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

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Speaker 2: Here's ships your source of information and analysis to help

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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Severe and Victor Nuno.

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Speaker 2: Yes see hockey Lie This Jesse Severe of fan Tracks

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joining me. It is the fantasy hockey doctor. You know him,

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You'll love him. It's Victor Nuno. Victor. How you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing awesome, Jesse. It's exciting to be back again

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and I'm looking forward to having our discussion today.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, my friend, I'm doing awesome. I'm doing awesome, Victor.

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Spring has sprung and the fantasy hockey player's heart now

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turns to championships hopefully, Stanley Cup, playoffs maybe and all

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those good things. Are you? I know we're still in

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a final of a fantasy hockey league, the one we're

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doing together. I'm still alive in a league which insanely

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goes to the very last day of the season, so

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I'm anticipating a buy in playoffs that have not even begun.

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How about you, Victor, do you have anything else that's

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still kicking out there in fantasy hockey.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have a couple ones in the original

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FHL dynasty the El Nino League. I finally made it

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to the finals after we've had one champ this entire

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go for and hats off to the Toronto I Storm

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for doing that. It's been an incredible run. And I

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finally beat him in the semis to make it to

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the finals, just to probably lose in the final to

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our new one of our top competitors. But that's been fun,

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and so that's been a big accomplishment. I've been pushing

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Card to get in there because it's still early in

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the matchup. I might be able to turn it around.

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And I'm in the final of another dynasty, the Crazy

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Joe Dynasty, as some of the patrons are in, and

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that's been a fun one, one that Cam Robinson's in,

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and so that's been fun because I think I finished

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like seventh or eighth and I made it to the finals,

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so that's fun. And then yeah, are Common League, which

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we so three final that's pretty good. And then I'm

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in the semis of another league that we're in together,

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which is probably gonna end poorly thanks to our buddy

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Braden who's just killing me every day. You know that

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thing where every day you just get farther and farther behind.

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That's what's been happening to me in that league.

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Speaker 2: But I know it well, Victor. I know it well,

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at least from this season. Sometimes the breaks come, man,

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Sometimes you're the windshields. Sometimes you're the bug. That's what

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I have to say. But yeah, Victor, but I think

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it's time for people. We should have a humble break

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thread in the Fantasy Hockey Life forum and then people

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who don't want to hear the humble breaks don't have

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to see them. But everybody has that outlet in social

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sanction to get into it. I'm not trying to speak

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that in new existence, but I think that people should

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selly their goals and should have an opportunity to lick

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their wounds with a group of like minded, individ jules.

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Let's just say, our Fantasy Hockey Discord is a place

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We still get people joining at this time of year,

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which always just brightens my heart that there are people

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looking to join something like this. Normally you would think

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people are coming in draft season, but Dynasty is three

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sixty five, Baby and Victor. There are other things that

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Speaker 2: And we'll come right back with the episode after this

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scouts out. This is another Victor and Jesse episode, but

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in spirit, we're joined by a bunch of our excellent

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Fantasy Hockey Life scouts who put in the work. They

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go down, they breakdown video of certain prospects of interest

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to our community, and they provide reports and I am

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going to be reading those reports as well as we're

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gonna be going through some of Victor's takes on these

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prospects and whether you want them in Fantasy hockey. And

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it's a good list we have today starts with Will Zeller's,

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a five to eleven Minnesotan forward playing up in USHL's

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Green Bay, which frankly is probably painful for a Minnesota

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kid to be in Green Bay. I know as a

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Minnesota fan living here in Wisconsin. He went in the

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third round to Colorado last year, but he now reports

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to the Boston Bruins due to a trade we covered

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last week. In fact, we talked a little about sellers

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last week as a part of the return for Charlie Coyle.

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It's been a very successful first full season in the USHL.

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For Zeller's thirty nine goals, that's eleven better at last

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check than the second highest goal scorer in the USHL.

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His sixty one points are all so tied for second

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in the USHL, but given he's only played forty three

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games compared to the mid fifties the other leaders have played,

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points per game is a route he is the top

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scorer in the USAHL. Here's leed scout Tony's take. He says,

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obviously Zeller's wing. He seems to be a good skater,

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uses his quickness to get around opponents, passing or in handling.

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He handles the puck very well. Is also deft at

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passing the puck, even to himself. For shooting a variety

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of shots, snapshot, wristslap, He's able to get them off

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by himself or pass or off a pass from a teammate.

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Will has good vision and anticipation a Q. He seems

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to be able to pass either a puck through the

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defenseman and get the pass on the other side. And

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for checking. Zeller's exhibited a will to for check and

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was able to turn plays around and keep in the

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O zone. On defense, the defense is mostly for checking

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and keeping the puck away from the other team, not

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a lot of standard type defense observed by Tony. The

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best asset, then, is the skating quickness, the anticipation, and

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his ability to get around defense. The biggest concern smaller

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stature and not being the most fluid skater could limit

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his playing time. The top tier outcome for will Zeller's

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maybe a Tier two player first or second line and

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some power play time, and that's because his unique set

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of willingness to fore check, get him around defenseman and

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having a really good variety of shots could carry him far.

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The median outcome for Zeller's Tier three bottom six defensive

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role with no power play time, that's if his quickness

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is not fast enough and he can't get around any

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chell defenseman, not a lot of bash in any event.

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Stylistic comparable, We're gonna let because Tony's our lead scout,

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a band on our band list for comps my personal bandless.

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Maybe not our bandless, but he says less feisty, Brad

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marchand and overall, he thinks Zeller's has a good chance

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at making a name for himself in the NHL with

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a unique set of skills and work ethic. I'm pretty

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excited here, despite a little bit of cold water from

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the very direct and to the point mister Tony Bruins

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could use the score even especially, I think it's around

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him with a little bit of talent. But Victor, what's

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the upside here?

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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty high, and I think you're reasonable

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to be pretty excited here. What he's done in the

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USHL this year is nothing to sneeze at. It's true

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that a lot of the very very top players don't

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play after their draft season in the USHL, but I

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think it is worth noting, as I mentioned last week,

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that Zeller is a little bit young for this draft class.

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He's been April fourth birthday, so he's been he was

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seventeen pretty much all of last season. He's been eighteen

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pretty much all this season and to this point, so

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looking at players who've accomplished what he's done in the USHL.

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I sort of this over on Elite Prospects, and there's

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a pretty interesting list of guys in the last twenty

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years who have accomplished what he has, and he's pretty

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high up there on this list. He's ahead of Adam

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van Tilly who did it as a seventeen year old,

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and Johnny Goodro who did it as a seventeen year old.

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Joe Pavelski who did it as an eighteen year old,

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and Sasha Boavert in white Law are also guys who

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are a little bit lower than him in terms of

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their scoring. Those last two Boavert and white Law were

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also seventeen year olds. But some other guys to compare

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Matt Coronado at the same age. Coronado had a one

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point sixty seven goal points per game and Zeller's is

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at one point four two. There was also Tomashvanik who

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was one point seventy two points per game. And there's

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some other guys on this list, Matt veg Gridden who

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are still trying to figure out what he is. He's

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similar to Zeller's. I think if you just organize, if

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you just sort this by goal scoring, he is He's

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seventh in the last twenty five years in terms of

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goals per game in the USHL. That's pretty amazing. That's

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nothing to sneeze at. So I think there's some pretty

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decent upside here. There are some guys on this list,

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I should say, who never really made it or didn't

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really do much. Kevin wah is one of those, round Pittlick,

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Noah Powell, Austin Bernevic who still we don't know about

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him yet. There's some other guys too, like Kayden Shahan.

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didn't quite work out, and some were stars in the league.

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So there's a big range here. I think that Zeller's

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probably falls in that Coronado Tavannic range, which is pretty great.

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That's a pretty valuable upside for a player, especially someone

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who has gotten in the third round and instantly becomes

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one of the top prospects in Boston who does not

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have a very good prospect pool. I don't think that

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Zeller's is the next Johnny Goodroau or Adam van Hilly,

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to be fair, but I think that's the Coronado Devanic

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range is where I would put him now.

