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Back one second, Victor Nunyo of EP Ringside. I'm Jesse
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how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Jesse, Yeah, excited to be here. And
how are you doing, my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Rolling through the season,
trying to keep the lineups set in, the illegal lineups
kept away. Isn't it the worst victory you ever get?
In the fan tracks in the morning and you get
that big X with the triangle around it, or you
get the big red flash at the top of your
roster page, You're like, oh no, what did I do?
Why is my roster illegal today?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's annoying. But what's even worse is when it's on
the top of your live scoring and it's as a
future period is illegal and you're like scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling,
and it's three weeks in the future and you're all
freaked out and so far in the advance that you're like,
I don't need to deal with this right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. We just let those
things fester. But Victor, these are our problems. These are
the sort of problems you and I have. But we're
not the only ones. I bet some of you out
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, all right, we're going to take a little
time right here, come back and talk about some fantasy
hockey victor. We're back. We're here to talk about the
old X gamers today. You do some great writing on
the ep ringk side, and we don't want to let
that stuff just pass because a lot of that information
is very useful to our listeners as well. You go
and look deeply into some of the young and upcoming
players where you really have to decide what you think
of them in fantasy hockey because they're not yet established.
And the first one we have today is a little
gentleman named Josh Done. Not little, maybe not a gentleman,
I'm not sure, but I know when we did our
call the eligible draft coming into the season. You took
Josh Done in that draft, and I hassled you. I
made some sardonic remark about Victor taking Josh doone, and
you posted immediately he'll outscore cobal Anco. Book it, and
so far you're right. He's outscored kbal Aenco and he's
looking decent. The son of the franchise legend. If you
consider him to still be a continuation of the Arizona
Coyotes franchise, then he's the son of the franchise legend.
And he's been getting consistent time on the third line
with established pros loss In Kraus and Alex Kirkfoot. He's
even managed some power play two minutes. What accounts for
this Victor Josh Jones rise from relative prospect obscurity to
this level of performance.
Speaker 3: That is an excellent question. That, of course, is the
crux of the article. A large part that I dissected there.
But I think a big part of it is that
the reality is for Josh Done. Not a lot of
us saw this coming. In fact, I will freely admit
that I was someone who when they made this pick, thought, oh,
that's a great nepotism. Pick, you're taking the sun, as
you mentioned of Shane Doon, with an early pick, you're
talking about thirty seventh. Overall, that is typically a range
where you get some pretty good you could get some
pretty good value for someone, and his stats in that
season did not really pop off the page in the USHL.
Since then, he basically did nothing but prove everyone wrong.
And I thought a lot about this with Doan because
you look at the numbers and you watch him skate,
which is wonky, and he has some skill, but it's okay.
I think what it really comes down to with Doan
is that he's just one of these guys that's more
some of his parts than he has individual skills, because
you put it all together in the package and you're like,
this is okay, it's not super exciting, but he's super competitive.
He's a hard and soul kind of guy. He's one
of these leaders and maybe that just makes up for
everything else. I'm not exactly sure, but every single level
that he has played at he has basically outperformed what
Ever since that draft season, he's outperformed that. So his
deeplus one in Chicago Steele when he was at Arizona
State he was just incredible for not the best Ncuba team,
and then he goes to the AHL and he looks amazing,
and his brief NHL stint was just bang bang every
step he's shown everyone wrong. So I think it's the smarts.
I think it's the compete, and I think it's just
the determination. He's just got some of that in factor.
I'm not exactly sure, but I just it seems pretty
clear that betting against him is probably not the smartest
move at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, It's always hard to tell with these legacy guys.
There's that one side. And apologies that this is the
most basic take ever, but there's the one side of
these legacy guys where they grew up in the game.
