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the Golden Knights. We'd like to welcome back to the show.
Ma's been here for a couple of years now, talking
Vegas Golden Knights. Chris Golic of locked on Vegas Golden Knights.
How you doing, Chris.
Speaker 4: Good enjoying of this one hundred and ten degree heat
in Vegas? Otherwise life is good.
Speaker 2: Oh man. You'll get us all back when it's moderate
in the middle of the winter and it's twenty blows
here right here, fair enough, but yeah, stay inside until
it's safe to come out and watch some Vegas Golden
Night's hockey. Here's what we could say about last year, Chris.
They started the Vegas gold that night started eleven to
zero to one, but they ended up with the Western
Conference's eight seed. They bowed out after seven games versus
a team that was only one point from a President's Trophy.
So that's a tough draw, man, that's a tough draw.
It certainly wasn't what I'm sure Vegas followers were hoping
for after being the defending Cup champs, but hockey's tough man,
and this year, having many dare I say most of
their prominent Vets miss at least sometime with injuries was
too much for them to keep overcoming. They did in
their Stanley Cup run. But you can't cheat it forever
that I'm saying, they're cheating. You know what I'm saying here, right?
They played one hundred and four games in their Cup
winning year. That counted, and twenty three counted a whole
lot out of that. You know, sometimes in life, Chris
I faced a challenging situation and I decide to do
what I need to do today and make my problems
tomorrow Tomorrow Jesse's problems. And that's what Vegas does a
lot does. They make things tomorrow's Vegas Golden Knights problems.
They've been doing it since they're outset. They haven't let
up yet. They keep putting this team together. The question
is the Jinga Tower, that is the Vegas roster and
thing going forward? Are they going to retool and be
successful again this year and be a force in the NHL?
Speaker 4: Listen, reality is that the Golden Knights watched approximately eighty
five or ninety goals last season walk away, largely in
part from Jonathan Marcisso and Chandler Stevenson. You got people
at chip in like Amadio and stuff like that. They're gone.
They're not coming back. Another one hundred or so assist
also gone from the six or seven or eight players,
however many it was that left via free agency. So
incomes Alexander Holtzen Victor Olifson has saved the day. The hope,
obviously is youngsters have and Brennan Bresson can immediately, especially
Pavel Doorfie. I can Emily chip in at a high
pace in his young career for sure.
Speaker 2: This team starts with Jack Eichel, and last year a
knee injury cost Eikle almost two months. Nonetheless, he had
over a point per game pace both before and after
the injury and was likely on pace to lead the
team in goals above replacement. He takes a heroic four
point five shots per game at over an eleven percent
shooting rates. That's some good stuff. That back surgery feels
like a pretty good idea right now. By the way, Buffalo,
sorry for you, guys. Ikeel isn't great at faceoffs, okay,
but Otherwise, he fits the bill of an absolute top
line center. Still, the knee continued his record of not
staying healthy for a whole season in each of the
four years since COVID. Boy, if Iichael had a fully
healthy year, what would he be able to achieve? And
what are you looking for next year?
Speaker 4: If Ichael could put up eighty eight games, you're looking
at a player that could possibly flirt with one hundred points.
Definitely get into that ninety point range. Health certainly has
been an issue, like you said, sixty seven games in
the Stanley Cup season, and then obviously his COVID. After
COVID and everything with the surgeries and all of that.
So a healthy Jack Eichel, like you said, over four
shots a game, the shooting percentage and everything. He's just
a dynamite passer as well, And obviously points are an
important part of what your business is, guys. So with
Jonathan march is leaving his right wing, now who's going
to take that spot? And obviously whoever takes that spot
is hopefully going to become a thirty plus goal scorer. Otherwise,
it's going to be tough to see Eigel regardless of
how many games he plays to get to that ninety
point level.
Speaker 2: Next up Mark Stone again a guy with injury issues personally,
I think the long term injury reserved thing that people
make such a deal out of a seriously overplayed Stone
posted his typical point per game with just under a
hit in just under three shots per game. I don't
know that you can call a guy injury prone for
rupturing his spleen, which is what Mark Stone did last year.
That sounds like a freak thing to me. That said,
he's thirty one years old last year. He plays a
physical game for sure, and while the advanced thatts didn't
love his defense this year as much as they typically do,
he still has that history of down ballot selky votes.
Is Stone a guy again very physical getting into his thirties,
taking a lot of hits on that body over the years.
Is he a guy who's going to be able to
get healthy for a season and return that near point
per game type value for the team And would he
be skating with Jack Geigel if he got back there.
Speaker 4: I've been very high on Mark Stone coming into this season.
Like you said, spleen weird fluky injury the back held
up Stone didn't look great last season let's be clear
about this. There was a lot of pockets where Stone
looked very stiff out there. But right before the Spleen injury,
I was commenting, I think they were playing the Nashville
Preds that game. Stone was just looking so good out
there in his skating and it was just like a
lead by example type thing. He was winning a lot
of races to the puck. His backcheck inside the offensive
zone was just absolutely amazing to watch and creating scoring chances.
I'm high on RMC. I'm high on Stone this year.
I'm going with he's going to get about seventy five
games this season. He's going to have an absolute I
don't know if you call it like a comeback situation
because it's weird, but seventy five games for Stone, I
can see him getting at a point per game. Basis
him and Jack Eichel on the same line. That's interesting.
It's something that's talked about, but now you're looking at
a top line of Eichel, who's obviously a very good skater,
Mark Stone, not known for his skating ability, and Ivan Barbershev,
who would be on the left wing potentially again someone
not known for the skating so can their experience if
that is the top line make up for their lack
of speed, for lack of a better.
Speaker 3: Term, that'll be interesting to follow in The other guy.
Next guy, we're going to talk about Tomash Hurtle. He
came over from San Jose and year three of an
eight year contract eight point one three seven five million contracts.
The Sharks retained seventeen percent, making a little bit more palatable.
He seems like you fit in pretty nicely at the
end of the season. Four points in seven regular season
games and the playoffs. Not super productive, but he had
a different role there. Seems like the two C role
is there for Hurdle and you probably should get some
power play time on ice. Overall, his impacts have been
pretty decent. I'm we're still not exactly sure how those
knees are going to hold up, which have been a
bit of an issue for him. And as ya as
I mentioned, three or five more years of this contract
is is a long time. So what do you think
we can expect from Hurdle next season in terms of
roll and point pase.
