1 00:00:03,839 --> 00:00:12,919 Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks. Here's your source of 2 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,079 information and analysis to help you win your fantasy hockey league. Block off hot 3 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:23,359 a step hit on, staylock. Here's your hosts, Jesse Sevier and Victor 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:28,719 Nuno Fantasy Hockey Live. We are here. Jesse Severe Fan Tracks, Victor 5 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:34,640 Nuno of ep Rinkside. Victor, how you doing today? I'm doing awesome, 6 00:00:34,679 --> 00:00:39,119 Jesse. Yeah, I'm students the middle of summer draft is over thinking 7 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,359 about your rookie drafts. That's better, right, There is nothing better than 8 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:48,560 prepping for rookie drafts. Victor knows we're playing in common leagues where football drafts 9 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,640 are happening, Basketball drafts are happening. 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Victor will be right 60 00:04:14,039 --> 00:04:23,959 back to talk Nashville Predator. We welcome back to the show. Brian BASTIONI 61 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:29,480 of on the for Check the Man on the Street talking Nashville Predators. I 62 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:31,720 am doing all right, how are you guys doing? I really appreciate you 63 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,720 guys, having me back on this is always something to look forward to every 64 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:39,079 year. Shoot, yeah, that's awesome, man. We love having you 65 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,920 on to talk Nashville Predators. Where do we start with the Predators? Brian 66 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,879 on January thirty. First, I went back and looked at Hockey Reference and 67 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:49,839 tried to figure this out. January thirty, First, the Predators were fourth 68 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:55,879 in the Central Division and you were in the wild card one spot. Then 69 00:04:55,879 --> 00:05:00,680 they ripped off a seventeen to two and two run starting with that legendary YouTube 70 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,319 concert. And when that was all done, they were still in fourth in 71 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:09,360 the Central and in the wild card one spot. And then they became buyers 72 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,680 of the deadline because everybody got excited. Then they finished the year on a 73 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,920 bit of a slide, four or five and one in their final ten games. 74 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,040 Guess where they were in the standards at that point, yep, fourth 75 00:05:18,079 --> 00:05:23,399 in the Central wildcard one spot. So when the water stops swishing back and 76 00:05:23,439 --> 00:05:27,360 forth in the pool, the stats, if you look at overall league stats, 77 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:30,600 showed Nashville's is pretty much right in the middle of everything in most of 78 00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:33,639 the stats. And we're going to talk about some of the stars of the 79 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:38,639 team coming up in some of the really great performances that certainly came with this 80 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,959 team. But what at a high level do Barry Tratz and company make of 81 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,199 this year and what do you expect for them next year? We'll talk about. 82 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:48,560 I think the main reason why they pivoted to I wouldn't even say full 83 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:55,279 buyers because adding guys like Anthony Pavillier and Jason Zucker were additions, but they 84 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,800 weren't necessarily anything that was going to push the team over. I think that 85 00:05:59,439 --> 00:06:02,000 it had taken that long for the team to shake the cobwebs out of the 86 00:06:02,079 --> 00:06:04,839 John Hines system that they had been in for three years, and some of 87 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:10,639 them had still still had that lingering Peter Laviolette type play. Andrew Brunette came 88 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:13,839 in and was fre an analytics guy like me, just a dream, an 89 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:16,759 absolute dream of a coach to have, and they came in and that all 90 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,839 of a sudden, Nashville had high scoring forwards, which is something that you 91 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,680 don't really normally hear when you or think about when you talk about the Nashville 92 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,639 Prayers, especially historically. You've got your, of course, your big star 93 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,000 in Philip Forsburg, who seems to his age curve seems to just go upwards, 94 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,199 which is unbelievable to me. Same with Roman Yosi. But they were 95 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,879 sitting there in that four spot. Nobody really thought, myself included, nobody 96 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:45,120 really thought that they would stay in that spot, and they made it into 97 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,480 the playoffs, and despite UC Sorrows having, by his standards, the pedestrian 98 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,439 years. So I think that was the mindset. I know that when they 99 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:56,439 came in that I think the expectation level, even for a guy like Andrew 100 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,879 Brunette, was that this team was going to be okay. They were going 101 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,120 to transition, but this year was not going to be a year where they 102 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,040 were going to put it all on the line and try go out there and 103 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:09,000 try to get that one last piece, which is nice because that's what Nashville 104 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,879 had been doing for seven six seven years prior. And I think they got 105 00:07:13,879 --> 00:07:17,240 pleasantly surprised. And I do think that Andrew Brunette was a little bit robbed. 106 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:19,639 Probably wasn't going to win Coach of the Year, but I think he 107 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:24,240 should have finished a whole lot higher than he did because the talent level that 108 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:28,480 he inherited and then what he did with this team and turning players around was 109 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 unbelievable. I think it was one of the best coaching jobs I saw in 110 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:38,160 the NHL last season. Let's start with that guy you mentioned whose career is 111 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,519 heading up and up, Philip Forrestburg. He put up highs in both goals 112 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,560 and assists for his career ninety four points. He crushed his career highs in 113 00:07:47,639 --> 00:07:53,680 shots and hits, and importantly, maybe more importantly, even he skated eighty 114 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,759 two games for the first time since twenty sixteen seventeen. Every year since twenty 115 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,120 sixteen seventeen he well into double digit games per year. He certainly clicked with 116 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,079 those two new Preds who lined up with him at even strength. We'll get 117 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,399 into Ryan O'Reilly and Gustav Nyquist in a little bit seven hundred and sixty four 118 00:08:11,439 --> 00:08:15,480 minutes together. Believe it or not, that threesome at even strength were second 119 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,720 in most minutes in the National Hockey League. Was a minutes hog on the 120 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,040 power play, twenty third out of four hundred and sixty five skaters in the 121 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:28,199 NHL for powerplay tom and Ice nineteenth in power play points. Certainly what the 122 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,720 Preds were hoping for with that big contract that he signed. And some people 123 00:08:31,799 --> 00:08:35,080 were questioning in terms of can he stay healthy enough to make it pay off? 124 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,600 Is it simply a matter that Forstburg has to stay healthy to be what 125 00:08:39,639 --> 00:08:43,759 he is or is there something else affecting this career curve going up and up? 126 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:48,240 Do you see any regression coming? Like you said, I think staying 127 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,919 healthy was a huge factor, and towards i'd say maybe the middle of the 128 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:56,159 season last year he started, he stopped going to practice, and nobody complained 129 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,600 about that. And I think that that I can't sit there and say that 130 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,960 had everything to do with his performance in him staying healthy. But I think 131 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,320 that the system that Andreburnette plays in a lot more north south, like a 132 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:13,120 much more faster, high powered type of offense, I think really helped him 133 00:09:13,159 --> 00:09:15,399 out. And then, of course when you've got a guy like he's played 134 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,720 alongside. He had a career year a couple of years back playing alongside Matt 135 00:09:18,799 --> 00:09:22,559 Dushane, which was really good. Matt Dushane ended up getting setting at the 136 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,600 time the franchise record and goals which was just a paltry I believe forty three, 137 00:09:26,279 --> 00:09:31,200 which I think he Dushane and Fordsburg were the first forty goal scorers in 138 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:35,320 Nashville history, which was surprising even to somebody who's covering the team. But 139 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,759 I think with Ryan O'Reilly especially, I think Ryan O'Reilly just came in and 140 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:41,840 was had that midas touch. But Fordsburg was allowed to be a little bit 141 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:46,519 more creative, he was allowed to be much more. He was allowed to 142 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:52,919 be that unique combination of power and skill that you don't see a lot. 143 00:09:52,039 --> 00:09:56,000 He's had some pretty great line mates over the years. I think we think 144 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,840 back to the JOFA line which was him, Ryan Johansen and or Arvidson. 145 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,960 Of course with Matt Duchane as well, but I think the combination of the 146 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,279 three players that we saw last season really played to Philip Forsburg's strength and he 147 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,080 just saw him get up to a completely different level. Again, he did 148 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,000 have about what thirteen point eight shooting percentage, which is probably you say it's 149 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:20,879 not sustainable, but that's the numbers he puts up kind of year after year 150 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:24,960 as being a little bit above what you would expect. But I think that 151 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,720 the offense was more finely tuned to his strengths, allowed him to be creative, 152 00:10:30,759 --> 00:10:33,559 allowed him to go one of his things that we saw him do under 153 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,720 Andrew Brunette this season, which he didn't do a ton of in previous years, 154 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:39,000 was he was just incredible. He would go down down the right side 155 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:43,360 or left side and come up off the half wall just almost parallel to the 156 00:10:43,399 --> 00:10:46,639 goal, and he would come straight across with the puck, and guys like 157 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,639 that usually aren't going to be able to carry the puck from the wall to 158 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:52,679 right in front of the net, but sure enough, Philip Forsburg was able 159 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:54,519 to do it, and a lot of his goals were right there in those 160 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,200 high danger areas. And again, you've seen the trick shots, You've seen 161 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,320 all the things that he can do. They took the leash off him a 162 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,720 little bit and catered to that first line than the offense, to his strengths, 163 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,720 and it really paid off. And I'm very excited to see what that 164 00:11:07,799 --> 00:11:11,519 trio does next year because forty eight goals, we'll see. I don't know 165 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:13,639 if he'll be able to do that. But they all got off to a 166 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,799 slow start, the entire team did. And I'm not going to last year. 167 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:20,200 I said I didn't think that he was going to top his forty two 168 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,919 goals from a couple of years back and look what he made me look like 169 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:24,480 a fool. So I'm not going to do that again. I do think 170 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:28,080 that I think that if Philip Forsburg's going to hit one hundred in his career, 171 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,960 it's probably going to be in the next couple of years. And I 172 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,879 feel pretty confident about that. Well, you know who else made all of 173 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,320 us look like a fool? That was Gustav Nyquist. I think like waiting 174 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:43,960 until you're thirty four years old to have a career year, wait to go, 175 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,679 buddy. Not only did he set a career high, but he smashed 176 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,279 it by fifteen point total points or an eight point pace, however you want 177 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,000 to look at it. He did this by scoring by shooting four percent over 178 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:56,679 his career average. Other than that, his leut metrics were pretty much in 179 00:11:56,759 --> 00:12:01,440 line. He looked at his total impact on a hockey. The offense was 180 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,720 pretty high at seventy six percentile. The defense was four. I mean, 181 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:07,840 can't get much worse there, Gus, But hey, his offense was pretty 182 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:09,720 strong. So, Brian, what do you make of this hot season by 183 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:13,320 night Quist? And most importantly, do you think he can replicate it to 184 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,519 any extent? Yeah? That's you're right. Nobody expected that, but as 185 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,440 somebody who also found his peak in his mid thirties, it was good to 186 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,840 see. And again, I think it was that complimentary piece, and I 187 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:26,840 think that both hit you know, him and Forsburg owe a lot to the 188 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:30,960 game of Ryan O'Reilly, and I think that with Niquist, I think looking 189 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,080 at his impact metrics and things like that, he wasn't the best defensively, 190 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:37,000 but I don't think Andrew Burnette and company were asking him to be all that 191 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,159 well. Ryan O'Reilly has always been a good shot, suppressing forward. Philip 192 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:46,279 Forsburg's always been that all around guy. I always say that he's underrated for 193 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,639 his defensive ability, but I think that allowed Niquist to come in there and 194 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:54,039 probably take advantage of the fact that a lot of offenses were both keying on 195 00:12:54,120 --> 00:13:00,279 Forsburg and O'Reilly, and Niquist probably he benefited from that. I don't know 196 00:13:00,399 --> 00:13:03,480 that he's going to have another season where he puts up I believe, what 197 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,960 was it, seventy five points. I'm not positive he does that, but 198 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,759 it is encouraging to see that thirty four of those points were primary assists, 199 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:13,679 and I think that's what seven fifty seven, So fifty seven out of seventy 200 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:18,720 five of his points were primary points, So that's always a really good sign. 201 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:22,039 He was a really good player to have on the power play. We 202 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,679 didn't want to see him too much on the penalty kill, which I don't 203 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,240 think we saw him too much anyways. But I think that he's a guy 204 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:31,039 that if I was going to say, I say Forsburg, I really was 205 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,440 pretty confident about him being able to go up. I don't know that Gustav 206 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:37,279 Nyquis is going to be able to hit seventy five points. I think twenty 207 00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:41,759 goals is probably achievable for him. But I think that as offense start to 208 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:46,120 start to key on him as well, not just O'Reilly and Forsburg, we're 209 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,879 probably going to see some of those numbers go down, because again, he 210 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,279 shot a fifteen percent last year and his expected shooting his expected shooting percentage was 211 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,200 around ten point four, So quite a bit of a difference there, and 212 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,200 I think that he might cool down come back down to earth. Who am 213 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:07,840 I to judge that first line at this point, Yeah, they were looking 214 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:11,759 pretty darn good. And the third member, Ryan O'Reilly, You just mentioned 215 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,879 him, what a renaissance this year. Some folks were scratching their heads last 216 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:18,240 summer when he signed down there, trying to figure out what exactly was going 217 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:22,159 on. It can be remembered he had a great run with Toronto at the 218 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,039 end of that truncated season. If you look at the numbers, he was 219 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:31,600 amazing after a pretty slow start in Saint Louis. But his sixty nine points 220 00:14:31,679 --> 00:14:37,039 Ryan O'Reilly's this year were the most since his Selky slash smythe twenty eighteen nineteen. 