There are some bloodlines, there's something they've learned it or
absorbed over the years. They've got the mentoring from somebody
who has done that, been there and obviously had a
ton of talent, knows a lot of people has all
the right connections to get you the right kind of
coaching and get you pointed in the right direction. On
the other hand, is it the nepotism. Yeah, it's you
make some great points there, Victor, but really, what your
fantasy managers want to know, is how high is this
ceiling going to go?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the obviously the multi million dollar question here,
and I don't necessarily know. I think it's really hard
to tell because you're looking at Utah and you're looking
at what kind of lineup they have and where they're headed.
They seem to be on the right trajectory. Things have
started well for them in this season, and you look
at that top six and you say, Okay, is one
of these spots here for don And yet maybe I
don't think Cooley, gun Their Keller, Schmaltz, and probably Hayden
are going anywhere. Maybe in a perfect world, Hayden would
be an awesome third line center, but they'd have to
really get someone a much better to fill in there.
I guess there's a left wing spot. Possibly Kraus is
certainly in that middle six. There's Mitchelli. It's hard to say,
and he needs to really get that opportunity. So far
this season he is getting some power play time, typically
on the second. He's going to need to increase his
time on ice. He's currently under fourteen minutes, so he's
going to need to basically play in the top six
to have more relevance than what we've seen so far.
I think that he can certainly get to the fifty
to sixty point range, and his peripheral should be decent.
He looks like a guy who can be about a
hit per game blocks average for forward, but he hasn't
been too much of a volume shooter yet so far.
In the past, he has been pretty in the AHL
he was he was in the eightieth percentile for shots
and his hits were pretty decent. So even if he
doesn't fully translate with the points, he should have a
pretty decent peripheral floor. He should be a little bit
better than average, maybe around average, But I think he's
probably more of a fifty to sixty point guy. In fact,
Shane and I, as we're recording this, are going to
do a patron cast and one of the things we're
trying to think about is who is going to be
the on the power play long term, like three, four,
three or five years from now. And I think that's
the big question is does don't fit into that Gunther
Kooli color one of Jersey, Sergachev and again La are
probably there, So where's don't fit? I'm not sure maybe
he can work get in and do net front or
potentially find a role, but it seems hard to imagine
that he's going to take one of those other spots
for the forwards, So that would really limit his point
potential to the probably closer to forty to fifty. So
that's what I'm thinking. But as I said before, underestimating
this guy has been a full erand so far, and
he might continue to prove everyone wrong and he might
push himself all the way up to the top of
the lineup. I think that's less likely, but I think
we should all be a little bit more excited about
Josh Done than we were initially. That's basically might take Jesse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. He doesn't have to end up being
Clinton killer to be valuable in fantasy hockey and to
be relevant to the NHL. Next up, Victor, we're going
to talk about Cole Hudson of the Washington Capitals. He
is the defenseman, of course, who was drafted in the
second round of this year's draft, and he's already been
spotted at one of his brother's games or Montreal. Of course,
ol brother Lane Hudson is preceding him in his track
and Cole is already He's already scored a goal and
had an assist in his first two contests of the
season for Boston University, where he plays with another Cole Aiserman,
who was drafted a bit ahead of Cole Hudson this year.
But I attached into our show notes a clip of
video where Cole Eiserman is just absolutely showering with praise
Cole Hudson's passing ability and his work on the ice.
He's already made a fan of mister Iiserman victory. You
made a point in your article that just because Hudson
is outperforming his draft position and he's another riser, it's
not because he's a carbon copy of his brother, which,
of course just the first instinct any human would have
as high performing defenseman, his younger brother comes in, must
be the same kind of guy. How does Cole differ
from that red hot newcomer into the NHL, Lane Hudson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some really interesting nuanced differences here. I think
Cole is a bit more physical than Lane. I think
he's a little bit better skater, and I think he's
more of a transition sorry, less of a more of
a transition player, and more of a read and react
kind of player. Lane tends to seems like he anyways,
he has more of a plan and he tends to
dictate the play from the back end. We saw in
preseason and even in the NHL some incredible from goal
line to blue line type passes, springing guys on breakaways,
things like that. That's more what Lane does. Cole is
more up the ice, good transition, moving the puck, that
kind of thing. What Lane is doing, at least in
some of the microstats early in this season are like
kil mccarr level type things where you really just are
generating so much offensively, setting guys up for really high
and pass high end chances and some of those things.
