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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Sovier and Victor nuno Be goanna see.

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Speaker 3: Hockey live once again. Jesse Severe fan Tracks, Victor Nunio,

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Jesse. I am talking to you all through

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my brand new computer. Last week I was traveling and

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I've been going through. How you what have you been

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Speaker 1: Jesse?

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Speaker 3: No? I do you got the good new AI on there? Victor?

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Is the AI? Can you just put in what your

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Speaker 2: Actually, I think this whole experience is AI. I think

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it's probably generating you just for my convenience is what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, they've gotten that good at this point. But

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better even than AI are the things that you provide

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Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of great stuff over at Patreon. This is

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the time where it's really good to look at your team,

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dot COM's last Fantasy Hockey Life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely should. And right after this more that we're

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going to check out is interview with our special guests.

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We'd like to welcome to the show, Broken Houston of

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the Desertent News, ready to talk to us about the

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And this is the first time I think I've uttered

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the words on this show. You Tom Mammoth, Broken, How

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you do it today?

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Speaker 4: I'm doing well. I'm skeptical. If you've never talked about

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the Utah Mammoth, are you real? NHL guys?

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Speaker 5: Come on, Oh, I've talked about the team, but not

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as the Mammoth. It's only been a few weeks and

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we haven't covered them on the show, I think since

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the big change. But they're certainly worthy of covering and

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I'm excited to have a chance to talk about them today.

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My theory is in either it's because of the change venue,

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the better vibes.

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Speaker 3: Utah was just so much more fun than covering Arizona

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or following Arizona in the recent past. Those guys, it

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was a fun team, but they were always carrying so

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much baggage. But Utah was darling this year and was

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a really fun watch to have. They were the first

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team out in the Central Division this year. They're buried

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under five really strong teams, so you can't hardly blame

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them for that. But I think there were some people

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who thought this might be a team. It might have

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been a popular cinderella team to sneak into the playoffs

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before the season, and viewed in the context of overall

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team stats, they work in the middle. It wasn't like

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their stats outperformed their overall position, and now here at

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the end of the season, there's still been that position.

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did move up a little bit in the draft, so

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that should help them out. What if folks think of

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the now Mammoth Utah team out there, and what are

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you expecting for the coming year?

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Speaker 4: Broken, Yeah, as far as the team name goes, if

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that's what you're asking about, I think the feedback has

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been pretty positive so far. Everybody obviously will have negative, like,

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there will be negative opinions, that's how social media goes.

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the tusks up thing and all the hand gestures they

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can do with it. And yeah, so I think people

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are pretty hyped about that. But that's the minor part

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of this equation that you have to be hyped about.

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The major thing is Utah has some really bright future

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guys coming up here, some really bright prospects. Logan Cooley

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took a really good step this year, as did Dylan Gunther.

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the KHL this year. They look like they should be

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able to play some NHL games this year. Maverick len

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we might be able to come up from the liners.

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Blobo Dwain is a horse. We were watching that guy

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in training camp and we were wondering if he was

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somehow going to make the team out of camp that year.

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That's how good that guy looked. And that's just that's

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the top of the prospect pool, right It just goes

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down from there, and there's so many it's one of

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the deepest prospect pools in the National Hockey League right now. Yeah,

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things are looking up for Utah and I would expect

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at least a good playoff push this coming season from him.

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Speaker 3: For sure. So let's break down some of the players

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that are making Utah as cool as they are. Clayton

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Keller first and foremost among them. He had a career

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year last year ninety one points in eighty one games.

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That is obviously the Utah record, but if you spi

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Utah all the Arizona years too, it would have been

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the Arizona record, unless you try to go back to

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the Winnipeg Jet stats, which at that point, come on, guys,

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let's just cut that out. It's the Arizona Utah record.

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It would have been Clayton Keller's, which pretty impressive. It

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came from a big jump and assists from a prior

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career high forty nine to sixty this year, and that

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seven million dollar contract per year three more years. I

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imagine the twenty six year old would be looking for

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a pretty good raise when that one expires because he

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has really raised his game. By the way, I didn't

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know this until I started researching this episode, but apparently

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the Mammoth went over and pretty much were the USA

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team at the World Hockey Championships this year. Keller, Josh Stone, Logan,

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Keilly Cooley, and Michael kessel Ring all brought back gold.

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So I guess these guys first the World Championship and

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then the Central Division. That's the order they're going to

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take it in. But quite an accomplishment. But anyway, it

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sounds like Keller actually brought a lot of leadership to

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that team, so that's also a very good sign. So

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Keller ninety one points eighty one games. Is there another

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gear coming for him? Or is there regression? Store? What

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did you make of Clayton Keller's great season?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely think that he could go up a

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little bit or down a little bit, but this is

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about probably the level that he will be at. He's

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in his prime now, he's twenty six years old, just

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about to turn twenty seven, I believe, and he's probably

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getting into that range where this is the best he's

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he's going to be and so Utah really has to

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make sure that as this prime window opens for him,

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that they can build around him and give him a

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chance to go deep in the playoffs and maybe even

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bring the Stanley Cup back to Utah. I don't expect

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him to ever be an art Ross Trophy winner or

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anything like that, but he was what eleventh or twelfth

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this year in league scoring, and that's probably as good

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as you're going to get from a seventh overall pick,

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no matter when he was drafted. And yeah, it's things

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are looking up for him for sure. He leadership wise,

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he definitely took a huge step this year. I asked

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him earlier in the year, I said, when was the

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last time that you wore a CEA at any level

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other than obviously now in the NHL. And he thought

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for a second and he's he's I think I was

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probably like ten. This guy had never been a team

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captain since he was a child, and he took that

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mantle this year ran with it. He was a great

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voice for the community, did tons of like community outreach events.

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the franchise. And then all of a sudden, like you said,

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he's the captain of Team USA on a team with

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lots of good NHL leaders too, lots of guys that

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wear letters on their sweaters, but he's the clear guy

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there just because of how much he grew this year.

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A cool story. I got the chance to go to

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one of their children's hospital visits this year and I

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was just standing there, wallflower kind of thing, just observing,

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just seeing what's going on, and I noticed Clayton was

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going around the room just getting all of his teammates

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to sign this hat, and I was like, Oh, that's interesting.

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And I was thinking, like, Oh, it's when you pass

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a birthday card around the office, right and everybody signs it.

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it's like a thank you gift to the hospital itself

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or something like that. And then as I'm observing, I realized, no,

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that was just he wanted to do something nice for

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the little child that he was hanging out with and

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her mother. And that's that leadership that he has is

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he's not this loud, boisterous guy, but he sees opportunities

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where something needs to be done, somebody needs help, somebody

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needs encouragement, whatever it is, and he goes and fills that.

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off the ice this year.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of another one of those gold USA World Cup

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Hockey members, we got a low and Cooley next that

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we're going to talk about. And he had sixty five

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points in say the seventy five games, so that was

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a seventy one point pace in his second season. Eighty

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two games last year, seventy five this year. So that

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was just a few games, but it was a great

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step up in his sophomore year. No slump there. He's

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starting to look like that top line center Arizona hope

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he would when they draft him third overall back in

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twenty twenty two. This year, he started playing primarily with

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Jack McBain and Dylan Gunther. By the end of the season,

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he was centering the top line with Keller and Gunther.

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He had a pretty nice stat line with goals, twenty

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power play points, sixty three hits, one hundred and fifty

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six shots. We have a league called the Tidy. He

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ranked one hundreds that setup. Although the block, shots and

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hits wasn't great, he did end up just over three

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per game and all of those one more year on

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an entry level with Koley, it's gonna be really great

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value for that nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars cap hit.

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He's able to sign extension as early as July first,

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I wonder if you have thoughts on that. I think

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maybe it'd be wise to lock him up for a

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long time, someone like why Johnston maybe a good comparable,

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or maybe Gunther's contract which is eight years at seven

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point one four maybe something along those lines. Broken what

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do you think of Koley season? And what do you

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think we're gonna expect from him next season? Another big step?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, he's definitely on the up and up. I've

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said this on pretty much every podcast I've been on

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this entire year. The top tier of young centerman in

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the NHL right now is Connor Bodard, It's mac Vin Celebrini,

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and it's Logan Cooley. Those are the elite tier, and

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I put them all on the same tier. That's how

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good this guy's going to be. He's everything that he

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did this year. You just watched him and you're like, wow,

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Like this guy is good. And it's not just the

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offensive stuff. All these young guys can do the middin

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and whatever, it's not that kind of stuff. It's that

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combined with his defensive responsibility, and he's never out of place.

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He kills penalties like he's a trusted guy. And he's

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only just turned twenty one years old this month or

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he's already doing everything the right way. He plays with

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his heart on his sleeve. He's a great guy that

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way that he's You never have to motivate him. He's

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always that guy that will motivate himself, motivate his teammates,

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and it shows like when they're down a goal, he's

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the guy that's on the ice even though he was

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twenty years old this season, He's the guy that's on

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the ice when you're down a goal and you need one.

