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

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shit Cuss, your source of information and analysis to help

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you win your fantasy hockey league.

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Speaker 2: Block off hot a step hit on, stay lock.

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

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Speaker 3: Hockey Live lorda Panthers edition. Victor Nuno the Fantasy Hockey Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Mio.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm just Jesse severe fan Tracks. But Victor, more

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to the point, how you doing tonight?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing awesome. Jesse. Just got back from a few

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days in Mexico and I did not get sick this time.

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Actually put myself on a strict diet of peptopismal before

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I went down there, and that made all the difference.

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So yeah, pretty good. Did see a couple scorpions, did

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see a gecko in the toilet. He was disturbing, but

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we made it out unscathed and I got led back

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into the country. So I'm calling all that a win, Jesse.

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Speaker 3: Victor, this is a character test. I need to know

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something about you. When you see did you flush that

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get go or did you let him go?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not. I got a bucket and a little tweezer

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along one of those like pickup garbage with a stick

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thing and I put him in the bucket and released

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him out of the wild.

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Speaker 3: Victor, you passed, you passed, listeners, This is a good

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man you're listening to. And if you want to know

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more about Victor, if you want to hang out with Victor,

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ask Victor questions. But more to the point, talk with

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each other. I join our discord. Email is Fantasy Hockey

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Life at gmail dot com and you can get yourself

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a link and pop in there. I imagine it we'll

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be heating up again because I know we've got a

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lot of rookie drafts going. Pretty much all the rookie

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drafts we do, Victor, I feel like are happening in

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August and then I don't know what the rest of

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the world does. I'm in my bubble. But yeah, there

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are lots of things you need to be prepared for.

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And one of the plays where you can just interact

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with other people, say hey, I'm on the clock and

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this and get something from your buddies in there. So

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that's a place to do it. So email us and

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get in. But Victor, there are more things you need

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to tell the people about. What are they.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely If you want some bonus content, you got patron casts,

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Speaker 3: Excellent. Now we'll be right back to talk to the

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Florida Panthers. Welcome back to the show, David Work of

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the Hockey News, Ready to talk about those Florida Panthers,

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your Stanley Cup champions.

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Speaker 5: How you doing, David, I'm doing good. I'm doing good.

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Thank you for inviting me on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely no, this is the time the Florida Panthers dynasty.

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Who how many people believe that those words would exist

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in a coherent sentence a few years ago hardcore Florida

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Panther fans, but they didn't have the reputation now dog

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on it. They are a dynasty, if you ask me,

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in an amazing team. While I imagine it looked different up

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close maybe for some of us watching the whole league

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kind of a little more at the thirty thousand foot level,

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it seemed almost easy for the Panthers. They rolled through

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and wrecked a whole bunch of teams and it felt

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like they even did that King's thing where they didn't

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even need to be the top seed. They didn't even

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need home ice in the playoffs. They just get in

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with the eleventh most standings points and then traded for

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some amazing stars at the deadline and just dropped the

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hammer on other teams despite not everything, not every break

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going their way. As we'll talk as this episode goes on,

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what was it like watching this team last year? And

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can they make it three in a row?

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Speaker 6: To answer the first part of your question, awesome, just

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that as a longtime hockey fan, hockey nerd, it's cool

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to see what the Panthers have built over the last

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few years come together and the product on the ice

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has just been really cool. I guess just as a

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happen the way that they're intended to happen, it makes

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me feel like I was right in the universe. So

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to see the Panthers make all these moves with this

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big goal at the end of the line, with winning

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the Stanley Cup, like just from when it started with

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Bill Ziito, when he first brought in guys like horn

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Quest and Goudas and when he just started reshaping the

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culture in that way. To see just the progression of

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it all, it's just been really cool. And the second

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part of your question, can they do it again?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I think they based on just logic, just looking at

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the roster, the way it's constructed, the way that the

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contracts are built out, the way that the salary cap

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is going to be going up. I have zero reservations

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that they are going to be competing for the Stanley

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Cup for the next few years. The only question really

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that anybody would be asking about this team in terms

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of longevity is what are they going to do in goal?

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Serdy abri Rowski, thirty seven years old, enterying the last

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year of his contract. He's been amazing. Can he continue

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to be amazing for the next few years. It's unprecedented

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for a guy that old to do it. But who knows,

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Bob is exceeding expectation. Just kind of long winded answer.

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I feel very confident that bil Zito has done such

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a good job of just getting this team ready to compete,

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that they should be a Cup contending team and could

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potentially win one or more Stanley Cups over the next

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a four or five six year They're built to last.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And when I said that, not every break went

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their way, the first thing I was thinking of was

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a guy who still played out of his mind in

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Matthew Kuchuk. Matthew Kuchuck played through I'm quoting here a

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torn aductor, muscle off the bone and a hernia, both

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on the same side during the season and the playoffs,

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injured at the Four Nations face off. Of course, he

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missed thirty games during the year. If I count right,

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his entire first eight years of his season combined, he

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missed twenty seven games, and he missed thirty last year,

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but was still amazing in the playoffs with that gruesome

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injury and turned in as much of a matt Kulchuck

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year as you could have. Now he's had two kind

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of long seasons. That four Nations that was so memorable.

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I mean, he's presumably if he is out there, he's

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one of the most recognizable players Americans can get behind,

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a big tofiking kid like him. But now I also

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read he has not had the surgery on his injury,

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and there's some question about whether he should or whether

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he will this offseason have that adductor surgery, or whether

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he's just holding out and not doing it. What is

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the deal with Matthew? Could Chuck and can we please

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have another full great year from him next year?

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Speaker 6: I would not anticipate a full year from Matthew to

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Chuck in terms of an eighty two game layout. I think,

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as you alluded to, there are some injury issues that

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still need to be addressed. It's been the thought has

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been that he was waiting. First, he got married, he

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had a Stanley Cup day, he's at a honeymoon, when

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all that is squared away, surgery, healing process, and then

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eventually make your way back during next season. I couldn't

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tell you the exact plan schedule. I've just that's been

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the perception of well after speaking to him at the

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end of the season, him talking about the injuries and

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then the way that the offseason is addressed. But I

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don't think anybody has an issue in turn of including

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him the way that he's played, particularly you talk about

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how he missed very little time the first part of

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his career. He's come to Florida. He's one of several

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guys that almost personifies the Panthers style of hockey in

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the way that he plays. You go back a couple

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of playoffs when he suffered a was a broken clavicle

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or whatever it was, when during the final against Vegas.

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he scored the tying goal in the game where he

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broke it. He's just this amazingly tough guy. Somehow he

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came back. We're thinking about the last year's playoff. He

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said he missed thirty games after four nations after carrying

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the hippoductor comes back for the playoffs. I think he

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had five points the first two games, and that was

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playing the limited minutes too. He's just got this way

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that he can turn it on and that he can

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be an impactful player even when he's not at one

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Speaker 5: It's really incredible.

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Speaker 6: And I always go back to what Bill Zito said

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that at the Introduce Repress conference for Matthew to chuck

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when he called him a unicorn, because there's really nobody

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else in the NHL that's like Matthew to chuck that

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kick your butt into the penalty box and then score

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four goals if he wants to. He can just impact

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the game in so many different ways.

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Speaker 5: It's just really cool.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, just you know, getting back to your point,

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I would think that he's going to miss some time

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this year. But again, I think at the end of

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the day, with the Panthers, particularly the way that we've

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seen it play out the last few years, being good

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to go for the playoffs is the name of the

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game for this team. So as long as they're where

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they want to be when Game one of Round one starts,

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then they're happy.

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Speaker 4: Another guy that makes me happy is Sasha Barkov, And

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who doesn't love Sasha Barkov. He remains an elite first

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line center, putting up his fifth straight season above point

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per game and maintaining his sparkling defensive metrics. He does

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tend to miss time, though, as some of the Panthers do,

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playing between sixty seven and seventy three games each of

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the last four seasons. Not a huge number of miss games,

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but sometimes can be affecting things. His shot volume has

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been declining. He went from a career high three point

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five shots in twenty twenty twenty one to just two

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point two this past season. He still clocks in with

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a really high bash, block shots, and hits per game

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at four point three one, ranking him one hundred and

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fifty fifth, which all with all those points is pretty solid. So, David,

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I think the question is will Barkoff be able to

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stay healthy enough coming off another really long playoff run

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that ended in another Cup and Kenny reversed the declining

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shot rates heading into his AH thirty season.

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Speaker 6: Health Wise, I think generally with Barkov, he hasn't suffered

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any major injuries over the last several years, so I

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think Nixon bruises here and there, I think he can

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still probably bank on him playing like the seven neon

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give or take seventy games. Hopefully, hopefully he has a

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very smooth season. But you don't talk You mentioned Barkov

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being the defensive specialist. He plays a very physical game.

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He's just not a big hitter. But when he gets

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into the he gets you on the boards, when he

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gets you in the corners, like he's very good at

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moving guys around because he's a very big guy. Barkov

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is in terms of the shot volume. You know, you

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talk about how it compeaked in twenty twenty one. Since then,

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you've got Kud Chuck, Ryan harty Ver, had you all

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these other guys now that are taking some of the

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offense away from Sasha bark over the last few years.

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And I would think that plays a part in terms

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of why he maybe doesn't shoot as much as he

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used to. And so in that rank, I wouldn't really

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think that it's going to be going up.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't.

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Speaker 6: Barkov isn't a guy who I think is a big

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shot volume guy. He's more of a playmaker than he

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is and a shooter. A has been at the m

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on him for much of his career. So I think

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you're still going to get plenty of production out of

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Sasha Barkov, whether it's in the ghal scoring production, whether

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it's points. Maybe not as many penalty minutes, although I

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almost like mister lady bing and the last couple of years.

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around that this past season. Maybe he's getting a little

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bit more into the pal Maurice style of hockey. But

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either way, I think with Sasha Barkov, you know, as

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you said, he makes a lot of people happy and

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he does so many different things. I think my big

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question is going to be whether he wins a third

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straight Selkie this year.

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Speaker 4: I put my money on that. Yeah, like a pretty

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good bet. Another pretty good bet is Sam Reinhardt's scoring goals.

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He's a next guy we're going to talk about. He

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came off a career high fifty seven goal campaign. Just

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incredible stuff from him. He started the season hot with

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seventeen goals and thirty two points in his first twenty

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three games before cooling off quite a bit. He finished

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with thirty nine. Still an excellent season. Eighty one points

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at seventy nine games. Nothing to sneeze at his third

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straight season over point per game in the last four.

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Most of the drop off from goals scoring him on

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the power play, where he scored just thirteen times. Previously,

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in his record setting season, had twenty seven, but the

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thirteen were in line with a couple of seasons he

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had before that. The bash is pretty elite for rein Hard,

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registering four point seven to seven per game, ranking him

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eighty third amongst all skaters. And with that point per game,

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that's some pretty special stuff though, So David, should we

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expect Rheinhardt to continue around forty goal eighty point pace

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or do you think he can get back up towards fifty.

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Speaker 6: It's so hard to project somebody as going it was

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like a fifty goal scorer or even for Sam rein Hart.

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Just as the point I mentioned before, where the Panthers

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sounded to distribute the offense in so many different places.

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But that being said, a big part of Sam ryin

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the power play, where I God, I want to say

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he had like over ten goals for sure this year,

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but I know last year he had that ridiculous year

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where he scored I'm scrolling over here. There did twenty

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seven goals two years ago in the power play. Yeah,

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obviously a lot of the gets funneled through there and

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they talk about how he is such a good guy

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in the bumper situation and they get free him up

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the puck.