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Speaker 2: And our friend Mason Black put out the poll as

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we always do for these gentlemen. William Zeller's versus Camille Bennarik,

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who is drafted half around prior to Zeller's in last

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year's draft in New York Islanders prospect Zeller's in a

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route seventy four to twenty six percent victory. Is that

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how you rack and stack these two?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I definitely want Zeller's here. His production in the USHL,

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as I mentioned, pretty incredible. It will most likely drop

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next season when he's at the NCUBLA at Nodak, North Dakota.

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of why his numbers maybe look a little bit more modest,

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especially if you're looking at the pole that with the

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pnhle that Mason always puts out, it looks like he's

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regressed quite a bit. But remember nc doublea much harder

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league than the USHL, so harder to be impressive. But

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Bennarick is part of that super impressive Boston University team

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who's doing really well as we speak in the NCAA tournament,

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and seventeen points in thirty six games is nothing to

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sneeze that as a freshman, but it's more of a

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two way type of game. He's a much better all

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around player, and I think Benark in terms of who

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you would want for your actual team, it'd probably be him,

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But in terms of fantasy, I think Zeller's has a

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lot more upside, so I would definitely take him. Just

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looking at the hockey prospecting between these two, they actually

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are similar now with Zeller's increasing his star potential and

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Bannarik's going down after his draft season, But overall, both

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these guys look like long shots to be anything more

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than a bottom of the roster kind of a guy,

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although I think Zeller is trending up and hasn't more

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of a chance to be an average too slightly above

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Yeah, Zeller's definitely is a guy in whom

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I have interest. Anything else we need to know about him? Victor,

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do you think where does he ultimately fall out fantasy?

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You think?

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Speaker 1: I think he's probably in that forty to fifty point range.

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It really depends on how he is able to translate

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his scoring too the NHL, which I'm not super confident

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about him you see what Cornado is doing now, and

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he's I think he's he probably can be that fifty

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ish point guy. So I think that Zeller's can be

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that too. Is that something that's super exciting. I'm not sure,

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but it really is going to depend on the team

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context too. I think him going to Boston is helpful though,

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so I think that there should be a little bit

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more optimism to him getting playing time a little bit

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sooner and hopefully making a name for himself. But yeah,

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I think that's where we're at with him right now.

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Speaker 2: Let's move on to our second candidate of today, Colin Graft.

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This twenty three year old Quinnipiac University former players two

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years being removed from being the leading scorer for an

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NCAA championship Quinnipiac University squad. That's not bad. He had

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a cup of coffee for the NHL's San Jose Sharks

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last year. He's closed in on thirty more games this year.

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And you know how I like to look at the

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goals above replacement stats, and Colin Graff actually relative to

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the other Sharks is performing very well in advanced stats

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this year. He's probably at about the seventieth percentile for Sharks,

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so he's holding up his end of the deal. Obviously,

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he's probably not facing the same level of competition, but

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that is very encouraging to me. So what does Jeremy,

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our co lead scout, think of his performance so far?

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Colin Graff right winger. He has average speed, not a burner,

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not a standout scale, but one holding back, passing and

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handling graph is adept at controlling the puck and putting

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passes on sticks. He can thread needles, feathers, saucer passes,

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and Jeremy was really impressed with his finesse with the puck.

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Shooting the shot is okay, but not his calling card.

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Jeremy suspects he's going to be a high efficiency, low

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volume shooter between his past first attitude and willingness to

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go to the net. He'll probably only shoot on rebounds

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and wide open slat shots, which is fine as he

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doesn't have the shooting skill to score from range. IQ

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vision is one of his best assets. Always has his

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head up with the puck can slow the game down

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in a Patrick Kane type way. He also works to

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find release valves for teammates and often help maintain possession defensively,

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he anticipates well and often gets his stick into lanes.

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Graf is a hard worker on the fore check. As

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mentioned above, he often gets his stick into lanes. It

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isn't afraid of the corner battles. He's never going to

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be a bruiser or overpowering four checker, but Jeremy says

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he's got a bit of sneakiness to his pressure that

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may catch opponents off guard. Defense positionally responsible to the

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point where he'd be a good fit at center. It

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does seem to be played there in college, but San

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Jose's crowded down the middle, and Jeremy's not quite sure

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where he's going to fit in long term. So the

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best asset vision watch his work on the power play

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to see that the biggest concern. A jack of all trades,

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a master of none. Jeremy feels he's slightly about average

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and just about everything, but it doesn't have that one

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calling card skill that he's head and shoulders above his

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peers in. So the top tier outcome a secondary scoring winger,

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a third wheel, a line one power play one guy,

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or a comfortable line two power play two guy. That's

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because he's got some offensive talent, some skills corner work,

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speed vision that would play up well with skill players.

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He'll never be a top one to two offensive driver

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on a team, but could help elevate guys around him

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and the median outcome a bottom six utility knife type guy.

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That's because his well rounded game should see him getting

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NHL minutes regardless. He could see coaches deploying him on

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a wide range of situations, up and down the lineup,

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on the power play, on the PK. His role may

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depend on his team context, but Jeremy thinks he can

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be an important part of a playoff team, probably not

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an offensive capacity, but the most likely outcome a guy

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who plays eighteen to twenty minutes a night but somehow

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isn't fantasy relevant Chandler Stevenson or all Winberg, two guys

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that are mentioned here. I guess we got to send

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him north to the Seattle Kraken Martin Nachas light like

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really light, says Jeremy. Maybe Victor, where do you see

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Colin Graft's outcome being.

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Speaker 1: I definitely agree with the sentiment of the jack of

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all trades. You watch him and he is really good

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at a lot of things. I think his vision and

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processing in the game is probably the best. I'm not

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sure that it's elite, but I certainly think it's good

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enough to be in the NHL as we've seen so far.

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Most likely, I would say Colin Graff ends up being

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a bottom six winger on a good team. Right now,

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he's getting top six looks, including time with Celebrini. I

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think he's smart enough and he moves well enough to

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play with elite players like that. And I think maybe

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his saving grace for being an NHLer and getting more

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offensive opportunities is the fact that his defense has actually

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been quite good in his or at least NFA NHL

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average has been that's pretty decent for a young player,

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and I think that's a lot on this really bad

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Sharks team. So I think he ends up more in

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the middle, especially with a lot of the top talent

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that the Sharks have coming and some other guys that

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they might sign. I think it's going to push graph

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down a little bit, but he certainly thinks. He's certainly

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been good in the AHL this year and pretty decent

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in his limited action. I scored the other day he

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had a couple of goals which was pretty nice and

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there's just not a lot to play with right now

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in San Jose, so that makes it a little bit difficult.

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But he's getting good opportunities with good players, and I

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think he can He's showing that he can play with them,

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which I think is a really positive sign for Graph.

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Speaker 2: Well, very good and Mason Black the NHL ranking gave

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us the poll Colin Graft versus Hendricks, Lapierre, Lapierre, come on,

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man get it in Gear LaPier still coming out ahead

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of Graph. Maybe it's the name recognition. Sixty two to

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thirty eight percent victory. Is that how you see it?

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Because LaPier sometimes frustrates me a little.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think he's more than a little frustrating. Yeah.

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I thought this was interesting and it probably has a

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little bit to do with just looking at some of

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the numbers here. Although both have really strong HL numbers

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and similar and to poor NHL numbers, and so they're

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in the same boat. I think the big difference here

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is that Lapierre has had a lot more NHL games

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than Graph has, and so I think when you look

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at it that way, I would definitely take Graph just

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because the opportunity has been less for Graph, and I

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think they've both kind of been similar. On the other hand,

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Graf is pretty good defensively. Lapierre has not been good defensively.

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If you look at his time this year, has expected

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goals against for sixty is in the bottom five to

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ten percent of all NHL all the thousands of NHL

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sort of played this year, So that's really bad. Even

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though neither has shown much offense. I think the results

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are similar there, and I would take the guy who

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is better defensively and the guy who hasn't had as

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much opportunity, because to this point Graf has had pretty

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limited opportunity. I mean, he had seven games last year

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with the Sharks, twenty five this year, so you know,

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that's not really a whole lot. I think that they'll

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give him more opportunity and he may actually be able

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to grow and show a little bit more of what

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he can do. The hockey prospecting between the two also

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shows Graf having much more of a star potential, and

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so that is one feather in his cap, and I

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think just the fact that he's not as far along

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in the funnel as we talk about the funnel, as

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you get down and get longer in your opportunity have

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more opportunity, the range of outcomes diminishes, and I think

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the range of outcomes for Lapierre is much more diminished

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at this point. Frankly, I'm not even sure he's an

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NHL R at this point. He might just be one

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of those twinyers. So that's going to be challenging. Especially

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with how good Washington is now and they have some

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pretty elite prospects coming along. He might get pushed down

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or off the team, and so that might make it

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challenging for him. Yeah, I'm taking Graph, Jesse, what do

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you think about that? You've watched the Lapierre.

