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Now it's your weekly goalie talk. But Kat Silverman, Kat's instincts.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone, and I'm super excited to be joined
for the first time this year by Kat Silverman of
ngal mag. How you doing, Kat good?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? We every time I whisper into the
ether that Kat might be coming on the show. Everybody
comes out with all kinds of great suggestions and they
love hearing from you, so I really appreciate you being here.
We're gonna do a couple of different things today, and
just in case anyone's wondering, we do plan to have
get back together for the team previews that are going
to start in about a month. So that's exciting. And
I sent Kat my goalie rankings because what do I know?
So I wanted her to take a look at everything
that we have going on, and there's some really interesting
cases this year. So I'm just gonna patrons can see these,
but I'm gonna read these off and then we can
start wherever you want, Kat, because there are some guys
we were just talking before we started, some guys on
this list who probably have aged out or are just
in a different spot than other ones on this list.
So number one, I have Yarslava Scaroff. Number two I
have Yesper Walstat, Number three Lucas Doshtal, number four Dustin
Wolf and number five Devon Levi and all those guys
have seen some NHL action. And then we have Peter Kichetkov,
Spencer Night, Ilana Bakov, Arthur Aktyamov, and Sebastian kosa Is
six through ten, and then beyond that we have Jacob Dobeest,
Jacob Fowler, Dennis Hildeby, Marcus Gidloff, which a lot of
people for Trey Agastine's gay evan Off And let me
know which one of those caught your eye or ear
and you want to start with ooh, So I.
Speaker 5: Did want to spend just a second talking about that
top five, because, like you said, we usually get that,
we get a few guys that are aged out, and
I feel like this year we have more guys who
were playing out like we I was looking it up
because in my brain, I full disclosure, I did add
Lucas Doshtall on my Fantasy teams in both leagues I'm
in this year because I had a hat Thattri Dumco
in one league and then I had Jacob mark Strom
in the other league who both spent like half the
year on ir Patrick Dumko more than half the year,
and so I added doschdall as my let's see how
he does. And I was like, it might be because
I see him on Fantasy every week, but it feels
like he has played the majority of their games, and
he has when I looked at it, the Anaheim Ducks,
John Gibson has played twenty seven games this year, Doshall
has played forty five, and then they've had James Rymer
and Dey Whoso each played two games, which is that
it's call up games essentially.
Speaker 4: So this has been Doshall's year, and that makes it.
Speaker 5: Hard to evaluate him compared to the other prospects because
we have guys like like Divin Levi who is still
finding his footing at Rosova Scarov and Jasper Walshtet are
still getting a lot of seasoning in the AHL, so
we are comparing NHL games to AHL games, And then
we have some guys on the list who are in
the top twenty who are still playing juniors and playing minors.
Speaker 4: And like exclusively. And that's this in a weird spot
for Doshall.
Speaker 5: And for Dustin Wolfe, who I know that last year
when we were talking about him, we mentioned that this
was a we didn't know what additional seasoning he could
possibly need in the AHL before he got his chance
to prove himself, and we said, yeah, he'll probably get
a couple of little spurts here and there, and he
has not gotten a couple of little spurts. He's also
been like a de facto's starter for large chunks of
the year for Calgary. And so that's putting us in
a cool position in my opinion, just because we have
a lot of guys who in the past we've looked at.
I know I mentioned Mikey d Pietro is one who
was he's either got to make this step and he's
got to take that leap, or we got to consider
him a tweener forever. And we're not seeing that from
these guys to evaluate are they still a prospect or not.
We're looking at these guys as are they still a
prospect or are they an NHL starter? And yeah, with
the Calgary Flames, Dustin Wulf has played forty two games
this year. Daniel Ludar has only played twenty eight and
looking at the stats there, there's a reason that Dustin
Wolf has played more of the games he has been
far and away they're better goaltender this year. So that's
putting us in a unique position when looking at these
I do think that between Dustin Wulf and Lucas Doshtall
Dustin wolf On Paper has put up the better numbers.
Lucas Doshtall I think, has shown a lot of perseverance
this year, a lot of resilience behind a really bad
Anaheim Ducks team. So I want to put the two
of them, at least of the moment ahead of Urosava
scar Off and Jessper Walshtett, just based on the evidence
that we have so far. But that being said, I
do still think that Jesper Walshtett. I don't want to
give up on him. He's way too young for us
to say that he's nowhere close to where he needs
to be. He just I think had a little bit
of a stumble this year. And then Eurosava scar Off
has been I think incredible in the AHL. And when
I said that the Anaheim Ducks had been bad, they're
on a different plane from the San Jose Sharks who
gave Uoslava scar Off thirteen games. He has not done
super well in them, but he has held his own
and then they have largely let him get most of
his reps and starts at the AHL level, which I
think is the right way to do that. When you
throw a goal tender into a new system, a new
team with new coaches, and then also put him. I
think that if they'd put him at the NHL level
exclusively this year, that would have been detrimental to his development,
which I think we did mention when that trade went down,
because that very fortuitously for us, went down right before
we were set to talk about him. So I do
think that he has done well in a kind of
unique situation. I still think that Nashville that was a
choice that they made which may not pan out for
them in.