Speaker 4: It's a good question. I think Hurdle's biggest contribution will
be on the power play. Dude, just wins every single
face off, number one, number two, his net front presence.
Cassidy has begged someone for the last two seasons to
basically go and sit in front of the net, whether
it's right on top of the goalie or kind of
in that like medium slot area between the hash marks.
He's been begging for that type of player. Hurdle is
that type of player. We're now seeing a transition in
the ANHL where it's basically one power play unit for
all the teams. They're staying out there for ninety seconds
or even the full two minutes, so you don't need
necessarily to have a second power play unit. The gold
Knights would certainly load up with a Mark Stone and
a Jack Eichel and a Hurdle and a Noah Hannafin
and whoever else minds up on that top power play line.
As far as hurdles five on five play, that's I
think where my concern is. You mentioned the knees. How
much does Hurdle have left? Is you what thirty thirty
thirty two? What is he thirty years old? Right now?
You mentioned the contract. We're talking a player who topped
out at seventy four points in the eighteen nineteen season,
and then he seems like he's more in about that
sixty point range. Biggest concern outside of health for Hurdle
is Bruce Cassidy, and I say that because they've meant
they've messed with Hurdle playing on the wing for a
little bit. They might want to have William Carlson, who
was a thirty thirty player last year, go up to
that two C role. What happens to Nicholas Wile, who's
a natural center? So will the Golden Knights be able
to find the right place? Logically, yes, twoc is where
Tomach Hurtle should slot in, But there are so many
questions for the Golden Knights coming into this camp. We
mentioned all the players that have left the team. Where's
everyone going to fit in? And are they going to
continue to maybe try the square peg round hole situation
in getting Hurdle to play the wing, which I don't
think would be optimal.
Speaker 2: William Carlson wild Bill, I will admit I'm lazy. Chris,
I still in the back of my mind, I can't
get away from that impression of a guy who went
on that shooting percentage bender and put up forty three
goals all these years ago. I think I need to
get over that because he is shown again by that
thirty thirty season last year in seventy games, what an excellent,
sustained player he is. He led by a whole lot
by the way the team and goals of a replacement.
Despite replacing his longtime line mate Riley Smiths and John
Marshiso with a long line of less prominent and fluctuating
wingers throughout the season, it really was a revolving door.
Carlson is one of the best in contrast to Iicle
in the league at faceoffs and is still running strong
as he turns thirty two this year. Is Carlson going
to be the two CED this year and what are
your expectations for him, including the scoring.
Speaker 4: I like Carlson in the three C role because it
creates a matchup situation for the other teams. You guys
know this. The third line is one of the most
challenging lines for any National Hockey League coach to first
of all, find consistency from a scoring perspective and consistency
from just having the same players in that spot. Carlson,
I think was largely in the three C role for
pretty much the entire season. Maybe some injuries might have
changed that a little bit every now and then. So
Carlson as the third line center, and like you said,
a thirty thirty player, and that's something you're not going
to see a whole lot of. And look at his wingers,
Mike Amadio, Peveldor Fiev, Paul Cotter. At times, King Cole
Sar went up to that spot. Nicholas Waugh, I think
slid in so a revolving door of players. If the
Golden Knights can get like an Alex Holtz or a
Victor Olifson to comfortably slot into that role and then
a Peveldorfiev on the other side, you're looking at something
that could be very dangerous and very difficult for teams
to match up against. Right when the third line's out there,
you're not thinking of having your best defenders out there.
If you got William Carlson putting up sixty points, you
got to think twice about how you deploy the defensive
pairings for the opposition, which obviously could help the top
lines for the gold Knights as well.
Speaker 2: We like to do a little catch all, little points.
Pick come here and I'm going to give you three guys,
three guys that mostly I think we've talked about all
three of them at least name checked them. Nick waf
Nick Royd twenty seven years old. He had forty one
points in seventy games last year, Yvon Barbashev had forty
five and eighty two. And Dorofiev only played forty seven
games last year, had twenty four points in those. But
he's a little bit younger twenty three. How do you
like these three coming into next year?
Speaker 4: Doro Fiev, I think is the one that stands out
to me because he is a natural scorer. I think
his career line is pretty close to a point in
every other game, and again someone who really hasn't caught
on to a particular identity with the team. Sometimes he's
on that third line, sometimes the second line, sometimes the
top line. Now with obviously Chandler Stevenson and Jonathan Marchisso
and Micael Madio all gone, those are players obviously in
the top nine, there should be a good opportunity for
Dorofeev Dislotten. Is there a world that exists where Dorofiev
is on the left wing with Jack eicheld then the
right wing. You might have Mark Stone, that would be
a very interesting line. So very high on Dorofeev. I
would look to him if he can get a full
season's worth of games, at least play seventy games. I
think you're looking at someone who forty five to fifty points.
I don't think it's that big of a stretch. You
mentioned Barbashev quietly forty five points. That was I believe
his second highest as far as a career total goals.
It was a very quiet season for him. There was
a couple stretches a good hockey bud just early on
that top line was not clicking with marchisso Keel and Barbashev.
And then you said nick Wah. I believe the only
issue with Nick Wah is the Golden Knight's strength down
the middle. There are not too many teams in the
National Hockey League where Nick Wah is the fourth line center.
And we mentioned a little while ago about coach Cassiy
trying to find different places for Nick Wah in the lineup,
possibly on the wing. At times he struggled as a winger.
But if nick Wah can develop that, the goal Knights
can drop like a Brett Howden down to that fourth
line center role, and Nick Wak could go as high
as top line wing with Jack Eigel. He has that
good of an ability to score if he can develop
the proper way to play the wing. In the National
Hockey League.
Speaker 3: We mentioned briefly a couple of these young guys. I
just wanted to ask and see if Brennan Bersson or
Alex Holtz have any likelihood of making the team and
having a significant impact here.
Speaker 4: I would say yes to both. I would start with
Holtz just basically based on his time of service in
the National Hockey League and he's right around one hundred
l NHL games. And Holts had a very good season
in a very strange situation with the New Jersey Devils.
Basically fourth line role, energy type stuff. But what sixteen goals,
twelve assists? If I'm not mistaken last season, If the
gold Knights can find a way to if Holts can
earn his way it's higher up in the lineup, then yeah,
we could see maybe a thirty five forty point player
in Alex Holtz. And who knows, is there a world
that exists where he gets top six You never know.