221 00:14:37,519 --> 00:14:41,360 He's never going to be a guy for our fantasy game. Who's going 222 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,679 to get the bash, black shots and hits. Not really a Ryan O'Reilly's 223 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:48,240 game, but it seems the Preds have something really good with that first line. 224 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:52,360 Do you expect more of the same from O'Reilly in his second year in 225 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,399 Yellow? Yeah. I think what he was most effective on, the biggest 226 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,399 impact he had on the team was on the power play. He was simply 227 00:14:58,399 --> 00:15:03,000 incredible the power play last season. There was for the first half of the 228 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:05,759 season he was either first or second I think in power play goals for a 229 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,840 good probably thirty forty game stretch, which was again you think about Nashville, 230 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:13,879 you know, Nashville doesn't really have a great historic have a great power play, 231 00:15:13,919 --> 00:15:18,240 but he came in and was scoring a ton and again it really did 232 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,039 show that Andrew Brunette offense of trying to get everything to the front of the 233 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:26,279 net and really focusing in on those high, high danger shots, it really 234 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:28,679 paid off. And his power play impact did cool off just a little bit, 235 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,440 and he did shoot a little bit over what we would expect to see 236 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,759 based on some of the advanced metrics. But he came in and I was 237 00:15:37,879 --> 00:15:39,759 like to have him. But looking at that deal was what four years and 238 00:15:39,799 --> 00:15:43,200 four million dollars, You think that's a lot for a guy who's thirty three 239 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:48,799 when he came in. But who are we to doubt a guy coming Toronto 240 00:15:48,879 --> 00:15:52,519 and having a renaissance here and we just watched Hymen and the Stanley Cup finals 241 00:15:52,559 --> 00:15:56,200 do the same thing, So I think that I think the whole O'Reilly couldn't 242 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:02,039 handle the pressure of playing in Toronto. Who's but I think he really did 243 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:06,240 have quite the career renaissance and was somebody who I think should have gotten a 244 00:16:06,279 --> 00:16:10,399 lot more credit outside of Nashville because we all appreciate him, that's for sure. 245 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,720 But I think that what he did at his age and being able to 246 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:18,200 play a solid all around game, especially again suppressing shots things like that, 247 00:16:18,279 --> 00:16:21,399 I think that was something that a lot of people were surprised by. And 248 00:16:21,519 --> 00:16:23,120 I think that he's going to be a solid piece right there in the middle 249 00:16:23,159 --> 00:16:29,200 because Nashville has struggled having really good centers. It wasn't until Ryan Johansson and 250 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,600 Matt Duchane that Nashville really had a one see on this team, a true 251 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,600 one see, and they were so good that Nashville's continuing to pay them both 252 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,120 over the next few years. But all Riley, I think he's going to 253 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:45,279 be a guy that I wouldn't be surprised at all to see similar numbers, 254 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,960 especially with new assistant coaches coming in to coach the power play. I think 255 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,799 that's going to see. We'll see a little bit of a bump and production 256 00:16:51,879 --> 00:16:55,600 from those guys on that first power play unit, and we'll see that Ryan 257 00:16:55,600 --> 00:17:02,080 O'Reilly's productive days aren't over it all. Yeah. Sure. Tommy Novak next 258 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,480 guy, he's a late bloomer now. In his third NHL season, twenty 259 00:17:04,519 --> 00:17:08,839 seven years old, Novak held it down well enough. His performance wasn't as 260 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:15,160 hot as that breakthrough twenty twenty two slash twenty three, But there was also 261 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,839 a bit more going on in the Nashville forward core, probably than there was 262 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,160 late the year before. Well, the future Novak, who actually was fourth 263 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,559 on the team and expected goals above replacement last year looked more like the forty 264 00:17:27,559 --> 00:17:32,319 three point and fifty one season we got the year before or the forty five 265 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,480 and seventy one we just had. And how will Novak fit into this lineup 266 00:17:36,599 --> 00:17:41,720 as the team continues to rebuild. My I love Tommy Novak, especially those 267 00:17:41,759 --> 00:17:45,839 years coming out of Milwaukee. He's a guy that I think, like Forestburg 268 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,640 put me, not to the same extent, obviously, but when Tommy Novak's 269 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,279 gonna shoot the puck, I just have a feeling that like he can score 270 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:56,359 when he shoots. He's just got that shooter's touch. He reminds me a 271 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,400 lot of Craig Smith. When he played for Nashville, where he was Kik 272 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,960 Smith. The joke was that he was a lock every year to score twenty 273 00:18:03,039 --> 00:18:04,559 goals and that was about it every year on the second line. And I 274 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:08,480 think that Tommy Novac played a majority of his minutes on the third line when 275 00:18:08,599 --> 00:18:11,799 on the checking line. Things like that with some of the younger players like 276 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:17,319 Luke Evangelista and guys like him. But he's just a guy that has, 277 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:18,920 you know, continued to mature, and yeah, his goals and his point 278 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,799 scoring went dipped down. But one of the biggest things I saw, which 279 00:18:22,799 --> 00:18:26,559 I thought was really encouraging, was that he was a black hole for defense 280 00:18:26,599 --> 00:18:29,880 for the first couple of years in the NHL, and he's I'm not going 281 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,880 to say that he's a world beater at this point, but he looking at 282 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,759 advanced metrics, he broke about even being league average a defense for being a 283 00:18:36,799 --> 00:18:41,279 guy who developmentally was just a purely an all offense player. I think something 284 00:18:41,319 --> 00:18:45,160 like bash with blocks and hits, He's not going to do it. I 285 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,440 think he had six hits all of last season. He's not a guy that's 286 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,960 going to get in there and muscle muscle other guys around. Only thirty one 287 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,319 blocks, but you know, as an offensive scorer, I mean, he's 288 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,680 definitely a type of guy that you can sneak and get him later and later 289 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:03,799 rounds in your drafts, and he's going to he's going to surprise you. 290 00:19:03,839 --> 00:19:06,519 And he's a guy that I've really had a good time watching because he's a 291 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:10,039 lot of fun to watch, and when he gets that hot hand with scoring, 292 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,799 he'll rip off ten to fifteen games and score twelve thirteen goals. So 293 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,359 we'll see. I think that a lot of these younger guys struggled a little 294 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:21,599 bit more than some of the veterans did getting adjusted to the new system. 295 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,640 But if there's a guy that's besides Forstburg who's just a pure shooter on the 296 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:30,440 team, it's going to be a guy like Tommy Novak. Awesome, Let's 297 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,440 do a points pick them for a couple of guys who a couple of the 298 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,759 younger guys actually on the team or starting to establish themselves. Guys Luke of 299 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:42,960 Angelista, Philip Tomasino, both of them twenty two years old. Last year, 300 00:19:44,039 --> 00:19:48,880 both of them put up identical forty point paces, but Evangelista did it 301 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,559 by playing eighty games, whereas Thomasino was only out on the ice for forty 302 00:19:52,759 --> 00:19:56,960 one of them. Which one of these two do you prefer going into next 303 00:19:57,039 --> 00:20:00,160 year and how do you look at them? Yeah? So the thing is 304 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,480 with Luke Evangelista, in the past two years, going to development camp, 305 00:20:04,079 --> 00:20:07,559 you see a lot of these new guys, new draft picks, things like 306 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:10,559 that coming out on the ice. But every year there was one guy on 307 00:20:10,599 --> 00:20:14,839 the ice who looked like he was an NHL player and just was just head 308 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,079 and shoulders above everybody else on the ice, and that was Luke Evangelista. 309 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,680 He has not slowed down from his days in the OHL. He's been a 310 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,599 guy that has been pretty electric. I didn't think he'd play eighty games this 311 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,319 season for Nashville, but shows what I know. He's a guy that is 312 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:33,000 got a ton of skill. Nashville drafted him to be a one seed in 313 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,480 the future, and I think he's got that type of potential. I wouldn't 314 00:20:36,519 --> 00:20:38,319 I'd love to see him play on a line with Philip Forsburg a little bit 315 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:42,119 more things like that. But I have high hopes for him, and I 316 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:47,359 think that sixteen and sixteen goals, thirty nine points, I think that he's 317 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,279 going to be able to beat that next season. On the other hand, 318 00:20:49,319 --> 00:20:55,440 we have Philip Thomasino who came in with a similar pedigree, similar expectations one 319 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:00,200 Sea of the future. He had incredible seasons with Oshauwa and Niagara. We're 320 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,559 calling correctly, and then just he got, came into the NHL, had 321 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:06,799 a good year and a half or so, and then just sputtered, and 322 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,279 so much so that again he spent the second half of the season last year 323 00:21:10,319 --> 00:21:12,640 playing a ton of his time in Milwaukee, and there's a lot of doubt 324 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:17,200 as to whether or not he's even going to return. I think even Andrew 325 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,519 Brunette after the season kind of dropped quite a few hints about they just they 326 00:21:21,559 --> 00:21:25,240 weren't seeing out of Philip Thomasino what they wanted to see. I think that 327 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,200 he could have used a little bit more time, But as a restricted free 328 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:32,559 agent now coming in, I just I don't know that the chances of I 329 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:34,519 think you'd have to pick Evangelista just by default, just for the fact that 330 00:21:34,599 --> 00:21:38,359 I don't know that Tomasino will be on the team next year. But even 331 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,359 if he is, I think Evangelisa is much more of a sure bet to 332 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:47,599 be a guy that is going to pay off, especially with points going from 333 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,920 sure bets of guys that might actually be on the team and guys we have 334 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,440 a lot of questions about, let's go to Cody Glass. Where still unsure 335 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,960 who Cody Glass is, but he is nearing in that two hundred games played. 336 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,960 Mark one hundred and eighty seven is where he's at right now. He 337 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,240 played forty one games this past season. Sounded like he was dealing with the 338 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:07,119 merit of different injuries, including some mental health stuff. The previous season he 339 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,839 had seventy two games and had a forty point pace, so seemed like things 340 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:15,319 were encouraging, but this could be construed as a step back. He also 341 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:21,559 lost some time on ice and some opportunity. There's still hope, potentially from 342 00:22:21,559 --> 00:22:25,200 some of us that he could be that high pedigree guy that he was originally 343 00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:27,880 drafted to be. So, Brian, what should we be thinking about Cody 344 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,440 Glass and where do we go from here with him? Yeah, he was 345 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,160 a great story. I think when a couple of years back, when they 346 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,119 had the behind the Scenes series on NHL Network, it was a big deal 347 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,559 about him coming to Nashville looking to revide lightis his career after being a first 348 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,839 round pick with Vegas and never really finding his footing there. And when he 349 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,200 arrived in Nashville that first year had a great year and I think a lot 350 00:22:48,279 --> 00:22:51,319 of people were super excited to see what he would do. But for whatever 351 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,359 reason, this year he could just never get it together. Looking at Evolving 352 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,759 Hockey their goals above replacement, he actually graded out as the worst player on 353 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:03,599 the team and goals above replacement, which I didn't know that anybody would get 354 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,200 underneath. I like Luke Shen, but Cody Glass did and we just he 355 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,119 felt lost out there. And I don't know if it was just the transition 356 00:23:10,279 --> 00:23:14,599 to a different style of play under Andrew Burnette compared to John Hines. But 357 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,640 it's going to be very interesting to see what the Predators do with him because 358 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,400 they've got one more year a two point five million dollars with him before he's 359 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,400 a restricted free agent, and I think this is a season where he's going 360 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,079 to have to prove that he belongs because I think being twenty five years old 361 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,079 still young, but I think that a lot of people the year he had 362 00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:37,119 this year is what a lot of people like in Las Vegas, thought he 363 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,000 was going to have after they traded him, and he's going to have to 364 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,839 step up, and he's got the pieces around him that where he can, 365 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,440 he should be able to step up and have somewhat a good stockpile of talent 366 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,920 to play around him in a second or third line role as of last season. 367 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,480 He just really couldn't put it together, and it was pretty disappointing to 368 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,720 see. And you feel for the guy because I think he really felt revitalized 369 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:03,240 by coming to Nashville and having that turnaround season that he did last year, 370 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,880 but unfortunately this previous season he just couldn't quite put it together. And it's 371 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:08,839 going to be a boom er bust. I think this could be a season 372 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,200 where he could get forty forty five points if he can put that together, 373 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:15,880 and maybe it just takes some time to get used to the Andrew Brunette system. 374 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,359 But if he doesn't do it this year, then there's no telling what 375 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,359 his future might be. But I don't think that if he's not putting up 376 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,839 those types of numbers, then he's probably not not going to be in Nashville 377 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:33,240 for too much longer. Our defenceman section is relatively brief, but it doesn't 378 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:37,440 start any better than this one with Roman Yosi. He is just out there 379 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,759 building a Hall of Fame resume every year. As far as I'm concerned, 380 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:45,599 eighty five points in eighty two games, led the league in primary assists, 381 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:51,599 third in overall points doesn't even get unorous votes. These days among the defensemen. 