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Speaker 5: But I think with.

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Speaker 6: Sam Reinhart last year we saw him at the last

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two years, really he's played almost primarily alongside Sasha Barkov,

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like Palm Maurice, really is stuck to these duos on

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his lines, where he combines two players and just leaves him.

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Whether it's Barkov and Rhinehart to Chuck and Bennett, Lustron

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and Lindell, those duos have basically played together almost for

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the better part of the last three years, but certainly

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the last two with Sam Reinhart, though it's similarly to Barkov,

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almost a little bit more flashy, just in terms of

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the two way play. I don't think Rhyinhart's defensive playoff

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I almost doesn't get as much credit as it should.

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But last year he got number two in the Selki

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and I feel like a lot more people were talking

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about Sam Reinhart in terms of his two hundred foot game,

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so maybe the general perception is growing on that, but

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point production wise, I think the big question for me

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is just going to be outside of the goal scoring

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forty fifty goals, as crazy as that is to project

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for somebody. That seems to be a good spot for

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Sam Ryinhart point per game kind of guy. I know

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he was over a point per game this past playoff.

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per game.

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Speaker 5: I got it ready.

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Speaker 6: Yeah there it is eighty one and seventy eighty one

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and seventy nine, So yeah, can he have another explosion?

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Certainly would I put it past him, as Rehinhart is

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like a maybe Florida's number one point guy next year.

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It's just so hard to put it on anyone because

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you could see it being Matthew could Chuck if he

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stays healthy and he has a big year. You could

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see it being Sam Bette. Look what he did in

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the playoffs. He certainly has got the capability. They've got

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so many different guys that have that high end offensive skill.

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Just Sam reyin Art. His nose for the net the

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last couple of years has really been cool. You mentioned

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he cooled off a little bit after a hot start.

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Speaker 5: Last year.

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Speaker 6: But if I had my choice in terms of a

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goal scoring Florida Panther, I'd probably be sticking with Sam Rehinhart.

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Speaker 3: Goal Scoring is not the top line, oh, that you

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would say for Brad Marshawn. Brad Marshaan is just everything man.

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In some timelines he would have faded away as the

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aging member of a team where retirements and free agency

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and trades finally caught up with those bruins and chase

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them gently into that good obscurity night. Instead, he was

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the talk of the deadline. And while it took a

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while to recover from the injury and warm up to

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that Florida sunshine and all the ice cream options he

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had down there, but once he had one of those

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typical Marshan hot streaks in the playoffs, twenty points in

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twenty three games, a playoff leading forty eight pims if

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you're into that, and top six minutes. To the surprise

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of some, he took a kind of reasonable deal in

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the offseason, considering the flash he showed and the spark

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he showed at the end of the year, and he

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returns to Florida for another run at it. How was

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the Brad marshan experience for Florida fans who are used

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to rooting against that, and what's next for him on

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this team.

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Speaker 6: The Brad Marshaw experience was awesome. You get a guy

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who you know for the better artist craft. I'll just

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speak for myself. I don't want to speak for Panthers

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fans on the whole bit. I know for me personally,

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for a good for more than the first half of

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his career, I really in the last couple of years,

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I couldn't stand him. He was the guy who you

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loved to hate. He'd be the perfect teammate, the one

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you want to have on your side, and otherwise you

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just can't stand it. And I totally get the importance

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of that and the value of that in hockey, and

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I would have said that several years ago while saying, yeah,

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I don't like him. I get why he was so

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valuable and so loved in Boston, but it seems like

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over the last few years the things that you would

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really wring your hands around a little bit have dissipated,

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like dirty, crazy, cheap shots or whatever. I think that

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kind of played off the last few years. But just

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seeing how great of a guy he is off the ice,

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like i'd you know, yeah, he's a good they love

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him in Boston, whatever, but being around him, being around

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the team, seeing how they interact with each other, seeing

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how he interacted with us in the media, even just

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a great dude. And you combine that with the good

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family life off the ice and then what he does

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on the ice and how you talk about guys that

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personified panthers hot me. Nobody's less afraid of getting into

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the dirty areas of the ice than Brad marsha On

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and he still has so much skill. The plays he

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was making in the Stanley Cup Final against Edmonton were

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just mind blowing considering they'd just played a marathon of

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a season there at the end, everybody's tired, and he's

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putting up these ridiculous you know, toe drag moves, moves,

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dog walkins. Was totally cool to see and to see

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the reaction of the guys around him, Like I'm thinking

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back now to after they won the Cup, a game

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sits on the ice when there was a little group

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of guys standing around Marshan and they're all pointing to

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their names on the cup and how the Bruins were

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right above last year's Panthers and oh there's Sam Bennett

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and said, those are the kind of things that like,

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you don't really think about, but it's like, oh, that's

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so cool to see it play out. So Brad Marshan

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just a perfect fit in Florida. He gave him credit.

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He saw the writing on the wall. He had a

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feeling that this was going to work out the way

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it did because he picked Florida. He said, look, if

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I'm gonna leave, that's where I want to go. I

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want to go to the Panthers. They've kicked our button

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the last few years, but I clearly recognize something that

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there's something special going on, and he's only been fuel

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to that fire. And what he's added to that third

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line of Anton Londell and YouTube Loos Terrine and basically

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taking that line and turning into a de facto number

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one line the way they were playing in the playoffs.

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Not to take away from what the bark Over the

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Bennett line were doing either. It was just an embarrassment

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of riches for what Bill Ziito put together. But there's

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no reason to think that won't continue and even get

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better to a certain extent, because while Marshand is thirty six,

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thirty seven years old. He's we know what to get

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out of Marshan, Londell and LUs Terranan are still just

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coming into the prime years of their career, and with Londell,

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he's barely twenty five years old. He's still got a

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lot of growing to do still. So the idea that

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they could do that together and you've got this incredibly

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intelligent veteran guy there to help nurse this along, you've

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got to be excited about that if you're a Panther fan.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I don't always go in for the kind

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of contrived stuff that they try to do on the

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National broadcast, but they would always have Brad Marshawn on

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and interview him and tease him, and he really did

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come off as a fun character. Not that we don't

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know that from a bunch of other contexts, but they

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were playing him up.

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Speaker 6: There's a reason that the National interviews you see the

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same couple of guys, because they're just they're they're happy

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to do it. They're like, that's why, like Brad Marchan,

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he's like another interview. Sure, we'll talk about dairy tween,

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we'll talk about honey in between the Pery like whatever

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he's built.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he didn't show up as often on

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or NHL, on TNAT but Sam Bennett, Oh my lord.

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I looked at his Hockey Reference page and maybe I

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don't know whether there was something missing there, but I

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only see one time in his career that he's received

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votes for an award, and it was this year's Con

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Smyth winner.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That can't be right, but that's what it was showing

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as this morning. Anyway, You're never going to take that

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away from him. He's you talked about the intensity of

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the team. I think Sam Bennett certainly fits into that realm.

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He's big, he's rough, he's very good at hockey, and

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he scored only fifty one points in seventy six games,

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which was, by the way, a career high, and made

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a lot of money. He secured the bag to the

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tune of eight by eight. And in the offseason when

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they talked about what moves their team's going to make,

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I feel like more often I heard more people say

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we need our Sam Bennett. We need more players like

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Sam Bennett than any other player in the league because

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of the way his physicality and his sort of intangibles

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and his style helped this team to be very successful

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in terms of just ross stats. As I said, only

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got fifty one points to seventy six games, but he

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also takes three shots, gets two hits, and of course

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plays huge minutes on the team. What do we need

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to know about Sam Bennett and just out of selfishness?

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Is the scoring never going to come for him?

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Speaker 6: I think the scoring the opportunities are certainly there. When

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you play on a line that's you have Matthew kachucking,

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you're right, and probably Carter verra Hagi or somebody of

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equal offensive skills he or the chances are going to

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be there. I don't know whether this kind of playoff

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outburst is going to be like a fuel. Just as

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he was shooting the puck a Loti, it didn't really

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feel like Sam Bennett was doing anything beyond what we've

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seen from him, aside from just so many pucks we're

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going in the net. You talk about how Sam bent

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We've mentioned a few guys that are like Panthers hockey,

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that's what they do. I think Sam Bennett is at

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the top of the list. I don't think anybody does

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Panthers hockey the way that Bennett does, and just in

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terms I mean it's we know that he's got elite

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offensive skill. He was a number four overall pick. We've

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the goals that he can score, We've seen the quick release,

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office stick, the speed that he has. But the fact

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that he's not afraid to be physical or do any

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of the things that what Mietchkoff was complaining about and

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that viral video last week about how he didn't want

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to dump and chase is why would you want to

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give up the buck and go fight for it? That's

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you know the Panthers are. They want to make you suffer,

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They want to put you through that, and Sam Bennett

480
00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:32,680
is happy to do it. In terms of his value,

481
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I go back to the season when he missed some time.

482
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Anytime that Bennett's out of the lineup the Panthers play,

483
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,799
it's the centers are so important to the way that

484
00:21:41,839 --> 00:21:43,680
they play because of the two hundred foot defending and

485
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,440
the five man defensive and the tight gaps that the

486
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,680
centers particularly are so important both in terms of keeping

487
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,480
the gap tight and making sure the responsibility is the

488
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,440
same in the defensive zone end in the offensive end.

489
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When Bennetts out of the lineup, they.

490
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Speaker 5: Just look like a beat.

491
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Speaker 6: I don't slower is not the right term, but they

492
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,200
looks like they just come down a notch.

493
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Speaker 5: The same with Aaron ek Blad.

494
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Speaker 6: Both guys were free agents, and we'll talk about Eckblad

495
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,799
in a bit, but just when you pull them out

496
00:22:08,799 --> 00:22:12,000
of the lineup, it is so clear that they're missing

497
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,039
just because of how well that they do what Palmurics does.

498
00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:18,480
Both guys are amazingly good skaters, responsible, smart, have zero

499
00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:21,119
issues playing the style of hockey. And with Sam Bennett,

500
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,160
he does so many different things, whether it's playing on

501
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,160
special teams, just building up his line mates, doing things

502
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,759
to keep Matthew Kachuck and Vergegi open a little bit more.

503
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,119
The value is just clear based off the money that

504
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,079
was thrown at him and what we can assume what

505
00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:34,440
would have been thrown at him if he would have

506
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gone to free agency. Just like Sam reyan Hart last summer,

507
00:22:37,319 --> 00:22:39,160
these guys were going to get paid if they went

508
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,519
that route, and they instead decided to get paid a

509
00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:45,240
little bit and Chase Stanley cupps and can you blame him?

510
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,240
So with Sam Bennett, I I wish I had a

511
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,160
better answer for your question. I don't know whether you're

512
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,440
going to see that big offensive outburst this year, but

513
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,039
if you're in the right kind of lead, you'll probably

514
00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:55,640
be able to make up for it with penalty minutes

515
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,519
and hits and those areas that you don't usually get

516
00:22:57,559 --> 00:22:59,559
from a second line guy. I still think there's value

517
00:22:59,599 --> 00:22:59,920
with Samba.

518
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I did bury the lead in the playoffs.

519
00:23:04,079 --> 00:23:05,720
He did score a little bit, so I guess I

520
00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:08,200
don't need to worry too much about that, all right.

521
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,119
So carterver Hagy, we just mentioned him. He led the team.

