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Speaker 2: And in just a moment we will be back to
talk New York Rangers. We are pleased to welcome to
the show. Remy Masty, the managing editor of Rangers content
at the Hockey News. How you doing today, Remy.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty good. Thank you for having me on today.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a pleasure. It's a pleasure to talk about
the New York Rangers. This is going to be a
fun discussion because this is a fun, strong Rangers team.
You're defending President's Trophy winners for the second time in
three years. They made it to the Eastern Conference Finals
this year, following to the event falling to the eventual
Cup champs in six games, they were seventh. They're better
in the league in just so many categories as an
arbitrary seventh, but goals for fewest, goals against, power play percentage,
penalty kill percentage, save percentage. This is some pretty good
things to be good at.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Later we'll get to the goalie who's building a Hall
of Fame resume behind this team, and that's a very
deep team. Seems unlikely to be going anywhere. I suppose
one thing to worry about is natural injury regression. A
lot of teams would covet having eight different forwards play
eighty plus games in a season, But overall, I guess
my question for you, Remias, are the Rangers and championship
contention next year, and how did the followers of the
team react to the postseason results not quite coming out
as desired.
Speaker 5: Again, I think that the Rangers will definitely be in
the Stanley Cup conversation for sure. They obviously won the
President's Trophy, so there's no doubt they'll be right back
in that hunt. I think that the main issue that
really played the Rangers was their offense got a little
bit cold, especially disadvantage add and Crider line, So finding
a good linematee for them. I think It's pretty critical
to balance out their top six and I think that
Riley Smith could be that player. And the other issue
is that Florida just banged them up. I think overall
the Panthers were just a better team, more physically equipped,
and play better playoff hockey. So I think the Rangers
need to get that physical edge going up. And I
think that in the playoffs is a much different game
and the Panthers are more prepared to that than them
for the moment. So I think the Panthers are still
the team to be, but the Rangers have the talent
for sure, is just maybe change up their style play
a little bit.
Speaker 2: Team starts with our Timmy panerin the offensive start of
the team was fourth in the National Hockey League in
points with let's see one hundred and twenty Oh, no
big deal. He broke his own career high by remarkable
twenty four points, and amazingly, his assists weren't even a
career high in that situation. His seventy one assists. He
has hopped that in in the past. His leap in
scoring was driven by goals. His recent two point five
shots per game in past year has jumped to nearly
three point five shots a game. This year, thirty two
goals was a career best before this year's forty nine goals.
I guess the question was this the Bradman's career year
and should we expect this goal scoring to keep up?
Speaker 5: Remy, I think one hundred and twenty points might be
a little bit far fetch. I don't know if he's
going to reach it out again, because that's really a
once in a lifetime type thing for even some of
the star players in this league. But there's no doubt
that our Timmy Peneren should be at least up there.
He should be the leading point getter for the Rangers,
especially on a line with Alexis Lafrenier. I'm sure we'll
talk about later, who's really now emerging into a star
caliber player. And Vincent Troschek, who's a newcomer from last
year and really plays a gritty kind of game with
and he has a high offensive touch as well. So
his linemates are there. Ar Chimy Penerin is still the
leader on that first year of the power play, and
he's their best player and he should be up there
in the one hundred point mark about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. Of course we're going to talk about Vinnie
Trocheck now, and he's seen Trocheck is on this plan
where every three seasons he has a seventy five ish
point base and in between he's closer to fifty, although
last season he was at sixty three. But if you
look at his point base, it's funny he's got fifty seven,
fifty four, seventy five, fifty one, fifty seventy five, fifty two,
sixty three, and then seventy seven. I'm not sure if
that's a pattern that's repeatable, but it is interesting. He
hits high He hit highs in time on ice, points
power pulay time on ice. It was a really great season,
and obviously he's a really important part of the team.
We have a league that we run called the Tier Dynasty,
and he's a top forty asset in that league because
of all of his perferle content. But Remy, do you
think Trochick can finally break that trend of every few
years and being above seventy and stay seventy plus this
upcoming season or do you think he's going to fall
back below that mark.
Speaker 5: I do think he'll be around the seventy point mark,
but it's unclear exactly if he's going to be a
little bit lower a little bit higher. First off, he's
playing with two extremely talented players and Panderin and La Frenier,
who are explosive. They know how to find their teammates,
they have great vision, So that's first off. And what
impressed me about Vincent trocheck the most is that he
always He's a hustler, He four checks hard, and he
always comes to play every night. In the playoffs, when
a lot of the Rangers forwards are struggling, I found
that Vincent Trochek was one of their more consistent forwards
in that aspect, and I think that he shall only
continue that now, going to a second year with the Rangers,
he's obviously more accustomed to their system and playing on
that top six. I think there's no doubt who reached
that point mark, if not go higher.
Speaker 2: On to Chris Krider. He had well almost the point
per game last year, over hit per game, three shots
per game. Criid is just a fantasy favorite for some
of us. He likes to get points from his points
from goals as well. That's always nice to see. Last
year was a career high in total points. He scored
more goals than assists for the last six straight years,
so again that's the emphasis of his scoring profile. Last year,
though an increase to his assists to a career high
thirty six definitely helped his team's efforts. Krider's creeping into
his mid thirties that age when I start to worry
about a guy with his physical game remaining productive, but
he shows no signs of slowing. Do you expect another
seventy point year resembling last year again in this coming campaign, Remy.
