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He is the man behind in NHL Draft bus Elite Prospects,
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Russ Cohen, How are you today, good, Jess, how are you.
I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I'm ready to talk
some Flyers with you. And I don't know, Russ. My
short version of looking at this season is there's a
couple of really cool things for us to talk about
that happened this year, but overall it seems like a mess.
It ended with John Tortorella gone as coach, Flyers fourth
in the bottom of the NHL standings, which could be
a good thing, and at the very bottom of the
Eastern Conference. Actually under fifteen percent conversion on the power
play was better than only two other teams, but actually
a lot better than the year before, as I believe
management pointed out when they were confirmed, with that three
percent better than the year before, but they couldn't stop
the pocket. Of course, the goalies will come up a
little bit later. Despite allowing the eighth fewest shots against,
the Flyers had the NHL's worst say percentage, which pretty
much did the men on goals against the Flyers and
Daniel Briert. They've been one of my favorite offseason teams
in terms of really respecting the way they've approached their rebuild.
But where did the season put them? Russ? Is this
the dark right before the dawn, or does the loss
of Tortorella the aful finish indicate the team is behind schedule,
so to speak.
Speaker 1: No, this is just I think even though they always
said the right things, I think they felt like after
that one year of towards where they advanced that maybe
they were going to continue on that. I didn't think
so they didn't. So I think this is just natural
in the rebuild process because again, there's no guarantee in
this league year to year unless you're that team that's
always making the playoffs. If you're even Colorado now, is
going to have problems in the future. Maybe not the
near future, but but coming down the pike. There's a
few teams, the teams are in the Stanley Cup shore
and so they're not one of those teams. So they're
one of those teams that in any giving year could
be eight to ten points out of the playoffs or
two three spots near the bottom. That's how rebuilds work.
But I think their hope was they were going to
get to speed up the process, maybe like the Rangers
did back in the day, and now you see that
it didn't really help them. So I think right now
that are not behind, but the place that they probably
are behind is in net.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, there were some good things, and one of
them is Travis Connectney. I'm interested to hear about your
take on Connectney in the last year for the team.
You certainly can't blame him. He led the team in
points and buy a lot. His cistally of fifty two
beat his prior high in assists by fifteen and led
to a career high in scoring. He pushes up against
about two and a half shots per game. He hits
more than once a game. There's some very good peripherals there.
Part of me thinks, is a guy like this at
the height of his powers, would now be the time
to trade him to build on the next deadline? And
then I look at the cap sheet and realize, oh no,
he has got an eight year extension. The Flyers signed
him to start right now, so obviously Breer and company
think of him as a long term piece for the
team and modified no move clause eight point seventy five
million for the next eight years. He also had a
bit of a slump close to the end of the season,
and I saw some coverage about that, a little bit
of talk, but look at it as overall stats amazing.
Was this a career season for connect Me? And do
you expect another leap or did the end of the
season maybe suggest some regression to come.
Speaker 1: No. I think he's reaching his height, but I think
he could stay there for a while. I wouldn't have
given him the eight years, although I really like him
as a player, And that's just simply because the cap
tells you that a player like this is probably not
going to be that effective in year seven and eight.
But look, they want him there. He's proven himself. The
thing is about the end of the season. So yeah,
we all asked him about it, and he copped to it.
He the four nation did not help him. It was
not his friend. There was not enough playing time there,
and there was extra attention brought to that, and he felt, yeah,
you know what, it made his season longer in a way.
And so that was something he has to adjust for
now because he might be on the Olympic team. And
so if he's going to be on the Olympic team,
he now has to figure out how to not have
a swoon after the Olympics, because that's he's not going
to get that time off. And the way he plays,
he expends a lot of energy every game. He gives
it his all every shift, right so that's a battle
for him. That's something he's going to have to figure
out this off season and we'll see if he can
or not.
Speaker 3: Indeed, we're gonna talk about one of the younger players,
Matt Vane Mitchkoff. Of course, it was his first season,
and I'd have to say it was a success. Sixty
five point pace, his first quarter and his last quarter
were his best, and time on ice definitely increased towards left.
But I think there's no denying his offensive ability. It's
defensively that has been great. He looked at his rampum
chart and he's deeply in the red in terms of
his expected goals against in coursey against. The limited minutes
due to defensive engagement might continue under Tackett, another guy
who's known to care about all sides of the puck.
So Russ wondering what you think about Mitchcalffs season and
will he be able to build on that sixty five
point pace to get past seventy or will this defensive
responsibility or engagement lack of engagement continue to limit some
of his upside.
Speaker 1: No, he can get past seventy, no question in my
mind he could do that. Towarts was definitely responsible for
some issues with him. Yes, he was overstressing the defense
on him for a while, and it definitely was weighing
on him, and it definitely cut down on his points.
He at times actually played okay defensively, but then I
do think it all got in his head and so
Tuckett is going to want to play strong on both
sides of the puck. But I think he is going
to let Mitch Coop be more like himself than Towarts
let him. And if he does that for a whole season,
he'll get more points. He still might be a minus
twenty at the end of the year, but you have
to just let that sort of take its course. The
Flyers aren't expected to win, so there's no reason not
to play him regular minutes. I don't think brick Tockett
thinks he's they're making the playoffs this year, so he
should have seventy seventy five points and continue to improve.
He may get some different linemates to play with, they
may try something in free agency. We'll see and when
that's like where they're at. But his season was really good.
I as far as for the for the calendar voting,
I had him third. I did. I had him ahead
of a Wolf because I felt like Wolf wasn't as
good as he was down the stretch, so I put
him ahead of Wolf. But whatever, I had Hudson first
and celebrity second, and I felt like he could have
been in the top three but he wasn't. So will
he have a chip on his shoulder? Yes? Did he
want to win that award? Yes? I know that for
a fact. Hey, a lot of great players haven't won
the Calder. I'm not going to hold him back.
