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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Sovier and Victor Nuno.
Speaker 3: Fantasy Hockey Live back once again. I am just a
severe pain Tracks. That is the Fantasy Hockey Doctor, Victor Nunio. Victor,
how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing awesome, Jesse. Yeah, it's always that's a good
time of year. The season is ending, getting ready for playoffs,
all that kind of stuff, so still exciting. Although all
our leagues are over, so we're shifting into that off
season mode. But how are you doing, my friend.
Speaker 3: I'm doing good. I complained and complained about the leagues
that went to the last day, Victor. I did have
two leagues that went to the last day, and I
was leading in both of them going into the night, Victor,
and in one of them an epic collapse. I ended
up finishing second in the FSGA Industry League to Chris Wassel,
one time guests of the show. Chris Wassel, famous fantasy
hockey pundit. He got me. I was without Nathan McKinnon
and Alexander Barkoff and John Carlson. And that's just a
whole bunch of excuses because he was without Berdi Kuchuk.
But it was it both almost revived my interest in
going to the end of the year and proved my
point for me that it's stupid to go to the
last day of the year because half of both of
our players were out and it was just down to
the JV to try to get it through. But the
other victor, I was in fan Track's Best Ball you
can enter those money things, and I won that sucker victor.
I won a fan Tracks one hundred this year.
Speaker 2: Wow. Nice. Not only that you also won the crossover
draft that you Elin and Brian and I did, and
thank you for winning that. But also if you combine
both of our scores, we beat them. We beat the
keeping Carlson boys, and so that's yeah. You beat Elon
by three and I beat Brian by fourteen, so we
were the champs. That was That's definitely was good.
Speaker 3: I think that's the first year that we've did you
take it one year? Did you take it.
Speaker 2: One last year? But I think you were third, I
think so, I don't remember what the combined was. But
the first I think the first year or two Elon won.
But I will also point out that we didn't snake
those drafts and gave them the first pick, and that
made a huge difference.
Speaker 3: And Victor, I will not. I will also note that
the Calder Trophy draft wrapped up last night, and you
womped all of us. I don't know if you went
you've gone back to look at that. You destroyed worlds
in that thing. You've probably you've been ahead for so
much you probably forgot to even look back at it
for the last three months.
Speaker 2: So I did look. But yeah, I had seventeen hundred
and fifty one points, Brandon thirteen high hundred and sixty,
so that's almost four hundred points, and then Shane was
at twelve sixty seven, so about one hundred behind. And
then you, I think promised that you would come in
no greater than third, and so lived up to that
at eleven hundred and seventeen points, so only a six
hundred and fifty behind me.
Speaker 3: Yeah you let's see, Yeah, you got a couple of
very good players, and I think you got I think
you got Dustin Wolf, right, So you had the viable
goalie coming out of this thing, and that made all
the difference. All right, Victor, let's get to some real stuff.
But before I do, if you are still in the
mood for Dynasty Hockey, because guess what, Victor, I have
renewed Dynasty leagues for twenty twenty five, twenty six. That's right,
they are renewed. In fact, those of you we are
recording a little bit in advance. They were renewed Friday
morning after the Thursday night games, within twelve hours of
the conclusion of the season. I had the leagues renewed
for fans tracks. And if people are fired up and
ready to start talking trades in those leagues, are ready
to start talking fantasy hockey, they can jump into our
discord Fantasy Hockeylife at gmail dot com. Will get you
a link, and there are a couple one hundred people.
There's several hundred people by now who hang out there
and do the talking, and you might enjoy coming over
to be a part of it. And all you have
to do is get a link. Victor, you also have
cool stuff to talk about in the Patreon side of life.
Why don't you let people know what it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a lot of good content over on Patreon,
and we've got the prospect ranks, the tiers, a bunch
of good visualizations that you can look at that we'll
be updating throughout the off season, as we've already done
some updating, but as we get closer to the draft
and any player movements, all that kind of stuff, and
then the new twenty twenty fives will be integrated into
those drafts and then throughout the office as they go
to rookie camps and all that kind of stuff, so
they will continuously be updated throughout the year. And there's
also the player cards that tracks all kinds of great
content including my ranks and the block shots, hits and
all the kind of data this's difficult to find. Of course,
there's also the Tidy, which is a benefit of being
a patron a really fun league that we're hopefully going
to make some really cool tweaks and improvements in the
off season, so get in there if you're not already.
And then there's also off season and help. We'll be
doing some bonus content for the team previews like top
ten lists and some extra goalie content that is not
going to be normally aired on the show, and yeah,
lots of great stuff that you can get throughout the
off season and into next season. Patreon dot com slash
Fantasy Hockey Life.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, today it's all about looking back at the season,
and right after this we'll tell.
Speaker 4: You how we're going to do that.
Speaker 3: At the beginning of the season, I believe it was
in late September. Do you remember the twenty first day
of September.
Speaker 2: I remember change.
Speaker 3: I forget how that goes. Victor and I were giving
our hot takes. We had two episodes where we caught
up on all the news that we had that happened
to teams too late for our team previews. And then
we gave spicy takes ketchup and Mustard the Spicy Mustard.
Victor and I both we took turns on teams. We
gave two potential hot takes, low percentage new. We weren't
saying these things were happening. We're saying, let's give a
couple of hot take and see what happens. Gave the
other person a chance to decide which one to be
held accountable for. And now we're going to go back
and revisit all thirty two of those hot takes rapid
fire here and see how they came out. Victor, we
started West Coast, Best Coast, Anaheim Ducks. What did you
have then?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for the Anaheim Ducks, I gave you two options.
One Pavelo Minchikov leads the Ducks and scoring from the
blue line and is a top ten top five on
the team per point pace. And the other one was
Troy Terry bounces back to a seventy five point pace
and Troy Terry, who the previous two seasons had seventy
five point paces and then had dipped down into the fifties.
And so I was thinking that maybe he would come
back to that, but you held me to the pavel
Minschikov take. And did I say Pavelo Minchikov Jackson Lacombe,
Because clearly Jackson Lacombe is a complete stud And yeah,
I did mention how I like lacomb But this guy
exceeded I think everyone's expectations, probably even his own. He
has been incredible. So I'm just it's a quick digression
to point out how good Jackson Lacombe has been. His
numbers are really quite off the charts in terms of
his overall impact offensively and defensively. And I knew that
he was a pretty good defensive defenseman, but I honestly
did not think that he was this good offensively, and
so that kind of opened a lot of eyes about
what he could be. And I'm sure we'll talk a
lot more about him during our Anaheim Ducks team preview,
which is only a few weeks away at this point,
which is fun. But yeah, Jackson McComb is awesome, and
we will talk more about him. But looking at Pavel Minchikov,
it's a little confusing what happened with him. He was
so good so early, and then it seems like he's
regressed a little bit. The point pace was challenged by
the fact that he didn't get a lot of power
play time. I thought he'd get a little bit more.
He ended up third point pace behind lacomb and Olin Zelweger.