Speaker 4: The long run.
Speaker 5: I'm also warming this year on Sebastian Kosa. I know
that in the past I've been pretty pretty down on him,
but he is.
Speaker 4: It seems like each year he takes a little bit
of his game that has looked not quite where I
wanted to be, and he just he tightens it up
a little bit. And I was looking at some of
his plays from this year.
Speaker 5: I was watching some of his highlights, watching some of
his game tape, and really the only thing that I
think he is still not quite there yet is those
in close saves, you know, when people are essentially challenging
him in the blue paint. He's still having a little
bit of trouble with the agility and simultaneous game reads
against some of those higher, the higher quality players.
Speaker 4: But even that, he doesn't look terrible. He's not struggling
like some of the other guys that I know. I
want to get to you later in this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I love that, And I personally I know
that Dostelle and Wolf are two of your favorites too,
and I just want to take a huge victory lap
on those two because they've been awesome. I've been saying
forever I think dus some Wolf can do it. He
just won at every level. A lot of people have
said that, right, and just to see him and what
he's done. And I agree with you on Doshtell too.
I've also been very high on him. And you can
look at the numbers and think, oh, he's not doing
that well, but based on what's in front of him,
he's doing an incredible amount. And we've seen Gibson, even
who's had a long career and been very good at times,
he's really struggle to do anything in that crease this year.
So I think you can say a lot of good
things about those two. So I love that. It's fun.
It's fun. It's like watching your kids grow up and
accomplish great things. It feels that way, a little bit
like a proud parent. Yeah, they finally did it.
Speaker 4: That's if I told you so.
Speaker 5: With those two, especially with Dustin Wolf, who is, if
he's not the smallest active goaltender in the NHL right now,
he's in the top five.
Speaker 4: And I know that there were a lot of eyebrows raised.
Speaker 5: At what he was going to be able to do,
especially when Calgary's kind of they're in transition at the moment.
Speaker 4: There's really no denying that, so it's satisfying to see.
For sure.
Speaker 2: I think he's ruining their tank plans if they were
if they had any of those. He's making them way
too good. But in case anyone's wondering, both the Stall
and Wolf have dramatically outperformed their delta Fenwick save percentage
and their even strength numbers are just off the charts
in terms of what they are doing compared to the
protection in front of them, And I think that's one
of the best marks you could have in terms of
looking at goalies. That's something that I look at. I
wanted to circle back to Wallstead because a lot of
people are especially in dynasty circles are really concerned. He's
had a couple of years since coming to North America.
In the HL. He was pretty good for the first
couple he saw a couple of games. Last year, he
saw a couple this year. None of his NHL games
have gone on super but also small sample size and
the Wild haven't necessarily been a juggernaut. But this year
and the HL, his numbers have taken a bit of
a dip, and I think people are concerned. I certainly
don't watch a ton of Iowa Wild games, but looking
at his expectacles per goal conceded, they are down a
little bit, although still in the positive range. So I'm
just wondering if you've if you're a little worried about him,
or is it just no worries. He's still great and
projects to be a star starter.
Speaker 5: I with Jesper walstaid, it's been tricky because that Iowa
Wild team has not been particularly great, and none of
their goaltenders are outperforming him in any sort of substantial,
meaningful way.
Speaker 4: So it's hard to.
Speaker 5: Tell if it's just him, if it's a little bit
of a disconnect with the coaching, or if it is
we do see years, especially with teams that are in
transition but aren't openly tanking, it's hard to tell if
they're just going through one of those transitionary periods at
the AHL level. I know that we did see that
for a little bit. Popping back to the Anaheim Ducks,
the San Diego Goals went through a phase where they
didn't really have a ton of top prospects, but they
also didn't have a lot of good veterans, and they
were just depending on who they were playing against. Sometimes
they were able to hold their own, sometimes they really weren't.
Speaker 4: And that's what the Iowa Wild have looked like. For
some of these goaltenders. They just look like.
Speaker 5: The defense in front of them isn't really clicking, it's
not really connecting. That being said, super Wallstuds should be
able to hold his own behind even a bad Ahl defense,
if he wants to be able to hold his own
against any sort of NHL defense. So I think that's
why I wanted to shift him down below Dosh allen
Wolf for sure, just because I think he should be
able to do a little bit better than he is
right now. He doesn't look like I don't think we
need to sell the alarm. I don't think we need
to drop him out of the top five, out of
the top ten in our prospect, but it is a
little bit of a red flag that he's just not
quite clicking this year.
Speaker 2: That's totally fair. Let's move on to I know as
another guy that I mentioned briefly, and it's been interesting
following Drew Cameso and especially I think we have to
discuss in the context of the trade because now he's
got some competition in the crease and they've moved out
some of the guys ahead of him. But he's been
doing pretty well well at Rockford. He had pretty good
numbers Duke Comeso last year at Rockford after an estellar
NCAA season this year nine to twelve with two point
five to one, so even a little bit better. But
of course now he's got a Spencer Night problem. Arvid
Soda Bloom has been pretty darn good considering the protection
he's been getting, which is nonexistent. But what do you
feel about Drew Cameso and how does and and maybe
even if you have any thoughts on Spencer Night and
how that tandem might look moving forward.
