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

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Speaker 2: Here sits.

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Speaker 2: Block off, Hot's a step hit on, stay lock.

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

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Speaker 2: I'm Fantasy Hockey Live once again. We are talking fantasy hockey.

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We've been through thirty two team previews, but we just

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can't give up on it, and so I am Jesse

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severe pantracks that there is Victor Nuno of ep rings side. Victor.

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How you doing?

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Speaker 1: Wow? I am exhausted from all those team previews, Jesse.

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But we have hockey to watch. There's camps, there's preseason.

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We have pretty much hit the light at the end

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of the tuntle. I'm doing great. How are you doing, my friend?

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Speaker 2: I'm good. Yeah. I think by the time people listen

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to this, there will have been hockey on the television

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that they will have watched, which is pretty amazing if

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you ask me. Yeah, it's we're getting into that time.

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We've been through all the teams, Victor, and so let's

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just do them all again. But let's do them all

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in two episodes. As you guys are getting ready for

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the season. This is a little supplement we call the

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catch up and Mustard episodes because we catch up to

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all the stuff that we missed or that changed since

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we did our team previews, and then we hit it

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with the spicy mustard of some hot takes. But to Victor,

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we're not the only ones who like to talk about

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the latest events in hockey in what might be changing

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out there, Nor are we the ones the only ones

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who like to give hot takes. Others do that, and

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they can do it in our discord for absolute free

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and for fun and their personal enjoyment. They do that

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by joining our discord, which is free. Hit us up

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Fantasy HOCKEYLFE at gmail dot com. Victor on X Victor

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New No. Twelve Me on X Fan Hockey Life will

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get you a link you'll pop right in, Victor. Aside

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from that, I know there is more to tell the

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people about. Why don't you let them know other things

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they can be are taking it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, there's so much great stuff going on.

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Through our Patreon you have access to all kinds of

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can look at all the player cards, the ranks, look

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at all that blocks the hits info. A lot of

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people have been hitting that up lately. As the league's

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start coming around, you just have to start making some

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decisions about what you're gonna do. It's great opportunity to

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big thing if you want we are full with our

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tidy divisions, but if you want to get on the

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wait list, you never know when someone might drop off,

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so that'd be a great thing. And we're gonna start

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up with our tidy takes again pretty soon here, so

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looking forward to getting into all of that action.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're gonna take a break, come back and make

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our tour run the NHL Victor. We start with the

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West Coast, West Coast, Best Coast because we're no East

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coast bias type operation. You are way out on the

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West coast and therefore we shall start there. Today's episode

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will be the Western Conference and we're gonna start with

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the Pacific Division. And for those unfamiliar with these episodes

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our format, Victor and I alternate teams. First, we give

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you the catch up the things that have changed for

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these teams or additional news events that have developed since

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we gave the team previews. Remember those go all the

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way back to April, I believe. And then we're going

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to give and then we're going to give two alternative

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hot takes, and then the other one of us is

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going to decide which one they are held accountable for it.

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Tell me explain that to me again, Victor, I'm lost.

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Speaker 1: We often would give one take and then sometimes the

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other person would say that's not even a hot bag.

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That's luke warm at best. So now we're gonna do

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two takes per team, and then the other person gets

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to choose which one we're going to hold them accountable to.

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So if it's to lukewarm, we'll pick the spice here

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one probably and hold the other person to that.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. We're gonna have to highlight those in the document

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or something, because I'm never going to remember all this stuff.

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But okay, Victor, I think you got the first team,

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so why didn't you kick us off?

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Speaker 1: I do. I do have the first team, and the

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first team is the Anaheim Ducks. We recorded them way

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back on May twenty fifth, if you can remember that

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far ago. That was so long. A few things have

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happened since then, nothing earth shattering. But the Ducks did

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sign Isaac Loundestrom or hoe Vakanninen. They acquired Brian Dumelin

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from the Kraken. They helped bolster their defense. They acquired

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Rabbi Fadre Fabruary from the Detroit Red Wings for one

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of their goaltenders, Skage Alexander, who Kat and I talked

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about and weren't too excited about him. So that seems

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like a good move, and the roster overall looks a

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little bit better. When we do this, we also try

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to get a little bit of a take on what

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was happening from in terms of the team and what

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we expect from them going forward. It looks like they

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have a little bit more talent, but I'm not exactly

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sure that they're going to be all that much better

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than they were last year. Obviously, other additions that weren't

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via trade or anything, but they have Cutter Gautier debuting,

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so that should be good. Olin Zelweger should be a

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full timer and he got a bunch of games last

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year but wasn't the regular. They also had some injuries

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here and there, and it looks like overall could be

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a better team, but I'm just not sure how either

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going to climb in the standings. So I have a

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couple of hot takes here. One is that Pavel Minschikov

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leads the Ducks and scoring from the blue line and

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is top five in terms of point pace for the team,

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five even amongst all the forwards, that's a pretty decent one.

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And leading to the Duck and scoring would mean that.

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like he seems like they're trying to work on a

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solution to give the younger Duck defenseman a little bit

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bigger role and maybe find a trade for him. So

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that'll be interesting to see what happens with Fowler. He's

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been the most boring power play quarterback in the league

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for a long time, so it'll be interesting to see.

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And in case you're wondering Minschikov last year finished eight

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nine to tenth in terms of point pace, So it's

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a bit of a spicy take to say he'll finish

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top five amongst ahead of a whole bunch of forwards.

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The other one that I'm going to put out there

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and you get to pick Jesse, is Troy Terry bounces

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back to a seventy five point pace. If you remember,

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a couple of years ago, Troy Terry had back to

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back seventy point seasons and we thought, Okay, this is

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the new Troy Terry. He's going to be a seventy

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point guy. Broke out from thirty four to seventy four points.

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one to twenty two season, he more than doubled his

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point pace, and then he held steady in twenty two

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to twenty three, which was good because his shooting percentage

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did regress as we thought he would. But then this

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past season he went all the way back down to

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a fifty eight point pace, and he played similar number

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of games each one of those seasons. So I'm saying

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it's gonna come back up to seventy five. So Jesse

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which one do you want to hold me to? The

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Pavel Minchikov or the Troy Terry one.

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Speaker 2: I think I'll hold you to the Minchikov just on

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the basic principle of Terry has shown us before he

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can do it, and Mitchikov hasn't yet. Not that I'm

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trying to be mean or anything, and I would it

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would be a lot of fun to see Mitchikov do

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that and really come into his own I hope that's

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what's happened. But I think I'm gonna hold you to

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that one. Victor. Is that okay?

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Speaker 1: The Minchikov one? Yeah, let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it all right, lock it down, Pablo Minchikov.

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Next up, we got the Calgary Flames. Boy did they

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get active. After we did our show. They traded away

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Jacob Markstrom for Kevin Ball and at twenty twenty five. First,

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they traded away Andrew montia Pani for a twenty twenty five. Second,

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they signed Anthony Mantha a five year extension Diego or

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Sharon Govic. They drafted zee Perek signed him to his

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entry level contract, already other entry level contracts to ATM

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morn and Matt Day gridden, and they gave other contracts

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to just a bevy of different players, including Dustin Wolfe.

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They get a cry out to Tyson Barry got Jacob Pellotier,

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Jake Bean, Devin Cooley, all kinds of stuff. Dylan Dube

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is officially gone gone. Remember he's one of the guys

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who got in trouble, but supposedly this means he's not

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coming back in A few deaf players went out, including

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Oliver Shillington, so there's nothing really changed. This is probably

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going to be one of the worst teams in the league.

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the main show in terms of the for this team

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this year, which presumably is going to have a pretty

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good chance of finishing last in the Pacific because there's

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just not a lot there and they traded away much

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of what they had. So we'll see about the Flames

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and what they're able to do this year. But I've

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got two potential takes here. It's a tradition like no other.

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I make an optimistic take about Connor Zeri every year

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in this space. So this year I'll say he ends

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up in the top five and power play Tom on

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Ice and my other alternative prediction McKenzie Wiger does not

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end the season with the Flames. They continue the fire

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sale in slow motion and Wiger finds a new home

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to ply his Whar's Victor. It's is this even spicy?

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Is this just like yellow mustard? Or do you find

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one of these spicy enough to give it the Victor

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seal of stick Jesse with it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the weaker one is spicy enough.

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It's interesting. I think they are probably going to be

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seller at the deadline, and does he fit into their

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long term plan is certainly something that we should consider.

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going to need space for at some point. But he

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is a serviceable guy. He's thirty, and he's got a

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long contract. So someone gonna want that, that is a question.

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the Zeri one, though, because I think that's going to

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be an interesting one. I do really love Connor Zery

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and I thought he had a pretty excellent season last year,

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and I think that he's taking steps to be a

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really top player for this team, and I think the

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organization views him that way. It'll be interesting to see

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what happens after this season because he is an RFA.

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back a little bit, like they don't want them to

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break out too much, and so I could see that

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maybe happening. That kind of happened with Bouchard a little bit.