I don't think anyone had lacombe leading the blue line
in points on their Bengal card this season. But that
regression came really hard for Mitchikov. His offense is still
eightieth percentile, but his defensive metrics look awful, and I
think part of that is team effect. But then you
look at Jackson Lacombs and it's seventy seven percentile on
the league. So he's driving play and rocking it, and
he's even less experienced at the NHL level. So I
don't think we can make too many excuses for Michikoff.
I'm still a little confused why he was so bad defensively. Anyways,
I didn't want to point out power play time on ice.
Look homb two minutes and twenty four seconds on average,
Zellweger two minutes and eight seconds, Minchikov fifty three seconds,
so he wasn't really getting the hugest opportunity and that
might be part of the reason. But a twenty three
point pace is not anything to get excited about, so
we might have to recalibrate our expectations. He's one hundred
and thirty one games into his career and he's averaging
a thirty point pace, so not that exciting. And in
case anyone's wondering, I was also wrong about Trey Terry.
He finished with a fifty nine point pace. He was
fifty eight last season, so he didn't quite make back
up to that seventy five point p and maybe this
just as who he is. Maybe he's more of a
sixty point guy, Jesse.
Speaker 3: It's hard Victor because when you're giving hot takes, they're
generally optimistic ones, and it's pretty hard to find lots
of optimistic things that came true for the Anaheim Ducks
this year. So I blame the Ducks, not the Victor
for these things not breaking through. There's still maybe some
meat on the bones, so to speak, for some of
these players in the future. Onto the Calvary Flames, which
were mine. Mackenzie Wigert is not in the season on
the Flames. It didn't happen, and the Flames were surprisingly
spunky throughout the season. They got down to the last
couple of days and yeah they were eliminated. I think
second to last night of the season, or maybe the
third to last something like that. But Mackenzie Wiger that
it was not a situation where everybody must go by
the way Zane Perrek played last night, I saw his
debut that was that was pretty cool. And Hunter Bristi,
which came up last night too, So those guys have
had NHL experience now. But the other one, the one
that you held me to, Connor Zery Top five power
play time on ice. It didn't happen. Victory, it didn't happen.
But I'm going to claim the small moral victory on
this one with Connor Zery top five power play time
on ice because of injuries, Connor Zery played in fifty
four games this year. That was a big problem. However,
had he played twenty more games, not you. I'm not
saying twenty eight to get to the full eighty two,
just twenty more games because most of the flames played
around that seventy seventy two games power play tim and ice.
Let's not give him full health and not give full
health to other guys. Nobody in Calgary actually had full
eighty two games on power play. I think probably must
have been a game that somebody wasn't on the power play.
But he would have been in fifth place had he
played twenty more games at the pace of power play
time that he had. So there is reason to hope
that something like this prediction could come true in the future.
But of course there's more flames coming up all the time,
and see if Conner Zery can do it.
Speaker 2: Back to you, Victor, Yeah, I like it, and I
think that's the spirit of the take, I think was
good and I think he can be one of the
best Flames on there and deserves a little bit more
power play time, so I like it. Kuzmenko is one
of the people who was ahead of him. He's not
there anymore. Cornado was also ahead. Those two will probably
fight it out for some role. But yeah, good job
on that one. The Edmonton Oilers are the next one,
all right, get ready for this one. The two that
I gave Jeff Skinner scores at a forty goal pace.
That was pretty optimistic. The other one was that Evan
Bouchard finished his third on the team in point pace,
which is something he did last season, and Jesse decided
to hold me to the Jeff Skinner take naturally because
that was less likely, And oh my gosh, was that awful.
He hasn't scored at a forty point pace since forty
gold pace since the twenty eighteen nineteen season, which was
his first in Buffalo, and that's the only time he's
ever scored forty goals. He has been on pace for
similar a couple of times before that, but it just
really didn't go well for Skinner in Edmonton. He had
his worst season since his second and third Buffalo seasons,
which were the twenty eighteen nineteen to twenty twenty twenty
one season, and those seasons he played fifty nine and
fifty three games and managed twenty one goals between the two.
It was pretty awful this season. He need sixteen goals
in seventy two games. He did manage to score a couple.
We decided in our championship the lead team to be
managed together Jesse. We were in the championship and we
decided to drop Jeff Skinner right before the final because
we hadn't needed to flex some get some more games played,
and he hadn't been doing anything most of the season,
so we dropped it. And of course, what did Jeff
Skinner do that week is score like four or five
goals I think.
Speaker 3: In two or three games, breaking Skinner.
Speaker 2: As you can see here, that was like pretty much
a quarter of his entire production in those couple of games.
So anyways, I wouldn't have made any difference in that matchup.
We lost anyways, but it was extra frustrating and salting
the wound for what a bat season he had. Anyways,
this was obviously not close, and I think Jeff Skinner
and a couple of the other guys that they brought
in is pretty emblematic of the difficulty they've had this year.
The depth scoring has been a huge problem for them,
and him not being able to contribute a little more
as part of the problem anyways, So I think that
kind of speaks to some the greater issue. And in
terms of the other take that did happen, Evan Bouchard
did finish third on the team in point pace. He
was eighteen total points and fifteen point pace ahead of
Ryan Newtan Hopkins. So, Jesse, why wouldn't you let me
just stick without I think.
Speaker 3: As I went through some of these, and the listener
may try to decide and follow this themselves as they listened,
I think Victor gave me a better break than I
gave him. On some of these. I heard Skinner and
I was no no way, even though I would have
had this self interest in the team, we go manage
to have Skinner be successful. But I just I had
no faith in Skinner this year, and yeah, that worked
out the La Kings, Victor, I was pandering to you
by saying that Quentin Buyfield would hit seventy three points
this year, and you held me accountable to it fifty
four points, not seventy three. Did not work out for Quentin.
Although he is improving, he is getting more respect and
who knows, maybe he will help the Kings get over
the hump in the first round against the Oilers this
year and raise his profile a bit more. But Quentin Buyfield,
it doesn't look at this point like he's going to
be the star that I think we all hoped he
would be when he was drafted. But he also had
himself a decent season and we'll move on certainly. I
don't know if this was closer or not, but my
other hot take option was Tannerjnau leading the chill forwards
and hits. Boy did that miss, not only because of
the aforementioned Key for surewood we've been covering lately. Keifer
ended up with four hundred and sixty two hits and
Matchew Olivier finished with three hundred and six and second place.