Speaker 2: Owen Tippitt has been a man on the rise for
a while, but this year, with twenty one goals twenty
two assists in seventy seven games, it was a slow
start to his new eight year contract that he's on
for a reasonable six point two million. His lines were
really moved around a lot, it seems like looking at
the season, which is understandable if the Flyers were trying
to find something that really worked and he had low
level deployment near the end of the season. Results were
not on the score sheet, but his expected goals about
replacement and even strength offense were actually second only to
Matt Veay Mitchikoff on the team. So yeah, that's what
I thinks to say, is it okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's right. Hiring because they moved the lines
because of him because he wasn't producing. He has to
prove that contract. He hasn't proven it yet. The issue
with Tippett for the last two years has always been
missing the net and when he thinks about when he
gets a play and it's on his stick, if he
doesn't think about it, it gets on net, and a
lot of times it scores. If he has the pucket,
he thinks about it and then shoots. He misses, and
so he's needed a shooting coach for at least two years.
I don't think they've given him one other than whoever
the team hires for skills, and they're going to get
a different person this year. But he needs an actual
shooting coach because he misses the net too much.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The one thing that was taken out of his game
this year because probably because he wasn't effective for so long,
was the fact that he used to be able to
bring the puck down the ice and kind of make
something happen at least a couple times a game, and
he would score those a lot of times that would
fire up the team, those were few and far between
after a while, so that Tacket will probably bring back.
It's hard to find a good linemate for him because
of this up and down syndrome that he's got, and honestly,
with the contract they gave him, they thought he would
be like a thirty thirty five goal guy and he's
yet to do that. And if he doesn't do that,
then this contract is not going to be reasonable.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, we're going to do a bit of
a points to come here. Now we're going to talk
about Tyson Forster and Bobby Now Forrester, they both had
in the low forty ish points this season. So we
had Forrester with forty four points, twenty five goals and
eighteen assists, and then in eighty one games with sixteen
to fifty two time on ice, Both these guys ended
up having just under two minutes of power play time
on ice and Brink had forty one points, twelve goals
and twenty nine assists in seventy nine games and a
little bit quite a bit lower time on ice, just
fourteen fifty.
Speaker 4: So what do you think about the role for these two.
Speaker 3: Well, one of them increased in which one would you
consider would get more points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Forster is going to get a lot more points.
He's going to increase. He's much better on both sides
of the puck, and he's physical at times. If they
get him with the right linemate, he definitely can score more.
He's got a heck of a shot. I think with Forrester,
thirty goals should be possible. I don't know if it's
going to be this year, but it should be possible
for him. Sixty points should be possible. That's those are
things that he's capable of doing, either on the first
or second line. And then with Brank, Look, he's not
going to get that kind of power play time as
they get better. He might not even get it under
Rick Talcket and the up and down nature of his play.
This was his best season for points, but he still
hasn't really cleaned up his skating enough where he'd say, hey,
he's a really good skater. He's getting by defensively, he's
pretty good guy. He's feisty. He could lose his place
on this team very easy in the next year or two,
and so this is a big year for him, Like
he has to prove that he can really stick. But
I don't think he's getting two minutes of power play
time this year.
Speaker 2: Sean Katurier is another player of great interest here. He was, evidently,
according to the folks who observed the end of season stuff,
the not necessarily the best friend with the Tortorella, or
at least he was a little bit disconnected from the man.
It's bad news when the captain year team isn't on
the same page as the coach. The big man. Sure
he is. He had another flyer who will be signed
up for the long term. Hasn't been the same kind
of score since he missed that whole year in twenty
twenty two, twenty three. What did you see with Sean
Couturier this year and what are we expecting going forward?
Speaker 1: Yeah? With Katurier like still he has to fill in
at one or two see because of their lack of
center depth, so that that kind of hurts them a
little bit. Because at the beginning of this season he
always comes out gang gangbusters, but the back has still
been an issue. He won't talk about it, and that's fine.
He cuts it out. He makes great defensive plays. He
still could win big defensive draws. Occasionally, he'll look like
the right guy for three four games in a row,
and then he'll fade a bit. The contract's a bad
one only because you know of the back injury. Before
the back injury, that contract looked great because he was
winning Selkies and doing terrific. He's not that guy anymore.
Can he still get forty points?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do you have this year?
Speaker 2: This year he had fifteen goals, twenty nine assists. He
had forty four points.
Speaker 1: Forty four points, yeah, so he could be in that range.
But he used to be a guy that could have
gotten sixty five or more. So forty four points is
about right for him. Maybe with Tockett he can get
up to fifty. And he's still good defensively, but he's
just not the same guy. But he's still valuable for
the team. You can't trade him. The contract's untradeable. You
can't buy him out. It's too long of a buyout.
So they're going to get the most they can out
of them. But for a fantasy option, what you saw
this year is pretty much what you.
Speaker 2: Get, all right? And is there anybody else on the
team you think could hit a fifty point pace? And
in Philadelphia this the next year.
Speaker 1: For fifty points, you would think Jamie Drysdale could. I
think that's gonna be Rick Tockett's number one job is
to try and get Jamie Drysdale those points, because again,
their power play was so bad and they Rocky Thompson
should have been fired a year ago, but he wasn't,
so that power play suffered for two years. Drysdale should
be the league guy in the power play. Drysdale should
be allowed to take the puck up the ice more.
He started to play better later in the season, but
his offense still really hasn't kicked in the way it should.
Is he capable of getting fifty points? I used to
think so, Now I have to wait and see on that.
So I would say Drysdale is one and Sandheim obviously
could get fifty points. He might get sixty this year
because Tackett's going to use him even more offensively now
that he's bigger and stronger and faster. The Four Nations
did a lot for him. He certainly got himself on
the map, and he's been getting better a little bit
better every year now under Tackett. I think there'll be
a little bit more of his offensive play that might
be able to come out. So I think that's for him.
Noah Cats is the interesting one. He just got signed.
