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Here's your host, Jesse Severe and Victor Nuno.
Speaker 3: Fantasy Hockey Live. Jesse Severe with you, Victor Nuno with you?
How do today, Victor?
Speaker 2: I'm doing awesome, Jesse. I was traveling the last week.
I was in New Jersey on the East coast time,
and it was there for the trade deadline and everything,
and it just a reminder this has happened multiple times,
but just a reminder of why people on the East
Coast don't care about West Coast hockey because man, I
was out cold by tonight. There's no way I was
watching any of that hockey. But glad to be back
on the West Coast and being able to enjoy it.
How you doing, my friend, it's a victor.
Speaker 3: I can't even sometimes I can't even make it to
the start of some of those games, much less to finish. Yeah,
it's no good man, Yeah for sure. All right. Yeah,
the trade deadline has come and passed, and I'll tell
you I was watching the coverage live and I was like,
this is just awful, and they were just sitting there saying,
apparently no trades. There were just a couple of trades.
And then after the deadline we found out about all
the trades and there were plenty of them, Victor and
so in retrospect now it was exciting, but the coverage
was less than rivening. I would say a lot of
people goofing around. That's how the breaks come. Sometimes maybe
it's best to just tune in at the very end.
But there were a lot of prospects who moved Vick
her and so today we're going.
Speaker 2: To talk about them.
Speaker 3: Are you fired up?
Speaker 2: Was it good?
Speaker 3: Was it a good deadline for your purposes?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it was interesting, as you said, And
it was funny. I was at a conference on one
of the guys there talks hockey with me, and so
he was saying, like, you know, what's happening, is anyone
getting traded? And I said this early on, a few
hours before the deadline. I said, everyone's waiting till the
last minute. They're playing chicken. No one wants to be
the first one. And I knew that a bunch were
going to come out at the last minute. And boy
did they. It was like rapid fire and after the
treadline would they have to be filed by the three
pm Eastern deadline. But we didn't hear about a lot
of them until hours later, and it was fun. It
was like, how many more are going to keep coming?
But there were some good ones and so there was
definitely some interesting trades that happened, and yeah, it was
definitely interesting and we're gonna yeah.
Speaker 3: On thirty two thoughts. Friedman said, there's one of them
where one of the pieces of paperwork came in one
minute late and it didn't happen, So that's hilarious. Yeah,
don't wait for so long. People sometimes at backfires unless
you did it on purpose, maybe you decided, maybe I
cold feet, you put in paperwork a little late. Anyway,
we are here to talk about that trade deadline, and
we're going to need so right after this victor. There
are a lot of players traded on trade deadline day,
but there is one group of players that you and
I are specifically excited to discuss, and that is the prospects.
The guys who got traded that nobody had ever heard
of in this thing, and then some guys who were
a little more prominent who people had heard of. But
we're going to go through prospects traded at the deadline
and try to give people a little bit of enlightenment
on who we're dealing with. Some of the takes a
little shorter, some of them a little longer, but nonetheless
we're going to try to give people an idea of
whether this is an opportunity to grab some people in
their dynasty leagues. Are you good to go on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, and just a little bit more on that.
It's one of the most important things sometimes is just
knowing who who not to try to add right, that's
just to say move along, And so that's what we're
gonna try to do for you. And this, in case
anyone's wondering, did follow a article that I wrote at
for the Journey. It's actually a two part article, so
the one that by the time you're listening to this,
they both should be out. But there's a part one
and a part two for that, and so definitely check
that out over at Dauber Hockey.
Speaker 3: So let's start out with a trade from actually March first,
in this case the Wild and the Philadelphia Flyers. Roman
Schmidt goes from the Flyers to the Wild. The little
right d a third round pick in twenty twenty one
by Tampa who's moved around a bit. Big fella, great,
big fellow, but only one point twenty nine games has
Roman Schmidt. Where the Wild getting in.
Speaker 2: This guy, They're getting some beef. He's a big guy,
six five two eighteen and yeah, he's definitely you're talking
about three two thoughts. I heard that. I heard about
the Bill Garren's love for American hockey, which he was
the GM for the team, and I didn't realize that
they only have two Canadians on that roster or three now,
and so anyways, this guy is Roman Schmidt is American.
He is dual citizenship, but he was born in Michigan. Anyways,
that's interesting and probably why Bill Garon wanted him. He's
definitely depth on the right side, big guy. He's some
physicality there and so that's what they're getting. I don't
think he's going to score or in any way be
fantasy relevant. So just one of those things where it's
you probably aren't, should not be interested in him, and
so I would probably just move along from Roman Schmidt.
But it's good to know that, especially in deep leagues
where he maybe you get some stats from him because
he might creep into the lineup. And in case you're wondering,
he does hit and block quite a bit, usually a
hit per game and over a block per game. Not
a big shooter. Maybe there's some bangs there for you.
Speaker 3: Washington had two big trades of the deadline, the big
one in the little one started with a little one,
not the littlest one. But Nick Dowd has done good things.
He's even in our common team Victor that we co managed.
He did have some heroic measures for us a couple
of years ago. I remember Nick Dowd fondly, fondly from
those days. But Nick Dwd goes to the Vegas Gold
the Knights at depth centerman. Washington gets back a couple
of picks, but they also get back a guy named
Jasper Vicman, a goalie, and his say percentage hasn't started
with a nine since twenty twenty two to twenty three
when he was in the WHL. So he feels like
a throw in here, but hey, he's a six to
four Swedish goalie, Victor and he takes on Vicman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the biggest take is that he's got pro size
and he's NH already. Washington's pro scouting has just been elite,
and so I think that's one of the biggest things
that you have to think about, is Okay, he's maybe
they see something. They saw something and a lot of
players that others didn't, and it's turned out pretty well.