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The next team we're going to talk about, but yeah,

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I'll hold you to the Bouchard one. I like that one.

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I think top five power play timeline is not a given,

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certainly based on the usage of what they've had, So

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I think that's it's not super spicy, but I'll take

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that one. Jesse pretty blakd awesome. Awesome. Next up, let's

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go to the Edmonton Oilers. So we recently did this

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episode September fourth, and it wasn't Not too much has

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the I think the team had really good depth that

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they came within one game the Stanley Cup Final, but

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it seems like their depth has taken a little bit

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of a step back. I know that they did make

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a couple of trades, none of them I don't think

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hugely impactful. Obviously, there was the offer sheet that they

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lost McLeod and Dylan Holloway, but they did gain Vasilli

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Pott coles In, who's a decent enough player. Ty Eberson

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with the Sharks for some reason gave them for Cody

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cc which I still don't quite understand based on the

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contracts there. But it seems like a lot of those

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might be just a wash. And I don't know that

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but those guys aren't as interesting to talk about, so overall,

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I'm I'm not sure the team goes all the way

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back to the Stanley Cup final. That's not a given

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either way, even if they were as good, but I

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think they might have taken a little step back. We'll see.

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is a really fun one. That's where I'm going to

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go because I think Jeff Skinner, we've seen him be

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a really excellent goalscorer sometimes when the team asks him

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to do a little bit too much. It seems like

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that might be a challenge for him, but I don't

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know that they are going to ask him to do

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that much. He's going to play probably on the second line,

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probably with Dry Sidle and he can score a ton

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of goals. So I'm going to say Jeff Skinner, h's

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that forty goal plateau or at least forty goal pace,

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which I think is fair. And he's only done that

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once in his career and that was way back his

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first season in Buffalo when he had forty goals in

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eighty two games. He's come close a couple times in

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the mid thirties, even thirty seven and second last season

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in Carolina. But that would be a fun one and

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I'm sure the Oiler fans would be happy with that.

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Second one is maybe a little less spicy. But I'm

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going to say that Evan Bouchard finishes top three in points,

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and that's what he did last year, but that may

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not necessarily be a given based on Hymen was close,

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Bouchard wasn't that far away? You got Skinner? Now wait,

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I said Bouchard, that's who we're talking about. Skinner could

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be there, So Bouchard finishing third again isn't necessarily one

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hundred percent. And there's also Nuton Hopkins who has scored

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higher than him. So those are my two. Jeff Skinner

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forty goal pace and Bouchard finishing top three in point pace.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Victor? I see what you're doing

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with the Jeff Skinner one, but I ain't buying it

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at all. Mister just got bought out. He is not

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going to get the diet of shots that he's got

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in all the other places where he just shoots with

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crazy volume and ends up getting those goals. The oilers

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are going to have better shooters than him to take

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some of those shots, even though David gives out a

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ton of assists. So maybe he will find great joy

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in setting up Jeff Skinner for shots. But I just

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don't be I think Jeff Skinner doesn't have this in

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him anymore. So I will stick you with the Jeff

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Skinner prediction as your hot take. All right, moving on

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to the Los Angeles Kings May nineteenth. We recorded that one.

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Let's catch up what has happened since because that was

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pre free agency, pre draft Big Save Dave Re signed

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for another year. Taylor Ward signs. Why do you care

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that somebody named Taylor Ward signs because that's also the

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name of a Los Angeles angel and I think it's weird. Next,

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you've got a couple other guys signing at kil Thomas,

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Alex Turcotte, Samuel Fagamo are back. They traded back in

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the draft, they got Liam green Tree and Carter George.

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Then they traded draft picks for Tanner Jano. Then they

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made the big move of the summer, Pierre Luke dea

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Bois for Darcy Kemper. One of the highlight your bad

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contract for my bad contract trades, Warren Fogel three year contract,

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Joel Edmondson four year contract. They reassigned Trevor Lewis, Phoenix Copley,

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and Jordan Spence. They extended Quintin Buyfield, your guy, Victor

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for five more years, the eventry level contracts to Eric

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Portillocarter George and Liam green Tree. And they lost a

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bunch of free agents Victor Arvidson, Kevin Connoton, Blake Lozatte,

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Matt Roy, cam Talbot. So we onto the hot takes,

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and in honor of you, Victor, Quintin buy Field, and

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I'm going to pick the very scientifically precise number of

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seventy three points this year that I'm going to attribute

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to Quentin Buyfield. And then the other one that I

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will do is to say Tanners, you know, will lead

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all NHL forwards in hits. So which one of those

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two do you like? Victor?

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Speaker 1: It's a very weird. How did you come up with

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that number for Buyfield?

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Speaker 2: It was very scientific, Victor, I asked chat GPT. No,

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I didn't really I should have. I just picked the

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number that I thought would most confus and apparently worked.

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Speaker 1: Yes, apparently I love me some Quinn Buyfield. That is

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a high number though, to get behind. So I'm gonna

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have to think about that one. Tanner's and no leading

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forwards and hits. If you would have said all skaters,

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I would have said easily no. But I'm sure that

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you said that on purpose because I think that'll probably

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be Lasan He's in the machine or there's a couple

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of options that could outdo him from defense. I like

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that one. I really like Buyfield. I really want to

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get behind him. This year he had a pretty awesome

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breakout season with PLD gone. It certainly seems like there's

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a for sure top six spot for him. He doesn't

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have to play down the middle. He can play on

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the wing. He could play down the middle. Maybe he

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gets to play with Daily faceoff has him and Fiela

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and Warren Fogel online too, and to know being the

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line three center, which makes a lot more sense. I

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know really is a third line center. Even though he's

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so good at play driving Copaitar, it's only a matter

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of time until Copaitar seeds the way to buyfield. But

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he's to have a lot more responsibility if he is

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down the middle, and I think that's right around the

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threshold of where he can get. So I'm going to

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hold you to the buyfield one just because I think

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that's a little less likely. And I do like Jeneo though,

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I think that he could. I think that it was

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really hard for him being in Tampa and being the guy,

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being the guy that they traded so much for. Hegel

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was that guy too. He seemed to handle that a

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little bit better. I'm not sure that can be an

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easy thing, right. There's a lot of expectation, and he

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had injury issues. So I think Janeaue could have a

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big bounce back, breakout season. So I like that a

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little bit better.

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Speaker 2: And I will say was not at that level last

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year in terms of actually leading the NHL and hits,

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but in terms of rates, he was extremely close. Last year.

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He only played fifty five games and he had two

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hundred and eleven hits. But if you were to give

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him the other games of the season, he would have

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been right in that mix for the very top of

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the forwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Both good ones. All right, I'm gonna move on

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to the next one. The San Jose Sharks. We talked

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about the Sharks in June, just after they drafted Celebrini,

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and there's some things that happened after that. That was

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obviously a huge deal. Since he's going to be in

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the NHL this season, should be top six center, should

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have some decent linemates. Ecklyn Tifoli is what Daily faced

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Off says. I think that that's reasonable. Will Smith signed,

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he'll be in the NHL. He should be their second

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line center, getting someone like Graandla on his wing. They

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got Jake Walman with picks, which was confusing to everyone.

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He should I really like him. I think Wallman. People

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keep asking who's going to be the power play quarterback

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in San Jose. I don't see why it wouldn't be

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Jake Walman. He's done that before. I don't think they

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have an obvious other answer. I don't know it could

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be thrown. I know it could be Makamaduelin. I don't

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think there's an obvious other answer. I think it's very

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likely Jake Walman, and even if he isn't, he should

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play a ton of and we know he's good for

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the Bash when he does that. They also got to Foley,

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which I think is a great signing. I'd mentioned him

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playing with Celebrini. That could be a great fit. We

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know to fully knows how to bury the puck, and

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he could be a decent fantasy asset. Wenberg is a

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good depth piece they signed him as well. I don't

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expect much from Ben Wenberg, but at least they can

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put him out in defensive zone starts and not have

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to bog down there. They're young forward so well so

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much and Ti Delandre was another signing that they had.

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I really liked Delandra. He really seemed to turn the

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corner in Dallas, but they let him go. I think

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they just had too many good young players and they

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wanted to make room for guys like Bork and stankovin,

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so they let Delandra go. That benefits the Sharks because

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I think he could be not a super high end guy,

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but a decent middle to bottom six depth piece. So

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a lot happened and they Sharks look like they're going

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to be a little bit better than last year. I

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still think they'll be bad, probably bottom five, maybe even

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maybe even bottom three, but they should be a little

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bit better. Oh and they got a scar off. I

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forgot about that one Yaslava scar off. That was a

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big deal a lot of people is interesting. So I

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think we heard if anyone heard thirty two thoughts, they

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were talking about how him having a block off there

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as the player of the goalie coach is a big

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deal because everyone's assuming that a scarf forced his way

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to San Jose to play in the NHL, and I

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think that's likely. I think he will play NHL games,

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but a lot of people are suggesting that if the

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Bakoff tells him the best thing to do maybe to

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play some AHL games and not be hung out to drive.

