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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks. Here's

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Speaker 2: Talk off hops, a step hit on stay lock.

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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Sovier and Victor Nunoe.

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Speaker 2: It is see hockey, lie back once aginded to talk man,

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it's hockey. It is just and severe from paying tracks

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Victor, I'm doing awesome. Jesse. I am

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enjoying the Olympics, and I'm sure as a lot of

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you are. And I think that maybe we should petition

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for a new event, marathon podcasting. What do you think?

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Speaker 2: I think we should because you and I would win

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some gold medals if that were the case, and I'd

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Because this and probably some future episodes that

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Speaker 2: Geared up where we've car bloated. We had some spaghetti

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last night, so we're ready for the marathon. Victor. You

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They go to our Fantasy Hockey Life discord because it's

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hang out and talk your fantasy hockey. And yeah, all

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us up on x at fan Hockey Life is my

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season's coming, now's the time to put Victor. Wait, there's more.

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What else do we have going out there for people

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this talk.

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Speaker 3: Deevils.

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Speaker 2: We welcome back to the show. Somebody's britty to talk

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some new Jersey Devils with us. Risty Flannery of the

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Hockey News. How you doing, Christy?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing well this I guess afternoon. I was gonna

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say this morning, but I guess it is the afternoon.

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How are you guys doing?

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Speaker 2: Oh my, yeah, yeah, it's in the intermediate time. Pictor

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is way out on the West coast. Lord knows, it's

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probably still July out there. I really can't say, but yeah, Christy,

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let's get going and talk some Devils. This season, Christy

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was not what I expected. The Devils finished thirteenth of

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sixteen in the Eastern Conference and one of the most

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exciting cores in hockey. Were above average, scoring goals fourteenth

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and thirty two teams, but did not prevent goals two

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hundred and eighty one goals allowed, being the fifth most

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allowed on the third worst save percentage in the NHL.

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talked through these guys individually, and we'll get to the

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goalies last. And moreover, they got rid of some of

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the goalies who were the culprits of this and only

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some of them are back, and they definitely reinforced, so

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we won't necessarily go over them. But clearly, to me,

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that's where some things went wrong. Lindy Ruff is out,

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Sheldon keep is in. The Devils have brought in some

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new players, made a few improvements. Is this team going

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to jump into a contending position this year?

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Speaker 6: Christy, Everyone's expected it, right.

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Speaker 5: You see the projections from analysts and media like myself,

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and everyone has them. I think the one projection I

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saw was for Stanley Cup odds. The Devils had the

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second best odds in the East, behind the Florida Panthers.

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were at the beginning of last year. But you know,

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for me, it's like you said, they made a lot

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of moves. They have a new head coach with Sheldon Keith,

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and I always say this chemistry is such a big

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thing in hockey, and so is the system and which

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players are going to thrive in what systems. So there's

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a lot of unknowns and we won't know a lot

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of answers until Sheldon Keith runs his first training camp

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Speaker 3: One thing we do know, I think right now is

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the Jack Hughes is awesome and we're going to talk

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about him first. The forward played seventy eight games last season.

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That fell back down or sorry, seventy eight the previous

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season fell back down to sixty two last season. That's

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long been an issue for Hughes staying healthy. When he

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does play, he's usually very good. This time the season

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ended early with shoulder surgery, roughly coincided with the Devil

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all but giving up on their playoff hopes or not

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really having much of a chance. He did get back

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to the one hundred point pace, which was great. His

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teminized power play temenized all that went up and he

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had the same number of powerplay points in sixteen fewer games. Christy,

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do you think we can get more than seventy five

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games from Hughes and can he get up to that

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one hundred point pace again?

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Speaker 5: That is always going to, I think be the question

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with Jack Hughes is his health because we know that

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there have been those injuries in the past. But again,

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it's like you said, a healthy Jack Hughes. If you

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look back to last year before he initially injured his shoulder,

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he was in that heart trophy conversation again very early,

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but he was in those talks and that was and

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he was playing at a very impressive pace. He hit

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those nine to nine points, which was a new franchise

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record for a single season. With Jack, it's always going

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to be the injuries, and injuries are unfortunately, they're part

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of the game. You just don't know season to season

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how much of an impact they're going to have on

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Speaker 6: But I would.

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Speaker 5: Definitely see Jack still staying at that pace. And the

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thing with him is that he's so young. I don't

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think people I think sometime it's easy to forget how

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young he is. This is a guy that didn't even

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hit his prime yet, which is really crazy to think about.

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Speaker 2: Yes, for Bratt, after two straight years of seventy three points,

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he jumped to eighty three points in eighty two games,

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leading the team got down Ballot Selk votes. He's legitimately

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a star at this point, twenty fourth in the league

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in scoring, his most common line was Andre Plott and

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Nico Heasher, mister he's heer more on him later, but

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Brad gets decent peripherals in his long contract is actually

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looking pretty reasonable after the first of its eight years.

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What is accounting for Bratt's rise and do you expect

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him to sustain that success this year?

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Speaker 5: I feel like Bratt is becoming all reliable at this point.

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He played every game, all eighty two games the past

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two seasons, and out of the Devil's Big four offensively,

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which are Hughes, Bratt, Hescher and Meyer, Bratt has that durability.

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So I always say for people that are looking to

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go into fantasy and pick their players, Bratt would definitely

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be the safe choice. And over the summer and actually

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last fall as well. I spoke to Brad's mental skills coach.

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League as well as in the NHL, and I think

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the thing that sticks out with me with Brat is

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he does so much work off ice to work on

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his game and to be mentally ready and mentally strong,

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and I think that is what really has helped him,

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and that's why I feel like this is a guy

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that's not really going to be slowing down because he

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takes everything so seriously, not just when he's at the rank,

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but at home as well.

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Speaker 2: And Nico heasheer. As you said, he missed much of

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November after taking a high hit from Connor Clifton, but

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he was durable upon his return. He sure is also

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pretty consistent. But I feel like he's fallen into the

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Ryan NuGen Hopkins zone, the guy that once we stopped

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worrying about the fact that he went first overall once

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upon a time, we're going to just understand that he's

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just an excellent player, the same style of game. That's

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not what I'm saying. But he's also on a reasonable

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deal for a couple more years. Maybe fantasy players are

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a little bit sore because he hasn't had the gaudy

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stats that sometimes we associate with the number one overall pick.

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point per game. Are we going to have that big

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breakout he's here season one of these years or am

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I describing maybe what we should expect just the solid

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defensive presence and the solid captain for the team.

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Speaker 5: You know, he was a player that Curtis Lazar described

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as the heartbeat of the hockey club, and I think

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that's a really good way to put it. And when

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I spoke to somebody from ESPN, he made a great

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point that when you're selected first overall, if you don't

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reach those really impressive offensive numbers, you look at a

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player and say, oh, he's a buster. Oh he doesn't

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deserve that first overall selection. But Nico brings so much

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more to the team, and he's a different first overall

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player than you would look into Jack Hughes or conor

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Badart like he's he has a different tool set, he

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has a different skill set and when you watch him

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night in and night out, it's just his defensive game.

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His responsibility with the pupkin all threes owns is just

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so impressive, and I think that he has that sixty

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to eighty point range.

