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Speaker 3: Deevils.
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Hockey News. How you doing, Christy?
Speaker 5: I'm doing well this I guess afternoon. I was gonna
say this morning, but I guess it is the afternoon.
How are you guys doing?
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is way out on the West coast. Lord knows, it's
probably still July out there. I really can't say, but yeah, Christy,
let's get going and talk some Devils. This season, Christy
was not what I expected. The Devils finished thirteenth of
sixteen in the Eastern Conference and one of the most
exciting cores in hockey. Were above average, scoring goals fourteenth
and thirty two teams, but did not prevent goals two
hundred and eighty one goals allowed, being the fifth most
allowed on the third worst save percentage in the NHL.
So in one sense, We'll have to wait because we
talked through these guys individually, and we'll get to the
goalies last. And moreover, they got rid of some of
the goalies who were the culprits of this and only
some of them are back, and they definitely reinforced, so
we won't necessarily go over them. But clearly, to me,
that's where some things went wrong. Lindy Ruff is out,
Sheldon keep is in. The Devils have brought in some
new players, made a few improvements. Is this team going
to jump into a contending position this year?
Speaker 6: Christy, Everyone's expected it, right.
Speaker 5: You see the projections from analysts and media like myself,
and everyone has them. I think the one projection I
saw was for Stanley Cup odds. The Devils had the
second best odds in the East, behind the Florida Panthers.
So once again, those expectations are right back where they
were at the beginning of last year. But you know,
for me, it's like you said, they made a lot
of moves. They have a new head coach with Sheldon Keith,
and I always say this chemistry is such a big
thing in hockey, and so is the system and which
players are going to thrive in what systems. So there's
a lot of unknowns and we won't know a lot
of answers until Sheldon Keith runs his first training camp
in New Jersey.
Speaker 3: One thing we do know, I think right now is
the Jack Hughes is awesome and we're going to talk
about him first. The forward played seventy eight games last season.
That fell back down or sorry, seventy eight the previous
season fell back down to sixty two last season. That's
long been an issue for Hughes staying healthy. When he
does play, he's usually very good. This time the season
ended early with shoulder surgery, roughly coincided with the Devil
all but giving up on their playoff hopes or not
really having much of a chance. He did get back
to the one hundred point pace, which was great. His
teminized power play temenized all that went up and he
had the same number of powerplay points in sixteen fewer games. Christy,
do you think we can get more than seventy five
games from Hughes and can he get up to that
one hundred point pace again?
Speaker 5: That is always going to, I think be the question
with Jack Hughes is his health because we know that
there have been those injuries in the past. But again,
it's like you said, a healthy Jack Hughes. If you
look back to last year before he initially injured his shoulder,
he was in that heart trophy conversation again very early,
but he was in those talks and that was and
he was playing at a very impressive pace. He hit
those nine to nine points, which was a new franchise
record for a single season. With Jack, it's always going
to be the injuries, and injuries are unfortunately, they're part
of the game. You just don't know season to season
how much of an impact they're going to have on
a team.
Speaker 6: But I would.
Speaker 5: Definitely see Jack still staying at that pace. And the
thing with him is that he's so young. I don't
think people I think sometime it's easy to forget how
young he is. This is a guy that didn't even
hit his prime yet, which is really crazy to think about.
Speaker 2: Yes, for Bratt, after two straight years of seventy three points,
he jumped to eighty three points in eighty two games,
leading the team got down Ballot Selk votes. He's legitimately
a star at this point, twenty fourth in the league
in scoring, his most common line was Andre Plott and
Nico Heasher, mister he's heer more on him later, but
Brad gets decent peripherals in his long contract is actually
looking pretty reasonable after the first of its eight years.
What is accounting for Bratt's rise and do you expect
him to sustain that success this year?
Speaker 5: I feel like Bratt is becoming all reliable at this point.
He played every game, all eighty two games the past
two seasons, and out of the Devil's Big four offensively,
which are Hughes, Bratt, Hescher and Meyer, Bratt has that durability.
So I always say for people that are looking to
go into fantasy and pick their players, Bratt would definitely
be the safe choice. And over the summer and actually
last fall as well. I spoke to Brad's mental skills coach.
He works with a bunch of players in the Swedish
League as well as in the NHL, and I think
the thing that sticks out with me with Brat is
he does so much work off ice to work on
his game and to be mentally ready and mentally strong,
and I think that is what really has helped him,
and that's why I feel like this is a guy
that's not really going to be slowing down because he
takes everything so seriously, not just when he's at the rank,
but at home as well.
Speaker 2: And Nico heasheer. As you said, he missed much of
November after taking a high hit from Connor Clifton, but
he was durable upon his return. He sure is also
pretty consistent. But I feel like he's fallen into the
Ryan NuGen Hopkins zone, the guy that once we stopped
worrying about the fact that he went first overall once
upon a time, we're going to just understand that he's
just an excellent player, the same style of game. That's
not what I'm saying. But he's also on a reasonable
deal for a couple more years. Maybe fantasy players are
a little bit sore because he hasn't had the gaudy
stats that sometimes we associate with the number one overall pick.
But it's still pretty darn good. It's close to a
point per game. Are we going to have that big
breakout he's here season one of these years or am
I describing maybe what we should expect just the solid
defensive presence and the solid captain for the team.
Speaker 5: You know, he was a player that Curtis Lazar described
as the heartbeat of the hockey club, and I think
that's a really good way to put it. And when
I spoke to somebody from ESPN, he made a great
point that when you're selected first overall, if you don't
reach those really impressive offensive numbers, you look at a
player and say, oh, he's a buster. Oh he doesn't
deserve that first overall selection. But Nico brings so much
more to the team, and he's a different first overall
player than you would look into Jack Hughes or conor
Badart like he's he has a different tool set, he
has a different skill set and when you watch him
night in and night out, it's just his defensive game.
