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Speaker 2: Hockey Live back once again to talk fantasy hockey, to

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Jesse. Yeah, it's been a nice few days.

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Took some time away to the family with the family

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Speaker 2: I assumed if you were in Anaheim you'd probably just

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be going to the Ducks proch and buying jersey after

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jersey Corey Perry, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kessler, all the guys

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from the Ducks of your favorite years. Yeah, that sounds

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like me. All right, Victor, We're gonna have a good

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so something you may remember, we do the average

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Draft Position project, where we look at everyone's entry draft

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We're only looking for twenty twenty four prospect drafts, not

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That would be great. It really helps out figure out

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Speaker 2: You darn right, and now it's time to get into

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the meat of this episode. Right after this you're gonna

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hear about the Tampa Bay Lightning. We've welcome back to

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the show today talking Tampa Bay Lightning. DeAndre lou up

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the Hockey news. How you doing today, deanro Hey, guys,

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I'm good. How are you good? Good? You're down in

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the steamy confines of the state of Florida, I imagine,

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ready to talk some hockey, just like everybody thinks about

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hockey at this time of year down there, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say Florida hockey is growing. It is

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the topic conversation right now. So we got a couple

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few Stanley Cups down here, so you can't hate too much,

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Oh no, no, analizing the hot weather of hockey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I don't hate the success of Florida hockey

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by any means. I do resent you for your weather

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Let's talk about the Tampa Bay Lightning and I just

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usually do a very brief abbreviation of it. They've had

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such a run two Stanley Cups, a runner up season

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the last two seasons, not quite a successful second straight

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one and done in the playoffs, although this year they

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lost the Battle of Florida. As we were talking about Florida,

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the future Cup champs were the team that they went

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down to. The Lightning were amazing once again on offense,

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one of the best scoring teams in the league, leading

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the NHL with power points, the power play goals, and

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power play percentage, but the goal prevention wasn't there. They

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had the worst goals against her game among the playoff teams,

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tenth worst in the league, and the sixth worst save percentage.

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making that slow climb and got themselves like a winning

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team that they are into the playoffs with a late push.

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part we're talking with you about and the late start

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of a critical player obviously had a lot to do

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with this. But now Tampa goes into next year without

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its longtime captain. Before we get to the individual performances

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from last year and what to expect, I gotta ask you, Deandra,

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is is this team pass its window? Now?

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Speaker 4: Whoof There's a lot going on. I think you and

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I talked about it. We talked about it before I

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hopped on here. But it's been an abnormally busy offseason

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for the Lightning, and so much of it has to

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do with Stamkos leaving and a lot of just some

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longtime players departing what you talked about with the Lightning

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against the Panthers, and I will say, like the Panthers,

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so much credit to them because they had an incredible team.

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They were leading with their defense and it paid off

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Speaker 5: Right, nobody could swiper on them.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, the Oilers made a push there and they had

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a really legitimate chance to come back and win the Cup.

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of hockey you have to play in order to win

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the Stanley Cup. And when the Lightning were in their

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prime and they won those back to back Cups, their

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defense was just absolutely dominant. When you're reading off those numbers,

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even though I knew this, but when you read them

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off and you hear the breakdowns, you can see where

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things fell through the cracks. And I will say with

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the Lightning, all of those numbers and that those defensive

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issues were there all season. And it was an interesting year,

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right because this was the first year where they really

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were a different team, and the Panthers are going to

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see it. Once you win a cup, you really do,

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you got to pay afterwards, and the salary Cup is

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not friendly to you. And we'll see the Panthers go

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through the same thing that the Lightning are going through

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right now. And I think this year heading into free agency,

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actually I know for a fact Julian Breese Watt. His

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main focus was bolstering up the defense. So I think

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we're going to see a very different team. It's really hard,

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like you said, like looking at this lamp, you look

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at the roster and some of the moves that were made,

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and you don't know what to expect. So I don't

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want to say the window is closed. I don't want

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to say the windows wide open. I think it's going

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to be, but wait and see. We can all make

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our predictions and see what happens.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the forward core. It has

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to start with the kid to kucher off. And don't

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tell Nikey to this team isn't a contender, And don't

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blame him for last season he won the Art Rosses

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time since Mario Lemieux walked the Earth, only Connor McDavid

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once posted more points in a single season than Nikita

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kucher Up did last year. That is absolutely astounding. Yeah,

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the offensive environment of the league is changing a little bit,

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but Niki had historic season last year. He takes nearly

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four shots a game. If I didn't say, forty four

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goals and one hundred assists, and he missed the games

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and play a fall eighty two. He's thirty one, three

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years to go on a nine point five million dollar contract,

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which at this point is nothing but a bargain. Kutcher Up,

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you need to start giving him the benefit of the

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doubt in terms of performance and expect to expectations going forward,

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understanding that even for a Hall of Famer, one hundred

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and forty four points is a career year and regression

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would be absolutely no shame for that. Is there any

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reason to expect the regression comes though, the regression monster comes.

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Is there a reason to expect a falloff of more

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than just a little bit of a rounding air from

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kutcher Up this coming year?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, coochins in a world of his own. Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't expect his game to decline anytime soon. He's

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been on the ice. I think he took a week

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off this year and he's been in Tampa back on

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the ice right, So I don't think he is messing around.

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Speaker 5: I think it's going to be Obviously.

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Speaker 4: Last year was a historical season for him, but I

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could totally see Cooch doing similar this year. And listen,

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it's going to be a different year for all of

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these guys. When you talk about a guy like Nikita Kuchrav,

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he's so used to playing with Stamkos and a lot

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of those assists, those hundred assists went to Stammer, It's

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going to be a different game for him. I think

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he'll have a little bit I'd love to take more

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of a leadership role and maybe have a little bit

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Speaker 5: They're so used to that power play and things like that.

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Speaker 4: But I'd expect a similar performance from Kooch and if anything,

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he's going to try even more because they're going to

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need it.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: This is again just a very interesting season coming up.

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Speaker 4: We'll see how things pan out, but Koch is going

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to be dominating, dominating that line with Gensel up there.

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and they're going to need more out of him, and

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he knows that he's going to have to distribute the

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puck in different ways than he has. I'd expect their

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game to change little bit too. They're going to have

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to change that power play without Stammer there, and things

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Speaker 5: He's in a world of his own.

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Speaker 4: I was a little surprised during the playoffs, but we

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go back to talking about defensive teams and the Panthers.

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They were able to stop his game a bit, and

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he had such a strong season, so that was surprising

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for me, and I'm sure that doesn't sat well with him.

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I wasn't surprised that he was back on the ice

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a week after things ended for the Lightning.

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Speaker 2: If you asked me anybody who doubts kucher Off that's

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number one BS. Let's talk about bradon Point, another of

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the returning superstars of this team eighty one games, forty

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six goals, forty one assists from ninety points last year

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with that historic season from kucher Off. Point was another

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one who put a lot of those assists into the net,

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nearly three shots per game and by the way forty

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six goals with fifteen power play goals tied for eighth

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in the National Hockey League. If you believe in game

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winning goals, his twelve led the NHL.

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Speaker 3: How about that?

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Speaker 2: Unsurprised he was glued to Kucherov all year with at

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evenstrength with some variation in the third member of that line,

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a perennial bing candidate. Point takes almost no penalties, so

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that's a nice feature. Related however, the hits and blocks

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are not a laite to Bash is not elite. He

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had one weird outlier of over a hit per game

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a few years back. Now that is non existent in

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his game that it would appear he is still on

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the right side of thirty. Unlike a lot of the

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core of this team. Is Point headed for another ninety

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points season? Or would you expect with stamp cost leaving

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maybe won't be quite as strong. Would you expect a

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step back?

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I would expect more.

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Speaker 4: Actually at a bradon Point, I think he had a

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slow start to last season and things progressively got better.

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in bunches, so when he gets hot, that's it for him.

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But again, it was a slow start, and also there

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was some shifts in their defensive game, which I know

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on going into next season. And so things are gonna

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change and I think they're going to be in a

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better position.

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Speaker 5: But I would actually expect more out of bradon Point.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's again I don't think it sat

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well with him that he had a slow start and

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there were some struggles there and he let it up

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at the end. I think he's going to come out

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pretty strong this year. These guys, it was a unique

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season for them, and I know Stammer actually talked about

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it in his letter. It's just not the way that

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they wanted things to end. And again with Stammer gone,

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you're going to see guys like braiding Point and Nikita

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Kutrev are really going to have to step up even more.

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Speaker 3: Yes they will, but they have the benefit of a

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newcomer Jake Gonsel, and after eight seasons with the Penguins,

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Gensel was traded at Carolina last season. He was really

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good for them, But now it comes to Tampa and

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looking back, save for the twenty twenty two to twenty

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three season, Gensel has been over a point per game,

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and three of those were ninety plus US points seasons.

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or better in Tampa. You mentioned Stammer obviously leaving on

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and not having that playoff power play production. I think

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Gensel is possible could step right into that role. He

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is the same handedness. So what do you think we're

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going to see from Goensel DeAndre? Do you think he

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could reach even higher heights, maybe up to a hundred

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point pace or what should we expect from him?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: No, I definitely think with Gensel, especially you're looking, he's

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likely going to be on that top line next to

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bradon point in, Nikida Kutrov, and I'm not really sure

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if he can fail on that line.

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Speaker 5: So he is going to excel.