Speaker 5: I think that Chris Krider is one of the more
interesting situations on the Rangers because early on in his
career he had that offensive upside, but he wasn't the
offensive player that we all know now where he's producing
over seventy points season. He was more of a physical
present with some offensive touch. But now it's as age
goes on, as he gets older, it seems like he's
only getting better in that aspect of his game. And
obviously he had seventy five points last year, so I
think that he should stay around that. The interesting thing
about him though, in the playoffs, aside from that Hurricane
series where he scored the famous hat trick to send
the Rangers to the Eastern Conference Final, he was a
little bit slow in that Panther series and it was
pretty noticeable, I would say, so, I think that he
should still produce at a high level. He'll still play
top six minutes, He'll still be playing on the power play.
If Riley Smith pans down on their line as well,
I think that Riley Smith's Avantajad and Crider could be
a really lethal line. But I still think that has
a couple of years in him.
Speaker 2: Very cool. Mika zabana Jad is another guy we we
think might have a couple years with him, and another
guy who played with Krider Looted at the hip to Krider.
This year, he slid almost twenty points from that tremendous
prior campaign and finished fifth on the team in points
this year thirty one. Other teams would really love to
have a guy with seventy two points be their fifth
best scorer. I think the good news is he had
sixteen points and sixteen playoff games. The bad news only
two assists of that game in the six game loss
to the Cats in the Semis. Meca's got a good
contract and no move clause, an established role on a
top team. Do you expect more the seventy point campaign
we had last year, the ninety point season that we
had the year before, or door see Meeka's advantage.
Speaker 5: That had a great regular season, obviously getting over seventy points,
but in the playoffs he took a lot of heat.
But I don't know, his play wasn't quite there. He
looked a little bit slower. But he's still playing again,
like Chris Crider top six minutes, he'll still most likely
be on the top, you know of the power play,
so it's hard not to imagine him having a high
point season. And I had to repeat myself again, but
they gotta find a linemate that fits with Clyde and
Zabanajad because those two guys are there, but they really
mixed and match last year and couldn't find the right
fit on that line with them. So if Riley Smith
pans out, I think Sabanajad's upside goes higher. He should
have another good regular season, but he's getting up there
in age, so you never know.
Speaker 4: We already referenced Alexis Lafrenier and we're going to talk
about him now. And it seems like the breakout we've
been waiting for from Lafrenier finally came closer to the
three hundred games played than what some people like to
assume is usually closer to the two hundred games played.
Fifty seven points in seventeen sixteen average time on ice
and just one seventeen on the power play wasn't a
whole lot of opportunity, but he did well with it.
Only six of those fifty seven points that he scored
this season were on the power play. That's pretty incredible
even strength production. I'm not sure if he gets more
power play time at least on the top unit this
year unless there's an injury, but maybe he can get
even more with more even strength time on ice. As
you mentioned, he was clicking on the top unit towards
the end and playing with tro Check or playing with
tro Check and Peneren anyways are pretty great company. So
what do you think we can expect from Lafrenier this
upcoming season. Do you think he can take another step
forward or is he going to be that fifty to
sixty point guy.
Speaker 5: Alexis Lavarnier is a player that I'm extremely a high
on personally going into this year. When he was drafted
back in twenty twenty, he was a generational prospect and
it took a couple of years for him to really
get to the level that he is now. But last
year was a breakout season for him. But I think
that this year, this upcoming season, will be his true
breakout year. You saw in the playoffs where he was
just electric with the puck on his stick. He's really
a magician similar to and I think that he takes
that leap this year to potential superstar in the NHL,
especially playing with a guy like Paner, and he's going
to produce. But I think that there's a chance that
Lafnier becomes the Rangers' best player within the next two years.
He has the talent. He's going into a contract year
as well where he needs a big extension, and I
think that this is the year where people really start
to notice Alexis Lnier.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's so many relevant Rangers skaters that we
have to switch some of them together and do a
little points pick them between them to rapid fire. Philip Heel,
Riley Smith. You've mentioned Smith as maybe a hope to
fit in on the line there and complement some of
the existing top sixers. He last year got himself forty
points in seventy six games. And Philip Peel a guy
who's been the fringe, the fringe whole prospect here for
a little bit, but last year only got ten games
in and made six assists. What do you think, Phillip
pel Riley Smith, which one you think will have the
better year coming up.
Speaker 5: It's a tough call, because Philip Heetel really has the
talent to be a great player in this league. But
as you guys probably know, he's been suffering with a
lot of injuries. He suffered about already four concussions last year.
That concussion basically kept it out for the entire regular season,
and he played a couple of games in the playoffs,
but they have to be careful with his health. Obviously
he's a huge health risk right now, but if he
stays healthy, he'll have a role as most likely that
third line center, maybe playing some power play. He's a
good penalty killer as well. But I think as far
as points go, Riley Smith has more potential just because
he'll be playing, most likely on a line with the
vantage add crider, and I think that his minutes will
most likely be higher and he has a higher upside
in terms of offense production because he'll be playing a
top six rowle as opposed to Philip Hido who be
playing that third line more shutdown rule and mostly the
penalty kill as well.