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And so I yeah, I definitely think he's only getting better.

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And as far as an extension goes, I think the

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gun through extension, if the team could get a gun

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through extension out of him, I think the team would

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be should be locked up in jail for robbery like

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that is how good that that deal would be. I

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don't think Cooley would do that. I think it's going

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to be north of ten million dollars or maybe in

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that nine to ten million dollar range if they do

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a long term deal just because of how good this

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player is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good point, and centers often costs a

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little bit more. He might ask for a little bit more.

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But let's talk about the afore mentioned Dylan Gunther. We've

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been alluding to him quite a bit. He completed his

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first full season with the Mammoth previously had thirty three games,

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but the Arizona in twenty two to twenty three and

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then forty five last season with another twenty nine and Ahl.

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He had sixty points in seventy games, seventy point pace,

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really nice. Twenty seven goals was a big step up

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from his eighteen the previous season, and like Koley, he

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had a great sophomore year breakout year, really becoming a

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true legitimate NHL goal scorer. Played pretty much all season

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with Kooley, as I mentioned in the Kooli discussion. By

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the end of the year he was part of that

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really incredible top line, which was definitely in the top

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ten twenty. If you look at top producing lines in

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terms of expected goals and play driving, they were really great.

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He was the ninetieth rank player in our tidy and

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one hundred and fifty sevens with Bash he ends up

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with four point three block shots and hits per game,

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and entering the first year of that eight million dollar

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contract I mentioned seven point one four million cap hit.

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That's going to look really good for years to come,

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I can tell you. And we're excited about Gunther for

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years to come. Brogan, what do you think of his

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season this past year and you're thinking kit thirty five

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goals or what do you think he's gonna end up?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a pretty fair number to guess,

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that thirty five mark. Maybe if it's not this year,

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it's going to be soon for sure, just because of

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how good his shot is. And then you combine him

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with those playmakers in Clayton Keller and Logan Cooley, like

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those guys are elite playmakers and they just have this

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way of finding him, especially in that that Obechkin power

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play spot there. That's Gunther's home as well on the

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power play And no matter where you put it, he'll

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get it, and he'll put it in the back of

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the net like you don't have to put it right

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on his tape. He will open up and he'll put

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that thing in the net no matter where it comes

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to him at if that makes sense, and he's a

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he's got a good enough shot to be able to

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score thirty five goals alone on his shot, and then

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all the other parts of his game are also very good,

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and I definitely think that he's he's going to be

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one of those guys that eventually will be in the

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rotation for Team Canada at all these international events and

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that kind of thing. We saw how good he was

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on a line with Connor Bodard at the World Juniors

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a couple of years ago, and I think that's a

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good representation of what he could become one of those

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one of those elite wingers in the league.

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Speaker 3: On to Nick Schmaltz. After two years of missing time

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but maintaining a mid seventies scoring pace, Schmaltz has now

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had two healthy seasons in a row, with points more

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in the low sixties sixty three This year. That said,

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he did play all eighty two games and that led

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to him setting personal highs in actual points and assists.

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Assist was thirty three. Madison Boy, he said it is

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a year end, closing that he was going to be

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back on the lakes on the Isthmus There in Madison, Wisconsin,

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so maybe I should stop down and see if he's

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up for an interview. But he largely played with Clayton

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Keller this year. He had big doses of Barret hate

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and at different times too. Schmaltz started his year very cold,

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forty nine shots not going into the net, and I

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actually looked at the November thirtieth game, but that was

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the first time he scored in His first two shots

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went in against the Vagan gold Vegas Golden Knights, So

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finally got his season going. What do you make of

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Nick Schmaltz's season? Is this kind of what he is

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going to be? Able to remain a key member of

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this top six with all the youth you're talking about

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coming up, and what do you think he will be

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going forward?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I do think it's remarkable that he got

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to twenty goals, even though he didn't score a single

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one for the first two months of the season. There

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was also a week or two before that first goal

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that he had he scored and then it got disallowed

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for I think it was an offside or a goalie

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interference or something, and he was definitely feeling that pressure

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a little bit. He didn't really want to talk about

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it at all, and he's not the guy that's ever

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going to talk to the media unless he absolutely has to.

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He seemed like he was bummed out in that first

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little bit, but once he got that monkey off his

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back and he scored those two goals and just kept

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going and going, he found his rhythm, and like he said,

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he broke his career high end points. And like Keller,

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I think he's about in that prime window right now.

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I think he's twenty eight years old somewhere around there,

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and he'll probably have another three to five good years

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out of him that he's consistently producing a good enough

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amount of points to stay in the top six. So

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I don't anticipate them moving on from him unless there's

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greener pastors that they can fill that spot with, or

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that they can get a better player if they trade

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him away. But I do think he's a part of

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the franchise's long term future if that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Tremendous and then on to bart Hayton. He set a

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new personal high for scoring as well, with twenty goals,

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twenty six assists, and forty six points in his second

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ever eighty two game season. Turns twenty five, just before

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this episode is going to air, and he's got one

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more year in a cheap deal before he hits restricted

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free agency. He had his first career hat trick back

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in February, by the way, in a five to three

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loss to la It seems it's been stopping start. We've

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been waiting bart Hayton showed a lot of promise a

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couple of times, but he's getting into that age range

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you're talking about, where he's maybe in prime age range

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for production, and so it might be difficult to expect

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a giant leap in production. But and there's also talk

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and unfortunately we're recording this fairly early in the offseason,

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but Utah is one of the teams they're talking about

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maybe making a big splash and free agency and bringing

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somebody in which could impact guys like Barrett Hayton, who

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were a little bit on the fringe maybe of that

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top six. So yeah, because they got twenty percent of

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their cap space available and there are only two players,

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two roster players short of the full twenty three contracts,

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so they could spend big on who they got left. Anyway,

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that's not got anything to do with Barrett Hayden except

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what might happen to Barrett Hayden. So what do you

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make of that season of his and what do you

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expect next?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so if you look at the pace that he

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was on previous to, not this past season, but the

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one before that, So I guess now two years ago

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or I don't know if you count that as two

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years ago, three years ago, whatever it is, that last

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season that he played the full year, it was almost

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the exact same offensive numbers as it was this year.

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The one year in between those, he only played thirty

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some odd games because he was injured, and I think

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that that injury hurt his confidence, and when he eventually

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came back from that, he just wasn't.

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Speaker 2: In it.

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Speaker 4: From what I gather, I didn't cover the team that year.

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The Utah was where I started, and so I don't

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know the first end, but that's the story that I've

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gathered by talking to people, And so I do think

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that he's very much have to be confident kind of guy.

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Like when he's confident, he scores a lot scores in bunches.

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If you go and look at his game log, there's

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a lot of times where he scored two goals one game, won,

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the next game, won, the next game, and then zero

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for ten games. So he scores in bunches like that,

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and that's a confidence thing.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: If they can get him to the point where he

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doesn't have to be a top six center, then I

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think that's where he will drive. Like we've been saying

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all year long, I think he's a third line center

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on a Stanley Cup winning team, like kind of that

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Scott Latin kind of guy. If you guys know the

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main police or the players at all, he's that guy

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that will contribute a little bit offensively, he'll play really

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well defensively, he'll kill penalties, he'll drag the guys into

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the fight. I think he had one or two fighting

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Majors this year. He's that kind of guy that kind

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of does everything, doesn't necessarily do one thing the best

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out of anybody. Line center is where he would probably

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fit on a Stanley Cup contender. And if you talk

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and go in and get a top six center in

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free agency this year, then I think they'd be in

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a good position.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, we'll talk about the next guy. Josh Doane thirty

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one point pace he had this past season, playing fifty

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one games wasn't the biggest scorer, but was a big

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step up from the eleven games he played for Arizona

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back in twenty three twenty four, where he had nine

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points and eleven games. I think a lot of us

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saw that point total in such a short amount of

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games and knew that it probably wouldn't continue at that pace,

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and it did not typical feel out season that he

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had in his first, more more full season. Anyways, one

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thing that we were really excited about with Doan early

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on was his massive hit numbers. That hasn't been quite

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as big, but he was roughly a hit per game.

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He did get a couple of blocks and actually won

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some face offs, which was cool. He doesn't shoot a

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whole lot, though, so his bash right now is under

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three per game, and his ice time actually went up

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just a little bit a little over so he's still

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let thirteen thirty one. This is the last year of

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his entry level deal, and looking at his underlying numbers,

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it certainly seems like he deserves more ice time. A

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lot of his expected goals and expected of course he

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against and goals against looks really solid. It's broken. What

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did you think of Don't season? And do you think

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he'll get a bigger role next season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know if he'll get a bigger role yet,

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just because of all the guys that are coming up.