Maybe not so much this season, although I don't think
you can discount the absence of Pierre Luc Dubois this
season for the Capitals. I think that was a huge
factor and where they are in the standings. But I
think I think that Vicman is probably not anyone that
you're gonna have to be super excited about, but that
that Henderson Silver Knights team is a bit of a mess,
and so sometimes playing in the AHL can be really challenging.
As we've seen, some of the guys make some improvements
when they switch organizations or potentially get a spot, and
who knows, Jesper Vickman may get that spot. He's got
good size, he had. You're right, he hasn't really had
a good season since his WHL Dames when he played
for the Vancouver Giants and before that in Sweden. But
he's been up and down between the AHL and the ECCHL.
The other thing that Silver Knights do that not a
lot of organizations do is that they have way too
many goalies in the AHL, So it's really hard for
anyone to get a consistent rhythm. And so I don't
necessarily think that just forer Vicman' is gonna be much,
but hey, you could take a flyer on him, and
of all the guys we're talking about today, he's certainly
one that you never know. He's a goalie and he's nhlready,
He's the right age, he's had some pro experience, so
stranger things could happen. I wouldn't rush to get him.
But in the deep enough league, heck why not.
Speaker 3: Out on the West coast, we had a couple of
defensemen moving up and down the coast. Jet wu We've
talked about him a number of times over the years.
From Vancouver goes down to San Jose in return for
Jack Thompson. Wu is twenty five. He's not much of
a scorer in Abbotsford, although he's been the al captain
for a pretty successful Canucks team up there, and you
got Jack Thompson. He's had more of a taste of
the NHL at least, but I don't it's a challenge trade.
Maybe two guys who are looking for a change of scenery.
I don't get it, Victor. Who's got the better end
of this trade?
Speaker 2: Probably no one. And by the way, you said his
name wrong, it's Jet Woo.
Speaker 3: Don't go Rick Flair on me, Victor.
Speaker 2: That's how you got to say his name. That's just
the rule of Adam make Um. Yeah. No, I don't
think anyone really benefits too much. Jet wu is, Yeah,
we have talked about him. He was such an exciting player.
He's got this really dynamic skating and offensive ability at
least a junior, but since he's been in the AHL,
it has just not translated at all. In fact, he
peaked a few seasons ago at Abbotsford with exactly half
point per game, which is probably the last time we
talked about him, thinking maybe he can build on this.
Spoiler alert, he did not, and he's progressed since then
and hasn't been really been able to do much. And
so at this point he's probably like a tweener or
a career AHL guy, and maybe he can make something
of that. But I don't think that there's much possibility.
Maybe if he switches organizations in San Jose, could he
do something. I seriously doubt it, but he's a guy
who you know, is probably past his prime and probably
not going to be able to do too much, and
so that's what I would say about him. Jack Thompson
is interesting. He has been a good depth guy. And
when we had Sheng Peng on I think it was
last off season, everyone was thinking like, who's going to
be the power play quarterback and he was talking about
how a lot of people like Jack Thompson, and I
remember thinking like, that's a surprise. I didn't really see
that coming. He did come from the Tampa system and
he was good in the HL. He definitely was able
to run a power play. That was before Luca Coagnoni
came and started running the power play for the Barracuda,
and Thompson did get some NHL games. And so I
think in terms of who's getting the NHL or it's
definitely Vancouver. I think that he's certainly more likely to
play NHL games, and so if you're in a league
that really counts that, then that's something I would look
forward to. But the reality is I don't think Jack
Thompson or Jet Wu was going to really do anything.
And it's like thirty two team leagues. Certainly i'd rather
have Jack Thompson, but the reality is that in anything
shallow were probably neither of these guys.
Speaker 3: All Right, pass on that one too. Maybe we got
a little more to talk about with Jonathan Castana. I'm
gonna pronounce it like lasagna because that's how it spelled.
Victor could be castagna. Oh man, I am hungry dog
gone it. I haven't eaten. And anyway, Castania is a
big ole forward from Cornell University, scoring very well in
the NCAA this year. And Mackenzie Wiger, as we all know,
went from Calgary to Utah. A bunch of stuff came
back Olie Modas salary, a couple of or three second
round picks as they cleaned out their basement full of
second round picks they've been accumulating. And then this guy,
a twenty twenty three third rounder from the tough years
of the Coyote draft. How about that one of those
guys who back when we didn't trust anything the Coyotes
were really doing in the draft outside maybe high first round.
This guy has gotten a value that Calgary is looking
for him coming back. Is there buried treasure in this
man up in the IVY League. I don't think it's
the IVY League in hockey, but Cornell's always IVY League
to me. Of Jonathan Castagna, the centerman going to the
Calgary Flames Victor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually, this one is probably one of the more
exciting ones. And it's funny. After I wrote this article,
a couple of people added him in leagues that I
was in. Of course, I was so focused on writing
the article that I forgot to actually add him in
a couple leagues. So Jonathan Constagna, definitely go add him
if you can. I think he's someone who's interesting. One
of those leagues. I didn't really have space anyway, so
it was fine. But he is a bit of a
late birthday actually, and so April twentieth he's still twenty.
And he was drafted in twenty twenty three in the
third round by the Coyotes, as you mentioned, and he
went from he's one of these guys who went from
the aged the OJHL and basically college in Canada to
straight to the NC DOUBLEA, which is a really crazy
hard jump. And he pretty much was great right away,
twenty five points in thirty five games in his first
NC double a season. He regrets a little bit last season,
but this season he's over a point per game for
Cornell with thirty two and twenty nine. That's some pretty
awesome stuff In terms of why he went so late,
probably just because of where he played hockey in his
draft season. Playing in college and in Canada isn't usually
a recipe for success to be drafted and what guys
do who typically have super high aspirations. And that's probably
in case you're wondering he's not small or anything like that.