His responsibility with the pupkin all threes owns is just
so impressive, and I think that he has that sixty
to eighty point range.
Speaker 6: Yes, he's had some.
Speaker 5: Injuries, but to me, Nico, I think offensively will always
kind of be second fiddle to Jack because Jack's just
an explosive player. But you can't diminish what Nico does
because Nico is such a responsible player, and that's why
he's most likely going to be the team's number one
center this season over Jack.
Speaker 3: All Right, we mentioned him already. Timo Meyer is the
next guy we need to talk about. It's starting to
look more and more like the eighty one point pace
he had in the final year in San Jose is
the outlier season. This past season in New Jersey had
sixty two point pace, not that high time on I
seventeen thirty six. That was his lowest in four seasons. Actually,
he did get nearly half the power play share and
seventeen power play points. All that's pretty good. But I
think a lot of us are hoping for a little
bit more out of Timo Meyer. Christy, do you think
with a healthy Teamo that he can get a little
bit higher, maybe seventy point or even above. And was
he healthy this season?
Speaker 6: No, he wasn't.
Speaker 5: Injuries he struggled with and I think it's it was
never confirmed, but if you watched him playing, heard how
coaches and how he handled his media availability, he definitely
was playing through something. And I think since he's been
acquired from New Jersey, I don't think we've seen for
long stretches a fully healthy Timo Meyer. So I think
it's hard to gauge him. I know in March when
he started to get healthier, he had twenty points in
fifteen games, and he had a really impressive kind of
run in that month. But you also have to think
for last year he spent time on the third line,
which a lot of people were baffle by because you
would think Timo Meyer automatically a top six player, but
sometimes he wasn't in the top six. He was in
the mid six. And Timo to me is a question
mark because we haven't seen him fully healthy for long
stretches with Niko Kisher playing with Yes for Brett, playing
with Jack Hughes, So I think he can get back
to it again. He calls into at least last year
at Jack and Nico category where we didn't see what
he could bring at his best, If that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. I certainly feel like we haven't seen the
best of him in New Jersey yet, so we'll be
excited to see what if that happens this season. Let's
move on to Dawson Mercer. As far as I know,
he's still in contract negotiations unless I miss that. Last
season and our discussions about Mercer, we decided that he
might be too versatile for his own good because you
could put him in a lot of different lines, a
lot of different situations. He did get the fourth most
time on ice of any Devil's forward, even though he
didn't get to play much with he Shaer Hughes. He
did get some time with Meyer, but mostly it was
McLeod plot Pla and no Sick. Not necessarily your best
offensive options there. Not sure if he was asked to
do do much, but for some reason his defensive impacts
really dropped off this past season. His defensive impacts weren't
his offensive impacts weren't that good either. His thirty three
points in eighty two games were the third lowest of
his care So I guess the big question is there
a bounce back here for Mercer Christy? Is he gonna
get maybe up to that fifty point pace or has
that ship Shald.
Speaker 6: So there's no doubt that Dawson Mercer needs to have
a bounce back season. It wasn't.
Speaker 5: He had a really slow start last year. And the thing, see,
it gets tough right because when I was, you know,
taking my notes for this episode, you have the four
players that we recently talked about who were most likely
a lock for top six positions.
Speaker 6: But now you're adding in Dawson Mercer, you're going to
have who we're going.
Speaker 5: To talk about, Andre Pulat, Eric Holla, Thomas Tatar, and
they are all so interchangeable at this point in time.
And you're right, Dawson does have a lot of versatility.
He's a Swiss army knife. He's used pretty much in
every situation. The big thing with me is that Dawson
has that durability. He has not missed an NHL game
since he broke into the league, which is extremely impressive
for a young player. And when you look at Jack
and Nico both having their respective injury struggles, it's really
nice to have a Dawson Mercer in your back pocket,
who could play center, who can be moved throughout the lineup.
With that being said, I'm not sure going into this
season what Mercer's role is going to be. I know
NHL dot Com projected him as a second line winger
to play.
Speaker 6: With Andre Pilatt and Jack Hughes.
Speaker 5: But once again, and I'll probably say this so many
times during this episode, you're going to get sick of it.
We don't know what Sheldon Keith is going to do,
and we don't know where the chemistry is going to
be with those guys, so Dawson Mercer, he.
Speaker 6: Can go anywhere.
Speaker 5: And I think his role, depending on whether he's going
to be on that second line or that third line,
maybe checking role is going to have an impact on
what we're going to see out of him offensively.
Speaker 2: Neant, We're going to give you a couple of pickhams,
a smuggle to talk, a couple guys shorter and maybe
a little more shallow, but comparative terms, especially on points.
Eric Hala, Andre Pallatte, Stefan Nason, Nason. Of course, the
addition Pialatte was the guy who played with Hesher and
Bratt last year. Halla's hanging in there as a established veteran.
Who do you like out of that group?
Speaker 4: Christy?
Speaker 5: I always liked Eric Halla, I said the second the
Devil's and the Bruins made that trade is that was
a trade that was a win for everybody involved. I
know that it is expected that Halla is going to
start the season as the club's third line center, so
he would be more of a checker. We've seen him
a lot of times play with Jack Hughes, and he
was more complimentary to that, which helped him more offensively.