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Speaker 4: I think that they're really expecting a big season out

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of him. And one of the things that I think

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why they brought Genseil on is because they want a

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really strong two way player. He's he can he is

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that guy, right. They want someone that can play well

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defensively and also score goals, and obviously there's going to

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be a lot of pressure on him this year.

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Speaker 5: He is aware.

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Speaker 4: We spoke with him the day or two before it

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was an onset stam Coast was leaving, and it was

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already assumed that's what was going to happen. There's going

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to be a lot of pressure on him, a lot

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of added pressure that he didn't ask for, but it's

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definitely going to be there. And I just think that

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if he can just only focus on his game and

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kind of tune that out, he's going to have a

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huge season.

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Speaker 5: And he brought him in for a reason.

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Speaker 4: He's a playoff guy and that's what they want, and

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he can score five and five and that's what they want,

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and he's a two away player. Yeah, I think he's

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gonna have a huge season. Just think if you're playing

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on that line with Braden Boyt and the kid to

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kutra Off, he's going to be set up for success.

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And you can tell, like Julian really believed in him

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and they paid a lot to get him. Normally in Tampa,

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players take a discount to be here and to stay here,

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and we don't really see them forking out nine million

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dollar deals for a player, so the expectations are going

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to be high. But he seems really happy to be

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in Tampa, and I think that always helps too. I

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think he's gonna have a huge season Brandon Hegel.

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Speaker 2: I know I was really skeptical a couple of years

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ago when Tampa seemed pushing, seemed to push in a

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ton of their chips for Hegel from the Blackhawks. But boy,

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it's pretty tough to question that decision now. Eighty two games,

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twenty six goals, forty nine assists for seventy five points.

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Last year, particularly when Tampa got hot into the new year,

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Hegel was on an absolutely torrid pace. I went through

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encountered on Hockey Reference. At one point, Hegel had primary

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points in seventeen of eighteen consecutive games. By advanced metrics,

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he was one of the three best forwards on the team,

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and depending on what you look at, maybe even second

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only to Kucherav the youngest member of this corps. A

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very reasonable contract for his level of production. What expect

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for Brandon Hegel coming back into the new year? Is

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he going to step up to a new level.

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Speaker 4: I always laugh when people talk about Brendan Hagel because

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he's so feist you always say he's got that dog

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in him, like he when they were at their lowest

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throughout the season, he was the one that was trying

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to get the crowd into it and really getting his

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team motivated and try to push them through when they

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went through that rut there in the middle of the season.

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But yeah, when I think of the future of this

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team and what it's going to look like, I think

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of Brandon Hagel.

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Speaker 5: I expect him to Again.

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Speaker 4: I know we keep going back to Stamcoast, but obviously

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stam Coast was such a huge part of this team

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and the leadership, and so this is the first time

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we're really seeing things to shake up in that department.

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But I see Brandon Hagel stepping up. They're going to

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need him to step up. And you know, I think

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of the future and who will eventually be a leader

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on this team, it's Brandon Hegel.

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Speaker 5: And his game is only going to get better.

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Speaker 4: He's not even hit his prime yet, so he is

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definitely a lifer bolt and I think we saw a

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little bit of it last season, but again, like we're

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going to start entering his prime in the next few

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years and he's going to be him and Sorelli that's there,

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that checking line, and the two of them play off

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of each other and they're great. Hegel, I wouldn't be surprised.

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I don't know if he'll get the A this year,

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but he's going to be right there. And I've seen

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him grow and get comfortable in Tampa, and he's one

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of those guys that really wants to play in Tampa,

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really wants to play under Coop. He's just one of

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those guys. So we'll see him. We're going to see

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him have a big season this year.

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Speaker 2: All right. We tend to do a little bit of

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a pick them throughout two names and ask you which

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one of these guys is going to put up maybe

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the more points next year, maybe a little thoughts on them,

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And we're going to pick Anthony Sirelli, who you just

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mentioned forty five points of seventy nine last year, Nick

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Paul forty six points, almost identical in eighty two games.

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And really these are two of the best in terms

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of goals above replacement on the team. Nick Paul actually

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in terms of goals above replacement was just Bolo Kushirav Hegel.

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If you can believe that what that takes into account

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the defensive side of the game at five on five.

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So Nick Paul Anthony Sibarelli, if I made you choose

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between them, who you got?

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Speaker 5: Listen. So those two guys, two totally different games, right.

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Speaker 4: Sorelli is more of a I would say, like a

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defensive player and he's on that checking line. Nick Paul

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is the guy that stepped in when Alex Klorin left

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and he stepped in on that power play. He's his

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entire job is to hang out in front of the net.

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He's a big dude, and so it works really well

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and that's how he's able to get those like greasy goals.

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score more, I would say it would be Nick Paul.

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And he's another one that he's really We've seen him

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get comfortable in his role last season and he's pretty outspoken.

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Speaker 5: Guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Nick pauls love Cirelli though,

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great player, just more of a defensive player. Spartans like

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I will say too with Cirelli, like he's the kind

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of guy that scores those goals when they really need it.

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But again, Nick Paul is regular on the power play,

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so he's gonna be right there in front of the net.

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Speaker 3: S really is a great player, right, Even though Fantracks

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has a lot of categories, I don't think they have

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the goal when you really need it unfortunately. As yeah

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about that, Let's move on to the last big I

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don't know about how big, but the last adition at forward,

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and that's Cam Atkinson. When Philly, he had a downward

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tread in his production. His first season there, he had

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similar to what he had in Columbus. She'd basically become

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around a fifty point player a couple of outliers. Then

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he slid down to a thirty three point pace last

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season with greatly diminished time on ice. He's going to

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be thirty five this season. What do you think we

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can expect from the veteran Cam Atkinson on this Tampa team?

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Speaker 5: Listen, you guys, that's a great question.

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Speaker 4: That's one that I'm still trying to figure out, like

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the vision of or maybe not the vision, but the

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identity of the team going into this season. I think

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obviously they're going to have some pretty high expectations for

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anyone that comes on. I do one thing I do

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wonder with him is if the reason why his numbers

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just basing this solely just off numbers, if they look

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the way they do, is because of the Flyers system

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at the time, what they were playing in. So that's

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something that I've actually been really looking at. I think

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for the Lightning, he's got experience, and I will say

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he seemed incredibly excited to be playing.

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Speaker 5: He immediately was like tweeting things out and doing all

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of that.

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Speaker 4: So from that standpoint, I can understand why the Lightning

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they love that, and I understand why they brought him

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on those the third and fourth line. Those are two

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areas that they really needed help on. And I'm sure

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that they're hoping that he can for check and grab

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a goal where he can. But I think that they're

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not really looking too much at last year's numbers. They're

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probably looking back a couple of years and they're hoping

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that he can mimic that playing style that he had

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before last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair. I'm wondering about some of the young players.

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Obviously they made that in that trade with Sergachev, they

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got Connor Geeky, who instantly becomes one of their best

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prospects because they don't have the deepest pool being such

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a competitive team. But they also have Isaac Howard who

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has been there for a while he has been producing,

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and then Nico Houten in So I'm wondering if any

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of these three are going to make an impact this

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season on the Lighting Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think Connor Geeky is probably out of

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the three. I feel like Connor Geeky is the he's cool,

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and Isaac Howard is like one of those up and

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coming stars. He's got to be getting pretty close though

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it's been a few years.

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Speaker 5: I definitely.

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Speaker 4: I know Julian when we had mid season availability with

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Julian Brisblaile, he was actually going to traveling to go

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watch him play and things like that. So he's definitely

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right there in the mix. I'm not sure how far

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he is, but he's got to be pretty close. I

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think Connor Geeky. There's a lot of hype around Connor Geeky.

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I know the fans were really excited to have him,

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and like you said, as far as the prospect goes,

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like the Lightning are just there and win now mode

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all the time and so their future. But when you

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look at the future, like, there's not a lot to

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choose from, but Connor geeky, he's great and I could

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see him. I could see them bringing him up pretty soon.

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And this past year, this past season, the Lightning were

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dipping into their Syracuse pool. They were having no other option.

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There are a lot of injuries on the blue line

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and things like that. Whereas maybe a few years ago

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of your playing in Syracuse, you're just assuming you're not

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really going to get to come to Tampa and get

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to step in because they had that core and they

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had those guys. Now there's more of an open opportunity

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for these guys to come up, and I think I

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can't remember, maybe eight players came up from Syracuse last season,

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So the door is wide open for him.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, let's move on to the defensive side of

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the puck. Victor Headman. Victor Headman remains elite more news

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at eleven absolutely not news, seventy six points in seventy

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eight games, remains in the top five in the National

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Hockey League, third in career points among defensemen in the NHL.

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One more year like he had last year, and he's

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on pace to overtake Chris Latang for second, just be

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looking up at Brent Burns at that point, and those

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00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,279
guys have been playing a bit longer than mister Headman.

477
00:22:48,839 --> 00:22:51,920
The black Shots hits, the Bash was not great. He's

478
00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:55,079
going to get paid into his late thirties, so hopefully

479
00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:56,759
he's going to be able to keep this up for

480
00:22:56,799 --> 00:22:59,960
a while longer. But it doesn't seem to be any expectation.

481
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,880
And otherwise, what do you see in the trajectory of

482
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,240
Headman's game and do you expect this coming season to

483
00:23:06,319 --> 00:23:08,960
be more of the same excellence we're used to from him.