Speaker 2: And the other one you got Capocaco, who is another
one of these guys who's what He was such a
number two overall pick but hasn't quite broke through, but
lots of talent there. He only got a one year deal.
He's got he'll be a restricted free agent, and then
will Kyle. He is another guy who had seen not
many points last year, twenty one in eighty one games.
Who do you like in this matchup?
Speaker 5: I think that in his first season, Will Cooley really
he had an impressive year. He showed some flashes of
what he could do. Obviously, it was just his first
full season with the team, so he's still trying to
break through. Copocaco is an interesting situation because he just
signed his qualifying offer. This is most likely his last
chance to prove that he belongs with the Rangers and
with these within these few years that he's been with
the team, still as yet to break through, and I
don't know if he's going to break out. This is
his last chance. I think that Will Cooley has a
higher upside, but Cobocaco was drafted second overall. He drafted
second overall for a reason, so he still has that potential,
but it's just yet to be seen.
Speaker 2: Right now, Let's move to the blue line, and we're
going to start obviously with Adam Fox. Despite missing ten
games last year basically most of November, Fox still ranked
sixth in scoring from all defenseman in the NHL. Last
year was his fourth straight as a top five Norris nominee,
and he won actually in the COVID fifty six game season.
Fox is already twenty six, which startles me a little
it seems like he was just Rookie of the Year.
He's just such a big prospect, But that's what happens
when a guy goes to Harvard before coming to the
NHL that he's going to come in a couple of
years further in. And Fox is a little bit light
on those peripherals that we sometimes craved the block shots
hit that's not necessarily the main stay of his game.
But he's good in blocks, just not big on hits
or shots. Is Adam Fox coming into this year going
to run back last year's performance as an elite defenseman
in the NHL?
Speaker 5: If he stays healthy, I say yes, because he is
clearly the rangers number one defenseman. He picked up a
lot of criticism during the playoffs, but he was laboring
through an injury, and I think that was pretty clear
in watching his game. He didn't have that same mobility
that he usually does. So if he stays healthy, I
don't see a reason why he won't be a top defenseman.
He led the Rangers with over twenty three minutes a game,
and he also produced a good amount of points. He
produced seventy three points, So with his role with the team,
I don't really see it getting limited, and he should
be a top defenseman, I think.
Speaker 2: And next up another killer comparison of two guys. You
got ke Andre Miller, who is the young whippers snap
who's coming up thirty points in eighty games, all kinds
of talent, the former Wisconsin Badger, and you got Jacob Truba.
Jacob Trupa is a mainstay of this team eight million
per year. He isn't a big scorer necessarily, but he
puts up a lot of the peripheral stats and he's
just a hugely important part of the success of this team.
Between Miller and Truba, who do you think is going
to have maybe the better scoring year. But to say
what you will about these two guys, I.
Speaker 5: Would say, scoring wise, I think that KeAndre Miller has
a higher offensive ceiling. He just a faster skater he has.
He just has more of the offensive touch. Get head
to Truba, who's more of a stay at home physical defenseman.
KeAndre Miller had thirty points to Jacob trup as twenty
two this past year. And Truba is getting up there
in age as well, and with all the all thisest
drama that went on with him this summer, I don't
really know how big his role will be this upcoming season.
With KeAndre Miller still emerging and improving as a defenseman,
I say that KeAndre Miller has the higher offensive upside,
but Jacob Truba defensively is really good. Obviously, hits and
blogs do count, indeed.
Speaker 4: And there's another guy we want to ask you about,
and that's Zach Jones. Last year before he's an RFA,
the twenty nineteen second round pick, only has sixty nine
NHL games to his name, though nearly half of them
came last season, so that's nice to see. Remy. Do
you think what kind of role do you think Jones
is going to get next season and is there any
hope still that he fulfills his upside of a high
point getting defender.
Speaker 5: I think that he has that potential for sure. Last
year when he came in for the limited amount of
times because of injuries that were going on with the team,
I think that Peter Lobulette was pretty impressed with the
way that he played, and he said that he's going
to give him a full shot to compete this year
at training camp. So if he makes the team, I
could see him rising up in the depth chart pretty quickly.
He adds a good sense of youth to that defensive
core that seems to be a little bit older. And
I think that they definitely need reinforcements defensively, so I
could definitely see him coming in and making an immediate impact.
Speaker 4: All right, that's great to hear. I still holding out
some hope for Zach Jones. Let's move over to the goalies.
The Rangers were ranked twentieth and expected goals against per sixty,
but conceded the twelfth ranked actual goals per game. They
were not the best defensively, but having Igor Schusterkin certainly
can make up for that. But also Egor seter the
net too quick for twenty seven games, and quick posted
overall pretty good numbers. There were some ups and downs
there a little bit, but nine to eleven save percentage
three seven to two goals save above expected was pretty great.
