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Speaker 1: Staylock barks Here's your hosts, Jesse Severer and Victor Nuno.

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Speaker 2: Fantasy Hockey lie back once again. Victor Nuno myself. We're

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Victor is the hockey doctor. And what are you doing today, Victor?

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What you're doing? How you doing when you're doing I

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Speaker 2: Right after this, we're going to release The Crack.

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Speaker 1: We'd like to welcome back this year.

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Speaker 2: I guess we've had on the past to talk to

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Seattle Kracking. It is RJ of Emerald City Hockey. RJ.

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Speaker 3: How you doing doing great? Thanks for having me on.

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I always look forward to this every year.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, we really appreciate having you. Seattle is getting

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things cooking as far as having a media equosphere out there,

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and you're a big part of that. But it's still

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getting established. So we got to talk about the Cracking

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and you talk about it a lot. It was. It

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was a rough year, there's no way around it. I'll

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try not to depress you too much, but this is

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that you're living this all the time. They came into

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the season I thought, with hopes of improvement after year

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three was a big fall off from that year two

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where they knocked off the Avalanche and the playoffs and

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all the great things were happening. They declined by five

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standing points. They declined by two spots in the Pacific

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Division standings. They scored thirty one more goals than the

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prior year, but unfortunately allowed thirty more goals to score

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in them, and at the end of the season Dan

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Bosma paid the price at the end of his first

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season as coach. Now, Jason Bottrel rejoins the Chat as

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the GM former GM in Buffalo, And like I was

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saying to you before we got on, it seemed to

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me like the Kraken were just setting things up the

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way that I would dream of an organization getting set

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up at the beginning. You embrace analytics, you build really

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smart from a fresh start. You put on a top

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five broadcast team in the NHL. You gotta lead jerseys

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and color schemes. I'm sorry, that matters to me. We

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got a lot of players that we'll get into individually,

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and obviously the goalies will be some of them. But

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from thirty thousand feet what happened this year, RJ, and

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how is it going to be fixed?

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Speaker 3: As you mentioned, there was a lot of success off

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the ice so far for the Kraken, but on the

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ice yet it was a disappointment of a year no

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matter how you look at it. Where going into last

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season you make a couple big additions in Chandler Stevenson

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and Brandon Montor and it felt like the put up

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or shut up year for the Krack and they needed

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to turn it around after disappointing year three, and as

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you said, it didn't work out. And I like that

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you pointed out the goals for and goals against because

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I do think that highlights a big issue for the

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team where really, for the first time since year two,

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they actually could score enough.

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Speaker 1: They were putting the puck.

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Speaker 3: In the net without a ton of problems, but focus,

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especially defensively, was a major issue for the team. This

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is among the worst, probably the worst defensive hockey I've

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seen from the Kraken, and that might even go back

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to year one where everything was just rough on their

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first season, and I think that is what did Dan

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Biles my in the fact that there couldn't be a

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dustments made to solve the defensive issues. I think part

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of it was leaning a bit too heavily on the

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defenseman for offense where they had to do too much

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Vince done reference, trying to do too much in the

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postseason player interviews. But really, at the end of the day,

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this roster also just was not talented enough. And I

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think it leaves so little margin for error that if

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you do have those off nights. One of the big

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stats people bring up is they were zero to twelve

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on the second half of back to backs and the

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team's still trying to figure out what went wrong there.

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falter at all, the roster is just not good enough

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Speaker 4: Indeed, and we're going to talk about these individual players now,

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and we're going to start with Jared McCann. Jared McCann.

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He has been a pretty consistent producer for the most part,

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but since his twenty twenty two to twenty three season,

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McCann has trended down in point pays from seventy three

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to sixty four to sixty one, all while his time

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on ice has risen. He is getting a bit older.

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He's thirty one, now and or sorry, he's twenty eight

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now almost twenty nine. He'll be thirty one at the

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end of his deal, which he's in year three of

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year five. A lot of the underlying still look good.

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He's generating a lot of offense sixty nine percentile for offense. Defensively,

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he's pretty average, doesn't give up too much in that

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sweet spot there. So I think the question Rja here

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is was that seventy seventy three point pace. Was that

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an outlier or is he can he get back to that?

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pace guy that we should expect we should expect that

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Speaker 3: I think it depends on the quality of teammates around him,

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but I know he's never had a ton of talents

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around him with the Kraken. But I think the biggest

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area to look at this past season is the power

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play production and how much that went down. When you

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go four months between power play goals as a teams

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should be leading goal scorer, that tells you a lot.

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I think it's also a lack of creativity from the

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power play coaching from Bob Woods and Jess Campbell. We

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know Jess Campbell Wi'll be back with some form with

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the organization, but I would imagine they probably bring in

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a power play specialist assistant coach. So from that perspective

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on the power play production, I like Jared McCann to

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bounce back next season, but I do think unless the

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Kraken get a real playmaker, a difference maker to play

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with him, this level of production is probably what he's

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going to be at. I'd expect it to bounce back

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a little bit from a shooting perspective shooting percentage standpoint,

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just because he was snake bitten for a lot of

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the year, but sixty to sixty five point range probably

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still realistic.

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Speaker 2: Good old jere McCann the leading scorer for the Crack

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and I believe in every year of the team. Mystery

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at this point.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And one more thing to mention on McCann, Sorry

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that I forgot he did mention at the end of

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the season that he was going to have a surgery

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because he'd been playing through an injury for I think

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most if not all, of the season, So that is

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something to note as well. That probably had something to

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do with the lack of goal production. I think he

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made up for it by trying to be a little

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bit more of a playmaker this year, but he was

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dealing with something all year.

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Speaker 2: Chandler Stevenson. We talked about Stevenson on a recent episode.

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I noted in that he was a close second on

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the team in most forward minutes played, so he was

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a workhorse out there. I'm not sure if he's going

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to be able to live up to an eight year

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contract that is going to last into his late thirties,

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but eight times six point twenty five doesn't look too

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bad right now. So far, so good. He was eighth

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in the league in face off wins, and the following

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stat amazed me. He scored fifty one points in seventy

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eight games without taking even one shot a game. He

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had seventy two shots in seventy eight games. That's amazing.

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We'll be talking about some of the young centermen still

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filling moving into the top tier of this team, but

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what do you make of Stevenson's impact and could you

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see him getting back at least to the mid sixties

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type point scoring that he used to get in Vegas.

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Speaker 3: You talk about the shots on goal, only seventy two

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on the season. Man, he is not a volume shooter,

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but when he does shoot, it seems to go in.

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It felt pretty lucky to me this season. I were

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a lot of plays where the goalie really should have

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stopped the shot. On his thirteen goals, maybe half of them,

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I would prit in that category. But he's consistently done

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that over the course of his career, shooting at a

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pretty high percentage, so maybe that itself is sustainable. What

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I worry about for Stevenson from a fantasy perspective because

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by the way, I think he's a much better fantasy

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player than he's a real life player. Defensive metrics don't

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impact a guy a ton in fantasy, I feel like,

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but I worry that his role could be eaten into

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a little bit. Matty Benier is already the number one

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center for the crack and for the second half of

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the season. But Shane Wright, that's the key player to

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look at. And I know we're going to talk about

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him later, but Shane was in a bottom six role

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all season and he only really ever played top six

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minutes for a few games.

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Speaker 1: While Chandler Stevenson was out.

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Speaker 3: But I have to imagine that's going to change next

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season because look, he's Shane, right, He's a top four pick.

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You want to get that player into a top six

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role in the future if you're going to be successful,

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and the person who's minutes that's going to eat away

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at it, it has to be Chandler Stevenson, and so

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i'd be wary of that. I don't know how much

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of it happens right away. They've been really slow on

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bringing Shane right along. But when he does take that

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next step, it's coming at Stevenson's roles expense.

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Speaker 2: Our first points. Pick him here, I'll give you two

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established veterans on this team to see which one you

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think is gonna be in for the better year next year.

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You got Jaden Schwartz, who had a nice little kind

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of I wouldn't say a career renaissance, but he had

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some hot periods last year twenty six goals, twenty three

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assists for eighty one in eighty one games, so forty

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nine points. And then Jordan Everley had another of his

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solid years but only played half the season. Nine goals

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seventeen assists for forty three in forty three games and

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again twenty six points Schwartz And everly, what's your expectation

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of next year? Which one you'd rather see for at

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least a fantasy perspective or observations you have on the players.

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Speaker 1: Jaden Schwartz. I love what he did this past season.

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Speaker 3: Staying healthy was a big key, and that's where I

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might pick Everley over Schwartz next year, just on the

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likelihood of staying healthy.

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Speaker 1: But Schwartz was able to stay healthy.

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Speaker 3: He's one of the few cracking players that actually goes

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to the net and goes to those scoring areas and

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debt and the goal production. This year he had great

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chemistry with Matty Bevenier's and Coppocco and then Jordan Eberley. Yeah,

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he misses half the year with a really weird injury,

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like a pelvic injury that it really unseen before in

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the NHL or in pro sports actually, but he managed

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to recover from that get back to his game a

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lot faster than people thought. And he just feels like

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one of those ageless guys to me, who the way

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that he plays, the heads up playmaker style, just finding

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guys with passes feels like it's going to age pretty well,

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even though he's on the older side. So it's a

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tough pick him here. If they both stay healthy, I'll

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say Jaden Schwartz, but I don't know. I just he

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has that injury history and is he going to stay

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fully healthy for two years in a row playing the

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style of game he plays, going to the net getting

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beat up.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: He's someone that I might pinpoint for some injury regression there. Unfortunately,

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I'd love him to stay healthy, love what he does.

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But that's how I see it.

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Speaker 4: That points pick him was so much fun. Let's do

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another one. So I have Capokaco and Shane Wright, both

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recently mentioned by you, so a little bit different here

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in terms of their role. CaCO had fifteen thirty seven

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average time on ice with a minute and a half

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on the power play, and Wright had fourteen oh four

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time on ice with almost two minutes on the power play.

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Both had forty four points and just under eighty two

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games for a forty six point pace, so on the

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surface they can look similar. Obviously, CaCO been around a

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little bit longer right, still developing, earning him and maybe

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has more to give. I think I would lean that

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way in terms of if I had to pick for

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next year, what do you think inn RJ Wright or Cocko.

