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

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and analysis to help you win your
fantasy hockey league. Fuck up, that's

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a step hat, stay lost,
blush. Here's your hosts, Jesse Severe

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and Victor Nuno. Fantasy Hockey Applied
back once again. Jesse Severe from fan

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Tracks with Victor Nuno from diver Prospects. How you doing today, Victor?

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Mom doing great. Jesse. It's
definitely a little bit hot over here,

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but that's cool. We're managing just
fine. How about you? I'm doing

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great. There is a special place. I think We've talked about it a

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lot, but I'm just gonna keep
talking about it. You visited a very

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special city this summer, right and
you saw it up close. Had you

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been to Nashville before? No,
I had not been in Nashville I hadn't

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even had a lay over there anything. So it was my first time and

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some people I know warned me that
it was going to be insanely hot,

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and they were not wrong. It's
the Midwest, so east of the humidity

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is going to be in full effect, and it was a lot. The

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worst part is that, as some
of you saw on Twitter and whatnot,

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I had to like look nice for
the drafts up, so I had to

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like dress up. So I'm walking
around downtown Nashville and like my suit and

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just everyone's sweating and just so hot. But on the days where I didn't

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have to do that, I was
still hot, but I didn't have to

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wear its whny clothes. Yeah.
No, we don't wear suits in Nashville.

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Man, maybe somebody does. But
I lived there for several years,

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and boy is it miserable there in
the summer victory. Did you just call

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Nashville the Midwest? And then I
pivoted to say East because it's okay,

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okay, okay, because otherwise the
show was going to be canceled and I

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wasn't gonna be able to tolerate that
because as a Midwesterner, that is the

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least Midwest place I've ever lived,
by a long shot. But they do

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love hockey down there. People make
fun of the sun Belt, but let

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me tell you something, people recognize
that when they hosted the Stanley Cup Finals,

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obviously, and they've hosted a number
of different NHL events now, including

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the Draft this year. But Nashville
is a hockey crazy town. When I

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lived there, they cared for the
Predators more than they did the NFL team,

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the Tennessee Titans, and both of
them were good at the time.

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Actually the Titans, I think we're
a little better than the Predators. But

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we're going to talk Nashville today,
Victor. But before we get to that,

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before we get to the product on
the ice and how it is changing

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for the coming year, a couple
of things we want to mention to people.

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We are going to talk about several
things today. We're going to have

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a guest who can talk to us
about the pro team. We're gonna have

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Kat's Instincts, Kat Silverman, our
great friend and goalie expert, who's going

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to talk about some of the prospect
goalies. And then we'll do the Dynasty

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dig talk about a couple of Victor's
prospects that he wants to talk about in

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this system and get a little bit
deeper into them. You can hanging out

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with us and with all kinds of
hockey crazies and discord. It is a

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nice community. It is a place
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generally civil to one another, and
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each other. It's a big friendly
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Victor Newno. Twelve VIIC t O
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Victor ask questions and not only that
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can do in there, and additional
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What is going on? Yeah,
one of the big things that we're

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taken up is the average draft position
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continue that. So if you're unfamiliar
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of draft information from people's leagues and
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how you want to approach your draft, and just good information for how guys

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some great patrons that are helping out
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And if you can include information about
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that would be useful information. So
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be referencing on the show and we'll
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stuff for sure. And we also
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people about that? So much goodness
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big things now is the tidy,
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that last year and it's been going
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started to migrate over the twenty twenty
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nice to be able to compare these
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dot com, slash Fantasy Hockey Life. Let's talk about Nashville. We're going

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down to Music City. Put on
your hats because here it comes. Right

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after this. We'd like to welcome
to the show a guy who knows his

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Nashville Predators from the on the four
check website, the newly independent on the

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four check website, or at least
independent site. It is Brian Baston.

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How you knowing? Brian? I
am doing fantastic. I appreciate you guys

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having me on. Yeah, it's
a slick looking website. I've read it

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for years, but yeah, I've
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it's it's nice. Yeah, we're
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but I think we're going to be
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business in the background that's going on
with a lot of the former Vox sites

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that we may be pushing something some
new things out here soon. But it's

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nice. It's we are independent,
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while anyways. But it's good.
We've got control over what we want to

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say and things like that, and
it works out really well. So it's

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been fun. It wasn't fun probably
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all, but it's gotten there.
Speaking of things that probably weren't as fun

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as we would have, let's talk
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The transition has finally come from the
Preds. Their eight year streak of playoff

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appearances because I am going to count
the fake bubble playoffs has come to an

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end. The Hits have come fast
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In management, John Hines out,
Andrew Burnett in as coach, and most

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significantly, David Poyle, the only
GM of their twenty four years, is

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out replaced by the only icon who
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Barry Trots, longtime stalwarts Ryan Johansson, Mattias at Home and fairly recent ads

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Nino Nita Writer and Michael Granland and
promising youngster Tanner Jano even were traded away

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and Dushane bought out. Of the
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in the twenty one twenty two season, five are gone. It's almost irrelevant

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to figure out this coming year's preads
based on last year's preads because of all

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the turnover. But our next year's
preds playing for Celebrini, for Pride or

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for a surprise playoff run. Bryan, I think that they are. We're

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gonna be playing for figuring out what
their new identity is. You had mentioned

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that Mattia sack Holme had been traded
away to Edmonton, and this you look

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at the defense corps or what's left
of it now, this doesn't seem like

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maybe the first year in a while
that Nashville is not going to be the

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team with the good defense. Not
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but just the star powered on the
blue line. And so it's gonna be

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it's gonna be telling a lot for
what Andrew Brunette is going to come in

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and do to change the change just
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out, and I'm pretty excited for
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I would say probably three years too
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Philip Forsberg the star of this team, the returning star, certainly one

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of them. There are others I
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The contract drama ended since last year's
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of Forresburg's eight year contract ended sadly
early with an apparent concussion that entered his

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season in February. He was skating
later the same month. But probably better

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thoughts prevailed for this team. They
went ahead and shut him down as they

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sold. And we all want to
see Forrestburg play many more years at a

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high level. Good for him to
get that recovery time. Well, his

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performance was not quite as the same
pace as his just sizzling twenty one twenty

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two. He still put up forty
two points in fifty games, took ten

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point eight shots per sixty, tops
on the team ninety six percent time in

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the league. Foresburg likes to shoot. Whisburgh stepped back into his normal near

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point per game pace again or will
health and the loss of playmaking teammates set

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him back. Brian, Yeah,
I think you raised an excellent point.

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It's been let's see. I think
it was. The last time was the

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twenty sixteen season, the year before
the Cup run. Was last time he

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played a full season without missing games, And it's you don't want to judge

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anybody if they can't make the full
eighty two, because barely anybody does anymore.

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But it's been a while since he's
been able to be there for not

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miss a week or two in a
season, and we've seen that he's really

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come into his own. You mentioned
last year going over a point per game

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and forty two points in fifty games
last season, and considering the makeup of

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the offense was still pretty good.
So I know, I believe that he

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still is a pretty elite player.
I just I worry about the combination of

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just being healthy and as well as
I have no idea who his linemates are

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going to be this season. Michail
Granland. You need a rider, Guys

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that really work, Johansson, Duchane, they're all gone, and so it's

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going to be Forsberg on the wing, of young guys like Philip Thomasino,

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Luke Evangelisa, things like that.
But he's always he's always succeeded pretty well

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despite who his linemates are. We've
seen some we've seen some odd choices for

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his linemates over the last couple of
years, and he still manages to produce.

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I would honestly think that he's still
a really solid selection to have on

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your team. I think he's going
to be producing, especially in those leagues

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where you're counting things like just the
amount of shots taken, blocks, things

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like that. He's not a huge
on blocks and hits. But what he

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does do is that he drives that
offense. The offense kind of revolves around

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him when he's on the ice,
and when you have a guy like Roman

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Yosi on the backing him up,
he still can be dangerous. No matter

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what the makeup of this team is. He's a guy that you wouldn't find

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me passing on him. You just
have to worry about having some coverage just

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in case of injury, because more
off more likely than not, he's probably

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gonna get hurt and missed probably ten
plus games at some point. I'm as

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Novak boy I did not see this
coming, Brian, not to speak for

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quote everyone else, but I doubt
many others did either what he did this

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year. Novak was a bit of
a miners journeyman who had a few games

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in the NHL the prior season,
but he played his way to fourth and

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scoring in only fifty one games this
past year forty three points. His season

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took off in the final months of
the season when he was paired with former

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Milwaukee Admiral teammates Key for Sherwood,
Sherwood and Luke of Angelista. Novac doesn't

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do much by way of black shots
and hits what we call bash, and

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his defense didn't rate out all that
great. But was this a case of

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a late bloomer who's maybe going to
show up and be a top sixer for

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the rebuilding Preds while they need people
in those roles, or was this a

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career season that won't repeat. But
we can all be very happy about yea,

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yeah, you said it. I
mean, and I've been a big

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Tommy Novak fan for the past few
years with his time in Milwaukee, but

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even I did not expect out scored
Philip Forsberg and just one more game last

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season. He's a guy that is
Again you talked about his defense. I

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think you were fairly generous. I
been talking about his defense and saying it's

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not that good. But I think
that he is an excellent play driver.

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He has no problem playing from the
perimeter or getting deep, getting up right

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up on the net and attacking in
the crease. And he didn't seem to

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slow down at any point in the
season. I kept waiting for, Okay,

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he's having such a great run of
a last couple of weeks and he's

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scoring really well. He's got to
come back down to earth, and he

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never really did that. And again
you talk about him playing with key for

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Sherwood, who is another guy a
little bit older, probably got the most

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time in the NHL that he may
have in the next few years. But

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he has managed to fit in with
pretty much any linemate they put him with

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last season, and he's not going
to He will be top six purely because

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he's playing for Nashville, I think, just because the depth is completely gone

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at this point. But he's a
guy that I don't see him putting on

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a Rolls Blue next season. I
think he's gonna be an integral part.

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He'll probably get seventy seventy games or
so if he's given his health. But

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I think he's gonna be a guy
who's going to be a consistent points scorer.

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He's not going to blow anyway blow
people away with his goal scoring ability,

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but he's a guy that you want, and he's a guy who's going

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to get in there and hit guys. He's going he's gonna get down there

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on the ice and make those blocks. And so he's somebody that he's not

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going to pop out to a lot
of people as far as looking at how

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valuable he might be. But he's
somebody that's gonna be a probably a pretty

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consistent points scorer that for years for
Nashville, that kind of guy that's gonna

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get you points fantasy at least with
like a role like Colton Sistans or somebody

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like that at Craig Smith for in
a different form. But he's gonna be

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a guy he'll be very consistent,
and I think he'll be someone that should

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be you're probably gonna keep him in
your line line up because you just know

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you're gonna get a certain amount of
points for him every week. So again,

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I've been a huge fan of his
but nobody including myself, saw this

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last season coming. So he's he's
up and comer, and I'm really excited

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to see what he can do over
the next year or two. Yeah.

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I go to Admiral's games living up
here in Milwaukee. My daughter's band played

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an Admiral's game this year, so
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Yeah, and he definitely. I
did not quite realize what Novak was

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going to do when he went up
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Anyway, Ryan O'Riley, Wow,
Ryan O'Reilly's on this team. His brief

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sojourn is over. And when the
dust settled, that is, his sojourn

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in Toronto is over. And when
the dust settled, the Preds landed this

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sulky slash con smythe winner of four
years ago. He got less time on

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ice after the move to Toronto,
but scored very well twenty points in twenty

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three games, including playoffs. Trots
has apparently been aiming for character guys,

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and Roar has been one of them
that he aimed for. He's already talking

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Stanley Cup o'reiley. I guess that
maybe that's what you say when you come

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in. You don't say, yeah, I don't know, guys, We're

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just gonna try to get this turned
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happen. O'reiley has always been a
bit more exciting in real hockey than for

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us fantasy geeks. But he's stepping
into a situation and where the top centiment

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on the team are going. I'm
wondering if O'Reilly going to step in right

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away and be the first center,
and could he be something like a sixty

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five point guy playing with Forresburg maybe
next year. I think that's well within

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the realm of possibility for him.
This is a guy who's come from some

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very strong teams. He's got the
experience. I've always said, I think

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coaches over rate or bringing in this
veteran because he's a winner. He's been

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on winning teams. But Ryan O'Reilly's
had the exception to that. Yeah,

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he's a guy that has continued to
produce. He's extremely dangerous. I don't

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think there's any doubt that he's going
to start this season on the first line

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with Philip Forsberg, just again just
because of depth and the departures, but

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I think he probably would have made
a strong case for it anyways, seeing

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if they've kept Touchane or Ryan Johansen, and so yeah, I think that's

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going to be a killer combination to
see him and Forresburg up there, depending

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on who's who else is out there
with him. But yeah, sixty five

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points I think would be an excellent
season for him, and considering the team

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and the status of the team right
now, I really like everything about him.