Pallatte is a player that Platte knows offensively he needs
to do more. Fans know they want more out of
Andre pallatt For me, he out of all the forwards,
he's the biggest question mark. Again, where is he going
to go in the lineup? Is he a six million
dollar when you're Jack Cughes? Is he a six million
dollar checker on the third line to be determined? And
with Nason, I know that he had two really good
seasons in Carolina. He had thirty six points, thirty seven
points with him, I'm more curious about chemistry. You would
think right now he's a lot for that third line
alongside Eric Halla, but he I'm curious where his chemistry
is going to lie. He's good around the net, that
might be a player that they might see on the
power play, that NetFront presence. So I'm interested in where
Noson is gonna Noson's going to land and where he's
going to find the most chemistry on the team.
Speaker 2: And another one maybe a little further down ballot here
Paul Cotter Toomas Tatar. Another Cotter is actually younger. Tatar
has yet another early thirties, great Beard on this team.
But of those two, who do you like better?
Speaker 5: We have familiarity with Tatar right like he had really
good chemistry with Nico Heuscher and Dawson Mercer and his
last year and with the Devils they ended up the
trio were one of the best lines in the league
at that point. Now is he going to be Is
that going to be a line this year? Again, we
don't know, but I really do. Guitar and Cotter we're
expecting to be in the fourth line potentially with curtisal
z Are, potentially with Nathan Bashton and the fourth line.
Role players are always interesting to me because it's not
easy to play ten minutes to night. It's not easy
for these players to do. They're sitting on the bench,
they're frozen. Then they're expected to jump back out on
the ice play for however long their shift is going
to be. Cotter had seven goals in seventy six games.
I'm more curious of how he's going to flourish if
his ice time drops from the twelve minutes he was
used to in Vegas down to maybe ten or nine
minutes in New Jersey because when I talked to Andy.
Speaker 6: Green about that.
Speaker 5: He was saying that it's not easy to play those minutes.
But that's why guys who can make a living being
successful in that timeframe always have a job. And I'm
curious if Paul Cotter is going to fall into that
category of he just knows how to play in the
limited time that he's given by the coaching staff.
Speaker 2: Let's flip over to the blue line. We start out,
of course with Dougie Hamilton, but unfortunately we start out
with not a whole lot to say about last year.
It was a last season, played only twenty games before
missing the remainder with the pectoral injury. It required surgery.
He usually plays upwards of twenty one minutes a night.
His injury left the Devil's little choice but to give
minutes to to young up and comers, and we'll talk
more about some of the younger players in the future.
The very little sample we got of him last year,
the offense, of course, was quite a bit better than
the defense. But do you think Dougie Hamilton is going
to come back strong, point per game star kind of
defenseman or are you worried that maybe he is starting
to be in a part of his career where there's
going to be more injuries and maybe less performance.
Speaker 5: It's so funny because most of the Devil's big players,
but injuries, again, they are a question mark. He was
injured in his first year with the Devils as well,
and I think the one thing that people realized in
his absence was just how important he is as the
quarterback of the power play.
Speaker 6: I think before his injury.
Speaker 5: You saw that Luke Hughes took on that role as
quarterback for power Play one. You had Dougie's power quarterback
as power Play two. But I think that you saw
the power play struggle and you saw how important that
shot in him patrolling that line is for the team.
So I would expect that if he's healthy, his points
are going to come. He is a very offensive defenseman. Again,
health health is the question mark with him, But healthy Doug,
he's a safe bet.
Speaker 3: Yeah. A recurring theme for sure on this episode, the
health and that we don't know what Sheldon Keef is
going to do, but let's try they learn a little
bit more about the other guy we just mentioned, Luke Hughes.
It was pretty awesome to see Luke out there. He
played all eighty two games as a rookie, he ended
up playing the most average time on ice of any
Devil defender. That might have been different if Hamilton was
healthy all season. As he also had all of the
most points, did Luke u's largest power play time on ice,
it was all pretty great. Despite this, he was a
little below average in terms of expected goal differential, maybe
not too surprising for his first league in season in
the league. This all led to third place Calder votes
behind Badard and brock Favor and set up some pretty
lofty expectations for this season. I would say, Christy, do
you think that Luke Cughes can get up to maybe
a fifty point pace or even more or is Hamilton
coming back into the Fray going to eat into some
of his minutes and opportunity.
Speaker 5: So the question that you have to ask yourself about
Luke Hughes this year is most projections have him being
paired with Brett Peschi, who the Devil's acquired on July first,
and when Tom Fitzgerald spoke to the media, he was
asked about that specific pair and his response was, Brett
Pesche is going to be playing against opposing team's top
players and if that is a role that Luke Hughes wants.
Defense needs to come over offense. He needs to learn
how to play defensively and that needs to be his priority,
not scoring goals. So with Luke, the question is what
role is he going to be on this year because
now the Devils don't have JOm right now, the Devils
don't have Kevin Ball and they don't have Ryan Graves.
And if you remember when they had that franchise year
two years ago, his shut down pair was Ryan Graves
and John Marino. Neither one of them or were really
known for their offensive skills like a Dougie Hamilton earl
Luke Hughes. So I think the question when you're looking
at points with him is will he be playing with
Brett Peschi and how will that affect his game? Because offensively, yes,
extremely gifted, extremely talented. If you watched him play in
his own zone last season, he struggled like any young
defenseman would. So for Luke, it's not a matter of
if he's capable of reaching those points, it's a question
of what role is he going to take on the
blue line and how is that going to affect how
he plays the game?