I don't think Cole has the same upside er vision.
Cole's defensive reads are also a bit worse at the
same stage, and we saw some of that from Lane
that got a lot better, and so I'm pretty confident
that Cole can also improve that. And he's certainly, like
you said, there's natural comparisons. And on the other hand,
as a brother who's breaking in right now to the NHL,
there's a clear path for how to do that. What
things need to be worked on and I'm sure he's
seen all the hard work his brother has done, so
that part is good. I think it's helpful to highlight
some of the similarities too. They're undersize, as we know,
but Cole is actually a bit taller than Lane was
at the same age. He's as a full inch taller
then Lane, so he was drafted at five point ten.
Lane is now that height, but he was definitely more
like five ' nine when he was drafted, so there's
a bit potentially less of a size concern with Cole.
Other similarities are that shiftiness, which they both have. I
think think Lane is probably more shifty, more dynamic on
his feet walking the blue line. That's something that Cole
can do but not quite as well as his brother.
And the competitiveness. They're both super competitive and guys that
not only will compete on the ice book but off
the ice to get better and improve. And then the creativity.
I think that they're both super creative, but Lane probably
a little bit more question for all of you listening
to think about which brother do you think holds the
all time record for defensive scoring at the USNTDP, which
Hudson brother. A lot of you would probably think it's Lane,
but it's actually Coal, and that is something that I
think is a huge feather in his cap because I've
made the argument before that Cole did this with less
talent around him, and that's something I go into in
the article. You just look at the names, and of
course we don't know how some of the teammates for
Cole are going to stack up, but if you just
look at him, even in their draft season, they were
not the same. They were far less in terms of
the talent around him, and so speaks pretty highly of
what he did and what he was able to achieve.
I think it's also pretty important to remember that Cole
was super young June twenty eighth birthday, so he has
a lot more runway to improve than Lane did in
his draft season. He could be being so young for
his draft class late. Lane was a February fourteenth birthday,
so he is almost six months older, and that makes
a huge difference in terms of just his development and
how mature he was. So some of the immaturity and
the defensive reads and some of the abilities that Cole
needs to some of the things Cole needs to work on,
he has a lot more time to do and so
you give a little bit more leniency there, But those
are some of the main differences Jesse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is something we'll be looking forward to. But
the question, Victor once again, Cole Hudson great in the
US and in TDP, but how high is his upside
for the NHL and what kind of a role do
you think he'll work himself into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is question, of course, and it's hard to say.
But when you look at this depth chart for the
Washington Capitals, you don't really see anyone who is the
clear air parent. There was a time when we thought
that might be Alexander Alexeiev. That is clearly not the case.
They did draft Cam Allen with some hopes of maybe
doing that. Ryan Chesley is clearly more of a defensive
Guylean Moogley is a decent puck mover, but no one
in their system is anywhere close or has the opportunity
to be anything similar to what Cole Hudson can be.
So he is the air parent to that high end
powerplay quarterback unless they go out and draft someone next year,
which is a pretty decent There should be some decent
options in the next couple of years, but it's gonna
be Cole. Most likely, he'll have the inside track. He'll
be farther along all of those things. If he hits
that upside, it's gonna be similar to Lane, a guy
who can be super dynamic and make guys miss the
blue line, set up guys with mccarth type instincts and
abilities to score at a super high end and be
a top four, our top pair, even all around kind
of guy. That's his upside. I think he has as
high as it goes, but there's a lot of work
to get there, and I think a key thing is
that he really knows what he needs to work on,
and he's ready and willing to do it, and he's
got great coaches there to help him. We were talking
about the comparisons the BU staff. How lucky are they
They go from Lane to Cole and they have this
incredible defensive, high offensive acumen guy, and they also know
the things that each one needs to work on them
being a little bit different, they can tailor, but they've
shown that they can. It wasn't just Cole, I wasn't
just Lane. It was the coaching staff and everyone around
him really helping him get there. And I'm sure that
the Cole can get there too. So I believe in
the in the development with the college staff there, and
I think that he's really going to get there and
be a super valuable guy. On the other hand, if
someone wants to give you that type of value now
instead of waiting two or three years and you're ready
to compete, you might want to just do that because
there is still some volatility in Cole Hudson's projection and
nothing is guaranteed. So if they're going to give you
a super high end player that's going to help you
in your window now rather than waiting a couple of years,
I wouldn't be opposed to moving him. What do you
think about that, Jesse?
