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

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your source of information and analysis to help you win

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Speaker 2: Block off hot a step hit on, stay lock.

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

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Speaker 2: Yessy Hockey Live back once again. Jesse Severe, Fan Tracks,

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and that guy over there, Yes, that one is Victor Nuno,

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a VP ring side. Victor. How you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Jesse. Super excited for the season. I

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almost be here, finished with most of the drafts and

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just can't wait to start watching some actual hockey, how

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about you.

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Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's right. It is for us dynasty players,

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draft season has been going on for many months. But

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I think for a lot of people listening to fantasy

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hockey podcasts right now, they're in the thick of draft season,

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redraft season. I know I've got one. I'm only in

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one redraft this year, I think, and that's going to

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be kicking off practically opening nights, So that's not too

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long after this episode, will are Yeah, Victor, and I

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know you're doing slow drafts right now for your redrafts.

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Speaker 3: Right indeed, you just help me with making some decisions

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on one of mine that I was struggling with. So

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it's nice to it's nice to be able to phone

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a friend. And yeah, slow drafts are fun. I do

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actually have one that's like the night before the season starts,

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so that'll be fun to wait till the very last minute.

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And that's just like a content creator one. It should

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be fun. Yeah, most of them are already done, but yeah,

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doing the slow drafts is always fun. I like when

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you on one and one in the kokup Fall. I'm

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actually drafting on the turn, which is a really interesting

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exercise because you wait forever and then you get two

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picks in a row. But I found that there's no

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point in setting a queue because the whole thing's gone

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by the time it gets back to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate I hate drafting on the I'd much

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rather pick in the middle. But I know a lot

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of people swear by the turn. I think you're just yeah, anyway,

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I could talk all day instead. I will invite you

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, we're gonna take a break, come back and

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talk Eastern Conference, just to catch you up on the

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catchup and the mustard. Here's what we're doing, folks. I

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hope you listened last week as we talked about the

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Western Conference, but if you didn't, what we're going to

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do now is go back to the very beginning of

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our thirty two team previews that started off in shoot

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may something like that, I feel like twenty twenty two

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or something that started. It's been a long time anyway,

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and we're going to give you a briefing on any

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changes that happened since our preview episode. That's the catch up.

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Then the mustard is our spice. See hot takes, Victor

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or myself, we're gonna alternate. Are gonna give two hot takes,

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and the other of us will decide which one of

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them they will be held to and at the end

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of the season we'll have fun with these again. So Victor,

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you got the first team, what do you got?

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Speaker 3: I do? I have the Boston Bruins. We talked about

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them on July thirtieth. Not a whole lot of news

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came out of them, but I guess it was news

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that I guess, no major signings. Tyler Johnson on a PTO.

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surgeries in the offseason, three different surgeries, and that was

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surprising to everyone. But it shouldn't be a big deal.

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It sounds like he's gonna be ready for the season,

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so he shouldn't miss any time. Case you're wondering about Marshan,

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that wasn't really where I was gonna go in terms

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of my hot take, but here they are. I'm gonna

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go with Charlie McAvoy and Elias Lennholm. These are two

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guys that I think are going to be essential to

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their success this year. McAvoy has been obviously a cornerstone

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of their team for for a while. Now he's getting paid.

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and he does a lot and even strength he isn't

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always the best in fantasy, but he's an excellent real

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life defender. When we talked to Fluto, they talked, He

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talked about how they really need him. They need more

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out of him, They need more scoring out of him,

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they need more of what he can bring and I

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think he can do it. So this past season, he

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had a good season, but it wasn't as good as

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it had been the previous two. So he had fifty

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two point pace previously sixty four and fifty nine, and

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I think he gets back to a seventy it gets

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up to a seventy point pace. I think he's going

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to get all the power play time. We know that

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he had a pretty low number of power play points

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for all of his time on ice, just thirteen and

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I think he could easily get back into twenty plus

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and with a little bit more variance in terms of

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his secondary assists, I think he can get there seventy

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point pace. Charlie McAvoy's number one. The second one is

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that Elias lin Holm. I know people are really big

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on alcelind Home and I do think he's going to

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be good. I do think he's a better player than

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pavl Zaka, who wasn't really a first line center, and

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I think is going to be slotted in a little

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bit better on the wing or potentially a second line.

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But I think people that think Linholm is just gonna

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bust out for what he did in his top years

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in Calgary. I think that's a little over index, so

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I think he's going to fail to pass a sixty

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five point pace. He's only passed a sixty five point

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pace a few times, and that was generally when he

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had elite wingers, and the rest of the time he

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was around a sixty foy point pace. He had sixty six,

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sixty nine, sixty three point paces and just a couple

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of other outliers that were above that. What do you think, Jesse,

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stock up on McAvoy or stock down on lindel Holme.

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Which way you're going to go?

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Speaker 2: Victor? My brain is tied in a knot right now.

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And here's what's happening to me. Philosophically. We have predictions

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of people who are going to we're predicting they're going

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to do better than something, and predictions where people are

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going to do worse than something. Am I a bad

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person if I go against a prediction of somebody doing better?

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And a worse person if I go for somebody doing work?

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Or is it better for me to the opposite of

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whatever you did? Because you're predicting the blow, and so

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when I do the blow, never mind victory. None of

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this makes any sense outside of my brain. But the

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point being, I am going to just I think the

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Elias Lindholm one is the more likely of the two.

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I don't know, even though they're paying him like he's

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of a lot of money, let's put it that way,

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I don't necessarily see that he's going to have the

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type of season like a sixty five point pace. So

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I will go against Charlie mcklvoy's seventy point pace. Everybody

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expects more from him, but he still has to hit it,

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and I don't know that is a sure thing. So

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I'm morally, I'm ethically I'm compromised because I'm going to

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go against Charlie mcklvoy's success. Victor.

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Speaker 3: All Right, I think we all understand where you're coming

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from from. Maybe we'll see. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Buffalo sabers, a few things happened since May when

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this came out. They signed UPL for a lot of

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money over five years. In fact, Ukapeca Lucanen is tied

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for the twentieth largest AAV with the second most remaining

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years for any goalie in the NHL, only Jake Ottinger

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and Spencer Knight have as many more years under contract

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as Uka Pecca Lucanan. Poor Devin Levi, what are we

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going to do with him? Signed? The Buffalo Sabers signed

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Kyle Klegg, Sam Lefferty, Jason Zucker, Nick Aube Kubel, James Raimer,

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Henri Joki Haryu, and they traded away Matthew Savoy for

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Brian McLeod. They traded for and then signed Beck Malenstein

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from the Washington Capitals. They drafted Consta Helenius and signed

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him to an entry level contract. They bought out Jeff Skinner,

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who Victor belize is going to score sixty goals as

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part of the ton Oilers this year. I'm pretty sure

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he promised his seventy goals from Jeff Skinner and signed

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it in his blood, So we're gonna see how that goes.