Could he get to fifty That might be the highest
he could get. So I think if you made a
bet that if Tacket open things up a little bit
and Kate's wasn't in such a defensive role like he
was with Towarts, could he get there? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Well, let's I want to ask a couple of follow
ups on a couple of the defensemen he talked about.
Definitely Drysdale. Is he's a mystery box this guy. Yeah,
only twenty one points in seventy games last year, and
yeah he had the most minutes on the power play
among defensemen on the team. But we just talked about
the power play, how awful it was, so dry. You
think without Rocky Thompson, Drysdale could really take this up
a lot. He's not been able to show that promise
since maybe that one year in Anaheim that he had.
He just hasn't shown. It's what is the problem there?
Speaker 3: You think.
Speaker 1: It was some of the things I mentioned before that
this joint of power play is definitely something like at
one point they had off Owen Tippett on his off side,
Like why would you have a guy with a big
shot like his on the off side, Like, he couldn't
do anything on the off side of the power play,
so it was totally dysfunctional for a while. But Jamie
could certainly shoot more. He certainly could shoot from better angles.
I think that would help him on the power play.
I think if he is allowed to have a little
more freedom bringing the puck up the ice, I think
he still has that creativity. His skating's really good. His
skating's excellent, and he can create offense. If he's out
there at times with a Meach Coop and those guys,
his points total should rise. So it really does depend
on who he's out there with. His game got a
little safer for the second half of the year, so
that may help him with Talcket, but there's certainly more
offense to give. I don't know if it's as high
as what I once thought though. Yeah, I mean he's
definitely going to improve on that total from last year,
that's no doubt. But they have to figure it out
because he's only got one more year left on his contract.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'll give you the pick him with the two,
and you just talked about Travis Sanheim, who definitely was
like he was suddenly the rock star during that world
with the Four Nations. Everybody's talking about Travis Sandheim and
how great he was there. He ended up having thirty
points for eighty two games, which is a Travis Sanaheim
mich season. He's not necessarily your high score. And then
waiting in the wings is the declining Rasmus Wristol line.
And shall we say we used to love him in
fantasy because that guy shots, blocks, hits and points and
power play. He would do all the stuff for us.
He's definitely on his way down now. But then again,
John Tortorella is gone, so I don't know if that
means the re Rasmussen of the Philadelphia Flyers or between
those two is san Haim far and away? And does
Risto have any place in the coming year.
Speaker 1: San Haim is far and away the guy that should
be able to get to fifty points because Schwartz kind
of held his points back early in the year as
far as usage and such, because he was doing everything.
He couldn't be out there for everything. And I'm not
saying he's going to get much power play time. He
probably won't, but I think he can get more five
on five points with a team with a little better,
more open offense. So I think you'll see that. Naturally,
Risto is going to have a role. He is constantly
getting hurt. The latest is that try he's supposed to
and the problem is so he got the triceps operation late,
so now it's going to run into training camp. He's
supposed to be ready for camp, but you know how
that is. So then it's like he hasn't played in
a while. I wouldn't be expecting a lot of points
out of him. I think when they were playing him
on the power play before he got hurt, was so
they could trade him. But he's not that power play
guy anymore. Can he pass the buck?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna score much? No? So he can get
he might get you twenty five points, but I don't
think you get much more than that. But he's a
really good defensive player. But for fantasy I wouldn't touch him.
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about a guy you may want to
touch in fantasy, and that's Cam York. Seventeen points in
sixty seven games, twenty one point pace. Previously he had
three points in eighty two games, and we were thinking
that maybe he could take a step here and that
things were looking up.
Speaker 4: It was a pretty quiet year overall.
Speaker 3: He was averaging two minutes of power play time in
the previous season, but only about nine seconds last season,
despite pretty similar total time on ice, and overall he
does do pretty well with block shots and hits. He's
just under four total of those per game, which is
pretty nice, and the total time on ice helps with that.
He's an RFA this season. Evolving Hockey is projecting a
three year deal just over five million, And I will
point out that even though sometimes people think of him
as an undersize, not very good defensive defenseman, the underlying
stats would disagree with that. A lot of his expected
goals against in course he against, looked very solid. I
just don't know if the offense is going to come.
So what do you think, ress, Is he going to
be able to get more offense than twenty thirty ish
point pac or is that kind of where he'll be stuck.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He was very offensive with the NCDP
and all of that, but what quickly started to show
here in Philly was that on the power play, his
shots not very accurate. He misses the net a lot.
Is he a really good puck de striper on a
power play?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: At the end of the year, did he look toniff
that they never really gave him a chance to get
back on the power play? Yes, So I think he'll
be given a check and we'll see if that could
help his point total. I mean, he is a good defenseman.
You got to remember Towarts has played him on his
off side for a couple of years too, and so
that was definitely going to be a learning experience and
that definitely cut into his offense. He is a good defenseman.
He's not a great defenseman. He is reliable. He will
play a lot of minutes. From a fantasy perspective, he's
not that physical, so he's not going to give you
a lot of hits. So, yeah, you're hoping for that offense.
I think they'll be a little increase. I can't tell
it's going to be huge, and I'd be surprised if
that contract is right As far as the av I
think it's going to be higher than that based on
the stupid prices that we're hearing out in the in
the universe with the cap rising so I don't think
they'll get him that cheap, but I think there's a
chance he'll be traded too.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good to hear. All right, let's move on
to the other guy that I want to ask you about,
and that's mL Andre. I've been a huge fan of Andre. Yes,
he is small, he's still only five to nine, but
I would.
Speaker 1: Argue he has a grown So that's true.
Speaker 3: He has not grown, but I don't think he plays
a small man's game. He's always been very strong. He
had forty two games with the Flyers, seven points in
that time. It was the first year up that previously
he had four games, and it seemed like Towarts was
a fan he tended. I guess we'll see what talk
it feels about him. Not a lot of points, but
he averaged a little over a minute power play tom
and ice and three point five to two total block shots.
Speaker 4: And hits per game.
Speaker 3: Not bad, although you'd hope for a little bit more.