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Speaker 3: I would go Shane right, and it's not really close

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for me. I do have some concerns about a bit

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of a sophomore slump, just given that he's going to

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be moved into.

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Speaker 1: A top six role at some point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hasn't had much practice with that, but there is

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so much meat on the bone here as far as

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a role, as far as ice tim if you look,

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he's averaging about fourteen minutes of ice time all of

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this season, and if you take the time from just

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after he was a healthy scratch in November, and that's

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really when his season turned around.

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Speaker 1: This past year.

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Speaker 3: I believe he's top ten or top fifteen and points

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per sixty among NHL players anybody, and he's in company

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like a Nathan McKinnon.

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Speaker 1: Braden point.

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Speaker 3: He was scoring at an insane rate based on the

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minutes that he was playing. He had an incredible stretch

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and if he gets more opportunity, you would think that

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role would increase, the scoring would increase. And also after

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the end of the year too, he mentioned he needs

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to be a little bit more selfish. It's rare to

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hear that from a young hockey player, but he said

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he's been told his shooting percentage, which I believe was

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almost twenty one percent this past year, that was too high.

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He's got to shoot more. Get that shooting percentage down,

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which sounds a little weird. But he's committed to being

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a bit more of a volume shooter, and I think

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we're going to see the volume in shots there, which

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is good for fantasy, but also that's going to translate

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into more scoring. Sorry, I didn't talk much about Coppo Coco.

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I do love the chemistry with Matti Banier's. They were

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the kind of the crack. It's proper first line. He's

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gonna get plenty of opportunity in ice time as well,

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and we'll see how that chemistry goes forward from one

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season the next, especially with a new head coach. That's

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what worries me a little bit too, is I thought

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he was a great fit in Dan Bilesmith's system and

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a really breath of fresh air as far as what

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they needed soar as a forward with size, But with

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a new coach, I don't know it could work out

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just as well. But I until I know who the

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coach is. It's hard for me to tell.

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Speaker 2: We made it all the way to this point without

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talking about Matti Beniers directly. I believe it was last

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year you told me in I apologies, I don't want

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to miss misrepresent but that Beniirs is probably not going

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to take that leap that I've hoped for in scoring.

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Correct me if I'm wrong here, I don't want to No,

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I think you're right your mouth there, but I'd say

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you were pretty accurate actually in terms of the production

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is he continued at that roughly half point per game

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pace despite leading the forwards on this team in minute

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so he's definitely getting the time out there his career.

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What your best season remains is that great second year

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of Seattle that was effectively he had ten games in

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their first year, and then that was really the sophomore

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season I think it was called eligible, the one where

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they upset the Avalanche in the playoffs. He continues to

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be blowwater on face offs now he doesn't take very

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many penalties, so that's a positive for the team. What

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did you see a Beniir's progress this year and where

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is the upside headed.

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Speaker 1: I'm encouraged by his progress as a player.

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Speaker 3: I think he's anti Chandler Stevenson, where he's not gonna

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do much for you in fantasy, but as a real

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life player, he's already one of the best defensive centers

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in the NHL, and you can see that with his

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work in the D zone. But like I said, it

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doesn't do much for you in fantasy. Here, I think

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points wise, you're probably looking at fifty point upside. Realistically,

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I think it could be a little higher than it

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was this year with a full season with Coppocco. Coco

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just unlocked something in Matti Benier's game, but I would

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not rely on Matty Benier's for offensive upside. Fantasy wise.

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He's gonna be in that top line shut down other teams.

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Top line rolls, it kind of roll, but I don't

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know how much he really does for you in fantasy.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna do yet another points Pickham And if you're

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wondering why we're doing so many pick thems, it's that

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these guys are similar. There's a lot of guys that

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are similar in terms of point pace, and so we

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want to figure out if we can just have some

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discrepancy between the two. So this one is Andre Berukowsky

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and Elliott tolvan In. So Burukowski thirty five points in

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eighty one games, thirty eight point pace, had fourteen and

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a half minutes time on ice with a minute and

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a half on the power play. Tolvanin had thirty five

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points also in eighty one games, also also similar point pace,

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thirteen eighteen or thirteen nineteen time on ice, forty eight

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seconds power play. So definitely a little bit lower role

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for Tolvanen. Or if I were betting, it would be

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on Burakovski. What do you think, RJ?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that bet would be pretty well placed.

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I would go Andre Berukowski, and especially with how he

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finished the season, he had incredible right and I think

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played his way out of a buyout, because if you

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had asked me a month or two ago, I would

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tell you, Yeah, berkhops, he's not gonna be on this

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team next year. He's gonna be bought out. But I

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think he's played his way out of it. Yeah, I'm

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trying to figure out the Yeah, last fourteen games the

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season he had thirteen points. He really figured things out.

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He's when he's on his game, he's a zone entry machine.

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He's one of the few guys who can get clean

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zone entries for the Kraken, and so I think they're

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gonna want.

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Speaker 1: To see if he can get back to his former self.

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Speaker 3: And Ellie Tolvenan I had a great season twenty three goals.

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I believe that's a career high for him, But I

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just I don't know how sustainable that shooting percentage is.

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I think it's a little bit high. I would expect

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that to regress a little bit next year. I love

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how well rounded he is. He's a perfect middle six

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kind of guy that can be thrown into whatever role.

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But that doesn't necessarily mean a ton of scoring where

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he's gonna help you though as the hits like.

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Speaker 1: He is a hitting machine.

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Speaker 3: I think led the team again this year and among

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the top in the league, and so he is going

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to someone who's gonna lay the body. I just don't

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think that twenty three goals is really sustainable.

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Speaker 4: One of the young guys here, Yanni Newman, I was

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really excited to see him get a little bit of

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a role. He's someone that I've been tracking and had

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some faith in making it because it didn't always look

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that way. But he had a little bit of a

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simple size at the end twelve games to end the

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season with six points forty one point pace if you

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extrapolate that out. Small sample size, so hard to know

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if he's really a half point per game player. But

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had a really strong HL season for a Coachella Valley

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and when he did play, he had a decent amount

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of power play time. It looks like they were giving

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him an actual good look in a scoring role, which

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was nice to see. This is his first year of

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EGE entry level, He's got plenty of time to figure

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this out. You look at some of whose underlying analytics

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in those twelve games, it wasn't great. Some of the

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course against all that was subpar. But that's what you

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can expect from a young player. So what do you

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think we're going to see from Newman next year? Do

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you think he'll be full time with the big club

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or maybe split time and then what he see us

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his upside.

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Speaker 3: Think less he falters in training camp, he's going to

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be full time on this roster. I think the Cracker

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could really use somebody like him. And the power play

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is the key part because already this season he added

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a key element to the crack and power play that

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they were missing. I think right now, Yonnie Newman has

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the best one timer in the organization and it's not

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particularly close, and so they were just feeding that one timer,

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especially early with him on the power play, and it

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was super effective. He has got a hell of a shot,

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a top level NHL shot already. The skating needs some work,

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the hockey sense still needs a little calibrating to the

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NHL level. There's still a lot to work out with him,

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especially defensively, but that shot is legit, and I think

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the crack and are going to want to find.

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Speaker 1: Ways to use it.

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Speaker 3: Because for a team that has struggled with goal scoring

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in the past, it was a little better this season.

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They don't have too many guys with a shot like

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that who can be that dynamic scoring threat. So I

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think he's still going to be eased in a little bit.

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Don't expect top six minutes off the bat. He's still

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going to be sheltered, I think quite a bit. But

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they're gonna find ways to use him, especially on the

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power play, and so as a depth pickup, I think

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he's a guy to go get if you're in a

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deeper league and I'm glad you brought him up because

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if you didn't, I was going to. I think that's

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my depth sleeper guy. As far as the cracking forwards

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next season, let's move over to.

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Speaker 2: The blue line. Vince Dunn missed nineteen games due to

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an upper body injury near the beginning of the season,

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but after returning he continued his twenty two plus average

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time on ies two shots a block. He was a

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big positive to the five on five offense, but not

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as much of a strength for the team on defense

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according to some of the advanced metrics. What do you

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think of Vince Dunn's year? And you talked about the

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defense getting a lot of burden this year, what do

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you expect from him in the future.

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Speaker 3: I think Vince Dunn wore it the most this season

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as far as the burden placed on the defense, and

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he talked about it a little bit after the season.

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Just trying to do too much. I think you see

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that in the production, but that in the defensive numbers

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as well. There were so many times where Vince Done

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this season was just trying to do it all himself

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because things weren't going well for the forwards, because someone

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needed to do something, and often that would mean a

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dangerous pass up the middle of the ice trying to

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find somebody streaking to the zone. It would mean a

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turnover in the area where he's trying to weave around

481
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,759
a couple guys. I think that kind of got frustrating

482
00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:15,359
for him. But ultimately, with Vince Dunn, you know what

483
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,720
you're getting. It's a forward who can help move the

484
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,359
puck up the ice, somebody who is very good offensively.

485
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,519
I thought he was good on the power play, especially

486
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,559
later on the season, but he is one of the Actually,

487
00:22:24,559 --> 00:22:26,079
there were three players at the end of the year

488
00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:29,039
that said they need to be more selfish next season.

489
00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:31,359
It's Vince Dun, Jared McCann and Shane Wright, and I think,

490
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,839
especially in the offensive zone, Vince Dunn felt he needed

491
00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:36,880
to be more selfish, shoot the puck a little bit more,

492
00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:38,680
and so I think that's something he's gonna look to

493
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,000
do next season, just because it went so well for

494
00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:42,920
him this year when he did shoot the pucks. So

495
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,799
I'd say expect more of the same from Vince Dunn.

496
00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:49,279
But keep in mind that a rising tide lifts all ships,

497
00:22:49,559 --> 00:22:51,720
and so I think if this cracking team gets better

498
00:22:51,799 --> 00:22:54,319
if they make some key additions at forward this offseason,

499
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,640
expect vince Dun's numbers to be better because he'll be

500
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,440
playing with better players. But he's going to get the

501
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,359
most out of forwards that he plays with, and just

502
00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:04,559
he's going to be as good as the players around

503
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,359
him and helped elevate them and himself.