522
00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:13,640
As I looked this up, and even strength minutes this

523
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,960
season fifty three points for forwards. He had fifty three

524
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,160
points with a hit in three shots per game. That

525
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,480
would be a really nice line for a lot of players,

526
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,759
but as a Panther it was a big drop from

527
00:23:25,799 --> 00:23:28,240
his prior to seasons where he was in the seventies.

528
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,759
It was actually the slowest scoring pace of his career.

529
00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:34,160
Again in the regular season. One might point out that

530
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he tied for the lead in scoring in the playoffs

531
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with twenty three points in twenty three games, so certainly

532
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,839
he picked it up there Ver, Haage's contract remains I

533
00:23:44,839 --> 00:23:47,160
think one of the more team friendly in the league

534
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,440
at seven million dollars for many more years for a

535
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,119
guy who's effectively a top line winger, very high production.

536
00:23:54,759 --> 00:23:57,279
He is a late bloomer. Of course, he'll turn thirty

537
00:23:57,799 --> 00:24:01,000
the same month this episode airs, so we're getting close

538
00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:03,680
to thirty year old Carter Verjagy and it seems like

539
00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:06,880
he just broke out five minutes ago. To me, that's

540
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,400
because I'm old. But the knee jerk impression of Verjegy

541
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,279
that I had before I really started to look at

542
00:24:12,319 --> 00:24:15,359
the numbers was that he just he's always up there

543
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,880
with Barkoff. But that wasn't really true last year. He

544
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,160
moved around lines a bit and played a lot with

545
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,440
Sam Bennett early in the season until he got with

546
00:24:24,519 --> 00:24:28,880
Barkoff a bit more in the second half. So overall,

547
00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:31,119
certainly the playoffs would tell you there's not much to

548
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,519
worry about, But is there anything to worry about with Verhagey?

549
00:24:33,599 --> 00:24:36,240
And what do you think you see in the next

550
00:24:36,319 --> 00:24:37,279
year for this young man.

551
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Speaker 6: I'll be surprised, to be honest, if his goals don't

552
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,119
go up this year, just because like his shooting percent,

553
00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:44,400
like he's still the shots on goal were there very

554
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,559
comparable with the last few years with the Panthers. I

555
00:24:46,559 --> 00:24:48,920
think in the two forties two to fifty range something

556
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,839
like that, just in terms of his shots on goal,

557
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,519
but his shooting percent it just was like cut in

558
00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:54,799
half last year. For whatever reason. The puck just wasn't

559
00:24:54,799 --> 00:24:56,839
finding the back of the net. It didn't impact the

560
00:24:56,839 --> 00:24:58,960
way he played. When I think of Carter Vergegy, the

561
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,599
first word that always comes to mind is tenacity. That

562
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,960
guy is just NonStop energy no matter where he is

563
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,000
on the ice, and that's why he's played such a

564
00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:07,920
valuable role in why Palm mauriceon kind of pop him

565
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,160
With the different lines. I mean, the last two years

566
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,680
it's basically been either the Barkov line or the Bennett line.

567
00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:14,799
Last year was a lot on that Sam Bennett line,

568
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,680
and there's some real chemistry there with those guys. They've

569
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,240
all got a little bit of a chip on their shoulder.

570
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,079
I say all that include Matthew could chuck in that

571
00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:24,000
with that line. But I would be surprised if Carter

572
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,599
Rajedi doesn't have in terms of scoring a bounce back here,

573
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,000
just because he's still going to be getting those chances.

574
00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:30,640
He's still going to be playing with those guys. He's

575
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,160
going to be on the power play, whether it's PP

576
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,759
one or PP two. That's curious to see how the

577
00:25:35,799 --> 00:25:38,480
Panthers handle their power play, whether they continued but two

578
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,920
defensemen as they did in the playoffs, so they go

579
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,000
back to one d which they've done a lot under Maurice.

580
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,759
That's to be determined. But either way, second power play,

581
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,920
at least during the playoffs, was more productive than the

582
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:47,599
top power play.

583
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 5: So the potency is there. It's just the land of opportunity.

584
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,079
Speaker 6: So summarize, I would as I'm thinking about this as

585
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,920
we're talking about it, I am thinking I'm going to

586
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,039
be targeting Carter ra Haiti a little bit earlier, just

587
00:25:57,079 --> 00:25:59,079
as I think the value on him would be lower

588
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,279
after scoring only twenty goals last year, and that might

589
00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:02,960
be a time to maybe pick him up a couple

590
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,680
of rounds later than you would and still get some

591
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:05,400
incredible value.

592
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 2: Though.

593
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna pose the next two as a

594
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,440
bit of a points pick them. Anton Lundell, Maki Samuskevitch.

595
00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:13,960
Lundell took a small step forward in his production during

596
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,480
the regular season, from thirty five to forty five points

597
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,359
before having an excellent breakout, as we noted, already eighteen

598
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,960
points in twenty three games on that line with Marshan

599
00:26:22,079 --> 00:26:25,480
and LUs Terrain and Samuskevitch had a pretty solid rookie season,

600
00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:27,039
working his way up from the fourth line at the

601
00:26:27,079 --> 00:26:29,039
beginning of the year to a second line and top

602
00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:32,519
power play by the end. So based on trajectory, I

603
00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:34,559
think I would lean Samaskvitch. But David, who do you

604
00:26:34,599 --> 00:26:36,519
think is going to have more points next season? Lundell

605
00:26:36,599 --> 00:26:37,400
or Samuskevitch.

606
00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 5: Oh, that's tough.

607
00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:41,799
Speaker 6: That's a tough one, and you mentioned a lot of

608
00:26:41,839 --> 00:26:45,559
the reasons why it's tough. I think I'll start with Lundell.

609
00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:50,480
I've been expect just waiting patiently for that breakout to come.

610
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,920
Just he's We've seen it since he was a rookie.

611
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,559
He's got tons of talent. They call him Baby Barkof

612
00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:58,000
for a reason down here. Seeing the way that he

613
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,319
flourished with Marshan and two during last year's playoffs and

614
00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:03,680
thinking that they're probably going to start the season on

615
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,200
the same line and get the same kind of opportunities,

616
00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:09,200
I'm very excited about the prospect of that line. To

617
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,839
Mackie more of a wild card more of an unknown

618
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,799
just because we don't know exactly where he's going to

619
00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:20,039
slot in. I think ideally top six. He's ready to

620
00:27:20,079 --> 00:27:21,920
at least start on that kind of role because, as

621
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,839
you said, he built his way up last year later

622
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,559
in this and the Panthers also had a lot of

623
00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:27,200
guys that they were taking in and out of the

624
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,559
lineup late. That gave Mattie an opportunity to play a

625
00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:31,240
little bit more top six and get those top power

626
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,000
play minutes that you mentioned. I think this is going

627
00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:35,960
to be a good year for him to earn the

628
00:27:36,039 --> 00:27:38,440
trust of the coaching staff, not that he's not that

629
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,440
there's anything negative to come with it, just thinking back

630
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:41,920
to the playoffs last year, he was a guy that

631
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,759
was healthy, scratched almost the whole way, and no detriment

632
00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:47,839
to him that FIDA had four players that were NHL

633
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,960
regulars that were not making the lineup last year just

634
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,400
because they had just incredibly deep. They've had basically a

635
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,039
whole fourth line with Nico Sturman those guys that weren't playing.

636
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,200
So with MACKI, you know, the questions are, will will

637
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,480
he be on that top line with Sasha Barkhov If

638
00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:04,079
it's me. I'm starting as long as he has a

639
00:28:04,079 --> 00:28:06,160
strong camp. That's where I'm looking to start him on

640
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,480
the left side with Barkhan and sam Urian Hart. Go

641
00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:10,920
from there, sprinkle him in whether on one of the

642
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,240
two power play units, give him an opportunity and see

643
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,319
how he can run with it. I think he's earned

644
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,039
a chance to have that. Last year he showed a

645
00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:20,880
great nose for the net. Scoring goals is not going

646
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,440
to be a problem for this kid if he can

647
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,160
get the two hundred foot game that he's been developing

648
00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:27,759
basically since he was in AHL Charlotte three years ago,

649
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,079
when he started there and started working his way in

650
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,440
when he started his rookie PTO and he spent that

651
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,559
first full season a couple of years ago. He knows

652
00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:38,279
what's expected him to answer your question the bet. The

653
00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:41,519
gambling man and me would probably go for the more

654
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,039
safe bet at this moment, which would be Anton Lundell.

655
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,279
The gambler in me that likes the gamble probably take Macki,

656
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,960
which I would think would have better odds in terms

657
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,480
of making more money. I'm thinking, like, if we're talking

658
00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:57,039
about a pick, I'm like Anton minus one ten Mac.

659
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,200
You know, maybe plus one thirty. I'll tell you, I'll

660
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,000
take the plus money, give me, give me the wild Guard.

661
00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:04,799
But either one of those guys would be fun to

662
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,759
keep an eye on. I just it's been like, really

663
00:29:07,799 --> 00:29:10,240
Lundell was like the last Panthers rookie that's really been

664
00:29:10,319 --> 00:29:12,599
like seen come up like this. So to see Mackie

665
00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:14,440
following the Panthers, you know, they've viewed so many of

666
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,960
their assets in recent years that they don't have a

667
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,160
lot of those guys coming up. So having that cheap,

668
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:21,079
the cheap talent where you have team controlled guys for

669
00:29:21,079 --> 00:29:22,480
a while that you're not casting an arm and a

670
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:25,000
leg that can help supplant that roster, that's really important.

671
00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:26,720
I think they're gonna want to lean on Mackie as

672
00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:27,599
much as they can this year.

673
00:29:28,359 --> 00:29:31,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd love to hear that. Let's move over to

674
00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:32,960
the blue line, and we're gonna start with Seth Jones,

675
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,680
who was acquired from Chicago before the Tradeline line, stepped

676
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,519
onto that top pair with Gustav Foreslang and on the

677
00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:41,680
top power play. He scored nine points in twenty one games,

678
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,720
just thirty five point pace in Florida after twenty seven

679
00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:47,279
and forty two for a fifty three point pace Chicago.

680
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,559
Clearly there was a different role there, and Florida is

681
00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:53,640
a higher scoring team than Chicago, but they obviously shifted

682
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,759
their priorities and he was more of an all around

683
00:29:55,759 --> 00:29:58,680
player for them. Seth Jones's bash is elite, which is

684
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,880
why we're all really excited about the potential for him

685
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,680
next year because five point twenty seven block shots and

686
00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:06,640
hits per game ranks him forty seventh amongst all skaters

687
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,279
for last season, and if he can increase those points

688
00:30:09,319 --> 00:30:11,119
to go with that bash, then he could have a

689
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,279
phenomenal season, probably end up top ten in terms of

690
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,279
fantasy defenseman next season, which would be pretty awesome. So, David,

691
00:30:17,599 --> 00:30:19,759
do you think that Seth Jones can get back to

692
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,920
a round fifty point pace this next season for the Panthers.

693
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable for a guy that's going

694
00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:27,960
to be playing twenty two to twenty three minutes. He's

695
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,920
going to be getting power play time. And yeah, as

696
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,160
you said, this is a guy very talented, still on

697
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,279
the younger side, coming into the prime yeers of his career,

698
00:30:36,279 --> 00:30:38,839
and he's starved for that success. He comes to Florida

699
00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:41,599
after spending several years in Chicago at obviously we've talked

700
00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:43,039
about it a lot, did not go nowhere near the

701
00:30:43,039 --> 00:30:44,599
way that he thought they would when he signed his

702
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,880
deal with the Blackhawks. So now he's just in heave

703
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,359
and really this was the Panthers are just as happy.

