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

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Speaker 2: Here's shit Gims, Hereso.

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Speaker 1: Your source of information and analysis to help you win

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your fantasy hockey league.

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Speaker 3: Block off hot a step hit on, stay lock.

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Speaker 4: Here's your hosts, Jesse Sevier and Victor Nuno.

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Speaker 5: Fantasy Hockey Live.

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Speaker 6: Jesse Severe back with you, ready to talk some fantasy

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hockey and is Victor Nunio here?

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Speaker 5: Well sort of.

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Speaker 6: Victor, as some of you may know, was at the

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draft this past weekend, and my goodness, he was a

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busy man doing the credentialed media thing there and he

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got a whole lot of audio, and over the next

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little while you're going to be getting the benefits of

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that audio. Today is going to be no exception to that.

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But a couple things to mention before we get itself started.

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You should check us out on our free discord. Just

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hit us up at Fantasy Hockeylife at gmail dot com

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and we'll give you a link get you in. We

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also have a patreon that does all kinds of things.

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Victor's post draft rankings for fantasy purposes will be going

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on on there, among many of the things, and you

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can get yourself in the tidy leagues. That is the

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tiered Dynasty League that we'll be doing once again next year.

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I think it's our third year and it's a whole

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lot of fun. Ask anybody who's in it. You got

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to be a patroon though to do it, and so

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check us out with all those things. But today what's

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going to happen is we're going to start with some

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of the people that Victor was able to interview at

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the Draft, and that included several people who are in

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the prospect talking space. We got Derek Numeier of McKean's Hockey,

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among other things. We've got brock Otten, who you've definitely

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heard on this show show before. We've got the famous

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Cam Robinson, old buddy of the show, Anthony Donati the Prospect.

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Don is going to be doing some interviewing with us,

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Russ Cohen, who you have definitely heard on these here airwaves,

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and Shane malloy. So it's a whole bunch of people

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who are talking to Victor as the draft results are

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coming in and getting their takes off. And the other

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thing we've got is that Victor while he was at

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the Draft was going and interviewing prospects or he was

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participating in the scrums around the prospects and giving getting

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some audio, asking some questions, listening to some other reporters questions,

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and let me give you the advanced caveat that I

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always like to give, which is these are edited down there.

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Most of the reporters who are asking questions of people

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are saying, well, what are you excited to move to Vancouver?

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You know, what have you heard about it? How excited

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are you right now?

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Speaker 4: Was your family here?

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Speaker 7: Who?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 6: These are great, great things to hear, and I've got

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no shade against any of that, but it's not particularly

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useful for US fantasy hockey players. We're not looking for

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a quote, a pull quote that we can throw into

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a quick profile to introduce the fan base to a prospect.

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We are trying to provide some analysis of what somebody's

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game is. And Victor's questions actually were the best when

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it came to that. Those things, therefore are edited down.

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I do my normal editing out of homes and us,

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so that is also modified. There will be a couple

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of these draft things interspersed with the other content here,

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particularly after interviews where some of the prospects are mentioned

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So why don't you sit back find out what I'm

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talking about, because right after this we're going to start

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Draftcastic one the interviews.

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Speaker 8: All right, please to be joined now remotely by Derek Neumeyer,

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who is the assistant director of Scouting and head West

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Scout and mc keems Hockey.

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Speaker 4: How you doing, Derek, Hey and doing well.

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Speaker 5: Enjoying joining Scout Christmas this weekend, both today and yesterday.

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This is the type of we work all year for

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this event that scouts they're always excited to see how

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the picks go in. You know, it's a good way

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to celebrate the players that we watch and we like

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and we're excited for their futures. This is a huge

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milestone for them and this is a great time overall.

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It's a little different this year. I'm not at the

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draft like you are, Like I usually end the background

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I'm using here. But it's working well watching it from

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home as well.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, when it was five hours in the first round

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to make thirty two picks, I wish I was remote too.

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So there are some benefits, but I do miss seeing you,

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and I'm sure you're missing all the people that you

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get to run into when you're in person, and hopefully

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next year that'll be the kid.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, finger crossing.

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Speaker 8: So I wanted to bring you on to talk about

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all the WHL players that you're so knowledgeable about, and

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I wanted to start with the defenseman because we know

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mat B. Schaefer's and a tier visional, but we're always

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looking for some good offensive scoring depth.

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Speaker 4: After that, I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I was a little surprised, not terribly surprised, but Merca

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went at nine and Jackson Smith went at fourteen. Maybe

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we could just talk about these two together, because I feel,

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and you can tell me if I'm wrong, that the

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better fantasy asset is Jackson Smith seems to be a

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little bit more offensive and Merca might be a really

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good NHL defenseman but may not be as good a

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fantasy in terms of like points. But maybe you could

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talk about those two and it's what you think about them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's certainly a disconnect between Merca and what he's

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good at and what actually translates to fantasy hockey depending

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on how you set it up. You look for points,

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you look for penalty minutes. Maybe hits RCA doesn't really

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do a lot of that. Like you put up some

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ok points this year in Seattle, but that was just

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because he was their number one defenceman and he was

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getting more power plays time than he probably would have

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in other environments. I think it's a really good pick

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where he went to Buffalo. He's a very solid workhorse defenseman.

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There's a lot of good attributes to his game. I

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think he skates better than he gets credit for. I

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think he handles the puck better than he gets credit for.

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But in terms of the NHL upside, looking at a guy,

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he probably tops out of thirty forty points a year.

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four defenseman for Buffalo, most likely top penalty kill handles

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really heavy matchups, and you've got a guy like Aaron

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up a lot of points, but he eats a ton

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of heavy minutes for Florida and he's an effective difference

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maker for them. With Jackson Smith, that's a guy with

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some interesting fantasy upside. I mean, he reminds me in

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some ways of Sam Dickinson last year where Dickinson he

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was a point per game player for London, went eleventh

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over all to San Jose, and he just looked like

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he had so much more growth potential offensively, just because

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he had such amazing physical tool and athleticism and like

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to take risks and was very active. And he had

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a huge explosion this season offensively, went from sixty points

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to ninety one points. I think it was something along

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those lines. And I could see a similar sort of

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thing with Jackson Smith, where he didn't score a whole

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ton this year, but he was just creating so much

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offensively that you saw the tools that he had, and

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he played on a team that didn't score a lot.

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environment with some better offensive players, a team that had

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a better top power play unit, I think his production

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would have been a lot better. I could certainly see

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him being someone who's maybe a fifty or sixty point

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guy at his peak in the NHL. And he's got

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some nastiness to him too. He's not like a bruiser.

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he's not afraid to get his hands dirty if he

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has to, so he'll be a guy that shows up

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on the stat sheet in a variety of different ways.

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Speaker 8: I heard a lot of good things about Jackson Smith,

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but I also read a look little bit about his

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tendency is under pressure to maybe panicked and maybe not

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make the mist decision, which honestly give me a little

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bit of worry because it's only going to get harder

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and there's going to be less faces and things are

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going to get faster. So is that any a concern

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for you? Is that maybe a little bit overblown.

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Speaker 5: No, it's a concern. There's certainly a risk there that

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is something that holds him back. So you do, as

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a scout, have to hope for a little bit of

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development help from your team to clear out some of

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the warts in his game a little bit. Now I've

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interviewed the guy. He seemed like a pretty smart kid.

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He gave good answers to my questions. I don't think

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there's anything that's like a red flag with his hockey

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sense or his processing or decision making. I don't think

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there's anything that'll prevent him from making improvements long term.

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I think he's going to be a guy who makes them.

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It just might take him some time. You look at

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players NHL now, Jacob Chickrin, for example, had a really

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solid season in Washington. He's really come into his own,

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but it took him to be twenty six or so

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before he really so I could see a similar sort

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of thing with Smith where I think he's going to

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get there. I think he's going to be able to

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maximize all his tools and clean up a lot of

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the weaknesses in his game, but it just might take

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him a little bit longer than some other top prospects

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who are a little bit smarter right now. So you

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kind of have to play the long game with him.

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He's maybe something you keep on like your fantasy bench

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for a little bit and then just late and hope

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he's ready forever the big league.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes, Yeah, sounds weird.

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Speaker 8: Let's talk about the most controversial pick I think in

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this draft, and that's Roger McQueen, and it goes ten

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to Anaheim, which honestly, I think is a good landing

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stock for him, just in terms of he's not going

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to be pressured to come along any quicker than he

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needs to. They got a couple of good centers ahead

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of him, but and of course there's questions about the

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back and anything, but what do you think about him

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just in terms of his upside and fantasy We don't

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have to invest in those longestime development of this in

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our fantasy team, But what do you think a man?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right with everything you said. I think tenth

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is the right spot for him to go. The talk

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for most of the year was that if he'd been

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healthy all season, he could have been a guy who

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went top five, maybe even top three, because you have

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a center with size and skill and mobility and some

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grit to his game, like he's had everything, which is

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really interesting, but he missed a ton of time with

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back injuries. He was telling teams of the combine that

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the injury he has now will heal one hundred percent,

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and he's got some doctors notes to support that, and

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I believe him. But the worry the team still have

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is that, you know, if you're susceptible to a back injury,

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it can be a reoccurring thing. This specific injury he

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has right now might heal, but what are the chances

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of him having another different back injury in the future.

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Higher for him, that seems than probably a lot of

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other prospects, So it's a swing by the ducks if

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it works out. We're talking about a guy who could

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be just a massively impactful NHL player, a guy who's

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sixty seventy maybe eighty points if everything really comes together

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for him long term and everything works out with his developments. Yeah,

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I just think there's a huge ton of upside. Yeah,

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but maybe some chance that he doesn't quite get there,

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whether it's for health or just missing time, that kind

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of slows in down development wise. So it is high risk,

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high reward, that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 8: I have thoughts on the medical stuff, which I've shared

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with our listeners separately. We will We'll just leave that

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where it is. I wanted to switch and ask about

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Braiden Coots because when we were sitting here and Vitch

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Er Eckland was sitting on the board at fifteen and

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Speaker 4: The would have taken him.

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Speaker 8: I thought that he would have been their guy, and

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neither took him, and Vancouver goes Braidon Poots, and obviously

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that must have liked a lot about him to not

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take him to Sweed, who was pretty high in a

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lot of people list, So what do you think about

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foods And is that a good fist there.

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Speaker 5: The Canucks had a certain need for centers in the

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system actually right shot ones, so I can see that.

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But I think there is more upside to Kots than

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we've really seen so far this year in Seattle, he

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really did not have a lot of support around him,

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Like he'd go into games as the main offensive guy

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in that team, the main guy that other teams are

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trying to shut down, the guy that is getting the

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toughest matchups, and that's not easy when you're seventeen years old.

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I was talking to an NHL scout actually had a

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hitman game here, and we were talking about Ben Kindall

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in Calgary and some of the other top young players

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coming out of the doub and this gun made a

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great point where you know, if you were to switch

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Ben Kindall and Brandon Kootz this season, where Kindall was

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in Seattle and Kootz was in Calgary on a better team,

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their production could have been completely swapped. Like Koots could

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have been the guy putting up eighty ninety points in

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Calgary and Kindle could have been closer to sixty in Seattle.

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Just because the environment made such a difference, and Coots

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had a good offensive showing at the UA teen tournament

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in the Springs. I think he led Canon in scoring

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Or was one of the top two guys. So he's

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got more offense than we've seen so far, So it

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could be a pick that works out. I personally still

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would have taken Victor Ecklund. He was top ten for me,

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whereas Coots wasn't on my board, but I can see

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the logic of where Vancouver's going with that decision.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it still some mental gymnastics to me, but I

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appreciate it are slaves. Let's move to a couple of

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the second rounders. Blake Fiddler. He was someone who a

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lot of us were saying after round one definitely one

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of the best available.

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Speaker 4: Let certainly in.

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Speaker 8: That category of some of the secondary offensive defenseman or

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just a good defenseman in general. I guess my question

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for fantasy is, how good do you think his offensive

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team can be? Can he be a guy who ton

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of demands to power play time. He certainly has the

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size and mobility, and he's so young, right, so he's

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got a big runway. So that kind of gives me

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some hope that maybe there's a little bit let me

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tap offensive potential there, give me some hope.

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Speaker 5: There maybe a little Yeah, we haven't seen a ton

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of it yet. We've seen modest offensive production from him

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in Edmonton. What I think is important to recognize with

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him is that he's going to keep getting those opportunities

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with the oil Kings in the WHL, at least if

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he stays there and doesn't jump to the NCAA a

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lot of other guys do. You're talking about a guy

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who's going to be playing probably twenty five minutes a

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night in all situations, including the power play. So he's

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going to get a chance to grow that part of

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his game. He's going to get those reps, he's gonna

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get a lot of like coaching and attention on how

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to work a power play like the oil Kings are

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going to try and develop that part of his game

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up a little bit more, and when he gets to

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Seattle they work with them. I would say he's probably

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still more of a twenty to thirty point guy at

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best at the NHL level. I don't think he's going

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to be a major offensive contributor, but I would say

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there's maybe a non zero percent chance that he gets there,

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maybe like a ten to twenty percent chance that he

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can add another legitimate level or two to his off

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It's possible. I just wouldn't really expected.

