Fantasy Hockey Life Ep. 419 Carolina Hurricanes with Ryan Henkel

Ryan Henkel of the Hockey News is here to report on the Carolina Hurricanes. Jesse and Victor interview Ryan about returning pros Sebastian Aho, Seth Jarvis, Andrei Svechnikov, Taylor Hall, Logan Stankoven, Jackson Blake, Nikolaj Ehlers, Shayne Gostisbehere, K'Andre Miller, Alexander Nikishin, Pyotr Kochetkov, and Frederick Andersen. In Cat's Instincts, Cat Silverman of InGoal mag breaks down Ruslan Khazheyev and Semyon Frolov.  In the Dynasty Dig, Victor breaks down Nikita Artamonov, Bradley Nadeau, and Justin Poirier with the help of scouting reports from FHL Scout Tony and X polls from NHL Rank King Mason Black. Have a listen! Our show is part of the Dobber Podcast Network and sponsored by Fantrax.com. Email [e-mail] and ask to join our free discord. Join our Patreon at Patreon.com/fantasyhockeylife for rankings, bonus podcasts, in-depth prospect reports with video, show notes and more. Check out our YouTube for more prospect videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPYVXp3foOcvh7344fjKmA. Listen and subscribe wherever podcasts are posted - and give us 5 stars! We want to be your best place to talk about the game of dynasty fantasy hockey

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Victor.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
How you doing today?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hi? I am doing awesome, Jesse. I'm looking forward to
talking about another team with you. How you doing, I'm
doing good.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm doing good. Yeah, we're rolling through, man, I think
we're I gotta check the numbers. I gotta check the stats.
But we're like two thirds of the way through at
this point. We're just absolutely ruling. You've been crushing scheduling
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You schedule people throughout the year. Victor, but we we
we greatly appreciate. I burn incense to you at this
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(01:02):
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Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hockey Life, Victor Superpowers pronouncing prospect names. You're right back
after this to talk Hurricanes. Welcome you back to the show,
mister Bryan Hinkle of the Hockey News to talk Carolina Hurricanes. Ryan,
how you doing today?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Good? How are you guys doing great?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Man doing great?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
So I went back.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I was looking at the history of the Carolina Hurricanes franchise.
But the beginning of the two thousands, the Kings messed
around at won a cup and we're runners up in another.
But most of the rest of their franchise's existence in
Hartford and Raleigh, they were not so great. I count
seven of their first thirty eight campaigns where they were
not in the bottom three of their division, and two
were those cup years. Then Rob Brendamore returned and that

(03:14):
hasn't happened at all in the last seven years, never
been in the bottom three of their division. In fact,
do you give the team the benefit of the doubt
for calling the qualifying round and the COVID year a
playoff round? They have won at least one round of
the playoffs in each year of his time in Carolina,
the only team in the NHL that can say that.
But folks have to be frustrated. It hasn't been quite

(03:37):
enough to get over the hump to a Cup finals
or better yet, a Stanley Cup. The team was not
screwing around last year. They took some swings on Miko
Ranton and even if that didn't work out, it still was.
It was bold and they were willing to move star
player Martin Achas had the Canes stalled or are they

(03:58):
building up in one of these is just gonna click?
What do you expect in Ryan for this team?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. So it's a very interesting team in that regard because,
like you said, they're competitive every year in and ye're
out the last seven years they've been in it. They
you can say, hey, this is a team that could
potentially win the Cup, and so it's very interesting to
keep up with them because there's a lot of chances here.
Hockey is such a game about getting your breaks kind
of everyone's staying healthy, finding a way to do it,
and then you get teams like the Florida Panthers that
have managed to do it a year in and year out,

(04:26):
so you kind of hit these major roadblocks that are like,
it's not your year. But I really like how Carolina
is starting to shape up this year even maybe into
another year. They've got a good course set. They got
guys like special hosts Seph Jarvis, Jacob Slavin. They just
added Nikolai Eelers, they had Candre Miller, they have Alexander
nikkeishon coming in who they expect to be an impact player.

