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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Sovier and Victor Nuno.
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We've been through thirty two team previews, but we just
can't give up on it, and so I am Jesse
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How you doing?
Speaker 1: Wow? I am exhausted from all those team previews, Jesse.
But we have hockey to watch. There's camps, there's preseason.
We have pretty much hit the light at the end
of the tuntle. I'm doing great. How are you doing, my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm good. Yeah. I think by the time people listen
to this, there will have been hockey on the television
that they will have watched, which is pretty amazing if
you ask me. Yeah, it's we're getting into that time.
We've been through all the teams, Victor, and so let's
just do them all again. But let's do them all
in two episodes. As you guys are getting ready for
the season. This is a little supplement we call the
catch up and Mustard episodes because we catch up to
all the stuff that we missed or that changed since
we did our team previews, and then we hit it
with the spicy mustard of some hot takes. But to Victor,
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looking forward to getting into all of that action.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're gonna take a break, come back and make
our tour run the NHL Victor. We start with the
West Coast, West Coast, Best Coast because we're no East
coast bias type operation. You are way out on the
West coast and therefore we shall start there. Today's episode
will be the Western Conference and we're gonna start with
the Pacific Division. And for those unfamiliar with these episodes
our format, Victor and I alternate teams. First, we give
you the catch up the things that have changed for
these teams or additional news events that have developed since
we gave the team previews. Remember those go all the
way back to April, I believe. And then we're going
to give and then we're going to give two alternative
hot takes, and then the other one of us is
going to decide which one they are held accountable for it.
Tell me explain that to me again, Victor, I'm lost.
Speaker 1: We often would give one take and then sometimes the
other person would say that's not even a hot bag.
That's luke warm at best. So now we're gonna do
two takes per team, and then the other person gets
to choose which one we're going to hold them accountable to.
So if it's to lukewarm, we'll pick the spice here
one probably and hold the other person to that.
Speaker 2: Awesome. We're gonna have to highlight those in the document
or something, because I'm never going to remember all this stuff.
But okay, Victor, I think you got the first team,
so why didn't you kick us off?
Speaker 1: I do. I do have the first team, and the
first team is the Anaheim Ducks. We recorded them way
back on May twenty fifth, if you can remember that
far ago. That was so long. A few things have
happened since then, nothing earth shattering. But the Ducks did
sign Isaac Loundestrom or hoe Vakanninen. They acquired Brian Dumelin
from the Kraken. They helped bolster their defense. They acquired
Rabbi Fadre Fabruary from the Detroit Red Wings for one
of their goaltenders, Skage Alexander, who Kat and I talked
about and weren't too excited about him. So that seems
like a good move, and the roster overall looks a
little bit better. When we do this, we also try
to get a little bit of a take on what
was happening from in terms of the team and what
we expect from them going forward. It looks like they
have a little bit more talent, but I'm not exactly
sure that they're going to be all that much better
than they were last year. Obviously, other additions that weren't
via trade or anything, but they have Cutter Gautier debuting,
so that should be good. Olin Zelweger should be a
full timer and he got a bunch of games last
year but wasn't the regular. They also had some injuries
here and there, and it looks like overall could be
a better team, but I'm just not sure how either
going to climb in the standings. So I have a
couple of hot takes here. One is that Pavel Minschikov
leads the Ducks and scoring from the blue line and
is top five in terms of point pace for the team,
So that's a big one thing about that. So top
five even amongst all the forwards, that's a pretty decent one.
And leading to the Duck and scoring would mean that.
We heard a little bit about what's happening with Cam Fowler,
like he seems like they're trying to work on a
solution to give the younger Duck defenseman a little bit
bigger role and maybe find a trade for him. So
that'll be interesting to see what happens with Fowler. He's
been the most boring power play quarterback in the league
for a long time, so it'll be interesting to see.
And in case you're wondering Minschikov last year finished eight
nine to tenth in terms of point pace, So it's
a bit of a spicy take to say he'll finish
top five amongst ahead of a whole bunch of forwards.
The other one that I'm going to put out there
and you get to pick Jesse, is Troy Terry bounces
back to a seventy five point pace. If you remember,
a couple of years ago, Troy Terry had back to
back seventy point seasons and we thought, Okay, this is
the new Troy Terry. He's going to be a seventy
point guy. Broke out from thirty four to seventy four points.
In the twenty twenty to twenty twenty one to twenty
one to twenty two season, he more than doubled his
point pace, and then he held steady in twenty two
to twenty three, which was good because his shooting percentage
did regress as we thought he would. But then this
past season he went all the way back down to
a fifty eight point pace, and he played similar number
of games each one of those seasons. So I'm saying
it's gonna come back up to seventy five. So Jesse
which one do you want to hold me to? The
Pavel Minchikov or the Troy Terry one.
Speaker 2: I think I'll hold you to the Minchikov just on
the basic principle of Terry has shown us before he
can do it, and Mitchikov hasn't yet. Not that I'm
trying to be mean or anything, and I would it
would be a lot of fun to see Mitchikov do
that and really come into his own I hope that's
what's happened. But I think I'm gonna hold you to
that one. Victor. Is that okay?
Speaker 1: The Minchikov one? Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Let's do it all right, lock it down, Pablo Minchikov.
Next up, we got the Calgary Flames. Boy did they
get active. After we did our show. They traded away
Jacob Markstrom for Kevin Ball and at twenty twenty five. First,
they traded away Andrew montia Pani for a twenty twenty five. Second,
they signed Anthony Mantha a five year extension Diego or
Sharon Govic. They drafted zee Perek signed him to his
entry level contract, already other entry level contracts to ATM
morn and Matt Day gridden, and they gave other contracts
to just a bevy of different players, including Dustin Wolfe.
They get a cry out to Tyson Barry got Jacob Pellotier,
Jake Bean, Devin Cooley, all kinds of stuff. Dylan Dube
is officially gone gone. Remember he's one of the guys
who got in trouble, but supposedly this means he's not
coming back in A few deaf players went out, including
Oliver Shillington, so there's nothing really changed. This is probably
going to be one of the worst teams in the league.