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Speaker 6: Yes, he's had some.

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Speaker 5: Injuries, but to me, Nico, I think offensively will always

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kind of be second fiddle to Jack because Jack's just

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an explosive player. But you can't diminish what Nico does

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because Nico is such a responsible player, and that's why

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he's most likely going to be the team's number one

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center this season over Jack.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we mentioned him already. Timo Meyer is the

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next guy we need to talk about. It's starting to

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look more and more like the eighty one point pace

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he had in the final year in San Jose is

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the outlier season. This past season in New Jersey had

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sixty two point pace, not that high time on I

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seventeen thirty six. That was his lowest in four seasons. Actually,

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he did get nearly half the power play share and

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seventeen power play points. All that's pretty good. But I

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think a lot of us are hoping for a little

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bit more out of Timo Meyer. Christy, do you think

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with a healthy Teamo that he can get a little

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bit higher, maybe seventy point or even above. And was

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he healthy this season?

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Speaker 6: No, he wasn't.

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Speaker 5: Injuries he struggled with and I think it's it was

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never confirmed, but if you watched him playing, heard how

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coaches and how he handled his media availability, he definitely

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was playing through something. And I think since he's been

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acquired from New Jersey, I don't think we've seen for

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long stretches a fully healthy Timo Meyer. So I think

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it's hard to gauge him. I know in March when

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he started to get healthier, he had twenty points in

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fifteen games, and he had a really impressive kind of

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run in that month. But you also have to think

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for last year he spent time on the third line,

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which a lot of people were baffle by because you

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would think Timo Meyer automatically a top six player, but

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sometimes he wasn't in the top six. He was in

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the mid six. And Timo to me is a question

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mark because we haven't seen him fully healthy for long

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stretches with Niko Kisher playing with Yes for Brett, playing

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with Jack Hughes, So I think he can get back

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to it again. He calls into at least last year

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at Jack and Nico category where we didn't see what

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he could bring at his best, If that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. I certainly feel like we haven't seen the

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best of him in New Jersey yet, so we'll be

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excited to see what if that happens this season. Let's

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move on to Dawson Mercer. As far as I know,

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he's still in contract negotiations unless I miss that. Last

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season and our discussions about Mercer, we decided that he

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might be too versatile for his own good because you

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could put him in a lot of different lines, a

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lot of different situations. He did get the fourth most

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time on ice of any Devil's forward, even though he

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didn't get to play much with he Shaer Hughes. He

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did get some time with Meyer, but mostly it was

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McLeod plot Pla and no Sick. Not necessarily your best

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offensive options there. Not sure if he was asked to

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do do much, but for some reason his defensive impacts

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really dropped off this past season. His defensive impacts weren't

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his offensive impacts weren't that good either. His thirty three

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points in eighty two games were the third lowest of

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his care So I guess the big question is there

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a bounce back here for Mercer Christy? Is he gonna

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get maybe up to that fifty point pace or has

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that ship Shald.

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Speaker 6: So there's no doubt that Dawson Mercer needs to have

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a bounce back season. It wasn't.

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Speaker 5: He had a really slow start last year. And the thing, see,

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it gets tough right because when I was, you know,

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taking my notes for this episode, you have the four

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players that we recently talked about who were most likely

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a lock for top six positions.

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Speaker 6: But now you're adding in Dawson Mercer, you're going to

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have who we're going.

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Speaker 5: To talk about, Andre Pulat, Eric Holla, Thomas Tatar, and

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they are all so interchangeable at this point in time.

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And you're right, Dawson does have a lot of versatility.

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He's a Swiss army knife. He's used pretty much in

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every situation. The big thing with me is that Dawson

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has that durability. He has not missed an NHL game

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since he broke into the league, which is extremely impressive

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for a young player. And when you look at Jack

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and Nico both having their respective injury struggles, it's really

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nice to have a Dawson Mercer in your back pocket,

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who could play center, who can be moved throughout the lineup.

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With that being said, I'm not sure going into this

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season what Mercer's role is going to be. I know

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NHL dot Com projected him as a second line winger

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to play.

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Speaker 6: With Andre Pilatt and Jack Hughes.

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Speaker 5: But once again, and I'll probably say this so many

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times during this episode, you're going to get sick of it.

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We don't know what Sheldon Keith is going to do,

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and we don't know where the chemistry is going to

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be with those guys, so Dawson Mercer, he.

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Speaker 6: Can go anywhere.

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Speaker 5: And I think his role, depending on whether he's going

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to be on that second line or that third line,

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maybe checking role is going to have an impact on

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what we're going to see out of him offensively.

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Speaker 2: Neant, We're going to give you a couple of pickhams,

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a smuggle to talk, a couple guys shorter and maybe

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a little more shallow, but comparative terms, especially on points.

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Eric Hala, Andre Pallatte, Stefan Nason, Nason. Of course, the

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addition Pialatte was the guy who played with Hesher and

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Bratt last year. Halla's hanging in there as a established veteran.

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Who do you like out of that group?

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Speaker 4: Christy?

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Speaker 5: I always liked Eric Halla, I said the second the

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Devil's and the Bruins made that trade is that was

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a trade that was a win for everybody involved. I

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know that it is expected that Halla is going to

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start the season as the club's third line center, so

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he would be more of a checker. We've seen him

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a lot of times play with Jack Hughes, and he

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was more complimentary to that, which helped him more offensively.

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Pallatte is a player that Platte knows offensively he needs

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to do more. Fans know they want more out of

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Andre pallatt For me, he out of all the forwards,

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he's the biggest question mark. Again, where is he going

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to go in the lineup? Is he a six million

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dollar when you're Jack Cughes? Is he a six million

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dollar checker on the third line to be determined? And

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with Nason, I know that he had two really good

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seasons in Carolina. He had thirty six points, thirty seven

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points with him, I'm more curious about chemistry. You would

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think right now he's a lot for that third line

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alongside Eric Halla, but he I'm curious where his chemistry

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is going to lie. He's good around the net, that

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might be a player that they might see on the

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power play, that NetFront presence. So I'm interested in where

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Noson is gonna Noson's going to land and where he's

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going to find the most chemistry on the team.

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Speaker 2: And another one maybe a little further down ballot here

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Paul Cotter Toomas Tatar. Another Cotter is actually younger. Tatar

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has yet another early thirties, great Beard on this team.

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But of those two, who do you like better?

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Speaker 5: We have familiarity with Tatar right like he had really

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good chemistry with Nico Heuscher and Dawson Mercer and his

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last year and with the Devils they ended up the

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trio were one of the best lines in the league

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at that point. Now is he going to be Is

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that going to be a line this year? Again, we

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don't know, but I really do. Guitar and Cotter we're

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expecting to be in the fourth line potentially with curtisal

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z Are, potentially with Nathan Bashton and the fourth line.

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Role players are always interesting to me because it's not

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easy to play ten minutes to night. It's not easy

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for these players to do. They're sitting on the bench,

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they're frozen. Then they're expected to jump back out on

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the ice play for however long their shift is going

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to be. Cotter had seven goals in seventy six games.

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I'm more curious of how he's going to flourish if

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his ice time drops from the twelve minutes he was

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used to in Vegas down to maybe ten or nine

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minutes in New Jersey because when I talked to Andy.