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But and then the Sabers lost Zemgis Gurginson's former All

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Stars zemguz Kurginson's Was he not? Was he not? The

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Latvian All Star they got voted in by the entire

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country of Latvia. Victor Olafson also gone. I think he's

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with the Knights now and Dustin Torkarski, And so what

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is my hot take here? I'm going to go with

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a couple of the young guys and do slightly different

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predictions with them. Yuri Coolidge, I'm going to say, get

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sixty NHL games this year. Jack Quinn, I'm gonna say,

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get sixty points this year. Victor I. We've been back

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and forth on Jack Quinn a little bit, and Coolidge,

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I don't know if he's going to be able to

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establish himself this year or not. That's why I thought

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sixty was maybe a reasonable number to consider aggressive. What

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do you think which of these two is the hotter

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thing to stick me with?

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Speaker 3: I don't actually think that, but the Quinn take is

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hot at all. I think he's pretty good player, and

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he's actually he was on a pretty good pace before

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he was injured. Yeah, he I think that one is

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pretty likely. I think Jack Quinn is pretty much assured

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a middle a top six spot there, so I think

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that one's a little bit more likely. Maybe some people

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don't agree with that, but he was on a fifty

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eight point pace last season. I know you're saying sixty

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points he'd have to actually play, but I think that's

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a little bit more reasonable, sou and he can stay healthy,

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which he played seventy five games his first season, had

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a forty point pace. I think that one was more likely. Kolick.

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I love Yery Kulick. I don't understand why they haven't

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played him more, because he has just dominated the AHL

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and it seems like he should be good enough to

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play in the NHL. But they haven't given him a

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lot of opportunity to do that, so that seems a

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little less likely for whatever reason. So I'm gonna go

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with that one, even though I think both of these

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certainly could have happened. But I'll go with the kolick

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sixty games. Let's go on to the next one. Detroit

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Red Wings. We talked about them in early August. No

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major changes since then except for the signings of Raymond

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Cider and to a lesser degree, Bergran. I know they

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wanted to bring both those guys in less than Dylan Larkin,

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which they did just a little bit less for each

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of them. The hot takes I have are going to

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be between Lucas, Raymond, and the goalies. If you remember,

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they have too many goalies. They have whoso they have,

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but Talbot I'm doing this for memory, Jesse, but there

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are too many to recall Campbell and Lion I believe right,

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that's too many. That's too many. So who all is

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going to play? I think that they're all going to

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who emerges. I think they wanted to be Who's so

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he's the one that's getting paid the most money, but

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to be interesting to see. So one of the takes

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is that no Red Wing goalie gets more than thirty

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five starts. You might think that one's too easy because

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that seems unlikely that someone who played someone probably will,

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but we just don't know who. Lucas Raymond is. The

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other one has the highest point pace on the Red

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Wings is the other take that should be close. He

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and Larkin will probably be close. I think that there

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may be someone like Patty Kane could rediscover his glory

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days and give them a run for their money. Last season,

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in case you were wondering, Larkin had a bit more.

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He had sixty nine points in sixty eight games, so

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just over point per game. Kane was pretty close to

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point per game two with forty seven and fifty Raymond

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had seventy two and eighty two. But if you just

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look at the last month of the season, it was

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really Raymond that was driving the bus on all that.

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He was just scoring at will the last few weeks

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of the season. So if that continues, then Raymond could

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help Jesse. Which one are you sticking with.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you the Raymond one. It is close,

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but I think it's very reasonable to think there's gonna

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be no goalie getting a ton of the starts there.

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I do agree there is just too crowded there. And

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while you could say somebody's gonna end up taking that

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net and by December it'll be a little more settled,

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I would agree with your take on that, and Lucas Raymond,

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there's a few other guys who could push him out

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of that highest point pace. You got Larkin, you've got

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to brink it. You've got Patrick Kane. I think there

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are a couple of reasonable ways, a couple of reasonable

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scenarios where he doesn't end up there. So I'm gonna

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say that's the hotter of the two takes. Florida Panthers

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not anything to catch up on because we just did

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it a few days ago, and so I'm gonna give

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two potential hot takes, and it's again, it's hard with

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the Panthers because I think they're a well known commodity.

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But I'm gonna give Matt Kichuck a career high in points.

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I thought that was going to be a less hot

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take until I looked at the actual number of points

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that he's had a year in his career, one hundred

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and ten. It was what it would take for him

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to have a career hind points. But I think it's

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achievable for Maddi Kuchuk, hopefully not after he's gassed from

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a long summer of playing hockey. And then I'm gonna

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say the other hot take, Spencer Knight gets himself thirty

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two regular season starts, so that would be a little

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bit more like Bob in his advanced age, and after

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that long summery played, maybe slips under fifty regular season starts.

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So Matt Kichuk one hundred and ten points, Spencer Knight's

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thirty two regular season starts victor. Which one are you

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going to attribute to me?

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Speaker 3: This is good because I don't think either of these

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are going to happen, So I appreciate it when you

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do this for me.

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Speaker 2: Get easy.

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Speaker 3: Not that I don't think Kachuk can, because he's clearly

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talented enough, but I think you saw a different Kuchuk

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last season. He basically just wanted to play stronger all

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around hockey that helps the team win, and not as

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much and before I think he was trying a little

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bit harder to score a lot of points. He still

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went well over a point per game, but one hundred

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and ten is a lot. He had what is what

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was that he had one point one points per game,

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so that was a close to ninety. I think that's

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a big ass to get up to that one hundred

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and ten point pace, which I again I think he

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can do, but it's just it's a bit, it's a

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bit a lot night starting thirty two games. I think

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they really want Knight to start at thirty two games.

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That's the thing. He should be in the NHL. He

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should sounds like he's over a lot of those things.

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I know that Bob played a lot of hockey, and

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they're gonna want to really see what they have in Night.

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I mean, they did invest in him. They haven't really

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gotten much back from their investments so far in him,

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and I think that they really want to, you know,

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see what he can do. Is are is he really

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the starter of the future? As Bob sundowns a little bit,

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He's thirty six years old, Spencer Night thirty twenty three,

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so I think they really want to transition to Night.

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So I think that one's a little bit more likely.

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So I'm going to give you the Maddie could chuck one,

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just because I think he's playing a different type of

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hockey that's more to win games and less to score

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a bunch of points. Even though I think it very

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much well could happen, but I'm not sure that either

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super likely, just because Knight hasn't ever done that, and

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even though they might want him to, he might struggle

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or get injured or who knows. My next team is

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the Montreal Canadians. So the catch up. A few things happened.