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But I do think that he had it made in

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the last part of the season there. He was playing

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on the line for the last maybe twenty games or

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so with Lawson Kraus and Jack McBain. And if you've

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ever stood in the locker room with those three guys,

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you're going to be the smallest guy no matter what.

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Those guys are mountains of men, mammoth, I guess you

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could say. And they played that solid game there, that

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Rockham Sockham type of hockey. They'd run around, hitting everybody,

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They're intimidating, they moved the puck pretty quickly. None of

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them are overly great skaters, but the pace of play

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made up for it. And so I think that Josh

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Shon is probably more of that player than the player

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that scored what like nine points in eleven games or

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whatever his first little season there in Arizona. But he's

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more of that rock Him Sockham kind of guy. He'll

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probably put the puck in a little bit, but nowhere

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near what his dad was I don't think. But one

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thing that I do want to point out with Josh

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is that he is just as intelligent as his dad,

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as far as I can tell, at least, I haven't

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spent it down the time with his dad, but I

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do know that he's a chip off the old block

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in that sense. He's very respectful, he's very smart, he's

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very intelligent. He thinks the game at a high level,

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and so there's nothing saying that he couldn't become a

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top six winger in the league. But at this point,

479
00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:39,880
I don't think he is that. I think he is

480
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:40,839
trying to get there.

481
00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:45,039
Speaker 3: All right, let's slip over to the blue line here,

482
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,720
and Mikhail Sergachev has to be first. And eyes widened

483
00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:53,359
at the draft when Utah grabbed Sergachev from the Caps

484
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,400
trapped lightning, that was a great move. He delivered fifty

485
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,640
three points, which is the second highest total of Sergachev's

486
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,200
career and the best for a Utah Slash Arizona d

487
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,680
man since Oliver Ekman Larson back in twenty fifteen and sixty.

488
00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:10,720
It's been a while in the evolving hockey era, back

489
00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:13,279
to two thousand and seven minutes, there have been ninety

490
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:17,119
six seasons of a de man in that combined franchise history,

491
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,319
playing at least one thousand minutes, and Sergachev's on ice

492
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,160
goals for per sixty of three point seven eight was

493
00:22:24,319 --> 00:22:28,400
second overall among all those seasons. And the guy who

494
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,240
was in first place is still coming up on the show.

495
00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:33,440
By the way, he had the top expected goals of

496
00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:36,559
ub replacement on the team. Did Sergachev, it would appear

497
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,640
the team as the franchise offensive defenseman it needs. What

498
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,480
were your observations of year one of Sergachev in Utah

499
00:22:44,599 --> 00:22:46,519
Blue and what do you expect going forward?

500
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were a little bit hesitant to believe that

501
00:22:50,519 --> 00:22:52,599
he was going to be that number one defenseman, that

502
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,519
superstar kind of number one defenceman this year, just because

503
00:22:55,559 --> 00:22:57,279
of the injuries that he dealt with last year. He

504
00:22:57,319 --> 00:23:00,000
fractured his leg. In his words, he had to learn

505
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,400
he had to relearn how to walk. That's how bad

506
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,000
this break was. Came back in the playoffs last year,

507
00:23:05,039 --> 00:23:06,759
he said he was only eighty percent when he came

508
00:23:06,799 --> 00:23:09,119
back from the came back into the playoffs with the

509
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,119
Lightning that last that first round series against Florida. There

510
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:13,960
he said he was only eighty percent, and so we

511
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,039
were thinking, Okay, like this guy might kind of take

512
00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:19,359
a little bit to come back, and he might miss

513
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,799
some games this year, and he might maybe even be

514
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,759
the kind of guy that goes on a Shay Weber

515
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,640
long term injury reserve and never comes back. That's the

516
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,359
thought that was going through my head right at the

517
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,119
beginning there, and boy, he proved me wrong. He was

518
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,519
dialed in this entire year. He was trying to proof

519
00:23:35,559 --> 00:23:38,359
to everybody that he is that number one defenseman because

520
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,519
he was always under Victor Headman and often under Ryan

521
00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:43,720
McDonough as well in Tampa there at best he was

522
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,200
a second defenseman there and sometimes even the third. And

523
00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:48,039
so this was his time to prove that he was

524
00:23:48,079 --> 00:23:50,720
a number one defenseman and he really showed that he is.

525
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,559
And I think he still got a lot more to give.

526
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,759
And when the year started, he wasn't in the Captaincy rotation,

527
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,680
and then about a month and a half into the

528
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,400
season they put he they put him into the captain

529
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,839
Si rotation. I think that says a lot about kind

530
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,000
of the role that he plays, the way that he

531
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,400
the respect that he commands in the locker room, even

532
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,400
though he's only twenty six years old, and I do

533
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,440
think that if, like knowing then what they know now,

534
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,920
I wonder if they would have given him the sea

535
00:24:16,039 --> 00:24:18,279
right from the get go. Nothing against Clayton Keller, but

536
00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:21,759
that's how much of a leader Mikhail Sergachev is. For example,

537
00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:24,279
there was one time that we were in there after practice,

538
00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:27,160
just doing interviews and stuff, and somebody came in and

539
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,480
was like, hey, we got a meeting in five, let's go,

540
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,440
let's we got a head up, and nobody really moved.

541
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,119
I don't remember who it was that said that. Nobody

542
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,960
really moved. And then a couple of minutes later, Mikale

543
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,200
Sergachev came in the room and he's like, guys, team

544
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,039
meeting in five. He didn't say it very loud, he

545
00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:44,200
was just like, team meeting in five. And all of

546
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,640
a sudden, everybody's sorry, guys, we gotta go, and they

547
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,640
racked up their interviews and they all went upstairs for

548
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,720
their team meeting. That's the kind of respect that this

549
00:24:50,759 --> 00:24:52,920
guy has in the locker room. It's a really good

550
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,279
thing to have on a team that has a lot

551
00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:57,559
of young players and is trying to make that next step.

552
00:24:57,559 --> 00:24:58,960
But become a good team.

553
00:24:59,319 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that good. You get a little bit of respect.

554
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,680
The other defenseman who Shaun Jersey I mentioned about the

555
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,200
highest expected goals per sixty season that Sergi Chef had.

556
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,599
Actually Sean Jersey's prior season was the high of all

557
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,839
of the past whatever I said dozen years or so. Unfortunately,

558
00:25:20,839 --> 00:25:23,000
this season went off the rails before it even started.

559
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,519
He went out in Game four with a shoulder injury,

560
00:25:25,839 --> 00:25:29,880
didn't come back until February. Still, when he came back,

561
00:25:30,559 --> 00:25:32,920
he was still pretty decent. The with or withoalue numbers

562
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,799
showed he pretty much dragged almost every teammate in the

563
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,240
correct event the direction, offensively and defensively, even though his

564
00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:44,160
most common deep partner, Oli Mada, was quite an offensive sink,

565
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,000
to put it charitably, this year. So you didn't necessarily

566
00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:52,279
see the Jersey minutes involving a whole lot of points.

567
00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:55,160
He had eleven points in thirty games, not a whole

568
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,079
lot of bash over twenty minutes. That's not what you

569
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,039
would expect to see from Shondersey typically. Do you see

570
00:26:02,319 --> 00:26:05,279
the time he played last year as a struggle or

571
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,000
do you think you know where he's just going to

572
00:26:08,039 --> 00:26:11,119
improve one year removed from the shoulder entry. What's your

573
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,680
take on the status of Sean Jersey.

574
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, so when he first went out, like when he

575
00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:19,599
was first those first four games that he played, he

576
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,119
was playing top minutes. I believe he was on a

577
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,319
pairing with Mikhail Sergachev, that's an offensive pairing. He was

578
00:26:25,319 --> 00:26:27,759
already scoring, he already had a fight, that kind of stuff, like,

579
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,599
he was doing quite well and then he gets hurt.

580
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,720
John Marino was also out, and then Maverick Lamaru went

581
00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:36,519
out and Robert Bortuzo went out. So at one point

582
00:26:36,599 --> 00:26:38,359
they had what is that four or five right shot

583
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,000
defenseman that we're all out at the same time. Michael

584
00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:43,720
kessel Ring, who hadn't even played a full season in

585
00:26:43,759 --> 00:26:45,960
the NHL at that point, was all of a sudden

586
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,119
their top right shot d man. So that's when they

587
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,359
go in and they acquire Olimada. Even though he's a

588
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,119
left shot, he can play the right side. They acquire Olimda,

589
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,240
they pick up Nick de Simon on waivers there and

590
00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:58,240
then all of a sudden they've got some guys that

591
00:26:58,279 --> 00:27:01,119
can play good hockey on that right side. And then

592
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,039
Shondersey comes back and I don't think he necessarily had

593
00:27:04,279 --> 00:27:07,519
the role anymore open for him that he had when

594
00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:09,799
he started, And so I think those first four games

595
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,519
were a lot more of the shondersey that we expected

596
00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:14,960
than the last thirty some games were. But I do

597
00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:18,279
think that as he goes on, he'll get that opportunity back.