(04:46):
So the team's got a lot of really good pieces.
I think they're better on paper than they were last year.
So we'll see if they can continue. Young guys take
another step, guys work out, and we'll see what happens.
I think I think there's still a team cable winning
the Cup. I think they're better than the word last
So we'll see what happens. Maybe Florida goes for a
three p four straight Sanding Cup final appearances, but hey,
who knows.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, let's talk about some of these star players on
the team. Sebastian Aho first among them. Aho's fifteen hundred
and eighty seven point nine to three minutes on ice
in seventy nine games is the second most amount of
time Brenda Moore has skated forward in his entire time
with the Canes. Only Aho in twenty eighteen nineteen had

(05:31):
more minutes than that. Aho is a solid bet every
year to get around a point per game play respectable
defense tilt the ice over the Brenda Moore era. Of
the nine hundred and thirty five skaters with at least
one thousand total minutes played with the highest Fenwick or
of course four percentage, ten of the top fifteen at

(05:52):
least some of that time were on the Carolina Hurricanes.
In terms of straight Fenwick four per sixty, Aho was
fourth among those nine hundred and thirty five, and on
the active scoring list, AHOs six hundred and thirty one
points put him fifty eighth among active players. For a
guy who's twenty seven, no one is above him on
that list of career scores who debuted after him, so

(06:15):
he is right at the top given when he debuted. Yet,
by my reckoning, in ninth seasons so far, Sebastianajo has
had one end of season All Star vote, a third
place vote, and has never snipped a major award. We
call a lot of guys underrated these days, but my
goodness is Aho underrated. What do you see in this guy,

(06:37):
Sebastianaho's game and what do you anticipate for the man
in the coming year.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, he's just the kind of player that is just
never satisfied. He's the kind of guy that just he
works at his craft day in day out, and he
just always wants to get better. He committed. He started
with Carolina as a winger, but he wanted to be
a center and he want to play a natural position,
so he had to work. He had to work at
that every day. Rod Brenda warming is an assistant coach
after practice and all the things. Getting better face off,
is getting better defensive responsibility, and I think every year

(07:05):
the progression of him, he's like his two way game
has grown leaps and balanced and now he's one of
the premier two way players in the game. An excellent
penalty killer, he's a power play producer, He's he's number
one center. This is a guy that he'll do whatever
it takes to win because he just hates to lose.
It's one of those players and you can say the
guys love to win, but there's something to be said
about guys who hate losing. I think that's something that

(07:26):
drives off like he'll just do whatever it takes to
get results. And while that hasn't been there for Carolina,
it's a guy you can put a bet on to
produce consistently. He's going to be the number one center
there at Carolina for years to come. There's really no
challenge there whatsoever. So he's going to get the minutes,
like you talked about, he's going to get that deployment
because it's all situations, all opportunities, and it's a guy that,

(07:48):
again the word forcess, he's just a gamer, like he
just goes out there and gives it as all every night.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I certainly think you could say a lot about that
about Seth Jarvis, except for the whole center part. He's
the next guy that we're going to talk about. And yeah,
what a breakout seven season, seventy five point pace time
on ice went up a little bit, as did the
power play time on ice. All of his metrics seem
pretty sustainable and nothing seems way out of line. His
shooting percentage, his pdo all of that, and they show

(08:16):
up as elite defensively and pretty great defense offensively as well.
And his bash is four point seventy five per game.
His block shots and hits rank him pretty high eighty
ninth best skater in that metric, and to go with
the scoring, it's a he's a pretty pretty valuable fantasy asset. Ryan,
do you think Jarvis can take an even bigger step
to getting over a point per game or do you

(08:37):
think this is the range that we can expect him in.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I would not be surprised to see Jarvis take even
another step. I think this is probably a confable range
for him being a top line winger if he gets
consistent top line time, because while he mostly played top
line minutes this season, there's still a good chunk of
time where he's playing like third line with Jordan Stall
Jordan Marnook, which drops his production down. But I think
we're getting to the point now where he's gonna just

(09:01):
be glue to Spashonho in that top line for I
wouldn't want to. I'm not gonna say complete definitely, because
Rod Brunden Moore loves a little bit of a line adjustments.
He's not a guy to roll his top guns. But
Jarvis has just again, the growth that he has shown
as a player has just been outstanding. Because to focus
on his defensive game as he has to become one

(09:22):
of the top defensive wingers in the league while also
continuing to grow offensively. Back to back thirty goal seasons
or the most points he's ever had sixty seven. I
believe this season just getting on the board every night
and again, like shorthanded goals. He had five shorthanded goals.
He's produced on the power play. It's a guy that's
really developing into his own becoming a goal scorer. He
could do it anywhere. He's got a good shot. He

(09:42):
goes to the front of the net despite not being
the biggest guy. He's unafraid to do anything. And I
think it's just a guy like it's he gets older
and he gets more experienced in the league, gets stronger,
We're just gonna see him get even better. I would be.
I would say it's a safe bet to think that
Jarvis there's still more in the tank for him. There's
still more that he could show as a player.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Even Andre Svechnikoff that list of all the skaters fen
four per sixty of the nine hundred plus, Sevechnikoff was
second on the list, even higher than Ajo. I don't
know why. But I always have huge hopes for this
guy and it never comes out as high as I'm expecting.
Largely that's probably because he always seems to miss some

