysis to help you win your fantasy hockey league. Block off, hot 3 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,839 a, step hit on, stay lock. Here's your hosts, Jesse Severe 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,640 and Victor Nuno Fantasy Hockey Live. Back to you once again. Jesse Severe 5 00:00:27,679 --> 00:00:33,240 from fan Tracks over there, you know him. Victor Nuno ep ringside Victor. 6 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,039 How you doing today? I'm doing great, Jesse. Yeah, it's 7 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:44,119 definitely nice day outside. All of the rain is coming and things might flood 8 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:46,799 over here. Hopefully I'll be able to swim my way out of it. 9 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,479 How are you doing? I'll tell you what, I'll do you one better. 10 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:56,600 We've had no snow for I swear it's been over a month and today 11 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,399 we got four or five inches. It's just bizarre. Uh. Luckily went 12 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:06,280 out there a snowblow at seven o'clock, so my daughter can go to school 13 00:01:06,519 --> 00:01:11,560 and everything else seems to be hitting in Melton. So this has been Wisconsin 14 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,519 weather with Jesse Severe. Yeah no, so we'll see how that goes. 15 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,000 But the season is almost done. March came in like a lamb vicker. 16 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,400 It's going to go out like a lion. That's what I say, Are 17 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:29,599 you familiar with that? Saying nope, I find more and more people are 18 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,319 not. It used to be March comes in like a lamb, out like 19 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,480 a lion, or in the lion out like a lamb, So the weather 20 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,760 is only bad at one end of the month, and it came in like 21 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,640 the lamb this year, so it's going out like I think I'm the only 22 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,519 one who knew this. Maybe my mom just came up with this stuff. 23 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:52,079 I don't know. Maybe, oh gosh, if your fantasy hockey season came 24 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:53,840 in like a lamb and you're afraid it's going to go out like a lion 25 00:01:55,079 --> 00:01:59,959 in March this year, then maybe you want to come and commiserate or sell 26 00:02:00,519 --> 00:02:06,319 with people who also appreciate fantasy hockey. And those are the few the proud. 27 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:10,759 In our Fantasy Hockey discord, the Fantasy Hockey Life Discord. All you 28 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,840 have to do to join up is hit Victor and myself up at fan Hockey 29 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,280 Life for me at Victor New No. Twelve for Victor Or, just email 30 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,520 us. Email still works, doesn't it? Fantasyhockeylife at gmail dot com. 31 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,280 We'll give you a link. That's what you need, that's how you join 32 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:29,240 discords. If you haven't before, it's cool little program. If you haven't 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,719 done it before, it's a little bit milder of the social network because the 34 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:38,800 people in their enjoy life and things like that. So Victor, there's also 35 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,240 a Patreon. I know we had at least one big upgrade in our Patreon 36 00:02:43,319 --> 00:02:46,759 today and more and more people are getting into it. And why would they 37 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,080 do that? I think there's lots of reasons. The reason, the most 38 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,120 recent reason was wanting a little more detailed analysis of their team, what to 39 00:02:54,159 --> 00:03:00,520 do offseason moves, trade trades, draft, those kinds of things, what 40 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:04,520 to do about different guys, and that's the roster doctor, as we call 41 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,639 it. So that's one of the great perks you can do that. There's 42 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:13,759 obviously the player cards, which are my favorite new thing that we're rolling out 43 00:03:13,759 --> 00:03:17,159 and still tweaking some of the features on it. We have our ranking lists, 44 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,599 We have all kinds of cool things over at the website, including reports 45 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:25,719 for prospects, and we're going to have all kinds of more things up there 46 00:03:25,759 --> 00:03:30,199 soon, like the twenty twenty four draft ranks. But yeah, there's some 47 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,199 good stuff patron casts looking forward to all those kinds of things and playing in 48 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,080 the tidy, which is something you can get on the list for next year 49 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,719 when we open up a new division. There should be at least half a 50 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:43,039 dozen spots or so, if not more so. Yeah, check it out 51 00:03:43,039 --> 00:03:46,520 patreon dot com slash Fantasy Hockey Life. I'm still doing tidy right now. 52 00:03:46,599 --> 00:03:51,439 I'm going for that number seven pick in my division because I pulled that late 53 00:03:51,479 --> 00:03:55,120 season rebuilt, got myself in the middle, so that now I'm instead of 54 00:03:55,159 --> 00:03:59,400 being a first round out, most likely in the playoffs, I hope to 55 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:03,439 be picking and at least seventh in this year's draft victor. Yeah, seventh 56 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:10,159 overall is nice. What's even nicer is playing for the championship and the chance 57 00:04:10,199 --> 00:04:14,599 to get promoted. That show off that's where I ended up. Yeah, 58 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:16,439 it was. It was. It was a weird season. There was a 59 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:20,199 lot of moving around, a lot of machinations. My team was good, 60 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:26,040 but it wasn't amazing. We did that that episode talking about all the host 61 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,959 of trades and I ended up finishing fifth, but knocked out two of the 62 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 top teams on my way to the championship. So it's me and Mutant Monsters 63 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,360 Quicksmith, and it's it's gonna be it's gonna be quite the battle. It's 64 00:04:38,399 --> 00:04:42,000 gone back and forth already with some big days, so I'm really I'm living 65 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,839 on Bradon Point. Nathan McKinnon my superstars to try to carry me to the 66 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:48,360 championship. But it's gonna be funny the way. Only one of us gets 67 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,160 to go up, so it's for all the marvels. That's what's fun. 68 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,120 And whichever one of us doesn't make it, have a really strong team next 69 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,000 year. Hopefully try to work it out then. But yeah, so as 70 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:02,759 really fun league, and it's fun to be in the championship. Neither one 71 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,199 of us have been this close before, so it's nice to see that to 72 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:11,800 fruition. Yeah, it is good times, Victor, And I wish you 73 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,639 luck, and I wish our listener luck because they're probably a patron and they 74 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,319 deserve luck too. But we'll see how that comes out. That's exciting stuff, 75 00:05:19,439 --> 00:05:27,920 Victor. We're gonna take a break because we have things to discuss. 76 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:33,199 It's reflection time. It's contemplation time, Victor. At the beginning of the 77 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,959 season, we did something called our Ketchup and Mustard episode, the two great 78 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:42,800 American condiments. Everybody knows that Mustard is the superior of the two. Ketchup 79 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:47,279 was just talking about the transitions, the transactions that took place after the team 80 00:05:47,319 --> 00:05:51,279 previews, but before the beginning of the season, because of course we start 81 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:56,000 our team previews all the way the heck back in April and May, and 82 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,399 they keep rolling all the way up to October. So things happen with the 83 00:06:00,399 --> 00:06:04,240 teams that we preview after that, and we wanted it just because we're obsessive, 84 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,399 compulsive, we like to get all that in and we did. Then 85 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:12,759 there's the mustard side, Victor and I through on the spice through on the 86 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,680 spicy mustard of some hot takes going into the season, and that was we 87 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,519 went through all the teams in the NHL. We took turns and we each 88 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:27,000 gave a hot take or what each of us picked half of the teams and 89 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,199 gave hot takes on them. And now today what's going to happen is we're 90 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:33,800 going back to look at those takes and what happened. Victor, how are 91 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:42,639 you feeling going into this exercise? Yes, it's definitely time to I guess 92 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:46,480 face the music, But I think more than anything, it was really how 93 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,160 we're feeling about certain players and situations at the beginning of the season, and 94 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:56,879 I think more than anything, it's about learning from these experiences and lessons. 95 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,920 It wasn't just trying to predict something spicy. He was trying to really see 96 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:03,639 if we believed in certain players and thought that things were going to happen. 97 00:07:03,759 --> 00:07:08,639 So part of it is accountability, but part of it is let's see what 98 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:12,319 actually happened and what we can learn moving forward. So I'm looking forward to 99 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,199 it. I don't expect to have many correct takes, but that's okay. 100 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:19,680 I'm feeling we're gonna see how this goes. Victor. I'm feeling secretly happy. 101 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:24,160 I'm getting excited because we'll get there. I think you have the first 102 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,639 one, so why don't you set us up? I sure do. So 103 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,199 we started the Pacific Division. Was start on the Anaheim Ducks, and my 104 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:38,079 hot take was that Lucas do Stahl steals the net and gets Calder votes. 105 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:44,160 Though Anaheim remains terrible. One of those is definitely true. Anaheim is terrible, 106 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,120 although they did last night. They did they shut out the Chicago Blackhawks, 107 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,240 not a difficult feat and the person doing that was doch Stall. So 108 00:07:53,399 --> 00:07:58,720 that was pretty fun, and looking at the number of starts, I'm not 109 00:07:58,759 --> 00:08:01,800 going to call that a win just because Heim's terrible. That wasn't easy, 110 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:05,319 that wasn't difficult to predict. The starts are similar. I think it depends 111 00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:09,879 on what you mean by stealing the net. I don't think he fully stole 112 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:15,199 it forty three starts to thirty five. Gibson still had eight more starts. 113 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,879 Although I think Doshtal is certainly playing a lot more than maybe some people thought. 114 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,160 I certainly don't think he's going to get many, if any Calder votes 115 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:26,560 because it hasn't gone super well for him, although I don't think not all 116 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,040 of that is his fault. If you just looked at raw save percentage, 117 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:33,000 he's actually quite a bit higher than Gibson, nine o two save percentage to 118 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,039 Gibson's eight forty one. The GAA is pretty similar, but if you look 119 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:41,960 at some of the advanced numbers, the delta Fenwick is much better for Gibson. 120 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,159 So it's a goal save above expected. The goal save above average favors 121 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,320 do staal. But anyways, I think that this is pretty clearly did not 122 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,360 happen. He did not steal the net and We don't know about the Calder 123 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,559 votes, but I don't expect many for Doschtaal. But I do still think 124 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,240 that the future is bright for Doshtall. I still have no idea what's gonna 125 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,480 happen with John Gibson. I think many of us would really like to see 126 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:09,919 him in a different situation, just so we can see what the heck's going 127 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:15,000 on? Is it just Anaheim? Is Gibson still a good goaltender? Is 128 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,240 he could he be better somewhere else? What is happening? There's there's still 129 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,960 a lot that we don't know, and there's three more seasons. That's six 130 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,480 point four million. I just don't know how they're gonna move him, even 131 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:30,799 if they wanted to, because I don't know who's taken on that massive risk 132 00:09:30,879 --> 00:09:35,279 unless they retain. I still have tons of faith and belief in Doshdall, 133 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,840 but I'm not sure how long it's going to take for him to reach that 134 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,639 just because of what's happening with Gibson. What do you think, Jesse? 135 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:48,440 Clearly this is a loss right you. I liked your thought process, though. 