704
00:30:50,519 --> 00:30:53,000
This is a guy that excuse me, this is the

705
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,400
guy that they targeted for a while as somebody that

706
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,839
would play very well in pal Maurice's systems. They've done

707
00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:03,000
a great job a w recognizing defenseman that will fit

708
00:31:03,079 --> 00:31:05,119
and that will perform. Whether you go back a couple

709
00:31:05,119 --> 00:31:07,279
of years to Oliver Eckman, Larson last year and had

710
00:31:07,359 --> 00:31:10,400
Nate Schmidt, they just signed Jeff Petrie, you would think

711
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,039
that that's going to follow along with that mold. But

712
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,160
they know skill sets, they know attributes, how it's going

713
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,119
to fit into what Paul Maurice asks of his excuse

714
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,960
me man asked of his defenseman and Seth Jones. The

715
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,240
better acclimated he gets, and we saw as the regular

716
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,039
season progressing and then we got into the playoffs even

717
00:31:28,079 --> 00:31:30,160
more the more that he's able to acclimate himself and

718
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,359
turn FID systems into muscle memory, the slower the game's

719
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,319
going to be for him, the faster he's going to be,

720
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,640
and I think the more points, the more production that

721
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,359
we're going to see from Seth Jones. I'm very excited

722
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,680
to see how it plays out. Just my excitement comes

723
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,720
from the excitement of everybody on the team that I

724
00:31:44,759 --> 00:31:46,759
talked to. I was just so thrilled when they made

725
00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:48,559
this move that they see this, you know, a long

726
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,519
term major fits on the blue line. They're very happy

727
00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:53,359
and they see a lot to come from Seth Jones.

728
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: Well, Hearin Black Eckblad is the wisened old man on

729
00:31:56,759 --> 00:31:59,880
this team now. But last year things were a little

730
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,279
bit rocky for him. He missed twenty six games, mostly

731
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,880
a twenty game stretch due to a ped suspension. Then

732
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,720
he got suspended in the playoffs for hitting Brandon Hegel

733
00:32:09,759 --> 00:32:12,359
in the head. He got a decent contract to come

734
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,240
back this year, and once again almost miraculous that the

735
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:19,039
three big free agents came back and Florida avoided the

736
00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:23,680
winner's curse that seems to strike so many successful championship teams.

737
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,200
But Eklad had his best stat pace season since twenty

738
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,720
twenty one to twenty two. That year, he received Norris votes.

739
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,880
Of course, missing a lot of time this year. He

740
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,359
did not get those votes this year. Despite eleven seasons

741
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,200
in the league. He's going to play the majority of

742
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,480
this upcoming season still a man in his twenties, which

743
00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:44,640
is just mind blowing. One flaw in the ointment. The

744
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,759
advanced stats do not love his even strength defense and

745
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:51,519
the revitalized Seth Jones jumped into the lineup, and about

746
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,279
the time that Ekled went out for suspension, that's the

747
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:57,079
same time set Jones sewed up. He took the top minutes.

748
00:32:57,119 --> 00:32:59,440
And we've seen the playoffs with both of these guys,

749
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,400
we haven't seen in regular season what happens when everything's

750
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,960
combined there. What is the role for Aaron eck Bladd

751
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,400
next year and what kind of production do you expect.

752
00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:10,359
Speaker 6: I would think role wise, he'll be on the top

753
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,920
pairing with Gus Poresling on the right side. I would

754
00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:16,279
I'm curious to see how Florida handles their top power play.

755
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,720
As I've mentioned before, are they gonna stick with the

756
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,599
two defensemen that they did in the playoffs with Jones

757
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,839
and neck Blad, because those aren't your traditional defenceman like

758
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,720
both of those guys can work the point like a forward,

759
00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:28,200
So it's not like you're taking anything way offensively, but

760
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,799
it also gave them a little bit more juice for

761
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:31,880
their second power play, just in terms of giving that

762
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,079
forward depth. So I'm curious to find out how that

763
00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:37,799
plays out, and in that will if it's one guy

764
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,400
on the top, power play is gonna be that Glad

765
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,759
IS's gonna be Jones. If it's two guys, opened something

766
00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:44,039
up for Gus Poresling, potentially for him that gets some

767
00:33:44,039 --> 00:33:45,559
more power play time, which would be cool for him.

768
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,920
I know he'll be on that top pairing with Gus Foresling.

769
00:33:48,119 --> 00:33:50,359
He'll be getting power play, he'll be getting penalty kill,

770
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,160
he'll lead the team in minutes probably. And like I

771
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,359
mentioned with Sam Bennett, like Bennett and ettlad are the

772
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,519
two guys for the last couple of years. When they

773
00:33:57,559 --> 00:33:59,599
come out of the lineup, just the team does not

774
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,359
look the same. They don't look his potent, they don't

775
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,359
look as on their toes, And I guess you'd say

776
00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:07,119
Bennett's like the head of the snake on as far

777
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,920
the forwards go, and et Glad is that guy on defense.

778
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:11,679
He took a back seat in terms of his point

779
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,960
production when Paul Maurice arrived. He talked about that big

780
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,119
year he had in twenty one to twenty two. That

781
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,599
was the year that the Panthers won the President's Trophy.

782
00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:20,400
That was the year that they led the league in scoring,

783
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,079
and et Glad well definitely a guy that was at

784
00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:25,280
the forefront of that in terms of their blue line.

785
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,159
Fast forward a year to Paul Maurice, Glad it's not

786
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,039
like he doesn't have the offensive capabilities anymore, but he's

787
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,800
put his focus on different elements of his game and he's,

788
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,480
as Paul Maurice puts it, he's sacrificed parts of his

789
00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:39,199
game in order for this team to be better. And

790
00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:43,440
how integral Eck Glad is to that team's success. That

791
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,519
proface plays into just how he's viewed by the team.

792
00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:47,519
And then when you take into that the fact that

793
00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:49,559
he made it very clear that he wanted to stay.

794
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,400
Not quite as bad as when Sam Bennett just took

795
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,400
the mic and said, I'm not bleeping leaving in terms

796
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,039
of taking away negotiation for his agent. A little juice there,

797
00:34:57,039 --> 00:35:00,119
but no, Glad, he's a Florida guy. You said, it

798
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:01,719
feels like he's been in the lead forever because he

799
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,800
was number one overall pick in twenty fourteen.

800
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 5: Came into the leads an eighteen year old.

801
00:35:05,599 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 6: He's been in the lead for now over ten years

802
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,079
and he's still not thirty yet, which is like crazy

803
00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:13,000
to think about, but it's just been really it's cool.

804
00:35:13,159 --> 00:35:15,159
For lack of a better term, I just really enjoy

805
00:35:15,639 --> 00:35:18,239
Aaron neck Lad, him being such a team guy, such

806
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,800
a floida guy, the fact that he's made this his

807
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,159
home and he wanted to keep it that way. He's

808
00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:25,880
sacrificed to make it so. He sacrificed in terms of

809
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,760
his game statistics on the ice, he sacrificed in terms

810
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,840
of the money that he certainly I think would have

811
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,280
made if he went elsewhere off the ice. And again,

812
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,440
he's in the prime of his career. He's not gonna

813
00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:37,960
start tailing off for a while now. So I'm excited

814
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,480
to see what aaronk Lad brings this year.

815
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. And Gustaf Forsling. He had thirty one

816
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,079
points in eighty two games, two and a half shots

817
00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:50,880
a game, a block and a hit, and his minutes

818
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,000
per game trailed only those top two guys that we're

819
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,400
talking about, jonesenk Lad and cumulatively. Yeah, he played the

820
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,840
whole year of course too, I'm much of a factor

821
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,679
on the power play last year, so it would be

822
00:36:02,679 --> 00:36:04,880
interesting if he got that time this year to really

823
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,639
start making more of an impact. And the numbers don't

824
00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:10,039
jump off the page, but he got Norris Lady Bing

825
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,400
and all Star Boats as the guy who was solid

826
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,440
on the back end from wire to wire during the season,

827
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,599
like a lot of the top guys on the team

828
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,320
in that late twenties very early thirties age bracket, with

829
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,559
a contract that Bill Ziito is gonna Jengo puzzle in

830
00:36:25,639 --> 00:36:27,880
with the rest of this crew to make them be

831
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,679
able to fit together a little longer. Should we expect

832
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,719
a different stat outcome this year for Foresling or should

833
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,119
we just be happy and celebrate what a great real

834
00:36:36,199 --> 00:36:38,760
life player this guy is with the Panthers.

835
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 6: I think the wild card for Foresling in terms of

836
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,360
his point production will be whether he gets regular time

837
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,239
on one of the two power plays. If he gets

838
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,840
that second power play unit, I mean, he's been somebody

839
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,960
who we've talked about for several years now as certainly

840
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,800
a player who can be on the power play and

841
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,199
succeed on the power play. He's got great hands, he's

842
00:36:57,199 --> 00:37:00,239
got a good shot, he's very smart. It's just Forlord

843
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,880
has had They've had a lot of guys ahead of him,

844
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,760
whether it's been at Blad he had Brandon Montur, he

845
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,920
had Oel in addition to the guys that are here.

846
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,159
Speaker 5: You know, there's only so much room.

847
00:37:07,639 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 6: But it's crazy you mentioned the contract, Like a guy

848
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,559
like Gus Fororslan, who's two years in a row gotten

849
00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:15,880
Norris Bergs. He's making under six million and that's for

850
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,159
the next like six or seven seasons. I think twenty

851
00:37:18,199 --> 00:37:21,119
thirty two is his free agent year, thirty one to

852
00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:24,000
thirty two, whichever. But either way, like this, it's unreal

853
00:37:24,639 --> 00:37:26,440
the deals that Bilsito has gotten some of these guys

854
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,280
to sign. So yeah, I guess with Foresling, considering the

855
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,679
placement on the team, I'd be happy with the production

856
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,280
where it's at. But that being said, if he sees

857
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,440
regular time on the power play, I could see him

858
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,840
getting maybe another ten fifteen points, maybe more. He's just

859
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,440
that skilled. It's just a matter of the minutes. So

860
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,079
I think that's the one thing that you'd want to

861
00:37:46,119 --> 00:37:48,079
keep an eye on if you're not drafting him. If

862
00:37:48,079 --> 00:37:49,840
you're keeping an eye him on the free agent wire,

863
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,920
as soon as you see him, get power play time.

864
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,639
If he's available, get him right away.

865
00:37:54,199 --> 00:37:56,599
Speaker 4: All right, Let's switch our attention to the goalies. The

866
00:37:56,639 --> 00:37:59,800
Panthers were ranked fifth and expected goals against per sixty,

867
00:38:00,159 --> 00:38:03,760
but conceided the seventh ranked actual goals. Spencer Knight was

868
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,639
excellent in the backup role before being traded to Chicago

869
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,960
to for Seth Jones. We'll talk about the new guy,

870
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,360
but for Sergey Barbrovski of course, had an awesome, another

871
00:38:13,519 --> 00:38:15,840
great season. His save percentage dipped a little bit compared

872
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,280
to last season, but he still performed his expected numbers,

873
00:38:18,679 --> 00:38:20,239
and of course he was great in the playoffs. His

874
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,480
goal save above expected eight point ninety six in the

875
00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:25,320
regular season and even strength and Delta Fenwick was positive

876
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,400
at point four to four last year of a seven

877
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,719
year contract paying ten million. I remember when they signed

878
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,840
that contract. I was definitely one who didn't think that

879
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,039
was a good idea. But you get two cups and

880
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:38,400
no one cares anymore. Let's mention the other guy too,

881
00:38:38,559 --> 00:38:41,000
Daniel Tarasov. He's someone I've been really excited about for

882
00:38:41,039 --> 00:38:43,320
a long time. Of course, some of his underlying numbers

883
00:38:43,599 --> 00:38:45,719
did not look good in Columbus. But I think this

884
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,920
kid's got a lot of talent, and it's my understanding

885
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,599
that they're both from the same Both him and Bob

886
00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:52,599
are from the same place in Russia. I'm not going

887
00:38:52,639 --> 00:38:54,639
to try to pronounce the city because it looks like

888
00:38:54,679 --> 00:38:58,920
there's too many consonants smashed together. And his father, Vediem

889
00:38:59,159 --> 00:39:02,679
was a former local goalie coach and Raffi's idol growing up.