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I'm not sure that this isn't a block off season.

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I think it's going to be Blackwood. I think it's

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going to be Vanichick. I think they're going to struggle,

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and you're probably not gonna want the goalies in San

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Jose as you did last year. But Mackenzie Blackwood actually

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had an insane goals shave above expected last year, so

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he was risky but sometimes paid off spots start All right,

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enough of that, My takes for this are going to

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be Will Smith clears a sixty five point pace, and

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I picked Smith because I think he's more likely to

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just get all the offensive zone store starts playtime, and

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he's an all offense kind of guy, so I think

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he might end up putting more points than Celebrini. I

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think it'll be close, but I'm gonna go with him

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in terms of the offense. And for the other take,

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I'm gonna go with Jake Walman. I think Walman has

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an insane bash and peripheral time on ice season. I'm

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not sure how many points he's gonna score, but I'm

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gonna say he's a top thirty defender in the tidy

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settings in our tier dynasty, which does count things like takeaways,

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does count, time on ice does count Fenwick, which is

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probably gonna hurt him a lot because that'll probably be negative,

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but other than that, it might be pretty decent. So Walman, Smith,

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you gotch.

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Speaker 2: I dare say that both of these are hot takes,

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and I would be content pinning either one of them

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on you, I believe I'm going to pick the Walman

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take as the less likely even of the two. He

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is certainly a block shot maven in twenty minutes a

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game last year roughly with Detroit he had two and

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a half, but hits only two thirds of a hit

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per game, fewer than two shots per game, and obviously

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only scored about a third of a point per game,

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not in nearly the same type of deployment. But keep

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in mind even that twenty one points and sixty three

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games came on eleven percent shooting from Wallman, so somebody

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has to do it. But I don't think that means

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that anybody on San Jose has to be in the

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top thirty, so I think he's going to finish outside

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of that. So anyway, but those are two good hot

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takes with good supporting documentation. So I like him, Victor.

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I like him a lot, all right. Moving on to

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the Seattle Cracket is the very first team preview that

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we did. So obviously there has been news the free

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agent signings were multifaceted. That's not even the word. There

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were many of them, That's what happened. Brandon Montour on

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a seven year deal. Chandler's Stevenson on a seven year deal.

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They've gone buck Wilde up there in the Pacific Northwest.

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They traded Brian Dumelinda Anaheim. They signed Josh Mohura. They

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re signed Eli Tulvinen. They picked Berkeley Catton in the draft.

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They signed Adam Larson for four years. Yeah, this is scared.

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This feels like twenty eighteen VANCOUVERI ish to me making

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a bunch of big signings of guys who I worry

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whether they're going to be able to do the types

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of things that Seattle seems to think they'll be able

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to do. And so along those lines, I am going

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to give as my first potential hot take what I

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always do, which is doubt Chandler Stevenson. Now he will

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no longer have the Vegas Devil magic surrounding him that

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was allowing him to thrive to the level that he was.

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I am going to say he finishes outside the top

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six and forward time on ice on this team. He

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slips down to third line tight minutes and the second

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of my takes here, a Sheene Wright redemption tour continues.

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Even though he became almost irrelevant. It seems in hockey

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circles for some. He had a great year at Blue

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Coachella Valley, and I'm gonna put him on a fifty

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point pace next year. I think that's going to be

474
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,160
his first year breaking in. There'll be more upside after that,

475
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,079
but that would be a season that I think could happen,

476
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,880
but it would probably exceed the expectations of many. Victor

477
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,759
what do you think hot takes here? And which one

478
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,000
do you want to pin on me more?

479
00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:36,079
Speaker 1: I'm just envisioning that guy with the condescending golf clap. Oh,

480
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,079
good job, these are actually hot. Good Jobsie, I like these.

481
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,160
They are nice. Okay, not so much condescending, but you

482
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,160
get what you of gift I'm talking about now. Yeah, No,

483
00:24:47,279 --> 00:24:49,680
these are definitely hot. And actually I was looking up

484
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,319
where Stevenson would have fell if he was a Kraken

485
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,880
last year with his Vegas ice time, and he had

486
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,440
the most of any forward. Does that continue? That's a

487
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,519
good question. They certainly paying him as if it should,

488
00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:06,000
but I'm also not convinced that it will. I don't

489
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,279
know that it'll be outside the top six, though I

490
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,680
think he might be fourth or fifth or whatever. This

491
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,640
is the problem with the Kraken. They have fourteen middle

492
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,240
six forwards doesn't make any sense. That's the issue. So

493
00:25:20,839 --> 00:25:23,119
that one's interesting. Shane Wright I really like. I think

494
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,519
he's taken some really excellent steps. I do think he

495
00:25:26,559 --> 00:25:29,319
can take another one that is a bit that is

496
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,079
a bit much. Though both of these are a bit much,

497
00:25:31,079 --> 00:25:34,519
which makes them great for hot takes. I think it's

498
00:25:34,759 --> 00:25:38,359
less likely that Stevenson finishes outside the top six an

499
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:42,599
ice time though, just because they're paying them literally the

500
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,839
most money outside of Maddy Benier's, which is crazy and

501
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,559
we all know that's crazy. But they did it and

502
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,839
it's gonna be not that it has not that it

503
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,799
hasn't happened, because we certainly have seen high ticket players

504
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,559
be relegated to the bottom six, but it would be unusual.

505
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,720
So I will sticky with that one. But I think

506
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:02,680
these are both good.

507
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,599
Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome, And I will note one thing about Stevenson

508
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,759
finishing with more minutes last year Seattle's forwards none. I'm

509
00:26:11,759 --> 00:26:13,960
finished with a lot of minutes because that's how things

510
00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:17,640
ran as well under Hackstall. But there's new management there,

511
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,200
Dan Bilsma. We'll see if he is quite as democratic

512
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,480
with his time on ice Who got next Victor.

513
00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:28,759
Speaker 1: Go to Vancouver or just north of Seattle. And we

514
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:31,640
talked about them relatively recently September twenty eighth, so not

515
00:26:31,759 --> 00:26:35,599
a whole lot of updates since then. My two hot

516
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,359
taps are going to center around Jake Debrusk and Elias Petterson.

517
00:26:39,599 --> 00:26:43,519
And I think people are losing their minds over Jake

518
00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:47,279
Debrusk a little too much, quite frankly for my liking.

519
00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:50,359
I get it, he's in a really good spot. He's

520
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,759
most likely going to play with Miller or Peterson, and

521
00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:56,200
you say, great, how could you go wrong? He's gonna

522
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,599
have a great centerment either way, He's going to put

523
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,599
up a lot of points. And I understand the I

524
00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:05,960
just don't agree because we have seen Jake Debress do this.

525
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:11,720
He has played with some really excellent players in Boston

526
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,279
and not put up good numbers. He's played with Pasternak,

527
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,599
he played with Bergeron back in the day in Marshawn.

528
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,160
He would not always but he would get a significant

529
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,400
amount of deployment with those top players and still couldn't

530
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,880
at times muster more than a forty point pace. So

531
00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:29,079
that's the part that worries me. Yes, he had a

532
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,799
strong season the previous season twenty two to twenty three,

533
00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:34,839
but then regress again this last season, even with good deployment,

534
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,319
so it doesn't really make sense. He played a lot

535
00:27:39,319 --> 00:27:42,559
of time with David Pasternak, who's one hundred plus point player,

536
00:27:42,559 --> 00:27:44,880
and he still couldn't get his act together to get

537
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,960
above forty points. He had a decent amount of power

538
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,599
play time, So I just I don't know. I'm gonna

539
00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:53,400
say if debrask fails to clear a fifty point pace,

540
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,200
which may not even be hot enough, because I think

541
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,559
it's possible he ends up in less than forty five.

542
00:27:57,559 --> 00:27:59,799
But I'm gonna give myself a little bit of breathing

543
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,839
and say fifty less than fifty point pace. So that's

544
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:07,119
my skepticism on Debrusk. I'm happy when I'm seeing other

545
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,480
people take him in readraft leagues right now, because I

546
00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:12,799
just I don't believe like others do. So that's my

547
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,240
skeptical take. The other take is a little bit more positive,

548
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,119
and that's it. EP forty leads the Ducks or the

549
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,359
Ducks the Canucks in points this season. He didn't last season.

550
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,160
It was JT. Miller. It very well could be Miller again,

551
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,680
he was actually pretty close to e Liz Petterson to

552
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,000
Wressa was close to Petterson, so those two could be

553
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,920
close in terms of point pace, and Petterson was also

554
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,079
below Quinn Hughes. I think it's not an unreasonable take

555
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,640
to say that or not. I think it's you'll tell me, Jesse.

556
00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:47,519
I think it's hot that Petterson leads the team in

557
00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:50,000
scoring since he was third last season in Besser wasn't

558
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,519
too far away. So which one do you like better?