136 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,639 The piece that would have made this come true would have been if Gibson 137 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,919 would have been traded right, simply enough, and there was consideration that could 138 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:03,000 happen even without getting traded. He didn't take He's only got eight more starts 139 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:07,919 than Doshtal does. The yeah, you're right, it's that he got signed 140 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:11,399 to that contract under the old goalie contract paradigm, where we just paid the 141 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:18,240 goalies all the money, and now that's not necessarily what the wisest teams do. 142 00:10:18,159 --> 00:10:22,679 Gibson's only thirty and they keep talking about moving in, but they don't 143 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,240 move. Had they moved him, maybe your prediction would have come true, 144 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:31,200 because it looks like his stats are in fact a little bit better than Gibson's 145 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,799 are. So I don't know. The goals save it depends on what's that 146 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:37,600 you're looking at. Some of the raw stuff that the goals save above expected. 147 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:41,360 Dostall was a little bit worse, and it's a it's a tough mess. 148 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:45,159 It's a tough it's tough look to start, Victor. But I'm gonna 149 00:10:45,159 --> 00:10:50,840 make it worse because next the Calgary Flames take that. I had Jonathan Huberto 150 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,279 back to one hundred points. You backed me, you said, Ah, 151 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,159 jesse Let's just did ninety to ninety nine points. Maybe somewhere in there. 152 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,960 Boy, was it wrong. He is sitting on forty three points at this 153 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,960 point in the season in sixty seven games, and it's pretty rough. Now, 154 00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:13,200 I will say this in the first half and then not really not half 155 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,440 of the season. But let's just say in the twenty twenty three segment of 156 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:22,320 the season he had only sixteen points in thirty six games. He played for 157 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,240 a while with Blake Coleman and Michael Backland. It's Michael Backland, Victor. 158 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:31,559 I always screw up with ones on Calgary. Michael. It's technically Mikhale Backland. 159 00:11:31,879 --> 00:11:35,879 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the grand Lands in the backlands, 160 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,120 Victor. I've got problems with grand linsen backer Backlands because there's there. There's 161 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,919 too many of each of them. Anyway, Wait, is there another Backland? 162 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:48,159 Really? Isn't there two Backlands? No? I think you're making that 163 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,840 up, Victor, But there are two grand making that up. There definitely 164 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:54,840 are two grand Lens. I know there are two Grand Lens. There probably 165 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:58,120 is another Backlan in the world, but there isn't another Backlan in the NHL 166 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,039 that I know of. This is going to bother me. Now you're probably 167 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:05,799 thinking of some other sport as you tend to do. You're right, there 168 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:11,879 is an extremely old goalie named Johann Backland. There's no other no, It's 169 00:12:11,919 --> 00:12:15,399 something just went wrong in my brain, Victor. At some point the Granland 170 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:20,240 and the Backland got fused together and it's just never been able to come up. 171 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,600 It's like need a writer into Tarra Viynen. I can't get him apart, 172 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:28,039 and there's really no good reason for them to be together anyway. Not 173 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,799 only was I not right about how many Backlands and or Grandlins there are in 174 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:37,039 Calgary, but I also made this huge whiff on Huberto. Now Huberto, 175 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:43,919 the bad news here is he's getting the fifteenth highest AAV in the NHL and 176 00:12:43,039 --> 00:12:46,480 his contract just started this year and it's going to go for eight years. 177 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,960 He is under contract for a very long time. But at least we had 178 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,799 that twenty seven points in thirty one games that he has so far in twenty 179 00:12:54,799 --> 00:13:01,720 twenty four. There's a lot of people talking about Jonathan Huberto and what the 180 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:05,120 heck is going on in Calgary. Obviously they're in a bit of a rebuild, 181 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:11,759 and that Huberto contract could turn into the mother of all albatrosses for contracts. 182 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,720 If things don't get a little bit better, we just we have to 183 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:22,039 respect the fact that Huberto had the one amazing season and maybe we just don't 184 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:24,399 need to expect that he's going to get back to those types of levels like 185 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,799 he did in that last year in Florida. Even after he's settled in a 186 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:33,840 little bit, he's still a sieve on defense. He has made everybody on 187 00:13:33,919 --> 00:13:41,000 Calgary basically better on offense, regardless, it just ain't working right now for 188 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:46,399 Huberto. Things are not coming together the way that Calgary certainly must have hoped. 189 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,360 I think there's a good chance for a point per game or seventy five 190 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:52,440 point player next year. I'm not doubling down. That's basically the pace he's 191 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:58,279 been in the second half. But yeah, one hundred points, Victor. 192 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,320 I went too far. I flew too close to the sun. I burned 193 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:07,039 my wings of the beautiful backland that I am, and I've crashed back down 194 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,639 to earth. What do you think, Victor, that's a good way of 195 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:16,000 putting it. Yeah, there was definitely I think some optimism that maybe he 196 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:18,960 could bounce back. A lot of people were saying that, and yeah, 197 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,360 as you said, he has done so much better lately, he has looked 198 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,519 a lot better from the eye test, and a lot of his underlyings look 199 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:31,679 like he's driving play. It hurts when they've sold half the team. It's 200 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:33,960 going to be hard to be that relevant. But yeah, I do think 201 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,279 that we can expect a little bit more from him, like maybe closer to 202 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,320 sixty to seventy. It wasn't just that one season, though, right, 203 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,440 I mean, he had three straight seasons of ninety plus point pace. It's 204 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:48,840 not like it's, yes, that one season was a total outlier, you 205 00:14:48,879 --> 00:14:52,000 know, close to twenty points above what he'd done before, But he had 206 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:54,840 those three straight ninety point seasons that was huge, right, You can't completely 207 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,639 discount that. And then he was a seventy point player before that. So 208 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:01,879 yeah, I know his situation was different in Florida, But I think he 209 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:05,600 is getting older. He's never been the fastest guy. The way the Calvary 210 00:15:05,679 --> 00:15:09,600 plays hasn't seemed to suit him until lately, and then what is that team 211 00:15:09,639 --> 00:15:13,840 going to look like next year and beyond is tough. But I think, 212 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,519 like I did in the tidy I bought him at the end of last season 213 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:20,320 and sold him mid season. That might be something you could try again this 214 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:26,000 year if you could acquire him in the offseason and maybe expect a little bit. 215 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,840 I wouldn't expect like a ninety point player, but if you could expect 216 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,360 like a ten to fifteen point improvement, that's possible. You think about that 217 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:39,399 for next year, Yeah, I definitely would. And one unheralded thing about 218 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:45,200 Huberto is he's very durable. He's barely missed games in the last what seven 219 00:15:45,279 --> 00:15:48,600 years. He's pretty much been out there in in the ice nearly every night. 220 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,159 If you look back at his game log. Here's an interesting stat that 221 00:15:52,399 --> 00:15:56,360 I looked this up coming in to the podcast, because in his last year 222 00:15:56,399 --> 00:16:00,879 in Florida, he led the NHL with eighty five assists en route to that 223 00:16:00,919 --> 00:16:06,480 one hundred and fifteen points that he scored. And I looked back to see 224 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:14,159 how many of those points involved Alexander Barkoff, and obviously Barkoff a lot of 225 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,639 his power play points were going to be with Barkoff because they were both on 226 00:16:17,679 --> 00:16:21,200 the power play together. But I'm gonna throw it out to you, Victor 227 00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:26,200 for a wild guest, no accountability for this seventy two even strength points for 228 00:16:26,679 --> 00:16:30,200 Huberto that year? How many of those seventy two points, do you think 229 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:37,600 also involved a point on the same score going to Barkoff? Of his seventy 230 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,879 two points, how many went to Barkov, how many included Barkov? How 231 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:47,600 what they were both? Each one of them had a goal, one of 232 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:49,799 them had an assist that type of a thing, or maybe both of them 233 00:16:49,799 --> 00:16:56,279 had the assist. I'm guessing it's high, maybe like fifty five to sixty 234 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:03,599 out of seventy seventeen only seven team while of his points were tied to Barkoff, 235 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,799 So it wasn't. The reason I was looking that up is I was 236 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:11,119 curious how much it was Barkov driving him when he hit those great heights, 237 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,640 And I think there's a good argument to be made that he didn't, if 238 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,039 ire recall correctly, Actually he wasn't on Barkov's line a lot of the year. 239 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:23,359 So it really is remarkable how much he has fallen off since coming to 240 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,079 Calgary, because I think a lot of times late lately, a lot of 241 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:32,079 people have been like, we're really underestimating what Barkov does for people, and 242 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,920 I think that is true, but it just makes it all the more baffling. 243 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,119 What's happened to hubert O baffling, not backling. But let's move on 244 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,640 to our next one. This one I think might have gone a little bit 245 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:52,680 better. Edmonton Oilers hot take Evan Bouchhard finishes as the top five d of 246 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:56,880 note, which you didn't put these on all of them, Jesse, but 247 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,359 you disagreed with this, and it turned out that I was right about this 248 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,440 one. Because there's a lot of different ways you can look at this, 249 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,799 but Evan Bouchier is awesome. I think we can agree. He had a 250 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:15,079 monster season. He currently is on pace to more than double his point total 251 00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:18,200 from last season. Eighty two point pace is what he's at. He had 252 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,480 forty point pace last season playing all eighty two, and had forty four point 253 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:26,160 pace this season before that. If you look at tidy, which we like 254 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:33,039 to do since that's our league, fifth and tidy total points for defenseman third 255 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:38,519 in tidy points per game, that's pretty ridiculous. He's fifth in total NHL 256 00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:41,759 points and six in NHL points per game. Some of these are a little 257 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:47,039 wonky because people played less time, but he's right in there. And if 258 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:52,880 you just sort by power play points, he's currently third for all defenders in 259 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,400 power play points yeah, he's pretty awesome. So I think, you know, 260 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,480 the question is going to be obviously moving forward, is where do you 261 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:02,960 draft this guy? He's he like first round pick, and it's been a 262 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,200 while since we've talked about, you know, too many defensemen, especially like 263 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,480 in redraft where you're where you're thinking this high. And there was the Brent 264 00:19:08,559 --> 00:19:14,000 Burns day, there Carlson's and then mccarr. Some people are still taking mccar 265 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,240 in the mid to the end of the first round. I wonder if Bouchard 266 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,960 enters that conversation. One thing about him is that he's been a lot more 267 00:19:21,039 --> 00:19:25,680 durable than mccarr. McCart tends to miss a dozen games or so every year 268 00:19:25,799 --> 00:19:30,480 more and Bouchard's played in eighty one, eighty two and currently he's on pace 269 00:19:30,559 --> 00:19:33,279 to pay to play all the games. So that's so that's pretty nice when 270 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:37,440 you have really strong production. Obviously, Edmonton has an amazing power play and 271 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,960 he's there. So I think it's you're gonna have a hard time finding someone 272 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:45,200 that has more value than Evan Bouchard. Obviously, you still have guys that 273 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,759 are ahead of him, and those are your mccars, your yo SE's and 274 00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:55,440 Adam Fox and those guys are all great value. But the thing Bouchard has 275 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:00,319 always done really well is get pretty good perferle covers too. He actually bangs 276 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,599 quite a bit, so that's pretty nice. Obviously, Quinn Hughes, how 277 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:07,480 could I figure him? But that's the thing about Hughes that he hasn't doesn't 278 00:20:07,519 --> 00:20:10,519 done as much in the priffs, although he is doing that a little bit 279 00:20:10,559 --> 00:20:15,079 more, but still Bouchard is still one of the best in terms of the 280 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,559 peripheral coverage and the points. I don't know, he's definitely going to be 281 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,519 top five rated next season, that he might even be top three or push 282 00:20:25,039 --> 00:20:26,640 one of those one of those big boys for the number one spot. Are 283 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,240 you getting on board with that? Jesse? You're bringing me on board, 284 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:34,759 Victor. I keep thinking that maybe somebody will challenge Bouchard for a little bit 285 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:40,720 of that time. No more Tyson Barry, no more other guys who were 286 00:20:40,759 --> 00:20:47,160 distracting in Edmonton from that role. And yeah, pretty clearly Evan Bouchard has 287 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:52,440 it. And as long as that power play storms on like it does right 288 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,720 now, I don't see any reason to think he's going to have to share 289 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,160 it. So you're right, victory. You're right, I did not respect. 