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It is Ludo Shinzala, the man from the Athletic who
loves to cover those Boston Bruins. Fludo, how you doing today?
Speaker 6: Very good, Jesse, happy to be here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. We follow your work all year and then
once a year we get a shot at you to
talk about the team. And this is an unfortunately early
date for us to be doing our offseason preview of
the Bruins. I don't think it's a The Bruins outperformed expectations.
I think for years throughout the late Berge run era,
there were doubters, there were skeptics the whole time. They
kept it up. They had the one seed at some
points and definitely were consistently a playoff team. Just yesterday,
it seems like they were buying at the deadline, but
the bottom fell out this year. After a slow start,
the team fired coach Jim Montgomery, and after defeating the
Minnesota Wild on February fourth, to pick an arbitrary date,
the team was still twenty seven, twenty two and six,
and from there to the end of the season six
seventeen and four, at one point a ten game winless streak.
They probably wisely sold at the deadline, including franchise mainstay
Brad marchand also headed out Charlie Coyle, Brandon Carlo Trent Frederick,
Justin BRAZIAU. They came back with draft capital and some
players that will certainly beginning to later in this preview.
And from what I understand, and you were probably there,
the season ended in a somewhat tense press conference just
after a takedown day. Is the state of the franchise
in Boston belief it's time for a reboot, an attempt
to do what the Caps did a couple of years ago,
that half step back and then able to jump back
into contention something in between. What are your takes on
this season, Fluido?
Speaker 2: I think that Washington example is a good one, Jesse
in terms of and the Bruins benefited from that two
years ago they got Orlov and they got Hathaway. When
Washington decided, okay, it's time to try and do this
on the fly. I don't know that the Caps were
necessarily thinking it was going to be this quick and
this good. But you look at the steps that they
put in place. They get a new coach, young, sharp, dynamic,
good communicator, good at motivating guys. They make their moves
in terms of upgrading in goal the d with Chickrin.
They look up front they get du Bois. But Spencer Carberry,
the Caps were in Boston in the spring, and he
brought up a terrific point in terms of integral to
that part of the turnaround were guys internal guys Faervari McMichael.
That they were able to draft and develop a secondary
tier of players under a Vegkin and Wilson so that
when management was ready to add via trades and via signings,
they had all these layers in place that just happened
to come together this season. So ideally, yes, the Bruins
would like to follow that template in terms of okay,
let's hire a new coach. Okay, maybe it's a proven
guy like you couldn't go wrong with Mike Sullivan, but
perhaps there's a younger coach that can grow with the team.
And look, any coach would like to have David Posternot,
Charlie McAvoy. I think people think that this was an
aberration for Jeremy Swayman just because this is the only
year that he's had this kind of bad performance, so
that there will be a regression for Jeremy next year.
So those are three significant building blocks. But the issue
is that secondary tier, like it's just not there. Yes,
they did a good job in terms of starting to
add back to that prospect pool, but this is still
like you look at some of their prospects right now,
there is no slam dunks in terms of who's going
to make the roster next year, out of American League,
out of college, out of wherever. It's just that's where
they are in terms of the state of the franchise,
just because they spent so many years dealing away draft
capital to add guys like roll off half away and
you go back Rick Nash under a Kasha that this
is just a halfas Lin home, and these are significant
players that were able to stretch the window of Bergeron
and Crag and Brad but it just it just ran
out a runway this year. So the management thinks that
this is still a team that can get back into
the playoffs next year just because of what they have
of those three players have as lin homes should be healthy,
that they will have money to spend.
Speaker 6: But do they have that.
Speaker 2: Group internally, No, they don't. They are in desperate need
of NHL players, legit NHL players, as we saw after
the deadline, where it's just the roster was designed to
tank and it's there's no clear succession order of players
that can come up internally. So that'll be the biggest
challenge populate the roster with NHL players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's going to be a delay of a few
days between our recording and the release, So by then
you're talking about the exciting young coach David carl has
been rumored. You've got Mike Sullivan now who's on the market,
who's going to be making a decision soon. So we
don't really know. By the time people are listening to this,
they may know more than us, and probably from a
tweet that you put out there, fluido. But and I
know you don't know the answer because otherwise you have
reported it by now. But yeah, do you have a
sense in your heart which way the Bruins would go
given their druthers.
Speaker 2: In terms of a coach, Yeah, yeah, Sully would fit
check a lot of boxes. There's a personal connection of
being a Boston guy. The guy he played with Don
Sweeney and he coached him for one year, so there's
that relationship. He played with Joe Sacho, so maybe that
would encourage Joe to stay on staff and contend and
continue his loyalty to the organization. Of course, there's Charlie McAvoy,
his son in law. He'd be close to him, close
to the daughter, close.
Speaker 6: To the ground, So there's yeah.
Speaker 2: And for Mike's this would be his second go around,
and you can look back and say he wasn't ready
to be the head coach at thirty eight years old
when he got to let go his first time, So
obviously he's well accomplished. Now would he choose Boston over
the Rangers?
Speaker 6: That's tough.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Rangers they've got money to burn, and
they would be if you're looking at it from his perspective. Okay,
Bruins have their foundational players, but you could argue that
the Rangers have better ones. Aaron Fox it's a Stirkin,
and they have other secondary players too, and he has
a relationship with Chris Drury and he's worked there. So
all signs point toward New York. But there's that personal
thing that might put it over the edge of being being.
Speaker 6: Back home for Mike.
Speaker 2: So if that doesn't, if that turns out to be
option B for Mike and it doesn't work out with Boston,
then I think, look, Don Swayney said, this is still
a prime opportunity for a coach, and deservedly so, just
because of the franchise they've always spent. They have good players,
city everything. But if a coach says, if it has
proven established coach looks at it and says there might
be better options out there, than perhaps it is time
to go with someone like David carl someone like j
Pandolfo who has worked here and has played here. So
that's my guess. If not Sullivan, then a younger guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get to some of the good news, because
David Pasternak still had an excellent year and by the way,
for a European player, he's an awful lot of commercials.
I love Pasta is always on the commercials as far
as he's on Pepsi and dunkin Donuts I think. But anyway,
that's not what he's known for. He's known for one
hundred and six points that he scored this year in
a full eighty two games. He was third in the
league in scoring with four three goals, which was fifth,
sixty three assists, which was seventh. He shoots the lights out,
finishing only one shot from the lead with three hundred
and nineteen. Still in his prime, he's locked in for
four more years. He's shown the ability to do this
with this year. Undoubtedly from previous years, less of a
supporting cast than he had, He's still scoring and producing
like this. Do you expect a similar season from David
Pasternak next year? Is this excellence that we had this year?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Perhaps even better, just because he had a bad start.
He was coming off of an injury in the offseason.
He said it happened after World Championships, so he wasn't
able to train properly for a bit. I can't remember
if it was two or three weeks, but something significant
in terms of offseason training, so he wasn't ready to go.
Even got benched for an entire third period by Jim Montgomery.
I think it was against Seattle sometime in the fall,
just because he was taking penalties.
Speaker 6: He wasn't playing.