(10:20):
games and never seems to hit quite a point per
game pace. He's generally played close to seventeen minutes on ice,
which is probably good for the Kinge system but not
necessarily for counting stats for Spechnikoff, And last year he
missed only ten games, so that's an improvement. He'd been
missing more than that per per season. Upper body stuff
late in the season kind of messed him up, but geez,

(10:41):
two and a half shots and two hits are just
that's catnip to us fantasy folks. He's also never basically
sniffed an award, which to me is a little bit strange.
Maybe it's the production isn't quite obviously, it's not where
Ajos is. But at twenty five, Svechnikoff is still really young.
What do you see in this guy and what's should
we expect for this coming year? Could he take a

(11:02):
big jump?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah? I've kind of been in some of the boats
to you, where like you come into the season every
year you're expecting a little more from Special Cough Like
he's a good player, don't get me wrong, but there's
always just something when you're watching, you're like, there should
be more here, Like he's got the size, he's got talent,
like he displays it, just for whatever reason, never quite clicks.
You talk about the injuries have always been a little
bit plaguing him. That ACL injury he suffered a couple
of years back, I think really hampered his game. It

(11:27):
takes players a long time to get up to level
and went on. I think with the NHL Edge skating
speed stats, you could see that he noticeably had lost
a step over the last two seasons. More was pre
ACL injury. So I'm curious of how much that has
impacted him versus how much a couple of years later
he's elevating a little bit, because we saw in the
playoffs he was a very effective player that first round
series against New Jersey and he was all over it

(11:49):
that a second round series in Washington too. He had
the series clincher and then fell off against Florida. But
I can also say that for most everybody on the
Carolina Hurricanes fell off against Florida. But no sketch, just
another guy that just you know, really direct hockey, like
he's always one this. He's gonna be shooting the puck,
he's gonna be throwing a hit, he's gonna be doing
something Like it's not a guy that goes invisible. It's

(12:10):
not a guy that kind of co surround. He's gonna
be doing something. And whether or not he could take
another big step, I don't know. Like you said, he's
still young. There's plenty of potential there if you can
get the top line deployment, if he can stay healthy.
There's the talent, is there? Guy he drafted second overall.
He had twenty even strength goals his first year in
the league. Like, this is a guy that can do
everything if it just clicks. And that's just a big

(12:32):
question mark, especially in the system like Caroline is, where
you're not being forced fed the minutes to be like
the top guy, the go to guy. So again I'm curious.
I don't know. It's like I said, I've been watching
him every year and it's like maybe this is year
he breaks out, or he'll have a really hot stretch,
but then I'll have the cold stretch. It's a very
inconsistent player. It's very I don't know what's the gauge
of him. I don't know what his ceiling is, but

(12:52):
I think, like I said, the things are there for
him to be even better than he is. I just
don't know if he's gonna ever quite put it together.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Taylor Hall. I got off the old Taylor Hall bandwagen
a couple of years ago when he went to a
really poor team and he pretty much had a loss
season to injury in Chicago. But still that former Heart
winner Taylor Hall seems to be aging somewhat gracefully at
this point, especially when he's placed in a depth role
on a good team, which he's had a couple of times.

(13:20):
He's set to play his mid thirties on a fairly
bargain contract and a depth role for the Keynes, and
his scoring rate after joining the team would pro rade
out to about the fifties. He actually had a forty
five point pace for the season, but he picked it
up in Carolina. Is that about what do you expect?
Scoring somewhere in the fifties playing an important depth role.
He was also getting some power play run with the

(13:41):
Canes and could that continue as well?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah? I could see. I coul definitely say forty to
fifty point range. Fifty may be in the higher end.
I think forties would be a good bet for him,
especially because I think the Hurricanes have a little more
winger depth they've hadded, especially with the Elers, where he's
not going to get as maybe as much top six times.
But I think Hall has been really good fitting Carolina.
It's a guy it's accepted where he is in his career.
There was a lot made about him back in the day.

(14:06):
Maybe there's a little drama or a little bit of
about character problems, when Carolina has been really good, really
fit in the locker room, and he's talked many times
about adapting his game to fitting into the role that
the way the Hurricanes want him to play, in the
depth role that he's found himself on team, being an
older veteran guy, And I think there's there's a lot
to be said about that. When you accept your role
and you can fit it, you play better hockey, I think.

(14:26):
And like you said, the power play time was good too.
He got some power play one time near the end
of the season Sechiankov was out, and he's really good
power play one too. Like I was surprised that they
went back to Sechiankov as soon as they did when
the playoffs started, but it worked for them in the postseason.
But Hall's fall has been a really good fit that
second Power Play Union the playoffs, especially him and stink
Covid have had a little bit of chemistry there too.