Shasterkin had twelve goals save above expected and better run numbers,
but I think fantasy gms were hoping for a little
bit more than fifty five games played from Shasturkin. So, remy,
how do you think the net is going to break
down for the Rangers next season? Do you think the
plan is to give Igor a break to have fifty
to sixty starts. Is he going to be more of
a volume starter? What do you think we can expect.
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a pretty similar situation
to last year where Quick did eat up a lot
of games. In today's NHL, backup goaltenders are a lot
more important than they were back in the day. You
don't want to be starting a goalie seventy plus games
and then a risk their injury rich their house. Later
on in the season. You could see that Igor Schisterkin
come playoff time because of some of the rest that
he got and Jonathan Quick taking out that low during
the regular season. He was fresh, he was energized, and
he played basically at his vest in the trophy level
that he did a couple of years ago. So there's
no reason to overplay Igor Schusterkin. With the team that
they have, they're going to make the playoffs. It's pretty clear,
and I think that resting Ego Schusterkin ensuring that he's
healthy for their playoff run is pretty critical. So I
see it obviously Ewor Schusterkin is the guy. He's a
start A little bit. I think going to the season.
Speaker 2: All right, this has been some great information on the
New York Rangers, Remy. Why don't you let people know
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Speaker 3: You, and that's good myers past. Oh my goodness, long
quick gram.
Speaker 2: Now it's your wingler goalie talk. But Kat Silverman Cat's Instincts.
Speaker 4: Time once again for Kats instincts. With Kat Silverman and
in Gold mag we're talking Rangers prospects. There's some really
interesting ones here that I can't wait to get your
take on. Dylan Grand is the first one we're going
to talk about. Twenty twenty fourth round pick six foot,
zero hundred seventy two pounds. This was his second full
HL season in his second straight season under a nine
hundred say percentage in the regular season, though like last season,
he was much better in the playoffs, so under nine
hundred and the regular season nine to twenty two and
nine games in the playoffs. Maybe he just needs more
pressure or a big moment. Not really sure. I think
we all remember how he stepped up for Cosa and
helped Canada win gold at the U twenty World Junior
Championship a couple of years ago. And I know in
the past you've said he had a soft spot for
him because he is that undersize. He's listed at six foot,
which we always know could mean five eight, could mean
five to eleven. Who knows, he's not five eight, but
he's definitely undersized. Looking at hockey prospecting, he's been consistently
in the high twenties low thirties in terms of NHL
er probability and some decent comps here. Ben Scrivens is
one that maybe he looks a little bit alike, who
is a backup goalie with some potential there, Kat, What
do your instincts tell us about Dylan Grand Like you.
Speaker 1: Said, I have a bit of a soft spot for him.
I thought, from a technical standpoint, once again undersized goaltender
who looked really structurally sound. I thought he had a
little bit more speed to his game than Sebastiankosa and
saved Kosa's bacon there by stepping in for Team Canada.
You really don't know what to do with the New
York Rangers and their prospects, because I think they're a
team that has really good goaltending coaching. They've had really
good goaltending coaching. They're one of the Alayer teams, and
they just, for whatever reason, their AHEL team never really
seems to shine when it comes to goaltender performance, and
so I want to say that lower numbers aren't necessarily
a bad thing. It's like looking at goaltenders in the QMJJL.
For whatever reason, they tend not to have as high
of a safe percentage as some of their counterparts in
the OHL on the WHL. But I also watch some
of his games and it looked like the communication between
him and his defense wasn't always there, which is something
that I think we would need to see change if
he is to step up and essentially become their next
era apparent to serve as at least a tandemer a
backup with Schistricken, which obviously they don't need an air
apparent as a star starter at the moment, which is
good because I don't think that's what he is. But
he could potentially become their next NHL tandem goaltender. I
don't know if he needs more time in the AHL
or not, just because it's hard to read how much
development he's getting at the AHL level. So that's a
tough one for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, And we'll see. They have some guys ahead
of him. Obviously, Quick seemed good, really good at times
last year. Obviously he's still there and better. On how
much this Stirkin plays, he might not have any need
for anyone else, so it'll be interesting to see. They
also have Deming down there playing in the minors as well.
Let's move on to what I'm gonna call the six
foot eight crew, because they have two other goalies that
are six foot eight and yeah, they're massive. So the
first one we're going to talk about is Talon Buinco.
Just a great name, first of all, twenty twenty one
fourth round pick, six foot eight, two hundred and one pounds.
His first professional season, when I would say not great,
he was primarily in the ACECHL. As we mentioned, they
have a couple goalies ahead of him in the AHL
eight eighty eight save percentage three point four to two
GAA for the Cincinnati Cyclones. He did get one game,
one playoff game with the Hartford wolf Pack, which went
real bad, so we won't talk about that. But wait,
there's more. His expected goal per goal conceded in Cincinnati
was one point five, which is pretty astoundingly good. Maybe
it was actually the best of his career in terms
of the other seasons that he's played, So maybe there's
more to the story there. Looking at his hockey prospecting
his equivalents, he trended down with that ECHL number, but again,
maybe there was more to that story. In terms of
some other comps for him, there weren't a whole lot
of good ones. But Archur she loves is one, and
we obviously saw she loves last year step into the
NHL and do Admiral Bleget. I would say, so, Kat,
what are your interestincts? Tell us about Buenco.