Speaker 2: Well, So you consider that, and then from I think
it was from January first on, to be the leading
scorer in the league and like you said, to be
trained upon by opponents just because there's nobody else that you.
Speaker 6: Have to worry about on the roster. Remarkable.
Speaker 2: So the fact that he's shooting a high volume shooter
obviously didn't even finish at usual rates. So that's going
to continue. And we've seen that he is just as
comfortable making plays now and looking for alignments. Yeah, it's
and of the age and of you incorporate the motivation
to be part of something new here and being possibly
the captain. Yeah, all signs are there for David to continue,
if not improve upon what he did this past year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great stuff.
Speaker 5: He's a great player, and he's certainly the star player
on this team. The next guy we're going to talk
about it may be a bit of a step down,
but a great season for Morgan Geeky, and we have
to shout that out a bit, mostly out of necessity.
He was playing top line center with Pasta and they
needed him to do it. He was up for thirty
three goals, was super impressive. His previous career high was
seventeen goals, and he beat his total in points by eighteen.
It wasn't just points, though, I think Geeky's play driving
was pretty exceptional. Looking at his evolving hockey, he had
an overall score of ninety seven with ninety seven percent
tile on offense and seventy six for defense. So all
in all, he seemed to be driving the best pretty well,
although maybe that was partly just playing with poster knock.
But Fluido, we need to know. Do you think this
version of Morgan Geeky as a top line center is
going to persist? Do you think he can stay around
sixty plus points or do you think that there's going
to be some regression here?
Speaker 2: Regression? You look at the shooting percentage, I think it
was twenty one twenty two percent, way higher than normal,
and then you look at the shots as not a
volume shooter. If you compare him to his peer group
guys who scored around thirty three in that neighborhood. I
think McKinnon had thirty two goals and we all know
how much he shoots, so yeah, it's now. Morgan has
a good shot, a real heavy shot, a very good
one timer from the left elbow, and terrific chemistry with Pasternak.
And of course he benefited from playing with David, but
Morgan with his self made man too that you would
go to the net, he would score from in tight.
He really found a good spot when they moved on
the power play, when they moved past over to his
strong side, and then Pasternak would do the slotline pass
over to Geeky at what used to be David spot
on the left elbow, and Geeky would have the one timer.
So it's yes, terrific year from Morgan, a terrific bargain
for the Bruins two million a year. But he's up,
he's and he's arbitration eligible, so if I would there's
no plans to take him away from Posternach next year,
regardless of who the coach is. And we'll see who
they play with that third forward. And he's a good player, Morgan,
He's heavy he's physical, he'll get in there. He's fearless,
he's not afraid to shoot. But you just look at
that shooting percentage and say, boy, that's there are some
shots there that don't that went in that don't normally
go in for Morgan. So maybe if he shoots more
that the numbers will sustain. But thirty three goals looks
like and it looks like an exception.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5: And Buddy brought up the contract. I'm wondering what you
think that they'll do with the contract being in our faith.
You think they'll give him a little a bridge, you
think they'll extend him for long term?
Speaker 4: Do you have any thoughts on that The.
Speaker 2: Club wants to sign him long term? So what is that?
Five six years? And then you look at the number.
Speaker 6: Who knows?
Speaker 2: If you go as arbitration, thirty three goals looks pretty
good in hearing now he has said that he doesn't
want to exercise that that he's heard all the stories.
It's just it's just not fun for the player to
be hearing that. And he would hear it in terms
of what the organization would argue in arbitration, meaning it's
flashing the pan I'm sure that's what they would argue
when it comes down to trying to argue for a
lower number. So if they can arrive at an organic solution,
I would say ideally for the club, maybe five million.
AV Morgan probably a little higher.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Let's put the difference six times five point five.
Speaker 3: Let's say Pablo Zaka is the next of our guys.
He got a full eighty two games. Also this year,
he played mostly in the top six Pastronok's most common
line mate, actually on five on five as you would
run the numbers in evolving hockey, although the centerment seemed
to rotate a bit at the end of the year.
He's not big in box score stats, but he plays
a lot of respectable minutes twenty ninth to Monks NHL forwards.
He's pretty successful at face offs. Part of me thinks
this is another reasonably affordable piece that they could have
tried to trade in the deadline. But then, like you said,
with those second tier players, if you really look at
their roster, there's not many guys left. He is on
an affordable contract. Plus there's a partial not trade clause,
so it wouldn't be an easy thing to do. Anyway,
He's not the most exciting for his fantasy folks because
he's around like a fifty point score. But what do
you expect for next year? Is it going to be
a similar type production year and have some winger duty
mixed in? Is he going to be a center? What
do you think for Zaka next year?
Speaker 4: Fludo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he is who he is at this
point of his career. That yeah, forty fifty. He had
a career year last year, which was that that was
part of the reason that they couldn't hit their usual standards.
That Zaka had a down year, and that's with playing
with Posternak. I don't know that's going to continue next year.
I think that Elias Lindholm had some success at the
end of the year playing center with Geeky and Postronach
and that's look, Linholm at this point of his career,
he's a third line center, but I understand why it
would work in a first lin role just because a
he can be the defensive player that line, and you
could disguise it just because Pasternak is so good at
driving play that you don't necessarily need a pure traditional
playmaker to play with those two. So where does that
leave Zaka on Probably most like a second line center. Again,
he's not a traditional second line center. Ideally on a
good team, he's your third line center and he can
play what makes him valuable left wing, right wing, power play,
penalty kid face offs, Like, that's a valuable player in
terms of what a team is trying to accomplish because
of the versatility and good pro, good guy, low maintenance
all that. But yeah, point, it's just not that's not him.
That's he's not what Charlie Coyle used to be here
in Boston. Just a good player, good dependable, coach loves him,
throws them out there in whatever situation is needed. But no,
not a play driver.
Speaker 3: Hey, Boston made a lot of hate with those types
of guys just a year ago. But yeah, he definitely
was in a big role. Elias Lindholm was a guy
who paid off that new contract at least by taking
the ice for all eighty two games. The twelve year
Veterans production was similar to last year from when he
moved from Calgary to Vancouver. That year he bounced around
and this year is one hundred and fourteen hits and
seventy nine blocks were.
Speaker 4: Both career highs.
Speaker 3: Encouragingly, ten of his forty seven points came in the
last ten games, so he did finish pretty hot. And
you noted in your writing he may have been dealing
with nagging injuries throughout the year that suppressed his production
even more below his peak years when he was up
in Calgary with the likes of Johnny Gudreau and so forth.
I've read something about a back and something about a knee.
Impressive to keep coming out there with an injury in
a tanking situation at the end of the year. File
this under things that would not happen in the NBA.