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Speaker 8: Another guy that I think is interesting and anow they're

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just super young guy and this guy's always fascinating the

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Tatan Kettles six ninety four pound right shot, born literally

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two weeks before being eligible for the next draft, So

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maybe he didn't have a ton of points. He's pretty

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raw and maybe there's some potential there. He talks a

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little bit about his going to what he might be

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into the table.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Like with Fiddler and Edmonton Swift Current like they

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they've invested a lot in Kettles. He's a guy that

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they really like. He's going to be a very important

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player for them. He played a little bit of power

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player this year, I think as the net front at

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some points as well. So a bit of an interesting

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asset there. But he'll be a guy who gets encouraged

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and pushed to develop more offense to his game. But

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his real calling card is going to be that nasty side.

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There's been a lot of big defensemen who've been picked

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so far today who aren't really that naturally nasty, the

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truculent kind of guy, but Kettle certainly is. He's a

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guy who really likes that part of the game. He

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likes to throw his weight around. He likes to be

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a bit of like an intimidating presence as a way

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to help his team and push back the other team.

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So I could see him being a guy who shows

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up a lot in terms of family minutes and hits.

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He's not afraid to drop the gloves and yeah, there's

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just a lot there. He is still very raw when

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you watch him right now. He struggles to handle the pop.

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His skating could be a little uncoordinated, But for a

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guy of his size and his age, you have to

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project that's going to improve a little bit as he

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grows into his body and just gets used to it

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a little bit more.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 8: One more guy I wanted to ask you about Matt Shanishka,

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who is a real instinct player. He's big, and he

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spent the first part of the draft season in check

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Yah then came over to the Portland winner Hawks. Just

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a random note here from the draft. I don't think

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anyone spent as long at the podium answering questions and

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talking to people as he did. It was both in

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check and in English, which was really impressive to me.

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And I don't know if that's because his individual circumstance

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for what the reven was, but I actually found that

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kind of interesting. And obviously he didn't play too many

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games that Portland was twenty four and only seven points,

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so I don't know if you'd think there's more upside there.

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Obviously there's some acclamation pio that went into kandas seeming

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to whl sign But you know, what do you think

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of him and his upside?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's interesting. He was certainly a late riser for me,

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and it seemed like that was the same case in

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a lot of other boards. With Redee Merka, he jumped

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to Seattle and immediately looked right at home and was

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making a huge difference. But that's hard to do. Most

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players need a little bit of time, and Sanitzka was

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one of those guys where it took him a little

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bit to get his feet under him in Portland, but

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by the time he did, he was showing a lot

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of promise. Skates really well for a guy's eyes. He

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likes to take charge with the pocket times like with

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Kettle's there's a little bit of coordination concerns right now.

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He's still growing into his body, but I think he

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sees the ice well. I think he under stands like

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the dynamics of playing on the rush. He understands how

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to be a transition defenseman. I think he shows promise

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with working the offensive blue line, and I think there's

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a lot of pieces there with his physical tools and

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his mental approach for there to be more offensive upside

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to come from his game then we've seen so far

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this year. So he's a very interesting players. Just seems

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like teams are really leaning into these like big mobile tools,

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the rock kind of defenseman right now. Just I guess

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that's the way the leaves going to. But Go went

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early this draft just because he's one of the more

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appealing guys in that mold. He really does have some

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very intriguing upside if everything can come together for him.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you saw a huge pattern of that, right, big

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physical that was the trend in this year of draft.

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Speaker 4: It was very obvious. I think all of us. That's great.

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Speaker 8: Derek, is there anyone else that you think we should

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talk about who went a bit later. I'm not as

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familiar with some of those guys, and obviously for fantasy

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we're looking at guys who might have this points of

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didn'yone else come to nine?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So one pick that just came in not that

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long ago, Cameron Schmidt to Dallas in the third round.

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I think that's just a perfect fit for both of

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those entities. Schmidt was considered like a first round talent

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maybe coming into the season and he dropped. And he's

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a guy with just tons of offensive talents, like great

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explosive skater, great finishing ability with a shot, really solid

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on the power play. He dropped to the third round

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because of his size and a couple other issues with

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like his off pock play and sometimes his effort levels.

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He's just a guy who, if everything works out for him,

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could be a twenty thirty goal scorer in the NHL level.

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Sometimes these small scorers, like every year, these guys that

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get picked like that and they don't pan out. But

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with Schmidt, there's just like a real competitive edge to

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him at times. It's really interesting. He's just got that

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like break the game breaking kind of talent that you

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see at times. And the Stars I just think are

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a great organization for him, right They've got a lot

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of young talent on their roster already. They're a really

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established organizations, and like in a few years, I don't

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think it would be hard for them if Schmid Schmidt

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keeps developing well, for them to find an insulated spot

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on their roster at the NHL level, let them get

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like second power play time or whatever, and just kind

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of let them let them do his thing. And the

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Stars aren't scared of this type of prospect either. It

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took Logan Stankoven a few years ago. It's not exactly

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the same kind of player. There were a lot of

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areas where stan Coven was better than Schmid is right now.

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But that was a bit of a risk by the Stars,

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but it worked out tremendously well for them. They got

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the most out of Stankoven's development, and I think the

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Stars think that they can have a similar kind of

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results with Cameron Schmidt, and I'm very excited to see

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how that goes in the coming years.

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Speaker 8: All Right, everyone heard it here first, Derek sith that

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Cameron Smidens the next Logan stank Billings mark it down.

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Everyone heard that obviously that would be a very good outcome.

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They're obviously not the same player, But yeah, I think

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you're totally right. And it was thinking about that as

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we were talking about him, like, obviously they treated him

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and but they didn't. They weren't risk averse to taking

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a player like that and helping him develop, and so yeah,

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that could be a very good outcome if he could

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be even somewhat partially as successful as log Lies.

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Speaker 5: And the Stars loved Stankoen. They loved him, they didn't

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want to trade him. They did so to get Miko Ranton,

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and so that would have been a hard call for

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them in a lot of ways. But yeah, don't get wrong,

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the Stars weren't sick of Stankovi and he could have

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been like a long time franchise player for them if

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Miko Ranton didn't show up and say, hey, I want

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to be a Dallas Star for sure.

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Speaker 4: Awesome.

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Speaker 8: Thanks so much Derek for doing this and for your insights,

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and hopefully we'll see you next year live addition.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the plan. Have a fun rest of your

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day down in La alright.

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Speaker 8: Saints pleased to be joined by brock Auden, who's the

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director of scouting and the teams.

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Speaker 4: How you doing, Brock? Yeah, and I you victory, being

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great to see you here in LA.

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Speaker 8: Hopefully we'll be going back to the regular draft setup

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and before seeing again next time.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's definitely a little bit of fomo going on

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the first draft I've missed in a few years. With

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the quality of the production that we're seeing, I hoping

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it goes back.

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Speaker 10: To what we're used to what we'll see.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely agree with that.

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Speaker 8: So we know that you cover the Ohl and Pollo

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really closely, So I wanted to ask you that some

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of the HL guys who was drafted, and I think

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the biggest surprise probably came at number five with Nashville

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and Brady Martin.

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Speaker 4: We heard sing the day and.

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Speaker 8: We seen up to the draft, but he was a

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favorite at the combine and people really like his game.

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We saw the Stanta Cup finals and Sam Bennett of

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course winning the consent probably did wonder if the braise

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from Martin's stock, what do you think the Nationhville players

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are getting and what's the kind of fantasy player you

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think he could be. Do you think he can actually

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be a big time score or do you think settling

480
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,720
from more of a middle six like hard Knows t

481
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:03,759
play list.

482
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,559
Speaker 10: Yeah, I love the pick for National.

483
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 9: I've been driving the Brady Martin hype trained pretty much

484
00:23:08,279 --> 00:23:12,880
all year. I think we've been under selling his offensive upside.

485
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,079
I think guys that play like Brady does sometimes there

486
00:23:16,079 --> 00:23:20,079
are offensive upside gets underrated because he plays that heavy,

487
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,559
more NHL style game and people to look at that

488
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,519
sometimes and say this guy is a third liner or

489
00:23:28,559 --> 00:23:31,599
nothing more. We've seen it millions of times in the

490
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,079
draft history. I think back to a guy like Mike Richards,

491
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,319
like people had him pegged as a third liner when

492
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,480
he was drafted. Brian O'Reilly like, you just keep going

493
00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:45,319
down the list, and there's numerous examples. I think Brady

494
00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:49,440
Martin can be a really solid fantasy contributor because he's

495
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,680
going to be a guy that contributes across the board.

496
00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 10: Right if hits is.

497
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 9: Something that is kind of near league, he's going to

498
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,720
be one of the leaders and hits in the NHL.

499
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,720
He's going to play in all situations. I think he's

500
00:24:00,759 --> 00:24:03,000
got a chance to be a thirty goal scorer in

501
00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:05,480
the NHL. He's going to be a guy that probably

502
00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:08,200
has positional versatility playing both wing and center.

503
00:24:08,319 --> 00:24:10,319
Speaker 10: I'm going to guess at the NHL level.

504
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 9: But yeah, I think that this is somebody that is

505
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,839
going to be a really good NHL player and somebody

506
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,119
who can be used from a fantasy perspective.

507
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 8: Right, there's certainly a high floor there with the trifles

508
00:24:22,759 --> 00:24:24,240
that he's going to bring. I think it's just a

509
00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:26,839
question of his Guys that score fifty to sixty points

510
00:24:26,839 --> 00:24:29,319
with good priffs have a certain value. But if you're

511
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,400
talking about seventy plus, that's a whole different echelon. Do

512
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,200
you think he can consistently be in that neighborhood.

513
00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 10: I don't know if he's going to be that kind

514
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:37,559
of neighborhood.

515
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,319
Speaker 9: Some of the comparisons that I've thrown out for him

516
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,480
are guys like Mike Richards, like Mike Peca, and those

517
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,839
guys weren't seventy point players at least consistently. So I

518
00:24:47,839 --> 00:24:50,839
think he's more likely going to be sixty points of

519
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,880
the top range there. But if he's contributing in other

520
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,519
areas as a fantasy player, right, if he's winning face offs,

521
00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:01,400
if he's getting hitm so, if he's scoring shorthanded goals,

522
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,160
who's scoring power play goals, He's he's got a chance

523
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,400
to be an all round contributor and depending on what

524
00:25:07,839 --> 00:25:13,160
stats counting stats yearly uses that those kind of guys

525
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,240
they get drafted pretty early in fantasy drafts because they're

526
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,440
a bit unicorn, right, like a guy like Tom Wilson,

527
00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,640
right like a penalty minutes hits special team's points like that.

528
00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 10: That has a ton of value in fantasy.

529
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,039
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, let's move on to the next guy.

530
00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:33,519
I don't think it was surprised, but Jakes O'Brien going

531
00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:36,079
to Seattle, I think that was. It's interesting. It feels

532
00:25:36,079 --> 00:25:37,599
a little bit like what happened to them last year

533
00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:39,559
where Berkeley Katon kind of fell into their lap, and

534
00:25:40,079 --> 00:25:42,279
I think with Jacobrien was there at eight, they felt

535
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:43,839
he didn't think this guy they might have been looking

536
00:25:43,839 --> 00:25:46,000
for a defenseman, but how do you pass on this

537
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,200
kind of talent And he's, you know, definitely a playmaker type,

538
00:25:50,319 --> 00:25:53,400
it seems, and definitely not a guy who seems to

539
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,480
shoot up, but maybe his shots a little underrated. You

540
00:25:55,519 --> 00:25:57,519
could tell us a little bit more about him in

541
00:25:57,599 --> 00:25:59,680
terms of what kind of fantasy upside do you think

542
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,880
they're but it seems to me like it's pretty big.

543
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 9: Yeah, he has among the highest offensive upside of any

544
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,680
player in the draft. It's just a matter of whether

545
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,599
you think the pace, the skating, the conditioning, we'll call

546
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,000
it like he needs to get stronger, how much all

547
00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:20,839
of that improves, because at five on five he struggled

548
00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:23,960
to be a consistently impactful player in the OHL. This

549
00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:26,039
year power play he was the best player in the

550
00:26:26,079 --> 00:26:28,599
OHL Allected league in power play points.

551
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 10: With that extra time.

552
00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:32,559
Speaker 9: And space, he's able to use the vision and then

553
00:26:32,599 --> 00:26:36,559
the hands to make plays. With less space, he struggled

554
00:26:36,559 --> 00:26:40,440
to make an impact at least consistently anyway, and as

555
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,960
a goal scorer that was more even strength. He got

556
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,759
to that a little bit more consistently, which is good.