That's the beauty about this Golden Knights team. There are
so many unknowns. This is the most interesting camp outside
of the first season for the Golden Knights. And then
you said Brendan bosson Braisson, you can see his game
is developing the more he played in the National Hockey
League last season. It just he just seemed a little
more comfortable gets himself into a scoring area eight points
fifteen games. But again, the opportunity is there if Brisson
can somehow sneak into that top power play unit. He's
got a great one timer from the circle. Saw him
as close to a point per game player in the
American League, so he certainly has a lot of the
measurables you would like to see for a young player
looking to go up. But to answer the question just
quickly for you Holts, yes, I do see him making
the roster out of camp, no questions asked. Brennan Bresson
is the one who will have to earn it. Coach
Cassidy is very big on, in his words, players earning
their stripes.
Speaker 2: Let's move over to the blue line. There are a
couple of big names here for the Golden Knights. Let's
start with Shae Theodore. His upper body injury this year
took him out nearly three months in the middle of
the season, a rough blow for the team. He still
scored close to a point per game pace on heavy
minutes and is extremely solid while on the ice. Across
the board, his contract is also one of the most
team friendly. I would say a veteran high level defenseman
only five point two AAV. What are you expecting of
Shae Theodore and hopefully a full healthy season this year?
Speaker 4: Like you said, a full healthy season. So Shae Theodore,
we can do a whole segment on this, but I'll
try to keep it quick. Before Noah Hannafin's arrival, I
think it was twenty or twenty two games, Shay Theodore
was right at a point per game, maybe even a
tiny bit higher. After Noah Hannafin, Shaye Theodore's points per
game pace dropped to about seventy percent. Why number one,
Noah Hanffin took his place on the top power play units,
took his place on as far as the extra attacker.
In all these roles that Shae Theodore had, Shae Theodore
is coming into this season. If even winds up, Shae
Theodore is the biggest trade bait right now for the
Golden Knights. We'll see if Shae Theatore even starts the
season as a Vegas gold Knight. But if he does,
I'm very high on Shae Theatore coming in with a
major chip on his shoulder. Me and Tony talked about
this unlockdown of BGK I believe on Thursday or this
last week's show. I'm not sure when this is there.
But point being, is Theodore coming into what year six
of his contract? I forgot what the number was. All
of a sudden, he's got something to prove. And we're
talking a player who easily can be a point per
game contributor in the National Hockey League. We're talking someone
who could score seventy points, which gets you in the outside,
the outside looking in of that Norris consideration. At that point,
that's the ceiling of Shae Theodore. Now, reality of Shae
Theodore for the last two seasons, like you said, he's
played one hundred and two regular season games of a
possible one hundred and sixty four regular season games. Whether
these are fluke injuries, muscle injuries, it doesn't matter. The
reality is he has missed over a third of the
games in the last two seasons. If Shae Theadre can
stay healthy, it's going to be so much fun. I
think watching him try and basically earn back his old
role in the top power play and just basically from
misfit to castaway. That's what you're seeing with Shaye Theodore
right now.
Speaker 2: One of the ways that Vegas decided to push their
problems onto future Vegas guy was by going all in
for a deadline acquisition on Noah Hanafin last year. In
the offseason, they doubled down eight year deal to keep
Hanafin in Black and Gold in to his thirties. I
tend to think that Theodore as more of the score.
You said that didn't actually how that wasn't exactly how
it played out last year when he came to the team.
I tend to think of Hannafin as a veteran establish minute,
munching defensive asset, does the block shots and hits, has
a little bit of an offensive role. But Calgary flipped
him as a rental. But now he looks to be
a critical piece of Vegas's defense going forward. Indefinitely, What
is Hanafan going to be doing in Vegas this year?
And how do you and do you expect he's going
to fulfill the expectations this team is placed on him.
Speaker 4: You're seeing a lot of local media very high on
Hannafin for what he's going to do. I'm high on
him as a defenseman. I'm high on him as a
great skater. I don't know if there's a player that
transitions better from forward to backwards and getting the full
speed in two strides. It is absolutely amazing washing Hannafin
skate out there. Talking about Hannafin from a scoring perspective, now,
forty eight points, that's his career high. Even in the
COVID adjusted season he only put up fifteen points, So
we're not talking a player that has even gotten even
hit the fifty points threshold in his entire career. If
he's going to be playing on that top power play unit,
he better get fifty points number one. That's very important.
Very curious to see how Noah Hannafin gets paired next season.
Coach Cassidy loved having the two vets Petraangelo and Hanfon
on that top on that top defensive pairing. You rolled
him out there twenty five, twenty six, twenty eight minutes
a game. It felt like really curious to see if
you see like a petriangel in Theodore get paired up
leaving I don't know, like a Hannafin and a McNab
or a Hanafin and Hague had some very good chemistry
as well.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Alex Petrangelo. He's the other of I would
say the three most prominent defenseman on this team. He
had his appendix removed close to the playoffs, talk about
freak injuries coming to get a team that really threw
off his last month of the regular season, and when
he came back in the playoffs, he was on the
ice a lot, but he only managed one assist in
that seven game series loss. He actually came out as
a moderate negative and expected goals allowed last year a
little bit of a defensive liability if you look at
the advanced stats, far from those top years when he
served as a Norris candidate. Perennially, was last year a
blip with a poorly time freak injury or are we
seen maybe starting to have the signs of decline from
the thirty four year old Petrangelo And what do you
foresee for this year?
Speaker 4: Like you said, we got a thirty four year old
with between regular season and playoff games pushing around eleven
one hundred and fifty eleven hundred and sixty National Hockey
League games and for probably of the last I don't know,
last ten years of his fourteen year career, a player
who's easily averaging twenty minutes or greater time on ice
per game. So it's a lot of errands tear a
great leader, great locker room guy. Again, like Mark Stone right,
you're just not seeing the great skating ability for obviously
a defense from that could cost some issues. There were
a good chunk of moments last season where pitch ra
Angelo was absolutely just beaten by someone younger, a little
bit smaller, a little bit quicker turnstyling pitch ra Angelo
a little bit. From a fantasy perspective, I'm not going
to see a lot of points. I don't know where
he would slot in most fantasy lineups. But as far
as the player, you're talking someone who has a ton
of experience going to play the game, going to make
sure that his teammates are good to go, going to
help the young players. Great player from that regard, as
far as living up to that, what is the what's
that AV right now? As far as living up to
that eight point eight million AAV as a thirty four
year old, that's not going to happen anymore.