The opening is now there for the Wolfman to be
the main show in terms of the for this team
this year, which presumably is going to have a pretty
good chance of finishing last in the Pacific because there's
just not a lot there and they traded away much
of what they had. So we'll see about the Flames
and what they're able to do this year. But I've
got two potential takes here. It's a tradition like no other.
I make an optimistic take about Connor Zeri every year
in this space. So this year I'll say he ends
up in the top five and power play Tom on
Ice and my other alternative prediction McKenzie Wiger does not
end the season with the Flames. They continue the fire
sale in slow motion and Wiger finds a new home
to ply his Whar's Victor. It's is this even spicy?
Is this just like yellow mustard? Or do you find
one of these spicy enough to give it the Victor
seal of stick Jesse with it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the weaker one is spicy enough.
It's interesting. I think they are probably going to be
seller at the deadline, and does he fit into their
long term plan is certainly something that we should consider.
It probably not. They have some good young defenseman they're
going to need space for at some point. But he
is a serviceable guy. He's thirty, and he's got a
long contract. So someone gonna want that, that is a question.
I don't know if they will. I'll hold you to
the Zeri one, though, because I think that's going to
be an interesting one. I do really love Connor Zery
and I thought he had a pretty excellent season last year,
and I think that he's taking steps to be a
really top player for this team, and I think the
organization views him that way. It'll be interesting to see
what happens after this season because he is an RFA.
Sometimes in those RFA seasons, the team almost holds them
back a little bit, like they don't want them to
break out too much, and so I could see that
maybe happening. That kind of happened with Bouchard a little bit.
The next team we're going to talk about, but yeah,
I'll hold you to the Bouchard one. I like that one.
I think top five power play timeline is not a given,
certainly based on the usage of what they've had, So
I think that's it's not super spicy, but I'll take
that one. Jesse pretty blakd awesome. Awesome. Next up, let's
go to the Edmonton Oilers. So we recently did this
episode September fourth, and it wasn't Not too much has
happened since then, not too much to catch up on
the I think the team had really good depth that
they came within one game the Stanley Cup Final, but
it seems like their depth has taken a little bit
of a step back. I know that they did make
a couple of trades, none of them I don't think
hugely impactful. Obviously, there was the offer sheet that they
lost McLeod and Dylan Holloway, but they did gain Vasilli
Pott coles In, who's a decent enough player. Ty Eberson
with the Sharks for some reason gave them for Cody
cc which I still don't quite understand based on the
contracts there. But it seems like a lot of those
might be just a wash. And I don't know that
their depth is quite as good as it was last year,
but those guys aren't as interesting to talk about, so overall,
I'm I'm not sure the team goes all the way
back to the Stanley Cup final. That's not a given
either way, even if they were as good, but I
think they might have taken a little step back. We'll see.
The team's still excellent and the addition of Jeff Skinner
is a really fun one. That's where I'm going to
go because I think Jeff Skinner, we've seen him be
a really excellent goalscorer sometimes when the team asks him
to do a little bit too much. It seems like
that might be a challenge for him, but I don't
know that they are going to ask him to do
that much. He's going to play probably on the second line,
probably with Dry Sidle and he can score a ton
of goals. So I'm going to say Jeff Skinner, h's
that forty goal plateau or at least forty goal pace,
which I think is fair. And he's only done that
once in his career and that was way back his
first season in Buffalo when he had forty goals in
eighty two games. He's come close a couple times in
the mid thirties, even thirty seven and second last season
in Carolina. But that would be a fun one and
I'm sure the Oiler fans would be happy with that.
Second one is maybe a little less spicy. But I'm
going to say that Evan Bouchard finishes top three in points,
and that's what he did last year, but that may
not necessarily be a given based on Hymen was close,
Bouchard wasn't that far away? You got Skinner? Now wait,
I said Bouchard, that's who we're talking about. Skinner could
be there, So Bouchard finishing third again isn't necessarily one
hundred percent. And there's also Nuton Hopkins who has scored
higher than him. So those are my two. Jeff Skinner
forty goal pace and Bouchard finishing top three in point pace.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Victor? I see what you're doing
with the Jeff Skinner one, but I ain't buying it
at all. Mister just got bought out. He is not
going to get the diet of shots that he's got
in all the other places where he just shoots with
crazy volume and ends up getting those goals. The oilers
are going to have better shooters than him to take
some of those shots, even though David gives out a
ton of assists. So maybe he will find great joy
in setting up Jeff Skinner for shots. But I just
don't be I think Jeff Skinner doesn't have this in
him anymore. So I will stick you with the Jeff
Skinner prediction as your hot take. All right, moving on
to the Los Angeles Kings May nineteenth. We recorded that one.
Let's catch up what has happened since because that was
pre free agency, pre draft Big Save Dave Re signed
for another year. Taylor Ward signs. Why do you care
that somebody named Taylor Ward signs because that's also the
name of a Los Angeles angel and I think it's weird. Next,
you've got a couple other guys signing at kil Thomas,
Alex Turcotte, Samuel Fagamo are back. They traded back in
the draft, they got Liam green Tree and Carter George.
Then they traded draft picks for Tanner Jano. Then they
made the big move of the summer, Pierre Luke dea
Bois for Darcy Kemper. One of the highlight your bad
contract for my bad contract trades, Warren Fogel three year contract,
Joel Edmondson four year contract. They reassigned Trevor Lewis, Phoenix Copley,
and Jordan Spence. They extended Quintin Buyfield, your guy, Victor
for five more years, the eventry level contracts to Eric
Portillocarter George and Liam green Tree. And they lost a
bunch of free agents Victor Arvidson, Kevin Connoton, Blake Lozatte,
Matt Roy, cam Talbot. So we onto the hot takes,
and in honor of you, Victor, Quintin buy Field, and
I'm going to pick the very scientifically precise number of
seventy three points this year that I'm going to attribute
to Quentin Buyfield. And then the other one that I
will do is to say Tanners, you know, will lead
all NHL forwards in hits. So which one of those
two do you like? Victor?
Speaker 1: It's a very weird. How did you come up with
that number for Buyfield?