Speaker 1: He's I don't mind him. I think he looks like
a big goaltender sometimes. Once he reached that size, it's
hard to really gauge comparable just because of movement. Is
nowhere near as agile as any of the other goaltenders
that are in New York system outside of their other
six foot eight goaltender obviously, But that's something that I
don't know if he needs to be that quick, just
because he takes up so much space in the net
and it looks like his tracking is decent. He just
I think once you reach a certain size as a goaltender,
it almost becomes a hindrance versus a help, just because
the amount of time it takes to get down to
the ice to seal along the goal line, the ability
to engage your muscles as quickly to make lateral shifts
and moves and sealing the post becomes just a little
bit harder because there is so much to move. And
that's not a week comment, that is a high comment.
I don't know. I think he's oh. I feel like
New York loves to draft a couple really small skilled
guys in net and then a couple really big guys
in net and then essentially cast off whoever doesn't work
out and keep their system consistent with a certain size.
So I don't know if we're going to see Dylan
Grand on the way out while they move towards big boys.
But right now, the system is set up to play
with slightly smaller goaltenders, especially now that they added Jonathan
Quick at the NHL level. He's not a super big guy.
I think he's maybe listed at six to one six
y two, but he's maybe not that tall. Yeah, I
don't know. I think he looks. He's fun to watch
play because he's so big. Some goaltenders you can't really
tell how big they are out on the ice. Some
of them you really can, and he's one of those.
But I don't see anything about his game that really
makes me think that he's who they need to move
up to the AHL level next year. And like you said,
they have a pretty sacked depth chart ahead of him,
so I don't know if they will be moving him up.
Speaker 4: So we'll see, you will see. And now time for
the other six foot eight guy. Hugo OLA's to twenty
twenty seventh round pick and the year before Boiko was
drafted six foot eight, two hundred and thirty eight pounds.
He's quite a bit heavier than Boyco. Came up in
the linkoping system in Sweden. Has been in North America
for the last three seasons, primarily at Merrimack college of
the ncublea where he's done really well. He had one
HL game this season and it really did not go
well for him. So most of this is based on
his play in college. I would imagine his hockey prospecting
has him up to thirty seven percent chance of being
an NHL or based on that NC doublea time. There's
a few decent comps in here, a bunch of NHL
is actually the best Swede comp I probably, I would say,
is Philip Gustafson, who we've seen have some success at
the NHL level, have some inconsistency. Okay, what do you
instincts tell us about Google owl Us?
Speaker 1: I know this sounds crazy after saying that I don't
necessarily love the movement from a lot of bigger goaltenders.
But for someone who is six foot eight and almost
two hundred and forty pounds, wh who o us can move?
He's a lot faster on his skate, then, oh, he
really good at tracking. He stands a little more aggressively
than I would expect for someone of his size. Reminds
me of how Darcy Kemper plays sometimes. Some of those
bigger guys who in Mike Smith to a degree, guys who,
even though they could spend the whole game parked on
the goal line, really not hinge out much, not do
a ton with their depth and be just fine. Could
they take up the whole net. He seems to like
to spend his time up at the top of the
blue paint, and that's exciting to see. Maybe a little
nerve wracking for fans, but it's exciting. And my biggest
concern with him is because he loves to move so much,
I think he becomes, not unlike Mike Smith and Darcy Kemper,
a little bit of a target for injury, just because
when you see those bigger goaltenders who really like to
almost over extend themselves, they like to really hinge out,
sometimes challenge the shooter, which they don't need to do.
They can just stand up. You sometimes see growing tweaks,
growing polls, lower body, day to day maintenance needed here
and there. That's something that I would maybe look for
with him, but I don't want to put that evil
on him per se. So we haven't necessarily seen that
as an issue so far. It might be working a
lot with a movement coach to make sure that's not
an issue, but yeah, I think he's the more fun
big goaltender to watch for sure. I just don't Once again,
I don't know how much height New York needs. I
don't know what they're doing, so he's fun to watch.
Don't know what he's doing in the system.
Speaker 4: They need all the height, clearly they hate all of it.
That's fun. So two six per day goalies pretty different.
Thanks so much for giving us your instincts on the
Rangers goalies. Cut, dig.
Speaker 2: The dynasty, dig your brain.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: In addition, the system that Victor rank number twenty one
a bit back, probably before the draft. But there are
some big old names in here, and it starts with
the no brainer. Who is it Victor?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Gay Parro. Gay Parros are no brainer for
the Rangers. Twenty twenty three, twenty third overall pick by
the Rangers, five to eleven hundred and sixty five pounds,
left shot, right wing, May seventh birthday. It's a pretty
young for the draft cycle, which means still pretty young
for playing college last season. He's Yannick Paro's son and
Jako Perro's brother. His first season in the n C
DOUAA sixty points in thirty six games was pretty incredible.