598
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,359
And and the other thing I should say is when

599
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,400
he came back, John Marino was already back as well,

600
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,880
so that's a big presence on the right side as well.

601
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,039
And so I think when he comes back next year,

602
00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:30,400
he'll probably have a better idea of what his role

603
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,319
is on the team and be able to come in

604
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,359
and probably chip in a little more than he did this.

605
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 2: Year, as you, I'm sure know, and some of our

606
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,160
lists probably do as well. There are a couple of

607
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,079
big signings of the Russians the past couple of weeks here,

608
00:27:46,519 --> 00:27:48,319
and one of them we want to ask you about

609
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,119
is Dmitri Simashev. He spent that twenty four to twenty

610
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,400
five season in the KHL for Locomotive Yardslav, who won

611
00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:57,599
the Gargain Cup. He along with Daniel Boot were on

612
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,559
that team, so congratulations to them. Apparently just all the

613
00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:04,480
Mammoth players are winning championships around overseas and stuff, So

614
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,519
I guess that bodes well. So that's a good thing.

615
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,839
Speaker 4: But I say that tongue in cheek, but that's true.

616
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Bill Armstrong famously goes after guys that have won at

617
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,720
different levels and that can win at different levels. You

618
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,880
look at their roster accounted the other day of the

619
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,920
guys of the twenty something guys that played games for

620
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,480
Utah last year, I think it was fifteen or sixteen

621
00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:25,799
of them, one in juniors, one championships in juniors. Just

622
00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:28,279
to put it into perspectives, that's intentional, is what I'm saying.

623
00:28:29,319 --> 00:28:31,839
Speaker 2: Definitely, and I only say that I wasn't meaning that

624
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,279
in any tongue in cheek way other than it hasn't

625
00:28:34,319 --> 00:28:37,119
translated to the NHL yet and that's the thing that

626
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,160
we're all waiting for. But certainly, yes, that's a good

627
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,599
thing to look for, and he was pretty good in

628
00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:46,279
that in the KHL season. Although points are a thing

629
00:28:46,319 --> 00:28:49,000
that don't seem to be coming super well for Simachev.

630
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,400
He had six points in those fifty six games and

631
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,880
ten in his previous sixty three games, so not a

632
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,519
whole lot there, but he does give a fair amount

633
00:28:56,599 --> 00:28:59,519
of hits and blocks and a decent number of shots.

634
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,640
Signing that into level deal makes us wonder broken do

635
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,640
you think Simashev will be with the Mammoth this season

636
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,640
or maybe in the AHL? And when do you think

637
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:07,799
he'll be a full time in NHLer.

638
00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 4: Yeah. In the press conference right after they signed both

639
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,920
Simachevan Boot, Bill Armstrong was saying that he kind of

640
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,279
wants those guys to make the team out of camp.

641
00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:20,039
They'll still have to battle for a spot. They do

642
00:29:20,119 --> 00:29:23,160
have European assignment clauses in their contracts, both of them do,

643
00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:26,319
and so if they aren't playing in the NHL, then

644
00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:29,079
that forces them to go back to Europe. But Bill

645
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,440
said that there's a clause in that European assignment clause

646
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,359
that gives them a year and a half to play

647
00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:36,720
in the AHL. So they could play in the AHL

648
00:29:36,759 --> 00:29:39,079
exclusively this year if that's where they wanted them, and

649
00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:41,400
as well for half of the season next year, and

650
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,799
after that they have to either be in the NHL

651
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,799
or back in Europe. And so I think that their

652
00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:49,519
timeline is probably going to be more accelerated than say

653
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,640
Maverick Lamarus was when he was playing games this year.

654
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,319
But he kept getting sent up and down and that

655
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,200
kind of thing. I think that those guys will probably

656
00:29:57,279 --> 00:29:59,160
get a real shot to make the team out of camp,

657
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,079
and I'd be surprised if they didn't. I wouldn't be

658
00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:03,240
surprised necessarily if they were the first guys to get

659
00:30:03,279 --> 00:30:05,480
sent down, if they needed a roster space just because

660
00:30:05,519 --> 00:30:07,079
they're on entry level deals.

661
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,079
Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, I think I remember when they drafted both

662
00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:12,400
these Russians that year and we were all wondering how

663
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,400
that was going to work. When they would arrive and

664
00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:16,839
with the Euro out clauses, it's always a bit of

665
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,200
a different timeframe for those individuals. So that's great to hear.

666
00:30:20,279 --> 00:30:23,640
Thank you. Let's go ahead and transition over to the goalies.

667
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,640
Utah was ranked fifteenth and expected goals against per sixty,

668
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,519
but conceded the seventeenth I ranked actual goals and a

669
00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:33,119
big part of that, of course curl Vmelka, who was

670
00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:36,319
the volume starter. He really cared the load for Utah,

671
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,759
especially after conoring them went into the NHLPA assistance program

672
00:30:39,759 --> 00:30:42,559
in March. He was awesome for all. Melka twenty one

673
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:45,440
straight games to starts to end the season. I was

674
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,400
the longest streak since back in twenty nineteen, and he

675
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:49,839
said it.

676
00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 4: Was I think it was twenty three and the longest

677
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,519
since Braden Boltby in twenty fifteen. I think it was,

678
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,000
oh yes, as remarkable as what it was.

679
00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he was really leaned up there at the end.

680
00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:05,720
He actually saved twenty point seventy five goals save above expected.

681
00:31:05,759 --> 00:31:08,880
His delta. Fenwick was really strong. He signed that five

682
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,319
year contract four point seventy five million starting this upcoming season,

683
00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:15,799
and overall was just really great. I wanted to touch

684
00:31:15,839 --> 00:31:17,599
on Ingram real quick. He had a bit of a

685
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,319
tough season, culminating in that re entry into the program.

686
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:23,440
He lost his mother to breast cancer early in the

687
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,640
season and just really didn't look like himself a lot

688
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,359
of the season. And we're just wondering, what do you

689
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:30,319
think is gonna happen with the Mammoth goalies next season.

690
00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:32,960
It seems like Vemelca is going to carry the load

691
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,480
and get fifty to sixty starts, and I'm wondering if

692
00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:37,240
you think they'll bring someone in to back him up,

693
00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:39,680
or if you know anything about Ingram's update.

694
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we asked her about Ingram in a recent

695
00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:45,920
breast conference. I think it was the locker clean out day.

696
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,720
We asked about him, and Bill Armstrong's response was, we

697
00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:51,079
don't even know, like the team is indeed allowed to

698
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:53,759
have contact with him, so I don't know how he's

699
00:31:53,799 --> 00:31:55,920
doing or anything like that. I hope that he's doing

700
00:31:56,119 --> 00:31:58,240
as well as he can, but I do think that

701
00:31:58,319 --> 00:32:01,519
the team probably will come back with contingency plan just

702
00:32:01,559 --> 00:32:03,880
in case he isn't good to go next year, unless

703
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,680
they have any intel that says that he will be

704
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,920
good to go. So it's really it's a sticky situation.

705
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,680
It's hard to tell. He still is a solid NHL goalie.

706
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,839
He was dealing with some stuff this year which probably

707
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,720
affected his numbers, as they would with any of us

708
00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:19,839
in our day job. If your mother passed away, he

709
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,759
probably wouldn't do as well in your job as you

710
00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:24,400
would before or after. And hopefully he can come back

711
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,599
and get back into that rhythm that he was in before.

712
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,839
But I wouldn't be surprised to see the team go

713
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,240
out and get maybe like an Alex Lyon type of

714
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,680
guy in in free agency that you can rotate in

715
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,759
with Garrel and malcol There one a one B kind

716
00:32:35,799 --> 00:32:39,599
of thing, probably a cheap deal for not that many years.

717
00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 3: All right, this has been some great talk on the

718
00:32:42,799 --> 00:32:45,960
Utah Mammoth Brogan. How can people keep up with all

719
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,680
your writing about the team?

720
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,559
Speaker 4: Yeah? Follow me on Twitter at Houston Underscore Brogan and

721
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,640
then Deseret dot com for my articles. We've got a

722
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,559
comprehensive Utah Mammoth page on our website there, so come

723
00:32:58,559 --> 00:32:59,279
and check it out.

724
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,279
Speaker 3: Awesome, everybody go do that. Thank you for coming on today, Brogan.

725
00:33:03,799 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me.

726
00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:13,599
Speaker 3: Thanks Will Since then, well that's good fer patsp oh,

727
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:14,359
my goodness.

728
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 2: Long goal with a Cat cram.

729
00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:23,759
Speaker 3: Let's now it's your weekly goalie talk with Kat Silverman.