But among forwards, Jeneau was in nineteenth place with two
hundred and eleven hits, so he was substantially back from
the pack. He had under one half what Key for
Sure would way under one half of what Kere for
Sherwood did, so I don't know Tanner Jano. He just
feels like he's fallen off the map a bit. He
only played sixty seven games, so I guess he would
have risen quite a bit in the rankings had he
had a full season, but only thirteen points. He was
only out there eleven minutes a game. I mean, it
just seems like just yesterday that he was the hot
young thing for the Nashville Preds and now he's twenty
seven and out in LA and yeah, not really getting
it done for us in fantasy.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's just enjoying the LA nightlife a little too much. Yeah,
he's hitting it, He's hitting it out there, Victor. He's
been a free agent in a couple of shallow ish
leagues and it's just there's just no interest. He's just awful,
not really doing anything. So yeah, the byfield one. I
still and forever will be a byfield believer. And towards
the end of the season here he's been really turning
it on and maybe maybe he's showing the player he
can really be. I'm hoping that's the case because that
would be fun. But yeah, I think they moved him
back to the middle and he's actually doing a little
bit better. So we'll see. But it didn't come true
this year. The next team, the San Jose Sharks. I
gave you two options. Will Smith clears a sixty five
point pace, and the other was Jake Walman is a
top thirty defender and Tidy. You held me to the
Jake Walman one, and we got a live one, Jess.
We finally got one here, Jake Wallman. He was twenty
fourth best defender and tidy for total points, but if
you go by Fantasy points per game, he was the
sixteenth best. So I think either way you cut it,
I was right on this one. This was I hit
this one out of the park. Was a rare win
on some of these, at least so far that we've
talked about. And yes, I do admit that he now
plays for the Edmonton Oilers, but all but fifteen of
his sixty five games played were with the San Jose Sharks,
and so I think that still was true. For most
of the season while he was there, he was getting
a lot of usage and he was doing pretty well.
I think this one has got to be a win.
But before you adjudicate this, I'll let everyone know that
Will Smith only achieved a fifty point pace, so I
guess you should have held me to that one. Jesse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was way wrong on that. I did not
see the Jake Wollman think coming victors so that I
hope people listen to you at the beginning of the season,
because that was a big one moving up to Seattle.
A disappointing season for Seattle. I decided to keep quick
side doubting Chandler Stevenson at the beginning of the year,
and it did not work. I said, you would finish
outside the top six and forward time on ice for
the Seattle Kraken.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 3: He was second for total time on ice for forwards
and he was first in average time on ice for forwards.
I was way wrong on that one. The yeah, Chandler
Stevenson is going. We used to make fun of the
Kraken for rolling four lines of mid that they all
everybody on the Kraken played seventeen thirty or something like that.
That was a little bit more of a Dave Hackstall
thing than a Dan Bilesman thing. There's a bit more
of a spread I noticed this year than there was
in the past because Stevenson played like nineteen thirty one
and the next highest forward eighteen forty one, for ben years,
and then we get all the way down. There aren't
a bunch of guys at this eighteen thirty. There's a
spread a little bit more than there has been in
the past. So I gotta give him a little bit
of We got to get that out of her mind,
because I don't think that's a thing anymore in Seattle
like it used to be. But the other one that
I tried for and you didn't give me sheen Wright
redemption Tour get him up to a fifty point pace
this year. I was wrong, but I wasn't as far
off as it could have been. He had forty four
points and seventy nine games. Sheen Wright had a decent
little season. Hopefully he's continuing to climb and is going
to be able to maybe never meet the expectations that
he had a year before his draft, but be a
solid NHL player.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be forever in a day
until you get over the channel Stevenson and what he
has become since he left Washington.
Speaker 4: Dang it.
Speaker 2: I still don't think it makes sense in my head either.
And whatever they're doing in Seattle. It's not working, So
I am I would submit that they probably shouldn't be
playing Channel Stevenson as much. They're not winning, it's not helping,
but they continue to do it, all right. The Wash
the Vancouver Canucks is the next team. And I gave
you two ones that Jake debrask fails to clear a
fifty point pace and the other that EP forty leads
the team in point pace. I was close on this
one that you held me to the EP forty one,
and it would have been true if I had said
he leads the forwards. I think that probably wouldn't have
been as spicy, but it was close. Quinn Hughes led
the team in point pace. He's such a superstar. EP
forty had a little bit better of a season, but
he still only managed to be point seven point seven
zero points per game, And so that was a little
bit better than some of the disappointing seasons he's had,
but it's still not great. Fifty eight point pace is
where he's at. He had that one hundred and five
point season point pace season a couple years ago. Actually,
what am I saying? This was his worst statistical season
in terms of point pace, So yeah, that was pretty bad.
But even with being that bad, he still had more
than all the other forwards who finished on the Canucks. JT.
Miller did end up with point ninety six points per game,
but he no longer plays for the Vancouver Canucks, so
that that didn't really count anyways. I was right if
you just focus on the forwards, but that wasn't the take.
The other thing that I was right about is that
Jake Debrusk did not clear a fifty point pace, and
I continue to say that he's not a good fantasy asset,
despite people wanting to give him chance after chance, and
I hope everyone hears this. PSA stop trying to make
Jake DeBusk a fantasy asset. He's not. He's had great
deployment pretty much his entire career and he can't really
do anything with it. Everywhere he goes he gets to
play with some of the best players and it just
doesn't really work out for him. He's just he's just
a very mid pro and good for him. He's a
career forty seven point pace player and that's who he is.
He had that one season where he pays for sixty
four and that was only scoring fifty points in sixty
four games. He doesn't really play eighty two games except these.
This season he did play eighty two finished at that
forty eight point pace, But most of the seasons he's played,
he's missed a significant chunk of time and the point
pace still isn't even that great. So you got time
missed and you got disappointing numbers. I hope people will
finally let it go, Jesse, but I have a feeling
they won't. They will he will be put in some
other exciting position and people will say this is going
to be the time It's going to work. That's my prediction, Jesse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I I was not giving you Debrusque in
any way, shape or form, because I share your incredible
pessimism on Debrusque. But yeah, ep forty Yet again, the
Vancouver Cannucts are they They were the worst Canadian team
this year, right if you look at it objectively, because
Calgary almost made the playoffs. The other five teams all
got in. So that was not on my bingo card
at the pind of the year because I thought the
Canucks will be halfway decent. The Vegas Golden Knights were
my next one, and I had two possible takes. Alexander
Holtz for twenty five goals. Boy, you should have held
me to that, because Alexander Holtz was not much. But
instead mark Stone. I made the bold choice that he
could be in the top two end points for the team,
and I got this one because he finished second on
the team with sixty seven points and sixty six games.
I said at the time, a bet on mark Stone
is a bet on mark Stone's health. And mark Stone
played more games last year than any season since he
wore in Ottawa Senators Jersey. Okay, last time he played
more games than last season was the year that he
had half of his year with Ottawa and then was
traded to Vegas. Although that's a little unfair because the
two COVID shortened seasons. He actually was pretty healthy for
the whole thing. But sixty six games this year, sixty
seven points in was very solid, more than a point
per game for all the fantasy players. So I looked
out that you gave me that one victor, and yeah,
that's that's the first one. And for our keen reasons,
I think I have the next one in these two
and that's the Chicago Blackhawks. My hot take was that
despise his entry coming into the season, Larembrosois would lead
the Blackhawks and games started, and thank goodness you didn't
give me that one, because that was just a big
fat loser. Larembrusois was way buried on that depth chart,
even though he does sound a little like a pirate. Okay, okay,
I'll stop doing that. But FRANKEA. Naser, I guessed top
five in scoring. That's the one you gave me and
didn't happen. He came up a little late. He finished
ninth in scoring with twenty six points. He was seventh
among the skaters who played at least ten games for
the Blackhawks in points per sixty, so that's a little
bit closer to the top five, but he wasn't there.