290 00:21:00,519 --> 00:21:07,359 I was not familiar with your game. So well done, Los Angeles 291 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,039 Kings. Here's what I tried to do, because I was very skeptical of 292 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,559 the King's goalie situation coming to the year, and I tried to say, 293 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:21,000 neither Phoenix Copley nor Camp Talbot will lead the Kings and start hedging against these 294 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,559 two managing to stay healthy. And you disagreed, Victor, and you were 295 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,759 right on this one. I was not. But at least Dave Ridditch was 296 00:21:30,799 --> 00:21:34,279 the guy who came in, and Talbot has forty four starts to day, 297 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:40,519 Hreddach has twenty one and Copley had has only eight. It's a matter that 298 00:21:40,559 --> 00:21:45,200 Cam Talbot managed to stay healthy and the LA managed to continue to carry in. 299 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:49,119 But even though he's Dave Ridditch, he has actually had a really good 300 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,480 season, to the point where I almost managed to talk you into picking him 301 00:21:52,559 --> 00:21:56,720 up on one of our common teams. But that didn't quite come to fruition 302 00:21:56,799 --> 00:22:00,200 because after all, he's still day Bridige. Victor victory lap on this one. 303 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:07,160 It's hard to take a victory lap anytime involved David Riddick. I yeah, 304 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,839 and we almost did pick him up. That's how that tells you more 305 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:14,480 about the state of our goaltending than it does and our confidence and absolutely, 306 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,920 but yeah, that we're out. We got outed, I believe, in 307 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,119 the first round in that league, unfortunately, but and it was mainly because 308 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,519 of the goaltending, because the rest of our team is pretty strong, but 309 00:22:23,599 --> 00:22:27,480 we couldn't hang with that. But yeah, the situation in LA, it 310 00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:30,880 was definitely all over the place. But Talbot has settled back into where we 311 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,680 thought he would be and he's been good lately in LA. Looks like a 312 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,759 really good team. All right, Let's move on to the opposite of a 313 00:22:37,759 --> 00:22:41,359 really good team. That would be the Santurse Sharks, and they're really bad. 314 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:48,519 Trying to find a silver lining when we did this hot take, and 315 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:52,720 I think a lot of it revolved around how do we actually who's actually going 316 00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:56,559 to run this power play? And how are they going to be valuable? 317 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,000 So I said that Henry Thrunn would finish as the top forty to five, 318 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,680 thinking he'd get a lot of minutes and have some decent bash. At this 319 00:23:03,759 --> 00:23:08,480 point, he's played thirty eight games. He has scored six points for a 320 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:12,279 thirteen point pace. That's not very good. He's almost playing twenty minutes time 321 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:17,720 on ice. He's over a block per game and a little over half a 322 00:23:17,799 --> 00:23:19,599 hit per game, doesn't shoot too much, So the bash is okay. 323 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,880 It's not great. It's not terrible. Some of it's good some leagues. 324 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,720 If you count blocks more than hits or something like that, it might be 325 00:23:26,759 --> 00:23:32,160 decent. But he isn't scoring a whole lot, and he isn't really running 326 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,480 the power play. This is definitely a loss. But thinking about the question 327 00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:38,400 of who the heck is going to run this power play long term and when 328 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,200 is it going to be good enough to be valuable, I don't know the 329 00:23:42,319 --> 00:23:47,880 answer to that. I think it'll probably be whomever they draft in twenty twenty 330 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,680 four, if they get Celebrini or one of the top forwards. They also 331 00:23:52,759 --> 00:23:59,000 have the pick from the Penguins, and they have some other might have another 332 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,960 late or early second that they could take a defenseman, and that because this 333 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:06,920 is such a deep defenseman draft, it might be good enough. That's their 334 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,759 But next best power play quarterback, I think it's pretty obvious. It's not 335 00:24:08,839 --> 00:24:14,400 killing Addison, It's not any of the guys that are currently doing it right 336 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,319 now, I don't think that's the long term solution. But Shakier mccamadolin is 337 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,200 a maybe. And the guy they just got from Tampa, Jack Thompson. 338 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:26,160 He's pretty darn good too. So those are my current dark horse candidates. 339 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,799 But I think it's TBD currently someone not on the roster. That's who's going 340 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,000 to be the best player and be the power play quarterback when they're good again, 341 00:24:33,039 --> 00:24:37,319 which probably will be I don't know, three or four years, Jesse. 342 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,640 I think it's going to be a while. Yeah, yeah, it 343 00:24:41,759 --> 00:24:45,119 wasn't somebody's got to do it, but it hasn't happened yet for Henry th 344 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,799 Run. Let's move on to the Seattle crack, and my hot take on 345 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,119 this was that they would slip out of the playoffs. You disagreed. It 346 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,240 looks like it's gonna be correct. It looks like Seattle is going to miss 347 00:24:56,279 --> 00:25:00,400 such a weird team this year. Last year there were second in the NHL 348 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,759 and shooting eleven point six and this year they've dropped to twenty seventh, nine 349 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:11,160 point two percent. And yet last year they couldn't save a goal. They 350 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,519 couldn't save a shot to save their lives. They had an eight to eighty 351 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,680 six save percentage, which was thirtieth this year nine oh five eighth, So 352 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,839 they've completely flip flopped on what their team has done well. And they're also 353 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,519 a steaky old team. I looked at an NHL Stats press release from the 354 00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:33,759 beginning of the season that showed they were tied as the second oldest roster in 355 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:36,599 the National Hockey League, which you might think, why that's weird. They're 356 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:38,599 an expansion team. Think about it, an expansion team, where are they 357 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:41,559 going to get their players from. They're getting players who are a little bit 358 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,359 on the older side that other teams were willing to let go a couple of 359 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:51,200 years ago, and their prospect system hasn't necessarily produced the fruits that eventually it 360 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:55,240 will, So it's scary for them. They were older at the beginning of 361 00:25:55,279 --> 00:25:57,640 the year than the Capitols. Probably not. They probably are much older than 362 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:02,720 the Capitals now because the number of young guys have come up. But this 363 00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:04,839 is not a good sign. It looks like the crack Can are going to 364 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,519 have to do a little bit of rebuilding. So victory. It looks like 365 00:26:08,559 --> 00:26:12,400 I'm on the right track on this one. What do you think? Yeah, 366 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,720 I think you're going to be correct on the crack end. It's so 367 00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:21,119 weird. They bounce back and forth from this, oh they're not very good 368 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,880 to Wow, how are they this good too? Oh they're not good again. 369 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,079 It's a little bit confusing, but it is that they have their style. 370 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:32,279 It's which is basically it's similar to the Carolina style that I think Carolina 371 00:26:32,319 --> 00:26:34,319 has better personnel to pull it off, which is, you know, they 372 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,279 just they flood you with a lot of capable players and they just play the 373 00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:42,119 same style and they just try to get volume and get something to go in. 374 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,680 But it isn't It doesn't always work, and I think sometimes you need 375 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:48,839 someone to just step up and take the team on his back and pull you 376 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,279 into the playoffs kind of thing. That game a couple I think it was 377 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,440 like a week or two ago where they were beating Vegas and I was joking 378 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,400 about how hilarious it would be if they knocked him out of the playoffs, 379 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,720 and then of course Vegas comes back and wins that game, and I was 380 00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:06,440 like, oh damn it. So that was also pretty big for them because 381 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,079 if they had beaten Vegas in regulation and maybe gotten a little bit of momentum 382 00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:12,599 that could have. It could ended differently, but I think it is gonna 383 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:18,160 end up with you being correct and them on the outside looking in. All 384 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:22,960 right, let's move in, move on to the Vancouver Canucks. And this 385 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:29,079 started with a Canuck and it's gonna swing back to be a Calgary player because 386 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:34,359 Andre Kuzmenko is who I picked and he's no longer there. But that's he 387 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,599 was a Canuck at being in the season, and I said that he's gonna 388 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,440 not be a one hit wonder and get close get past the seventy point mark 389 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:47,559 again by upping his shots but still having a high shooting percentage. You agree 390 00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:49,000 with me, by the way, and so it looks like we're both going 391 00:27:49,079 --> 00:27:56,640 to be wrong on this one. He did increase his he did still shoot 392 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,640 over fifteen percent. He did not up his shots. That's really frustrating. 393 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,480 When you're shooting almost twenty six percent, you have to know that you're gonna 394 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,880 you got to shoot more in order to be as successful, and he just 395 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,960 didn't. He actually shot quite a bit less so far. He has eighty 396 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,519 five shots in fifty eight games. Last season, he had one hundred and 397 00:28:14,519 --> 00:28:18,319 forty two and eighty one so his point his shots per game went down by 398 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:22,680 point three, not ideal, and he's currently on a forty one point pace. 399 00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:26,720 When he moved to Calgary, initially it looked good. He had a 400 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:30,240 couple of goals, he was getting some good deployment. But that team's had 401 00:28:30,279 --> 00:28:33,680 so many shakeups. I think it's been hard. I don't know what to 402 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,799 say about Kuzmenko. I've actually been thinking about writing for about him at ep 403 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,799 Rnkside, but I still don't. I don't really know what to think about 404 00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:45,440 him, so it's made it quite challenging. The question I keep circling back 405 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,960 to is he even like a fifty point guy? I don't know. It's 406 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:53,839 so difficult to pin him down because he had such great success that first season 407 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,200 and then he comes crashing down. But he wasn't as bad. I don't 408 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:02,039 think he was quite as bad as being healthy crashed as he was in Vancouver. 