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Speaker 2: Very good and we'll be right back after this to
talk Carolina Hurricanes. We welcome to the show. Ryan Hinkel
from The Hockey News talking to us about those Carolina Hurricanes.
How you doing today, Ryan?
Speaker 5: Oh good? How you doing?
Speaker 2: Guys doing great? Doing great? Ready to talk Kings. You
know what, They had another great regular season. For the
third straight year, the Carolina Hurricanes allowed the fewest shots against.
Like several of the playoff teams we've discussed, they feasted
at that All Star break when some of the bottom
feeders sold off. They were twenty eight to fifteen and
five before the deadline, twenty four eight and two after
the deadline, finishing with the third most standing points in
the NHL after the dust all settled. Three of their
top eight scorers are gone next year and not part
of this preview toylet Terevine and Brady Shay and Stefan Noisen,
as well as the prize deadline addition, Jake Gensel. We'll
talk further about the guys coming in behind because there
are reinforcements on the way. They lost three straight in
the second run of the playoffs two and overtime and
scrapped back to an overall four to two loss. They
won two straight before losing that series. The Kings keep
hitting a ceiling every year. I hate to say it
is this the year though, Ryan, Do you think they
can push over the top.
Speaker 5: I think always the goal is just to make the playoffs,
and you always say anything can happen. Goalie can get hot,
things can get crazy. But I will say this year's
roster is a step down from last year's roster. No
matter what you look at it, this is not as
good of a team as they had last year. And hey,
you can still win with out of the rest. I
think the tam Bay Lightning had that crazy year, won everything,
got swapped by Columbus, but then they came back and
found a way to do it. So things can happen.
But this is definitely a step back team. Could they
win it, sure? I think, and making the playoffs is
always just the first step. And when you have a
lot of still young depth talent and you can still
have some good runs in.
Speaker 2: You outstanding it starts. This team starts for discussion purposes,
with Sebastian Ah. He is the star driving his team
and in his prime scored a team leading career high
eighty nine points seventy eight games, takes three shots a game.
He got himself a nice raise, not the normal thing
or not a frequent thing anyway, shall we see, shall
we say in Carolina got himself a nice raise nine
point seventy five million a year until he's thirty five
years old. Now the Keynes will get that coveted long
term deal for certainty in a presumably rising cap. So
sometimes they'd want that longer term because as you get
to the end of that, maybe that'll be more of
a bargain. Aho has played reliably for eight years. He
now signs on for eight more. And he got married
this week too, just newly. What to the theme of
the day, Ryan Sebastianaho on Instagram. On instad he's got
pictures of getting married, so good for him. He got
art Selky and Lady bing Volts last year. Everything is
coming up a hood. Do you see Aho remaining at
this kind of all star level Ryan for another year
and continuing with this more than point per game pays.
Speaker 5: I think this is the expassional Aho we can't expect
to see. I think anything less than this raising question mark.
This is a guy arguably a top ten center in
the league, ten to fifteen center, and it's this guy
who plays a complete competitive game, two way game. He
plays hard defense, back checks, he four checks, he's on
the penalty killers, on the power play like he's a
guy who's just doing it all. And this is a guy,
like you said, he's been getting better and better. He's
been improving every year. And it's while his numbers maybe
incrementally getting better, his whole game is just getting the
world's and worlds better. And when the whole game comes
easy to you, things like points in that start coming
much more easier to I think this is a guy
that we're going to see continue to take those steps
even without they lose Jay Gnzel, who was like almost
a perfect compliment alongside him for a bit in the playoffs.
But you'll still have a healthy Setchnikov, who should be
fully recovered from that ACL surgery. You'll have eventually signed
Seth Jarvis next to him. You'll have good players next
to him that can keep him and elevate his game
even more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of Andres Vechinikov, he's the next guy we're
gonna discuss. After being pretty healthy for the first four
years of his career, Svechnikov has battled injuries in both
of the past two years. A torn ACL in March
delayed the start of his season in March twenty twenty
three delayed the start of this season, and he missed
other stretches to upper body injuries throughout the year. He
maintained a near point per game pace in the regular
season and again in the playoffs. Shot ray was down
about a shot per game, though he's still outstanding in hits. Leagues.
We love seeing Andre's vetch Nikov throwing two hits per game.
Are we simply a run of good health away from
seeing a fully operational andres vetching to CoV putting up
a monster ninety point season, or should we just be
happy at the player we have right now, which is
a really excellent top line winger.
Speaker 5: I'm willing to I'm one of the ones willing to
bet that there's so much more for sveetching up to give.
I think he's fully capable of unlocking it himself. Like
you said, he's coming off that ACL injury and he's
still nearly a point per game. Player, And it's not
easy to come off an ACL tear most players, it
takes even if they're back within eight or so months,
it still takes another year. So to fully feel comfortable,
to feel right when you're pushing off, when you're skating,
it's not the easiest thing to come back from. And
I think the other injuries, it's like things he got
cross checked in the ribs and he got kind of
the boards, took an awkward hit. It's the ones that
maybe I would say indrey prone but unlucky circumstances sometimes.
But I think with this ACL recovering being where it is,
I think we're gonna see Svencherkov take another step forward
as a complete player. He's just a guy again, the
young guy you wouldn't know looking at him, dude to
an absolute monster, as you said, lays the body like
almost nobody else in the league kids, unreal muscle talent.
But I think this is a guy that I could
definitely see taking another step by seventy five point season
should be the norm for him player. The way he's
able to play the game, the way he's able to
control the puck, control his body, we should be seventy point.
Speaker 4: Two, Yes we should, and maybe even the next guy,
because Seth Jarvis is the next guy we're gonna talk about.
And he hit his breakout this season, finally nearly doubling
his point pace from last year and his season he
went from thirty nine up to sixty eight, only missed
one game, his time on ice went up by a
couple of minutes, and got an even greater share of
that coveted power play time on ice. He had more
power play points this season than he had in the
previous two combined. All in all, it was great. So, Ryan,
what do you think Jarvis can do now? Can he
reach even greater heights, closer to point per game, or
what do you think next season has a store for him.
Speaker 5: I'm really excited to see cept Jarvis this year because
he did all of this, like you said, thirty plus
thirty goals, sixty plus points on a torn laboring and
torn rotator cuff that he suffered in November. He had
been playing with a torn laborer rotor cuff from November
on through the entire season, and set these monster career
eyes and so I'm just really excited to see if
he's healthily recovered what he is fully capable of, because
that is insane to me just to think of what
he was able to accomplish with those injuries. This good
kid is just an unstoppable engine. He's everything on like
in the media or whatnot of him being a goofball
in the locker room or on the ice. It's all true. Kids,
He's so funny and he's a really good guy too.