484
00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you were saying that, it actually just reminded

485
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,000
me of at exit interviews and Stampcoast was saying that

486
00:23:15,079 --> 00:23:17,160
if you didn't know Headman's age and you were just

487
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,599
looking at his numbers, you would have no idea that

488
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,160
he was like mid thirties, Like you would just have

489
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,519
no idea. Yeah, I think Headman is He's obviously such

490
00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:29,920
a leader, and Will is expected to have the Sea

491
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,759
on his chest next season, and so with that, I

492
00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:36,480
think comes. I don't see his game slipping at all.

493
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,799
If anything, he's going to be pushing even more. A

494
00:23:38,799 --> 00:23:40,680
lot of these guys when you look at the core.

495
00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:43,400
And I know we'll talk about Ryan McDonnell later, but

496
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,079
when you look at these guys like Headmond, Cooch point,

497
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:47,799
all these guys that have been there, were there when

498
00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:50,240
they won the Cup, expect them to have bigger season

499
00:23:50,519 --> 00:23:54,160
than they did last year because from a leadership standpoint,

500
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,680
without stamp Cooasts, they're going to have to elevate their games.

501
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,920
So for Headman, I think, I'm sure he's happy to

502
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,559
have McDonough there back with him. And the focus this

503
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,319
season going into free agency was to bolster up the defense.

504
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,559
It was if you look at his numbers and you

505
00:24:08,599 --> 00:24:14,000
think about the rest of blue line last season and

506
00:24:14,039 --> 00:24:16,039
you see his numbers and you're like, he really held

507
00:24:16,039 --> 00:24:17,880
his own and he had to do that in order

508
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,640
for them to be successful and push through all the

509
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,200
adversity that they went through and all those injuries and

510
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,720
things like that. So now with a pretty solid defense,

511
00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,599
I'm sure Headmonds his numbers are only going to get better. Honestly,

512
00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:31,799
I don't see him slipping at all.

513
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 2: You referenced him, and just an interest of time, I'm

514
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,960
going to throw the last two defenseman at you, the

515
00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,400
two new guys. Ryan McDonough is the new old guy,

516
00:24:41,839 --> 00:24:45,920
he's been here before. And JJ Moser coming over from

517
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,440
He's coming over from Arizona, which no longer exists and

518
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,039
now is Utah. But he's on that bridge contract, so

519
00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:55,680
it was nice a little bit of salary control for

520
00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,039
the Lightning at this point. But McDonough and Moser. You

521
00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:02,839
think about the impact of the two new defensemen.

522
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I spent two years talking about

523
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,119
how Ryan McDonough needed to come back it's in Tampa.

524
00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:12,079
Speaker 5: When that actually happened, it felt like a manifested that one.

525
00:25:12,279 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 2: It.

526
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,799
Speaker 4: The Lightning were never the same after McDonough left, and

527
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,079
they really struggled defensively, and I think having him back

528
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,079
is so important. And I know there's been a lot

529
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,680
of talk about his age and everything, but like his

530
00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:29,839
game has not really changed. He has had a successful

531
00:25:30,039 --> 00:25:33,079
two successful seasons in Nashville, and you could argue that

532
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,720
he was just dragging his team to the playoffs in

533
00:25:36,759 --> 00:25:38,519
the first year that he was in Nashville, and then

534
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,200
he had a really good season last year. Having Ryan

535
00:25:41,279 --> 00:25:44,160
McDonough back where he belongs is only going to help

536
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,160
the Lightning. It's only going to improve and they need

537
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,680
that veteran presence. I feel like he should have never left.

538
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,000
It just it felt weird, and it feels right that

539
00:25:53,039 --> 00:25:55,440
he's back, so I think he had been together there,

540
00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:57,640
right behind each other, is going to really help them

541
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,240
out a lot. And then for Mosure, I think this

542
00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:02,720
is going to be Obviously you look at the contract

543
00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:06,200
and that tells you right away that they're expecting him

544
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,839
to be a top four guy, like he's going to

545
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:09,559
have a huge year.

546
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 5: He's young.

547
00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 4: This is what they want is and you think about

548
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,720
like when they signed Sergachev to that big contract after

549
00:26:16,759 --> 00:26:20,319
they won the Cup. They want young, big defenceman. He

550
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:26,000
will probably be I'm assuming Turnac will be with McDonough,

551
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,880
maybe Mosure with Headman and that pairings. Expect him to

552
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,200
have a big season too. And then they got a guy,

553
00:26:31,279 --> 00:26:34,480
a young defenseman back there, a mil Lilaberg who I

554
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,160
think I'm really pleased with what Julian did with the

555
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,880
defenseman this going into the season, I think it's going

556
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,880
to improve their game for sure.

557
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:44,039
Speaker 2: Well.

558
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 3: Improved defense should help the goaltending, and that's where we're

559
00:26:47,039 --> 00:26:49,720
going to move to next. The Lightning were ranked fifteenth

560
00:26:49,759 --> 00:26:52,720
and expected goals against per sixty, but conceded the twenty

561
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,000
eighth ranked actual goals per game this season started. If

562
00:26:57,079 --> 00:27:00,599
we all remember way back when to that surgery for Massilevski,

563
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,799
that was a bit of a surprise to some people

564
00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:05,079
when they announced it and that he was going to

565
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,680
be missing a couple months. Jonis Hanson stepped in started

566
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,720
most of the games there. He got twenty six I

567
00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:13,519
don't think he preferred particularly well, although they won twelve

568
00:27:13,559 --> 00:27:15,400
of them, so that was a big part of it.

569
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,319
He saved negative seven point two to three goals save

570
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,079
above expected, and that was a big part of dragging

571
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,720
that expected goals down for the entire team. When Vassilevski

572
00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:27,319
came back, he played fifty two games total, but also

573
00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:30,160
had not great goals save above expected. In fact, it

574
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,960
was his worst since the nineteen twenty season, so it

575
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,960
didn't seem like he was quite his dominant self. After

576
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,720
some time to heal and after this sort of disappointing

577
00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:42,079
season and long offseason, Deander, what do you think we

578
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,240
can expect from the Lightning goalies, particularly Vassilevski next season.

579
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.

580
00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 4: First of all, I think with Joannis Johnsen, I think

581
00:27:50,279 --> 00:27:53,079
the biggest thing is that he didn't really expect to

582
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,400
just jump in and take over for Vassilevski to start

583
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,880
the season. So the fact that he did it without

584
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,039
it was just at the end of it was towards

585
00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:03,160
the middle of training camp. But the fact that he

586
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,759
did that and they could stay above water and do

587
00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:09,720
their thing until Vassi got back, is a really big deal,

588
00:28:09,759 --> 00:28:12,000
and I think that put a lot of trust and

589
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,839
need in Yoni Snohanson. So that is it's good to

590
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,880
know that they have a solid backup that they can

591
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,559
utilize to take some of the work off Vassi. And

592
00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:23,200
then there's a few things with Vassilevski, right, So he

593
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,160
had back surgery and then he came back like at

594
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,039
the exact day that he could, I think it was

595
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,319
eight weeks. It's hard for me to remember. It feels

596
00:28:30,319 --> 00:28:32,799
like it's been ages since that happened. But he had

597
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,720
back surgery, so for him, his body, his timing was

598
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,759
a little bit off. His body wasn't really moving the

599
00:28:38,759 --> 00:28:42,279
way that he wanted it to. However, I think I

600
00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:43,400
had a lot to do with the way that they

601
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,960
were playing in front of him. It just made his

602
00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:47,599
job so much harder than it could have been. And

603
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,240
the guys have told me that multiple times that it

604
00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:52,200
was just like they weren't playing the way that they

605
00:28:52,279 --> 00:28:54,799
needed to in front of Vassi. And you think, when

606
00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:57,400
you're coming if I went through back surgery, there's no

607
00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:00,440
way that I would be playing, but I would be

608
00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:02,759
sitting on my couch. But it didn't really give him

609
00:29:02,759 --> 00:29:04,839
that comfort. As he was easing back into his game.

610
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,799
You got to think he missed training camp, he had

611
00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:09,400
a whole summer off, and so.

612
00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 5: It just it took him a while.

613
00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:15,039
Speaker 4: And then I would say, what probably around March, if

614
00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:17,200
you look at his numbers from March until the end

615
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,240
of the season, that's when he really started to get

616
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,039
back to his game and he looked like the same

617
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:24,079
old Vassi. So I think, I know he's not lifting

618
00:29:24,119 --> 00:29:26,440
weights anymore like he used to, which is what caused

619
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,480
his injury in the first place. And he's trying to

620
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,200
be really smart about the off season and how he

621
00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:32,880
takes care of his body, and now he listens to

622
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,440
his body. So I expect Vassie to have especially if

623
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,319
the defense improves. Like you said, I think Vassie's going

624
00:29:39,359 --> 00:29:43,400
to have another He'll have a good season, and back

625
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,440
surgery is weird. I think he felt good to start,

626
00:29:46,519 --> 00:29:48,640
and then it got really hard the more he played.

627
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,839
But he was saying that if he sat out it

628
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,640
made it worse. So they just kept him in and

629
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,960
he kept grinding through it. But that's a brutal season

630
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,880
for sure. So I think that this summer will be

631
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,839
good for him and axect him to be back to

632
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,359
his somewhat normal self.