730
00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:28,039
Speaker 2: Kat's instance once again for Kat's instincts. With Kat Silverman

731
00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:31,440
and ingld Mag, we're talking Utah, we're talking the Mammoth goalies,

732
00:33:31,519 --> 00:33:35,400
and we're gonna start with Michael Horrabel, who is now

733
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,839
twenty years old. He's pretty big, six seven, two hundred

734
00:33:38,839 --> 00:33:41,359
and sixteen pounds. Drafted back in twenty twenty three in

735
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,039
the second round by the then Arizona Coyotes. I would

736
00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:47,759
say he had a pretty successful second year at UMass.

737
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:49,759
He went from a nine to twelve SAB percentage to

738
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:52,680
a nine to twenty four and he increased his win

739
00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:57,119
total by three. Overall pretty successful. He also did pretty

740
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,759
well for a check yet the U twenty World Junior Championships,

741
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:02,799
not a whole lot to complain about. Looking at his

742
00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:05,799
progression and the hockey prospecting model, that looks pretty nice.

743
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,199
I think it compares pretty favorably to another giant goalie,

744
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,719
mag Soguard, who has seen some time in the NHL.

745
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,280
I think the maybe the jury is still a little

746
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,320
out on him, but overall things are looking okay for

747
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,599
Horabble and his progression. But Kat, we want to know

748
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:24,760
what do your instincts tell you about Michael Krabbel. I

749
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,199
like him.

750
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 6: I think he's a lot of fun. Med Soilguard's such

751
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,480
a fun comp for me because he's such a fascinating

752
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:36,239
goaltender to watch because he uses every inch of his reach,

753
00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:40,320
sometimes with cartwheels. He does a lot of He has

754
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,360
a lot of I would say, excess movement, and that's

755
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,239
not really something I see from Hrable, which is interesting

756
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:52,599
to see from number one a really big goaltender and

757
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,559
number two a check goaltender. A lot of those goaltenders

758
00:34:55,599 --> 00:34:58,000
that come out of check you tend to really enjoy

759
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,000
utilizing as much physical space as they possibly can. They

760
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,239
tend to be a little bit more aggressive with their positioning,

761
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,960
and it could just be because he's playing NCAA where

762
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:16,159
he can't really afford to get super overactive, but it

763
00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:19,000
looks like he's confident playing more in the blue paint.

764
00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:22,119
He does a good job using his hands when he

765
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:25,199
needs to, does a good job making those pad saves,

766
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,840
skating around a little bit, doesn't seem to play the

767
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:34,079
puck too often, but he seems like he enjoys being

768
00:35:34,079 --> 00:35:36,320
a little bit more positionally sound, and like he's a

769
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:40,119
little bit more consistent with his technical structure, which I

770
00:35:40,159 --> 00:35:43,599
love seeing from a guy that's that big without seeing

771
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,039
him look diff and almost immobile, because we do sometimes

772
00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:50,199
see that from those bigger goaltenders as well. We see

773
00:35:50,199 --> 00:35:52,000
two ends of the spectrum. We see the guys who

774
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,079
flip themselves onto their heads and do their scorpion saves,

775
00:35:56,079 --> 00:35:58,039
and we see the ones who stay right on the

776
00:35:58,039 --> 00:36:01,159
blue line on the goal line Mike Smith, and then

777
00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:03,199
come all the way out only to play the puck.

778
00:36:03,559 --> 00:36:06,079
And I would say Robble's great in the middle. There's

779
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:08,440
nothing about his game that I saw that was.

780
00:36:10,119 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 3: Overly exciting.

781
00:36:12,159 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 6: But the fact that he looked so positionally sound and

782
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,400
looked so comfortable playing North American collegiate hockey in itself,

783
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,440
to me, is something to be excited about.

784
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 2: All right, that's pretty exciting. We'll look forward to see

785
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,039
how he continues to progress. I think it looks like

786
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,840
he'll be back at UMass another year. We'll see. I

787
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,960
don't think it's decided yet, but let's move on to

788
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,400
the other goalie. They have a couple other options, but

789
00:36:37,559 --> 00:36:39,119
I think the one we're going to focus on is

790
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:43,159
Jackson's stobber. And some people might remember that he was

791
00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:47,159
in the Chicago Blackhawks organization. He was someone who was

792
00:36:47,199 --> 00:36:50,199
not drafted, but he did really well at Providence College

793
00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:53,440
and the NCAA after the USHL and ended up getting

794
00:36:53,599 --> 00:36:57,039
signing with the Blackhawks and it was pretty decent with

795
00:36:57,039 --> 00:36:59,400
the Rockford Iceogs. Played six games back in twenty twenty

796
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,519
two twenty three for the Blackhawks, and then last season

797
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:05,960
was entirely with the AHL organization and did pretty well.

798
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,719
This season, he signed with Utah and was mostly in

799
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,400
the AHL. Didn't have quite as good as numbers, but

800
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,039
did get into six NHL games and they weren't great,

801
00:37:17,199 --> 00:37:19,960
but he was there, I guess you could say. And

802
00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:22,960
I think with the uncertainty of Connor Ingram, who's back

803
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,119
in the player assistance program, I think people are wondering

804
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:28,639
what's going on. Are they going to give Stabur a

805
00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:31,559
little bit more of a role with Phil Melka? Is

806
00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:34,559
Stabur going to play ten, fifteen to twenty plus games

807
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,239
or do you think they'll go out and fill that

808
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,079
need externally? So what are your instincts, Kat tell us

809
00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:41,239
about Jackson Stauber.

810
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:46,079
Speaker 6: That's a really tough one. I think that Utah's obviously

811
00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:49,360
still in a little bit of a transitionary period there.

812
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,719
We've mentioned in the past that those teams that have

813
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,519
really easy access to their AHL program where it's just

814
00:37:56,639 --> 00:37:59,239
right up the road. Anaheim's team is just a couple

815
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,719
hours away. Team is, depending on traffic, just a couple

816
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,760
hours away. When Utah was still in Arizona, the drive

817
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,559
from the rink for the Coyotes and the rink for

818
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,159
the Tucson Roadrunners was pretty easy, and sometimes the Roadrunners

819
00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:15,760
were even able to play up in Phoenix for their practices,

820
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,280
So that made things a little bit easier, a little

821
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,719
more flexible for them. They don't have that luxury right now,

822
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,880
so my guess is that they're going to have to

823
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,039
bring someone else in, especially if they think that Stubber

824
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:31,559
looks like a quality prospect for them long term, because

825
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:34,679
they don't really want to be Essentially, they don't want

826
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,400
to ruin his development by rushing him into a team that,

827
00:38:39,039 --> 00:38:42,079
for all intents and purpose, is the nicest possible thing

828
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,960
to say about the Utah Hockey Club Utah Mamma is

829
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:50,480
that they are not deep playoff run ready, and they

830
00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:53,119
still have some pretty substantial growing pains, I would say,

831
00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:55,800
at all positions, and if they want Stubber to be

832
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,280
a long term prospect for them, it does them no

833
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,320
good to bring him up long term because he doesn't

834
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,159
necessarily look ready with his adaptability. He looks like he's

835
00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:08,360
got really good positioning, good tracking, His movement seems like

836
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,119
it's fairly fluid, but it does seem like he doesn't

837
00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:15,199
quite have the read on the game speed that he

838
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,639
needs to be a full time NHLer, and I think

839
00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:20,800
that would really damage them to bring him up, even

840
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,559
if it's not full time for the year, to bring

841
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:26,079
him up for a large stretch. I think that will

842
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,920
depend on if someone is willing to give up someone

843
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:34,360
like dan Vloadar, and if they want to bring in

844
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:39,880
a dan Vlodar type goaltender for the long haul. Calgary

845
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,119
is lucky enough that they don't necessarily need to keep him,

846
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:45,199
but there are some teams that would be able to

847
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:49,320
dangle karts at a little bit of a pricier price.

848
00:39:49,639 --> 00:39:51,480
Then I think Utah will have to decide if they

849
00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:52,960
want to pay that, But I do think that they

850
00:39:53,039 --> 00:39:56,159
need someone else. Stubber looks good, but I don't think

851
00:39:56,159 --> 00:39:59,960
he looks like he is ready to take over for Conoring.

852
00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:02,480
Groom is the other half of their tandem, unfortunately.

853
00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:07,519
Speaker 2: All right, that's good to know. And there are a

854
00:40:07,559 --> 00:40:10,719
couple other goalies we could have talked about in the system,

855
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,880
and you could take this as your indication to just

856
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,920
move on from them in the nicest possible way. But

857
00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:19,440
thanks so much, Kad forgiving us your instincts on the

858
00:40:19,559 --> 00:40:20,840
Utah Mammoth goalies.