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Speaker 2: I'll take the chance on Graph right now. I'm hopeful again.

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Connor McMichael was slow starter in the NHL and Lapierre's

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only twenty three, but let's hope that he is it

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to break through a bit. Yeah, anything else we need

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to know about Graph? Is this a guy? Is there

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some Robert Thomas in this game? Victor Thomas obviously is

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a super scar scorer, but when I hear he's not

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going to shoot much, but he's going to be able

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to score a little bit and have a lot of talent.

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Although Thomas is a center and all those types of things.

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Speaker 1: But he's like Thomas in those ways that he doesn't

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shoot or do peripherals. But I think a better comp

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would probably be Alex Wenberg as a guy who doesn't

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do very much but can get some points every now

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and then. But it's just going to be frustrating and

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all but a points only and a deep points on

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the league at that?

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Speaker 2: Is he going to be adored by the thirsty Seattle

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fans to the point that his wife has to go

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on social media to say, calm it down a little

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bit about the Alex Weinberg love. Is that going to happen?

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I need to see a picture here. Maybe nobody wants not.

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I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: He's nowhere near the track as Alex Weinberg.

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Speaker 2: I must say, all right, that's good to know. That's good.

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That's important scouting information that we're giving out here. Let's

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move on to our next guy, and it's archamlev Shunoff

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of the Chicago Blackhawks, one of the prizes of last

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year's draft. The big Michigan State d man from Betta

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Russ made the move to pro hockey in the AHL

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and NHL this year. He's already made it to the

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NHL because it's the Blackhawks, and why the heck not.

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In his first four games that are on record here,

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he played over twenty minutes per game and already has

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two assists. So they're not easing him in. They're Korchinski

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and him into that lineup and let him roll. That's assists,

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by the way, on two of the six that goals

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that Chicago scored across those four games. So two assists

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sounds a little more impressive when you consider that he scored.

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He had a point on a third of the goals.

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So what does our scouts say? In our scout this

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time is Grant Campbell? He says this archim Lov Shoonoff

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can certainly turn it up if he wants, with his

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explosive to first two or three strides. Needs to remember

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to move his feet in his own end, as he

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can be passive, reactive at times and stop moving. He's

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an excellent skater when he turns that switch on a

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few times per game, passing and handling, very good hands

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whether receiving or giving passes. He can stick handle well

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for a defender and protects the puck very well. Love

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Shoonoff is one of those players in the offensive zone

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who you expect good things to happen when he touches

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the puck. Love Shootonoff has a very good one timer

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and a good quick snapshot that he likes to bring

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to the middle of the ice. It's a heavy shot

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that can beat goalies without a screen or tip from distance.

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Whether that translates to the NHL, we still have to see.

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He has excellent vision in the offensive zone, finds open

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teammates and open seams to get shot through to the net.

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The IQ the anticipation makes up for some of his

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defensive deficiencies and lack of urgency without the puck. Livshunoff

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appears to be in control of the situation when he's

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on the ice, but his passiveness can get him into

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trouble at times. We need to remind ourselves that this

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kid is just nineteen years old playing in pro hockey

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for the first time, or checking strong on the puck

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along the boards, but could use his body more than

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just a strong stick to win the puck. He's not

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a very physical player, even though he has the size.

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He prefers to wait for the situation to come to

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him rather than initiate any contact. He'll need to improve

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this aspect of his game in the NHL for defense,

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very good gap control, very good stick that he uses

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to disrupt passes in lanes. He's reactive instead of proactive

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at this stage and will need to improve on that.

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And he can be beat to the outside and or

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one one at times. He does get caught up ice,

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so sometimes he'll need to choose his spots better. He

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has the potential to be a much better to defender

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than he is right now, so the best asset passing,

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shot stick handling, and poise. As a coach or teammate,

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00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,119
you want the puck on Lef Schuna's stick in most

475
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,359
areas of the ice. The biggest concern can appear to

476
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,119
coast at times not play with a sense of urgency,

477
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,799
especially in his own end. It might just be his

478
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,680
calm style, but Grant would like to see him turn

479
00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:25,039
the switch more than a few times per game. So

480
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,359
the top tier outcome. Top two defender quarterback one duties

481
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,960
on the power play and the justification. He reminds Grant

482
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,480
of a young Drew Dowdy, but with less physicality and

483
00:25:34,519 --> 00:25:37,480
shot blocking. A bit of Brent Burns in him as well,

484
00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:42,079
just in a slightly smaller package. The median outcome top

485
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,960
four defender, power play two quarterback, and that's if his

486
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,119
defensive shortcomings, lack of elite quarterbacking abilities and motor hold

487
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,759
him back from reaching that full potential. The stylistic comparable

488
00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:57,440
We've mentioned Brent Burns, We've mentioned Drew Dowdy. John Carlson

489
00:25:57,799 --> 00:26:01,559
also gets a mention from Grant here, and great doesn't

490
00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:03,920
see him dropping to the floor of Erasmus ristal line

491
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,880
and boy fantasy would love him to have Rasmus ristal lining,

492
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,400
but sometimes that's even better for our prist leagues. The

493
00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:15,000
final outcome here some aspects of his game to improve,

494
00:26:15,039 --> 00:26:17,279
but it is positive. Should translate into a player who

495
00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:20,640
can play at least twenty minutes per game produce thirty

496
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,599
five to forty five points on the NHL level, just

497
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,359
don't expect hits or black shots as well. What do

498
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,599
you think of this assessment by our guy Grant Victor.

499
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,039
Speaker 1: Well, I think Grant's pretty spot on as usual. I

500
00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:36,759
love the assessment, and yeah, looking at the bash, it's

501
00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:40,599
a very sad five out of ten for Alef shootonof

502
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,039
and almost all of that is driven by his shots.

503
00:26:43,039 --> 00:26:44,839
He does shoot a lot, but he doesn't really do

504
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,119
much else, and I don't think that's going to change

505
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,000
as he gets more of an NHL role, But I

506
00:26:50,039 --> 00:26:52,039
definitely think his upside is high. I think he can

507
00:26:52,079 --> 00:26:55,319
be a top pair defender, depends on how the rest

508
00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:58,880
of the organization works out. They just traded recently traded

509
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,359
Seth Jones, so there's there's really no one blocking him

510
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,160
at this point of being a top pair guy. Alex

511
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,799
Flastic is pretty awesome. I don't know that he's like

512
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,200
top top pair material. He's an excellent middle pair guy,

513
00:27:09,839 --> 00:27:13,680
so yeah, I think that's the opportunity there. So far,

514
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,279
his early NHL games are pretty mixed in terms of

515
00:27:17,279 --> 00:27:20,319
his review as you might expect. I wouldn't expect him

516
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,039
to come in and blow the doors off, although he

517
00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:25,039
has been excellent in the AHL and so you like

518
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:26,839
to see that. I think it's exciting that he's getting

519
00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:29,720
the opportunity. He's running the top power play in Chicago

520
00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:32,960
for whatever that's worth, not very much right now, athletes.

521
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,680
I'm not even sure he's worth it right now, especially

522
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,480
because it's low periff. But I think when he gets

523
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,160
to and reaches his full potential, I think he could

524
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,680
be an Adam Fox type doesn't do a ton of

525
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,400
in terms of the periffs, should be able to get

526
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,400
a decent amount of scoring. I think there's certainly forty

527
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,960
to fifty point upside if he's running the power play

528
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,839
pretty good. He's not the most amazing or dynamic, but yeah,

529
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,119
I definitely there's another comp to put in there. I

530
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,880
don't Yeah, without I don't mind those other ones, but

531
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,319
without the Bash, I would definitely say more. I don't

532
00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:05,279
think if Fox, I think is a better comp in

533
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,599
term than the lack of priffs.