504
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:13,519
Speaker 2: The other big defenseman was last season's big free agent signing,

505
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,640
Brandon Montour. He stayed healthy all year. He chipped in

506
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,559
a fair bit of production with half a point three shots,

507
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,839
a hit, and a black per game. Advanced stats were

508
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,799
not quite as kind to him as the power play

509
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,400
was pretty rough scoring wise when he was out there,

510
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,079
although five on five it seems that he might have

511
00:23:32,519 --> 00:23:34,960
pushed them a little more positive. What do you think

512
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,079
of Montour's first year out there for the Kraken.

513
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 3: I thought he was one of the krakens better players.

514
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,079
You see the eighteen goals that stand out a career

515
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,039
high for him. He was just great putting the puck

516
00:23:45,079 --> 00:23:47,559
in the net. A lot of those against the Montreal Canadians.

517
00:23:47,599 --> 00:23:49,519
I think he had seven of those against in the

518
00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:52,279
two games against Montreal. He just ate against them, but

519
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,119
still overall good from a production standpoint, I think, like

520
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,319
Vince Done, he was a victim of the defense having

521
00:23:57,319 --> 00:23:59,440
to do too much, trying to do too much, and

522
00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:02,200
so the defensive numbers aren't going to be great. But

523
00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:05,200
he's a workhorse out there. I think he averaged like

524
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,519
twenty three minutes a game, and especially when Vince Dunn

525
00:24:08,599 --> 00:24:10,400
was out with an injury at the start of the season,

526
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,519
Montor just picked up that slack no problem. And so

527
00:24:13,759 --> 00:24:15,839
he's gonna be a workhorse again next season. It's like

528
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,440
Done in Montor are going to drive that blue line.

529
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,160
They're both gonna play big minutes. They're gonna produce. Montor

530
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,519
loves to shoot the puck. I had Done talked about

531
00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:25,000
maybe want to shoot a little bit more. I don't

532
00:24:25,039 --> 00:24:27,200
know that Montor could have shot the puck more. He

533
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,079
loved just throwing the puck on net. So he's gonna

534
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,400
get you those shots on goal as well. But yeah,

535
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,000
you know what you're getting with him.

536
00:24:33,759 --> 00:24:36,799
Speaker 4: Last guy we're gonna talk about for the defense, Ryker

537
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,160
Evans been of a step forward in his first full

538
00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:42,759
NHL season. He went from thirty six games played to

539
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,640
seventy three games played, and he ended up having a

540
00:24:46,759 --> 00:24:50,839
twenty seven point pace, five goals, nineteen a sists, increases

541
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,839
ice time from nineteen eleven to nineteen twenty nine just

542
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,559
forty four seconds on average. On the power play wasn't

543
00:24:56,599 --> 00:24:59,559
really a huge role for him, but nice, nice big

544
00:24:59,599 --> 00:25:02,359
step four were there. There was definitely a lot of

545
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,480
injuries done missing he was able to fill in there.

546
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,319
Some of his periferles aren't too bad. He ends up

547
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,119
he's right around four block shots and hits per game

548
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,000
if you add all those together, So that's a pretty

549
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,680
decent perferle coverage. He's done with his entry level and

550
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,160
RFA this summer. That's I'm sure going to be a

551
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,759
big topic of discussion, and I'd love to hear your

552
00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:24,960
thoughts on what you think we can expect there bridge

553
00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:28,160
versus long term. For me, I'd probably want to sign

554
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,319
him fairly long term. In terms of his metrics, his

555
00:25:31,519 --> 00:25:34,440
expected goals against was pretty awesome. He seems to be

556
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,440
pretty good defensively, not as much offensive creation as maybe

557
00:25:38,519 --> 00:25:41,000
you would think or hope for. His expected goals for

558
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,160
was actually really awful this season. So I'm wondering what

559
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,559
you saw with your eyes there in terms of that.

560
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,200
So what do you think we can expect RJ from

561
00:25:50,079 --> 00:25:53,000
Evans this summer, and especially with the contract and the

562
00:25:53,079 --> 00:25:55,160
upcoming point pace for the following season.

563
00:25:56,079 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 3: I think it'll be really interesting to see whether he

564
00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:00,920
gets a Bridge dealer a long term. I know the

565
00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:02,920
organization is high on him and they like him. I

566
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,920
imagined they would try and sign him long term, but

567
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,319
I have a couple concerns on that, just because, first off,

568
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,519
at the end of the season, he was not himself.

569
00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:15,279
Like the last ten fifteen games or so, he was

570
00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:18,920
pretty bad and just not in the right place defensively,

571
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,759
he was even healthy scratched for a little bit of that.

572
00:26:21,599 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: But I know he's got better in him.

573
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,759
Speaker 3: It's just one of those stretches for a young player

574
00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:28,039
where he didn't look very good. I think that might

575
00:26:28,079 --> 00:26:30,559
bring the contracted value down a little bit, but we'll

576
00:26:30,559 --> 00:26:32,559
see kind of what direction they go. If I'm Evans,

577
00:26:32,599 --> 00:26:34,759
I'm thinking, man, maybe I do want to go bridge

578
00:26:34,799 --> 00:26:36,559
deal and bet on myself a little bit here. After

579
00:26:36,559 --> 00:26:39,839
a bad end of the season but overall solid year.

580
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,319
He filled in really well in the Vince Dunn spot.

581
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:44,480
When Dunn was out with an injury at the start

582
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,400
of the season. He just played with Adam Larson, and

583
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,799
the two of them were just like Done and Larson

584
00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:51,119
more or less, So I think he has that potential

585
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:52,920
to fill in that role. I think he's still blocked

586
00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:56,480
from an offensive standpoint by Vince Dunn and Brandon Montor, and.

587
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,519
Speaker 1: You saw that at the end of the season.

588
00:26:57,559 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 3: One of the things the team was trying to make

589
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,519
work was an Evan Montor de pair, which is something

590
00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:04,440
we might see more next season if the team moves

591
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,799
Jamie Alexiak, which I think they could. Is Evans Montor's

592
00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:09,920
at second depair, which would be a bigger role for him.

593
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,559
But the problem is it does mean he is he

594
00:27:12,599 --> 00:27:15,200
has to be the defensive guy on that depair, and

595
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,000
I think that's something that he had a little trouble

596
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,680
adjusting to because you can't be the puck move the

597
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,200
offensive guy when Brandon Montour is your de partner. You

598
00:27:22,279 --> 00:27:23,880
have to let him do his thing and go all

599
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,920
over the ice. So I think that's an adjustment he

600
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,680
might have to make if the team wants to make

601
00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,000
that work. The other concern I have with him is

602
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,359
Dan Bilsma's gone, and Bosma, of course coached him. Of

603
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,400
course coached him in Coachella Valley for a couple of years.

604
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,119
He has that familiarity with the player he loves, Riker Evans,

605
00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:42,119
and it's still we're still waiting to see who the

606
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,000
next coach is and if they're going to have that

607
00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:45,960
same kind of trust and belief in Evans.

608
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: I still believe in him long term.

609
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 3: I still believe in him next season, especially if they

610
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,480
put him more solidly into that top four role, which

611
00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:55,160
I think they will, but a lot of question marks

612
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:55,880
surrounding him.

613
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, a really interesting offseason for him and we'll look

614
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,599
to see what happens with all of that. Let's shift

615
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,720
over to the goalies. Going into this year, the question

616
00:28:04,839 --> 00:28:06,920
was whether Joey the Cord would pick up where he

617
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,400
left off last season, take the pole position and that

618
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,359
and turns out that's what happened. He definitely grabbed hold

619
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,240
of that and he was essentially the start of playing

620
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,400
fifty seven games to Grubauer's twenty six, which was really good.

621
00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:24,200
As a team, the Cracking ranked twenty fourth in the

622
00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:27,200
NHL unexpected goals against p sixty they ended up twenty

623
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,960
fifth and actual goals for sixty when you look at

624
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,200
the two together, he had goals save above expected for

625
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,920
Decord was twenty. He had twenty point two six, twelfth

626
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,119
in the league, which really nice at even strength. His

627
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,000
delta fenwick was positive and twenty seven wins and twenty

628
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,799
seven losses overall, really good. Goal save above expected. All

629
00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:51,400
of that and he was the Kraken MVP, so he's

630
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,160
gonna need He signed a contract attension this past season,

631
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,240
So all that looks really positive for the Cord And

632
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,680
you look over at Grubauer and it was a difficult season.

633
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,240
There was some injuries, negative goal save above expected, never

634
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:05,359
to twelve point sixty six, one of the worst in

635
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,720
the league. Actually, two guys really trending in the opposite

636
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,200
directions here. So what do you think we can expect

637
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,359
from their goalies last season? More the same, more of

638
00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:16,319
a role for Decord, let's for Grubauer. What are we thinking.

639
00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:20,279
Speaker 3: I'll start with Joey Decord, who was just fantastic this

640
00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:22,279
past season. And he was a workhorse too, don't I

641
00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:24,359
think no goalie played more than him over the last

642
00:29:24,359 --> 00:29:26,519
three months of the season. And I think he's a

643
00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:29,000
real candidate if he stays healthy to lead the NHL

644
00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:31,240
in games played next year. They trust him him with

645
00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:33,759
his work habits, he can handle that heavy load.

646
00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:34,079
Speaker 4: I hope.

647
00:29:34,119 --> 00:29:36,599
Speaker 3: I'm still worried about them burning him out, but we'll see.

648
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,240
But he was excellent, and I think if he was

649
00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:43,000
behind even just a somewhat competent defense this past season,

650
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,640
we'd be talking about him in terms of the Vesna conversation.

651
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,119
Speaker 1: He was that good.

652
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 3: It's just he was hung out to dry so much

653
00:29:49,759 --> 00:29:51,599
by his defense, and so I think if they can

654
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,839
just sort that out defensively somewhat, those numbers that we

655
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,240
see for him are just going to absolutely jump because

656
00:29:57,279 --> 00:29:59,559
he was excellent. Look, I don't like to forecast goalten.