382 00:24:51,839 --> 00:24:55,240 I don't get it. You'll see had the eighth most minutes skated in 383 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,000 the league, led all defensemen in the league. In individual course, he 384 00:24:59,079 --> 00:25:03,720 four need I go on. Yosi's big money eight year deal is aging like 385 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:08,839 a fine wine. Is there any reason to accept expect slippage of some sort 386 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:14,240 or will we see this level of Yosie again? I can't imagine that we'll 387 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,079 see anything every year. I say that I don't think he could, he 388 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,240 can get any better, and he does. I think he had a low 389 00:25:19,279 --> 00:25:22,079 shot at the Norris this year. I think that he could. There was 390 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,000 a compelling argument for him, and he may be one of the most electrifying 391 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,240 skaters, not just defenseman in the league to watch. The local broadcasters like 392 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,400 to call him Nightcrawler because he's the type of guy that you'll see him in 393 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,279 one spot and all of a sudden, he's one hundred feet down the ice 394 00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:40,680 somewhere else. And one of the things that I always really wanted to see 395 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,400 from him was to see him drive it to the net a whole lot more, 396 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,519 and under Andrew Brunette he did. And of course you get closer to 397 00:25:45,519 --> 00:25:48,359 the net, you're going to score more goals, and I really loved his 398 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,519 game a second or third on the team and goals last year with twenty three, 399 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,920 like you said, eighty five points from a defenseman. We saw Shay 400 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,200 Weber get into the Hockey Hall of Fame today, and if and Weber is 401 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,559 obviously beloved and an icon here in Nashville, But what Roman Yosi is doing, 402 00:26:04,599 --> 00:26:07,960 I think a lot of people in Nashville were like, if Shay Weber 403 00:26:07,039 --> 00:26:11,799 just got in, then it's a bygone conclusion that Roman Yosi will because he's 404 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:17,079 just an electrifying player. He's been. The season we saw from Philip Forsburg 405 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,079 reminds you of the talent that Philip Forsburg had. But Roman Yosi is not 406 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,359 a He don't have to be reminded. It's every season. It's every year, 407 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:30,160 whether he was playing with guys like Ryan Ellis or Mattiscomb or Dante Fabreau, 408 00:26:30,559 --> 00:26:33,480 PK Suban even a little bit back in a few years back. No 409 00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:37,200 matter who you put him with, Roman Yosi is just incredibly effective. His 410 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:41,559 defense is getting better, I think, and looking at some of the charts 411 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,240 of evolving hockey things like that. His offense just goes off the chart, 412 00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:48,599 you have to basically stretch that y axis because of what he does and what 413 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,079 he creates on the ice. He is somebody who is just dynamic. He 414 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,920 makes the players that he's skating with better. And again, he played all 415 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,359 eighty two games him and Forsburg, which is something that you don't see too 416 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,759 often, especially in Nashville. And I don't have any reason to expect Romanosi 417 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,440 to have to have a downturn at all, if not. If anything, 418 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:12,240 you don't expect him to be better just because that's what Romanosi does. I 419 00:27:14,519 --> 00:27:18,039 you have to worry about all the other defensemen next year, Brian, but 420 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,720 I don't very few of them are probably going to be fantasy relevant. But 421 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,880 if anybody can get above a forty point base on this blue line, is 422 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,960 there anybody who could even get there? Or who I think? And this 423 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,400 is a guy that when I started covering the Predators I was very down on. 424 00:27:36,039 --> 00:27:37,960 There's another guy, another defender that I really thought was better than him, 425 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,759 and he proved me wrong. Has quickly become one of my favorites. 426 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:44,200 But as of right now, I don't know if he'll still be on the 427 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,319 team this season. And that's Alex Carrier. His game has been really tremendous. 428 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,400 I love the way he plays hockey. I think that given a little 429 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,200 bit more, more of a shot and more time, I think he's going 430 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,079 to really develop into a strong I think right now he you would put him 431 00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:00,680 in a second pair on most teams, But I think he has the ability 432 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,279 in the talent to be a first pair defenseman somewhere, and I think, 433 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,640 unfortunately that's going to be probably what's going to end up happening, just because 434 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,680 you had guys like Ryan mcdona, Dante Fabreau, the failed experiment of Tyson 435 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,920 Barry. But I just think that he's a guy that if anybody who's currently 436 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,240 still on the Nashville roster was going to approach forty it's probably gonna be carry. 437 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,039 I don't think he will. He would hit it this year. I 438 00:28:22,039 --> 00:28:26,240 don't think that there's anybody currently on the Nashville blue line that's going to get 439 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,240 come close to forty points. But he's a guy that I think has a 440 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,920 lot of potential and is somebody that could surprise you just depending on where he 441 00:28:33,039 --> 00:28:36,359 ends up. So Steven Stampcoz it's going to be a little weird to see 442 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,400 Stammer in a Smashville jersey. What do you think we can expect from this 443 00:28:38,519 --> 00:28:42,880 perennial point per game scorer who is typically good for thirty to forty goals and 444 00:28:44,039 --> 00:28:48,400 has been a really reliable high point getter for his career. How do you 445 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,240 think he's going to fit into this top six in Nashville, Brian? And 446 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,160 what do you think we can expect from him? Point wise? It's exciting 447 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,559 because it brings a completely different It's that star depth that Nashville didn't have last 448 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,839 year. I think a reason why that they weren't going to perform very well 449 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,960 in the playoffs is that top line was cooking all year, but beyond that, 450 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,799 there wasn't a lot of offense generated. And when you're adding a guy 451 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,039 like Steven stampcast, yeah, he's thirty four. I was a full last 452 00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:15,759 offseason talking about thinking that Ryan O'Reilly was past his prime. And this is 453 00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:19,440 a guy who scored over eighty points last season, Like you said, point 454 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,559 per game type of guy, forty goals. That's again, like, there's 455 00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:26,319 only two players in Nashville history who have scored twenty or forty or more goals, 456 00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:30,359 and that's Forsburg and Duchhane and you can't. You can't. It's hard 457 00:29:30,359 --> 00:29:32,839 to look past the fact that, yeah, you're getting a guy that he 458 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,039 may not be at his prime, but even past his prime, is still 459 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:38,240 really good. And honestly, the kind of talent now, the one two 460 00:29:38,279 --> 00:29:42,559 punch that you have with a guy like Forstburg and then O'Reilly and then having 461 00:29:42,599 --> 00:29:47,319 stamcoast, that's I think it's gonna be great. I don't know if he'll 462 00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:49,799 be the type of guy that'll he'll be able to score forty again, but 463 00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:56,000 eighty points should be pretty pretty doable. I think just because that's gonna the 464 00:29:56,039 --> 00:29:59,240 power play is gonna get affected quite a bit. They're going to have guys 465 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,079 on the second power play. I think more importantly, you'll have a lot 466 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:04,599 of guys that were playing on that second power play that you know won't have 467 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,079 to anymore. They can focus on the rest of their game. But you've 468 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:11,880 got a guy like Stamkos, You've got Forstburg, Ryan, O'Reilly, Roman 469 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,160 Yosi, and you've got so many options now that I think the problem that 470 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,519 Andrew Burnet's gonna have is how does he divide up the talent? You can't 471 00:30:18,559 --> 00:30:21,480 you could make it, you know, a really heavy, strong PP one, 472 00:30:21,599 --> 00:30:23,119 but that second one's still going to have some good players on there, 473 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,119 and so that's he's got a little bit of a problem with riches, I 474 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,799 think. And so I'm really looking forward to it because for a guy thirty 475 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:33,000 four years old still putting up forty goals, that's that's pretty great. Yes, 476 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,559 it was on Tampa, but who knows, who knows what he could 477 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:41,240 do, especially in this offense. Exciting for sure, and yeah, as 478 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,880 you said, just pushes everyone down the lineup in their correct spots I think 479 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,240 a little bit, which is really good for the team overall. But they 480 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,119 didn't just do one thing with Stamp cost they also are I mean everyone agrees 481 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,799 they won the offseason the beginning of the off season anyways, and getting Stamp 482 00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:00,680 Coos and Marciso. One of the original misfits turned consmith. Wa has been 483 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,720 a perennial sort of fifty five to seventy point guy most of his career when 484 00:31:03,759 --> 00:31:07,920 he's gotten the opportunity. He's also been in the seventeen minute time on ice 485 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,400 range with pretty good power play opportunity. It seems like that should be similar 486 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,200 to Nashville or maybe even he gets more opportunity because I know in some of 487 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,359 his previous stops the Fords have had their minutes spread around a little bit. 488 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,519 So what do you think we can expect from marches So do you think he'll 489 00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:26,559 be right in that sixty sixty five ish point range? I think so. 490 00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:29,519 I think that you know he's going to be playing with I mean because now 491 00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:33,640 you look at that top line of Roriiley Forstburg and a Nyquist, where you 492 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,079 put Stamkos in Marciso, that's you would say second line, and you're like, 493 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:38,319 you don't put guys like that on the second line, But do you 494 00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:41,000 mess with the chemistry of that first line. I think that it's going to 495 00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:45,359 I think both of these guys are really going to benefit from playing with each 496 00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:48,200 other, because I would expect them to get time together. But looking at 497 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,880 that top six, you've got plenty of options I think, to go with 498 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,000 when it comes to what you want to do when it comes to offense. 499 00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:59,839 I mean, who better for a guy like Tommy Novak to learn from than 500 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,640 like Marcas and Stamcos, you know, and curating his game and watching these 501 00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:07,599 types of guys play, and then you can still have that bottom six where 502 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:12,240 it's that high four checking, you know, you know, pretty physical type 503 00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:15,799 of play that edgrew Burnett kind of likes to have to compliment the high scoring 504 00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:19,599 offense. And these two together, I was going to be happy with one 505 00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:23,680 or the other going into the first day of of the free agency, and 506 00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:27,680 the fact that they were able to get both, and that part of it 507 00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:30,759 was marshasof Saw. I think he heard about the stam Coast signing on Twitter 508 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,920 and that kind of helped him make his decision to come. And five and 509 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,000 a half million for four years is not bad at all for a guy like 510 00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:39,599 that. I think that we all expected that this team was going to be 511 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,480 taking the slow rebuild starting last season, but seeing how the season ended, 512 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,799 they saw opportunities to add on and with getting more caps based and things like 513 00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:51,519 that. I think that it's been great and so it's going to be really 514 00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:54,480 interesting to see because now you've got Forstburg is locked up till twenty thirty, 515 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,319 stam Coost till twenty twenty eight, Marcasau until twenty twenty nine. So you've 516 00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:04,680 got Burnette has his core of guys. You've got Romaniosi until twenty twenty eight, 517 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,039 another defender who just signed until twenty thirty one. Those are guys you 518 00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:09,519 build that team around, and now you've got. Now he's just got to 519 00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:13,440 deal with the complimentary pieces to go along with it. And if these deals 520 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,160 don't work out, it might be a little bit tough. But I just 521 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:21,200 can't imagine them not, these guys not coming in and being really productive players. 522 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,400 Again, two forty goal scorers when Nashville's only had two in their history, 523 00:33:24,759 --> 00:33:30,039 So that's pretty nice. So Brady Shay coming off a career year forty 524 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:37,000 eight point pace has obviously his career ten point pace higher than he's had, 525 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,519 which is basically what he's done the last couple seasons. In terms of what 526 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,799 was so different from him, he didn't really get more time on ice that 527 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,400 was pretty similar. His power play opportunity was similar. It's never really been 528 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:51,880 a big part of his production. Although he did spike from seven up to 529 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,000 twelve power play points, so got a little bit more there, a little 530 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:59,680 bit more in that opportunity. I think he's probably gonna still have a fairly 531 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,000 significant time on ice roll in terms of the total, I'm not sure if 532 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,839 he's going to be power play too kind of guy what kind of role do 533 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,960 you think Shay is going to have with Nashville And is he going to be 534 00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:13,039 able to get close to that point pace that he had last season, up 535 00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:16,000 close to fifty. That'll be interesting, I think, because with the kind 536 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,440 of the depth that's there is here in Nashville, Alex Carry he got re 537 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,000 signed, which was surprised to a lot of people. I was super happy 538 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,239 about it. But it takes the load off of him to have to step 539 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,880 up and do a lot of those things because the Tyson Barry experience experiment didn't 540 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,480 quite work out. But I think Brady Shay would be a fantastic please piece 541 00:34:34,519 --> 00:34:37,519 to put on that power play too, because Roman Yosi operates as the one 542 00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:42,519 defense defenseman the quarterback on the first power play, and I think that Nashville 543 00:34:42,559 --> 00:34:45,280 has gotten pretty used to, I have, at least to having that four 544 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,920 forward first power play unit. But a guy like Brady Shay and then whoever 545 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,519 else you want to throw in there, Tommy Novak, Gustav Nyquist, those 546 00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:55,000 types of guys, like, You've got a really good unit there, and 547 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:00,039 this is a guy that his goals above replacement looking at evolving hockey on the 548 00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:04,039 power play it was really good for especially for a defenseman. Now, part 549 00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:06,639 of that is he plays in Carolina. He played in Carolina last year. 550 00:35:06,679 --> 00:35:09,760 I think that him going from Carolina and their style of offense to coming too 551 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,679 Nashville, I think he's going to find a way to fit right in with 552 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,639 that. He's gonna be able to play, probably play special teams and play 553 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,880 on the penalty kill two again taking off time to where you've got to put 554 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,320 Roman Yosi in there, because Roman Yosi is going to continue to play, 555 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,559 you know, whatever it is that he seems to play a game like thirty 556 00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:28,719 forty minutes. Not really, but it seems like that. So he'll be 557 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,800 a guy definitely that'll be great to have on there to take that load off. 558 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,320 He'll be a good second option, like a second pair probably. And 559 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,599 again you've got your established veterans like In Yosi and Brady Shay and then Luke 560 00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:44,599 Sheen for better or worse. But then you've got the younger guys like Spencer 561 00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:47,199 stats Andy, Mark del Gaizo, Alex Carrier, Dante Fabreau. These are 562 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,760 guys that you know are going to not have to play in that first that 563 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,800 first pair role out of necessity and you're replacing some guys that maybe you can't. 564 00:35:57,079 --> 00:35:59,400 You're not going to sit there and replace a leadership or things like that, 565 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,159 but are going to get these guys who are obviously talented, who have 566 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:06,440 put in put up a career year last season. I would say probably like 567 00:36:06,559 --> 00:36:08,559 his last three seasons with thirty nine, thirty eight, and forty seven points. 