Speaker 2: You got to keep an open mind of these things.
And I think his last name is going to put
him in people's minds more easily. At the last name,
Hudson's a name brand now, so you might be able
to get a greater amount of value for him because
people are going to expect him to come out at
the right end of the funnel. And yeah, I think
there's an opportunity, there is always an arbitrage opportunity that
Hudson is going to have more of than possibly similarly
talented players. Let's move to Zach Benson of the Buffalo Sabers.
It's hard not to love a little eighteen year old
holding his own in the NHL for a full year,
and yes, small not a big feller. Not only that
he finished roughling the middle of a poor Sabers squad
in twenty three to twenty four in goals above replacement,
he actually finished about neck and neck with Jeff Skinner,
although in a completely different way. Because Zach Benson, believe
it or not, his most valuable characteristic was a positive
even strength defense. That's again, for an undersized eighteen year old,
pretty nice stuff to be showing already now a second
year guy, he's getting top six deployment. Is Zach Benson
two games with Dylan Cousins and Jack Quinn, two with
Dage Thompson and Alex Tuck among the first four of
the season. He's also getting real power play time on ice.
Are the Sabers on of a guy who is going
to flourish? Is Zach Benson going to be a real
solid contributor here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so, And to be to get to
the point, I think the answer is yes, he was
quite literally as a rookie, as an eighteen year old rookie,
one of the best four or five all around forwards
last season and probably already this season, so he's already
there in terms of skill that I don't think necessarily
right now translates to fantasy value, because one of the
really difficult things with Benson is going to be that
he just doesn't really do anything when he's not other
than scoring, he doesn't really do much at all. He
doesn't really shoot that much. He doesn't really hit her block.
If you're in a league with takeaways, that is something
he's pretty good at, and the defensive play and the
tidy We talked about it on the episode on the
Tidy Takes episode with Craft start talking about him being
a better real life player, and I agree with that.
When tidy, you do get rewarded for things like time
on ice and Fenwick and takeaways. So potentially that could
be that could save you if you're in one of
those kinds of leagues. But for the most part, in
a standard setup, I'm not sure he's ever going to
have that super high end value, which is going to
be a little bit frustrating because you're going to see
the product on the ice, and you're going to think, Ah,
he's so good and he's really fun to watch. But
is he za going to translate all the way to
elite fantasy production. That's my worry right now as we're
recording this, he has zero points through five games, and
he has a wopping total of eight shots in five games.
So this is all quite poor. I'm sure if you're
rostering him in a redraft league, I don't know why
you'd be doing that, because I'm sure really frustrated. But
you know, in a Keeper of Dynasty year, holding on
for what's to come, and I think what's to come
is a really high potential that's going to be the
rub And in a points only league he might be
an easier hold than in a peripherals league that might
be more challenging. Know at you think, Jesse, it's a.