657
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,559
I don't like to predict goaltending because it's just so

658
00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:03,839
hard to predict. But if there's anybody that I'm going

659
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,200
to bet on, it's Joey Decord. I see it just

660
00:30:06,279 --> 00:30:08,559
day and day out, the work habits and everything like.

661
00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:11,480
He does everything he possibly can. So I like him

662
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,319
for next season. Could even be a good bye load,

663
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,319
just given how awful the defense in front of him

664
00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:16,000
this year was.

665
00:30:16,279 --> 00:30:17,759
Speaker 1: And it can't get worse.

666
00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 3: It can't get any worse next year, so I imagine

667
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,559
that's going to improve for him if he keeps this

668
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,200
level of Play, Philip Grubauer, I don't expect to be

669
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,039
on the team next year. I think he's going to

670
00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:29,160
get bought out. I just don't think the crack can

671
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,200
have any choice at this point. He did get a

672
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,160
little better as the season went on, but at the

673
00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:35,640
end of your exit interviews, he essentially said that it

674
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,599
wasn't a confidence thing for him. It was just that

675
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,559
he didn't have enough games to get into a rhythm

676
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,000
and that was the issue. But you know what, that's

677
00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:44,279
the job as a backup. You are going to go

678
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,200
a couple ten fifteen games between start sometimes and he's

679
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:50,440
compared it to just going back till being in preseason

680
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,440
where you're not ready for things and it's all scrambly

681
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,720
and all that stuff. Essentially said that he can't do

682
00:30:54,799 --> 00:30:56,799
his job as a backup, and so I just don't

683
00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:58,960
think the team has any other option really but to

684
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,160
buy him out. I think it's gonna be Joey Dacord

685
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,319
playing the Lions share games next year for the Kraken,

686
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:05,519
and they're gonna have to bring in somebody else as

687
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:07,279
a backup, and so we'll see what they do in

688
00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:10,640
the off season. But Decord's the man I don't expect

689
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,000
Rubauer to be kracking next year.

690
00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: Gotta be tough. The guy wins the Stanley Cup. He's

691
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:21,000
a proud man, but it's not been great going for

692
00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,200
Grooby since that time.

693
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:25,599
Speaker 4: R J.

694
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,359
Speaker 2: You've given us some great insight on these Seattle Kraken

695
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,960
and we shall follow their future with great interest, and

696
00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:36,480
follow your future. Where can people find everything you got

697
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,160
going out there in the Emerald City?

698
00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:41,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have our podcast, the Deep Dive Podcast

699
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,519
that's failable anywhere you get your podcasts and all the

700
00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:46,960
podcast platforms and on YouTube, on social media, on Twitter

701
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,240
and Instagram, we are Emerald City Hky. We also have

702
00:31:50,319 --> 00:31:52,400
a discord server that we like post the links to

703
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,519
on all our socials and everything, and it includes a

704
00:31:54,559 --> 00:31:56,880
little fantasy hockey section where we talk fantasy hockey and

705
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,559
we have a couple ech fantasy hockey leagues just among

706
00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:01,720
our commune because we've got a great community of fans there.

707
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,839
And then finally on patreon dot com slash Emerald City Hockey,

708
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,119
we got a bunch of bonus content.

709
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:06,759
Speaker 1: We do a.

710
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,799
Speaker 3: Weekly podcast about league wide topics and everything, the Red

711
00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:12,079
Glare Podcast. Then we got some bonus stuff for cracking

712
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,240
fans as well. Dylan talks about the prospects. We do

713
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:17,359
a prospect Chat once every month, and then tonight I'm

714
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,839
doing my armchair GM stream where I'm doing a deep

715
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,319
dive on Jason Bottrell and his tenure in Buffalo and

716
00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:24,039
what we can gather from that.

717
00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: That's where you can find us.

718
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,599
Speaker 2: Awesome, Thanks so much for coming on today, RJ, and

719
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good luck and cover in the crack and in the future.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.

721
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: N that's good fire pastop o, my goodness.

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Speaker 4: Long with a quick grab.

723
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Speaker 2: Now it's your wingling goalie talk with Kat Silverman Cats Instincts.

724
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Cats Instincts with Kat Silverman Ingold Mag.

725
00:32:56,599 --> 00:33:00,880
We're talking Seattle cracking goalies and we're going to start

726
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,839
with Nicholas Coco, which might be a surprise to some

727
00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:07,920
and certainly not the order we had last year. But

728
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,559
the twenty one year old six four hundred ninety pounds

729
00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:12,839
was drafted back in twenty twenty two by the Kraken

730
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,279
at fifty eighth overall. This past season, he came over

731
00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:21,799
to North America after season with THELIGA and THELIGA last

732
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:25,519
year and some international play, and he was pretty great

733
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,000
in the for the Coachella Valley Firebirds and the HL

734
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,440
still going and a nine to thirteen save percentage, twenty wins,

735
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,720
ten losses overall pretty good. His one NHL game did

736
00:33:36,759 --> 00:33:39,000
not go well, let in four goals, and that didn't

737
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,079
go really well, but that I've been to some other

738
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,039
NHL goalies for the Kraken Right now, his hockey prospecting

739
00:33:46,119 --> 00:33:48,319
is trending up and up. He's at twenty seven percent

740
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,319
chance of being a starter, which doesn't have the best comparables.

741
00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:54,519
But Johan Hedberg was a replacement level, low level starter.

742
00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:57,039
Maybe that could be his upside. So Kat, what do

743
00:33:57,039 --> 00:34:00,400
your instincts tell us about Nicholas Coco lot.

744
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 5: Of fun to watch? I think the Coachella Valley Firebirds.

745
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,079
I hope that none none of the San Diego goals

746
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:08,960
fans on my daughter's hockey team hear me say this,

747
00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:10,880
But I think the Firebirds are a lot of fun

748
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,199
to watch. I think they play a really structured game.

749
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,440
They do a good job when they're pressured of really

750
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,760
turning the play around and adding a little bit of

751
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,440
extra pressure on the defense for their opposition, which is

752
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,480
not something that I can always say about the goals

753
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:26,880
And I thought that he was a lot of fun

754
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,480
to watch. He did a good job under pressure, because

755
00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:32,000
the Firebirds do play a really fast paced game where

756
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,400
things just go back and forth a lot. And he

757
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,920
did a good job of staying engaged in the play

758
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,280
without panicking too much. Did a good job of holding

759
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,480
his positioning but looking like he was engaged in what

760
00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:46,679
was going on. Looked like he was tracking pretty well.

761
00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:51,199
His NHL game was not great. I watched just enough

762
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,599
of it to say that's a game cool. He probably

763
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:58,840
should not have had that start, I think, but that's okay.

764
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,880
I'm glad that they they gave him a shot. He

765
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,280
got his experience, he got his learning lesson, and he

766
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,199
went back to playing at the AHL level, playing with

767
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,000
a really fun team that seems to be really cohesive

768
00:35:12,079 --> 00:35:14,199
and is giving him a lot of really quality reps.

769
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,679
I think Seattle could use him soon, but they are

770
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,239
even though they don't have the same volume of quality

771
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:28,840
prospects that we see from a team like Anaheim in

772
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,840
terms of goaltending, they do have a lot of fun

773
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,320
prospects that aren't Once again, I like to joke about

774
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,639
teams that have two or three minor league signings of

775
00:35:40,679 --> 00:35:44,159
guys who played five years of college hockey and then

776
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,800
ended up floating in the ECCHL and that's their second

777
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,559
or third best prospect. It's kind of refreshing seeing a

778
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:55,519
team like Seattle that has really good quality young prospects

779
00:35:55,559 --> 00:35:57,559
in their system that they seem to be working hard

780
00:35:57,599 --> 00:35:58,559
to develop correctly.

781
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 4: Indeed, that is a good thing to do. Let's talk

782
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,760
about one of those other guys, Simeon Viazavoy. So he

783
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,639
was a twenty twenty one sixth round pick by the

784
00:36:11,639 --> 00:36:13,960
Crack and he's six three hundred and eighty one pounds

785
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,159
twenty two years old now. He was primarily in the

786
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,159
KHL this season. It was his first full season really.

787
00:36:21,159 --> 00:36:22,800
He's had a couple of cups of coffee in the

788
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:27,199
KHL previously. It went really well for Hilly Whiteel one

789
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:31,199
point one point eight to zero JA nine thirty eight

790
00:36:31,199 --> 00:36:34,840
say percentage during the regular season and some pretty similar

791
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,920
strong numbers in the playoffs. He's playing for salavat the

792
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,119
UFA there and overall his trending really far up. His

793
00:36:43,599 --> 00:36:46,559
this draft plus four season has some up to sixty

794
00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:48,760
five percent chance of being a starter. He's got some

795
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,599
really lofty comps, some of the like marks from forstburg

796
00:36:52,679 --> 00:36:55,320
Lundquists or even in here. But I think someone who

797
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,559
maybe he's a little bit more realistic is Jamie Storrer,

798
00:36:57,599 --> 00:36:59,719
who is more of like an average starter for the Kings.

799
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,239
So Kat, what are instincts tell us about Viaz a Boy,

800
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,320
assuming that he eventually might come over to the NHL,

801
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:06,320
which we're not sure.

802
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:12,039
Speaker 5: I think that would be just incredible for Seattle if

803
00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:14,320
he did come over, because he was so much fun

804
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,000
to watch. I was trying to make sure that I

805
00:37:17,039 --> 00:37:19,440
split my time and didn't spend too much time focused

806
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,199
on any one goaltender when I was going through all

807
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,719
of the clips, and I was on instead going through

808
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,119
a lot of their different types of saves, and Jaz

809
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:29,639
a Boy is so much fun to watch makes me

810
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,159
a little nervous at times because he does really like

811
00:37:33,199 --> 00:37:35,480
to play an active game. It almost like a Marc

812
00:37:35,519 --> 00:37:38,920
andre Fleury type for Jonathan Quick, someone who really likes

813
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,320
to just keep himself moving, almost get himself engaged in

814
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,679
challenging the play, not just the shop but the play itself.

815
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:55,199
And I was never super high on seeing goaltenders who

816
00:37:55,199 --> 00:38:00,360
played like that because it's so hard to conquer greatly

817
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,599
commodify what a player like that is doing right versus wrong.