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Patrick Lane got traded to Montreal. That was a big deal,

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and two more years at eight point seven million is

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a lot in a cap league. I know some people

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are losing their mind over how many goals he's going

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to score. I'm pretty skeptical about that. I know Line can,

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but I also have seen him really struggle at times,

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and you know, his brand of hockey is one that

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is sometimes disinterested in some of the all around play,

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and I just wonder how that's going to fit in

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when he wants to.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 3: He certainly can score a lot of goals, and he's

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just been through a lot personally, so hopefully it all

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works out for him and he turns the corner and

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then does really well. They're in Montreal, but I also

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think that team is still a bit of ways from

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being a contender and having enough goals to go around.

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I also don't know that I love his center options.

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I don't think he's going to play with Suzuki, and

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so who's it going to be with the Worak or

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Kirby Doc. I feel like Lane is someone who needs

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a cenator to do a lot of work for him,

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and I'm not sure he's gonna have that. Soefkowski signed

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a big contract seven point six million times eight years.

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I think he should have a monster season. Really broke

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out last year, that's a great one, and then it

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seemed like they were going to be thin on defense

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and maybe they'd have Hudson playing, although he seems like

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he may make the team. It also seemed like they

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might have some other a young d break in, but

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then they signed Jacky, Goolei and Baron, so it seems

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like they'll be back with a pretty standard crew from

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last year. Maybe Hudson makes the team. Who knows. I'm

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I'm gonna do my hot take on Patrick Line and

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Cole Cawfield though I know that Line has the potential

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to score a lot, but he has really failed to

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meet expectations on a couple different occasions. Forty one point

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pace last season, forty three point pace in that split

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season between Winnipeg and Columbus. A lot of unknowns, but

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I'm gonna say he fails to clear a sixty sixty

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total points is what I'm saying for lin A. And

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that does factor in potentially missing time and all that

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because he has only he played. Early in his career,

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he was pretty regularly hitting almost all his games played

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seventy three, eighty two, eighty two, but then the last

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six seasons he's the most he's played is sixty eight

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and then aside from that, it was fifty six, so

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he's really struggled to hit all those games played. The

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other one is a little bit more optimistic, and that

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is Cole Cawfield. I think Caufield is on the other trajectory.

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I think he's on the trajectory up. And he's scored

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twenty three, twenty six, twenty eight goals the last few seasons,

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and a couple of those was in limited action. So

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the twenty eight goal season was actually in the most

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games played. The other two were much far fewer games played.

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So I'm gonna say Cole Coffield clears a thirty five

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goal pace this season. So, Jesse, which one of those

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do you like?

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Speaker 1: For me?

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Speaker 2: Nice, I love Cole cow Field finally getting there. I

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feel like I've had so many bullish predictions on Cole

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cow Field, and he's quiet, he's down low, doing it

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when he can stay healthy. But I am going to

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say that, boy, that's hard. I will say line A

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surpasses sixty points. Your scenario is extremely realistic that he's

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going to have these problems. I'm just going to say,

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my goodness, that talent has to figure out a way

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to play in Montreal. So I will say that it

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is taught for him to not get to sixty points.

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But really either of these are extremely realistic. They're good,

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good picks because certainly the XPEC, I think the general

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expectations the line he's going to surpass that will I

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will go with that one. Ottawa Senators did a lot

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of business later in the year. Traded Jonas Corposalo for

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Lenis Ulmark, traded Jacob Chickeran for Nick Jensen. They traded

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away Matthew Joseph. They signed David Pern, Michael Imadio, signed

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Klein Addison, Nick Cousins, and re signed Matt Sogard. They

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signed Noah Gregor, drafted and signed Carteri Kempchuk. They traded

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Yob Jarventi for Xavier Borgo and Jake Chiasson. And they

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achieved peace in our time with Shane Pinto. Bless it all,

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and here are my hot takes. First, the Senators have

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their first one hundred point scorer since Danny Heatley in

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two thousand and six, two thousand and seven. I think

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there are several candidates. One of them is going to

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do it. We're going to have one hundred point scorer

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in Ottawa and The second is that Brady Kachuck not

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only leads all the senators and hits, but he does

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it by at least one hundred and thirty hits. I

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looked at last year's numbers. That would be a bit more,

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I believe than last year, but not completely as outlined

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dish as it might sound on its face. So, Victor,

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which one of these two do you think ought to

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count against me?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one. One hundred point pay that's

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a lot. Yeah, that's definitely. It's always hard when you

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pick these like bash numbers, because I would have to

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look at them all. It's hard to know exactly, So

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I don't know if you're just trying to pull the

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wool over on me, Jesse, or whether this is actually spicy.

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Speaker 2: I'm too slick, Victor, I am too slick. You're never

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gonna catch me.

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Speaker 3: That must be true. Yeah, the Yeah, there's a lot

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of good there's some good options here. I think no

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one has been particularly close to that one hundred point

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Pacer Stutes could bounce back. You could see Kuchuk doing it,

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but I think Kuchuk is just more of that seventy

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to eighty point guy with lots of Bash, So I

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think that's funk. I think for all those guys that's

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a little unlikely. Feel like betting against the hits is

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a bad idea though, because he could always just get

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on a main streak and put up ten hit games.

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He's done that before. So I'm gonna go with one

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hundred point pace. No, one hundred point pace, guy, That's

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what I'm gonna do, all right, And let's go with

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the next team for me, that's the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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We talked about them in early August. No major changes

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from them, but there were changes on the show that

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we talked about, namely bringing in Jake Gonseil. Obviously they

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lost Sergachev, and that's where my two takes are going

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to center around. One of them being that Jake Gentzil

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finishes second in total points on the Lightning and is

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over a ninety one point pace. That would put him

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at the second highest pace of his career, and that's

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a pretty high number because he hasn't last year he

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had Kutrov had one hundred and forty four point pace

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on a forty six point pace. Then we had point

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at ninety one stampcost who's gone now at eighty four

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Edmond at eighty, so it seems unlikely that he's going

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to catch Coach. I don't know who could, but passing

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point would be a challenge. Obviously, he'd have to really

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cook on the power play, which I think he can.

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I totally think he can, but that might be a

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little rich for some people. So that's the first one

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with Denzil. I do really like I'm super high and

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I think he could have one of the best seasons

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of his career. I think it's a great situation he's

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going in. He did have a ninety four point pace

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last season. He has had ninety one and ninety point

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paces previously, so I'm saying over a ninety one point

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pace so second best and would be pretty high for him.

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The other one goes to headman, and that is that

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Victor Hedman puts up a point per game pace again,

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which he has done, but their context of the team

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around him is a little bit worse. I think potentially

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they've lost some key contributors since he did that. Again.