But overall, you look at the underlyings and his expected
goals for and against were both really good. He was
driving play on not a great team, so I think
that there's reason for optimism that Andre could give even more,
and I would imagine would be in line to at
least get a look on the power play and see
how he does next season. So what, Russ, what did
you think of Andre's season and where he can go
from here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Andre is terrific on the power play. They didn't
utilize him there at all, bit hardly at all, So
there was that Towarts was a fan until he wasn't.
He Andre was doing pretty well when he got sent down.
The team had winning record with him. So like the
numbers that you're seeing was he was a lot of
the reason why, because all of a sudden that there
was this guy. You put him in the lineup and
he does create offense. He is a good skater. He
is a really good passer. Once in a while he
would have a gaff and I think he can clean
that up. And he can be really good on the
power play. But you have to use him on the
power play to know that he does have a good shot.
He does get feisty, and he will if hits count
in your league, it'll count, they asked. They have said
to him though, basically, keep yourself out of harm's way.
Like Bobby Brink used to have that problem. So I
think they Andre is learning how not to get creamed
on shots like getting checks, and I think there's definitely
could be an upswinging points here. It's really going to
be hard to tell how many, because I think, just
like Andre is deserving of getting a shot on the
power play, they might go with Drysdale first, York second,
and then maybe Andre as far as that would talk
it through something like five forwards and put Connecti or
Mietchkoff at the power play quarterback. He might, so then
that would impact Andrey too. So I don't know how
they're gonna do it, but I expect big changes on
the power put.
Speaker 3: Well that's good here, especially considering how bad it was. Yeah,
so let's move on to the goalie. Speaking of bad,
the Philly goalies were ranked fourth and expected goals against
per sixty, but they conceded the twenty eighth ranked actual
goals against. So it doesn't take a genius to realize
the goalies were a huge part of the problem in Philly,
And let's talk about a couple of them. They had Erson,
who I know Torus has liked for a long time.
He had a tough year all around. He had negative
twenty twenty negative twenty two goals save above expected A
delta Finwick were bad. I know he had some injuries
along the way, and he battled. He really worked hard
in there, but it didn't quite work out. He's in
the second and final year of that one point four
or five AAV and then I've been Vetotov got in
there for a couple dozen games and he didn't look
great either. His goal save about expected negative twelve, and
he's in that second and final year of a maybe
more money than he deserved.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say definitely that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they gave cal us Off a few games.
It didn't seem like he was quite ready. I'm not
sure what's going to happen with him. I know there's
been a lot of drama in that, So I guess
the lots of questions here Russ that there's a lot
of uncertainty with the goalies. None of them that they
currently have seem to be all that great and need
to really potentially revamp what they have in net. So
what do you think is going to happen next season?
Who's going to get the majority of the starts and
are they going to be worth holding in fantasy, it.
Speaker 1: Could be somebody else, like they're definitely looking for a goalie,
so that's one. Danny Brier's hold is holding steady, saying
that Alexei calls up still on the roster, but he
didn't go and play for Lehigh during a playoff run,
so he doesn't want to play in the AHL. He
did for a little while and now at the end
of the year he didn't want to go down and
go on a playoff run, So that's not great. So
I don't know if anybody's going to want him or
what's going to happen with him. I having for Dodoff,
I think would go down if they sent him down,
wouldn't love it. But he's getting paid really well, so
I think he just would look with nothing is to nothing.
No situation he could get in would be worse than
what it was in in Russia. Right, So he's a
good guy and I think you would be amenable. But
he did have some really good games. I think the
problem with Avian Verdodov is he's not that goalie from
the World Juniors because he missed development time for lack
of a better word, being on the Russian front, term.
Being on the Russian front right, he didn't get to play,
and when he didn't get to play, it hurt his development.
So we're still seeing he's a rookie in the NHL,
like we don't know if there's more to give. At times,
he can be frustrating for the opponent because of his size.
At times he could be frustrating for his team because
he'll leave out some big rebounds. We'll see. I think
Erson does better internationally. He definitely was okay in the
Four Nations and they used him in the World Championships.
He'll probably play forty games for no matter who's there,
they'll probably split time. Could he be better, Yeah, but
so far history tells you what you saw this year.
What you saw lat year is him. I followed him
ever since he's gotten over here, and I like his attitude.
I like the way he is, but he just seems
to always give up that one goal where you say
that one's not good. He gotta go on nice little
streaks like a good goalie would, but he also can
go on the other streaks where he has these games
where he's given up the bad goals. So I think
he's okay. I think he's more suited to be the
one bee, and if they get things to work out right,
they would get another goalie and then he would be
the one be. If they don't, then he's going to
get the lion's share. I don't envision Fiddoff wrestling the
job away, but I'm not telling you that Sam person's
got a great grip on that job either. It wouldn't
take that much.
Speaker 2: Who has a great grip on us? Is you rust
going because you got a book coming out and now
you got to go find that tell people about you know.
Speaker 1: Hard to find? Yeah?
Speaker 4: On Amazon?
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, all right?
Speaker 2: Can I get it on my kindle?
Speaker 1: You can get it on his kindle?
Speaker 2: Because if you just said no, I'd have felt really bad.
But yeah, no, that's good.
Speaker 1: You can.
Speaker 2: What's it exactly? What's exactly about Russ?
Speaker 1: It's the fiftieth grade, It's the fifty greatest goals. Myself
and Matthew Litner wrote it in NHL and Olympic History,
Olympic Hockey history. So if this show airs before Father's Day,
you could still get it on a kindle before Father's Day. Yeah,
it's really good. We would say that team wise, there's
a lot of Islanders, there's a lot of flyers. Like
I said, there's Olympics in there. There's Women's Olympics in there,
so there's a goal. There's a hint there from that.
There's Winter Classics in there, because some of those were
pretty dynamic goals. Not everything is a Stanley Cup game winner. Like,
there are the goals out there from other games and
other playoffs and such. So there's some big names in there,
some names you've never heard of. There's some funny stories.