He's six two over two hundred pounds and so he's
got good size and mobility and all those things. He's
definitely someone who I would be interested in. And I
think that in terms of the price they paid to
get weaker, I think that Calgary did really well. This
is a promising prospect Mada as an NHL or they
could probably flip later and they got a bunch of picks.
So yeah, definitely go get Castagna, though I think that
I'm curious to see what happens with him. He'll be
eligible for the HL if he can translate this scoring
to the HL then I think there's a serious player
here who could be realistically middle six. But I second
line is certainly not out of the question for John
Gosagna Jesse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get those Calgary Flames fans excited because there's
certainly goetting several bites at the Apple this year, including
the Rangers pick might be juicy in the second round,
but yeah, moving off and mckenziwiger is tough. I'm sure
now onto a trade that happened between Nashville and Vegas.
Vegas gets another little piece of help of Cole Smith.
Nashville gets a far future pick twenty twenty eight, and
they get Christopher said Off, who is a defenseman. I
feel like the Golden Knights trade away so many prospects
that finding more Golden Knights prospects is almost like cryptozoology
at this point, like trying to find Bigfoot? Are there
any left? But they did and this is he said Off.
Is he going to have an impact this left defenseman
on the Predator's future?
Speaker 2: Probably not. I think that this is probably brief unfortunately
for set Off. I think the main thing that they
got for Cole Smith was that pick, and so we'll
see what they do with that pick. Set Off has
been in the AHL for Henderson. He's twenty four, decent size,
decent mobility, all of that. But he's been in the
AHL for three seasons now essentially and hasn't really scored
much at all. I wouldn't expect him to do more.
He has twenty eight points in I'm trying to do
some quick math in my head about one hundred and
fifty games. That's not not anything to get super excited about.
So I would definitely not be going to add Christian
Christopher Setoff. And in case you're wondering about his bash,
he does. He does a decent amount of hitting him blocking,
not shooting. So if you literally just wanted to hit
some blocks, then sure, But I don't think that he's
really going to be featuring in the NHL, which doesn't
help you acquire hit some blocks. Jesse. Last time my.
Speaker 3: Check, No, it does not know.
Speaker 2: It does not Victor.
Speaker 3: Next trade up, we have four guys in this trade Victor.
We need to luxuriate in this a little bit, so
let's take him one at a time. Philly gets Brett
Harrison and Jackson Edward Boston gets Masimo Rizzo and Alex Gendron.
Let's start with the last guy first, Alex Alexis Gendron.
This is fun. It's Oh my goodness, my Amazon Echo
has activated after I said Alexis Gendron. But anyway, Kendron
was sixth from the end of the draft almost mister
irrelevant only missed it by a couple of spots back
in twenty twenty three, and at twenty three years old
now he's rounding into form in his third go round
in the American Hockey League. Not a huge scorer, he's
a little short of five eleven, but it seems to
be maybe something going on here. You gotta love a
guy who's fought the odds that much. What are the
Bruins getting in Alexis.
Speaker 2: Keandrin, Yeah, probably not much. There's some potential there. He's
someone that we did talk about because after he was drafted,
as you mentioned super late in twenty twenty two, he
did end up putting some pretty decent seasons together in
the Queue, increased his scoring, and then when he went
to the AHL, he was just about half point per
game in his first season, and then this season he's
been a bit under that He is an undersized, skilled
winger that doesn't really do a whole lot away from
the puck. In fact, if you look at our Fantasy
Hockey Life player card, you can see that his play
driving transition, like all of these things, these underlying metrics
that kind of show whether you can generate offense are
all pretty darn terrible, and so I don't really think
that there is much reason to expect Alexis Gendron to
be able to do more. He does go to a
system in Boston that has a little bit more opportunity there,
maybe that's helpful, but I seriously doubt that there is
much here for Alexis Gendron. I have him rated at
just a four point three four, so I don't think
he's going to be even an average roster player. So yeah,
I wouldn't I wouldn't get too excited about him, unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well, shoot, let's hope the next piece
of this puzzle was more exciting to you, Victor, and
that's Massimo Rizzo. He was a part of that great
run the University of Denver had a couple of years ago,
and now, of course he's headed to Boston from Philly.
His performance didn't maintain at that point per game plus
pace that he put up with the Pioneers. Now that
he's in Lehigh Valley, or was in Lehigh Valley with
the Phillies last year and this year, his stats are
now showing in the ECHL, which I don't know if
the story is behind that, but that ain't good when
you go from the A to the EC. Should we
be worried about Massimo Rizzos? We shouldn't be worried about him.
Should the Bruins be worried about him? Is this a
guy who still is on the upswing.
Speaker 2: Victor probably not on the upswing. I remember we talked
about him in one of those episodes and he was
way over performing at Denver, and it's something you always
have to think about when someone's performing that well. You
have to really consider the context. And those Denver teams
were just absolutely stacked. They were super good, and he
was an important role on that team, and he had
some good depth scoring. He was over point per game
in college but looks great. But I remember saying at
the time, I don't really think this is going to continue,
and I think when he transitions to the pro, he's
probably going to have a little bit of hard time
scoring and we'll see what happens. And what happened was
not great, as you mentioned, not great for the Lehigh
Valley Phantoms. He was well under a half point per
game last season and this season didn't even make the
AHL team and was sent down to the ECHL, where
he's close to a point per game. So that's somewhat helpful.
And some of his underlying numbers that you can see
on the Fantasy Hockey Life skater card are some what reassuring.