409 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:06,079 But they are also a really good team and expecting more on a night 410 00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:08,839 tonight basis, so you understood that. But he's not great defensively, but 411 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:14,079 he's not horrible. He's like pretty close to average, and so you know, 412 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,480 you think about that and you're like, okay, but he clearly has 413 00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:19,359 some offense. He clearly can produce in the right situation. I think he's 414 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,640 probably I think he can get back to being a fifty to sixty point guy 415 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,519 next year. I don't think I think seventy four was pretty rich. We 416 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:32,960 all knew that. But he's not getting a ton of help from his secondary 417 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,519 assists. He's not getting a whole lot of help from some of the other 418 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:41,400 underlyings either, like the power play IPP the regular IPP those are all pretty 419 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,440 low for him. His PDO is pretty neutral. But overall, I think 420 00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:48,640 he probably even deserves a few more points on what he's getting now, and 421 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,559 that would get him close to fifty, which is a bit more reasonable, 422 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:56,960 even though people would probably still be disappointed in that. And he still doesn't 423 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,640 offer priffs, so Kuzmenko is pretty much a points only play. It'll be 424 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,640 really interesting to see what happens though with him, not to mention the deployment 425 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,440 and what the team's going to be like. But there's also there's also the 426 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,759 contract situation. He does have one more year at that five point five million, 427 00:30:12,039 --> 00:30:15,960 so he'll be hard to roster in those kinds of leagues. But then 428 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,519 after that, I can't imagine he's getting that kind of contract. So we'll 429 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:22,880 be this is one more data Jesse to figure out what to think of Andre 430 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:29,880 Kuzmenko. We'll see, Yeah, Kuzmenko not to making it happen this year, 431 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,519 we'll see if you can get a fresh start. And lastly, in 432 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,119 the Pacific Division, we got the Vegas School of the Knights, and my 433 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,440 hot take was that I thought Mark Stone Jack Eigel would combine for more than 434 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,880 one hundred and fifty games, and boy was I wrong. One hundred and 435 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,160 five games played between the two of them, with fourteen games left. Obviously 436 00:30:51,319 --> 00:30:56,079 the big problem mark Stone out at this point, Jack Eikeel already missed a 437 00:30:56,079 --> 00:31:00,839 lot of time. Yeah, it was my hope that we'd see healthy season 438 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,960 from both of them, But I guess that if that day ever comes, 439 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,319 it hasn't come yet. So I don't know, Victor that it's basically it 440 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,599 was just a maybe wish casting health on these two that they haven't demonstrated I 441 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:22,559 should believe in. Yeah, it's difficult with especially Stone. I call he'd 442 00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:26,000 had some issues too, but it seemed like it had been behind him. 443 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,920 That turned out to not be true. But I don't think it was. 444 00:31:30,119 --> 00:31:33,240 It wasn't related to his previous injury, right, that wasn't related to the 445 00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:36,440 surgery with the neck, so it was a different thing. I don't know 446 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,759 that you could really blame him, but Stone just continues to have similar issues. 447 00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:44,240 Although his one of his this the current injury with the was it the 448 00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:48,319 spleen That was also unrelated. But they tend to just get banged up and 449 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,000 miss a ton of time. So I guess you could have predicted that, 450 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:56,319 but not entirely. So I don't think this one's entirely I think maybe the 451 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,000 idea was in the right place, but it didn't quite work out all right. 452 00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:05,680 So the next one the Arizona Coyotes, and my hot take was the 453 00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:12,440 Mattias Mitchelli discussion. So Mitchelli I was saying that he was going to up 454 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,680 his shots, goals time on ice, power play time on ice, and 455 00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:20,240 get close to a seventy point pace. He had sixty three point pace last 456 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,279 season. He wasn't shooting a whole lot. The priffs tend to be a 457 00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:27,119 little bit low with Mitchelli. This is where we're at. Shots are up 458 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,039 time on ice is up, power play time on ice is actually exactly the 459 00:32:31,079 --> 00:32:36,440 same, which is incredible. The goals are the same, but he's currently 460 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,279 has fewer games, so I think he could probably do that. His shooting 461 00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:43,319 percentage has been cut in half, so I think that's a big part of 462 00:32:43,319 --> 00:32:45,359 it here. He's always been a high percent shooter and that's gone down. 463 00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:50,200 So he's currently on a fifty five point pace, but I think MITCHELLI can 464 00:32:50,279 --> 00:32:52,279 get closer to that. I like that he's up in his shots and getting 465 00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:57,119 more time, so the thought process is there, and it seems like he 466 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,039 can continue to make those corrections to make up for the high shooting percentage and 467 00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:06,200 be closer to a seventy point guy rest of the season. Maybe next season, 468 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,680 I don't know, but definitely he didn't get there yet. So there 469 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:15,279 you go. Jesse Nice. Yeah, there's only so far you can get 470 00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:19,559 if you're in Arizona Coyote right now. Unfortunately, they had their hot streak, 471 00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:23,559 but it ain't happening right now, that's for sure. Chicago Blackhawks, 472 00:33:23,599 --> 00:33:28,000 my hot take was they would allow the most goals in the West. And 473 00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:30,519 it wasn't a hot take that I thought they would be bad. I just 474 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:37,400 was trying to project them being even worse than bad as it turned and you 475 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,480 agreed with me. As it turned out, they were the third worst, 476 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,799 or they are at present the third worst, with a chance of becoming the 477 00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:49,880 second worst. The San Jose Sharks have them lapped at this point with two 478 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,480 hundred and seventy one goals against. The Anaheim Ducks have two hundred and fifty 479 00:33:53,480 --> 00:34:00,319 one against, and that leaves the Blackhawks with two hundred and forty seven goals 480 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:02,960 again, so the third worst in the West. They're still bad, They're 481 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,840 still real bad, but they weren't quite as bad as I would have anticipated 482 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:14,079 them to be. Why is that Peter Moraszak nine oh four staate percentage quietly 483 00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:19,840 for a really awful team. So I guess we can blame Peter Moraszak for 484 00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:25,280 keeping the black Hawks for being historically bad. What do you think, Victor? 485 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:31,320 Are you disappointed or surprised that the black Hawks I shouldn't say disappointed that 486 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:36,519 they didn't end up being historically bad. No, I'm still mad at the 487 00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:40,039 black Hawks for getting Badard. I still think that's ridiculous, and the fact 488 00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:45,360 that they're this bad and in contention to get another amazing player and potentially even 489 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,159 the following year. Yeah, they had enough success and it seemed like everything 490 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,039 happened a little too quickly for them. No, I think that they they 491 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,599 not that I really expected them to be that much better. Of Course, 492 00:34:54,599 --> 00:35:00,280 they had some personnel issues with Perry, but some of those moves in Taylor 493 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,679 Hall obviously didn't work out because he was injured. But some of those moves 494 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,519 I think have worked quite well. And Nick Felino has seemed like he really 495 00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:13,960 helped Madard. So yeah, this isn't terribly surprising, but I don't think 496 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,760 that many. I don't think that people realistically thought the Sharks would be so 497 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:22,239 much worse than the Blackhawks, especially since they were still trying to make it 498 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,920 seem like they were trying. But clearly they're not. They're ready to pack 499 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,639 it in. All right, let's move on to the color Avalanche, which 500 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,920 again we are going to talk about a player who's no longer a car Avalanche 501 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,880 player, but bo Byram is who I singled out. I've always loved Byram 502 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,880 and he was so good in that Stanley Cup run, but he has struggled 503 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,440 in the regular season, and to be a consistent fantasy asset hasn't really been 504 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,920 there. My hot take was that he played sixty plus games and he would 505 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,159 have a fifty five point pace. One of those two things definitely happened, 506 00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:58,320 because he's at sixty three games, but he's at a thirty four point pace. 507 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,480 Since he moved to Buffalo, though things have been he seems like he 508 00:36:01,519 --> 00:36:05,639 has been getting a little bit more opportunity. He had that two goal game, 509 00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:08,000 which was amazing. That was that was actually I think I had those 510 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,519 in the matchup against you, Jesse, may help make it a little bit 511 00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:14,800 closer, but didn't end up mattering in the end. But yes, so 512 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,360 far did we mention that Victor, Did we mention the outcome of our I 513 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:22,440 don't think we did. No. I think everyone knows though you definitely took 514 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:27,599 it down. And so he has eight games with Buffalo. Four points. 515 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,039 That's a little bit better if you're getting close to that half point per game, 516 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,800 I don't know. Five points, that's a little bit better. And 517 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,039 he's playing a lot more minutes, so that's really good. You'd love to 518 00:36:37,079 --> 00:36:40,840 see that. I think Byron and Buffalo moving forward. I think I said 519 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,360 this before, but more than anything, I think it hurts own power more 520 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,239 than it hurts Byram. I think Byron is gonna get more power, playtime. 