534
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 2: Nice Mason Black put this out to the people. Our

535
00:28:10,839 --> 00:28:16,799
chem lev Shoonoff versus Simon Nemech another number two overall drafty,

536
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,200
albeit two years earlier than Love shoot Off, and Lev

537
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,119
Shoenoff comes out hand lay ahead of the man who's

538
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,799
at low tide, mister nemoch lef Shoonoff sixty six percent

539
00:28:28,519 --> 00:28:31,400
thirty four percent Victor. Is that how you stack it?

540
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so. I definitely like Lifshoonoff here.

541
00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:37,799
Speaker 2: I know.

542
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: I think people probably know. I was never the biggest

543
00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:43,319
Nemach fan, especially for fantasy. I thought that he'd be

544
00:28:43,319 --> 00:28:45,480
pretty good in real life, but it turns out he

545
00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:48,319
actually hasn't been that good there either. He's an awesome skater,

546
00:28:48,599 --> 00:28:51,400
but he's struggled with some of the decision making and

547
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,319
some of the reeds in the NHL. In fact, I

548
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,440
pulled up a rampum chart here between these two and

549
00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:03,240
left Shoon off, as I mentioned, with very limited total

550
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:06,079
time on ice. Right now, he's clocking in at around

551
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,680
or just below average in terms of all of your

552
00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:13,400
expected and actual numbers. But Nemich has been deeply, deeply

553
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,240
poor in his course he against expected goals against. In fact,

554
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,519
his expected goals against is about statistically the worst you

555
00:29:20,519 --> 00:29:24,759
could have for a skater, and so that's just really bad.

556
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:26,440
And actually I looked at his three year numbers and

557
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,799
they're really not much better. So in all the games

558
00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:33,519
he's played so far, it really has not worked for Nimitch.

559
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,759
I don't think this is just something that's happening in

560
00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:39,480
Jersey or the role he's been in. I think he's

561
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,720
really struggling to adjust. And I mean he's just eighty

562
00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:43,559
games into his NHL career, So I don't think we

563
00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:46,119
can call him a bust or anything like that. I

564
00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:48,880
think we might just need to readjust our expectations of him,

565
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,200
and I think he could maybe with a lesser role,

566
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,920
maybe he's like a third pairing guy, and I think

567
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,480
that's probably reasonable. But I don't think Nemich is going

568
00:29:56,559 --> 00:29:58,319
to play as high in the lineup as we thought

569
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,799
and lift you and off. I think still there's still

570
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,599
very much wide open that he can do that, and

571
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,759
so yeah, I would definitely take him.

572
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nmitch is through the funnel, and again he's at

573
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,000
low tide if you want to believe in him. But

574
00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:16,279
it's maybe gonna be a little bit tough. All right, Victor,

575
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:17,920
let's take a break, come back. We've got some more

576
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,000
prospects to discuss.

577
00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: Selfish shot that's right, selfish, break it down, skate the fuck,

578
00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:34,680
don't battles.

579
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: Hey, it's still gonna be there when he's got jump one,

580
00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:40,480
taking coast to coast, talking for angles. Still shot bad, bounced,

581
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,319
that's a good breakaway.

582
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,599
Speaker 1: Gotta get the bounced boys.

583
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 3: Mac klint a Detroit twenty twenty four second rounder Plant

584
00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:53,559
is a five to eleven forward planing at Yudeluth managed

585
00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:56,079
a couple of points in minimal minutes on the lower

586
00:30:56,119 --> 00:30:58,839
lines for the USA team at the World Juniors, and

587
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,880
he has a point per game in college.

588
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 2: He's also an alum of the US national team development program,

589
00:31:04,759 --> 00:31:06,960
so he knew some of those guys he was with

590
00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:10,559
in Ottawa. What's our scout have to say? Craig talks

591
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:13,000
about Planet, Who's a left winger by the way, slightly

592
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,799
above average skating, but the top speed may not be there,

593
00:31:16,079 --> 00:31:19,319
but his first few steps are quick passing and handling,

594
00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:22,759
slightly above average, able to find seams laid into open

595
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:26,480
areas for his teammates. Excels at finding teammates for long

596
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,640
cross eyes passes. The shooting is slightly below average. Plant

597
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,119
does not shoot very often. When it does, the goalie

598
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,240
is usually able to stop it with ease. The IQ

599
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:39,839
average nothing really stood out for Craig. There was able

600
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,160
to move the puck when he felt pressure, but being

601
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,319
a skilled passer caused a few turnovers that could have

602
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:50,240
otherwise been easy dumpings for checking. Above average plants quick

603
00:31:50,319 --> 00:31:53,799
first few steps allowed him to pressure defenders and cause

604
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,839
turnover mostly stick checks. Do not expect him to throw

605
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,000
a bunch of hits the defense average. Nothing stood out

606
00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,400
up for him as a winger, and the best asset

607
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,759
is the vision. Could make him fantasy relevant. The biggest

608
00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:08,640
concern the lack of bash. If he's not scoring points,

609
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,279
he's not going to be doing much else on your

610
00:32:10,279 --> 00:32:14,480
fantasy team. So tier three sixty points below average bash

611
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,440
is where Craig sees him coming out. That's because you've

612
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,319
got potential to be a middle six guy and put

613
00:32:19,359 --> 00:32:21,039
up some points, but the bash is just not going

614
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:23,440
to be there, and the media outcome also probably a

615
00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:26,240
Tier three, but more like fifty points with below average

616
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:31,319
bash and the stylistic comparable Jonathan drew On hopefully twenty

617
00:32:31,599 --> 00:32:35,200
twenty three, twenty four drawn rather than the years we

618
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:39,799
suffered through in Montreal. What do you think, Victor, what's

619
00:32:39,839 --> 00:32:42,559
the upside for Max Plant.

620
00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: I definitely think he's most likely a middle six winger

621
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,119
with not too much in terms of points upside. I

622
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,160
like what we've seen from him so far this year,

623
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,559
and so maybe he can break that mold. He's having

624
00:32:58,559 --> 00:33:02,759
a pretty outstanding season at University of Minnesota Duluth, and

625
00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:05,200
so you love to see that. I'm just not sure

626
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,039
that means top top of the lineup, middle six, maybe

627
00:33:09,079 --> 00:33:11,359
second line. I think he's a pretty good two way

628
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,799
guy as well, and so that all can help push

629
00:33:14,839 --> 00:33:17,200
him up. Maybe a little bit higher in the lineup.

630
00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:21,599
I think Juanne is probably a reasonable comp I think

631
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,200
maybe he's a little bit better defensively. Reminds me a

632
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,880
little bit of like an Alex Klorne in his prime,

633
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,160
where he's decent, but he never gets you, like super excited.

634
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,680
That might be same for Juanne. And similar to Juanne.

635
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,079
If Plant gets into a really good spot with some

636
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,680
of the top players there in the chorice, then you

637
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,039
can bump that up a little bit. But I would

638
00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:44,359
be a little I think this pnh Ley of seventy

639
00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:46,359
three is probably a little bit inflated right now in

640
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,519
terms of what a realistic outcome is going to be.

641
00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 2: Plant went up against Carrie Terrence of the Anaheim Ducks

642
00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:56,720
draft a year earlier and a couple of picks or

643
00:33:56,759 --> 00:33:59,599
a couple of picks later, actually that he went, and

644
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:04,400
the outcome a Plant versus Terrence, was decisively in favor

645
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,800
of Max Plant eighty two to eighteen percent. Victor. This

646
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,119
is a whitewash. Is that the way you would consider

647
00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:16,320
these two players? Yeah?

648
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 1: I think so, And I believe he pronounces it arrants,

649
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,079
which I don't understand why, But I would think it's

650
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,440
Terrence as well. But anyways, I don't think that there's

651
00:34:26,519 --> 00:34:30,800
a huge upside here for either of these players. But

652
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,039
I'm going Max Plant be strong production that he has

653
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:36,920
this year, and I think there's a little bit more

654
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,400
offense there. I think it's more just average to an

655
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,559
NHL average at best, which for fantasy isn't super exciting.