Now you got to remember this is the ECCHL, but
his transition numbers and some of his play driving numbers
actually look pretty good. Here. Some of his expected goals
and offensive creation looks good. So maybe there's something I
still and I always thought Rizzo could be like a
bottom to middle six complimentary player, someone who maybe scores
like thirty to fifty points somewhere in that range. Possibly
if everything breaks right for him, and I still think
that's possible, he could resurrect his career. So of all
the guys in this trade that you outline these four,
it's probably Brizzo the one that I would be the
most excited about. But again, temper your expectations. He's still
playing in the ECCHL. I would imagine he gets a
look with the Providence Bruins, and so we'll see, but
there's still a long road for him to even make it,
make himself relevant in even the deepest of leagues. Yeah, unfortunately,
temper expectations of it.
Speaker 3: Over on the Phillies or the Phillies. I'm in baseball
mode the Flyers acquiring part of this trade, Victor. We
have two players. First, Let's make Brett Harrison centerment. Maybe
we'll see not a big score, but he has a
long track record in the AHL. Maybe the kind of
guy you need to fill out that roster at this
time of year. What do you think of Brett Harrison, Bicker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is organizational depth going the other way.
I think Philly probably thought those two that were giving
up probably aren't even gonna make it to the NHL
or not be impactful NHL as even if they do.
And I think that this move was entirely to shore
up their HL depth. And so that's what Brett Harrison does.
A lot of his underlying numbers don't look great at all,
but he's someone who's got a size he's and what
is Philly always right? Size and physicality right, So they
got a guy who's maybe a little bit more in
their style. I don't think that he's gonna make the NHL.
Maybe he didn't score much, but he is a bigger
physical presence that maybe someday could be like a fourth
line checker. But again I wouldn't hold out hope there.
I think he's a depth kind of guy.
Speaker 3: And the one defenseman to move around in this trade
goes from Boston to Philly, that is Jackson Edward. And
he went from a couple of years ago he was
warning a letter for the London Knights, then he went
to the HL, then he went to the ECHL. So
things are the trajectory, much like Rizzo is not going
necessarily in the right direction here. Does Jackson Edward do
anything for you, Victor?
Speaker 2: Not really? But I guess the thing is that he
hasn't played a whole lot the last few seasons. As
you mentioned, he transitioned from the O to the A
with Providence a few years ago and had a fine season,
didn't score a lot of points. It was his first season,
and then since then he's had a bunch of injuries,
and it hasn't played more than thirty five forty games
in the two seasons combined, so there's a little bit
of an issue there, and so maybe this fresh start
will be helpful for him. He's already played some games. Sorry,
he played some HL games with Providence this season, so
we'll see where he ends up. I don't think that
there's much to be excited about with Jackson Edward, unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Another frequent flyer Victor on our show is Lucas Richel,
and I remember earlier this year. I've been listening to
a lot of Canucks talk on the podcast this year
Victor and the Canucks were moderately excited when they got
Lucas Richel for a pick this year, and then they
traded him for a worst pick at the end of
this year to the Boston Bruins. Just it doesn't seem
like Lucas, who's had a few opportunities now with Chicago
and Vancouver, is going to fit into an NHL role.
But is there still hope for Richel? Can Boston do
something with him?
Speaker 2: It's hard to say. Never could something happen? Sure, I
don't I wish the best for him, but I think
in terms of like asset management. I don't think Lucas
Richel is in any shler. It's just not based on
what we have seen. And if he's had multiple stops,
now he's had multiple opportunities to figure this out. I
think some people were maybe giving it to Chicago a
little bit, like maybe they mismanaged him, and maybe maybe
some of those things happen. But now he's he got
plenty of opportunity with Vancouver both in the HL and
the NHL, didn't really show much, and then now he's
moving on to yet another organization and there just isn't
much that he's shown that can actually be good. And
if you look at his entire NHL career and at
all those stats and plug them into the Evolving Hockey chart,
he's tenth percentile for offense, six percentile for defense, and
an overall two percentile. That's not an NHL player. That's
well below replacement. That means the top guys that are
coming up can take your job. And so I wouldn't
be surprised if he goes back to Germany soon and
finished his career there. We did see him at the
Olympics and he looked fine on mostly overwhelmed Germany team
in a lot of those games, and in some of
the games when they played the lesser teams, he looked decent.
That's probably the level where he's going to need to
be at, and maybe he'll go back there and have
a good career overseas. But I don't think Lucas Rikles
and NHL are and if you have him, I would
try to sell him right away to anyone thinks Boston
can rehabilitate him, because otherwise I think you'll probably be
dropping him all right, Victor.
Speaker 3: And another guy who's been discussed over the years here
a little bit, Graham Clark of formerly or recently the
Washington Capitals, but now he's over with the Ottawa Senators.
He's moved around from a couple of different systems. It's
Brent Clark's big brother, by the way, El Winger who's
going to the Ottawa system been in the NHL before
a couple of years ago. Do you think he'll be
back at some point, Victor.
Speaker 2: No, not really. I think his biggest claim to Fay
is going to be he's the older brother of Bran Clark. Unfortunately,
that's why he is a forward who's one of these
guys who does a lot of things really well, but
nothing exceptionally well, which sometimes can translate into NHL success,
but in this case, I'm not sure that it will.
And he's had some decent point totals in the AHL,
and I think that's important to mention. His best season
was his second season, I guess, his second full season,
and it's trended down since then, which is never a
good sign. And I think that first season there was
a lot of COVID impact to the HL, and remember
when they had all that going on, and that certainly
weakened some of the rosters, and so he may have
benefited from that situation. If you look at his AHL
stats from this Fantasiaica Life card this season, it looks
pretty awful. A lot of his play driving, a lot
of his corsey, puck battle, loose puck recovery, all these
things look pretty bad. The main The one thing he
does really well is shoot, and if he gets the
if he gets a clear opportunity to get a shot off,
he actually has a pretty good shot and increases his
expected goals based on each shot. Yeah, I guess there's
a chance, but I just I doubt it's not super
high on Graham Clark. We all the guys who we're
going to talk about today. He's certainly not the worst,
but he's probably in the middle and guys that I
probably wouldn't take a chance on unless you're in a
super deep league. And he's already five HL six AHL
seasons into his career, and what is he played now?