But he's on the rise. Franknezer I think will probably
fulfill that prophecy someday, depending on whether the Blackhawks ever
get adequate support for Connor Bedard around on that team.
Countertakes on Vegas or Chicago, Victor.
Speaker 2: Man I should have picked Oltz. I don't know what
I was thinking. There was no way that was going
to happen. I was confident of that. I didn't think
either of those would happen though. I thought Stone would
just miss too many games. I figured he'd be up
there in points, but he'd miss too many games. But
I hope that was a good take. And yeah, Nazar
has been really good since coming up, and that's been
really fun to see someone a couple of the bright
only bright spots for Chicago this season, but that has
been good. But yeah, he wasn't up long enough to
actually do that. But forty fifty three games, forty point pace,
twenty six total points. Not bad for his first fifty
three games in the show. A lot to look forward
to there. Let's move on to my next one, and
this is the Colorado Avalanche. So I get you two options.
Jonathan Drew and hits a seventy point pace with twenty
five power play points, and the other is Justice on
and En steals the starting role from Alex Georgiev. I
was right about a couple of pieces here. One is
that Alex Georgiev is not a great goalie, and that's
why he no longer plays for the Colora Avalanche. But
you did hold me to that one. The goalie take,
but obviously wasn't either. He was pretty awful and the
opportunity that was given to him, and so that didn't
really help. Unfortunately. He was actually one of the worst
goalies in the league in terms of his expected numbers,
negative fifteen goals save above expected. He had seven really
bad starts between Colorado and Nashville, and frankly, I don't know.
He might have just played him at NHL. We'll see
what happens. But it did really not go well Brandon
in this season, so we'll have to see what happens
when we do our team previews. But yeah, you decided
to hold me to the Jonathan Drew in one, and
it did actually work out. He had a seventy one
point pace. I wish I hadn't had the power play
point thing, though, Jesse, because that's what sunk me. The
twenty five power play points was just way too optimistic
for Drew anne and he it was what it should
have been, enough to just go with the power the
total points, which was a huge improvement. It was a
career year. He's never scored that many points. Of course,
he only played forty three games, but thirty seven points
in forty three games seventy one point pace, the best
point pace of his career by a significant margin. Actually,
his next best was that last season in Tampa where
Tampa kind of beefed up his value before trading him
to Montreal for Sergachev, which was such a coup at
the time. But anyways, he has never had He actually
one season that last season in Tampa, he had twenty
six power play goals. So I think that's where my
head was that maybe he could get back up to
that threshold. He had twelve power play points and so
that was still pretty good based on his only forty
three total games. Maybe I should have said pace. I
think if I had said twenty five power play point pace,
that might have been enough to steal the deal, but
I didn't. Anyways, the point is Joanne had a really
great season, and I think we should be reasonably excited
about him moving forward. And so there we go. It
feels like kind of a win, but not quite. Jesse.
Let's move on.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, The thing with the ant noon and the
thing with that guy is you had the right thought
process here, because really what we were doing here was
betting against Alexander Georgia up and you were dead on
with that take that Georgia was not going to hold
that net. But who could foresee that Eustace was going
to be poor enough at the beginning that the Blackhawks
would or the Avalanche would pull the big trade for
McKenzie Blackwood, which that shifted the trajectory of their season.
But it was something that was extremely plausible at the time,
and you were half right that Georgia would lose the net.
It just was not a to gain it. And as
far as the two part drew ound prediction, Victor. That's
why in twenty twenty three, after last year, I swore
off the parlay no two part predictions. Man, I'm not
going to get these. I get half of it, and
then I get too optimistic with the second half. One
of the Dallas Stars. I first I said, Logan stinkoven
top five and team scoring. That didn't happen. Stankovin was
actually ninth in scoring with twenty nine points for fifty
nine games for the Stars and a total of seventy
eight games and thirty nine points. I believe thirty eight
thirty nine basically a half point per game guy last year,
So he wasn't going to get there. But you know
that's not the one you helped me too, though. The
one you did was Thomas Harley. I said Harley would
get one hundred more points of bash than Merro hayskin In.
I lucked. I backed into this one victor because Harley,
if you add his black shots and hits, had three
hundred and fourteen Merrol hayskin and had two hundred and
ten with the gigantic as risk. Thomas Harley played twenty
eight more games than Hayskin and so it's cheap. But
I lose so many of these. I'm going to take
the victory lap on this one because Harley. The point
being that hayskin In is still the more prominent player,
but even if you projected that out, they would have
been pretty close in terms of these stats. And Harley
is he is a man there in Dallas. Now, there's
no doubt about Thomas Harley's level of contribution to that
team in importance. He is a prominent fantasy defenceman now, definitely.
Speaker 2: And Harley was one of my superstars on my THEO
Cup Full team. He was someone who I liked, even
as a secondary piece to mir Or heskin In. And
then when Heyskinin went out, he just turned into a star,
and for he plays for the stars, but he was
a literal figurative star as well. And yeah, he was great.
And I think that's gonna be a big question in
the offseason is how much does he his value continue
because last season the forty nine point pace, this year
fifty three point pace, but he nearly doubled his power
play time on ice, He increased his total time on
ice by almost two and a half minutes. He had
a much bigger role and responsibility, and he did super
well with it. But when Heiskinin's back, there's no doubt
in my mind that some of that is going to
go away. But I think he can still be similar
in terms of his value in production. So that was
a good one. Even the ricks. Let's move on to
the Minnesota Wild. I had two options. The Marat that
Marat who's the danoff, ascends to the top line and
clicks with Krill the thrill boosting him to a fifty
five point pace. I was thinking that somebody would jump
up there and get a huge benefit. The other one
was that Ryan Hartman gets back to a sixty five
point pace. You held me to the Ryan Hartman one.
Both of these were very wrong, so this was easy
pickings for you, Jesse. It didn't really matter which one.
Hartman only managed a thirty one point pace, which was
back to his twenty twenty twenty twenty one days. Who's
the Danoff did get that opportunity, He did play a
little bit with Caprice Off, and no one that did
really did amazingly, and so that didn't really help. Murratt
scored twelve points in seventy five games, so he didn't
even get close to being near that. He's now with
the Bruins, and we'll see what happens with him, but
I it doesn't look like, based on his early NHL time,
that he's going to be a significant asset or someone
to worry about. And the whole Ryan Hartman story of
how he came around and because he at one point
was a decently touted prospect and then he fell off,
and then there was some excitement again a couple of
seasons ago when he hit that sixty five point pace
playing with caprice Off, and then I think he's back
to being irrelevant, and I'm not sure that will change again,
because now he's thirty over thirty, so probably on the
down hill of his career. So still we'll probably be playing,
but not someone that you're going to be super excited about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the powers, the hockey powers that be like the
Black Minnesota Wild for me, so I don't see many
of their games, but without Cabrizov in it wasn't that
exciting anyway. Nationlle Predators victory. The less said about this
one for me, the better, because boy, did I not
have this happen. I said Romeosi would get a career
high points, which would have been ninety seven, and of
course Romanosi his season was derailed. And then I thought
Joe kiem Kimmel could lead the under twenty three year
old Predators in scoring. That did not happen. He only
got into two games. That's the when you held me
to Luke of Angelista is the answer to that trivia
question for the year or for the future? Evangelista had
himself a pretty nice little season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing went well in Nashville this season, so I
think there's a little bit to be blamed on the
entire team sucking. Let's move on to the Saint Louis Blues,
the Surgeon Blues, who have some interesting things happen this year.