521 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,639 We've even seen him and dealing up on the top unit. I think 522 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:58,360 he's gonna He's gonna be okay and maybe even have a little bit easier path 523 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,280 to relevance. I like him, I like Byrom. I think, obviously 524 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,719 this didn't work out for this season, but next season I probably will get 525 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,400 stuckered into drafting him in too many places again because I just love the guy 526 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:12,599 and it's still optimistic about his future. I wonder too if he was dealing 527 00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:15,840 with any lingering, concussion or headache issues this year, because he just didn't 528 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,960 seem like himself at times, and a lot of the underlyings were just awful 529 00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:22,400 compared to previous years and they don't seem to be affecting him as much now. 530 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:30,320 So hopeful for Byrom. Yeah, Byrom obviously is a guy who is 531 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,960 looking up, and even though he's also moving to a team with a lot 532 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,920 of the men, it's there's nowhere more crowded than Kyler rat Or for d 533 00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:43,719 men. So I think this might be a one of those one year too 534 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,440 early predictions. Victor, We'll see Dallas stars. The hot take I had 535 00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:52,320 Tyler Sagan has a Jamie Benn type bounce back year at a sixty five point 536 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:58,039 pace. Victor hard disagreed, And what do you know about this? Tyler 537 00:37:58,079 --> 00:38:02,320 Sagan has missed some games, but he is currently on a sixty four point 538 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,559 pace, And I said sixty five, I'm claiming victory. I don't care. 539 00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:10,320 I don't care that it's one away because I think the intent here is 540 00:38:10,519 --> 00:38:15,199 satisfied. Now that said, the reason that Tyler Sagan has that many points 541 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:21,440 and he's missed about eleven games at this point is because everybody on Dallas is 542 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,960 scoring. So Tyler Sagan is actually tied for seventh with Jamie Benn oddly enough 543 00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:30,440 at forty six points on the Dallas Stars. So there's a whole lot of 544 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:36,199 guys who are scoring points for this team, and Sagan is no longer leading 545 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,840 the train. He is along for the ride. But I have been very 546 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:44,199 pleased at finally Tyler Sagan starting to return a little bit of value. What 547 00:38:44,199 --> 00:38:46,960 do you think, Victor, I'm pretty surprised. I mean, it's pretty 548 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,360 clear that he's no longer like one of the main guys on the team, 549 00:38:51,519 --> 00:38:55,039 but that team is just so stacked I mean they you know, we've all 550 00:38:55,039 --> 00:39:00,199 we've been raving about Logan stank Covin forever and it's just fun to watch that 551 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:06,599 actually materialized to and Maverick Bork is the second leading HL scorer with dank Covin 552 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,280 was I believe first. So they have two of the top HL guys, 553 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,719 so they have another guy that they could plug in there and probably be just 554 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:16,199 dang good. So it's ridiculous the depth that they have. And second is 555 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:21,360 no longer like you said, and driving the bus, but he's still like 556 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:27,360 participating and being and benefiting. They move things around a bit and sometimes he's 557 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,280 not always playing with the best players, but yeah, he's definitely still relevant 558 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:36,000 and the depth role, it's still he's still someone to be interested in, 559 00:39:36,559 --> 00:39:39,599 which is not something we thought necessarily for a while there he was progressing pretty 560 00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:42,960 hard. But yeah, I think that there might be a renaissance coming. 561 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,320 He was only thirty two, he's not ancient, so he still has some 562 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:50,840 game left, especially if he's more in the middle six role, as opposed 563 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,199 to expecting him to be the best player on the team, like he's clearly 564 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:58,039 not that anymore. But the expectations changed for Segan. I think he can 565 00:39:58,079 --> 00:40:01,480 still be previous in value on this one. He definitely did well. Let's 566 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:07,320 move on to the Minnesota Wild. So I was trying to decide somewhere believing 567 00:40:07,519 --> 00:40:13,320 in Boldie or Rossi. So I gave Jesse the option of Matt Boldie seventy 568 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,679 five plus point pace from Marco Rossi sixty five point pace, and of course 569 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:23,639 Jesse picked the harder one and the one that didn't quite work out is Marco 570 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,639 Rossi, who is currently on a forty one point pace, although he has 571 00:40:27,679 --> 00:40:30,840 had some times that he's looked pretty good. Boldie is pretty close seventy two 572 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:36,800 point pace, so he's had a pretty good season overall. Minnesota being a 573 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,079 little disappointing and not quite It looks like they're not quite going to make the 574 00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:45,440 playoffs, and that's obviously disappointing for them, and a couple of their guys 575 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,079 have regressed. They're still in it. They might, but it doesn't look 576 00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:52,320 super good and a lot of their a lot of their players have regressed a 577 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:57,280 little bit. But I think that Rossi has shown at least that he's becoming 578 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,480 a more competent NHLer and I still think they're some pretty decent upside there. 579 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:05,360 He's still only ninety one NHL games, so maybe it was the case I 580 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,400 was a bit too early on Rossi and it seems seemingly pretty close with Boldie. 581 00:41:09,559 --> 00:41:13,480 He's kind of right in that range anyways, where he was kind of 582 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,039 in that mid sixty point and looks like he's he might finish closer to seventy 583 00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:22,360 five this season. Anyways, that's a soft win there, But overall, 584 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,400 I think maybe it's next year for Rossi. Jesse, what do you think 585 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,199 that could be? A Yeah, I think Rossi is still on the come 586 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:30,920 up. I'm gonna give you credit for Boldi at this point, but I 587 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,159 knew that Rossi would be the tougher pull the Nashville Predators, the red hot 588 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,199 Nashville Predators. My hot take was that Ryan O'Reilly would lead the forwards and 589 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:45,280 points. Heck, Philip Forsburg's always injured, and nobody else on that forward 590 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:49,840 crew really impressed me much. It turns out at this point he is third 591 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,119 among the forwards in points, behind Philip Forsburg, and somehow Gustav nikequist I 592 00:41:55,239 --> 00:42:00,400 was There was a Twitter conversation this week about Gustav Nikewist, and I pointed 593 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:05,079 out that I still didn't believe in him until fairly recently. I think we 594 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,159 just have to accept the Gustav Niquist as having himself a career year here, 595 00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:14,599 but Ryan O'Reilly didn't quite make it to that level. So I still think 596 00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:17,800 he maybe did better than some people might have expected come in into the year. 597 00:42:19,079 --> 00:42:22,000 How about you, Victor, Oh heck, yeah, this was huge 598 00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:24,679 for Ryan O'Reilly, and I think a lot of people thought he was absolutely 599 00:42:24,679 --> 00:42:30,719 cooked. And yeah, he definitely has had a bit of a renaissance from 600 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,679 forty six to sixty eight point pace I think is huge. I have I 601 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:37,199 actually got him in a couple of leagues, and I think even Diesel was 602 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,320 one of them. But he's actually been one of my better players in a 603 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,519 lot of leagues, especially those leagues that count faceoffs and other priss. He's 604 00:42:43,519 --> 00:42:45,920 still doing the face off thing, taking a ton, winning a ton. 605 00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:52,199 So yeah, definitely the spirit of this one is good with Ryan o'reiley maybe 606 00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:54,280 burying the lead there and how good Gustav Nyquist has been though, because he 607 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:59,960 has been he's also been a bit of a renaissance. He's been quite nice 608 00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:02,920 in a couple of my leagues really productive, So we'll see if that continues. 609 00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:08,239 Nashville in general just weirdly good. Apparently they need to take away at 610 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:14,039 their Vegas concerts every season and then they'll just never lose again. Let's move 611 00:43:14,079 --> 00:43:15,320 on to the Blues. There are a couple of things that I mentioned. 612 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:22,599 Joe Hoefer pulls off pulls of Bennington and pushes Bennington out of the way and 613 00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:24,760 the Blues into the playoffs. That was one and the other one was about 614 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:30,199 Justin Fulk being a top ten defender. And so far this season, Hopeer 615 00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:35,320 has been really good. I would say I don't think that he pulled a 616 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:40,519 Bennington on Jordan Bennington, but he definitely has been good. Twenty five games, 617 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:45,519 about half of what Bennington has played. The same percentage is a little 618 00:43:45,519 --> 00:43:50,679 bit better. The goals against is a little bit better. The underlying metrics 619 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,960 some of them are better that Delta Fenwick is better. The goals save above 620 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:58,360 expected is a little bit worse. But actually, overall, both these guys 621 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,800 are doing really well, and that's part of the and that they are both 622 00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:06,159 that they are, that the Blues are in playoff contingent. Still, it's 623 00:44:06,199 --> 00:44:09,360 kind of a Minnesota and the Blues. If anyone's gonna knock Vegas out, 624 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,440 it's going to be one of those two, and they both have to go 625 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:16,239 on quite the run in order to make that happen. But Blues looking much 626 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,599 better than they had in the past, So I don't think this is a 627 00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:22,039 win, but I think hope for maybe surprise some people with how well he's 628 00:44:22,039 --> 00:44:27,119 played. And he's certainly been valuable for spot starts and in Dynasty when you 629 00:44:27,159 --> 00:44:30,480 flex him up and down from your miners, he's been very good and very 630 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:35,519 hopeful folk. No, he was the forty first best defender and tidy. 631 00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,719 I was surprised at how long I had to scroll to find his name as 632 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,440 page after page. But yeah, so definitely not a top ten his bash 633 00:44:43,519 --> 00:44:45,679 and he's still a valuable guy, but not top ten, not really that 634 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:52,639 close. Definitely an l Jesse. Yeah, it win them all and the 635 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:58,000 last of the Western teams, the Winnipeg Jets. My hot take basically, 636 00:44:58,159 --> 00:45:01,760 it was a backhanded way of saying that the Winnipeg Jets would tank. I 637 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:07,480 said that two of Scheifeley Eelers, Morrissey Hellibuck and Nino Neda Rider get traded 638 00:45:07,519 --> 00:45:12,800 this year and you agreed with me. Nope, the Winnipeg Jets surprised us. 639 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,440 All. They have been a fantastic team this year, so it was 640 00:45:16,559 --> 00:45:22,000 not a case of them selling, but rather keeping those guys on board. 641 00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:28,440 So that was not an accurate prediction. Winnipeg did not sell. They've got 642 00:45:28,599 --> 00:45:32,280 lots of good guys. Anything to add to that. Victor. Surprised with 643 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:37,000 Winnipeg, Very surprised with Winnipeg. I thought that they could be good, 644 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:42,440 but holy cow, like one of the best teams in the league. I 645 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,400 don't think any of us saw that coming. In fact, I don't think 646 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,639 they're gonna win the President Trophy because its probably going to be Boston or Florida, 647 00:45:47,679 --> 00:45:52,440 but the fact that they're right there and basically ahead of Colorado and Dallas 648 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:59,800 and Vancouver, that's surprising. We knew that they could out hellibuck other teams 649 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,920 with their goaltending, but I don't think we saw the depth and especially the 650 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,079 offensive firepower. Nope, didn't see it. But very happy for them, 651 00:46:08,159 --> 00:46:13,719 and there's been some decent surprises. So we'll talk about those more in the 652 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,400 team preview, though that's right now, Victor. We're going to take a 653 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:30,960 break, come back and talk East. This two excellent, our serious injury. 654 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:36,679 When the Eastern Conference victor, of course, we always start with the 655 00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,480 West. If given the choice, the Boston Bruins first up, what do 656 00:46:39,519 --> 00:46:44,039 you got? I had a couple of things. One of them was that 657 00:46:44,079 --> 00:46:46,480 Olmark would be a top ten goalie, and the other is that Jake Debrusk 658 00:46:46,599 --> 00:46:52,119 finishes with a seventy five plus point pace. You agreed with me about Debrasque 659 00:46:52,639 --> 00:46:57,159 and held me to the Olmark take. That was the wrong choice for you, 660 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:04,079 because Debrusque was not very good. He's currently on a forty five point 661 00:47:04,119 --> 00:47:07,679 pace. Last season. The sixty four point pace seems to be the outlier 662 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:14,119 as he's back to that forty five point pace. And what's crazy is that 663 00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:17,280 some of his like his PDO and some of his IPP numbers look like he 664 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:23,079 actually deserves less. That's not good. So overall pretty disappointing. I don't 665 00:47:23,079 --> 00:47:28,519 think this Bridge deal is gonna look very good for him in hindsight, because 666 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,800 I wonder if he's gonna get even less out of this. He's certainly going 667 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:36,559 to get a not as exciting long term contract from it. I don't know 668 00:47:36,599 --> 00:47:40,159 that the cap hit will be too much different. But he signed that four 669 00:47:40,199 --> 00:47:44,599 million dollars I think two year deal when he had a when he had that 670 00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:49,000 kind of rough season or that a good season. So anyways, I don't 671 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,960 know that's gonna go very well for Debresk. He's definitely looking like someone not 672 00:47:52,079 --> 00:47:55,360 terribly interesting in fantasy. But Ollmark, on the other hand, I think 673 00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,360 it depends on how you define top ten goalie, because if you go points 674 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:04,960 per game fantasy points per game, then he actually did do very well. 675 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,679 He depending on if you want to count Matthew Murray, the Dallas goalie, 676 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:13,800 deming Justice Anenin who didn't play very many games, they're all ahead of him. 677 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,519 But of all the goalies who played a decent number of games, he 678 00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:21,639 was actually sixth in points per game for the tidy. That's pretty incredible. 