Three NHL games? Could he get more than three? Maybe,
but I don't think it'll be much more than that.
Speaker 3: Itazac Rosen. Buffalo was not going to finish his deadline
without a solid defenseman coming back, and they brought back
two from the Winnipeg Jets, and Logan Stanley and Luke
Schen in their stead. Eat Zac Rosen comes with Jacob
Brison and a twenty twenty seven second rounder. Rosen's one
of those recent first round picks I think we've discussed
in other episodes. And he's been between the AHL and
NHL for three years now, so he does have experience
in the bigs Winnipeg, even the Winnipeg's making a late
run here this season, presumably is thinking about the future
at this point. He's thrived in the AHL. Has Rosen
with a circup point per game type scoring. He debuted
in Winnipeg already after his arrival. Can you get behind
eat Zac Rosen Victor.
Speaker 2: Well, he's definitely an intriguing case. And we First of all,
I just want to talk about this trade because I
think Winnipeg did awesome here, not just because they got
Rosen and Bryson, who I think are dep guys that
might be able to help them in the NHL, but
I think just losing Logan Stanley and Luke Shen are
actually a plus as well, because those guys are not
good play drivers. Shen has really slowed down and struggled,
and Stanley I never understood why they kept him over
some of the other options. But he's big and physical
and I think that's a big part of what they like.
But he gets pyloned a lot, and so that's not
helpful when you're trying to win. So anyways, I think
that they did really well. But back to Rosen, He's
had a really interesting trajectory and there was actually a
documentary that covered his sort of coming over to North
America and how difficult that transition was. And it's good
for him for he's been awesome in the HL. The
last couple of seasons, he's really If you look at
his numbers, he has increased the year after year in
the AHL. I've on this podcast been skeptical of his
ability to really translate it fully to the NHL, but
he's clearly one of these guys who's knocking on the
doorstep and should get an opportunity. He is still a
bit undersized. I guess he's grown up his six feet now,
but he was one of those guys that Buffalo had
all those sort of undersized wingers, where they had Savoy
and they had Rosenne and they had you know, and
then they drafted Zach Benson, who everyone was worried about,
but he's been great. And then they've had some other
guys there that haven't totally worked out, so they've moved
on from a few of those, which I think is
smart because you can't have too many of the same
type of player. And I think that there's a decent
chance that gets an opportunity, But I don't know that
he's really going to fully translate it. A lot of
his numbers at the NHL level are not great, but
you look at his HL numbers and they also have
some mixed data. A lot of them are like a
lot of his transition game and play driving is not great.
Some of his net expected goals is decent. He's clearly
a really good shooter and has some playmaking ability. But
this the underlying numbers on a fantasy coculfe skater card
in the AHL are not that of someone who's too
good for that league, which his numbers suggest. His raw
numbers suggest, but when you look deeper, it doesn't really
seem like he's driving play as he should, as someone
you would expect would who really is ready to take
the leap to the next level. So I am skeptical
honors end of all these guys. I would like to
have him because he's close and has been performing well,
but I think I would rather sell him actually than
just see how it works out, because I think at
best he's maybe about a fourth liner or something like that,
with some skill, but not someone that I'm super excited about.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Victor, let's take a break, come back and talk
a few more of these prospects who moved.
Speaker 2: On double you. What are you going to do to
get me that? Selfish hockey? That's right, selfish hockey. Break
it down, skate the box, don't pass it.
Speaker 3: Headman's still going to be there when you catch up with.
Speaker 2: Taking coast to coast shots and poor angles are still shots.
Bad balance, that's a good breakaway.
Speaker 3: Gotta get the bounce boys back from the break Victor,
this is sometimes the time when you might tell people
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Fantasy Hockey Life.
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Speaker 3: All right, Victor, let's talk about David Yurachek old Victor
nunial favorite. He's finally free. Minnesota is accumulating players to
help him stand up to Colorado and Dallas and their
attempt to rehabilitate this guy who is didn't work out
his first run in Columbus and now has not been
able to catch home with a major role here. They
are moving him to another place, Philadelphia, who's done pretty
well rehabilitating some defenseman in recent years. It was particularly Zellweger,
but also came York? Did Cam York start out there
or Victor Or? Is it maybe he started out there?
But no, he started out somewhere else and they've pulled
him up. Anyway, Could they help David Iraicek help him
rehabilitate that potential that he once showed. They traded for
Bobby Brink and Philly is going for the young man.
What do you think here?
Speaker 2: Oh? Sorry, you're asking where Cam York start? Yes, he
did start in Philly. Sorry I misunderstood what you're saying. Yeah,
this is interesting and the more I think about this
about Billy Garret and American players, the more it's all
making sense because he traded David Earrachek for American born
Bobby Brink, who's actually from Minnetonka, Minnesota. And actually there
was a funny comment about him saying, you're not coming
here to hang out with family and buy them their
own tickets, You're here to work, and it was like, Okay,
that's funny. But anyway, So back to Eurrachech, Yeah, he's
someone who I've been a fan of for a long time.
I like his hockey, echt, his physicality, his shot. But
the reality and the concerns were always there from the beginning.