890
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,599
So that's a kind of fun connection that could end

891
00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:07,000
up working out really well as a mentor. And he's

892
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,199
on a sweetheart of a deal one year at one

893
00:39:09,199 --> 00:39:12,000
point oh five. So, David, how do you see the

894
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,000
net shaping up in Florida this next coming season?

895
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,039
Speaker 6: First, it's the Vocris Netzik And the only reason I'm

896
00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:20,559
so sure about that is because I got to call

897
00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:23,000
KHL games for a little while. Anytime I can flex

898
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,480
though the Russian pronunciation muscles, I'm going to show off

899
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,440
a little bit. But no, it's really cool. Actually, you

900
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,239
mentioned how they're both they both come from the same area,

901
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,119
they're parently like the dads.

902
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 5: It's very cool.

903
00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 6: How you've got now two guys that are so familiar

904
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,440
with each other and their families. The way that Florida's

905
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,599
targeted goaltending, which has been a little because like last

906
00:39:42,679 --> 00:39:45,880
year they brought in v Ted Vanachakt, who of the

907
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,440
available goaltenders at the time, I was like, oh, this

908
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,400
is an interesting move. They know what they want to

909
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,280
bring in. They want to bring in guys that are athletic,

910
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,119
that are going to stop the first shot and that

911
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,480
understand about rebound control. Sergiba Rossis certainly is somebody that

912
00:39:57,559 --> 00:40:00,559
has taken that lesson a bit to heart. Fortunately, he's

913
00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:02,239
so athletic and he's so good, and the Panthers are

914
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,320
so good in front of him that a lot of

915
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,760
those second and third chances get swept away. And I

916
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,480
think that'll really be what they're asking you of Vsov

917
00:40:07,519 --> 00:40:09,440
as well, stop the first shot, We'll take care of

918
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,440
the rest. Don't try to be a hero. When the

919
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,760
first few years of Bob's contract before Palm Maurice arrived,

920
00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:18,159
so much more explosive side to side, often sometimes getting

921
00:40:18,199 --> 00:40:19,440
caught out of position, and that's where a lot of

922
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,320
those second and third chances would bite him in the butt,

923
00:40:21,519 --> 00:40:24,960
whereas the last few years everything's so tight they take

924
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,119
away so much more of the house. The high end

925
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:29,599
chances go down and the confidence goes up if you're

926
00:40:29,599 --> 00:40:32,280
a goaltender. You mentioned earlier, so many of the Panthers'

927
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,559
defensemen are good at blocking shots. That's another great thing

928
00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:36,960
for a goaltender when you have that confidence. Florida put

929
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:39,079
a lot of stock in their penalty kill. They pay

930
00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:40,119
a lot of attention to that.

931
00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:40,639
Speaker 5: That's something that.

932
00:40:40,639 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 6: They've taken a lot of pride in since the twenty

933
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,800
three when they lost to Vegas twenty two, twenty three

934
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,519
and that final. Since then, they've really put a lot

935
00:40:47,519 --> 00:40:49,840
of stock into the PKN. Obviously, that will give your

936
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,960
goaltenders a little bit of a happy juice as well.

937
00:40:52,079 --> 00:40:53,800
You know, in terms of the split, I would think

938
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,559
like fifty five five or fifty thirty somewhere in that

939
00:40:57,639 --> 00:40:59,239
range is what they're looking for. They don't want to

940
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,000
give Bob much more than fifty to fifty five. Start

941
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:03,239
that during their regular season, keep him as fresh as

942
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,360
possible for the playoffs. That's been the recipe of the

943
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,480
last few years and it's worked out quite well. And

944
00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:09,679
with tarasava I he got a want hez Rfa when

945
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:10,960
they brought him in. He got that one year deal,

946
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,199
but Florida is there. I don't want to say they're

947
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:15,960
not said or I have a lot of faith in

948
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,039
Bill Zito, but the goldending situation is fluid. For lack

949
00:41:20,039 --> 00:41:21,960
of a better term, I don't Bob's gonna be thirty seven.

950
00:41:23,119 --> 00:41:25,000
How much more can you bank on a guy playing

951
00:41:25,199 --> 00:41:29,400
elite con smythe level hockey, which is what Bob's done.

952
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:32,159
He was a Consmith votecipient two years ago, and I

953
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,159
think if guys hadn't been scoring, he did get some

954
00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:37,800
Consmuth vote this past year too, but between what marsh

955
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,199
and Bennett did, understand why he was third on that list.

956
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,519
But it'll be interesting to how it plays out whether

957
00:41:42,679 --> 00:41:44,840
Tarasov is a guy that they think of in terms

958
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,800
of future plans or if it all gets blown up

959
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,079
and they have to bring in another big name in

960
00:41:49,119 --> 00:41:49,719
this offseason.

961
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 5: I don't know.

962
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,199
Speaker 6: I'm curious to see. But I am very happy and

963
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,800
confident as a Panthers follower just because of the track

964
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,599
record of Bill Zito and his guys, and Roberto Luwondo

965
00:41:59,639 --> 00:42:02,559
and the Gold Excellence Department, and they just remember, these

966
00:42:02,559 --> 00:42:04,559
are the guys that they found Devin Levi and they

967
00:42:04,639 --> 00:42:06,519
drafted him a year early and that got a lot

968
00:42:06,519 --> 00:42:08,719
of too, a lot of craw two For me personally,

969
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,480
I'm a goalie, so I've always take a little bit

970
00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:13,840
more attention to the goaltending mark, and i think despite

971
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,920
the fact that it's unknown, I'm excited to see how

972
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,840
it plays out just because of what Bill Zito's done.

973
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,079
Speaker 3: I'm not betting against Bill Zito and I'm not betting

974
00:42:21,119 --> 00:42:23,239
against your coverage this year, David. Why don't you tell

975
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,920
everybody how we can keep up with you on the

976
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,280
Florida Panthers.

977
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 6: For sure, and thank you again for having me on

978
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,360
the show. You can find my written work on the

979
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,119
Hockey News Florida Panthers pages, to the Hockey News dot com,

980
00:42:34,119 --> 00:42:37,559
slash Florida and every week you can catch my hockey podcast,

981
00:42:37,599 --> 00:42:40,000
The Hockey Show with my co host Roy Bellamy anywhere

982
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,559
on the The Dan Levittard Show network of podcasts. You can

983
00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:45,360
catch it on the Draftings Network for TV, It's on YouTube,

984
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,599
and yeah, I'm on Twitter at David work.

985
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,559
Speaker 5: X right sorry X.

986
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,639
Speaker 3: Either way people will get there, all right. Thank you

987
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,679
so much for being on with this tonight, David, and

988
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,320
good luck following them this season.

989
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,119
Speaker 5: Oh my pleasure, guys have a good season as well.

990
00:43:08,039 --> 00:43:12,119
Speaker 3: Will since then that's good fire Pats, Oh my goodness.

991
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 4: Room long with a Cat quick gram.

992
00:43:19,039 --> 00:43:23,119
Speaker 3: Now it's your weekly goalie talk with Kat Silverman, Kat's Instincts.

993
00:43:23,119 --> 00:43:26,159
Speaker 4: Time once again for Kat's Instincts with Kat Silverman and

994
00:43:26,199 --> 00:43:30,920
Ben gold mag we're talking Carolina Panthers goalies and they

995
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,360
are going to need another goalie at some point. Serge

996
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,400
Lebowski is not going to be around forever, although he

997
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,559
looks great in his late thirties. We're gonna talk about

998
00:43:38,559 --> 00:43:40,880
a couple of the guys they have coming and Carill

999
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,760
Garis Simyuk is the net first one, twenty three years old,

1000
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,119
six two hundred and seven nine pounds, twenty twenty one

1001
00:43:47,159 --> 00:43:47,920
fifth round pick.

1002
00:43:48,559 --> 00:43:51,039
Speaker 7: This past season was his first full year in the VHL,

1003
00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:52,800
and he put up good numbers in a sort of

1004
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,679
a backup role, twenty four games for Agra and then

1005
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,800
he had eight games also for SKA the v H version,

1006
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:04,559
and the numbers look really good. Say percentages were high

1007
00:44:04,639 --> 00:44:07,519
and the jay was really low. And he recently signed

1008
00:44:07,559 --> 00:44:10,719
his ELC with the Panthers. His hockey prospecting has been

1009
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:15,039
slowly steadily training up to thirty four percent. So there's

1010
00:44:15,079 --> 00:44:17,480
a lot of guys who look like him, Thomas Kreis,

1011
00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:21,239
Peter Budai, Martin Baran and that vibe of low level starter.

1012
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,199
Kat what your ankstings tell us about Gersimyuk.

1013
00:44:26,159 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 8: I don't want to say that he's a wait and see.

1014
00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 2: I do think that.

1015
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 8: The Panthers clearly voiced all the confidence in the world

1016
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,920
in Sergei Bobrovski when they decided that it was time

1017
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,519
to move Spencer Night elsewhere. So I do think that

1018
00:44:43,599 --> 00:44:47,960
we have reevaluate their entire depth chart knowing that they

1019
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:55,239
don't have and essentially an NHL ready prospect just right

1020
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,000
there at the top of their depth chart, because I

1021
00:44:57,039 --> 00:45:00,480
do not think that's what Krasimyuk is. He's coming over

1022
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,360
to North America this year. It looks like I just

1023
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,679
did a quick check, and at least on elite prospects,

1024
00:45:05,679 --> 00:45:09,239
they have him listed as starting the season with the

1025
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,679
Charlotte Checkers, so he's not going to be loaned back

1026
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,559
to Russia for the year, which is nice. We'll get

1027
00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:18,320
to see what he looks like in North America. He's

1028
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,760
always been one of the calmer Russian goaltenders. Doesn't seem

1029
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,159
like he really likes to get super aggressive with his play,

1030
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:30,440
So I would say that if I was a betting person,

1031
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,519
which is what I'm here to help with, he is

1032
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,280
probably going to have an easier learning curve coming to

1033
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,519
North America and some of the other Russian goaltenders do,

1034
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:45,199
just based on how little excess movement he's going to

1035
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,760
have to take out of his game and how much

1036
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,559
he has enjoyed kind of playing the waiting game from

1037
00:45:50,599 --> 00:45:53,519
the blue paint. He enjoys staying a little bit farther

1038
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,199
in his crease at goating skaters to come to him

1039
00:45:57,519 --> 00:45:59,519
rather than trying to challenge them and keep them on

1040
00:45:59,559 --> 00:46:03,599
their toes. So I think he'll have a pretty easy transition.