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I initially was looking at the contract. It's a four and a half

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of four years. It seems like
a whole lot, But this is a

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guy that you can get. He's
a little bit, he's a little bit

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older, but here in three years, if Nashville feels like they can compete

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again, he's going to be a
pretty important part to that. And so

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I was really thrilled with the signing
after I looked into it and looked at

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his numbers and how he's been performing. And he's the kind of guy that

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Nashville probably could have used on the
team three four years ago, starting back

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then, because he's exactly that type
of player that you want there to create

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a lot of points out of nothing
and take Nashville loves Romaniosi especially loves to

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take those shots from the blue line, and I think a guy like Ryan

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O'Riley is the perfect kind of player
to be in there to help clean that

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up, and he's going to score
I think a lot of points that way

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for sure. A couple other guys
we want to get your take on in

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terms of how many points are gonna
scores. We'll give you a pickum here,

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Luke Evangelista, Philip Thomasino. Evangelista
played twenty four games for the Prez

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had fifteen points, which was a
fifty one point pace. He got sixteen

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thirty four time when I was pretty
decent power play deploy him in two and

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then Thomasino, on the other hand, played most of the year in the

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HL where he was really good,
I mean, thirty one games for the

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Preds for a forty eight point pace. His time on ice was a little

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bit lower than Evangelista's at fifteen thirty
six, but similar point paces right around

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fifty for both of them. If
you look at the underlyings, Evangelista looked

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much better offensively. Actually, his
expected goals were pretty decently above NHL average,

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which was nice. His defensive impacts, actually, both these guys were

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defensively not great, which is interesting. Because I when I watched Tomisino,

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I get the impression anyways he's a
little bit better two way, but not

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according to these underlying So maybe that's
not true. I don't know what you'll

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tell me, But what do you
think between these two if you had to

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pick between Evangelista and Tomasino, who
gets more points next season on the preads?

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So yeah, I mean it's a
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because these are guys that kind of
have a similar profile. These are guys

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who excelled in June years before being
selected by the Predators. I think Philip

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Thomasino and I said this last season, but I still believe it. But

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I think Philip Thomasino is really,
I think a little bit further along in

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term of being a mainstay in the
NHL. But I think it's just the

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raw the offensive ability that Luke Evangelista
has. Again, young kid, but

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he still managed to do pretty well
both expected goals and actual goals. His

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impact on offense is really good.
And there's a guy, a young guy

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like that is these are two players
that are going to be competing to be

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a top six player for the National
Predators for the next four to five years,

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and I think Evangelista is that guy
who is going to go out there

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and he's going to get his place
set after this season. Not to say

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that Thomasino won't do that as well, because again I know the past two

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coaching staffs have been really in love
with what Thomasino brings, and I do

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think talking about being a two way
player, I think Thomasino will improve on

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that because he is a little bit
better defensively than the metrics have given him

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credit for. But I think just
straight up on points, I would take

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Evangelista nice, all right, got
to see how that goes. We've got

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one more pick them for you here, and this is an old guy versus

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a rookie or a young guy,
and that's you so part and Gus Nyquist

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Parsonon had twenty five points in forty
five games, playing pretty low time on

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ice fourteen twenty and not too much
in terms of power play time on ice.

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Most of those assists, though,
it's an even number between a ones

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and a two, so that's always
good to see when you're assist heavy,

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so not bad. And then ni
Quist comes over from CBJ at the trade

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deadline, where he was a trade
deadline deal to Minnesota and then signs in

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Nashville. Last season, he had
a forty five point pace, playing nearly

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eighteen minutes of time on ice.
I don't know that he's going to play

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that much, and Nashville will see. But it does seem like Niquist has

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the time on ice advantage, so
that might give him the upper hand here.

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But who would you take between parsonon
and Niquist. With ni Quist,

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he's a guy that I'm still not
entirely sure why Nashville went out and got

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him. I think that right now
Nashville is in that place where they also

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just need warm bodies and as opposed
to going out and getting the best guy,

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I don't I think he Some Nashville
fans might be a little bit too

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harsh on the signing. I think
he will be fine. But this is

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also where I'm going to gush about
us Parson and I got all credit to

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one of the other Nashville writer as
a former writer with US at OTF,

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Eric Daney, who had called Usa
a Parson and out from the moment that

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he was drafted. And he's just
a He's an everything guy and it's so

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fun to watch him play, because
one game he's going to be out there

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and looking like he's trying to snipe
every shot he takes, and then after

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that he's making moves, driving from
the blue line all the way in shaking

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a guy or two. And he's
young, but he's a young guy that's

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got plenty more time to develop.
But I don't think i'd be more confident

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in any one of these picks so
far than saying that USA Parson and will

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outscore Gustav Quist and use A.
Parson is going to be another mainstay on

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this Nashville Predators team. I think
Tommy Novak has been producing well and I

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think he's hit where he's going to
be, what his skill level's going to

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be. But USA Parson, don't
be surprised if you see him up there

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playing with Forsberg or somebody like that, because he's got a lot of talent

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and I think his development is just
getting started. So I think he has

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a pretty easy pick for me.
I don't want to be snarky, but

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I've felt the last three times that
somebody's signed Gustav nice Quist, why did

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they sign him again? Sorry,
sorry mister and missus ni Quist about your

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son. I'm sorry, I'm picking
on him. I we'll move on Yakov

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training. He is a forward for
the Nashville Predators. He was very high

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in block shots and hits are bash
metric. He's sent spent a second straight

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year with consistent minutes for this team, played in a checking role, had

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twenty four points for the second straight
year, two hits, two shots per

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game. He's already twenty six,
having played the bulk of three seasons in

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the NHL. He even got some
power play time late in the year after

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the loss of a lot of players. In terms of goals about replacement thirteenth

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percentile, Yeah, not so much. He's good on the penal to kill.

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Let's give him that. We'll training
move into any kind of a larger

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role. I'm grasping here a little
bit, Brian, I know. But

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just because he gets all those hits, we love him. Is he a

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guy who expected just fade as the
young guys coming around him. I wouldn't

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say fade, but he's going again. I mentioned Colton Systems before. I

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think that's where you're going to see
him for as long as he's a Nashville

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Pretor, he's going to be a
third line guy. I love him.

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I remember him getting into fight I
think was the fight he got into with

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Oh Gosha cannot the who's the real
guy? Who? Just who retired?

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A real big dude? You just
played for Boston Chara and Chara. Yeah,

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yeah, gotten a real good fight
with him and staggered him, which

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was great. It made him a
fan favorite immediately. But yeah, twenty

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four points or I think that's what
he had you see here, Yeah,

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twenty four points, that's probably what
you're gonna expect. And I don't see

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him. You're gonna see him penalty
kill a lot. I think power play.

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I wouldn't expect to see him on
the power play. I think I

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think we were maybe one or two
injuries away from them asking me to play

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on the power play at the end
of last season, so I wouldn't reach

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too much into his time there.
But he's a guy I do like him.

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But he's a checking guy. I
think you'll get your points with blocks

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and hits and things like that,
but I wouldn't expect him to produce for

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you with points or goals anytime soon. That's just not the game that he

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plays. Sure, probably another guy
in the same boat Colton sisms, but

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you know what respect on coldcisms name
because aside from a certain stud defenseman that

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we'll be talking about in just a
bit, I believe Sistens is the longest

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tenured Predator entering his tenth season with
this pro squad. Plays a depth centerman

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role. Even strength defense looks like
his most positive attribute according to some of

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the metric sign reading the statute showed
thirty points two hits a game last year.

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Pretty nice? Is that pretty much
which we should expect again from Sistens.

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Yeah, Ciszens is what system you
look at him, most people can

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get a kind of a read on
him and what he plays, and that's

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exactly what he's done pretty much every
year. He's going to hover between eighteen

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thirty thirty points a season. He's
going to make the most of his impact

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defensively on the penalty kill. Excellent
penalty killer. But again, he's the

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same type of guy. He's not
going to score a ton. I think

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what his twelve goals last season with
the second highest in his career. You

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can't really I wouldn't expect him to
do too much. But then again,

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last season was he tied his career
high in points. With the way that

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the team is built right now,
you'd sit there and say that this is

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a guy's a third liner. He's
thirty points is probably his ceiling. But

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give in the holes, in the
depth and the youth on this team now

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might as we might very well see
him in a second line role in producing

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a little bit more. But I
wouldn't feel confident in saying that, yeah,

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exactly what he's gonna do. I
think you know what Colton A Systems

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is. He's been this guy for
ten years now. That's the former first

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line center in the Stanley Cup finals, Colton as systems, which I still

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think is hilarious. But he's a
guy that is valuable. He's coaches love

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him. I think any coach that
would coach a guy like him love him.

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He's going to do everything for you. He has taken on a revolving

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door of young line mates for the
last six six seven years and he's a

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great guy, a great player.
But you're not gonna He's not gonna produce

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a whole bunch in there. I
think if you're going especially if you're looking

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at blocks and hits and things like
that, I think a guy like Trenton

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might be able to give you a
little bit more there, but he's a

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deep round kind of pickup if that's
what you're looking for. Yeah, definitely

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a better IRL guy than a Fantasy
that's right. Great job on the forwards.

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We're gonna shift over to the defense, and I wonder who we're gonna

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talk about. Oh, that's right, it's Roman, yo. See what

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a stud of a down year maybe
for him, but I'm still incredible only

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play at sixty seven games, still
managed to be the fifth best Fantasy rank

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defenseman at his position, first if
you adjust for eighty two game pace.

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If people are wondering, ek sixty
five ranked out third in the metrics that

405
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we were looking at, so that's
interesting. Though his seventy point pace a

406
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,480
bit of a regression from ninety eight
last season, which I think we could

407
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:30,119
all agree that everything went well and
perfectly for him last year. Eighteen goals,

408
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,400
forty one assists for YOC, fifty
one hits, one hundred and forty

409
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,000
six blocks. Definitely more of a
blocker than a hitter, but the two

410
00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:41,039
hundred and sixty nine shots is pretty
fantastic. Twenty four power play points.

411
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,319
He makes his money there sixth and
Bash. I think people might be a

412
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,680
little surprised to hear that, but
yoc is really good for block shots and

413
00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:51,680
hits. Yeah, he's again not
the biggest hitter, but between the shots

414
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,279
and the blocks, it's really good. And five million, and I think

415
00:25:55,279 --> 00:25:59,480
more players should do this, Brian, nine point oh five nine million.

416
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,079
You gotta get the number in there, right, your rising number? Why

417
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:07,359
not? Who cares at that point
when you're talking pennies for NHL teams exactly?

418
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,640
But yeah, you'll see interesting.
His metrics last year rated out a

419
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,640
little bit subpar defensively, but he's
pretty close to average, probably negligible,

420
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,000
especially since his offensive contributions are so
high. Again, what are we talking

421
00:26:19,039 --> 00:26:22,079
about next year? Here are we
talking seventy plus point? Roman? Yo?

422
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,000
See with amazing Bash? What do
you think, Brian? Yeah,

423
00:26:26,079 --> 00:26:29,680
he's a guy just even I mean, his contributions on the power play are

424
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,759
just outrageous. He is a guy
that again is taking a ton of shots.