Speaker 3: One more defenseman I want to get your take on,
and that is the young Lucas Cormier. So he has
been in the AHL the last couple of seasons. Had
a pretty good first season thirty five points in sixty
two games. This past season twenty and fifty eight, had
a couple of coffee with the Golden Knights. It seems
like he's probably back in Henderson, but do you think
he could earn a role on Vegas and potentially even
some power play time.
Speaker 4: We were joking in a press conference last year with
coach Cassidy. Kayden Korazak was the team's ninth defenseman as
they broke camp and wound up playing in overtime in
a regular season game like game number twelve or thirteen
or something like that, And someone asked coach Cassidy about that,
and cassiaid, oh, it's because I'm crazy or something like that.
The reason why I bring that up is there's gonna
be injuries things happen with Vegas Golden Knights defenseman where
they got to go pretty deep. It's happened the last
couple of seasons. Right now, very safe bet that you'll
see more than a cup of coffee with Luke Cormier.
Basically right now, Cayden Korzak would be the team's seventh defenseman.
I think Cormier would slid in as far as the
team's eighth defenseman role going to be injuries, could be
a trade if the gold Knights are going to address
their lack of depth at the wing position. Right now,
their trade pieces are defenseman right now, you're talking Shaye Theodor,
Zach Whitecloud, Nick Haig, Brayden McNabb. If one of those
players is shipped between now and the regulars and now
in the start of the regular season, which I think
there's a reasonable possibility that could happen. If that happens,
all as everyone goes up on one spot. So far,
maybe an over under right now as things sit for
the Golden Knights, I'll put Cormier around twenty two to
twenty four games.
Speaker 2: Oh I like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a pretty decent opportunity for him. All right,
let's move on to the goalies. So the Golden Knights
last season, where ranked Pentton expected goals against for sixty
at five y five conceded the thirteenth ranked actual goals,
so that's not too out of line with what was expected.
Logan Thompson is out, Akira Shmed and Ilia Samsonov are in.
Cap Wise, He'll makes the most by far one more
season at four point nine million, sam Sonoff next at
one point eight and Shmid has two more years at
league minimum. He'll obviously has a track record the Cup win.
I imagine it's Hill's net with sam Sonoff as the
backup one bee. If he falters, they probably won't hesitate
to go to Smid though, who is waivers eligible for
seventeen games this year. I would imagine that would be
the case. And how do you see this plan out
Christ and do you think it can be they can
be similarly effective in terms of their value with wins
in this season?
Speaker 4: Aiden Hill, your issue is reliability. Aiden Hill to this
point in his career has never appeared in greater than
thirty five regular season games. That's your starting goalie with
a four point nine million dollars bag. That's a concern
right now. The plus side of that Prior to last season,
Aiden Hill never appeared in greater than twenty seven regular
season games, So maybe he is on that upward trajectory
as far as getting his body right and doing whatever
it is he needs to do to become a goalie
who can play about fifty games. That's I think really
where that would be a great number for Aiden Hill
and obviously should be a successful season if Aiden can
get to fifty games. Samson Off, that's that's the question
mark right now. The positive about samson Off is he's
played forty or greater regular season games over I believe,
the last three seasons, so he should be able to
stay healthy. He's going to get opportunities. Now, every BGK
goalie gets opportunities because it's just something weird always happens
with the net in Vegas. It's been like that basically
since season number one. And then A cures me that
the gold Knights obviously they're going to try and chew
that waiverclock as long as they can. But a big
concern last year and I was very critical of how
the team, in my opinion, mismanaged the goalies on many occasions.
The gold Knights did not want to go to Euri Peterra.
It seemed like there was a lot of faith in
Uri Paterra, who was the club's third goalie coming into
last season. There was a lot of faith from Kelly McCrimmon,
but that led to just six appearances, and I felt
the times Aiden Hill and Logan Thompson were both overused.
Something I love to point out. Logan Thompson never received
consecutive regular season starts when Aiden Hill was healthy. Aiden
Hill had to falter so terribly in the end of
the regular season the club had no choice but to
give Logan Thompson the net to start the playoffs. Logan
was very solid for four games and it still wasn't
enough to keep him in the That where am I
going with us? The Golden Knights and Sean Berke love
Aiden Hill and they're going to find a way to
get him out there as long as he's healthy.
Speaker 2: All right, This has been great stuff, Chris. How should
our listeners keep up with the Vegas Golden Knights and
your work all year long?
Speaker 4: Certainly the Lockdown Vegas Golden Knights podcast we record daily.
I also write a little bit for Inside the Rank
more or less when the season's going and then if
you want to follow me in the hockey collectibles world,
I'm the collectibles content manager for the Hockey News and
I'm putting up stuff there pretty often about sports cards
and hockey memorabilia and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thanks so much for coming on and talking nights
with us. Chris, have a great.
Speaker 5: Day and that's good. Fired past my goodness, long quick grab.
Speaker 2: Now it's your Wingley goalie talk. But Kat Silverman, Kat's instincts.
Speaker 3: Time once again for Kat's instincts. With Kat's Silverman and
ng gold mag we're talking Golden Knights goalies. And this
is interesting. I was at the sphere when they traded
Logan Thompson while he was signing autographs for the fans there.
That was awkward.
Speaker 2: And one of the.
Speaker 3: Goalies they got back, that's Akira Shmed and he has
seen some NHL action, but also he hasn't seen that much.
And so we're gonna talk about him in this system
because I really want to get your take on him.
His metrics out evolving hockey were not great. It was weird.
At even strength, he had really low expected save percentage
and he was not able to do too much with that.
But at the penalty kill. He actually had incredible coverage
and he did really poorly, So I'm not really sure
what to make of that. Hill and Simpson off seem
clearly ahead of smed right now, and so he'll probably
be in the AHL. We've seen forty plus games of
him and likely I'm not sure that we'll talk about
it again here, but last season you talked about how
he could be a one B and how he has
good speed, control, pus, a strong mental game. We have
seen stints of him do well in the NHL, but
I'm not sure what's going to happen. Maybe Samsonov struggles
and they give Shmid a chance, But what do you
think his upside is long term? And certainly here in Vegas.