1041
00:46:05,119 --> 00:46:08,679
But I don't think he's ready necessarily specifically this year

1042
00:46:09,559 --> 00:46:13,079
for the NHL, but I gotta have someone ready in

1043
00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:14,320
the next couple of years, right.

1044
00:46:17,199 --> 00:46:19,199
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Panther should be good for a while. And

1045
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,840
I love the move they made for Danielle Tarasoff. We

1046
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,320
talked about him on the main show and the fact

1047
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,679
that his dad and Bob's dad knew each other and

1048
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,679
were friends and from the small, small, same small town

1049
00:46:30,679 --> 00:46:31,119
in Russia.

1050
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 4: So that's all.

1051
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,639
Speaker 7: And yeah, maybe older Darrisimma can get in on that

1052
00:46:34,679 --> 00:46:37,719
action a little bit and get some mentorship. That sounds

1053
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,840
like it could be could work out really well. Let's

1054
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,400
talk about the other guy who at now time for

1055
00:46:43,519 --> 00:46:46,000
something completely different, and that would be Cooper Black.

1056
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 4: Cooper is huge.

1057
00:46:48,559 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 7: He was undrafted, he's twenty four years old, he's six

1058
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:55,199
foot eight two or twenty three pounds. He played last

1059
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,960
season or that he was signed up after the previous

1060
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,360
season at Dartmouth College where he had a really great

1061
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,840
season nine to ten, say a percentage two point five

1062
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,119
eight for not the strongest program, and then this past

1063
00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:08,000
season he was mostly in the AHL for the Charlotte

1064
00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:12,039
Checkers seventeen games one point nine AGA nineteen side percentage

1065
00:47:12,119 --> 00:47:15,920
is pretty nice. He did get a few ECCHL games

1066
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,559
to get a little bit more time and that didn't

1067
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:21,639
go particularly well. But overall, Kat, this is a bit

1068
00:47:21,679 --> 00:47:24,679
of an unknown, but probably a guy who's pretty available

1069
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:25,400
in some leagues.

1070
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,519
Speaker 4: So what do your instincts tell us about Cooper Black?

1071
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 8: He's huge. I appreciate that. I know that There's been

1072
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:38,119
a lot of swirling theories among Panthers fans who are

1073
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,159
wondering if the team's questioning who is going to eventually

1074
00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:46,360
replace King Bob for them, And I don't think it's

1075
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,159
Cooper Black to put it really nicely, but I do

1076
00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:52,119
think that he makes a really good depth piece in

1077
00:47:52,199 --> 00:47:54,679
their organization. It's a little bit of a slower mover,

1078
00:47:54,840 --> 00:48:02,679
but when he is playing against I would say a

1079
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:07,159
very mismatched offense to defense. So when he is really

1080
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,960
dealing with a lot of pressure and close, he doesn't

1081
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,280
allow the offense to pressure him to turtle because he's

1082
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,519
got enough builds to him that he can take up

1083
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,519
most of the net without worrying about it. He just

1084
00:48:21,559 --> 00:48:25,760
has to make sure that he doesn't get goaded into

1085
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,920
moving out of position because he is a little bit

1086
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,039
slower overall, I think he looks like a mature goaltender.

1087
00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:34,039
I just think he's missing that extra tier to his game.

1088
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:38,800
So he is not who I would necessarily bank on

1089
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,719
if all of their more NH already players are injured.

1090
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,159
That's not necessarily who I would call up to start.

1091
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,760
But I do think that he is a nice piece

1092
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,480
to have in the organization, especially because he plays so

1093
00:48:50,559 --> 00:48:52,960
differently from almost everyone else they have.

1094
00:48:55,159 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 7: And that'll be nice to see. Awesome, Thanks Kats much

1095
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,400
forgive me for instincts on the Florida Panther goalies.

1096
00:49:04,679 --> 00:49:08,159
Speaker 3: Victor, there is something else we gotta talk about. Don't

1097
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:10,880
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1098
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Speaker 3: We'll be back right after this.

1112
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 2: Big the.

1113
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:13,079
Speaker 3: Dynasty Jig Lord of Panthers. Addition, Victor Nugno, we need

1114
00:50:13,079 --> 00:50:16,079
to talk about the Panthers, but this is the least half.

1115
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,719
This is the least interesting half perhaps of this episode,

1116
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,079
because this is the number thirty one system according to

1117
00:50:21,119 --> 00:50:24,480
your rankings. Nonetheless, we do have three guys we're gonna

1118
00:50:24,519 --> 00:50:26,400
talk about, and it starts with your no brainer.

1119
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,679
Speaker 4: Who is the no brainer for the Panthers is Michael

1120
00:50:29,679 --> 00:50:33,559
Benning twenty twenty ninety fifth overall pick, five foot nine,

1121
00:50:33,559 --> 00:50:36,239
one hundred and seventy six pounds. He was five to

1122
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,480
nine when he was drafted. He's still five to nine.

1123
00:50:38,679 --> 00:50:40,360
That's gonna be a big part of the story here.

1124
00:50:40,639 --> 00:50:44,119
He is the younger and smaller Benning brother. Mike stepped

1125
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:47,119
up his HL production this year, going from twenty six

1126
00:50:47,159 --> 00:50:50,239
points in seventy two games to thirty two points and

1127
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,480
fifty four games to point three to six too point

1128
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,719
five to nine points per game, which is pretty nice.

1129
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:56,840
I added another nine points and eighteen playoff games as

1130
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,599
Charlotte lost in the Calder Cup finals, which was very

1131
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,519
unfortunate but still a really good season for him, and

1132
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:06,199
of course Matt Benning being his older brother and Jim

1133
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:10,079
Benning being his uncle, so that's fun. Looking at some

1134
00:51:10,119 --> 00:51:13,360
of the tracking data for Mike Benning, you can see

1135
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,360
on his Fantasy Hockey Life player card that there's a

1136
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,199
lot of colors that are not green, which is not good.

1137
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:23,599
So some of his possession stats. Some of his passing

1138
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,320
is a little subpar. He does have a lot of assists,

1139
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,079
but overall his pre shot his accurate passing pass attempts

1140
00:51:31,079 --> 00:51:34,159
are all pretty low. His peripheral coverage is pretty low

1141
00:51:34,199 --> 00:51:36,440
except for his shots. His shots are good, but his

1142
00:51:36,519 --> 00:51:39,760
blocks are tenth percentile. His hits are thirteenth percentile. Makes

1143
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,559
sense for being a smaller guy. He also tends to

1144
00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:44,000
have a lot of giveaways. Overall, his bash would only

1145
00:51:44,039 --> 00:51:47,239
be twenty fourth percentile. His play driving metrics are only

1146
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,039
sixtieth percentile. He's really good at net expected goals and

1147
00:51:50,039 --> 00:51:51,840
his course he and Fenwick are pretty good, but he

1148
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,760
loses the puck a lot and doesn't get it back.

1149
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,679
He also doesn't do so well with puck battles, and

1150
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,400
his transition game just twenty seven percentile. He doesn't get

1151
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,360
the puck in or out very well with efficiency or ease,

1152
00:52:03,559 --> 00:52:05,800
so that's all not very good. I have him at

1153
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,599
a five point one four just fourteen percent chance of

1154
00:52:08,639 --> 00:52:10,760
being an average roster player, and a lot of that

1155
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,960
does come down to the size factor. Let's hear a

1156
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,599
little bit more about Mike Benning from our HL scout.

1157
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 3: Jesse FHL leads scout Tony doesn't mess around. Here's what

1158
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,960
he says about Mike Benning. Dynamic skater who is always moving,

1159
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:28,360
above average acceleration and agility. Passing and handling. Mike exhibits

1160
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,920
above average passing puck handling. He is able to find

1161
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,599
his open teammates a hard and accurate slap shot. The

1162
00:52:35,639 --> 00:52:38,800
IQ sees the ice well and can't anticipate where to

1163
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,079
pass the puck. Tony would say majority of the time,

1164
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:45,159
Mike was a poised player on the ice. For checking,

1165
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,960
Tony didn't see a whole lot of that. But for defense,

1166
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,840
he works well in his own zone with his d

1167
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,239
partner reversing the puck quite a bit to make the

1168
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,679
puck get out of the zone. Mike also exhibited slightly

1169
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,480
above average rush defense. So the best assets for Tony

1170
00:53:00,119 --> 00:53:04,360
his passing and his hockey IQ. The biggest concern you

1171
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:08,840
just said it, Victor Mike's lack of physicality, although his

1172
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,920
size holds his own top tier potential, Tier two middle

1173
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:17,199
pair power playtime. Maybe the dynamic skating, accurate shooting in

1174
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,840
passing or nine Q make him that kind of a candidate,

1175
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,679
but the media outcome more likely the Tier three bottom pair,

1176
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,800
seventh defenseman with spotty of any power play, and that's

1177
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,519
because there's not enough physicality here and not enough bash

1178
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:35,400
stylistic comparable. Mike Benning reminds Tony of a slightly less

1179
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:39,320
offensive but more defensive Brian Rafalski. Maybe I should say

1180
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,760
less offensive. I don't know that Mike Benning has done

1181
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,440
anything to offend people, so he's not offensive, but he's

1182
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:49,039
not offensive but Brian Rafalski in any event, But if

1183
00:53:49,039 --> 00:53:52,239
everything goes right, could he be the next Devin Taze

1184
00:53:52,559 --> 00:53:56,599
type player to the next kill mccarr. That secondary got

1185
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,719
is really good. I guess that would be the ultimate

1186
00:53:59,159 --> 00:54:03,199
dream for some. It would come out here. But the

1187
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:07,719
NHL rank King, the Lord Stanley Tidy Champion Mason Black

1188
00:54:08,079 --> 00:54:11,639
put out the poll, Eric pole Camp versus Michael Benning,

1189
00:54:12,199 --> 00:54:17,039
and pole Camp prevails fifty seven two forty three percent

1190
00:54:17,199 --> 00:54:19,679
over mister Benning. Victor. Is that how you see it?

1191
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:21,079
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1192
00:54:21,119 --> 00:54:23,280
Speaker 4: I do, And frankly, I'm not even sure it should

1193
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,440
be that close fifty six point seven to forty three

1194
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,599
point three. I think that it's pretty easily poll Camp.

1195
00:54:29,639 --> 00:54:32,320
For one thing, he's two inches taller, which kind of

1196
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,159
is a big deal when you're five nine to five eleven.

1197
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,320
That's a big difference. And he's also pole Camp two

1198
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,440
hundred and five pounds, so he's pretty big. I think

1199
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,519
that makes a big difference too in how he plays.

1200
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:44,559
If you look at some of the underlying stands for

1201
00:54:44,599 --> 00:54:47,840
pole Camp at the University of Denver, his bash projects

1202
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,360
to be ninety six percentile, so one of the complete

1203
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,519
opposite in many ways of Benning. His blocks are sixty

1204
00:54:53,519 --> 00:54:56,039
seven percentile, his hits or eighty first percentile, and his

1205
00:54:56,079 --> 00:54:59,000
shots are just as good as Mike Benning. So all

1206
00:54:59,039 --> 00:55:01,800
that adds up to being pretty solid peripheral floor. But

1207
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,960
you look at Eric Polkamp's Fantasy Hockey Life card and

1208
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:08,519
you can see a completely different player. The shooting is excellent,

1209
00:55:08,559 --> 00:55:11,719
the passing is pretty great, the peripheral coverage as great

1210
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:15,079
as I mentioned. The play driving is also really excellent,

1211
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:19,239
although his not expected goals is lower than Bennings. But

1212
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,119
the rest of it, the Fenwick, the corsi, the puck

1213
00:55:21,159 --> 00:55:24,480
battle is loose, puck recovery good, and the transition game

1214
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:28,760
is excellent. Whether it's breaking out via dumpin, pass or carry.