Only teammate Will Smith and some guy named maclan Celebrini
had better points per game than gay Pro. He bested
Cutter Gotier, his teammate Ruger McGorty, Jackson Blake, Maxim, Messimo Rizzo. Well,
those guys getting Calder votes or Hobe Baker votes and
so maybe Calder later. Ten points in seven U twenty
World Junior games en route to the gold medal was
pretty spell full for gay Pro. Looking at his tracking
data for Mitch Brown, you can see that his offense
in the past couple seasons has been elite ninety eight
and ninety ninth percentile. His transition game also excellent. It's
the defensive game where things are a little bit lower.
Last season twenty two to twenty three, he was thirteenth
percentile for defense. This season he bumped that up to
thirty seventh percentile for defense, So that's pretty great. It's
good to see that improvement overall in his game, So
that's good to see. Love to see that. Looking at
his FHL player card, you can see that the offense
is one hundred percentile, essentially ten out of ten for
off goals an assist per sixty. His shots are in
eight and hits are pretty low at three. Blocks are
at seven though, so overall his bash is a seventy
percent tile, so not bad. He has an average number
of pins too. In case you're wondering, let's hear a
little bit more about gay pro from our FHL scout.
Speaker 2: FHL scout is Craig in this case, and here there's
what Craig has to say. Skating average to below average.
Gabe isn't the fastest skater, but it doesn't hinder his
game at the NCAA level. This could change with tougher competition,
but we've seen guys like j Rob be successful finding
open ice at the pro level. Passing and handling above average,
Gabe's got great vision. One play looked like he was
going for a light dump in between the two defenders
and out of nowhere, Smith came flying through to accept
the pass, setting him on a breakaway. Shooting above average,
Gabe showed he could score in multiple fashions. He showed
some nice tip redirection goals and was able to finish
on most chances close to the net. Craig says the
IQ is above average. He's able to find the open
ice and capitalize on it. He did show a few turnovers,
but this was due to creativeness rather than any sort
of panic for checking average minimal heads. However, he is
a turnover beast. A quick stick and high compete level
allows Gabe to steal the puck off defenders, resulting in
offensive zone chances defense average nothing really to highlight, per Craig,
The best asset Gabe's ability to finish. With Will Smith
and Ryan Leonard feeding in pucks, Gabe was able to
get the majority of scoring chances that came his way.
The biggest concern Will Smith and Cutter Gotier gone next year,
so we may see a different points for Gabe as
this was a stacked Boston College team. The tier one
outcome point per game player with average bash. That's say,
if Gabe can land a top six role, the points
upsides there average bash from the shot in block totals,
not from the hits. Median outcome the sixty five to
seventy five points, says Craig. If the offense doesn't translate
to the extreme level at the pros, we could still
see a very good fantasy asset stylistic comparable as Zach
Hyman went around the net and has that kind of
ability to finish. Gabe Perro up against one of the
top picks in this year draft, Beckett, Senec and Paro
with the win fifty two to forty eight Victor, what
do you have to say?
Speaker 4: I do think this is pretty close. Actually, Pro with
the massive upside, and he's already shown in college that
he's been pretty great. Although we have not seen that
much of Beckett, he was a big riser and I
think he's still his potential is still just being scratched.
I think he has a ton of upside and his
size and skill combination could make him a pretty unique player.
So I think that I probably would go Seneca just
because of the high draft pedigree as well, and the
system there in Anaheim seems to do a little bit
better with their prospects, and I think he's still on
trending up. I think there's more potential there than what
we've seen. Although I really do love Pro and I
do think that he's going to be great. I'm just
not very convinced that the Rangers are good development system
for anyone, so that makes me a little bit worried.
But I think both these guys, I think it's actually
pretty even between the two just a year apart, and
the trajectory both seem pretty high, so you love to
see that. Looking at the hockey prospecting between these two,
it's definitely Pero forty five and forty five percent chance
of being a star, and then Seneca down at thirteen.
And that's partly because he just had a monster end
of the season, but before that it was a little
bit more modest on a Oshawa general team that wasn't
really going anywhere until things turned around, So you love
to see that. Looking at Perro's other comps, there's a
lot of interesting comps in here. He's got Yuri Hudler
Sam Gane who are pretty good players, and then Pavel
Burrey and Yarma Yager, who knows. I don't know that
he has quite that upside, but that would be pretty
incredible if he could reach those superstar heights. Looking at
the j Fresh card for pro, forty eight percent chance
of being a star ninety seven percent chance of being
an NHL are crazy high numbers for the Jay Fresh model,
which is usually pretty pessimistic, so you love to see
that for Proro, and he's definitely an exciting prospect. I
just think that some of the all around game might
be a bit of a question for him, and we'll
be interesting to see how he plays away from Will
Smith and his transition to pro hockey when it does happen,
probably next season, will be pretty important as well.
Speaker 2: Who's next Jesse Victor Next is going to be the
need to know prospect. Who is it that's going to be?