859
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:39,639
Speaker 3: We'll be back right after this dig the Dynasty dig

860
00:40:40,079 --> 00:40:44,679
you saw Mammoth edition, Victor. We have a very interesting

861
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,559
system to discuss. You've already heard about some of these

862
00:40:47,559 --> 00:40:51,000
guys earlier in the episode, but we're going to start

863
00:40:51,039 --> 00:40:53,400
out with the no brainer tell me about.

864
00:40:53,199 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 2: Him no brainer for the Mammoth is going to be

865
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:01,559
teach again La Againla twenty twenty four, one sixth overall pick,

866
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,039
six foot er, one hundred ninety four pounds. He actually

867
00:41:04,159 --> 00:41:07,599
was injured almost all of this season. It was really unfortunate.

868
00:41:08,199 --> 00:41:11,639
He didn't play all but twenty one games for the

869
00:41:11,679 --> 00:41:14,559
Colonal Rockets. When he did play, he was great, thirty

870
00:41:14,559 --> 00:41:17,760
two points in twenty one games, but that was unfortunate.

871
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,920
He had hip surgery which kept him out a lot

872
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,360
of the time. He had a femlo femero acetabular hip

873
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,079
and pingement, which is something that should be taken care

874
00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:32,039
of once you actually have that surgically altered. So hopefully

875
00:41:32,079 --> 00:41:35,800
that won't bother him moving forward. Mitch Brown actually did

876
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,159
track the games that he did play this year, and

877
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,639
he was awesome, Like literally one hundred percentile for offense

878
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,760
transition and ninety seventh for defense. There really weren't a

879
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,360
whole lot of things that were bad other than maybe

880
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,800
a couple of his offensive zone retrievals, maybe some of

881
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,400
his off puck assists and slot pass success rate, but

882
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:56,760
other than that, it's pretty much all outstanding for AGAINLA.

883
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,719
Looking at his Fantasy Hockey Life Player card, I have

884
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,599
him at a seven point one seven, so seventeen percent

885
00:42:02,679 --> 00:42:04,480
chance of being a seven out of ten and seven

886
00:42:04,599 --> 00:42:07,400
is a really high number. So he's got a pretty

887
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,119
high potential still, and I didn't really knock him for

888
00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:12,519
being out a lot of this season, but we definitely

889
00:42:12,559 --> 00:42:14,400
want to see a big step from him next year,

890
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,719
so we'll be really important to see how he does there.

891
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,880
It is important to remember that he's a really late birthdate.

892
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,639
He's an August birthdate, so he was eighteen all this season.

893
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:27,159
He'll be nineteen all next season and still will not

894
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,239
be eligible for the AHL, so he will most likely

895
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,559
be back in the WHL, and he'll be good because

896
00:42:33,559 --> 00:42:36,199
he hasn't really had a full season to show us

897
00:42:36,199 --> 00:42:38,480
what he can do other than that draft season where

898
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,239
he played sixty four games, so we'll look forward to that.

899
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,039
Looking at his BASH, he's a high volume shooter, but

900
00:42:44,119 --> 00:42:46,480
not so much for the hits and blocks, so he's

901
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:48,639
closer to average for those two. But overall, the BASH

902
00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:51,400
should be really good, mostly driven by the hits. That's

903
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,480
a little snippet of again Love, but let's get a

904
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,840
little bit bigger picture from our FHL scout.

905
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,639
Speaker 3: That's right, Victor scout. Patrick today comes to us for

906
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:05,679
the Tidge again the look skating average. According to Patrick,

907
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,599
doesn't have elite speed, but skates hard, is good with

908
00:43:08,639 --> 00:43:12,679
the crossovers. Passing and handling a plus skill. Does well

909
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,960
transporting the puck up the ice. Handles well in tight spaces, However,

910
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,159
sometimes tries to do too much and Againla can get

911
00:43:20,159 --> 00:43:24,840
the puck stolen. He's accurate when passing, shooting hard shot

912
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:29,559
for titch, but most dangerous in close with those soft hands.

913
00:43:30,159 --> 00:43:32,920
Againla has a high hockey IQ, good at reading the

914
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,920
play and being in the right places in the right times.

915
00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:39,639
He doesn't panic, and he plays with confidence for checking.

916
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,840
High energy player who tries to press defenders as much

917
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,519
as possible and goes hard when for checking. His aggressiveness

918
00:43:46,639 --> 00:43:50,760
and good hands help with puck battles defense, a defensively

919
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,960
responsible player who skates back hard to help in the

920
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,239
defensive zone. And the best asset then is the passing

921
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,039
and handling. Biggest concern Patrick thinks it's nitpicking is so

922
00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:03,280
he doesn't know there's a big concern. But the defensive

923
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,679
consistency maybe could still use some work. The top tier

924
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,239
outcome Patrick can foresee first line winger on Powerplay one.

925
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:14,159
That's because he has a strong, if not elite, overall toolkit.

926
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,519
The median outcome middle six winger on power Play two

927
00:44:17,639 --> 00:44:21,559
was sometime on Powerplay one. That's if the development stalls

928
00:44:21,559 --> 00:44:23,760
a little bit, he could be limited to a high

929
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,840
and third liner, with time on the second line when possible.

930
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,760
Comparable Patrick has is Lucas Raymond and final thoughts of note.

931
00:44:33,159 --> 00:44:36,480
Iggy missed most of the season after getting hip surgery.

932
00:44:36,639 --> 00:44:42,880
Around early December, the NHL Rank King and Lord Stanley

933
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,360
Tidy champion Mason Black put out the poll for US

934
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:51,119
Titchigan Love versus Beckett Seneke, and Seneke won the vote

935
00:44:51,159 --> 00:44:55,400
for fifty four to forty six percent. Victor, Is that

936
00:44:55,599 --> 00:44:58,840
how our no brainer Utah Man of the Prospect is

937
00:44:58,840 --> 00:44:59,599
going to go down here?

938
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: I think it's hard. I mean, we did see a

939
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,440
lot more from Beckett this year, so it's a little

940
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,960
bit easier to project him moving forward. He was a

941
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,599
little bit of a higher pick, but I think those

942
00:45:10,639 --> 00:45:13,440
guys were in the same range. Seneca just has those

943
00:45:13,599 --> 00:45:16,400
unique physical traits, being so long and lanky, and he

944
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,760
did have another super strong OHL season, so you know

945
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,039
he's building, whereas TZ didn't really have that opportunity. I

946
00:45:24,119 --> 00:45:26,880
probably would lean Seneca at this point. I do think

947
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,199
that he is probably a more a safer guy to

948
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,000
hit a pretty high upside. I have him at a

949
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,239
seven point five too, so I have the percentage a

950
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,559
little bit higher than Againla, and the bash is probably

951
00:45:38,599 --> 00:45:41,000
a little bit better because Seneca hits a little bit more.

952
00:45:41,119 --> 00:45:43,800
The shots are equally good and the blocks are equally

953
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:48,079
average to poor, So I do think i'd probably lean Seneca,

954
00:45:48,159 --> 00:45:51,199
although I will say though that in terms of pure upside,

955
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,719
I do think that Againla's is higher, so there's just

956
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,480
a little bit more volatility there. And I think it's

957
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,800
pretty close, as you can see by the poll, fifty

958
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:02,159
four to forty six is pretty close, but I would

959
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,880
lean Seneca as the votes as the voters have here,

960
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,360
and looking at the hockey prospecting between these two, it's

961
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,119
actually pretty similar. They both trended down this year Againla

962
00:46:13,159 --> 00:46:15,480
from twenty one to thirteen percent in Seneca from fifteen

963
00:46:15,519 --> 00:46:18,159
to nine. They're both pretty likely to make the NHL,

964
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:21,840
and if I look at some other comps here for Againla,

965
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,159
there's some pretty good ones like Evander Kaine is probably

966
00:46:24,159 --> 00:46:27,679
not an unreasonable one. There's also a pretty reasonable one

967
00:46:27,679 --> 00:46:30,239
as James Van Riemsdyke. I think he's someone who's going

968
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,079
to be fantasy relevant, but maybe not as exciting as

969
00:46:33,199 --> 00:46:36,719
we all hope they would be. So that's maybe a

970
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,880
realistic projection of where Againla could be. And looking at

971
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,559
the j freshcard, he's a fourteen percent chance of being

972
00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:44,920
a star, sixty seven percent chance of being an NHL

973
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,039
or so all in all, looking pretty good for Aginla,

974
00:46:48,159 --> 00:46:50,960
but we definitely need to see more and he will

975
00:46:51,159 --> 00:46:53,559
hopefully give us that opportunity to have a full strong

976
00:46:53,599 --> 00:46:56,559
season next season. In the WHL.

977
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 3: Mixed up victor the need to know prospect.