Speaker 2: It was very scientific, Victor, I asked chat GPT. No,
I didn't really I should have. I just picked the
number that I thought would most confus and apparently worked.
Speaker 1: Yes, apparently I love me some Quinn Buyfield. That is
a high number though, to get behind. So I'm gonna
have to think about that one. Tanner's and no leading
forwards and hits. If you would have said all skaters,
I would have said easily no. But I'm sure that
you said that on purpose because I think that'll probably
be Lasan He's in the machine or there's a couple
of options that could outdo him from defense. I like
that one. I really like Buyfield. I really want to
get behind him. This year he had a pretty awesome
breakout season with PLD gone. It certainly seems like there's
a for sure top six spot for him. He doesn't
have to play down the middle. He can play on
the wing. He could play down the middle. Maybe he
gets to play with Daily faceoff has him and Fiela
and Warren Fogel online too, and to know being the
line three center, which makes a lot more sense. I
know really is a third line center. Even though he's
so good at play driving Copaitar, it's only a matter
of time until Copaitar seeds the way to buyfield. But
he's to have a lot more responsibility if he is
down the middle, and I think that's right around the
threshold of where he can get. So I'm going to
hold you to the buyfield one just because I think
that's a little less likely. And I do like Jeneo though,
I think that he could. I think that it was
really hard for him being in Tampa and being the guy,
being the guy that they traded so much for. Hegel
was that guy too. He seemed to handle that a
little bit better. I'm not sure that can be an
easy thing, right. There's a lot of expectation, and he
had injury issues. So I think Janeaue could have a
big bounce back, breakout season. So I like that a
little bit better.
Speaker 2: And I will say was not at that level last
year in terms of actually leading the NHL and hits,
but in terms of rates, he was extremely close. Last year.
He only played fifty five games and he had two
hundred and eleven hits. But if you were to give
him the other games of the season, he would have
been right in that mix for the very top of
the forwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Both good ones. All right, I'm gonna move on
to the next one. The San Jose Sharks. We talked
about the Sharks in June, just after they drafted Celebrini,
and there's some things that happened after that. That was
obviously a huge deal. Since he's going to be in
the NHL this season, should be top six center, should
have some decent linemates. Ecklyn Tifoli is what Daily faced
Off says. I think that that's reasonable. Will Smith signed,
he'll be in the NHL. He should be their second
line center, getting someone like Graandla on his wing. They
got Jake Walman with picks, which was confusing to everyone.
He should I really like him. I think Wallman. People
keep asking who's going to be the power play quarterback
in San Jose. I don't see why it wouldn't be
Jake Walman. He's done that before. I don't think they
have an obvious other answer. I don't know it could
be thrown. I know it could be Makamaduelin. I don't
think there's an obvious other answer. I think it's very
likely Jake Walman, and even if he isn't, he should
play a ton of and we know he's good for
the Bash when he does that. They also got to Foley,
which I think is a great signing. I'd mentioned him
playing with Celebrini. That could be a great fit. We
know to fully knows how to bury the puck, and
he could be a decent fantasy asset. Wenberg is a
good depth piece they signed him as well. I don't
expect much from Ben Wenberg, but at least they can
put him out in defensive zone starts and not have
to bog down there. They're young forward so well so
much and Ti Delandre was another signing that they had.
I really liked Delandra. He really seemed to turn the
corner in Dallas, but they let him go. I think
they just had too many good young players and they
wanted to make room for guys like Bork and stankovin,
so they let Delandra go. That benefits the Sharks because
I think he could be not a super high end guy,
but a decent middle to bottom six depth piece. So
a lot happened and they Sharks look like they're going
to be a little bit better than last year. I
still think they'll be bad, probably bottom five, maybe even
maybe even bottom three, but they should be a little
bit better. Oh and they got a scar off. I
forgot about that one Yaslava scar off. That was a
big deal a lot of people is interesting. So I
think we heard if anyone heard thirty two thoughts, they
were talking about how him having a block off there
as the player of the goalie coach is a big
deal because everyone's assuming that a scarf forced his way
to San Jose to play in the NHL, and I
think that's likely. I think he will play NHL games,
but a lot of people are suggesting that if the
Bakoff tells him the best thing to do maybe to
play some AHL games and not be hung out to drive.
I'm not sure that this isn't a block off season.
I think it's going to be Blackwood. I think it's
going to be Vanichick. I think they're going to struggle,
and you're probably not gonna want the goalies in San
Jose as you did last year. But Mackenzie Blackwood actually
had an insane goals shave above expected last year, so
he was risky but sometimes paid off spots start All right,
enough of that, My takes for this are going to
be Will Smith clears a sixty five point pace, and
I picked Smith because I think he's more likely to
just get all the offensive zone store starts playtime, and
he's an all offense kind of guy, so I think
he might end up putting more points than Celebrini. I
think it'll be close, but I'm gonna go with him
in terms of the offense. And for the other take,
I'm gonna go with Jake Walman. I think Walman has
an insane bash and peripheral time on ice season. I'm
not sure how many points he's gonna score, but I'm
gonna say he's a top thirty defender in the tidy
settings in our tier dynasty, which does count things like takeaways,
does count, time on ice does count Fenwick, which is
probably gonna hurt him a lot because that'll probably be negative,
but other than that, it might be pretty decent. So Walman, Smith,
you gotch.
Speaker 2: I dare say that both of these are hot takes,
and I would be content pinning either one of them
on you, I believe I'm going to pick the Walman
take as the less likely even of the two. He
is certainly a block shot maven in twenty minutes a
game last year roughly with Detroit he had two and
a half, but hits only two thirds of a hit
per game, fewer than two shots per game, and obviously
only scored about a third of a point per game,
not in nearly the same type of deployment. But keep
in mind even that twenty one points and sixty three
games came on eleven percent shooting from Wallman, so somebody
has to do it. But I don't think that means
that anybody on San Jose has to be in the
top thirty, so I think he's going to finish outside
of that. So anyway, but those are two good hot
takes with good supporting documentation. So I like him, Victor.