Speaker 5: I think that's a fascinating a future crease for Chicago
ultimately looking at bringing in Spencer night Is on any
other team, that would be essentially a declaration to Drew
Comesso that he is not their future. That would be
you bring in someone who is of a similar agent
as that Spencer Knights. He was a little older, but
they've also played together, and so I'm not as worried
about it for Drew Kmesso. It looks more like Chicago
has finally realized that they left their eggs in a
Corey Crawford basket for a little too long and didn't
really do much to support the essentially the growth and
development below him for a little bit too long and
left themselves camstrung. So now they're scrambling their panicking. They
need their goaltenders to be nhlready, not immediately now, but
as close to now as possible if they want to
take a step forward and don't want to fall into
the Buffalo Sabers.
Speaker 4: Trap of perennial lottery picks.
Speaker 5: They want to they want to actually be able to
rise back up towards the playoff, towards playoff contention within
the next i'd say two to five years, and one
easy way to do that is to bring in another
goaltender who the goaltender that you've been banking on and
putting a lot of your development resources towards, is familiar
with and he gets along with any that he can
play a compliment style. That's what the New York Islanders
did with Ilias Serrocin. Obviously it was with a much
older compatriot, but when they brought in Semyon Varlamov, that
was a goaltender that Serrokin was familiar with, had used
as a mentor in the past, played a complimentary style.
They were able to communicate well, They were able to
trade off start without the whole team having to adjust
a whole lot about their system, which makes it a
little bit gentler for both an aging Verlamov and an
up and coming Serroken with each start that they don't
have to readjust And that's what happens when you have
a potential future that is Spencer Knight and Drew Kmesso.
Speaker 4: But that also does say to me that they are
making sure that.
Speaker 5: They have a fallback plan for the long term if
Drew Cameso does not pan out. By not bringing in
someone who is older than Drew Kmesso by a substantial margin.
Speaker 4: They're not doing what Florida did in Theory with.
Speaker 5: Sergei Bobrovsky and Spencer Night, where they had an older goaltender.
I almost called Bobrovski elderly.
Speaker 4: He is my age.
Speaker 5: Yikes, but yeah, older goaltender, and when you look at
guys like Elvin Sroken, that's what you would expect from
a team. And having two guys who are of a
similar age and experience level says that they're making sure
that either way, the goaltender that pans out is not
going to be the one who's set to retire in
three to five years. It's one who is going to
be there for the foreseeable future. So I think that
it's good for Spencer Night too. I don't want to
I don't want to look at it just from a
best so perspective, because I do think that Spencer Night
has made it clear that he is open to being
supported by good resources. But also this gives him a
familiar partner. This gives him an environment where he has
someone else to lean on who he knows and trusts,
and I think that's a win win for both.
Speaker 4: It's just It's going to be fun watching Chicago's crease
over the next couple of years, which is more than
I can say about their crease for the last two
to five years, where they have been not a lot
of fun to watch.
Speaker 5: Now they're going to be at least exciting to watch,
if we may get some growing pains. Although I do
think that Spencer Knight has been He's been holding his
own behind Chicago. They're not a good team, and he
is not drowning there. He's not doing quite as well
as he was with Florida, but he's doing just fine.
Speaker 2: Anythink soder Bloom is just a guy or is he
like a barrier to those two splitting starts in the future.
Speaker 5: I don't necessarily think he the barrier. I think he's
never wowed me a ton. I think in the past
we've talked about how he looked like you should be
doing well, and then he just at the NHL level
he just cannot put it together. Then he does pretty
well in the AHL, and then when he goes up
to the NHL, he just he's no, thank you. And
I do know that there is a huge jump between
playing behind the Rockford Ice Hogs and playing behind the
Chicago Blackhawks.
Speaker 4: So I get that. But at the same time, the
fact that we've seen Spencer Night manage to pull together
some quality starts.
Speaker 5: Behind the Chicago Blackhawks, and we've seen Peter Marazik pull
together some quality starts behind the Chicago Blackhawks, means that
if Arvid sodablowm was going to be someone that I
would consider a real challenger for Night Kameso, I think
he has to prove it that he is capable of
being a challenger to them, versus them proving that he
is not a challenger. I think that it's the burden
of proof is on him at this point because he
hadn't looked super exciting to me.
Speaker 2: I like it, Let's go from Chicago to Toronto, and
people wanted to know about Archer Oktiamoff, who they're pretty
excited about. I wanted to also just mention that Dennis Hildeby,
who's also there, he's one year older and he's doing
a little bit better than oktiam Off. And they've also
been playing Matt Murray. Yes, that Matt Murray quite a
bit in the HL for the Marleys, and he's got
the best numbers one point seventy five GA nine thirty one.
Of course, Matt Murray different stage of his career, still
kicking at thirty, and who knows what the future holds
for him. I think a lot of them, hey man,
get out of the way, let the young kids play.