Speaker 2: And jumping over Zimo Nimetz is a guy who had
a very successful rookie season. He skated almost twenty minutes
a night, got some down ballot called or votes. It
was a bummer that he only notched one point in
his final sixteen games, but maybe that was rookie wall
on a team that Will is not having the best
time at that point in the season. He enters this
coming season twenty years old as a former number two
overall pick, of course, and ready to build on that
first year. How much improvement do you expect from nemotsis
year and what role if you can guess, we'll Keith
give him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So he's projected right now to be in the
third pair with Brendan Dillon, who was recently acquired in
July as well in free agency. I think the thing
with him is there's a lot of people that obviously
are putting him and Luke in the same category. They're
both highly touted defenseman you know, came in for me.
As far as having a more complete game, I would
actually give him the edge over Luke. I don't think
he's ever going to be as offensively impressive as Luke,
but I think that he's a more complete defenseman. I
think he really played well in all three zones. He
played a little bit on the penalty kill last year,
so I'm expecting him to just keep improving on the
two hundred foot game and being more of a two
way defenseman. Where I think anyone would look at Luke
us and say clear say he is an offensive defenseman.
Speaker 3: I think we can all agree on that. Let's move
over to the goalies now. The Devils were ranked twentieth
in expected goals against p sixty last season at five
y five, but they conceded the twenty sixth ranked actual
goals per sixty. They were a big narrative for the
Devils all season, no doubt Vanichek in particular, but all
their goalies let them down. There was news that they
might get Markstrom at the deadline that didn't happen. Eventually
they did. They did get Jake Allen. It seemed like
it helped, but it was a little too late. Now
they have Markstrum and Allen plus Nico Dawes for insurance.
So I guess the question is do you think Marsham
is going to do well in his new environment with
all these changes that have made the Devils hopefully a
better team.
Speaker 5: I think when you look at New Jersey's goaltending, they
had Nico Dawes, they had a Kira Schmidt who is
now part of the Vegas organization. They had very young goaltenders,
and I think having the veterans that have been through
it all, seen it all and might have more composure
than a young goaltender would, I think that's going to
help them out a lot. And for me, you can
always guess there are certain losses in a season that
you could say that was a goaltending loss, but it's
not as many as I think fans think it is.
Goaltending and defense go hand in hand. And right now,
Tom Fitzgerald they he gave them reliable goaltending because at
the end of the day, this is a team that
is going to thrive offensively. They don't need a team,
they don't need an O'Connor Hallibuck in net. They need
somebody who's just going to be reliable and give them
a chance to win every night. And that is what
a tandem of Jake Allen and Jacob mark Strom are
going to give. And with the improved blue line with
Peshi and Dylan and getting Hamilton back. I would think
that the Devils are in a much better situation than
they were last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Obviously Allen being
there last year, maybe getting a little bit more a
quaint just wondering what you think the split between these two.
I imagine Marsham is the clear starter, but do you
think it's close to one A one B situation? And
does Marsham get sixty seventy percent of the starts? What
do we think in the breakdown might be?
Speaker 5: It's really funny because I asked Jake Allen this at
the exit interviews. I said, how does that kind of work?
And he said, it just garies on who the tandem is,
what kind of the situation is. I would think that
if both remain healthy, Markstrom is going to get more starts.
Speaker 6: Than Jake Allen.
Speaker 5: But again I think with goaltenders, you'd ride the hot goaltender.
You stick with what's working for you. So I think
that's an extra variable that has to be considered. But
I would think going into this season for the Devils,
for Tom Fitzgerald, I would say, without a doubt, Jacob
Markstrom is their starter, without a doubt. But you never
know how a season's going to play out, and if
Allen gets on a real hot streak, I can't see
any coach taking out a hot goaltender.
Speaker 2: Tremendous, Christy. You have brought us as much clarity as
one can have on a team going through this many
returns to injury. This change a big of a change
in philosophy, but it really was excellent. And can you
tell people how they can continue to follow your work
throughout the year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, guys, I'm so sorry, but this is there's so
many question marks arounding your jersey that I'm like, I
feel like I'm not giving you anything but to keep
it real, that's the situation that it is.
Speaker 6: We won't know anything.
Speaker 5: Until training camp starts, but you guys can follow me
on Twitter. My handle is at in Soiletto's Underscore NHL.
I'm on Instagram and under that same handle, and we're
also exploring.
Speaker 6: TikTok, but I it's not as.
Speaker 5: Consistent over there, but we're trying. We're working things out.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you so much for coming on, Christy, and
good luck covering the devils this year.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Wilson.
Speaker 2: Then, well that's good fer past off. Oh my goodness
long with a.
Speaker 1: Chat quick gram.
Speaker 2: Now it's your wingler goalie talk, but Kat Silverman, Kat's Instincts.
Speaker 3: Time once again for Cat's Instincts. With Kat Silverman and
Ingold mag we're talking Devils goalies and there's some interesting
guys here. It's not as it's not as exciting as
it once was in the crease in New Jersey. But
we're gonna start with Jacob Malik. He is a six
foot four hundred and ninety pound goalie twenty twenty one
fourth round pick by the Devils. He's check and grew
up playing in check yah, but he's been in Finland
for the past two seasons. He was with Ilvez the
last last season and improved his numbers from the previous
one with the same club, so you always like to
see that a little bit of a step forward from
one year to the next, similar number of playoff games
and actually did better in those playoff appearances as well.
He had a couple of international experiences with chech Yo
which didn't go also well. Looking at his hockey prospecting,
he he has trended up quite significantly from his draft
season up to forty eight percent chance of being an NHLer,
so of course I scoured the comps on Hockey Prospecting
and found a fellow Czech Roman, Czech Monic. I was like,
when the name of their country is in the name,
that helps you remember it that he's Check. But anyways,
check Monic was a really good goalie back in the day.
For sure, loved watching him. So Kat, what dor instincts
tell us about Malik.