I like him a lot, all right. Moving on to
the Seattle Cracket is the very first team preview that
we did. So obviously there has been news the free
agent signings were multifaceted. That's not even the word. There
were many of them, That's what happened. Brandon Montour on
a seven year deal. Chandler's Stevenson on a seven year deal.
They've gone buck Wilde up there in the Pacific Northwest.
They traded Brian Dumelinda Anaheim. They signed Josh Mohura. They
re signed Eli Tulvinen. They picked Berkeley Catton in the draft.
They signed Adam Larson for four years. Yeah, this is scared.
This feels like twenty eighteen VANCOUVERI ish to me making
a bunch of big signings of guys who I worry
whether they're going to be able to do the types
of things that Seattle seems to think they'll be able
to do. And so along those lines, I am going
to give as my first potential hot take what I
always do, which is doubt Chandler Stevenson. Now he will
no longer have the Vegas Devil magic surrounding him that
was allowing him to thrive to the level that he was.
I am going to say he finishes outside the top
six and forward time on ice on this team. He
slips down to third line tight minutes and the second
of my takes here, a Sheene Wright redemption tour continues.
Even though he became almost irrelevant. It seems in hockey
circles for some. He had a great year at Blue
Coachella Valley, and I'm gonna put him on a fifty
point pace next year. I think that's going to be
his first year breaking in. There'll be more upside after that,
but that would be a season that I think could happen,
but it would probably exceed the expectations of many. Victor
what do you think hot takes here? And which one
do you want to pin on me more?
Speaker 1: I'm just envisioning that guy with the condescending golf clap. Oh,
good job, these are actually hot. Good Jobsie, I like these.
They are nice. Okay, not so much condescending, but you
get what you of gift I'm talking about now. Yeah, No,
these are definitely hot. And actually I was looking up
where Stevenson would have fell if he was a Kraken
last year with his Vegas ice time, and he had
the most of any forward. Does that continue? That's a
good question. They certainly paying him as if it should,
but I'm also not convinced that it will. I don't
know that it'll be outside the top six, though I
think he might be fourth or fifth or whatever. This
is the problem with the Kraken. They have fourteen middle
six forwards doesn't make any sense. That's the issue. So
that one's interesting. Shane Wright I really like. I think
he's taken some really excellent steps. I do think he
can take another one that is a bit that is
a bit much. Though both of these are a bit much,
which makes them great for hot takes. I think it's
less likely that Stevenson finishes outside the top six an
ice time though, just because they're paying them literally the
most money outside of Maddy Benier's, which is crazy and
we all know that's crazy. But they did it and
it's gonna be not that it has not that it
hasn't happened, because we certainly have seen high ticket players
be relegated to the bottom six, but it would be unusual.
So I will sticky with that one. But I think
these are both good.
Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome, And I will note one thing about Stevenson
finishing with more minutes last year Seattle's forwards none. I'm
finished with a lot of minutes because that's how things
ran as well under Hackstall. But there's new management there,
Dan Bilsma. We'll see if he is quite as democratic
with his time on ice Who got next Victor.
Speaker 1: Go to Vancouver or just north of Seattle. And we
talked about them relatively recently September twenty eighth, so not
a whole lot of updates since then. My two hot
taps are going to center around Jake Debrusk and Elias Petterson.
And I think people are losing their minds over Jake
Debrusk a little too much, quite frankly for my liking.
I get it, he's in a really good spot. He's
most likely going to play with Miller or Peterson, and
you say, great, how could you go wrong? He's gonna
have a great centerment either way, He's going to put
up a lot of points. And I understand the I
just don't agree because we have seen Jake Debress do this.
He has played with some really excellent players in Boston
and not put up good numbers. He's played with Pasternak,
he played with Bergeron back in the day in Marshawn.
He would not always but he would get a significant
amount of deployment with those top players and still couldn't
at times muster more than a forty point pace. So
that's the part that worries me. Yes, he had a
strong season the previous season twenty two to twenty three,
but then regress again this last season, even with good deployment,
so it doesn't really make sense. He played a lot
of time with David Pasternak, who's one hundred plus point player,
and he still couldn't get his act together to get
above forty points. He had a decent amount of power
play time, So I just I don't know. I'm gonna
say if debrask fails to clear a fifty point pace,
which may not even be hot enough, because I think
it's possible he ends up in less than forty five.
But I'm gonna give myself a little bit of breathing
and say fifty less than fifty point pace. So that's
my skepticism on Debrusk. I'm happy when I'm seeing other
people take him in readraft leagues right now, because I
just I don't believe like others do. So that's my
skeptical take. The other take is a little bit more positive,
and that's it. EP forty leads the Ducks or the
Ducks the Canucks in points this season. He didn't last season.
It was JT. Miller. It very well could be Miller again,
he was actually pretty close to e Liz Petterson to
Wressa was close to Petterson, so those two could be
close in terms of point pace, and Petterson was also
below Quinn Hughes. I think it's not an unreasonable take
to say that or not. I think it's you'll tell me, Jesse.
I think it's hot that Petterson leads the team in
scoring since he was third last season in Besser wasn't
too far away. So which one do you like better?
The Debresq failing to clear fifty point pacer, Petterson leading
the team in points.
Speaker 2: I'm going to call these a little less hot than
some of your other takes. You explained it pretty well.
I would flat out say I don't think Jake Debrs
is going to get a fifty point pace. That is
a guy who had so many opportunities in an excellent
offensive context that just needed somebody to step up into
that role much more than I feel like Vancouver. I
feel like it's a little bit deeper at the top
offensive end, So I would agree that he's not going
to hit a fifty point pace. So I'm going to
go with Elias Patterson. I think it's very reasonable to
think he could, but like you said, he didn't in
the past, and there are several other candidates who could
surpass him there, so it's no diss on him to
say that leading the team is would be an accomplishment.
So I guess I'll give you that one, Victor. The
Elias Petterson leading the team in point pace. But I
think that's a It would not be an impossible outcome.
I think it's the lot take, but it's an achievable one.
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: And I get it. It wasn't aspicy some of my
other ones. That's true.