And there is a coin flip involved in one of
these games. That's how go far. It goes back to
when they just did a coin flip. Imagine that. Yeah,
it's a fun book. We also rate how the goal was,
Like basically that goal was a five or five or three,
so we I think it was out of five that
we did it, but I might have done it out
of three. I can't remember this moment. But we did
rate the goals too, and we broke it down both
Matthew and I wrote it gave our perspective and it
was fun because the reason we had to make it
just NHL and Olympic history is because then otherwise everybody's
just going to be like, well, what about the Men,
what about not the Men Cup, the Summit series? What
about those kinds of things? Is Paul Henderson in it?
Is it? But it's now there's just too many other
things out there, so we had to narrow the scope
a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it sounds like the scope is still in
a wonderful range. I hope people will go out and
check out that book, check out all the working you
got going online. Russ, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks guys, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: That's good fer my goodness with a quick gram.
Speaker 1: Now it's your weekly goalie talk.
Speaker 2: But Kat Silverman Kat's Instincts.
Speaker 3: Time once again for Cat's Instincts. With Kat Silverman of
Ingold mag we're talking Philly goalies. The Philadelphia Flyer goalie
experiment continues, and we're so we got some interesting options here.
I think it's more of an experiment at the NHL level,
at least so far. But we're gonna start with Yegor
Zavirigan six two and eighty three pounds, twenty twenty three
third round pick. He'll be twenty this summer. He's still
super young. He's actually still nineteen as we're recording this,
and he played forty three KHL games this season as
a nineteen year old and he absolutely killed it. I
would say he was playing for scott Saint Pete, which
sometimes can be challenging, very high profile team. He was
loaned out to Sochie for a little bit also look
good there and was really good in the playoffs. So
not a whole lot to complain about. His hockey prospecting
looks like a direct line straight up from thirty seven
to fifty one to sixty two percent chance of being
a star. Sometimes I feel like these Mahl numbers are
a little wonky, but he's looking really good in the model.
Just guys like Ilias rokn and Dominic Kashik as his
main comparable. So you probably need to talk Flyer fans
off the ledge here A little bit okay with Zavrigan,
But what do your instincts tell.
Speaker 6: Us about oh Man? I think Flyers fans need to
be as calm as possible because they have such a
tough system and such a tough environment for any goaltender
to come into right now and looks really good. I
think his saves selections look really easy, and by that
I don't mean that he is facing easy shots, he
makes this simple move. He doesn't always look like he's
just flying around out there, which should make for an
easy transition. That being said, their last good Russian goaltender
who looked like he was making really constant, consistent, confidence
safe selections over in Russia came over to North America
and has had a few growing pains. And I think
until Philadelphia proves that they are not going to rush
goaltenders directly from Europe into the NHL, I can't say
that this prospect is going to thrive because I really
don't like what they're doing with their prospects right now.
I think they're They're probably the team that I think
has the worst development system, not just in terms of
the players that they have, but in terms of the
way that they're developing them, at least in goal league wide,
and it's really not close. So I think the Ragen
looks really good, and I think that it says a
lot that his numbers look good not just in the
SKA Saint Petersburg system, but also when he was loaned
to HK Sochi, which is not a team that has
quite as much money and prestige thrown behind it. That
is something that when it comes to both CSK and
Moscow and SK Saint Petersburg, that sometimes you see goaltenders
who really seem like they thrive, and it's because they're
playing for what essentially amounts to the Olympic national team
against everyone else, So it's like having it's like we're
in space jam here. When he was loaned, he looked great.
And there were a couple of times when I was
going through some of his game footage that I thought
he was playing against kids his age, and I was like, Oh,
this save looks really good, but how would he look
against a KHL team? And then I would double check
and I was watching game footage for my KHL game,
So that's promising. I just think that Philadelphia fans need
to prepare for the worst and pray for the best
with their goaltenders for the next couple of years. I
think the team needs to prove that they when they
bring him over to North America, if they get a
chance to, will do a good job of easing him
into playing in North America. And I need to see
them bring someone who is a good, consistent, high performing
mentor in their goaltending depth chart, because right now they're
doing a lot of salvage yard stuff, which I love
a good redemption story for a goaltender as much as
the next person, but it makes it really hard for
any of them to thrive when everyone is fighting for
their career. There.
Speaker 3: Hopefully Egor's Averrigan can avoid being thrown in Gulag for
a year, and if that happens, that'll also help his
transition to North America. All right, let's move on to
the other goalie for the Flyers. That's Carson Bjarnison, and
he was a city six foot four ton seven pounds
twenty twenty three, fifty first overall pick, and he's also
pretty young. We're recording this he's still nineteen. He'll be
twenty this summer. So they have a couple of really
young goalies in their system where they are very promising.
He had his second WHL season this year for the
Brandon wie Kings, and his numbers improved.
Speaker 4: Overall.
Speaker 3: They were a little bit above nine hundred save percentage
last season. He pumped out up to nine thirteen and
he dipped his GA under three. All good signs, and
he will be eligible to move on to the AHL
next season. So that's where we would expect him to be.
He did join the team, but didn't get into any
games during their playoff run. So looking at the hockey
prospecting model for Barnison, he's stuck in the high twenty
percent chance of being an NHL R. So he's got
some comps of guys like Alex Georgia of Connor Ingram,
Chris Osgood is one that he looks a fair amount alike,
and he was Snaverage starter. So, Kat, what do your
instincts tell us about Carson Barnesson.
Speaker 6: It's nice that he has some comps that are honestly
pretty solid NHLers. It's always a little bit alarming when
you look at the comps and it's a bunch of
guys who you know in Siri that they played hockey,
but you have no visual recollection of them ever playing
a game that you watched. And basically his entire list
is people that, even if their careers have been a
little up and down, are people that we have watched
succeed on NHL ice. It is also nice seeing the
Flyers take a chance on a North American goaltender. Sometimes
I get a little concerned when teams only take Canadian
and American goaltenders, but then it seemed like the Flyers
for a while there were only taking European goaltenders who
might get thrown into the gulag, which was a little
concerning when it came to finding good development paths that
were going to fall weren't going to create log jams anywhere,
and be Arneston is playing in I would argue, still
the best defensive league of the North American junior leagues.