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He hasn't put up a point per game pay since

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twenty one twenty two last season. He was at an

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00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,559
eighty point pace this season in between though he was

475
00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:15,319
at fifty three and he's basically been in the sixties

476
00:24:15,319 --> 00:24:17,359
for many of the seasons before that, so point per

477
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,759
game pace would be a big bump up. I do

478
00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:22,680
think he gets indexed up because of not having Sergachev.

479
00:24:23,279 --> 00:24:24,680
So what do you think, Jesse, You're going to take

480
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,319
the Gensil one or the Cergchev or the headman.

481
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 2: I am going to give you the I'm gonna stick

482
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:39,000
you with the Ginsel. Victor. Gensel has been excellent over

483
00:24:39,039 --> 00:24:42,720
the years, but I think going to Tampa, we just

484
00:24:42,759 --> 00:24:44,920
can't assume that he's going to keep up the same

485
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,079
magic that he's always been able to show in Pittsburgh.

486
00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:51,400
He's not been a passenger by any means, but second

487
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,920
and total points on the Lightning is a pretty high

488
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,920
bar to clear. I think probably bradon point would finish

489
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,839
over him. That is what I'd be counted on there,

490
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,200
because presumably kouchure Off would be first on the team

491
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,359
end points. Victor of the Toronto Maple Leafs, we are

492
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,920
to them again. They recovered them fairly recently. They traded

493
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,559
for They signed Chris Tannef, who a six year deal.

494
00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:19,200
They signed Oel Yannie HOCKINPA and Anthony Stolars, who you

495
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,960
were telling me earlier some are projecting to lead the

496
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,000
team in goalie starts, which is wild to me. Tyler

497
00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:27,480
Bertuzzi left them in free agency and they just signed

498
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,640
Max Patch. You're ready to a tryout who we just

499
00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:32,839
very recently talked about on The Capitol's episode of could

500
00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:34,799
he possibly return to be Capital?

501
00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 3: Again?

502
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 2: My hot take, my spicy mustard here once again, no

503
00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:43,359
goalie starts the majority of the games into the Toronto

504
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:48,559
regular season. So I'm saying neither still Lars nor Wall.

505
00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:53,000
And I think if you ask me what I think

506
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,920
is going to happen when I think is most likely,

507
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,160
I would say it was wal Joseph Wall will have

508
00:25:57,279 --> 00:25:59,680
the majority of the starts. But I think it's a

509
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,240
little more. It is a reasonably within spicy arrange thing

510
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,519
to say that no goalie is going to start the

511
00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:12,319
majority of the starts, and then Matthew Nees outscores one

512
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,759
of the corps for five on this team, breaks into

513
00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:19,279
the top five in scoring on the Toronto Maple Leafs.

514
00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:21,319
He's finally going to come into his own this year

515
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,119
and pay off that talent. There's certainly some pretty pretty

516
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,960
talented offensive guys. He would have to surpass to get

517
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,599
that high, but I think maybe it could happen. So, Victor,

518
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,759
which one of those two do you think? I think

519
00:26:34,839 --> 00:26:37,960
I know which one you're gonna make me do, But

520
00:26:38,079 --> 00:26:38,960
go ahead and tell me.

521
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 3: I was wondering why you were talking about the Unicorn

522
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,960
of the sea the Narwal, but then it hit me

523
00:26:46,079 --> 00:26:50,000
you were talking about no Wall. I think both of

524
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,119
these are pretty unlikely. Nice is a good all around player,

525
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:55,720
but I don't know he's going to score that much.

526
00:26:56,599 --> 00:26:59,440
I really don't want the first one to be true

527
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,559
because I just drafted Joseph Wall in the Cup Fule.

528
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,440
That's who I decided on, and I want him to

529
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,400
play a lot and score a lot. I'm gonna go

530
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,359
with the nis one outscoring one of the top five.

531
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,599
I think that it's possible, but unlikely.

532
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 2: And this closure. I consulted with Victor on the Wall pick,

533
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,880
and I'm saying, I think the while getting the majority

534
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,240
that starts. That is what I am believing in a way.

535
00:27:28,599 --> 00:27:31,599
But the hot take is nobody gets the majority. All right,

536
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,839
let's take a break, come back one board division to go.

537
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 3: This lead two excellence more serious injury.

538
00:27:49,039 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 2: When back for the Metropolitan Division victory. You have the

539
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,759
first team up for discussion.

540
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,559
Speaker 3: I sure do. That's the Carolina Hurricanes, which we talked

541
00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:01,519
about at the end of July. No major updates on

542
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,599
them since, and there's some interesting things going on. I

543
00:28:05,599 --> 00:28:09,160
think that one of the interesting storylines to me is

544
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,839
that one or more of their rookies could make the team.

545
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,039
We were just I was just following some of the

546
00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:17,759
Beat writers talking about Felix Hungersorm who we've talked about,

547
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,440
Jackson Blake, who we've talked about, both looking really good.

548
00:28:20,519 --> 00:28:25,200
But I'm Bradley Nadeau man, and I really want him

549
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,640
to be the guy. I think he's the guy who

550
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,839
people have talked about being able to make the team,

551
00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:34,279
and I'm excited for him. I think he can do it.

552
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,119
I'm going to say Bradley Nadeau makes the team, plays

553
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,759
twenty NHL games, and scores ten goals, which I wanted

554
00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:42,519
to be more optimistic than that, but I think that's

555
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:45,319
already pretty spicy, considering he's only played one NHL game

556
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,799
and probably spends most of not all, the season in

557
00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:51,519
the AHL. So that's one of them. The other one

558
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:56,599
is Andre Swechnikoff, and I think I'm done predicting that

559
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,240
Andres Spechnikoff can do more than what we've seen him

560
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,920
do unless Rod Brandomore is not the coach there. I

561
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,720
don't know that he can score over a seventy five

562
00:29:04,759 --> 00:29:08,680
point pace. We've seen him score just under, We've seen

563
00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:11,559
him score way under, and it doesn't seem to matter

564
00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:13,480
if he gets more time on ice, power play time,

565
00:29:13,559 --> 00:29:15,519
all of that hasn't really seemed to move the needle

566
00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:17,519
too much. So I'm gonna say, Andre, if special Cough

567
00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:21,119
once again fails to go over seventy five point pace, Jesse,

568
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,799
I think I know which one you're gonna pick.