557
00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:46,960
That was the criticism of his coming into the year

558
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,839
because he had a really good rookie year in the OHL,

559
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,960
and one of the criticisms about his game was that

560
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,160
he needed to play through the middle a little more consistently,

561
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,039
and he definitely did that or attempted to do that

562
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,880
this year. So that is encouraging, especially for his goal

563
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,119
scoring numbers as a fantasy player. But in a perfect world,

564
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,720
I think Seattle hopes that he can be like a

565
00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:12,880
twenty five fifty five kind of guy. There's some parallels

566
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,480
you could probably make to a guy like Shane Wright

567
00:27:14,559 --> 00:27:20,000
with Seattle cerebral pivot, somebody that the pace of play

568
00:27:20,039 --> 00:27:23,359
maybe isn't incredibly high and has been a knock on

569
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,480
both of those players. That's why Shane fell to fourth

570
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,920
in his draft year. Obviously O'Brien was drafted right around

571
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,920
where people had him, but the criticism on his game

572
00:27:34,039 --> 00:27:37,200
is similar. So it's definitely interesting to see like both

573
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,480
of those guys and how they fit into Seattle's lineup,

574
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,440
especially if they're wanting to play a higher tempo game.

575
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,720
I don't know if they're going to be able to

576
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,400
do that, but that's a challenge that they're going to

577
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,039
have to figure out.

578
00:27:49,759 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, it's interesting.

579
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,039
Speaker 8: Now he's going to fit in there, but apparently has

580
00:27:53,279 --> 00:27:56,240
been pretty big outside. I think one of the next

581
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,640
big kind of head scratchers for a lot of us

582
00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:03,319
was Jack Nesbib not only that he went a little

583
00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:06,039
earlier than consensus, but that they straight it up to

584
00:28:06,079 --> 00:28:08,079
get him when it seems like he might have been

585
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,079
available when film was pictated in the twenties.

586
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 4: Maybe not.

587
00:28:11,559 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 8: So it definitely was interesting and certainly seems to fit

588
00:28:16,039 --> 00:28:18,920
the type of player that they want. Talks a little

589
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,920
bit about what Nesbit brings in and what kind of

590
00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:23,519
what do I look like in fantasy.

591
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 10: Yeah, so Nesbit's a huge pivot.

592
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 9: He loves to play through the middle of the ice,

593
00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:34,079
excels in traffic really strong, and then that front excellent

594
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,640
where redirects excellent. Has a screen, great hands for finishing

595
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,200
off second chances, really good offensive zone anticipation, timing his

596
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,400
his cuts well, works the wall well, strong defensive player,

597
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,839
good on face offs, can take and handle, good and

598
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,480
solid defensive assignments. That's the allure there, Right, You're looking

599
00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:57,799
at potentially an Adam Lowry kind of guy, maybe more

600
00:28:57,839 --> 00:29:01,000
like a Michael Rasmussen kind of guy in Detroit, are

601
00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:04,519
going to handle on that front, but also could possibly

602
00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,680
wear a letter in the future, possibly play in all situations.

603
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:13,480
So I think with where he was drafted, the Flyers

604
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,880
are hoping that as his frame fills out, because he's

605
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,440
pretty lanky still, even though he's playing and succeeding playing

606
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,799
this power game in the OHL, he's pretty leanky. So

607
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,920
when he's playing at six four two twenty, what kind

608
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,440
of game are we going to see from Nesbit? And

609
00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:31,400
I think that's why they took him so early. Is

610
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,680
this is a guy that they're projecting as a potential

611
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:35,519
playoff performer.

612
00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 10: It's a copycat league.

613
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,599
Speaker 9: You're looking at the teams that have found success in

614
00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:43,599
the playoffs and they've got guys like Nesbit playing in

615
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,920
their lineup and playing key roles. So that's obviously what

616
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:46,680
Philly's thinking.

617
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 8: Do you think he has the offensive upside they will

618
00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:53,200
really translate? Because seventy plus point player?

619
00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 4: Is it? Again?

620
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,759
Speaker 8: More like we talked about with Brady and maybe he's

621
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,880
a little bit in at fifty five sixteen five pointment.

622
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, I can't see him being like a seventy plus guy.

623
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:05,319
Speaker 10: I don't think that's going to be his game.

624
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 9: I don't think he's got the sort of creativity or

625
00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:10,200
pace to do that. I think he's probably more like

626
00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,279
a fifty point guy, probably consistently a Lowry as a

627
00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:17,000
comparison he throws out himself. I've seen interviewed multiple times

628
00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:19,519
where he's mentioning Lowry as a player that he wants

629
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:21,759
to be at the NHL level. So I think you're

630
00:30:21,759 --> 00:30:24,160
probably looking at a guy that might be a consistent

631
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,839
twenty five goal guy, but definitely not a seventy point player.

632
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

633
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,119
Speaker 8: Let's talk a little bit about some of the defenseman.

634
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,119
I mean, we think you talk about these guys together.

635
00:30:35,279 --> 00:30:38,319
Shohn Achensen was I think a gift to New York

636
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,160
where they got him. He seems like a raw physical specimens.

637
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,440
I'm not sure how much offensers and he obviously scored

638
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:46,920
a lot of goals. I don't know if that's going

639
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,119
to fully fans. That's such a hard thing to project

640
00:30:49,519 --> 00:30:50,839
moving forward for defenceman.

641
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,079
Speaker 4: And then we have the.

642
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 8: We have Cameron Reid going to Nashville, who just seems

643
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,079
like a really interesting player as well. I haven't watched

644
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,640
enough of him to relieve say much. And then Henry

645
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,640
Bristemis being the younger brother of Hunter, and he seems

646
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,440
he's a bit bigger and had similar He plays on London, right,

647
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,240
who tends to subscribe their draft eligibles at least with

648
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,039
some opportunity. So he's someone I could see popping off.

649
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,279
What do you think about those three and who do

650
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:22,559
you think has the most offense?

651
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think most offense would be Cam Reid. If

652
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,000
he makes the NHL, that's going to be his bread

653
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,680
and butter. He's going to be a potential power play quarterback.

654
00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:35,839
He's a really strong skater, good transition player. He's definitely

655
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,480
going to be probably the player of those three, or

656
00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:41,559
the choice of those three to make a fantasy impact

657
00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:46,839
in the future. Casan Aherson, you might the offense game

658
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,359
might translate. He's not a strong on puck player. A

659
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,119
lot of his offense that he generates comes from his

660
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,000
play off the puck. Really big shot, really good offensive,

661
00:31:57,039 --> 00:31:59,880
his own instincts, really good at timing his pinches and

662
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:03,480
getting into the middle of the ice to use that shot. Obviously,

663
00:32:03,559 --> 00:32:06,000
the physicality's going to play too. Again, if you're using

664
00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:09,519
hits as a counting stat in your league, he's going

665
00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:11,960
to pile those up penalty minutes and hits because he's

666
00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:12,559
one of the.

667
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,279
Speaker 10: More physical players available this year. And then you've got

668
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:18,240
Bruce Davis, who is a bit of a blank canvas.

669
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 9: At the beginning of the year, before Dickinson and Bank

670
00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:22,440
got back, he was running the power play in London.

671
00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:25,799
Looked good offensively. Those guys get back, he slides more

672
00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:28,680
into a defensive kind of role, pairing with Dickinson a

673
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,720
lot of the time, but there is offensive upside there

674
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,240
as I said, blank canvas as somebody that is raw

675
00:32:34,799 --> 00:32:37,160
that has upside at both ends. That I don't think

676
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,240
we truly know what he's capable of, just based on

677
00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:42,640
the fact that they had to defer a little bit

678
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,440
to higher profile defenders in that London system. So as

679
00:32:48,079 --> 00:32:49,640
you know his game develops that I think we're going

680
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,799
to get a better indication of what kind of upside

681
00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:54,279
he has. I think that people are under selling his

682
00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:56,160
upside a little bit. Actually, I think he can be

683
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,480
a solid two way guy at the NHL level, and

684
00:32:58,559 --> 00:33:01,480
I really liked that pick where they got him.

685
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: That's great.

686
00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:04,119
Speaker 8: Stef can ask you about one more guy real quick,

687
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,559
absolutely so. Simon Wag probably one of the most interesting players.

688
00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:12,559
Obviously didn't play a ton of games in the OHL,

689
00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:16,000
but just start saying organized hockey a few years ago.

690
00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:18,839
Couple that with the fact that he's huge and needs

691
00:33:18,839 --> 00:33:21,519
to fill out and the July twenty seventh birthday, just

692
00:33:22,079 --> 00:33:25,160
there's a huge runway here for development right there, and

693
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:25,799
there needs to be.

694
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,599
Speaker 4: But what do you think of the rock package?

695
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 8: It is Simon Wang and the fact that I can

696
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,519
tell you on the ground here the Sharks and the

697
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:35,559
whole PR team just absolutely love this kid. He's very

698
00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:37,839
personable and it just seems like the kind of kid

699
00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:40,720
who wants to work really hard there and could just

700
00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:44,480
be a really good story. Asides how much interacting might have,

701
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,759
what do you think this impact might be he really

702
00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:47,880
reaches his potential.

703
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 9: I think that the impact is mostly going to be

704
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,559
from a defensive point of view. I just don't think

705
00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:55,599
he's got the hands of the creativity to be much

706
00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:58,279
of an offensive contributor at the higher levels. I know

707
00:33:58,359 --> 00:34:01,880
his game is very raw. He's the classic project pick.

708
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:03,720
He's going to be a guy that takes four or

709
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,640
five years before we have a really good indication of

710
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,039
what he's going to be. But the adjustment to the

711
00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:11,960
OHL was a really difficult one for him, especially with

712
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:12,360
the puck.

713
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:13,519
Speaker 10: He got a lot.

714
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 9: Better defensively over the course of the year. I was

715
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,119
really impressed with his defensive play in the OHL playoffs

716
00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:21,960
with Oshawa, and I think that really helped his projection,

717
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,760
because initially he was struggling at both ends with the

718
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:25,480
pace of play.

719
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:26,559
Speaker 4: But he is an.

720
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,559
Speaker 9: Unbelievable skater for his size, and that's the allure, right

721
00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:31,920
Like you're hoping that the rest of his game comes

722
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,199
together around those unique physical tools, and as you said,

723
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,360
I've heard amazing things about his character and his work ethics.

724
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,079
So I think he's somebody that's going to work hard

725
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,079
to get better, and you just hope that four or five,

726
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,840
six years down the road that he pulls it all together.

727
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 10: But I don't.

728
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,519
Speaker 9: See somebody that's going to be an offensive contributor at

729
00:34:51,519 --> 00:34:52,440
the NHL level.

730
00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 10: I think you're.

731
00:34:53,559 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 9: Looking at, maybe best case scenario, somebody like what you're

732
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,320
seeing in Dallas with William Bischell. I think that kind

733
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,480
of young defender, mobile big can kill the transition game

734
00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:09,039
of your opponent with the size and skating ability and

735
00:35:09,039 --> 00:35:12,800
the aggressiveness defensively. That's I think why teams were looking

736
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,920
at him so early. I don't know if any teams

737
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,519
truly believe that the offensive upside is significant. I think

738
00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:23,960
they're looking at him being a potentially very impactful defensive player.

739
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 8: I think you'd get that meanstream pixel seems to have,

740
00:35:28,679 --> 00:35:30,639
or maybe just more the aggressiveness.

741
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,119
Speaker 9: Again, I think this is a player who doesn't really

742
00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:35,480
know what he is yet.

743
00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 10: I think that's.

744
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,519
Speaker 9: Again like part of it, right, This is a project

745
00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:40,599
pick for a reason.

746
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 5: I think.

747
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,639
Speaker 9: I think that can be coached into him. I think

748
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,920
that he doesn't really know how to use his size

749
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,519
consistently as a defensive player.

750
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 10: Yet I saw some games of his this year, both.

751
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,639
Speaker 9: At the Junior A level and in the OHL, where

752
00:35:55,639 --> 00:35:59,000
he absolutely ran over guys and just for lack of

753
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,079
a better term, rag guys like he. He is a

754
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:05,119
strong young man, and I think that when the light

755
00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:08,360
bulb goes off that you know, I can do whatever

756
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,559
I want physically. That's going to take his game potentially

757
00:36:11,559 --> 00:36:14,239
to another level. And I think that aggressiveness can be

758
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,760
added into his game, can be coached into his game,

759
00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:18,800
and we'll see what happens there.

760
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 4: Awesome, great Stef.

761
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 8: Thanks so much for doing this, Brock, and I hope

762
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,519
you get to enjoy in person next year wherever the

763
00:36:26,639 --> 00:36:27,079
draft banking.

764
00:36:27,639 --> 00:36:29,199
Speaker 10: Yeah, thanks Victor for my pleasure.

765
00:36:30,159 --> 00:36:34,519
Speaker 4: Sim annoying Sharks your season jumping from junior into the

766
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:35,559
HL with Oshawa.