I think the WHL still does a really good job
of allowing their goaltenders to flourish, and I know that
sometimes that can create kind of iffy comps because they
are playing behind systems that really give them a chance
to thrive and sometimes they're not necessarily playing against the
most dangerous offense night after night. But watching his games,
he looks really crisp, he looks really confident, He's got
really good foot speed. I liked his debts management as
much as you can for a major junior player. I
think it'll be interesting to see how he develops moving
into the Flyers system because he's come from a really
nice structured team. But I think he could be a
really good ad. I think it also helps that he
doesn't have Carter Heart level prestige thrown on him. We're
not looking at Flyers. Fans aren't looking for him to
come in and fix everything. So he has a little
bit of a more pressure free transition into playing in
North America, which I think is nice, or not playing
in North America rather playing in the Agel. He's already
in North America. He's in Canada.
Speaker 3: Indeed, that is a fact that sounds good. And yeah,
it is good to have two guys that are different
in terms of their trajectory and their track. So that's
all good. And thanks so much CAF for giving us
your instincts on the Flyers' goalies.
Speaker 2: Will be back right after this dig, the dynasty dig.
They'll a Delphia Flyers additioned the Flyers who they have
the number twelve system in the National Hockey League and
they're blessed with picks number six, number twenty two. And
you may know whether it's thirty one or thirty two
by the time you're listening, but we don't because it
depends on the Stanley Cup Finals. It starts Victor in
terms of their present prospects with the no brainer, who
is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the no brainer is going to be Jet Luchenko
twenty twenty three, thirteenth overall five eleven, one hundred and
ninety pound center slash swinger, probably a center. He primarily
played in the OHL for this season for GWELF. He
did play four games with the Flyers there were some
good moments. He also played some moments some games with
Lehigh Valley towards the end of the season, but primarily
he was with GWELF. He was the captain there. Fifty
six points in forty six games might look like a
bit of a regression, but the team wasn't what it
has been in the past. He was pretty good for
them and three assists with Lehigh Valley in the regular season,
six assists and seven playoff games in the playoffs for
the HL. That's pretty solid. And he was part of
that U twenty World Junior Championship for Canada team that
wasn't great. I don't think you can blame any one
player for that, and same is true for Luchenko. Looking
at Mitch Brown's tracking data, Luchenko was awesome this season
ninety four percentile overall. His transition was clearly the best
part ninety fifth percentile.
Speaker 4: The main low.
Speaker 3: Part for him was the expected goals and shots per sixty.
Both of those are low, but the expected primary assist
the slot passes slot passes for sixty all that was
good for the offense. The defense rates out at eighty
fourth percentile, but some things weren't as good, like controls
exits per sixty in defensive play course he against.
Speaker 4: But overall, this is.
Speaker 3: A really dominant player in junior and important to note
that he is. He was only eighteen all of this
season as a late August birthday, so it's not like
he's so much older than some of the other guys
that he's dominating against.
Speaker 4: So that's pretty good to see.
Speaker 3: Looking at the FHL player, Carl Luchenko have as a
six point five to one, so fifty one percent chance
of being a six out of ten on your roster.
The points hopefully will translate somewhat. I'm not sure that
he's going to be a big point getter, and the
bash in the OHL wasn't amazing sixtieth percentile. The shots
are at of blocks or average, the hits are a
little bit above average, so hopefully he'll bring a pretty
solid floor in terms of the hits. But the rest
of those priffs aren't looking too great. But let's find
out a little bit else about what is looking great
with Lutanko from our REFHL Scout.
Speaker 2: Our report today is from Fantasy Hockey Life Scout James.
He says this of Jett Luchenko. He sees skating explosive acceleration,
high end speed with dynamic edgework, passing and handling, elite
vision and playmaking awareness, strong two way capabilities, shooting decent
shot although he could add power in better shot selection
Hockey IQ that is, vision, anticipation, panic and poise high
hockey IQ. Smart decision making in all zones. Aggressive but
also cautious for checking, relentless and speed driven excels and
puck retrieval and offensive zone pressure. Defense committed defensively, wins
face offs, covers back penalty kill potential, best asset. Complete
two way player uses speed and hockey intellect. The biggest
concern he needs to add some strength for battles and
more shot strength. The top tier outcome that James could
see for Luchenko is tier three, a top six center
who can play special teams. That's a fifty to sixty
point player with average bash scores and a stylistic comparable.
He offers Nick Suzuki. I thought Suzuki was a little
more highly estimated these days, but that would be a
great outcome for Luchenko and our friend Mason Black, the
NHL rank King and the tidy Ultimate Champion. Put out
the poll jed Luchenko versus Oliver Moore, and wouldn't you
know it? Dead heat Victor. One hundred and fifty four
votes in and it's straight up fifty to fifty between
Luchenko and More. I don't know is this a tie
in your mind, Victor? That would be an upset. Who
do you like better?
Speaker 3: That's funny that these guys are tied. I think it
is probably pretty close. I think that's reasonable. I think
that between the two, I'm not sure whose scoring is
gonna translate.
Speaker 4: A little bit better.
Speaker 3: I like Oliver Moore's speed and his tenacity. I'm not
sure that he's gonna have the scoring touch, so I
think we might give slight edge in the scoring to Luchenko.
More doesn't have great hits or blocks either, and his
but his shots are better, So you might get a
little bit more shots from More, you might get a
little more hits from Lachenko. I think I'm gonna give
the edge here to Lachenko. I think he has slightly
better points upside, but it's pretty close. Looking at the
hockey prospect in between these two, Luchenko increased his draft
his star potential up to thirty percent chance of being
a star, more lowered it. For the second straight season,
he went from fifty four to thirty eight to twenty
five percent chance of being a star. So overall, a
little bit trending down. But these guys are going to
similar spot. I think they're both gonna be NHL r's.