Speaker 6: I think Vegas is such a fascinating team because that
really is a team where anyone could be their next starter.
I think Aiden Hill has yet, at any point in
his career to give me the confidence that he is
a long term NHL starter. Samsonov has obviously not given
any of us the confidence in him to be a
long term NHL starter. So both of them are one
bad stretch away from looking like the second or third
best goal tender. In the system instead of the top.
So Akiri Shmat is really good to have in the
system because he is someone who has, like you said,
forty games of NHL experience. We've seen him play some
really good precise hockey before where he has really good
movement control, he has good tracking, seems like he's got
really good speed on his feet, doesn't spend a whole
lot of time on his knees, tracks the puck, did
a good job with rebound control at times, and then
there were other times where it looked like he was
watching a different game from the rest of us, which
almost seemed like the thing that we saw from a
number of New Jersey goaltenders. So I wasn't entirely sure
how much of that was him and how much was
the team. So he's got experience, he's clearly got the
raw talent, and why not with either Hilly Samson off
who both have pretty extensive injury history when it comes
to little tweaks here and there, and Hill has some
I would argue Simson does too, some major skill regression
history where we see not just one bad game, but five, six, seven,
ten bad games in a row. A Kirish meds a
guy that you have in your system, who you know
you can call up for.
Speaker 2: Half the season if you need.
Speaker 6: To, and he's going to be able to play consistent
NHL hockey, and that prevents them from rushing anyone else
in their system because they don't have any They don't
have any clear cut, seasoned veteran starters with consistent numberers,
which is a really interesting place for a recent Stanley
Cup champion to be. I like him being in their system.
Like you said, I think this is probably the last
time we're going to talk about him, because he's I
would be shocked if he doesn't play a chunk of
NHL games this year, which would bump him out of
contention for being a prospect at that point. I just
don't know where he's going to be at any given
point during the year. And I think he could play
two NHL games, he could play forty NHL games.
Speaker 3: We'll see. Yeah, that's a wide range of outcomes, so
we will see. I have really liked a curious meat
at times, but then we, like you said, we've also
seen an inconsistent play from him. So hopefully you can
put it all together. Let's talk about the next guy.
Carl Linbaum twenty twenty one, seventh round pick, six pounds.
He's been in the Juw gardens IF system and he
was loan to Fargest Dad BK this past season and
it went really well. He will be in North America
next season for the Henderson Silver Knights. And last year
you mentioned he had the best long term out look.
I'm not sure if that's still true with Shmida in
the system. But sometimes his safe selection leads to some
easy goals, which is the problem. He has the really
strong upward trajectory of his hockey prospecting, but that's because
he started at zero because he didn't have any equivalency
in his draft season based on where he played, which
was primarily at the J twenty level. So he's up
to forty two percent. He's got a bunch of really
good comps. Michael Newver that's Atascola, took a rask some
comps there for him. So what do your instincts tell
us now about Carl Linbaum?
Speaker 6: Like three of my favorite goaltenders to compare people to.
I love that he's an interesting one because that's, like
I said, that's a really weird team with a lot
of guys who I don't necessarily look at and think think, God,
they're here. I don't know how many games he'll play
at the AHL level, just because, like you said, they
have a kirishmead who potentially could spend some time a
chunk of time at the NHL level. We have seen
chunks where Ilias Amsonov has had to get conditioning stints
at the AHL level because of injuries, which is always
really fun. Lindbaum said, he's a fun goaltender to watch
because he is fast, He's got good reflexes, he's got
good instincts. I would love to see what happens when
you put him out on North American ice does a
week and see what he looks like. He is not
the only goaltender in his family, which is really fascinating.
I cannot imagine being the parent of two goalies. But
his brother, Olof Linbaum, is a former New York Rangers prospect,
so hopefully he'll do a little better than his brother did.
I know that Olofflnbaum had a little bit of trouble
making the transition to North America and seeing consistent reads,
so hopefully that won't be the case with his younger brother.
But I do think that we're going to see a
lot of movement within the Golden Knights system when it
comes to goaltenders in their depth chart over the year.
I don't think that anyone has a permanent guaranteed spot
at any level, So it'll be fun to see how
many games he gets. It'll be fun to see how
he plays. I think any position in their depth chart
is up for grabs right now, and hopefully he does
really well.
Speaker 3: All right, we're going to go for a third one
on this system because it's so interesting. As we said, so,
Isaiah Saville is the last one. Twenty nineteen, fifth front pick, six,
one hundred and ninety six pounds. He catches right. For
those of you scoring at home, he seems like he
might be trending down with his most recent HL production
only twenty two games and much worse than previous Previously,
he did have AHL games the past couple seasons, although
mostly last season was in the ECHL. Last year you
talked about how he didn't have the best technique, but
he's a great athlete and his trajectory was linear upwards.
Not sure if that's still the case. Why don't you
tell us what your instincts tell us about Isaiasaville.
Speaker 6: I think that Isaiah Saville is unfortunately the victim of
a system with too many cooks, which I think is
because they didn't really have any guaranteed confidence in the
health of any of their goaltend over the last couple
of years. Because taking a quick glance at the Henderson
Silver Knights games played last year, he played the second
most games of any coltender on that team because they
had won two or three for they had five different
guys play games. Yuri Petera played twenty five, Seville played
twenty two, Jasper Vicman, who's another prospect, played nineteen, Jordan
Papimi played nine, and then Mike Boullion played two, another Anchorage,
Alaska native, which I love that they had two of
those on the Henderson Silver Knights. He looks fine in
the games I watch. He's been someone who I've always
been enjoyed watching because he his technique was a little raw,
but it seemed like anything they threw at him, he
was like, cool, I'll go for it. And his game
seems to get marginally better each time I watched. His
tracking improved year every year. His skating improved year every year.
His positioning seemed like it was cleaning up. It seems
like it stalled out a little bit last year, So
he could end up being like a madvil Alta or oh,
try to think of as Spencer Martin, someone who maybe
a Mikey Dpia tro if he never ends up quite
hitting the NHL, someone who is able to play at
the AHL level well, but without taking those necessary steps
forward to hit the NHL. And they just keep adding
more guys to their system. So I don't know how
much faith the team has in him, whether I think
he looks good or not. They keep bringing in more goaltenders.