I thought initially they were a little overblown, even with
the knee injury, but the reality is I just don't
think the guy can move well enough, and that when
he plays at the higher, faster levels, he just can't
pivot and turn and he ends up getting pyloned and
turned around. And that's not conducive with the ability to
play at the NHL level, at the fastest level. So
when we have seen him in the NHL, and I
think the Wild gave him a decent chance, they gave
him twenty five games, they gave him twenty four in
the AHL. None of it looked particularly good, I would say,
and there were moments and you can still see why
people were excited about him because he has he makes
some good passes, he can be physical around the net,
he's great. His defensive impacts in general at evolving hockey
have been well below average, and his offense isn't nearly
special enough. And you look at his Fantasy Hackic Life
Skater card and you can see all the poor transition
and play driving that just are not conducive with being
an NHL player. Unfortunately, I've had to recalibrate and adjust
my expectations, and I think you have to do that.
You can't just dig your heels in and say what
I saw four years ago was still valid. Things evolve
as they go through different levels, and unfortunately I'm just
at this point. I don't think David year Check's going
to be in NHLer, and so I hope Philly can
rehabilitate him. But I think the most likely scenario is
that he's a tweener or he goes back to check
YOUA and has a career there. That's unfortunately how I
see it, Jesse.
Speaker 3: That's too bad. Next up, we've got Aiden Thompson, who, yeah,
a lot of it is involving Chicago over the weekend,
and Derek Puliot goes from New York to Chicago because
presumably they need defenseman. Aiden Thompson goes back and return
another one of these Denver alumps, who, like mesmore Rizzo,
who we talked about earlier, has not been able to
maintain the great scoring pace he had as he's moved
into the AHL. His debut in Hartford though, as he
comes over to the New York system featured two assists.
That's a pretty good start. Certainly Chicago needed that depth
with the guys they moved, But did New York get
a good potential depth guy in Aiden Thompson.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think the jury is out as much
on Thompson. So you know, if all the guys we're
talking about, I think he's someone that you may want
to speculatively add. As you mentioned, he was awesome at
Denver his last season, fifty five points in forty four games. Great,
and he even looked decent in Rockford in the HL
right after that Denver season, but then his foot or
his first full HL season just fifteen points in forty games.
But you know that Rockford Ice Hog's team is very
weird because they're independent and they have the way that
they deploy their guys and give them ice time is
a little bit strange. So maybe this will be a
good thing for him going to Hartford and see what
he can do there. He certainly is not settled in
terms of showing us everything he can do because he's
only really had this is his first real full HL season,
so I think you still got to give him the
benefit of the doubts. So I like this ad for
the Rangers as a retool or rebuild or whatever you
want to call it. And you look at Aiden Thompson's
fantasy ackic like skater card, and you can see that
there are some real positives here. Some of his play
driving is either great or good. Some of his play
driving that I say his transition is great too good.
Some of his play driving is average, and some of
his offensive numbers are decent. A lot of red on
this card in general, so not great. But again, this
is his first foray into the AHL, so I think
you give him a little bit of a pass and
see what he can do and what he can build
on with his time in Hartford. So Aiden Thompson, I'm
still a little skeptical that it's gonna be much because
he's still an undersized winger at five to eleven point eighty.
But I'm willing to see what he does after this
season and full season in the HL. SO still holding
out some judgment there, but I have him on my
fantasy Calculife scare card rated at at three point three four,
which tells you I don't think that it's really going
to work out for him, but he's definitely a guy
who probably benefited from a change in situation. And we'll
see what happens with Aiden Thompson. I think that there's
some possibility there.
Speaker 3: Next, we've got the great Braden Shin trade. The old
Captain finally moves out of Saint Louis. We're told that
Patrick Wah showed up his hotel room because they were
both staying in the same hotel and talked to zero
off until he agreed to wave his note trade Claus
and go to the Islanders. But they had to give
some things back. Did the Islanders to the Blues? Jonathan
Drew on a first and a third round pick and
a goalie named Marcus Goodlough. And that's the fellow we're
talking about today. I can tell you this. He's a
big boy. He's a very large boy. That Marcus goodlof
Kat actually liked him off season. I went back and
read her notes and she was somewhat positive on goodlof
Saint Louis has a long history of developing goalies. Actually
his say percentage is a little bit down this year
is Goodlofs. But part of this complete breakfast in terms
of that shin re turn, so he's part of that
whole thing. Bennington could go. There's been talk maybe Bennington
can go. Whoso has not quite turned into what we expected,
Maybe whoso could turn into could get off because he
hasn't been in North America in Sweden. Could he come
across the pond and fill the gap?
Speaker 2: Dictor Yes, this is actually the guy I'm probably most
excited about on this episode. So yeah, I definitely like
it off. And I was someone who was stooting his
horn for a while now, not just that he's huge,
which he is, six 't seven, is a big guy
two twenty three, and sometimes those big guys don't move
so well, but he does, and he was. This is
something people often say too, Oh the Islanders have Serroken,
He's never gonna play, And I always point out all
it takes is one little trade. Obviously the Islanders are
not trading Sorocan, but very easily could trade Goodlof at
which they have now and going to the Saint Louis system,
he immediately becomes the most interesting guy. And it's pretty
clear that the Blues don't have a cemented forever starter.
Bennington has been up and down. Joe Koefer has been
pretty good. He seems like the next starter, but he
doesn't seem like he's locked in forever right. He's someone
who could be unseated at some point, Not that it's imminent,
but Goodlof has been really good Sweden and he it
was really good at the World Juniors. He last season
he had two games and one point thirty eight JAA
and nine thirty eight save percentage, so in the times
the opportunities he got, he looked really good. He also
has been great for Jick Garden and the qualification for
getting back to the SHL, So he just has a
pretty decent resume for a guy who hasn't had a
ton of opportunity, and so we'll like to see him
get a little bit more obviously, but he's only twenty.
He's really old for his draft year kind of guy.
He's a September twenty eighth birthday, and so that's interesting
to track. But he still has a ways to go.
But I think that if he comes to North America,
could be a couple of seasons until he's in the NHL.