818
00:38:03,679 --> 00:38:06,239
You just have to say, yeah, they have that hockey sense,

819
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:12,360
and unfortunately, I think that for a lot of our

820
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,519
prospects now they've swung in the opposite direction where you

821
00:38:15,559 --> 00:38:18,960
can pinpoint exactly what they're doing right and exactly what

822
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,239
they're doing wrong in every game, and players have started

823
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,079
to pick it apart. So it was nice seeing a

824
00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:28,599
goaltender who does a good job of staying on his

825
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:30,840
skates when he needs to. He doesn't seem like he

826
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:34,320
over commits too often, did a pretty good job controlling

827
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,159
the direction of his rebounds, did a good job of

828
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:38,559
holding onto pucks when he needed to. There were a

829
00:38:38,639 --> 00:38:42,440
few goaltenders that I watched while I was looking through

830
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,199
boutites for Anaheim as one of them who it seemed

831
00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:49,639
like they struggled with following where their rebound went. I

832
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,199
think that Viyazavoi does a really good job of remaining

833
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,719
engaged with positioning with his own rebounds. Obviously, this is

834
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,719
only playing in the KHL and over in Russia, so

835
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,239
I would love to see how that translates to a

836
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:09,000
slightly more claustrophobic and tight knit North American hockey style

837
00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:11,920
of play, because I do think that a lot of

838
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:17,400
those really grand gesture sweeping goaltenders that you see over

839
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,119
in Europe do need to adapt that play a little

840
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:22,639
bit and strain it in almost when they come over

841
00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:25,079
to North America. So if he did, I'd love to

842
00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:29,719
see how he did that. But Seattle can avoid, or

843
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,960
they can afford rather to give him a little bit

844
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,079
of time if they did need to bring him over

845
00:39:34,119 --> 00:39:36,079
and give him some time to adjust. They have a

846
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:41,119
really good prospect system. I've raved about how the Firebirds

847
00:39:41,639 --> 00:39:46,000
treat their goaltenders, so I'd love to see that's the

848
00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:48,360
best case scenario for them if he wants to come over,

849
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:53,920
I think he would probably of their goaltenders in their system,

850
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,920
I think he has the most upside. I just don't

851
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,519
think he has the clearest cut guarantee of wanting to

852
00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:03,960
become an NHL goaltender, So that is the only thing

853
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,119
that sort of prevents him from being their clear number one.

854
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:07,360
For me.

855
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,159
Speaker 4: Indeed, great stuff. Let's talk about the last one. Kim

856
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,480
Saarinen eighteen years old. Really young. He won't be nineteen

857
00:40:14,599 --> 00:40:18,239
until July twenty second, so really young for this draft

858
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,199
class six, four hundred and eighty seven pounds. He was

859
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,960
picked just past draft in round three. He's in the

860
00:40:23,119 --> 00:40:27,880
HPK system there in Finland and he played his first

861
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,159
full season in the Liga last season. He was mainly

862
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,880
in the under twenty or sorry he was yeah, No,

863
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,519
he was mainly in the under twenty last season, and

864
00:40:37,599 --> 00:40:40,199
he had really good numbers thirty games played, two point

865
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,239
four nine GA nine to eleven save percentage. He's trending

866
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,159
up and up in terms of his percentage, up to

867
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,000
forty three percent chance of being an NHL R. I

868
00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:52,280
know it's never fair to compare to other really strong

869
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,599
players of the same country, but Mika Kippersov didn't have

870
00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:59,719
his strong as numbers at this stage of his which

871
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,559
is a lofty goal but interesting. Just to note, Kat,

872
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:04,360
what do you think about Kim Sarnan.

873
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,519
Speaker 5: I think he looks really good. I think his game

874
00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:09,679
looks controlled and poised, and he does a good job

875
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:16,880
of not looking intimidated during plays. Doesn't allow his positioning

876
00:41:17,079 --> 00:41:22,559
to get bossed around by his opponents, which when you're

877
00:41:22,599 --> 00:41:26,719
one of the youngest players in your age group, when

878
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,199
you're one of the youngest players in your league, especially

879
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,039
for a goaltender that can be really easy to see,

880
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,079
and he does a good job of controlling that. He

881
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:38,800
doesn't look like he's nervous about what's going on. He

882
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,119
looks like he knows where he is and what he's doing,

883
00:41:41,199 --> 00:41:44,000
and he knows his worth when he's out there. I

884
00:41:44,119 --> 00:41:47,880
do think he's really young, so I don't want to

885
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,559
say clearly he is the next Tookarasque, but I think

886
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,760
Seattle can afford to give him some time to let

887
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,440
him cook. It's nice to see a team that isn't

888
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:03,320
in imminent need of a goaltender drafting one of these

889
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,599
younger guys who almost didn't make the cutoff for his

890
00:42:07,519 --> 00:42:11,880
for his draft getting a chance to just watch him

891
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,679
develop over the next couple of years here. So I

892
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,719
don't want to push him ahead of anyone that they

893
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,920
have in their system currently vias a Voice Arren er Coco. Rather,

894
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,400
I think he's too young to say he's clearly better

895
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,320
than them. But they have a lot to look forward

896
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,800
to over the next couple of years, and I think

897
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,360
that's a good thing for Seattle fans.

898
00:42:33,519 --> 00:42:36,199
Speaker 4: Indeed, they could use some good news. And thanks so much,

899
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,880
Kat for giving us your instincts on the Seattle cracking goalies.

900
00:42:40,039 --> 00:42:42,199
Speaker 2: Of course, will be back right after this.

901
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:54,119
Speaker 4: Dig.

902
00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 2: The Dynasty days got a couple of prods year to

903
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,639
talk about head. They can probably be adding another one

904
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,840
by Midsummer because they will likely have a very high pick.

905
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,360
But last year they picked up the player that we

906
00:43:10,519 --> 00:43:12,719
consider are no brainer victor. Who is it?

907
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 4: This would be Berkeley kad In twenty twenty four, eighth

908
00:43:17,519 --> 00:43:21,679
overall pick, currently one hundred and seventy four pounds. Fun story,

909
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,559
I did share an elevator with him at the draft,

910
00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:25,840
and it's funny when you're standing next to these guys.

911
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,079
Sometimes you're like, oh, they're not that big, and then

912
00:43:28,119 --> 00:43:30,360
you see them on skates and then all your gear

913
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,880
and you're like, okay, different. But Berkeley is a little

914
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,079
bit undersized. That's always been a bit of the knock

915
00:43:35,119 --> 00:43:39,760
against him. But he's got so much offensive skill and talent.

916
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,039
You look at what he did at the World Junior

917
00:43:42,159 --> 00:43:44,159
is not super exciting. One assist in five games. That

918
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,559
whole team was all underwhelming. But then you'd shift over

919
00:43:46,599 --> 00:43:51,360
to the WHL and he was incredible for Spokane, still

920
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,719
going in the playoffs. During this regular season, he had

921
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,599
one hundred and nine points in fifty seven games in

922
00:43:56,679 --> 00:43:59,559
the playoffs so far, thirty three points and thirteen games

923
00:44:00,119 --> 00:44:03,000
close to that three points per game, which is just ridiculous.

924
00:44:03,559 --> 00:44:06,639
And he's wearing the sea over there in Spokane. It

925
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,280
looks like the Spokane Chiefs are headed towards a WHL

926
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,960
championship face off with Medicine Hat. We'll see how that unravels. Certainly,

927
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,960
having a long and successful playoff run is going to

928
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,360
be good for him in the long run, so weishome

929
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,599
luck with that. Looking at his Mitch Brown tracking data,

930
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,199
he's looking pretty fantastic. His expected goals as expected, his

931
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,480
primary assists are both really strong. One of the things

932
00:44:32,559 --> 00:44:35,360
he excels at is slot passes to the sixty slot

933
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,519
passes per sixty, which is one of the best metrics

934
00:44:38,559 --> 00:44:41,559
you can have in terms of creating dangerous chances. So

935
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,599
that's literally the thing that he's best at, so that's

936
00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:47,880
pretty cool. His transition game is also really good. Relative

937
00:44:48,119 --> 00:44:53,320
entries and exits are both well above average for the WHL. Defensively,

938
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,400
he's more average, and that's a bit of the knock

939
00:44:55,519 --> 00:44:57,880
on it. Maybe he's not the most defensive guy, which

940
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,639
is true, but he's able to drive so much offense

941
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,159
that it might not matter so much. Some of the

942
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,199
other things, like space creation in terms of boards played

943
00:45:06,199 --> 00:45:09,239
to the middle advantage is creative, those are also pretty good.

944
00:45:09,559 --> 00:45:12,519
And interestingly though some of his off puck assists and

945
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,599
proactive contact board battles those are a little bit lower.

946
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,079
So in terms of offensive involvement and expected goal build up,

947
00:45:20,159 --> 00:45:23,320
that's all excellent for Catten. Defensively, he earns a sixty

948
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,199
third percentile, ninety five for offense and eighty four for transition,

949
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,440
so all of that looks really good. You look at

950
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,480
the FHL player card and I have him at an

951
00:45:32,519 --> 00:45:36,320
eight point five one eight point one five fifteen percent

952
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,119
of being an eight and eight is really high. So

953
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,679
in terms of getting someone, having someone get an eight

954
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,039
is really difficult, so not a super high percent, but

955
00:45:44,159 --> 00:45:46,199
you could read that as a high percentage of getting

956
00:45:46,199 --> 00:45:50,320
at least a seven. And his goals, assists, points, shots,

957
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,239
all of those are ten percent one hundred percent tile

958
00:45:53,519 --> 00:45:58,360
in HL. The bash ends up being ninety percentile, mainly

959
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,079
because he doesn't really hit. There's a decent number of blocks,

960
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,719
but if you're rostering Berkeley Catten, it's mainly for the

961
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,559
shots and points. It's not so much for the rest

962
00:46:05,559 --> 00:46:08,639
of the peripheral contribution, and he does do some other

963
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:11,840
good things like play driving. But let's learn a little

964
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,559
bit more about Berkeley Catton from FHL Scouts.