679 00:48:21,679 --> 00:48:24,920 Now, he didn't play very many games, so obviously that's not as exciting 680 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:30,199 as someone who we would have wanted to play. He only played thirty five 681 00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:35,320 games to date. Swiman definitely taking the net from him be more the volume 682 00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,119 star, and I think a lot of that was the worry for a lot 683 00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:39,320 of people, and that definitely ended up being true. He didn't have the 684 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:44,960 volume, didn't have the total points, but man, he really still brings 685 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,599 the heat on a game per game basis, And as long as you don't 686 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:52,679 count on him as your first or probably even second goalie, he's a fantastic 687 00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,480 third goalie if that's what you had him on, And that might continue to 688 00:48:54,800 --> 00:49:00,000 be true moving forward. Obviously there's some cap considerations. I think they asked 689 00:49:00,119 --> 00:49:01,960 him to wave his no trade class and he was like, nope, I'm 690 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,679 staying here. Of course, wants to be on a good team that has 691 00:49:05,679 --> 00:49:07,760 a chance to win the Cup. But I don't know what they're gonna do 692 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:12,000 moving forward, because clearly sounds like Swimon is better. Olmark has one more 693 00:49:12,079 --> 00:49:15,320 year. Five million doesn't seem like he's gonna that seems like a lot to 694 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:20,320 pay backup. So we'll see what happens in the offseason. Yeah, Victor 695 00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:23,320 and Olmark. Yeah, I've long been a believer in Olmark. He was 696 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:29,880 a guy who did not he had a prospect pedigree, and then things didn't 697 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:34,360 go so well in Buffalo. And when he left Buffalo, the guy who 698 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,719 replaced him Victor, a certain fellow named Uka Pecca Lucanan and my hot take 699 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:46,639 for the Buffalo Sabers this year was that UPL Pecca Lucanan would take that net 700 00:49:47,039 --> 00:49:52,280 and lead the playoff bound Sabers in starts. I got it half right, 701 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:58,599 and frankly, I think I got the hard part right because Kapeca Lucanan is 702 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,960 by far leading the Sabers and starts he's got forty five or he's got forty 703 00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:06,119 two starts. Devin Levi only twenty spent a lot of a year in the 704 00:50:06,159 --> 00:50:10,519 miners. Eric Comery with eight you did not agree with my Ukupeka luken in 705 00:50:10,599 --> 00:50:15,840 take and right now it looks pretty pretty rough for the Sabers to make the 706 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,960 playoffs. Dom Lucisians odds have him down to two percent, have them down 707 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,280 to two percent chance of making the playoffs. But nonetheless, I'm happy about 708 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:30,719 UPL kind of stabilizing and showing what he can do that what we saw of 709 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:32,360 him in the World Juniors years ago. What do you think, Victor, 710 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,960 Yeah, I think I was more believing in the Devon Levi hype train, 711 00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:43,239 so that was probably part of it. I definitely didn't believe in Eric Comray, 712 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,920 but I think more of that skepticism was on the idea that the Sabers 713 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:52,840 were going to make the playoffs because I wasn't on that train. Even as 714 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:53,840 fun as they were last year, I think of the same thing again. 715 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,199 They were fun for a while and then they just not so well. But 716 00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,599 they've actually turned it around and they are They were making a run out of 717 00:51:00,559 --> 00:51:01,559 it for a while, but I think they're just too far back now. 718 00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:07,480 They're currently seven points out with Detroit having a game in hand, Tampa having 719 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,239 a couple games in hand, so it seems very unlikely. But yeah, 720 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:15,079 he definitely Ukapeca Luca and a guy we talked very early on this podcast years 721 00:51:15,079 --> 00:51:21,840 ago. It's nice to see him have some success Detroit. My hot take 722 00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,880 was that most Cider would return to his Calder form and put up fifty five 723 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:30,880 point pace. I also threw out there that Shane Gosta Spear finishes with more 724 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:37,000 power play points than Cider, and you wanted to hold me to the Sider 725 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:42,800 and Cider isn't quite there, but he did have a bit of a bounce 726 00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,480 back season. He's currently on a forty five point pace, so I mean 727 00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:52,000 his Calder season was fifty last season was forty two, so he's getting back 728 00:51:52,039 --> 00:51:54,360 there. But it's not quite all the way there, so forty five point 729 00:51:54,400 --> 00:52:00,800 pace it didn't quite do it. But he's still he's His time on ice 730 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,159 has actually gone down a little bit, his power play time on ice has 731 00:52:04,199 --> 00:52:08,400 slipped a little bit, but overall he's getting still a ton of periffs, 732 00:52:08,199 --> 00:52:12,920 he's shooting a lot, and he's getting those even strength points. For the 733 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,960 most part. I think a lot of this has also a lot to do 734 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,400 with how Detroit has been up and down, so that's probably part of it. 735 00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,440 I do think Cider is still a great player, but they also just 736 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,000 got so many other guys. They have Walmant now, they have Sharat and 737 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:31,280 Peatries there Gosta Speris, there's only one puck and there's too many NHL quality 738 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:36,400 defenders. I blame Stevie why on most Sider not being as good in fantasy. 739 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,039 That's all his fault. He'll he'll have to feel shame for that. 740 00:52:39,679 --> 00:52:45,239 But then the other one, Shane Gosta Spear definitely leading the team in power 741 00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:52,239 play time on ice. He is also very much leading in power play points. 742 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,960 So he has twenty five, Cider seventeen, Wallman down at four. 743 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,159 Everyone else has zero, So I got that one right. But that's not 744 00:52:58,199 --> 00:53:00,599 the one you wanted to hold me to. Jesse. Dang it, you 745 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:05,199 pick the right one, yeah, Victor, Sorry, that's how we do. 746 00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,440 We're supposed to pick the harder one. This one you didn't need to 747 00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:15,039 even actually you agreed with me. Florida Panthers. I went for Maddy Kachuk 748 00:53:15,199 --> 00:53:20,199 one hundred and twenty points. Woof. I guess theoretically, mathematically could still 749 00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,239 happen. But ka Chuck currently's done a ninety two point pace. One hundred 750 00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:27,159 and twenty was a bit aggressive. I was a little high on my own 751 00:53:27,199 --> 00:53:31,719 supply. Only three qualifying players are at or ahead of a one hundred and 752 00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:37,280 twenty point pace, that is Kucherrop, McDavid and McKinnon. And Kachuck is 753 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,920 at a healthy twentieth in the NHL with his ninety two point pace. I 754 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:46,679 think I was just asking too much of our man down in Miami in Sunrise, 755 00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,960 Maddy Kachuck, What do you think? Victor Kachuck is awesome, But 756 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:57,639 if you're trying to if you're thinking about how much, if you're disappointed with 757 00:53:58,039 --> 00:54:00,119 the amazing season he's had, I get it, being over one hundred point 758 00:54:00,159 --> 00:54:05,800 pace and then now being ninety three. It seems a little low, but 759 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,800 he's still doing a ton. He's actually hitting way more this season than he 760 00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:14,559 did previously, and he's blocking more. His shots are a little bit down. 761 00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:16,440 Overall, I think the value is still pretty similar. Of course, 762 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:21,800 you always want a few more points, but the power play points are there 763 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,920 and the hits. Yeah, you might be a little bit disappointed, but 764 00:54:25,119 --> 00:54:30,599 I don't think he's in that same air as coach McDavid McKinnon. But that's 765 00:54:30,599 --> 00:54:35,320 okay. He's still great. Let's move on to the Canadians. My hot 766 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:40,800 take was that Cole Coffield scores at a forty goal pace and or Michael Matheson 767 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:45,719 scores a sixty point pace. You disagreed with Matheson, and you wanted to 768 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,639 hold me to the oh with Mathison and Coffield, but you wanted to hold 769 00:54:49,679 --> 00:54:54,159 me to Matheson, which actually was pretty close, definitely closer than the Coffield 770 00:54:54,199 --> 00:55:00,000 one. Mathison currently on a fifty six point pace. That's I think maybe 771 00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:01,719 surprising to some people. But he looked around and it was like, who 772 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:06,079 else is going to do this and in Montreal and there weren't really other good 773 00:55:06,119 --> 00:55:08,800 options. He did it last year. He's pretty much on a similar pace 774 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:13,719 this year. He might eventually get to sixty or above, but right now 775 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,880 he's just below that. But overall feels like a win the spirit of it, 776 00:55:17,159 --> 00:55:22,360 and he's been good in Montreal. He has struggled elsewhere Mike Matheson has 777 00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,199 but he's playing a ton of minutes. He's getting a ton of power playtime. 778 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,920 I think it's more that the unit isn't converting as much and he's not 779 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,000 getting in on them all. But he's out there a lot and he's contributing, 780 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:37,639 so I think it's going to continue to be pretty valuable. The question 781 00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,079 I think is win, if at all, do you need to get out 782 00:55:40,119 --> 00:55:43,400 from under this, because I think that is going to end at some point, 783 00:55:43,559 --> 00:55:45,440 But they eventually Lane Hudson or someone else is going to come along. 784 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:51,360 But he has two more seasons as the highest paid defender in Montreal. I 785 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,280 don't know how long that'll last, but maybe they'll bring someone else in, 786 00:55:54,719 --> 00:56:00,519 whether it's Hudson or maybe Kaden Googli or someone else gets some opportunity, but 787 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,840 it's still Mike Matheson's time. I think he could probably hold that for another 788 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,440 season or so. I think Lane Hudson probably needs another another season or two 789 00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:13,199 maybe in some HL time, so you can probably have a little bit longer. 790 00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,400 Cole Caawfield was not really that close. He has twenty goals for a 791 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:20,519 twenty four goal pace. I think he still has that forty goal upside in 792 00:56:20,599 --> 00:56:22,760 him at some point, but I think some things in the situation in Montreal 793 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:27,320 need to change for him to fully get there. So I don't know that 794 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,119 I feel even confident about that next year happening. So probably a little rich 795 00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:37,119 just in general, and not even a year early. Jesse rationally Matheson would 796 00:56:37,159 --> 00:56:45,360 be the better likelihood in some ways, but you know that I cannot dispositionally 797 00:56:45,519 --> 00:56:51,039 go against gold caw Field, so I did stick with him as being possibly 798 00:56:51,119 --> 00:56:54,599 accurate, even though that has not turned out to be the case. Ottawa 799 00:56:54,719 --> 00:57:00,719 Senators, My hot take, Jake Sanderson ends the season as the d one 800 00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:05,360 in tom on ice in Ottawa. You disagreed, and I'm gonna declare some 801 00:57:05,519 --> 00:57:07,800 kind of victory victor. I'm going to ask you to throw some ice water 802 00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:12,800 on me right away, because according to the smooth ice time, Sanderson is 803 00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:16,840 getting the most time on ice of anybody on that team now lots of different 804 00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:22,760 ways to throw Astris on this. Thomas Shabbat has had a lot of mistime 805 00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:27,400 this year, but Jacob Chickering is on the outs. I think it's becoming 806 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,760 less and less strange to think that Sanderson is going to come out of this 807 00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:34,960 thing as the D one. Do you think you're gonna give me the W 808 00:57:35,119 --> 00:57:39,519 on this one? Yeah, I definitely am, because I think that Jake 809 00:57:39,559 --> 00:57:45,360 Sanderson is incredible and I think that the people who were championing him early on 810 00:57:45,639 --> 00:57:49,679 it has really shown that he really, I think, is the air apparent 811 00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:54,320 to the one D in in Ottawa long term. So I do think that 812 00:57:54,519 --> 00:58:00,280 he's just gonna be awesome. And I think that Shabbat had some pretty early 813 00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:05,000 success and there were some things that he did really well, and I don't 814 00:58:05,039 --> 00:58:08,960 know if he's necessarily gotten worse or the situation, but Sanderson just looks so 815 00:58:09,079 --> 00:58:14,079 much better than he does. Actually, if you look at this season, 816 00:58:14,119 --> 00:58:19,679 the last couple seasons, Sanderson, whether it's expected goals against four of course, 817 00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:23,079 all of that, he looks amazing and the quality of competition is even 818 00:58:23,519 --> 00:58:27,440 he's even dealing with a more and more difficult load. So yeah, I 819 00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,480 think Sanderson is truly the one d of the future in Ottawa. He's definitely 820 00:58:30,519 --> 00:58:35,280 a good one. And yeah, I think that they were smart. Wasn't 821 00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,000 that that that was the draft wars between him and Drysdale? Right? It 822 00:58:38,039 --> 00:58:44,880 definitely seems like Ottawa picked correctly there. Yeah, for sure, for once, 823 00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:49,880 they've had some difficulty in doing that. Victor, what do you got 824 00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,480 next? Let's go to Tampa. So my hot take, I was really 825 00:58:53,559 --> 00:58:58,039 wanting to see Hugo Allmenfeldt in the league, but I didn't really think that 826 00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:00,920 would happen, and I was right, So I didn't pick that one. 827 00:59:00,679 --> 00:59:06,320 I said, Brandon Hagel seventy plus point pace with twenty power play points. 