My two takes were one, Philip Roberg assumes top power
play in Saint Louis and clear as a forty five
point pace. Second was Jordan Binnington regresses to his twenty
twenty two to twenty twenty three form, which was one
of his worst seasons. You decided hol Me to the
Broberg take, and it didn't didn't quite happen. Berberg did
have a good season. Both he and Holloway were revelations
for the Blues and a big part of their improvement.
And I hope that leads to more of these offer sheets.
It's just in general because that was a really fun
story and I think it'll make things a little bit
more interesting in the off season. But anyways, Broberg had
a good season, but he didn't get to that point.
He had a thirty five point pace, so it was
ten short and I think a big part of it
was the power play taminized that he did not really get.
In fact, I think the Blues wanted to give it
to anyone but Philip Roberg. They gave Justin Fulk an
average of two minutes and two seconds. They gave Cam
Fowler after he arrived a minute fifty eight. Scott Prunovich
even got over a minute before he was traded Colton Praco.
Things are bad, Jesse, and you know that the team
doesn't want to give you top power play role when
they're giving it to Colin Praco, the most obviously defensive
defenseman around. He's so good defensively but not really offensively,
doesn't have a canon of a shot, but not really
the quarterback type. So anyways, he was three seconds on
average more than Philip Roberg, so it just wasn't wasn't
bound to happen. The Bennington take was closer and right
depending on how you look at it. By the raw numbers,
he was right. He had a sub nine hundred save percentage.
He had fourteen really bad starts. But then if you
look at the underlying numbers, I think you have to
give it to Bennington. He actually did do pretty well
this season. He saved six goals above expected. In that
disastrous or that poor twenty twenty two twenty three season,
he was negative six point four to five, so he
was under expected. Last season he had that really great season,
saving almost thirty over expected. So anyways, all in all,
I think that this obviously Both of these were wrong,
but the Bennington one was closer.
Speaker 3: Jesse, You're always betting against that Bennington victor. And yeah,
I wonder what the split would be first half, second
half for Bennington because those Saint Louis Blues caught fire
on us. And again with Broberg, I think this resembles
the Georgiev take. You diagnosed the disease, you just couldn't
predict what kind of crazy thing Saint Louis was going
to do for the cure, and whether it really was
a cure is a good question. But to Broberg definitely
is showing more than he's showing some stuff, but it
just didn't It hasn't happened for him yet. The Winnipeg Jets,
I was basic on this. I went to the top
of the scoring charts and made a couple predictions. One
was that Nikolai Eelers would be top two in scoring.
He was third, but not that far off on the pace.
Kyle Connor led the team he played every game ninety
seven points shypfully eighty seven points in all the games.
Eelers played only sixty nine games and had sixty three points,
so just under a point per game pace compared to
the others who were just over it. So you never know.
If he'd played another thirteen games, maybe he would have
caught a couple of extra good bounces and it worked.
But he was actually third in scoring. And then the
other I flew too close to the sun on this one, Victor.
I tried to say that Kyle Connor was going to
get fifty goals. He got forty one, which was pretty
current good. I should be happy with that in a
ninety seven point season, but yeah, Kyle Connor, fifty goals
was pushing too far. And that's the one you helped
me too. But I'll tell you what, Kyle Connor had
a heck of the year, and you can't be unhappy
if you're a Winnipeg Jets fan right now.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they will say we'll wait until they went
around in the playoffs, so I will shoot happened. But yeah,
they saw a lot of pressure this year finishing with
the President's Trophy, and yeah, I don't think they're going
to have an easy out there with Saint Louis. But yeah,
that was a good season, and yeah, fifty goals just
seemed a little too much, But I think the spirit
of it was that he is and was great. He
continues to be. Let's move over to Utah. My hot
take was two fold. Sean Jersey would get more powerfully
tell on ice than Sergachev and clear a fifty point pace. Okay,
these are these two partters. I need to avoid Jesse
in the future. The other one was that Logan Cooley
finished his third on the team in points and you
decided to hold me to the KOOLI one. What's wrong
about this one? But that's only because Cooley did not
finish third on the team in points. He finished second.
So this is me running around the stadium with my
Logan Cooley flag flying high. Or maybe it's the Utahon's flag.
I don't know. He played. Cooley played seven fewer games
than Nick Schmaltz and outscored him by two and Dylan
Gunther did have a better points pace, but played five
fewer games and ended up five points behind. I think
it'll be close between these two moving forward. I think
Gunther is clearly the better goalscorer, but Cooley might have
the higher points upside with the assists and this the
future looks pretty bright for these two. They pushed, They
had an opportunity to push into the playoffs. They didn't
quite get there. I think Connor Ingram being away and
having to take time away from the team didn't help.
And they had some other injuries like Sean Dursey who
was injured most of the season and did not play
more of the power play time than Sergachev, not even close,
and in his twenty eight games he had a thirty
two point pace. So this one was wrong. But luckily
you held me to the coolie one, and that's the
one that I was right about. And there are some
really positive things here in Utah moving forward, including some
interesting prospects that are going to be coming along soon.
So that was all pretty interesting there, Jesse. We all
love Utah.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna take a break, come back and do
the East.
Speaker 2: And you cash him. You know, his cams sweaty and
these weak calls and had beat his vomit on his
sweat already.
Speaker 5: He's nervous in victory.
Speaker 3: We got to fly through this Eastern Conference, So that's
all right. I don't think there was many good things
that happened, but Europe.
Speaker 2: First, Yes, that's right. So the Boston Bruins. My hot
take was that Charlie McAvoy hits a seventy point pace.
Everyone including Flute Oceans, was saying they expect more from
him and they need to see more from him, and
so I went along with it, even though I didn't
really believe it. And the other one was that Elias
Lynholm fails to pass the sixty five point pace, and
you unfortunately held me to the McAvoy one, and that
was not even closed. Not only did McAvoy fail to
clear a forty point pace, but Mason Laura was basically
better than him, He had a better asset, and it
was really a revelation in terms of being able to
count on someone other than McAvoy in Boston. So that
was good for Laura and not so good for the
McAvoy prosterers. And I just wanted to mention that the
point paces on Boston are just hilarious. David Posternoch had
led the team with one hundred and six points. The
next closest is brought Marshawn, who doesn't play for them anymore,
at sixty three, and then after that it's Morgan Geeky
with a sixty one point pace, almost half, which is
just bananas. That's how good David Haashana gets it. He
must feel like he's parking his Ferrari in the ghetto,
like I don't know, it's just one of these is
not like the other. Then you have Pavel Zaka and
Elislenholmhert tied at a forty seven point pace. Forty seven
point pace not good anyways, So obviously Elison home forty
seven point pace, well under the sixty five I predicted.