965
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, our FAHL scout is Grant. Welcome back, Grant. He's

966
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:24,119
one of our experienced scouts here. Skating, great skater, shifty

967
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,239
with or without the puck, creates separation in both scenarios.

968
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,079
Very good balance and agility from Berkeley Catton first two

969
00:46:31,119 --> 00:46:34,159
to three slides are electric, very good at stick handling

970
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,199
in tight and excellent at taking passes with his stick

971
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,320
or feet. He sees the ice very well and protects

972
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,599
the puck. Not uncommon for Berkeley to have the puck

973
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,360
on his stick on the offensive zone for ten seconds

974
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,639
or more. As he circles the zone. He has great

975
00:46:48,679 --> 00:46:52,000
passing vision, finds the open teammates. He can over handle

976
00:46:52,079 --> 00:46:55,280
the puck at the WHL level, but we'll learn as

977
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:00,360
he progresses. He makes some spectacular passes in the offensive zone. Shooting,

978
00:47:01,079 --> 00:47:04,239
it's an average snapshot. He might beat goalies from with

979
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,760
form from within the hash marks, but we'll struggle outside there.

980
00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:12,159
The IQ very high leads him to excellent anticipation. The

981
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,639
puck seems to find him. He knows how to get

982
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,480
his soft spots to get open. The fore checking is.

983
00:47:18,559 --> 00:47:20,639
Skating lets him get him quickly on the four checks,

984
00:47:20,679 --> 00:47:23,320
but he's not going to win too many board battles.

985
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,119
He can be physical when engaged, but that's not his game.

986
00:47:26,519 --> 00:47:29,519
He's a perimeter player in the offensive zone defense. If

987
00:47:29,559 --> 00:47:31,840
he's playing center, he can get caught deep in the

988
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,880
offensive zone and will be last man back, so we'll

989
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,679
need to circle to need to clean that up. He's

990
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,519
fairly good in the playoff circle, but it will be

991
00:47:39,679 --> 00:47:43,639
his defense that decides if he's a winger or a center.

992
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,519
In the NHL, it's center. He can be drawn above

993
00:47:46,559 --> 00:47:48,480
the hash marks to open up the slot, so we'll

994
00:47:48,519 --> 00:47:51,519
need to improve that as well. Grant says then that

995
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:55,280
skating and passing are his two best assets. Even when

996
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,159
he's gliding, he can go around defenders in the WAHL,

997
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,679
but he consistently it's the first man in the WHL.

998
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,039
This is going to be harder in the AHL and NHL,

999
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,559
but Caton can make plays at high speed. The biggest

1000
00:48:07,599 --> 00:48:10,079
concern he can get caught stick handling with his head down,

1001
00:48:10,599 --> 00:48:12,880
he's going to need to eliminate that. In the AHL

1002
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,400
and NHL, no concerns other than size and strength at

1003
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,639
this point. So the top tier outcome top line center,

1004
00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:22,679
power play one twenty five to thirty goals, forty five

1005
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:26,920
to five assists, throw in three hundred or four hundred

1006
00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:31,760
face off wins. He's that good and the justification he's

1007
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:35,039
too good to not be the player in any roster.

1008
00:48:35,519 --> 00:48:38,000
He's on to be the guy carrying the puck in

1009
00:48:38,039 --> 00:48:41,239
the offensive zone more than anyone else. The median outcome

1010
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,960
second line forward who has the defensive game drilled into

1011
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:47,400
him by AHL or NHL coaches, which take away some

1012
00:48:47,559 --> 00:48:51,119
of his free wheeling habits. That's because he could struggle

1013
00:48:51,199 --> 00:48:53,400
to open the ice at the next level as much

1014
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,000
as he is enjoyed in the WHL, which is expected.

1015
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,480
But to what degree is the question? Grand stylistic parable

1016
00:49:00,559 --> 00:49:04,280
here Clayton Keller and his final thoughts, Canon is going

1017
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,760
to be a fantasy must add in most pools in

1018
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,719
the next two to three years. He might not score

1019
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,679
that many goals, but Grant thinks he will be a

1020
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,039
point per game player for quite a few years. The

1021
00:49:15,199 --> 00:49:19,880
NHL ranking sets Berkeley Catton up against Ryan Leonard, the

1022
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,280
Washington Capital prospect who has just debuted for the team,

1023
00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:29,559
and Ryan Leonard comes out ahead on this one fifty

1024
00:49:29,639 --> 00:49:32,880
five to forty five percent, Victor. Is that how you

1025
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:33,960
would compare these two?

1026
00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 4: Oh, that's so hard. He got two guys that I

1027
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,480
like so much, and they're different, right. Leonard has a

1028
00:49:41,519 --> 00:49:43,519
lot more of the bash and a lot more of

1029
00:49:43,639 --> 00:49:46,880
the physicality play driving. He just looks like a pro

1030
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,960
and plays like one, already getting a taste of the NHL,

1031
00:49:50,039 --> 00:49:53,079
as you mentioned. But Cadden has that huge points upside.

1032
00:49:53,119 --> 00:49:55,199
Do you think I like that comp of Clayton Keller.

1033
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,880
I think he has huge points upside and he drives

1034
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:00,960
a lot of offense. Is he going to be the

1035
00:50:01,079 --> 00:50:02,719
most defensively responsible?

1036
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 5: No?

1037
00:50:03,679 --> 00:50:06,519
Speaker 4: I don't think he's winning any Stelki trophies. But with

1038
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,000
the right situation, he can drive so much offense it

1039
00:50:10,079 --> 00:50:12,960
might not matter. And or you give him a winger

1040
00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:16,880
that has some good defensively responsible traits and so that

1041
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,039
can really help round him out. It would be really

1042
00:50:19,079 --> 00:50:21,480
hard for me to pick between these two, and I

1043
00:50:21,559 --> 00:50:23,800
don't like having to do that. I think that if

1044
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,960
I had to, I would probably pick Leonard, because I

1045
00:50:27,159 --> 00:50:29,639
think that the points up side is probably not too

1046
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,400
much higher with Cadden, and then in the right league

1047
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:36,480
that rewards like Tidy, that rewards play driving Fenwick and

1048
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,559
take away some of the other peripheral contribution. I do

1049
00:50:40,679 --> 00:50:44,719
think Leonard will probably be more valuable, and so I

1050
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,199
would probably do that, but it's really close. I wouldn't

1051
00:50:47,199 --> 00:50:50,239
be upset having Cadden, but they are two different types

1052
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,039
of players, and so it would depend on if you

1053
00:50:53,159 --> 00:50:55,719
have other guys like that on your team. Because Leonard

1054
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:59,639
has such a high floor peripheral floor, that it's going

1055
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:01,920
to be a little bit easier to whether the lack

1056
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,559
of goal scoring or production until he rounds out that

1057
00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:08,599
part of his game, whereas Cadden, that's you need him

1058
00:51:08,639 --> 00:51:12,599
to be scoring to be contributing because the peripherals other

1059
00:51:12,679 --> 00:51:13,679
than the shots aren't.

1060
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,159
Speaker 1: Really going to be there.

1061
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 4: So I will begrudgingly take Leonard Jesse, but I do

1062
00:51:18,679 --> 00:51:21,920
love the points upside for Cadden. Looking at the hockey

1063
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,639
prospecting between the two, it's actually pretty similar. Cadden is

1064
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,880
fifty five percent chance of being a star, Leonard forty

1065
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,440
six percent. Both are really likely to be NHL as

1066
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,760
and Leonard already is. If you look at some of

1067
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,039
the other comps for Cadden, there's a bunch of really

1068
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:40,159
good ones, including Tyler Second, Mike Roberto. Sam reyn Hart

1069
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,840
is one. He looks a lot alike in the model,

1070
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,840
and so I think that's a good comparison. He also

1071
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,199
was a WHL guy, was sam Ryn Hart. And you

1072
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:54,559
look at the equivalency for Cadden and he was pretty

1073
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,159
similar in his draft season, a little bit lower in

1074
00:51:57,199 --> 00:51:59,440
the draft minus one season, but in his draft plus

1075
00:51:59,559 --> 00:52:03,199
was one season, Cadden was way higher than was sam

1076
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,559
Reyan Hart, and then after that he was in the NHL.

1077
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:09,039
Basically Ryan Hart was right after that draft plus two seasons.

1078
00:52:09,119 --> 00:52:11,960
So we'll see with Kadden. He might need an extra year,

1079
00:52:12,079 --> 00:52:13,880
he might need an AHL year in between. But I

1080
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,880
think that kind of upside is certainly there. Take that

1081
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:22,280
as you will. Looking at the j Fresh model with

1082
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,920
top down hockey, thirty nine percent chance of being a star,

1083
00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:28,639
his Berkeley Cadden huge numbers. You don't usually see numbers.

1084
00:52:28,679 --> 00:52:31,639
He's high, He's ninth in the data set and eighty

1085
00:52:31,679 --> 00:52:33,800
five percent chance of being an NHL or so the

1086
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,360
model really likes Burley Catten. I like Burley Kadden. I

1087
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,320
think he's going to be a star and you should

1088
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:39,039
want him on your.

1089
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 2: Team, Yes, sir, on to the need to know prospect Victor.

1090
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is Yannie Newman. It's and y m

1091
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,639
An in case you're scoring at home. Certainly going to

1092
00:52:54,679 --> 00:52:57,440
be called Nyman quite a lot, I'm sure, but it

1093
00:52:57,599 --> 00:53:02,000
is Newman, So pull out your Seinfeld joke. Drafted twenty

1094
00:53:02,079 --> 00:53:05,519
twenty two, round two, forty ninth overall. Had six two,

1095
00:53:05,679 --> 00:53:08,239
one hundred and two hundred and twelve pounds, A bigger guy.

1096
00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:11,119
He played a few games in the NHL this season.

1097
00:53:11,199 --> 00:53:12,679
It was fun to see. I believe he scored on

1098
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,760
his very first goal, a very first game. He ended

1099
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,159
up with six points in twelve games, so not a

1100
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,800
bad point per game split there. Most of the time

1101
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,920
this season he was in the AHL with Coachella Valley Firebirds,

1102
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,119
and he had forty four points in fifty eight games,

1103
00:53:28,519 --> 00:53:32,320
so pretty stellar production there in the AHL. Looking at

1104
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,280
his FHL player card, I have him as a five

1105
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,960
point three five thirty five percent chance of being a

1106
00:53:37,199 --> 00:53:41,920
average contributor. A lot of that is just looking at

1107
00:53:42,039 --> 00:53:44,840
some of his points upside, he definitely has a lot

1108
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,239
a decent amount based on the HL production right now.