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Speaker 6: Green about that.

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Speaker 5: He was saying that it's not easy to play those minutes.

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But that's why guys who can make a living being

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successful in that timeframe always have a job. And I'm

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curious if Paul Cotter is going to fall into that

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category of he just knows how to play in the

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limited time that he's given by the coaching staff.

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Speaker 2: Let's flip over to the blue line. We start out,

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of course with Dougie Hamilton, but unfortunately we start out

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with not a whole lot to say about last year.

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It was a last season, played only twenty games before

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missing the remainder with the pectoral injury. It required surgery.

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He usually plays upwards of twenty one minutes a night.

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His injury left the Devil's little choice but to give

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minutes to to young up and comers, and we'll talk

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more about some of the younger players in the future.

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The very little sample we got of him last year,

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the offense, of course, was quite a bit better than

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the defense. But do you think Dougie Hamilton is going

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to come back strong, point per game star kind of

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defenseman or are you worried that maybe he is starting

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to be in a part of his career where there's

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going to be more injuries and maybe less performance.

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Speaker 5: It's so funny because most of the Devil's big players,

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but injuries, again, they are a question mark. He was

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injured in his first year with the Devils as well,

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and I think the one thing that people realized in

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his absence was just how important he is as the

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quarterback of the power play.

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Speaker 6: I think before his injury.

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Speaker 5: You saw that Luke Hughes took on that role as

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quarterback for power Play one. You had Dougie's power quarterback

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as power Play two. But I think that you saw

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the power play struggle and you saw how important that

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shot in him patrolling that line is for the team.

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So I would expect that if he's healthy, his points

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are going to come. He is a very offensive defenseman. Again,

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health health is the question mark with him, But healthy Doug,

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he's a safe bet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. A recurring theme for sure on this episode, the

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health and that we don't know what Sheldon Keef is

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going to do, but let's try they learn a little

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bit more about the other guy we just mentioned, Luke Hughes.

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It was pretty awesome to see Luke out there. He

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played all eighty two games as a rookie, he ended

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up playing the most average time on ice of any

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Devil defender. That might have been different if Hamilton was

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healthy all season. As he also had all of the

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most points, did Luke u's largest power play time on ice,

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it was all pretty great. Despite this, he was a

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little below average in terms of expected goal differential, maybe

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not too surprising for his first league in season in

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the league. This all led to third place Calder votes

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behind Badard and brock Favor and set up some pretty

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lofty expectations for this season. I would say, Christy, do

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you think that Luke Cughes can get up to maybe

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a fifty point pace or even more or is Hamilton

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coming back into the Fray going to eat into some

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of his minutes and opportunity.

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Speaker 5: So the question that you have to ask yourself about

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Luke Hughes this year is most projections have him being

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paired with Brett Peschi, who the Devil's acquired on July first,

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and when Tom Fitzgerald spoke to the media, he was

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asked about that specific pair and his response was, Brett

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Pesche is going to be playing against opposing team's top

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players and if that is a role that Luke Hughes wants.

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Defense needs to come over offense. He needs to learn

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how to play defensively and that needs to be his priority,

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not scoring goals. So with Luke, the question is what

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role is he going to be on this year because

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now the Devils don't have JOm right now, the Devils

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don't have Kevin Ball and they don't have Ryan Graves.

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And if you remember when they had that franchise year

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two years ago, his shut down pair was Ryan Graves

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and John Marino. Neither one of them or were really

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known for their offensive skills like a Dougie Hamilton earl

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Luke Hughes. So I think the question when you're looking

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at points with him is will he be playing with

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Brett Peschi and how will that affect his game? Because offensively, yes,

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extremely gifted, extremely talented. If you watched him play in

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his own zone last season, he struggled like any young

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defenseman would. So for Luke, it's not a matter of

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if he's capable of reaching those points, it's a question

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of what role is he going to take on the

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blue line and how is that going to affect how

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he plays the game?

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Speaker 2: And jumping over Zimo Nimetz is a guy who had

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a very successful rookie season. He skated almost twenty minutes

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a night, got some down ballot called or votes. It

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was a bummer that he only notched one point in

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his final sixteen games, but maybe that was rookie wall

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on a team that Will is not having the best

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time at that point in the season. He enters this

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coming season twenty years old as a former number two

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overall pick, of course, and ready to build on that

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first year. How much improvement do you expect from nemotsis

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year and what role if you can guess, we'll Keith

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give him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So he's projected right now to be in the

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third pair with Brendan Dillon, who was recently acquired in

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July as well in free agency. I think the thing

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with him is there's a lot of people that obviously

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are putting him and Luke in the same category. They're

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both highly touted defenseman you know, came in for me.

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As far as having a more complete game, I would

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actually give him the edge over Luke. I don't think

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he's ever going to be as offensively impressive as Luke,

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but I think that he's a more complete defenseman. I

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think he really played well in all three zones. He

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played a little bit on the penalty kill last year,

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so I'm expecting him to just keep improving on the

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two hundred foot game and being more of a two

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way defenseman. Where I think anyone would look at Luke

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us and say clear say he is an offensive defenseman.

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Speaker 3: I think we can all agree on that. Let's move

479
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over to the goalies now. The Devils were ranked twentieth

480
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in expected goals against p sixty last season at five

481
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y five, but they conceded the twenty sixth ranked actual

482
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goals per sixty. They were a big narrative for the

483
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Devils all season, no doubt Vanichek in particular, but all

484
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their goalies let them down. There was news that they

485
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might get Markstrom at the deadline that didn't happen. Eventually

486
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they did. They did get Jake Allen. It seemed like

487
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it helped, but it was a little too late. Now

488
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they have Markstrum and Allen plus Nico Dawes for insurance.

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So I guess the question is do you think Marsham

490
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is going to do well in his new environment with

491
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all these changes that have made the Devils hopefully a

492
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better team.

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Speaker 5: I think when you look at New Jersey's goaltending, they

494
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had Nico Dawes, they had a Kira Schmidt who is

495
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now part of the Vegas organization. They had very young goaltenders,

496
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and I think having the veterans that have been through

497
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it all, seen it all and might have more composure

498
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than a young goaltender would, I think that's going to

499
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help them out a lot. And for me, you can

500
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always guess there are certain losses in a season that

501
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you could say that was a goaltending loss, but it's

502
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not as many as I think fans think it is.

503
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Goaltending and defense go hand in hand. And right now,

504
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Tom Fitzgerald they he gave them reliable goaltending because at

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the end of the day, this is a team that

506
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is going to thrive offensively. They don't need a team,

507
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they don't need an O'Connor Hallibuck in net. They need

508
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somebody who's just going to be reliable and give them

509
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a chance to win every night. And that is what

510
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a tandem of Jake Allen and Jacob mark Strom are

511
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going to give. And with the improved blue line with

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Peshi and Dylan and getting Hamilton back. I would think

513
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that the Devils are in a much better situation than

514
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they were last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Obviously Allen being

516
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there last year, maybe getting a little bit more a

517
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quaint just wondering what you think the split between these two.

518
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I imagine Marsham is the clear starter, but do you

519
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think it's close to one A one B situation? And

520
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does Marsham get sixty seventy percent of the starts? What

521
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do we think in the breakdown might be?