Somebody with a nagging injury who doesn't just get shut
down for the last month. So kudos to Lindholm for
playing through all that. How close can Lindholm get back
to his Calgary Selki vote All Star set up guy
for him or and how close is he going to
be to solid centerman that he played last year for Boston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, number two. Yes, he had he hurt his
back day one of training camp, so that couldn't work out,
couldn't skate that. That was massive in retrospect of how
that affected his integration into the lineup. You know, terrible
luck for Lias, but I don't think he arrived in
his best shape either, so that's going to have to improve. Yes,
he finished the year and he's going to play for
Sweden World Championships. But yeah, he is who he is
at this point. Ideally good team third line center, face offs, PK,
maybe second power play like you saw that Four Nations,
he was very in a very narrow role fourth line center, PK,
no power play, the zone starts, all that.
Speaker 6: So that's who he is.
Speaker 2: But as noted, maybe he can be sheltered in a
way with Pasternak and Geeky and yeah, there was absolutely
chemistry there at the end of the year. But after
another year and who he is, can he keep pace?
We'll see and maybe he gets some it's insulting to say,
but maybe tag along numbers of playing with those two players.
But he is like in his role like these owned
faceoffs and matchup center. I don't think he's just not
a first power play guy, but that's what they have
him doing playing bumper on PP one. Maybe they'll find
a better alternative there so that he can play a
second unit role which is more suited to who he is,
right now he's just there's no dynamic offense there the
good reliable pro center veteran all that, but yeah, that's
there's going down the hill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's tough to have many more years at seven
point seventy five mil for somebody who's going to be
playing that kind of role for your team. But that's
what the market will bear right now. The Boston really
needed to bring in another centerman. Speaking of more centermen
that they tried to bring in this year, Casey Middlestott
was a major part of the trade that they made
with the Colorado Avalanche midyear for Charlie Coyle, and he's
had He did have some relatively high heights or at
least higher production years closing in and a point and
a half a game or thereabouts for the Buffalo Sabers
a few years ago. He is he didn't quite do
that with either the Avalanche or with the Bruins after
his acquisition. He has two straight years of point paces
in the upper fifties, I guess at the end of
his Buffalo stance, whereas this year it was forty. And
this guy was straight up traded for Bowen byrom Not
thirteen months ago, who was a major prospect for the
defense on the Colorado Avalanche. I noticed that the Bruins
also acquired a draft pick in another prospect. And Casey
Middlestadt's salary is suspiciously close to Charlie Coyles in terms
of what they flipped there in a cap cap tight league,
and he's going to a team. Coyle is going to
a team looking for veterans to make their cut run,
a Cup run. Whereas middle stat maybe is I don't know,
he's twenty six. I don't even know if we still
consider him a ball of clay here. But is Middlestack
going to end up in a top six role for
the Bruins any chance of power play? Tominis, What did
you guys see of him when he came over from Colorado?
Speaker 6: Not much?
Speaker 2: Underwhelming tons of skill, probably second most skilled player after
pastern with the puck like lights out in terms of
hanging on to it, waiting for openings, seeing them and
then getting guys pure playmaker, decent wheels vision, all that,
but boy light on the puck and when your coach
even says, oh, he's got to get stronger on the puck.
As a twenty six year old guy who's been around
in the league for a long time.
Speaker 6: That's just who. That's not something you want to hear.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they could flip that guy just because it's
been okay. He's got top top six skill in terms
of being a center, of being a playmaker, but if
you can't trust him in the battle and he's not
great defensively, then the coach is going to have a
real tough time putting him out there in high pressure
offensive situations. So I wouldn't be surprised if they eat
some of that money and trade him, or he's going
to have to improve a whole heck of a lot
over the summer into training camp to be a dependable
top because because yeah, he's not fourth line center, he's
not really a third line center. He's for him to
really fulfill what his pedigree was at one point, I
think it was eighth overall pick and one in his
draft year. That's second line center. That's what he should
be and he has a skill to do that, but
he's not going to get stronger. Then there's no way
any coach is going to put them put him out
there in that situation. So yeah, first popway skill, second
line skill all that not defensive, not PK guy, not
face offs, that's just pure offense. But it's just very
underwhelming player.
Speaker 5: All right, let's shift to a bit of a points
pick him here. A couple of the depth guys we're
going to talk about, Matthew Patra and Fraser Minton. So
between the two, Patra surprised everyone starting last season in
the NHL, literally than maybe someone expected. He had thirty
three games fifteen points. This season, he played the same
number of games but only eleven points. His actual time
on ice went down in the NHL, and I will
say that Puatra had over a point per game in
the AHL, so that was pretty impressive. Minton, who came
over in a deal from Toronto twenty one NHL games
five points. His h O production wasn't quite as impressive
half point per game, and it looks like on in
terms of play driving, Poatra was a bit better, certainly defensively,
Minton looked under average or a little bit like he
struggled in offense and defensive production. So what do you
think we can expect from these two? Fraser Binton Matthew
Patro next season?
Speaker 4: Fludo.
Speaker 2: Neither is guaranteed to make the league just because like
if you look at this past year for Patro, that
was Bruins did him a disservice.
Speaker 6: He wasn't ready. Okay, you could.
Speaker 2: Make the case he had a good camp, and again
this goes back to how short they were at center
that they thought, Okay, his kids had a good camp.
He's showed some promise a lot this first year.
Speaker 6: Pro Let's see if you can make the team. And
he did.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can understand that, but then he did nothing.
He got sent down and then he got called back
up and was you could argue he was even worse,
and that was just killed his Confidence's you can't do
that as a team to bring up a kid who's
not ready and who's wired mentally to really take that
heart when he's not producing. That's just the type of
person he is. So that that was a failure by
the franchise. So yes, encouraging for the team that he's
gone down to the American League and been point per
game player. But you consider the history and how much
it's been stops and starts, and you consider how hard
he is on himself, and he's a pretty serious kid
in terms of thinking and reflecting on when things go wrong.
What happens when things go wrong and he's not ready
and he gets called up and things don't go well,
that's yet another interruption in his development. So he's got
to be fully baked for him for them to even
consider him being an NHL player next year. Okay, let's
assume that he does. Yeah, there's play driving there. Does
that translate to NHL? That's the hope for the team?
I don't know's I'm not comfortable saying that he's even
going to make the team at the start next year,
just because of what we've seen these past two years. Now,
maybe he goes deep in the HL playoffs. There's still
a live providence, So if he gets a real foothold there,
that'll be a big step in his development. And then
we'll see. But right now that's a coin flip in
terms of whether he even makes a team. Minton, it
doesn't look like he's going to develop into the type
of NHL offensive player that Patra could. There's just completely
different players. Minton looks to me more NHL already in
terms of being responsible, being above pucks, being strong on pucks,
being good, defensively smart, like there's NHL things there. But
when he does make it, and he might even make
it before Matt, that's going to be that's a lower
end the lineup player. That's absolutely third line NHL center.
PK guy, I don't know about power play. So add
that all up. Maybe a twenty five to thirty point
player when he develops, and that's fine for what the
Bruins would be looking for. They made that trade with
the expectation that this was going to develop at some
point into number three center. And yeah, maybe he translates
some of his defensive awareness into transition offense and get
some points that way, but at this point he's twenty
years old, twenty one. Doesn't look like he's going to
be a point producer NHL.
Speaker 5: Very fair. Thank you for the background on those guys.