He's just a lovable goofball. Run the ice, ultra competitive.
He's never giving up on a back check or a
ford check. He's a smaller guy in the league. He's
out obviously a shorter stature dude. You go see him
out there in the corners like Victor Headman, trying to
throw the body around. He is completely unafraid of any
of the larger players in the league. He goes to
the front of the net. He's on the penalty killer's
on the power play. He's in his third NHL season,
he was top penalty killing alongside Jordan's Sault for the
Hurricane to where one of the best penalty killed teams
in the league. This kid is getting He's growing by
leaps and bounds every single game, and it's crazy to
think what he could possibly accomplish not playing on a
torn Laborman rotator cuff, which again.
Speaker 2: Insane to me what he do with that outstanding Martine Nchaz.
At press time, I believe he has not yet signed
his RFA contract, although maybe that will be the case
by the time this comes out. Those have been major
storylines the NHL offseason, some of the last things to
be settled. He's thought of as an exciting young member
of this Carolina corps, though sometimes I forget he's only
one year younger than Aho and too older than Sptchnikoff
and yes, Ricott Kinniemi. Most of Natchaz's stats were pretty
consistent with his breakthrough twenty twenty two to twenty three,
except that his surface stat of points dropped from seventy
one to fifty three. His defensive advanced stats were not great,
which is surprising on this team which always has great
possession stats driving, putting his standing points of up replacement
down quite a bit from the prior year. But he
dropped from leading the Canes and power play tom on
ice to sixth, which of course might explain some of
that loss of production. Is this last year perceived as
regression for Nachas or what do you expect from him
next year.
Speaker 5: He's such an interesting player watch because you see all
these flashes of talent. He's such a fascater Unreal stadium,
and he has this offensive blair. He can rip the puck,
he can move the buck, he's got great vision. But
it just it almost feels just like fire and ice,
like his side of play is just the antithesis like
the Carolina Hurricanes is style of play. He's not gonna
ford check, he's not gonna throw the body, he's not
gonna go in those corners. He's going to try to
stick handle through people rather than dump and retrieve, and
it's almos. It's frustrating to watch because you're like, you
can obviously see this player who's just uber talented, but
it's just not clicking with the way the rest of
the team lays. Because you can have all the talent
in the world, but hockey's team sport. You have to
have to go with your line. It's again, it's a
tricky thing where especially I think this year, he didn't
really have a great sentiment alongside him. Him and Ajo
have never really worked well together for whatever reason. So
happened he was playing like yes, very cocainum. He had
had a terrible season. The holds part about that he
had a really awful season. Just nothing was working for him.
Jack Drury all for us good of a season as
he had in his first full year, He's still not
really a great offensive player. So you have this super
talented guy, Martin Chius, but it's like, what do you
do with him? Almost? I just I'm interested to see
if he does get traded, because those rumors are always
circulating out about everywhere all the time what he's possible
to do as a player. But I think as a
Caroline a Hurricane, it's really hard for me to see
him repeating what he did in that twenty two twenty
three season. And I think the fifty sixty point threshold
as high for him. And that's only if I think
someone like Drurry or Kokonami bounces up and has a
really good offensive year alongside him, because I just don't
know how much Natures can do on his own and
not playing their way. The Hurricanes play as.
Speaker 2: A team, Yeah, And now we're getting to that group
of the next forwards on this Carolina team. Jack Rosslovich
is a new import of intrigue. Going into his eighth
season in the NHL, He's on his fourth team, a
modest one year deal to come in. Last year he
was pretty good and in the time he played, luckily
for him, he was next to Chris Kreider and mika's
Avanta Dad. He even notched two assists in the game
that eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes from the playoffs. Maybe that
was part of the reason they signed for him. Who knows,
he's cruising for his more familiar bottom six role next year.
Where is Rastlovichkinna fitted this team and you think he
could get at least maybe a half point per game
type of production.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I've never been a huge fan of
the player. I think he's got a reputation where he's
almost forced into the role to play like a higher
center position, because there's just the teams he was on
never kind of have the talent and he was forced
into those roles. But even then he never flourished with opportunity.
I think, like over his career he's average like ten
goals in twenty points per season. I mean, it's a
guy he's got flashes. You see the passing talent, like
here and there. The skating ability, You're like, there could
be some than here, But eight seasons in the NHL,
you're expecting put it together a little bit more, especially
with the opportunities he's gotten at times in Columbus or
in Winnipeg. I don't know how much better it would
be in Carolina because I think he's I think it
would be, like you said, a bottom six role for him,
A guy is if you're gonna fillut your bottom six,
you want to have players that could play elevated in
the lineup, guys that are just not borderline grinders. So
I think Roslav because the talent to be a middle
six player potentially. But there's like points, like you said,
I don't know, I don't see I don't see a
really productive season out of him in Carolina. Now I've
never seen that from the player. I just don't think
it'll quite click here. If it hasn't clicked in his opportunities,
is that elsewhere?
Speaker 2: We probably could have thrown Rastlovich into this bucket, But
let's throw some of the other veteran returners into a
bucket here and see who you think is going to
have the best year out of them. We got Jordan Martinook.
We got Jordan Stall of course is a very good
real world player and longtime veteran Jack Drewy and yes
Berry kak Kanyemi. You already mentioned Drury and kat Kanyemi.
Probably not your favorite of players coming in or not
the players you expect the greatest things from. But given
those four, who do you think might have the best
season that is are just fun?
Speaker 5: If we were talking about, like you said, like the fantasy,
the points and all that he's going to produce, I
think you have to. I think you have to bet
on You have to bet almost low on Cocainami is.
You can't get worse than what he just did in
that season. And because Jordan Stall you're getting, it's you're
not getting. You're not going to get more than fourteen
goals thirty five points is pushing it for him. Same
with Jordan Mardoch. I think Jordan Monok's a great player,
but it's a doubble diede of goals around ten to
thirteen thirty points. That's what you're expecting out of them
every single season. What they do well is consistency, and
I don't think you can expect much more out of
that jectory is an interesting case. I think he's a
player that there's still more to give, but he's also
I think twenty three now, he's he's an older guy's
he bounced around. He played in Sweden and then he
went to the HL and then working into Carolina, so
he's not necessarily a young guy. But I think there's
still room for him to develop a little more. I
think he played well a source full season. He's good defensively,
and I think the offense can come a little bit more.