425
00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:36,720
And if you look, and especially
if you're looking to find that centerpiece

426
00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:40,400
defenseman for your team, especially if
like you're in something like a keeper league

427
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,519
or something, this is a guy
that you grab immediately. You don't hesitate,

428
00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:45,640
even if I wasn't a Nashville fan
or are covering the Predators. He's

429
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,920
a guy that you rush and you
make do whatever you can do. I

430
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,799
said it when he signed the deal. I was like, he's probably being

431
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,240
underpaid at nine point almost nine point
one million dollars, probably by a couple

432
00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:57,759
million. I think he's that important, and I think that he is the

433
00:26:57,839 --> 00:27:00,759
type of player that just say,
like, we've just we're one piece away

434
00:27:00,759 --> 00:27:04,400
from contending. Roman Yosi is nine
nine percent of the time going to be

435
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,279
that one piece for you. A
guy that plays like that. He I

436
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,160
worry a little bit about his health
history, just for the fact that and

437
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,720
they've not publicizes it a lot.
A lot of the times he's gone out

438
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:17,559
as injured had looked like concussions,
and I think an unofficial count that I

439
00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:19,720
saw seems like over the course of
his career like seven or eight. So

440
00:27:19,759 --> 00:27:23,400
that's always something to worry about.
I'm not that worried about it, just

441
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,160
for the fact that he's a hard
working guy. He is the captain,

442
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,240
He's going to be here probably until
he retires, and he's probably going seventy

443
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,799
points. Seems if I said,
like a seventy point season. I think

444
00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:36,720
people would be very disappointed. I
think he'd be disappointed in me for saying

445
00:27:36,759 --> 00:27:38,960
that, because I think that's something
he can do in his sleep. I

446
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,599
don't see him regressing at all.
He's gotten better. I didn't know that

447
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,519
guys that skate like him could be
get better over a year or two.

448
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:49,319
That's skating. But I think one
of the Chris Mason, former goaltender for

449
00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:52,279
the Preads and a bunch of other
teams, he calls him Nightcrawler because it

450
00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:56,519
seems like Roman Yosi will be on
one end of the ice poof disappear and

451
00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:00,279
he's in the offensive zone just that
quick. And one of the things I

452
00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:02,640
like, and I've told him this
kind of in the locker room after game

453
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,160
before a media session. I was
like, and I was like, you're

454
00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:07,599
whatever percentage shooter when you shoot from
your normal areas, but when he drives

455
00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:11,079
in and gets within like between the
circles, I mean, he's got an

456
00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:15,039
outrageous, like twenty plus percent shooting
percentage. Because he's a guy that if

457
00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:18,279
you're one of those people who's an
advocate of positionless hockey, Roman yo c

458
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:19,880
I'd put him it forward if you'd
let me. He's just that good.

459
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,039
And he's a guy that I didn't
even realize you talked about him being sixth

460
00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:26,519
and bash. I wouldn't have guessed
that at all. And I look at

461
00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:29,720
his stats and stuff all the time. He's Roman yo C. I can't

462
00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:32,480
gush enough about him because he's earned
it all. He's an excellent player,

463
00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:34,799
i'd say personally, and I'll probably
get people come back and mute this,

464
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,039
but I think he is maybe a
top ten if not maybe top five,

465
00:28:38,119 --> 00:28:42,559
like just player overall and in professional
hockey because of just everything that he can

466
00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:45,720
do, how smart he is on
the ice he has played. He's been

467
00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:51,400
paired with guys running from Mattia Sack
home some years, Ryan Ellis before that,

468
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:55,200
but then other younger guys like he
managed to help Dante Fabro come along

469
00:28:55,799 --> 00:28:59,839
quite a way as too. And
so yeah, he's just if he's available,

470
00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:02,559
it doesn't matter if you've got another
big, great defenseman, I'd take

471
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:07,160
him every single time. Don't have
any problem gussion about Roman Yos. This

472
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:12,359
is a Yos friendly zone. On
this podcast, Tyson Barry, the defenseman

473
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:17,680
who came back in the trade with
Edmonton that sent Mattia sat home north of

474
00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:22,640
the border and netted Nashville the pick
that turned into Tayner Mullendik in the draft.

475
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,319
Barry's entering his thirteenth NHL year.
He had fifty five points last year

476
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,559
in a league high eighty five games. That's what happens when you're traded and

477
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,599
no play the same schedule on the
same nights. He led the NHL as

478
00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:38,839
a pread he played twenty one twenty
four and night twelve points in twenty four

479
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:44,519
games, was dead last of the
team on goals above replacement. Actually this

480
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:48,640
was because of how rough things were
at five on five on defense after he

481
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,359
came, and he fit in very
well after Yose's lost as a power play

482
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,200
specialist because they needed one then.
But that's not exactly what he's going to

483
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,519
be able to do. He's certainly
not going to quarterback a team with Roman

484
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,759
Yosi on the power of play.
So what are they going to do with

485
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,599
him in the final year of his
deal? Is this a guy who they're

486
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,559
trying to flip it or are they
going to find a role that fits well

487
00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:12,720
with his game? What's the deal
with Barry? I would have said the

488
00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:17,279
moment that they traded for him.
I was absolutely certain that they were going

489
00:30:17,319 --> 00:30:19,559
to be flipping him again, whether
it would be shortly after they traded or

490
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,920
in this offseason and preparation for the
draft. But like you said, he

491
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,119
came in and fit in. Now
again, looking at the landscape of what

492
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,880
the team looked like in the second
the last like quarter of the season,

493
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,599
fitting in wouldn't be entirely difficult.
But he's a guy that is a He's

494
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,759
good. He was parely decent on
the power play, and I know a

495
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:40,200
lot of his power play numbers and
his metrics are influenced from coming to that

496
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:45,119
from that Edmonton power play. But
I think he'll be a pretty important piece.

497
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,759
But I don't see him being on
the team by the end of the

498
00:30:47,799 --> 00:30:51,240
season. And I still don't think
that's really anything against what he brings.

499
00:30:51,319 --> 00:30:55,839
It's just a that's not a thirteen
year veteran, is not what Andrew Burnett

500
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,720
probably was hoping to build around.
Unless it's a guy like a Roman yos

501
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:03,400
or or Mattias at Calm, somebody
like that. I don't see him creating

502
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,759
a ton of points or preventing them, to be honest, but he is

503
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,920
He's a band aid, I think, and I think he's very good at

504
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,119
that for what Nashville will need out
of him next season. I like his

505
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,559
game a lot more than I thought
I would after looking at Edmonton film and

506
00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:19,079
things like that. But it's gonna
be rough. I think defensively is gonna

507
00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:22,720
be a really rough season next year, and that's gonna be reflected on a

508
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,519
lot of these guys. I think
Romanosi's numbers will probably take a little bit

509
00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:30,039
of a hit defensively in that same
vein. So yeah, I like Tyson

510
00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:33,200
Barry a lot. I think it's
hilarious that guys in the locker room call

511
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:36,599
him mom or mother. I still
can't remember exactly why that is, but

512
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,319
it's what a nickname. It's not
something that ends in why. But apparently

513
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:42,200
somebody in the locker room just called
him that once and it stuck and he's

514
00:31:42,279 --> 00:31:45,240
yeah, I like it, Okay, it's whatever they want to call me.

515
00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:48,039
Nice, super nice guy. But
I just don't see him being a

516
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,240
guy that was going to produce for
anybody fantasy wise, unless it's just you've

517
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,880
got a bunch of guys that aren't
playing, so you need to rotate him

518
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,960
in. I wouldn't count too much
on that. Wow, that's actually Victor

519
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:01,880
his nickname on the podcast because he's
always keeping me in line. I just

520
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,079
call him Mom. Yeah, so
it goes all right. Ryan mcdonnaugh,

521
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,799
that was a random shot. Ryan
mcdonnaugh is the next defenseman to talk about

522
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:14,200
this first year in Nashville. Saw
consistent minutes with the time he had in

523
00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:17,440
Tampa Bay. Twenty points in the
seventy one games. He played a shot,

524
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,559
two blocks in a hit per game, didn't really have much luck with

525
00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:24,000
scoring even when he was with Roman
Yo C. Should we expect mcdonnah to

526
00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:28,359
pair again with yos this year and
log a bunch of minutes and mentor some

527
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,440
young guys or you think that mcdonnah
will have a different role with this changing

528
00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:36,720
team. Yeah, so I think
he will be a type of guy that.

529
00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:37,839
Yeah, we did see him a
lot with Yo C. I think

530
00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:42,039
he does make a lot more sense
as a second pair guy. I think

531
00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:45,680
when playing with guys like Alex Carry
a who Ox Kerry I can't say enough

532
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,119
about. I think that's where you're
gonna see Dante Fabreau Alex Carry as your

533
00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:52,240
other two defenseman. I think you're
gonna have mcdonnah as a second pair,

534
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:54,880
you're gonna have YOC on the first
and I think based on the way that

535
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,559
they play, I think we'll see
a little bit more of Yo C and

536
00:32:58,599 --> 00:33:01,680
FABROA and then mcdonnah area because I
think they compliment each other's games pretty well.

537
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:06,680
But as far as points go,
you know, mcdun is not producing

538
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,799
a ton of shots either. Seventy
eight I think in seventy one games not

539
00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:13,480
gonna really produce a whole lot there
for you. He's I think he had

540
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:16,960
over like a hundred misses and block
shots based on think his course, he

541
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,759
was like one seventy eight and hit
seventy eight shots. He's not hitting the

542
00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:23,920
net are coming close too often,
and his assists numbers aren't suggesting that he's

543
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,119
people are cleaning up a lot of
his shots. But he's just a he's

544
00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:30,400
a steadfast guy. I think a
lot of you know what I Alaly said

545
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,319
about Tyson Barry. I think that
mcdonnough was a player that any other year

546
00:33:35,319 --> 00:33:37,000
for Nashville, he would be a
guy that is there to kill a spot

547
00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:40,440
until they can flip him. But
he's going to be a mainstay. He's

548
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,200
probably gonna be a very important part
of the team. I just don't see

549
00:33:44,279 --> 00:33:47,799
him producing much offensively. I don't
think that there's really anybody on the defense

550
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:53,680
except for Roman Yosi that's going to
produce a whole lot points wise. Yep.

551
00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:58,599
And with that note, we will
move on to the goalies, because

552
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,200
that's what time it is. And
the Predators had the fifth rank expected goals

553
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:07,000
against for sixty pretty decent but ranked
twenty first and actual goals you look at

554
00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:13,519
the underlying numbers, they were really
good. Sarrows was awesome AVESNA caliber season

555
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:17,320
fourth and votes and thirty three twenty
three and seven. In terms of what

556
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,880
he had to deal with, I
think it was pretty incredible and might have

557
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,679
deserved a little more consideration. He
had forty five and a half goals save

558
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,719
above inspected. These numbers are absurd. One point five to five delta Fenwick

559
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,800
is one of the highest numbers you'll
ever seen. That means in terms of

560
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:38,400
his save percentage, he outperformed in
terms of what was expected and what he

561
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:43,480
actually did, so Sarrows was amazing. He has two years left at five

562
00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:47,559
million, which is incredible value for
where the Preds are, and it almost

563
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:54,519
makes me wonder that maybe they move
him because he's so good and the Preds

564
00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:58,880
aren't in that competitive window. I
think he could. He would fetch an

565
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,679
outrageous return. In fact, that
the draft they were talking about trying to

566
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:06,960
land the Meetschkoff pick, and they
were talking about it sounded like they were

567
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,599
considering Sorrows or a scaroff. Seems
I guess if you're landing a forward like

568
00:35:12,679 --> 00:35:15,280
that, it seems pretty good.
But anyways, what do you think about

569
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,599
our short king goalie? Is Are
you going to continue to be amazing?