The last one I want to ask you about Fabian
Lacel and Lacel he seems like forever we've been waiting
for him to develop or to reach his potential. He
finally got his first taste of NHL action this season
twelve game, three points and looking at his play driving chart,
his rampum chart, he looks pretty good defensively, or at
least he held his own in terms of course he
the offensive generation production wasn't quite there by small sample size.
He has been pretty solid in the HL this past
the past few seasons, So I'm wondering if you think
he's finally going to be an NHL regular or do
we still have to wait and see with him. What
are we expecting from lisel next season?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another who knows shrugged the shoulders with Fabian.
Like you talk about speed with the puck, there's he's
right up there in terms of NHL elite with speed
and pace with the puck, like he can fly in
decent hands too, but hasn't put it all together. And
at this stage, like you're looking at your watch and saying,
is this ever going to happen? Got flattened a few
times when he was up. He was up for I
think eleven or twelve games at the end in garbage
time when they were tanking, And that's going to continue.
If he doesn't get stronger, he's going to have a
tough time in those wall battles. If he doesn't put
on some weight, get a little bit more muscular, and
just develop more awareness of your surroundings. And it's just
it's you're gonna get crushed if he continues to play
that way. Made some plays with the puck, has as
as playmaking touch, but he's a goal scorer and he
didn't have that. I think it was a ten or
eleven goals in the American League when they called him
up finally, so it's we have not seen a true
progression or breakthrough or anything of that matter from Fabian.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: He's still young, but time is running out. And again
I don't know if he's going to make the roster
Next year. He'll be on his third year of his
entry level deal, so there's still time in that sense.
Speaker 6: But yeah, this is if.
Speaker 2: He doesn't make it in the fall, then I don't
know if it's going to work out.
Speaker 3: Well, let's splip over to the blue line Fluido Charlie mcavoys,
where we obviously start out there. He was having an
okay season in some of his advanced metrics. He was
still improving the team when he was out there compared
to when he was not, but points were pretty low,
maybe in the lower range of outcomes. And then disaster
struck at the Four Nations Cup, where McAvoy suffered a
shoulder injury that ended up a little while later with
a scary trip to the hospital, and then the footage
of the stirring returned to the US locker room before
the finals, so he was the start of the show
there for a minute. Maybe it was no accident that
McAvoy's departure is pretty closely timed to that turning point
in the record that I discussed up top. It makes
me wonder whether when McAvoy went out that was the
last straw for the team, thinking this isn't going to happen,
we need to sell in next month. Is macavoy looking
to be back to his normal self in the fall
and after the performance you did see last year, which
was more of a half point per game type guy,
what are you expecting for him going forward?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he'll be fully healthy.
Speaker 2: Was never cleared at the end, will not play for
Team USA World Championships, But yep, it was training, all
that skating, practicing, all that. He should be good to
go for camp now and he will be part of
that new group in Posternok Hampus LD home. I'm sure
he'll take that seriously. He's a serious kid in terms
of being responsible that way, and I'm sure he'll want
to do his best to get the Bruins back on track.
But you look at the way he played last year.
Now he didn't have a regular partner. He really benefited
in years past playing with Grizzly. That was a really
good partnership for him. Grizzly doesn't come back, he starts
a season, starts training camp with Nikita Zadorof. That is
not great players with Mason Loroy times. Okay, Charlie himself,
but and that's gonna help, that's gonna hurt anybody. But
on his own, I don't think he played up to
his level last year before the injury. So there's there's
room for improvement for Charlie next year.
Speaker 6: But back to his game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not mccar he's not Fox, he's not Hughes.
He's your twenty four minute horse who's going to play physical.
He's going to be a game changer in terms of
the big hit like we saw on McDavid in the tournament.
That's who he is.
Speaker 6: He's not.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe he'll get some properlay time up top on
the first unit, but he just doesn't drive it. And
that was part of the reason that their probably was
so bad. This year is that he just he couldn't
get it on glued. I would expect him to be
better like he just he'll be in a tough spot
if he plays to his level like he did last year. Yeah,
I think he'll be better, but the points will not
be there in terms of being in that top tier
of offensive defenseman.
Speaker 5: All right, let's move on to Mason Lori, one of
my favorite young players. I was really impressed with him
coming up this season. He played thirty six more games
and he did last season up to seventy seven thirty five, sorry,
forty one. Last year, he increased his time on ice
by almost two and a half minutes, taking on tougher assignments,
but the defensive metrics aren't there. He struggled a bit
with expected goals against. Of course he against, but he
generated a significant amount of offense and points wise, he
had nearly the same point pace as McAvoy with less
time and opportunities. So that was pretty impressive. Obviously different player,
but looking at that thirty five point pace, we wonder
if there can be more there? Will he continue to
get power play time? What do you think we can
expect from Lorier next season?
Speaker 4: Flido.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's more points there. I think whenever
Mason's on the ice, there's goals. But that's the issue
there's it's either they're going in his net or he's
helping to produce them. It's an issue when you're a coach,
is okay, what's going to happen when I put this
guy out there? Something either something good or something bad generally,
so unless he tightens up defensively, and part of that
will be reducing his ice time, sheltering him. He's third
pair all day, and yes, power play first, power play
with the skill, but you really got to be careful
with Mason, and part of that is upon him to
be more responsible and to be more accepting of You
got to defend, and you got to check, and you've
got to be.
Speaker 6: Hard to play against.
Speaker 2: And look never going to be a Chris Pronger type
like that's just not who he is. He's he'll be
taking the puck from one end to the other. But
he's got to be at least consistent and relatively reliable
for him for a coach to give him the ice time.
So the points will be there, I think they'll be
they'll improve, but a lot of that depends upon his
usage too. If a coach really doesn't like what he
sees defensively and says, Okay, we're putting you out there
for eleven minutes of five on five and PP two,
then okay, there's an issue there with the points. So
it's yeah, he's gonna have to Mason's gonna have to
take a big step in terms of being a better
defensive presence. Otherwise he's just not going to get his
opportunities to create offense, which we know, which we have seen,
and a very creative, fearless not afraid to go low
in the offensive zone and not afraid to shoot. So
there's absolutely offensive high ceiling there with Mason, but the
defense has to be cleaned up.
Speaker 3: We've talked about guys who lost time to injury, guys
who were even injured pretty early, and a guy from
trade deadlines acquisitions past Tampus Lindholm was also in that category.
He got seventeen games in before he apparently broke a
kneecap out and missed the rest of the season. And
aside from that great first season in Boston, the first
full season after not his acquisition year, but the following
and he had fifty three points and got Norris votes.
He's never really been a big stats performer. He was
at a position of need for the team before and
much more so now as the as we talk about
the depth of this team thinning out a bit. He's
thirty one, he's still got several years left on his contract.
What do you anticipate for Lindholme's recovery and his profile
coming into next year?
Speaker 6: Good to go for next year? Had to it was,
he said. How he put it was that he had
good luck within his.