But again, I think if you're gonna look at that
and you can be like you gotta pick one to
outproduce everybody, I'm like Colcamy has the talent to be better.
It's and like I said, I can't get worse than
it was. It cannot get worse. And now he played
last season, if he gets the opportunity again, if Rod says, hey,
it was a bad season last year, shake it off,
try to come back, do a little bit better this year.
Because he was really good along there, especially Coffin Martin
his tes ago, he was one of Carolina's top producers
in the second half of that season. He was super,
super consistent, really putting up points. But it's again one
of those things sometimes and it just doesn't go. Guys
script their sticks, the confidence goes, and I think if
he can come into a fresh mindset, I'll take the risk.
I take the big risk, knowing that really very well backfire.
But I would say, Cocainyammy, I do expect him to
be better than he was.
Speaker 4: Fairly all right. A couple of the young guys I
wanted to ask you about Bradley Nadeau, Jackson Blake, and
both of these guys got one game at the end
of the season. Jackson Blake a little bit older and
he's had a stellar career at North Dakota and Bradley
Nadeau a little bit younger, he's still nineteen and had
a really great first season and Maine. Do you think
either of these guys makes the roster and has an
impact for the NHL team this year?
Speaker 5: Are they destined for maybe the AHL?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: I think, like grappling left two, trying to figure out this, Well,
you said, just really, Ubertald the kid like Nadou May
making the jump from the BHL to college hockey, producing
as well as he did as a rupie. He is
almost unheard of guts an insane jumping talent level and
to be is to do as because he did, kids
got a great shot up, tempo play. I could see
it again. Jackson Blake similar kind of had a huge
season at the University of North Dakota. This season was
a Hobie Baker finalist sixty point season. Similar kind of
game just for check hard, go to the net. Does
it all both these players. Because Eric Tolski in his
I can't remember which presser was one of his most
recent pressors, he talked about how the team was gonna
need younger guys to step up. Whether he's referring to
kind of guys like Cocaine a mayor Drewy flaking bigger roles,
or guys like Nido and Blake coming in and filling
those roster spots. It's a natural progression. It's got to come.
I would personally think that potentially they'll need at least
half a season with maturing in the AHL, just figuring
out the more of an adult game that comes along.
Could they make though out of training camp, I do
think there's still a middle six winger bought open for
the Hurricanes coming into training camp. I think the big
question mark they're still I could see one of the
two of them making a real run for it, depending
on how training camp goes, how preseason goes, because the
Kaines need somebody filled those roster spots. They need these
young guys to start taking those next steps. It's got
to happen, and it's gotta happen soon. Another guy that
I would mention is Felix unger sorom Swedish kid played
with Lexan this year and also made the World Championship roster.
All play two games with them, but he was on
the World Championship roster with all the other NHL players.
His an eighteen year old kid who's been making impressions.
He was one of the final cuts for the Hurricanes
last preseason. Another guy I would say is Ryan Suzuki,
who has been maturing the AHL a couple of seasons now.
He had bad health, bad health, run ins injury luck
for multiple seasons, but he's had two really consistent seasons
in the AHL. Two way guy. I could see if
the Hurricanes get injury and Cetter position, I could see
him getting the call up and finally potentially getting his
shot that he hasn't had either, but circling back, I
think Nado Blaker saw him. I could see either one
of those potentially making the run out of training camp,
but I could see I would more likely think about
maybe half of the season of maturing in the AHL
at the very least, and then maybe getting the call
up running with Let's.
Speaker 2: Move over to the blue line, and we're gonna start
with Shane gostas Bear, the journeyman defenseman who comes into
this team. He's got power play skills, will travel. That's
his motto. In Detroit, he not only led defenseman in scoring,
his twenty seven power play assists tied for ninth in
the NHL. And for those not paying attention, this is
his second tour in Carolina, following a trade deadline trade
the year before that saw him end of season in Black,
Redd and white. His twenty three regular season in fifteen
playoff games with Carolina were probably the least productive stretch
of his career, but he probably also got a smaller
role when he was there than he has at other times.
I should say those fifteen playoff games YEA in Carolina
represents fifteen of his career thirty two playoff appearances and
several years of nine years of NHL action. Do we
expect a bigger role than last time from Shee and
grossaspeer this time in Carolina? Could he get any power
play one time? Maybe fifty points season? What do you
think for him?
Speaker 5: That'd be another It's another interesting one because the Hurricanes
are so loaded on the left hand side with Slavin
and Orlov. But like you said, Gossip Sperre is a
guy who's a really strong powerplay contributor, and he's the
guy who's familiar with the Hurricanes. Red Burns is a
guy as a Hall of Fame career, and as good
as he has been, he is definitely slowing down his
second half of last season. Yeah, you could definitely tell
that this still a good player. He was not quite
an elite player they have expected from him over his
entire VON career. So I could see a guy like
gossas Bear maybe filling in that. Brady shay Roll who's
for Carolina, who's a really good player, produced well playing
in that then second pairing got power play time swapped
with Burns of times to get the first pathleay in it.
I could see Gosap Spered doing a similar thing because again,
this guy, this guy knows how to score it, know
how to put up points, and that's a big thing
of the NHL. You need guys that can do that.
It's interesting because I'm like, the Hurricanes are a team
that love to keep their consistent pairings. You will hardly
ever see them shake up. The deep pairs or off
in Chatfield are really comfortable together. Slateon Burns are really
comfortable together. Of Walker Gossip's spare doesn't work out, you
can see them just moving. But I would expect them
to have maybe second third pair of minutes. I don't know,
hard to say, but yeah, as a guy that I
could think would get power play time, but I don't
know how much five and five ice time if you
outpaced the other guys. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 4: And the aforementioned bren Burns is who we're going to
talk about now. The fact that we're still talking about
Beren Burns as a major contributor to an NHL team
twenty years after he was drafted is pretty incredible. His
first season in Carolina went was great, twenty three minute
time on I sixty one point pace to go with
lots of shots. This past season he lost almost two
minutes of time on ice, but he still led the team,
which is crazy. He'll be forty this season. I'm not
really sure what to expect me. You said, I've seen
this too. He's slowed down quite a bit from his
previous year's. The time on ice is trending down but
still very high, and he's still getting a very large
that he's getting the largest share of the power play time.
So do you think that's going to continue? What kind
of time on ice and power play role in point
pase do you think we can expect from Brent Burns
this season?