Speaker 2: Paradox, Victor will a Sabers team that is good enough
to be good Now I'm being redundant. Is Benson going
to have a significant offensive role on a team that
is good enough to make his offensive role significant? Does
that make sense? If the Sabers suddenly get good, it's
probably because they have more really good offensive players, which
might knock Zack Benson out of the top six. On
the other hand, Zack Benson, while he's in the top six,
is going to have to deal with the lack of
production of the people around him. I don't know. I
said the same thing three ways. Didn't make sense any
of the times that I did, Victor, But I'm enjoying
myself if nothing else, Victor, how high is this going
to go? Though?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so. I think I understand your question,
and it's always a tricky thing, and I think with Benson,
I firmly believe that if the Sabers are good, he
will be a part of it, and I think he
will remain in the top six regardless. And I think
if that means someone like a Kulick or a Cousins
or a Peterka having to go to the third line,
I think that Benson keeps his spot. But I still
don't necessarily know if that means he's a seventy to
eighty point guy, because he's just gonna do whatever is
best for the team, and he might not end up
scoring a bunch or he might depending on if that's
the role they want for him. But he's the kind
of guy that they can put on any line and
help them be responsible. He can help them, he can
help any other duo be better defensively and drive some
offense from that line. Maybe not as a teenager, but
maybe in a year or two he might get that role.
So that's what I'm worried about. I'm sure that he
can be a point per game forward in the right situation,
but the team, I think, as you were suggesting, that's
to me the more limiting factor. Quite frankly, then how
good Benson is. I think Benson is good enough to
be there and to be one of the highest producers
on the team, but the team might put him more
in a defensive role, give him fewer offensive zone starts,
give him worst linemates. Right now, that hasn't really been
the case. It's been Cousins and Kulik, which has been
pretty good, but the Sabers are also really struggling, and
so they might that might not last. He has also
had some time with Jack Quinn and Tuck and Thompson
a little bit. That would obviously be ideal if he
could be with Tuck and Thompson. I think everybody would
like that, But I'm not sure that he has the
profile that's going to dictate that, because he's so good
defensively and doesn't necessarily need those guys to create the
offense for him. I could see the coach saying, well,
let's put him, you know, down with Jordan Greenway or whatever.
Put him all with some less offensively talented guys, some
you know, Zucker McLeod, Krebs kind of guys, and that
would obviously be really bad for him. So I can
see the worry there. So maybe right now this isn't
a good time to do it. But if he gets
on a bit of a hot streak, maybe you pull
the trigger and try to sell him for someone who's
a more standard seventy to eighty point player and cash
in on some of that upside that he may or
may not ever realize. What do you think of that plan, Jesse?
Speaker 2: I like it, Victor. I just am over here thinking,
wherever you go, there you are, Victor, And the same
goes for the Sabers. Wherever the Sabers go. So the
Sabers are all we are is dust in the wind.
And I'm going to contemplate the sound of one hand
clapping while you all listen to these advertisements and then
we'll come back.
Speaker 1: Christian as shack you an apologize wasn't really familiar with
your game, and.
Speaker 2: You know, Victor, we're back with a couple of more
of the guys you've been analyzing in your wonderful series
over at ep RNK side. Next up, Gavin Brindley, former
Michigan Wolverine star, got one game for the CBJS after
leaving the NCAA last year, but he broke a finger
this year and he's on the shelf for a little while.
There seem to be a lot of ways to see
the glass half full or the glass happenty on this guy,
if I'm reading correctly your takes in your article. Some
of the models like what he was able to show
in college. Some scouts have really positive things today, and
some think maybe he's not going to be all that
in a bag of donuts. Where do you come down
on the Gavin Brindley.
Speaker 3: Question, Yeah, I definitely see both sides of this, and
to some extent there's a similar discussion here as what
was with Benson. I don't think that the upside is
as high for Brindley, but he is just an excellent
all around player, and so we have to recognize that
even though he is a little bit smaller, he doesn't
really let that limit him. He's actually pretty pretty physical.
He's pretty engaged, and he's really feisty, and he definitely
hits a lot, or at least he has so far
on the NCAA. We'll see if that translates to the
professional ranks or not, because it might be a little
bit harder when you're five foot eight and one hundred
seventy three pounds to hit some of the guys that
are six two two twenty, But we'll see. I think
that he has that grit in him to do that.
I definitely think he's more of a middle six and
a top six forward though so second line is still
well within the question, but I think he's more likely
a third liner. He's got that energy, he's got that tenacity.