It's like their words, they treat goaltenders like Americans treated
toilet paper at the start of the COVID pandemic. And
it's a really bizarre strategy for a team that has
quality goaltending prospects. But we'll see how it goes. I
think if he doesn't clearly stand out this year and
move to their top prospect, we do have to consider
the possibility that he won't get a real shot at
the NHL unmost he moves to another team, because I
think they've seen enough from him that he should be
taking that necessary step forward this year. But once again,
I have no idea what they're doing. They just keep
adding more goalies, they keep giving as many starts as
they can to as many different people. It's almost like
what the Philadelphia Flyers have done in the past, and
I think it creates a little bit of uncertainty, even
from goaltenders that in Siri, we'd love to say look
like clear cut promising prospects.
Speaker 3: Awesome, thanks for giving me instincts on the Golden Knight goalies.
Speaker 2: Dig the dynasty gig n addition, the Vegas Golden Knights
were the eighteenth ranked team according to Victor Nunil's rankings,
and we're gonna start talking about them with the no brainer.
Who is a Victor.
Speaker 3: We already mentioned him because he's that interesting. That's Lucas Cormier.
He's a twenty twenty sixty eighth overall pick five one
and seventy six pound left handed d This was his
second professional season. Last season with Henderson, as I mentioned above,
thirty five points in sixty two games. This season twenty
and fifty eight not as exciting.
Speaker 2: He did get one.
Speaker 3: Assist in two NHL games. Looking at some of his
underlying Some of his bash really high in the AHL
for shots ninetieth percentile. His hits and blocks are closer
to average, but with the high shots that should mean
that he's about seventieth percentile for bash, which is pretty nice.
His goals and assists more average than the AHL, which
is expected after you transition from junior. Well, in all
that part doesn't look too bad. Some of his other
play driving underlying metrics look pretty terrible in the AHL. Unfortunately,
He's got a lot of power play time. But other
than that, his play driving, transition game and getting the
pucks to high anger zones is not very exciting, unfortunately.
But maybe we can get a little bit more context
for what's going on with him from our FHL scout.
Speaker 2: Our FHL scout is punite, and here's what he says.
For skating. Possesses strong skating abilities and elite to edgework
passing and handling. Cormier is a good distributor of the
puck in the offensive zone, works on the blue line
very well, strong on the power play, shooting elite willingness
to jump into the play has fueled his offensive numbers.
IQ Frequently executing controlled zone exits and entries by utilizing
his excellent acceleration, speed and agility to swiftly navigate through
the neutral zone for checking. Although Cormier is a strong
offensive defenceman, he has at times displayed strong two way tendencies. However,
he needs to be more consistent defense. Cormier's proficiency and
offensive playmaking and adaptability as a younger defenseman in professional
hockey highlight his potential for NHL six sets. Best asset
his confidence and ability that he can run a second
power play unit of Vegas when the time comes and
the biggest concerned defensive challenges. Further development and improvement is needed.
With his defensive consistency the top tier outcome top four
potential pairing with the capabilities of running a power play unit.
If this was any other team, Punite would have said, yeah,
maybe that would be exactly where he'd end up. With
s Theatre, Alex Petrangel and Noahnnafan. He would say that
it has to be a top four role, fiftieth percentile
with a lot of money put into the back. In Vegas,
it's probably more of a barrier of entry than or
up and coming defenseman in other teams and so he's
more likely to crack the bottom defensive pair lineup and
slowly work his way up to a middle four. Stylistic comparable,
he's going for a Quinn Hughes type more based on
his hockey IQ, not his size. The NHL rank King
Mason Black puts Lucas Cormier up against ty Nelson, and
ty Nelson is victorious the Seattle Kraken fifty two or
fifty five to forty five percent Victor Nelson Cormier. What
do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've long been a fan of ty Nelson. Even
though he's slightly undersize at five point ten, he really
has some strong fatality. He's a pretty good play driver,
so I think that he has a pretty good shot,
even though of making the NHL, even though he might
be a little bit smaller. We heard a little bit
about Cormier. He is not the best in terms of
like all around play, so I think that that has
to be given to Nelson, and we've seen Nelson do
really well in the OHL, We'll see him in the AHL,
so Cormier is a little bit further along. I think
if you want proximity to the NHL an opportunity, then
you got to go with Cormier, although I'm not sure
that his upside is as high as it seemed when
he was in Cormier in the queue and ty Nelson
in North Bay. When he was in the queue, Cormier,
it looked like he was putting up a lot of
really good points, and then, as expected, it went down
a little bit in the AHL and it seemed like
they wanted him to focus on more of his all
around game and that created a step back. So I
think that I would probably go Cormier just because proximity
the NHL and potential role where you have to be
good offensive minutes to be successful. I think Nelson might
just settle into more of a depth defenseman, and I
don't think he's going to dictate power play time. So
even though the probability looks better right now for Nelson,
I think I'd still go Cormier just for that opportunity,
unless I wanted some more security that he's going to
play a lot of NHL games, and I might go Nelson.
Looking at the P and H league between these two,
it's clearly in Nelson's favor right now, close to sixty
for him. Cormier is trended down from fifty five to
sub forty. That was because of his difficult AHL season
this past season. Looking at the hockey prospecting between these two,
Cormier definitely graduated at a higher clip twenty three percent
chance of being a star that was before his down
AHL season. Nelson at around ten percent, so quite a
bit lower so far. Looking at some other comps for
Lucas Cormier as a slightly undersized offensive defenseman, probably the
best case your scenario're looking for the Jared Spurgeon type.
Speaker 2: He looks a little bit.
Speaker 3: Better in the model than Spurgeon right at his current
stage of development. But obviously we know the outcome for
Spurgeon and I'm not sure that he can quite get
to that level. He might be more of like a
replacement level kind of guy. Looking at the j freshcard,
pretty pessimistic one percent chance of being a star for
fourteen percent chance of being an NHL or so, not
super exciting. I as we said, as we heard above
from Chris, I think there's a pretty decent chance that
Cormier gets a decent number of games and maybe he
runs away with a decent role. So that's a reason
to maybe be a little bit more excited about him, Jesse.
Speaker 2: And the need to know prospect has already come up
on this show. Who is It?