Speaker 2: Some people like it hot and some people are getting
the mild sauce that's made in New York City. That's
how it goes sometimes, Victor. I understand, all right, Vegas
Golden Knights, we did them relatively recently, so there's not
much to catch up on. But I will give my
hot takes. I will say mark Stone finishes top two
in points for the team, which is basically like saying
mark Stone will be healthy all season, which is a
heck of a hot take. And the other one, I
struggle with this team because I feel like we know
who these guys are mostly and what they're going to
do except the goalies, which I just don't want to
talk about. So the other one, I will say, and
this is against my own better judgment, but it is
at least a take that I could consider hot. Alex
Holtz twenty five goals this year. He's traded out there.
This is the goal scorer who never scores goals as
a prospect, and he's finally going to get into the system.
Just like Vegas does with their magic Voodoo Devil Dust,
they will find a way to coax twenty five goals
from Alex Holtz. Victor, I you gotta be you gotta
be drooling over these two options for a hot take.
Which one do you want?
Speaker 1: I almost stopped you after you had me at mark
Stone playing all the games, but then you outdid yourself
with that Alex Holtz take. Oh my god, you're right.
These are both so unlikely. In my opinion. Stone is good.
We know Mark Stone is a great player, but him
playing all the games is really that's where the spice
kicks in and it might burn your mouth right off.
So that's how spicy it is.
Speaker 2: It's an episode of hot ones here.
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, let's just look over mark Stone games played
for the last several years. Fifty six games, forty three games,
thirty seven games, fifty five games, sixty five games, seventy
seven Oh, good job, golf clap fifty eight games. This
is Ottawa days now, fifty eight, sixty nine, seventy five,
eighty back in twenty fourteen. Fifteen was his first full season,
and he has never hit an eight number in his
game's played long since.
Speaker 2: So Victor, it's it sounds like you're telling me he's due.
That's how this works, right, You're a medical.
Speaker 1: Guy telling you there's a chance. Looking back at Holtz's
goal record, he played all eighty two games last season.
I swear when I watched New Jersey games, he was
invisible most of the time. I don't know how he
scored sixteen goals that was That's impressive. He is a
goal scorer, and that is what they need him to do.
Twenty five is a bit rich, but yeah, I think
that's they need him to. They need a goal scorer.
He's probably gonna play, you know, in the bottom six.
I don't think he makes it into the top six.
Pavlodorofiev does a lot more at all strengths, so I
think he gets that spot. Even Bresson is better away
from the puck than Holtz. Right now, daily faceoff has
both those guys on the third line with wild Bill.
I seriously doubt that would happen because those two are
like the same player. I don't know how you could
have two of the same players in the same line
like that. Anyways, I don't think the whole one is
likely at all. I don't even think he clears twenty
quite frankly, but I'm gonna hold you to the mark
Stone one because that's catching a leprechaun. What's not gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Jesse, I love it. I love it. Yeah, I'm in
the mood. Let's take a break, Victor. I need to
cool off my hat and come back talk to the
Central Division.
Speaker 1: Two excellent are serious injury.
Speaker 2: When back with the Central Division, it's gonna start with you,
Victor Nugnell. Give us the first team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got the Utah Hockey Club, Arizona Coyotes, the
artist formally known as the Always are on A Coyotes
Utah Hockey Club. We talked about them August eleventh. Not
a whole lot has changed since then. They aside from
them being in Utah, which they already were, they have
open camp. We've seen some picks from their new facility.
It looks great. Everybody seems to be in good spirits.
They seem to be having a lot better facilities and
just attention from the team and money spent on them,
which is really nice to hear that everyone's doing well
that way. Still feel bad for all the Coyotes employees
and all those fans. But anyways, no other major updates.
I think this team is really interesting. Oh actually, one
update just happened as we went on the air. Jesse
Dylan Gunther. They signed him to a pretty long contract.
It was seven seven mil was the cap hit I believe,
and the term was loading Puckpedia as we speak here. Actually,
I'm on cap wages. Did you know that was another option?
Speaker 2: Jesse cap wages. Good heavens man, I'm run. I'm just
a luddite over here on spot track.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the cap wages is basically a site that
looks exactly like cap friendly. It's like somebody copied the
code and copied and page did it. It's pretty funny.
It looks just like that. So if you like that, visualization.
It looks the same, which I got used to and
quite liked it, but the more accurate is probably puck Pedia.
And yes they have the cap hit up. It was
eight years time, seven point one four million cap hit
for Dylan and he'll be a UFA when he's aged thirty,
So I like, that's great, that's a great deal. I
think he's shown that he can be a great scorer
in the league. But that's not what the hot take
is about. It was just going through ce if I
see any more news on the guys. Obviously the Cirga
Chef trade had already happened. And what's your take there?
You think Sergei gets top power play or you think
it's going to be Dursey. Before I give you my
hot take.
Speaker 2: I think that the favorite to get it, given the
way that contract went down, is Sergachef. But I'm digging.
Let's hear what your hot take is here, Victor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you. We've seen both guys do it,
and they gave them money to Sergacheff. But my take
is that Sergachev is just a great all situations defenseman.
He's someone that can play as much time as they need.
Him to. He can play in every situation up, down, defense, penalty, kill,
power play, and they don't need him to play the
power play. Seawan Dursey is someone who if she's not
in an offensive role, he's not helping you as much
as he could. So that's why I think he's going
to play more on the power play. I'm gonna say
Seawan Jersey gets more power play time on ice on average,
if you average per game throughout the season, more power
play time on ice and Sergachev and Jersey clear is
a fifty point pace, so that makes it a little
bit more unlikely. Perhaps he did last season. Jersey had
a forty four point pace in Arizona, forty three point
pace before that, and he was getting last season, he
got sixty eight percent of the power play time three
minutes sixteen minute seconds time on ice average. I don't
know that he hits that high because I think it's
going to be more even, But that's my first take.
The other one surrounds Logan Cooley. I think Logan Cooley
is the next top line center for this team, but
I'm not sure that happened this year. He might see
some time up with color and Smaltz. We've also seen
Hayton there. I think those two might bounce a little
bit back and forth or just end up playing with
the wingers that they settle in with the most, and
so maybe it's just a similar deployment but different wingers.