633
00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 2: All right, Deandra, that's been a great tour through the

634
00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:09,519
Tampa Bay Lightning. Who will be fascinated because there is

635
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:13,119
that outstanding core. Maybe we'll see a I don't want

636
00:30:13,119 --> 00:30:16,279
to wish this on you Anjikopatar and Drew Dowdy past

637
00:30:16,319 --> 00:30:20,079
that dynasty have just been outstanding year after year. Hopefully

638
00:30:20,119 --> 00:30:23,680
the Lightning don't fall down to that level of overall

639
00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:26,440
team performance, but at least it shows that some of

640
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,480
these superstars age well even in bad circumstances. Now I've

641
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,920
done it, Dandru. But why did you tell us we're

642
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,839
going to follow on the Tampa Bay Lighting We're going

643
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,039
to keep reading your stuff. Tell people how they can

644
00:30:38,119 --> 00:30:38,960
keep up with your work.

645
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you can keep up.

646
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 4: First, I want to say this too, actually, before you

647
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,079
get off of this, I think the goal with Julian,

648
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,039
I think his goal was that they don't want to

649
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,000
age like, they want to stay in the window. So

650
00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:56,599
his goal is to bring in younger guys, whether it's

651
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,680
like slowly over the next couple of years, and maybe

652
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,160
at the trade deadline they make some moves, but I

653
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,160
think the goal is to not age out the core.

654
00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:07,039
And as much as when you win back to back

655
00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:08,960
Stanley Cups, you want to keep those guys and then

656
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,359
you kind of reality sets in with the salary cap

657
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,200
and players age and things like that. So bringing in

658
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,759
Genseil and like Mosure, a guy like that, they want

659
00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:18,599
to stay in that window. So I think this is

660
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,079
the first couple of steps in doing so interested to

661
00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:24,279
see where things go. But we'll check back on that

662
00:31:24,319 --> 00:31:26,519
maybe halfway through the season. But you can find my

663
00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:28,839
work on the Hockey News. I feel like I'm very

664
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,079
active there even in the off season, and then I

665
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:32,640
do radio.

666
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,279
Speaker 5: Obviously I do serious XM NHL radio.

667
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,079
Speaker 4: I'm on there throughout the season, taking the summer off,

668
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,319
but I will be back probably around training camp on there.

669
00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 2: Thanks for giving us some time out of your hopefully

670
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,400
from this point on RESTful summer.

671
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,839
Speaker 5: Deandra, Thank you guys so much for having me.

672
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 3: Wolfsin Then well that's.

673
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,039
Speaker 2: Good fire pasp Oh my goodness, long with.

674
00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 3: A Kat quick Gram.

675
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: Now it's your wingley goalie talk. But Kat Silverman, Kat's instincts.

676
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,799
Speaker 3: Time once again for Kat's instincts. With Kat Silverman and

677
00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:23,839
ingl mag we're talking lightning goalie prospects. So we're gonna

678
00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:26,680
start with a guy we've talked about for several years now,

679
00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:30,400
Hugo Almnefeldt. He's a twenty nineteen third round pick by

680
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,920
Tampa six three, twenty pounds now twenty two. He just

681
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,279
finished his third full season in the AHL. He seems

682
00:32:36,319 --> 00:32:38,880
to have regressed a bit and it started to seem

683
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000
like it might never happen for him in the NHL.

684
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,240
I see, according to a Lee Prospects that he's going

685
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,400
to be in the essay back in the SHL again

686
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,039
next season after being in North America. So, Kat, do

687
00:32:50,079 --> 00:32:51,920
you think there's any hope of him coming back and

688
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,160
having an NHL career.

689
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: That's a really interesting one because in theory, like watching

690
00:32:57,759 --> 00:33:00,720
him play, I at no point did it look like

691
00:33:00,799 --> 00:33:05,319
he was just blaring red flags at us right. It

692
00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:08,519
didn't look like he was headed to the ECCHL permanently

693
00:33:08,599 --> 00:33:13,559
or being banished anywhere struggling anymore than for the most part,

694
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,960
we see a lot of goaltenders struggle within Tampa Bay's

695
00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:22,319
HL system, which they tend to not be quite as

696
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,599
successful as their NHL counterparts. But that's also a team

697
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,480
that had no reason to bring him up to the

698
00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:30,519
NHL level. I know, I think it was last year

699
00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:33,640
we talked about how ideally this was the year that

700
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,279
they started to sneak him into some NHL action. Looks

701
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:41,079
like that was not the plan for them. They're continuing

702
00:33:41,119 --> 00:33:46,279
to ride or die their one goaltender system, which most

703
00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:49,319
teams are moving away from. That they very clearly or not.

704
00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:52,519
He really, it seems, had no reason to stick around,

705
00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:55,000
and they seemed to have no interest in dealing him

706
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,640
to another team that had a more open pipeline, of

707
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,000
which there are quite a few. I sa saying Utah

708
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:04,599
has a far more open pipeline. Philadelphia always has an

709
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,319
open pipeline. They never have enough goalies. There are a

710
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,159
number of teams outside of their division that they could

711
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,599
have sent him to, and they didn't, So I think

712
00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:16,400
it makes sense to go back home. That being said,

713
00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:20,519
I think if someone is willing to bring him back

714
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:25,519
once his rights expire, but that's tough because he just

715
00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:30,239
turned twenty three a month ago, so he's still so

716
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,199
young that essentially Tampa Bay holds his rights until he's

717
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,920
twenty seven, unless they choose to fail to qualify him

718
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,559
and fully release his rights. Then someone else could pick

719
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,280
him up. But he's still young enough that they could

720
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,400
have hold onto his rights for a rainy day for

721
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,559
another four years if they really wanted to. So that's

722
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:54,239
a sticky situation for him, and I think that it

723
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,239
they want to hold onto his rights for a rainy day,

724
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,360
it makes it a really tough sell to say that

725
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,920
he'll hit the NHL, unfortunately, just because they've shown very

726
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,880
little interest, and they do have at least one up

727
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,079
and comer in their system who I think is younger

728
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:15,079
and maybe a little bit more promising looking right now

729
00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:20,000
hasn't been floundering in their AHL systems, So it's a

730
00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:21,320
tough sell at this point.

731
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 3: Honestly, Yeah, I think for now i'd be out on LFLT.

732
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,559
As much as I've liked him over the years, and

733
00:35:26,599 --> 00:35:29,159
I really think he's a good goalie. Tampus seems to

734
00:35:29,159 --> 00:35:30,480
not want to give him a chance, and that's going

735
00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:32,960
to make it really hard. As you said, let's move

736
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000
on to the next guy. Amre Miftikoff, twenty twenty six

737
00:35:36,079 --> 00:35:38,880
round pick, currently unsigned, six foot hundred and sixty five

738
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,800
pounds now twenty four. Last year, we talked a little

739
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,880
bit about how ak Bars likes to undersized goalies and

740
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,400
how Tampa likes the goalies who can skate really well,

741
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,960
which he can. He didn't play too many games this year,

742
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,119
but when he did he was really good. Looking. At

743
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,199
hockey prospecting, he has bumped up to a fifty three

744
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,519
percent chance of being an NHL or He's got a

745
00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:02,559
bunch of NHL or is as his comps, Thomas folcun

746
00:36:02,679 --> 00:36:04,800
is someone he looks a little bit alike. So what

747
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,519
are any things tell us about Miftakoff.

748
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: I love him. I think he's a lot of fun.

749
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:16,519
I every time I look at his stat line, I'm like, man,

750
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,039
this guy should be heading towards the NHL by now,

751
00:36:20,639 --> 00:36:24,079
and I look up some highlights to see if there's

752
00:36:24,079 --> 00:36:27,360
anything that Sometimes when you look at European goaltenders, they

753
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,920
have better numbers just based on the powerhouse team that

754
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,280
they're behind, and it looks like, oh, if you move

755
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,559
them over to North America, their poles are going to

756
00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:40,000
get exposed. Other than his height, there are no real

757
00:36:40,039 --> 00:36:42,639
holes in his game, so it doesn't really make any

758
00:36:42,679 --> 00:36:46,639
sense that they haven't heavilys explored bringing him over. And

759
00:36:46,679 --> 00:36:49,079
I do wonder if that is part of why. Like

760
00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:54,599
I said, Alnefeldt is probably getting boxed out by having

761
00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:57,920
someone else in the system, and it's him, it's Myftakov,

762
00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:03,599
because I most wonder if Tampa Bay has been just

763
00:37:03,639 --> 00:37:08,360
floating the idea with him of giving it a whirl

764
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:12,599
heading to North America seeing what happens. Because he's a

765
00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:14,920
lot of fun to watch. He skates really well. He

766
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:16,679
likes to have a lot of fun. If you look

767
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,440
up highlights for him, you'll see that he controls himself

768
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,840
well within the blue paint, but he still manages to

769
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,320
move really quickly and likes to throw in some fun staves.

770
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,079
Likes to do some windmills, some two pads stacks, some

771
00:37:28,199 --> 00:37:31,920
pope checks, just to shows that he has some creativity

772
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:38,199
in there too and not just wrote drilled in technique.

773
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,559
He saws a little bit to his game. That is

774
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:43,840
what they like about Besilov's He's a goaltender who has

775
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,400
a lot of fun, extra creative flair in his game,

776
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:51,039
and that's something that we see from Iftikov. So I'm

777
00:37:51,159 --> 00:37:54,280
more hesitant at this point based on the last couple

778
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,440
of years, looking at what Tampa Bay has done to

779
00:37:57,519 --> 00:37:59,880
say that I'm confident he'll make it to North America

780
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,119
because they've made it very clear that any belief we

781
00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:05,119
have that they're going to add someone new and young,

782
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,920
they throw back in our face. But dating all the

783
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,880
way back to Connor Ingram, who had to move to

784
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,840
another team to get his shot. But I think of

785
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,119
the guys in their system, he's got probably their best

786
00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:23,920
chance of being a backup in the future. Maybe he

787
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,880
could have starter potentially. I'd love to see him in

788
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,320
North America to really get a feel for that though.