Speaker 4: Brennan Othman twenty twenty one, sixteenth overall pick by the Rangers,
six foot zero, one hundred and eighty one pounds, left shot,
left wing. It was his first professional season after a
strong OHL career, and he had forty nine points in
sixty seven games for the Hartford wolf Pack of the AHL,
five points to ten HL playoff games, and he did
get into three NHL games this season. I think he
will be competing for a job in the NHL during
training camp. We'll have to see. Not sure that he
will make it, probably be back in the AHL, but
it's possible that he earns a role. Looking at his
FHL player card, you can clearly tell that one of
the biggest things for Authman is his hits. His hits
per sixty are elite ninetieth percentile. He also shoots a
lot about the the same amount ninetieth percentile. His blocks
are average, so overall his bash gives him a super
high floor at ninetieth percentile. He also takes a lot
of pymns if you're into that kind of thing, which
show up as negative on our card. Looking at goals
and assists, he's more in the seventieth and eightieh percentile
on the AHL, which is pretty good considering he was
twenty for most of the season or part of the season.
It's overall pretty good there for benan Authman. But let's
hear a little bit more about Benan Authman from our
rigial scout at.
Speaker 2: HL Scout, Tim says this of Brendan Authen. The skating
is generally a strong component of his game, with speed
and agility being standout attributes. Needs to work on the
explosiveness of the first step to get to the next level.
Passing accuracy as Offman's significant strength, whether it's short, quick
passes in tight spaces or long, cross eyed speeds. He
consistently puts the puck where it needs to be. Stick
handling is impressive, particularly in one on one situations. He
can beat defenders with skilled moves at times, though he
can try to do too much on his own rather
than making the simpler play. Shooting, Affman has a large
arsenal of shots that he can use effectively. Slap shot
and wrist shot are powerful and accurate. He excels at
shooting in stride. He can fire off either foot, using
his speed and release to create deceptive, high danger scoring opportunities.
IQ revision. Aufman's ability to anticipate plays, makes smart decisions,
and adapt to different situations makes him a well rounded
and dangerous forward. He sees the ice well, he anticipates
the play. At times, he can rush the play instead
of slowing it down and waiting for a better opportunity.
The fore checking relentless fore checking is a key component
of Aufman's game, characterized by speed, aggressiveness, and smart positioning,
and the defense defensive game solid shows potential, particularly given
that strong hockey IQ work ethic willingness to contribute in
all areas of the ice, While there are areas for improvement,
particularly in terms of physical strength, consistency and risk management.
Best asset, his combination of a quick release, accuracy, and
the power behind his shots makes him a natural score.
The biggest concern risk management. He needs to slow down
the play at times. Top tier outcome sixty to seventy
points with elite bash. The elite shots keep him high
in the lineup, help him put up respectable points, while
high number of hits and shots will keep his bash high.
Tier three fifty to sixty points with average above average
bash that's his rush game could suffer the top levels,
which would limit his point output and stylistic comparable Brandon
side Aufman is a highly promising young forward with a
well rounded skill set and significant potential. Yeah, Tim, I'm
ready to run through a wall for this guy. This
sounds like a great prospect. Brandan Aufman versus Demitri Vveronkov,
a guy who made an impact for the Columbus Blue
Jackets last year, off way out in the lead fifty
nine to forty one. What do you say, Victor, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it's interesting. Obviously, you have a guy playing
in the NHL versus a guy trying to break in,
so that always makes it a little bit tricky. I
think that I probably would go with Vronkoff. Frankly, I
think if you had asked me last year, it would
have been easily Othman, but what we've seen from Vronkov
and the potential to maybe build on that strong season
in the NHL, I think that I would have to
go him. I'm also a little concerned about Athman in
the sense that Will Cooley basically passed him on the
depth chart, and they provide a similar style of play, physical, hard,
nos can provide some scoring, but tough kind of guy,
and obviously we have Matt Rempi there too to just
fight everybody. So I'm not sure how much the Rangers
need his skill set, and that worries me a little bit.
But I do still like Authman, and I think that
he can provide a little bit more scoring than either
of those two guys I just mentioned. I think it
remains to be seen if he can do more than Vronkov.
He'd have to show me a lot in the next
season or two to prove that, so I would go
verronkof for the security. I'm not sure that the upside
is super high for Varon Copp. I think he just
might end up being a forty to fifty point guy.
But I'm also not sure that Haffman can do better
than that, So it's similar in that range, and we've
seen the priffs be pretty decent for Varonkoff as well,
so there's a there's some floor there that's decent. He
just needs a little bit more ice time. Looking at
the hockey prospecting between these two, it's pretty pessimistic. They
both graduated the model at zero percent chance of being
a star, which is pretty awful. The NHLer probability is
also in the twenty to thirties for these two. We've
already seen Varonkov in the NHL, so obviously that's not
always one hundred percent. Looking at Authman's f J fresh card,
two percent chance of being a star, twenty five percent
chance of being an NHLer, So there's very little optimism
here for Authman. I still think that he can carve
out a role. I just think that New York's a
really good team and they need specific roles and they
you have to really fight to earn your ice time,
and I'm not sure that he does it. So that
makes me a little bit worried. So that's it on Authman.
Speaker 2: Jesse, next victor, who is your keep your eye on prospect?
Speaker 4: Let's keep our eye on Adam Shakora and He's a
twenty twenty two second round pick by the Rangers. Five
to eleven hundred and seventy two pounds left shot, left
wing center. September seventh birthday, so super young for that draft.
And he is still, as we're recording this in August,
only nineteen years old. So he's played the last two
seeds every season basically he's played has been super young.