Speaker 2: Bad luck with the original injury, the broken mattilla, in
that it was a clean break. He was good, he
was actually ahead of schedule, and then he pushed it
and he pushed it too hard in terms of return
to play. So there was a screw in there that
was bothering him. So they had to take that out
and let that heal again organically. So that was the
issue in terms of why he ultimately had to miss
the rest of the year.
Speaker 6: But good to go. But yeah, at his.
Speaker 2: Age, thirty one, big big guy coming off significant knee injury,
those are yeah flags. He's more in the McAvoy camp
of being a heavy minute defender first, and we've seen
him in previous years not afraid to go up, good pass,
shot ready player at the blue line. But at the
stage of the career, yeah, I don't foresee the points
being there now. That doesn't mean that he's not going
to be used. That's an important player for the Bruins
and was very much missed for all those games this year.
So he will whoever the coach is. Yeah, that's I
don't think he'll play with McVoy. That's a little bit too,
that's top heavy. But yeah, second pairing for Hampus and
maybe second power play PK. Absolutely so, all situations player.
But does it translate to points and offense? No?
Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about the goalies.
Speaker 5: The Bruins are ranked nineteenth and expected goals against per
sixty conceded the nineteenth ranked actual goals against per game
at five to five. You might expect that to mean
that Jeremy Swimming did pretty well compared to expected, but
he actually saved negative twelve above expected at all strengths
and even strength he was closer to neutral negative two
point four four. Corporsalo was only slightly negative in the
twenty seven games he played, but in many leagues, especially
towards the end of the year, it was really difficult
to start Jeremy Swayman. He really struggled, and if there
were leagues that were punitive against goals against, he was
almost unrosterable. So I know he had the difficult situation
with the contract at the beginning of the season. What
do you think is going to happen with these goalies
next season?
Speaker 4: Fludo?
Speaker 2: He can't get worse just because he was so bad
compared to what he was throughout his career, not only
Pro NHL, americanly college like there has. He's always been
superlative Jeremy when it comes to performance, and this was
just such an aberration that you're like, yeah, this is
so far off the standard for Jeremy that it was
just it was hard to watch at times.
Speaker 6: So he'll be better, I would expect.
Speaker 2: I think part of that was, Yes, missing training camp
all of training camp doesn't help. That just doesn't help.
And then adjusting to life as a pure number one
after they trade Lenis that's a big adjustment Mentally. I
don't think physically that was an issue for him. He
said he felt mine and he's in great shape, always is.
It takes the training and recovery very seriously, so I
don't think that was an issue, but yeah, it's just
different when you're not being pushed and he's a competitive guy,
and I think at times he just felt, okay, it's
my net and just was never really I'm sure he
was motivated to perform at his best, but it's just
not the same when you don't have allmark they are
knocking down the door and wanting to play. And I
understand why the Bruins played Jeremy as much as they did,
even when he probably wasn't deserving of it. It's like,
we've got to get this guy back up to his
standard and get him some action and see if he
can work himself out of it. And no, he never
really did. So I would think if Corpusseelo is back
that he will see more time. And Don Sweenie made
point of this, he wants to see more competition between
the two to bring out more in Jeremy because you
look at it statistically, at times, yeah, Jonas was better
and he should have been playing more, and certainly Jeremy's
ceiling is higher where he is than Jonas's. But yeah,
there's going to be more competition between the two, so
the ice time for corpusal will go up, Jeremy's will
go down, and the Bruins are hopeful that that will
correspond to improvement and expected everything, say percentage, every metric
for Jeremy because it was just yeah, that was probably
the biggest reason why they had such a poor season,
was that the goaltending was so far off what it
had been historically.
Speaker 3: All right, fludo, that is the questions we had for
the Boston Bruins. Why don't you let people know how
they can keep up with your work and.
Speaker 6: Why Times dot com slash the Athletic.
Speaker 3: Yeah awesome, And I don't know why anybody would not
be following that if they're interested in what's going on
with the Bruins. So thank you so much much for
coming on today and enlightening us about this pretty fascinating team,
and good luck covering them in the future. Will since
then that's good fired, passed off. Oh my goodness, long
quick gram. Now it's your weekly goalie talk. But Kat's Silverman,
Kat's Instincts.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to Kat's Instincts. This is Kat Silverman with
n Gold mag and we're going to talk Boston Brewin goalies.
We are going to start with Brandon Boozy. We've talked
about Boosey before in the show. He's twenty six years
old now six', four two hundred and eighteen. Pounds he
was undrafted this. Season last, SEASON i thought there was
a chance maybe he could beat Out corporsolo for that backup,
job but it didn't. Happen they gave it to Corpus.
Solo he And boosey played thirty three games For Providence,
bruins and his numbers were a bit of a step
back from last. Season HIS gaa went slightly, up his
save percentage went slightly, down but overall it was pretty
similar to previous. Seasons he's been pretty low.
Speaker 4: In the hockey prospecting.
Speaker 5: Model not a whole lot of ACTUAL nhl goalies looked like,
him maybe a couple backup. Couple Kat what are anythings
tell us About? Boozy any sense that maybe he'll step.
Speaker 4: Into that backup role or be AN nhl goalie at any?
Speaker 5: Point.
Speaker 7: OH i say this as someone who full disclosure for
all our, LISTENERS i did grow up A bruins. FAN
i don't really know what they're doing right. Now and
that's not me saying that just because they traded their
captain To. FLORIDA i Think boozy looks. Fine he doesn't
look overly. REMARKABLE i think he looks more consistent with
his technique and his positioning Than Dan, blodar who they
obviously traded away and Left boosy in this do or
die kind of, position there by getting rid of their
other slightly more blue chip. PROSPECT i don't see anything
about his game that shows that when they need him,
to he can elevate the speed of his. Game he's
missing that higher tier for. Me that being, said he
has picked up his speed just a little. Bit when
it comes to his reaction timing his, skating he's done
a good job, of at least for me WHEN i watch.
Him he has trended up a little. Bit technique, wise
his numbers have. Stayed they've been good at THE hl
level pretty much consistently since he got to the. Pros
but there's nothing about his game That i'm enamored, with
and there's clearly nothing in his game That boston's all
that enamored with, either because they haven't given him a,
Chance SO i don't really.
Speaker 3: Know what to.
Speaker 2: Do.
Speaker 7: THERE i think he's at this. Point if he doesn't
get AN nhl shot within the next year or, TWO
i would assume they have no interest in bringing him
up to THE. Nhl he's getting a little too old
for us to think that it's because he doesn't have the.
Speaker 5: Experience, yes that does seem likely at this. Point and
the other guy that they have in their, system as you, hinted,
too puzzling us to what they're doing. Here But Mikey,
Dpehrow we've been talking about him on this show for
a very long. Time he's now twenty five years, old six,
one two hundred and seven.
Speaker 4: Pounds is he six to? ONE i don't. Know that
seems no like a. Stretch he's listed at six to.