Speaker 5: It'll be I think the Canes it's gonna be like
a waiting period to see how much gossip Sparan Walker
can click because there was a seven thing Rod ben
Moore and his one of his recent interviews talking about
all the guys they lost. He's like, maybe it's the
season where Jacob Slaven's going to play more three more
minutes than he's used to. So whoever plays alongside Slaven
will be getting those big minutes. And as we said,
it's been Burns for a while. But it's interesting because,
like he said, his time on ice is trending down
his shots on goal this season. This is a stat
that I kept going back to and just being astounded by.
He only had one hundred and eighty five shots on
gold this season, which is considerably less than any seas
he's a prior to this. He's three hundred plus shot
guy consistently, and it's this is a guy who usually
is known for being able to get pucks of the net,
just wasn't being able to get pucks of the net.
As he said, father time is the full time catching
up is he changes his waist playing who knows, but
it's a less it's the less dominant bred burns than
we're used to seeing, and that's to be expected from
a thirty nine four year old player. It's also unheard
of that guys that's older, I push you as well,
Big do putting up double digit goals forty point season
the usually I would say never happened, but yeah, I
would can expect. Maybe it's time an ice to continue
trending down. If we can see a guy like Costa
spe Walker really click with the team, I could see
it maybe getting a little bit of that defensive pair shuffling,
maybe getting time on ice with Slaven and getting more
of a run. It all depends on how Burns continues
to look. Is he gonna is he gonna is this
long rest gonna be beneficial for him? Is he gonna
be able to get back up the level he's at,
or is he just gonna be, you know, time catching
up to one of the one of the league's best
players of all time. But a guy that's forty is
not an easy age splay hockey yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about that. There are several other prominent
defensemen on this team. They're probably more prominent from a
real war perspective where there's a lot of goodness to
them than they are from a fantasy perspective. Necessarily a
Jacob Slavin you mentioned, Sean Walker, newly arrived Dmitri orloff Old,
Capital's veteran. These three guys are all quite legit. They're
all very strong defensemen who probably aren't going to put
up a whole ton of points, although they're going to
make a huge impact for the team on the defensive end.
Who do you think maybe will have the best offensive
season of these three?
Speaker 5: Brian, I would still go with Slavin because he's just
gonna be getting such a huge bulk of time on ice.
Is a guy who's gonna be He's gonna be the
first pairing guy. It's gonna be your number one defenseman,
no matter who he's playing alongside and whether it's Bred
Burn like I said, Jane Shutting, got spare Sean Walker.
He's going to be alongside them, playing the big minutes
with the big guys, Aho Steps Cop Jarvis. So I
would expect Flavian to be able to keep consistently getting
thirty five, even maybe pushing forty points depending on how
well his partners do. But I would say Sean Walker
had a good season in Philly and Colorado this year,
but he's not a point put rapper really. So far
throughout his career he hasn't had super big point guy.
Orlov is an interesting one. I would think Orlove would
be more productive this year than he was last year.
This guy, I think he hit the crossbar eight times,
no joke, throughout the season, and it's so close to
scoring so many goals and it's insane because shot is
a massive cannon. This guy actually a Lowe's and it's
he It's Carolina is a hard team to adapt to
as a defenseman. We've seen it for years, Dougie Hamilton,
Jake Gardner, Brady Shay. Every time these offensive guys would
come in, it takes them think it's a good while
to figure out the hurricane system. But then once they do,
it clicks and they're often running. So like a guy
like Sean Walker, maybe works and clicks. But again part
to say, but like for Orloff, maybe this is the
he had the period of I need to figure out
how to pack herre on Hurricane Tuckey. Now it's second nature,
it's gonna click. I'm gonna take them running. Who's one
I would say, Slaven what Orloff potential potential? Is there
to be a double digit scorer once again? I really
think so?
Speaker 4: One of the really young defensemen. Obviously everyone's excited about Nikishin,
but we're gonna have to wait on that one. It
seems at least one more year. But Scott Morrow is
another guy who has been really excellent at UMass since
being drafted out of high school, and he got a
couple of games with Carolina last year. He feels like
he's pretty NH already. He didn't seem too terribly out
of place at times in that role. Do you think
that there's any world where Scott Morrow gets a role
this year or are we still a year or maybe
a mid season call up away from that.
Speaker 5: I think it's still waiting period. I don't think Caroline
is a team that is really okay with letting their
prospects develop immature. I don't think they really want to
rush anybody up if they don't have to. Brandamore is
a really big proponent of that. He doesn't want to
put guys in position to not succeed, and so I
think Morrow getting a full season in the AHL to
be the number one power play guy, to be their
number one really mature into that role, I think will
be really beneficial for him. But like I said, barring
any long term serious injuries, I don't see us really
a significant usage of him or a role from with
the team this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's fair.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: Let's move on to the goalies.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Carolina ranked third and expected goals against per sixty, but
conceded the seventh ranked actual goals, so they were a
little bit below expected as you can tell there. Obviously,
there was some issues with health wise for Freddy at
the beginning. He ended up playing sixteen games, could Checkkov
forty two and Spencer Martin into playing nineteen. Overall, Anderston
had definitely had the best goalsa but expected at six
point eight to seven, but he also didn't play that
many games, and Kochekhov, who played the most, had the
most negative goals save above expected. Freddy's now thirty four,
he makes the most at three point four million last
year before he's at UFA and mentioned having the some
of the best stats on a smaller issue in a
smaller sample size Kotchekov, but he played a lot of
games two three more seasons at two million, so it's
not that far off from or Freddy's making. Spencer Martin
played six Not sure how much he factors in there. So, Ryan,
what do you think we can expect this season for
the Kins goalies? How many stars do you think they
each get? Is Kochekhov going to have the majority of
the starts again or are they going to go back
to Anderson? What are we thinking?
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be like a really true
one a one bat situation. I think we're going to
see them pretty much alternate every other game. The Hurricanes
have been doing this for years now. They really the
alternating goalie. They were doing it like with one of
the rybern ad Elgebik when it was Barazak, Maclay was
Ratza Anderson. They love going back and forth between guys,
and like I said at the end, when Ederson came
back from his health issues from the blood clotting issues
he'd suffered back in November, him in Kochkow literally went
game for game. It was Freddy got a game of Cutcho,
Freddy got a game, and they went all the way
into the postseason, where then Freddy got the rings took
over from there. I would really expect to see that
almost again. Maybe you ride a guy too three games
in a row. If he's really going good, I'll shut
out really big game. But Carolina is really hesitanting about
overworking goaltenders because but whatever it is, it's almost a
little bit of a curse in Carolina goalie injuries. It's
been unreal for a while now. But I think they're
going to be banning on I Henderson to be able
to with a full season of recovery and conditioning under him,
to be able to go that half the season mark.