570
00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:22,119
Do you think they consider trading him? What's going on there? From a

571
00:35:22,159 --> 00:35:28,199
business standpoint, there is an obvious
upside to trading UC Sorrows. I don't

572
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,239
like it. That's a personal and
kind of a professional opinion, just for

573
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:35,639
the fact that he has he spent
a ton of time in the backup role

574
00:35:35,639 --> 00:35:39,280
to Peccorina, and he spent a
ton of time developing. He plays a

575
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,760
very He's just very different from Peccorina
in almost every way. Rene was this

576
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,880
big guy. Sorrows is maybe the
most complete, like complete, technically sound

577
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,239
goalie in the NHL, And you
are right that he deserved a lot more

578
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,599
Vesnic consideration. I wouldn't have voted
him first, but he was second for

579
00:35:55,719 --> 00:36:00,519
me behind Elias Sorkin who was also
robbed. And he he's a guy that's

580
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:02,039
going to get better. I think
his biggest flow in his game about two

581
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:07,079
or three seasons ago was he really
struggled in rebound control, and now I

582
00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:09,719
believe he's one of the top three
goaltenders as far as rebound control goes.

583
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,000
He found that one spot of his
game that was really lacking and just said,

584
00:36:14,039 --> 00:36:15,639
all right, let's fix that and
what's next. What else you guys

585
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:22,119
got. He had that incredible game
against Carolina last season with seventy shots and

586
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:24,159
he saved sixty seven of them.
Just he was like, what third all

587
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:29,519
time in history, And it's just
he's an incredible player who has didn't seem

588
00:36:29,519 --> 00:36:32,519
to slow down or slump at any
point last season, and any other team

589
00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:35,960
in front of him, he would
have. He almost got them to the

590
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,599
playoffs just off his effort alone,
and Nashville did wasn't eliminated from the playoffs

591
00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:43,320
until the last week of the season, surprisingly, and it all had to

592
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,440
do almost one hundred percent with us
sorrows. And you talk about the skill

593
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:52,000
of a guy coming up behind him
like Yiaroslavaskarov, who is a generational talent

594
00:36:52,039 --> 00:36:54,039
for goaltenders, and he's great,
and he's maybe one of my favorite Milwaukee

595
00:36:54,039 --> 00:37:00,360
admirals currently. He's just an incredible
dude. But you can look at Chel

596
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,039
and then okay, here's this guy
who has played like a Vesna caliber goalie

597
00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:07,599
for the last two and a half
three seasons and doesn't look like he's slowing

598
00:37:07,639 --> 00:37:09,719
down. In fact, he feels
like he's getting better. I'm taking the

599
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,960
guaranteed I've got the next four year, two or three years of him being

600
00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:16,000
that good, and he's still going
to be it. He regresses a little

601
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,760
bit, he's still a guy that
you want in net if you're trying to

602
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,440
make a run at the Stanley Cup
finals. I wouldn't do it just because

603
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,519
Pecorina had been here for a very
long time. He put in time through

604
00:37:24,559 --> 00:37:28,760
some of the bad years here in
Nashville and came out on the other side

605
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,119
pretty well. And I think that's
what you do with a guy like Ucy

606
00:37:30,159 --> 00:37:34,519
Sarrows at five million dollars was a
deal back when he signed it, and

607
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,119
you don't want to rush a guy
like a scar Off. He is a

608
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:39,599
guy a scar off, that natural
ability, but he has a lot of

609
00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:43,840
things that he's got to work on
as far as just learning what to do,

610
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,920
what not to do, what chances
you want to take a scar off

611
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,559
is. He's just a wonderful dude
to watch, but he will give me

612
00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:53,639
heart palpitations when he gets to the
NHL because there's so many times you watch

613
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,079
and he's like, what is he
doing? And he manages to come out

614
00:37:57,079 --> 00:37:59,960
on the other side okay with it. But that was partial the reason why

615
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:02,679
we saw him get benched for Devin
Cooley for Milwaukee during the playoffs in the

616
00:38:02,679 --> 00:38:07,719
Caller Cup playoffs last season. So
if it was me, you make him

617
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,639
us sorrows, you make Romanos,
you make Philip Borsburg. Those are your

618
00:38:09,639 --> 00:38:13,639
centerpieces, and those are guys that
will be there that will continue to produce,

619
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,599
and we'll be ready and available to
you when this team is ready to

620
00:38:15,639 --> 00:38:20,719
start contending. And like Ryan O'Reilly
said, this team could I don't know

621
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,760
if I believe it, but this
team could be back and competitive within a

622
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,880
couple of years. And you don't
want to go in with a goalie tandem

623
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,800
of somebody and a scaroff. You
want that guy that veteran, because there's

624
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,559
I don't see any if you know, any reason for sorrows to want to

625
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,719
leave leave Nashville. And so I
think that sticking with him at a key,

626
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,639
he'll probably be consistent for a long
time, and so I would keep

627
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,920
him on there. And I still
think next season you're going to see his

628
00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:46,920
name. He should be at the
NHL Awards as if as the finals again

629
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:52,519
next year and probably the year after
that. Yeah, and it's really interesting.

630
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:58,280
The listeners are going to hear from
our prospect goalie expert in a little

631
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,000
bit in the next part of the
show Cats Silverman, and she talks a

632
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,480
lot about a scar off and similarly, just it's an adventure every shift and

633
00:39:06,519 --> 00:39:09,960
he's going out and poke checking people
like twenty feet outside the crease and just

634
00:39:10,039 --> 00:39:14,280
all kinds of crazy antics. But
he believes in himself. He's a very

635
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,480
confident dude, and maybe he doesn't
have some of the inside in terms of

636
00:39:17,519 --> 00:39:22,079
like when he shouldn't do some of
those things though, but he's got all

637
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:23,719
the skill and talent in the world. So I do want to say,

638
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,320
if listeners are sitting here trying to
consider things about a scar off and you're

639
00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:30,480
trying to decide between what my opinion
was and what Cat's opinion was. You

640
00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:35,719
listen to Cat Silverman every single time. Just ignore me because I've watched him

641
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,159
quite a bit, but an expert. But I'm glad that they agree just

642
00:39:38,199 --> 00:39:40,800
for the fact that, yeah,
I mean we watched him get into a

643
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:45,639
goalie fight. He begged, practically
begged the other goaltender in that AHL game

644
00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:47,280
to get into the fight since everybody
else was, and it's it's cool,

645
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,159
it's great to see those types of
players. He's not a distraction. His

646
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,239
teammates absolutely adore him. It's just
gonna take some time. And you don't

647
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,519
want to rush a guy like this, because a guy with that type of

648
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:01,239
talent but still has kne that time
to develop. Rushing him is how you

649
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,599
ruin a player like that. How
you put them in before they're ready.

650
00:40:05,639 --> 00:40:07,760
You put the entire team on their
back and say, hey, you're our

651
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,559
first goaltender now without good defense.
You don't want to end up in a

652
00:40:10,599 --> 00:40:16,400
situation where we asked, what if
they spent that pick on him, passing

653
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,440
on some other guys that I think
Nashville really could have used at forward and

654
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,000
things like that. You don't want
to rush him. And I think that's

655
00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:25,760
another argument against trading UC Sorrows is
give it time. UC Sorrows had a

656
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,920
lot of time, probably more time
than maybe he would have liked. But

657
00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:31,480
now look at what whether that's come
out, and if there's one thing,

658
00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:36,440
coaching or otherwise, the development that
Nashville does not mess around with, it's

659
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,079
goaltending. And so again I love
Yarrow a lot. He's an excellent player,

660
00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:43,480
but you don't want to rush a
guy like him. He's going to

661
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,320
give you a heart attack a lot
of the time. But he does have

662
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,679
the makings of being a truly elite
goaltender, just probably not for another three

663
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,639
or four years at the very minimum. Yeah, No, no rushing the

664
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,400
Russian. Just chill everyone, all
right. So the other guy we got

665
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,280
to talking about Kevin Lincoln and had
a bit of a bounceback season. I

666
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,679
would say nine and eight record to
seven five GAA, nine to sixteen seven

667
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,519
save percentage, also saved over eight
goals above expected. His delta Fenwick was

668
00:41:08,559 --> 00:41:14,039
one point o two pretty pretty incredible
numbers actually, and one year left a

669
00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:17,840
two million. I was listening to
Kevin Woodley on the pdocast and he was

670
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,679
talking about how Lankolin basically rehab his
game and fixed a lot of the issues

671
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:28,199
that he had and that he really
expects. I think DIM asked him something

672
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,719
about do you believe like this bounce
back season. He was like, yeah,

673
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,960
but he really did the work.
He looks great. That's pretty good

674
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,599
a vote of confidence there. His
underlying numbers all look good, including on

675
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:40,840
the power play, which sometimes that
can swing wildly in either direction. But

676
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,159
that was good to see that come
back. So what do you think we

677
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,199
can expect from Lincoln this year?
Is you're gonna get a few more starts

678
00:41:47,199 --> 00:41:50,760
similar role? What do you think
I think? I think he had what

679
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,039
nineteen starts last season, nineteen twenty. I think that's probably exactly where he

680
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:57,320
needs to be. I worried a
little bit that they were going to ride

681
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,280
sorrows into the ground a little maybe
you might want to see twenty five.

682
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,400
But I was really impressed. And
I joked before last Sea, before last

683
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,519
season that one I didn't wasn't quite
sure why they'd signed him, but I

684
00:42:07,519 --> 00:42:09,960
imagined that when they approached Lankolnin about
it, and he was just like I

685
00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:13,639
played, I was the team I
was playing with the year before, I

686
00:42:13,639 --> 00:42:15,639
can be able to deal with anything
now, and he did. And I

687
00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:20,440
think that again to credit to the
goaltending coaching. I think that he looked

688
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,400
so much better as far as his
lateral movement from the beginning of the season

689
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,719
to the end of the season.
Last year, I was a big advocate

690
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:30,360
for Connor Ingraham, who they eventually
let go to go over to Arizona,

691
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,480
and he's just that's been a journey
for him, that player. But I

692
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,599
Lancolin was a surprise. He was
one of those players that I had said

693
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,639
a few weeks ago that was like, yeah, I'm going to mit that

694
00:42:38,639 --> 00:42:42,519
I was one hundred percent wrong about
this guy, and I don't. I

695
00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:45,760
think that a good year, a
strong year in Nashville playing behind was probably

696
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:49,400
going to be a subpart defense again, should put him on the radar for

697
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,960
teams that are looking for a guy
to be a one B type goaltender for

698
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,239
them. And I liked what I've
seen. He's just he improved about the

699
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,440
season. I liked his ability on
the penalty kill. I think he did

700
00:42:59,519 --> 00:43:04,719
extremely well. C Sarrows was buying
far away the best penalty killing goaltender in

701
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,320
the league last year by a lot
of metrics, and so I think that

702
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,119
playing with a guy like UC Sorrows, you get that mentorship a little bit

703
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:16,000
at Greene's I think officially or unofficially
just an offensive advisor or a goaltending advisor,

704
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:20,320
coach something like that, And so
that's going to be good for him,

705
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,800
and I think that he this year
will be probably he's going to take

706
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,440
that role an important role for Nashville. They may split games more his direction,

707
00:43:25,559 --> 00:43:29,400
but I think for him personally,
it's probably going to be an important

708
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,079
year for him to tell other teams
that this last year wasn't a fluke.

709
00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:36,639
He's turned his game around, and
he's going to be probably performing really well

710
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,760
next season. So I would expect
probably about the same as what we saw

711
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:45,960
from him last season. Premendous Brian, you always bring the heat. Appreciated

712
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,800
having you back again to talk about
these Nashville Predators. Why don't you let

713
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,239
everybody know where they could find your
work and keep up with everything? Brian

714
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,639
Baston, Yeah, I appreciate.
I always love coming on here and the

715
00:43:55,639 --> 00:43:59,199
prep and the stuff that you guys
send me. I always really appreciate that

716
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:00,719
I've got my note here, which
I usually don't take a ton of notes,

717
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,039
but I did for you guys because
it was important stuff. And but

718
00:44:04,079 --> 00:44:07,079
you can find me at on the
four check obviously, that's who are doing

719
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:09,800
the majority of my work. I
also do a game day videos with a

720
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:14,360
group of running gads of Puck where
we several of us, will do videos

721
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,440
probably thirty to forty minutes after every
single game. Most of the time I'm

722
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:21,679
recording from bridgetone after the game and
hoping that they don't bring out the Zambonis

723
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,320
with their loud beeps while I'm trying
to record. But that's a fun thing

724
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,719
that we've done. It's I asked
Charlie Sonier, who's been doing this for

725
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,199
years and years, who's the host
of it, and he says that I've

726
00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:34,280
been like I'm approaching like my three
hundredth episode, which is crazy to me

727
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,559
to think that I've done anything three
hundred times, let alone anybody wanting me

728
00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:39,119
to be on video that many times. But you can find me there.