Speaker 7: He's one that I'm excited to see when he does
come over to North America. I know he just signed
his entry level deal, which is always a good sign
when it comes to goaltenders from Europe, particularly from Czechia,
because sometimes they get drafted and want to stay Overseasvas
I think we've talked about it in the past. That's
another team. I consider them almost like a feeder team
for North American teams like Carpot, where they have a
lot of NHL prospects. I know that during the pandemic
they had a number of both NHL prospects and NHL
players who were essentially getting some time in Finland before
they came over during both the league shutdown and just
as alone, I said Lucas Dostal on their team, they've
had a number of Czech players on their team. I
know that they've had some. I think they had Merrick Langhammer.
I want to say it wasn't last year, but maybe
the year prior. So that's a team where he'd have
fellow countrymen on the team with him.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 7: I believe it was last year. He had at least
two or three other Czech players on the team while
getting a chance to play in a little bit of
a more competitive league in a country where a lot
of NHL teams have scouts in Finland that hang around.
It's a very small country, so they're able to move
from rink to rink and keep an eye on their prospects.
I know, before coming to North America again as a
goaltending coach, Nicholas Bactrum was doing that for the Columbus
Blue Jackets when they had goaltenders on loan in Finland.
So I believe Pittsburgh is probably doing something similar and
New Jersey is probably getting in on the action, excited
to see what he can do in North America. He's
got some control to his game. His highlights looked fine.
He didn't look overly exciting, but I have seen some
check goaltenders go to Finland and absolutely bomb. That was
promising seeing that he looked not overly spectacular, but not
like he was really struggling with Reeds, because the game
does move a little bit faster once they move over
to Finland's there. That's a tough one though, because New
Jersey has not necessarily been a hot bed of as
a talent in the last handful of years. So I
think that they are facing a little more sense of
urgency when it comes to who they have in their
prospect system. And even though Malick looked good in the
games I was watching, I don't know if he is
immediately ready for NHL auction, and I think that they
do need someone who's a little more NHL ready than him.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 3: Yes, And just in case anyone's wondering, Jacob Malik is
not related to Nick Malik. Their names are spelled differently,
then we may be saying them incorrectly, but it's m
A L e k and the other guys are m Alik,
so they're spelled differently. Sorry for any check listeners if
we're saying them wrong. Let's move on to the next
guy that we can mispronounce and that's Mikhal Yegorov. Hopefully
that was close. He's six foot five hundred and eighty
six pounds twenty twenty two second round pick by the Devil,
so just picked, and he has had a strange trajectory here.
He was playing for the Russian U seventeen team last season,
not even MHL games, so really a weird sample size there.
Then he played for the USHL Omaha l Answers this season.
Maybe that was maybe the previous statement was probably because
he knew he wanted to come to North America, maybe
they didn't want to give him the right k I
don't know, but he was with Omaha this season. The
raw numbers look terrible eight ninety two save percentage three
point eighty six. GAA only won eight games, but if
you look underneath, the expected goal per goal conceited was
one point one five, meaning he was saving more than expected.
So maybe that team was just real bad. I don't know.
And his hockey prospecting, despite the low sort of equivalency number,
has him up to twenty eight percent chance of being
an NHL or after just that USHL season, which is
pretty great. Actually, he's got some comps like Jonathan Bernie
is one who was an average starter that maybe he'll
look like. I should mention also that he is headed
to Boston University, so that could be really good for
him in terms of his development. But Kat, what do
your instinct tell us about Michail Egorov.
Speaker 7: I'm really excited to see what he can do exc
at BU. It's always really interesting when I see European
goaltenders come over to play in the USHL, which is
something that they sometimes do essentially for eligibility. Per pose,
is when it comes to playing at the collegiate level,
and sometimes if they want to choose between playing and
the OHL are playing on the NCAA, they'll come over
and play a year in North America just because it
changes their eligibility. Gives them a North American eligibility, so
they don't count as a foreign player for a team.
So that can help with teams that have certain essentially
spot reserved for international players and international students. They essentially
get added to the team as a North American player,
which is a fun little workaround that we see with goaltenders.
I watched some of his film and he looks fun.
He looks like he's got a good mix of speed
and technique, Like he was really trying to pick up
the technique as he went this past year, and sometimes
we see those goaltenders who are trying to really hone
in their game. He's six foot five, one hundred and
eighty six pounds. That's inflatable, flailing our balloon man sized.
That's a lot of limb to control, and he did
a good job of reining it in. As you watched
his games progress throughout the year, it looks like he
did a good job of tightening up his movements, did
a good job of not allowing himself to over commit
to things. I do think he sell has a ways
to go there, and he's very young, so I know
some of the prospects that are still considered quote unquote
prospects and team system are as much as six or
seven years older than him. So he's got a ways
to go. Like I said, I think New Jersey needs
someone who is ready soon and he is not. But
he used a really good program for goaltenders. They've churned
out one or two good ones over the years, so
we'll see if he becomes their next big one. I
think that's a coveted spot for a goaltender who's looking
to really stay in North America.
Speaker 3: Indeed, he's an exciting one. And in case anyone's wondering, also,
I should mention that there's a eeg or egor Off
that Calgary draft did. And they are also not related.
A lot of just overlapping names here and sometimes they're related,
sometimes or not. And so mikkehly Garov will see how
he does it be you that'll be exciting. And thanks
for explaining the whole North American spot thing in the workaround.
That's a fun little tidbit that I didn't know about either,
And thanks for instincts. On the new Jersey Devil's Goalies Cut.
Speaker 2: Dig Good Dynasty Digue Jersey Devil's Edition. This is the
thirteenth rank system according to the Victor in your rankings,
and it starts out with our no brainer, who is
it Victor.