569
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,319
Speaker 2: Oh, Victor, it's a hater prediction, a hater addiction that

570
00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:30,279
you've got on under his Fetchnikoff, and I won't stand

571
00:29:30,319 --> 00:29:34,839
for it. My guy is I'm I think he'll surpass

572
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,359
that once again. Bradley Nidau, he was definitely in our

573
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,839
common in the Diesel four Sport League. He was available

574
00:29:42,119 --> 00:29:45,319
in the rookie draft this year, and I thought I

575
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,000
was going to be all sneaky and taking when he

576
00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:51,480
fell to me and dangle Empire, Evil Empire. Dave snatched

577
00:29:51,519 --> 00:29:53,640
him right up in front of us, so that was no,

578
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,480
that was no possibility. But I think Bradley Nadeau scoring

579
00:29:57,519 --> 00:29:59,640
ten goals this year, I don't see it happening. So

580
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,119
I'm go to give you that one, Victor. I figured

581
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,240
onto the Columbus Blue Jackets to catch up. I you know,

582
00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:10,599
Johnny Gudroau, what is there to say there. I don't

583
00:30:10,599 --> 00:30:14,119
believe we've actually recorded since that all went down, And

584
00:30:14,119 --> 00:30:17,559
of course our thoughts are with the Control family. Crazy

585
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:22,920
times out there in Philadelphia, the back into reality. The

586
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:25,680
Blue Jackets traded Patrick Cline we just talked about him

587
00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:29,799
for Jordan Harris. They drafted Caden Lindstrom, they re signed

588
00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:32,839
all the kids, a bunch of young players re signed

589
00:30:32,839 --> 00:30:37,000
and extended for Columbus, and they signed James Van Riemsdyke.

590
00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:39,799
For some reason, things are looking rough in Columbus. They're

591
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,759
they're reveilt has been set back, but they do have

592
00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:46,440
a lot of young talented players. The hot take on

593
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,680
our episode where we were talking about Columbus, our guests

594
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,759
said Cole Cillinger was up for a good year and

595
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,640
I'm going to hot take him all the way into

596
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,880
top five and forward power play time on ice. That

597
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,480
be pretty hot. But if he started to take a

598
00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:05,880
significant offensive role. I think that would be achievable. And

599
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,319
then my other hot take, Boone Jenner leads the team

600
00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:11,119
in points. That's not as hot as you think, especially

601
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:13,920
with Patrick Lione and some of these other guys.

602
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: Gone.

603
00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 2: Jenner has been there in that type of conversation before.

604
00:31:20,079 --> 00:31:22,480
Not somebody usually think of his team's leading scorer, though,

605
00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:26,160
So Cole Cylinger top five forward, power play talman ice

606
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,759
or Boone Jenner leading the team in points victor.

607
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 3: Another good one, since I don't think either are terribly likely.

608
00:31:32,319 --> 00:31:36,599
So I like that. Whatever happened to Cole Senator Cylinder,

609
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,160
such a strange story. He was made the team played

610
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,240
a bunch of minutes right off the bat as a

611
00:31:42,359 --> 00:31:45,160
D plus one and then and then just sunk back

612
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,599
into oblivion, barely scoring eleven points in sixty four games.

613
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,400
It was so confusing. He got a little bit back

614
00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:53,000
last year to where he needed to be. His ice

615
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:56,480
time came up to sixteen minutes, so I could see

616
00:31:56,559 --> 00:31:59,000
where that's coming from. I still am not sure that

617
00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:02,240
he can get that time on ice. Did you say

618
00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:05,599
for forwards? You did? Okay, so that makes a little

619
00:32:05,599 --> 00:32:07,920
bit more sense. Yeah, I think that's still gonna be

620
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,079
a bit tough. They have so many new players that

621
00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:13,240
makes it a little bit harder to track. We'll have

622
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:15,319
to see. I think that one's a little bit more likely,

623
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,279
just because he's been there longer and has a little

624
00:32:18,279 --> 00:32:20,920
bit more leash in bandwidth than some of the new

625
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,079
guys who are there. Boone Jenner leading the team in

626
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,720
points certainly seems like it could happen. I don't know

627
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:31,920
that it should happen, obviously, with some other players who

628
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,039
aren't there anymore. I think both of these are unlikely,

629
00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:38,920
but they could happen. So I'm gonna say the Boone

630
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,960
Jenner one is a little less likely, just because I

631
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,440
think some other people with their power play points and

632
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:48,279
their progression from previous years, might be able to pass him.

633
00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:50,759
So we'll go with that one. But I don't really

634
00:32:50,759 --> 00:32:53,960
feel great about either of them, so I guess that's

635
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,880
decent Jesse. Let's move over to the New Jersey Devils.

636
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,880
I love how we found doubt about the Luke Hughes injury.

637
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,079
Just spotted on the sideline of a Michigan football game

638
00:33:05,319 --> 00:33:08,480
in a sling and everybody lost their mind, Like, what's

639
00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:10,480
going on with Luke? Cues and then the Devils were like,

640
00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:12,759
oh yeah, basically we were going to tell you about that,

641
00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:15,599
but I guess we'll just tell you now. He's going

642
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,359
to miss the first month of the season or so

643
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,720
offseason training. Got to be careful with that. Apparently, that's the.

644
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,759
Speaker 2: Same thing could be said about the Michigan team. He

645
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:25,839
was on the sidelines for.

646
00:33:27,079 --> 00:33:29,839
Speaker 3: Not as good of a season as last season. So

647
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,640
let's talk about the hot takes. It's going to involve

648
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,799
Luke Hughes. But I think Dougie Hamilton scores the most

649
00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:39,160
points of any double defender, and part of that is

650
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,079
baked into this the fact that Hughes is going to

651
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,880
miss a little bit of time. But I also think

652
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:50,480
that Hamilton has a lot to prove. He basically missed

653
00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:53,960
almost He missed so much of last season with that

654
00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:58,920
terrible injury that was really difficult. Twenty games and Hughes

655
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,759
that really helps you in terms of playing more and

656
00:34:01,799 --> 00:34:05,000
getting his feet under him. But also he didn't he

657
00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:08,199
was out there without as much help. And Hamilton is

658
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,239
a really strong, even strength defender, so I think that

659
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,039
that's going to really help him. I think the Devils

660
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:17,800
look better overall. I think Meyer was injured last season

661
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,960
and didn't want to talk about it. So I think

662
00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:21,960
you know him and healthy Hughes and he's share and

663
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,800
Brad everybody. I think they're going to score a lot

664
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,679
of goals, and I think that Hamilton's going to be

665
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:28,360
out there for a lot of the even strength stuff

666
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,320
and probably even the power play. So I think he's

667
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,079
gonna score more points than Hughes, which might be a

668
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:36,960
little hot. He did have a forty seven point He

669
00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:38,840
was at a forty seven point paints last year, and

670
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,639
I do think he's probably going to get back on

671
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,360
the power play, and so that's probably a bit spicy

672
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,400
because it's going to be harder for Hamilton to pass

673
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,880
him if Hughes is on the power play with his brother.