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Speaker 5: It's really funny because I asked Jake Allen this at

523
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the exit interviews. I said, how does that kind of work?

524
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And he said, it just garies on who the tandem is,

525
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what kind of the situation is. I would think that

526
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if both remain healthy, Markstrom is going to get more starts.

527
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Speaker 6: Than Jake Allen.

528
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Speaker 5: But again I think with goaltenders, you'd ride the hot goaltender.

529
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You stick with what's working for you. So I think

530
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that's an extra variable that has to be considered. But

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I would think going into this season for the Devils,

532
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for Tom Fitzgerald, I would say, without a doubt, Jacob

533
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Markstrom is their starter, without a doubt. But you never

534
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know how a season's going to play out, and if

535
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Allen gets on a real hot streak, I can't see

536
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any coach taking out a hot goaltender.

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Speaker 2: Tremendous, Christy. You have brought us as much clarity as

538
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,319
one can have on a team going through this many

539
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,160
returns to injury. This change a big of a change

540
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,799
in philosophy, but it really was excellent. And can you

541
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tell people how they can continue to follow your work

542
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:14,720
throughout the year.

543
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Speaker 5: Yeah, guys, I'm so sorry, but this is there's so

544
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,079
many question marks arounding your jersey that I'm like, I

545
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:22,559
feel like I'm not giving you anything but to keep

546
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it real, that's the situation that it is.

547
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Speaker 6: We won't know anything.

548
00:26:25,319 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 5: Until training camp starts, but you guys can follow me

549
00:26:28,039 --> 00:26:31,680
on Twitter. My handle is at in Soiletto's Underscore NHL.

550
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,599
I'm on Instagram and under that same handle, and we're

551
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also exploring.

552
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Speaker 6: TikTok, but I it's not as.

553
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Speaker 5: Consistent over there, but we're trying. We're working things out.

554
00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you so much for coming on, Christy, and

555
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good luck covering the devils this year.

556
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Wilson.

557
00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: Then, well that's good fer past off. Oh my goodness

558
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long with a.

559
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Speaker 1: Chat quick gram.

560
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Speaker 2: Now it's your wingler goalie talk, but Kat Silverman, Kat's Instincts.

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Speaker 3: Time once again for Cat's Instincts. With Kat Silverman and

562
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,680
Ingold mag we're talking Devils goalies and there's some interesting

563
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,920
guys here. It's not as it's not as exciting as

564
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,279
it once was in the crease in New Jersey. But

565
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we're gonna start with Jacob Malik. He is a six

566
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foot four hundred and ninety pound goalie twenty twenty one

567
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,839
fourth round pick by the Devils. He's check and grew

568
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,680
up playing in check yah, but he's been in Finland

569
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for the past two seasons. He was with Ilvez the

570
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last last season and improved his numbers from the previous

571
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one with the same club, so you always like to

572
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,039
see that a little bit of a step forward from

573
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one year to the next, similar number of playoff games

574
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and actually did better in those playoff appearances as well.

575
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He had a couple of international experiences with chech Yo

576
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which didn't go also well. Looking at his hockey prospecting,

577
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he he has trended up quite significantly from his draft

578
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,319
season up to forty eight percent chance of being an NHLer,

579
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so of course I scoured the comps on Hockey Prospecting

580
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and found a fellow Czech Roman, Czech Monic. I was like,

581
00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:14,759
when the name of their country is in the name,

582
00:28:14,799 --> 00:28:17,880
that helps you remember it that he's Check. But anyways,

583
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,839
check Monic was a really good goalie back in the day.

584
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For sure, loved watching him. So Kat, what dor instincts

585
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tell us about Malik.

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Speaker 7: He's one that I'm excited to see when he does

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come over to North America. I know he just signed

588
00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:33,839
his entry level deal, which is always a good sign

589
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,440
when it comes to goaltenders from Europe, particularly from Czechia,

590
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because sometimes they get drafted and want to stay Overseasvas

591
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,160
I think we've talked about it in the past. That's

592
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another team. I consider them almost like a feeder team

593
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:52,200
for North American teams like Carpot, where they have a

594
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lot of NHL prospects. I know that during the pandemic

595
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they had a number of both NHL prospects and NHL

596
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:08,640
players who were essentially getting some time in Finland before

597
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:13,279
they came over during both the league shutdown and just

598
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,880
as alone, I said Lucas Dostal on their team, they've

599
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,680
had a number of Czech players on their team. I

600
00:29:19,759 --> 00:29:22,079
know that they've had some. I think they had Merrick Langhammer.

601
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I want to say it wasn't last year, but maybe

602
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the year prior. So that's a team where he'd have

603
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fellow countrymen on the team with him.

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Speaker 4: I know that.

605
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Speaker 7: I believe it was last year. He had at least

606
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two or three other Czech players on the team while

607
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,680
getting a chance to play in a little bit of

608
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a more competitive league in a country where a lot

609
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of NHL teams have scouts in Finland that hang around.

610
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It's a very small country, so they're able to move

611
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,559
from rink to rink and keep an eye on their prospects.

612
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I know, before coming to North America again as a

613
00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:01,880
goaltending coach, Nicholas Bactrum was doing that for the Columbus

614
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Blue Jackets when they had goaltenders on loan in Finland.

615
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So I believe Pittsburgh is probably doing something similar and

616
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New Jersey is probably getting in on the action, excited

617
00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:15,559
to see what he can do in North America. He's

618
00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:18,880
got some control to his game. His highlights looked fine.

619
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He didn't look overly exciting, but I have seen some

620
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check goaltenders go to Finland and absolutely bomb. That was

621
00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:31,559
promising seeing that he looked not overly spectacular, but not

622
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,039
like he was really struggling with Reeds, because the game

623
00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:36,799
does move a little bit faster once they move over

624
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,440
to Finland's there. That's a tough one though, because New

625
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:45,440
Jersey has not necessarily been a hot bed of as

626
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:48,480
a talent in the last handful of years. So I

627
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think that they are facing a little more sense of

628
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urgency when it comes to who they have in their

629
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prospect system. And even though Malick looked good in the

630
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games I was watching, I don't know if he is

631
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,359
immediately ready for NHL auction, and I think that they

632
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,640
do need someone who's a little more NHL ready than him.

633
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Speaker 1: Love it.

634
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Speaker 3: Yes, And just in case anyone's wondering, Jacob Malik is

635
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,319
not related to Nick Malik. Their names are spelled differently,

636
00:31:16,839 --> 00:31:20,039
then we may be saying them incorrectly, but it's m

637
00:31:20,119 --> 00:31:23,839
A L e k and the other guys are m Alik,

638
00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:27,839
so they're spelled differently. Sorry for any check listeners if

639
00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:29,920
we're saying them wrong. Let's move on to the next

640
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,160
guy that we can mispronounce and that's Mikhal Yegorov. Hopefully

641
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,920
that was close. He's six foot five hundred and eighty

642
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,480
six pounds twenty twenty two second round pick by the Devil,

643
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:41,880
so just picked, and he has had a strange trajectory here.

644
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,759
He was playing for the Russian U seventeen team last season,

645
00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:49,279
not even MHL games, so really a weird sample size there.