But I think I'm gonna say Logan Cooley finishes third
on the team in points, which he definitely did not
last year. He was actually sixth behind Keller, Schmaltz, Michelli,
Kerfoot and Bukes Dad. So Logan Cooley takes a big
step finishes third on points. What do you think, Jesse,
that one or the Shan Jersey getting more power play time?
Speaker 2: I dig both of these. I like both of these outcomes.
I am cheering for potentially both of these. Not that
I'm cheering against Sergachev and for Dersey, but I said
Sergachef was the favorite for the power play Tom and Ice.
I think he is the favorite. But that's why this
is a hot take and a Shan Dursey that's certainly
within the range of outcomes. So that's a good one.
I am going to give you Logan Cooley third on
the team in points just because I think the field
is a better bet than Cooley is to land that
highly in the cadre of forwards or scores. It could
have a defenseman too, but it's possible. It's also possible,
and that would be really cool if Cooley had that
kind of workout. No pun intended, cool E Cooley, that's right,
Chicago Blackhawks. This was another one that we did just
prior to the signing in June, the free agency, the draft,
all those types of things. They traded for Ilia mckayev
and Sam Lafferty. They signed Tyler Bertuzzi and Alec Martinez
and Toe tra Vinen. Then they went and signed Craig Smith,
Loreentz brosoas, Joey Anderson, Pat Maroon, TJ. Brody, all the
victor have you ever do you have broadcast television? Victor
the antenna? Do you have the antenna? Not now?
Speaker 1: I did at one point in my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you buy an antenna in the year twenty
twenty four, you can get one. It's the digital antenna,
and you put it on your TV and you scan
and I swear I have forty channels of broadcast television
because every one of the networks has six channels, and
there's one on it that always plays like mash and
Hogan's Heroes and twenty four hours a day reruns from
the seventies. And that's that channel is Chicago Blackhawks Free Agency.
All it is a bunch of guys who used to
be something, but we're not really watching them as much
in the year twenty twenty four. That might be a
little unkind to Lreent Brosois, but still there's a bunch
of guys there. Look into it, Victor, get yourself an antenna.
It saves you a bunch of money. It's free, absolutely
free to watch television. That way, we should get have
a sponsor. Then they drafted our Tom Lovschunoff Sasha Boys
for Merrik Bennecker. They lost Mackenzie ent Whistle, Reyes Johnson,
Tyler Johnson, Taylor Radish who went to a completely different
broadcast channel. And so my hot takes coming into this
Chicago Blackhawks season, despite his injury coming into the season,
I am going to say Laurent bro swas career backup,
will lead the Blackhawks in games started. That means he
doesn't have to have more than half. He just has
to have more than anybody else. And I just can't
with Peter Morazac anymore. I think it's going to be
like bro Swall will probably have like thirty five and
Marazak twenty five, and then Rando go find Scott Darling
again will start the other twenty or something like that,
and then the other Frank Naser top five and scoring.
I sure hope he comes up to the NHL this year,
because otherwise that's a really stupid prediction. And you're probably
going to give it two me, but those are the
two I'm gonna put out there. What do you want
to get? Victor, you're gonna win? E didn't one of
these you give me? So just go ahead and do it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we should tally the win losses on these.
That would be good.
Speaker 2: Oh and they lost Tailor Radish, who I will eternally
remember as my victory lap from last year in this exercise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, too bad. No they I was listening to the
thirty two Thoughts and they were talking about how or
no not. I was listening to The Athletic and Jesse
Granger was talking about how Bresois finally got some injuries
taken care of that he'd never been able to address
fully and he finally feels like himself, and I think
it's a good take. I think he could not only
based on talent, but on Maraazak being injury prone and
that was the most games played he's ever played last season,
and I'm not sure that's good for him in the future.
It's also interesting because Brussela is injured right now, so
he might not start, and they are talking about Arvid Stutterbloom,
but he he really struggled last year and maybe Comeso
even steals the backup job from him at a camp.
That would be interesting because he seems like the goalie
of the future. They just have a lot of interesting
goalie baddie battles going on, so I could see the
Boswat thing happening. So yes, I'm going to give you
Frank Nazar, because as much as I like Frank the tank,
I don't think that's going to happen. I think that'd
be a all ask for him, especially considering they brought
in some competent NHL ors. No one who is for
sure gonna block him from doing that, but guys that
easily could and Azar could use some time in the minors.
And by the way, don't harass Jesse. He was totally
trolling you. He knows it's not pronounced bosvea or whatever
he said, it's boaver.
Speaker 2: Of course he knows that.
Speaker 1: Of course I know you were just trolling them.
Speaker 2: So I'm just testing you, Victor, I'm just testing you.
Speaker 1: So my next team is a Crawler Avalanche, and we
talked about them July twenty eight. There's a couple of
things that happened since then that we could update you on.
They signed Oliver Shillington and Matthew Phillips. That is gonna
be a little bit interesting. Shillington certainly could play role
for them on probably the third pairing. He is more
of an offensive guy, so that's interesting. He may factor
into the depth of the team, and we still don't
know about it. Sounds like he's going to be out
at least a couple of months. It sounds like the
team is frustrated with what's going on with him. Nicolai
Kovalenko is the guy that we talked a little bit
about as someone who could come in and do something
interesting on the second line. But that's not where I'm
going to go with this, Jesse. I'm gonna go with
two things. Jonathan drew Inne and justice On and in
Drew Anne really rehabbed his career last year. He really
clicked with McKinnon. His total numbers don't tell the whole
story because it took him a little bit of time
to really get going, so he didn't end up finishing
with such an amazing season. He was behind and McKinnon,
Ranton and Chushkin, Lekkinen and little stat if you combine
his points from Buffalo, but he was right there. And
I think that full season with training camp and everything,
and a little bit more confidence. I think he's coming
in with a little bit more confidence, and I think
that's going to be good for him. He also has
he's a UFA after the season, so he's playing for
that contract, which I think is always something to consider. Anyways,
I think that he's going to go over a seventy
point pace. He had a sixty point pace back in
his last season in Tampa twenty sixteen seventeen. He hasn't
really gotten close to sixty since then. But I think
his role is a little bit more secure this time.