789
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,679
Speaker 3: Oh that's pretty exciting if he could have started potential.

790
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,079
Of course, we need to see more. Let's talk about

791
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:37,039
the last guy. We have one more guy to talk about,

792
00:38:37,199 --> 00:38:40,960
Nick Malik or Malik was drafted in by the Lightning

793
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,840
as a double over age in twenty twenty two, fifth

794
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,000
rounde hundred and seventy and nine pounds six foot two.

795
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,039
He's been in the Liga for the past three seasons,

796
00:38:49,079 --> 00:38:51,280
and it seems like the raw numbers have gotten a

797
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,480
little progressively worse, perhaps nine twenty two, eight ninety one,

798
00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:58,400
eight eighty nine. His equivalency of those seems to be

799
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,400
doing okay. It's been the high. So there's a couple

800
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,440
guys that look like him. Robert ash as like a

801
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,599
backup is probably his best comp. So what do your

802
00:39:06,599 --> 00:39:08,000
instincts tell us about Nick Melick?

803
00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: What an incredible comp My gosh, he's a really tough

804
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:16,320
one for me, just because I remember his initial draft year.

805
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,599
I was watching some game tape with him and I

806
00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:24,760
thought he looked like he could be a good guy

807
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,840
for a team to look at. He was headed to

808
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,840
the Sue Greyhounds in the OHL. I spoke with some

809
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:37,519
goaltending coaches in the CHL about what his game looked

810
00:39:37,559 --> 00:39:39,400
like when he came to North America because it wasn't

811
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,320
a super successful for into North American junior hockey. He

812
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,559
came over during the pandemic, didn't really work out, went

813
00:39:46,599 --> 00:39:50,400
back overseas and started to play. I think he immediately

814
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,039
went to playing in the Liga. If not, he spent

815
00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:56,440
one additional year in Czech Yet before going to Finland

816
00:39:56,519 --> 00:40:02,119
and his overall development. He looked like he had a

817
00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:06,079
lot of sheer athleticism and like he had good reflexes,

818
00:40:06,199 --> 00:40:11,199
looked like he potentially had the size, that elusive size

819
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:15,519
that coaches look for. But when it came to watching

820
00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:19,159
his game adapt to North America, he had some huge

821
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,400
learning curves there, and there were some moments where he

822
00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:25,760
really seemed like his game just did not click on

823
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,800
that smaller ice surface when people were coming at him

824
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,400
a little bit faster and a little bit closer. Had

825
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,119
to make a few more split second decisions, not just

826
00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:36,599
when it came to reaction timing, but when it came

827
00:40:36,639 --> 00:40:41,480
to situational awareness and setting himself up ahead of shots,

828
00:40:41,599 --> 00:40:48,239
and so especially seeing his numbers start to trend downward

829
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,199
in Liga, he is headed back to Chechia this upcoming

830
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,840
season to play in their top Tierly he played in

831
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,280
the second tier and then in the juniors in the past.

832
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:02,599
So I don't I once again, I don't really know

833
00:41:02,639 --> 00:41:04,840
what Tampa Bay's strategy is here. I think it's to

834
00:41:05,679 --> 00:41:09,920
only bring on mediocre prospects to as like a I

835
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,679
don't know, vote of confidence to Vassilevsky, tell him we

836
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,679
promise We're not bringing someone in to show you up.

837
00:41:16,519 --> 00:41:20,159
This is all we've got because that's what Nick Malik is.

838
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,559
He's like a body in the system. So they can

839
00:41:23,599 --> 00:41:25,880
say that they have a goaltending prospect. But I don't

840
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,360
love his game, and it doesn't look like his game

841
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,719
has gotten a ton better. So I sorry to our

842
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,239
Tampa Bay fans that I don't have better news about him,

843
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,239
and he might surprise me. I know his dad's a

844
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:43,480
former NHL or Merrick Malik, so he has the grind

845
00:41:43,519 --> 00:41:48,360
of playing pro in his family, not in terms of

846
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,840
intrinsic ability to grind it out, but in terms of

847
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,000
having the advice from someone to guide him through it.

848
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,639
But that doesn't make up for talent. So I don't

849
00:42:00,639 --> 00:42:03,159
know if I'd put him at the top of any less.

850
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,920
I would wait and see if he comes over to

851
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,639
North America, maybe we can reevaluate. But his last four

852
00:42:09,679 --> 00:42:12,960
aage in North America didn't look stellar. So I'm so

853
00:42:13,079 --> 00:42:17,440
surprised that Tampa drafted him in the first place. So yes,

854
00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:19,760
we'll see with him. Good luck to him, good luck

855
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:20,599
to Tampa.

856
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,039
Speaker 3: Yep, good luck he is a goalie in their system.

857
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:27,679
We can say that, all right, thanks Kav for giving

858
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:41,360
us your instincts on the everyway Lightning Goalie.

859
00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:47,159
Speaker 2: Dig Good dynasty did Tampa. They lighted the or not

860
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,320
the strongest prospect system as you heard, but a brand

861
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:55,599
new addition to this situation is making them stronger once again. Victor,

862
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,159
who is our no brainer.

863
00:42:58,039 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 3: Let's the recently acquired and mentioned earlier, Connor Geeky. Yeah,

864
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,199
Connor Geeky was an eleventh overall pick by the Coyotes.

865
00:43:05,199 --> 00:43:07,000
They traded up that year, I believe with San Jose

866
00:43:07,159 --> 00:43:10,159
to get that pick. Six four hundred and ninety six

867
00:43:10,199 --> 00:43:13,719
pounds left shot center. He started with the Winacchi Wild

868
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,000
this season, got traded to Swift Current, did pretty well

869
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,480
on both locations, played a couple of HL games with

870
00:43:18,519 --> 00:43:21,320
the two Sun Roadrunners, no points. He did play for

871
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,480
Canada at the World Juniors. He had three points in

872
00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:26,800
five games, plus that brutal ejection eleven seconds into the

873
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,280
Germany game, so that game almost didn't really count in

874
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:34,800
terms of his point totals. But overall pretty successful season.

875
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,400
As you heard Deander mentioned, he's probably the closest to

876
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,800
being ready and he seems like someone that they are

877
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,440
going to give an opportunity to looking at the Mitch

878
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,519
Brown tracking data interesting. So I pulled up all of

879
00:43:47,519 --> 00:43:51,840
his tracking data for the last several years, including his

880
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:57,159
time with the different WHL clubs, Swift, Current and Winachi,

881
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,360
and the World Juniors. All of it looks. One thing

882
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:01,960
that stands out, I guess I would say is that

883
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,960
the defense is pretty good across the board. He's a

884
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,280
really strong two way defensive player. His transition numbers are

885
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:12,920
overall pretty good, but he also defensively is really difficult

886
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,440
to play against. Some of his transition data was not

887
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,639
as good, but overall that also seems like in the

888
00:44:18,639 --> 00:44:23,679
seventieth percentile. His offense also between eighty and ninety five percentile,

889
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,960
so consistently pretty strong. His expected goals and expected assists

890
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,960
both pretty strong typically, and he shoots a fair amount

891
00:44:31,079 --> 00:44:33,079
and so that's nice, gets the puck to the middle,

892
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,480
gets some good advantages created. So all those things look

893
00:44:36,559 --> 00:44:39,280
really good for Connor Geeky, at least in junior and

894
00:44:39,559 --> 00:44:41,760
at World Juniors, which was pretty nice. Looking at his

895
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,360
FHL player card, you can see that he indeed does

896
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,320
shoot quite a lot ninetieth percentile. He also hit some

897
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,159
blocks a fair amount eightieth and sixtieth percentile, so overall

898
00:44:51,199 --> 00:44:53,280
he should be a nine out of ten for bash.

899
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,840
He also we count pims as negative, so he's low

900
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,440
in that category, but if you count pims as positive,

901
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,559
then that's great. He He also scores a lot for

902
00:45:01,599 --> 00:45:04,440
his junior level, but I have him as pucks the

903
00:45:04,599 --> 00:45:08,199
level closer till the fifty to sixty point range at

904
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,719
five point five. Looking at his play driving numbers, you

905
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,719
can see that he actually does a lot really well

906
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,000
believe that he's currently in including his power play time,

907
00:45:18,079 --> 00:45:22,039
his play driving, his transition game, his high danger puck

908
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:25,079
area work. The one thing he isn't quite as good at,

909
00:45:25,159 --> 00:45:26,960
especially as being a center, is his face offs are

910
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,039
closer to average, which is a bit disappointing. But overall

911
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,760
he is someone that projects to be a center the

912
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,480
next level. He is as very big as we mentioned

913
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,920
so anyways, but lit's learn a little bit more about

914
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,960
what makes Connor Geeky so interesting from our fatl Scout.

915
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,119
Speaker 2: Our Prospect Scotty report today comes from Scout Craig Wise

916
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,119
Connor Geeky skating average. For such a big skater, Connor

917
00:45:50,159 --> 00:45:52,480
is able to move pretty fast, especially his first few

918
00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:55,920
steps and Craig would like to see him more at

919
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,559
the AHL level. Is the few games stint he did have.