With Kochikov going back and forth between them so long
as they can stay healthy, which is obviously not a
given for goaltenders in Carolina, never has been. But I
think the expectation would be for them pretty much evenly
split the load.
Speaker 4: Okay, even just you said one A and B. I
was just wondering, if you had a thought of who
is leaning towards the A.
Speaker 5: I would still say I think Brenda more is more
leaning towards the veterans, like Anderson as we saw in
the postseason. I think if they were to have a guy,
who would still be Anderson until Kotchkov can prove beyond
a shadow of the doubt that he is. Granted, if
if Anderson has a really bad run and Kachkov is
really great riding Witch, but I think out of the
gate there's Anderson is their guy. They believe in Anderson.
There's a really big mentality of hey, we brought you
in to be the guy, We're gonna let you be
the guide. I think it'll still be leaning towards Katerson.
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Oh my goodness, ro Wong with a cat what gram?
Now it's your wingley goalie talk. But Kat Silverman Cat's instincts.
Speaker 4: Time once again for Kat's instincts with Cat Silverman of
NGL MAG, we're talking Kine's goalies, and we're gonna start
with Ruslan Kaziyev. He was a twenty twenty three fifth
round pick six four one pounds. Last year we talked
about how it was silly that he was in the
MHL because he should have at least gotten some VHL time.
Funny story about that he got one VHL game and
then dominated the MHL some more. So I'm not sure
if we learn anything new Kat. His equivalency still looks
really high in this system, but it's all based on
MHL time, which I'm always a little skeptical of because
of that league being so weird. He's got some compso
that are pretty decent. One of them is Nikolai Haabibulin,
but his equivalency was based on his KHL time, so
I'm not sure how app that is he. What are
you in Stan tell us about Kaziyev?
Speaker 6: Kat, I'm I was curious about why he stayed in
the MHL, but this past year I did notice that
he has signed his entry level deal with the Hurricanes,
so there's a chance that he might be coming over.
I do know that there's a quote from their GM
saying that he had a strong junior career in Russian.
We're excited to see him transition to the pro level
in North America. So I wonder if he's going to
be making his way over to start in the AHL
instead of getting VHL and KHL time and then making
his way over.
Speaker 3: Which should be fun.
Speaker 6: I think the Hurricanes are a team that we've talked
about a couple teams making some really really interesting choices
when it comes to who they have in their goaltending system,
because it seems like they add guys.
Speaker 3: When they don't need to.
Speaker 6: Carolina is a team that I think absolutely needs to
because they've been writing, for lack of a nicer term,
they've been writing some ag goaltenders for too long now,
and their prospect system has been very plentiful in terms
of volume, but not necessarily in terms of quality. They've
had a lot of c rate prospects for goaltenders.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think.
Speaker 6: I'm excited to see I'm assuming he's coming to North
America this year, and so we'll probably get to see
him at the AHL level and I'd love to see
what he can do in North America. Some of the
few clips I was able to find on him, he
plays a game that looks pretty controlled, so it should
be fun to see what happens when essentially he's not
a guy who should be playing at a higher level
playing against kids, because that's what's been happening the last
couple of years here. He's been someone who had no
business playing at these lower levels, who has been playing
at the lower level.
Speaker 3: So it would be almost like if we were not.
Speaker 6: Quite like watching someone like Connor McDavid playing in the
BHL instead of the OHL. I that's not quite like that,
but it did seem a little bit like we were
seeing someone who should have made a higher leap staying
in a lower quality of competition.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 6: Carolina has to figure something out with their prospect system soon, right,
So maybe this is who they're maybe this is who
they're going to hinge on.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 4: You described it as quantity over quality, and I think
that explains their entire prospect system, not just their goalies,
but they just have They got a lot of guys
and it's funny how a lot of people think that
it means that they have a strong system, and I
don't know that I agree with that because they don't
have necessarily the top guys. They just have a lot
of guys that are decent, and that's that doesn't really
necessarily help.
Speaker 5: So we'll see.
Speaker 4: But I think Kaziyev could be the exception here, depends
on how he does in North America. As you suggested,
Let's talk about the other guy, Yanna Peretz, undrafted six
to one and one pounds, signed by Carolina one National
championship with Quinnipiac in the previous season. Last season, he
had one NHL appearance, but he was mostly with the
ECCHL Norfolk Admirals, and he struggled a bit. Save percentage
under eight ninety. He had a two point nine i GPA,
so just under three but pretty close. So his hockey
prospecting is pretty low down in the ten percent range.
So I don't know if you can tell us anything
about Pretz. Has your perspective change or is there anyone
else that is maybe better than him that we should discuss.
Speaker 6: Oh, Like I said, I think their whole system is
honestly a lot of sea range prospects there. Quinnipiac is
a fun team at the collegiate level because they do
tend to prioritize giving their goaltenders good development, good morale.
I know a couple of the prior goaltenders from Quinnipiac,
and no one has gone there and had a bad
thing to say about being a goalie there, which isn't
ass necessarily something that we can say about every NCAA system.
He didn't look amazing in his ECCHL games this year
from a numbers perspective, but the ECCHL is like when
we look at the Russian leagues, where there's such a
variance in quality of competition, we can't always count what
we see in the ECCHL as from a numbers perspective being.
Speaker 3: The be all end all. But I did look up
a couple highlights and he looked fine.
Speaker 6: He didn't look like he was having the best time,
but he didn't look like he was having the worst
time either.
Speaker 3: I don't know their system's really it's there, it's a system.
Speaker 6: I truly don't have anything bad to say about him,
because I didn't watch him play and think, oh, this
guy really needs to tighten up his edges. This guy
needs to stop over sliding. This guy needs to figure
out his tracking. He just looked like he was there.
But I could say the same about almost all of
their prospects. They don't have anyone who's like a huge
red flag, But they don't have anyone who looks like
they're ready to step up and take over anytime soon.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think they're hoping that someone will
stand out this year. Maybe it'll be him. I don't know.
If he looked fine.
Speaker 4: Wow, the ringing endorsement there for the Carolina Cooley thinks
so much. Caffick, give me your instincts on these guys.
Speaker 2: Dig the dynasty jig pickture. There are always the Carolina
Hurricanes or the hipster system. Everybody always loves their lower picks.
They are the hit of Fantasy hockey Twitter. Who is
the no brainer? Who is just undeniable in this system?
Speaker 4: That would be Alexander Nikishin. And yeah, I feel like
the Carolina Hurricanes every time in the draft. They just
You probably had this experience in your rookie drafts where
guys are making all these weird picks and then there's
some like massive obvious pick just staring at you in
the face and you just walk up and take it.