1215
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,000
It's all well above average, and the entries are all

1216
00:55:32,039 --> 00:55:35,599
excellent as well, so all of that's adding up to

1217
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:39,280
a much more solid perferle player. I don't want you

1218
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:40,679
to get the idea that he's going to be some

1219
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,199
sort of offensive dynamo, because I don't think that's the case.

1220
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,960
But I think pole Camp has a much better chance

1221
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:47,679
of being an average roster player. That's why I have

1222
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,320
him at a five point seventy six. So I'm definitely

1223
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,000
taking pole Camp here. Of course, the blue line might

1224
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,760
get a little crowded in San Jose with a lot

1225
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,559
of good prospects on the way, but he's someone who

1226
00:55:56,559 --> 00:55:58,920
projects as a solid middle to bottom pairing kind of

1227
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,920
guy who can give you some bash and maybe at

1228
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:03,760
that point the team will score enough around him to

1229
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,920
give you more points. Looking at the hockey prospecting between

1230
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,519
these two, it's clearly Benning, And if you just looked

1231
00:56:11,559 --> 00:56:13,719
at this you would wonder what I was even talking about,

1232
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,679
because Benning has a much higher star potential forty three

1233
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:20,239
percent to pole camps three percent when he graduated the model.

1234
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,480
But obviously there's more to the story, as I just mentioned,

1235
00:56:23,599 --> 00:56:27,280
based on pole Camp's player card and his data at

1236
00:56:27,639 --> 00:56:30,360
University of Denver. You look at some other comps for

1237
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:34,159
Michael Benning, there's only two, Noah Hanafin and Rasmus Anderson,

1238
00:56:34,679 --> 00:56:36,199
and I don't think he's going to be like either

1239
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,159
of them. Quite frankly, but he does look a little

1240
00:56:39,159 --> 00:56:42,039
bit like Anderson. But if he was able to make

1241
00:56:42,079 --> 00:56:45,639
it as any of them, the offensive production is probably

1242
00:56:45,679 --> 00:56:47,840
closer to Hannafan, But frankly, I just don't think his

1243
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,000
defensive game and all around physicality is good enough to

1244
00:56:51,039 --> 00:56:54,760
even hit that bar. So unfortunately, I think he's probably

1245
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:59,199
going to be more like Caitlin Addison, who we have

1246
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,679
seen not really make it and be a bit disappointing

1247
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,519
in terms of his offensive game being exciting at the

1248
00:57:05,519 --> 00:57:08,119
lower levels but not good enough in the NHL, and

1249
00:57:09,039 --> 00:57:12,960
a little more underwhelming in the defensive end. Looking at

1250
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,800
the j Fresh card for Mike Benning, one percent chance

1251
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,480
of being a star, six percent chance of being an NHLer.

1252
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,960
That might be a little too pessimistic, but I don't know, Jesse,

1253
00:57:22,159 --> 00:57:23,880
maybe not. Seems like a long shot.

1254
00:57:24,719 --> 00:57:26,679
Speaker 3: We started with a long shot. Let's move on to

1255
00:57:26,719 --> 00:57:27,239
the need to know.

1256
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, the need to know is Stepan Gorbrunoff. Now, this

1257
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,199
guy you probably haven't heard of too much, but he

1258
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,599
is an interesting player. Twenty twenty four hundred and sixty

1259
00:57:37,639 --> 00:57:40,239
ninth overall pick. He's sixty five hundred ninety five pounds,

1260
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,559
so right away we're talking about a completely different player

1261
00:57:43,239 --> 00:57:46,639
than Mike Benning. Is also a forward. He also has

1262
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,880
an eleventh August eleventh birthday, so that means he was

1263
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:53,079
extremely young for that twenty four draft. Platt calass so

1264
00:57:53,119 --> 00:57:56,840
it gives you a little bit more leeway to show

1265
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,440
some significant improvement in his draft plus one year, which

1266
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,760
is what he did. He played entirely in the MHL

1267
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,960
in his draft season and had a little bit over

1268
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,320
half point per game, so it wasn't too crazy exciting

1269
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,360
or the size and the profile in the package gave

1270
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,800
you some to maybe get excited about, and he did

1271
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,920
improve this year. He only spent nine games in the MHL,

1272
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:17,679
which he was well above a point per game, so

1273
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:19,760
they moved over to the VHL. Twenty five points and

1274
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,559
forty eight games. That was pretty solid. Six on the

1275
00:58:22,559 --> 00:58:25,719
team and a really young to boot. Obviously, looking at

1276
00:58:25,719 --> 00:58:28,440
the FHL player card for gorbranov I, have him at

1277
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,800
a five point three six, a thirty six percent chance

1278
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,159
of being a five, and because he'd played in the VHL,

1279
00:58:34,239 --> 00:58:36,440
some of these numbers are a little underwhelming. We also

1280
00:58:36,519 --> 00:58:39,199
have an MHL card for him which just looks amazing

1281
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,079
because the nine games he played there he looked amazing,

1282
00:58:42,559 --> 00:58:46,079
but also maybe not as relevant in terms of projecting

1283
00:58:46,119 --> 00:58:51,440
his future. So in this his shooting was a little

1284
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,559
bit above average. His passing was really good. He had

1285
00:58:53,559 --> 00:58:55,719
a lot of accurate passes and pass attempts and pre

1286
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,679
shot passes, decent amount of assists. His periffs were a

1287
00:58:59,719 --> 00:59:03,239
little bit about average. He did actually takes a bunch

1288
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,199
of face offs and win them at a pretty good clip.

1289
00:59:05,239 --> 00:59:07,960
His blocks were really good and his shots were pretty good,

1290
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,840
but his hits were twenty seven percentile, which is disappointing

1291
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,239
for such a big guy, but a little bit under

1292
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:17,960
fifty forty six percent chance bash for Gorbranoff. His play

1293
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,280
driving was also a little disappointing. His fenwork was good,

1294
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,039
and his puck battles and flusepuck recovery was good, but

1295
00:59:23,119 --> 00:59:26,199
his corsi and net expected goals were pretty bad, and

1296
00:59:26,239 --> 00:59:28,280
for a big guy, you might expect his transition to

1297
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:29,880
game to not be as good, but that was actually

1298
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,440
his best part overall. He next to his passing, he

1299
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:37,320
had really strong transition numbers, especially breakouts and carry out

1300
00:59:37,519 --> 00:59:41,000
or carry entries. So overall pretty good there for Gorbranoff

1301
00:59:41,599 --> 00:59:45,199
in terms of his FHL tracking data. But let's look

1302
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,559
at let's hear a little bit more about Let's hear

1303
00:59:48,679 --> 00:59:51,480
a little bit more about Gorburennov from FHL scout Jesse.

1304
00:59:52,199 --> 00:59:55,519
Speaker 3: Tony has this to say, Steppen looks like a good

1305
00:59:55,559 --> 00:59:58,599
skater for his size, which at six' five is pretty,

1306
00:59:58,639 --> 01:00:02,519
good and handling seemed to be a good, passer got

1307
01:00:02,519 --> 01:00:04,480
the puck to. Teammates handling was a bit of an

1308
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,079
issue in close to the, Body stepan's shot was a,

1309
01:00:08,079 --> 01:00:12,360
plus able to hand rebounds around the. Net Stefan stefan

1310
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,199
has vision to see open teammates and, poise although he

1311
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,840
thinks he should have been in THE mhl for checking

1312
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,599
a little bit of for checking in What tony, saw

1313
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,079
but not a whole lot of defensive video for the

1314
01:00:26,159 --> 01:00:28,519
video That tony was able to get. To so the

1315
01:00:28,559 --> 01:00:31,199
best asset the, size the skating ability at that, Size

1316
01:00:31,199 --> 01:00:33,920
but the biggest concern is the, size he's going to

1317
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,639
have to be more physical to make it in The

1318
01:00:36,719 --> 01:00:40,679
National Hockey. League he could play mid six type minutes

1319
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:43,360
and the size and skating ability would take him, there

1320
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,360
but there's also a possibility his lack of physical play

1321
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:50,480
would take him into the bottom. Six he Reminds tony

1322
01:00:50,519 --> 01:00:53,039
of a better Skating elmer Soder. Blum, oh that's a

1323
01:00:53,119 --> 01:00:56,559
hike comp right. There and, Overall tony hopes to see

1324
01:00:56,559 --> 01:00:59,159
more video this upcoming. Year would like to revisit this

1325
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:04,320
as time goes. Long Mason black puts stuff On gorbanov

1326
01:01:04,519 --> 01:01:10,159
up Against Juna. Ininen weisson In Juna vissinen and what

1327
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,880
came out of that their poll it was it was

1328
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,880
Mister juna sixty two to thirty eight. Percent, victor is that?

1329
01:01:17,039 --> 01:01:18,760
ACCURATE i don't know about.

1330
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:23,239
Speaker 4: That Youna visonen is HOW i understood it to be,

1331
01:01:23,639 --> 01:01:26,559
pronounced AS i just researched it while you were saying A.

1332
01:01:26,679 --> 01:01:30,760
Jesse he is a little bit, shorter six foot hundred

1333
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,719
and seventy six. Pounds he was drafted by The penguins

1334
01:01:32,719 --> 01:01:35,519
in the sixth, round similar similar draft position to Where

1335
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:40,639
gorbranov was, picked but he was in The ushl this

1336
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:42,960
in his draft, season and then he went over To

1337
01:01:43,039 --> 01:01:46,880
Western michigan part of that and caa championship. Team But

1338
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:48,920
i'm gonna have to go With gorbranov. HERE i think

1339
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,400
he just has a little bit more. Potential he is

1340
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,679
still much, bigger he's a bit more, raw AND i

1341
01:01:54,719 --> 01:01:56,679
think that he can get up there a little bit.

1342
01:01:56,679 --> 01:01:59,760
MORE i should mention that Visn in is also a DOUBLE.

1343
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,960
O he's twenty one years old now and he's a.

1344
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:05,800
Defenseman that's a little bit of a difference. There but,

1345
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,119
Yeah i'm going to go ahead and Take. GORBLANOV i

1346
01:02:08,119 --> 01:02:11,000
think his hockey prospecting shows him at twelve percent chance

1347
01:02:11,039 --> 01:02:13,480
of being a. Star Vison in at just three, percent

1348
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:15,920
and he's farther down the. Funnel So i'm gonna take

1349
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:18,400
the guy that's a little bit more. Raw you look

1350
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,639
at the tracking data for Vison, in and there's really

1351
01:02:21,719 --> 01:02:24,800
good transition, data pretty good play, driving the passing is,

1352
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,480
excellent but then the peripherals are really. Low only eleven

1353
01:02:28,519 --> 01:02:31,360
percent for. Bash blocks and hits are all pretty. Low

1354
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,239
the shots are even pretty, Low so, OVERALL i don't

1355
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:36,119
know there's much of a peripheral. FLOOR i have him

1356
01:02:36,119 --> 01:02:38,639
as a three point zero, zero so it's pretty unlikely

1357
01:02:38,719 --> 01:02:42,800
to be even a relevant roster. Player So i'm not

1358
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:46,239
that excited about vison In. Gorbranov looking at some other

1359
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,159
comps for, him there aren't a whole lot of good.