Speaker 3: Victor Brennan Bursson twenty twenty ninth overall pick six ft
z one hundred and eighty five pounds left shot wing.
This was his second HL season and he increased his
points from just about half point per game to thirty
eight points and fifty two AHL games, so that was
really nice. He also had fifteen NHL games, as you
heard Chris Benchin with just over half point per game
with eight. Looking at his impacts from Evolving Hockey, it
looked like he got a little bit lucky on some
of those points. His expected goals for where it's a
little bit under average, and he outproduced that by a
little bit. But of course we're talking small sample size
here of just one hundred and seventy minutes time on ice,
so that's not a whole lot to go off of.
Looking at his FHL player card from the AHL, you
can see that his shots and blocks are actually at
seventieth percent hel a lot of blocks for a forward.
His hits are a little bit on the low side, though,
so that averages out to about a fiftieth percentile for bash.
His goals for sixty look pretty nice overall, which is
pretty nice to see. Nineteen goals this season, eighteen goals
last season, all that pretty decent for a young forward.
Looking at his play driving, it looks pretty bad in
terms of his underlying metrics Transition, game play, driving, high
danger pucks and puckwork all really low, like in the
fifteenth percentile twenty fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 2: Eight or so.
Speaker 3: But let's hear a little bit more about Brendan Bisson
from our FHL scout.
Speaker 2: Our FHL scout Poonite says this Brisson skating is average,
although it has improved since being drafted. Passing and handling
in slower paced scenarios, Brisson displays skillful maneuvering and strategic
offensive zone play, shooting excels in one time or accuracy
and hand skills IQ. Brisson has strong IQ and anticipation,
which helps in compensating for deficiencies in his skating. For checking,
Brisson can at time show a lack of competitiveness, but
when he has all gears running, Ponite says he's got
the tools to be a high level two hundred foot player.
Defense strong on the back check. As the center, he
seems to be trailing behind the play at times, so
the best asset for Brosan Punite Sai. The standout trait
is the shot. He has a quick release that allows
him to score from a variety of areas in the
offensive zone, but he often elects to stand in the
face off circle, where he opens himself up for one
timer opportunities. The biggest concern lack of competitiveness at times.
The top tier role potential to be a top six forward,
but more likely middle six. He has all the skills,
talent ability to play the full two hundred foot game,
He just needs to leave all of his competitive drive
out there on the ice median outcome. Poni says he's
going to get his opportunity to break in his middle
six this season and show what he has. Based on
the logjam in Vegas, he's more poised to be that
middle six forward long term, but he's definitely got the potential,
skill and talent to push his way into the top six.
Considering especially how injuries frequently give people opportunities in Vegas
and the stylistic comparable Puni's going with alexis La Frangnier.
How about that and the NHL ranking poll from Mason
Black Brandon Barsson versus Tyson Forrester, boy Forrester wins this
one big eighty three to seventeen percent. Is that the
way you stack a Vicker.
Speaker 3: I think this is one of those where it's clearly
a little bit challenging because you're talking about a guy
who has, you know, obviously a little bit more security
in terms of his role in the NHL. Forster with
eighty five NHL game seventy seven this season, thirty five
point pace with Philly, and it seems like he's got
a pretty locked up NHL role. Brayson, Yeah, I'm not
sure that he has that as for certain we taught,
we heard a little bit about that from Chris. It
seems like he definitely is going to have the opportunity.
Both these guys taken similarly, for Forster a little bit
earlier in that draft twenty twenty, so they're in the
same range around the same time becoming maturing. It seems
like there's a pretty clear path to relevance for Brisson
as well. And I do think that as mentioned with
the scouting report there, he has a clapper so he
has a very specific role, and I'm not sure that
Vegas has that particular role on the power play anymore
like Eichel does other things. I think that Stone and Hurtle,
as we mentioned, they don't necessarily have that big one
time clapper, so Brisson could get on that power play.
I guess Holts could be the other one. Both being lefties,
maybe they'll have to compete for that. Holts probably has
an inside track, so yeah, I could see why Forrester
just being more of the incumbent and more established guy,
But I think there might be a little bit more
upside for Brisson. Both of these coaches aren't going to
really tolerate poor defensive play, and so that might limit
both of their opportunities. I think I'd go Brisson, though,
just in terms of upside. If you want a more secure,
for sure thing, then Tyson Forrester certainly makes a lot
of sense. Their PNHL for both these guys has been
all over the place, wandering up and down, and both
settling in that forty to fifty point range, which is
probably realistic for them moving forward. The hockey prospecting between
the two is actually almost exactly the same between them,
kind of trending down from thirty six to five to
seven percent. Chance of being a star in the NHL
are probability being slightly higher for Berson at sixty four percent,
but a force right there at fifty three. Some of
the other comps for a Berson that seem reasonable. I
think Ivan Barbashev, which is funny now, teammate Ivan Barbashev,
seems like a pretty reasonable outcome as an average producer.
I think, I think that's not too far fetched. And
then the last j fresh card three percent chance of
being a star, thirty one percent chance of being an
NHLer seems pretty pessimistic. I think there's a little bit
more opportunity than that. So yeah, it's going to be
really important season for Berson. It seems like he's going
to get an opportunity. If you want guys that are
pretty close to having a role, then Berson is certainly
one of those guys.
Speaker 2: And lastly, who's to keep your eye on prospect picture.
Speaker 3: That would be R two Kharki and he is a
twenty twenty three ninety six overall pick sixty two, one
hundred and seventy six pound left handed d After years
playing for TOPAR twenty Smsarya was loaned over to the
OHL for the su Gray Greyhounds, where he put up
twenty one goals forty five points in fifty nine games.
Pretty solid production. You're always looking at that when you're
going from a really more professional league to a junior league.
I'd say he did pretty well overall, and it seems
like he's actually going to be back in the LEGUA
next season for the main club to Para, so that'll
be interesting. He also had seven points and eleven OHL
playoff games and three points in seven w World World
Junior Championship games, so interesting for him there. Overall, I
think that he's someone they don't have a really high
end prospect pool, and there aren't a whole other guys
in the system that kind of can fit this role.
So I think that's one thing that kind of works
in kar keys favor.
Speaker 2: And let's hear.
Speaker 3: A little bit more about what makes him an interesting
prospect from our Rachel scout.