He's going to get some of that first power play time,
especially with Nachushkin not there, and I think he can
really pad those point total, so I think he can
get there. It's a high ask. The other one is
Justice and and In. I think Justice Aeninin is the
goalie of the future for the Colorado Avalanche. I think
he's already better than Georgiev. I know Georgiev still has
the contract, but they really need to know what they
have on and In and I think they in the
time that they gave him, he was arguably already better
in those starts. So I think that he's gonna steal
the starting role from Georgia and play more games.
Speaker 2: What do you think, boy, victory that drew one one
is just bait for me, It's just bait. You know
that I'm skeptical of mister Juram, but it's it is true.
It's true. He had himself a good season. He's doing
well out there with his old buddy McKinnon. Both of these,
both of these there's good reason to doubt it in
the sense that so it's not like these are not
hot takes, but both of them are extremely within the
realm of possible outcomes. I will say that Ananin is
the one that I will give you because that's that
would be a pretty pretty significant upset to remove the
sitting goalie from such a strong team, and a rookie
takes that over. So I'll give you an andym. But
would I be completely surprised by it? No, but I
will give you the credit. That's probably the hotter of
the two takes in my eyes. Onto the Dallas Stars
catching up, Actually I was. I just got news in
the last couple of days to really catch it up,
because this one was done after free agency in the
draft back in August, Thomas Harley and Essel Lindell both resigned.
They've got themselves some deals. Harley only for two years,
but Lindell very long contract. And the hot takes here, Victor,
your guy Logan Stankovin, who finally made his debut last year.
I'm going to put him in the top five and
team scoring next year. You just got to remember how
many great scores there are on this Dallas squad. So
that's rarefied air. I know. I believe that you believe
he can do it, but is top five too much
too soon? And then the other one I will do.
You got your Thomas Harley, you got your merro Hayskinin.
I believe that looking at the Bash Thomas Harley can
provide going to have one hundred more points of bash.
I don't know what to call it, because we don't
basically shots plus blocks plus hits. Thomas Harley is going
to have one hundred more of them than Miro hayskin
In does next year, So I will I'll give him that.
I'm not points. Maskin probably gonna have more points, but
I think Harley is going to lead significantly in the bash.
So which one of those victor do you think less likely?
Speaker 1: That is a really interesting one, and I need to
look at that for a second, because I hadn't really
thought about that. So last year, in case people are wondering,
because I'm looking this up in real time, Harley played
eight more games than I skin In and in eight
more games ended up with about forty more bash blocks
plus shots plus hits. So you take that, you take
those extra games and potentially the increased role. I think
that's gonna be hard for him to hit Jesse. That's
definitely some spiciness there. It's definitely spicy to say that
stank Covin can get more fit top five in scoring.
I think he can do it, certainly, But they still
have some pretty good scores on their team, because I
think you got Hints, you got Robertson, I think Johnston
is right there, and then who's after that? Has it been?
Is it Sagan? Is it dou Shane. I think that's
a bit more likely, actually, because I think stank Covin
is super talented, and I'm gonna go with the Harley one.
Although I really like Harley. I was really hoping I
can get him as my third or fourth the in
a lot of drafts, and it just hasn't been happening.
I think other people finally come around. This is why
I like Dannayy Jesse because I got my Thomas Harley
shares years ago and no one can rip them from me.
Their mine can't have them.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll go with the Harley one. It's a
good one. All right. Let's move on to the next team,
Minnesota Wild. We talked about them way back in May,
and they didn't do too much. They did sign Yakov
Trendon good Bang, resigned Jacob Middleton, which is a good
physical defender. They handed a giant bag of money to
Brock Faber, which was a great idea because he's phenomenal
My hot take though, is going to be a couple
of different guys. So Murrat who's Nadinov, is coming in
and he's been playing in the KHL and he's been
really solid there, and they also they've had Ryan Hartman.
He hasn't necessarily he's been really up and down his career.
He was someone who was highly touted as a prospect,
didn't quite work out, and then he circled back to
having some years of relevance, but then he's gone cold
actually the last couple of years. So I'm gonna say
one of these two happens either, and I don't think
both of these can happen, So this kind of paints
me and myself at the corner a little bit. But
I'm gonna say that either Hartman gets back to a
sixty five point pace, which I think can which I
think only happened the year that he played with crokapriz
Off a lot of that year, and so that could
happen again if he does that. He he did get
a sixty five point pace in twenty one to twenty
two when he did play a fair amount with him.
The rest of the time he's done at best fifty
point pace. And before that he was a thirty point
pace guy, so that's a big jump up again. The
other one is that who's Nadinov gets to a fifty
five point pace, which is a little bit lower because
he hasn't really done that before, and even though he's
been playing professionally in Russia, he played only sixteen games
with the Wild last season and only had four points,
so that would be a big change. So basically, what
I'm saying is one of these guys is gonna play
with Corell and probably get a lot of points daily
faceoff has Hartman as that guy. The other options would
be Rossi, Eric Sanak or who's Nadenov. I don't really
think they have any other options. So it's gonna be
one of those four, and someone's gonna get a big boost.
Will it be one of these two? Jesse?
Speaker 2: That's that's a good question, Victor. Which one of these
guys we're looking at? I would say that the less
likely is Brian Hartman getting back to that sixty five
point pace. I'm not buying it. I think that he
had his time in the sun and he has had
his opportunities, but he's not going to get back there.
Both of these are relatively warm to hot takes, but
I'm going to give you the Hartman one, all right,
The Nashville Predators. This is the one where we actually
had to do a second half episode and tack it
on before we released it, because we recorded it and
then all Heck broke loose and Marcius own stampcos et cetera.
So there were even more moves after we recorded. The
yarislavaskar Rov, of course, was the biggest one, moving out
for David Edstrom Magnus Crona in a first round pick.