656
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,679
More of that fifty ish point guy. Terrance is a

657
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:51,360
really good real life player and he's someone I would

658
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,599
want on my team. Fits that dux Mule two is

659
00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:56,159
really hard to play against, but I'm not sure that

660
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:58,119
he's going to score a lot of points. So both

661
00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:01,079
these guys are similar in that way that the points

662
00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:02,920
upside aren't huge. But I think there's a lot more

663
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,639
with Plants, so I would definitely take him in this comparison,

664
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,199
and his hockey prospecting has him at a thirty four

665
00:35:08,199 --> 00:35:10,760
percent chance of being a star, whereas Terrance is down

666
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:16,559
in the two percent range. So definitely lead leaning Max Plant.

667
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 2: Jesse very good Victor. Next, we've got Roman concerov Is

668
00:35:23,519 --> 00:35:26,920
Chicago twenty twenty three second round pick. Concerov is an

669
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,559
undersized twenty year old winger with offensive chops. He's still

670
00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:33,599
over in the KHL. Now last year he got action

671
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,639
for the Gagarin Cup champ smell alert Magneta Goresk in

672
00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:40,760
a bigger role for his KHL team. This year, his

673
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,480
scoring is approaching a point per game once again, these

674
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,599
twenty year olds in the KHL scoring like crazy. Ep

675
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,000
says there's another year on his KHL contract for what

676
00:35:52,079 --> 00:35:56,760
that's worth. And Jeremy, our lead scout co lead scout,

677
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,480
talks about Kencerra, the left winger. He is a smooth skater,

678
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,480
not flashing in terms of straight line speed. He's got

679
00:36:03,559 --> 00:36:06,679
good edgework, able to make quick turns and pivots, which

680
00:36:06,679 --> 00:36:11,320
should increase his lethality. On offense. His passing has crisp

681
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,920
and on the market. He's got good puck control skills

682
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,719
of anything. He may hold onto the puck a tad

683
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,960
too long at times because his size lets him easily

684
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,199
be bumped off the puck. Cansarov has a good risks shot,

685
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,679
especially likes to use it after doing a little curl

686
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,519
coming down his strong side on the power play Allah

687
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,920
Jared McCann Jeremy didn't seem much of an indicator of

688
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,239
a one timer or slap shot. Prowess in his looks.

689
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,239
Jeremy really likes his vision in IQ, and it especially

690
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,159
shines on the power play, both with and without the puck.

691
00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:46,119
He's good at getting to the right places releasing pressure

692
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,559
for his teammates. I think he may struggle. Jeremy thinks

693
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:51,599
he may struggle, that is, to create offense out of

694
00:36:51,679 --> 00:36:53,800
thin air, but with a skilled finisher he could be

695
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,079
very dangerous. Not the most aggressive of vard checkers, he

696
00:36:58,119 --> 00:37:02,239
can properly apply pressure when necessary. Don't expect any big

697
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,639
hits or created turnovers. Cancer Off is a surprisingly defensively

698
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:11,519
responsible player for a young offensive Russian winger. In the

699
00:37:11,559 --> 00:37:14,159
games Jeremy watched, he broke up multiple passes in the

700
00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:16,840
D zone collapsed down to the top of the circles

701
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,480
to help the defense when needed. The fact that his

702
00:37:19,519 --> 00:37:22,280
team trusts him for eighteen minutes a night and pk

703
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,880
two times shows the value that he brings. So the

704
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,880
best asset was the vision with the puck is great,

705
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:32,079
but actually Jeremy wants to talk about vision without the putt.

706
00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:35,280
Two quite a depth for young Ford is can saraf

707
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,519
At slowing down, reading the play and finding the soft

708
00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:40,960
spots in the d a bit like a skilled striker

709
00:37:41,079 --> 00:37:43,920
in soccer. I'm going to call it soccer Victor. I

710
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,199
think that's a rare skill set. Or Jeremy thinks it's

711
00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:48,119
a rare skill set and is excited to see how

712
00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:51,360
it translates to the NHL. And the biggest concern obviously

713
00:37:51,559 --> 00:37:54,119
being five to nine size is always going to be concerned.

714
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,360
Jeremy doesn't think it's a huge one to cancer off,

715
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,440
but certainly won't help him. The top tier outcome eighty

716
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,159
plus point, top line winger, the paneren to Badard's cane

717
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,880
oof what Chicago wanted Lucas Reichel to be. I think

718
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,239
he's got a perfect or Jeremy, he's got a perfect

719
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,239
skill set to compliment Badard hopes to get a chance

720
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,960
together starting in twenty twenty six, twenty seven, and the

721
00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:20,280
justification the offensive talent and the IQ to play with

722
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,679
the leade players. The median outcome middle six powerplay Merchant.

723
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,440
That's because his patient and vision really shines him the

724
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,599
power play. Jeremy'd be surprised if he's not a consistent

725
00:38:31,639 --> 00:38:33,960
figure on one of the units in his prime. If

726
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,159
the size and speed don't translate, he may not get

727
00:38:37,159 --> 00:38:40,320
a full compliment of even strength minutes though the stylistic

728
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,840
comparable Jack Hughes. And finally, it's worth noting his teammates

729
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,519
with Danilla. Your r is highly touted a year older,

730
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:50,280
but Conzerov is getting two more minutes of time on

731
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,000
ice per game, more power play time, and has scored

732
00:38:53,039 --> 00:38:57,480
more points than our beloved Danilla Eua, Victor, what do

733
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,480
you make of the scouting report? I love this. Chicagos

734
00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:02,400
have to be drooling at this point.

735
00:39:02,679 --> 00:39:05,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great Scott report and of course great

736
00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:09,119
job by Jeremy. I think it's pretty obvious when you

737
00:39:09,199 --> 00:39:12,239
look at the contract situation what's going on here. You're

738
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,360
Off has said I am leaving the KHL after this season,

739
00:39:16,079 --> 00:39:19,159
and what did cancer Off do but extend for the

740
00:39:19,199 --> 00:39:22,480
following season. So what happens based on that? He gets

741
00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:27,159
more opportunity, as Jeremy noted, and we've seen You're Off

742
00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:30,199
really pop off last year even with limited a time

743
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,719
on ice, and it has he hasn't been able to

744
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,719
quite replicate that, especially after indicating that he's going to leave.

745
00:39:38,599 --> 00:39:41,800
But cancerof has gotten a lot more of those opportunities

746
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,159
and has really thrived in it. So it seems like

747
00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:46,960
a lot of that has shifted towards him this year.

748
00:39:47,039 --> 00:39:49,519
He's really he was on the team last year but

749
00:39:49,559 --> 00:39:51,920
had a more limited role, and he's really popped off

750
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,880
this year. So you love to see it. The upside

751
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,519
I think here is top six for sure, but the

752
00:39:57,599 --> 00:40:01,639
size is of course the issue with CANCERA. It's interesting

753
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:04,199
though he doesn't really play to his size. Some of

754
00:40:04,199 --> 00:40:07,360
these smaller forwards almost seem like they play bigger, and

755
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,239
I think that's true for him. His corsi in the

756
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,679
KHL has been fifty nine percent, and I think he

757
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,800
actually mixes it up and plays physical. He's getting point

758
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,199
seven to eight hits per game right now, so you

759
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,440
love to see that. You love to see when the

760
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:24,480
smaller players don't let themselves be limited by that. And

761
00:40:24,519 --> 00:40:27,320
so I think there's a pretty decent upside here for Kencer.

762
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,239
I'm not sure if I would go if I can

763
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,480
get all the way to Jack Hughes, but I think

764
00:40:31,519 --> 00:40:34,039
that it's pretty high.

765
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: Before we get past Jack Hughes, we're gonna have to

766
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,519
get past Dmitri Butchellnikoff, who is the competition for cancerof

767
00:40:41,559 --> 00:40:44,920
in the Mason Black NHL Rankking Pole. Now, if you're

768
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,960
not familiar with butchell Nikoff, he was drafted one year

769
00:40:49,039 --> 00:40:53,599
earlier and at a similar pick to buy the Detroit

770
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,960
Red Wings, and also has played his time over in Russia.

771
00:40:57,079 --> 00:41:00,760
And the result of the vote on this one victor

772
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,079
is a dead heat fifty to fifty. So either people

773
00:41:04,119 --> 00:41:07,760
really like bouchell Nikoff or they aren't quite this excited

774
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,079
about cancer Off yet. What do you make of this?

775
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I don't think we've ever seen this before.