568 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,400 Yeah, I'd say thirty five to forty would be great. I think 569 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,559 that would be a huge success. But at the same time, it's it's 570 00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:17,760 a little difficult as a defenseman to get a ton of points if you're playing 571 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,960 next to Romano Seas. But you'll see, we'll see. I think that 572 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,800 that job gets easier when there's better depth on the team, and I think 573 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,960 that now Nashville has better depth, and I'm really excited to watch him play. 574 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,880 I think these are three guys that Nashville had twenty six million dollars in 575 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,639 space coming into the opening a free agency, and they utilized it definitely for 576 00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:37,920 sure. I think that they still have some moves that they will have to 577 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:43,119 do afterwards. I'm really pleased with it. I think that if you have 578 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,360 the top six completely figured out, it seems like at this point then going 579 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,360 out there and getting guys that are going to help extend the depth in the 580 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,880 bottom half, or guys that can come in and play as second pair and 581 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,360 play significant penalty killing minutes. That's going to give Nashville a lot of depth 582 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,079 that they didn't have in previous years. And so I think that's going to 583 00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:01,880 make this team a little bit more dangerous because now teams aren't gonna be focused 584 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,960 on shutting down the Forsburg line. They're gonna have to worry about. Okay, 585 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,320 that was the Fordsburg and Ryan O'Reilly Lion, here's Marsh's and stam Coast. 586 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,480 I know, yeah, Brady Shea is probably playing with them too. 587 00:37:10,599 --> 00:37:14,880 So it'll be great and I'm really excited. I think that there's a lot 588 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,320 of potential for these guys to all step in and have pretty good seasons in 589 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,639 Nashville, especially with what Andrew Burnette the type of hockey he likes to play. 590 00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:25,800 So full disclosure for everyone. We interviewed Brian prior to the draft and 591 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:31,960 the trade and free agency. Brian was kind enough to come back on and 592 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,320 give us his take on stam Coast, march or So and Shay. But 593 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,320 we'd also like to hear what your thoughts are and how these guys might affect 594 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,400 some of the other players. We heard a little bit about Sam Coast and 595 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,480 March, so maybe playing with Nova, his stock seems like it's going to 596 00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:47,760 go up, and maybe some other guys get displaced from power Play one. 597 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,880 What do you think is going to happen to the rest of the team with 598 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,119 these guys coming in, and especially any opportunity impacts that might be fantasy related. 599 00:37:55,679 --> 00:37:59,599 Yeah, so I think that I think there's not especially with forwards. 600 00:37:59,599 --> 00:38:01,800 I don't know that there's going to be a ton of guys that we're going 601 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,800 to go have a huge fantasy impact. I think that would be that might 602 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,840 get displaced by this. I think Novak is one that is. I think 603 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,960 he stands to benefit from that. I think he's going to be moved into 604 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,000 this. I can't imagine him not being moved on to that second line playing 605 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,280 with some of these guys. You have guys like Luke Evangelisa, Mark Jankowski, 606 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,679 Cody Glass like those are guys that if you're getting real deep in your 607 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,320 fantasy league, they might be worth looking at. But I don't think that 608 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:34,039 the impact is going to be necessarily as huge for them. I don't know 609 00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:37,320 that anybody who might have less minutes as a result of these signings, I 610 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:42,920 don't know that their output or fantasy output was going to be significant enough for 611 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,159 it to be affected in a huge way, at least on that side. 612 00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:50,280 I think it's just that now there's more options when there really wasn't that much 613 00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:52,599 past that top line before. So I think that if you've got guys deeper 614 00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:57,599 down the depth chart in Nashville, guys like Novak, Luke, Evangelista, 615 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,159 I think is the only other one I would say that, I'm still expect 616 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,199 him to continue to break out and get better each year, But past that, 617 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,800 Michael mccaern Cole Smith, Cody Glass, I'm just I'm not sure that 618 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,960 those guys are going to have a good enough production unless you're just in a 619 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,639 really deep, deep league. Now we get to move on to the goalies. 620 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,960 The Predators ranked thirteenth and expected goals against per sixty, but considered only 621 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,280 the tenth actual number of goals per game. And you would think that was 622 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,920 because you see Sorrows had an amazing goal save above expected, And you would 623 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:30,039 be wrong, buddy, because he did not. He was actually below expected 624 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,800 at even strength negative two point one five. Kevin Lancanin had eight point two 625 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,239 six, eight point two eight the goal save above expected and really well outperformed 626 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,639 the protection that was offered to him. At least had even strength. On 627 00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:45,039 the penalty kill he was got awful. Actually Yeah, But overall we know 628 00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:50,360 that Sars was the workhorse. He got sixty four stars to Lancinnin's twenty four, 629 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,719 so that heavy workload has to be factored in. Of course, lancn 630 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,360 In is UFA, SARS is the last year of his contract. What do 631 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,280 you think they're going to do here, Brian? Are they going to resign 632 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,760 linking in? And if so, do you think we'll see a similar split 633 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,719 between Stars and Lincoln. Of course there's one other guy we'll talk about as 634 00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:06,480 well in a minute. Yeah. So I think Lancolnin, I think he's 635 00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,679 even expressed that he's wanting to get another shot at being a starter somewhere or 636 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:13,480 getting a little bit more time, because I think if you're backing up UC 637 00:40:13,599 --> 00:40:16,000 Sorrows, you're not going to see anything close to a fifty to fifty split. 638 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,079 I think if if Kevin Lincoln was going to make an argument for that. 639 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,440 He made a pretty good one this year. But it was very surprising 640 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:28,079 because this is probably the first year that I've seen with UC Sorrows that since 641 00:40:28,119 --> 00:40:31,960 he took over full time for Peccorine, that we've seen him look human really, 642 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,960 And I think that his play kind of was a lot of the reason 643 00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:39,480 why Nashville felt comfortable adding a couple pieces of the deadline last year, because 644 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:44,280 I don't think Nashville would have I think they could have finished second or third 645 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,840 in the Central if he was playing UC Sorrows hockey like he did a couple 646 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,280 of years back. I think that he was. He should have had He 647 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:53,960 should have been a top three VESNA finalist a couple of years back. I 648 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:59,719 think that he's maybe one of the best technical goaltenders that in the NHL, 649 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,760 and of course the thing that everybody talks about is that, and of course 650 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,800 because he's a short guy, he's a short king. But I think that 651 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,199 this season, I think just things didn't line up, But I think that 652 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:14,800 they've got faith in him. Nashville went out and got their old goalie Whisperer 653 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,719 back, and Mitch Korn, which a guy that we saw again with a 654 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:22,199 lot of guys like Pecorine and Sorrows very early in his career to help him 655 00:41:22,199 --> 00:41:25,360 out. But I didn't see much from UC Sorrows last year that really said 656 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:30,079 that we should really worry about him going forward. However, he's playing out 657 00:41:30,119 --> 00:41:32,760 that last year of a two and a half million dollar deal, which that's 658 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,599 a steal for Nashville and has been a steal since he signed that deal. 659 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,239 But just looking at the goalie market and seeing some of the trades that have 660 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:43,400 happened this offseason, I think the original plan was to try to move him, 661 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,199 and there was a lot of talk about moving him at the draft this 662 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:50,679 time last year and at the deadline. But as we're seeing, the return 663 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,840 for a starting goaltender has not been I think what Barry Trotz wants to see, 664 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:58,519 and so I think that Kevin Lankinnin is going to probably not He's not 665 00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:00,360 going to return. It's going to be interesting, though, because they are 666 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:05,360 working on Sorrows' extension, and if you're a guy like UC Sorrows, you're 667 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,400 not wanting to take a three or four year deal. You're gonna want a 668 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,280 long term deal. You're gonna want some trade protection and things like that. 669 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,960 But when you've got a guy, there's some guys sitting in the wings behind 670 00:42:15,039 --> 00:42:17,480 him. It's going to be very interesting to see how this next year plays 671 00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:21,880 out. And if UC Sorrow's still on the team next year, which I 672 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,800 think, if it was up to me, he would be, it's going 673 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,599 to be very interesting to see because this is another case of having an established 674 00:42:28,639 --> 00:42:32,800 veteran who's been a VESNA contender most years that he's played, and then a 675 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:37,000 strong up and comer coming up behind him, and so it's going to be 676 00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:42,039 very interesting. I think Kevin Lincoln in his spot will be filled by somebody 677 00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:45,400 else and will get a really good chance to see what the future of goaltending 678 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,360 in Nashville is going to look like, and what those contracts for Ucsorrows is 679 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,519 going to look like too. I'm team Chaos, so I want them to 680 00:42:52,559 --> 00:42:58,159 trade Sorrows to get a good assets and let Lincoln in potentially be the starter 681 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,000 or fight it out with Yarslava Scar. Obviously he's the guy we were alluding 682 00:43:01,039 --> 00:43:07,480 to, and quite frankly, he's been really good in his so far in 683 00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:10,559 his ability to play in the AHL, although he did get benched during the 684 00:43:10,639 --> 00:43:15,039 playoff run for the Admirals and that actually seemed like it helped them, So 685 00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:19,679 that was interesting to see. But we have seen him in the NHL. 686 00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:25,280 We have seen him excel in the NHL so far and his limited action. 687 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,480 Obviously he's a guy and knowing to be the future. But is the future 688 00:43:29,559 --> 00:43:31,360 now? Brian? How many stars do you think a Scarf will get in 689 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:36,440 this uphimming season? Uh? Yeah, So I think that I'm the type 690 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,599 of guy. I like what Nashville did with UC Sorrows. They led him 691 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:44,000 cook in Milwaukee, maybe a year more than he might have wanted, but 692 00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,239 and then let him come up behind Pecorine for three or four years and slowly 693 00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,800 build up that workload. And I think that did a lot of good for 694 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,280 UC Sorrows, especially to learn behind a guy like Pecorina. And I think 695 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:58,360 that'd be a really good opportunity for Askaroff, because, as you said, 696 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,400 he's a guy that get a little bit prone to streakiness as but figuring out 697 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,760 goaltenders is his voodoo as it is. Anyways, he's just raw talent. 698 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,800 He was named to the hl's All Prospect team for goaltenders, and it's he 699 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:13,360 had a lot of tough competition. There are guys like Dustin Wolf and Spencer 700 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,599 Knight and guys like him that are in there. Troy grossen It came back 701 00:44:15,599 --> 00:44:20,440 to Milwaukee after he had been in Milwaukee I think four or five years ago 702 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,599 as a starter or a backup actually behind sorrows. He went and played with 703 00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,199 Edmonton for a little while and came back and had a really good season. 704 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,719 And but Askarov was just he was just electric. He's that guy You've seen 705 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:35,320 the clips of him. He's gotten better about holding onto a stick with the 706 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,679 thing that everybody laughed about when he had been drafted. But he's a guy 707 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:42,079 that is just electric. He's excellent in the shootout you saw. We saw 708 00:44:42,159 --> 00:44:45,559 him in his start in Nashville against the Capitals. He stopped Ovechkin in the 709 00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:50,239 shootout, which had to be probably a top five moment in him for him 710 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,559 in his life to be able to stop Alexandrovchkin, a fellow Russian. But 711 00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:58,679 he's a guy that I think with Mitch Krn coming back to Nashville that I 712 00:44:58,679 --> 00:45:00,800 think that you're going to see him maybe you get about twenty five games next 713 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,960 season, and I wouldn't say that he's ready to be a full time starter 714 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,800 again. I would say I'm ninety five percent sure that Kevin Lanknan won't be 715 00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:13,280 with the team next year, and he deserves a chance somewhere else to get 716 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,039 a few more starts. So I think there's a really good chance we're going 717 00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:19,360 to see the tandem of Ucy Sorrows and Askaroff, And if UC Sorrows has 718 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,239 a similar season to what he had this year, we could see that number 719 00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,920 bump up for Askaroff, and it'll be really interesting to see how he handles 720 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:30,239 that pressure on a more regular basis because he was excellent in the AHL. 721 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,599 I think he was second in shootouts last season. He had or shutouts. 722 00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:37,199 Rather, he had six shutouts. He was second in wins with thirty wins 723 00:45:37,519 --> 00:45:40,880 in ninety one zero point one save percentage. He was. He's a guy 724 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:45,159 that you know Milwaukee who they had an incredible run just like Nashville did as 725 00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:49,280 far as a win streak of sixteen games in a row, I think, 726 00:45:49,519 --> 00:45:52,280 and he was a huge part of that. And he's a guy that is 727 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,519 a guy that you can see that kind of leads from the back of the 728 00:45:54,559 --> 00:45:58,960 team. I think that's if there's ever going to be a guy like Pecerine, 729 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,199 who a lot of people said, if there's going to be if you're 730 00:46:00,199 --> 00:46:04,679 going to allow goaltenders to be captains, it's guys like that. And I 731 00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,679 could see I could see Askarov being that type of guy because he's personality, 732 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,239 which I hope the NHL doesn't beat that personality out of him. But he's 733 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,480 a guy that I think is thirty thirteen and one last year in the AHL. 734 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,360 I'm really excited to see him, and I think a tandem of Sorrows 735 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,440 and Askarov is going to be a whole lot of fun to watch because it's 736 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:27,000 two very different games. Like I said, Sorrows is a really incredible technical 737 00:46:27,039 --> 00:46:31,320 goaltender, but ask Escaroff is just he's talent. He's just raw, pure 738 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:35,639 talent, and it's going to be really exciting to watch him because he's got 739 00:46:35,679 --> 00:46:38,800 a lot of expectation thrown on him. The tenth pick in the draft spent 740 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,639 on a goaltender when they had UC Sorrows there and a lot of people, 741 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,800 including myself, I don't know if that's what you want to do with the 742 00:46:46,159 --> 00:46:50,239 tenth overall pick, and you know, I've eaten my words, and I 743 00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,599 think everybody else around Nashville and the rest of the NHL have as well, 744 00:46:52,639 --> 00:46:55,840 because I think his name has come up just as much, if not more, 745 00:46:57,119 --> 00:47:00,360 in some of these trade rumors than YUC Sorrows. So Steven Stampcos it's 746 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,400 going to be a little weird to see Stammer in a Smashville jersey. What 747 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,559 do you think we can expect from this perennial point per game scorer who is 748 00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:12,639 typically good for thirty to forty goals and has been a really reliable high point 749 00:47:12,639 --> 00:47:15,840 getter for his career. How do you think he's going to fit into this 750 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,639 top six in Nashville, Brian And what do you think we can expect from 751 00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:22,920 him? Point wise? It's exciting because it brings a completely different It's that 752 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,159 star depth that Nashville didn't have last year. I think the reason why that 753 00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:30,079 they weren't going to perform very well in the playoffs is that top line was 754 00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:34,000 cooking all year, but beyond that, there wasn't a lot of offense generated. 