But he's still trying to make a living for himself
and everything. But between Hildeby and octaiam Off, how do
you see these two? Is one leading the race or
how do we see the future crease for the maple leafs?
Speaker 5: At the prospect level, I had been a little bit
higher on Okataamoff. I really enjoyed his technique. I enjoyed
his resiliency. I thought his reaction speed was top notch.
I know when he got drafted, I was like, this guy,
this is who we got to watch, and he's on
the shorter side. I sometimes get a little nervous when
we see some of those really huge goaltenders like Dennis
Hill to be, just because sometimes we see the agility
level from those guys isn't quite where it needs to be.
In the wear and tear on those bigger bodies can
kind of shorten the durability of their career longevity wise.
Speaker 4: I think that.
Speaker 5: A good example of that is you look at the
best player on the Marley's crease right now, which is
Matt Murray, who is a big boy and really started
to struggle with some injuries over the course of his
career when he was utilized a little too frequently. But
I've been pleasantly surprised by Dennis Hill to be. I
was watching some of his I was going through.
Speaker 4: Some specific safe and some specific.
Speaker 5: Shots against, and he moves better than I expected him too.
At the AHL level. He seems like he's holding his
own in what's been Sometimes I get a little nervous
when I see those.
Speaker 4: Sort of true trio splits.
Speaker 5: Of starts, because we've seen twenty three starts from Okaamov,
twenty four from Hill to Be in eighteen for Matt Murray.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty even split between those three.
Speaker 5: Which is just enough that one person isn't getting a
nice heavy, repetitive workload, which I don't always love when
we're trying to figure out who the best is and
when we're trying to get the pattern settled in. But
I've enjoyed watching them both.
Speaker 4: I think that the Maple Leafs have I think they
have the right idea here.
Speaker 5: I know that I was just kind of parping on
Chicago for not worrying about their goaltending until their goaltending
was worrying. And I like that Toronto is making sure
that they have a couple of really good options at
the AHL level even though they're starting. Goaltender is a
younger goaltender, because worst case, if Jusuph Wol ends up
being isn't a challenger for the next five years, they
can trade one of these guys if they both look
like they're ready. They don't need to hold onto them both,
but it's better than one of them not panning out
or Joseph Wile getting a concussion and all of a
sudden they have no one to play. I do think
it's funny that Matt Murray is getting as many starts
as he is at the AHL level. He'd better be
the best player on that AHL team, because I would
be really worried for him if he was struggling at
the AHL level right now. But it's good to see
that he's still getting some starts. I don't think Toronto
would in their right minds put him at the NHL
level for anything other than a placeholder body. If they
want to make sure that he'll to be an Octaamov
are able to continue getting starts and they just need
a second body on the bench. But it's nice having
him there as a mentor because he's been through some
really good teams and he's been through some god awful teams.
He's played on a really bad Toronto Maple Leafs team,
He's played on a decent Toronto Maple Leafs team, he
played on an abysmal Autawa Senators team, and he played
on a Stanley Cup champion in Pittsburgh. So I think
he is a good mentor to have for two guys
who really are at the point where it's not a
pressing need for either one right now.
Speaker 4: They both look good right now. There are a couple
of teams out there that have no good goaltenders right now.
Speaker 5: And so I think it's nice that they have someone
that they can have kind of guiding the two of
them while they gauge which one they want to want
to stick with moving forward, which is a refreshing change
of pace for Toronto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, we're going to talk in a team
preview about some teams that could use a guy or
two in their system. So like you said, the one
of these might be moved. It sounds like if you
had to pick one, though, you'd put your money on
octiam Off.
Speaker 4: I think right now that's who. I wouldn't be cashing
in all chips on him over hill to bee, but
I would if I had to split my bed in
the direction of one over the other, that's probably who
I'd put a little more confidence in.
Speaker 2: Sounds good. We're gonna take a quick break and be
right back. Welcome back everyone. We're talking with Kat Silverman
and in gold mag and some of the patrons had
some questions and I wanted to know about certain goalies,
so it's going to ask we're continuing asking you about them.
There were a bunch of requests for quote Russian goalies,
specifically Ilianabakov, Sergei Murashov, and Mikhail Yegorov, and so I
wanted to start with them to walk off, Let's go
with him first. He had a pretty amazing season and
last year he was not drafted, in case anyone forgot.
Initially twenty year old playing in the KHL, playing for
Metalurg Magnetigorsk and just absolutely killed it in forty three
starts nine to thirty save percentage two point one five GAA,
and won the Rookie of the Year, MVP and Guardian
Cup all in one year. It was pretty The Avalanche
ended up drafting him to No. One's surprise in the
second round after such a great season, and this year
he's already reached as many win totals wins as he
did last year in a few more games and is
really doing well once again. He is a little bit
undersized at six'. One what have you thought of his?
Season has your mind changed at all About ilina bakov
Cat is he still? Does he look like a future
starter there In. COLORADO i don't want.
Speaker 4: To be wrong About colorado, twice BUT i think.
Speaker 5: So he looks really. FUN i was watching some of his.
GAMES i was watching some of the highlights and clips
THAT i was able to, find and he just he looks.