Speaker 2: Who needs to what is this about kar Key skating average? However,
he needs to work on his footwork in terms of speed,
passing and handling, good hands, accurate passing ability, shooting Karki's
potential for offensive production at the pro level is high,
says Punit. Iq distinct understanding of the offensive zone consistently
operates low in the zone for extended periods, which allows
him to be more involved in the game and have
more of an impact for checking. Skating ability allows him
to move efficiently at the point and evade four checkers. Defense.
He struggles to defend the blue line, and compete level
is questioned frequently. He also needs significant improvement in retrieving
pucks at his own end, as he can be careless
with the puck, leading to turnovers. So the best asset
skilled and patient with the puck, often setting up teammates
with on point passes, including tape to tape ones. His
shot is also effective, and he has honed a strong
one timer shot. Biggest concern needs to improve his puck
movement out of his own end and put more effort
into gaining possession in the defensive zone and top tier
outcome may sound surprising, says Punit, but he's got the
potential to become a key difference maker. He's developed into
a reliable distributor who orchestrates the offense and controls the tempo.
Justification is because teams are always on the lookout for
offensive minded defenseman, which is exactly what he is. If
Theodore departs next offseason, Karki has the capability to mitigate
the loss of one of their top defensemen median outcome
based on the assessment above, he could get a top
four pairing with the potential to hit forty to fifty
points and definitely to run the power play. And the
early stylistic comparison that Punite gives is to shape theat
or so our friend Mason Black the NHL rankking his
poll was Wyatt Kaiser of the Chicago Blackhawks versus R
two car Key, and Wyatt Kaiser comes out ahead sixty
one point five to thirty eight point five. Victor Do
you agree.
Speaker 3: This is another one of those where you have someone
who is very likely to be an NHLer in Wya
Kaiser versus someone who has a little bit less likelihood
or probability. We've already seen Kaiser play a bunch of
NHL games, not a bunch. He's played thirty thirty two
this season nine last season. He was able to put
up some points at eighteen point pace. This past season
twenty seven in his first game in a smaller sample size,
so he's already getting an opportunity. He's already there. I'm
not sure that the upside is super huge, as Punite said.
The upside for KARKI I think is much higher. I
think if he hits and he can round out his
game and be trusted for more even strength minutes and
get that power play time, then certainly he can be
forty to fifty point guy. I think Kaiser is going
to settle into more of a depth defenseman kind of
role with that much power play time. So if you
want this a swing, go with Kaki. If you want
the security of guy who play pretty decent number of minutes,
and I think you go with White Kaiser. So I
personally would rather just take Khaki because that's a good
swing to take and if it works out, great, and
if not, you drop him. Kaiser He's going to be
more replacement level even if he hits, I think, so
I wouldn't be as excited about that. Looking at the
hockey prospecting between these two. Oh, I was gonna mention
one more thing. R two Khaki one of his comps
and the Mason Black model is Oli Yu Levy, the
Vancouver draft pick who busted out, So that would be
unfortunate if he ended up like that, but I think
there's a reasonable chance. Also another guy, Joey Kean who
didn't quite make it, So those are some guys that
he might end up like. Looking at the Hockey Prospecting Model,
both these guys pretty low percentage of being a star.
Kharki just eight percent trending up to sixty three percent
NHLer probability, and Kaiser has been in the five to
six percent range of being a star that his entire
career and that continued, it's pretty unlikely that there's going
to be a big, big improvement for him. Looking at
some other comps for Khaki in the Hockey Prospecting Model,
a lot of these guys are replacement level or just
guys that aren't super interesting. But the one who actually
did really do pretty well and obviously we all know,
is Thomas Shabbat. I don't know that it's terribly likely
that he ends up like Thomas Shabbat, but he is
someone who statistically looks similar in this model. There you go,
and the j Fresh model is pretty pessimistic on khark
Heat just two percent chance of being a star eighteen
percent chance of being an NHL or and yeah, that's
probably likely. I think there's a more star potential but
less similar pessimistic on the Injiler probability. Just have a
lot of things that needs to go right. So he's
someone that if you want to accept the volativity and
you want to be a little bit patient, he could
be pretty interesting when there's still some potential there. That's
it for our Vegas gool and Night's dig. If you're
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or email us.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back to close up the shows. A
couple of things to mention before we get out of
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fantasy hockey, the scoring, the salaries, the contracts, the rookie eligibility,
you can do so many things that you can't do
in other places. Fan tracks HQ also has fantasy content.
Be on the lookout. Articles about Fantasy Hockey are coming.
There's been a lot of work behind the scenes. FHL
has a whole team, and we thank our crew for
the help they've provided. Content curator Kevin Adams does an
amazing amount with our show prep. We have the tidy
leagues and that requires a whole team of commissions. It's
not just Victor and I anymore. There's just way too
much to keep track of. So we've got Tim, Simone,
Craftzer and Ryan and we're talking all day long. Sometimes
I'm getting messages. There's things we're working through. There's so
many bugs, and those guys are just doing yeoman's work.
Jeremy V's our lead scout. He is arranging for all
these scouting reports you hear in the Dynasty dig. Jason
helps with our prospect ranks. Brandon is our website guru.
Ever heard of the Fantasy Hockey light player cards, Well,
you should check out his work. He does those with Victor,
but he is the programming maestro. He's also a scout.
You hear some of his work in our Dynasty digs.
If you have skills you'd like to lend the show,
Victor would love to hear from you. Hit him up
in the discord, on email or on X. We're brought
to you by Daber Hockey and Dabber Prospects. Victors and
editor there. Follow us work there as well as this
other podcast, Abba Prospect Report with Peter Harlan. Victor also
writes for EP Ringside. He's part of the fantasy team
there with Cam Robinson, Mike Clifford and others. I do
a solo show, Dynasty Sports Life. I talk all the
different Dynasty sports. Sometimes you can even hear about multiple
sports in the same episode. This week, the episode that
last came out was about Dynasty Fantasy Basketball previewing a
couple of the divisions. We don't do one team by
one team on that thing. We are instead going to
just take a couple of divisions at a time and
that's just going to do it. So have a listen
to that if you're prepping for Dynasty Fantasy Basketball this year.
Follow Victor and myself on X at Victor Nuno twelve
at Fan Hockey Life and review us on Apple Pods, Spotify,
wherever else. You could do pods and until next time,
keep living that fantasy hockey life.