They also traded away Cody Glass to the Pittsburgh Penguins
and they drafted Yugorsurin Tedestiga. Those were both actually I
think they happened before we recorded, but we didn't make
any reference to them because they weren't in a part
of the dig. My two potential hot takes here, Victor
one is Roman Yosi sets a personal career high in
points that would be ninety seven points, so one more
than his Night six prior total. And Jokim Kemmel leads
all twenty three and under Predators in scoring. Next year,
there's a group of those guys at a younger age
I'm trying to put him in that, say he's the
top scorer of that group. Which one do you want
to pin on me, Victor.
Speaker 1: It's hard to bet against Roman Yosi, so I'm probably
not going to do that because that guy can pretty
much do whatever he wants out there. It seems at
times I like the Jokim Kemmel one. I think that's
not a guaranteed. They have a lot of decent young
talent on this team, which makes them super interesting. They've
drafted really well. They've retooled the miracle retool that everybody
talks about and no one can do it. Seems like
they actually did it, so I like that. It's between
Cole Smith, Luke Evangelista, Yuso Parson, and Thomasino. They got
a few options to compete with, and I don't think
his spot, Yokam Kimmel's spot is even guaranteed. So I'm
going to stick you with that one because I think
that's a little less like Yeah, so Kemel lead under
twenty three scoring, We'll go with that. Next one. Saint
Louis Blues catch up. A few things happened. Scott Prunovich
signed another proved deal. I thought we were done with Scott.
Prunovitch proved deals, he still hasn't quite proved it. I
would say a lot of people are saying this is
Prunovic season. I'm not so sure about that. The guy
first has to show me that he can stay healthy.
As much as I like him when he does play.
That's seems like a taller order for him. Unfortunately, they
also united the Joseph brothers, Matthew and Pierre Olivier. Joseph.
I just I love this story, Jesse. I love that
the brothers got to play together. I just think that's
super fun. Neither of them are super fantasy relevant, but
I think it's cool that they get to be on
the same team. Pavel Buchnievitch signed a six time eight
million dollar deal, which I think is pretty decent value
and good for those of us at non cap leagues
that can see how much they're invested in him and
know that he's going to get all that time on ice.
Ryan Souter signed a one year deal. They fired, of course,
the big news Dylan Holloway and Philip Roberg in that
first ever double offer sheet, which I hope we see
just again and again every season now. Jesse, because that
was so much fun.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I don't know if.
Speaker 1: Any of these are super relevant other than Bushnevich sticks around.
Maybe Broger can deal some of the power play time.
Someone asked me if if I think Holloway is more
than a forty five point player. I still don't think so,
even though I think he's a good depth player, and
Pronovich can be great if he can actually stay healthy
and stick it on the top power play. So there's
just a lot of ifs there. I think it's probably
folk time, but my hot take is going to be
that Philip Roberg assumes the top power play in Saint
Louis and clears a forty five point pace. And I'll
also mention that I did write an EPE ringside article
about bro Berg and about how good he could be
if he ever got traded to a new team and
got power play opportunity, which might actually happen. It's nice
doing those kinds of things happen. I think forty five
might be a bit too much, Jesse, So that might
be the one that you hold me to. The other
one is that Jordan Bennington regresses to his twenty twenty
two to twenty three form Bennington had been sliding backwards
for years ever since he won the Cup. He basically
had a worse season every season until last season when
he actually broke that trend and was actually pretty good again.
So does he stay good, does he keep up that
quality start rate or does he regress again and actually
struggle and be a sub nine hundred say percentage goalie.
The actual take is regresses to his twenty twenty two
to twenty three form, which is that sub nine hundred
save percentage and the quality start rate under fifty percent.
So which is going to be? Jessee Victor?
Speaker 2: I know you like to go against Jordan Bennington. It's
your brand. I got it, I got it, and my
Joel Hofer shares are with you man in spirit. I'm
all for that happening. I think that's an outcome that
could be. There's it's a good call. It's a good
take because I think some people are probably buying back
in on Jordan Bennington. But I think I'm going to
get the Philip Roberg one. There are so many there
are so many defencemen being well paid in Saint Louis
these days that which one of them is going to
get the top power play I think is still out there.
I would love to see it be Roberg. I agree
he's got the talent. I guess we'll say that for
him to jump to that forty five point pace and
get the top power play is slightly less likely than
Bennington regressing. So I'll give this one to you, but again,
I'm cheering for it. In fact, you know what I
got Broberg in our Common League victors. So yeah, I'm
all for this one, but I'm still going to make
you live with the hot take.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Let's finish up the Western Conference last one.
Speaker 2: Winnipeg Jets catch up. Luckily we got the Yeggert McGroarty
thing done just in time. That trade came down for
Fetti and Eeler's long term contracts. I believe as of
this recording are still unresolved unless I missed them somewhere
in the mix of all these things. What is going
on in terms of the hot takes that I'm gonna
give you here? This is a hard one too. I
will say Nikolai Eelers ends up in the top two
and Jet scoring. That feels pretty dang hot if you
ask me. Eelers because one year of Victor We're gonna
have the Eeler season. We're gonna have the Eeler season,
and I'm gonna be there for it. I'm gonna live
that long to see the Nikolai Eeler season and the
other I will say Kyle Connor fifty goals, his career
high as forty seven. That was an outlier compared to
some of them. Certainly, he's got the talent to do it.
I just feel like whenever you predict somebody to have
a career high and something, and it would be a
big jump from what he did last year, it is
reasonably hot. Which one of those two to Victor do
you find less likely?
Speaker 1: I definitely agree that both could happen. I think the
Eelers thing should happen. We've talked about that a lot.
I think Connor is just such an offensive dynamo that
seems a little less likely just in terms of that's
a lot of goals. I feel like I could imagine
you and I sitting on a porch somewhere crotchety and
old and just saying that Eelers should have finished top two.
It just never happened. You know, we were right, The
process was right all the underlying metrics were right, he
just never got the time on ice. That one seems
like it could happen just because of injury or almost
like against their best wishes. It happens like they tried
to make it not happen, but it still happened anyways,
because the Eelers is that good and I want him
to do it. So I'm gonna actually hold you to
the Kyle Connor one because fifty goals is a lot
of goals, and that just almost never happened. So let's
do that one.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love the thing I love about
this one, Victor. I will be cheering for both of
these two hot takes hard. So let's see what happens. Victor.
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