674
00:34:48,599 --> 00:34:51,719
The other one revolves teamer Meyer, and I just really

675
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:54,280
don't believe that Timo Meyer is as bad as he

676
00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:58,760
showed so far in New Jersey. I think that he's

677
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,400
been injured, he also had hasn't been given all the

678
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,760
best deployment, but he and I know that maybe he

679
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,719
was a little over index in that last season in

680
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,440
San Jose, being a point at a point per game,

681
00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:13,679
But I think he's better than a sixty point pace

682
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,039
is what he had last season, So I think he's

683
00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:19,039
going to be above seventy five point pace. Above seventy

684
00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:22,039
five would be his second best statistical pace season, and

685
00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:24,519
I think he can get there. Christy talked about on

686
00:35:24,519 --> 00:35:26,840
the show he was dealing with some injuries. It was

687
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,360
also when Hughes was out. It was he was ended

688
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,199
up playing third line with was it no sick or somebody?

689
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,599
I think Hughes. I think Meyer is going to be

690
00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:37,880
much better, and I think he cleared the seventy five

691
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,400
point pace. So which one do you want to hold? Me?

692
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:39,559
Speaker 1: Too?

693
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:45,159
Speaker 2: Very interesting? I am a huge Doug Eat defender, so

694
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,079
despite the arrival of Luke Hughes in his early success,

695
00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:53,239
I am too sympathetic with the idea that he will

696
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,800
score the most points of any double defender to go

697
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,840
against that one. So I'm going to give you the

698
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,119
tiamo Meyer. I agree it seems like he should be

699
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:05,760
better than he has been, but I don't know. I

700
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,800
guess I'm going to make you stick with that one.

701
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,039
It's not impossible. It's a good it's a good hot

702
00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,760
take because it would be nice to see him get

703
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,320
back in that range, and it's possible but I think

704
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,800
the smart money right now is on he won't, So

705
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,639
that's why he has to be your hot take. New

706
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,280
York Islanders. We're gonna get the catch up there, Yo,

707
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,280
Yas rokn had some surgery. Apparently he's gonna be all right.

708
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,119
Maxim Ziplikoff is over here from Russia. Anthony Declara, Mike

709
00:36:33,199 --> 00:36:36,320
Riley signed for the team. The Cole. The Ales drafted

710
00:36:36,519 --> 00:36:43,199
the famous and controversial Cole Isserman, and alliterative obliterators Matt

711
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,800
Martin and Cal Clutterbuck are mostly gone. It sounds like

712
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,039
Clutterbuck might be on some kind of a tryout contract.

713
00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:54,559
Casey suzekis unaffected by the change, and the hot take.

714
00:36:54,599 --> 00:36:58,639
The mustard is Noah Dobson point per game, two hundred block,

715
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,920
one hundred hit season upcoming. The second one is Maxim

716
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:08,079
Ziplokoff fifty five points come in and just Breadmandon all

717
00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:10,559
over at the NHL victor. Which one of those you

718
00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:11,639
think is the hotter?

719
00:37:12,559 --> 00:37:15,639
Speaker 3: I definitely think that simple Coff is the hotter of

720
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:19,239
the two. I think that we just don't know. We

721
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,159
have no idea what he's going to do. We saw

722
00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:25,159
a huge season from Dobson. I certainly think it's possible

723
00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:28,400
we see some regression from him. We saw a lot

724
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,760
of that under the previous coach, and is that all

725
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,199
going to continue now with why? We don't really know.

726
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,639
I think Dobson has all the talent in the world,

727
00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:40,400
and I think he can get there. He wasn't that

728
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:43,440
far off. It would be a step up though in

729
00:37:43,519 --> 00:37:47,039
terms of the blocks, and that would be a bit tough.

730
00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:49,000
But I think that they need him to be They

731
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,679
need him to do everything, and hopefully while sees that,

732
00:37:52,199 --> 00:37:55,320
I'm gonna take simplicoff at fifty five, just because we

733
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,119
have no idea what he's going to do, and it's

734
00:37:57,159 --> 00:38:00,559
possible that he just does nothing, ends up going back

735
00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:03,159
to the KHL or goes to the AHL, or just

736
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,519
gets benched or whatever. That one seems like the more

737
00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:10,039
likely win for me. So I'll older that one New

738
00:38:10,119 --> 00:38:13,000
York Rangers is the next team. And the Rangers we

739
00:38:13,039 --> 00:38:16,639
talked about early September and just a couple of weeks ago,

740
00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:21,159
not much as not really anything has changed, so we'll

741
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,320
do the hot takes just from them. I'm really excited

742
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:30,239
about Vincent Trocheck this year. I'm really excited about a

743
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,639
lot of the top line forwards here. I think paneren

744
00:38:33,559 --> 00:38:35,519
is going to have another great season, maybe not score

745
00:38:35,599 --> 00:38:37,519
quite as many goals as he did. I do think

746
00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:40,599
that Lafrenier is going to continue to break out and

747
00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:44,159
be good. But I'm gonna say that Vincent Trocheck has

748
00:38:44,159 --> 00:38:48,000
more points than Lafrenier, which he certainly did last year,

749
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,599
and this would be a big step up for Lafrenier

750
00:38:51,679 --> 00:38:54,519
to be able to pass him. And we've also talked

751
00:38:54,519 --> 00:38:57,800
about Trocheck kind of having that one up, one down

752
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,599
kind of season and bouncing back and forth. Last season,

753
00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:04,760
he had a twenty point twenty twenty point pace better

754
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,320
than Lafarnier, and a lot of people are predicting that

755
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,239
Lafnier is really going to step up this year. But

756
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,920
I think Vinni t is the man. He's going to

757
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,880
continue to be in that seventy five point range, and

758
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,800
I think it's going to take a lot for Lafarnier

759
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,360
to get there, so I'm gonna say that for him.

760
00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:25,400
I wanted to say something about Panarin regressing. I don't

761
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,119
think he's going to score forty five goals again, but

762
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,079
instead I went with a positive thing in ca Andre Miller.

763
00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:34,400
I think Caandre Miller is such an awesome defenseman, and

764
00:39:34,679 --> 00:39:38,639
he did have a forty five point pace last season,

765
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,440
sorry the previous season, but he progressed hard this year

766
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,199
and there are some other options there. So I'm gonna

767
00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:47,360
just say that he gets back to a forty point pace.

768
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,119
So Jesse, that one's maybe not as spicy. Which one

769
00:39:50,119 --> 00:39:50,840
are you going to give me?