767
00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:37,079
Speaker 5: How much did your.

768
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,639
Speaker 11: Game grow as the season went along jumping between two teams.

769
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,519
Speaker 12: I think my game grow mature, like, way too mature,

770
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,440
just as system playing against better players just make me

771
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,239
a different player, and going into next year, it's only

772
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,800
going to help my development even more.

773
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 11: And how much do you think that playoff run with

774
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,679
helps showcase you to NHL teams.

775
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 12: I think showcase me that I can play the against

776
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,880
the best team in the OHL and show my confidence

777
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,199
regarding some of my ice time and just how competitive

778
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:10,039
I am as a player.

779
00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 7: You're a young guy, but it's already been long journey.

780
00:37:13,039 --> 00:37:14,119
How he will to be back at back?

781
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 10: Whar you're here?

782
00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 4: You start to.

783
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 7: Getting here, I think it's I'm just getting started.

784
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 12: I never really know this game how I was supposed

785
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,000
to be played until fourteen, So I'm.

786
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 7: Always the underdog.

787
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 12: I always have distance to catch up, so I.

788
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,639
Speaker 7: Still have to hunger in me, so I have to

789
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,920
drive that. I got to get better every single day

790
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,000
to catch up to them.

791
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 12: And that's why I'm probably one of the most.

792
00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:38,599
Speaker 7: Unique guy in the draft class right now.

793
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:40,639
Speaker 10: What does it mean you to be there a Chinese

794
00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:41,239
ports player of.

795
00:37:41,199 --> 00:37:42,119
Speaker 13: Drafting in the NHL.

796
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 12: It's definitely special and I hope I've inspired a lot

797
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,559
of kids back home and hopefully one day my record

798
00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:52,000
get broken again, someone going in the first round, maybe

799
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,920
the top ten. That's probably the ultimate goal for Chinese hockey.

800
00:37:57,519 --> 00:38:01,800
And I think still definitely come on that is gonna

801
00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:03,639
make a huge impact on the game.

802
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 10: Which first game do you prefer going forward?

803
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:11,039
Speaker 12: I think let's Simon because it's more simple for North

804
00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:11,920
American terms.

805
00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:15,079
Speaker 11: What's the player you're going to go to college and

806
00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:16,960
what's that playing for over the next couple of seasons.

807
00:38:17,559 --> 00:38:19,639
Speaker 12: So next year I'm looking forward to go back to

808
00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:23,119
OHL and keep developing my game.

809
00:38:23,119 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 7: Throughout both sides, and the year after.

810
00:38:26,039 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 12: If I dominated the league and did what I wanted

811
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:30,960
to do in the league, I want to go to

812
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:34,920
college and keep developing over there and eventually turn pro.

813
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 11: And then you there's a lot of parks who in

814
00:38:39,079 --> 00:38:41,320
Michael message and Shorts picked yesterday, And of course you

815
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,800
guys played against like Sam Nikotson. What some of those

816
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,239
guys eventually your teammates and speak to anybout any of

817
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:49,119
those guys.

818
00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:53,199
Speaker 13: I think they're just great players and ultimate competitors.

819
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 12: Playing against Sam Dickinson in the finals, see how he competes,

820
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,119
how he played the game, really opened my eyes a

821
00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:02,119
little bit and learned a ton from.

822
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 7: Him as well, creaking down with his films.

823
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 13: And I haven't played against Michael yet. He all's growing up.

824
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 7: He allays playing Europe, so.

825
00:39:08,599 --> 00:39:12,559
Speaker 12: Too good for me, but eventually we'll be teammates, hopefully.

826
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 14: Jacob Brian Seattle crack him and they have.

827
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,639
Speaker 15: A good young team eyears Machine right coming up. So

828
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,000
I'm really excited to get going here. I'm really excited

829
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,440
for the future of this team, but I just can't

830
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:24,119
wait to get out there.

831
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 4: Have young players and Shane right.

832
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,199
Speaker 5: He grew up in Toronto on.

833
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,599
Speaker 9: Ohl Okay of the year, So if you did, if

834
00:39:29,599 --> 00:39:31,320
you have intersected with him and then.

835
00:39:31,519 --> 00:39:32,519
Speaker 12: At all of them enough times.

836
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 13: I've never met him in Minorrockey.

837
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 15: I've always watched him, but I'm a really good don

838
00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:38,559
Nell's team growing up. I've always watched him and that

839
00:39:38,599 --> 00:39:41,000
was pretty cool watching him grow up get exceptional staffs

840
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,920
and stuff. Yeah, I'm actual really excited to meet him

841
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,280
and I can't wait be cracking.

842
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 4: I'll talk about what do you know about the CEO

843
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:47,920
Seattle or anything.

844
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,119
Speaker 13: Though I don't know much obviously the Seahawks. Hopefully I'll

845
00:39:51,119 --> 00:39:52,159
get to go to a game one day.

846
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,119
Speaker 5: That'll be pretty cool.

847
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm really excited.

848
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,159
Speaker 15: There's a hard work in being humble, just going into

849
00:39:59,199 --> 00:40:01,480
each day not can hear the best and just getting

850
00:40:01,519 --> 00:40:03,760
to work every day and be getting better right after

851
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,559
this and when you get right back to working into

852
00:40:05,559 --> 00:40:07,639
the gym, and i'lly make it that to the NHL

853
00:40:07,679 --> 00:40:10,199
one day. It was the next area if your natives

854
00:40:11,679 --> 00:40:13,840
just my face offs and my first three steps, I

855
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,119
feel like I need to get a little bit better

856
00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:17,719
at my skating ability and then just working on my

857
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,440
face offs, getting in the gym, getting stronger.

858
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,079
Speaker 5: What if the boys Ranford Bulldogs just meant to getting

859
00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:22,440
you to this?

860
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,039
Speaker 13: Yeah, just making a place at home in the OHL.

861
00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:28,559
Speaker 15: Obviously, when you're a rookie in the league, you're really

862
00:40:28,599 --> 00:40:30,440
nervous getting there and meeting the new guys and meeting

863
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:30,920
the new team.

864
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 13: So they've just been great to me, a great organization.

865
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,880
Really well, we're on. I just can't think enough for

866
00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:37,679
getting me here. What does it say about the league?

867
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 5: Five of the top eight takes of this draft all

868
00:40:39,519 --> 00:40:41,719
coming from the OHLS. Do you guys feel like it's

869
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:42,800
been a great banner.

870
00:40:42,679 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 16: Year for this league?

871
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:43,559
Speaker 10: Then?

872
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,199
Speaker 15: Yeah, for sure, it's great competed against those guys throughout

873
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,320
the year when I feel like the OHL is the

874
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,039
premiere destination for high talent, so yeah, it's just going

875
00:40:53,079 --> 00:40:54,480
against them each and every year.

876
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 13: It was really fun. Kind of player are they getting

877
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:57,079
out of you?

878
00:40:57,199 --> 00:40:58,039
Speaker 4: With everything you know?

879
00:40:58,119 --> 00:40:59,079
Speaker 13: Close according to plan?

880
00:40:59,199 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 4: What do you expect?

881
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 13: A very high howkedech q smart player.

882
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 15: I'm very good at finding my teammates through little holes

883
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:05,599
and little seams.

884
00:41:05,679 --> 00:41:07,159
Speaker 13: I'm a good two wonder four player, and I make

885
00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:07,960
those around me better.

886
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 17: I go working on shooting a little bit more was

887
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,639
important than emphasis for you this season. How have you

888
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,440
felt like that's surrounded out your game?

889
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 4: Yeah?

890
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 13: I think just how's my passing too?

891
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 15: I feel like I feel like I'm a very good

892
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,519
passer and just being able to have the ability to

893
00:41:23,559 --> 00:41:25,679
shoot fools goaltenders and fools defenders.

894
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 13: I just got to keep working on and hopefully score

895
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:28,239
more goals next year.

896
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 4: He's a reason you have some bad draft. Franks the

897
00:41:36,519 --> 00:41:43,760
only damon kenih hes s please now to be joined

898
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,239
by the Cam Robinson, director of film Scouting at Elite

899
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,960
Prospects and content Director, which is a really fun title.

900
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:51,559
How are you doing, Kim?

901
00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:54,199
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm doing well, Buddy slogging through the day too

902
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,079
with the draft here, as always.

903
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 4: It seemed to be taking a very long time. When

904
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,360
you say I.

905
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 16: Actually I set the over under it at six hours

906
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:03,840
and we're at what do we at here?

907
00:42:04,199 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 4: Four and a half?

908
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,079
Speaker 10: So I think we're gonna come on the under.

909
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,639
Speaker 16: Which at least that's pretty good Vegas last year, I

910
00:42:08,639 --> 00:42:10,239
think it was like three and a half. We were

911
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,480
home and cooled, so it's yeah, it's dragging a.

912
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 4: Bit for sure. We love hearing your thoughts. I know

913
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
this class is a little underwhelming, but I know that

914
00:42:18,039 --> 00:42:20,239
there's some teams that you liked and did pretty well,

915
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:21,679
so I know Calgary is.

916
00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: One of them.

917
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,199
Speaker 4: You want to talk a little bit about a couple

918
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:23,760
of their picks.

919
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 16: Yeah, for the Flames, I think that they've done really well.

920
00:42:26,679 --> 00:42:29,559
Grabbing Reshni at what was at twenty something like that.

921
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,039
I really like that pick for them. An eighteen high

922
00:42:32,119 --> 00:42:34,239
upside kid. Wonder if he's going to be a center

923
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,760
the next level, but loads and loads of skill, obviously

924
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,559
going to North Dakota next year. I think that's a

925
00:42:38,599 --> 00:42:41,480
great pick for them. Thirty two Colin Potter. Yeah, he's

926
00:42:41,519 --> 00:42:43,559
five foot nine, but maybe the best skater in the

927
00:42:43,679 --> 00:42:46,039
entire draft class as far as like straight ahead speed.

928
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:48,360
He's just got to now take the next step on

929
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,920
how he can best use that speed to get to

930
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,519
the inside. Going down the board there, I like Theo Stokselias.

931
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,760
He plays like a heavy game, has some skill over

932
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,000
there in Sweden. Another like high upside pick in the second.

933
00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:03,079
So I thought the Flames has done Aden Lane late

934
00:43:03,199 --> 00:43:05,840
here too. I think that they've the scouts obviously did

935
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,400
the work and then Craig Conroy executed, and I think

936
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,400
that they've done well for their positions. But I think

937
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,119
the Real like a couple other teams to the Islanders,

938
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:17,079
obviously shave for the top special talent. But you know

939
00:43:17,159 --> 00:43:19,320
that no adopts in trade wasn't going to look so

940
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,760
good if it was like Dobson for a couple mid

941
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,920
picks in the first round in a week draft class.

942
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,599
So they got very fortunate Victor Eckland super high on him.

943
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:29,280
I think I had him eight on my board, and

944
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,800
to nab him at sixteen tremendous value. And then kashon

945
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,480
his in the next pick is arguably my favorite player

946
00:43:35,519 --> 00:43:39,000
in this whole class, just on personality, game, throwback style.

947
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:41,199
I thought that those were terrific picks for them too,

948
00:43:42,039 --> 00:43:43,719
and then they kept it going. I'm trying to look

949
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,679
here who they got on day two. I'm trying to remember,

950
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,079
Oh pro croff right, they've just been going like high

951
00:43:48,199 --> 00:43:51,800
upside picks to look Romano like they've just impure upside picks,

952
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,199
which is really nice to see. I thought, Philly, I

953
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,800
like their Portomarton pick at six, so they thought that

954
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,119
was a great pick. Didn't like them trading out for

955
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,519
Jack Nesbit at twelve or whatever they got him. Thought

956
00:44:02,519 --> 00:44:04,000
they could have just sat and if he was there

957
00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:06,159
at twenty two, just take them and if he wasn't,

958
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,400
take a skill player there. Obviously they have a mandate

959
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:12,119
they're going big. But there are Day two picks Amaco, Murtag,

960
00:44:12,599 --> 00:44:17,239
Van Sagy, Matthew Guard like huge dudes other than Murtag,

961
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,840
but good value. So their second round was awesome, so

962
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,239
if they made up for that too, Yeah, those are

963
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,360
the ones that really jump out to me.

964
00:44:24,199 --> 00:44:26,559
Speaker 4: One and I wanted to ask you about is Justin Carboneau.

965
00:44:26,639 --> 00:44:28,320
I think he was one of my favorite of the

966
00:44:28,679 --> 00:44:31,880
after fifteen sort of picks after Eckland. But he seems

967
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,760
like a guy who has pretty significant upside. Do you

968
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,519
think he can reach that top line potential?