1360
01:02:48,159 --> 01:02:52,079
Ones there are some sort of average. Producers Olig vasha

1361
01:02:52,159 --> 01:02:54,480
it is one that we looked. At there's a couple

1362
01:02:54,519 --> 01:02:57,880
of guys who are still developing right, now but, Overall

1363
01:02:58,039 --> 01:03:00,239
i'm not sure that there's going to be anything to

1364
01:03:00,239 --> 01:03:03,239
be super excited. About Jay fresh has him at just

1365
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:05,679
one percent chance of being a star and thirty nine

1366
01:03:05,679 --> 01:03:08,239
percent chance of being AN, nhlo which is pretty, PESSIMISTIC i,

1367
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:12,599
think just based on his size and relative lack of

1368
01:03:12,719 --> 01:03:17,440
progression at this. Stage but being a ball of clay

1369
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,840
that can be, molded there's some Reason frock.

1370
01:03:19,679 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 3: And victor who is to keep your eye on.

1371
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 4: PROSPECT i feel like we've been keeping our eye On

1372
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:27,559
Jack divine for a while. Now he's been come up

1373
01:03:27,599 --> 01:03:29,360
a couple of. Times he was the twenty twenty two

1374
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:32,760
to two hundred and twenty first overall pick down there

1375
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,920
in the seventh. Round he's now twenty one years. Old

1376
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,280
he'll be twenty two this. Season he's a really early

1377
01:03:38,519 --> 01:03:42,519
Birthday october. Second he's a right wing Playing he's been

1378
01:03:42,559 --> 01:03:45,719
playing the last several, seasons four full seasons At, denver

1379
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:49,519
where he was overpoint per game the last two. Seasons

1380
01:03:49,519 --> 01:03:52,920
he did get into a couple professional games for The

1381
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,599
Charlotte checkers at the end of the, season including got

1382
01:03:55,639 --> 01:03:57,840
some playoff points, there which was pretty. Cool but fifty

1383
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:01,039
seven points and forty four games after fifty six points

1384
01:04:01,079 --> 01:04:03,679
and forty four games last season is pretty remarkable. Stuff

1385
01:04:04,199 --> 01:04:07,119
all that's looking really good For. DIVINE i should mention

1386
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,320
he is six, foot one hundred and eighty one, pounds

1387
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,920
so size isn't a huge, issue but he was a

1388
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:14,760
little SHORTER i believe when he was. Drafted looking at

1389
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:16,840
THE fhl player, CARD i Have divine at a six

1390
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:19,880
point one. Five there's talent to be a little bit above,

1391
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,960
average but not a huge percentage to get. There, OVERALL

1392
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:28,280
i think that his points look really, good his, shooting his,

1393
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,800
passing all that looks pretty solid as you might. Expect

1394
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:33,679
his priffs are a little bit, lower his hits and

1395
01:04:33,679 --> 01:04:37,400
blocks are less than fifty percent thirty, four thirty three

1396
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,519
and forty four. Percent to give him seventy six bash.

1397
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:45,760
Percentile the play, driving, though is. Excellent loose puck, recovery puck, battles,

1398
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,960
fenwick net expected. Goals all that looks, great and the

1399
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,880
transition game For divine also looks, excellent especially his. Entries

1400
01:04:53,239 --> 01:04:55,880
he's pretty much a carry in and passing entry, machine

1401
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,719
which is pretty. Fantastic let's hear what else might be

1402
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:02,599
fantastic About divine from every tail Scout jesse not.

1403
01:05:02,559 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 3: Just, fantastic but. Divine, patrick our co lead, scout has

1404
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,760
this to. Say an above average. Skater he has good,

1405
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:13,480
speed the edgework is a positive passing handling or, plus

1406
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:16,119
able to carry the puck up the, eyes very good

1407
01:05:16,159 --> 01:05:20,000
at making smart passes that he keeps. Simple divine shot is,

1408
01:05:20,039 --> 01:05:22,840
average good at getting it on, net but it's a

1409
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:26,800
straightforward type of. Shot patrick doesn't see him picking corners

1410
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:30,280
or adding. Deception jack had an above AVERAGE, iq sees

1411
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,760
the play, well moves to good, positions plays with. Calm

1412
01:05:33,239 --> 01:05:35,800
he is a high compete player who is aggressive on

1413
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:39,360
the ford check and a defensively involved. Forward skates back

1414
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,159
hard and can often be seen below the faceoff. Dots

1415
01:05:42,599 --> 01:05:46,239
his playmaking via passing or in handling are his great,

1416
01:05:46,239 --> 01:05:49,599
strength but the shot is the. Concern the top outcome

1417
01:05:49,679 --> 01:05:52,039
middle six are on power play two fifty to fifty

1418
01:05:52,039 --> 01:05:54,639
five points because the skating is. Good he competes on

1419
01:05:54,719 --> 01:05:58,239
offense and, defense shows some good playmaking that keeps him

1420
01:05:58,239 --> 01:06:00,280
on the third line and gets some. Time i'm on

1421
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,039
the second, Line but the meeting out comes something more

1422
01:06:03,039 --> 01:06:05,440
like a bottom sixer with forty to forty five. Points

1423
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:08,559
the shot could use some. Work the overall tool set

1424
01:06:08,639 --> 01:06:12,519
is solid but not. Remarkable patrick says the comp might

1425
01:06:12,559 --> 01:06:15,960
be something like a lower End Brian Rust Mason black

1426
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:20,039
put up the Poll Jack divine Versus Felix, nilsen and

1427
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:23,960
this One divine was able to pull out handily seventy

1428
01:06:24,039 --> 01:06:26,960
six to twenty four. Percent what do you, Think, Victor.

1429
01:06:27,559 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 4: Yeah i'm definitely in the divine camp. Here oh that sounds.

1430
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:32,679
Fine i'm in the DIVINE i WISH i was in

1431
01:06:32,719 --> 01:06:36,119
the divine. Camp it sounds really, pleasant doesn't.

1432
01:06:36,119 --> 01:06:36,239
Speaker 2: It?

1433
01:06:37,159 --> 01:06:40,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, no in my, Book, victor you're in the divine. Camp.

1434
01:06:42,119 --> 01:06:45,519
Speaker 4: Ah, Thanks, YEAH i think this is pretty easily. Divine

1435
01:06:45,599 --> 01:06:48,159
it's it is a bit different Because nielsen is playing

1436
01:06:48,679 --> 01:06:51,920
in THE, shl so the stats are going to be

1437
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,480
a bit. Muted as a, reminder he was a twenty

1438
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,079
twenty three second round pick By. Nashville it's a six foot,

1439
01:06:57,159 --> 01:07:00,000
er one hundred and ninety two pound center slash. Winger

1440
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:02,360
he's also really young for his draft, class so they're

1441
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,239
cut opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of when

1442
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:08,880
they were Born jack In october And felix In august or,

1443
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:12,480
Sorry june still a late birthday, though And felix has

1444
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,000
been basically in THE shl the last two. Years his

1445
01:07:15,079 --> 01:07:17,360
first season twenty three twenty, four he scored three points

1446
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,199
in forty one, games so not a lot, there and

1447
01:07:19,199 --> 01:07:21,039
then last season he jumped all the way up to

1448
01:07:21,039 --> 01:07:23,639
twenty two points in forty, games so quite a bit more,

1449
01:07:23,679 --> 01:07:27,239
production but overall it's still he had quite the regression

1450
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:30,079
in terms of his star. Potential divine never looked good

1451
01:07:30,119 --> 01:07:33,920
in the hockey prospecting model because his numbers in THE

1452
01:07:34,039 --> 01:07:36,039
ushl and his draft minus one season and then THE

1453
01:07:36,119 --> 01:07:38,679
ncaa and his draft season were really. Pedestrian he really

1454
01:07:38,719 --> 01:07:42,840
popped off in his draft plus two and three, seasons

1455
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:45,920
and so it doesn't look as. Favorable but what he's

1456
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:49,079
done more recent is pretty, exciting SO i definitely would Take.

1457
01:07:49,119 --> 01:07:52,360
Divine if you look At Felix nielsen's aficial player, card

1458
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:56,000
it looks. Awful there's so much red and. Orange it's visually,

1459
01:07:56,039 --> 01:07:58,599
displeasing WHICH i know is What brandon was going for

1460
01:07:58,679 --> 01:08:01,400
when he was picking the. Color the greens and the

1461
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:04,760
light blues and everything look a lot. Better so all in,

1462
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,119
ALL i, mean you can just look at it if

1463
01:08:07,159 --> 01:08:09,599
you're a patron on the show, sheet it looks pretty.

1464
01:08:09,599 --> 01:08:12,000
Bad there really isn't anything that's great other Than Felix

1465
01:08:12,039 --> 01:08:14,760
nielsen's assists which are pretty. Good the bash is, low

1466
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:18,159
the shots are, low hits, blocks everything is pretty. Low

1467
01:08:18,199 --> 01:08:20,279
the face off winds are just a bit above. Average

1468
01:08:20,279 --> 01:08:22,720
but the transition, data the play driving, prifs all that

1469
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:26,399
does not look. Good so definitely Favors divine. Here in

1470
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:30,560
terms of some other comps For, divine there really aren't

1471
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:33,159
a whole lot that looked like him that actually became

1472
01:08:34,119 --> 01:08:38,079
the strong. Producers Jean havlock is one who was an average,

1473
01:08:38,079 --> 01:08:41,680
producer but that's pretty much. It it's disappointing there looking

1474
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:44,239
at the J fresh. Model two percent chance of being

1475
01:08:44,239 --> 01:08:46,359
a star For divine and fifteen percent chance of being

1476
01:08:46,399 --> 01:08:50,680
AN nhl are so a bit more pessimistic. There that's

1477
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:52,920
all for The Florida PANTHERS. Dig if you're a, patron

1478
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,399
you can listen to my top ten prospect recaps per

1479
01:08:55,399 --> 01:08:57,560
team On. Patreon if you're interested in doing any scouting

1480
01:08:57,920 --> 01:08:59,600
with us or helping out the, show shoot ME adm

1481
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:00,880
On twitter this quarter or email.

1482
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:13,159
Speaker 2: Us we'll be right back to will Do. Chow, well

1483
01:09:13,239 --> 01:09:14,920
we're on our way out the door for the. Day

1484
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:15,399
but don't.

1485
01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:18,319
Speaker 3: Forget you can play your games on fan, tracks all

1486
01:09:18,399 --> 01:09:21,119
the options you're gonna. Want you can get yourself in

1487
01:09:21,159 --> 01:09:25,119
the app and be using, That and, YEAH i mean

1488
01:09:25,159 --> 01:09:27,600
THAT'S i try to play all of my leagues, there

1489
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,520
because first of, all once you start playing your league, somewhere,

1490
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:34,640
geez just just play them all. There i'm you, know

1491
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:37,840
it's all right to play diverse. FORMATS i think that's,

1492
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:41,840
Cool but a fella just only wants to set lineups

1493
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,439
in so many, plays so many places on a daily.

1494
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,680
Basis SO i hope you'll give it a, try because

1495
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,520
they're the most options, there and you can do rookie,

1496
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:52,960
drafts you can do slow, drafts all of those types of.

1497
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:57,520
Things and when it comes to fan, TRACKS Hq they've

1498
01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:01,119
got some great content that people follow to get their

1499
01:10:01,159 --> 01:10:05,359
hockey news over. There and in addition to, that you

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1501
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1503
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1504
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1505
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1506
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1508
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1510
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