Speaker 3: It's going to be Seamus Casey this time around. A
lot of their great young players like Luke Cues are
already in the Nhlmonemach, so we're starting with Seamus Casey.
He was a twenty twenty two, forty sixth overall pick
five ten and eighty one pounds. He's a right handed
d second season at Michigan where he went over a
point per game forty five points in forty games. That
was pretty fantastic. Only Lane Hudson zeb William scored more
in the NCAA this season. That's a pretty good feather
in the cap of Seamus Casey. At the World Juniors
he had six assists and six games for the Americans.
He should be in the HL next season for the
Utica Comets. And looking at some of his tracking data
from Mitch Brown, you can see some really interesting comparable
So I wanted to compare his game to some current
teammate Luke Hughes and Lane Hudson, and what's interesting is
that the offense is pretty similar actually in terms of
his tracking data to Hughes, it's a little bit behind,
about ten percentage points behind both Hughes and Hudson. The defense, though,
is really part of the issue. All these guys struggle defensively,
which is going to be part of the problem. We
heard Christie talking about how it's going to be something
that Hughes needs to work on. Casey thirty fourth percentile
for defense. Hughes in his last season was fifteen and
Hudson twelve, so that's not great for either of them.
Transition is pretty good. All these guys do really well
in transition. Seamus Casey's seventy first percentile and the Hughes
and Hudson were north of eighty five, so all that
looks really good. Some of the other positives for Casey,
his slot passes to sixty are really high. He does
that really He gets really good controlled entries. That's another
big part of his game. The defense, especially the entry prevention,
is where he really struggles and the controlled exits, so
there's some slight reason for concern there. Looking at his
FHL player card, he's ten out of ten and goals
p sixty, assists p sixty, and shots per sixty, so
all this looks really great. His hits are a little
bit about of average and his blocks a little bit
below average, so all of that means that his bass
should be an eightieth percentile or so driven by the shots,
and he doesn't really. He takes some penalties, but not
too much, so that's why he's a seven out of ten.
Pims are bad in our metric, so overall that's looking
pretty good in terms of a slight peripheral floor. Looking
at some of his under underlyings from the FHL player card,
a lot of this looks really good. Who like play, driving,
high danger chances, puckwork, NCAA level. It all looks really
strong for Seamus Casey. So that's a little bit reassuring.
But let's hear a little bit more about Seamus Casey
from my FHL scout.
Speaker 2: Our FHL scout today is Tony and not only a
scout but all around good dude. And what does he
have to say about Famous Seamus. He is, according to skating,
a very good skater, quick can skate out of trouble.
Passing and handling, very good passer puck handling, also very
solid shooting, gets through traffic. Not too many slap shots,
more wrist and snapshots in his game. IQ is also
an asset for Casey. He anticipates play very well, seems
to be quite poised with peers and international competition for checking.
Tony didn't see a whole lot of that in the game.
But on defense, typical of a new defenseman, He's got
a lot of stick work, uses skating to be in
the correct spot at the right time. So the best
asset there with skating, passing an IQ are right next
to that and the biggest concern smallish player with not
a whole lot of bash, but the top tier. Tony
sees that there still is Tier one potential here power play,
first pair type upside. That's because of skating, IQ and
passing the assets that could lead to that outcome, the
media outcome. Tier two maybe only spot power play time
and second or third pair deployment. Why because there's not
a lot of bash there. Maybe other players on his
team have similar offense, more bash and that will allow
them to jump ahead of mister Casey. Stylistic compare, Oh,
Tony's got some big ones here, Quinn Hughes and Zach Wreinsky.
And the overall final thoughts, hopefully Seamus Casey will get
a shot on the Devils and be a right hand defenseman.
Being a right hand defense will get him some more
plain time. Mason Black. The NHL ranking put Seamus Casey
up against Tom Willander of the Vancouver Canucks and what
happened in that comparison Seamus Casey came out ahead fifty
six to forty four percent victor. Is that how you'd
rank the two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think so. I think that we've talked
a little bit before about how Villander is just a
really solid all around defender, like he's someone that definitely
we were talking on the episode with Christy about how
the defense can make you a better team. It's really
good for the goaltending. That's what Vilander is going to
do for the Canucks. I don't know that he's going
to be so valuable in fantasy. That's going to be
to be determined, but he doesn't seem to have that
kind of profiles. I think that I would rather have Casey,
although case he has some other concerns, some that we've
talked a little bit about, just with the being a
bit smaller defensively not super great, so there's a little
bit more concern and more volatility likely and the projection
of an NHLer for shamous Casey, so that part would
concern me a little bit. He definitely has a way
higher pnhle, but I'm not sure that's so likely, And
we talked Tony mentioned some really high lofty goals there
in terms of comparables, that would be great, and I
think that there is reason to believe that could happen.
But also it's a little less likely to be happening,
whereas Vellander seems like for sure to be an NHLer,
but I'm not sure how good and fantasy. The other
thing about Vellander is he's going to be pretty below
average in terms of BASH, so there's not even going
to be a super high floor there. One of the
comps here on Mason Black's card is John Michael Lyles.
I think that is probably pretty reasonable for Vellander, who's
someone who played and had a decent good role, helped
the team, but wasn't someone that was super exciting and fantasy,
so that could end up be how this is. So
I would definitely take Casey here, but in terms of
my NHL real life team, if I ever had one,
if I was a GM, I definitely want Velander. Looking
at the hockey prospecting between these two, Casey definitely has
a much higher NHLI star potential forty one percent chance
of being a star. He's really increased that since coming
to college. He was closer to fifteen percent, and then
up to twenty three and then forty one this season.