828 00:59:06,599 --> 00:59:10,199 He has a seventy five point pace, so definitely half right, but only 829 00:59:10,239 --> 00:59:15,159 seven power play points. We know who gets power play points in Tampa, 830 00:59:15,199 --> 00:59:17,559 and it's generally not Brandon Hagel. It's the big guns, the coaches and 831 00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:22,320 the points and the headmans. There's not Ben stampcos there's not enough room always 832 00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,679 for someone like Brandon Hagel, even though he is out there a lot, 833 00:59:27,159 --> 00:59:29,800 still a career year. The spirit of the take I think was still I 834 00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:35,440 think the long term question is whether Brandon Hagel is a long term seventy plus 835 00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,239 point player, and I think he is. I don't know who else, 836 00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,920 you know, they don't really have a lot of depth. There's really no 837 00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:46,719 one else that I can see doing that. So I think Brandon Hagel probably 838 00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:52,239 is going to continue to be roughly this production. I would say probably sixty 839 00:59:52,239 --> 00:59:54,119 five to seventy five. This is probably on the high end of what he's 840 00:59:54,119 --> 00:59:59,159 he should be doing, but I feel like it's somewhat sustainable. What do 841 00:59:59,159 --> 01:00:04,000 you think, Jesse? Yeah? Why not? Why not? I think 842 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,639 there's there is a chance of that. So we'll see what Hagel is able 843 01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:13,199 to do. Trying to make believes this is too early to tell. Victor 844 01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:17,079 one more round advanced to the conference finals is what I predicted. They're going 845 01:00:17,159 --> 01:00:22,559 to have an awfully rough road to get there. Right now would be playing 846 01:00:22,719 --> 01:00:27,800 Florida in the first round of the NHL playoffs, and that's not anything you 847 01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:32,400 want to be doing. But we'll see what happens there. Yeah, we 848 01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:36,920 got to avoid these picks that involve the playoffs because we just we won't know. 849 01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:39,639 You guys, stop doing that. Stop doing that, all right, 850 01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:45,599 Let's move over to the Metro and talk Hurricanes. So my high eyed a 851 01:00:45,639 --> 01:00:50,559 couple one is that Tony DiAngelo has a sixty five point pace plus twenty power 852 01:00:50,559 --> 01:00:53,679 play points, just like you did a few seasons ago. And also that 853 01:00:53,719 --> 01:00:58,320 Martin HS fails to hit the seventy point mark. And you wanted to hold 854 01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:02,960 me to the TDA take, which was smart because that was not correct. 855 01:01:04,199 --> 01:01:07,519 But what if I told you that instead of power play points, TDA had 856 01:01:07,559 --> 01:01:12,360 a series of healthy scratches. Would that be good for you, Jesse would 857 01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:19,039 Would that be close enough to know? Okay, he was definitely nowhere near 858 01:01:20,039 --> 01:01:24,559 relevant or useful. Anyone who drafted him got a couple dozen games out of 859 01:01:24,599 --> 01:01:29,480 him and not much else. So yeah, he's definitely been irrelevant for the 860 01:01:29,559 --> 01:01:32,000 last several weeks and probably won't be the rest of the season. I don't 861 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:36,400 know what's going to happen after this year. That definitely didn't work out for 862 01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,719 Tony DiAngelo. Wish I'd wish he'd held me to the NATS one, because 863 01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:44,199 I think I nailed this one. I've always been a little skeptical of Martin 864 01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:46,519 HS. I do think he's a very good player, but I thought that 865 01:01:46,559 --> 01:01:51,519 he was cooking way too hot last year, and that seventy one pace wasn't 866 01:01:51,519 --> 01:01:54,039 sustainable. He's currently on a hot streak of three points in the last three 867 01:01:54,079 --> 01:01:58,159 games, and that has brought him up to a sixty two point pace. 868 01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:00,840 His time on ice has gone down, his power play tom and ice has 869 01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:06,239 gone down. His shooting percentage is roughly similar, but he's lost a lot 870 01:02:06,239 --> 01:02:08,320 of power play points. He was cooking way too hot on the power play 871 01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:13,079 last year. So I feel like this is where Martin Chis should be between 872 01:02:13,119 --> 01:02:16,199 a sixty sixty five point guy. So that's when I think of him moving 873 01:02:16,199 --> 01:02:19,280 forward. But You've always, I think, been a little bit higher on 874 01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:22,039 him, Jess. Do you think he can get back to that seventy plus. 875 01:02:22,639 --> 01:02:27,559 I think that Nachos has that opportunity with him. Yeah, for sure, 876 01:02:28,079 --> 01:02:31,199 I think that is something that could happen. So I'm still confident in 877 01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:37,920 Nachos. But I certainly believed that Tony DiAngelo the chances were very high that 878 01:02:38,159 --> 01:02:45,679 he would blame out in one of various in sundry different ways onto the Columbus 879 01:02:45,679 --> 01:02:49,480 Blue Jackets. My hot take Kent Johnson would be top three in the team 880 01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:55,440 in scoring. I was effectively correct in the concept that Columbus would be a 881 01:02:55,519 --> 01:03:02,159 tire fire when it came to scoring behind Johnnie Gudro. But what I did 882 01:03:02,159 --> 01:03:06,760 not anticipate was that Kent Johnson wouldn't have much of a year either. He 883 01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:12,639 had sixteen points in forty two games. He was placed on season ending season 884 01:03:12,679 --> 01:03:17,039 engine ir with a torn left laborum in the beginning of March. It's not 885 01:03:17,119 --> 01:03:22,199 happening for Kent Johnson. This year the last year for the kid. Nothing 886 01:03:22,239 --> 01:03:24,480 in Columbus seems to be going right now. I don't know, Victor, 887 01:03:24,559 --> 01:03:31,719 do you have any take on Kent Johnson. Yeah, he's very confused. 888 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:37,199 I think he's still he seems to not really I'm not sure if he just 889 01:03:37,199 --> 01:03:39,840 can't leverage it correctly. I definitely need to watch him more. But when 890 01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,239 I look at some of his play in some of his numbers, it seems 891 01:03:43,239 --> 01:03:47,159 like he isn't quite getting to the dangerous areas enough and that might be team 892 01:03:47,239 --> 01:03:50,679 situation. I don't know. He can't do everything himself, but I think 893 01:03:50,719 --> 01:03:55,039 he's still super skilled. I wonder if Columbus tries to pull some blockbuster and 894 01:03:55,079 --> 01:04:00,159 trades him this offseason. That would be interesting to see him in a more 895 01:04:00,199 --> 01:04:04,000 competitive environment with more skill around him. But I still believe. But I 896 01:04:04,039 --> 01:04:09,519 also wouldn't begrudge anyone from moving off of Ken Johnson because it's been frustrating. 897 01:04:09,599 --> 01:04:15,400 He hasn't really delivered at all. Let's move on to the New Jersey Devils, 898 01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,400 and my hot take revolved around the Hughes brothers. I said, Jack 899 01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:24,320 Hughes one hundred and fifteen point pace, Luke Hughes forty five point pace. 900 01:04:24,519 --> 01:04:28,760 These are both either spot on or really close. As of last night's game, 901 01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,000 Luke with a I think he had two or three apples, He's up 902 01:04:32,039 --> 01:04:38,320 to a forty five point pace, so spot on. Jack Hughes has one 903 01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,239 hundred and two point pace, so not quite one hundred and fifteen, but 904 01:04:43,039 --> 01:04:45,639 that's he's on pace for what he did last year, one hundred and two 905 01:04:45,639 --> 01:04:47,800 point pace. He finished with ninety nine points. It looks like he's still 906 01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:53,480 going to be shy of breaking the actual one hundred point mark. I believe 907 01:04:54,199 --> 01:04:58,800 we have had some discussion about that that no one has actually broken that number, 908 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,559 even though they point paced above that, including Jack. It'll be fun 909 01:05:01,599 --> 01:05:04,159 to see when that happens. I don't think it's going to he missed too 910 01:05:04,199 --> 01:05:09,159 much time this year. Eventually, if he can stay healthy enough, he's 911 01:05:09,239 --> 01:05:12,519 gonna break that under point mark. But it's not gonna happen this year. 912 01:05:12,519 --> 01:05:15,079 But I feel like the spirit of this was correct. Both the Hughes brothers 913 01:05:15,079 --> 01:05:18,280 were pretty awesome. Luke has been up and down throughout the season. We 914 01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:24,039 talked about how difficult that can be for a young player used to playing the 915 01:05:24,079 --> 01:05:27,039 college schedule, and there's just so many more games and it's during the week, 916 01:05:27,079 --> 01:05:30,800 and it's such a grind, and the Devils have been not so good. 917 01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,639 But overall, I think the spirit of this was right. They're both 918 01:05:33,639 --> 01:05:38,079 pretty valuable, and Luke getting way more power play time because of the Dougie 919 01:05:38,119 --> 01:05:45,239 Hamilton injury, but still he was pretty good at times. You definitely were 920 01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:49,920 correct in your confidence in the Hughes, and it is starting to come into 921 01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:54,920 place. The Jack Hughes love that you hear at the beginning of every show 922 01:05:55,199 --> 01:06:00,159 is starting to come into place. And Luke what a decent debut for him. 923 01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:04,280 And the sky is the limit. My take for the New York Islanders 924 01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:09,159 was that they would miss the playoffs narrowly, but finish in the bottom three 925 01:06:09,199 --> 01:06:13,000 in the Eastern Conference and goals and buy gum. I think that there's a 926 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:18,760 good chance of this. They currently are fifth worst in goal scored with two 927 01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:25,440 hundred and six, The fewest in the Eastern Conference belongs to the Washington Capitals, 928 01:06:25,519 --> 01:06:27,760 if you can believe that, who are ahead of them in the playoff 929 01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:32,199 race with one hundred and eighty four. So right now the Islanders are at 930 01:06:32,199 --> 01:06:38,639 the forty five percent chance to make the Eastern Conference playoffs. All they would 931 01:06:38,639 --> 01:06:42,920 have to do is fall down a couple spots. So the basic concept of 932 01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:47,119 they would not score for jack and still would get very close to the playoffs 933 01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:51,480 but not make the playoffs. Seems like we're on the trajectory, but once 934 01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:56,880 again, we're doing it too early for a definitive answer. Does anything about 935 01:06:56,920 --> 01:07:00,800 that performance surprise you, Victor? You just think I might nail it right 936 01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,199 on the spot. I think you did nail it. The Caps are the 937 01:07:04,199 --> 01:07:08,119 most confusing thing out You look at the Caps lineup and you're just like, 938 01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:14,760 how how is this happening? It doesn't make any sense. But in Detroit 939 01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,719 being in the spot, the devil's not being Pittsburgh not being based on their 940 01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:23,000 lineup and even the Islanders, with maybe not having the most exciting names, 941 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:27,480 but having an All World goalie and some pretty competent defenders in middle six ers, 942 01:07:27,559 --> 01:07:30,000 they seems like they should be a little bit better. That whole Eastern 943 01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:34,159 part looks very confusing, and I know a lot of people would say that 944 01:07:34,199 --> 01:07:36,440 maybe some of those West teams were there, they might be doing a bit 945 01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:41,519 better. Yeah, so that's partly just the way it is. Let's look 946 01:07:41,519 --> 01:07:46,679 at the Rangers, and my hot take was Capocaco fails to surpass fifty point 947 01:07:46,719 --> 01:07:51,199 pace, and I gave to the other one is that Philip Pedal scores at 948 01:07:51,199 --> 01:07:57,280 a higher pace than tro Check. That was very wrong, but you agreed 949 01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:01,880 with me on Coco, which was also very right. But you were wrong 950 01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,800 to Oh no, you were right to agree with me. There Kacko at 951 01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:11,599 a twenty four point pace, so basically half he is just struggling. I 952 01:08:11,639 --> 01:08:15,039 don't know what to make of him. I'm sure people are frustrated. They 953 01:08:15,079 --> 01:08:18,399 probably dropped him. He does not look like a fantasy relevant player most of 954 01:08:18,399 --> 01:08:21,920 the time. He's basically been. His best season was last season with a 955 01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:28,319 forty point pace, and he's