And that feels like that's what Carolina does every year.
There's always some great prospect, usually Russian or potentially has
some other question marks about him, but tremendous upside, and
they will just take that player every time. And that's
what they've done and that's why they have such a
good system. Nikeishin was a twenty twenty third round pick,
six sixteen pounds, will be twenty three this season, one
more season with Scott Saint Pete. He's unlikely to be
let go earlier like some of the other players we've seen,
like Mitchkoff. He is the captain of SKA, so there's
no way they're letting him go. He's a really important
part of that team. He has said that he wants
to come over to North America, but we have to
wait another.
Speaker 2: Year for that.
Speaker 4: His FHL player card shows how outstanding he is. His
hits per sixty, elite shots per sixty, elite blocks per
sixty well above average, so overall he looks like he's
going to be an absolute East and Bash and his
scoring is also really high as well. He had fifty
six points in sixty seven games after fifty five and
sixty five last year, so two seasons approaching that point
per game mark. It's been pretty fantastic for Nikisha, and
you look at all his other underlying numbers and everything
looks great for him. He looks just absolutely incredible and
I'm sure fantasy gms can't wait for him to come
over so he can step into that top power play
that it seems like is going to be open for him. Certainly,
we're seeing we already talked about bren Burns kind of
sundowning and we've seen We'll see what happens with Gosta Spair,
but I'm not sure he'll be a massive hurdle or
any other guys that are on the team when Nikisha
is ready. So we're all really excited for that. But
to hear a little bit more about Nikisha, and let's
hear from our FHL.
Speaker 2: Scout Scouting report today from our FAHL Scout tim for
nikishin skating, powerful stride, strong balance and stability that facilitates
excellent speed both in straight lines and in his overall
mobility on the ice. Strong edgework makes him incredibly effective
at avoiding four checkers. Very efficient with his skating head
up looking for the long outlet pass, which was delivered
with pace and accuracy. Used one touch pass regularly to
quickly move the puck to the teammates, so passing and handling,
he remains composed with a puck, not rushing plays, instead
waiting for the right moment to make a pass or
take a shot. Shooting has a cannon of the slap
shot one timer, but does not relieve it and release
it as often as Tim would like. He would often
use a risk shot to get the puck to the net.
On a couple of occasions, took low percentage shots after
skating the puck deep into the zone on the wing
when better options were available. Iq ability to anticipate the
opponent's moves allows him to react quickly and make smart decisions,
whether it's stepping up to challenge a forward or dropping
back to cover a potential threat. Exhibits excellent defensive positioning,
always seeming to be in the right plays, Incredibly poised
with the puck, will draw four checkers in before making
beautiful outlet passes, creating space for teammates for checking. Regularly
fell back into a defensive posture to allow us forwards
the freedom to stay strong on the puck, stood up
players trying to enter the zone, causing frequent turnovers. Defense
absolute playkiller anticipates encounters attacking players, stopping them in their tracks,
consistent and reliable, retrieves the puck quickly and starts effective
breakouts with smart passes, uses his size and strength to
separate opponents from the puck, and excellent stick work. So
the best asset here was the defensive awareness and positioning,
which allows them to be highly effective in shutting down
opposing forwards, maintaining solid defensive coverage, and making smart plays
under pressure. The biggest concern was that shot selection would
like to see more bombs from the point and avoid
shots into the side of the net from deep in
the zone. Tier roll or potential is top of the
line fifty plus point scorer, and that's because he's going
to eat minutes at an NHL level, has the tools
envisioned to quarterback of power play, and he'll rack up hits,
shots and blocks. On top of that. The median outcome
thirty plus point score with above average or elite bash
that's what happens when he still eats minutes, but the
production doesn't suffer or suffers because he's not afforded the
top power play or he's used in a more shut
down roll. The stylist and comparable here Victor Hedman an
excellent skating, strong physical play, smart decision making with a puck,
can play in all three zones and overall. Tim says
any concerns about his skating that had him fall in
this drive class have long since been addressed. An absolute
stud in all facets of the game. And our friend
Mason Black, the NHL rank king, put out the pole
Alexander nikeishin versus recent number two overall picks own Nemech.
Nikishan is no match for Animach. It's fifty seven point
five to forty two point five. Victor sounds like you're
a big fan of Nikish and I don't know that
Nemach has always been your cup of tea. Which one
of these two do you like best?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely Nikkeishan better. I've always been a bit
skeptical of Nemish just in terms of how much offense
he's gonna produce. I've always thought he's a really good
all around player, and this season, we saw nineteen points
in sixty games. That's pretty good in the NHL. Obviously,
they have a lot of other options there in terms
of guys that can run the power play and do offense.
So I think that's really good for an imach and
not no complaining about his progress there. But I absolutely
am gonna go with nikish In here. I don't think
that's gonna surprise anybody. But he just has everything. He
has the bash, he has the scoring, he's got the
pro experience. I guess Nimah does have a little bit now,
but Nikishin I think just has everything that I think
is going to make him even more solid. You look
at Knemich and his blocks this season was really good
and the games played he had well over a block
per game approaching too. His hits were pretty low though,
and his shots were pretty low, and those were his
first sixty games. So I'm not sure how much we
can read into that for Nimitz, but I just think
that he's not as offensively dynamic, doesn't have quite the
qualities that Nikisha does. So I think you look at
the PNHLE right now, especially based on the Utica, and
it looks like Knimich is higher, but the KHL being
a really difficult league and him having such a strong role,
I think you got to go in Nikishin, and then
the Bash to support is just out of this world.
I'm really excited for that. Nikishin's point production looks really strong,
and I don't think there's too much to be concerned about.
You look at the hockey prospecting between the two, though,
and it is really low for Nikishin. Part of the
reason here that it looks so low is that he
had a few two three, actually really low seasons in
the KHL, and then his offensive explosion came later. So
I know in Byron's model, if that happens, it tends
not to look too favorably upon you. But I wouldn't
really worry too much about that. So Nemicch really did
have strong production in his Draft minus one and Draft season,
and then pretty good HL and NHL production, So his
star potential remains way higher eighty four percent to Nikishin
seven in this model. But I think that's a little
misleading because even though he took a while to get
to this point, he's done it two years in a row.