One let's say That i'm proud of him for.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah he was drafted By vancouver back in twenty. Seventeen this,
season he last two, seasons he's actually been with The
Providence bruins, primarily and he was able to really increase
his numbers this past season up to nine twenty seven
save percentage two point zero. FIVE gaa really looking strong
in the playoffs, Too so overall it seems like maybe
he's rehabbed his career. Bit he's listed In Hockey Prospecting
model as a. Bust there aren't really whole lot of
guys that look like. Him there's some other highly touted
prospects that didn't work, out Like Zach fucali in.
Speaker 4: There maybe he's turned the, corner maybe he's come back.
Speaker 5: Around, Kat what do your instincts tell us About Mikey Di. Pietro,
now it.
Speaker 7: Is really crazy to me because WHEN i think about
the two goaltenders in The Pee bruin system in my
brain just knowing how Long Mikey Di pietro has been
essentially considered this highly touted. Prospect WHEN i was looking
at who we have listed For, BOSTON i was, Like,
oh why are we listing? Him he's like, Thirty Brandon
boosey's like twenty, Four and Actually Brandon boosey is the
older of the. Two Mikey Di pietro is about to
turn twenty, six but he is currently still only twenty.
Five SO i think it's his size honestly that his kept.
Teams in his injury, HISTORY i know he's had a
lot of injury struggles in the past that has kept
him from really getting his CLEAR nhl. Shot if you
look back at his overall, numbers he was given one
disastrous game with The Vancouver canucks in twenty eighteen, nineteen
he was given one disastrous game with The Vancouver canucks
in twenty, nineteen twenty, twenty and he was given one
disastrous game with The Vancouver canucks in twenty twenty, one
twenty twenty, two and then they cut him. Loose SO
i think he has done an admirable job of essentially
staying within The North american hockey. System looking at some
of the other goaltenders who have been in that same,
model a lot of them do go over To europe
and end up playing over. There And Michael gartig's another
one who played for The Vancouver canucks system who after
doing really well for them as a prospect and after
that team making it very clear that he was not
a clear prospect for, them he went To, toronto played
in their minor league, system won THEIR acchl team a,
cup and then went over To europe and has been
lighting it up In germany ever. Since and that's something
THAT i think we could have seen From depietro and
and said he has stayed In North america and he's
been doing really well at THE ahl level for The,
bruins and they just have not brought him up to
get a look at THE nhl. Level AND i don't
know what's going on, there BECAUSE i think he's got
a really good. GAME i think he has really good,
speed really good. REFLEXES i think he tracks. Well sometimes
he plays a little too aggressively THAT i think is
a size thing for. HIM i don't know if maybe
they didn't bring him up this year because they wanted
to make absolutely sure that they did as poorly as,
Possible and maybe we'll sea him at THE nhl level
next year if they keep him, Around BUT i don't.
KNOW i think every year we have the same conversation
where we look at his numbers and we, say he
looks like he's ready to take the next. Step is
he going to do? It and the team, Say, nope
not this. Year SO i think if he continues on
having the kind of monster run in the playoffs that
he's having with the Pe, RUINS i think it would
be unavoidable to not give him AN nhl. Look but
teams have surprised me, before AND i don't really know
What boston's, doing SO.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 7: Know i'd love to see him get more than one
game with a Rebuilding Vancouver canucks team to see what
he can. Do but at this, Point i'm at a.
LOSS i don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4: There, yeah me. TOO i really hope it works out for.
Him i'm.
Speaker 5: Hoping i'm hopeful that maybe The Dustin wolf experience makes
a little bit clearer path for some of these smaller, goalies.
Speaker 7: But paving the way for.
Speaker 4: EVERYONE i hope.
Speaker 5: So but my snowcorn that it's hard to extrapolate to other,
Guys BUT i hope he gets a legit shot BECAUSE
i remember distinctly that game that The canucks put him
in against The, sharks and it was, awful. Awful it
wasn't really just, him the team was lawful in front
of him, too so they ruined that whole experience for.
Him but hopefully there's some of our days. Ahead i'm
pulling for, You, Mikey so thanks so, much cav forgive
us it's gonness your instincts on the Bustin bruins.
Speaker 8: Goalies we'll be back right after this digs the dynasty
dig keeping waiting a long.
Speaker 3: Time because we love our dynasty, digs and that is
the time for those of you who were not here last,
year when we break down three major prospects on the,
team the no brainer, prospect the need to know prospect
and to keep your eye on. Prospect and actually two
of these players were already discussed With, fluto but we
want to get a little bit deeper into. Them and these,
always these aren't always like the top three prospects in
the system per, se but they're the ones that we
are highlighting for. Reasons it starts with our no brainer, Today,
victor and that is going to be who is our
no Brainer.
Speaker 5: Victor it's gonna Be Fraser, minton one of the guys
we already talked. About twenty twenty, two thirty eighth overall pick,
six two hundred ninety five. Pounds split the year between
THE nhl and THE hl this season for Both toronto
And boston played a few games in, each most of
the time with THE Ahl Toronto, marleys but he after
the trade deadline did spend a fair amount with The
Providence bruins as, well and overall was much better in
terms of THE hl production than THE nhl. Production combined
between the two, clubs but he was nearing a point
per game With providence towards the end of the, season
so that was pretty. Good looking at his rampam chart
For Boston toronto this, season which was pretty limited in
terms of HIS nhl experience only that twenty one, games
but there was a really low expected goals against bottom
seventy five percent of the, league and then the expected
goals was also pretty. Poor in his limited power play,
time he didn't do too. Much so all of that
to suggest it wasn't all that. Exciting you look back
to his junior numbers and his goal and his expected
goals and. All the offense was really, high But i'm
not sure how much that's going to. Translate fluid or
touched on. That but you look at his transition, game
you look about his defensive zone, retrievals and this is in. Junior,
again all those things That Mitch brown tracks in his
data was really. Good and to flu to his, point
he probably will be more of a shutdown kind of,
guy depth, center really hard to play against kind of.
Guy i'm not sure the offense is going to. Translate
looking at MY fhl player, CARD i have him at
a five point one. Two that means he's just over
just slightly over percent twelve percent chance of being a
five out of, ten which is kind of like average
roster player on your dynasty, team which isn't super. Exciting
he does have a pretty decent bash in terms of
his shots and hits are pretty, high his blocks are,
low what overall seventieth percent of for, bash it's pretty.
Decent but let's find out a little bit more About
Fraser mint and FROM myfrhl scout jet.
Speaker 3: And this one comes from our lead, Scout tony starting
off the summer, Right tony says Of Fraser, Minton he's
a good, skeeter does not possess great, speed but effective
in most situations for passing and. Handling he's adept at
doing both of those. Things with the. Puck if it's
in the offensive, zone he can get a pass to
the teammate or get off his own. Shot in the defensive,
zone he can get the puck away or get it
out either way he needs to. Shooting he has a
variety of. Shots they're all good wrist, shot, snapshot et.
Cetera fraser has good, vision anticipation in, poise high HIGH.
Iq he always seems to be in control and smooth for.