1109
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:51,880
Looking at his bash, he shoots a fair amount. He

1110
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:53,880
hits a good and a little bit above average. His

1111
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,719
blocks are a little bit lower, so on average his

1112
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,960
bash is about seventy percentile. So far on the NHL,

1113
00:53:59,039 --> 00:54:01,320
he hasn't been bashing very much at all, so that

1114
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,400
might make it a little bit hard for him to hold.

1115
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,880
But I think there is an interesting player here, and

1116
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,000
let's find out a little bit more about Yanni Newman

1117
00:54:08,039 --> 00:54:09,360
from URFHL scout Jesse.

1118
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 2: Yes, this is what Grant has to say about mister Newman.

1119
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,960
He is a big guy six four two twenty and

1120
00:54:17,079 --> 00:54:19,519
can be a bit lumbersome as a skater.

1121
00:54:19,679 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: I like that word.

1122
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 2: He can get up to a decent speed, but the

1123
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,719
first few strides are a struggle, especially at the NHL level,

1124
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,039
he will have issues getting separation with or without the puck.

1125
00:54:30,679 --> 00:54:34,239
He has very good hands in tight and has a

1126
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,679
nice pasted open teammates which he seems to find with

1127
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:41,119
little trouble. He's strong in the puck protects it well shooting.

1128
00:54:41,519 --> 00:54:44,599
Newman is a shooter before a passer. This is his forte.

1129
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:46,880
He can be a bit of a one trick pony

1130
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,320
as most of his goals come off cross eyed ice

1131
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,079
feeds for one timers on the power play a good

1132
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,039
but not a great snapshot eight cross ice feeds. It

1133
00:54:55,119 --> 00:54:58,400
works at the NHL sometimes IQ. He has a good

1134
00:54:58,519 --> 00:55:01,920
vision to find teammates into good shooting lanes, but can

1135
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,840
struggle to do this at even strength. He's not afraid

1136
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:06,519
to carry the puck into the middle of the eyes

1137
00:55:06,639 --> 00:55:09,239
and can be trusted with the puck in most areas.

1138
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:13,039
For checking, Newman can get in effectively on the ford check,

1139
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,519
but is not a physical player by any means for

1140
00:55:15,599 --> 00:55:18,760
a guy his size. Grant says he's strong on the puck,

1141
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,559
but he won't hit someone to win possession. Defense gets

1142
00:55:22,639 --> 00:55:25,679
lost defensively with his positioning at times in his own end,

1143
00:55:26,159 --> 00:55:29,000
but is not afraid to block shots if needed. The

1144
00:55:29,159 --> 00:55:32,440
best asset for Newman shot and size. That's what's going

1145
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,920
to get him to the NHL keep him there, but

1146
00:55:35,199 --> 00:55:38,360
he's going to need to produce to stay. His defense

1147
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,079
won't make him an NHL regular on its own. Biggest

1148
00:55:42,079 --> 00:55:45,199
concern skating and lack of physicality for a big forward,

1149
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,679
struggles are to produce any offense that even strength are

1150
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:53,000
an additional concern the top tier outcome bottom six forward

1151
00:55:53,039 --> 00:55:56,079
who gets some power play two minutes and perhaps slides

1152
00:55:56,159 --> 00:56:00,280
up to powerplay one if he produces goals justification. He's

1153
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,960
produced fifty four goals in his past one hundred and

1154
00:56:03,079 --> 00:56:07,239
six AHL SAHL game. He played twelve games with the Kraken,

1155
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:09,119
had three goals. He's got a bit of a track

1156
00:56:09,199 --> 00:56:12,239
record for putting up goals, and the media outcome would

1157
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,480
be top six forward in the AHL or the SAHL.

1158
00:56:15,519 --> 00:56:17,440
If he doesn't get the power play time in the NHL,

1159
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,719
he might be stuck in AHL or SHL play. He's

1160
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:26,360
not going to be handed NHL playing time. Stylistic comparable,

1161
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,320
Igor Sikoloff is a former prospect of the Ottawa Senators,

1162
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,159
currently in the AHL with Utah's farm team. He's a

1163
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:37,960
big bodied winner winger who skates similarly to Newman with

1164
00:56:38,039 --> 00:56:41,960
similar skills. He had a few productive AHL campaigns with Ottawa,

1165
00:56:42,119 --> 00:56:44,599
saw a few extended call ups to the NHL, where

1166
00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:47,880
he played thirteen games over a two year period with

1167
00:56:48,119 --> 00:56:51,760
just two points. Difference is Newman had six points in

1168
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:54,880
thirteen games with Seattle. Might have made the most of

1169
00:56:55,039 --> 00:56:59,360
that opportunity. The last thought Newman is just twenty years old,

1170
00:57:00,079 --> 00:57:02,840
thinks he's done more than was expected in his first

1171
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,000
pro season in North America. Odds are against him being

1172
00:57:06,039 --> 00:57:08,320
a regular in the NHL, but if he produces, he's

1173
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:12,239
gonna stay Yanni Newman in the NHL Rank King the

1174
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,679
tidy Champion NHL Rank King's Pole that he put out

1175
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,760
on X for US goes up against no. Oastland of

1176
00:57:19,079 --> 00:57:22,559
the Buffalo Sabers and Oceland in a big win over

1177
00:57:22,719 --> 00:57:26,639
Newman sixty one to thirty nine percent. Victor, Is that

1178
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:27,960
how you compared the two?

1179
00:57:29,119 --> 00:57:31,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know about that. That's interesting that it

1180
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,800
was so favorable to Oceland, and when you look at

1181
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:40,719
the NHL the PNHL from Mason's app, it's pretty similar

1182
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,000
between the two. They both ended it right around They're

1183
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,599
both right around sixty percent right now. When you look

1184
00:57:45,599 --> 00:57:47,920
at the hockey prospecting between the two, it is higher

1185
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,800
for Oceland. Maybe that's part of it, and I think

1186
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that there was a little bit more pedigree slash upside

1187
00:57:53,679 --> 00:57:56,440
for Oceland. He had a pretty good season in the AHL,

1188
00:57:56,559 --> 00:57:59,840
thirty six points for in forty five games. I don't know,

1189
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,039
so I think I would still take Newman. I think

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that he is definitely more of a winger, and the

1191
00:58:04,159 --> 00:58:06,199
foot speed and all that might be a bit of

1192
00:58:06,199 --> 00:58:09,280
an issue for him, but I liked his HL play.

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00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,639
He already got a little bit NHL time. He's not

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00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,440
a center. I think that might work against Oceland here

1195
00:58:16,559 --> 00:58:19,719
because he is more of a center play driver down

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00:58:19,719 --> 00:58:21,519
the middle kind of guy, and so that might push

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00:58:21,639 --> 00:58:23,400
him down the lineup and make him be more of

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a bottom six pivot than in Buffalo. And then Newman

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is clearly more of a winger, and his physicality and

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his frame might give him some opportunities more easily in

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00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:38,679
the top six power play. So I think I would

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00:58:38,719 --> 00:58:41,320
take Newman here. I'm still a little skeptical of Ocelan.

1203
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,199
I like him, I like what he's done so far,

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but I think he has a harder road to being

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a high point producer than Newman, and the peripheral floor

1206
00:58:50,639 --> 00:58:53,039
is I think a little bit better with Newman as well,

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So taking Newman. Actually looking at the hockey prosper expecting

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00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,199
for Newman, it's not super exciting, but part of that

1209
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is because he had really low equivalency in the first

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00:59:05,079 --> 00:59:08,440
couple seasons and then he's really a LIGA last season,

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in the HL this season and even surpassing what Oceland

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has done at a couple of those levels. Oslan started

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00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,639
a twenty two percent chance of being a star, nine percent,

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then start at three percent, ended at two percent. In

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00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:24,400
that model, there aren't a whole lot of stars who

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00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,599
look like Newman and the hockey prospecting model, there's really

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very few. Most of them are replacement level, where guys

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00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,000
who didn't quite make it. But just for Brat is

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one who looks similar. Just for Brad was such an

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00:59:35,039 --> 00:59:36,960
interesting case. He looked like he was going to be

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00:59:37,119 --> 00:59:39,760
nobody and then now he's a star producer. It's a

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It's very interesting. So maybe Newman could be that different

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00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,280
kind of player, different frame, different speed, all that. But

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I think that there's a world where Newman could be

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maybe not quite as productive as Bratt, but could have

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some significant fantasy value.

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Speaker 2: Jesse, love it, Love it, and your third up to

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keep your eye on prospect? Who is it?

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Speaker 4: One of the better names? I would say, Oscar Fisker Mulguard.

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Oscar Fisker Mulgard. You just have to say all three.

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01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,760
You can't say Oscar Mulgard. You got to put that

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fisker in there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what the fisker means, but it's a

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it's an important part of the name. Twenty twenty three

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draft pick, round two, fifty second overall, six foot, one

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01:00:22,679 --> 01:00:26,039
hundred and sixty eight pounds. This past season, he was

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01:00:26,199 --> 01:00:28,559
on loan to HB seventy one in the SHL for

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01:00:28,639 --> 01:00:32,320
most of the season, twenty one points in fifty games,

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01:00:33,079 --> 01:00:35,760
which was pretty decent. Then he came over to Kochella

1241
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,800
Valley at the end of the season had seven games

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01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,760
played three points, so overall, not the hugest production, but

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certainly certainly decent, especially in SHL, which tends out to

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01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,239
be a super high scoring league. He's also a Dane

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01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,559
who's Danish, and in terms of they don't tend to

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01:00:51,599 --> 01:00:55,519
get as much of the opportunity with the World Juniors,

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01:00:55,559 --> 01:00:58,320
but he did help with the qualifying and he did

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last year play at the Worldchampionships, and hopefully he'll get

1249
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,239
to do that again and that'll be a good experience

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for him. Looking at my Fantasy Hockey Life player card,

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I have him a thirty four percent chance of being

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01:01:09,239 --> 01:01:11,840
a six out of ten, so a little bit above average.