646
00:31:49,319 --> 00:31:52,319
Then he played for the USHL Omaha l Answers this season.

647
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,400
Maybe that was maybe the previous statement was probably because

648
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,240
he knew he wanted to come to North America, maybe

649
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,279
they didn't want to give him the right k I

650
00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:02,839
don't know, but he was with Omaha this season. The

651
00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:06,839
raw numbers look terrible eight ninety two save percentage three

652
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,359
point eighty six. GAA only won eight games, but if

653
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,240
you look underneath, the expected goal per goal conceited was

654
00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:16,160
one point one five, meaning he was saving more than expected.

655
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:19,000
So maybe that team was just real bad. I don't know.

656
00:32:19,559 --> 00:32:24,519
And his hockey prospecting, despite the low sort of equivalency number,

657
00:32:24,519 --> 00:32:26,240
has him up to twenty eight percent chance of being

658
00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:28,759
an NHL or after just that USHL season, which is

659
00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:32,519
pretty great. Actually, he's got some comps like Jonathan Bernie

660
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,640
is one who was an average starter that maybe he'll

661
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,000
look like. I should mention also that he is headed

662
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,720
to Boston University, so that could be really good for

663
00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:42,480
him in terms of his development. But Kat, what do

664
00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:45,039
your instinct tell us about Michail Egorov.

665
00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:47,799
Speaker 7: I'm really excited to see what he can do exc

666
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,000
at BU. It's always really interesting when I see European

667
00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:54,559
goaltenders come over to play in the USHL, which is

668
00:32:54,640 --> 00:33:00,000
something that they sometimes do essentially for eligibility. Per pose,

669
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is when it comes to playing at the collegiate level,

670
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and sometimes if they want to choose between playing and

671
00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:13,279
the OHL are playing on the NCAA, they'll come over

672
00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:15,240
and play a year in North America just because it

673
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,759
changes their eligibility. Gives them a North American eligibility, so

674
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they don't count as a foreign player for a team.

675
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So that can help with teams that have certain essentially

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00:33:26,279 --> 00:33:33,240
spot reserved for international players and international students. They essentially

677
00:33:33,319 --> 00:33:35,319
get added to the team as a North American player,

678
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which is a fun little workaround that we see with goaltenders.

679
00:33:40,279 --> 00:33:42,480
I watched some of his film and he looks fun.

680
00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:46,319
He looks like he's got a good mix of speed

681
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:51,319
and technique, Like he was really trying to pick up

682
00:33:51,359 --> 00:33:54,519
the technique as he went this past year, and sometimes

683
00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:57,480
we see those goaltenders who are trying to really hone

684
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in their game. He's six foot five, one hundred and

685
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,880
eighty six pounds. That's inflatable, flailing our balloon man sized.

686
00:34:04,119 --> 00:34:07,480
That's a lot of limb to control, and he did

687
00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:09,960
a good job of reining it in. As you watched

688
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,159
his games progress throughout the year, it looks like he

689
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,920
did a good job of tightening up his movements, did

690
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,079
a good job of not allowing himself to over commit

691
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,719
to things. I do think he sell has a ways

692
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,920
to go there, and he's very young, so I know

693
00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:26,079
some of the prospects that are still considered quote unquote

694
00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:28,760
prospects and team system are as much as six or

695
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,079
seven years older than him. So he's got a ways

696
00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:34,360
to go. Like I said, I think New Jersey needs

697
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,519
someone who is ready soon and he is not. But

698
00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:41,079
he used a really good program for goaltenders. They've churned

699
00:34:41,119 --> 00:34:44,280
out one or two good ones over the years, so

700
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,039
we'll see if he becomes their next big one. I

701
00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:50,760
think that's a coveted spot for a goaltender who's looking

702
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to really stay in North America.

703
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Speaker 3: Indeed, he's an exciting one. And in case anyone's wondering, also,

704
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I should mention that there's a eeg or egor Off

705
00:34:59,079 --> 00:35:02,039
that Calgary draft did. And they are also not related.

706
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,280
A lot of just overlapping names here and sometimes they're related,

707
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,519
sometimes or not. And so mikkehly Garov will see how

708
00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:10,280
he does it be you that'll be exciting. And thanks

709
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for explaining the whole North American spot thing in the workaround.

710
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,119
That's a fun little tidbit that I didn't know about either,

711
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:20,519
And thanks for instincts. On the new Jersey Devil's Goalies Cut.

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Speaker 2: Dig Good Dynasty Digue Jersey Devil's Edition. This is the

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thirteenth rank system according to the Victor in your rankings,

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and it starts out with our no brainer, who is

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it Victor.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be Seamus Casey this time around. A

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lot of their great young players like Luke Cues are

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already in the Nhlmonemach, so we're starting with Seamus Casey.

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He was a twenty twenty two, forty sixth overall pick

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five ten and eighty one pounds. He's a right handed

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d second season at Michigan where he went over a

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point per game forty five points in forty games. That

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was pretty fantastic. Only Lane Hudson zeb William scored more

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in the NCAA this season. That's a pretty good feather

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in the cap of Seamus Casey. At the World Juniors

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he had six assists and six games for the Americans.

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He should be in the HL next season for the

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Utica Comets. And looking at some of his tracking data

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from Mitch Brown, you can see some really interesting comparable

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So I wanted to compare his game to some current

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teammate Luke Hughes and Lane Hudson, and what's interesting is

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that the offense is pretty similar actually in terms of

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his tracking data to Hughes, it's a little bit behind,

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about ten percentage points behind both Hughes and Hudson. The defense, though,

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is really part of the issue. All these guys struggle defensively,

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which is going to be part of the problem. We

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heard Christie talking about how it's going to be something

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that Hughes needs to work on. Casey thirty fourth percentile

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for defense. Hughes in his last season was fifteen and

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Hudson twelve, so that's not great for either of them.

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Transition is pretty good. All these guys do really well

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in transition. Seamus Casey's seventy first percentile and the Hughes

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and Hudson were north of eighty five, so all that

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looks really good. Some of the other positives for Casey,

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his slot passes to sixty are really high. He does

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that really He gets really good controlled entries. That's another

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big part of his game. The defense, especially the entry prevention,

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is where he really struggles and the controlled exits, so

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there's some slight reason for concern there. Looking at his

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FHL player card, he's ten out of ten and goals

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p sixty, assists p sixty, and shots per sixty, so

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all this looks really great. His hits are a little

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bit about of average and his blocks a little bit

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below average, so all of that means that his bass

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should be an eightieth percentile or so driven by the shots,

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and he doesn't really. He takes some penalties, but not

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too much, so that's why he's a seven out of ten.

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Pims are bad in our metric, so overall that's looking

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pretty good in terms of a slight peripheral floor. Looking

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at some of his under underlyings from the FHL player card,

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a lot of this looks really good. Who like play, driving,

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high danger chances, puckwork, NCAA level. It all looks really

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strong for Seamus Casey. So that's a little bit reassuring.

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But let's hear a little bit more about Seamus Casey

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from my FHL scout.

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Speaker 2: Our FHL scout today is Tony and not only a

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scout but all around good dude. And what does he

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have to say about Famous Seamus. He is, according to skating,

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a very good skater, quick can skate out of trouble.