He's going to be a coach's dream, quite frankly, and
so I think he's going to be one of these
guys that they send out and just feel good about
playing in any situation. Someone mentioned to me recently that, oh,
he's like the next gave Brendan Gallagher, and I was thinking,
that's not a terrible comparison just in terms of the size,
but they're very different players and how they generate their
offense and how they compete. Brinley has been more of
a volume shooter up until this point, but I'm not
sure how much that's going to continue. So we'll see.
I don't think that Brindley's going to be as much
of a score as Gallagher has been, but we'll see
that he could end up being quite similar. And if
the hits and the physicality and the peripherals translate, then
you might end up having someone like Brendan Gallagher two
point zero, which I know a lot of us have
probably rostered in our time in fantasy at one point
or another.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, Brandy Gallagher's She's broken my heart over the years, Victure.
I was I he was one of my fantasy darlings
early on and earlier in his career, and now he's
just natural age and I think and the time has
taken a toll. But okay, Gavin Brindley. That sounds a
little bit more optimistic than I initially had. But the
question is how high can Gavin Brindley climb in the
CBJ hierarchy.
Speaker 3: That is another really good question. I think, like with
a lot of these things, it comes down to who
is on the power play, and I think that's going
to be a really tricky question. I personally don't think
that he's gonna dictate a spot on the power play.
I think if we're projecting in the future, if Fantilly
has a spot, for sure, I think Lindstrom probably will.
I think that whether it's my Taychuk and or year Check,
they might use Yarcheck for the shot. Marchenko's got a
great shot. They've got Ken Johnson being the half Wall creator.
If he continues to improve and progress. I'm just not
sure that there's going to be a spot for Brinley
on that power play. And if he doesn't have that
powerplay spot, I think he's probably more of a fifty
ish point guy with hopefully good priffs, which is kind
of what Brendan Gallagher was right for a lot of
his career, and that I think he's more likely that
can he be on that power play? Can he push
his way on there? Certainly, And I think that would
be a pretty somewhat unlikely outcome as far as I
can tell, But I don't also wouldn't put it past
him because he's so tenacious and feisty that I think
he'll push for that, and the coach, depending on who
the coach is at the time, may want to really
reward all his strong play at even strength and give
him some power play time. NetFront is not something that
he's going to do with his size, and so you're
and he's not going to be at the point. So
maybe you're in the high slot, bumper, or maybe you're
on the playmaker. He doesn't have the one timer, so
you're basically limiting him to two potential spot options, and
to think that he's going to be better than the
other options seems unlikely to me. I think the upside
is a bit muted. I think he's for sure in
NHL are, but I just think he's probably more the
fourth liner quite frankly, unfortunately, that.
Speaker 2: Will be one to watch. It's hard to tell. There's
a lot of skill, a lot of skill coming up,
and we're trying to figure out how much of that
potential is going to translate into actual production or we'll
see gom Brindley could still be in that mix. I
think you make great points there, Victor. Joe Kim Kimmel
is the last of the guys who we had your
articles on that we're going to talk about today. He's
one of my Milwaukee Admirals. The Finnish player. The finn
Joe Kim Kimmel has slowly climbed the charts since being
drafted in twenty twenty two. He has a record of
kind of production in the fifties type point pace fifties
per eighty two. I guess I should say in the AHL,
and could be reasonably expected to debut for the Nashville
Predators this year at age twenty. That's a nice young
age to be appearing, but he's already had a couple
of seasons of HL production, so that's maybe to be expected.