Seventy five percent chance of being an NHLer, which Velanders
is actually lower. But I think that's not accurate. I
think his NHL er probability, which is listed at fifty six,
is much much higher than that. His star potential, though,
I think is probably pretty accurate. Five percent not so good.
Looking at some other comps for Samus Casey. The only
one really listed here is Mike Green, which could be realistic.
Mike Green was a few inches taller than Shamus Casey,
so I didn't have to worry so much about the
height issue. I think that is going to be a
factor for Seamus Casey, so that might be a high
end outcome, but I'm not sure how likely it is.
The other car, the Jfresh Car Show, Seamus Casey had
just three percent chance of being a star and seventy
percent chance of being in NHL or so, as usual,
a little bit more pessimistic on the star potential there
from J Fresh.
Speaker 2: Next to Victor, who's your need to know prospect?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was definitely someone you all need to know,
and that is Arsenni GRITZYUK. He is a twenty nineteen
fifth round pick, six foot zero, one hundred and ninety
four pounds, left shot, right wing. He's now twenty three
years old, still unsigned, has one more year in the KHL,
and he's now had three straight seasons of strong production there.
Last year he had forty points in sixty six games.
This season had nearly as many, thirty eight, but in
just fifty games, so that was a bit better. He
switched from avant Garde MSK to Scott Saint Pete for
this past season, and so all that is looking pretty good,
and looking at his FHL play card you see some
other really interesting things like his shots per six years
super high. He's a very high volume shooter statistically, up
there with the highest in the NHL ten or KHL
ten out of ten. His hits are actually pretty high too,
at a seventyeighth percentile. It doesn't block too much, but
overall that bash should give him a super high floor,
as he's ten out of ten there. His goals and
assists are also pretty high, so all in all, it's
looking like a really strong proferle floor with some decent
upside for gritz Yuk. When he comes over looking at
his underlying play driving numbers, you could see that his
Fenwick corsi is super high. He drives play exceptionally well.
His turnisting game as well is good as well. He
gets a lot of high danger chances, and he's really
tough at getting the puck in the corners. Good puckwork.
So all in all, his underlying metrics look outstanding. But
let's hear a little bit more about what makes chritz
tick from our FHL scout Tony.
Speaker 2: Tony says for skating balanced speed and dexterity. Passing precise,
more than adequate for zone entries at the exits, though
could use some work. Shooting accurate, able to get his
own shots in some instances, mostly snap in wrist shots IQ.
Cerebral player with good hockey vision and anticipation, not a
lot of panic. Seems poised at most times. For checking.
He could be good with his skills, but Tony didn't
see a lot of that in his limited viewing. Defense
Gritzchuk is on par with most defense. Will go after
pucking the ozone, but not a lot on the D zone.
Mostly stickwork, shot blocks the best assets skating, followed by
shooting in hockey IQ The biggest concern. Not a lot
of hitting or defense, though he probably won't be asked
to do that. The top tier outcome boy, he could
be Tier one if put into the correct situation. Top
six power play time. That's because of his above average skating, shooting, passing,
and hockey IQ the median outcome spare time, third liner
with rare power play chances. And he's also an older
player at this point twenty two years old. I'm not
sure he's gonna be able to play the NHL style game.
Not a lot of hitting or blocking of shots. Oh,
here we go, Here we go, Tony get fired up,
stylistic comparable, maybe kill Kaprizov lighte for ar Senni Gritschuk
And final thoughts. A blended skater with speed and skill.
Tony season more of his a winger and his time
as a center was not impressive. And ar Sidy Gritzchuk
goes up against Castper Haltinen in the NHL Rank King poll.
Haltonen a two thirds majority of votes over Harsenni Gritschuk
sixty seven to thirty three. Victor is the shark superior
to the devil?
Speaker 3: Well, that sounds like a very existential question that I'm
not sure I'm prepared to answer right now.
Speaker 2: Who would win in the battle between a shark and
the devil?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna assume you're talking about these hockey
players and not something else, because I think I do
think that Gasper halton In is probably a little bit
more exciting here than Goodsiuk. I like Goodzuk in terms
of his NHL or readiness. He's been playing in a
really difficult league. He is a bit older. Sometimes transitioning
to that North American ice can be difficult, and the
Devils do have a lot of really strong forwards to
work with, although the Sharks do too. They've really had
a really strong prospect pull infusion of talent obviously in
the last couple of years. And halton In though, has
really come alive in terms of his projection and what
he's been able to do the last season, especially looking
really solid in the OHL. Both these guys stock up.
I think that I would take halton In though, and
actually I was just double checking the bash. Both these
guys look like they might be bash masters, especially in
terms of just the hits and the shots. Hits and
shots at least really high, so that gives them both
a high peripheral floor. So then you're just looking at
upside and I think right now I would bet a
little bit more on halton and who has a little
bit more of an up trajectory and his pinancially being
a little bit higher right now. So I like both
these guys, although they're probably gonna both be a little
bit more depthy type guys and maybe not necessarily the
high end producers. So I would take Halton in. But
I like both these guys and adventition having them both
on my team. Looking at the hockey prospecting between these two,
they're both low. Actually. Gritz Juk started at sixteen percent,
trended down to two percent chance of being a star.
Halton and started at thirteen and trended down to five
percent chance of being a star, both of them being
a little bit like a coin flip or less to
be in NHLer. Looking at some other comps for Gritzzuk,
not too many that ended up looking really good in
terms of their or ended up working out super well.
A lot of average producers like John Gabriel Pago or
several replacement levels. One guy that he does look a
little bit alike who's having some success now in the NHL,
as Mitis MICHELI maybe he could end up being a
little bit like that and be a good outcome for him.