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01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,400
And that's pretty good for a second round player. His

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01:01:15,559 --> 01:01:18,320
assists are really the best part of his game right now,

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01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,719
much more than his goals. And then looking at his bash,

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01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:23,880
he doesn't really shoot a lot, but his hits are

1257
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,559
pretty average and he blocks a lot ninetieth percentile for hits.

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I don't know what to make of this, Jesse. He's

1259
01:01:28,159 --> 01:01:30,320
about average bash, but most of that is driven by

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01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:35,199
his blocks, which is strange for a forward. So anyways,

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01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,840
he doesn't look super great in some of these play

1262
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,599
driving metrics, but overall he should have an average preferle

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01:01:41,639 --> 01:01:44,159
floor and if he can turn around some of that scoring,

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01:01:44,239 --> 01:01:46,599
then maybe he'll be an interesting player. But let's see

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what our FHL scout has to say about him, Jess.

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Speaker 2: Before we get to that Victor, I've been doing some

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01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:58,239
research over here. Oscar Fisker means a spear fisherman, so

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he is a I'm not sure or he could get

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01:02:01,599 --> 01:02:04,239
pretty much flagged for spearing the minute he goes out

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01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,880
on the ice. Of that as possible, We'll see how

1271
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:10,840
that plays out for mister Moltgard. But anyway, Grant has

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this to say. He's a slightly above average skater with

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01:02:13,559 --> 01:02:14,280
good agility.

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Speaker 4: And tight.

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01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 2: He's not particularly strong on his skates and will need

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01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,280
to improve in that area. Skating is probably one of

1277
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:24,519
his strengths. Decent passer who finds open teammates in the

1278
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:29,079
offensive zone. His puck handling has moments of being impressive,

1279
01:02:29,199 --> 01:02:34,360
with longer moments of mediocrity. Unfortunately shooting a decent snapshot

1280
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,599
in backhand, but more of a passer than a shooter,

1281
01:02:37,079 --> 01:02:40,679
and his shot is not a strength, most likely his IQ.

1282
01:02:41,199 --> 01:02:43,280
He can spend a whole ship chasing the puck in

1283
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:45,840
his own zone. He rarely breaks up the cycle or

1284
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,639
anticipates a pass to intercept in his spaces. Below average

1285
01:02:49,719 --> 01:02:51,960
in the defensive zone, but vision's very good to find

1286
01:02:52,039 --> 01:02:55,440
open teammates in the offensive. He struggles to find soft

1287
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,119
spots to get open. Likes to have the puck on

1288
01:02:58,199 --> 01:03:01,760
his stick, so he has a low panicked threshold for checking.

1289
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:05,199
He's fairly ineffective as a four checker, loses more board

1290
01:03:05,239 --> 01:03:08,000
battles than he wins. He has a pretty slight bill,

1291
01:03:08,199 --> 01:03:11,280
needs to add some strength at the AHL level. He

1292
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:15,320
has a fairly good defensive positioning, but can lose his

1293
01:03:15,519 --> 01:03:18,199
assignment at times. He has a bad habit of holding

1294
01:03:18,239 --> 01:03:21,559
his stick in one hand when defending in his own zone,

1295
01:03:21,719 --> 01:03:24,000
which might have worked when he was younger, but is

1296
01:03:24,079 --> 01:03:26,239
not going to work in a pro league like the SHL,

1297
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:29,079
AHL or NHL. It's going to need to be harder

1298
01:03:29,159 --> 01:03:31,639
on the pock. He can play center or wing, but

1299
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,360
his defense will dictate where he plays at that AHL

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01:03:35,519 --> 01:03:36,480
or NHL level.

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01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:38,639
Speaker 1: So the best asset.

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01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 2: Skating, he can turn it up a notch, beat the

1303
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,639
odd defender to the outside. The biggest concern lack of offense.

1304
01:03:44,159 --> 01:03:46,239
I just don't see where the offense is going to

1305
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,800
come from, even strength in the AHL or NHL levels,

1306
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:53,400
because he doesn't drive play the top tier outcome then

1307
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:57,880
bottom six center or wing ten to fifteen goals, fifteen

1308
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,320
to twenty as says, some face off wins, cup hits,

1309
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:04,239
or blocks justification. He could afford to gain about fifteen

1310
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:06,639
to twenty five pounds. I wish somebody would say that

1311
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,280
to me and get stronger. But if he doesn't have

1312
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:11,559
a detrimental effect on it, if it doesn't have a

1313
01:04:11,639 --> 01:04:15,039
detriment mental effect on his skating, Grant says, the defensive

1314
01:04:15,079 --> 01:04:19,199
acumen could work at the NHL level if Mulgard makes

1315
01:04:19,239 --> 01:04:22,760
some improvements the media out come would be an HL

1316
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:24,920
forward who plays in the top six. There get some

1317
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,920
cups of coffee in the NHL in the next two

1318
01:04:27,039 --> 01:04:30,400
or three years. That's if he can't establish himself defensively

1319
01:04:30,639 --> 01:04:35,840
in DHL or NHL. Stylistic comparable Nil's Aman with a

1320
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:39,360
little more offense. And finally, Grant thought Mulgard would be

1321
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,719
pretty polished defensive forward from what he'd read before scouting.

1322
01:04:43,159 --> 01:04:46,440
But he chases the puck a lot rarely in Grant's viewings,

1323
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:48,519
made a defensive play that stopped the other team in

1324
01:04:48,599 --> 01:04:51,679
its tracks. At this point, it doesn't see him playing

1325
01:04:51,719 --> 01:04:55,199
more than a handful of NHL games. And the comparison

1326
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:59,400
from Mason Black the NHL ranking Oscar Fisker Mulgard versus

1327
01:04:59,519 --> 01:05:05,000
David Edstrom of the Nashville Predators, and Edstrom comes out

1328
01:05:05,519 --> 01:05:08,480
way ahead. Yeah, he went from the Golden Knights to

1329
01:05:08,679 --> 01:05:11,800
the Preps, right, Yeah, fifty eight point fifty eight percent

1330
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:16,280
to forty two percent pretty solidly for Edstrom. Victor, is

1331
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:20,039
that how you rank the Spearfisher against David Edstrom?

1332
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 4: It's interesting, Yeah, I think I might take Edstrom. Edstrom

1333
01:05:27,519 --> 01:05:30,719
was part of the deal that sent Hurdle to Vegas

1334
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:32,719
and then also part of the deal that brought a

1335
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:35,199
scar off to San Jose. So he's been around and

1336
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,320
been traded for some pretty high profile names. I don't

1337
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:42,079
know that means that he's super amazing or anything, but

1338
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,400
he has some things that are appealing. He's got he's

1339
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,840
got the big frame, he's got some pro experience. He's

1340
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,280
been playing in the SHL the past couple of seasons.

1341
01:05:52,239 --> 01:05:54,559
One thing is interesting about this comparison, Jesse. I don't

1342
01:05:54,559 --> 01:05:56,440
know if this has ever happened, but these two guys,

1343
01:05:56,519 --> 01:05:59,400
David Stroum Moscow, Fisco Molgord have the exact same birth

1344
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:03,679
date February eighteenth, two thousand and five. Just an interesting note.

1345
01:06:03,719 --> 01:06:06,280
I don't think that means anything, but it's interesting. When

1346
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:11,440
in Denmark one in Sweden. So the choice between these two,

1347
01:06:11,599 --> 01:06:13,679
I hear what Tony's what Grant is saying, and I

1348
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:16,960
totally understand that. Yeah, it's probably not going to be

1349
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:18,719
a whole lot of offense from either of these guys.

1350
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,159
Quite frankly, I think that neither is going to be

1351
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:26,400
super offensive. I do think that Mulgard has the intelligence

1352
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,400
and ability to make it, but he might just be

1353
01:06:28,519 --> 01:06:30,679
a bottom six kind of guy and not have too

1354
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:34,840
much offense. Edstrom has the frame and has the physicality,

1355
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,119
but he also I'm not sure has a bunch of

1356
01:06:37,159 --> 01:06:40,719
offense to give. He might just be your very typical

1357
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:45,119
bottom six matchup type of center, a depth forward. Unlikely

1358
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,440
that either has a ton of offense, but I'll give

1359
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,880
it to Edgstrom here by a hair. They also had

1360
01:06:50,159 --> 01:06:54,800
similar production in the SHL this past season, so we'll

1361
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:58,679
see about how that translates. He should Edstrom should be

1362
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:01,519
in the HL this next seas in for the Milwaukee Admirals,

1363
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,079
and so we'll see what he can do there. Looking

1364
01:07:04,119 --> 01:07:07,079
at hockey prospecting, between these two both are just one

1365
01:07:07,119 --> 01:07:09,800
percent chance of being a star, so pretty low. And

1366
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,519
then Oscar Fisco Molgar doesn't have a whole lot of

1367
01:07:12,559 --> 01:07:16,280
good comps in this system, as you might imagine, but

1368
01:07:16,679 --> 01:07:19,639
Charlie Coyle is one, and so Coyle that would probably

1369
01:07:19,639 --> 01:07:22,199
be a pretty good outcome for the Kraken. He does.

1370
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:26,800
He is an NHLer and has some relevance at times,

1371
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:30,559
but not a whole lot of offense usually, So that's

1372
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:35,920
the end of the Kraken dig. If you are a patroon,

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01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:38,000
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1375
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Speaker 2: All right, and let's come back. You just committed.

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Speaker 1: By tricks.

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Speaker 2: You can play all your fantasy sports there, and I

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recommend you do so. All the new sports are there.

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You can start your hockey leagues now, you can start

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your basketball, you can start your football. I don't know

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if you can start your college football and college basketball,

1385
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one in the middle is Victor's address on Blue Sky.

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Mind just look up Jesse Severe. You'll find me. And

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you can also rate and review this pod Spotify, Apple Pods,

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wherever else you get your pile. Leave five stars, leave

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a couple of kind words, and in return, we'll help

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you keep living this fantasy hockey like