It wouldn't be that out of the question. And based
on his size, this guy, Marcus Goodlock, is going to
get opportunity after opportunity. We've seen that already. Big goaltenders
who even if they don't perform super well, are just
going to continue to If they have the size, they're
going to continue to get opportunity after opportunity and just
the way it goes. And I think it's important to
know that when you're thinking about asset management, because good
Luck certainly is going to have that. I think about
Mad Soguard in Ottawa, whose Danish goalie, the Great Dane.
He's also six seven, he's twenty five now, and he
has gotten multiple opportunities at the NHL level. I don't
think you could say that any of them have really
gone well, but just the fact that he's that big,
he continues to get opportunity. He's had thirty one opportunities
over five seasons has mad Soguard, and none of them
have gone particularly well. He's eight to seventy seven goalie
in that time with negative goals save above expected, And
it just goes to exemplify that guys goalies of that
size are going to continue to get opportunity even if
it doesn't go well, Whereas if you're a smaller goalie,
you might never get a chance or might get one
shot and that's it. So go get yourself some. Marcus Goodlough,
I think he's probably the one I would run to
to go get right now.
Speaker 3: Nice. It's good for Saint Louis. They got something going there,
and we certainly know that the New York islenders might
have themselves goalie for a while. So let's move on.
Dmitri bukel Nikoff goes from Detroit to the Saint Louis Blues.
Those Blues just keep acquiring. Is part of the Justin
Faulk trade. At age twenty two, he's already got three
seasons in the KHL, where he's managed one hundred and
eight points in one hundred and sixty nine games.
Speaker 2: Not bad.
Speaker 3: He's a little on the shorter side, but I've heard
some decent things about this left winger. Can bukel Nacoff
contribute in Saint Louis, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: He's someone we've been following after being a second round
pick in twenty twenty two. His KHL tenure and it's
been going pretty well. That that is a really difficult league,
and he's been playing in it since since a young age.
Only being twenty two and having basically three full seasons
now in the KHL is really solid. And I think
another exciting thing is that he is done with this
KHL contract after this season, so he could come over
after this season. And this is a really smart move
by the Blues. I think they I think they did great.
Probably won the trade the line with a lot of
their acquisitions and not trading Periko or Robert Thomas. I
was just really smart or pirou right, So they kept
a lot of their best players and got some other
good young players. I think pe Konnikoff, he is five'
ten one to seventy So he's, small but he's. Crafty
he's really dynamic with the. Puck he's not super, physical
but one thing THAT i always look at for the
smaller players is loose puck recovery and puck battles, won
and he's elite at both of. Those so he doesn't
shy away from the, physicality doesn't throw a ton of hits,
necessarily but he protects the puck and he can win
a lot more of those battles than he. Loses his
transition game is. Excellent he's a really good. Playmaker So
i'd be low key pretty excited about becol n the
COFF i think they're getting a little full in terms
of their top six and some of their prospects that they're,
graduating but Be komlikoff certainly could settle into a middle
six role and might get some more exciting. Opportunities so,
Yeah i'm pretty excited about. HIM i don't think he's
going to be amazing by any. MEANS i have him
at a six point two two on My Fantasy Sackical
Life skater, card which means that a six is just above.
AVERAGE i think he can be a just above average,
player but that's only a twenty two percent, chance so
not super, likely but maybe he'll be just an average roster,
player which in deeper leagues is pretty.
Speaker 3: Helpful let's talk About Max kuran In Maximilian karan that
this is a GUY i THINK i saw high in your, Rankings,
victor to the point WHERE i picked him up in
a league the other day in one of our. Dynasties
the third piece coming back in The Nozam kadri, deal
along with a couple of high picks And Victor, olofsson
who presumably is a little bit more about the salary.
Bounce in addition to retained, Money karen will probably have
a clear route In alberta than he would have In
colorado because there are opportunities galore coming up For flames.
Prospects AND i don't want to put words in your, Mouth,
victor BUT i think this guy with somebody you might
have liked a little. Bit what do you think Of
Max current going To.
Speaker 2: Calvary, YEAH i definitely did like him when we talked
about him after The World, juniors BECAUSE i remember saying
before this is someone people are going to realize it's
actually really. Good The colorado system is not super deep or,
great And i'm not surprised at all That calgary insisted
On koran being included in The Nasam qadri. TRADE i
think that they did really. WELL i, think as you,
Noted olison is. WHATEVER i think we know who he,
is but they got two good picks and a good young.
Player So koran is definitely someone THAT i think people
are learning more about and are really should be excited about.
HIM i also, noted AND i always like to note,
this he's An august twenty seventh, birthday just two weeks
away from being eligible for the following. Draft and that's
part of why he was taken twenty pointy four so,
late is that he didn't have spectacular numbers in THE
whl that, Season but if you regress him by a,
year he was well over a point per game in
HIS whl, season and now he plays for The Edhapton
Oil kings and he's having an even better. Season so
there might be something. Here we'll have to wait and
see what. Happens he's going to The university Of massachusetts
next year in THE, ncaa so we'll see if he
can translate that. Scoring but he was definitely one of
the more important players for That chechia team in The
World juniors was like a star or anything but important and.
Peace and you look at his fantastack life skater card
and there's just all green. Everywhere like his transition play,
driving he hits a fair. Amount he's got a really dangerous,
shot good. Playmaker SO i like maxicarn a lot if
he can translate it to THE ncaa and. BEYOND i
think That calgary may have a player here and they
have no reason to hurry, him, right they can just
be patient and see what he. Does SO i really
like this move for. Them.
Speaker 3: Yep next Up victor. Again a man who has been
freed Is Brendan oathman of The New York, rangers and
he's going For Jacob battaglia of The Calvary. Flames So
bataglia to The, rangers old, think gets his fresh start
up In. Calgary let's talk about these guys one at a.