That said, not all the models love him. Victor, I
don't know. Do you see a Fantasy contributor long and Kemmel.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do, I think, is the short answer. Realistically,
he's probably more of a middle six guy. His shot, though,
that shot begs to be on a power play, probably
the top power play. It is incredible. It's not better
than Steven Stamkos's, but who is not very many and
as long as stam Cost is there, he's not gonna
overtake him. For that power play time. But it's possible
that stamp Coos doesn't fully play out the next three
years after this one, So maybe Kemill gets a little
bit of an opportunity, or maybe he can do a
different role on there. He has really improved his playmaking,
kim Will has, and so that is another option of
how he might get onto the top power play. The
thing that's nice about him though, as opposed to know
we were talking about Benson earlier, Kimill should have a
really high peripheral floor. According to his AHL stats, he
was ninetieth percentile for hits, seventieth for shots, and seventieth
for so overall he should be in the eightieth nineteenth
percentile for peripheral for bash. So that's going to make
it a lot easier to hold Kimmel, even if he's
not scoring a bunch, which I still don't know how
much is scoring is going to translate to the NHL.
A couple of the guys that I was talking about,
I think he might be more of a fifty h
point guy, guy who can score twenty to twenty five goals,
but beyond that it's hard to say. I think that
if he gets that opportunity, which I think he should
at some point be on the top power play that
can certainly give him another ten to twenty points, and
then he could be, as I compare him in the article,
like a Lucas Raymond type, but maybe with better pariffs.
Although I would definitely take the points upside of Raymond
over Kimmel at this point, but I think that the
peripherals either way should be better for Kimal if he
continues to on his current trajectory. And I think his
defensive game has been has improved a lot too, so
I think he will be someone who can earn a
little bit more ice time too, which will help him
get up up to a little bit more could get
those rate stats bumped up with more time on ice.
So I definitely see Kemel as someone that you should
be interested in, and I think that he can continue
to improve and hopefully break into the top six at
some point in Nashville, but that probably won't be for
another year or two because they're looking pretty decent right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, don't underestimate what this guy has done already.
If you think about he went to Liga and fifteen
points in forty three games doesn't sound like a ton
until you consider that he was eighteen at the time.
In the U twenty World Juniors back in twenty one
twenty two, he had twelve points of seven games. He's
had some great stuff. So forty one points in sixty
seven games last year for Milwaukee, he's a teenager. If
this guy was still playing in the WHL and get
in a whole bunch more points than that in a
easier offensive environment, maybe we would have a different perspective
on him coming up. I like where this is going.
Nashville not having a great start to the season. One
things that maybe there could be some shake ups and
opportunities for guys to get spots on this active roster.
Although no, he's listening to thirty two Thoughts today and
they were talking a lot about the center position that's
really killing them. I don't suppose you can move Stamcols
back there anymore. But yeah, it's maybe an opportunity for
somebody who's able to show some good play and some
good effort to get into that mix. We'll certainly see
Mike Kimmel's one that we've followed for a long time, Victor.
I think that's the ones that we have for now.
People should definitely check out your work at ep ringks side.
I believe you've also got some Jonathan Bergrin going on
there as well as some Joshua Wah. I think I
saw today you put up something on old Josh. There's
great stuff continuing to come. You got any sneak previews
for the people listening, what might be coming up in
the future, or thoughts on some of these guys you've
been taken on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely, And I take suggestions. Usually I put
a Twitter poll out, but also I asked the patrons
or the listeners anyways who they want to hear about,
and then I can do a poll to try to
prioritize it. Kevin Korchinski is going to be the next
guy that comes out, and then looking at doing some
Olin del Wegger, Simoon and Edvnson, maybe Pavel d Orfiev,
who has been interesting in Vegas. Tend to try to
do some of the bigger names and some of the
guys that are playing now. Calum Ritchie is someone that
I have my eye on because he's impressing a little
bit more than some of us thought and making an impression.
I try not to do too many big reactions, especially
to guys that are currently just draft plus one and
people are asking, oh, this guy's got eight points in
four CHL games, and it's yeah, there's really not much
to talk about there until we have a lot more
data to see. But some of the guys that are
maybe popping off in the NHL or arriving earlier than expected,
like jet Luchenko, guys like that, So certainly send me
your suggestions and I'll take a look doing a deep
dive on them. Really appreciate any input.
Speaker 2: Very good everybody, once again popping that discord. You never
know where you're going to be able to make some friends, Victor,
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