978
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,519
Speaker 2: The need to know is Artam Duda. Drafted twenty twenty two,

979
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,280
second round, thirty six overall. He's sixty one hundred and

980
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,480
eighty seven pounds. He had twenty nine points in seventy

981
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,679
games for Tucson of the AHL this past season, so

982
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,880
that was that was really good production for the defenseman,

983
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,719
and his FHL player card has him at a five

984
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,880
point two five so twenty five percent chance of being

985
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:30,400
an average roster player. The AHL isn't known for supporting

986
00:47:30,519 --> 00:47:32,800
really lofty numbers in terms of BASH, but he was

987
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,559
able to hit seventy eight percentile for shots they hit.

988
00:47:35,639 --> 00:47:37,800
Some blocks are pretty low for Duda though, so overall

989
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,280
you're looking at probably not the highest bash. But let's

990
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,280
find out a little bit more about Duda from our

991
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,159
NHL from our FHL scout.

992
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,280
Speaker 3: Patrick has this to say for skating, it's average. It's

993
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,960
not a plus skill or a liability. He's decent at

994
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,079
walking the blue line. At times. The passing from Archim

995
00:47:57,159 --> 00:47:59,800
Dudah is passing and handley look good, but at other

996
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,360
times it looks shaky. They look best when he has

997
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,400
time and at the point in the offensive zone, shooting

998
00:48:06,639 --> 00:48:08,760
pretty hard shot from the point. A lot of times

999
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,400
he shot them into defenders or missed the net though

1000
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:15,599
IQ average hockey IQ times when he panics in the

1001
00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:17,920
defensive zone, but is able to read and react well

1002
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,239
some other times, especially in the offensive zone. It looked

1003
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,599
like this improved as he got further into the season.

1004
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,519
For checking, good job of staying at the point, but

1005
00:48:26,679 --> 00:48:30,719
activating further into the offensive zone when it's appropriate to

1006
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:35,840
maintain cycling of the puck defense. In Patrick's viewings, the

1007
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:40,000
defense looked somewhat bad, but looked better further into the season. However,

1008
00:48:40,039 --> 00:48:43,239
the aggressiveness, stick work, and timing could use some skill building.

1009
00:48:43,679 --> 00:48:46,800
He often lost board battles or threw pucks away rather

1010
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:51,039
than making smart plays. The best asset then passing and

1011
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:54,719
handling in the offensive zone. Biggest concern it is the defense.

1012
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,719
The top tier outcome Patrick can foresee for Doudai is

1013
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,920
a third pair defenseman on power play two. That's because

1014
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,920
he's relatively young, showed signs of improvement in his first

1015
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,880
full season in professional hockey. If he can build on

1016
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,320
all those aspects of his game, he's still got a

1017
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,039
chance to be a solid NHL defenseman. But the median

1018
00:49:14,079 --> 00:49:17,800
outcome solid AHL defenseman who gets some time in the

1019
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,719
NHL as a sixth or seventh defenseman. That's because there's

1020
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,199
nothing about Duda's game Patrick finds especially remarkable. If he

1021
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,280
can't improve his defense's offense doesn't stand out enough to

1022
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,599
be the only thing that propels him to the NHL

1023
00:49:32,119 --> 00:49:36,480
stylistic comparable, perhaps a lesser she and Gostis Bear or

1024
00:49:36,599 --> 00:49:39,840
John Klingberg and the final thoughts before the season he

1025
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,800
played limited games in the last two seasons. Two seasons ago,

1026
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,199
Duda played thirty one games between the NHL, VHL and KHL.

1027
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,960
Last season, he attempted to play for Maine, but ended

1028
00:49:50,039 --> 00:49:54,519
up playing about twenty one games for Toronto Metro U

1029
00:49:54,679 --> 00:49:57,239
in the U Sports League. At twenty one, He's still

1030
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,079
young and next season will be an important one to

1031
00:49:59,119 --> 00:50:01,639
watch to get a better read on his NHL potential

1032
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:07,760
and Mason Black. The NHL rank King put Maxim Sturback

1033
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:13,480
versus Archim. Duda and Stirback won this one fifty seven

1034
00:50:13,559 --> 00:50:18,440
to forty three percent. Victor. How do you rank them?

1035
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 2: I think the reality is that I'm not sure that

1036
00:50:21,079 --> 00:50:25,119
I would want either of these super highly in my league.

1037
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,320
I think that they're fine for a good depth defenseman.

1038
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,599
I think both these guys are pretty likely to play

1039
00:50:32,639 --> 00:50:34,679
in the NHL. I'm just not sure how either how

1040
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,519
likely either is going to be an impact player. One

1041
00:50:38,519 --> 00:50:41,360
of the comps for Duda in the ranking app is

1042
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,599
Philip Myers, who's someone who had some promise and played

1043
00:50:44,599 --> 00:50:47,840
some games, but it wasn't necessarily super impactful, and that

1044
00:50:48,159 --> 00:50:50,480
might end up being what Duda is like. I have

1045
00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:53,159
hoped that there's more there, but I'm not sure. Stirback

1046
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,559
is someone who certainly seems will play in the NHL.

1047
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,239
A couple of his comps are guys like Dennis Gilbert

1048
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,079
or Alec Martinez, and I think he's a guy who's

1049
00:51:01,159 --> 00:51:03,000
going to play. But I'm just not sure how much

1050
00:51:03,039 --> 00:51:06,280
fantasy impact there is going to be for Stirback. I

1051
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,320
have him at a four point two three twenty three

1052
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,440
percent chance of being a four, so I have him

1053
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,480
a little bit lower, but overall, I don't think either

1054
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,320
of these are going to be hugely impactful. Stir Back

1055
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,440
did actually have some pretty strong bash numbers in terms

1056
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,639
of his hits. He was hitting a lot and overall

1057
00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:25,480
his bash should be is in the one hundredth percentile,

1058
00:51:25,599 --> 00:51:27,800
So that's pretty great and there should be a pretty

1059
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,280
high floor there. But I'm just not sure if there's

1060
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,639
going to be a lot of points to translate. So

1061
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,400
that's I think the biggest concern there. But he has

1062
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,039
had some pretty decent production nineteen points in thirty three

1063
00:51:38,079 --> 00:51:40,519
games at Michigan State. He did have six points in

1064
00:51:40,599 --> 00:51:44,239
five U twenty World Junior Championships games for Slovakia. This

1065
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,920
is Sturback, so there is some hope that maybe there's

1066
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,320
a little bit more offense there. I would probably lean

1067
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:53,480
Stirback in this pole ahead of Duda. I think that

1068
00:51:53,559 --> 00:51:55,599
there are both guys that you're looking at as a

1069
00:51:55,599 --> 00:51:57,880
more depth option, and hopefully you're not relying on them

1070
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,320
as one as your COP prospects, because he might be

1071
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,960
a little bit disappointed looking at these two. In the

1072
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,320
Hockey prospecting model, Duda has some really insanely large numbers.

1073
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,639
He graduated them all at fifty three percent chance of

1074
00:52:08,679 --> 00:52:11,360
being a star. I think that's pretty overblown based on

1075
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:15,159
some of his numbers in Russia, particular in the MHL,

1076
00:52:15,199 --> 00:52:18,960
which we've talked about being a very difficult league to evaluate,

1077
00:52:19,039 --> 00:52:21,639
and he had a couple of really strong MHL seasons

1078
00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:24,440
that might have inflated his numbers there. Stirback, on the

1079
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,599
other hand, was the opposite. I think some of his

1080
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,119
numbers are a little bit underestimated because of his time

1081
00:52:30,159 --> 00:52:34,920
playing in the twenty League in Finland and then the USHL,

1082
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,519
which he didn't have a lot of scoring for, and

1083
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,320
his first season in the NCAA. So his past season

1084
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,360
where he popped off, didn't really reward him that much.

1085
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,960
All in all, I'm not sure that these Hockey prospecting numbers,

1086
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,039
which at stirback is just two percent chance of being

1087
00:52:49,079 --> 00:52:52,159
a star. I think that the answer is probably flipped

1088
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,400
and somewhere in the middle for both of them. But anyways,

1089
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,960
looking at Duda, there's some comms here that I think

1090
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,760
are un realistic, like Oliver Ekman, Larsen, Brian McCabe, Dougie Hamilton.

1091
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:04,639
I don't think that he's going to be like any

1092
00:53:04,679 --> 00:53:07,519
of those guys. Even Kevin Korchinski is there which we

1093
00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:10,440
still don't know about. But I think those are all

1094
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:15,199
lofty goals for Artem Duda, unfortunately, and his realistic outcome

1095
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,960
is probably a bit lower than that. Looking at the

1096
00:53:18,079 --> 00:53:20,320
j first model, Duda has two percent chance of being

1097
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:21,960
a star on twenty eight percent chance of being an

1098
00:53:22,039 --> 00:53:24,559
NHL or. I think that nhller probability is a little low,

1099
00:53:24,639 --> 00:53:27,800
but other than that, it's it is probably a little

1100
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,119
bit more realistic for his chance of being a star.