(14:47):
I really liked how they've balanced off one another whenever
they've played together. I think that could be a potential
sneaky line the Kanes figure out how they want to
play their centers. But no, I've really liked his fit.
He's still got some good speed to him. Even with
the ac tair and being older, he's still got a
good burst on him. And I think it's again a
guy that is willing to do things for the team
and willing to play his role. And I think there's

(15:08):
a lot to be said about a guy like that.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
All Right, We're gonna have things to say about Logan
stank Covin too. He's the next guy up on our list,
and I love stank you so much. He's been one
of my favorite prospects coming up. It was a bit
of a world win for him, I'm sure, starting in
Dallas and feeling like he's getting his feet a little
bit settled. Then he gets traded at Carolina. I know
Dallas really liked him, but got to give up something
to get Miko Ronton. And the time on ice was

(15:34):
just over fifteen minutes for stank Covid with nearly two
minutes powerfulay time on ice, The pace was only forty
and the bash is pretty low at three point five
to four block shots and hits, which ranking him in
the mid three hundreds. I know a lot of us
have been waiting for the stank Covin breakout, but now
that he's with Carolina, Ryan, I wonder what that can
even look like. We know how they ration ice time

(15:55):
and spread it around. So what do you think we
can expect from stank Covin with a full season under
his belt? And do you think he can get over
a sixty point pace or what do you think we're
looking at here?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, sixty one sixty might be a little kind of
optimistic for stink Covid, especially, like I said, with Carolina
and have a little more winger depth than Now that
I could see him moved out, I could see him
on the second line. I could also see him playing
in the third line with Jordan Stall and Jordan Marnook,
and that's never great for your point total, but it is.
It's tough to say with the deployment of Carolina, but
I think the team is really big on Stink Covid

(16:29):
as the guy. They again, you give him an eight
year deal, you're going to be big on him. But
they really love how he's fitting with the team. I
think he plays exactly that North South Caroline Hurricanes hockey.
He's not afraid to shoot the puck. This something I
really know, especially in the postseason, he was a guy that,
especially on that stall Marnock Lione like he was shooting
the puck like he just whenever he got it, got
the opportunity, he was putting that puck on net, and
it really paid off for him. He was probably the

(16:50):
most impactful player in that Florida series. He scored a
couple of really big goals. I could see that progression
kind of continuing for him because he's only got basically
two years in the league at this point. So it's
going to be a player that I think is going
to take really big steps as he continues to get older,
gets smarter, and he's five foot something on a good day,
it's not a big player whatsoever, but he plays way
bigger than his size. It's easy to overlook some of

(17:11):
these smaller guys, but the way he plays the game,
the hardy has, just the fearlessness he plays with North
South just go hockey. There's there's a lot of potential there,
and like I said, he could get power play two
time if there's like an injury up front. I know
Jarvis has been dealing with that shoulder injury that's kind
of been plaguing him for the last two seasons, but
it's something he can play through. But if something happens there,
Saint Kovin could easily be an option to slide up

(17:33):
to that R one spot, that right wing one. So
I think there's a lot of potential there for him
to grow as his seasons in Carolina gets. I don't know,
I could see maybe forty five fifty would be I
think fifty would be like the high end optimistic for
him this season, but we'll see how it goes for him.
I think it's a player of the team's very excited
to have and to see what he can be.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Definitely, I'm definitely in that camp. Also, was really excited
to see Jackson Blake this season. He's someone who I've
liked for a long time. I thought that he could
be an impactful player. I didn't quite think it was
going to happen this season, though. I thought that he
could maybe make it after a season in the AHL,
or maybe split some time. But playing eighty games was

(18:14):
pretty awesome. Seventeen goals is remarkable, especially considering he only
took one hundred and forty one shots, not the biggest shooter.
One point one to eight per game is pretty low,
and his percentage was twelve, which is reasonable if he
seems like a high efficiency guy. But you definitely want
to see those shots bump up and maybe he can
even put more in the net. He ended up with

(18:35):
a thirty five point pace. The time on ice was
really low thirteen fifty one for a total, but he
was pretty much staple to Ajo and Jarvis for a
lot of the season. His underlying defensive metrics are incredible.
He seems like a really fantastic two way forward. I
saw him take the puck away from a lot of players,
and really, even though he's a bit undersize, is sneaky

(18:55):
good two way. He doesn't really bash, he doesn't shoot much,
but he also doesn't hit or block, So two point
thirty eight is his total bash per game, which ranks
him six hundred and tenth, which is pretty low. Aside
from that, Ryan, what do you think we can expect
from Blake in his second full season? Do you think
he can get over I don't know, fifty to fifty
five point pace. He does seem to be playing a
little bit higher in the lineup than staink Covid, at