559
00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:56,359
The Debresq failing to clear fifty point pacer, Petterson leading

560
00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:57,319
the team in points.

561
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,079
Speaker 2: I'm going to call these a little less hot than

562
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:03,440
some of your other takes. You explained it pretty well.

563
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,480
I would flat out say I don't think Jake Debrs

564
00:29:06,559 --> 00:29:08,799
is going to get a fifty point pace. That is

565
00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:13,960
a guy who had so many opportunities in an excellent

566
00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:17,599
offensive context that just needed somebody to step up into

567
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,920
that role much more than I feel like Vancouver. I

568
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,599
feel like it's a little bit deeper at the top

569
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,119
offensive end, So I would agree that he's not going

570
00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:26,640
to hit a fifty point pace. So I'm going to

571
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,200
go with Elias Patterson. I think it's very reasonable to

572
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,960
think he could, but like you said, he didn't in

573
00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:36,519
the past, and there are several other candidates who could

574
00:29:36,519 --> 00:29:39,799
surpass him there, so it's no diss on him to

575
00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:44,039
say that leading the team is would be an accomplishment.

576
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,640
So I guess I'll give you that one, Victor. The

577
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,599
Elias Petterson leading the team in point pace. But I

578
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,400
think that's a It would not be an impossible outcome.

579
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,480
I think it's the lot take, but it's an achievable one.

580
00:29:57,519 --> 00:29:59,839
Let's put it that way.

581
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,839
Speaker 1: And I get it. It wasn't aspicy some of my

582
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,960
other ones. That's true.

583
00:30:03,559 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 2: Some people like it hot and some people are getting

584
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,240
the mild sauce that's made in New York City. That's

585
00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,880
how it goes sometimes, Victor. I understand, all right, Vegas

586
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,079
Golden Knights, we did them relatively recently, so there's not

587
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,839
much to catch up on. But I will give my

588
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,839
hot takes. I will say mark Stone finishes top two

589
00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:27,079
in points for the team, which is basically like saying

590
00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:29,400
mark Stone will be healthy all season, which is a

591
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,200
heck of a hot take. And the other one, I

592
00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:34,799
struggle with this team because I feel like we know

593
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,079
who these guys are mostly and what they're going to

594
00:30:38,119 --> 00:30:40,240
do except the goalies, which I just don't want to

595
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,960
talk about. So the other one, I will say, and

596
00:30:43,039 --> 00:30:46,720
this is against my own better judgment, but it is

597
00:30:46,759 --> 00:30:50,519
at least a take that I could consider hot. Alex

598
00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:53,480
Holtz twenty five goals this year. He's traded out there.

599
00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:57,279
This is the goal scorer who never scores goals as

600
00:30:57,319 --> 00:31:00,000
a prospect, and he's finally going to get into the system.

601
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:04,200
Just like Vegas does with their magic Voodoo Devil Dust,

602
00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:07,359
they will find a way to coax twenty five goals

603
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,680
from Alex Holtz. Victor, I you gotta be you gotta

604
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,160
be drooling over these two options for a hot take.

605
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:15,039
Which one do you want?

606
00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: I almost stopped you after you had me at mark

607
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,960
Stone playing all the games, but then you outdid yourself

608
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,559
with that Alex Holtz take. Oh my god, you're right.

609
00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:31,240
These are both so unlikely. In my opinion. Stone is good.

610
00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:34,039
We know Mark Stone is a great player, but him

611
00:31:34,079 --> 00:31:36,440
playing all the games is really that's where the spice

612
00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:38,640
kicks in and it might burn your mouth right off.

613
00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:40,640
So that's how spicy it is.

614
00:31:41,079 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 2: It's an episode of hot ones here.

615
00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:47,039
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, let's just look over mark Stone games played

616
00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:51,119
for the last several years. Fifty six games, forty three games,

617
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,240
thirty seven games, fifty five games, sixty five games, seventy

618
00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:57,440
seven Oh, good job, golf clap fifty eight games. This

619
00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:00,720
is Ottawa days now, fifty eight, sixty nine, seventy five,

620
00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:04,319
eighty back in twenty fourteen. Fifteen was his first full season,

621
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:07,440
and he has never hit an eight number in his

622
00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:08,640
game's played long since.

623
00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:12,279
Speaker 2: So Victor, it's it sounds like you're telling me he's due.

624
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:15,640
That's how this works, right, You're a medical.

625
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: Guy telling you there's a chance. Looking back at Holtz's

626
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:22,279
goal record, he played all eighty two games last season.

627
00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:24,920
I swear when I watched New Jersey games, he was

628
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,759
invisible most of the time. I don't know how he

629
00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:30,480
scored sixteen goals that was That's impressive. He is a

630
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,359
goal scorer, and that is what they need him to do.

631
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,440
Twenty five is a bit rich, but yeah, I think

632
00:32:38,519 --> 00:32:41,920
that's they need him to. They need a goal scorer.

633
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,279
He's probably gonna play, you know, in the bottom six.

634
00:32:44,319 --> 00:32:45,920
I don't think he makes it into the top six.

635
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,839
Pavlodorofiev does a lot more at all strengths, so I

636
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:51,759
think he gets that spot. Even Bresson is better away

637
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:54,880
from the puck than Holtz. Right now, daily faceoff has

638
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,960
both those guys on the third line with wild Bill.

639
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,640
I seriously doubt that would happen because those two are

640
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,359
like the same player. I don't know how you could

641
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:02,960
have two of the same players in the same line

642
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,720
like that. Anyways, I don't think the whole one is

643
00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:09,160
likely at all. I don't even think he clears twenty

644
00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:10,799
quite frankly, but I'm gonna hold you to the mark

645
00:33:10,799 --> 00:33:13,400
Stone one because that's catching a leprechaun. What's not gonna happen?

646
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,599
Speaker 2: Jesse, I love it. I love it. Yeah, I'm in

647
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,319
the mood. Let's take a break, Victor. I need to

648
00:33:20,359 --> 00:33:23,039
cool off my hat and come back talk to the

649
00:33:23,079 --> 00:33:23,880
Central Division.

650
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:36,039
Speaker 1: Two excellent are serious injury.

651
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:42,559
Speaker 2: When back with the Central Division, it's gonna start with you,

652
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,799
Victor Nugnell. Give us the first team.

653
00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:50,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got the Utah Hockey Club, Arizona Coyotes, the

654
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,880
artist formally known as the Always are on A Coyotes

655
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,359
Utah Hockey Club. We talked about them August eleventh. Not

656
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,400
a whole lot has changed since then. They aside from

657
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,559
them being in Utah, which they already were, they have

658
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:03,359
open camp. We've seen some picks from their new facility.

659
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,559
It looks great. Everybody seems to be in good spirits.

660
00:34:05,559 --> 00:34:09,400
They seem to be having a lot better facilities and

661
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,400
just attention from the team and money spent on them,

662
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,119
which is really nice to hear that everyone's doing well

663
00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:17,840
that way. Still feel bad for all the Coyotes employees

664
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,800
and all those fans. But anyways, no other major updates.

665
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:25,760
I think this team is really interesting. Oh actually, one

666
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,400
update just happened as we went on the air. Jesse

667
00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:30,840
Dylan Gunther. They signed him to a pretty long contract.

668
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,920
It was seven seven mil was the cap hit I believe,

669
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:41,400
and the term was loading Puckpedia as we speak here. Actually,

670
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,199
I'm on cap wages. Did you know that was another option?

671
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 2: Jesse cap wages. Good heavens man, I'm run. I'm just

672
00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:52,440
a luddite over here on spot track.

673
00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the cap wages is basically a site that

674
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,000
looks exactly like cap friendly. It's like somebody copied the

675
00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:01,280
code and copied and page did it. It's pretty funny.

676
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,599
It looks just like that. So if you like that, visualization.

677
00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:07,760
It looks the same, which I got used to and

678
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,480
quite liked it, but the more accurate is probably puck Pedia.

679
00:35:12,519 --> 00:35:15,039
And yes they have the cap hit up. It was

680
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,119
eight years time, seven point one four million cap hit

681
00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:21,679
for Dylan and he'll be a UFA when he's aged thirty,

682
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,920
So I like, that's great, that's a great deal. I

683
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,400
think he's shown that he can be a great scorer

684
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,960
in the league. But that's not what the hot take

685
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,480
is about. It was just going through ce if I

686
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:34,679
see any more news on the guys. Obviously the Cirga

687
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,800
Chef trade had already happened. And what's your take there?

688
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,119
You think Sergei gets top power play or you think

689
00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:41,840
it's going to be Dursey. Before I give you my

690
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:42,480
hot take.

691
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,199
Speaker 2: I think that the favorite to get it, given the

692
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,760
way that contract went down, is Sergachef. But I'm digging.

693
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,880
Let's hear what your hot take is here, Victor.