I think they're both going to be average to slightly
above average roster players. So I don't think you're gonna
go wrong here with picking one of these. I think
they're both subpar choices in general, and looking at some
other comps for Luchenko, Jared Stole is a pretty decent comparison.
Speaker 4: He was a pretty average producer.
Speaker 3: There's some other guys that you could look at that
might be a little bit better, but I think that's
pretty much the ballpark you're looking in and looking at
the j Fresh model, Luchenko five percent chance of being star,
thirty one percent chance of being in NHL are so
overall a little bit more pessimistic, which is what we've
come to expect from that model, Jesse, You're darn.
Speaker 2: Right, Victor. Next up, what relatively small northern European do
we need to know?
Speaker 3: That would be Amalandre Amelandre, twenty twenty second round pick,
five nine, one hundred and ninety pounds. Yes, he's still
five to nine. He had forty two games with the
Flyers this season, and overall there was some significant positives
here with his game. He also so played twenty five
games with Lehigh Valley and that was pretty decent, sixteen
points in twenty five games to go with his seven
points in forty two games for the Flyers. All in all,
it wasn't an incredible season for Andrea, but I think
he proved that he can hang at the NHL level,
which was good to see. I think people listeners of
this podcast know that I've been a fan of his
for a long time, and I definitely think even if
for a small guy, which is always hard as a defenseman,
he's someone who has shown that he can play.
Speaker 4: He's really pretty physical.
Speaker 3: If you look at his FHL player card, his hits
are average, which is something you might not expect for
a guy who's as small as he is, and he
has a good amount of shots. Overall, his bass should
be relatively average, which is pretty decent. You look at
his rampum chart and his course he against for sixty
was incredible. He was in the top ninetieth percentile of
all NHLers, which is pretty impressive to say for your
first forty plus games of NHL action. So you like
to see His expected goals for were also really good. Overall,
his underlying metrics scream that he deserves a little bit
more time on ice than what he got this season,
and so that rodes well for him moving forward. His
time when I said season was seventeen twenty one with
a little bit of power play time, so that was
good to see. But let's hear a little bit else
more about our small guy eml Andre from our FTL scout.
Speaker 2: Once again from James emil Andre left defenceman the skating
excellent acceleration and edge control for a smaller defender. Moves
with ease both offensively and defensively, passing and handling, creative
composed puck mover initiates breakouts with crisp accurate passes, strong
puck control, under pressure shooting, hard point shot, blistering release
effective for rebounds and power play setups. The IQ high
hockey sense, rarely flustered, reads plays well, can play in
all situations for checking, supports, puck retrievals, stays involved offensively
without sacrificing coverage, defense, sound positioning, active stick, and tenacious
for his size. Some risky positioning has led to inconsistent
play in the NHL. The best asset then smooth skating,
playmaking defenceman, calm and composed with the puck. The biggest
concern he can be susceptible to physical mismatches and the
top tier outcome Tier two, top four defenseman. He can
quarterback a power play. He'd get himself forty plus points
with some decent bash and the stylistic comparable. He's going
to reach back to Chemo Timonen and Mason Black. The
NHL Rankking put out the poll. Emil Andre versus Makil
Gulaiev and Gulayev is in the lead. He wins this
one fifty eight point five to forty one point five.
Victor Andre upset. Is that something that you would agree
with no, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think that I would still want Andrea. I think
that right now people have seen a little bit of
taste of Andre and it hasn't been overwhelmingly positive, just
because he's new in the NHL, and so they see
the lack of production, the lack of scoring, and they
might be a little bit swayed negatively for that. But
you look at what Guliya is doing in the KHL,
and he's not doing anything crazy impressive either of the
last two seasons. He's barely cracked fifteen points in sixty
seven games in the KHL, so I don't think he
projects to be much of a score either. You look
at the bash between these two, it's not really much different.
Glia is going to get you more shots and blocks,
so he averages out to about a six, and Andre
was a little bit more average at a five.
Speaker 4: But overall, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think you're getting major peripheral production here. I think
the thought with Glia was that he was being more
of a score. I'm not sure that's true, and I
think it tells a lot that Andre was able to
run the power play in Philly. Although it seems like
everyone gets a turn running the power play in Philly,
So I'm not sure how much that means Jesse, but
looking at the hockey prospecting between these two, Guliyev was
really high based on his MHL production.
Speaker 4: He has trended down.
Speaker 3: To sixty nine percent chance of being a star, but
I think that's really inflated based on his MAHL numbers.
And you look at Andre, He's trended up from eight
to thirty six percent chance of being a star, and
that's based on his strong play in the SHL. So overall,
it definitely looks likely I have based on the hockey prospecting,
But I think if you understand how misleading those MAHL
numbers can be, I think you'd be a little bit
more realistic looking.
Speaker 4: At some other comps. Here.
Speaker 3: For Andre, I think we have is a reasonable one
based on size Lee I have five to ten and
Andre five to nine. Another smaller defenseman that might be
reasonable is Jordan Spence. Jordan Spence, who's still developing but
has ended up being a tweiner, might be someone who
comps to Andrea. But I think Andrea is someone who
has more sticking power in the NHL. I just quoted
his underlying metrics. He's pretty good all around, and so
I think that's going to allow him to carve out
an NHL role where a spence seems still like it's
up in the air. Looking at the j Fresh model
for Andre, just four percent chance of being a star
and twenty percent chance of being an NHL or all
of that is what we come to expect from j Fresh.
Even though Andre did have some pretty strong numbers in Sweden,
it looks a little bit more pessimistic for him being
a star and full ten and NHLer in that model.
Speaker 4: But I'm more optimistic than that Jesse.
Speaker 2: All right, Victor in now our keep your eye in prospect.
A man who DJ Khaled would say all he does
is win. All I do is it, no matter what.
Speaker 1: Got money on my mind, I can't not looking enough.