729
00:44:39,119 --> 00:44:43,199
We're gonna take a little bit of
a hiatus because it's the finally the duldrums

730
00:44:43,199 --> 00:44:45,559
of the off season, but as
well, you should be able to see

731
00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:49,159
me on Twitter, which as long
as that website still continues to exist,

732
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,760
I'll be there at Brian Baston and
lots of other places. Hopefully we've got

733
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,400
I've got a couple other things in
the pipeline. The draft and the awards

734
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,559
were I debuted the fact that I'm
a multi tool. Now I think for

735
00:44:59,559 --> 00:45:01,400
the site doing some photography works,
you might be able to see some of

736
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,880
that in the future. We'll see
how far that goes. But yeah,

737
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,800
I'm sure that if you're looking,
if you're looking up anything or trying to

738
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,840
find anything out about Nashville Predators,
whether you want to or not, you're

739
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:15,320
going to end up seeing my name
there somewhere. All right, thanks a

740
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:23,519
lot for coming on, Brian.
I appreciate it. Thank you, Wilson.

741
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:29,400
Then that's good. Fire passed off. Oh my goodness, go with

742
00:45:29,519 --> 00:45:37,360
a cat quick grab. Now it's
your weekly goalie talk with Cats Silberman Cats

743
00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:44,239
Instincts. Time to talk Nashville a
Predator goalies. Time to get your instincts,

744
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,559
cat and we're gonna start. Of
course, we have to start with

745
00:45:46,639 --> 00:45:51,519
yarslav A scar Off, one of
the best prospect goalies. I have to

746
00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:53,960
say I was in the draft for
Nashville. I was in Nashville for the

747
00:45:54,039 --> 00:45:59,119
draft, and I was a bit
surprised to hear that they were willing to

748
00:45:59,159 --> 00:46:04,079
include a scar off a deal to
land Matvey Mitchkoff, which he's a great

749
00:46:04,079 --> 00:46:07,639
talent, and I think that you
could say that it's maybe worth it,

750
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,840
but a scaroff seems pretty great.
The twenty twenty eleventh overall pick just finished

751
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:15,320
his first full season the HL for
the Milwaukee Admirals and had two point six

752
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:22,639
nine gain eleven say percentage and at
twenty six sixteen and five record. And

753
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:28,159
when if people aren't used to looking
at the equivalency charts on hockey prospecting,

754
00:46:28,199 --> 00:46:30,679
they probably feel like some of these
numbers are a little low, but he

755
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:37,039
had He hasn't had lower than a
fifty nine percent equivalency his entire career.

756
00:46:37,119 --> 00:46:39,079
He's gone up to eighty nine,
and right now he sits at seventy two.

757
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:45,440
That's way higher than just about any
goalie. So you're talking about pretty

758
00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:47,679
much he would be. It would
be such an outlier if he didn't become

759
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,400
at least an average NHL starter.
Has a ton of comps of guys that

760
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:57,199
were star starters, and if people
are wondering how he compares to their current

761
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:01,760
starter. Ascaroff was quite a bit
better like nearly double, if not triple,

762
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:07,639
the equivalency of ut Sorrows in every
season in his development. So that's

763
00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:09,679
some pretty high praise. What do
your instincts tell us about a scar Off?

764
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:14,800
Do you think he's NHL ready and
how high do you think his upside

765
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,000
is. I think he thinks he's
NHL ready, which is both a blessing

766
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,360
and a curse. I love him. I think he's great. It was

767
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,000
fun watching because we had that one
two punch right of Spencer Knight and Askarov

768
00:47:27,079 --> 00:47:35,159
who it was that which one is
better? Sort of battle there and ask

769
00:47:35,599 --> 00:47:42,639
is Spencer Knight was a goaltender who
was so structured and so just regimented and

770
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:47,320
how he plays and really sneaky fun
when handling the puck. But other than

771
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:51,920
that, very by the book when
it came to his technique and his flow

772
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,199
and just his depth management, and
a Scarve is the complete opposite he.

773
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:04,360
I don't think anyone is Dominicashek,
but he has been drawing comparisons to Hashek

774
00:48:04,599 --> 00:48:10,159
during his view appearances at the NHL
level and at the HL level, just

775
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:16,239
because he's wild I don't know if
you got to see when he won a

776
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:22,280
game and did the bench press with
the net after winning, where he flipped

777
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,559
it upside down and instead of hiding
himself in it, he decided to bench

778
00:48:24,599 --> 00:48:30,599
press it to celebrate. He's just
he's super confident in his game. He's

779
00:48:30,599 --> 00:48:36,960
super confident in his decision making.
He has a really wide arsenal of tools

780
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,360
in his toolkit. He can play
a structured game when he needs to.

781
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,280
And I remember his draft year.
I think it was during one of the

782
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:49,960
international tournaments. It may have been
the ivan Planka tournament. He looked much

783
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,639
more controlled than in most of the
games that I watched him play in Russia,

784
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:58,320
where I thought he looked a little
more like a Elia Samsonov, but

785
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,320
just one of those guys who plays
with a really wide, low stance,

786
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:06,480
loves to come out and challenge the
pocklumps to skate around the outside perimeter of

787
00:49:06,519 --> 00:49:08,559
his crease just to have fun with
it. And then when he played on

788
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:13,760
a slightly smaller ice surface, he
really calmed it down and pulled his game

789
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:21,440
back in from a depth perspective,
and that was really fun to watch because

790
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:27,760
he has so much that he can
do with his game to adapt to both

791
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,159
his opponents and the team that he's
playing for in the ice surface he's playing

792
00:49:30,199 --> 00:49:36,800
on. Really, the only thing
that I worry about with him is that

793
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:43,199
he'll get almost a little too confident
in certain areas. He does still have

794
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,280
a little bit of a learning curve
to go. He's still young enough that

795
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:52,639
he needs some work on his decision
making, and I get a little worried

796
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:55,559
that he's going to hurt himself.
There were a couple shootout moves that he

797
00:49:57,159 --> 00:50:01,280
performed that I was a little had
a little too antsy watching. He had

798
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:08,320
a diving poke check against the Toronto
Marley's where the shooter was coming in fast

799
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:13,280
and quick and trying to throw him
off his game so that he didn't have

800
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,599
time to get set and be patient, and so instead of trying to guess

801
00:50:16,599 --> 00:50:20,039
where the shooter was going to go, he just came all the way out

802
00:50:20,039 --> 00:50:22,360
of his crease and did a diving
poke check like the Johnny Bauer poke check

803
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:27,159
style, and just knocked the puck
right out of the shooters right off the

804
00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:30,920
blade of his stick and ended up
tripping him up. And that's the kind

805
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,199
of thing that I watch and think
Wow, this guy's electrifying to watch.

806
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,159
Fans are going to have so much
fun with this. He's going to be

807
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,880
like a Mike Smith type character on
the ice. But if he's too much

808
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:44,320
of that, he's going to concuss
himself and we're gonna lose out on watching

809
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:49,079
him for what could be the majority
of his career because he'll hurt himself.

810
00:50:49,199 --> 00:50:54,039
So that's really my only concern with
watching his game. I think he's brought

811
00:50:54,559 --> 00:51:00,159
at this point from a skill level. I think he believes he reads the

812
00:51:00,199 --> 00:51:02,360
game well enough to play at the
NHL, so might as well have him

813
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,960
up there see how he does.
I don't think he's ready to take over

814
00:51:06,039 --> 00:51:09,480
ninety percent of the starts, but
he could prove us wrong. He's got

815
00:51:09,599 --> 00:51:16,239
the attitude to prove us wrong there. So that's Nashville has a wealth of

816
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:21,760
talent right there between him and UC
Sorrows, who is also just incredibly fun

817
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:27,000
to watch. That's I find it
unfair when teams it's like what the New

818
00:51:27,039 --> 00:51:30,719
York Rangers did. They shifted from
lung twist right into having Durkin, and

819
00:51:31,119 --> 00:51:35,239
we have the same thing going on
in Nashville. We're shifting from Pekerina to

820
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,760
UC Sorrows and a Scarov, so
I need to know their secret. Some

821
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:44,760
teams have all the goalies and some
teams have no goalies, so it's just

822
00:51:45,079 --> 00:51:50,719
the circle of goalies, I think
absolutely. So that's interesting and a little

823
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,639
bit worrisome in terms of like fantasy
asset management. If he's going to potentially

824
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:58,199
hurt himself, that's that's something to
keep in mind, and how aggressive he

825
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,719
is. But I love the entertain
and value. That's going to be fun

826
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:05,280
to watch. And we do have
one more Nashville guy to talk about,

827
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,400
even though, as we've talked about
in other instances, some people think there's

828
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:12,400
no one else worth talking about because
no one's else going to get a chance,

829
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:16,360
But you never know it's possible.
And this is Ethan Hayter h a

830
00:52:16,559 --> 00:52:21,119
I d R. He's six foot
four, twenty nineteen fifth round pick.

831
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,320
It'll be twenty one this season.
He was at Clarkson the last three seasons,

832
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:30,119
but he's transferring to Connecticut and for
his senior year, and he looked

833
00:52:30,159 --> 00:52:34,039
decent at Clarkson. He was a
little bit better in his first season,

834
00:52:34,159 --> 00:52:37,159
playing less, but as he played
more, his safe percentage went down a

835
00:52:37,199 --> 00:52:42,079
little bit. He's got some pretty
decent equivalences. He's in the twenty seven

836
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,920
twenty seven percent chance of being a
starter range, so most of these are

837
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:50,960
average NHL ers NHL starters. So
what do you think about what your instincts

838
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,280
tell us about Haitier. He's been
a lot of fun to watch. He's

839
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:59,599
a guy who when he was playing
in college, I liked watching his highlight

840
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:05,599
reels because every year it seems like
he picked one aspect of his game and

841
00:53:05,639 --> 00:53:07,920
he said, I'm going to focus
on improving this. Some of those little

842
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:15,000
inconsistencies with his technique, mostly from
a decision making standpoint, from a speed

843
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:17,320
standpoint, especially in the NC double
A, you'll see some of those guys

844
00:53:19,079 --> 00:53:23,000
fall behind when it comes to their
decision making against bigger and stronger and sometimes

845
00:53:23,039 --> 00:53:27,280
substantially older opponents. They can have
guys that are as much as five or

846
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,280
six years older than them playing against
them. He took little aspects of his

847
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:36,400
game, his tracking, his depth
management, and then his decision making speed,

848
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,159
and he seems like he addressed those
each season. I was a little

849
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:45,800
surprised when I saw that he was
going to transfer to Yukon, but I

850
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:51,280
think realistically, we're going to start
seeing more of that from goaltenders in the

851
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:58,119
future, just as they have the
affordability to do. I think that one

852
00:53:58,159 --> 00:54:01,280
of the drawbacks of the NC double
is sometimes when a guy didn't have a

853
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:07,480
good fit in a system, they
were stuck there and in order to transfer,

854
00:54:07,519 --> 00:54:09,199
they'd have to sit time out,
they'd have to look for a team

855
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:13,639
that was willing to take them on. It sometimes raised a red flag,

856
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:21,400
and the COVID rule tweaks that teams
made kind of afforded players the opportunity to

857
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,559
normalize that a little bit. More
So, I'm interested to see how his