(19:16):
least for now.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, if he can stay on the top line, which
again is not a given, especially with the addition of
Nikolai Eilers and whatnot, I could definitely he's definitely going
to be a more stable producer than he was I
think this season because he primarily played for about half
the season. I think it was until January, he was
pretty much a fourth line player, not really not a
ton of minutes in the four, flying, not playing with

(19:40):
a ton of playmakers and whatnot. But as as I
think it was about January, it was when Miko Randon
came in and they had a bunch of illnesses in
the locker room. They were just experimenting with moving guys around.
Jackson Blake got up to that top line and just
never looked back. If you had told me at the
beginning of the year going to training camp, you're like, yeah,
this was like they have a couple promising rookies and
Jackson Blake's going to be the one. He's gonna make
it the team. Straight out of camp, I'd been like,

(20:01):
you're crazy, Like I would not have believed it. But
the kid's done it. He's just been outstanding as an
NHL player. Like you talked about those defensive metrics you've
talked about, his ability is steel pucks too, like his
takeaway his he reads play so well just to be
able to just quickly stick lift, pull a puck off
the wall, get it back the other way in the
neutral zone. His stick handling is incredible. Guy. He looks

(20:23):
like the puck is glued to his stick all the
times I watch him practices, especially, and it's just his
stick handling is just marvelous. He's really he drives the
net with that stick handling too. He can get in
really tight. One of the problems is coming to somebody
you brought up too. He doesn't shoot a lot. It's
one of the ones who like, hey, kid, like I
get it your first year in the league. You're deferring
to the pros. The guys that you know are scores.

(20:44):
But it's hey, kid, you were you were talented, you
weren't doing all this stuff. Don't be afraid to shoot.
I think the staff has probably worked with him a
little bit on that. I think it's as he gets older,
the message will get more across. Hey, shoot the puck,
just don't be afraid. So I think we'll see definitely
a progression there for him. I'm curious how the Nikola's
addition is going to affect him and his deployment because
he got a lot of time up on the top

(21:05):
line with whether we Specchikov or Jarvis along said Oho,
but I think with Eelers it could bump him down
a little bit. So I'm curious to see how much
he plays. But it'll definitely be he'll definitely get more
playing time than he averaged. This one hundred percent guarantee
that he's going to be a top six guy. But
Rod Brendmore loves him like he played on power Play
one for pretty much the entire postseason two and every

(21:26):
time he was asked about it. Are you worried about
having smaller guys and you're power He's like, Hey, I'm
putting the best five guys out there. That's just my plan.
And so there's the staff has a ton of trust
in Blake. They really like him as a player. So
he's going to get deployment. He's going to get opportunity,
and I think we could see that point total maybe
fifty if he gets the deployment. I wouldn't be too
surprised to see him because he is. His growth has

(21:46):
been just outstanding. It's been really exponential to watch.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
You talk about the five guys out there frequently one
of those best five guys has been seen Gasta Speer.
He took the time power play spot last year as
we moved to the blue line for quite competent team.
Power play production is never through the roof, but he's
turned into a competent, consistent player later in his career
when early on maybe he was thought of as not

(22:12):
so consistent, but goals about replacements, says his offense and
defense were the best of his career last year. Of course,
was traded to the Kings from Zona in twenty two
to twenty three and then took a year in Detroit
and then was back in Carolina last year. Now Brent
Burns is out the door. We'll talk about the guy
who's coming to the team here in a minute. But
could Ghost is Bear be the power play quarterback with

(22:36):
another fifty to five is ish point season or do
you expect him to be supplanted.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
No, I definitely think shit Ghost is going to be
this still the number one guy. I don't think Miller
really is like a top power play option, and I
think Nikeishin has that potential, but I don't think he's
gonna get the opportunity right away. Especially I could see
him maybe in some power play two time if someone's injured,
but I think Rod beren Or going to be a
little cautious about tossing a rookie in right on that

(23:03):
topy in it. But like I said, we've seen the
keach player. But back to Ghost, No, I think he's
gonna be the power play one guy. I think he's
gonna get that consistent time while he's not He's not
gonna get a lot of five on five minutes. The
Knes really were really big on sheltering him this season,
especially in his deployment on that third pair with Sean
Walker because he's gonna get the power play time, and
the power play was actually a lot better for Carolina

(23:23):
than it had been in the postseason. I should say
then it was like through the regular season they were
super hot when they had Martine Achius on the team,
and then after they traded him, that power play tanked.
That power play got really bad, really quick, but they
picked it back up in the postseason. I think the
team is figuring out how to do zone entries more
without Natus, because the strategy was just pass it backwards.