He's not rocking crazy, insane shooting percentages. I think Nikishin
really is the real deal, is she's just a little
bit of a late bloomer. Those do actually happen. Pretty
confident in that looking at some of the other comps
for Nikishin in the hockey prospecting but there aren't a
whole lot that turn into stars. But one of them
who looks really close to him is Chris Chelios, and
so I don't know that he'll be quite Chris Chilios level,
but that is one there are some proof of concept
guys that look like him. And this is interesting because
the Jfresh Card we typically see as a really conservative
version of these projection models, and it absolutely loves nikishon
ninety eight percent chance of being a star one hundred
percent chance of being a full time NHLer. For those
of you that listen to this show for a long time,
you know that you never see numbers like that in
the J Fresh Card. They're always super pessimistic and super
low in. But here's an example where I think it's
bang on, and I think that there really is a
lot of reasons for Evy going to be really excited
about Nikishin. So yeah, I definitely believe the j Fresh
card here more than the hockey prospecting, and I would
definitely take Nikishin pretty much over any other prospect defenseman
at this point. He's just so well rounded and so
for sure to be a top producer based on what
he's already doing in a really difficult lead.
Speaker 2: Jesse, Yes, indeed, who is your need to know prospect
for Carolina?
Speaker 4: I was also so excited about this guy I couldn't
help mentioning him earlier on this show as well, and
that is Scott Morrow twenty twenty one, fortieth overall pick
sixty two hundred ninety four pounds, right handed, D twenty two.
This season, he was drafted at the US prep school
at Shattock Saint Mary, but he's played the last three
seasons in the NCUBLEA for UMass similar production all three seasons,
even played a couple of NHL games. As I mentioned,
this season did not look out of place in the NCUBLEA.
His FHL player card shows that he shoots a ton
per sixty one of the top shooters in the NCUBLEA.
Hits were also seventieth percentile blocks fortieth percentile, so overall
he looks like a really strong basher.
Speaker 5: His goals and.
Speaker 4: Assists also look really high for this league, so overall
he looks like he could be a really strong peripheral
contributor and points contributor. You look at some of the
other underlying metrics, really good transition game, high danger chances,
and puckwork. The play driving is a little bit more
average for Morrow, but let's hear a little bit more
about Scott Moore from FHL Scout.
Speaker 2: Yes and it's Tims this time. Skating, Marrow possesses excellent
straight line speed. His agility and edgework allow him to
navigate tight spaces to avoid opponents. He's strong on his skates.
Good balance allows him to maintain control when challenged Physically
passing and handling, he makes long, accurate crisp passes both
short and long, which help transition the play and setting
up offensive opportunities. Marrow has a powerful and accurate shot
and shows very good decision making with his shot choices.
IQ A high IQ player, Marrow's vision allows him to
find teammates with precision. He displays a high level of
poise and composure when handling the puck. Doesn't rush plays
often makes smart decisions waiting for the right moment to
pass or shoot. For checking, Marrow evades four checkers well
through strength and excellent skating skills, often draws players to
him and then finds open teammates up the ice. For defense,
has very good gap control, uses his stick well. However,
at times lacks anticipation and can misread the play or
miss a switch in coverage. So the best ass set
for tomorrow, Tims says. He effortlessly completes his breakout passes,
leads the rush in his own, generates opportunities due to
his skating, but the biggest concern breakdowns and coverage. A
steady partner mentor would be a big help tomorrow at
the NHL level, So the top tier outcome fifty plus
points scorer, says Tims. That's because of the excellent offensive
skills and ability to quarterback a power play at a
high level that could have him racking up the points.
The fiftieth percentile outcome may be something like a thirty
plus point scorer with above average or elite bash. If
defensive lapses limit ice time or he's not given power
play one, the points could suffer. Stylistic comparable Dougie Hamilton
and the final thought already e lit offensive threat, upping
Marrow's physicality and defensive awareness would help him reach his
full potential. Mason Black. The NHL ranking is on a
let's compare people to New Jersey Devil's high defenseman kick
because up next at Scott Morrow versus Seamus Casey and
Casey's two zero devils Now because he wins over Scott
Morrow fifty three point six to forty six point four victor,
is that the way you order these two?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think this is funny. Every time it seems like
people are voting for the Devil's defenseman, but every time
I'm going to choose the Kines defenseman. I think that
Casey is a really interesting example, and we've seen him
do really well in a couple different situations. We saw
him perform really well in Michigan. We saw him do
well at the UA teens. I'm really curious to see
how he's going to do in the AHLO because he
is an undersized defenseman that don't that isn't as good defensively,
and we talked about that with some of the other guys.
Moro doesn't have those question marks. He's a big guy,
he's right handed d sixty two hundred and ninety four pounds,
and he really competes hard and he's really good in
his own zone, so I think he's going to have
a lot more leeway to get good opportunities. Casey, on
the other hand, needs a little bit more of a
good situation for him. Potentially a strong partner might need
to play more of a depth role. So I'm a
little skeptical that Seamus Casey can hit his pnhle of
almost ninety plus. I'm not so sure about that more.
On the other hand, I feel pretty confident he can
be closer to that fifty ish forty to fifty point
defenseman depending on the right role in situation. So I
would definitely rather have Moro. Also, Casey being in that
system with so many good offensive defensemen, I almost feel
like he needs to go somewhere else to really flourish,
and maybe New Jersey will facilitate that. We saw them
already move Alex Holtz, who had other issues. But I
don't think that they're going to be too worried about
moving players if they if they feel like it's going
to benefit them, and I think Casey is a piece
that could be appealing to some other teams. So I
definitely would rather take Moro between these two. Though when
you look at the Hockey prospecting it is actually similar.
Moro starting at nine percent and moving up to thirty
six percent chance of being a star, he looks great.
Casey has also increased his star potential, which is both
depressive for both these guys because that's usually not the
case in the Hockey prospect model tends to trend down,
but Casey up to forty one percent chance of being
a star, and the NHL are probability a little bit
higher for Casey actually seventy five percent and sixty one
for Morow. Looking at some other comps for Scott Morrow,
there's some interesting ones in here. One I think that
looks pretty similar is Josh Morrisey. I think that could
be a similar outcome. Actually, Moro's equivalencies right now looks
stronger than Morrissey's, but obviously we've seen Morrissey being a
really excellent NHL defender and more so has to prove that.
But I think that's someone that a realistic outcome of
who he could be. Similar to looking at the Jay
Fresh card, this is sort of the opposite of the
Alex ni kishin where more Jay Fresh is really skeptical
on Scott Moral just one percent chance of being a star,
forty two percent chance of being an NHLer. I find
that kind of interesting because even though he started out
in high school, he has raised his equivalency a lot
and done really well in college, and so I'm surprised
that there isn't more belief there. But forty two percent
chance of being in NHLer. I guess that's a reasonable
chance of being and and nchl are just not the
big star potential.