858
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:29,119
game shifts as he plays for Yukon, just to see if he's able to

859
00:54:29,159 --> 00:54:32,039
put it all together this year idea
that you mentioned. You said it was

860
00:54:32,079 --> 00:54:37,599
about twenty five to twenty seven percent
equivalency success rate there, which I think

861
00:54:38,679 --> 00:54:44,639
is less of a knock on him
and more of highlighting just how good a

862
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:52,000
scarves numbers are, just when you
look at overall, how what a good

863
00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:55,920
potential NHL player, what his equivalency
rate could look like there, and then

864
00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:00,360
what a scarves is. So I
do think that there's a map tier gap

865
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:06,079
there, but that's less of a
knock on Hayter and more of just a

866
00:55:07,559 --> 00:55:15,320
almost like a a compliment to just
how promising it is. I think it

867
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:22,599
would be the upset of the Predators, like it would be the biggest upset

868
00:55:22,599 --> 00:55:30,000
in franchise history if a Scarve doesn't
become a star starter for them, so

869
00:55:30,519 --> 00:55:35,760
everyone else after that unfortunately looks like
an afterthought, even if, like in

870
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,199
Hayter's case, they're a pretty decent
prospect for any other team. Yeah,

871
00:55:39,199 --> 00:55:44,280
there are certainly tiers of first round
picks as far as goalies go, and

872
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,639
we could have a whole dissertation about
first round picks that didn't work out,

873
00:55:46,679 --> 00:55:52,599
but very few of them have ever
looked as promising as scar Off. So

874
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,800
that's definitely one way of putting it
out. Would say, thanks so much

875
00:55:54,840 --> 00:56:00,559
for giving us your instincts on the
Nashville Predator goalies. Will be back right

876
00:56:00,599 --> 00:56:07,599
after this the Dynasty Dig. It's
time to talk about Nashville's prospect system.

877
00:56:07,679 --> 00:56:12,440
Victor has it ranked twenty third overall. They had a couple of first round

878
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:16,480
picks this year, one of them
Matthew would and another one of them was

879
00:56:16,559 --> 00:56:21,280
Tannermolin Dyke, So they put on
a little bit more than normal. We're

880
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,199
not going to talk about all those
guys because we have had a little bit

881
00:56:23,199 --> 00:56:28,159
of talk about first round picks,
but we are going to talk about a

882
00:56:28,199 --> 00:56:30,840
couple of the prospects already in the
system, and it's going to start out

883
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:37,519
with the no brainer victor. Our
no brainer for the Nashville Predators is Ryan

884
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:43,119
Ufko, twenty twenty one fourth round
pick by Nashville. Five eleven right handed

885
00:56:43,159 --> 00:56:51,320
D. Twenty four points in thirty
two games this season for U Mass of

886
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:55,079
the NC double A. That's some
pretty strong production in the ncable A for

887
00:56:55,159 --> 00:56:59,280
him. He had thirty one points
in thirty seven games last year, also

888
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:06,920
in the NC Double and he represented
the USA in the World Juniors ten points

889
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:10,480
in seven games. I think probably
that World Juniors was a little bit of

890
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,159
a coming out for Ryan Nufko.
I've been tooting his horn for a while,

891
00:57:14,159 --> 00:57:15,280
but a lot of people didn't really
know about him, and I think

892
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:20,639
seeing him on that big stage,
and of course the US had other really

893
00:57:20,639 --> 00:57:23,880
great offensive defenseman you had your Luke
Hughes, of course, and so he

894
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:29,239
was definitely a bit overshadowed. But
that's really great production and the US leaned

895
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:31,079
on him pretty heavily in that tournament, so it was great to see him

896
00:57:31,119 --> 00:57:36,159
perform. He's returning to UMass for
his junior season where he's still unsigned,

897
00:57:36,199 --> 00:57:40,039
but I would imagine he signs after
this season. I think some people are

898
00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:44,599
saying, like, oh, maybe
they're always nervous when a college player doesn't

899
00:57:44,599 --> 00:57:47,599
sign an anything their junior season.
But I don't know that he's tracking like

900
00:57:47,599 --> 00:57:51,639
one of these guys that's gonna test
free agency. We'll see. I guess

901
00:57:51,639 --> 00:57:54,440
anything's possible. I'm really excited about
this player, and I wouldn't really be

902
00:57:54,519 --> 00:58:00,400
deterred about how low he was drafted
one hundred and fifteenth overall. That's twenty

903
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,639
twenty one, thinking, Jesse,
and we're not going to fall into that

904
00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:06,880
trap. Why don't you tell us
what our scout has to say about Ryan

905
00:58:07,079 --> 00:58:10,440
Ufko and Nashville has been burned by
those non signing college guys a couple times

906
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,920
before. But regardless, Tony,
our NHL scout had a few things to

907
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:19,320
say about Uko. Skating is good, but maybe the weakest part of his

908
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,440
game not fast, but with the
stick play gets to where he needs to

909
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:25,480
be. The puck Handlin's good,
very good with the stickplay smart knows where

910
00:58:25,559 --> 00:58:30,480
and when to be good shot,
finds openings goal on the blue line to

911
00:58:30,519 --> 00:58:36,039
get it when it needs to.
The IQ good vision high IQ. He

912
00:58:36,079 --> 00:58:39,239
has good anticipation, so rarely out
of position and not a lot of panic

913
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:44,760
in his game. In the defensive
side, not fast, not too much

914
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,960
rushing, but good passing to start
a rush important for a demand. Good

915
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,159
stickplay and IQ helps him to be
good in his own zone. Best asset.

916
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:58,960
Stickplay is the second best asset,
with a high IQ being his best

917
00:58:59,039 --> 00:59:05,280
asset and biggest concern. He's not
got the size quite and he's not necessarily

918
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,840
the fastest. The top tier role, Tony says it could even be a

919
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:13,960
tier one if you improve skating.
It plays a little bit more physical game.

920
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,360
He will probably end up on the
power play, should be able to

921
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:20,400
block shots with his stick play in
the IQ will keep him in the right

922
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,480
spot. But if he ends up
in sort of his middle potential role,

923
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:29,320
he could have a high BASH,
maybe be an offensive third depair guy.

924
00:59:29,639 --> 00:59:35,920
Stylistic comparable a Dougie Hamilton. Interesting
comp from Tony. Let's talk about Ryan

925
00:59:36,039 --> 00:59:42,719
Uko's comparisons in the NHL Rank King
model. Ufko comps out to dominic fence

926
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:47,079
or that is the comparison that Mason
Black put out on Twitter, Ufko crushed

927
00:59:47,119 --> 00:59:53,199
Fence or in that comparison the Carolina
Hurricanes draftee. And when you look at

928
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:59,400
Ufko's PNHL, it has really crested
in twenty one twenty two, it nears

929
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:04,480
superstar our potential at UMass last year
it went down to maybe a little bit

930
01:00:04,599 --> 01:00:09,280
between first and second line potential or
first pair second pair potential. We will

931
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:14,800
see what happens with this year and
whether he ends up finishing it off in

932
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:19,880
the state of Tennessee, Victor.
Is that how you would put those two

933
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:25,159
guys in order? Yeah, for
sure, I absolutely would take Ryan Ufko

934
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:29,639
here. I love me some Mufko, As you mentioned, cressing as a

935
01:00:29,679 --> 01:00:34,360
superstar and not really doing too much
cresting a superstar last season and not really

936
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:38,039
doing too much this season to change
those opinions in a negative way. Fensor

937
01:00:38,159 --> 01:00:46,079
has some pretty incredible equivalences and points
production in the NC double A at Boston.

938
01:00:46,159 --> 01:00:51,039
You but he's five foot seven,
and I know we like to think

939
01:00:51,039 --> 01:00:53,239
that size doesn't matter, but it
does, and he's I think gonna have

940
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:59,679
a really hard time transitioning that to
the NCUBLEA. He There's also he's not

941
01:00:59,719 --> 01:01:07,639
the only small, undersized defenceman there
on the Boston University Terriers. He got

942
01:01:07,639 --> 01:01:12,000
some Lane Hudson there now too,
and so that's going to be really interesting

943
01:01:12,039 --> 01:01:15,400
to see those two. And he's
certainly gotten all the top minutes there,

944
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,519
and so fence Or has been has
change his role a little bit when they've

945
01:01:19,559 --> 01:01:22,559
got Tom Vilander coming there next season. They got some really good defensive corps.

946
01:01:23,159 --> 01:01:25,880
But fence Or I think is going
to have a early high time translating

947
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:30,000
that. I don't think he switches
positions and he might have a better chance

948
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:31,480
at a Ford, but the guy's
twenty one. He's still five foot seven.

949
01:01:32,559 --> 01:01:36,159
They're just aren't defenceman like that in
the NHL. So even though I

950
01:01:36,239 --> 01:01:38,960
like his game and I think that
he has some nice upside, I just

951
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:44,960
I'm not sure that how likely his
teacher is. But oof Goo's demand.

952
01:01:45,199 --> 01:01:49,679
I really like him. I think
the Predators have been amazing talent here and

953
01:01:49,679 --> 01:01:52,840
I hope they continue to develop him
and give him some really good opportunity.

954
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,920
So definitely would go Oufko. When
you look at the hockey prospecting and some

955
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:01,239
Shane Ufko has maintained his start potential
after that big breakout last season that we

956
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:05,559
mentioned, still forty two percent chance
of being a star. He's another one

957
01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:10,360
who after his USHL days, raised
his equivalency from fifteen to forty two percent

958
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:14,519
and then kept it steady this year, which is also really hard to do,

959
01:02:14,639 --> 01:02:17,760
so him pretty incredible stuff there.
He's seventy one percent chance of being

960
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:22,239
an NHLer, so that's pretty great
if you look at fence or he's at

961
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,880
he graduated at twenty seven percent chance
of being a star and fifty nine percent

962
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,760
chance of being an NHLer, So
still pretty decent numbers. But I think

963
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:31,719
his size is just going to be
so limiting for him. Five seven one

964
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:37,480
fifty two so really tiny. And
Ufko has some other interesting comps. If

965
01:02:37,519 --> 01:02:42,840
you look at his hockey prospecting,
Ed Jovanovsky is a comp me or high

966
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,760
Skinnin is a comp. But I
think the guy he actually looks the most

967
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:51,079
like is Henry Joki Haru, who
is a NHLer. Maybe not the most

968
01:02:51,079 --> 01:02:54,400
exciting guy, but his statistical profile
actually looks exactly like Ufkos, which is

969
01:02:54,400 --> 01:03:00,719
pretty interesting. I think Ufko has
a little bit more mobility and two way

970
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:05,679
game. I think you was a
little bit more offensive, and he's a

971
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,599
little bit bigger, and they're both
right shot d so I could see the

972
01:03:08,679 --> 01:03:13,519
trajectory going a little bit better.
I think if the situation might have been

973
01:03:13,519 --> 01:03:16,000
a little bit different for Yoki Haru
in Chicago and Buffalo, he might have

974
01:03:16,159 --> 01:03:20,800
turned out a little bit better.
But he's still an NHL caliber defenseman,

975
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,280
and so that's still pretty good.
Ufko looks a lot less exciting, and

976
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:28,679
the hockey and the top down hockey
model six percent chance of being a star

977
01:03:28,719 --> 01:03:32,519
and fifty one percent chance of being
an NHL, so a little less optimistic.

978
01:03:32,599 --> 01:03:39,440
But overall, based on the ranking
data and the hockey prospecting data,

979
01:03:39,519 --> 01:03:45,920
you should be pretty excited about Ufcoe, don't you think Jesse I would say

980
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,800
so, Yeah, this is a
guy who really Yeah, he's jumped into

981
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:52,960
that no brainer status and I would
be very happy to have him on my

982
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:58,760
team. And yeah, the outcome
is Henry Yoki Haru. That's not something

983
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,800
that's going at reality for the long
term in terms of my dynasty hockey team.