694
00:35:54,039 --> 00:35:57,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you. We've seen both guys do it,

695
00:35:57,119 --> 00:35:59,840
and they gave them money to Sergacheff. But my take

696
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:04,280
is that Sergachev is just a great all situations defenseman.

697
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,360
He's someone that can play as much time as they need.

698
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,760
Him to. He can play in every situation up, down, defense, penalty, kill,

699
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,400
power play, and they don't need him to play the

700
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,679
power play. Seawan Dursey is someone who if she's not

701
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,400
in an offensive role, he's not helping you as much

702
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,719
as he could. So that's why I think he's going

703
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,719
to play more on the power play. I'm gonna say

704
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,920
Seawan Jersey gets more power play time on ice on average,

705
00:36:29,079 --> 00:36:32,320
if you average per game throughout the season, more power

706
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,679
play time on ice and Sergachev and Jersey clear is

707
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,440
a fifty point pace, so that makes it a little

708
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:43,880
bit more unlikely. Perhaps he did last season. Jersey had

709
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,360
a forty four point pace in Arizona, forty three point

710
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,280
pace before that, and he was getting last season, he

711
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,400
got sixty eight percent of the power play time three

712
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,719
minutes sixteen minute seconds time on ice average. I don't

713
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,800
know that he hits that high because I think it's

714
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,559
going to be more even, But that's my first take.

715
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,239
The other one surrounds Logan Cooley. I think Logan Cooley

716
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,679
is the next top line center for this team, but

717
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,000
I'm not sure that happened this year. He might see

718
00:37:11,039 --> 00:37:13,119
some time up with color and Smaltz. We've also seen

719
00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:15,880
Hayton there. I think those two might bounce a little

720
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,519
bit back and forth or just end up playing with

721
00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:20,760
the wingers that they settle in with the most, and

722
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,599
so maybe it's just a similar deployment but different wingers.

723
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,320
But I think I'm gonna say Logan Cooley finishes third

724
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,599
on the team in points, which he definitely did not

725
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:38,119
last year. He was actually sixth behind Keller, Schmaltz, Michelli,

726
00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:43,760
Kerfoot and Bukes Dad. So Logan Cooley takes a big

727
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,440
step finishes third on points. What do you think, Jesse,

728
00:37:46,559 --> 00:37:48,800
that one or the Shan Jersey getting more power play time?

729
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 2: I dig both of these. I like both of these outcomes.

730
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,760
I am cheering for potentially both of these. Not that

731
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,679
I'm cheering against Sergachev and for Dersey, but I said

732
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,679
Sergachef was the favorite for the power play Tom and Ice.

733
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,400
I think he is the favorite. But that's why this

734
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,599
is a hot take and a Shan Dursey that's certainly

735
00:38:10,639 --> 00:38:12,760
within the range of outcomes. So that's a good one.

736
00:38:13,199 --> 00:38:16,599
I am going to give you Logan Cooley third on

737
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:19,079
the team in points just because I think the field

738
00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:24,480
is a better bet than Cooley is to land that

739
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:30,199
highly in the cadre of forwards or scores. It could

740
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,480
have a defenseman too, but it's possible. It's also possible,

741
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,199
and that would be really cool if Cooley had that

742
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:42,840
kind of workout. No pun intended, cool E Cooley, that's right,

743
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,679
Chicago Blackhawks. This was another one that we did just

744
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:52,199
prior to the signing in June, the free agency, the draft,

745
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,760
all those types of things. They traded for Ilia mckayev

746
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,639
and Sam Lafferty. They signed Tyler Bertuzzi and Alec Martinez

747
00:38:59,679 --> 00:39:03,360
and Toe tra Vinen. Then they went and signed Craig Smith,

748
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,719
Loreentz brosoas, Joey Anderson, Pat Maroon, TJ. Brody, all the

749
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:11,159
victor have you ever do you have broadcast television? Victor

750
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,239
the antenna? Do you have the antenna? Not now?

751
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: I did at one point in my life.

752
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you buy an antenna in the year twenty

753
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,360
twenty four, you can get one. It's the digital antenna,

754
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,800
and you put it on your TV and you scan

755
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,360
and I swear I have forty channels of broadcast television

756
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,639
because every one of the networks has six channels, and

757
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,199
there's one on it that always plays like mash and

758
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,159
Hogan's Heroes and twenty four hours a day reruns from

759
00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:44,880
the seventies. And that's that channel is Chicago Blackhawks Free Agency.

760
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:46,880
All it is a bunch of guys who used to

761
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,599
be something, but we're not really watching them as much

762
00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:52,440
in the year twenty twenty four. That might be a

763
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,559
little unkind to Lreent Brosois, but still there's a bunch

764
00:39:55,639 --> 00:39:58,320
of guys there. Look into it, Victor, get yourself an antenna.

765
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,480
It saves you a bunch of money. It's free, absolutely

766
00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:02,639
free to watch television. That way, we should get have

767
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:06,639
a sponsor. Then they drafted our Tom Lovschunoff Sasha Boys

768
00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:10,719
for Merrik Bennecker. They lost Mackenzie ent Whistle, Reyes Johnson,

769
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,400
Tyler Johnson, Taylor Radish who went to a completely different

770
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:19,519
broadcast channel. And so my hot takes coming into this

771
00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:24,280
Chicago Blackhawks season, despite his injury coming into the season,

772
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,960
I am going to say Laurent bro swas career backup,

773
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,840
will lead the Blackhawks in games started. That means he

774
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,639
doesn't have to have more than half. He just has

775
00:40:33,679 --> 00:40:37,039
to have more than anybody else. And I just can't

776
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:39,519
with Peter Morazac anymore. I think it's going to be

777
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:41,639
like bro Swall will probably have like thirty five and

778
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:47,320
Marazak twenty five, and then Rando go find Scott Darling

779
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,119
again will start the other twenty or something like that,

780
00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:53,719
and then the other Frank Naser top five and scoring.

781
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,320
I sure hope he comes up to the NHL this year,

782
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,400
because otherwise that's a really stupid prediction. And you're probably

783
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,039
going to give it two me, but those are the

784
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:02,599
two I'm gonna put out there. What do you want

785
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:05,480
to get? Victor, you're gonna win? E didn't one of

786
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,679
these you give me? So just go ahead and do it.

787
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,079
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we should tally the win losses on these.

788
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:11,920
That would be good.

789
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,039
Speaker 2: Oh and they lost Tailor Radish, who I will eternally

790
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:19,280
remember as my victory lap from last year in this exercise.

791
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, too bad. No they I was listening to the

792
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,039
thirty two Thoughts and they were talking about how or

793
00:41:27,079 --> 00:41:29,840
no not. I was listening to The Athletic and Jesse

794
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,719
Granger was talking about how Bresois finally got some injuries

795
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,960
taken care of that he'd never been able to address

796
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,800
fully and he finally feels like himself, and I think

797
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,920
it's a good take. I think he could not only

798
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,440
based on talent, but on Maraazak being injury prone and

799
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:48,000
that was the most games played he's ever played last season,

800
00:41:48,199 --> 00:41:50,880
and I'm not sure that's good for him in the future.

801
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,920
It's also interesting because Brussela is injured right now, so

802
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:59,159
he might not start, and they are talking about Arvid Stutterbloom,

803
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,360
but he he really struggled last year and maybe Comeso

804
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,039
even steals the backup job from him at a camp.

805
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,239
That would be interesting because he seems like the goalie

806
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,039
of the future. They just have a lot of interesting

807
00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:13,519
goalie baddie battles going on, so I could see the

808
00:42:13,519 --> 00:42:16,119
Boswat thing happening. So yes, I'm going to give you

809
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,039
Frank Nazar, because as much as I like Frank the tank,

810
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,000
I don't think that's going to happen. I think that'd

811
00:42:23,039 --> 00:42:27,840
be a all ask for him, especially considering they brought

812
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,960
in some competent NHL ors. No one who is for

813
00:42:31,079 --> 00:42:33,280
sure gonna block him from doing that, but guys that

814
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,639
easily could and Azar could use some time in the minors.

815
00:42:36,639 --> 00:42:38,960
And by the way, don't harass Jesse. He was totally

816
00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:42,679
trolling you. He knows it's not pronounced bosvea or whatever

817
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,519
he said, it's boaver.

818
00:42:46,199 --> 00:42:47,519
Speaker 2: Of course he knows that.

819
00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: Of course I know you were just trolling them.

820
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,079
Speaker 2: So I'm just testing you, Victor, I'm just testing you.

821
00:42:55,079 --> 00:42:58,519
Speaker 1: So my next team is a Crawler Avalanche, and we

822
00:42:58,599 --> 00:43:01,519
talked about them July twenty eight. There's a couple of

823
00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:04,360
things that happened since then that we could update you on.