(23:43):
Na just picks it up, skates to the neutrals, gets
in the because he's so fast. I think maybe they
can get back to that kind of efficiency of Elers too.
This is kind of the what I've seen him tagged
as the kind of skater he is in this ability
with the puck. But I think Gospar is gonna still
be the power play one quarterback. His five on five
production hasn't been outstanding Carolina. I think because of that
sheltered minutes and all that, with the power play productions

(24:03):
still been really good. I think Caroline's power play is
going to be even better this year than it was
last regular season. So I think he can still be
a consistent, good producer.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, and you mentioned KeAndre Miller. I would agree with
your sentiment, but let's ask you about him. Anyways, he
came over from the New York Rangers after three hundred
and sixty eight games played. He's been a thirty point
pace player his career. He does log heavy minutes. The
bash is solid four point four to one per game,
ranks HI one hundred and fortieth of all skaters, which
is pretty nice. I don't imagine that he's suddenly going

(24:36):
to discover some offensive prowess that he never had, but
maybe in this system he can have a little bit
more value. What do you think Miller's role is going
to be with the Canes or do you think we
can expect similar numbers as we have in New York.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
I think offensively we could probably see similar numbers. I'm
curious to see though, because, like I said, like two
years ago, if you're looking at Cawndre Miller, you're like,
this guy's on the up and up, like he's just
getting better and he's looking like a really impactful player
in the league. And then just the situation in New
York has been really weird because however many coaches. He's
had five or so different head coaches in New York
for Caandre, and there's every new coach is different systems,

(25:12):
different approaches of the game, and I'm curious how that
how that impacts a player he comes to somewhere like
Carolina that's had the same systems a little tweaks here
and there, but pretty much the same type of system
for years and years of established players that know how
to play it, and it can insulate a guy like
and also cares where he's gonna play. Is he gonna
play his offhand with Jacob Slave and potentially because the
team really likes his size and his stick work, because

(25:34):
Caroline is a team that really emphasizes utilizing the stick
more so than like hits or whatnot to win pucks,
win puck battles. So I'm curious to see how they
deploy him. And he's going to be like alongside Slaven
maybe on his offhand, which can lead a little more
offense to get a better one time option being on
your off hand as a lefty. Is he gonna play
alongside Jalen Chadfield maybe in that a second pair role
a little more defensively minded. It's I'm curious to see

(25:57):
how the team utilizes him. But again, they really like
the player, eight year deal, so they have some sort
of playing in mind for him. But I'm curious to
see what works out for him because I'm not too short.
Is it gonna be like the offensive option next to
slave in. Is he gonna be more of a defensive
shutdown guy alongside like Chatfield. I'm not quite sure how
his deployment is gonna work out in Carolina. But again,
it's a player that I think was two years ago

(26:18):
was like meteor work rise, and I think that's what
Carolina season him still, So I could they're gonna log
he's gonna get big minutes, he's gonna play that I
think a top four role one. It's just whether or
not they're gonna see him as a offensive option or
a just hey, just play your game, keep it simple,
just play Hurricanes hockey, which for a couple of years
ago was actually very defensively heavy. So we'll see.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Well, I for one, think it's a perfect addition for
their style and to cover up the weaknesses that kender
Miller does have, which aren't many. But I think that
he could be a perfect fit for this system, So
maybe we'll see a bump up. We'll see the guy
I'm most excited to see from the Hurricane Zoh is
their top defensive prospect, Alexander nikish And we've been waiting

(27:01):
and talking about the big Russian defender for years in
fantasy circles, just salivating at the prospect of him coming
over because not only has he had strong production in
the KHL, but he has been a bash master. His
bash in the KHL continues to be excellent. Of course,
it depends on what kind of time on ice he
gets and what kind of role. We did see him
a little bit in the playoffs. He came over after

(27:22):
the KHL playoffs and played in four games for the Canes,
just under sixteen minutes time on ice. His role was
clearly limited as he was adjusting to North American ice
and the system and everything, and that's all to be expected.
I don't think that's any indication of his future role.
But that's why we have you here to tell us.
What do you think Nikishon's role is going to be
next season. I think that ultimately he can be a

(27:43):
top pair defender, but I don't know if that's going
to happen this season is probably going to take a
little bit of time. So tell us what you think
we can expect.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, again, it's a very interesting because I'm like, when
I look at the Hurricanes defense, I'm like, how are
they going to four lefties two righties? It's going to
be some sort of a little weirder combination. They have
some obvious spots like locked in, like Slave's obviously gonna
be your number one lefty, Jalen Chapel is obviously going
to be a second pair defenseman. But how everyone else falls,
it's gonna be very interesting. And like he said, Nikishan