920
00:45:58,639 --> 00:46:01,159
He did not look out a play. Junior games are

921
00:46:01,159 --> 00:46:03,800
hard to read since he's so much bigger or stronger

922
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,840
than the competition, and Craig resisted giving him an above

923
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,920
average rating. Here is a few times he looked like

924
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,639
a giraffe trying to walk with skates on and yeah.

925
00:46:12,679 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 1: So.

926
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 2: Passing and handling average to blow average hands. Connor is

927
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,119
able to make the odd move to beat a defender,

928
00:46:19,159 --> 00:46:21,719
but more often than not he would try, but then

929
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,719
he would lose the puck. He excels him using his

930
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,559
big frame to shield the puck when he has defenders

931
00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:30,199
out wide. Passing ability is there, but Craig didn't see

932
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,760
it enough to think he'll be known for the playmaking ability.

933
00:46:33,599 --> 00:46:37,119
Shooting average. Connor has a hard shot, but not very accurate.

934
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:39,960
He struggled to be junior goalies with it from any distance.

935
00:46:40,199 --> 00:46:44,840
IQ below average. Careless giveaways either misreading the play or

936
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,880
panicking and throwing the puck away for checking above average.

937
00:46:49,039 --> 00:46:51,800
Connor loves to throw his weight around, hits every chance

938
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:56,079
he gets. Defense below average. In junior showings, he was

939
00:46:56,119 --> 00:46:58,920
consistently on the wrong side of the puck, cheating for offense,

940
00:46:59,599 --> 00:47:02,480
and whether this is a factor of the coaching style

941
00:47:02,599 --> 00:47:06,039
or not balliant offense more than the defensive responsibility. It

942
00:47:06,119 --> 00:47:09,519
did result in a couple goals against in the games

943
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,519
that Craig watch. However, in two games at the AHL level,

944
00:47:12,519 --> 00:47:15,480
he looked a lot better defensively, so maybe that was

945
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:20,480
a coaching decision. Best asset Connor's big frame shielding the puck,

946
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,599
taking it wide gain control of the offensive zone as well.

947
00:47:23,679 --> 00:47:26,039
If he can luck into an net front presence on

948
00:47:26,159 --> 00:47:29,400
a power play one, he could be something for sure.

949
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,519
Biggest concern doesn't have anything that stands out as elite.

950
00:47:32,559 --> 00:47:34,519
This could push him down the lineup and limit his

951
00:47:34,559 --> 00:47:37,960
point upside. So the top tier outcome sixty to seventy

952
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,039
points above average bash, perhaps that's he If he lucks

953
00:47:42,079 --> 00:47:45,440
into a top six role with powerplay one, then you

954
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:49,599
might see that fiftieth percentile. Yeah, Tier three fifty to

955
00:47:49,639 --> 00:47:54,840
sixty points with again very good peripheral bash, and that's

956
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,360
probably a middle six power forward based on his lack

957
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,559
of hands and no real standouts on the offensive side

958
00:48:00,599 --> 00:48:05,519
of the puck. Michael Rasmisin is a comp that Craig

959
00:48:05,679 --> 00:48:10,320
would give him here, So the Mason Black NHL Rank

960
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:14,480
King pole comes up, Connor Geehey versus our friend Jonathan

961
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,119
Lakara Maki with the big rapt in this case sixty

962
00:48:18,119 --> 00:48:21,639
eight point five to thirty one point five Victor. Am

963
00:48:21,639 --> 00:48:23,440
I going to have a chance to play the Jonathan

964
00:48:23,519 --> 00:48:26,679
lcarry Macky theme sung by Ryan Downey once again here?

965
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 3: I sure hope. So as I was reading this, I

966
00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:32,840
was thinking it in my head, our tidy admiral singing

967
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,079
the Johnny Lacaray mackie. If you haven't heard that, I

968
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:38,880
think you will. So it's great stuff, and I do

969
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:43,239
think he's better Geeky. I have always thought he seems

970
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,519
more like a middle six forward, especially with how good

971
00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:49,159
he is defensively, and you heard some of the issues

972
00:48:49,199 --> 00:48:52,960
with his offensive game from Craig. I do think he

973
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,840
positions more as a middle six center. We'll see, especially

974
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:00,159
how he breaks into the league. Now with Tampa it

975
00:49:00,199 --> 00:49:02,280
seems like their top six is pretty sad. He may

976
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,159
get some opportunity with some of the big guys, but

977
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,400
he probably is going to play more of a depth role,

978
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,159
and I think that suits him, and I think he'll

979
00:49:09,199 --> 00:49:12,719
excel at that we'll see. I have a little bit

980
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,599
more faith in Lacara Mackie's upside. We have seen some

981
00:49:15,639 --> 00:49:19,239
issues from him, but he did perform really well at

982
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:22,239
in the SHL this season with a huge bounce back season.

983
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,320
He did really well at the World Juniors. I believe

984
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,639
he was like player of the tournament, one of the

985
00:49:26,679 --> 00:49:29,760
top honors there. He was great. He definitely he's a

986
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,840
goal scorer that sometimes doesn't score and that's obviously an issue.

987
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,320
But he has rounded out his game a little bit more,

988
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,039
a little bit better playmaking, a little bit better off

989
00:49:38,039 --> 00:49:40,360
puck awareness. But at any rate, you don't have Lakara

990
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,280
Mackie on your team to play as a bottom six

991
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,079
center or forward, so he's going to get the opportunity

992
00:49:47,119 --> 00:49:50,239
for sure. So I'd much rather have Lakara Mackie between

993
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:54,480
these two, even though the PNHL is actually favoring Geeky

994
00:49:54,559 --> 00:49:58,639
in this case of between the two between seventy five

995
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,840
to seventy two. So it's pretty similar, but I think

996
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:05,440
actually the upside swings heavily in Lakara Maki's direction. If

997
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,559
you look at the hockey prospecting, they're both similar. They

998
00:50:09,599 --> 00:50:12,880
started a bit higher, and they've trended down. Lakara Maaki

999
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,079
the last two seasons ten percent and Geeky nine percent

1000
00:50:16,079 --> 00:50:20,079
of being a star. The NHL probability is higher for Geeky.

1001
00:50:20,159 --> 00:50:22,480
I think that also makes sense. There's a slight more

1002
00:50:22,599 --> 00:50:26,480
volatility and bust potential to Lakara Maaki, but Geeky is

1003
00:50:26,559 --> 00:50:30,159
just so likely to play NHL games, even if it's

1004
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:32,719
at a replacement or not as high of a level

1005
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:36,000
in terms of fantasy. So anyways, looking at some other

1006
00:50:36,039 --> 00:50:40,000
comps for Geeky, there's some pretty average ones. Actually, if

1007
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,159
you look at them, they're mostly disappointing. I think Andrew

1008
00:50:42,199 --> 00:50:45,480
Coglianos maybe one of the best comps in terms of

1009
00:50:45,559 --> 00:50:48,199
especially what to expect. They're not the same type of player. Obviously,

1010
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,880
Kugliana was much smaller but very fast, and I think

1011
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,280
that in terms of fantasy production they could be similar.

1012
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,840
Though looking at the j first card between the two,

1013
00:50:58,199 --> 00:51:01,480
it's pretty a little bit disappointing. Seven percent chance of

1014
00:51:01,519 --> 00:51:03,760
being a star, but sixty nine percent chance of being

1015
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,880
in NHL or echoing what I just said, the upside

1016
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:10,800
maybe not fully there, but that NHLer probability is super

1017
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:11,760
high for Connor.

1018
00:51:11,519 --> 00:51:14,559
Speaker 2: Geeky, that's our first one victor. Who's our need to

1019
00:51:14,599 --> 00:51:15,360
know prospect?

1020
00:51:16,599 --> 00:51:18,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, so our need to know is going to be

1021
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,760
Isaac Howard twenty twenty two to thirty first overall pick,

1022
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,159
five ft nine hundred and niney pounds left shot, left wing.

1023
00:51:24,559 --> 00:51:27,639
He switched his commitment last season from the University of

1024
00:51:27,639 --> 00:51:29,920
Minnesota d Luth to Michigan State, and he more than

1025
00:51:30,039 --> 00:51:32,599
doubled his point output from seventeen points and thirty five

1026
00:51:32,639 --> 00:51:35,079
games to point per game thirty six and thirty six

1027
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,440
for Michigan State. He was also part of that stacked

1028
00:51:38,519 --> 00:51:41,159
USA World Junior team that won gold. He had seven

1029
00:51:41,199 --> 00:51:43,519
goals and seven games. That was pretty incredible, along with

1030
00:51:43,559 --> 00:51:47,079
two apples. That was pretty good stuff there. Looking at

1031
00:51:47,119 --> 00:51:51,480
his FHL player card, though, it's interesting his defense was

1032
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:56,800
pretty awful fourth percentile. Fourth percentile is just really terrible.

1033
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,800
His transition game also not so good at twenty seventh

1034
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,880
percent centile. This looks honestly like a card of someone

1035
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,639
who's not even an NHL prospect. His offense a little

1036
00:52:06,679 --> 00:52:09,639
bit better fifty ninth percentile, so that was a little

1037
00:52:09,639 --> 00:52:11,760
bit better. And again we're talking about Michigan State here.

1038
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:16,519
Was a strong collegiate team, so that is not super reassuring.