824
00:43:04,519 --> 00:43:08,079
They signed Oliver Shillington and Matthew Phillips. That is gonna

825
00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:10,800
be a little bit interesting. Shillington certainly could play role

826
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,199
for them on probably the third pairing. He is more

827
00:43:13,199 --> 00:43:17,639
of an offensive guy, so that's interesting. He may factor

828
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,519
into the depth of the team, and we still don't

829
00:43:20,599 --> 00:43:23,519
know about it. Sounds like he's going to be out

830
00:43:23,519 --> 00:43:25,320
at least a couple of months. It sounds like the

831
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,559
team is frustrated with what's going on with him. Nicolai

832
00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:31,079
Kovalenko is the guy that we talked a little bit

833
00:43:31,079 --> 00:43:33,159
about as someone who could come in and do something

834
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,079
interesting on the second line. But that's not where I'm

835
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:38,719
going to go with this, Jesse. I'm gonna go with

836
00:43:39,639 --> 00:43:43,480
two things. Jonathan drew Inne and justice On and in

837
00:43:44,679 --> 00:43:48,440
Drew Anne really rehabbed his career last year. He really

838
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,400
clicked with McKinnon. His total numbers don't tell the whole

839
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,239
story because it took him a little bit of time

840
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,280
to really get going, so he didn't end up finishing

841
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,039
with such an amazing season. He was behind and McKinnon,

842
00:44:01,119 --> 00:44:04,280
Ranton and Chushkin, Lekkinen and little stat if you combine

843
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,960
his points from Buffalo, but he was right there. And

844
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,159
I think that full season with training camp and everything,

845
00:44:10,199 --> 00:44:12,280
and a little bit more confidence. I think he's coming

846
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,199
in with a little bit more confidence, and I think

847
00:44:16,199 --> 00:44:19,559
that's going to be good for him. He also has

848
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,679
he's a UFA after the season, so he's playing for

849
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,039
that contract, which I think is always something to consider. Anyways,

850
00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:26,960
I think that he's going to go over a seventy

851
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,039
point pace. He had a sixty point pace back in

852
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:33,119
his last season in Tampa twenty sixteen seventeen. He hasn't

853
00:44:33,159 --> 00:44:36,280
really gotten close to sixty since then. But I think

854
00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:38,760
his role is a little bit more secure this time.

855
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,480
He's going to get some of that first power play time,

856
00:44:41,559 --> 00:44:43,440
especially with Nachushkin not there, and I think he can

857
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,119
really pad those point total, so I think he can

858
00:44:45,159 --> 00:44:48,039
get there. It's a high ask. The other one is

859
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,840
Justice and and In. I think Justice Aeninin is the

860
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,079
goalie of the future for the Colorado Avalanche. I think

861
00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:57,280
he's already better than Georgiev. I know Georgiev still has

862
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,599
the contract, but they really need to know what they

863
00:44:59,599 --> 00:45:02,320
have on and In and I think they in the

864
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,840
time that they gave him, he was arguably already better

865
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,400
in those starts. So I think that he's gonna steal

866
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,559
the starting role from Georgia and play more games.

867
00:45:09,639 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 2: What do you think, boy, victory that drew one one

868
00:45:13,079 --> 00:45:15,880
is just bait for me, It's just bait. You know

869
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,360
that I'm skeptical of mister Juram, but it's it is true.

870
00:45:20,679 --> 00:45:24,039
It's true. He had himself a good season. He's doing

871
00:45:24,079 --> 00:45:27,199
well out there with his old buddy McKinnon. Both of these,

872
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,800
both of these there's good reason to doubt it in

873
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,519
the sense that so it's not like these are not

874
00:45:33,679 --> 00:45:37,480
hot takes, but both of them are extremely within the

875
00:45:37,519 --> 00:45:42,880
realm of possible outcomes. I will say that Ananin is

876
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,679
the one that I will give you because that's that

877
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,440
would be a pretty pretty significant upset to remove the

878
00:45:50,599 --> 00:45:54,320
sitting goalie from such a strong team, and a rookie

879
00:45:54,519 --> 00:45:56,719
takes that over. So I'll give you an andym. But

880
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,920
would I be completely surprised by it? No, but I

881
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,440
will give you the credit. That's probably the hotter of

882
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,679
the two takes in my eyes. Onto the Dallas Stars

883
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,480
catching up, Actually I was. I just got news in

884
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,119
the last couple of days to really catch it up,

885
00:46:14,119 --> 00:46:16,719
because this one was done after free agency in the

886
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:21,480
draft back in August, Thomas Harley and Essel Lindell both resigned.

887
00:46:21,559 --> 00:46:24,199
They've got themselves some deals. Harley only for two years,

888
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:29,880
but Lindell very long contract. And the hot takes here, Victor,

889
00:46:30,039 --> 00:46:34,199
your guy Logan Stankovin, who finally made his debut last year.

890
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:35,880
I'm going to put him in the top five and

891
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,760
team scoring next year. You just got to remember how

892
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,840
many great scores there are on this Dallas squad. So

893
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,199
that's rarefied air. I know. I believe that you believe

894
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,119
he can do it, but is top five too much

895
00:46:49,159 --> 00:46:51,800
too soon? And then the other one I will do.

896
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,679
You got your Thomas Harley, you got your merro Hayskinin.

897
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,719
I believe that looking at the Bash Thomas Harley can

898
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:03,440
provide going to have one hundred more points of bash.

899
00:47:03,519 --> 00:47:05,239
I don't know what to call it, because we don't

900
00:47:05,639 --> 00:47:10,159
basically shots plus blocks plus hits. Thomas Harley is going

901
00:47:10,199 --> 00:47:13,039
to have one hundred more of them than Miro hayskin

902
00:47:13,119 --> 00:47:16,800
In does next year, So I will I'll give him that.

903
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,800
I'm not points. Maskin probably gonna have more points, but

904
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,320
I think Harley is going to lead significantly in the bash.

905
00:47:23,639 --> 00:47:27,639
So which one of those victor do you think less likely?

906
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 1: That is a really interesting one, and I need to

907
00:47:34,159 --> 00:47:36,199
look at that for a second, because I hadn't really

908
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,880
thought about that. So last year, in case people are wondering,

909
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,400
because I'm looking this up in real time, Harley played

910
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,079
eight more games than I skin In and in eight

911
00:47:45,119 --> 00:47:48,559
more games ended up with about forty more bash blocks

912
00:47:48,559 --> 00:47:54,199
plus shots plus hits. So you take that, you take

913
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,920
those extra games and potentially the increased role. I think

914
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,679
that's gonna be hard for him to hit Jesse. That's

915
00:47:59,679 --> 00:48:03,599
definitely some spiciness there. It's definitely spicy to say that

916
00:48:03,639 --> 00:48:08,800
stank Covin can get more fit top five in scoring.

917
00:48:09,039 --> 00:48:10,880
I think he can do it, certainly, But they still

918
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,000
have some pretty good scores on their team, because I

919
00:48:14,039 --> 00:48:18,360
think you got Hints, you got Robertson, I think Johnston

920
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,519
is right there, and then who's after that? Has it been?

921
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,039
Is it Sagan? Is it dou Shane. I think that's

922
00:48:25,079 --> 00:48:28,000
a bit more likely, actually, because I think stank Covin

923
00:48:28,679 --> 00:48:31,920
is super talented, and I'm gonna go with the Harley one.

924
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,880
Although I really like Harley. I was really hoping I

925
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,360
can get him as my third or fourth the in

926
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,159
a lot of drafts, and it just hasn't been happening.

927
00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:39,800
I think other people finally come around. This is why

928
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,119
I like Dannayy Jesse because I got my Thomas Harley

929
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,559
shares years ago and no one can rip them from me.

930
00:48:44,639 --> 00:48:46,480
Their mine can't have them.

931
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 2: Yep.

932
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,679
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll go with the Harley one. It's a

933
00:48:49,679 --> 00:48:52,599
good one. All right. Let's move on to the next team,

934
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,320
Minnesota Wild. We talked about them way back in May,

935
00:48:55,679 --> 00:48:59,039
and they didn't do too much. They did sign Yakov

936
00:48:59,079 --> 00:49:01,840
Trendon good Bang, resigned Jacob Middleton, which is a good

937
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,280
physical defender. They handed a giant bag of money to

938
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,000
Brock Faber, which was a great idea because he's phenomenal

939
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:10,840
My hot take though, is going to be a couple

940
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,880
of different guys. So Murrat who's Nadinov, is coming in

941
00:49:14,079 --> 00:49:16,119
and he's been playing in the KHL and he's been

942
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:21,159
really solid there, and they also they've had Ryan Hartman.

943
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,480
He hasn't necessarily he's been really up and down his career.