984
01:04:03,039 --> 01:04:09,079
But we'll just see it's not yet
baked in the oven. Let's move

985
01:04:09,119 --> 01:04:12,199
on to the need to know prospect
Victor. Who is it for Nashville.

986
01:04:14,119 --> 01:04:21,199
Yeah, this is Yoakim Kimmel,
who was drafted recently in twenty twenty two,

987
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:28,239
seventeenth overall and he's five eleven right
wing. He only had fifteen points

988
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:32,280
in forty three games in the Liga
with JYP YEP. Came to North America

989
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:36,440
and had thirteen points in fourteen games
over there by you Jesse in the HL

990
01:04:36,519 --> 01:04:44,480
Milwaukee of the regular season, and
then he had ten games in fourteen playoff

991
01:04:44,559 --> 01:04:48,760
games, looking pretty good there in
North America. Sometimes it takes these younger

992
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:51,480
players a really hard time to adjust
to the North American game. I would

993
01:04:51,519 --> 01:04:59,800
say his adjustment period was incredibly good. So yeah, Kimmel certainly looking really

994
01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:02,159
good there. He also represented Finland
at the U twenty World Junior Championships,

995
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:05,199
where they did not look very good
overall as a team, I would say,

996
01:05:05,239 --> 01:05:10,320
but Kimel whenever he was on the
ice looked pretty dangerous and had four

997
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,119
points in five games. He should
be back in the HL this season.

998
01:05:13,199 --> 01:05:18,079
I guess it's possible he gets to
look with the Presidcamptics really changed their roster,

999
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:25,199
buying out trading Johansson Duchane changing their
forward core there a little bit,

1000
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,440
so there's definitely some opportunities. But
they also, as we heard in the

1001
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,159
main show, there's some young guys
that are knocking at the door a much

1002
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:35,800
much closer to being ready. So
I think those are some interesting guys to

1003
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:40,760
bet on as well for making a
team. But let's hear a little bit

1004
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:45,440
more about Kimel from our FHL scout. That's right, Victor. Our scout

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01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:48,880
in this case was Brandon, and
here's what he had to say about the

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01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:54,360
skating. A crisp stride with range
of execution that's dynamic through the use of

1007
01:05:54,400 --> 01:06:00,159
his edgework and tempo flashes of explosiveness
at slower speeds as lower by malleability and

1008
01:06:00,159 --> 01:06:05,519
adaptability allows for greater dexterity and quick
range like here and all that passing and

1009
01:06:05,639 --> 01:06:11,639
handling. A very confident puck carrier
and leans quite heavily on this. He

1010
01:06:11,719 --> 01:06:15,639
has a predisposition to hold onto the
puck if attempting to gain the zone and

1011
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:19,519
bait a defender into a one on
one battle. His puck control when decking

1012
01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:25,920
both defender and goaltender is incredibly smooth. He's a competent and accurate passer,

1013
01:06:26,079 --> 01:06:30,880
even from the back hand. In
terms of shooting, Kimmel deploys two styles

1014
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,960
of shots from observation. He's got
a one timer and a subtle wrist shot.

1015
01:06:35,199 --> 01:06:39,039
The one timer usually comes from the
top of the left circle, and

1016
01:06:39,079 --> 01:06:43,440
he benefits from having the power play
unit built around feeding the puck to this

1017
01:06:43,599 --> 01:06:47,119
weapon. Let's see if that stands
into the pros. The release on the

1018
01:06:47,119 --> 01:06:51,199
one timer is fast and firm.
The puck slaps off the blade. Doesn't

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01:06:51,239 --> 01:06:56,119
need much timer space to unleash his
one timer, as the stick stays close

1020
01:06:56,159 --> 01:06:59,559
to the body. Kimmel's wrist shot
seems like he can be released at any

1021
01:06:59,599 --> 01:07:03,199
moment with very little telegraph movement.
It's not over faster, hefty, but

1022
01:07:03,239 --> 01:07:06,960
the surprise of it heading to the
net is going to catch goaltenders off guard

1023
01:07:08,199 --> 01:07:14,280
or produce some juicy rebounds. IQ
poised carrying the puck and even under pressure

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01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:18,079
or threat of physical contact, Kimmel
reads the ice well, has the sense

1025
01:07:18,159 --> 01:07:21,519
for how the play is flowing and
when to inject himself into it. Covers

1026
01:07:21,519 --> 01:07:26,840
a lot of ice and gets himself
situated to capitalize on a loose puck or

1027
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:31,320
pass for for checking, Kimmel can
be spatially pesky, gets into passing lanes,

1028
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:36,599
encroaching on the puck carrier, uses
opportunistic bursts of speed. Rarely will

1029
01:07:36,599 --> 01:07:41,079
you see a fly by with a
freebee poke at the puck. Likes to

1030
01:07:41,119 --> 01:07:45,440
make sure the opponent knows he's there. On defense, rarely on the front

1031
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:48,280
lines defended against the rush, but
when he is, he falls back to

1032
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:53,440
around the same depth of coverage as
his defenders. He's much more passive and

1033
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:57,079
stationary in the defensive zone. When
the read is right, we see sparks

1034
01:07:57,079 --> 01:08:00,440
of his for check come out and
he will pressure the opponent towards the boards.

1035
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:03,280
Offensive mind is highlighted in the D
zone. He seems more keen on

1036
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:09,840
fishing out pucks in transition or breaking
out. So the biggest asset is the

1037
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:14,760
shot. The motor and positional play
also deserves some credit as the backbone that

1038
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:18,279
get that shot off. Biggest concern
he might be a little too confident in

1039
01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:23,560
his puck possession game could stand to
take better advantage of passing plays. Maybe

1040
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:28,880
this gets established with more talented linemates
at higher levels of play. His top

1041
01:08:29,039 --> 01:08:31,479
level outcome. He could plan a
top line and push the point per game

1042
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:35,960
pace fueled by a greater proportion of
goals than assists, especially if granted heavy

1043
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:44,079
power play one deployment fiftieth middle percentile
role middle six forty to fifty points twenty

1044
01:08:44,079 --> 01:08:47,800
five ish goals could get formed into
a checking winger with goal scoring threat,

1045
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:55,960
even developed into a penalty killer stylistic
comparable Paul Korea mixed with Elias Petterson with

1046
01:08:56,079 --> 01:09:01,920
less playmaking and more grit and Kimmel. We have compared in the NHL ranking

1047
01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:08,880
Mason blacks Pool to Maverick Bork of
the Dallas Stars, a twenty twenty first

1048
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:14,720
round pick, versus Kimmel, the
twenty twenty two first round pick who also

1049
01:09:15,119 --> 01:09:17,479
moved to the HL. In fact, the team that the Milwaukee Admiral's knocked

1050
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:24,640
out in the playoffs the Texas Stars. So Kimmel in terms of that comparison,

1051
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:29,079
not only did his team, the
Predator the Admiral's knockout the Texas Stars,

1052
01:09:29,079 --> 01:09:32,560
but Kimmel knocked out Bork in this
comparison sixty two to thirty eight percent.

1053
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:38,800
And what is Kimmel's comparable in terms
of the p NHL E model for

1054
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:45,840
Mason It is slipped from first line
potential last year, slid down to the

1055
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:49,159
second line potential again, just starting
out in North America. So we'll give

1056
01:09:49,239 --> 01:09:54,239
him some time, and he's already
hit the ground running. Similarity scores top

1057
01:09:54,279 --> 01:09:58,239
one. Yes, Verry KOTKINIEMI that's
his boy. I don't know what to

1058
01:09:58,279 --> 01:10:01,880
make of that one. Nick Murkley
and Nathan Horton are coming in right after

1059
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:06,880
that. So Victor Joachim Cammell versus
Maverick Bork, who do you like?

1060
01:10:11,039 --> 01:10:14,680
Yeah, this is interesting. I
really like Maverick Bork. I think that

1061
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:18,359
he is a bit underrated in terms
of what he can provide. I think

1062
01:10:18,359 --> 01:10:21,680
he was really close to making the
team last year, but because they could

1063
01:10:23,159 --> 01:10:27,239
send him down, they did,
and they allowed and Why Johnston also earned

1064
01:10:27,279 --> 01:10:30,079
his role on the team. That
was a bit surprising. I thought I

1065
01:10:30,119 --> 01:10:33,479
thought it might go that way because
of just who was available. But I

1066
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:38,560
didn't really see why Johnson taking such
a huge step. But I think Maverick

1067
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,560
Borke could take a similar step to
Why Johnston this year. And we've all

1068
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:45,119
seen what he did in Dallas.
I think there's a role for Bork.

1069
01:10:45,239 --> 01:10:47,439
He is a center though, so
I think he has a little bit more

1070
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:51,039
heavy lifting to do. They could
they just make him a third line center.

1071
01:10:51,119 --> 01:10:56,359
I think that's very reasonable. And
there's also Tylet Delandria there who's doing

1072
01:10:56,399 --> 01:11:00,720
some decent things. Anyways, all
to say that, I like Bork,

1073
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:04,760
but I also think he's good enough
in other ways that he could get pushed

1074
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:09,520
down the lineup a little bit.
And I think Kamel with that shot and

1075
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:13,359
with the offense, and I think
that he might command more of a top

1076
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:17,039
six role. So I think I
probably would lead in Kimel. I think

1077
01:11:17,039 --> 01:11:23,079
that it's interesting when you can I
just have to think about that in terms

1078
01:11:23,079 --> 01:11:26,680
of how you want to structure your
team. Do you want a guy who's

1079
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,520
a little bit more likely to play, or a guy who you know might

1080
01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:33,479
and he might get pushed down the
lineup a little bit, or do you

1081
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:39,319
want the guy who's going to get
those top opportunities. So I think this

1082
01:11:39,359 --> 01:11:42,479
one it exploits a little bit about
how you think about fantasy and how you

1083
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:46,479
want your players to be. And
because you have, especially with Kamel being

1084
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:51,119
a right winger, which is often
a very scarce position, that could be

1085
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:55,239
something that pushes me over the top. And I would probably just take Kamel

1086
01:11:55,880 --> 01:12:00,279
unless they're all just straight up forward. So interesting things to think about there.

1087
01:12:00,319 --> 01:12:03,960
But Kamel in terms of the hockey
prospecting, he went down a big

1088
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:09,600
part this year. But I know
that Byron used his lega equivalency. I

1089
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:13,079
think if he I think if he
redid this based on his HL time,

1090
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:16,439
I think his equivalence he shoots back
up. So right now, he went

1091
01:12:16,479 --> 01:12:20,680
from thirty two to nine percent chance
of being a star. And again if

1092
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:24,880
you redo that based on his HL
time, I think he's much much higher.

1093
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:29,600
So Bork started the model at thirty
two percent, so they were similar,

1094
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:32,239
and then he trended down to where
he graduated at fifteen percent this past

1095
01:12:32,279 --> 01:12:36,840
year, So still okay, like
not terrible, but certainly not as exciting

1096
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:41,960
as he could have been his QMJHL
time it was much higher. But he's

1097
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:44,560
all the way up to seventy seven
percent chance of being an NHL, and

1098
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:46,800
I think that is legit. He
has a much He looks much more likely

1099
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:51,399
to be a regular NHL or does
Maverickpork than Kamel. In terms of the

1100
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:56,800
straight up comps for Kamel, most
of them aren't that exciting. He's got

1101
01:12:56,880 --> 01:13:00,960
some interesting ones. Lekamaki is one. We don't really know how that's going

1102
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:04,439
to work out towards vote Terravinen,
who actually looks much much better in this

1103
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:09,600
model. But again if you switch
up the equivalency and make it HL instead,

1104
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:12,600
I think he's more similar to Terravinen. But I think the guy he

1105
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:16,279
looks the most like is Magnus Parvi, who some of you may remember as

1106
01:13:16,319 --> 01:13:19,920
a disappointing I guess in terms of
how he turned out. He was a

1107
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:24,520
tenth overall pick by the Oilers,
played for a couple of different teams,

1108
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:28,439
and he ended up being just a
replacement level producer. That's kind of who

1109
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:33,319
Kamel looks like right now, but
again that might change. So interesting and

1110
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:39,840
the top down hockey model is a
little bit more optimistic on Kamel. I

1111
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:45,640
think that they did use the HL
data and he's up to nineteen percent chance

1112
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:49,039
of being started seventy one percent Tangip
being an NHL or so. Interesting stuff

1113
01:13:49,079 --> 01:13:54,439
here, and I just wanted to
add another couple of things on kamel is

1114
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:59,800
that are my other show with Peter
Harling Dabbert Prospects Report. We had Jacobs

1115
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:03,680
oller on of The Hockey News,
really great interview That was the report number

1116
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:09,239
five that we did about a month
or two ago, and he had really

1117
01:14:09,279 --> 01:14:14,880
good things to say about Joakim Kamel
on that show. He's the HL kind

1118
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,079
of insider there for the Hockey News. He talked about his compete level,

1119
01:14:17,159 --> 01:14:21,800
how he earned ice time on a
really good Milwaukee Admirals team, and how

1120
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:29,039
he really showed well in the playoffs. So Jacob Stoller really high on Kamel.