Time let's talk About, bataglia because this is The rangers
backing up to earlier in the, funnel Because oathman's a
little bit more of a finished. Product But bataglia was
in THE, ohl or he's been in The, ohl where
he's captain of The kingston front And, acts but he
was recently traded in THE ohl. Too how's that got to?
Feel traded in The Canada Hockey league tradered in THE
nhl within a couple of months of each. Other in
the four years he's been in THE, o he's notched
one hundred and four, goals one hundred twenty one assists
and two hund twenty five total points in two hundred
and sixty one. Games he's still only nineteen years. Old
the logic makes sense. Here Does batagulia have a similar
upside to the other side of this? Trade who will
discuss in just a.
Speaker 2: Minute i'm not, sure but as you, SAID i Love
you've always talked about the, funnel AND i think that
makes so much. Sense why not get the guy who's
farther from knowing exactly what he is and being a finished?
Product and SO i think from that point it totally
makes sense for The. Rangers i'm sure as a player
he noticed THE ohl trade much more than THE nhl
organizational trade because that impacts his day to day, life
and he hasn't been as good in THE ohl for
The flint And firebergs as he was for the front and.
Act we'll have to. See he definitely has regressed a
bit and a lot of his metrics when you look
at HIS pnhle and hockey prospecting and all, That battagulia
has certainly fallen off this season in terms of what
is expected of. Him has pinancially has fallen off a
cliff really in, half from nearly sixty to just under,
thirty and so we'll have to see if he can
bring that back. UP i think that there is certainly
possibility that he, can and we'll see where he goes after.
This he's going to be twenty in about a week,
here AND i don't know if they'll put him in
THE hl or what he'll, do but he certainly isn't
dominating junior right now like we thought he might and
like he did last. Season so that's. Unfortunately you look
At bataglia's underlying, numbers and his transition game is, great
his loose pep recovery is, great some of his offense is,
great but a lot of his play driving has really
struggled this, season which is not something you'd like to
see in someone who is supposed to be a top
prospect and one of the best on his. Team so,
YEAH i think that it makes sense to get someone
a little, younger further earlier in the. Funnel But i'm
skeptical About battaglia and whether he'll actually make an impact
in THE nhl at this, POINT i haven't had a
four point seventy five on my ranks fair. Enough but the.
Speaker 3: Old man Side, victor he's been waiting In New york for.
Years he would get up a little. Bit he wasn't
producing very. MUCH a former first round, pick you would
think now he should get a good long leash In,
calgary although it seems like there's a lot of people
who were maybe gonna get a leash. There although when
they brought him in they did start him in THE.
Ehl what does an oathmen breakout look? Like and are
we gonna get one In? CALGARY i should.
Speaker 2: Hope so he's someone That i've liked for a long,
time AND i was really hoping and thinking that The
rangers were going to put him in and it seemed
like they need hit his grit and, physicality and Then
Will cooley, happened And Will cooley just leapfrogged him and
provided The rangers with everything That authman could, provide and
so it was a strange and unfortunate For authman that
he didn't really get the opportunity to show what he could.
Do he did get seventeen. Games he's gotten a handful
of games with The rangers in a couple different, stants
but it didn't really work out for him so well
in THE nhl when he was, there and SO i,
think like of all the guys that got traded this,
offseason this might be most helpful For authman because, he
as you, said he is farther down the, funnel and
so we think what we know he. Is but maybe
he can reinvent himself with a new. ORGANIZATION i think
we've also talked about how there's a lot of skepticism
with how The rangers develop prospects and, players AND i
don't think they have a particularly good track. Record so
going to a new, organization maybe we'll really rejuvenate. Him
this season hasn't been so good for him in THE,
hl but he still bashes a lot offman someone who
can provide, that AND i still think that he can
be an average roster player just because of the peripheral
content that he. Brings the perferal contributions that he. Brings
his offensive and defensive impacts at THE nhl level have been,
average but which is fine if you're a big. Basher
if you're a big basher and you're getting middle six
minutes that in some leagues can be pretty. Valuable SO
i still think that he can get to that, point
but he's going to have to show a little bit
better and we'll have to wait and see what he
can do in The calgary, organization starting first with The.
Wranglers it seems first impressions there haven't been super. Great
he didn't have any points and was minus fall or
so we'll have to see what happens With. Outhman BUT
i do think this is one of the best, things
that one of the best situations that happened to any
of the players who were traded this. DEADLINE i think
that he really needed a change of scenery and he got,
it AND i think that it's up to him to
make the most of it now and we'll see if
he can be a relevant. Player, Jesse So i'm hoping
that it's true For.
Speaker 3: Othman all, Right, man that is our trip through the traded.
Prospects doesn't it sound, like, wait there's a lot of young.
Players there's obviously a lot of, stars a lot of veteran,
depth but maybe not the most exciting crop of young,
guys but nonetheless some players who you better pay attention
to because who knows if they'll thrive in their new.
Situations any last thoughts on this trade, Deadline, Victor.
Speaker 2: No feel free to if you're a, patron reach out
to me about any of these guys or any of
the guys that are. TRADED i think one of the
most important things and lessons in this is always who
do you just give up on? It in? Trade? Right
because one of the worst THINGS i think you can
do is hold on to someone for years and years
and then they just end up becoming a tweiner and
playing hundreds of games in THE ahl and never really making,
it and then you just wasted that roster, spot. Right
SO i think really knowing when to give up and
move on is actually really. Helpful and so that's what
a lot of this episode was permission to give up
on these guys and move, along and so hopefully that
gives you space to give another. GUY i try.
Speaker 3: Very, Good. Victor going to come right back after this
to close out the show.
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