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Passing and handling, very good passer puck handling, also very

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solid shooting, gets through traffic. Not too many slap shots,

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more wrist and snapshots in his game. IQ is also

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an asset for Casey. He anticipates play very well, seems

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to be quite poised with peers and international competition for checking.

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Tony didn't see a whole lot of that in the game.

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But on defense, typical of a new defenseman, He's got

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a lot of stick work, uses skating to be in

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the correct spot at the right time. So the best

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asset there with skating, passing an IQ are right next

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to that and the biggest concern smallish player with not

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a whole lot of bash, but the top tier. Tony

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sees that there still is Tier one potential here power play,

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first pair type upside. That's because of skating, IQ and

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passing the assets that could lead to that outcome, the

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media outcome. Tier two maybe only spot power play time

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and second or third pair deployment. Why because there's not

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a lot of bash there. Maybe other players on his

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team have similar offense, more bash and that will allow

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them to jump ahead of mister Casey. Stylistic compare, Oh,

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Tony's got some big ones here, Quinn Hughes and Zach Wreinsky.

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And the overall final thoughts, hopefully Seamus Casey will get

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a shot on the Devils and be a right hand defenseman.

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Being a right hand defense will get him some more

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plain time. Mason Black. The NHL ranking put Seamus Casey

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up against Tom Willander of the Vancouver Canucks and what

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happened in that comparison Seamus Casey came out ahead fifty

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six to forty four percent victor. Is that how you'd

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rank the two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think so. I think that we've talked

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a little bit before about how Villander is just a

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really solid all around defender, like he's someone that definitely

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we were talking on the episode with Christy about how

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the defense can make you a better team. It's really

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good for the goaltending. That's what Vilander is going to

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do for the Canucks. I don't know that he's going

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to be so valuable in fantasy. That's going to be

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to be determined, but he doesn't seem to have that

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kind of profiles. I think that I would rather have Casey,

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although case he has some other concerns, some that we've

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talked a little bit about, just with the being a

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bit smaller defensively not super great, so there's a little

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bit more concern and more volatility likely and the projection

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of an NHLer for shamous Casey, so that part would

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concern me a little bit. He definitely has a way

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higher pnhle, but I'm not sure that's so likely, And

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we talked Tony mentioned some really high lofty goals there

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in terms of comparables, that would be great, and I

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think that there is reason to believe that could happen.

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But also it's a little less likely to be happening,

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whereas Vellander seems like for sure to be an NHLer,

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but I'm not sure how good and fantasy. The other

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thing about Vellander is he's going to be pretty below

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average in terms of BASH, so there's not even going

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to be a super high floor there. One of the

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comps here on Mason Black's card is John Michael Lyles.

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I think that is probably pretty reasonable for Vellander, who's

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someone who played and had a decent good role, helped

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the team, but wasn't someone that was super exciting and fantasy,

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so that could end up be how this is. So

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I would definitely take Casey here, but in terms of

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my NHL real life team, if I ever had one,

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if I was a GM, I definitely want Velander. Looking

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at the hockey prospecting between these two, Casey definitely has

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a much higher NHLI star potential forty one percent chance

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of being a star. He's really increased that since coming

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to college. He was closer to fifteen percent, and then

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up to twenty three and then forty one this season.

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Seventy five percent chance of being an NHLer, which Velanders

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is actually lower. But I think that's not accurate. I

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think his NHL er probability, which is listed at fifty six,

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is much much higher than that. His star potential, though,

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I think is probably pretty accurate. Five percent not so good.

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Looking at some other comps for Samus Casey. The only

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one really listed here is Mike Green, which could be realistic.

845
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Mike Green was a few inches taller than Shamus Casey,

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so I didn't have to worry so much about the

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height issue. I think that is going to be a

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factor for Seamus Casey, so that might be a high

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end outcome, but I'm not sure how likely it is.

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The other car, the Jfresh Car Show, Seamus Casey had

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just three percent chance of being a star and seventy

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percent chance of being in NHL or so, as usual,

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a little bit more pessimistic on the star potential there

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from J Fresh.

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Speaker 2: Next to Victor, who's your need to know prospect?

856
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was definitely someone you all need to know,

857
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and that is Arsenni GRITZYUK. He is a twenty nineteen

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fifth round pick, six foot zero, one hundred and ninety

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four pounds, left shot, right wing. He's now twenty three

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years old, still unsigned, has one more year in the KHL,

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and he's now had three straight seasons of strong production there.

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Last year he had forty points in sixty six games.

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This season had nearly as many, thirty eight, but in

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just fifty games, so that was a bit better. He

865
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switched from avant Garde MSK to Scott Saint Pete for

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this past season, and so all that is looking pretty good,

867
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and looking at his FHL play card you see some

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other really interesting things like his shots per six years

869
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super high. He's a very high volume shooter statistically, up

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there with the highest in the NHL ten or KHL

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ten out of ten. His hits are actually pretty high too,

872
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at a seventyeighth percentile. It doesn't block too much, but

873
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overall that bash should give him a super high floor,

874
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as he's ten out of ten there. His goals and

875
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assists are also pretty high, so all in all, it's

876
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looking like a really strong proferle floor with some decent

877
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upside for gritz Yuk. When he comes over looking at

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his underlying play driving numbers, you could see that his

879
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Fenwick corsi is super high. He drives play exceptionally well.

880
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His turnisting game as well is good as well. He

881
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gets a lot of high danger chances, and he's really

882
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tough at getting the puck in the corners. Good puckwork.

883
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So all in all, his underlying metrics look outstanding. But

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let's hear a little bit more about what makes chritz

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tick from our FHL scout Tony.

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Speaker 2: Tony says for skating balanced speed and dexterity. Passing precise,

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more than adequate for zone entries at the exits, though

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could use some work. Shooting accurate, able to get his

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own shots in some instances, mostly snap in wrist shots IQ.

890
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:18,960
Cerebral player with good hockey vision and anticipation, not a

891
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lot of panic. Seems poised at most times. For checking.

892
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He could be good with his skills, but Tony didn't

893
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see a lot of that in his limited viewing. Defense

894
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,639
Gritzchuk is on par with most defense. Will go after

895
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pucking the ozone, but not a lot on the D zone.

896
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:39,400
Mostly stickwork, shot blocks the best assets skating, followed by

897
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shooting in hockey IQ The biggest concern. Not a lot

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of hitting or defense, though he probably won't be asked

899
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to do that. The top tier outcome boy, he could

900
00:45:48,199 --> 00:45:50,599
be Tier one if put into the correct situation. Top

901
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six power play time. That's because of his above average skating, shooting, passing,

902
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and hockey IQ the median outcome spare time, third liner

903
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with rare power play chances. And he's also an older

904
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player at this point twenty two years old. I'm not

905
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sure he's gonna be able to play the NHL style game.

906
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Not a lot of hitting or blocking of shots. Oh,

907
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here we go, Here we go, Tony get fired up,

908
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:19,480
stylistic comparable, maybe kill Kaprizov lighte for ar Senni Gritschuk

909
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And final thoughts. A blended skater with speed and skill.