776
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,159
We've had really close forty nine to fifty one, but

777
00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:20,760
I don't know that we've had fifty to fifty, and

778
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,119
they's not that I can remember, So I think it's

779
00:41:24,159 --> 00:41:26,519
funny that there's a tie. I think these guys are

780
00:41:26,559 --> 00:41:29,840
similar in so many ways. I think they're smaller Russian

781
00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:33,159
forwards who are one of them's actually really young for

782
00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:36,440
his draft class. That's Pikelnikoff, and Kancerov is actually really

783
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,360
old for his draft class. They're born on either side

784
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,400
of that September fifteenth cutoff, which is funny. So they're

785
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:46,719
actually probably more similar. They are more similar based on age,

786
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,599
but just because of their or less similarly because their age,

787
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:53,960
and more similar because of their draft class Anyways, all

788
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,760
that to say they're more similar than not. I would

789
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,079
actually go Cancerov here because because he's a little bit

790
00:42:02,559 --> 00:42:06,119
younger in terms of his production, and he just had

791
00:42:06,159 --> 00:42:08,559
that first season last year in the KHL which didn't

792
00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:11,079
go super well, but this year popping off at still

793
00:42:11,119 --> 00:42:15,000
a very young age. You really, I like Pikilnikov. I

794
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,719
think he's probably more of a middle to the bottom

795
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,159
six guy at this point based on how he's trended,

796
00:42:19,599 --> 00:42:21,199
but I still like him and I think he can

797
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:25,360
be a contributor. Ken Seroff, though, as you heard Jeremy

798
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,159
talk about, has the potential still to be special and

799
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,960
has considerable upside considering what he's been doing so far.

800
00:42:33,079 --> 00:42:36,400
So yeah, I like it. I think that he has

801
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,760
really fit in nicely with that top team, and I

802
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,639
think that he certainly I think people should be pretty

803
00:42:42,679 --> 00:42:45,960
excited about what he can do in Chicago. They need

804
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,719
some help pretty soon. I think Badard is getting pretty

805
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,679
frustrated and I think they need to bring some talent

806
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,760
over and I think Ken Seraff can be that guy.

807
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,320
And obviously the potential to play with Badard is pretty

808
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,360
pretty tantalizing.

809
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,280
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but Dard's getting tossed out of games man,

810
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,719
All right, moving on to the next guy, Zam Perrek.

811
00:43:03,079 --> 00:43:05,920
Let's check back into a guy who has not been

812
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,960
a stranger to the FHL airwaves. A top ten pick

813
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,960
from last year's draft. Calgary has a six foot defenseman

814
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,559
whose offensive skill is on display for saganaw of the

815
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:20,559
OHL to the tune of thirty three goals sixty nine

816
00:43:20,679 --> 00:43:23,199
assists for one hundred and two points in fifty nine games.

817
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,440
That's sixth in the OHL in scoring, the leading scorer

818
00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:30,199
on the highest scoring team in the league. And may

819
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,559
I remind you all he is a defenseman. So here's

820
00:43:33,599 --> 00:43:37,400
what our FHL Scout Grant has to say about Perrek.

821
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,880
He is a fantastic skater. First two or three steps

822
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:45,760
are elite, great mobility, balance, creates space on a whim.

823
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,400
Zem Perek is an above average passer in the offensive

824
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,719
zone and finds open teammates easily. His breakout passing or

825
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:57,280
is averaged, if not slightly above average, needs to be improved.

826
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,039
Perrek's passes are crisp some times his teammates can't receive them,

827
00:44:02,519 --> 00:44:05,079
but as he progresses the higher levels, better players will

828
00:44:05,159 --> 00:44:08,599
keep him there. His hand lane almost keeps up to

829
00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:11,199
with skating, but not quite at times, can mishandled the

830
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,000
puck at the blue line at times and overhandle of

831
00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:16,719
puck in his own end as well. Having said that,

832
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:21,280
still very much above average per grant shooting, excellent wrist

833
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:25,880
snapshot gets in, he shoots often, his good accuracy gets

834
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,480
a shot off from prime locations in the ice. His

835
00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:31,199
ability to get wide open looks from between the face

836
00:44:31,199 --> 00:44:34,000
off circles and the power play will disappear at higher levels,

837
00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:36,440
but he should still be able to get off to

838
00:44:36,519 --> 00:44:38,320
the center of the ice to get his shots off

839
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,800
iq When he has the puck. He sees the ice

840
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,280
very well at high speed, finds space or teammates at will.

841
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,920
It seems his offensive awareness is quite high and he

842
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,679
finds soft spots better than anyone else on his team.

843
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:58,440
Very low panic threshold, quite confident. Defensive awareness in his

844
00:44:58,519 --> 00:45:02,679
own zone can be shocking at times for checking. Not

845
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,519
a very physical player, he will lose far more board

846
00:45:05,519 --> 00:45:07,960
battles than he wins, will rely on his stick or

847
00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:11,480
feet rather than a body, and on defense recovers well

848
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,360
when he makes a bad pinch or a turnover in

849
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,719
the other team's end, not a bad one on one

850
00:45:16,159 --> 00:45:18,800
when he can rely on his own mobility. His awareness

851
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,960
in his own end is below average as he struggles

852
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,639
to pick up open players, he struggles to box out

853
00:45:23,639 --> 00:45:26,199
in front of his own net, blows the defensive zone

854
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,480
sometimes as a defender, a lot of work to do there.

855
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,559
So the best asset by a mile is the skating

856
00:45:31,639 --> 00:45:34,039
per Grant, he'd be in the top thirty in skating

857
00:45:34,199 --> 00:45:37,639
right now in the NHL. And the biggest concern the defense,

858
00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:40,440
the durability. There's a pile of defenders who lit it

859
00:45:40,519 --> 00:45:44,320
up offensively in junior or college hockey couldn't transition to

860
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,280
the pro game because of defense. He's got a slight build,

861
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,039
does take some big hits at time, so Grant's a

862
00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:52,880
little concerned about what's going to happen at the pro level.

863
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,079
The top tier outcome first unit power play quarterback twenty

864
00:45:57,079 --> 00:46:00,119
minutes a game, sixty five to seventy five points. The

865
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,800
justification Grant says he's got as much offensive ability as

866
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,800
Cale mccarr or Quinn Hughes, but he's well behind either

867
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,239
of those players in his overall game. The median outcome,

868
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,760
second unit power play quarterback fifteen to seventeen minutes a

869
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:18,239
night while being sheltered twenty five to thirty five points.

870
00:46:18,599 --> 00:46:21,559
If it's this scenario, healthy scratch at times up and

871
00:46:21,599 --> 00:46:24,760
down to the ahl. Think Kail and Addison or similar

872
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,920
the justification a player who struggles defensively is only worth

873
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,559
playing if they can produce at a high rate. Bret

874
00:46:31,559 --> 00:46:34,280
could struggle the bridge that gap at times as he

875
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:38,639
moves up and down stylistic comparable then Cale mccarr at

876
00:46:38,639 --> 00:46:40,920
the ceiling, Kialan Addison at the floor. Well, that settles

877
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,719
it for the final thoughts, per cand be phenomenal at times,

878
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,239
takes over the games offensively. After seeing a few games,

879
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,000
Grant can see why there were some reservations about including

880
00:46:51,079 --> 00:46:53,360
him on Canada at the World Juniors. But the offense

881
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,400
he brings is extraordinary. Boom or bust guy for sure. Victor,

882
00:46:57,639 --> 00:46:59,320
what is the upside of this fella?