Looking at the j fresh card tends to like these
guys playing in professional leagues in Europe. It's pretty high
thirty eighth percentile, thirty eight percent likely to be a
star in the NHL and ninety seven percent chance of
being a at full time NHL or so, both of
those look really high for us Anny Gritzyuk and he's
been trending up and up that in that model, so
looking pretty good for him. He's definitely someone that you
want to go out and grab in your leagues if
you can, and if you if you want to try
to trade for him, as long as it's not worth
costing too much. He's someone that I would try to get.
You'd have to wait a year, but it might be
worth it. Maybe it's the kind of thing where you're
not quite ready this year, but you can trade someone
who's ready this year for the upside of Gritzek next year.
Just see.
Speaker 2: Very good now to keep your eye on Prospect, keep.
Speaker 3: Your eye on Lenny Jamanajo twenty twenty three, fifty eighth
overall pick six vero zer one hundred and seventy six pound,
right shot, right wing. He's really old for the class.
He was number Remember seventh birthday that's always important to
keep in mind because he was able to play professionally
a little bit earlier than other people maybe were able to,
and so did have those twenty fifty one games in
his draft season, another forty six this past season, and
had thirty one points in those forty six games for
us SAT, plus another six and twelve playoff games. He
also represented Finland at the U twenty World Junior Championship,
where he had four goals into assistant seven game, looking
pretty darn good. I also wrote about him in the
spring for EP Ringside, I highly recommend you go check
that out because it's a pretty deep dive on what
kind of makes him tick with some interesting quotes there.
Let's look at his FHL player card. He had a
seventieth percentile for shots and fiftieth percentile for both hits
and blocks, so he'll likely be just a little bit
above average in terms of bash, not super high. The
rest of his numbers are all pretty decent in the
sixtieth to eightieth percentile range, so that's not bad in
terms of Perferle floor, but it's not super high. Looking
at some of his other play driving metrics in his
advanced card and overall, it's a little bit subdued. He
is a teenager playing in a really difficult league Liga,
so it's not terribly surprising to see his play driving
transitioned to a game high dangered chances, all of that
being under fiftieth percentile. But he is playing in a
really difficult league, so we'll give him that. But let's
find out a little bit more about Hamanaho.
Speaker 2: From our Fahl scout, Tony has this to say about Hamanaho.
Skating not record but above average. Speed is more than
adequate passing and handling. This one significantly above average for Tony.
Shooting great shooting, always looking for the shot is Haimanaho.
IQ vision excellent, IQ in anticipation, impeccable to find open pockets,
advice to get his shots or passing to a teammate.
Tony didn't see much panic. He was willing to wait
to get the better shot or checking. He did see
some Ford checking. Great at this age, says Tony. Defense
played some defense more than just the stick checking, willing
to throw some hit. It's a little bit too so.
The best asset here IQ willing to wait and get
off shots. But the biggest concern Tony's worried that the
bash could be low. His size leads Tony to think
he can do it, just sure, not sure if it'll
be as big a part of a game as it
could be. The top tier outcome here, Tony says Tier
one could be a top six power forward in powerplay
spachelist because he's got the willingness to wait to get
his shots, he's got the passing, and he's got the
Ford checking the fiftieth percentile of the median outcome here
Tier three third line spot power play. That's because he
could end up playing on the outside of the zone.
Stylistic comparable Patrick Laine here and final thoughts, could be
an awesome power forward with some bash. Could be like
a gentler Matt Kochuk. Don't we all wish that Matt
Chuck was a little Kuchuk was a little gentler, Not
me and Lenny Haimanajo versus Fraser Mitten In the Mason
Black NHL ranking poll, phrase Minton comes out ahead fifty
two to forty eight. Victor. Is that an accurate ranking?
Speaker 3: It's not what I would do. Apparently that's what the
people think, but it is close. I could see that
there's There's a lot to like about Minton in terms
of his NHL or readiness, and he got some games
and he looked okay, still looking great in the WHL.
But I just think that he's more of like a
middle to bottom sixer, So I'm not sure he's going
to have that opportunity to really be a super high
outcome kind of guy, and so that makes it a
little a little interesting to project. I would take Kamanaho.
He's playing professionally. I think his upside is similar, maybe
not a little bit higher, but I just think he's
more likely to get that opportunity and potentially play in
the top six. Both these guys are unlikely to really
hit there, but I would just bet a little bit
more on Kamanaho having that little bit more pro game,
having that size and that opportunity, the way that he
positions himself. I think it's close. Neither one of these
guys are super high end, but yeah, I'll lean Hamanaho
here a little bit, his PNH LE being a little
bit higher, his professional experience being a little bit better.
Looking at the hockey prospecting between the two, both of
these guys actually pretty low. They're currently sitting at two
percent chance of being a star. Minton started out quite
a bit higher, but has trended down since then. Hamanaho
went down just a little bit from three to two percent.
A little bit higher NHL or probability, but overall both
of these guys have pretty subdued numbers. Looking at some
other comps, for Hamanaho, most of these guys in here
are replacement level or kind of average. He has some
Nik Waugh as someone who could be a decent outcome.
Eric Halla is another one who he looks a little
bit alike in this model fellow Finn. I don't think
they played necessarily the same style, but that could be
a similar outcome in terms of his NHL or fantasy
probability in the NHL. Looking at the j first card
a little bit more optimistic for Hamanaho eleven percent chance
of being a star seventy six percent as to being
an NHLer, so that looks a little bit better overall.
I think if you're in a deep en f league,
i'mana host someone who's interesting, who you should look at,
who might be available, but not the most exciting guy,
that's for sure. And that's it for our New Jersey
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