Why couldn't you hold me to that one? Jesse? That
would have been so much better? But my point was
that elicelen Holm is mostly a passenger and can't be
relied on as a major fantasy asset. So at least
I was right about that part.
Speaker 3: I have an excellent reason why I didn't hold to
do that one victor, because I thought it was going
to happen. I never had paith in Eliceland home, but
due a whole lot there. But yeah, no, it's certainly. Hey, look,
maybe if McAvoy doesn't get injured in the World Cup
of Hockey, because he was he was looking good at
that point, but unfortunately twas not to be for him.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 3: Buffalo Sabers another team where nothing seemed to go right.
I guessed Uri Kolich would play in sixty NHL games
and you held me to that, and sure enough, you
played sixty two. So I get a victory lap on
that one. And I said that Jack Quinn would get
sixty points this year. He actually got thirty nine. So
you should have held me to that one. Because Jack
Quinn did not make it happen. But Ury Coolidge kept
showing up. He kept showing up, Victor. That's what counts.
Speaker 2: And I like Kulick that was that was probably that
was the guy. I was happy for him. But yeah,
and Quinn not scoring as ma tric regressing is an
interesting thing. We'll have to dig into that in the offseason.
But that kind of surprised me a bit. Actually the
Detroit Red Wings, so I said that Lucas Raymond has
the highest point based on the Red Wings, I thought
it might be close with Larkin, but I thought that
Raymond could find another gear. The other one would all
the goalies. If you remember, Red Wings were going in
to the season with four different goalies and it seemed
like a real issue with who was going to end
up playing as much. And I said, no goalie in
the Red Wings system or Red Wings team will start
more than thirty five games, and you held me to
the Raymond one. It did happen, and Lucas Raymond led
the team with an eighty point pace to brink It
and Larkin. They went back and forth throughout the season,
but they ended up tying at seventy so that was interesting.
So Raymond cleared both of them by ten, which I
didn't think it would be that far, but interesting. And
then Patty turned back the clock. Caine nipped at their
heels with a sixty seven point pace. He had a
pretty fun season, had some contributions, So I'm glad for
Raymond he found another gear. I think he is this
point per game ish player and I think we'll have
to see if that continues. That'll be a good question
for the offseason. But it was fun to see that.
It wasn't enough for them to get back in the playoffs,
but they did have have a much more competitive season.
And I was not right about the goalies because Cam
Talbot ended up playing forty five games. Part of it
is because they had some goalie movement and some trades.
But anyways, the point here, Jesse is that I was
right about Lucas Raymond. That's the point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that is good. Good job on that one.
Raymond was better than I expected him. And yeah, I
was very disappointed in Alex Lyon. I thought maybe he
had started to show something last year, but it didn't
really work out for them Florida Panthers. My hot take
I was once again I flew too close to the
sun because I said Matt Kachuck would get a career
high in points that would be one hundred and ten
points he would have had to have this year, and
like his brother Brady, there was battle damage to Matt
Kachuck this year. I should have guessed after making the
full Stanley Cup run, and I think he was even
he was dinged up at the end of that right
that Matt Kachuk was not going to be able to
stay healthy for eighty two this year and just hit
those heights instead. He played fifty two games, he had
fifty seven points, so he wasn't really close to that pace,
although one never knows if he'd played another thirty games.
I supposed it would be within the realm of a
couple of lucky bounces. That's the one you help me too,
But the other one that I put out there Spencer
Night getting thirty two regular season starts. I thirty two
regular season starts? Actually he did, Okay, I confused myself.
I didn't realize that he actually had thirty six starts.
He did it over two teams, though, which is getting
around it, because I think part of implicit there would
be that he would play thirty two and Bob would
not get more than fifty. But in fact he got
his own net before the end of the year. So
wish you would have held me to that one, victor,
But you were quite correct to think that I was
way too high on the possibility of Matthew Kuchuk's here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Stanley Cup hangover is a real thing, and they,
I think, especially once teams know what it takes to
get there, and even teams that go far in the playoffs,
it seems like sometimes they dial it back a bit
the regular season. So I was expecting that a little bit.
But yeah, also good to see Night get his own net,
and once once the Blackhawks aren't a complete dumpster fire,
maybe they'll actually be able to provide him some protection.
Who knows when that will be. But one of the
most fun stories about this season was Montreal Canadians. Their
next My hot take was that Patrick Lone fails to
pass sixty total points and that Cole Cawfield will clear
thirty five goal pace. And guess what, Here's why I
don't trust line because he can score in bunches. He
can win you a matchup, but he's pretty inconsistent and
often injured. And it was a good story for him
to do so well in Montreal, especially after the injury.
It was great to see good vibes, but all in all,
those good vibes only amounted to thirty three points and
fifty two games, which isn't even a sixty point pace,
which was my threshold. That's a fifty two point pace
if you're scoring at home. I think that that was
part of the spirit of my take. He definitely is
an intriguing player, and I hope he continued to find
more success, but I continue to be skeptical of him
and fantasy, even though we've seen him score a lot
of goals and Jesse, even a broken clock is right
twice a day, and maybe you can say the same
amount me because I was right about both of these
on the Canadians, which I think this is the only
instance where this happened. Cole Cawfield also surpassed my expectation.
I said thirty five goal pace. He scored thirty seven
and seventy total points. It was really great to see
Calfield do that. I think part of both him and
Suzuki were fueled by being snubbed from the Four Nations
face off, and that partly helped drive their excellent play
at the end of the season and push them into
the playoffs. It was close towards the end. It looked
like they were maybe going to blow it and let
the Blue Jackets in, which also would have been a
super fun story after the season they had. But Montreal
gets it done. They're in the playoffs and I just
think it would be hilarious if they went on a run,
just like they did a few years ago in the
COVID season, go all the way to the finals. Don't
you think that would be fun?
Speaker 3: Jesse, you have to to find fun there. It would
be fun. I would love seeing Cole Caawfield. I'm not
sure what would happen to Canadians fans if they made
it all the way to the finals again, although we
did see that a couple of years ago. Yeah, no,
I would never think I held you to lion A
because I would never want to bet against Cawfield and
it was cool to see him hit those heights. And
of course you can't have Nick Suzuki and col Caawfield
on the Four Nations team because they could be a
sleeper seller. By this point, they've been around the French
Canada for too many years. Who knows if people have
gotten to them and would make them a sleeper sell
for the Canadian teams. But sorry, I didn't mean to
question your patriotism.
Speaker 2: Boys.