Fun he looks like he's having fun out, there AND
i feel like that's what you need when you're a
younger goaltender who is immediately thrust into an essentially a
higher tiers starting, role which he's been playing in THE
khl since he was a, Teenager AND i think you
just you have to have that ability to adapt your
game and to just roll with, it and it looks
like he's having a lot of fun with. It it
looks like he has good, instincts WHICH i know that's an, intangible.
Speaker 4: But it looks like his hands are really.
Speaker 5: Good it looks like his skating is, duller which is
a given when you have a shorter goaltender who is
not to say playing against, men but when they're playing
against fully, grown fully cooked hockey. Players SO i think
the biggest thing at this point IS i Think colorado
has to make sure that he really wants to be
In North america because he's got he's got a really
lucrative situation going on In russia right now With Magnety.
GORSK i don't think he would come over To North
america unless he had a guarantee that he would be
getting SOME nhl. Starts SO i Think colorado would have to, show,
look this is the spot that we would have for,
you and this is how many games you would be
able to play for us at THE nhl.
Speaker 4: Level SO i think they'd love to see.
Speaker 5: Him if he doesn't repeat as A khl champion this,
YEAR i think he does need to make a deep playoff,
run and he needs to show that he can replicate
what he did last year one more. TIME i think
he needs to show that he is just as consistent
with his ability to play against those higher tier opponents
and do or die.
Speaker 4: Games But i'm.
Speaker 5: EXCITED i love getting another, smaller undersized goaltender brought over
to THE. NHL i think they need to amass and
just correct the market back down to that six foot
one seventy size. RANGE i think that's the most fun
we could. Have those are the goaltenders that leave you guessing.
MORE i think it's a lot of fun to watch them.
Speaker 4: Play So i'm all. In i'm here To that's Who
i'm betting all my chips on this.
Speaker 2: Year love. It, yeah he's a lot of. Fun that's.
Great so let's talk about the next, Guy Sergei, muroshov
who also was a bit unknown last year when we
first talked about, him at least to some of us,
Anyways and he was in THE khl a little bit
mostly in THE mhl and is just really unknown in
terms of hadn't played too much at the highest, level
and when he did he look. Great but then he
came over to THE ahl and has looked really good
in eleven games nine to, sixteen save percentage undefeated ten
to knock on. Wood, No i'm not trying to jinx your.
Ezy but then because And i'm sure this is part of,
it The wilson Very Scran penguins have a lot of.
Goalies he's been playing THE acchl and also has been
doing pretty well there in ninet twenty two save percentage
two point four. Ohgea So i'm sure that's part of the.
Context just in case anyone's wondering who the goalies are
In Wilkes Barry, Scran alex And elkovich won, Game Philip
larsen twenty four, Games Serga murashov eleven, Games Dual blunkquist fifteen,
Games Christian jerry twelve, games And Jackson, castor Who i've
never heard, of had one game and got blew, up blown.
Up so what do you think About Marishav North american?
Debut impressed you change your mind at? All the future
crease In pittsburgh is a little murky with everything happened
With jerry And? Blownquist so what are we thinking About marishav?
Speaker 4: Here, YEAH i that is a really bizarre.
Speaker 5: SITUATION i think it was two years. AGO i was, Like,
man if a team wants to emulate a depth chart,
correctly look at What pittsburgh's. Doing they're getting all these
good young. Goaltenders they're able to deal them out for
other pieces that they need if they need. To it's
what a great. Situation and whatever they're doing this, YEAR
i have no idea what's going. ON i think that's
one of the most BIZARRE hl Deployments i've ever seen
at THE nhl. Level they are not necessarily thriving this.
Year they're not The Pittsburgh penguins that we are used,
to and that's. Okay every team goes through ebbs and.
Flows But Tristan jarry is their most successful goaltender at
THE nhl level this. Year he has an eight ninety
five unadjusted safe. Percentage that's not. GREAT i do think
that it's smart that they aren't Putting you'll blunk twist
into a ton OF nhl games given what THE nhl
team looks like right. Now Because nidolkovich hasn't been doing particularly,
Well jari hasn't been doing particularly, Well blonkfust hasn't been
doing particularly. Well So i'm interested to see how things
shake out For, Blankfist, mershav And Philip, larsen who is
their other goaltender this. Year all three of them have
been doing really well at THE ahl. LEVEL i don't
know what's going to happen with That Jackson. Caster we
DON'T i don't think even need to worry about. Him but,
Yeah i'd love to See Sergey marishov play in AN
nhl game or, two just to see how his game
progresses behind a bad, team because right now he's doing
really well behind The Wheeling nailers in THE, Ecchl he's
doing really well behind The, penguin THE Wbs. Penguins we
just haven't seen him play behind The Pittsburgh, penguins which.
Speaker 4: There's a little more travel involved.