944
00:49:24,519 --> 00:49:26,599
He was someone who was highly touted as a prospect,

945
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,119
didn't quite work out, and then he circled back to

946
00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:33,400
having some years of relevance, but then he's gone cold

947
00:49:33,599 --> 00:49:36,920
actually the last couple of years. So I'm gonna say

948
00:49:37,039 --> 00:49:39,719
one of these two happens either, and I don't think

949
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,519
both of these can happen, So this kind of paints

950
00:49:41,559 --> 00:49:43,800
me and myself at the corner a little bit. But

951
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:48,039
I'm gonna say that either Hartman gets back to a

952
00:49:48,079 --> 00:49:51,320
sixty five point pace, which I think can which I

953
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,360
think only happened the year that he played with crokapriz

954
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,320
Off a lot of that year, and so that could

955
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,599
happen again if he does that. He he did get

956
00:50:00,639 --> 00:50:02,519
a sixty five point pace in twenty one to twenty

957
00:50:02,519 --> 00:50:04,480
two when he did play a fair amount with him.

958
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,800
The rest of the time he's done at best fifty

959
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,960
point pace. And before that he was a thirty point

960
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,440
pace guy, so that's a big jump up again. The

961
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,679
other one is that who's Nadinov gets to a fifty

962
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,800
five point pace, which is a little bit lower because

963
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,719
he hasn't really done that before, and even though he's

964
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,719
been playing professionally in Russia, he played only sixteen games

965
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,800
with the Wild last season and only had four points,

966
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,079
so that would be a big change. So basically, what

967
00:50:28,079 --> 00:50:29,760
I'm saying is one of these guys is gonna play

968
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,880
with Corell and probably get a lot of points daily

969
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,760
faceoff has Hartman as that guy. The other options would

970
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,119
be Rossi, Eric Sanak or who's Nadenov. I don't really

971
00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:40,920
think they have any other options. So it's gonna be

972
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,679
one of those four, and someone's gonna get a big boost.

973
00:50:44,199 --> 00:50:45,440
Will it be one of these two? Jesse?

974
00:50:46,679 --> 00:50:49,519
Speaker 2: That's that's a good question, Victor. Which one of these

975
00:50:49,559 --> 00:50:52,639
guys we're looking at? I would say that the less

976
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,800
likely is Brian Hartman getting back to that sixty five

977
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,920
point pace. I'm not buying it. I think that he

978
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:00,519
had his time in the sun and he has had

979
00:51:00,559 --> 00:51:03,119
his opportunities, but he's not going to get back there.

980
00:51:03,199 --> 00:51:06,280
Both of these are relatively warm to hot takes, but

981
00:51:06,519 --> 00:51:11,079
I'm going to give you the Hartman one, all right,

982
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,480
The Nashville Predators. This is the one where we actually

983
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,119
had to do a second half episode and tack it

984
00:51:18,159 --> 00:51:20,639
on before we released it, because we recorded it and

985
00:51:20,639 --> 00:51:24,280
then all Heck broke loose and Marcius own stampcos et cetera.

986
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:28,679
So there were even more moves after we recorded. The

987
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,800
yarislavaskar Rov, of course, was the biggest one, moving out

988
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,480
for David Edstrom Magnus Crona in a first round pick.

989
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,119
They also traded away Cody Glass to the Pittsburgh Penguins

990
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:44,039
and they drafted Yugorsurin Tedestiga. Those were both actually I

991
00:51:44,119 --> 00:51:46,800
think they happened before we recorded, but we didn't make

992
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,760
any reference to them because they weren't in a part

993
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,679
of the dig. My two potential hot takes here, Victor

994
00:51:52,159 --> 00:51:55,559
one is Roman Yosi sets a personal career high in

995
00:51:55,679 --> 00:51:59,440
points that would be ninety seven points, so one more

996
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:04,360
than his Night six prior total. And Jokim Kemmel leads

997
00:52:04,519 --> 00:52:10,000
all twenty three and under Predators in scoring. Next year,

998
00:52:10,079 --> 00:52:12,800
there's a group of those guys at a younger age

999
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:14,599
I'm trying to put him in that, say he's the

1000
00:52:14,679 --> 00:52:16,960
top scorer of that group. Which one do you want

1001
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:17,880
to pin on me, Victor.

1002
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: It's hard to bet against Roman Yosi, so I'm probably

1003
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,519
not going to do that because that guy can pretty

1004
00:52:24,599 --> 00:52:26,599
much do whatever he wants out there. It seems at

1005
00:52:26,639 --> 00:52:29,719
times I like the Jokim Kemmel one. I think that's

1006
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,199
not a guaranteed. They have a lot of decent young

1007
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,840
talent on this team, which makes them super interesting. They've

1008
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,639
drafted really well. They've retooled the miracle retool that everybody

1009
00:52:39,679 --> 00:52:41,280
talks about and no one can do it. Seems like

1010
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:45,119
they actually did it, so I like that. It's between

1011
00:52:45,519 --> 00:52:50,360
Cole Smith, Luke Evangelista, Yuso Parson, and Thomasino. They got

1012
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,960
a few options to compete with, and I don't think

1013
00:52:54,519 --> 00:52:57,400
his spot, Yokam Kimmel's spot is even guaranteed. So I'm

1014
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,079
going to stick you with that one because I think

1015
00:52:59,159 --> 00:53:02,599
that's a little less like Yeah, so Kemel lead under

1016
00:53:02,639 --> 00:53:06,280
twenty three scoring, We'll go with that. Next one. Saint

1017
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,599
Louis Blues catch up. A few things happened. Scott Prunovich

1018
00:53:10,679 --> 00:53:13,679
signed another proved deal. I thought we were done with Scott.

1019
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,679
Prunovitch proved deals, he still hasn't quite proved it. I

1020
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,360
would say a lot of people are saying this is

1021
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,719
Prunovic season. I'm not so sure about that. The guy

1022
00:53:23,039 --> 00:53:25,360
first has to show me that he can stay healthy.

1023
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,280
As much as I like him when he does play.

1024
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:31,159
That's seems like a taller order for him. Unfortunately, they

1025
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:35,920
also united the Joseph brothers, Matthew and Pierre Olivier. Joseph.

1026
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,920
I just I love this story, Jesse. I love that

1027
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,559
the brothers got to play together. I just think that's

1028
00:53:40,559 --> 00:53:42,840
super fun. Neither of them are super fantasy relevant, but

1029
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:44,599
I think it's cool that they get to be on

1030
00:53:44,639 --> 00:53:48,280
the same team. Pavel Buchnievitch signed a six time eight

1031
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,599
million dollar deal, which I think is pretty decent value

1032
00:53:51,679 --> 00:53:53,960
and good for those of us at non cap leagues

1033
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,280
that can see how much they're invested in him and

1034
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:57,840
know that he's going to get all that time on ice.

1035
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,639
Ryan Souter signed a one year deal. They fired, of course,

1036
00:54:00,679 --> 00:54:03,440
the big news Dylan Holloway and Philip Roberg in that

1037
00:54:04,039 --> 00:54:06,840
first ever double offer sheet, which I hope we see

1038
00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:09,639
just again and again every season now. Jesse, because that

1039
00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:10,320
was so much fun.

1040
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I don't know if.

1041
00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: Any of these are super relevant other than Bushnevich sticks around.

1042
00:54:16,119 --> 00:54:18,960
Maybe Broger can deal some of the power play time.

1043
00:54:19,679 --> 00:54:21,800
Someone asked me if if I think Holloway is more

1044
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,719
than a forty five point player. I still don't think so,

1045
00:54:25,519 --> 00:54:27,840
even though I think he's a good depth player, and

1046
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,239
Pronovich can be great if he can actually stay healthy

1047
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,000
and stick it on the top power play. So there's

1048
00:54:32,119 --> 00:54:34,880
just a lot of ifs there. I think it's probably

1049
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:36,960
folk time, but my hot take is going to be

1050
00:54:37,079 --> 00:54:39,320
that Philip Roberg assumes the top power play in Saint

1051
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,280
Louis and clears a forty five point pace. And I'll

1052
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,000
also mention that I did write an EPE ringside article

1053
00:54:45,599 --> 00:54:47,480
about bro Berg and about how good he could be

1054
00:54:47,559 --> 00:54:49,320
if he ever got traded to a new team and

1055
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,880
got power play opportunity, which might actually happen. It's nice

1056
00:54:53,039 --> 00:54:55,559
doing those kinds of things happen. I think forty five

1057
00:54:55,639 --> 00:54:57,719
might be a bit too much, Jesse, So that might

1058
00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:59,679
be the one that you hold me to. The other

1059
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,480
one is that Jordan Bennington regresses to his twenty twenty

1060
00:55:02,519 --> 00:55:06,000
two to twenty three form Bennington had been sliding backwards

1061
00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:09,000
for years ever since he won the Cup. He basically

1062
00:55:09,039 --> 00:55:11,719
had a worse season every season until last season when

1063
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,320
he actually broke that trend and was actually pretty good again.

1064
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:19,000
So does he stay good, does he keep up that

1065
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:23,119
quality start rate or does he regress again and actually

1066
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,400
struggle and be a sub nine hundred say percentage goalie.

1067
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,719
The actual take is regresses to his twenty twenty two

1068
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,079
to twenty three form, which is that sub nine hundred

1069
00:55:31,119 --> 00:55:34,920
save percentage and the quality start rate under fifty percent.