been basically irrelevant in all these settings. So 956 01:08:28,399 --> 01:08:30,680 I think that's probably going to continue. I don't know that there's a lot 957 01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:32,720 of faith for that completely changing. Maybe if he moves somewhere else, But 958 01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,039 I just don't know that. He looks like a top six player. So 959 01:08:35,119 --> 01:08:40,720 it's sad, but that's what he looks like. Definitely wrong about he'll he 960 01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:43,399 missed a lot of the season though he was taken care of. I think 961 01:08:43,399 --> 01:08:46,560 of some personal matters, but forty nine point pace looking decent. He definitely 962 01:08:47,119 --> 01:08:49,760 when he comes back, I think he can have some decent value. He'll 963 01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:53,640 look like he was taking a step forward. I think my thought was that 964 01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:57,039 he would take over for Trocheck and be that two C, and maybe he 965 01:08:57,079 --> 01:09:00,479 would have if he was there the whole season. But Trochik still literally has 966 01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,680 a lot left in the tank, and he's been awesome. You know, 967 01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:06,039 for a second line center to be at a seventy seven point pace, that's 968 01:09:06,079 --> 01:09:12,279 pretty awesome. So yeah, definitely am wrong on that one, and definitely 969 01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,760 great spot for Trocheck. I still wonder, though, what's gonna happen next 970 01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:17,800 season. If he's their offseason all season, maybe he starts to take some 971 01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:21,359 of that role. I don't know what'll be interesting to see for sure, 972 01:09:21,399 --> 01:09:25,239 we can keep waiting for those kids to mature. It looked like at the 973 01:09:25,319 --> 01:09:27,560 end of the year last year that they were going to take the step, 974 01:09:28,039 --> 01:09:32,920 but Vinnie Trochek is holding people off for the time being. The Philadelphia Flyers, 975 01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:36,439 my hot take was Cam York with a fifty five plus point pace. 976 01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:41,319 You agreed with me. The bad news is he's only got a thirty three 977 01:09:41,359 --> 01:09:45,800 point pace, But really he's having a pretty good year. Maybe not at 978 01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:51,000 that outstanding pace, but he is second on a surprise Philadelphia Flyers team in 979 01:09:51,079 --> 01:09:56,359 time and i second on his team among the man points. Probably never a 980 01:09:56,399 --> 01:10:00,199 good thing when Travis Sandheim is the defense, someone on your team that's getting 981 01:10:00,199 --> 01:10:04,800 more points than you, just as a principle, But he is doing pretty 982 01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:09,239 well in that context. He's not burning and up on offense. That's the 983 01:10:09,319 --> 01:10:15,359 problem. He actually the Philadelphia five on five offense is worse with him on 984 01:10:15,399 --> 01:10:20,880 the ice than without it. And actually he's having a mildly positive impact on 985 01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:25,600 defense. So that will endure him to Tortorella, I am sure, but 986 01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:30,800 it will not endure him necessarily to the scoreesheet until he is able to make 987 01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:33,960 some corrections in that area. What do you think, Victor. I really 988 01:10:34,039 --> 01:10:39,000 like York and I think he's been a bit underrated. Obviously, there have 989 01:10:39,039 --> 01:10:44,079 been a lot of people moving around, They've had a lot of different defensemen 990 01:10:44,159 --> 01:10:47,560 run the power play and getting a lot of weird deployment. But I think 991 01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:54,239 people wrongly think of Cam York as just this offensive defenseman, but he really 992 01:10:54,279 --> 01:10:58,199 has been more than that. He's been quite capable in a lot of different 993 01:10:58,199 --> 01:11:01,880 situations, and I think that he's much better than people give him credit for 994 01:11:02,079 --> 01:11:08,399 in all those situations. Yeah, I think that he's a bit underrated, 995 01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:12,399 and I think this season is a big success. Maybe we were hoping for 996 01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:15,680 a little bit more the offense. A lot of the offense hasn't quite been 997 01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:19,560 there, but I think he's focusing yeah, the tort system, being more 998 01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:24,199 defensively responsible, and he has been pretty good defensively, if not so good 999 01:11:24,199 --> 01:11:29,880 offensively, So that needs to come a bit for that to be closer to 1000 01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:33,960 being correct. But I still think there's hope long term for York. Let's 1001 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:39,520 move on to the Penguins. So my hot take was that Ricard Raquel surpasses 1002 01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:45,680 his career high point pace of seventy three, not even close he has currently 1003 01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:51,439 on a forty two point pace. Pretty awful. The whole Pittsburgh situation has 1004 01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:56,600 been pretty awful, except for Sid Crosby, who's just insane and is still 1005 01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:00,239 amazing. But that actually, Eric Carlson really has been good. Even though 1006 01:12:00,279 --> 01:12:03,279 people want to blame him on what's happening, it's clearly not his fault. 1007 01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,319 Power play has been terrible. A lot of the other play has been not 1008 01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:10,920 good. But anyways, Ricardo Roquel definitely a part of the problem. I 1009 01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:14,239 would say he does not look good. He did not look good this season, 1010 01:12:14,399 --> 01:12:16,840 So yeah, I don't know what to think of him moving forward. 1011 01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:18,840 I probably am not going to be picking him. I know some people are 1012 01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:21,039 like, oh, we could pick him and you'll play it with Crosby or 1013 01:12:21,039 --> 01:12:24,159 Malkin, but it hasn't really worked out, and I'm not sure that it 1014 01:12:24,199 --> 01:12:27,479 will next year either. I don't know what's gonna happen with Pittsburgh. Doesn't 1015 01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,800 seem like they're going to tear anything down. They're going to just retool and 1016 01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:33,560 keep going at it. It seems Jesse they're gonna ride that sucker all the 1017 01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:38,119 way down the hill. So we're going to see how that goes. Probably 1018 01:12:38,159 --> 01:12:41,119 be like the last days of the Red Wings in some of those types of 1019 01:12:41,199 --> 01:12:45,960 things. The Washington Capitals. Last, but not least, my hot take 1020 01:12:46,159 --> 01:12:51,279 was Tom Wilson is top three in the team on scoring. You agreed with 1021 01:12:51,319 --> 01:12:55,399 me, but you said it wasn't spicy enough. It is a spicy enough 1022 01:12:55,399 --> 01:12:58,359 take, Victor. When it doesn't come true, that automatically means it was 1023 01:12:58,399 --> 01:13:02,800 spicy enough at the time. Because Tom Wilson, with thirty two points, 1024 01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:09,760 is currently in fifth place on the team in points, behind Anthony Mantha, 1025 01:13:10,359 --> 01:13:15,319 behind John Carlson, Dylan Strom, and Alex Ovechkin. The bad news is, 1026 01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:19,920 with no doubt illuminant suspension Connor McMichael, which we don't know about as 1027 01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:25,760 we record this, Connor McMichael and Alexi Protas are only four points behind him 1028 01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:29,439 each, so he could very well end up seventh on the team in scoring. 1029 01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:32,439 This year. It really has been a matter of shooting percentage just dropping 1030 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:39,439 like a rock. He He had been higher in shooting percentage every year since 1031 01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:44,720 twenty seventeen eighteen than he is now with it's only eleven point two percent right 1032 01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:48,000 now. Almost got a career high end shots already at one hundred and fifty 1033 01:13:48,039 --> 01:13:50,960 two shots, the very highest he's had in his career as one hundred and 1034 01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:56,319 fifty four, but eleven point two percent shooting for Wilson, who, of 1035 01:13:56,319 --> 01:13:58,960 course you got to remember, is going to take a lot of those shots 1036 01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,840 up close. He's the physical presence. The fact that he's not able to 1037 01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:09,079 get those in is really killing his scoring production. So he is scoring less 1038 01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:13,279 than or fewer than half a point, less than half a point per game 1039 01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,439 as a ratio. So, Victor, I don't know any surprises there. 1040 01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:20,079 I know Tom Wilson's one of your favorite guys to talk about. It's actually 1041 01:14:20,199 --> 01:14:24,920 this suspension that's looming is brutal. He has in our common league that I 1042 01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,680 co manage with Elon. He and I are in the finals against our buddy 1043 01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:31,279 Yarno, and having Wilson out for the rest of the finals is going to 1044 01:14:31,319 --> 01:14:35,039 be rough because he's definitely a contributor, not like our best player or anything, 1045 01:14:35,119 --> 01:14:40,880 but he has been productive four points in the last three even though he 1046 01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:45,560 doesn't score a whole bunch of the hits generally in the blocks are helpful along 1047 01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:47,880 with some shots. I am surprised. We thought that this would be a 1048 01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:54,439 no brainer, but Yeah, he's Anthony Manthe who's now gone Strom. I 1049 01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:57,880 thought that Wilson could be at least closer to Strom. He's not even in 1050 01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:01,479 the same zip code as Dylan. Yeah, that's crazy. So this all 1051 01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:05,720 does very much surprise me. I thought Wilson could continue to be I never 1052 01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:09,159 thought he was anything special, but I thought he could be a fifty to 1053 01:15:09,239 --> 01:15:13,439 sixty point scorer. And it doesn't seem like he is anymore. I'm not 1054 01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:15,640 sure if that's age, because he's never been the fastest guy and he's a 1055 01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,239 bigger dude. I don't know if that's catching up with him. But the 1056 01:15:19,279 --> 01:15:23,079 team around him has been much better than expected and he's been worse. So 1057 01:15:23,119 --> 01:15:28,760 that's confusing in terms of point scoring. That's it, Victor. We've been 1058 01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,560 through thirty two teams. The fact that there were hot means we didn't get 1059 01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:34,399 them all right. We got a few of them, right. I was 1060 01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:38,960 pleased with what we saw here, Victor. I'm gonna take a break to 1061 01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:51,079 come back. What was that? The show a reminder, as though you 1062 01:15:51,199 --> 01:15:55,840 needed it, Mantrax is the place to play your fantasy leagues. You could 1063 01:15:55,840 --> 01:16:00,119 move leagues over is soon as that old NHL regular and ends. You can 1064 01:16:00,319 --> 01:16:08,680 probably immediately set your twenty twenty four to twenty five fantasy leagues up or roll 1065 01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:12,560 over your dynasty leagues there. That's pretty cool. You don't have to wait 1066 01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:15,439 around for people to get their acts together. You can start new leagues. 1067 01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:19,640 There's ten different sports. There's all kinds of customization. Just try it out 1068 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:26,079 if you haven't yet. Fantraks HQ lots of fantasy content articles on fantasy hockey, 1069 01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:31,119 other fantasy sports. There's all sort of folks who are helping us to 1070 01:16:31,239 --> 01:16:35,960 create this show these days. Content curator Kevin Adams helps out with our show 1071 01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:42,079 prep. Ryan Downey are Tidy Admiral. You've heard him on the show and 1072 01:16:42,239 --> 01:16:47,399 he is putting together, keeping together, holding together the tidy the tiered Dynasty 1073 01:16:48,199 --> 01:16:53,760 league system, which is currently in the finals. Jeremy Vee is our lead 1074 01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:57,600 scout. A lot of his work in the work that he's HEARDing will be 1075 01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:01,479 heard soon on the show. Jason is helping with our prospect ranks. Brandon 1076 01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:06,159 is our website guru as well as a scout. The visualizations coming up on 1077 01:17:06,199 --> 01:17:12,119 the Fantasy Hockey Life website are pretty pretty remarkable. If you have skills you'd 1078 01:17:12,199 --> 01:17:15,479 like to lend to the show, hit Victor up in the discord, email 1079 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,600 or X. You can once again, as we said at the beginning of 1080 01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:25,359 the show, Fantasy Hockeylife at gmail dot com or at Fanhockey Life at Victor 1081 01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:29,479 Nuno twelve, but more likely hit him up in the discord. That's where 1082 01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:32,000 you can hang out for free. We're brought to you by Daber Hockey Dober 1083 01:17:32,119 --> 01:17:36,479 Prospects. Victor is an editor, I'm a writer. Follow his work there 1084 01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:42,159 as well as his other podcast, dobera prospect report with Peter Harlan more Diggins 1085 01:17:42,399 --> 01:17:47,520 from a fantasy perspective to some prospects. Check out Victor's articles at EP rings 1086 01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,880 sciet. He's part of the fantasy team there with Cam Robinson and Mike Clifford. 1087 01:17:51,199 --> 01:17:55,079 I do a solo show, Dynasty Sports Life. I talk four different 1088 01:17:55,159 --> 01:17:59,760 Dynasty sports sometimes cross sport leagues as well. Trying to get this week's episode 1089 01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:03,000 to get cross your fingers for me. X follow us once again, as 1090 01:18:03,039 --> 01:18:06,720 I said, rate and review this podcast. That's a good way to keep 1091 01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:13,600 us out there. As people continue to listen. The fantasy season is drawing 1092 01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:17,119 to a climax and a conclusion, so until next time, Keep living that 1093 01:18:17,279 --> 01:18:20,039 fantasy hockey life.