1039
00:52:16,559 --> 00:52:19,480
Looking at his FHL player card or sorry, his Mitch

1040
00:52:19,519 --> 00:52:23,159
Brown player card for the World Juniors, offense is much

1041
00:52:23,159 --> 00:52:26,039
better eighty fifth percentile, his defense bumped up to fifty

1042
00:52:26,079 --> 00:52:28,119
second percentile. I think part of that might have been

1043
00:52:28,199 --> 00:52:31,199
due to who he was playing with, and his transition

1044
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,559
game continue to be poor, so overall that does not

1045
00:52:33,679 --> 00:52:36,679
paint a great picture of Isaac Howard. Looking at his

1046
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,000
FHL player card, you can also see that he doesn't

1047
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,079
really hit or block very much at all the thirtieth

1048
00:52:42,119 --> 00:52:44,960
and ten percentile there, but he shoots a ton ten

1049
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,199
out of ten, so he's going to have a decent

1050
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,639
number of shots, and his bash might look okay because

1051
00:52:50,679 --> 00:52:52,920
of primarily his shots not so much for the other

1052
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,519
two looking and then his assists for sixty are really high.

1053
00:52:56,559 --> 00:52:59,159
His goals are actually a little bit lower, so surprising

1054
00:52:59,159 --> 00:53:01,599
that he scores the many goals at World Juniors because

1055
00:53:01,639 --> 00:53:03,320
typically he is more of an a SIS guy in

1056
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,519
terms of relative to the league. Anyways, then looking at

1057
00:53:06,559 --> 00:53:10,159
some of his play driving numbers, not too bad. He

1058
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,599
has his power playtime is good as play driving is

1059
00:53:12,639 --> 00:53:15,559
a good transition game his high danger He gets the

1060
00:53:15,599 --> 00:53:18,039
puck to those high danger areas a pretty good amount,

1061
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,880
but overall a little bit lower than what you would

1062
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,119
think of for a lot of the top fours out there.

1063
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,280
But let's hear a little bit more about Isaac Howard

1064
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:27,400
from our FHL scout.

1065
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,199
Speaker 2: Here's what Jacob had to say about Isaac Howard skating.

1066
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,000
Could still use work on his acceleration speed, but as

1067
00:53:35,119 --> 00:53:37,800
quick strides and a high motor that allows him to

1068
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,519
fly around the ice passing and handling. His playmaking has

1069
00:53:41,599 --> 00:53:44,840
improved from last season, confidently making some brilliant plays with

1070
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,840
the puck, setting up his teammates with great a scoring chances.

1071
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,039
He still has the tendency to force plays that aren't there,

1072
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:56,320
but seeing that improvement is promising. Shooting. While an increased

1073
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,840
role in the lineup allowed Howard to showcase his she

1074
00:54:00,119 --> 00:54:02,679
a bit more this season, Jacob would still love to

1075
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,719
see him shoot the puck more often. He's got a

1076
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,360
lethal shot with a quick release off the blade of

1077
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,719
his stick and a booming slap shot IQ. The panic

1078
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,639
meter has dropped slightly, has became more comfortable with driving

1079
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,639
and reading plays. He still has the tendency to throw

1080
00:54:18,639 --> 00:54:21,880
pucks away when under pressure, but Howard has made improvements

1081
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:26,320
as the season went on. Before checking, Isaac Howard is

1082
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,360
not the strongest in terms of physicality, but he's become

1083
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,599
more engaged in puck battles along the boards and is

1084
00:54:32,639 --> 00:54:36,119
more determined in winning loose pucks. Defense, Howard isn't going

1085
00:54:36,199 --> 00:54:38,480
to be a game changer in his own end, but

1086
00:54:38,599 --> 00:54:41,280
he still puts in the work by primarily using his

1087
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,039
stick to take away any shooting or passing lanes. He

1088
00:54:44,079 --> 00:54:47,400
also isn't afraid to block shots every so often. So

1089
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:52,159
the biggest asset play making, biggest concern defense. The top

1090
00:54:52,199 --> 00:54:55,320
tier outcome here. Jacob says a top six winger with

1091
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,360
some power play time is still in play here, and

1092
00:54:58,639 --> 00:55:02,000
that's if he makes the middle I guess the fiftieth

1093
00:55:02,039 --> 00:55:05,800
percent all outcome A left wing, maybe a second line

1094
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:10,920
left wing, third line left wing. Stylistically, Nikolai Eielers is

1095
00:55:11,079 --> 00:55:15,039
the comp that Jacob puts on Isaac Coward and the

1096
00:55:15,039 --> 00:55:18,079
final thoughts. He's a pure offensive winger with brilliant playmaking,

1097
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,440
lethal shot. Likes to use the speed to enter the

1098
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:24,280
offensive zone, draw attention to himself and then find linemates.

1099
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,599
He has a lethal shot with a quick release, plenty

1100
00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:29,159
of power behind his blade. Well, he's not the greatest

1101
00:55:29,199 --> 00:55:32,400
defensive player. He's become more engaged in puck battles, using

1102
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,920
his stick to take away any shooting or passing lanes,

1103
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,599
and Jacob says last season was a huge step forward

1104
00:55:38,639 --> 00:55:41,039
for Howard's development. More than double this production at the

1105
00:55:41,119 --> 00:55:44,559
NCAAA helped his team win a Big Ten championship, scored

1106
00:55:44,599 --> 00:55:47,800
a whopping set as seven goals to help USA win

1107
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,400
goal at the World Juniors twenty four to twenty five.

1108
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,559
Seed is going to be a huge opportunity for him

1109
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,480
to become one of the best players in college hockey.

1110
00:55:55,559 --> 00:55:59,880
So more optimism out of our guy, Jacob on Isaac Coward.

1111
00:56:00,199 --> 00:56:02,280
Let's see what the people had to say the NHL

1112
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:07,199
ranking put Isaac Howard up against Denver Barkie, and Denver

1113
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,599
Barkie comes out with the win. Tampa prospects for over

1114
00:56:10,679 --> 00:56:15,960
two today fifty nine to forty one percent. The people

1115
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,440
go Barkie, Philadelphia Flyers, Guy, Victor, is that how you

1116
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:20,440
would see this one?

1117
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,039
Speaker 3: I love Denver Barkie too. He's a super fun player,

1118
00:56:23,039 --> 00:56:27,159
he's super physical, he's that absolute energy bug that you

1119
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,360
love to have out there, But the problem is that

1120
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,639
he's really small, and even though he's looking really good

1121
00:56:32,679 --> 00:56:35,679
out there and Junior really helped the London Knights win

1122
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,360
the OHL Championship, I'm just not sure that's gonna be

1123
00:56:39,519 --> 00:56:42,559
enough to translate to a prominent NHL role. So in

1124
00:56:42,599 --> 00:56:45,519
this poll, I think I would take Isaac Howard, even

1125
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:49,199
though I like Barkie. Howard has two inches on him.

1126
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,440
He is a little bit further And I know some

1127
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,920
people say, oh, I would take the guy in the

1128
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,280
prospect pipeline that's a little bit more bereft of talent,

1129
00:56:58,679 --> 00:57:00,599
But I wouldn't actually look at it that way. We've

1130
00:57:00,639 --> 00:57:03,280
seen guys get traded, We've seen prospects get traded. All

1131
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,920
it would take is for Tampa to move Isaac Howard

1132
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,519
to someone like Carolina, and then he would just disappear

1133
00:57:09,599 --> 00:57:13,800
in that very robust talent of a prospect pool. But

1134
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:17,480
I do think that Howard has a really good opportunity

1135
00:57:17,519 --> 00:57:20,679
to be a strong middle to top six complimentary player

1136
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,800
who should get some power play time. And I don't

1137
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,360
think that's Barkie's profile at all. I think if he

1138
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,639
does make it, he's going to be more of that

1139
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:34,320
energy line type of player. So as much as I

1140
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,639
like him and I hope I'm wrong, I hope Barkie

1141
00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:39,239
really does make it and becomes the next Johnny Goodroau,

1142
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,159
I'm just not sure that's likely at this point. Looking

1143
00:57:43,199 --> 00:57:47,239
at the pnhrle between the two, it clearly favors right

1144
00:57:47,239 --> 00:57:50,599
now Barkie, and the trajectory is much higher up to

1145
00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:54,480
almost point per game pnhly, whereas Howard is more like sixty.

1146
00:57:55,039 --> 00:57:57,239
But I think that it's more realistic for Howard that

1147
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,480
he gets there and Barkie has a lot more volatility

1148
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:03,000
to his school. Were looking at the hockey prospecting between

1149
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,119
the two, bark He definitely has a hire up to

1150
00:58:05,159 --> 00:58:08,440
thirty percent and Howard has been trending down since starting

1151
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:10,880
at forty one percent. He trended down on out to

1152
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,800
seven percent, both of them about a coin flip for

1153
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:17,760
making the NHL. Howard looking at some of his other comps,

1154
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,000
he has a one here of Brian Gionto, which I

1155
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,920
think is pretty realistic in terms of a Johnta was

1156
00:58:23,039 --> 00:58:25,880
much smaller than Howard, but a little bit of a

1157
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,840
slightly undersized guy with decent amount of skill that can

1158
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,199
find a way. And as you heard, Howard really needs

1159
00:58:31,239 --> 00:58:33,360
to round out the rest of his game to be

1160
00:58:33,559 --> 00:58:36,320
defensively responsible enough. But he has improved some of that.

1161
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,079
A couple of years in college has really helped, especially

1162
00:58:39,119 --> 00:58:42,039
playing on a competitive team where those types of mistakes

1163
00:58:42,039 --> 00:58:44,719
aren't tolerated quite as much. So I think he's come

1164
00:58:44,719 --> 00:58:46,639
a long way in that he still has ways to go.