755 00:47:34,079 --> 00:47:36,519 And when you're adding a guy like Steven Stampcos, yeah, he is 756 00:47:36,559 --> 00:47:39,639 thirty four. I was a full last offseason talking about thinking that Ryan O'Reilly 757 00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:45,239 was past his prime and this is a guy who scored over eighty points last 758 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,400 season, Like you said, point per game, type of guy, forty 759 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:51,519 goals. That's again, like, there's only two players in Nashville history who 760 00:47:51,559 --> 00:47:54,239 have scored or forty or more goals, and that's Forsburg and Duchane. And 761 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,480 you can't. You can't. It's hard to look past the fact that, 762 00:47:57,559 --> 00:48:00,559 yeah, you're getting a guy that he may not be at his prime, 763 00:48:00,599 --> 00:48:04,039 but even past his prime, is still really good. And honestly, the 764 00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:06,679 kind of talent now of the one two punch that you have with a guy 765 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,639 like Forsburg and then O'Reilly and then having stam Coast, that's I think it's 766 00:48:10,639 --> 00:48:14,679 gonna be great. I don't know if he'll be the type of guy that'll 767 00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:19,440 if he'll be able to score forty again, but eighty points should be pretty 768 00:48:19,559 --> 00:48:22,480 pretty doable. I think just because it's gonna the power play is gonna get 769 00:48:22,599 --> 00:48:25,800 affected quite a bit. They're gonna have guys on the second power play. 770 00:48:27,159 --> 00:48:29,400 I think more importantly, you'll have a lot of guys that we're playing on 771 00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,199 that second power play that you know won't have to anymore. They can focus 772 00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,440 on the rest of their game. But You've got a guy like Stamkost, 773 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,119 You've got Forsburg, Ryan O'Reilly, Broman, Yosi, and you've got so 774 00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:42,800 many options now that I think the problem that Andrew Burnett's gonna have is how 775 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,480 does he divide up the talent. You can't. You could make it, 776 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,559 you know, a really heavy, strong PP one, but that second one 777 00:48:47,639 --> 00:48:51,119 is still going to have some good players on there. And so that's he's 778 00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:53,000 got a little bit of a problem with riches, I think. And so 779 00:48:53,199 --> 00:48:58,119 I'm really looking forward to it because for a guy thirty four years old still 780 00:48:58,119 --> 00:49:00,079 putting up forty goals, that's that's pretty great. Yes it was on Tampa, 781 00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:02,599 but who knows, who knows what he could do, especially in this 782 00:49:02,679 --> 00:49:07,360 offense. Exciting for sure, And yeah, as you said, just pushes 783 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:12,320 everyone down the lineup in their correct spots I think a little bit, which 784 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,679 is really good for the team overall. But they didn't just do one thing 785 00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,039 with stamp Cos. They also are I mean, everyone agrees they won the 786 00:49:20,079 --> 00:49:23,079 offseason the beginning of the off season anyways, and getting stamp Coos and Marchiso, 787 00:49:23,119 --> 00:49:27,800 one of the original Misfits turned con Smyth winner, has been a perennial 788 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,559 sort of fifty five to seventy point guy most of his career when he's gotten 789 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:35,599 the opportunity. He's also been in the seventeen minute time on ice range with 790 00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:38,280 pretty good power play opportunity. It seems like that should be similar to Nashville, 791 00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,599 or maybe even he gets more opportunity because I know in some of his 792 00:49:43,159 --> 00:49:45,800 previous stops the Fords have had their minutes spread around a little bit. So 793 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,800 what do you think we can expect from Marchers? So do you think he'll 794 00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:52,840 be right in that sixty sixty five ish point range? I think so. 795 00:49:52,079 --> 00:49:54,840 I think that you know he's going to be playing with I mean because now 796 00:49:54,840 --> 00:50:00,239 you look at that top line of Riiley Forstburg and a Niquist where you put 797 00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,360 stam Coast and Marcisso that's you would say second line, and you're like, 798 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,880 you don't put guys like that on the second line, But do you mess 799 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,920 with the chemistry of that first line. I think that it's going to I 800 00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,800 think both of these guys are really going to benefit from playing with each other 801 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:15,920 because I would expect them to get time together. But looking at that top 802 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,880 six, you've got plenty of options I think to go with when it comes 803 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,639 to what you want to do. When it comes to offense, I mean, 804 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,559 who better for a guy like Tommy Novak to learn from than guys like 805 00:50:25,599 --> 00:50:30,639 Marcisa and Stamcos, you know, and curating his game and watching these types 806 00:50:30,679 --> 00:50:35,159 of guys play, and then you can still have that bottom six where it's 807 00:50:35,199 --> 00:50:37,639 that high four checking, you know, you know, pretty physical type of 808 00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:43,480 play that Edgrew Burnett kind of likes to have to compliment the high scoring offense. 809 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,320 And these two together, I was going to be happy with one or 810 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:50,960 the other going into the first day of the of the free agency, and 811 00:50:51,159 --> 00:50:53,000 the fact that they were able to get both, and that part of it 812 00:50:53,039 --> 00:50:55,639 was marcasl. Saw. I think he heard about the stam Coast signing on 813 00:50:55,639 --> 00:51:00,119 Twitter and that kind of helped him make his decision to come. And five 814 00:51:00,159 --> 00:51:02,159 and a half million for four years is not bad at all for a guy 815 00:51:02,199 --> 00:51:06,719 like that. I think that we all expected that this team was going to 816 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,760 be taking the slow rebuild starting last season, but seeing how the season ended, 817 00:51:10,159 --> 00:51:14,960 they saw opportunities to add on and with getting more caps based and things 818 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,599 like that, I think that it's been great and so it's going to be 819 00:51:16,599 --> 00:51:21,800 really interesting to see because now you've got Forstburg is locked up till twenty thirty, 820 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,639 Stamcos till twenty twenty eight, Marcoso until twenty twenty nine. So you've 821 00:51:24,639 --> 00:51:30,440 got Andrew Burnette has his core of guys. You've got Roman Yosi until twenty 822 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,920 twenty eight, another defender who just signed until twenty thirty one. Those are 823 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,719 guys you build that team around, and now you've got Now he's just got 824 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,400 to deal with the complimentary pieces to go along with it. And if these 825 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,280 deals don't work out, it might be a little bit tough. But I 826 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:46,480 just can't imagine them not these guys not coming in and being really productive players. 827 00:51:46,599 --> 00:51:51,719 Again, two forty goal scorers when Nashville's only had two in their history, 828 00:51:52,079 --> 00:51:59,519 So that's pretty nice. So Brady Shay coming off a career year forty 829 00:51:59,559 --> 00:52:05,320 eight point point pace, has obviously his career ten point pace higher than he's 830 00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,760 had, which is basically what he's done the last couple seasons. In terms 831 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,960 of what was so different fro him, he didn't really get more time on 832 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,480 ice that was pretty similar, His power play opportunity was similar. It's never 833 00:52:15,519 --> 00:52:20,079 really been a big part of his production, although he did spike from seven 834 00:52:20,199 --> 00:52:22,840 up to twelve power play points, so got a little bit more there, 835 00:52:22,159 --> 00:52:27,239 a little bit more in that opportunity. I think he's probably going to still 836 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,199 have a fairly significant time on ice roll in terms of the total I'm not 837 00:52:30,199 --> 00:52:34,000 sure if he's going to be power play two kind of guy. What kind 838 00:52:34,039 --> 00:52:37,320 of role do you think Shay is going to have with Nashville And is he 839 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,880 going to be able to get close to that point pace that he had last 840 00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:44,880 season up close to fifty. That'll be interesting, I think, because with 841 00:52:45,159 --> 00:52:47,599 the kind of the depth that's there is here in Nashville, Alex Cary he 842 00:52:47,679 --> 00:52:50,960 got re signed, which was surprised to a lot of people. I was 843 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,280 super happy about it. But it takes the load off of him to have 844 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:58,480 to step up and do a lot of those things because the Tyson Barry experience 845 00:52:58,639 --> 00:53:00,960 experiment didn't quite work out. But I think Brady Say would be a fantastic 846 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:06,800 please piece to put on that power play too, because Romaniosi operates as the 847 00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,280 one defense defenseman the quarterback on the first power play, and I think that 848 00:53:09,639 --> 00:53:14,559 Nashville's gotten pretty used to I have at least to having that four forward first 849 00:53:14,559 --> 00:53:16,679 power play unit. But a guy like Brady Shay and then whoever else you 850 00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:21,480 want to throw in there, Tommy Novak, Gustav Niquist, those types of 851 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,760 guys, Like, you've got a really good unit there. And this is 852 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:28,800 a guy that his goals above replacement. Looking at evolving hockey on the power 853 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,599 play, it was really good for especially for a defenseman. Now part of 854 00:53:31,599 --> 00:53:35,280 that is he plays in Carolina. He played in Carolina last year. I 855 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:39,000 think that him going from Carolina and their style of offense to coming to Nashville, 856 00:53:39,079 --> 00:53:42,320 I think he's going to find a way to fit right in with that. 857 00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,280 He's gonna be able to play, probably play special teams and play on 858 00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,400 the penalty kill too. Again taking off time to where you've got to put 859 00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:51,440 roman Yosi in there, because Romanyosi is going to continue to play, you 860 00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,679 know whatever it is that he seems to play a game like thirty forty minutes. 861 00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,480 Not really, but it seems like that. So he'll be a guy 862 00:53:57,599 --> 00:54:00,519 definitely that'll be great to have on there to take that low off. He'll 863 00:54:00,519 --> 00:54:04,400 be a good second option, like a second pair probably, and again you've 864 00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:08,119 got your established veterans like in Yo Si and Brady Shea, and then Luke 865 00:54:08,159 --> 00:54:13,119 Shen for better or worse. But then you've got the younger guys like Spencer 866 00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:15,719 Stats and e Mark del Gaizo, Alex Carrier, Dante Fabreau. These are 867 00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:20,280 guys that you know are going to not have to play in that first that 868 00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,960 first pair role out of necessity, and you're replacing some guys that maybe you 869 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,880 can't. You're not gonna sit there and replace a leadership or things like that, 870 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,000 but you're gonna get these guys who are obviously talented, who have put 871 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,960 again put up a career year. Last season, I would say probably like 872 00:54:35,079 --> 00:54:37,079 his last three seasons with thirty nine, thirty eight, and forty seven points. 873 00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,880 Yeah, I'd say thirty five to forty would be great. I think 874 00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:44,079 that would be a huge success. But at the same time, it's it's 875 00:54:44,199 --> 00:54:46,280 a little difficult as a defenseman to get a ton of points if you're playing 876 00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,440 next to Roman Yo SE's But you'll see, we'll see. I think that 877 00:54:49,599 --> 00:54:52,360 job gets easier when there's better depth on the team, and I think that 878 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,480 now Nashville has better depth, and I'm really excited to watch him play. 879 00:54:55,519 --> 00:55:00,000 I think these are three guys that Nashville had twenty six million in space coming 880 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:04,360 into the opening a free agency, and they utilized it definitely for sure. 881 00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,800 I think that they still have some moves that they will have to do afterwards. 882 00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:12,119 I'm really pleased with it. I think that if you have the top 883 00:55:12,159 --> 00:55:15,079 six completely figured out, it seems like at this point, then going out 884 00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:19,199 there and getting guys that are going to help extend the depth in the bottom 885 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,639 half, or guys that can come in and play a second pair and play 886 00:55:22,679 --> 00:55:24,960 significant penalty killing minutes. That's going to give Nashville a lot of depth that 887 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,719 they didn't have in previous years. And so I think that's going to make 888 00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:30,360 this team a little bit more dangerous because now teams aren't going to be focused 889 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,480 on shutting down the Fordsburg line. They're going to have to worry about Okay, 890 00:55:34,519 --> 00:55:37,880 that was the Fordsburg and Ryan O'Reilly Lion, here's Marsha's and stamcost and 891 00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:39,960 know, yeah, Brady Shea is probably playing with them too. So it'll 892 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,960 be great and I'm really excited. I think that there's a lot of potential 893 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,360 for these guys to all step in and have pretty good seasons. In Nashville, 894 00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:50,119 especially with what Andrew Burnette the type of hockey he likes to play, 895 00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:58,519 so full disclosure for everyone. We interviewed Brian prior to the draft and they 896 00:55:58,559 --> 00:56:04,679 trade and free agency. Brian was kind enough to come back on and give 897 00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,559 us his take on Stam Coast, Marchorso and Shay. But we'd also like 898 00:56:07,639 --> 00:56:10,280 to hear what your thoughts are on how these guys might affect some of the 899 00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:14,280 other players. We heard a little bit about Sam Coast and March, so 900 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:16,480 maybe playing with Nova, his stock seems like it's going to go up, 901 00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,760 and maybe some other guys get displaced from power play one. What do you 902 00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,159 think is going to happen to the rest of the team with these guys coming 903 00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:28,440 in, and especially any opportunity impacts that might be fantasy related. Yeah, 904 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,400 so I think that I think there's not, especially with forwards. I don't 905 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:35,800 know that there's going to be a ton of guys that we're going to have 906 00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,239 a huge fantasy impact. I think that would be that might get displaced by 907 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:42,960 this. I think Novak is one that is. I think he stands to 908 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,880 benefit from that. I think he's going to be moved into this. I 909 00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,880 can't imagine him not being moved on to that second line playing with some of 910 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,639 these guys. You have guys like Luke, Evangelisa, Mark Jankowski, Cody 911 00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:57,639 Glass, like those are guys that if you're getting real deep in your fantasy 912 00:56:57,679 --> 00:57:00,400 league, they might be worth looking at. But I don't think that the 913 00:57:00,519 --> 00:57:05,719 impact is going to be necessarily as huge for them. I don't know that 914 00:57:06,159 --> 00:57:09,159 anybody who might have less minutes as a result of these signings, I don't 915 00:57:09,199 --> 00:57:14,599 know that their output or fantasy output was going to be significant enough for it 916 00:57:14,639 --> 00:57:16,800 to be affected in a huge way, at least on that side. I 917 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:22,320 think it's just that now there's more options when there really wasn't that much past 918 00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,280 that top line before. So I think that if you've got guys deeper down 919 00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:29,519 the depth chart in Nashville, guys like Novak, Luke Evangelista, I think 920 00:57:29,599 --> 00:57:32,039 is the only other one I would say that I'm still expecting him to continue 921 00:57:32,039 --> 00:57:36,760 to break