969
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 16: Top line might be tough, but as far as like

970
00:44:40,599 --> 00:44:42,800
handles go, like one of the best handlers in the

971
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,679
whole class. I was mandate in the que this year,

972
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,679
especially early on, was like I'm a dieg everybody and

973
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,360
then see what's up. And I did evolved throughout the

974
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,039
season a little bit more to play a kind of

975
00:44:51,079 --> 00:44:53,639
a maybe like a heavier game nor south. When we

976
00:44:53,639 --> 00:44:56,800
saw him do that at the USA Shell chl whatever

977
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,079
Top prospects game where he was on a third line

978
00:44:59,079 --> 00:45:00,719
and he was chipping and and getting in on the

979
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,440
for check he does. He reminds me a little bit

980
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,559
about Ryan Leonard, to be honest with you, maybe not

981
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,920
as skilled as Leonard and maybe not as ferocious as Leonard,

982
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,760
but I kind of maybe a lighter version sort of thing.

983
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,400
And he might end up at Boston College too, so

984
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,679
maybe he's gonna be aligned me with Jimmy Haggins next

985
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,480
year too, and replaced Leonard there. So for Saint Louis

986
00:45:16,519 --> 00:45:18,159
at that spot, I like it a lot. I think

987
00:45:18,159 --> 00:45:21,519
it's a really great upside on him. Probably more let's

988
00:45:21,559 --> 00:45:24,119
project to a second line role rather than expecting like

989
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,000
a first liner who could push for a point a game.

990
00:45:26,039 --> 00:45:28,360
But I do think he's a good prospect and a

991
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:29,000
nice value.

992
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,079
Speaker 4: Awesome. I wanted to ask you just about a couple

993
00:45:33,079 --> 00:45:34,440
of the guys in the top ten, if you don't

994
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,599
mind deyo A. Do you think he's a guy who

995
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,800
can really hit that high points upside or is he

996
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,440
just going to be like a really strong two way

997
00:45:40,519 --> 00:45:40,960
kind of guy.

998
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 16: Yeah, I expect he's going to be more of a

999
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,599
two way guy that's going to be able to match

1000
00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:48,159
up well and playing in all situations. And he plays.

1001
00:45:48,559 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 10: He has skill, he has a good brain.

1002
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 16: I think the thing I'm looking for out of Caleb

1003
00:45:53,519 --> 00:45:57,880
is to produce in more professional style ways. And so

1004
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,559
at this point he can tear up the que and

1005
00:45:59,639 --> 00:46:02,880
junior leagues with is like the cerebral slow it down

1006
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,400
approach where it's like he needs to add more pace

1007
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:06,840
to his game to be able to bring that with

1008
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,280
him to the NHL. But he's a hard worker, he's

1009
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,199
got good size, he plays the mill the ice like.

1010
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,159
I got no problem with him at forty Utah. I

1011
00:46:13,199 --> 00:46:15,599
think that's like right in the range where he could

1012
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:17,599
have gone that four to eight range. He could have

1013
00:46:17,639 --> 00:46:19,760
blended those guys up, no problem. I would have been

1014
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,719
fined with any order. But yeah, I think more expect

1015
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,159
him to be like a fifty sixty sixty five point

1016
00:46:26,199 --> 00:46:26,840
guy sort of thing.

1017
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 4: Would you say same about Martin? Not same type of player,

1018
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,559
but in terms of points upside, maybe a little bit

1019
00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:32,039
more muted.

1020
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 16: Yeah, he's probably gonna be a guy who puts up

1021
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,039
fifty to fifty five points in the regular season, but

1022
00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:37,880
then you're gonna look for him to elevate in the playoffs,

1023
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:39,760
right when the whistles go away and all of a sudden,

1024
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,719
like a big hit can change the complexion of a

1025
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,679
game and change the energy and get the bench going.

1026
00:46:44,599 --> 00:46:47,440
He's gonna be a fan favorite. And it's so easy

1027
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,280
to comp to Sam Bennett, And that's like the style

1028
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,000
that he plays, and that's who he mimics is That's.

1029
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,039
Speaker 4: Who he's going to look to become.

1030
00:46:53,199 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 16: Is that someone who can you can rely upon, is

1031
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,519
like a good second line center throughout the year, but

1032
00:46:57,559 --> 00:46:59,639
then someone who can really jump up. And we see

1033
00:46:59,679 --> 00:47:01,559
that some guys can put up eighty ninet one hundred

1034
00:47:01,559 --> 00:47:03,159
points in the regular season and then be a ghost

1035
00:47:03,199 --> 00:47:03,800
in the playoffs.

1036
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 5: And it's like, what would you prefer?

1037
00:47:06,079 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 16: Would you rather someone who puts up fifty in the

1038
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,239
regular season and then goes off for ten twelve, fifteen,

1039
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,320
goals in the playoffs where you don't really drives play.

1040
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,280
It's yeah, you're probably gonna want that, but you also

1041
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,119
have to have the luxury of having like super skilled

1042
00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:18,440
guys around him all year to get you to that

1043
00:47:18,559 --> 00:47:19,440
point in the first place.

1044
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,280
Speaker 4: Us for fantasy, we only care about the regular season.

1045
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, fair enough.

1046
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, So I know we're looking forward to this

1047
00:47:26,199 --> 00:47:28,239
going back in person. Any insight in that. I haven't

1048
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,360
heard anything official, but a lot of grumblings seem to

1049
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:30,840
suggest that.

1050
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1051
00:47:31,559 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 16: So Gary Batman said that they're going to put it

1052
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,559
back to the teams this summer. I was just texting

1053
00:47:35,639 --> 00:47:37,400
with the GM and he said, I sure hope that

1054
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,960
he's going to give us a chance to vote for it,

1055
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,000
because I want to go back.

1056
00:47:40,079 --> 00:47:41,039
Speaker 4: And same guy.

1057
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 16: Actually said at the sphere to me last year as

1058
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,280
we were walking by, He's like, what have we done?

1059
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 5: Given this up?

1060
00:47:45,079 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 16: And so I think that I think a lot of

1061
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:48,639
teams have an appetite to go back to it. And

1062
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,519
I think that that first round last night, four and

1063
00:47:50,559 --> 00:47:54,039
a half hours, the techna, the tech issues, the awkwardness,

1064
00:47:54,159 --> 00:47:57,119
but the guys talking on zoom calls. It was brutal

1065
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,880
and I can't see it's the NHL, so I really

1066
00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:02,800
I could see it happening, But to run it back

1067
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,800
like this with a straight face is going to be

1068
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:05,599
really difficult to do.

1069
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 4: And I know that Gary Bettman, he doesn't want it,

1070
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:08,599
he doesn't like it.

1071
00:48:08,679 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 16: It's the uniqueness of the NHL Draft is something that

1072
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,039
they had over the other big sports, and so now

1073
00:48:14,119 --> 00:48:16,239
we've stepped away from that and this I don't think

1074
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,719
you could call this a success this year. So yes,

1075
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,320
I'm really hoping it goes back. And I've been hearing

1076
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,639
for months that there is an appetite to go back

1077
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:25,159
and have it in Montreal on a regular basis, whether

1078
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,119
that's every year, every second year, or they have a

1079
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,599
three city kind of rotation, maybe it's Montreal, maybe it's Vegas,

1080
00:48:30,639 --> 00:48:31,960
and then they toss it to a different team. So

1081
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,679
I think there's a lot of viable options out there,

1082
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,239
But first things first this summer. I think we'll hear

1083
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:37,760
about it in August, and I'll try to keep a

1084
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,519
beat on it. Is that they'll get a vote in there.

1085
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,719
I think the vote was twenty six to six in

1086
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,199
favor of going decentralized last time, so we'll be looking

1087
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,280
for that to flip this time around.

1088
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,599
Speaker 4: Awesome, Thanks so much, Cam for your time. Yeah, of course.

1089
00:48:49,639 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 14: But Port of Marton in Philadelphia Flyers.

1090
00:48:54,599 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 18: And hear my name about Flyers with such a book

1091
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,760
store organization and such great people.

1092
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: I was thrilled and I was very happy.

1093
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 13: What's your experience like in the world, Chap, It was amazing.

1094
00:49:03,599 --> 00:49:05,119
Speaker 18: I went over there and I got to surround myself

1095
00:49:05,119 --> 00:49:07,679
with NHL players and really learned the NHL lifestyle. So

1096
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:10,360
for me going there, there's three Flowers there, so I

1097
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,800
don't know quite a bit about the Flowers organization, and.

1098
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 2: They treated me very well and I'm excited to be

1099
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:15,559
teammates with them.

1100
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 5: So it's going to good that.

1101
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 4: Like, what's your next best attribute?

1102
00:49:18,599 --> 00:49:20,639
Speaker 2: I think my hockey IQ. I think I make around

1103
00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:21,480
people around me better.

1104
00:49:21,559 --> 00:49:23,599
Speaker 18: I think I I get cee is very well, and

1105
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,880
I think I know what the difference is when to

1106
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:26,599
pass and shoot.

1107
00:49:27,559 --> 00:49:29,079
Speaker 13: Couldn't you grow this year one moment?

1108
00:49:29,119 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 18: But do you think about how your game has come

1109
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,800
as the year is now? I think I grew in

1110
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,480
a lot of aspects. I think I became a more

1111
00:49:34,599 --> 00:49:36,679
complete player. I think I grew as a leader, and

1112
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,639
I think I just grew as an overall person. I

1113
00:49:38,679 --> 00:49:40,000
wanted to go on the rink every day and make

1114
00:49:40,039 --> 00:49:42,360
myself better each day, make myself a little bit better,

1115
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:43,960
and that's something I really focused on and I think

1116
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:44,320
I did that.

1117
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,519
Speaker 2: And to be at the stage now and draft the

1118
00:49:46,639 --> 00:49:48,519
NHL is pretty special. Well of this deal has to

1119
00:49:48,559 --> 00:49:50,599
mean to getting into this world n I couldn't be

1120
00:49:50,639 --> 00:49:51,199
here without them.

1121
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 18: They traded for me when I was sixteen years old,

1122
00:49:53,079 --> 00:49:55,639
and you know what, it's such a great organization. They've

1123
00:49:55,679 --> 00:49:57,840
done so much development with me, but they've really trusted

1124
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,840
me and built a kind of core piece around my

1125
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:00,760
Drew Barren.

1126
00:50:01,159 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 2: I can't thank James jug From general manager.

1127
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 18: And head coach, Eliot Kurt and and board there for

1128
00:50:06,119 --> 00:50:08,760
the owners there and honestly, such a great organization, and

1129
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:09,920
they'd done a lot for my development.

1130
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 4: I'm not sure I was working at it.

1131
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was pretty special. I never thought that would

1132
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:14,880
ever happen.

1133
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:23,159
Speaker 4: Joy now by Anthony Donati the prospect on from Draft

1134
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,719
Prospects Hockey. Here to talk about some of the guys

1135
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,039
that are a little bit interesting in this draft. I think,

1136
00:50:28,199 --> 00:50:29,679
first of all, how you doing. Has the draft been?

1137
00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's great.

1138
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,199
Speaker 1: It's my first draft experience, but seeing a lot of

1139
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,360
these guys get drafted, who if you've talked to for

1140
00:50:35,519 --> 00:50:37,880
the last year, it's kind of like a graduation day.

1141
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:42,039
Speaker 4: So it is nice to see it unfold. Super fun. Yeah,

1142
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,480
it's been a great experience. Definitely different than the other

1143
00:50:44,519 --> 00:50:46,360
ones here in LA but it's been a fun time.

1144
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, for sure sphere Obviously, everybody was talking about

1145
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,280
the ambiance just being there. I think we're a little

1146
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,039
higher up in the standings, a little nosebleed area, and

1147
00:50:55,079 --> 00:50:57,280
I do that because it gets my feet wet and

1148
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,119
I get the bird's eye view of everything.

1149
00:50:59,679 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, it has been fun. So we're gonna'm

1150
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:02,920
to ask you about some of the guys that were

1151
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,000
a little bit interesting. We'll start off with Ben Kendall,

1152
00:51:05,039 --> 00:51:07,559
who maybe a little bit earlier than some might have thought.

1153
00:51:07,599 --> 00:51:10,159
But what do you think Pittsburgh is getting and he's

1154
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,199
he gonna be a good fantasy asset.

1155
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Ben Kendall, obviously his rise was a little

1156
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,639
interesting for the average fan, but this guy was. His

1157
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,440
scoring output, especially in overtime games of the playoffs, was

1158
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,519
absolutely ridiculous. This guy had about five game winning overtime goals.