883
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: I didn't even actually look at Grant's description, and my

884
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:11,199
sense has always been that he is a very likely

885
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,880
candidate to be Cale mccarr esque. That's where I think

886
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,679
the upside is. And as Grant mentioned, he has a

887
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,039
lot of work to do defensively. I don't think it's

888
00:47:22,079 --> 00:47:25,280
come along as far as we would have all hoped,

889
00:47:26,039 --> 00:47:28,000
And if you remember mccarr, a lot of these same

890
00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:30,679
things were said about him. He's small, he's not physical,

891
00:47:31,039 --> 00:47:34,079
he sometimes doesn't gap up or defend well, but that

892
00:47:34,199 --> 00:47:38,880
all changed as he went through college and he progressed,

893
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,800
and obviously he's become one of the best defenders in

894
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,239
the NHL, and he's out there in all situations. He's

895
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:48,159
not a liability defensively, he's a strength. I still think

896
00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:50,000
Prik can get there. I still think he makes a

897
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,679
lot of good plays. He makes a lot of good

898
00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:55,639
stick plays and reads, and he can do some of

899
00:47:55,679 --> 00:47:59,480
those things that you need defensively. He can also not

900
00:47:59,639 --> 00:48:01,679
do them, and he can also make poor decisions and

901
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,480
poor reads, and so I don't really know what's happening there,

902
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,639
whether it's a lack of engagement or whether he's just bored,

903
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,519
or what the issue is. I definitely think he's the

904
00:48:10,599 --> 00:48:12,920
kind of guy that, in the right situation, with the

905
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,400
right partner, can absolutely just be incredible. The hope, though,

906
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,079
is that he doesn't need that, and I definitely understand

907
00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:22,320
the Kayalen Addison. I don't think he's anywhere near as

908
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,119
bad as Kaylen Addison. I think PreK is already about

909
00:48:25,159 --> 00:48:27,679
as good as Kaylan was at his peak in terms

910
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:32,880
of defensively, and I think PreK is much more dynamic offensively,

911
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,480
much more. I definitely think he still has that number

912
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,159
one d upside, but I definitely hear the concerns, and

913
00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:43,400
he certainly could be more of a middle pairing defensive

914
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,199
liability type that makes you a little bit worried, like

915
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,840
a Tyson Barry esque, and I think that would be concerning.

916
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,360
Although he still had significant fantasy upside, even though to

917
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,760
his team it wasn't as helpful.

918
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 2: We're going to put him up in the NHL ranking

919
00:48:57,519 --> 00:48:59,679
poll against the guy who has talked about in the

920
00:48:59,679 --> 00:49:03,480
same breath of him a lot during last year's draft,

921
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,199
covered Zee Bullyam, of course, went three picks later to

922
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,000
the Minnesota Wild, and the people have spoken. Zane Perrek

923
00:49:11,159 --> 00:49:14,480
remains ahead of see Bullyam in their hearts fifty four

924
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,920
point five to forty five point five, Victor Park or Bullyam.

925
00:49:19,159 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: I think everyone knows I've been a big Bullyam fan,

926
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,679
So if it came to who I'm picking for my

927
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,079
real life team, there's no question I'm taking Billiam. I

928
00:49:28,159 --> 00:49:30,599
said he was the best defender in the draft, and

929
00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:32,960
he's the one that I would have wanted, and I

930
00:49:33,039 --> 00:49:35,159
stand by that. Even though he was the sort of

931
00:49:35,159 --> 00:49:37,920
the last of that big group taken. I think that

932
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,000
was a mistake by NHL teams, and I think he's

933
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,119
going to prove that. In terms of fantasy, though, I

934
00:49:43,159 --> 00:49:46,119
definitely am going to take PreK. I think he has

935
00:49:46,199 --> 00:49:49,719
that higher upside, and his defense does need to come aways,

936
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,360
but I don't think it needs to come that far

937
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,119
for him to be just an incredible asset. So I'm

938
00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:57,639
taking Perek, even though I know I love Zeve and

939
00:49:57,679 --> 00:50:00,679
I would like him in real life, and I think

940
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:04,199
that in fantasy it's probably not much not that far apart,

941
00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:07,199
And if you're someone who's a little risk averse, I

942
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,760
would say just take Bulliam, especially because the cost to

943
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,880
get Billiam is probably going to be a lot less

944
00:50:13,559 --> 00:50:16,599
because people aren't necessarily as excited about him. He's doing

945
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:20,559
really well at Denver, but he's not maybe grabbing as

946
00:50:20,559 --> 00:50:23,599
many headlines as he did previously. Forty two points in

947
00:50:23,639 --> 00:50:26,159
thirty six games as opposed to fifty points in forty

948
00:50:26,199 --> 00:50:29,079
two games last year. Pretty similar in terms of production

949
00:50:29,199 --> 00:50:32,440
and impact and everything he's incredible. I don't think this

950
00:50:32,519 --> 00:50:34,960
is a downside at all, but because maybe there's a

951
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,519
little less buzz, then maybe you could get a little

952
00:50:37,559 --> 00:50:40,599
bit of a discount on Bulliam.

953
00:50:41,119 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 2: Last guy for us to talk about today, Victor. We've

954
00:50:44,079 --> 00:50:47,559
talked about multiple of those top defensemen taken in the

955
00:50:47,559 --> 00:50:50,000
twenty four draft, so why don't we talk about the

956
00:50:50,079 --> 00:50:56,079
highest drafted not yet discussed. Carter Kimchuk of the Ottawa Senators,

957
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:59,320
picked two spots ahead of Perrek last year. The native

958
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,719
Alberton Yeah, Kimchuk is in his fourth straight year playing

959
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:07,480
for the WHL's Calgary. He's continuing his normal pace of

960
00:51:07,559 --> 00:51:10,119
about a point per game, of the couple of decimals

961
00:51:10,199 --> 00:51:14,360
below last year, but again as a defenseman a point

962
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:19,079
per game. So Patrick FHL Scout has this to say.

963
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,840
Kimchuk skating is above average. He has a good stride

964
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,000
that allows him to get back quickly on defense and

965
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,679
crossovers that help him with his activation in the offensive zone.

966
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,400
He is a very good passer and handler, can stick

967
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,000
handle around other players, usually makes accurate passes to teammates.

968
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,920
Shooting is evidenced by the amount of goals he scored

969
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,880
as a defenseman his shot is very good. The IQ

970
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,480
hockey IQ is just average. Doesn't panic, but the anticipation

971
00:51:45,599 --> 00:51:48,480
is lacking. He often doesn't seem to have a plan

972
00:51:48,599 --> 00:51:52,000
and can go for home run passes rather than creating

973
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:55,840
an attack ford checking. Not afraid to sneak down load

974
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,199
to keep the four check going or get in position

975
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:02,039
for a scoring opportunity at Kemchuk's defense still needs work.

976
00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:05,119
Sometimes forwards will walk around him, and despite his size

977
00:52:05,159 --> 00:52:08,079
and long stick, he loses battles for the puck on

978
00:52:08,119 --> 00:52:11,800
the boards or loses leverage. He's good on puck retrieval

979
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,360
in the defensive zone, able to corral the puck and

980
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:18,400
distribute it. He also seems to have trouble reading forwards.

981
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,519
Best asset then generally the offensive toolkit, But of those parts,

982
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,039
Patrick says the passing in handling is best and the

983
00:52:27,079 --> 00:52:29,800
biggest concern remains the defense. The stick work and time

984
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,800
in of checks needs a lot of work, so the

985
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,360
top tier role or outcome. Lack of high end defense

986
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,159
will limit him to a third or fourth defenseman who

987
00:52:38,199 --> 00:52:41,320
is often on power play one, and that's because the

988
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,880
offensive toolkit is undeniable, but the inadequacies on defense needs

989
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,280
a lot of work. Those are going to limit the upside.

990
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,400
Regardless the median outcome, he could top out as a

991
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,880
fifth or six D who runs powerplay two. That's because

992
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,519
the defensive shortcomings will limit his time on ice. Coaches

993
00:52:56,559 --> 00:53:00,519
won't trust him enough to give him more offensive opportunity unities.

994
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,599
One possible comparison to you, Kemp Chuck is Brent Burns,

995
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:08,519
because there's a lot of offensive ability and a physical game.

996
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,840
That would be a nice little outcome there doesn't sound

997
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:16,480
like maybe sounds more stylistic than upside ish. But Victor,

998
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,360
what do you think the upside is here?

999
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny, he said, Burns. That makes sense. I

1000
00:53:23,679 --> 00:53:27,480
think that I was thinking Carlson, and I think a

1001
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,119
lot of people have mentioned that. A lot of think

1002
00:53:29,159 --> 00:53:31,360
a lot of Senators fans have been thinking Eric Carlson.