Speaker 5: In a little more certainty For, blumbcuist because he has
spent since this year up at THE nhl level and
just hasn't done particularly. Well SO i wonder if that
lack of pressure is what Makes mirishav look a little
bit more consistent at THE hl, level because he does
look a little more. Consistent he looks like he's a
little more controlled with his, movements his. Rebounds as a
little bit less. FRANTIC i think Bump fust is a
really good. Goaltender he's one that has been pretty high
on in the. Past he's he's had some slip ups this,
year BUT i don't know if that's because he's been
dealing with a little bit more, pressure and that's not
necessarily an. EXCUSE i do think that goaltenders have to
be able to handle, that But i'm curious to see
what mirshav would be able to.
Speaker 4: Do i'd say they're for me right. Now they are
both in wait and see.
Speaker 5: MODE i don't think that Myrshav is has pulled ahead
Of blomfist in my, eyes BUT i certainly don't think
that he sits behind him at the.
Speaker 2: Moment, yeah that's. Fair and as much As pittsburgh wants
to believe that they are still at the contending, team
they really they're. Not, no they should just accept that
and let And letsov play a few games and see
what they. HAVE i agree they probably won't do, that
but that's what they should.
Speaker 4: Do i'm sure they.
Speaker 2: Won't all, right let's talk about so in case people are,
wondering there are Two, igorovs there are. Goalies There, egorygorov
and there's Mikel, ygarov and we we're going to talk
just about Mikel ugorov because HE'S i think the more
interesting the one as of. Now and he is a
six foot five goalie who was drafted by The devils
this past year in the second round and he was
playing in THE ushl last. Year didn't have great, numbers
but he's got good size and good, athleticism and this
year he started with THE Ushl omaha L answers and
then he's been playing AT du and he's been pretty
incredible AT bu in particular some of the highlights That i've,
seen and he seems to exhibit a lot of emotion
and have some of that big, game big save sort of.
Energy and in fourteen games one point NINE ninetaa two
nine thirty one save percentage one, shoutout looking pretty good
there AT. Bu what have you thought Of Michel ugarov's
transition TO ncaa and has his stock risen this?
Speaker 5: YEAR i love to see him playing a full season
OF ncaa. Hockey he's not someone THAT i think needs
to go pro right after a season or two of playing,
college just, because like you, said he is a little.
Speaker 4: Emotion isn't a bad, thing but his technique.
Speaker 5: Does it gets a little exciting to watch at times
in an almost like a mad So guard kind of,
way WHERE i just never really know if he's going
to keep his technique. Consistent AND i think behind lower
levels of play that is totally. FINE i think behind
higher quality competition that can become a little.
Speaker 4: Bit of a.
Speaker 5: Liability So i'd love to see what collegiate what that
that strict, structure and what that.
Speaker 4: ROUTINE i knew the word would come to me.
Speaker 5: Eventually i'd love to see what the routine of just
playing college hockey for a couple of. Years i'd, say
in a perfect, world i'd love to see him play three,
seasons AND i am including this. ONE i don't think
he needs to play all for But i'd love to
SAY i see two or three years of college hockey
just to see if we see his game sort of
dial in a little, bit if we see him start
to control his movements and his technique and his consistency.
Speaker 3: Just a little bit.
Speaker 5: There of, course there are some players THAT i think
they thrive on the chaos and the unpredictability of their,
game and if that's.
Speaker 4: Him that could be. FUN i don't think we've seen
one of those with The devils for a little. While
i'd love to see what he could do.
Speaker 5: There BUT i don't think it does The devils a
huge service to bring him to THE nhl level or
even THE nhl level next. YEAR i would give him
a couple of, years especially because they have rushed a
couple of their prospects in the last few years and
it has not gone particularly well for.
Speaker 2: Them, definitely we'll have to wait and see on. Those all,
Right let's transition over to another, team and that's people
want to know about The philly. GOALIES i think all
of us. WANTED i think wants to know what's going
on with their. Goalies in. PARTICULAR i Haven't fedotov And,
kolosoff who both have been seeing a good number of,
starts AND i think the question in particular is Did
philly Ruin both of these guys are, Good what is
going on? There?
Speaker 5: PROBABLY i think we even talked about this at the
beginning of last, year HOW i didn't like What philly was.
DOING i didn't think.
Speaker 4: It was the right. MOVE i didn't think it was
a smart.
Speaker 5: MOVE i think that going into your year when you
haven't had a really quality season in almost a, decade
with aging defenders who don't play a super modern game
Like Rasmus rustiline And Eric, johnson starting off with guys
like that and throwing a bunch of unproven goaltenders who
are not super well versed in The North american style
of play in the first place into a, game one
of which spent some time in the last few, years
reportedly in a military hospital after some murky. SITUATIONS i
would not throw them out into the chaos that is
The Philadelphia, flyers but that's what they. Did they didn't
give themselves any sort of. Reprieve they don't have any.
Speaker 4: Safety. Net in the, past they've been a little bit.
Speaker 5: Better at the very least about having some of those
sort of realief based goaltenders in their. SYSTEM i know
that they've had guys like As Steve mason, character and
at this point all of their backups have flown out
of my head because they've had so many in the
last few. Years but the only player that they have
in their system who has played any sort of MAJOR
nhl games has Been Cal, peterson and that's a CHOICE
i don't think their goaltenders look great at THE nhl.
LEVEL i don't think their goaltenders look great at THE ahl.