770
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the ca Andre Miller. I

771
00:39:55,599 --> 00:39:58,199
like ca Andre Miller, but I think Vencent Trochick very

772
00:39:58,639 --> 00:40:01,679
I think you will have a better than Alexis Lafrenier.

773
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,760
I think he's shown us that in the past, despite

774
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,760
the improvement of the former number one overall pick. So

775
00:40:08,159 --> 00:40:10,639
I will say that cay Andry Miller has himself a

776
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,719
very nice season, but doesn't quite make it to a

777
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:17,280
forty point pace. Is the thing I would I would

778
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,480
like to predict, or I would like to make you

779
00:40:19,559 --> 00:40:24,000
predict that he'll have the forty point pace rather. Philadelphia

780
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,400
Flyers a lot of catching up to do there, Matt

781
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,960
Vay mitchkopp Is comment is the biggest news for the

782
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,440
Flyers that happened since our show. Travis Connectney signed a

783
00:40:33,559 --> 00:40:37,920
huge extension eight years, seventy million dollars they drafted Jet

784
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,639
Luchenko and then things got nutty. Ryan Johansson was basically fired.

785
00:40:43,159 --> 00:40:45,199
There's gonna be some kind of grievance to decide how

786
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,119
much money he gets out of that. But he's gone

787
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,280
and Cam Atkinson was bought out. So the forwards on

788
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,599
this team are dropping like flies, those long timers, and

789
00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:59,119
Carter Hart is officially gone at those point again, another

790
00:40:59,119 --> 00:41:01,719
guy who was caught up in the Hockey Canada stuff.

791
00:41:02,599 --> 00:41:06,360
My hot takes your Victor Drysdale. I'm going to have

792
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,960
fifty four point Jamie Drysdale and I'm going to have

793
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,519
fifty four start Yvonne fetetav Which one of those two

794
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,280
do you think is going to be the hotter take?

795
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 3: I like it. I think neither is going to happen.

796
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:25,920
I like that, but they both could happen certainly, and

797
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,599
I like that as well. Good job on hitting that

798
00:41:28,639 --> 00:41:31,480
sweet spot. Yeah, dry Stale is such a big unknown, right.

799
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,000
I know a lot of people are super high on

800
00:41:33,079 --> 00:41:35,280
him and they just keep saying, Oh, it's going to

801
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,800
be him. We also said the same thing about Cam

802
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,079
York and it definitely wasn't him all season. They just

803
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,719
rotated around. I know that it should be Drysdale. I

804
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,840
know that it makes a lot of sense is he

805
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,719
does have that pedigree, but he also had a hard

806
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,559
time staying healthy and he certainly has to learn the system.

807
00:41:53,559 --> 00:41:55,840
He didn't have that many games with the new club

808
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,719
when he came over, so that's a bit of an issue.

809
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,039
I think he's gonna have some adjustment times, and I'm

810
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:04,199
just not sure that he gets there, and I'm not

811
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,360
sure that spot is guaranteed his. I think it might

812
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,039
be Yorks. They've also liked to rotate other defensemen on there,

813
00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:12,840
like Zamula, but they also had sign him up there.

814
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,679
I just don't think that they're going to hand it

815
00:42:14,679 --> 00:42:18,079
to him and say, you know, score a bunch, so

816
00:42:18,199 --> 00:42:20,519
that one seems unlikely. Also, Fedotov I think is the

817
00:42:20,559 --> 00:42:24,039
better goalie, but they seem pretty committed to Erson, and

818
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:26,039
so that's the one that I think. I'm probably gonna

819
00:42:26,039 --> 00:42:28,679
hold you too, just because they seem to like Ersen

820
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,440
a heck of a lot. And even though I want

821
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,840
to see Fido tav in more games and I think

822
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,880
he's the better goalie, goalies are just more wild and unknown,

823
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:39,840
So we'll hold you to that one.

824
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,199
Speaker 2: He's minus Victor and I think he'll end up winning Fedotov.

825
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,400
He's just too big. He'll scare towards That's what's gonna happen.

826
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,119
Speaker 3: There you go. My last one is the Pittsburgh Penguins.

827
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,840
We just talked about them very end of August and

828
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,559
nothing much has happened since then. So the hot takes

829
00:42:59,599 --> 00:43:04,320
are gonna surround Michael Bunting and Eric Carlson. So Bunting,

830
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,159
he came over and looked really good last season in

831
00:43:09,159 --> 00:43:11,079
his limited time. That was part of the return for

832
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,199
Jake Gunsel. And he's a really strong player. We've seen

833
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,400
him do really well with top players before. He knows

834
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,320
how to do that. He knows how to play with

835
00:43:19,519 --> 00:43:21,480
really good players, and so I think he can do

836
00:43:21,519 --> 00:43:25,639
that again. He certainly seems like he has pretty much

837
00:43:26,599 --> 00:43:30,719
a guaranteed top top six spot. He was playing a

838
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,639
lot with Malkin when he came over. That's the biggest

839
00:43:33,679 --> 00:43:36,079
concern is that Malkin has really slowed down a bit.

840
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,679
Maybe he'll be good at the start of season, maybe

841
00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:42,239
he'll continue that, but I'm a little concerned. But I

842
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,039
do think that Bunting probably should be on the top

843
00:43:46,119 --> 00:43:49,239
power play. That's a little bit of a concern whether

844
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:50,960
he'll get there or not. So I'm going to say

845
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,679
Michael Bunting hits a career high in point pace, so

846
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,639
that would be a good season for him, obviously, if

847
00:43:59,639 --> 00:44:03,159
he had a career year. We've seen him in Toronto

848
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,760
have really excellent production seasons, but we haven't really seen

849
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,360
that in a while from him, even with pretty decent

850
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,039
deployment that hopefully makes that a little bit spicy. But

851
00:44:13,079 --> 00:44:14,599
I like him. I like the spot that he's in.

852
00:44:14,639 --> 00:44:16,760
I think he should be in the top six spot

853
00:44:17,039 --> 00:44:20,239
either with Malkin, maybe even with Crosby. Hopefully he's not

854
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,760
relegated to the third line, as Daily Face Off seems

855
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,719
to suggest right now. But yeah, so that would be

856
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,079
over a sixty five point pace, which is what he

857
00:44:29,119 --> 00:44:31,599
had in twenty twenty one twenty two in Toronto. The

858
00:44:31,639 --> 00:44:34,440
other one is going to surround Eric Carlson, and I

859
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,159
know that they had just an awful power play last season.

860
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,679
I don't think it could possibly be worse. That's what

861
00:44:39,679 --> 00:44:42,519
everyone seemed to be saying, and they have to figure

862
00:44:42,559 --> 00:44:45,000
that out. And I think, as we talked about on

863
00:44:45,039 --> 00:44:48,360
the show with our guests, how Eric Carlson was being

864
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,320
a little deferential to some of the future Hall of

865
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,239
Famers on the Penguins, and they just want him to

866
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,840
go be Eric Carlson and do his things. So I

867
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,480
think he's going to be unleashed this year, and I

868
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,679
think he gets back over a seventy five point pace.