(28:12):
just the potential is through the roof everybody. All I've
ever heard through my Twitter sphere and everything on social
media from fans was always just about nikish And and how
excited everyone was to see him, and when he finally
came to North America, how every game he didn't play
was a tragedy. But watching him in the postseason, that
first game against Washington, the game five or whatever in

(28:32):
the elimination didn't look great, and that's to be expected
because it was his first North American game. He doesn't
speak the language, great. The team has talked a ton
about how the language bearer has been hard for him
to overcome, especially in playoff hockey where so much communication
somebody switches, especially the Hurricane system, when somebody switches so
many call outs, that a civil for him. And I
think he said that first game against Florida was also
a little tough. He's playing lines to mee Jorlov It

(28:54):
was like a minus four in that game and it
just things really. But after that, like the next the
last two three games he played, and that in the
Hurricane season, good lord, you could see why this guy
is as hyped up as he was. Like his ability
just to replays, get pucks up, move pucks, skate, hit everything.
It was the full packagers on display, and you're like,

(29:14):
this is this kid's a rookie in the postseason against
the Florida Panthers, which have been the best hockey team
for the last two years, hands down, and he was
looking like a competent top four defenseman, and it was
you could see why everyone was hype. You could see
what the You're like, Okay, yeah, this is the guy.
Holy crap, this is this looks like a really good
hockey player And so it'd be very interesting to see
how the Hurricanes utilize him next year because I think

(29:36):
he can be a top four option right away, but
I think Carolina is very cautious about They're like, hey,
we don't want to rush him. We want him to
take his time, we want him to adjust, and we
don't want to put him in a situation where he
can regress or he can get too overwhelmed and lose
some of his edge of what makes him a star.
So I could definitely see a slower deployment for him
and potentially working his way up. And it's could it

(29:59):
could take full year for him to really get to
that point where he's playing big minutes because Caroline is
a team that loves to have their defensive pair set
and then not switch off of those whatsoever barring an injury.
And like I said, the potential is huge off the
roof big powerful shot. Like he dropped a ninety bomb
in the postseason. Remember just looking up at the shot
clock and it was like, look effortless from me, and

(30:21):
I was like, Okay, this guy's something. So it'll be
very interesting to watch to see what he does. I
don't think the deployment will be there for him this season,
but it definitely wanted to look for in the future.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, really, I'll do that, Jesse, don't worry. It was
really fun at the draft too, because their defensive pick,
Curban Limitov. I asked him who he liked and who
he modeled his game after, and he was like Nikishin
and then he said maybe a bit between Nikishon and
Dallen And I was like, wait to aim high, bro,
that's that's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
So that was really I think it wasn't he like
they did like the draft, like like pre interview and
it was like who's gonna who's like your favorite player?
He was like me in five years. It was like
that kid's got some swagger.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
He does. He was a quote machine. In fact, I
don't think anyone stood at the podium and talked longer
than he did. And I didn't know if that was
because he needed an interpreter or whether he just yeah,
had the swagger and personality. Maybe a bit of both,
but it was pretty fantastic to watch. We did Ryan
forget you'd ask you about Elers, So I'm going to
pretend like we were just talking about Blake and I'm

(31:26):
going to ask you about Elers because you had already
mentioned them in that sense, Okay, And of course we
need to ask you about Nikolai. Eeler's the big free
agent grab. He's been in Winnipeg for such a long time,
and I think some of us in fantasy circles were
super disappointed he went to Carolina because the one thing
we've been asking is give him more time and top line,

(31:48):
and I don't know that's going to happen in Carolina
just because of the other players that are there and
the way that they structure their lines. What do you
think is going to happen with Elers? What do you
think he fits? And do you think he can and
still be this seventy plus point player that we know
he can be when he gets enough opportunity.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yeah, I definitely think Eelers is going to be top
line right off the rip, if not second line, because
this is a guy that, like you talked about, has
just been super duper productive even in a limited, more
limited role than probably should have been in Winnipeg. Like,
he just plays a really strong game. He's fast, he's quick,
great hands, really creative with the puck, and I think

(32:28):
Carolina is going to be able to find a little
bit of that magic they might have lost when they
lost Martin Achis, because I've seen a lot of people
compare the two in playing style. They're skating ability and
all that. Where it's Elers can have a little more
creativity getting through the neutral zone a little more better
zone entries, which can help the power Play two if
he's on power Play one. But I think having a
guy like Elers, especially playing alongside a Sebastian Aho, can

(32:50):
really help open up the ice because I think Sebastian
Aho gets it, gets collapsed on a lot, especially like
in the postseason. It's really tough because he gets tired.
He's like the number one that are like the best
assignments get put on him, and there's a lot of
pressure on him to produce this as because the Caroline
doesn't have a ton of great like zone enters and whatnot,
and so eithers adds that element that they had been
lost when they lost Martinetis. And it's just like I said,