LEVEL i think that there's a lot of uncertainty that
creates a lot of stress for young, goaltenders which certainly
doesn't make it any easier to play those. Games Kind
of like when we were talking About, mirishov how he
doesn't have that pressure and when he's PLAYING hl AND ehl.
Games it's like The flyers did the opposite with their
goalies and they, said let's see what a pressure cooker
will do to.
Speaker 4: Them into they're they're finding out what that. Does when
you look At mirshov and then.
Speaker 5: You look At coslav Or kolosov and you see how
things are shaking out for the two of, THEM i
think that kind.
Speaker 4: Of speaks for, itself and it's not necessarily that these
are bad.
Speaker 5: GOALTENDERS i do want to say. THAT i think That
kolosov is probably a good a good. PROSPECT i think
That Atwo macanimi is a decent. PROSPECT i really enjoyed
him at the end when he was drafted By, CAROLINA
i was, Like, oh that's a really fun one for
them to.
Speaker 4: DRAFT i don't think that what they are doing with
these guys is the right. Move but that's just. Me
maybe they know.
Speaker 2: More, sure that's. DEBATABLE i would just looking at the,
numbers the goals save above expected for the Three philly
goalies this year is just. Atrocious like they're All kolosov
is the best at negative eight point, three and Then
fetotav at negative, twelve And ersen at negative fifteen point eighty.
Seven and you might think that the protection is just
awful for, them but that's actually not. True they've actually
been getting just above average protection and they're just all.
Terrible it would seem So, YEAH i don't, KNOW i.
Agree i'm just Like i'm holding a couple of these
guys in dynasty just because it's not costing me anything
to do. IT i don't have high, hopes but the
stock is so low that if either of them can
figure it, out then the cost to acquire them is.
Nothing right, now if you had to pick one or
of the, two fetataph Or Alexei, kolosov would you lean
one way or the other or would you just run
in the other.
Speaker 4: Direction, HONESTLY i don't. KNOW i truly think that.
Speaker 5: The philadelphia, flyers AND i know that they won't listen to,
me BUT i truly think that they need to draft
two or three. Goaltenders they get to play juniors or
minors over In, europe they get to play two to
three years at THE ahl level without calling them up even.
Once just leave them, there let them play some pressure free,
games and then bring them up to THE nhl level
and see what. Happens and they haven't done that once
in the LAST.
Speaker 4: I, think Since Steve mason And.
Speaker 5: SERGEYBEBROWSKI i think that's the last time that they had
and even then they. RUSH i would argue they rush
both of those, guys but, YEAH i don't.
Speaker 4: KNOW i really don't. KNOW i think that.
Speaker 5: The way that they handle their, goaltenders even if they
have quality prospects in their, system they are not handling them,
correctly AND.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: It there's only so much that you can do for
a goaltender when they're not being protected, properly and their
ceiling gets lowered every time their development gets rushed like,
that and then they panic and they rush the next
guy on the, list and then they panic and they
rush the next guy on the. List and SO i
think they they need to break the, cycle and but
right now all of their guys are doing so poorly
THAT i fear whoever else they bring into their.
Speaker 4: System is going to end up getting rushed. Too SO
i don't. KNOW i really don't know With, philly AND
i don't Think philly knows With philly.
Speaker 2: Either i'm going to paraphrase and Say kat, says run.
Away that's really all, RIGHT i got two more for,
you and then we'll save the rest for the team,
previews which we'll cover a lot of these. Guys But Brandon,
BOOZY i, know was someone that a lot of people
had some interest, in especially reading the tea leaves About.
BOSTON i think the crash finally happened that some of
us thought would happen a couple of years, ago and
some of us Thought boosey would even get more of
a look than Corpus solo if he, Struggled but they've
stuck With swymen And corpusolo all. Season boosey has continued
to be pretty good in THE. Ahl he's been pretty
good the last few. Seasons BUT i think people are,
wondering is this guy ever going to get a? Shot
is he just a career ahl or have we changed
our mind at all about?
Speaker 4: Him And i'm still not In i'm still in love with.
Him he's not one of MY i remember when they
Brought Corpus solo.
Speaker 5: In it was it did make my daughter very sad
because she was a big fan of the goalie, hugs
and so she was, like Who's Jeremy swyman gonna hug?
Speaker 4: Now and it's like she could he could Hug Corpus.
SOLO i don't, know BUT i do think that What
boston's doing isn't the opposite of What philly's. Doing like
when we look at The bell curve in the, middle
giving a.
Speaker 5: Few guys some look What pittsburgh's, doing and then we've
got guys On we've got teams Like philadelphia where they're
just throwing everyone directly into the frying, pan and then
we've got teams Like boston where they are throwing no
one into a tough, situation WHICH i. Appreciate i've never
been super high On Brandon, bussey SO i don't know
IF i consider him a top, prospect but he's been
doing just fine for the Pe, brewins SO i think
next year would be a nice time for them to
give him a. LOOK i think it was right to
not throw him in when the team was in flux this,
year just because they've been a little inconsistent as a.
Whole they got rid of their, captain which as an objective,
VIEWER i understand as a longtime fan Of Brad marshan
And i'm very sad about but that's.