Checking he did some for checking That tony observed good
positional defense when he's in one zone or the. Other
but the best asset For Fraser minton is the, calm
cool demeanor and ability to shoot that. Puck biggest, concern,
dude he doesn't do anything. Exceptionally he doesn't have the
greatest speed in the. World so the top tier outcome
is a tier two for those of you. Listening that's
not the absolute top, tier but it does mean that
he'd presumably get a fair number of points in. Bash
he's got a lot of very good skills in hockey
and has a GREAT iq if he plays center or left,
wing does great at face, offs plays in all situations
with some. Bash as you, Said, victor and the median
outcome here is probably a tier three somebody who plays
maybe in the bottom. Six if he doesn't put the skills,
together you probably will have a career lacking and. Stardom
the stylistic comparable he Reminds tony of And Andrew Copper
Nick felino, type and the final thoughts he has a
lot of skills in some, bash but has not yet
been able to put it all. Together our Friend Mason,
black THE Nhl ranking And Tidy, champion put out this
poll FOR Us Fraser minton Versus Colton doc of The Chicago,
blackhawks and the poll results are In Fraser minton by
a nose fifty two to forty eight.
Speaker 4: Percent.
Speaker 3: Victor is that how you would rank these?
Speaker 5: Two, yeah neither of these two are super. Exciting, unfortunately
they're both actually similar in terms of their time frame
in terms of when they're, arriving and they're both kind
of playing a FEW nhl games right, now which is
nice to see that they're similar place. THERE i think
in this situation you might have to consider also who's
available in terms of your or who's available on the,
team and what the situation is for EACH i THINK
i might like the situation For minton.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 5: Better but you Heard fluto say that he seemed more
like a, pro seemed a little bit, ready which is.
Nice none of the metrics for either of these looks super,
good but they look slightly better For minton in terms
of his defensive, game a little worse in terms of
his offensive. Game But Colton, doc this Is Kirby dock's
little Brother by the way.
Speaker 4: He does not.
Speaker 5: HAVE i think the upside in terms of, offense And
i'm not Sure minton does, either BUT i think the
team situation might be better able to Support. MINTON i don't.
Know this is pretty much a pretty fair pick. Them
it might come down to the bash between the, two
WHICH i think is going to be better For, minton
and so that pole is probably pretty. Accurate it's probably
a bit of a pick, them and it might just
fit the situation of the context of who's. AVAILABLE i
think That minton is more likely to play center Doc
ken as, well but he might slide over to the,
wing so maybe that's easier in terms of what you
can how you can fit him. In looking at the
hockey prospecting between the, two it's not great for. Either
they're both trending down to like just one or two
percent chance of being a. Star The NHLer probability is
actually a little bit higher for doc and most of
the comps For minton are pretty disappointing guys who didn't
really make. It there's one kind of, outlier and That's David, Bachis.
Speaker 4: And could he end up being a guy like?
Speaker 5: That, YEAH i think it's. Possible it's not super. Likely
he has the, toughness he has the, size he has the,
physicality so he could evolve from a bit more of
a grinder to have to rediscover some of that scoring
touch later on in his.
Speaker 4: Career hold out some hope for that and Take minton.
Speaker 5: HERE i also looking at the J fresh, card it's
pretty pessimistic as it tends to be three percent chance
of being a, star twenty percent chance of being an nhll.
Er so it's all looking not super exciting For, minton
but there is still probably An NHLer there who will likely,
Bash so in terms of a decent, floor you can't
argue too much with.
Speaker 3: That jesse, Absolutely, victor that is our no. Brainer who
is the need to know prospect of The Boston.
Speaker 5: Bruins that's going to Be William zeller's twenty twenty, four
seventy sixth overall. Pick he just was taken in this last.
Draft he's five to, ten one hundred and seventy six.
Pounds he had a strong season last season when he was,
drafted who was mostly out of high, school and then
transitioned to THE ushl this past, year seventy one points
in fifty two games pretty strong first season for. Him
he's off To North dakota next, season so that'll be
really good to see how he transitioned. There big jump high, SCHOOL, USHL.
Ncaa that's big jump year to, year so it'll be
really important to see how he handles each one of.
Those he's so, far so, good and we have to
wait and see a little bit, more but that was
an impressive FIRST ushl season and so there's some hope
that there's a bit more of an offensive player. Here
but let's learn a little bit more About zellers from
OUR fhl, Scout JESSE.
Speaker 3: Fhl Scout tony has this to say our lead scout
On Will zeller's skating very, good uses speed in edges
to get by. Opponents passing and. Handling he is skilled
at passing and puck, handling especially in the type. Areas
zellers has a very nice snapshot as well as being
able to hit the net with, it great vision and,
anticipation able to pass the puck mate or through a
man to. Himself he seems poised and under control with his.
Peers for, Checking tony did see Some ford checking and
How zellers created turnovers for, defense mostly positional not necessarily
in your, face but he does have some, bash so
the best asset the best, assets in this case skating
in HOCKEY. Iq the biggest concern is That zellers will
become pigeonholed in with third line role because he is
very versatile and the top tier outcome top tier is.
One he could be virtually a star if he's able
to continue a trajectory and increase his skating ability in,
shooting Then tony likes his chances as a top six
forward playing on a power. Play the median outcome would
be a much lower tier three if he doesn't continue
his bash and could fall to the bottom six and
limited special teams, player stylistic Comparable alex De brinkt and,
Overall Tony hope hopes that will can make a. Splash
he's coming to The bruins at a time when they
need an influx of, young skilled. Players Mason black Puts
William zellers against against your eye patcharkic hip pick Car,
chick pick Car chick of The Saint Louis, blues And
zeller's wins that one in a route seventy point six
over twenty nine point four is that how you would
Compare zellers With.
Speaker 5: PIKARCHICK i, THINK i mean it's interesting BECAUSE i Think
zeller's does have more. UPSIDE i Think pikarchick is probably
a bit more of a sure thing in terms of.
Upside he's, bigger he's, heavier he plays that. Way we
saw him at The World. Juniors he was pretty awesome
for That slovakia team this past. Season he also played
a good but more limited role in the Previous World,
juniors and his trajectory has been, interesting coming From slovakia
playing in The tier two there and then coming to
THE ushl last year IN qmjhl this, year so interesting
trajectory so. Far the scoring hasn't been incredible for, him
BUT i think that he's a guy who plays that
really good heavy. Style SO i think in terms OF nhlor,
Probability pikarchick might have. It but in terms of the,
upside As tony mentioned For, ZELLER'S i think that the
sky's the limit there if he can really put it all.
Together i'm not sure that he, will so there's more
of a volatility With, zellars but the upside is pretty,
great So i'm really curious to see how he handles
north the, coda getting, stronger putting a little bit more weight,
on and really being able to beat those who compete
against those big, er tougher. Opponents so for the, UPSIDE
i would Take. Zellers IF i wanted more of a sure,
THING i would take Pacar. CHECK i think these are
two very different kind of, players and the upside is
different for. EACH i would be happy to have, either
but for in different. SITUATIONS i would just expect different
things from them in terms of their points versus AND
hl or. Probability as of, now The zellers has a
little bit more of a upside on hockey, prospecting but
it's still pretty, low just four percent chance of being
a star.