out and get better each year. But past that, Michael mcchaern, 922 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,000 Cole Smith, Cody Glass, I'm I'm not sure that those guys are 923 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:43,039 going to have a good enough production unless you're just in a really deep, 924 00:57:43,239 --> 00:57:46,480 deep league. Tremendous stuff. Brian, you do great workout there for on 925 00:57:46,519 --> 00:57:49,800 the four Check. Wait, let people know how they can keep up with 926 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,760 it. Yeah, but you can find me on Twitter. It's where I 927 00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,159 am the majority of the time at Brian Baston as well as at the fore 928 00:57:55,280 --> 00:58:00,679 Check and during the season doing some postgame video with the Renegades of can follow 929 00:58:00,679 --> 00:58:02,920 them on Twitter at Renegades of Puck. Those are always really fun to do 930 00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:07,480 those postgame recaps and do a little bit of a my segment, which is 931 00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:09,280 one big stat because I got to stay true to my roots as a stats 932 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,840 boys. Yeah, you can find me there, but and yeah, I 933 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,719 really really encourage you all to check it out. I'm super happy with the 934 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:19,199 state of the media, the fan media in Nashville these days. I think 935 00:58:19,239 --> 00:58:22,639 that the immediate landscape here in town is stronger than it's been in five, 936 00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:27,000 six, seven years, which is really great. Some of my former colleagues 937 00:58:27,039 --> 00:58:30,480 at on the for Check I've moved on to some bigger and better roles here 938 00:58:30,519 --> 00:58:32,639 in town and elsewhere, and it's been really great to see. If you 939 00:58:32,639 --> 00:58:36,159 don't want to follow me for my takes, because you know, like you 940 00:58:36,199 --> 00:58:38,400 said, this could come out after free agency and all these guys could be 941 00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:43,079 gone or somewhere else. But I think make sure you guys give guys other 942 00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:45,679 guys a follow here because I think that the media here is getting is really 943 00:58:45,719 --> 00:58:49,679 great and I really do want to encourage some of my colleagues here in town. 944 00:58:51,039 --> 00:58:53,719 Tremendous stuff. People will be certainly following the Predators. Thanks so much 945 00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,239 for coming on, Brian, Oh, thanks for having me. It's always 946 00:58:57,239 --> 00:59:09,039 a blast. We'll be back right after this. Wolf then that's good fires 947 00:59:09,119 --> 00:59:19,079 pass up, Oh my goodness, or long with a cat cram Now it's 948 00:59:19,119 --> 00:59:22,960 your wingley goalie talk, but Kat's Silverman, Cat's instincts. Time once again 949 00:59:23,199 --> 00:59:30,079 to get Kat's instincts. Kat Silverman from NGLD Mag. We're talking Predators prospect 950 00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:32,360 goalies, which you know what that means. One of the most fun prospect 951 00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:36,800 goalies out there. Yar slav A scar Off twenty twenty eleventh overall pick, 952 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,880 six foot, four hundred and seventy nine pounds, second full HL season, 953 00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:45,320 pretty great stats overall. He had some really strong numbers. Nine to eleven 954 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:50,920 save percentage two thirty nine JA, basically the same save percentage as last season, 955 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:55,360 but lower Gaa had some interesting playoff performances. He actually got pulled in 956 00:59:55,400 --> 01:00:00,679 the series against the Texas Stars and and they ended up winning that series. 957 01:00:00,719 --> 01:00:04,519 Once he was no longer playing goals, so that was not the best and 958 01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:08,239 to his playoffs. But overall, I would say it was a successful second 959 01:00:08,239 --> 01:00:13,920 season. His expected goal per goal conceded was still above one, saving more 960 01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,119 than expected. Last year. You talked about how he's NHL ready, and 961 01:00:16,119 --> 01:00:20,639 he did get a couple of NHL games, and he looked checks notes really 962 01:00:20,679 --> 01:00:23,480 good. Last year, he also talked about how aggressive he is sometimes too 963 01:00:23,559 --> 01:00:27,320 much. I'm not sure that changed too much, but looking at his hockey 964 01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,960 prospecting, he had some really strong numbers when his equivalencies were based on Russian 965 01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:35,119 play. It's gone down a little bit based on the HL, but it's 966 01:00:35,119 --> 01:00:38,280 still pretty strong. One of his main comps, hilariously here is Pecarine, 967 01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:44,840 who obviously was the legendary goalie there for Nashville. I don't know whether we 968 01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:46,280 know how many games he's going to get in the NHL this season, but 969 01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:50,519 tell us your instincts on a scar offf do you think he's ready for a 970 01:00:50,599 --> 01:00:54,519 larger workload, maybe even ten twenty NHL games or does he need a little 971 01:00:54,519 --> 01:00:58,159 bit more seasoning. What do your instincts tell us? I think he could 972 01:00:58,199 --> 01:01:01,440 get ten to twenty NHL games for sure. I had a little bit of 973 01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:07,679 a surprise this year. I dog sat for my boss, and as a 974 01:01:07,719 --> 01:01:13,800 thank you, he bought my daughter rinkside seats to watch the San Diego Goals 975 01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:19,960 play the Milwaukee Admirals, And so obviously I got to tag along with her 976 01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,920 because they were her tickets, not mine. And I show up at the 977 01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:30,000 game and it was Polly Klaying versus Arosovaskarov, and that was maybe the best 978 01:01:30,079 --> 01:01:34,480 non NHL game I've gotten to see. It was such a fun treat for 979 01:01:34,519 --> 01:01:38,920 me. Ascar was not the better goalie in that series. He got a 980 01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:43,519 little bit lit up by the goals, which was unfortunate, but it was 981 01:01:43,559 --> 01:01:47,599 a lot of fun watching his reactions to the team in front of him was 982 01:01:47,599 --> 01:01:53,360 playing very poorly defensively, and watching the way he was adapting his game over 983 01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:59,199 the course of the game was really fun because he did change his depth management 984 01:01:59,199 --> 01:02:02,400 a little bit, changed the number of rebounds he was allowing to see someone 985 01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:07,519 who doesn't mind pushing the puck back out into play, and as the game 986 01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:13,440 progressed, and he realized that mostly Chase de Leo and one or two of 987 01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:17,159 the other guys on the goals were just pushing offensively in a really aggressive way 988 01:02:17,159 --> 01:02:22,000 to grab those rebounds because they weren't getting any of the first shots by him. 989 01:02:22,519 --> 01:02:24,559 He stopped allowing some of those rebounds, and so watching him be able 990 01:02:24,599 --> 01:02:29,480 to react to the game in real time was super fun, and that was 991 01:02:29,519 --> 01:02:32,119 something that when we look at the way that some of these guys transition to 992 01:02:32,159 --> 01:02:36,880 the NHL, that's something that we look for. You know that they're able 993 01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,920 to take their game and if it looks like things are about to become a 994 01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:44,480 little bit of a dumpster fire for them, they're able to take their game 995 01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:47,320 and adapt it on the fly, not aggressively, but just make the little 996 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:53,199 tweaks to what they habitually do to make sure that they essentially are able to 997 01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:57,880 continue thriving throughout the course of the game, and even if they don't win 998 01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:02,440 that game, they're able to still progress forward and give their team at least 999 01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,599 a fighting chance to try and tie things up. And that was so much 1000 01:03:06,599 --> 01:03:10,159 fun to watch. So I left that game. He was not the better 1001 01:03:10,199 --> 01:03:15,440 goaltender, but I was still reassured that he was going to do just fine, 1002 01:03:15,719 --> 01:03:19,400 and I'd love to see him get more consistent NHL action because it was 1003 01:03:20,599 --> 01:03:24,719 very clear that he was. Both he and Klang looked better than I feel 1004 01:03:24,719 --> 01:03:28,360 like in every HL game, one goaltender and you're like, ah, you 1005 01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,000 belong here, And this when it looked like we were watching almost like an 1006 01:03:32,119 --> 01:03:37,199 NHL preseason game with top prospects. So that was a lot of fun and 1007 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:42,320 I'm excited to see I think he'll be ready to start tandeming next year for 1008 01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,840 sure, all right, can't wait to start watching that. Not that they 1009 01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:52,159 need other prospect goalies because they at least for now have sorrows and they have 1010 01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:54,760 a scar off, but they have a couple other interesting ones that I want 1011 01:03:54,800 --> 01:04:00,920 to get your takes on. The first is Gustav's Davis Grigal's. Of course, 1012 01:04:00,079 --> 01:04:03,079 you know he's Lot Van because there's way too many SA's in that name. 1013 01:04:03,519 --> 01:04:06,679 He's undrafted, six foot, two hundred ninety six pounds, a lot 1014 01:04:06,679 --> 01:04:11,039 twenty five years old now. He was at UMass Lowell last year and had 1015 01:04:11,079 --> 01:04:15,280 great numbers primarily in the ECHL this season and looked pretty good. Do you 1016 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,480 think there's anything here, kat I think from a name perspective alone, yes, 1017 01:04:19,239 --> 01:04:25,719 because that's what a fun name. Watching some of his highlight I think 1018 01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:30,360 he's got some exciting saves there. I do think that when we look at 1019 01:04:30,679 --> 01:04:33,960 when we talk about these teams where there's one conversation being had and then there's 1020 01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:38,639 a side conversation for guys that aren't quite at the same tier, he's in 1021 01:04:38,679 --> 01:04:42,840 a different conversation from a scaroff, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, that's 1022 01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:47,519 just that's a scaroff is nhlready And I think that Grigls is for sure not. 1023 01:04:48,079 --> 01:04:51,159 But he did look like he's got some of that fun, raw talent 1024 01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:57,360 that when we look at a team like the Predators, they don't need to 1025 01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:02,920 have a ton of nhlready guys right now because they have a star in U 1026 01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:08,400 See Sorrows and they have a star in a scar Off. So if they 1027 01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:12,400 have too many other nhlready guys in their system, that can create a little 1028 01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,400 bit of a logjam. So I think that Grigals is a project, and 1029 01:05:15,519 --> 01:05:18,440 he looks like a fun project because he looks like he likes to make some 1030 01:05:18,519 --> 01:05:25,480 really spicy saves. And if you are going to have other guys in your 1031 01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:31,400 system who aren't. Essentially you're Richard Bachman's. You're thirty plus guys who are 1032 01:05:31,559 --> 01:05:35,519 only there for locker room presence in morale and to potentially play a couple NHL 1033 01:05:35,559 --> 01:05:40,000 games a year. You might as well have ones that are fun because they 1034 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:43,320 really don't need to have anyone else who is top tier ready just yet, 1035 01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,599 so he's a fun one to have in their system. I don't think he's 1036 01:05:46,679 --> 01:05:51,159 necessarily their next beson a winner, but that's probably a good thing because if 1037 01:05:51,199 --> 01:05:56,079 he was, then we'd be talking about him next year in a different prospect 1038 01:05:56,119 --> 01:06:00,519 system because I don't think he'd stay in the Predators one definitely, which we 1039 01:06:00,559 --> 01:06:03,079 were always keeping track of because you never know. That was Connor Ingram, 1040 01:06:03,119 --> 01:06:05,559 and I was always a fan of Connor Ingram, and I kept saying, 1041 01:06:05,599 --> 01:06:09,400 if he goes somewhere else, he could be good. Yes he did. 1042 01:06:10,039 --> 01:06:14,800 I'm really happy for him. Let's move on to Ethan Hadier. Hater six 1043 01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,440 foot four, two hundred nineteen fifth round pick now twenty one, will be 1044 01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:24,880 twenty two this season. Transferred to Yukon this past season from Clarkston Clarkson, 1045 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:29,199 where he was for three seasons and he looked pretty good there, similar save 1046 01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,679 percentage to what he had done previously, and for the for the Huskies, 1047 01:06:31,719 --> 01:06:34,760 his equivalency's really low. I'm not sure that there's much here. What do 1048 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:42,519 your instincts tell us about Hater? He's got a lovely family, so I 1049 01:06:42,559 --> 01:06:45,000 have a natural soft spot for him. I wrote a piece a couple of 1050 01:06:45,039 --> 01:06:49,400 years ago about some guys who were this could be a fun player to look 1051 01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:54,440 at down the line as a tweener in each system, and Ethan Hayter was 1052 01:06:54,559 --> 01:06:56,440 one of the guys. So I was like, he could be fun. 1053 01:06:56,519 --> 01:07:00,280 He could be a lot of fun. And his dad thanked me for that. 1054 01:07:00,039 --> 01:07:03,280 That's saying to me for taking the time to watch the highlights of some 1055 01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:09,599 of the goalies who were farther down depth charts, and not in a oh 1056 01:07:09,639 --> 01:07:12,599 my son deserves this, but in a thank you for looking at all of 1057 01:07:12,639 --> 01:07:17,280 them, and I thought that was really sweet. He looks like a very 1058 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:27,800 well trained North American developed goaltender, and that's it's fine. He's not. 1059 01:07:28,719 --> 01:07:35,000 Unfortunately, he's in a system with Rosolvascarov, who was nhlready already and looked 1060 01:07:35,039 --> 01:07:39,840 like he was going to be NHL ready before he ever got drafted, and 1061 01:07:40,119 --> 01:07:42,880 by design, you look at a guy like Ethan Hayter and you're like, 1062 01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,760 yeah, he's fine, but in another system, a weaker system. I 1063 01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:47,960 think if he was, for example, if he was in the Flyers system, 1064 01:07:48,039 --> 01:07:50,000 or if he was in the Sharks system, or even if he was 1065 01:07:50,039 --> 01:07:56,000 in a system like the Utah Hockey team, I guess I almost said the 1066 01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:00,400 Coyote system, right, he would be probably the number one or two pet 1067 01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:04,199 just because he looks consistent, he looks controlled, He's got a little ways 1068 01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:11,039 until he would potentially want to see any NHL action, but he doesn't look 1069 01:08:11,039 --> 01:08:15,199 like he's taken any major dips. So looks like he's a good depth option 1070 01:08:15,319 --> 01:08:19,840 to have in your team, like a good asset there. I just unfortunately 1071 01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:27,039 he's in a system with already powerful guys, so by virtue that drops his 1072 01:08:27,119 --> 01:08:30,439 stock just just a little bit. For the team he's on, doesn't drop 1073 01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:34,720 his trade stock though, So once again, that's another guy who maybe we'll 1074 01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:39,560 talk about with a different team in the future, just because there's some power 1075 01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:43,239 that's not going anywhere in front of him. He's from Minnesota. I don't 1076 01:08:43,279 --> 01:08:46,079 know that going to the Minnesota system behind wilstet will help him at all, 1077 01:08:46,119 --> 01:08:51,600 but no, maybe another system that would be fun. Thanks so much, 1078 01:08:51,640 --> 01:09:10,680 Gov for giving us your instincts on the Nashville Predator goalies, dig the Dynasty, 1079 01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:15,239 dig Cherld. We're in an optimistic frame of mind today because you happen 1080 01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:20,039 to love this Predator system. You ranked him third in your recent system ranks, 1081 01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:26,079 and it starts out with the no brainer. Who is it? That 1082 01:09:26,119 --> 01:09:31,439 would be none of th Yoakum kamal And he is a twenty twenty two seventeenth 1083 01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:34,960 overall pick five to eleven, one hundred and eighty three pounds, right shot, 1084 01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:40,039 right wing turn twenty at the end of this season. He is in 1085 01:09:40,159 --> 01:09:44,600 April twenty seventh Birthday's a little bit on that later side turn. This was 1086 01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,880 his first full season in the AHL. He had forty one points in sixty 1087 01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:51,000 seven games for the Milwaukee Admirals right there where you are, Jesse, and 1088 01:09:51,039 --> 01:09:56,399 they ended up losing in the Western Conference finals of the AHL. Eleven points 1089 01:09:56,399 --> 01:09:59,159 in fifteen playoff games. He did all he could to prevent that loss, 1090 01:09:59,159 --> 01:10:01,920 but it wasn't enough. That was seventh amongst all four wards with at least 1091 01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:05,119 ten games played. That's pretty good. That's seventh all forwards, not just 1092 01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:10,039 the twenty year olds. A lot of these guys are seasoned veterans in the 1093 01:10:10,079 --> 01:10:13,920 AHL, so that's pretty awesome. Of note, he was bested by Zachary 1094 01:10:14,039 --> 01:10:15,880 LaRue, who we are not going to talk about. But I actually did 1095 01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:21,960 recently write a really deep dive on LaRue. I already committed to who we 1096 01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:25,680 were talking about on the show before I realized that. So anyways, go 1097 01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:30,159 read the EPSID article on LaRue because he is worth reading about, even though 1098 01:10:30,159 --> 01:10:31,680 we're not talking about him here, even though I mentioned his name like three 1099 01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:35,800 times already, zact LaRue, go read about him. Looking at Kamel's FHL 1100 01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:41,399 player card, it looks pretty nice. He's got some really good bash. 1101 01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:45,840 His shots are a seven, his hits are nine, his blocks are nine 1102 01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,359 a seven, so overall he has a bash of eight. He looks like 1103 01:10:48,399 --> 01:10:53,000 he's going to be pretty solid for that. These are per sixty, of 1104 01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,359 course, so depending on the time on ice he gets, he could be 1105 01:10:55,399 --> 01:10:59,960 a pretty nice bash guy. And his goals and assists we already talked about 1106 01:11:00,039 --> 