Speaker 4: OKAY i think that not Throwing bussian behind that is.
Speaker 5: FINE i don't want to see a prospectful tender getting
thrown into a no win situation when their starters are
doing okay on their. Own BUT i do think that
next year they if they do trust him as a,
PROSPECT i think that they have to give him some,
starts And i'm assuming they. WILL i just if we
don't see them give him starts next, YEAR i would
assume that that's them telling us that they consider Him
Blake mike D pietro someone who is not in their
long term plans and they're just placeholding until they find
their next quality.
Speaker 2: Guy, gotcha that makes. Sense one more, Guy and sorry
to all the other questions we didn't get, to but
you'll have to wait for the team for. Yous it'll
be a good, time come join. Us and this Is Marcus.
Gidlough he is A swedish goalie and he was drafted
this past year by The New York. Islanders he's six
foot six. Guy he's still a, teenager really still. Developing last,
year the previous season he was basically in THE j
twenty all, season had ONE shl game did not go.
Well and then this season he SPLIT ja twenty AND
shl time pretty great in. Both he plays For lexans
and he also made a couple appearances at THE u
Twenty World Junior championships For. SWEDEN i think that surprised couple,
people and he looked, great, honestly nine thirty eight save
percentage one point three aga just two games went one in.
One But i've been a, fan especially with that, frame
AND i think he's probably one of the names that
is available in some shallower. Leagues so what have you
thought of his? Season Marcus goodlof and The islanders they
have soroken probably, forever but at some point either he
might get Either goodlock might get. Traded if he develops,
right there could be some potential. There what do you
think of? HIM i think he looks.
Speaker 5: FINE i always have a little bit of trouble with
The swedish leagues because there is such a high discrepancy
between quality of competition within a singular.
Speaker 4: League so at THE shl level you see teams that.
Speaker 5: Its whole team put them AGAINST ahl OR nhl teams
and they wouldn't get blown. Out and then you have
teams that look like they are ready for relegation To,
olsvenskan and it sometimes. Happens and SO i think it's
hard to tell how he'll do In North, america BUT
i know that The islanders are.
Speaker 4: Going to need.
Speaker 5: Someone soon, ish just Because vlomov has been injured all.
Speaker 4: Year he did not do well when he was.
Speaker 5: Healthy Marcus hogberg has been doing pretty, well which is,
good but he's not a. Prospect that is a three
year old goaltender who has hopped. Around he was with
The senators for a, while went back To sweden for a,
bit came back this year and is doing. Okay SO
i think that even If sorocan plays fifty games sixty
games a season for The, islanders they really only Have
Jacob skerrik in their, system and he's not one That
i'm as high on he was the other half of
The Lucas Doshtaal Jacob skrik were both guys THAT i
kind of looked at, together And skrek was.
Speaker 4: The one THAT i was not particularly high, on and
his numbers support.
Speaker 5: That SO i think that they are going to need
someone sooner rather than, later unless they want to Work
sorocan to the point where he gets retired.
Speaker 4: Early so it'll be fun to see How goodloff.
Speaker 5: DOES i do want to see how he does In
North america, though BEFORE i get really, confident because some
of his games he looks like he's.
Speaker 4: Playing against much lower quality of competition and he makes
it look really, easy but it should be really easy for.
Speaker 5: Him so he's doing exactly what it sticks by, him
but he's not wowing in any particular way for, Me
so we'll. See he's one That i'm not super low,
on BUT i do want to see how he does
In North america BEFORE i get really confident about his.
Speaker 2: Game, Awesome, yeah that's great. Stuff you definitely want to
keep an eye on if you have the ability to
Add Marcus, goodlof and deeply you might want to because
so you never, know but he'll be a while and
not going to be anytime. Soon, kat thanks so much
for joining me and doing this and IF i look
forward to our discussions On cat's instincts on the team.
Preview is there anything you wanted to mention on the
way out, TODAY.
Speaker 4: I did want to.
Speaker 5: MENTION i know that a couple of people had brought
Up Brandon, halverson AND i need them to very gently
know that he turned twenty nine this. Year he is
not a prospect. Anymore that's my nicest way to gently
tell them that he and he doesn't look. Great SO
i know that some of these other guys we've gone
into more more depths on and we will be talking
about the ones that we didn't get. TO i do
not think that we will be talking About Brandon, helper
SINCE i just want to make sure that they aren't
eagerly awaiting an update on, him because the update is
that he is twenty.
Speaker 2: Nine so that's, yeah move. Along people tend to look
at some other.
Speaker 5: Places nicest WAY i can put it for, him he
seems like a really nice. Guy he's doing really well
in THE, ahl AND i think The Syracuse crunch have
needed someone to stabilize the presence In. Syracuse BUT i
don't think that's who they.
Speaker 4: Are if they're looking for someone to Succeed, VESSELEVSKY i
need them to not look. There it's the nicest way
to put.
Speaker 2: It, yeah, Awesome thanks so much for doing this and
definitely look forward to having you.
Speaker 4: Back of, course thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: On our way out the door. TODAY a couple more
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