1070
00:55:35,079 --> 00:55:38,920
So which is going to be? Jessee Victor?

1071
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 2: I know you like to go against Jordan Bennington. It's

1072
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,239
your brand. I got it, I got it, and my

1073
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,599
Joel Hofer shares are with you man in spirit. I'm

1074
00:55:48,639 --> 00:55:52,360
all for that happening. I think that's an outcome that

1075
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:54,639
could be. There's it's a good call. It's a good

1076
00:55:55,119 --> 00:55:57,199
take because I think some people are probably buying back

1077
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:59,800
in on Jordan Bennington. But I think I'm going to

1078
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:04,000
get the Philip Roberg one. There are so many there

1079
00:56:04,039 --> 00:56:07,880
are so many defencemen being well paid in Saint Louis

1080
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,559
these days that which one of them is going to

1081
00:56:10,599 --> 00:56:13,199
get the top power play I think is still out there.

1082
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,159
I would love to see it be Roberg. I agree

1083
00:56:16,159 --> 00:56:19,239
he's got the talent. I guess we'll say that for

1084
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,400
him to jump to that forty five point pace and

1085
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,719
get the top power play is slightly less likely than

1086
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:28,719
Bennington regressing. So I'll give this one to you, but again,

1087
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,639
I'm cheering for it. In fact, you know what I

1088
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,840
got Broberg in our Common League victors. So yeah, I'm

1089
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:35,800
all for this one, but I'm still going to make

1090
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,559
you live with the hot take.

1091
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: That's fair. Let's finish up the Western Conference last one.

1092
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 2: Winnipeg Jets catch up. Luckily we got the Yeggert McGroarty

1093
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,440
thing done just in time. That trade came down for

1094
00:56:50,639 --> 00:56:54,079
Fetti and Eeler's long term contracts. I believe as of

1095
00:56:54,199 --> 00:56:58,119
this recording are still unresolved unless I missed them somewhere

1096
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,920
in the mix of all these things. What is going

1097
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,480
on in terms of the hot takes that I'm gonna

1098
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,239
give you here? This is a hard one too. I

1099
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,960
will say Nikolai Eelers ends up in the top two

1100
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,440
and Jet scoring. That feels pretty dang hot if you

1101
00:57:12,519 --> 00:57:17,000
ask me. Eelers because one year of Victor We're gonna

1102
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,639
have the Eeler season. We're gonna have the Eeler season,

1103
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,480
and I'm gonna be there for it. I'm gonna live

1104
00:57:21,559 --> 00:57:25,280
that long to see the Nikolai Eeler season and the

1105
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,480
other I will say Kyle Connor fifty goals, his career

1106
00:57:28,559 --> 00:57:31,679
high as forty seven. That was an outlier compared to

1107
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,000
some of them. Certainly, he's got the talent to do it.

1108
00:57:34,119 --> 00:57:36,719
I just feel like whenever you predict somebody to have

1109
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,280
a career high and something, and it would be a

1110
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,000
big jump from what he did last year, it is

1111
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:46,079
reasonably hot. Which one of those two to Victor do

1112
00:57:46,199 --> 00:57:47,199
you find less likely?

1113
00:57:49,039 --> 00:57:52,239
Speaker 1: I definitely agree that both could happen. I think the

1114
00:57:52,639 --> 00:57:55,880
Eelers thing should happen. We've talked about that a lot.

1115
00:57:56,199 --> 00:58:01,159
I think Connor is just such an offensive dynamo that

1116
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,920
seems a little less likely just in terms of that's

1117
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,559
a lot of goals. I feel like I could imagine

1118
00:58:07,599 --> 00:58:10,840
you and I sitting on a porch somewhere crotchety and

1119
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:14,480
old and just saying that Eelers should have finished top two.

1120
00:58:14,559 --> 00:58:18,840
It just never happened. You know, we were right, The

1121
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,800
process was right all the underlying metrics were right, he

1122
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,719
just never got the time on ice. That one seems

1123
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:30,519
like it could happen just because of injury or almost

1124
00:58:30,679 --> 00:58:33,679
like against their best wishes. It happens like they tried

1125
00:58:33,719 --> 00:58:35,920
to make it not happen, but it still happened anyways,

1126
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,440
because the Eelers is that good and I want him

1127
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,599
to do it. So I'm gonna actually hold you to

1128
00:58:40,679 --> 00:58:43,880
the Kyle Connor one because fifty goals is a lot

1129
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,000
of goals, and that just almost never happened. So let's

1130
00:58:47,039 --> 00:58:47,440
do that one.

1131
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 2: I love it. I love the thing I love about

1132
00:58:50,519 --> 00:58:52,480
this one, Victor. I will be cheering for both of

1133
00:58:52,559 --> 00:58:56,199
these two hot takes hard. So let's see what happens. Victor.

1134
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,840
That is our tour through the West. We're gonna take

1135
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:11,519
a brief break come back. You know, I wouldn't be

1136
00:59:11,599 --> 00:59:15,239
doing you right if I didn't mention that your show

1137
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,039
is brought to you by fan tracks and that's a

1138
00:59:17,119 --> 00:59:21,960
great place to play fantasy hockey. Yeah, that's right. I'm

1139
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:24,960
still in a slow draft in them in a fan

1140
00:59:25,079 --> 00:59:27,320
track slake. Do you know that if you want to

1141
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:28,960
do a slow draft, a lot of places you want

1142
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,159
to do a slow draft, Well, good luck just doing it.

1143
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,639
But if you want to set your timer for five

1144
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:40,599
seconds a pick, thirty seconds, one minute, five minutes, five hours,

1145
00:59:40,719 --> 00:59:43,159
whatever you want to do, you can set it that way.

1146
00:59:44,039 --> 00:59:46,039
And then you think yourself, well, I'd like to set it,

1147
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:50,760
Jesse for two hour picks, but we got to sleep sometimes. Well,

1148
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:55,199
you can also set an overnight pause period whatever hours

1149
00:59:55,199 --> 00:59:57,400
you want, doesn't matter. You could do whatever you want.

1150
00:59:57,719 --> 01:00:01,320
The point is customization. You can do whatever you want

1151
01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:04,360
with the Fan Tracks League. Fan Tracks HQ has also

1152
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:08,159
got fantasy content. The hockey stuff is rolling out right now,

1153
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:11,039
so do pop in and check that. We've got some

1154
01:00:11,239 --> 01:00:14,679
very talented writers and you'll probably see that if you're

1155
01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:18,639
on a Fan Tracks league, on your team, you'll see

1156
01:00:18,679 --> 01:00:23,719
some columns over in the right, and that's that's what

1157
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:28,599
you're looking at. FHL is a whole big team, and

1158
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:33,719
we thank our FHL crew Crafts, Aer, Ryan, Simone, Tim.

1159
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,800
They are the commission team for the tidy leagues. There

1160
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:41,000
is also a whole lot of work going along with

1161
01:00:41,119 --> 01:00:44,039
those as we get ready. Free agency has just opened

1162
01:00:44,639 --> 01:00:48,800
and I think, as Victor said in the intro, we're

1163
01:00:49,159 --> 01:00:51,679
looking for people to come in. You know, somebody's probably

1164
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,599
going to disappear, and if you really want to be

1165
01:00:53,639 --> 01:00:56,599
a part of it, you can let Victor and myself

1166
01:00:56,679 --> 01:00:59,039
know and we'll put you on the list to come

1167
01:00:59,119 --> 01:01:04,960
in and participate. Jeremy V and Tony are our lead scouts. Ryan,

1168
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:09,599
also of the Tidy Legs, helps with show prep. Brandon

1169
01:01:09,719 --> 01:01:11,840
is our website guru. He's a scout and he helps

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with prospect ranks and visualizations. If you have skills you'd

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like to lend the show, hit Victor up in the

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discord email or on x We're also brought to you

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by Dauber Hockey Dapper Prospects. Victor is an editor there.

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Follow his work there as well as this other podcast,

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Prospects Report with Peter Harling. And you may even notice

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I've written over at Daber Prospects. I'm doing some of

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the Nashville Predators work, so I've done two parts on

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their thirty two for thirty two team previews on the

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Predators offseason. Be sure to check out Victor's articles at

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EP rings sidet. He's part of the Fantasy team with

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Cam Robinson and Mike Clifford. I do a solo show,

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Dynasty Sports Life. I talk all the different Dynasty sports,

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sometimes multiple at the same time. The last Yeah You're

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Gonna Enjoy It, last episode that came out on Friday

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was about the guys you might be missing. Late season

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runs on in Dynasty Fantasy Baseball as that season comes

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to its conclusion. Follow Victor and myself on x at

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fan Hockey Life at Victor Nunio twelve, Rate and review

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us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever else you.

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Speaker 1: Get pods five stars.

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Speaker 2: It's the time to get yourself ready. It's the final

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stretch as we prepare for a new season of this

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Fantasy Hockey Life.