01:11:04,079 are pretty good for the league, so that's looking pretty strong. Looking at 1107 01:11:04,119 --> 01:11:09,560 some of his underlying numbers, his transition game looks outstanding. He's got some 1108 01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:13,000 really good play driving. He think it's a lot of power play time and 1109 01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:15,800 some of the other puckwork is pretty nice. What he could do a little 1110 01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:19,199 bit better at is get into some of the high danger places to score a 1111 01:11:19,239 --> 01:11:21,520 little bit. Being a little bit on the smaller side, maybe that's a 1112 01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,760 little bit hard for him, But we need to see a little bit more 1113 01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:28,800 of that. But to hear a little bit more about Camel, we need 1114 01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:34,239 to hear from Ahl scout, Jokim Gimmel and our scout. William has this 1115 01:11:34,399 --> 01:11:40,359 to say, skating pretty average. Hasn't seen him get beat by a mile 1116 01:11:40,399 --> 01:11:43,720 and a race for the puck, but also has not seen Kimmel beat any 1117 01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,840 defender by a mile either. Doesn't have any big weakness in his skating, 1118 01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:51,000 but it won't be one of his strengths passing and handling a dual threat is 1119 01:11:51,079 --> 01:11:56,319 Kimmel passing is impressive. William says on the power play he often plays the 1120 01:11:56,439 --> 01:12:00,119 right flank despite being a righty. He's very patient for the right passing line 1121 01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:04,760 and can either release or set up a teammate, and William would say his 1122 01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:10,000 hands are above average. He's fast, can get and retrieve pucks off the 1123 01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:14,079 board easily. For shooting, this is where Kimmel excels. If the preds 1124 01:12:14,119 --> 01:12:16,479 are looking for scores, he could see top nine minutes next year. He 1125 01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:21,600 has two main weapons. The first one is the tow drag shot. Not 1126 01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:25,880 at a Bdard type level, but he can place that shot very well. 1127 01:12:26,279 --> 01:12:29,840 With a screen off the rush or on the power play, Kemill can place 1128 01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,439 it in that small corner. The second is the one timer. That thing 1129 01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:38,119 is a bomb. Despite averaging five to six shot attempts per game, William 1130 01:12:38,119 --> 01:12:43,039 actually thinks he's underutilizing his shot. Thinks with his shot he could reach thirty 1131 01:12:43,039 --> 01:12:47,800 goals in the NHL IQ. Kimmel anticipates the space quite well on the offensive 1132 01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:51,520 zone. He's good at making the defense forget him and then find the open 1133 01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:56,399 space. His vision is one of his strengths. He can be deceptive while 1134 01:12:56,439 --> 01:13:00,479 taking a shot and open a passing lane before checking. Kim won't retrieve every 1135 01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,279 puck, but he loves to get in the d man's face with either a 1136 01:13:03,319 --> 01:13:08,119 quick check or a small slash. On defense, Kemmel's not going to be 1137 01:13:08,399 --> 01:13:12,840 a penalty kill type. He uses his vision a lot on defense to anticipate 1138 01:13:13,119 --> 01:13:16,760 where the play will go, but William often finds him too passive. He 1139 01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:20,800 can at times just sit in one spot and watch the play developer around him. 1140 01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:24,760 On the other side, he's very active in the ozone, taking the 1141 01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:29,439 defenseman's spot. The best asset then was that shot. He's always been a 1142 01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,800 score at all levels, but he's also developed a very good passing game, 1143 01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:36,640 and the biggest concern is finding the right fit. William highly doubts he can 1144 01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:40,640 drive a line on his own, but if he's placed with talented players, 1145 01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:45,319 he could really perform the top tier role potential top six power play one. 1146 01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,239 That is, if he finds that right fit, he could be a thirty 1147 01:13:48,279 --> 01:13:51,119 goal scorer, but he'll need a play driver on his line for that to 1148 01:13:51,199 --> 01:13:58,079 happen. And the fiftieth the median outcome for mister Kemmel is a top nine 1149 01:13:58,119 --> 01:14:01,359 scorer and winger is that the take on. No matter what fit he finds, 1150 01:14:01,359 --> 01:14:05,560 he'll be an offensive top nine winger in the NHL, in William's mind, 1151 01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:09,840 could be a power play two if that power play one doesn't work out. 1152 01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:14,840 Stylistic comparable is Trevor Moore, and the final thoughts that William has. 1153 01:14:15,159 --> 01:14:17,520 With the need of adding to scoring forward, Nashville could promote Kimmel to the 1154 01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:21,119 NHL next year or the year after. With the right playmaker, he's going 1155 01:14:21,199 --> 01:14:26,479 to reach that ceiling. Thirty goal scorer. Surprisingly good Cats guy with a 1156 01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:30,640 good shot volume in the AHL and a good amount of hits. He should 1157 01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:35,039 play at least a top nine guy for his whole career. Mason Black puts 1158 01:14:35,079 --> 01:14:42,840 Joe King Kemmel versus Yvonne morosh Deshenko of the Washington Capitals, who's already gone 1159 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:48,119 up to the NHL, and the potential of Kemmel beats the actuality so far 1160 01:14:48,199 --> 01:14:54,479 of maroshna Shenko fifty seven to forty three percent in Mason Black's NHL rank. 1161 01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,840 King Pole, that's what the people said, Victor, what do you think. 1162 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,279 I think it's about as close as they have it here. I thought 1163 01:15:02,359 --> 01:15:09,439 it's interesting that they had Kamel a little bit higher. I think, yeah, 1164 01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:13,800 I think I would take Marshashenko actually, but I think it's pretty close 1165 01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:17,279 and I wouldn't be upset going the other way. I think you there's some 1166 01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:21,880 reasons to be concerned with the direction that the Capitals are going, so that 1167 01:15:23,039 --> 01:15:25,319 maybe play into it. But also, on the other hand, there are 1168 01:15:25,319 --> 01:15:30,079 a lot of strong young forwards in Nashville that may take the spot there of 1169 01:15:30,319 --> 01:15:33,640 anyone who's trying to come up there, So that'd be a little bit of 1170 01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:39,600 a concern in terms of what's available there for Nashville. We've seen Novak, 1171 01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:45,119 we've seen Evangelista, We've seen a bunch of really strong young forwards there. 1172 01:15:45,239 --> 01:15:50,159 So yeah, I think that there's some reason to maybe be a little worried 1173 01:15:50,199 --> 01:15:57,199 about how much space he has to flourish there. But I do like his 1174 01:15:57,359 --> 01:16:00,279 shot a lot of dokemel shot a lot. I also really agree with what 1175 01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:03,079 it was said there in terms of him needing a distributor him needing someone. 1176 01:16:03,159 --> 01:16:05,840 We saw at the World Juniors a couple of years ago when he tried to 1177 01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:10,680 do it all himself and it really did not go I think that's something that 1178 01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:15,640 we realized really clearly about him, is that he definitely needs someone to help 1179 01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:17,319 set him up, which is not a bad thing. A lot of good 1180 01:16:17,359 --> 01:16:23,119 players need that. But he needs to simplify his game and not try to 1181 01:16:23,199 --> 01:16:25,640 do too much. So if he can do that, and if he can 1182 01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:29,159 find the right fit, and if he can beat out some other guys like 1183 01:16:29,399 --> 01:16:31,279 Angelista, Tomasino, you know, even some of the young guys. I 1184 01:16:31,319 --> 01:16:35,439 don't know if Cody Glass is done. Lealked about him earlier Parson in there's 1185 01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:39,439 a lot of other options here that worries me a little bit. But I 1186 01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:44,560 really like Marstershenko and how physical he is. His hits and shots per sixty 1187 01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:47,359 are both really high, and he scored really well in the AHL. In 1188 01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,800 his NHL call ups, he didn't do He started off with a bit of 1189 01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:54,399 a bang, but he didn't do quite as well in the long term. 1190 01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:57,399 He played twenty one NHL games just six points. I think part of that 1191 01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:01,800 is how bad that Capital's team and how lacking of offense they were, and 1192 01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:05,920 the system that they were playing didn't really help him too much. So I 1193 01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:10,279 think these guys are close. I think you can be pretty happy with either 1194 01:17:10,319 --> 01:17:14,680 one, and may just depend on what more you're looking for. Because Murcia 1195 01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:18,800 Schenko does hit quite a bit more than similarly and shoots a little bit more 1196 01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:21,479 than Kamel. I think I think both of those guys you could be pretty 1197 01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:27,399 happy with, But looking at the hockey prospecting model, Kamel has a much 1198 01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:33,119 higher equivalency thirty six percent to two percent from Murciashenko and looking at some other 1199 01:17:33,239 --> 01:17:39,800 comps there. For Kamel, there's some actually, Eli Tolvinen previous Nashville predator, 1200 01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,960 is someone he looks a fair amount in the model. That could be 1201 01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,359 a reasonable outcome. But there's some other guys there like Jordan Stall, Barrett 1202 01:17:46,399 --> 01:17:50,079 Hayden who he could be like. Looking at the dre fresh card, Kamel 1203 01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:57,039 nineteen percent chance of being a star seving sentence to being in NHLR. Those 1204 01:17:57,039 --> 01:18:00,359 are pretty good numbers and pretty optimistic there for Jesse. Do you have any 1205 01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:04,399 thoughts on Murshashenko before we move on? You watched him a bit, Yeah, 1206 01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:09,880 Maurusianshenko, this might be one of those deals where when the guy first 1207 01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:14,640 comes up and he doesn't turn into an all star right away, which Maurushashenko 1208 01:18:15,039 --> 01:18:19,039 is probably not going to be at that level, then he could be a 1209 01:18:19,079 --> 01:18:23,159 bit more of a post type sleeper than a guy like Kemmel who has not 1210 01:18:23,279 --> 01:18:27,399 shown us the struggles that he probably also will have when he first reaches the 1211 01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,720 NHL. So I think this might be a bit of recency bias, and 1212 01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:33,840 I do think you're probably onto something saying that he might end up being the 1213 01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:38,800 better player, but he's still showing a lot in that capitalist context. They 1214 01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:42,920 got Pierre Luketabla. Now, Victor, what could go wrong with their centerman 1215 01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:46,239 play. Next, we're going to go to the need to know prospect. 1216 01:18:46,359 --> 01:18:53,199 Who is that Victor need to know is Matthew Wood. So he was a 1217 01:18:53,399 --> 01:18:57,840 twenty twenty three fifteenth overall pick just this past year, six foot four, 1218 01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,399 one hundred ninety six pounds, right shot left wing. Second season at Yukon 1219 01:19:01,039 --> 01:19:04,800 in the same number of games, his points regressed from thirty four and thirty 1220 01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:10,159 five games played to just twenty eight and thirty five games played. His shooting 1221 01:19:10,159 --> 01:19:14,880 percentage actually went up from eleven to fourteen percent, and both seasons, by 1222 01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:16,399 the way, he had way more primary than secondary assists, so it wasn't 1223 01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:21,039 just his teammates scoring. I'm not exactly sure what happened with his decreased production, 1224 01:19:21,319 --> 01:19:26,159 but that is a little bit disappointing, and maybe I'm not sure what 1225 01:19:26,359 --> 01:19:29,279 all led into it, but he did change his commitment from Yukon to the 1226 01:19:29,359 --> 01:19:33,159 University of Minnesota, so that's interesting, and he is Canadian, so I'm 1227 01:19:33,159 --> 01:19:38,800 not really sure how that if that played anything into it, but he's headed 1228 01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:42,000 to I think a stronger program there in University of Minnesota. Maybe that was 1229 01:19:42,039 --> 01:19:45,239 him just wanting to be at a better program surrounded by a little bit more 1230 01:19:45,279 --> 01:19:49,520 talent that could be so his points could certainly pop in his third NCAA season. 1231 01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:55,640 Looking at his tracking data from the World Juniors, he had some really 1232 01:19:55,680 --> 01:20:00,680 strong offense expected goals, expected assists both super high. His transition data was 1233 01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:04,159 pretty good as well, seventy nine percent. His defense was really lacking, 1234 01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:08,520 and part of that is probably related to his skating, which I'm sure he'll 1235 01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:11,560 be touched on the scouting report. It's a bit rough, to say the 1236 01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:15,279 least. But some of his other numbers, like his game score, his 1237 01:20:15,399 --> 01:20:18,479 advantages, his boards to the middle player are all really strong. Looking at 1238 01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,880 his FHL player card, his shots per sixty year really high. His hits 1239 01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:27,560 are a little bit lower, and his bash his should be really strong, 1240 01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:30,000 even though he doesn't block a whole lot and hits are a bad average. 1241 01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:35,359 Looking at his other metrics is a lot of his numbers and including his transition, 1242 01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:39,840 game play, driving, his high danger chances, and puckwork all are 1243 01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:42,720 really strong For Matthew would But let's hear a little bit more about him from 1244 01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:47,520 our FHL scout, and this is FAHL scout Jeremy hopping in to help us 1245 01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:54,520 out a bit with mister Wood. Skating for Matthew Wood is probably his weakestas 1246 01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:57,479 set. According to Jeremy, he's a bit of a stomper when he skates. 1247 01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:02,359 He lacks acceleration noticeable at the NCAA level. Also not particularly strong on 1248 01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:05,880 his feet or a big guy. The one positive is his straight line top 1249 01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:11,039 speed, is pretty good passinger and handling. Despite being a shoot first player, 1250 01:21:11,119 --> 01:21:15,039 Wood is a good passer who sees the ice well. Does sometimes try 1251 01:21:15,079 --> 01:21:17,800 to do too much one on one, but he has soft hands and Jeremy 1252 01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:21,520 thinks he can learn to do to be more judicious with his stick handling. 1253 01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:27,279 Shooting is elite what as one of the best shots Jeremy's ever seen from a 1254 01:21:27,359 --> 01:21:30,800 teenager. Not bit arder Matthews level, obviously, but it'll play in the 1255 01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:34,159 NHL. His quick wrister snapper coming in from the boards around the rush is 1256 01:21:34,319 --> 01:21:40,960 lethal and will beat NHL goalies the IQ average. As mentioned above, Jeremy 1257 01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:45,159 thinks that that would over stick handles at times, which is a lack of 1258 01:21:45,239 --> 01:21:50,399 panic meter, but he does show poise in corner and on the zone entry's 1259 01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:55,840 exit, so Jeremy thinks this is probably a net positive IQ will be okay 1260 01:21:55,960 --> 01:22:00,239 for him. We're checking above average. Wood definitely uses his size and reach 1261 01:22:00,359 --> 01:22:03,319 to create turnovers, but Jeremy wonders if there's more to be unlocked here with 1262 01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:10,479 the right coacher scheme. The defense is another area Wood is probably not strong 1263 01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:14,199 in. He can get beat by quick changes of direction, and he can 1264 01:22:14,279 --> 01:22:17,319 be bumped off board battle. So the best asset was that shot. Definitely 1265 01:22:17,399 --> 01:22:23,520 one of the best in recent craft classes. The biggest concern for Wood is 1266 01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:29,039 skating, but Jeremy thinks the high end shot will and above average playmaking skills 1267 01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,640 will I won't keep him out of the NHL forever. So the top tier 1268 01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:35,800 outcome the best you can see from Wood top line seventy to seventy five point 1269 01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:43,039 sniper's that's if he exceeds the ceiling, which Jeremy doesn't actually see that high, 1270 01:22:43,079 --> 01:22:45,319 but with some improved skating and a good line, he could get those 1271 01:22:45,359 --> 01:22:51,079 top line winger numbers the fiftieth The median outcome middle six thirty goal, thirty 1272 01:22:51,159 --> 01:22:57,239 assist type of guy and yeah, that's the stylistic comparable. That is the 1273 01:22:57,319 --> 01:23:01,479 Jeremy come up with. Here is Max Patcher ready, and so overall he's 1274 01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:08,239 very curious. Jeremy is to see how the transfer from Connecticut to Minnesota next 1275 01:23:08,319 --> 01:23:11,479 year goes. He'll likely have to fight to be a go to guy on 1276 01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:17,680 that much stronger Minnesota Golden Golfers team. The NHL ranking poll is out, 1277 01:23:18,239 --> 01:23:21,920 and in this case, it's going to be Matthew Wood up against Victor's old 1278 01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:28,880 favorite from his Bruins writing days, Fabian Lisell of the Boston Bruins. And 1279 01:23:29,279 --> 01:23:32,560 in this competition, in this matchup, the people have spoken Matthew Woods sixty 1280 01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:36,760 two to thirty eight over Lesell, Victor. Is that the way you rank 1281 01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:43,479 them? Yeah? I think so. I like Lisel and he is still 1282 01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,399 someone who has some pretty good upsides, some pretty good promise. But I 1283 01:23:46,479 --> 01:23:50,039 think Wood has a little bit higher trajectory, has a little bit more upside 1284 01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:56,359 than does. I think both of these guys are interesting. We've been waiting. 