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00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,679
Tony season more of his a winger and his time

911
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,000
as a center was not impressive. And ar Sidy Gritzchuk

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goes up against Castper Haltinen in the NHL Rank King poll.

913
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Haltonen a two thirds majority of votes over Harsenni Gritschuk

914
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sixty seven to thirty three. Victor is the shark superior

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to the devil?

916
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Speaker 3: Well, that sounds like a very existential question that I'm

917
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not sure I'm prepared to answer right now.

918
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Speaker 2: Who would win in the battle between a shark and

919
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the devil?

920
00:46:55,159 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna assume you're talking about these hockey

921
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players and not something else, because I think I do

922
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think that Gasper halton In is probably a little bit

923
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more exciting here than Goodsiuk. I like Goodzuk in terms

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of his NHL or readiness. He's been playing in a

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really difficult league. He is a bit older. Sometimes transitioning

926
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to that North American ice can be difficult, and the

927
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Devils do have a lot of really strong forwards to

928
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work with, although the Sharks do too. They've really had

929
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a really strong prospect pull infusion of talent obviously in

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the last couple of years. And halton In though, has

931
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really come alive in terms of his projection and what

932
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he's been able to do the last season, especially looking

933
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really solid in the OHL. Both these guys stock up.

934
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I think that I would take halton In though, and

935
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actually I was just double checking the bash. Both these

936
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guys look like they might be bash masters, especially in

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terms of just the hits and the shots. Hits and

938
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shots at least really high, so that gives them both

939
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a high peripheral floor. So then you're just looking at

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upside and I think right now I would bet a

941
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little bit more on halton and who has a little

942
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,679
bit more of an up trajectory and his pinancially being

943
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a little bit higher right now. So I like both

944
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these guys, although they're probably gonna both be a little

945
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bit more depthy type guys and maybe not necessarily the

946
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high end producers. So I would take Halton in. But

947
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,159
I like both these guys and adventition having them both

948
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:18,079
on my team. Looking at the hockey prospecting between these two,

949
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,800
they're both low. Actually. Gritz Juk started at sixteen percent,

950
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,679
trended down to two percent chance of being a star.

951
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,199
Halton and started at thirteen and trended down to five

952
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,440
percent chance of being a star, both of them being

953
00:48:28,559 --> 00:48:30,239
a little bit like a coin flip or less to

954
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,639
be in NHLer. Looking at some other comps for Gritzzuk,

955
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,480
not too many that ended up looking really good in

956
00:48:36,639 --> 00:48:39,960
terms of their or ended up working out super well.

957
00:48:40,039 --> 00:48:43,639
A lot of average producers like John Gabriel Pago or

958
00:48:44,159 --> 00:48:46,840
several replacement levels. One guy that he does look a

959
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,239
little bit alike who's having some success now in the NHL,

960
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,679
as Mitis MICHELI maybe he could end up being a

961
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,119
little bit like that and be a good outcome for him.

962
00:48:54,639 --> 00:48:57,360
Looking at the j fresh card tends to like these

963
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,800
guys playing in professional leagues in Europe. It's pretty high

964
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,000
thirty eighth percentile, thirty eight percent likely to be a

965
00:49:04,119 --> 00:49:07,639
star in the NHL and ninety seven percent chance of

966
00:49:07,679 --> 00:49:11,199
being a at full time NHL or so, both of

967
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,880
those look really high for us Anny Gritzyuk and he's

968
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,000
been trending up and up that in that model, so

969
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,159
looking pretty good for him. He's definitely someone that you

970
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,000
want to go out and grab in your leagues if

971
00:49:21,039 --> 00:49:24,880
you can, and if you if you want to try

972
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,599
to trade for him, as long as it's not worth

973
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,920
costing too much. He's someone that I would try to get.

974
00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:31,559
You'd have to wait a year, but it might be

975
00:49:31,639 --> 00:49:33,079
worth it. Maybe it's the kind of thing where you're

976
00:49:33,119 --> 00:49:35,320
not quite ready this year, but you can trade someone

977
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,079
who's ready this year for the upside of Gritzek next year.

978
00:49:39,199 --> 00:49:39,679
Just see.

979
00:49:41,519 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 2: Very good now to keep your eye on Prospect, keep.

980
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,599
Speaker 3: Your eye on Lenny Jamanajo twenty twenty three, fifty eighth

981
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,000
overall pick six vero zer one hundred and seventy six pound,

982
00:49:51,079 --> 00:49:53,760
right shot, right wing. He's really old for the class.

983
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,800
He was number Remember seventh birthday that's always important to

984
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,159
keep in mind because he was able to play professionally

985
00:49:59,559 --> 00:50:03,079
a little bit earlier than other people maybe were able to,

986
00:50:03,559 --> 00:50:05,719
and so did have those twenty fifty one games in

987
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,760
his draft season, another forty six this past season, and

988
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,920
had thirty one points in those forty six games for

989
00:50:11,039 --> 00:50:13,639
us SAT, plus another six and twelve playoff games. He

990
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,840
also represented Finland at the U twenty World Junior Championship,

991
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,079
where he had four goals into assistant seven game, looking

992
00:50:19,159 --> 00:50:21,760
pretty darn good. I also wrote about him in the

993
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spring for EP Ringside, I highly recommend you go check

994
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,400
that out because it's a pretty deep dive on what

995
00:50:26,559 --> 00:50:28,559
kind of makes him tick with some interesting quotes there.

996
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,800
Let's look at his FHL player card. He had a

997
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,400
seventieth percentile for shots and fiftieth percentile for both hits

998
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,920
and blocks, so he'll likely be just a little bit

999
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,760
above average in terms of bash, not super high. The

1000
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,880
rest of his numbers are all pretty decent in the

1001
00:50:44,519 --> 00:50:48,599
sixtieth to eightieth percentile range, so that's not bad in

1002
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,360
terms of Perferle floor, but it's not super high. Looking

1003
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,760
at some of his other play driving metrics in his

1004
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,639
advanced card and overall, it's a little bit subdued. He

1005
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,559
is a teenager playing in a really difficult league Liga,

1006
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,239
so it's not terribly surprising to see his play driving

1007
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,119
transitioned to a game high dangered chances, all of that

1008
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,800
being under fiftieth percentile. But he is playing in a

1009
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,280
really difficult league, so we'll give him that. But let's

1010
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,159
find out a little bit more about Hamanaho.

1011
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 2: From our Fahl scout, Tony has this to say about Hamanaho.

1012
00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:27,440
Skating not record but above average. Speed is more than

1013
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,920
adequate passing and handling. This one significantly above average for Tony.

1014
00:51:32,079 --> 00:51:36,639
Shooting great shooting, always looking for the shot is Haimanaho.

1015
00:51:37,519 --> 00:51:42,920
IQ vision excellent, IQ in anticipation, impeccable to find open pockets,

1016
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,639
advice to get his shots or passing to a teammate.

1017
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:48,840
Tony didn't see much panic. He was willing to wait

1018
00:51:49,039 --> 00:51:51,800
to get the better shot or checking. He did see

1019
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,559
some Ford checking. Great at this age, says Tony. Defense

1020
00:51:55,679 --> 00:51:59,079
played some defense more than just the stick checking, willing

1021
00:51:59,159 --> 00:52:01,440
to throw some hit. It's a little bit too so.