1159
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:31,840
He's very clutch, incredible offensively. I think that his skating

1160
00:51:32,159 --> 00:51:35,199
needs a little work, but he's very fast, so it's

1161
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,760
just all around helping his skating game. I think that

1162
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:39,480
he's going to be able to put up a bunch

1163
00:51:39,559 --> 00:51:43,280
of point totals in miider hockey, so I think that'll

1164
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,480
help his game go into the NHL. He's got to

1165
00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:49,039
work on some things, but I think Pittsburgh is going

1166
00:51:49,119 --> 00:51:52,440
to be getting somebody that they drafted eleven overall. It

1167
00:51:52,519 --> 00:51:54,280
was a surprise, and then they traded out for their

1168
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,679
next pick. But this is a guy that has a

1169
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:58,559
lot of upside, a lot of raw skill. I think

1170
00:51:58,639 --> 00:52:01,920
offensively he's going to be able to to use his

1171
00:52:02,079 --> 00:52:05,079
strengths to outweigh his weaknesses a little bit on defense

1172
00:52:05,119 --> 00:52:06,079
and as well as the skating.

1173
00:52:06,159 --> 00:52:07,280
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think he's.

1174
00:52:07,119 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: Gonna for fantasy hockey reasons, he's going to be a

1175
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:09,960
good asset.

1176
00:52:10,039 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 4: I have awesome I'd love to hear that. Let's talk

1177
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,519
about some of the Calgary picks. I know that you

1178
00:52:14,679 --> 00:52:18,360
thought they were interesting and so Cole Retchney went eighteenth overall,

1179
00:52:18,679 --> 00:52:21,280
and I think that he probably wasn't a huge reach

1180
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,440
or anything. But what do you think that the Flames

1181
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,320
are getting and is he someone that we should be

1182
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:26,199
targeting at fantasy.

1183
00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:29,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cole Reginie. No one helped their case more than him.

1184
00:52:29,039 --> 00:52:30,599
In the last two months of the season. This guy

1185
00:52:30,679 --> 00:52:32,880
was putting up numbers. Like Yavin McKenna, I really do

1186
00:52:33,079 --> 00:52:36,480
like his game offensively skilled. Again, he is an under

1187
00:52:36,639 --> 00:52:39,639
six foot forward that has some skating issues.

1188
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:40,320
Speaker 2: He's not the best.

1189
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:44,159
Speaker 1: Like Colin Potter. They took two players that have opposite strengths,

1190
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:48,039
but their skills are very similar as well, like strength

1191
00:52:48,119 --> 00:52:48,599
and skill.

1192
00:52:49,079 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 7: It could be considered the same.

1193
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: But the thing is like they do two things very differently,

1194
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,639
where Colin Potter relies on his skating a lot and

1195
00:52:57,119 --> 00:53:02,599
Reginie is going to He's like an offensive guru in

1196
00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:05,199
the offensive zone. So it's just given him some time

1197
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:06,679
and space and he's going to be able to bury

1198
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:09,480
the puck. Especially, those two players are going to be

1199
00:53:09,519 --> 00:53:11,280
able to put up some fantasy numbers. I think that

1200
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,119
Calgary got a super steal with both of them, and

1201
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,119
they're not afraid to draft under six ft players, so

1202
00:53:17,119 --> 00:53:19,239
they're going to give them an opportunity to play top

1203
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:19,880
six minutes.

1204
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,559
Speaker 10: In my opinion, if they make it to the NHL.

1205
00:53:22,639 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: I think they're both going to so I think they're

1206
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,639
both steals, and I think this class is a little

1207
00:53:27,639 --> 00:53:28,400
deeper than we think.

1208
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 4: Both these guys did well and going off to college,

1209
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,280
you think they could both pop off next year and

1210
00:53:35,519 --> 00:53:37,880
or I guess Potter was already in the NCAA, but

1211
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,440
the resting could pop off next year.

1212
00:53:39,679 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 10: Yeah.

1213
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: So the thing about Colin Potter is he's more physically

1214
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,599
developed than some of these other guys that didn't go

1215
00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:48,000
to the NCAA level because they're working out four times

1216
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,159
a week, they're skating, they're not losing all those calories.

1217
00:53:50,159 --> 00:53:54,280
Playing eighty two games or eighty plus in the COCHL

1218
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,559
or USNTDP, you play a little less. But I think

1219
00:53:57,639 --> 00:54:00,199
that Colan Potter showed that he can play with the

1220
00:54:00,199 --> 00:54:02,400
physicality playing against twenty two to twenty five year olds

1221
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,679
in the NCAA. And I think that he's going to

1222
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,800
have a lot better season than some of these guys

1223
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:11,719
because he has that year under his belt. Yeah, so, Reginie,

1224
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:17,000
it's going to take a little bit of a adjustment period.

1225
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,480
But the thing is he is so offensively skilled. Then

1226
00:54:19,519 --> 00:54:21,599
I think that he's going to put up point totals regardless.

1227
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 4: Another one that you mentioned was interesting. We were all

1228
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,440
waiting for Malcolm Spence, thought he might be one of

1229
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,440
the first couple of picks. He ends up going forty

1230
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,719
eighth in New York. I always worried some of the

1231
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,840
New York Ranger prospects tend to have a difficult time developing.

1232
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:36,760
So does that worry you at all? Or do he's

1233
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,079
just so good he's going to figure it out.

1234
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: No matter what. Yeah, I think that this guy's going

1235
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,119
to be a middle six player in the NHL.

1236
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:46,079
Speaker 4: His offensive skill set showed a lot, especially in the playoffs.

1237
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:50,559
Speaker 1: This guy plays with an intensity, like his physicality is good,

1238
00:54:50,639 --> 00:54:53,199
he can, he's a really good playmaker, and he has.

1239
00:54:53,119 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 10: A high offensive IQ.

1240
00:54:54,599 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: So I actually feel like the drop was surprising, to

1241
00:54:58,440 --> 00:54:59,880
say the least. I thought this guy was going to

1242
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:03,000
be a mid twenties pick. At least his over under

1243
00:55:03,079 --> 00:55:06,039
was obviously twenty four and a half on some of

1244
00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:08,719
these vetting odds. But I just feel like this is

1245
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,559
the kind of guy you want on your team because

1246
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:15,079
he is obviously like best friends with Matthew Schaeffer and

1247
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:16,039
Michael Misa.

1248
00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:18,159
Speaker 10: He was roommates with at the combine.

1249
00:55:18,559 --> 00:55:19,280
Speaker 4: He's just one of.

1250
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,679
Speaker 1: Those guys that players that are at a high level

1251
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,199
want to be friends with. He has this kind of

1252
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,760
aura to him. So I really do like malcolms buns

1253
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:29,320
and I was completely surprised Tefel.

1254
00:55:30,079 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, surprising any other guys after the first round

1255
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,480
that you think we should really be targeting as first

1256
00:55:35,559 --> 00:55:36,360
rounders in fantasy.

1257
00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:39,639
Speaker 1: Lyndon Lakovich at twenty seven I think was the steal

1258
00:55:39,679 --> 00:55:42,800
of the draft. This guy is so offensively skilled. He's

1259
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,679
basically a six or five to ten forward and six

1260
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,360
four body. He just doesn't know how to use his

1261
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,719
body that yet. When he first joined the WHL, this

1262
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,400
guy was just trying to dangle through multiple defenders, trying

1263
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,920
to get the highlight play, and then it was more

1264
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,800
of a trying to figure out how to play that

1265
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,480
two hundred foot game, and I think he did. Second

1266
00:56:00,519 --> 00:56:02,840
half of the season, Moustraw won a championship, so he

1267
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,039
was bored out there last season. This season he had

1268
00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:08,079
a really rough time because obviously the team was retooling.

1269
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:09,639
Speaker 13: They didn't have what they used to have.

1270
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: So I just like that a second round or Vaslav Nestrosil,

1271
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,199
I want to talk about it twenty five for the Blackhawks.

1272
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,199
This guy has absurd amount of potential. He's going to

1273
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,840
UMass next year. It's just a player that you want

1274
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,360
to have on your fantasy team because this guy can

1275
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:26,400
just pop at any time.

1276
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 7: He has the four brothers.

1277
00:56:28,039 --> 00:56:29,599
Speaker 1: One of them got drafted in the third round of

1278
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,039
to the Red Wings way back when Andre Nestrassil.

1279
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 7: They think he is going to be.

1280
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: A very good player. His family and I've talked to

1281
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:38,280
his family a bunch. I think this guy is in

1282
00:56:38,519 --> 00:56:41,440
a steal. Second round picks that I think was pretty

1283
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,840
good were outside of the first round. Ivan Reapkin, fell

1284
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,320
A Ton, I think that what sixty one to the Hurricanes.

1285
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:51,800
Zorowsky at thirty four, I think is a really good

1286
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,000
pick for the Halves. Malviolm Spence, like we had said,

1287
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,599
Simon Wang, who was the first pick of the second round,

1288
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,119
I think he has a tremendous amount of upside to

1289
00:57:00,159 --> 00:57:02,519
be interesting to see how he plays at the n

1290
00:57:02,599 --> 00:57:05,239
C Double A level going to Boston. If he shows

1291
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,320
that he can translate, it's gonna be really good because

1292
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,679
he's a great skater. So those players I think are

1293
00:57:10,039 --> 00:57:13,960
absolute steals are stashing stashing the play players for you

1294
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:15,480
on your team.

1295
00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:18,119
Speaker 4: Awesome, thanks so much to enjoy the rest of the draft.

1296
00:57:18,199 --> 00:57:19,519
Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you so much for having.

1297
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 14: Met Colin Potter recovery Flames.

1298
00:57:25,119 --> 00:57:26,079
Speaker 13: What's something you wanted?

1299
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 17: I think, just use my speed effectively and in bold

1300
00:57:30,519 --> 00:57:33,840
zones defensively and obviousively, and just put on some more

1301
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,480
muscles top two to get some get stronger. I'll play

1302
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,360
in the HL some by being able to go against

1303
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,800
those guys that are six three, six four, and they're

1304
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:41,559
super strong too.

1305
00:57:41,599 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 7: I gotta get stronger.

1306
00:57:42,559 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 17: I think those are the two main things I'm focusing on.

1307
00:57:44,519 --> 00:57:46,800
And obviously you will get better at scoring and all

1308
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:47,639
the regular stuff.

1309
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:49,159
Speaker 4: Think I do a good job.

1310
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,239
Speaker 17: Talking how you talk to them before, not recently, but

1311
00:57:57,639 --> 00:57:59,880
obviously it's just cool to see their journey and I

1312
00:58:00,119 --> 00:58:01,119
tell them see how.

1313
00:58:01,079 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 4: They're progressing to.

1314
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,639
Speaker 14: Lyndon Lakovich Washington Capitol.

1315
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,039
Speaker 19: So I can know what to expect, and I'm just

1316
00:58:10,159 --> 00:58:13,199
excited to get there and meet all their all their prospects.

1317
00:58:13,239 --> 00:58:15,639
I've never been to Washington before, so I'm really looking

1318
00:58:15,679 --> 00:58:20,000
forward to getting down there. I know, like I've played

1319
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,840
against Parasac and I've played against the Crystal growing up

1320
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:25,880
and those are the kind of the guys that I.

1321
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 5: Probably know the best.

1322
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,079
Speaker 19: But I'm looking forward to going down there and meet

1323
00:58:29,119 --> 00:58:29,519
new people.

1324
00:58:29,559 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 4: For sure, those playing the.

1325
00:58:31,519 --> 00:58:33,559
Speaker 6: Most warriorself can get to this point.

1326
00:58:34,119 --> 00:58:35,719
Speaker 13: Yeah, Moose's done so much for me.

1327
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 19: Their coaching staff and Jason, Mark, Scott and Curtis, They've

1328
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,679
done a lot for me and and they've really helped

1329
00:58:42,719 --> 00:58:46,039
me develop my tenterfoot game and build confidence for myself to.

1330
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 5: To play my game.

1331
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 4: And I'm here now and a lot of credit goes

1332
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:50,280
out to them.

1333
00:58:50,599 --> 00:58:54,239
Speaker 11: You mentioned Crystal Parasak I am talented to get you

1334
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:55,519
get to play against.

1335
00:58:55,159 --> 00:58:56,039
Speaker 4: In the Western League?

1336
00:58:56,119 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, how much you're playing against that caliber of town.

1337
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 7: Playing go Yeah, absolutely a ton of Western League.

1338
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,599
Speaker 19: It's it's such a good league for developing and you

1339
00:59:05,679 --> 00:59:08,599
see those players and they're gonna be All Stars in

1340
00:59:08,599 --> 00:59:11,360
the NHL hopefully someday. And I try and lead myself

1341
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:13,840
on that same path. But playing against that level of

1342
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,239
talent's definitely helped me and that's going to continue to

1343
00:59:16,239 --> 00:59:16,480
help me.

1344
00:59:16,559 --> 00:59:17,719
Speaker 4: I think you want a.

1345
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,239
Speaker 2: WHL championship or it's two seasons ago.

1346
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:22,519
Speaker 4: How much I deal learnin involved winning?

1347
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 19: Like, Yeah, definitely a lot. I think I learned how

1348
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,000
to buy into a role, and at the end of

1349
00:59:29,039 --> 00:59:30,400
the day, that's what you're gonna need to do to

1350
00:59:30,519 --> 00:59:32,880
win a championship. If that's you're told to score goals,

1351
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:34,599
if you're totally go be on the for check and

1352
00:59:34,719 --> 00:59:36,760
play physical, you're gonna do that. And if you get

1353
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:39,119
your whole team buying into their role, it's going to click.