869
00:44:58,880 --> 00:44:59,599
What do you think, Jesse?

870
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,599
Speaker 2: I guess my choice here is between I did the

871
00:45:03,639 --> 00:45:07,440
map and I think a career high point pace for

872
00:45:07,559 --> 00:45:11,000
Michael Bunning has been about sixty five point pace for

873
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:14,960
eighty two games. So if we're saying that Michael Bunting

874
00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:18,320
sixty five point pace or Eric Carlson seventy five point pace,

875
00:45:19,039 --> 00:45:21,719
I will stick you with bunding because I think carlson

876
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,480
seventy five point paces wouldn't surprise me as much. I

877
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,519
don't think Bunning is going to be quite as set

878
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,760
up as he was in the peak years in Toronto,

879
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,400
so I think there's a good there's good rationale that

880
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,239
he is going to pick it up from where he's been.

881
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:41,280
He's actually had very decent years almost every time. But

882
00:45:41,559 --> 00:45:44,440
I don't think I think it's less likely he'll hit

883
00:45:44,519 --> 00:45:50,119
sixty five points than that Carlson hit seventy five last

884
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,400
up the Washington Capitals. That was the last episode we

885
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,679
did and they're also alphabetically last in the East. There's

886
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,119
really no catchup to be done. Nothing much happened with

887
00:45:58,119 --> 00:46:01,320
the Capitals in the last week. The hot take is

888
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,800
going to be the two hot takes. One of them

889
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,599
is Tom Wilson career high in points. That would be

890
00:46:06,639 --> 00:46:09,679
fifty three points. We always used to talk about Tom Wilson.

891
00:46:09,679 --> 00:46:12,599
He can score points too, in addition to getting the Bash,

892
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:16,400
and he's not done it. He had had better point

893
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,360
pass early in his career. But he's there for the

894
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,679
long run. They're saying he might be the next captain

895
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:27,440
of the Capitals after Ovechkin finally does move on, and

896
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,360
I think he might have that opportunity. So fifty three

897
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,559
point at least for Tom Wilson and then the other victor.

898
00:46:34,639 --> 00:46:36,480
We talked about it last week and let's just have

899
00:46:36,599 --> 00:46:40,480
some fun alix Selvechkin sets the all time goals record

900
00:46:40,519 --> 00:46:43,880
this year, Victor, which one of these two you want

901
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,199
to give me as the hot take.

902
00:46:47,079 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 3: So he had obviously a downturn last season. He had

903
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,400
thirty one goals forty two before that, fifty before that,

904
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,519
and then he had a shortened season of just twenty

905
00:46:56,519 --> 00:47:00,320
four total goals, so that would be thirty five four

906
00:47:00,639 --> 00:47:03,719
would over say you said forty forty three.

907
00:47:05,079 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 2: Fifty three, you need fifty three points. I'm sorry, Alexovechkin

908
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,760
needs fifty four more goals. Oh that was in March.

909
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:14,880
I don't know what the heck is going on here.

910
00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:22,559
Forty one more goals from matching, forty two from surpassing. Okay,

911
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:24,679
so we'll say matching, we'll say forty one goals.

912
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 3: So he would need and he did that two years ago,

913
00:47:30,039 --> 00:47:32,719
and obviously he is two years older. A team I

914
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,320
think is maybe even a little bit better this year.

915
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,039
A couple of young guys have matured a little bit.

916
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,199
PLD the big unknown. But I think if nothing else,

917
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,239
he's playing for his NHL career because not many teams

918
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,360
are going to give him more of a shot. Strom

919
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,599
seems like a pretty legit top line center. The power

920
00:47:51,599 --> 00:47:54,880
play should be better. John Carlson still great. Yeah, I

921
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,519
think he does it. I think he does it. Let's

922
00:47:57,559 --> 00:47:59,159
have some fun and I'll just hold you to that.

923
00:47:59,119 --> 00:48:03,079
Speaker 2: One, hold me to the ov one. Okay, all right, Victor,

924
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,400
we have made it through the West, we've made it

925
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,239
through the East. We are the conquerors of all the conferences. Victor,

926
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,119
this has been good times. We'll come right back after this.

927
00:48:12,119 --> 00:48:23,639
We quote upshot before we go. Hey, there's still some

928
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,039
days for you to start a new fantasy league for

929
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,960
the new season. I know we are close, but you

930
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,360
can still do a live draft. You can do a

931
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,239
slow draft. Heck, you can even do a draft that

932
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,559
last after the beginning of the season. Some people do that.

933
00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:40,760
It's not usually my course, but maybe you're so inspired

934
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,840
by this episode that you want to get yourself going

935
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,760
with a league or another league dog on it. You

936
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,719
can do as many as you want start new leagues.

937
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,599
There's even more sports. You're like, well, I'm not gonna

938
00:48:50,599 --> 00:48:54,079
make it here, but heck, basketball seasons only three weeks later.

939
00:48:54,639 --> 00:48:58,079
Do it. Nothing is stopping you. There's the most options

940
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for scoring, salaries, contracts, rookie eligibility, whatever you can think of.

941
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It's probably in there somewhere, or you can hack it.

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all the other fantasy sports that stuff's pouring out, preseason

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ranks from our writers, all kinds of things. FHL is

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a team these days. And we thank our crew crafts.

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Ryan Simone and Tim are your commission team with the

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growing tidy leagues. Ryan helps with the show prep. Jeremy

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vi Antoni are our lead scouts. Brandon is our website

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guru as well as a scout and is helping with

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the prospect ranks and visualizations. If you have skills you'd

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like to lend the show, hit Victor up in the discord,

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email or on X. We're also brought to you by

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Dauber Hockey Daber Prospects, Victors and editor there. Followers work

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there as well as this other podcast, Dauber Prospects Report

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with Peter Harling, and I'm writing a little bit of

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Nashville Predators content over there too. Be sure to check

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out Victor's articles at EP rings Side. He's part of

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the fantasy team there with Cam Robinson and Mike cl

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I do a solo show called Dynasty Sports Life. I

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talk for different Dynasty Sports sometimes a multi sport episode

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for your pleasure. If you happen to like more than

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just hockey, follow us on X at Fan Hockey Life

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at Victor Nino twelve, Rate and review us, Apple Pods, Spotify,

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wherever else you get pods because that helps people find

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this show. It's time. The season is upon us, and

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until your opening night joy begins, prepare for this fantasy

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hockey life.