Speaker 5: So that's it.
Speaker 4: On Morrow, I really like him. I think a lot
of people are not giving him enough respect. I think
he's actually a really strong interesting prospect.
Speaker 2: Jesse, Yes, indeed, And we got to have at least
one forward here, Victor. Who's your keep your eye on prospect?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you might keep your eye as Bradley Nadou twenty
twenty three, thirtieth overall pick, five hundred and seventy two pounds,
right shot wing. He'll be nineteen all of this season,
really young for his draft year. May fifth is his birthdate.
He had forty five goals in fifty four games in
the BCCHL for Penticton and draft season. That scoring translated
pretty well to Maine of the NCUBLEA he had where
he had forty six points in thirty seven games, nineteen
of them being goals, just over half a goal per game.
It's pretty incredible for a very young teenager in the NCUBLEA,
not as big of a volume shooter as you would expect.
He had two point eight shots per game, which isn't
too bad, but twenty five percent shooting is cooking a
little hot. He also shot twenty one percent in Penticton
that last years. Maybe he's a guy that can rock
a pretty high shooting percentage, but he's not going to
shoot twenty five percent for his career in the NTL.
No one's ever done that, so he's going to probably
look to maybe take ten to fifteen percent off of
that and we'll see. He is a really good shooter though,
so he probably can have a little bit higher than average,
but it remains to be seen how much higher than
average is reasonable for him. Looking at Bradley Nadou's FHL
player card, all of it looks really good except for
his blocks, which are a little bit below average, but
his hits and shots are pretty good, leaving him as
a set twenty eighth percentile for bash as a total,
and his goals and assists as you would expect, are
really high. Other underlying metrics are good though a lot
of times these goal scorers, they have really poor transition
numbers and high danger and puckwork. But he's actually excellent
across the board at all this underlying metrics.
Speaker 5: So I really like to see that.
Speaker 4: But let's hear a little bit more about our fecto
about Bradley Nadae from my FRL scout Tim.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Tim says this of Bradley Nadeau skating proficient.
It's not a standout element of Nadeau's game. Passing and handling,
he excels and maintaining control of the puck and tight
spaces allowing him to maneuver around defenders create opportunities even
when under pressure. Nada's creativity allows him to make unexpected
and innovative passes, catching opponents off guard and creating high
quality scoring chances for shooting. This is where things get exciting.
Tim says, the puck explodes off of Bradley's stick. Not
only is his shot strong, but he's very deceptive with
it and quick releases and curl and drag moves to
change angles. Truly elite shooter IQ. His ability to replays
before they fully develop allows him to position himself effectively
and make excellent decisions. It often appears as though the
play is going on around him while he positions himself
in the optimal spot for an offensive chance. For checking,
no co consistently applies pressure on the opposing defenseman tries
to force turnovers. His ability to adjust his fore checking
strategy based on his opponent's style of play helps him
to be more effective and on defense, his efforts in
backchecking and ability to support defensive breakouts or positive traits.
But improving his defensive zone coverage and physicality will enhance
his overall effectiveness. So the best asset shot deceptive, accurate
in an absolute rocket. Biggest concern his physicality is limited
by his size. Top tier outcome here point per game
plus score, says Tims, and that's because his shot in
Hockey IQ give him all the tools to being a
lead scorer in the NHL. But the media outcome here
maybe something more around forty plus points score. Tidy, tighter
checking and faster pace in the NHL may limit his
ability to set up soft areas stylistic comparable Cole Kawfield
and Tim's final thought here could watch him shoot all day?
Truly a delight to watch, Yeah, Mason Black. The NHL
Rankings sent out this poll Bradley Nadeau versus Sasha Why there,
and Nadeau comes out easily ahead in this contest if
you can call well at that sixty eight to thirty
two percent victor, Is that the way you vote?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is, and this is going to be a
clean sweep for the Carolina prospects. I agreed with them
on this one with the fans and not on the
other two. But either way, I definitely like this one.
Speaker 5: I like Bab.
Speaker 4: I think he's fine, he's good, he has some really
good potential. He's obviously just coming straight out of being drafted,
so we don't know as much. I think you have
to be super impressed with what Nadeau did. Going from
the BHL to the nc DOUBLEA is practically as hard
as going from the NCAA straight to the NHL. Like
it's really that's massive leaps.
Speaker 5: And so he did great and.
Speaker 4: Not only did he score a lot, but I think
he really rounded out his game to make it more
pro ready, and we saw that with him getting the
NOD to be to getting some NHL games and being
really close to being NHL ready probably some ANHL time.
But he also has a very specific skill set that
I don't think anyone on Carolina really has that true
sniper that can score from anywhere. I really think this
is a really important piece that the team really is
going to need. And we talked. We heard Ryan say
there's some spots there in the middle six. I think
that could be in a do and I think that
might surprise some people, especially if he has some really
good linemates to help drive the play if he's playing
with NHS or cucking me. I guess it really depends
on what happens with Natchez. If he leaves, then that
will be two holes in the lineup, and maybe that's
a little bit more difficult for a goal scorer like
Nadau to break. But I like him a lot. I
definitely would take him. The PNHL also supports that seventy
five to sixty two. But also if you look at
the Hockey Prospect and you can see that Nadeau went
from twenty one to forty six percent. That kind of
increase is so difficult to do year to year. You
have to really blow the doors off, and that's really
what Nadeau did, and his NHL R probability is up
to sixty six percent. Boavert I was similar, actually a
little bit better than Nadeau in his draft season based
on his production. So there's still some potential for some
great growth here. Looking at some other comps for Nadau,
there's some interesting ones here, none of them that I
think fit terribly perfectly. There's a Martin Havlatt, there, some
Jordan Stahl, Barret Hayden. I don't think he is going
to be that type of player. Also don't know that
he's going to be an Alex Newhook type of player,
but I think that kind of fits a little bit more.
Both these guys were BCHL players. That's why I picked
him and went BCCHLBCHL to NCAA. But it looks like
nado is going to be done with that and move
on to HL NHL. But you can see that the
production for new Hook was actually steady and then trend
it down and for Nadoh it's moved up so I
think there's more upside than the new hook, but it's
an interesting comparable. Barn Havlat might be someone that he's
a little bit more like upside wise, and he was
obviously a star producer, so you like to see that
the jfreshcard nine percent chance of being a star fifty
two percent chance of being an NHLer. So there's some
pretty good potential there for Nado and this overall, this
system Bike for Carolina is just awesome and there's some
really good guys coming and there's a lot of depth
to the system too. So that's it for Thistig for Carolina.
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