1354
00:59:39,159 --> 00:59:41,039
And you have a family, and I think that's what

1355
00:59:41,199 --> 00:59:42,760
I can carry on into the next level.

1356
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 4: For those who haven't seen you play, how would you

1357
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:46,960
describe your game?

1358
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,039
Speaker 19: The Yeah, I think I'm a big two way dual

1359
00:59:49,079 --> 00:59:51,880
threat score. He plays with a lot of pace and

1360
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:55,239
hot good hockey IQ I think, and I think I'm

1361
00:59:55,559 --> 00:59:57,559
a really good score when I get the opportunity. I'm

1362
00:59:57,559 --> 00:59:59,599
also really good at creating the space for myself and

1363
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,000
I think one of my best.

1364
01:00:01,079 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 4: So that's what I'm doing, all right. Please to be

1365
01:00:05,079 --> 01:00:10,320
joined by rus Cohen, Sportsology, NHL Draft Buzz, and Elite Prospects.

1366
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,519
How you doing, Russ, I'm doing good, Victor. How are you?

1367
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:16,039
I'm doing awesome. As everyone might have heard, you're the

1368
01:00:16,079 --> 01:00:18,480
reason I got credentials here, so I'm very grateful to

1369
01:00:18,559 --> 01:00:20,119
that and it's been a really fun time.

1370
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 10: Oh, you're welcome.

1371
01:00:21,159 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 20: Look, I would rather give him to Peter, but Peter

1372
01:00:23,079 --> 01:00:24,840
didn't come. I'm kidding, I'm kiddy.

1373
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 5: All good.

1374
01:00:26,639 --> 01:00:28,159
Speaker 4: Pete's going to hear that and be very happy.

1375
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure.

1376
01:00:31,119 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 4: So this has been a very long ordeal. I can't

1377
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:36,719
wait till we go back in person. There's been word

1378
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:38,719
of that, right, yeah, yeah.

1379
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:40,599
Speaker 10: We think it's going to happen next year.

1380
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:43,119
Speaker 20: Stuff's starting to leak out, but we won't hear anything

1381
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,840
concrete for months, all.

1382
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 4: Right, So I know our listeners want to hear about

1383
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:49,079
maybe some guys that went a little later in the

1384
01:00:49,199 --> 01:00:51,639
NHL draft that have some pretty significant upside. And I

1385
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:54,039
know that we were all waiting as Victor Ecklund fell

1386
01:00:54,079 --> 01:00:57,440
and fell and the Islanders get him at sixteen seems

1387
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,400
like pretty good value. What do you think his upside is.

1388
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 20: I think his upside is a top liner, top line wing.

1389
01:01:03,079 --> 01:01:06,159
I think he could get sixty five seventy points a year.

1390
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:10,119
I think he'll get physically stronger. He's already an elite

1391
01:01:10,199 --> 01:01:14,239
skater fast. His edgework is terrific. I asked him about

1392
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:17,639
his usage at the World Juniors, and he was polite

1393
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,639
and said he just did what they asked, so they didn't.

1394
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:22,519
So if you go by and look up the world

1395
01:01:22,599 --> 01:01:25,400
junior numbers, it's not what he could really do. This

1396
01:01:25,559 --> 01:01:27,679
year will be a big will be a different story.

1397
01:01:28,119 --> 01:01:31,400
He's actually a very charming guy like he He's just

1398
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:35,000
an honest, really good hockey player. And I think he's

1399
01:01:35,039 --> 01:01:37,480
better than William. So William got like sixty three points

1400
01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:38,960
this year, and I think he'll do better than that.

1401
01:01:39,639 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 4: On a bad team. And so the question is will

1402
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,519
the Islanders be good enough when he's time and will

1403
01:01:45,559 --> 01:01:47,320
he command that top power play time? I think is

1404
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:48,800
one of the questions too. It sounds like you think

1405
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:49,119
he will.

1406
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:51,679
Speaker 20: He's top power play. Can I tell you the Islanders

1407
01:01:51,679 --> 01:01:53,000
will be good in the future. I do not have

1408
01:01:53,079 --> 01:01:53,800
a Crystal Walder.

1409
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 4: Yeah sounds good. I'll wait till you get that and

1410
01:01:58,559 --> 01:02:00,800
it'll be good for everybody. Go to the next guy,

1411
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,280
Malcolm Spence, who went to the island to the Rangers

1412
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,320
at forty three. I know he was someone also that

1413
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,199
we said at the end of day one he's gonna

1414
01:02:07,239 --> 01:02:09,039
go pretty soon, and he went a little later than

1415
01:02:09,079 --> 01:02:10,679
we thought. But what do you think his upside is?

1416
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 20: Yeah, he went later. I think he's a second line talent.

1417
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:16,159
I think he's a second line winger. I like the

1418
01:02:16,199 --> 01:02:20,039
way he can control the play. He's a high character guy,

1419
01:02:20,199 --> 01:02:23,639
Like he's just a really good guy on and off

1420
01:02:23,679 --> 01:02:25,280
the ice. But he can get to the net.

1421
01:02:25,719 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 10: He can make great passes.

1422
01:02:27,239 --> 01:02:30,199
Speaker 20: Actually, for a guy that doesn't look like he's going

1423
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,000
to be able to like make a nice finesse pass,

1424
01:02:33,079 --> 01:02:33,519
he can do it.

1425
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 10: So he's dangerous.

1426
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:37,719
Speaker 20: If he retrieves the puck in the corner, he's gonna

1427
01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:39,960
find someone in scoring position. So he's gonna put up

1428
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,039
some points in the NHL. I'm probably like a fifty

1429
01:02:42,079 --> 01:02:44,800
to fifty five point guy, but I really do like him.

1430
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,400
The strength is gonna be good, and I think he

1431
01:02:47,599 --> 01:02:50,440
just plays that that controlling kind of game, that puck

1432
01:02:50,519 --> 01:02:51,440
control kind of game.

1433
01:02:51,559 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 10: Control shifts and.

1434
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 4: It seems like the kind of guy when the spaces

1435
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,480
get tight and in the playoffs, he might be someone

1436
01:02:58,480 --> 01:02:59,679
who performs a little bit better.

1437
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:00,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, no question.

1438
01:03:00,639 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 20: If you get him in that situation, he's going to

1439
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:04,719
be a lot for any defenseman.

1440
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 10: To handle it.

1441
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 4: All right, now, I know we didn't have any usn

1442
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,119
TTB guys that finished the year with the program. Drafted

1443
01:03:11,199 --> 01:03:12,840
on day one, but we had a bunch on day

1444
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,000
two in the second round. And I know you wanted

1445
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:16,880
to highlight a guy who I don't really know that

1446
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,960
much about, so I can't wait to hear you talk

1447
01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:23,920
about him, and that's Conrad Foondric, who is going off

1448
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,119
to be you next year. What do you think his

1449
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,679
upside is? And obviously we could potentially see him pop

1450
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,079
off at BU if things go well.

1451
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:32,239
Speaker 10: I think he will.

1452
01:03:32,519 --> 01:03:34,559
Speaker 20: He had kind of an up and down season. I

1453
01:03:34,599 --> 01:03:36,920
think he had injuries. I think he was on and

1454
01:03:37,039 --> 01:03:39,719
off the power play. He's got a tremendous shot, but

1455
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:42,280
I will say he needs to work on the accuracy

1456
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,480
on that for the shooting percentage factor. But the SHOT's there,

1457
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,039
and so he has that. He has good speed, he

1458
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:50,920
knows how to play the game, he has a good

1459
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,760
hockey IQ. This was just a derailed season for him,

1460
01:03:54,119 --> 01:03:55,880
and so I think he's one of those guys that

1461
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:56,920
if you put him on your.

1462
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 10: List, you'll see he'll do very well in.

1463
01:03:59,559 --> 01:04:02,559
Speaker 20: College and I think he has a very good chance

1464
01:04:02,639 --> 01:04:04,719
of being an NHL or for how many games, I

1465
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,239
don't know that's going to be up to him, but

1466
01:04:06,679 --> 01:04:07,599
he's got the tools.

1467
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,599
Speaker 4: He also just turned eighteen a few weeks ago, so

1468
01:04:10,679 --> 01:04:12,760
he seems like he's got a pretty long runway to improve.

1469
01:04:13,039 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 20: He does, he's got a lot of runway, and he's

1470
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,599
a mature guy, and so I really.

1471
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:20,599
Speaker 4: Do like him, all right. One of the other really

1472
01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:24,480
interesting players is Ben Keevan. He went to New Jersey

1473
01:04:25,039 --> 01:04:27,039
at the end of the second and he's someone who

1474
01:04:27,119 --> 01:04:30,079
didn't play. Actually he played for des Moines this year.

1475
01:04:30,199 --> 01:04:32,199
He's going off to Arizona State next year. Played a

1476
01:04:32,239 --> 01:04:34,480
little bit with the program and then at the UA teens,

1477
01:04:34,639 --> 01:04:36,559
tell me a little bit about what you think about him?

1478
01:04:36,719 --> 01:04:37,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really like him.

1479
01:04:37,719 --> 01:04:41,239
Speaker 20: When I was covering the Fall Classic, I asked for

1480
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:44,280
an interview before one of the games, and during that game,

1481
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,639
he got banged up very early in the game. And

1482
01:04:47,719 --> 01:04:51,039
it's game number two on the season, and so all

1483
01:04:51,039 --> 01:04:52,480
of a sudden I got a note, Hey, if you

1484
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,360
want to interview him, you could talk to him while

1485
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,639
he's going to get X rayed on his wrist. And

1486
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,000
so I did the interview on the fly with him

1487
01:05:00,079 --> 01:05:03,199
him walking to the X ray room, and I felt like,

1488
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:05,480
this kid's pretty good if he could keep it together,

1489
01:05:05,639 --> 01:05:07,760
like this knowing that he's going to be out for

1490
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,519
a while, Like he had to have known that, and he.

1491
01:05:10,599 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 10: Gave me a really good interview.

1492
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 20: He's a good skater, he gave a drive play at times.

1493
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:18,440
He is a very good offensive player, and he is

1494
01:05:18,639 --> 01:05:21,280
hard to handle because of his edgework. So I feel

1495
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:23,800
like he's a guy that it's one of these seasons

1496
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,800
where you know it didn't fit in for whatever reason

1497
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,960
at the NTDP, but he has offense and so like

1498
01:05:31,159 --> 01:05:33,719
from a fantasy perspective, this is the kind of guy

1499
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,800
that you can get like extra offense out of and

1500
01:05:36,079 --> 01:05:38,039
he became like a fifty point guy.

1501
01:05:38,119 --> 01:05:39,079
Speaker 10: It would not shock me.

1502
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 4: Also, fun fact, he was born about fifteen minutes from

1503
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:47,320
where I work in California, so not the easiest place

1504
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:51,320
to develop a strong pedigree and strong competition. So he

1505
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,920
had a really interesting development curve and he found his

1506
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,400
way to the USHL. So certainly there seems like there's

1507
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:58,360
a lot of runway here. Once he's only been playing

1508
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:01,559
against top competition for a year or two now, so

1509
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:03,320
it seems like he's still finding his way.

1510
01:06:03,519 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 20: No, he is, and that's one of the things I

1511
01:06:05,079 --> 01:06:08,000
spoke to him about was he's proud of that California

1512
01:06:08,079 --> 01:06:11,960
connection because years ago, like Emerson, Edam kind of was

1513
01:06:12,039 --> 01:06:14,400
like the guy for that at a long beach. But

1514
01:06:14,519 --> 01:06:16,440
now there's quite a few guys that have come out

1515
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,239
of California and he could be that next one that

1516
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:21,639
people all of a sudden say like four or five

1517
01:06:21,719 --> 01:06:22,320
years later.

1518
01:06:22,239 --> 01:06:23,639
Speaker 4: Hey, that guy's out of where is he?

1519
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 20: Like, it's near Fairfield, I don't know, somewhere around somewhere

1520
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:27,400
in California.

1521
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,719
Speaker 4: Somewhere in California is where a lot of people are from.

1522
01:06:31,159 --> 01:06:33,599
So thanks so much for us, and hopefully we'll be

1523
01:06:33,719 --> 01:06:35,880
back to the regular in person draft next year and

1524
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:36,239
that'll be.

1525
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:37,199
Speaker 10: Fun, yeah, I hope.

1526
01:06:37,239 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: So see if.

1527
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:43,079
Speaker 4: All right, please to be joined by Shane molloy of

1528
01:06:43,119 --> 01:06:45,800
Hockey Prospect Radio. How you doing, Shane? Doing great?