Eventually that will even out and catch up, but so far,
I still think it's worth mentioning he was nineteen all
season this past season in the AHL, which is a
really difficult league for a nineteen year old. He was
in Slovakia the year before that, also a difficult professional league.
Twenty three points in sixty six AHL games, again as
a nineteen year old. Did I mention that, Yeah, that
he is a teenager anyways, three points in ten HL
playoff games was pretty nice. Two points in five U
twenty World Junior Championship games, and I just wanted to
pull up to make the point. Nineteen year olds in
the AHL this past season, who who were they? How
well do they do? Shane right at the top of
the list, forty seven points in fifty nine games. Yuriy
Kulik forty five points in fifty seven games, Jokim Kamel
forty one points in sixty seven games, Marco Casper thirty
five points in seventy one games, Yvon Moroschnashenko twenty five
points in forty seven games, and then we have Shakhora
at twenty three points in sixty six games. And those
are organized in terms of points per game. In case
we're wondering, there's some other guys below that, nmech bestet
Oscar Peter certain Liam Bickley. He's in pretty good company.
All those guys above that are pretty highly rated prospects
who have the teams are invested in them and should
have a pretty big impact on the team. I'm not
sure that Shakhor is exactly in that same conversation, but
it's still pretty impressive what he's done. Looking at his
FHL player card, we see that his blocks per sixty
are really high for a forward eightieth percentile, and his
minor penalties are low, which is good in this model.
Other than that, it doesn't look super promising. His scoring
is pretty low, his shots, his hits are pretty low,
his bashes on fiftieth percentile not super exciting. Jesse, But
let's hear a little bit more about what makes Adam
traquor tick by his fatil for'm ofa tel.
Speaker 2: Scout port courtesy of Fahil Scout Jacob Adam Sikora skating
has a high motor with decent strides moving up the ice.
While not high end, he generates enough speed to maneuver
his way through the middle of the ice during transition.
He needs improvements on his acceleration and edgework, but has
shown flashes of decent cuts to make himself affectable down
low along the boards. Passing and handling a smart puck distributor,
he often makes successful breakout passes and transition. Moving the
puck quickly taped to tape, decent hands creates open space
for himself to generate scoring chances. Score is going to
need to get stronger, as there were times where he'd
get knocked off the puck easily. He can continue rounding
out his puck skills, but might have some untapped potential
offensively for shooting. Jacob says the Score has a quick
wrist shot, but didn't see much of his slap shot.
Scores a lot of goals by going to the net
looking for tips and rebounds. IQ sees the ice decently well,
but as a tendency to find himself trapped and will
turn the puck over. However, he shows flashes of great
anticipation and can read plays really well, especially when defending
for checking is relentless. He uses his stick effectively to
break up plays and isn't afraid to play physical to
knock his opponents off the puck. He'll need to become
stronger as he continues to play against bigger opponents. Defense,
this is where he succeeds best. He positions himself extremely well,
covering up gaps, blocks a ton of shots, creates turnovers
by using his stick to take away passing and shooting lanes.
So that's the best asset the defensive game. The biggest
concern the offensive upside. He really needs to continue to
work on rounding out that offensive game. So the top
tier outcome is going to be a middle sixth center.
The bottom outcome maybe something more like a bottom six
forward and the stylistic comparable Arturi Alechanin is Jacob's choice.
Our friend Mason Black the NHL ranking put out the poll.
Adam's Adam here is versed up against Riger Lawrence and
Adam Skora wins that one sixty one to thirty nine
percent Victor. Is that the way you stack them?
Speaker 4: I think so Regular lorenz In. Neither of these guys
I think are super exciting. But I think that I
would take the guy playing professional regular Wrens in case
you're wondering. Twenty twenty two second round pick, so similar
range as Shakora. He's a six foot two, one hundred
and ninety four pound left wing and he was playing
at the University of Denver this past season. His production
looks pretty outstanding. This past season, of course, the whole
team was great. They won the national title. They had
an amazing team thirty points in forty four games. I
don't know. I didn't watch enough games to know whether
that was really him or him just getting points by Osmosis.
I have a feeling there was certainly some him just
getting points for being on a good team, although I
don't want to penalize him for that. But the PNHL
for these two was pretty simil But I'm going to
go with the guy playing in the AHL as a
nineteen year old, So I'm going to go Shakora. I'm
going to go with the people here, and I think
that's that's a better bet, although neither of them I
think are super exciting and none of them are league winners.
Looking at the hockey prospecting between the two, Shakora started
at thirty three percent chance of being a star. He's
trended down to just four percent chance, and Lorenz at
zero percent. Essentially, both these guys have trended down. Looking
at some other comps for Shakora, there aren't a whole
lot that looks super exciting. I did pull up a
recard Raquel, who actually looked pretty similar. Quel had pretty
low equivalency. People probably don't remember that, but he did
not look like he was going to be a pretty
competent NHL or that he's turned out to be. So
maybe Shaquora can be that that would be a good
outcome for him. Looking at the j fresh card, one
percent chance of being a star, six percent chance of
being an NHL are all pretty pessimistic, and he's someone
in a deep league that I'd be interested in. But
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