Speaker 3: Let's just move on. Ottawa Senators. Another prominent American for
the team is Brady Kachuk, beloved Brady kuld Chuck. I
said he would lead all Senators and hits by at
least one hundred and thirty hits. That didn't happen. He
had two hundred twenty seven hits. One hundred and forty
seven was second place for Drake Batherson. That was an
eighty hit delta. Now, Brady played in ten fewer games
than Batherson, so I guess you have that. But still,
a number is a number. And the other was the
one that you held me to was the Senators had
their first one hundred points score since Danny Heatley in
two thousand and six seven, And even though the Senators
did cash their ticket to the Stanley Cup playoffs, that
did not nearly happen Tim Stutzla. Let's see, Actually, Tim
Stutzla came closer than I thought. I ran these stats
before last night, and I know because Chris Wassel had
all kinds of stinking points from Tim Stutzel last year
or last night. So seventy nine points in eighty two
games for Stutzla, three more on the last night of
the season, but not one hundred. So much for that.
Senators did well. My takes did not.
Speaker 2: Yeah close, but not quite so the Tampa Bay Lightning
our next. My hot take was that Jake Gunzill finished
his second in total points on the Lightning and is
over a ninety one point pace, which would have been
the second highest of his career. The other is Victor
Hedman puts up a point per game pace again and
you held me to the Genzel one, but it didn't matter.
Both of these were wrong. Unfortunately, Gensel finished fourth. I
think we all expected him to finish behind Koutrov and
probably bradon Point, but I'm not sure that we expected
Brandon Hegel to be the second highest in terms of
point pace this season. He had dyllus monster season for
the Tampa Bay Lightning, and I don't even know what
to think about this, Jesse. I might have to reevaluate
my whole thoughts on Brandon Hagel because he was awesome
this season. We had one hundred and twenty one points
for coach, ninety for Hegel, and then bradon Point had
eighty two, but he also missed sometimes, so his point
pace was a little bit better. And then Gensel with
just eighty and eighty games so good, solid year, didn't
quite live up to what we thought what I thought
maybe he could get to, but clearly they have another
super solid forward who's a little bit younger. I think
that the trade is gonna end up working out well
for them. Uh Headman with a sixty nine point pace
wasn't quite at point per game solid season. He continues
to do really well, but wasn't quite what I was expecting.
But I think part of what I was saying is
that Genseil is really good and is top of that
elite group forward group, and he was, and that headman
would bounce back again from his slightly that he would.
He had a couple of seasons there that were in
the fifties, but he didn't quite get back up to
that level. So there you go, Jesse.
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes you have a player who's really good,
like a Jake Genseil, and you think to yourself, boy,
if he ever got to this great team, just imagine
how great he could be. And even though Jay Ginsel
is that good, and he's that good on his own,
it's even with the lightning he was already playing with
Sidney Crosby. How much better can the can the support
he gets b But still, like I said, was excellent,
excellent this season, Toronto, Victor. This went well for me
the Toronto Maple Leafs. First, I said, no goalie will
start the majority of the games for Toronto in the
regular season, and Joseph wool was the high goalie with
forty starts, so he did not hit forty two. And
then the one that you held me to, I said,
Matthew Nye would outscore one of the core five and
I nailed this one, Victor. Matthew Nyes was fourth or
fifth in the team at scoring, So he did get
past Morgan Riley fifty eight points for him in seventy
eight games, Morgan Riley with only forty one points in
a full complement of eighty two. Yeah. Nice, he's legit
now for this team, and that one I'm pretty happy about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good one. I was in a
matchup where I had Marner and my opponent had Matthews
and Nice and it was brutal because Nyes just kept scoring,
and Matthews, of course, scores all the time, and it
was just like, oh my god, make it stop. But yeah,
he had a really great season, sixty one point pace.
I'm sure we'll talk about him more in the team preview,
but I think he's absolutely making a name for himself,
and I think especially the way that he plays, how
it's different from a lot of the other guys on
that team. I'm sure that the entire narrative, though, will
be focused on what happens in the playoffs with these guys.
I do think though, he will rise to the occasion.
But it's a big year for him. I think some
people were even talking about what do we do with
him in the off season. He's an RFA, so those
Jason Robertson or Nick Robertson the lesser. Sorry, so yeah,
it'll be it's gonna be interesting offseason to see what
happens with these guys. But great job on nailing both
of those, Jesse. So we both got at least one
that we nailed both, and so that's nice to see.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Let's move over to the metro now, and Carolina Hurricanes
was the next one. My hot takee Bradley Bradley Nadeau
plays at least twenty NHL games and scores ten goals.
And the other one was Andre Sweshnikoff fails to clear
seventy five point pace. You held me to the Nadou one,
and that's easily an l because he played zero games
until the last two of the season where nothing mattered
for the Hurricanes, and he played those two games, he
got an assist but the no goals, so it didn't
work out. He had a great season for the HL
Chicago Wolves, and I think next season could be in
line for a role similarly like what I thought he
might get this year, although I don't know. Jackson Blake
has been a revelation for that team and has been incredible.
They might not need Bradley Nadeau. We'll see what happens
with that. The one I was right about is Sweshnikoff.
He really fell off the season. He had the worst
point pace since his rookie season. I'm sure we'll dig
in this on my team preview, but it was pretty
bad for Sweshianakoff. And I wish you had chosen that one, Jesse,
but I'm sure you were also skeptical of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't realize it would end up this bad,
but yeah, sveitch Nikoff, that was too bad on that one.
I think I forget my rationale at the time. I
think I was just more skeptical that Rob Brindamore would
play a rookie like that, and it looks like that's
how it came out. The Columbus Blue Jackets Woo. This
was a whiff, But Columbus actually had a pretty decent
season in the end, and maybe these takes would have
been better had they had not. Because I said Cole
Cyllinger would end up in the top five in forward
power playtime on ice he finished seventh. To be fair,
he only played sixty five games, so maybe he would
have snuck into that role had he been there all season,
but nonetheless he missed and then Boone Jenner, I said,
would lead the team in points. Very shortly after our show,
Jenner got hurt and he only ended up playing twenty
five games for the year. That was the one you
gave me, and he was actually decent when he came
back again. I don't know if he ever really got
up to full speed the way that he was in
past years. He was fourth in points per sixty. But
other people were showing signs of life for Columbus, so
part of this take was almost that Jenner would be
keeping a moribund team moving along, and there was a
lot of cool things that happened for Columbus. I'm trying
to get around referencing the tragedy, but it certainly was
a lot of people were rooting for Columbus. Just put
it that way this year, but Boone Jenner didn't have
to be the man carrying everything to get them as
close as they got to the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I have to admit on the last game there, the
last couple of games, I was really rooting for Carolina
to win. If Carolina had beaten the Hirk, or if
Carolina had beaten Montreal and then Columbus had won their
last game, they would have been in. But after the
Habs won on Thursday of the Wednesday of the last
week of the season, it didn't really matter what happened
been with Columbus. Unfortunately, they didn't end up winning, but
ended up fail ending just short of the playoffs. I
was secretly rooting for Columbus to make it, just because
not for any ill will to the haves. I think
that's a great story too, but just with everything they've
been through in Columbus, that would have been a really
nice token to the tragedy that happened. But it didn't
work out. But still an amazing season for them and
a lot to be proud of there. My next team,
the New Jersey Devils. Timo Meyer Kay Layers a seventy
five point pace and the other one was Dougie Hamilton
scores the most points of any Devil defender. You held
me to the Meyer one. They were both wrong. Meyer
had his worst season since twenty twenty twenty one and
it was a fifty three point pace. I still, for
the life of me, can't understand why they're paying Timo
Meyer so much money to not play him and to
not give him the opportunity to score more points. That's
why you have Timo Meyer. He's not really like an
excellent all around on the player, but he's making eight
hundred thousand more than Jack Hughes. He's making more than
Jessper Brad, more than Ecoheshire, and maybe that shouldn't be
the case, but it is. And I don't know. I
just feel like he should get more opportunity, but he's not.