1003
00:53:32,639 --> 00:53:35,199
Obviously not quite to that extent, but I think the

1004
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:39,280
similarities are there. I think Burns had some defensive liabilities,

1005
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,559
but I think he was also always a bit better

1006
00:53:41,599 --> 00:53:44,800
defensively than Carlson was. Carlson, just even at his peak,

1007
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,519
had a pension for making some really bonehead defensive plays

1008
00:53:48,079 --> 00:53:52,519
and not always being amable. Though he could play in

1009
00:53:52,559 --> 00:53:55,639
all situations. Right he was out there, he drove offense

1010
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,920
well enough to push the team back on their heels

1011
00:53:59,039 --> 00:54:03,119
and to not have to insulate him in any significant way,

1012
00:54:03,199 --> 00:54:06,679
although some argue that maybe they should have insulated him more,

1013
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,000
but with a really strong defensive partner. Both Burns and

1014
00:54:10,039 --> 00:54:12,840
Carlson were elite, and obviously they played together at times,

1015
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:16,119
which was awkward and never really worked. But in terms

1016
00:54:16,119 --> 00:54:18,440
of what I think for Yakamchuk, I think he's more

1017
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,920
similar to Carlson in that way, who he's pretty high event.

1018
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,360
When he's out there, things happen one way or another.

1019
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,400
He tends to make really highlight reel plays. Offensively, he

1020
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,000
can drive play, push the puck, push the pace forward.

1021
00:54:30,039 --> 00:54:33,599
But also defensively, sometimes he just makes some really egregious mistakes.

1022
00:54:34,039 --> 00:54:36,159
But overall, I think some of those, some of the

1023
00:54:36,199 --> 00:54:39,960
defensive liability issues are a bit overblown, just because when

1024
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,280
he does make mistakes, they're usually really bad and really obvious,

1025
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,760
like letting guys walk him, turning him inside out, those

1026
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,920
kinds of things that just optically really bad. But if

1027
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,400
you look at the whole of the game and how

1028
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:55,599
he did, it's usually nowhere near that bad. So I

1029
00:54:55,599 --> 00:54:57,039
think he can get up there. I think he can

1030
00:54:57,079 --> 00:55:00,320
get up there to be maybe seventy eighty percent eric

1031
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,400
Carlson was in terms of being an elite talent. I

1032
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,960
think he has the offense to be similar, and I

1033
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,000
think the defensive game can come up enough. And I

1034
00:55:09,039 --> 00:55:12,480
think that part of the reason why the Autawa Center

1035
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,960
has picked him so high is and ahead of some

1036
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,920
of the other guys, is that he does have that frame.

1037
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,840
He is big, he is physical. He can protect the

1038
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:23,960
net a little bit better, even if his offense maybe

1039
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,519
isn't his dynamic as someone like PreK. He has the

1040
00:55:26,519 --> 00:55:29,079
physicality to clear guys out in front, and he likes

1041
00:55:29,079 --> 00:55:30,840
to do that. I think that there's definitely a pretty

1042
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:31,800
high upside here.

1043
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,559
Speaker 2: Man. What is seventy percent of Eric Carlson? What is that,

1044
00:55:35,679 --> 00:55:38,320
Vince done? What? I'm trying to figure that out? A

1045
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,039
seventy percent of Eric Carlson's real? Dang good man? All right,

1046
00:55:42,159 --> 00:55:45,920
Let's put him up against a competition of another very

1047
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:50,960
highly drafted defenseman by a Canadian team from the year

1048
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,920
before you Kempchuk went, and that's David Reinbacker, who went

1049
00:55:54,119 --> 00:55:57,000
to the Montreal Canadians with the fifth pick of the

1050
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,800
twenty twenty three draft and you kin chok how to

1051
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,159
defeats Ryan Backer sixty one to thirty nine percent victor.

1052
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,000
Is that the way you'd rank these two?

1053
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I think the hate that Ryhan Backer,

1054
00:56:12,079 --> 00:56:16,079
or the frustration or whatever he's gotten has been really overblown.

1055
00:56:16,079 --> 00:56:18,280
I think he's going to be a really solid player.

1056
00:56:18,559 --> 00:56:21,880
I don't think he's going to be a super awesome

1057
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,000
fantasy asset. He's also been he hasn't been. He hasn't

1058
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,440
played that much this year because of injuries, so it's

1059
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,639
really hard to say how he's progressed. But I think overall,

1060
00:56:30,679 --> 00:56:32,320
from what we've seen of him, he looks like he's

1061
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,519
going to be fine. Like he's gonna be probably a mivring,

1062
00:56:36,119 --> 00:56:39,360
maybe he compower play, maybe not die, but just a

1063
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,559
good setting force for the team. Not necessarily someone you're

1064
00:56:43,639 --> 00:56:48,079
gonna want in fantasy. Yakamchucks is definitely more exciting in

1065
00:56:48,119 --> 00:56:52,119
all sorts of ways. He's exciting for your team and

1066
00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:54,599
exciting for the offense I can bring, also exciting for

1067
00:56:54,639 --> 00:56:57,639
the other team because when he's out there, there's opportunities

1068
00:56:57,679 --> 00:57:01,840
to score and to things for things to happen. One way,

1069
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,679
or another, and so there's just more high events happening

1070
00:57:04,679 --> 00:57:06,719
with the Yakhamchuk. But I definitely would take him between

1071
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,840
the two, just because the upside is so much higher.

1072
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,679
And right now his pench ley is clucking in at seventy.

1073
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,280
I think that's actually possible for him. I think he

1074
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,559
can get to that fifty five sixty plus with the

1075
00:57:17,639 --> 00:57:20,119
right situation, the right power play. Things are trending up

1076
00:57:20,119 --> 00:57:22,199
in Ottawa, and I think that he's looking like he

1077
00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:24,920
could be that power play quarterback of the future. They

1078
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,840
definitely like Jake Sanderson in that role too. He's one

1079
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,559
of those can do everything kind of guy. I think

1080
00:57:30,679 --> 00:57:32,599
if you have Yakamchuk on the team, he needs to

1081
00:57:32,639 --> 00:57:34,800
run the power play. That's what he has. There's not

1082
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,719
much out there if he's not in an offensive role,

1083
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,559
So I would imagine he takes that from Sanderson when

1084
00:57:41,599 --> 00:57:43,320
the time comes. So I wouldn't worry about that if

1085
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,159
you're worried about that as a as someone who has Yakamchuck.

1086
00:57:46,199 --> 00:57:48,480
If you're someone who has Sanderson, I would be worried

1087
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,360
about that because it does seem like he might not

1088
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:53,800
be long for that role. But yeah, I definitely like Yakamchuk.

1089
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:57,000
He's definitely a bit risky in terms of his hitting

1090
00:57:57,039 --> 00:58:00,320
his full potential, but there's also a pretty big upside there.

1091
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,519
Speaker 2: Hey, who doesn't like seeing things happen? Who doesn't like

1092
00:58:03,559 --> 00:58:07,679
seeing things happen? Victor, let's chere for that, Ictor. That

1093
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,559
is the group of prospects that we have to talk about.

1094
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,079
What else do you want to let people know before

1095
00:58:13,079 --> 00:58:13,840
we get out of here?

1096
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jesse, we're coming up on our team preview series

1097
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,039
that's going to start in May, and one of the

1098
00:58:20,039 --> 00:58:22,239
things that we always do related to that is we

1099
00:58:22,519 --> 00:58:24,800
scout some of the players, some of the prospects related

1100
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:26,920
to that. So if you're interested in being a scout,

1101
00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:29,800
shoot me a DM on Twitter, discord er email us.

1102
00:58:30,199 --> 00:58:33,880
There's a pretty it's not too difficult. Usually you take

1103
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,280
all the players from one team and we spread it

1104
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:40,119
out amongst all the scouts, so amongst all thirty two teams.

1105
00:58:40,199 --> 00:58:42,519
Usually you do a couple of those for the whole season,

1106
00:58:42,639 --> 00:58:45,199
for the whole summer series, and so it's usually not

1107
00:58:45,239 --> 00:58:47,239
too much work. It's a lot of fun and you

1108
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,800
get your reports read on the show, so it's a

1109
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,719
good time. So yeah, definitely reach out if you're interested

1110
00:58:52,719 --> 00:58:56,000
in that and looking forward to the team preview series.

1111
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,480
It's always amountain of work, Jesse, but it's pre rewarding

1112
00:58:58,519 --> 00:59:00,079
and hopefully people enjoy that.

1113
00:59:01,639 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 2: We'll be right back to close out of the show.

1114
00:59:13,119 --> 00:59:15,800
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