1285 01:23:56,399 --> 01:23:58,680 It seems like we've been waiting on Lysel for a really long time. 1286 01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:01,920 Maybe there's some fatigue there in terms of sometimes when you're waiting on a guy 1287 01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:04,680 for a long time and gets you get a little frustrated. But he's still 1288 01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:08,720 only twenty one. He's not like he's that old. He has played in 1289 01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:12,680 the HL for the past two seasons. He had fifty Lisel had fifty points 1290 01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:16,319 in fifty six games for the Providence Bruins last season after thirty seven and fifty 1291 01:24:16,359 --> 01:24:20,439 four, so he's got really strong HL production. He's still young enough that 1292 01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:24,800 I think it really counts in my mind that he's doing really well there. 1293 01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:29,119 His assists and his shots are good Lisel. He doesn't really do a whole 1294 01:24:29,159 --> 01:24:31,720 lot else though, so that's more of a points only type of play. 1295 01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:35,119 So I like this. I think you should be happy with him, especially 1296 01:24:35,239 --> 01:24:41,560 with how little Boston has in their prospect pool, and so maybe you could 1297 01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:44,279 put take that into account, but I think Wood has the higher upside. 1298 01:24:44,319 --> 01:24:46,239 I think Jeremy spoke to some of the concerns that the skating. You have 1299 01:24:46,359 --> 01:24:49,640 to watch his skating. His first step is slow, but he is a 1300 01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:53,399 big guy. He lumbers a little bit. But the thing is, if 1301 01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,479 he can just learn to get quickly to the right spots, he doesn't have 1302 01:24:56,600 --> 01:24:58,920 to be a burner. He doesn't have to be the guy carrying it in 1303 01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:00,840 the zone. He can let other people do all those things. He can 1304 01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:03,840 just be that power forward around the net that cleans up rebounds, It gets 1305 01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:06,800 the right spots, it gets the shots. If he can learn how to 1306 01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:12,399 do all that a little bit more efficiently, then I don't think this. 1307 01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:15,159 Then I think the skating issues will be minimized. So in the right context, 1308 01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:18,600 he could be really good. And he's a pretty physical player. He's 1309 01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:21,920 good along the boards. There's a lot that guys are going to the coaches 1310 01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:26,159 are going to chel coaches are going to like about him. So yeah, 1311 01:25:26,239 --> 01:25:29,880 I would take Wood look, and I agree with Jeremy. It'll be interesting 1312 01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:33,199 to see how he thrives or how he fares in a different environment that has 1313 01:25:33,239 --> 01:25:38,199 a lot of other talent and not just him being basically the one, the 1314 01:25:38,279 --> 01:25:41,800 one strong player. Some guys really struggle with that. They struggle sharing the 1315 01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:44,760 puck. They want to just be on the best guy on the team and 1316 01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:47,640 get all the opportunity, even if the team isn't so good. So, 1317 01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:51,800 looking at hockey prospecting, between these two, Matthew Wood went down from forty 1318 01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:57,600 one to twenty percent chance of being a star and Fabian le Sel has been 1319 01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,760 pretty low in this model pretty much the whole time. He tracked down to 1320 01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:04,439 one percent, even though he had really strong HL production. Byron just punish 1321 01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:10,199 him a little bit for his previously low production and the WHL production which was 1322 01:26:10,279 --> 01:26:15,680 a really low equivalency league looking at how the rest of the comps would has 1323 01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:19,760 some pretty decent comps, guys like Logan Couture, Raffi Torres as someone who 1324 01:26:20,399 --> 01:26:24,920 he maybe looks a little bit like, maybe more of an average producer type. 1325 01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,880 Looking at the j fresh Car, thirty seven percent chance of being a 1326 01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:31,039 star and eighty seven percent chance of being an NHL are pretty high in this 1327 01:26:31,239 --> 01:26:35,880 metric. So looking really good there. And yeah, I think we still 1328 01:26:36,159 --> 01:26:40,319 have a lot that we need to learn and think about with matthew Wood, 1329 01:26:40,359 --> 01:26:45,520 because this was an interesting step down from him. But I don't think the 1330 01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:46,880 jury still low. We still need to see a little bit more and I 1331 01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:51,680 think there's a lot upside here. Okay, and Victor third, And finally, 1332 01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:56,560 it's to keep your eye on prospect. Who is it? This is 1333 01:26:56,600 --> 01:27:00,680 Ryan Ufko twenty twenty one, one hundred and fifteenth overall pick. That's right, 1334 01:27:01,079 --> 01:27:05,319 fourth rounder. We're talking about him the here. He is a five 1335 01:27:05,359 --> 01:27:09,600 foot ten, one hundred and eighty one pound right shot. He was the 1336 01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:14,399 captain for UMass this past year. He had ten goals. Sorry, this 1337 01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:16,039 was his junior year. He had ten goals, which put him tied for 1338 01:27:16,079 --> 01:27:19,199 third most on the team. Twenty six points in thirty seven games was also 1339 01:27:19,359 --> 01:27:24,600 enough for third best in the team in scoring, behind fellow defenseman Scott Morrow 1340 01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:28,800 and forward Jack Musa. Looking at him, he was, he was the 1341 01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:33,880 captain and he actually got some HL time there with the Milwaukee Admirals six points 1342 01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:39,560 and nine games and another ten points in fifteen playoff games. I would say 1343 01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,560 his pro tenagers and went pretty well, Jesse. I don't know about you, 1344 01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:46,039 but that sounded pretty good to me. So we love to see that 1345 01:27:46,560 --> 01:27:51,359 on UFKO and he was twenty twenty. He was. He just turned twenty 1346 01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:56,680 one at the end of this past season. And we do have his FHL 1347 01:27:56,760 --> 01:28:01,319 player card here. We're able to see that in NA his goals for sixty 1348 01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:05,600 were really high for a defenseman. His assists were also really good, and 1349 01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:12,159 overall his bash was pretty strong. His shots and hits were particularly strong. 1350 01:28:12,279 --> 01:28:15,239 His blocks are a little bit more average. Part of that I think is 1351 01:28:15,319 --> 01:28:16,760 just because he's a really strong defender and he has the puck a lot, 1352 01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:20,800 so he doesn't need to block quite as much. But overall his bash should 1353 01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:25,920 be pretty good. Assuming his points translate, that should be pretty nice. 1354 01:28:26,399 --> 01:28:30,159 And looking at some of his underlying numbers are pretty fantastic. His transition game, 1355 01:28:30,279 --> 01:28:34,279 high danger, and puckwork are all ten out of ten. Stellar stuff 1356 01:28:34,359 --> 01:28:39,159 there really. Of course, he got tons of power playtime and all that, 1357 01:28:39,319 --> 01:28:42,399 but we also have some of his numbers from the AHL time and it 1358 01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:45,439 looks similarly is amazing, so that's pretty great. He was able to really 1359 01:28:46,239 --> 01:28:49,720 push the envelope there, so I'd love to see that. But let's hear 1360 01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:56,800 a little bit more about Ufco from RFHL Scout three Prospects three scouts today. 1361 01:28:57,039 --> 01:29:02,159 This one is Patrick courtesy of Patrick Skating. Ufko's skating should be considered average 1362 01:29:02,199 --> 01:29:05,840 to above average. Doesn't stand out as spectacular, but not a hindrance when 1363 01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:11,039 defending. He skates backward well, but occasionally a forward will blow by him. 1364 01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:15,279 In terms of passing and handling, he's excellent in that area. Rarely 1365 01:29:15,319 --> 01:29:17,920 does he make an unwise pass or one that is off the mark When manning 1366 01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:21,880 the point on the power play, Ufko quickly and decisively distributes the puck to 1367 01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:27,880 teammates from the defensive zone, feeds it to his defensive partner, or facilitates 1368 01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:30,640 the breakout. Overall, Ufko is more of a distributor than a shooter. 1369 01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:34,359 However, his point shots on the power play could use some work, as 1370 01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:39,760 they often miss the net. Ufko has developed in terms of his hockey IQ, 1371 01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:43,880 He's made that into a strength. He uses foresight to aid his defense 1372 01:29:44,119 --> 01:29:47,600 and activate on an offense when the situation calls for it. Ufko's rarely caught 1373 01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:53,760 out of position on the defense as a result. In terms of ford checking, 1374 01:29:54,119 --> 01:29:58,079 Patrick says, when the opportunity is there, Ufko will venture deep into 1375 01:29:58,119 --> 01:30:01,359 the zone to keep a puck in and keep the attack going. On defense, 1376 01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:05,760 Ufko uses multiple techniques to limit attackers. On the rush. He limits 1377 01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:12,159 opposing players time and space. Ufko closes the gap and finds an opportunity to 1378 01:30:12,199 --> 01:30:15,039 poke the puck away or take it away and send it on to a teammate 1379 01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:19,840 on the board's Uko will close the attacker off to the boards with the intent 1380 01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:25,439 of taking the puck away. Patrick says the best asset then for Ufko is 1381 01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:29,119 that hockey IQ. It's the key to his defense and an offense. You'll 1382 01:30:29,239 --> 01:30:32,920 rarely see Ufko make the wrong play. The biggest concern a lack of high 1383 01:30:33,039 --> 01:30:38,079 end skill. While some might consider his size of concern, Patrick never saw 1384 01:30:38,239 --> 01:30:41,880 that being what held him back. However, his pace, shot and skating 1385 01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:45,920 ability may not be good enough to push him higher in an NHL lineup the 1386 01:30:46,079 --> 01:30:50,239 top tier outcome. What's the best case scenario for Ufko? If he continues 1387 01:30:50,279 --> 01:30:54,119 to progress as he has the last couple of years, he could be a 1388 01:30:54,319 --> 01:30:59,439 very good second pairing defenseman. That is, because he continues to beat expectations 1389 01:30:59,479 --> 01:31:01,600 well. He might not have the high end skills. The hockey IQ, 1390 01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:05,960 the passing, and the defense have led to successful play already at the college 1391 01:31:06,039 --> 01:31:11,760 in AHL players levels. As you said, Victor, the median outcome probably 1392 01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,600 a bottom pair defenseman or a tweener who's good in the AHL but can't stick 1393 01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:18,760 in the NHL. That's what could happen if his lack of size becomes a 1394 01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:23,399 bigger problem in the NHL, because some players there are bigger, stronger, 1395 01:31:23,479 --> 01:31:27,479 and faster, and he may not be up to the NHL level of play. 1396 01:31:28,039 --> 01:31:32,319 Stylistic comparable, possibly former teammates Zach Jones. Both are undersized, puck 1397 01:31:32,439 --> 01:31:39,119 moving defenseman and overall, Patrick says. After playing the college season, Ufko 1398 01:31:39,319 --> 01:31:44,479 joined the Admirals Milwaukee Admirals to the AHL often got eighteen to twenty minutes of 1399 01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:47,000 ice time during the playoff run, as you said, including extensive power play 1400 01:31:47,079 --> 01:31:51,640 time. In the playoff game that Patrick watched, his play was really excellent 1401 01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:58,560 and it looked like Ryanufko belonged in that game. So we're going to put 1402 01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:04,079 him up against in the black NHL Rankking Pole, Jeremy Pourier of the Calgary 1403 01:32:04,239 --> 01:32:09,800 Flames, and it's a narrow one this time, but Pourier comes out ahead 1404 01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:13,079 fifty two to forty eight over Ryan Ufko. Victor, Is that how you 1405 01:32:13,119 --> 01:32:17,560 see this one? I think I like goof Go better here, but I 1406 01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:24,720 could understand how close it is. I think that Goofco is just so dang 1407 01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,359 underrated. I don't understand why people don't like him more. In fact, 1408 01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:30,079 I was talking with Patrick about this very subject. There are a lot of 1409 01:32:30,119 --> 01:32:34,840 outlets that have him ranked very lowly still, and I'm not really sure why, 1410 01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:39,920 because he's pretty much done everything he can approve. You know, even 1411 01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:43,640 when he came out and the one World Junior that he played last previous year, 1412 01:32:44,239 --> 01:32:45,680 he was phenomenal. I think people were like, WHOA, this guy 1413 01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:49,520 is really good, and yeah, he's been good this whole time. People 1414 01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:54,279 are finally noticing. You see him stepping straight into the HL and producing. 1415 01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:57,000 That's not nothing. But I think people have a hard time changing their mind 1416 01:32:57,079 --> 01:33:00,119 on guys that are fourthrong picks, because that's what he was. He was 1417 01:33:00,159 --> 01:33:02,960 a fourth round pick. And part of the reason he was a fourth round 1418 01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:05,159 pick is that he was five to ten and he's still five to ten, 1419 01:33:05,319 --> 01:33:10,399 So definitely being a little bit undersized is a knock against him. But there 1420 01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:13,239 were some other things in his draft year, like some of his decision making 1421 01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:16,079 and ability to pinch that was that were question marks, But that's all gotten 1422 01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:21,720 resolved and he's been a strong player, So I still think that he's going 1423 01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:26,720 to be really good. He's just so smart and smooth as a skater and 1424 01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:30,119 highly competitive. I don't think that those are going to be big issues that 1425 01:33:30,239 --> 01:33:31,800 might limit him from being a top pairer guy. He still should have some 1426 01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:36,680 pretty strong upside. Parrier is a very different case because he was always pretty 1427 01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:41,479 highly touted. He just didn't know how to play defense basically, but he 1428 01:33:42,079 --> 01:33:46,079 has gotten a lot better defensively. He has produced pretty well, although he 1429 01:33:46,159 --> 01:33:50,199 had some injury troubled this year, so that was really difficult to evaluate. 1430 01:33:50,359 --> 01:33:55,479 But he did have some pretty strong production again before the injury. This year. 1431 01:33:56,479 --> 01:34:00,359 The Flames could use him. He could make the team of camp, 1432 01:34:00,399 --> 01:34:03,800 but he's probably going to play one more full AHL season and then we'll see. 1433 01:34:04,359 --> 01:34:09,359 Of course, they have hundred Prostevis now and they have some other options 1434 01:34:09,399 --> 01:34:13,239 there on the back end. But I still think that he's really increased his 1435 01:34:13,399 --> 01:34:18,359 chances. But I just think that Pariy has a more specific role that he 1436 01:34:18,479 --> 01:34:20,920 has to fill on the team. You know, he's not someone who's going 1437 01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:26,279 to be out there in all the most important defensive minutes, whereas ko Ufko 1438 01:34:26,359 --> 01:34:28,920 can play in a lot of different situations. I think that's going to help 1439 01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:31,560 him. And he can run a power play, and I don't know that 1440 01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:35,079 he will necessarily run the top power play. I think that's a little bit 1441 01:34:35,159 --> 01:34:39,960 more. He has a little bit more even strength scoring options as well. 1442 01:34:40,039 --> 01:34:43,239 He's not going to be as much of a liability, so that's why I 1443 01:34:43,279 --> 01:34:45,000 would take Ufko, but I could see why it would be close I imaged, 1444 01:34:45,039 --> 01:34:47,520 and both these guys have really come around on Parriy. I think he's 1445 01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:53,159 a pretty interesting prospect and I'd be interested in rostering him as well. Looking 1446 01:34:53,199 --> 01:34:57,760 at hockey prospecting between the two, Ufko has graduated from the model now at 1447 01:34:57,800 --> 01:35:00,439 forty two percent chance of being a star. Basically that's really high, seventy 1448 01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:04,479 percent chance of being an NHLer. Parria has trended down from his fifteen percent 1449 01:35:04,560 --> 01:35:09,399 chance of being a star down to four percent, at his NHLer probability up 1450 01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:13,920 to fifty five, so the hockey prospect can definitely leans uf Goo. Looking 1451 01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:17,520 at some other comps for uf Goo, there's some interesting ones, guys like 1452 01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:23,000 Keith Yandel. I think someone he looks a little bit alike is Shane Gorosta 1453 01:35:23,039 --> 01:35:26,359 Spear, who's a little bit undersized as well. I think oof goes better 1454 01:35:26,439 --> 01:35:30,319 defensively and all around than Gostil Spear, but maybe doesn't have as much offense, 1455 01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:32,880 but maybe that's reasonable. Looking at the j freshcard, just six percent 1456 01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:35,720 chance of being a star for uf Go fifty one percent chance of being an 1457 01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:40,800 NHLer. It's a little bit more modest there, But that's it for our 1458 01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:44,439 Nashville dig. If you're a patroon, you can listen to my top ten 1459 01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:48,359 prospect recaps that'll be starting up soon. And if you're interested in doing some 1460 01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:53,640 scouting with us, shoot me a DM on Discord, Twitter or email us 1461 01:35:55,159 --> 01:36:08,920 and we'll be right back to the show. A reminder, our shows brought 1462 01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:13,520 to you by fantracks dot com. 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