So anyways, that one was wrong. Luke Hughes did outpoint
Dougie Hamilton, but likely only because he played a few
more games than Dougie. Seven more games than Dougie, and
I'm pointed him by four, so that one would have
been close, but that's not the one you held me
to anyways. So anyways, these were both not right. And
who's the next one?
Speaker 3: Jesse New York Islanders. This was another not great one
for me. Maxim Ziplokoff was the one you held me to.
I said fifty five points, he was actually thirty five.
It was kind of a blank slate with him coming in,
but didn't quite break our expectations as some of the
guys who've come over from Russia late have in recent seasons.
Noah Doobson was the other one that I was putting
up there. I said he'd be point per game, two
hundred blocks, one hundred hits. Way off on that one.
Seventy games, thirty nine points, one hundred, twenty six blocks,
fifty seven points. Didn't hit any of those and not
even close. And yeah, and it showed on a couple
of my teams, let's put it that way tops and
was not getting it done for me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't. Nothing quite worked out super well there
on the island. And that was also true in the
other New York City New York Rangers, which is my
next one. My hot take was at Vincent Trocheck. I
had two of them. Visit Trocheick would have a better
point pace than Alexis Lafrenier, and the other one was
that KeAndre Miller would have a forty point pace. You
held me to the Miller one, which was smart because
I was right about Trocheck. He had a better out
point pace than Lafrenier by fourteen points. And for all
those Lafrenier truthers that thought he would explode this season,
he really took a step back, as did the whole
team that was a mess, as has been documented, but
the Candra Miller didn't quite happen either. Someone close. He
had twenty seven points for a thirty point pace, but
not quite at forty. So I was thinking that maybe
he would get a little bit more role on opportunity,
but I think the whole team taking a step back
and not having as much scoring did him in a bit.
So wasn't right on that one.
Speaker 3: Jesse Philadelphia Flyers another team where nothing went right, and
both of my takes were supposed to be optimistic and
that didn't happen. Fifty four point Jamie Drysdale was one
of my takes. He actually had twenty points of seventy games,
definitely not coming along as quickly as we might have
hoped in his new start there. And then Yvon Fetetov
I said would make fifty four starts. I was hoping
he would take the net full time. That was the
one you held me to. Twenty four starts in fifty
four games or twenty four starts versus fifty four, So
I wasn't even close on that one. But yeah, that's unfortunate.
But the Flyers disappointed me, just like they pretty much
disappointed everybody else.
Speaker 2: You were not alone and disappointment there, and I think
there was plenty of disappointment in Pittsburgh too, although maybe
this was a little bit more expected. My hot takes
for the Penguins where one, Michael Bunting hits a career
high in point pace, and the other is that Eric
Carlson clears the seventy five point pace getting back to
some of the numbers he had in San Jose. And yeah,
so neither of these were good. Forty one point pace
for Bunting far a cry from that sixty five point
pace career high. It didn't help being traded mid season,
but he had a better point pace in the previous
season when he split duties and was traded, so it
could have happened, but it did not. The Carlson was
also wrong. He stayed stagnant fifty three point pace, even
lower than his fifty six point pace from last season
in Pittsburgh. That doesn't seem like it's aging super well.
And who knows. I don't know what to say about
him as a fantasy asset. I was hoping he'd get traded.
Maybe that'll happen at the draft or during the offseason.
I feel like they have to. They can't keep holding
on to him, especially with the salary might be a
little prohibitive, but I think I think that he'll find
a new home this offseason and that could be really
good for the team that acquires him.
Speaker 3: Jesse, and let's finish strong, Victor. This is a happy
one the Washington Capitals. I don't think there was a
team I was more wrong on in the preseason than
the Capitals. And I think a lot of people were
with me that the team itself would end up in
this good of a position. And that's not a victory lap,
that's like, what the heck just happened here? But I
had two predictions and they both came true. One was
Tom Wilson would get a career high in points. Fifty
three would have made a career high instead Tom Wilson
actually he had, I think because I think he might
have gained another one last night. Yep, sixty five points
this year, So that was a great season for Tom Wilson.
And then at the time, this was still a hot
take that Ovechkin would get the record this year, and
he did and three more on top of it, so
that worked out that was the one you helped me
to because that seemed remote, and then when he broke
his life, it seemed bore remote.
Speaker 4: But it worked out.
Speaker 3: Although did there any last go ahead?
Speaker 2: I definitely said at the time that I wanted to happen,
but it did seem unlikely, especially when he broke his leg.
You thought that there was just no way that this
was going to happen. But what a great story. And
also we haven't had a chance to talk about it,
but major kudos to him for not getting it as
an empty net goal. He had that opportunity during the game.
And actually that was really funny because Ryan Leonard ended
up going out there for that shift and scoring an
empty net goal, which majorly helped me in my matchup.
So Ovi's grace at not breaking the record on an
empty net actually directly helped me, which was funny. But yeah,
just the way that he did it and the fact
that he scored from his office there on the face
off dot was really cool. But I don't know, Jesse,
I think that the Capitals might be in trouble here
because they have stumbled down the stretch after breaking the
record and don't look so strong. And we got a surging.
They're playing Montreal team YEPT. That might be a first
round upset. It's going to be interesting to see. What
do you have thoughts on that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do anymore, because, yeah, I
think it. I think they definitely pulled back in at
the end of the season, and anything could happen at
this point. So yeah, I don't know whether I'm not
going to predict that they do that. My expectations are
still set low just as a default, but I could
see this being a series that for whatever reason, they
get goalied or something like that. But I don't know.
And then Logan Thompson has been hurt, Charlie lin Gren
has been a little bit down lately. It's really hard
to say, but yeah, let's put it this way. It
wouldn't be the biggest one eight upset in history.
Speaker 2: Nothing like that.
Speaker 3: Victor that's going to do it for our predictions today,
we're going to thank everybody for listening to that. Soon
the team previews will be coming, but sooner than that.
Speaker 5: We'll be back right after this to close up the show.
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