1121
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:34,159
Asked him for like comparables, and
he thought that Victor Arvidson and Ellie

1122
01:14:34,199 --> 01:14:39,960
Tolvanen, a mix between those two
was probably where Kamel ends up. So

1123
01:14:40,039 --> 01:14:44,319
those are pretty relevant players. Twenty
to twenty five goals, and how he

1124
01:14:44,399 --> 01:14:47,000
really likes to get to the middle
of the ice. So all good stuff

1125
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:50,239
for Kamel. We'll have to see
how he does with a full HL year

1126
01:14:50,319 --> 01:14:54,520
under his belt. Jesse, I
expect some scouting reports directly from you since

1127
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:59,319
he'll be in Milwaukee. I gotta
get down there check out Kimmel again.

1128
01:15:00,279 --> 01:15:01,920
Victor. Next, we had to
keep your eye on prospect. Who is

1129
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:08,640
it? Yeah, they keep your
eye on prospect is Jack Mattier. He

1130
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:15,000
is a twenty twenty one fourth round
pick by Nashville. We're talking about all

1131
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:18,720
these later picks. Heres I guess
it's a kudos to Nashville twenty one fourth

1132
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:23,560
round pick six foot five, two
hundred pound right handed d forty nine points

1133
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:27,920
in fifteen eight games in the HL
for the outawas sixty seven's. He was

1134
01:15:28,079 --> 01:15:31,199
on Canada's World Junior championship team.
He was more in the shutdown role,

1135
01:15:31,279 --> 01:15:34,720
so one point in seven games shouldn't
be too much of a turn off because

1136
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:40,600
he again had a different role there. But twenty point increase and eight fewer

1137
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:45,000
games from the previous season that's pretty
substantial. Should be in the HL next

1138
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:47,960
season. He's already twenty and he's
already signed by the pred so Jack maytier

1139
01:15:48,119 --> 01:15:53,359
good for that. His defense rates
out at ninety two, ninety second percentile

1140
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:59,039
in the HL, so again,
he was a shutdown specialist on that World

1141
01:15:59,079 --> 01:16:02,520
Junior team. Really good defense.
His offense is pretty good though, especially

1142
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:08,359
his expected primary assists, his slot
pass success, which is a really good

1143
01:16:08,359 --> 01:16:15,479
indicator of whether they try and complete
successfully difficult passes that are dangerous for offensive

1144
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:19,680
chances. His expected goals are above
average, but not great. It's really

1145
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:26,119
the defense that is good for him. Although Mattire doesn't really have strong transition

1146
01:16:26,159 --> 01:16:30,000
game. It's actually pretty weak,
only thirty fifth percentile. So overall he

1147
01:16:30,079 --> 01:16:32,840
ranks out at a seventy seven,
which is good, but again maybe more

1148
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:36,159
defensive. But we got to hear
from our scout FHL scout about this.

1149
01:16:36,239 --> 01:16:39,920
Jesse, shan't you let us know
what they have to think? I see

1150
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:45,039
Jack Matier. Scouting report was done
by Jacob Skating average much is a better

1151
01:16:45,039 --> 01:16:49,279
skater than most of them. His
size but very smooth strides while moving up

1152
01:16:49,319 --> 01:16:54,079
the ice. Can work on his
explosiveness so we can generate more speed,

1153
01:16:54,239 --> 01:16:58,560
good cuts and edges. Puck handling, good patient with puck. He isn't

1154
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:02,520
afraid to move the puck up the
ice himself for controlled entries into the zone,

1155
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:06,159
and his size allows him to fight
off defenders and find open space for

1156
01:17:06,199 --> 01:17:12,640
scoring chances. The shot great,
quick wrist shot, booming slapshot. Likes

1157
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:16,079
to get pucks off his stick quickly
and through traffic to catch goaltenders off guard.

1158
01:17:16,239 --> 01:17:20,399
Isn't afraid to jump into the play
himself to make himself a scoring option.

1159
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:25,399
The IQ. The panic meter is
low, not much panic in his

1160
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:29,239
game. He's very poised on both
ends of the ice handles pressure well.

1161
01:17:30,119 --> 01:17:34,079
Defense great size gives him a huge
advantage. He's able to cover more ground

1162
01:17:34,399 --> 01:17:38,760
with the body and his stick,
isn't afraid to step in front of shots,

1163
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:43,760
plays hard along the Board's good at
extracting loose pucks. So overall,

1164
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:48,159
the biggest asset was the defense.
The biggest concern is the skating. He's

1165
01:17:48,199 --> 01:17:53,760
smooth, but he needs to implement
more power to generate more speed. Top

1166
01:17:53,760 --> 01:18:00,159
Tierential is a top four defenseman.
Believe Mitiers defensive and puck manage game will

1167
01:18:00,199 --> 01:18:04,199
translate well to the next level.
If he can translate his offensive game and

1168
01:18:04,359 --> 01:18:09,520
make some improvements to the skating,
most likely tier he'll be a top six

1169
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:14,119
defenseman, an NHL defenseman, and
it could be a steady, lower pairer

1170
01:18:14,199 --> 01:18:18,199
defenseman who can kill penalties. At
least stylistic comparison comparison, he went with

1171
01:18:18,279 --> 01:18:24,600
Matthias Eckholm, a smooth skating punk
movie defenseman six five frame. So that

1172
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:30,880
is what Jacob has to say about
Jack Matier. And here's the comparison that

1173
01:18:30,359 --> 01:18:38,399
Mason King the NHL rank King offers
us and Mason Black says Jack Matier versus

1174
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:44,000
Tyson Hines of the Anaheim Docks a
third round pick the same year that Mateer

1175
01:18:44,119 --> 01:18:48,239
went in the fourth, and putting
that out on Twitter, we find that

1176
01:18:48,319 --> 01:18:54,439
Tyson Hines actually finished ahead fifty six
to forty four. So that's our guy

1177
01:18:54,479 --> 01:19:00,800
getting knocked off in this comparison,
and his equivalency came out to about about

1178
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:05,520
a second line potential it's moving up
to. So that's pretty nice for his

1179
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:13,720
improvement along those lines, Victor,
what do you think? I actually don't

1180
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:16,239
agree with the voters here. I
would take Matt Tire. I know that

1181
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:21,880
there's it's interesting, there's some decent
parts of the two. Hines. I

1182
01:19:21,880 --> 01:19:27,279
think he's probably a more projectable NHL
defenser men, they're both they both have

1183
01:19:27,399 --> 01:19:30,039
good size. We know that Nashville
drafts really good defenseman. They have an

1184
01:19:30,039 --> 01:19:34,319
amazing track record of doing this.
So I think he's more likely to play,

1185
01:19:34,399 --> 01:19:36,960
or at least it seems like it. But I'm Matt here a little

1186
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:43,720
bit better just in terms of his
upside, a little bit less less certainty

1187
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:47,279
there perhaps, But both of these
guys look look pretty questionable just in terms

1188
01:19:47,279 --> 01:19:53,279
of their star potential. They actually
look pretty even on hockey prospecting and trying

1189
01:19:53,319 --> 01:19:56,560
to find like a high comp for
matt Here. It's been it's pretty slim

1190
01:19:56,560 --> 01:20:00,399
pickens. The only guy that really
looks decent is Radical Buddhas, who looks

1191
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:04,680
awful in this model but has turned
out to be a pretty pretty serviceable fantasy

1192
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:09,119
defenseman. But most of the guys
are guys you've never heard of and on

1193
01:20:09,159 --> 01:20:12,840
hockey. On Top Down Hockey,
they gave matt Here a zero percent chance

1194
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:15,920
of being a star and only seven
percent chance of being in NAHL, so

1195
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:20,159
that's pretty terrible. So yeah,
pretty slim pickings there. But matt Here

1196
01:20:20,199 --> 01:20:24,399
is a guy in a deeper league
to maybe have some interest in. And

1197
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:28,159
that's all we have time for Jesse
that if people want to hear a little

1198
01:20:28,159 --> 01:20:30,680
bit more, they can sign up
on Patreon and read the reports from our

1199
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:34,600
scouts. They can watch video clips, they can listen to my top ten

1200
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:38,079
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doing any scouting with a shoot us a

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shoot me a DM on Twitter,
discord, or give me an email.

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Let's come back and close out the
show. Hey, everybody, let me

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first tell you you should play all
of your leagues on fantrack dot com.

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It is the place to play fantasy
hockey as well as any other fantasy sport

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you might be into. There's more
features there, there's more cool things you

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can do than anywhere else. You're
going to be able to go hundreds of

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different scoring settings, customized rookie eligibility, there's a free product, there's a

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pay product, and just it's the
only place to play a dynasy league as

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far as I'm concerned. Fan tracks
HQ has lots of fantasy content. There

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are articles on fantasy hockey. Those
are just starting to trickle back for the

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year, but there are articles on
lots of fantasy sports. If you are

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like me, a omnivore of fantasy
content, podcast including the Prospect Pod,

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Full Count Fantasy Baseball, the Fly
Fantasy Football, p TWOW Fantasy Football,

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and that is just plenty. There's
plenty. Baseball's wrapping up, Football is

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getting started. We think Nate Duffett, who's been doing a ton of stuff

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behind the scenes for these pods.
You you don't see it unless you're looking

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at the notes, maybe, but
he's helping us with a lot of the

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stats that we're coming up with and
a lot of the other cool stuff.

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We're also brought to you by Dabbert
hockey. We're part of the Dauber Hockey

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podcast network in addition to the Fantracks
podcast network, and Dauber Prospects is the

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subsite of Dabbert where Victor is an
editor. Follow his work there as well

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as his other podcast, Dauber prospect
Report, that he does with our friend

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Peter Harling, just talking hockey prospects
every single week. Great compliment to what

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you're hearing here. I do a
solo show called Dynasty Sports Life. I

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01:22:35,039 --> 01:22:40,960
talk for different Dynasty Sports sometimes at
the same time. This past week,

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the episode that you can hear on
the feed is about wide receivers. My

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good buddy Matt Cooper from Debby to
Dynasty is there and we're going to talk

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a few contrary takes on wide receivers
and how their values are going to change

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in Dynasty or how they could change, or how we think they are a

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01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:02,000
little different than what's startup ADP has
to say. Follow us on Twitter,

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Victor is Victor Newno. Twelve VI
C T O R n U N O

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one two. Should I say X? Should you follow us on X?

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You know what that means? All
right? Never mind? And then Fan

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Hockey Life is where you follow me
fa n Hockey Life all one word,

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rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get

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your podcasts. That would be much
appreciated. It keeps a little bit of

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01:23:26,199 --> 01:23:29,920
attention on this show. We want
to be your best place to listen to

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01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:34,800
information on dynasty fantasy hockey in even
in your redraft leagues. These episodes should

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really be getting you're ready for not
only the teams that you will draft,

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but the guys who could pop up
on the waiver wire and make a big

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difference for your teams this year.
Thank you for listening once again to the

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Nashville Predators episode, and until next
time, keep living that fantasy hockey a life.