1529
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 3: Just patiently waiting for the long draft process on the

1530
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:52,079
second day to end. That's what happens when the NHL

1531
01:06:52,159 --> 01:06:56,000
teams are in their own war rooms and they can't

1532
01:06:56,039 --> 01:06:58,519
be cattle product to move a little bit quicker. So

1533
01:06:58,719 --> 01:07:02,239
sometimes it's I like those, but it's like hurting cats.

1534
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 4: Pretty ready to go back to the traditional format, aren't you?

1535
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:09,480
Speaker 3: One hundred percent? It's one it's better for the league

1536
01:07:09,599 --> 01:07:14,000
in terms of marketing and branding. We can't replicate from

1537
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,639
an industry standpoint how much that marketing and branding means,

1538
01:07:18,599 --> 01:07:21,599
and if we had to pay for it as an industry,

1539
01:07:22,039 --> 01:07:24,239
we I don't think we could afford it, so we

1540
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,719
need to go back to the traditional format. It was

1541
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:30,440
a nice try, but I don't think it produced the

1542
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:32,280
results that the NHL would want.

1543
01:07:33,239 --> 01:07:34,639
Speaker 4: We're sitting here at the end of day two and

1544
01:07:34,719 --> 01:07:36,920
there are barely any people here, so I think that

1545
01:07:37,039 --> 01:07:38,559
speaks a lot as to how it went.

1546
01:07:39,039 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's empty, unfortunately, and it's I think Steve Maher

1547
01:07:43,199 --> 01:07:46,599
did Yeomen's work considering you got to think about all

1548
01:07:46,679 --> 01:07:49,840
the technology that's required to link all those thirty two

1549
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:53,360
teams together, bus prospects and get make sure all this

1550
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:54,519
technology works.

1551
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,039
Speaker 2: That's a lot of variables and balls.

1552
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:57,199
Speaker 4: In the air.

1553
01:07:57,719 --> 01:08:00,039
Speaker 3: And I told them last night after day one and

1554
01:08:00,159 --> 01:08:03,599
I said, look, that was like impressive to watch you

1555
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,800
try to put all that together and your team put

1556
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:06,239
that together.

1557
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:08,119
Speaker 2: So I give them a lot at credit.

1558
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:12,159
Speaker 3: I think based on the situation that he was put in,

1559
01:08:12,719 --> 01:08:16,199
I thought that it went as well as possibly you

1560
01:08:16,319 --> 01:08:20,439
could have because the technology could have completely collapsed on them.

1561
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:23,479
Like we marvel in our technology, the more we use

1562
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:26,359
it in a situation rely on it, it's gonna fail

1563
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:26,720
on us.

1564
01:08:27,159 --> 01:08:30,079
Speaker 13: So sometimes simple is better for sure.

1565
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 4: All Right, we're excited to have you to talk about

1566
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:34,399
some of the players. We're gonna start with a couple

1567
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,760
of the first round players who maybe not as exciting

1568
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:38,960
in fantasy. So we'll start with Jack Nesbid, who was

1569
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,520
certainly one of the surprises I would say of the

1570
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:43,920
first round when a little earlier than we thought, do

1571
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,119
you think he's someone who can live up to his

1572
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:47,680
potential in fantasy?

1573
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 2: Really had twelve that's really high.

1574
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:53,600
Speaker 3: It really depends on whether he's second gets second up

1575
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:56,600
power play time and whether he develops into a second

1576
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,760
line center if his skating improves. If it doesn't, then

1577
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,520
he and then it being a really elite third line center,

1578
01:09:03,159 --> 01:09:05,279
but then may not get the power play time or

1579
01:09:05,319 --> 01:09:09,000
the offensive zone starts to produce that type of offense

1580
01:09:09,199 --> 01:09:12,319
in a fantasy league. So there are players in the

1581
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:14,920
draft where we see, oh, he got drafted really high,

1582
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,079
but that player doesn't translate to fantasy hockey. So he

1583
01:09:18,399 --> 01:09:21,439
would be the first one that I would jump out

1584
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:24,319
at and look at and then Baklav Nestro would be

1585
01:09:24,399 --> 01:09:27,680
the other one because he's the big, strong player could

1586
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,479
end up playing maybe playing the bumper position, but again,

1587
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:36,279
if his game doesn't translate to a second line, then

1588
01:09:36,319 --> 01:09:38,159
he's not going to get the offensive zone starts.

1589
01:09:38,239 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 4: And then again that can he play on the power play?

1590
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:43,079
Speaker 13: Is he's the bumper position on.

1591
01:09:43,119 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 3: A second unit and how much points does he get

1592
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:48,079
from there? So the two players that I targeted in

1593
01:09:48,159 --> 01:09:52,319
the first round that I don't think are necessarily fantasy players,

1594
01:09:52,359 --> 01:09:54,199
but it could end up being really good NHL players

1595
01:09:54,279 --> 01:09:56,079
that happens, and it would be those two players.

1596
01:09:57,079 --> 01:09:59,239
Speaker 4: Do you think it helps that Chicago doesn't really have

1597
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:01,840
that player to in their system that maybe he could

1598
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,560
end up being that bumper power play kind of guy.

1599
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:07,199
Speaker 3: That's a possibility. He may have been a guy that

1600
01:10:07,319 --> 01:10:09,279
you have to wait and see how that plays out.

1601
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:11,119
And he might be in the middle part of his

1602
01:10:11,239 --> 01:10:14,079
career where ok, he's twenty three, twenty four and they

1603
01:10:14,079 --> 01:10:16,600
start giving them more opportunities because they don't have the

1604
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:20,600
big bodies, so he'll get opportunity just by default.

1605
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:22,319
Speaker 2: So it's just something to monitor.

1606
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:24,800
Speaker 3: But I would have if I've been a keeper league

1607
01:10:25,119 --> 01:10:27,079
that's not a guy that I'm drafting on purpose.

1608
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:30,920
Speaker 4: All right, let's slip to some positives, some guys that

1609
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:32,880
went a little bit later that maybe a little bit

1610
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:35,760
more exciting. And Blake Fiddler is someone after day one

1611
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,079
we were saying probably one of the best available, and

1612
01:10:38,119 --> 01:10:41,720
he ends up going to Seattle. Really big, rangy kid

1613
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:43,840
with a lot of runway, very young for this draft

1614
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:45,960
class too. What do you think of his upside?

1615
01:10:46,239 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 3: The other thing is because he's going to Seattle, if

1616
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:50,000
you look at their farm team, they don't have any defenseman,

1617
01:10:50,399 --> 01:10:53,600
so you know he's gonna get pushed into action, and

1618
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,079
I think he has because he's so young and raw,

1619
01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:59,640
there's an opportunity for him to continue to grow in

1620
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:03,039
that area in a couple of years and develop more

1621
01:11:03,039 --> 01:11:06,079
of that offensive punch in his game. So I think

1622
01:11:06,159 --> 01:11:09,199
that's a nice secondary value for you. And then second

1623
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:14,479
second player is Malcolm Spence because coaches love big bodied

1624
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:18,399
wingers who can skate fast and are responsible defensively, So

1625
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:20,640
he may end up being on a second line on

1626
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:24,359
a wing to insulate two more skilled players, and he's

1627
01:11:24,399 --> 01:11:26,800
going to get extra points by being with those two

1628
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,800
players because you can kill penalties having a big body

1629
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:33,680
who can skate and is defensively responsible. That may not

1630
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,000
sound sexy in the way I say it, but you

1631
01:11:37,119 --> 01:11:39,199
get points because you're on that line and you're going

1632
01:11:39,279 --> 01:11:42,039
to get more offensive zone starts. And he's another guy

1633
01:11:42,359 --> 01:11:44,439
because he has good hands, can end up being in

1634
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,439
a bumper position on a second unit of power play,

1635
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:49,279
so you might get some additional value out of a

1636
01:11:49,359 --> 01:11:49,880
second round.

1637
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:50,600
Speaker 10: Or like those two.

1638
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:54,560
Speaker 4: Players, New York Rangers don't have the best track record

1639
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:56,880
of developing their prospects. Does that concern you at all?

1640
01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,479
Or is Spence just such a good player that he's

1641
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:01,560
going to figure out. I think it depends on how

1642
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:02,479
patient they are with him.

1643
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,520
Speaker 3: So it's great that he's going to college because he

1644
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:08,039
needed to challenge himself and play against not eighteen and

1645
01:12:08,079 --> 01:12:09,760
a half year old players, but twenty one and a

1646
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:13,079
half to twenty two year old players and get bigger

1647
01:12:13,119 --> 01:12:15,119
and stronger. And I know that sounds weird because he's

1648
01:12:15,119 --> 01:12:17,439
already a big kid, but he also has to push

1649
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,720
a lot of weight around the ice so develop that

1650
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,960
man strength. So I think if they're Rangers are patient

1651
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:25,359
with him and they don't put them in the American

1652
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,720
Hockey league right away. Maybe he comes in as a

1653
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,439
twenty one year old instead of a twenty year old.

1654
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:32,279
I think that would be beneficial to his development.

1655
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:36,279
Speaker 4: All right, So one of the more interesting prospects that

1656
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,039
coming into the year people were talking about, and instead

1657
01:12:39,119 --> 01:12:41,720
records as a D minus one Ivan ray Apkin. He

1658
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:44,159
ends up going sixty two to Carolina. I know some

1659
01:12:44,239 --> 01:12:46,920
people are really excited about the offensive ability there, But

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what do you think in terms of would you shy

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away from drafting a player like that?

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Speaker 3: Yes, because it's primarily just his dedication. What his body

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01:12:57,479 --> 01:13:00,439
looks like is self discipline. If if you're not a

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01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:04,159
highly disciplined athlete, I think you're gonna have a lot

1665
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of problems trying to get by just on talent, because

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you can't.

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Speaker 2: So if he.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't change his habits in his off the ice, I

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think he's gonna have a hard time playing in the NHL.

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He could be a guy that teases you and then

1671
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:21,960
just goes back to Russia. So I'd be very wary

1672
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about drafting.

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Speaker 4: Sounds fair. I will definitely not be drafting him. I

1674
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:28,239
want to ask you about a couple of the small

1675
01:13:28,279 --> 01:13:29,720
guys I think we all like to root for these

1676
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:31,920
small guys, but the reality is it's an uphill climb

1677
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:35,000
for them. So Cameron Schmid goes ninety four to Dallas.

1678
01:13:35,399 --> 01:13:38,439
We have Adam Benach going one O two to Minnesota,

1679
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:41,680
and we have LJ. Mooney going one thirteen the Montreal Canadians.

1680
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,960
They're all undersized guys. You think any of them has

1681
01:13:45,039 --> 01:13:47,680
a legit chance of being a regular two hundred games

1682
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played NHL.

1683
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 3: Or no, unless they develop a B game. And the

1684
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example I use to that is Connor Garland. So when

1685
01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:00,239
he was in Moncton in the Quebec League, he was

1686
01:14:00,319 --> 01:14:03,600
a very offensive mind. It didn't have that responsible off

1687
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,159
punk B game, but he developed it as he got

1688
01:14:06,199 --> 01:14:08,319
a little bit older and has now turned into a

1689
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:12,840
really high quality five on five player who gets offensive

1690
01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:15,239
zone stars. But it plays a lot and could have

1691
01:14:15,319 --> 01:14:19,159
easily been just an American League superstar. So both these,

1692
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:21,880
all three of those players, they don't develop their off

1693
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,159
puck game. Because you think about it, if a really

1694
01:14:24,159 --> 01:14:26,560
good player in the NHL plays eighteen minutes is a forward,

1695
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:28,399
how much of that time does he actually have the

1696
01:14:28,439 --> 01:14:30,560
puck on a stick. It may only be like five percent,

1697
01:14:31,039 --> 01:14:32,479
So what do you do in the other ninety five

1698
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:34,439
percent of the time to help your team win. And

1699
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,399
if your coach doesn't have confidence in your off puck game,

1700
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:39,039
even if your team has.

1701
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:41,319
Speaker 4: The buck, he's not going to put you out there.

1702
01:14:41,399 --> 01:14:44,319
Speaker 3: And then as the talent pool compresses from junior hockey

1703
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:47,039
or college hockey into the American League and again into

1704
01:14:47,039 --> 01:14:50,840
the NHL, if you're a one dimensional offensive player, coaches

1705
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:52,520
just can't trust you when you're not gonna play.

1706
01:14:54,239 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 4: You're very fair. Thank you so much for your time, Shane,

1707
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,600
and hopefully we'll be back to the regular draft next year.

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Speaker 2: That would be great.

1709
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 3: So hopefully across our fingers with a bee in Vegas

1710
01:15:03,079 --> 01:15:04,960
or Montreal, it'll be a fantastic time.

1711
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 4: Awesome.

1712
01:15:06,039 --> 01:15:07,279
Speaker 2: Thanks again for plaiting wrong.

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Speaker 4: Hope you enjoyed that.

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Speaker 6: And before we get out of here, a couple things

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