1101
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,239
So someone that is good to have in terms of

1102
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,599
can probably get you some games, but I'm not sure

1103
00:53:35,639 --> 00:53:38,679
you should be too excited about him in terms of

1104
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:39,480
getting points.

1105
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 3: Victor, the keep your Eye prospect came up earlier in

1106
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,719
this show is somebody who might be coming sooner than later.

1107
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:48,280
Who is it?

1108
00:53:49,159 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 2: The nail Boot. The nail Boot was twelfth overall back

1109
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,320
in twenty twenty three when they took Simachev and Boot

1110
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,679
in that same first round. Six foot six, two hundred

1111
00:53:57,679 --> 00:54:01,800
and sixteen pounds. He was also on that Championship Gargain

1112
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:07,519
Cup championship team for Locomotive Yaroslav. He had twenty eight

1113
00:54:07,559 --> 00:54:11,119
points and fifty four KHL games, and he also had

1114
00:54:11,159 --> 00:54:14,679
a really strong playoff with actually he had one point

1115
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,400
in those thirteen playoff games. Was an important part of

1116
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,880
the team that helped win that championship. He did sign

1117
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,039
his entry level deal on May twenty eighth, along with Simashev,

1118
00:54:24,159 --> 00:54:27,000
and looking at his FHL player card have him at

1119
00:54:27,039 --> 00:54:30,480
a six point four or five. It's interesting because he's

1120
00:54:30,519 --> 00:54:32,559
such a big guy and a lot of people assume

1121
00:54:32,599 --> 00:54:34,800
he's a big hitter, but he is not. His hits

1122
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:40,199
are thirtieth percentile. His shots and blocks are actually really good,

1123
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,360
both eightieth percentile, but the hits are not bad. So overall,

1124
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,199
you might assume that Daniel Boot is pretty strong in bash,

1125
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,559
and it's true. He is a seventieth percentile for bash,

1126
00:54:49,599 --> 00:54:51,079
but it's not because of the hits, which is what

1127
00:54:51,119 --> 00:54:53,480
you might think. So just to find that kind of interesting,

1128
00:54:53,559 --> 00:54:56,000
let's find some more interesting things out about Daniel Boot

1129
00:54:56,079 --> 00:54:58,760
by listening to our FHL scout Jesse.

1130
00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 3: And this time its FHL co lead scout Tony, who

1131
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,280
comes in, says that Daniel Boot is a good skeeter

1132
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,639
but needs to work on his acceleration, very good passer,

1133
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:13,960
can handle the puck well for his size. Daniel can

1134
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:17,559
shoot the puck effectively with his size. He gets a

1135
00:55:17,599 --> 00:55:20,400
shot off quite easily, and he has a good hockey

1136
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,800
IQ with positive vision anticipation. He seems to be poised

1137
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:28,000
while I'm playing in the offensive zone, though Tony did

1138
00:55:28,079 --> 00:55:32,119
see some panic in the defensive zone for checking, Daniel

1139
00:55:32,559 --> 00:55:34,800
used his long reach to get the puck off the

1140
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,480
opponent's stick, and on defense, Boot uses his size to

1141
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:42,800
keep the puck away from defenseman. While in the offensive zone.

1142
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,800
The best asset then the puck handling, using his size

1143
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,079
to get shots away. The biggest concern is whether he'll

1144
00:55:49,119 --> 00:55:50,880
be able to keep up with the speed of the

1145
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:55,840
National Hockey League. The top tier role or potential for Boots,

1146
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:59,599
according to According to Tony, middle six winger. If he

1147
00:55:59,639 --> 00:56:01,960
can work on his acceleration and keep his puck in

1148
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:03,679
lit at a high level, he could be top six

1149
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:07,280
forward with some power play time the median outcome third

1150
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,679
tier or bottom six player. He needs to become a

1151
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:14,039
better skater and be more physical while not losing his

1152
00:56:14,079 --> 00:56:19,079
gifts stylistic comparable. This is interesting, Tony says, like Patrick Lyoney,

1153
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,159
except without as good of a shot, Daniel could be

1154
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,280
a middle six forward. Ultimately, says Tony, if he improves

1155
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,039
on his skating to keep up with the NHL game

1156
00:56:29,079 --> 00:56:32,159
and Mason Black in order to torture me to the

1157
00:56:32,199 --> 00:56:36,679
optimal degree, puts Daniel Boot against Michael brand Segnieguard the

1158
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:41,599
Norwegian Terror and Boot wins this one. It is fifty

1159
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:46,679
seven to forty three percent Boot victor. Is that is

1160
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:47,280
that accurate?

1161
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:48,559
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1162
00:56:48,599 --> 00:56:51,519
Speaker 2: I think so, Although I find that really funny what

1163
00:56:51,559 --> 00:56:55,559
Tony said about like Patrick Loney without a good shot,

1164
00:56:55,559 --> 00:56:58,159
I don't know what Patrick Leney is without a good shot.

1165
00:56:59,079 --> 00:57:00,760
The rest of his game is awful. So if you

1166
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,920
don't have a good shot, he's just like a junior

1167
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:07,199
league player or something. I don't know. Beer leaguer. Maybe

1168
00:57:07,199 --> 00:57:10,679
that's too much, too harsh on Patrick Laney, but yeah,

1169
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,559
I don't know, that's interesting description. I do think that

1170
00:57:14,679 --> 00:57:17,480
I would take Boot over Bransick Nightguard. I just think

1171
00:57:17,519 --> 00:57:21,519
if BNJIC Nightguard is going to be weird, stereotypical bottom sixer,

1172
00:57:22,719 --> 00:57:24,119
and so that would make me a little bit worried

1173
00:57:24,159 --> 00:57:27,280
about the scoring. He had eleven points and forty two

1174
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,840
games for Schleftia AIK this season did Brandick night Guard,

1175
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,079
and his bash is really not as exciting, although he

1176
00:57:34,119 --> 00:57:36,199
does hit a lot and so you get a little

1177
00:57:36,239 --> 00:57:38,760
bit more hits, but overall the bash is closer to

1178
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,960
average because his shots and blocks are not very good.

1179
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,079
So I think you have a higher floor for Boot,

1180
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,159
and I think that there's some hope that he can

1181
00:57:46,239 --> 00:57:48,960
translate a little bit of that offense. And he's already

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been playing in a really challenging league though so as

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Brendickneggart in the SHL. But I think Boot has a

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little bit longer track record doing it, So I'll do

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see how this one can be close, But I would

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be more confident and taking Boot and looking at the

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p andoche lead between these two, it's pretty similar, but

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it does favor Boot. Some of the comps here aren't

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super exciting for either of these players. You're looking at

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a high of Raphael Harvey Pinard for Danial Boot and

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just an abdicator for Brensick Nightguard, neither of which are

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super inspiring. There is some likelihood of being in NHLer,

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which is nice for both of these guys, just not

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sure what the upside is. Looking at the hockey prospecting

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model between the two, Boot did increase his chance of

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being a star this season with his KHL production, which

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is really difficult to do in your Draft plus two season.

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He went up to eleven percent of being a star.

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Brensick Nightguard went down from fifteen to four percent chance

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of being a star and lowered his NHLer probability at

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the same time. So this hockey prospecting is definitely leaning Boot.

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00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,000
Looking at some other comps for Boot, there's a pretty

1203
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,800
good one here, which is t Joshi. I think that's

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00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,880
probably a would be a great outcome for Boot. There's

1205
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some other name here with the ch aren't super likely,

1206
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like Luke Robertie. I don't think that's very likely. Be

1207
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hoping for that really big guy who can have some

1208
00:59:09,119 --> 00:59:11,239
nice scoring touch as well, and not just be a

1209
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,599
bang or bottom six guy, which is also fairly likely.

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Looking at the Jfresh card for Boot, he's thirty percent

1211
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:20,679
chance of being a start in ninety seven percent chance

1212
00:59:20,719 --> 00:59:23,679
of being an NHL or. That's really strong from Jfresh

1213
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:27,719
and overall pretty heartwarming there. So we'll be interesting to

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see what we can find out about Boot as he

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comes to North America. As you heard from our guests

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Brogan that there is a pretty good likelihood that both

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00:59:36,719 --> 00:59:38,599
he and sim Chef get a really good shot of

1218
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making the team out of camp, but we might actually

1219
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:43,039
have to wait a little bit longer, maybe he goes

1220
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the AHL or back to Russia. We'll have this late

1221
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and sy, but the timeline for him should be really

1222
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short in terms of when he could be in the NHL,

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which God is really nice to hear. That's it for

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should have been whether there will be more puns on

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Boot's name based on the word booty or based on

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the preposition about in a Canadian accent in coming years.

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I'm sorry, mister boot that's going to do it for

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