Speaker 4: Because of, it because of the lack of the.
Speaker 5: Equivalency for Pakar chick In, slovakia he has a zero
zero zero percent according to this, model AND i think
that's because he didn't really have a GOOD d minus
one OR d zero and so it's hard it'll be
hard for him to bump that up at this. Point
one of the comps here on hockey prospecting that might
be appropriate For zeller's Is Time, kennedy who certainly had his,
moments but overall was more of a depth fantasy asset
most of the, time AND i could See zellers end
up being like. That he certainly has the, upside but
it might take the right situation or, context as it
did For Kennedy.
Speaker 3: Jesse that's right on to keep your eye on Prospect
victor third and Final and we've heard this name before this.
Episode who is?
Speaker 5: It Yees Matthew, POATRAW i Think fludo mentioned. It it
does seem like The bruins have mismanaged his development a little.
Bit he played he stormed out of the gates last
year and everybody was, Like, wow why is this guy
doing so?
Speaker 4: Well he was just.
Speaker 5: Finished his second junior season and then came right into
THE nhl and it was really surprising and possibly not
really the right thing for, him and then they ended
up eventually sending him down to. Junior but he's been
trying to maybe been asked to do a little bit
more than he should have so far in his. Career
he's a twenty twenty two to fifty four worth overall
pick five eleven and eighty one. Pounds he's got the
upside to have a lot more total points and a
lot more points, upside but he really has some things
to work. On, hey maybe this, summer and maybe with
a long offseason and already won training camp under his
belt last, season he comes back even better this next.
Speaker 4: Season we'll.
Speaker 5: See, defensively he has been quite, good AND i think
that bodes really well for. Him his course against is
up there in the top seventy fifth percentile of the whole,
league which is pretty impressive as expected goals against is also.
Good the offense just isn't there. Yet the whole team
was in disarray this past, season So i'm not sure
you can blame too much of that on, him even
if they were relying a little much on. Him and
when you look at his Evolving hockey player, card this
defense is clearly what stands out as well above, average
whereas the offense is still struggling a. Bit when you
look at MY fhl player, card you can see that
the bash is really difficult With patra and anyone who's
rostered Him i'm sure has seen that. Before but the
reality is that the bash is going to be in
the tenth. Percentile he doesn't really, shoot he doesn't really,
hit he doesn't really, blocked so pretty. Much all you're
hoping for is that those points translate to THE, nhl
which he certainly has had moments where he's looked, decent
but for the most, part he nothing really to write
home about in terms of consistent point. Production but we're
hoping that there's more there and we're going to find
out a little bit more about him with OUR fhl, Scout.
Speaker 3: Jesse you donnay we Are Matthew poatraw wants the savior
incarnate of the of The canadian team of The World
juniors last.
Speaker 4: Year but that was a high.
Speaker 3: Point but here's What tony has to. Say he is
a good skater with decent speed and. Acceleration poatra is
a superpassor great puck. Candler i'd Say tony would say
he's developing into a. Playmaker potra is a good, shooter
although that's not his first. Instinct his best shot is the.
Snapshot when he's, shooting there is a high HOCKEY iq,
here vision and anticipation a great poise seems to him
increased since the last time That tony scouted. Him the
game seems to be slowing down For. Patra he's not
only making a play but trying to make the best
play based on a. Situation for, Checking matthew has increased
His ford checking does a good job at. It the
defense is, good not in the sense of shutting down,
someone but is for checking and making sure he makes
a smart play with the. Puck so the best asset
The HOCKEY iq the biggest. Concern tony wishes he would
shoot more and overall the tier two. Outcome maybe a
lower top six type outcome or a ligned three type
thing is the likely result because With HOCKEY iq playmaking
and ford, checking he should be able to score in
a regular, Basis but it seems like he's more of a,
passer so a lot of, assists not a lot of.
Goals second line, center powerplay, two penalty kill one the
median outcome for this Guy tier, three but not a
lot of, bash lack of. Shooting third line. Center maybe a,
spot power play and penalty kill stylistic comparable a less
offensive Bergeron bruins would take, that and overall he could
be a very good player with HIS iq four checking and,
passing but he needs to shoot. More tony is sure
of this. One our Friend Mason, black THE Nhl Rank,
king put out the poll with the greatest prospect hockey
name in the, Game Matthew poatraw Versus luca Del Bell,
blues and what happened in this, Poll poatros still comes
out ahead fifty five to forty five percent Over columbus's
Del Bell blues. Victor is that how you would rank these?
Speaker 6: Two?
Speaker 4: YEAH i think. SO i think that the one thing
to think about is Del.
Speaker 5: Bell blo's clearly more of a, winger and he got
his first day's fifty team games this, season had a
limited role his actual some of his course he against
him stuff weren't, great but he had pretty decent expected
goals Against what's interesting about Del Bell blues is that
he had a really big discrepancy between his expected goals
and his actual, goals and so basically seems like he
got a bit lucky with the points that he did,
get which was eight points in fifteen. Games so you
might look at that and, say, oh that's nearly a
fifty point. Pace he could probably do, More and while that's,
Possible i'm not sure that's actually. ACCURATE i think that
he might have been over indexed a little, bit and
he's got a lot of competition there In columbus as,
well which is another thing to think.
Speaker 4: ABOUT i THINK i would Take patra.
Speaker 5: Here we heard from flu to how he's not even
guaranteed to make the, team BUT i think he has that.
Experience he's had a couple he had a training, camp
he's had a taste of THE. Nhl he's going to
know what he needs to do to get back there
and get bigger and. Stronger might depend a little bit
on what The bruins do in the offseason this. Year
they might go out and put someone in front of,
him which might actually be good so that they don't
rely on him too much and let him grow into
the role that's right for. Him BUT i do think
there's a lot more offense here For. Patra he is
going to be one of those frustrating. Ads, sure a
less Offensive bergern is one, way BUT i would think
maybe more like An Alex weinberg is WHAT i see,
here someone who you, Know weinberg's a much bigger, guy
but in terms of not really shooting or blocking or.
Hitting but there's a decent chance you're going to get
an assist in that, game and possibly more With patra
than there might even be more offense, there so definitely
Taking poatra. HERE i think that there's a good amount
of untapped. Offense one of the other comps here in
the hockey prospecting model is More Marcus, johansson which is
probably another reasonable comp a guy that doesn't really bash a,
lot similar size as, well but certainly has had relevant seasons.
Speaker 4: And points of his.
Speaker 5: Career may be a good, streamer and maybe that's What
patra ends up being just a good streamer at.
Speaker 4: Times BUT i think there's upside For more in.
Speaker 5: Terms of the hot The Jay fresh model, there he
has A portra has a seventeen percent chance of being
a star and eighty eight percent chance of being AN
nhl or, so pretty good votal confidence there in a
model that tends to.
Speaker 4: Be pretty pessimistic about. Guys and that's it for The
Boston bruins.
Speaker 5: Dig if you're a, patroon you can listen to my
top ten prospect recap per, team Which i'll do after the,
Draft and if you're interested in scouting or helping out
with the, show.
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