1022
00:52:01,599 --> 00:52:04,920
The best asset here IQ willing to wait and get

1023
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,920
off shots. But the biggest concern Tony's worried that the

1024
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,280
bash could be low. His size leads Tony to think

1025
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,679
he can do it, just sure, not sure if it'll

1026
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,199
be as big a part of a game as it

1027
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,079
could be. The top tier outcome here, Tony says Tier

1028
00:52:20,159 --> 00:52:23,119
one could be a top six power forward in powerplay

1029
00:52:23,159 --> 00:52:25,840
spachelist because he's got the willingness to wait to get

1030
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,280
his shots, he's got the passing, and he's got the

1031
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:32,159
Ford checking the fiftieth percentile of the median outcome here

1032
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:37,480
Tier three third line spot power play. That's because he

1033
00:52:37,559 --> 00:52:40,199
could end up playing on the outside of the zone.

1034
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,960
Stylistic comparable Patrick Laine here and final thoughts, could be

1035
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,840
an awesome power forward with some bash. Could be like

1036
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,960
a gentler Matt Kochuk. Don't we all wish that Matt

1037
00:52:51,039 --> 00:52:53,239
Chuck was a little Kuchuk was a little gentler, Not

1038
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,719
me and Lenny Haimanajo versus Fraser Mitten In the Mason

1039
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,960
Black NHL ranking poll, phrase Minton comes out ahead fifty

1040
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,360
two to forty eight. Victor. Is that an accurate ranking?

1041
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:09,559
Speaker 3: It's not what I would do. Apparently that's what the

1042
00:53:09,599 --> 00:53:11,599
people think, but it is close. I could see that

1043
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,440
there's There's a lot to like about Minton in terms

1044
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:18,119
of his NHL or readiness, and he got some games

1045
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,320
and he looked okay, still looking great in the WHL.

1046
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,440
But I just think that he's more of like a

1047
00:53:23,599 --> 00:53:25,719
middle to bottom sixer, So I'm not sure he's going

1048
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:29,000
to have that opportunity to really be a super high

1049
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,199
outcome kind of guy, and so that makes it a

1050
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,679
little a little interesting to project. I would take Kamanaho.

1051
00:53:37,119 --> 00:53:41,199
He's playing professionally. I think his upside is similar, maybe

1052
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:42,920
not a little bit higher, but I just think he's

1053
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,840
more likely to get that opportunity and potentially play in

1054
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,559
the top six. Both these guys are unlikely to really

1055
00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:51,280
hit there, but I would just bet a little bit

1056
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,760
more on Kamanaho having that little bit more pro game,

1057
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,039
having that size and that opportunity, the way that he

1058
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,400
positions himself. I think it's close. Neither one of these

1059
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,199
guys are super high end, but yeah, I'll lean Hamanaho

1060
00:54:04,679 --> 00:54:07,000
here a little bit, his PNH LE being a little

1061
00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:09,960
bit higher, his professional experience being a little bit better.

1062
00:54:10,679 --> 00:54:14,599
Looking at the hockey prospecting between the two, both of

1063
00:54:14,639 --> 00:54:17,239
these guys actually pretty low. They're currently sitting at two

1064
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,119
percent chance of being a star. Minton started out quite

1065
00:54:20,119 --> 00:54:22,960
a bit higher, but has trended down since then. Hamanaho

1066
00:54:23,519 --> 00:54:25,400
went down just a little bit from three to two percent.

1067
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:29,039
A little bit higher NHL or probability, but overall both

1068
00:54:29,079 --> 00:54:31,920
of these guys have pretty subdued numbers. Looking at some

1069
00:54:32,039 --> 00:54:34,679
other comps, for Hamanaho, most of these guys in here

1070
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,880
are replacement level or kind of average. He has some

1071
00:54:38,159 --> 00:54:40,559
Nik Waugh as someone who could be a decent outcome.

1072
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,400
Eric Halla is another one who he looks a little

1073
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,320
bit alike in this model fellow Finn. I don't think

1074
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,559
they played necessarily the same style, but that could be

1075
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,800
a similar outcome in terms of his NHL or fantasy

1076
00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:55,320
probability in the NHL. Looking at the j first card

1077
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,320
a little bit more optimistic for Hamanaho eleven percent chance

1078
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,400
of being a star seventy six percent as to being

1079
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,800
an NHLer, so that looks a little bit better overall.

1080
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,320
I think if you're in a deep en f league,

1081
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,440
i'mana host someone who's interesting, who you should look at,

1082
00:55:07,559 --> 00:55:10,639
who might be available, but not the most exciting guy,

1083
00:55:10,679 --> 00:55:12,519
that's for sure. And that's it for our New Jersey

1084
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:14,159
Devil's dig If you're a Patreon you can listen to

1085
00:55:14,199 --> 00:55:16,599
my top ten prospect recap for team on Patreon. If

1086
00:55:16,639 --> 00:55:18,320
you're interested in doing some scotting with that, shooting a

1087
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,199
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1088
00:55:21,679 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 2: We'll be right back to close out the show.

1089
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:33,639
Speaker 3: Attention.

1090
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 2: I have a couple of things to say. You should

1091
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,519
play fantasy sports on fan tracks. That's the place to

1092
00:55:40,199 --> 00:55:43,199
do it. You can play ten different sports. Fantasy hockey

1093
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,960
leagues are filling up right now. You can start one

1094
00:55:46,039 --> 00:55:48,920
up with your buddies. You can play a public league

1095
00:55:49,079 --> 00:55:53,639
if that is how you roll. I think there's pay

1096
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,320
leagues you can get into that they'll set up as well.

1097
00:55:57,159 --> 00:55:59,480
Every kind of setting that you could possibly want is

1098
00:55:59,559 --> 00:56:01,440
there if you decide to set up your own league.

1099
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,960
I guarantee if there's a there's something you want to do,

1100
00:56:05,039 --> 00:56:07,679
there's probably a way that you can at least do

1101
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,480
some version of it as a workaround. We have lots

1102
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,039
of fantasy content going on at Fantrak's HQ. I think

1103
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one of my articles on fantasy hockey is going to

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be redeploying sometime in the inner future. There's stuff about

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all the fantasy sports FHL is a whole team. We

1106
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like to give shouts to the crew at the end

1107
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,320
of each episode. Content curator Kevin Adams does great work

1108
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helping to prep these show documents. We got a commission

1109
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team for the tidy leagues. That's Ryan Simone, Kraftzer and

1110
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Tim who are doing amazing work to get all these

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leagues together. Drafts are ongoing as we speak, and it's

1112
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like a whole process. Jeremy v is our lead scout.

1113
00:56:51,159 --> 00:56:55,119
Jason helps with the prospect ranks. Brandon is the website guru.

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00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:59,000
A scout helps with prospect ranks and visualizations. He's the

1115
00:56:59,199 --> 00:57:02,440
man behind the Fantasy Hockey Life Player card along with Victor.

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I've actually got an article I believe has come up.

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It will have probably come up in the past by

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you everybody for listening to this preview of your new

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Jersey Devils, and until next time, keep living that fantasy hockey.

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Speaker 4: BOFE M.