Speaker 3: That would be Denver Barkiye. He was captain of the
Mermorto Cup winning London Knights this past season. Twenty twenty
three third round pick. He is another short king five
to nine, one hundred and fifty four pounds, pretty undersized overall.
Speaker 4: He's a center.
Speaker 3: Wing, but he we know that he brings a lot
more to the table than that he had a pretty
strong season, not just leading the Knights with the sea
on his sweater, but also eighty two points in fifty games,
which is a pretty decent second, pretty decent season after
one hundred and two points and sixty four games last
season for the Knights, so you like to see that
keeping that production up for Denver Barkie. You look at
Mitch Brown's tracking data this season and it looks pretty fantastic. Overall,
eighty six percentile, ninety first percentile for offense, sixty nine,
sixty eight for transition, seventy two for defense. Pretty much
all the things are above average too well above average.
Speaker 4: The best part, as you.
Speaker 3: Can see in this tracking data is the expected primary
sis for sixty and the slot passes, so definitely more
of a playmaker creator, which is really nice to see.
You look at the FHL player card and you can
see the Barkie I have n't had a five point
four to five forty five percent chance of being.
Speaker 4: An average ross player.
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit more pessimistic on his NHL projection,
even though he's been an awesome OHL player. He does
shoot a fair amount eightyeh percentile for shots, but only
fortieth for hits and blocks, so overall he'll be probably
just slightly above average in terms of bash, so that's
not going to help too much in terms of the
holding him when if he's not scoring in the NHL.
But let's hear a little bit more about Denver Barkiy.
From our Every Tail scout.
Speaker 2: James has this to say of Denver Barkie, the left winger.
He's shifty, very agile, great acceleration, solid edgework as far
as skating, passing, and handling. Great a playmaker with tight
puck skills, high motor guy shooting effective shot for a
smaller player. Excels in finding scoring lanes IQ high hockey
sense excels and zone entries in creating space. Energetic and
persistent on the fore check. Can be very disruptive at
both ends of the ice. Defense competes in open eyes,
but needs to add strength for battles along the boards.
Best asset great speed combined with creative flair and relentless effort.
Biggest concern needs to add significant size. Top tier outcome
Tier three by default third line winger at the absolute
best and overall, James is not convinced that mister Barkie
will be an NHL player and Mason Black. NHL rank
King puts Denver Barkie up against matt Vey Greeding the
prospect of the Calgary Flames, and Greeding is ahead fifty
point seven to forty nine point three, So it's a
narrow victory for the Flame as Denver Barkie really in
second place in that competition Victor.
Speaker 3: I think these are both guys that I'm not too
fond of.
Speaker 4: Griddin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he probably has a little bit more offensive upside.
I think that there is some of that with him.
He doesn't have the size concerns. He's six to one,
and he did come over to North America a couple
of seasons ago. He was in the USHL and then
he went He's shifted to the qu this season. Seventy
nine points in fifty six games. That part's great, and
he definitely has skill and he can make great plays.
I'm just not sure about his all around games. So
that makes me a little bit more questionable with Griddin.
I do think that I would. I think that Barkie
has more tenacity and will to make the NHL, so
he probably will. I just don't know that it's going
to be a top six capacity. He might evolve into
a bottom six grinder and maybe he can realize I'm
scoring later in his career like Brendan Gallagher or something
like that. But I'm just not convinced that the scoring
is really going to translate. And with Griddin, I think
it's even a question whether he's going to be a
full time NHL or because of his all around game.
So that makes me a little bit more worried, even
though some of the comparables for Griddin are stronger. But
I would definitely take him just because the scoring upside
is high, even though the volatility is higher, So I
would side with the people here. I have Griddon as
a five point four or five forty five percent chance
of being a five, which is exactly the same as
I had Barkie he but just goes to show that
there can be nuance in context within these ranks.
Speaker 4: Looking at the hockey.
Speaker 3: Prospect in between the two, Barkie at thirty percent chance
of being a star great and at fifteen, So that
shows that Barkie is a little bit more valuable, but
I think that is a little bit more than that.
Looking at some other comps for Barkie one that is
maybe reasonable as someone like Emlbemstrom who ended up being
replacement producer and didn't end up quite fleshing out bottom
six step score. I could see that outcome for Barkie
a little bit more pessimistic here, but that's the truth.
As we'll also hear from Jay Fresh being having him
at a two percent chance of being a star at
nineteen percent chance of being an NHL or so overall
not to not super exciting there for Barkie.
Speaker 4: And that's it for our flyers dig.
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next year. We are going to attempt, and this is
a feature that is there to run all of the
Tidy leagues under one league. That is, you'll go in,
you'll see your league, but you can actually look and
see what's going on in the other leagues because they're
all together, different player pools for each of the leagues
under the overall league of the Tidy in one place.
Customize your rookie eligibility, salaries, contracts, slow drive rookie drafts.
Anything you want to do, you can probably do it
in fan tracks. There's also fantasy content and fan tracks.
I'd expect there's probably gonna be a little bit of
draft content coming up articles on fantasy hockey. FAHL is
a big old crew these days. Crafter Ryan Simo and
Tim Thank goodness for them, who are working heavily to
make the Tidy up and running again for next year.
Tony and Patrick Lee co lead scouts who arrange all
the scouting reports you hear on the show. Mike, Steven
and Matt are doing a great job getting stuff together
so that we can do these shows. They do some
of the stuff to set up the sheets, and then
Victor and I fill in around those things and add
in our questions and so forth. But they do a
lot of work that really helps us expedite all these
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and visualizations, including the famous Fantasy Hockey Live player cards.
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do a solo show called Dynasty Sports Life. I talk
about all the different Dynasty Sports on there. If you
listen to the episode that came out yesterday, as this
is being released Wednesday, it came out on Tuesday. It's
about the NBA Draft, which will happen back to back
with the NHL Draft, and me and my guests are
going to go over We're both going to mock draft
the lottery and explain who some of those big players are.
So if you don't know anything about the NBA Draft yet,
this might introduce you to some of the prominent names.
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