1165
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,360
Looking at his j fresh card, nine percent chance of

1166
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,800
being start, twenty five percent chance of being in NHLer,

1167
00:58:52,159 --> 00:58:54,800
So for this model, that's not too bad. All in all,

1168
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,360
he's a pretty decent prospect, and I think I would

1169
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:01,039
like him more than some others, but in general they

1170
00:59:01,159 --> 00:59:04,639
probably are looking at some other teams better prospects that

1171
00:59:04,719 --> 00:59:06,960
fit in that sort of top three. But this is

1172
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,039
the Tampa system and the nice If he stays here,

1173
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,559
he's got a pretty good opportunity pretty soon to contribute.

1174
00:59:13,599 --> 00:59:14,639
So you like to see that.

1175
00:59:16,639 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, And those are the first two. Who is

1176
00:59:20,519 --> 00:59:22,800
the keep your eye on prospect picture?

1177
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? So the next the last one keep your eye

1178
00:59:26,039 --> 00:59:28,599
on Ethan Gothier twenty twenty three to thirty seventh overall

1179
00:59:28,639 --> 00:59:30,880
Pick five eleven, one hundred and eighty seven pounds, right

1180
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,280
shot right wing. Switched from Srbrook to Drummondville this offseason.

1181
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,480
Point production was about the same in the regular season

1182
00:59:37,559 --> 00:59:40,559
and then increased in the postseason, so you always like

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to see that improvement. They were He was part of

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the QMJHL champion, so that was fun and he did

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okay and the Memorial Cup. Overall, the team didn't do

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very well, so it wasn't necessarily on him looking at

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his tracking data. Though, his defense, like Howard, is a

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problem and this is the issue with him and one

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of the reasons I think DeAndre the fact that he's

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also older, but Connor geeky being able to make more

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of an impact on the team because he's going to

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be a little bit more responsible. Whereas Gotier and Howard,

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I think they still have some work to do. They

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probably need some HL time to be able to work

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on their defense a little bit. His transition game Gotier

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is his sixty seventh percentile and his offense ninetieth percentile.

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Both his expected goals and assists are pretty high. He's

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got some other really good things like bringing the buck

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to the middle, so when advantages created off puck involvement,

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all that looks pretty good offensively for Gotier. Looking at

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his FHL player card, pretty strong across the board, except

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we have pims as negative, so he's low there because

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he takes a fair amount of those. And other than that,

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his hits, blocks and shots are all pretty strong, giving

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him a ten out of ten projection for bash. So

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Ethan Gotier could be a bash dream if his scoring translates,

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which right now looks really good in the queue, but

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we have also seen a lot of players not be

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able to translate that. I'm the QMJJL looking at his

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advanced metrics from the FHL player card, really good play driving,

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really good high danger puckwork, but not so good in

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his transition game or face offs. So some of things

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are a little bit better than others. But let's hear

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some more detail about Ethan Gotier from FHL scout. What's

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going on with Ethan Gotier, I'll tell you, and so

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will our scout Jacob. On this one.

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Speaker 2: Skating, he's made some improvements to that skating quicker on

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his feet which allowed him to become more effective with

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the puck along the boards. He still lacks that top

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01:01:33,519 --> 01:01:36,039
end speed, however, he has a high motor that still

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01:01:36,079 --> 01:01:37,920
allows him to keep up with the pace of play

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01:01:38,719 --> 01:01:43,119
passing and handling. Excellent playmaker ability to create space for himself,

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01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:47,079
but very consistent with finding open passing lanes and setting

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up his teammates with scoring chances. Shooting quick risk shot

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and an above average slap shot. Gotier still likes to

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score his goals by going to the front of the

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net and jamming away at loose pucks and rebounds. IQ.

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Gatier has incredible vision, especially with the puck, shows great patience,

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doesn't panic often when he's under pressure, shows great anticipation

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when entering the offensive zone, and is a decent manipulator

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for checking. Gotier is a relentless wur checker, always engaged

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on both sides of the ice, pressure and pressure his opponents,

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involving himself in board battles. He frustrates his opponents, isn't

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01:02:25,199 --> 01:02:29,800
afraid to show his mean side when there's retaliation defense

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in his own end. Gotier uses his aggressive fore check

1236
01:02:33,159 --> 01:02:36,320
to force turnovers. He can use his stick and despite

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01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,880
it to take away scoring chances. Despite being on the

1238
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:42,079
smaller side, he plays bigger than his size. That allows

1239
01:02:42,119 --> 01:02:45,599
him to be more impactful along the boards, so the

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biggest asset was playmaking, the biggest concern skating. He has

1241
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:55,239
the possibility to be a second wing right wing, and

1242
01:02:55,519 --> 01:02:58,360
the floor would appear to be a third wing right wings.

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Stylistic comparable, I have to with assume he's not talking

1244
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,400
quite about the same level of performance, but maybe stylistically

1245
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,360
Brady could chuck. He knows how to Jacob knows how

1246
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,400
to get my attention. And some final thoughts. Goatee has

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a skilled two hundred foot winger with a brilliant offensive

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01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,480
tool set and a solid defensive game. Puck skills, fantastic,

1249
01:03:17,559 --> 01:03:21,239
anticipates plays well, has the ability to create open space

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01:03:21,599 --> 01:03:23,360
for himself and his linemates.

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Speaker 3: He has a.

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Speaker 2: Solid shot, but primarily loves to score his goals by

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01:03:26,679 --> 01:03:30,079
simply going to the net for loose pucks and rebounds.

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Go tis a relentless checker. That's what's going to allow

1255
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:35,840
him to succeed at the NHL level, rest of on

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01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:39,880
his opponents engaging physically using his stick to force turnovers.

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His skating has improved in terms of quickness due to

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01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,760
high motor but he can still work on generating that

1259
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:50,400
top and speed. All right, and so the NHL ranking,

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01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,920
what did he have to say. We've heard Jacob. Now

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01:03:53,039 --> 01:03:55,519
let's find out what the people have to say. Even

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01:03:55,559 --> 01:03:59,679
go Tier up against Ryan Green of the Chicago Blackhawks.

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Gotier wins sixty two to thirty eight. Victor, Is that

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01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:05,840
how you rank them?

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01:04:06,199 --> 01:04:09,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. I like him quite a bit more like

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01:04:09,599 --> 01:04:12,960
Gautier a little bit more here. Ryan Green is actually

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01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:16,360
someone we've I think we've mentioned before, and even though

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01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:17,960
he may not win this poll, I think he is

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01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,239
someone that you should be aware of. I think when

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01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:23,039
they drafted him he was a little less publicized, but

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01:04:23,239 --> 01:04:26,119
out of the USHL and into Boston University has performed

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01:04:26,159 --> 01:04:29,039
really well there. Of course, behind Celebrinia this year, his

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01:04:29,119 --> 01:04:31,480
job was a little bit easier, but still he has

1274
01:04:31,559 --> 01:04:35,079
performed quite well, and he's someone that should probably be

1275
01:04:35,079 --> 01:04:37,719
on your radar as someone who could be a pretty

1276
01:04:37,719 --> 01:04:40,679
decent fifty to sixty point player. But I think Gotier

1277
01:04:40,719 --> 01:04:42,480
has upside for a little bit more so I would

1278
01:04:42,559 --> 01:04:45,079
choose him in this poll. He heard some of the

1279
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things that Jacob mentioned, and if his scoring translates even

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01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:51,760
at all with that strong bash, Gotia is going to

1281
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:54,679
be someone really exciting. I'm not sure, as you've alluded

1282
01:04:54,679 --> 01:04:57,519
to that he's Chuck level. Who is, but even if

1283
01:04:57,519 --> 01:04:58,679
he's a little bit close.

1284
01:04:58,440 --> 01:04:58,719
Speaker 2: To that.

1285
01:05:00,239 --> 01:05:04,039
Speaker 3: Incredible Looking at the hockey prospecting between the two, Gotier's

1286
01:05:04,639 --> 01:05:07,480
star potential went down from six to sixteen sixteen to

1287
01:05:07,519 --> 01:05:10,360
six percent, and his NHL probably went down a little

1288
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,000
bit from their forty five to thirty five. Ryan Green

1289
01:05:13,039 --> 01:05:15,199
has trended down as well, from twenty four down to

1290
01:05:15,199 --> 01:05:17,000
three percent chance of being a star, even with a

1291
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:21,719
strong production in the NCAA in this model anyways, Looking

1292
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,840
at some other more reasonable comps for go Tier, I

1293
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,079
think Ryan Hartman is someone who actually has a lot

1294
01:05:28,079 --> 01:05:30,920
of rhymes with in terms of similar star The numbers

1295
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,840
are pretty similar in terms of the star and NHL potential,

1296
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,280
and Hartman, as we know, has some pretty decent seasons

1297
01:05:37,519 --> 01:05:40,360
had some kind of boring replacement level seasons as well.

1298
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,760
So maybe we'll see depends on the context of the

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01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,199
team when he gets there and what role he's able

1300
01:05:46,239 --> 01:05:49,920
to fill. But Gotier certainly is an interesting one. Looking

1301
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:55,039
at the top down hockey player card from j fresh

1302
01:05:55,079 --> 01:05:57,159
ethan go Tier two percent chance of being a star,

1303
01:05:57,239 --> 01:05:59,280
six percent chance of being an NHLR, So a little

1304
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:03,400
bit more pessimist care as you might expect. So that's

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maybe the more obscure, the less heralded prospects that were

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