(33:14):
a lot of the systematic things, it fits what Caroline
wants to do as a player that Caroline has tried
to obtain multiple times. They've tried to trade for him
on more than one occasion, and so they finally have
gotten their guy. And I think there's still going to
be a bump in deployment for him because he's going
to get powerbably one time, he's going to get top
line minutes. I think there's gonna be more point And
while it's not as we typically see from top lines

(33:34):
around the league, as Carolina it likes to roll four lines,
it'll still be I think more deployment, a little more
opportunity for him than he had previously had. Love it.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
We really hope that's the case. Let's move on. Let's
move on to the crease. The Hurricanes were ranked eleventh
and expected goals against per sixty and but only conceded
the tenth ranked actual goals. Both of their goalies helped
can tribute to this. The Pieter kucheck cough was ended

(34:06):
up playing forty seven games with Anderson twenty two, and
both of them had Actually kocheck Kov had a little
bit negative goal save above expected, whereas Anderson had a
little bit more positive metrics and a more limited sample size.
I know that there was a little bit of a
difference in terms of the playoff games played, but we
can never seem to count on Anderson in terms of

(34:29):
his health, and so that's always the issue in terms
of how many games is he going to play. He
did sign a new one year deal, so what do
you think we're going to happen? And we're going to
see this next year in terms of the splits between
the two in terms of the money, they're actually making
a little bit more similar now. But is Anderson still
the main guy? Is he going to get like a
sixty to forty split or something else. What do you

(34:51):
think we're going to see in the crease?

Speaker 1 (34:54):
I think so long as Carolina can keep both guys healthy,
they really want to do like a pure fifty fifty split,
Like they've had tons of success with it when they've
rotated their goaltenders and their team that even if a
guy gets a shutout like the like two nights before,
like they're still gonna be like, eh, we're gonna get
the other guy. Because I think Camline's really team that
believes that keeping a guy rested, mentally ready prepared is

(35:17):
like so good, especially given the history of both these goaltenders.
We know Frederick Anderson has a laundry list of injuries
he's gone through throughout his career, and the last season
he had knee surgery to repair something. And from what
I've heard, the knee surgery was like to clean up
something that he didn't necessarily need it, but it was
something that cleans it up to prevent further things down

(35:37):
the line. So but perhaps this year could be one
where he stays a little more healthy because he had
a procedure to deal with things and prevent future problems.
And in the postseason he was outstanding, Like he was
one of the best goaltenners in the postseason. You talked
about in the regular season, I think he had a
little bit weaker numbers to the start of the year,
but then when he came back he was really strong again.

(35:58):
The Jakov as a goaltender that I believe a lot
in and it also leaves me wanting a lot in
when he's on. He's such a good goaltender, Like he's
super athletic, super strong at reading plays, really explosive. We've
all seen the clips of the poke Chetkov coming out
with a flying po check the old school style, but

(36:18):
then the valleys are really bad too, Like he when
he has a bad game, it could sometimes spiral into
two to three really bad games in a row. And
when you for an NHL goaltender, the number one thing
is consistency, and so that's the biggest thing he's lacking.
It's he just hasn't been able to find a consistent streak.
But Carolina still believes it only still he's had good games.

(36:39):
I think, like the negative goals saved above expected really
happened that final I think seven or so regular season
games he played and really just it was one of
those kind of moments where he had a really bad game.
It's la led in seven goals and then just could
not get his feet under him again. It'll be interesting.
I think Carolina will go a fifty to fifty split
if both guys can stay healthy again a big if.
Neither one has really had great prolonged health in the league.

(37:01):
But if Carolina can keep both guys healthy, they want
to go a true fifty to fifty split. I believe.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Tremendous, Ryan, this has been a world wind tour around
the Carolina or Hurricanes. How can people keep up with
the Canes and with you all year long?

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yep, So I work I right for the hockey news.
So you can find me the Carolina Hurricanes, the hockey
news team site, daily content pretty much. Summer is a
little more questionable as there's really not a ton going
on right now, but you know when the season's going on.
Daily content. You can follow me on X, slash, Twitter,
whatever you call it nowadays at RYA, n h E,
n k L Underscore. I'm also on Blue Sky. I

(37:37):
post articles to threads. You can find me sometimes in
the Cane subreddit. I'm around a bunch of places, but
if you're trying to contact me or comment or do anything,
most of the time you'll find me on Twitter, slash X.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
All right, tremendous people definitely need to do that. Thank
you for coming and talking with us today.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Ryan, yep, thanks for having me, guys Wolf Since then,
that's good fire pets, Oh my goodness, rom long with
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Speaker 3 (38:10):
What cram.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Now, it's your weekly goalie talk with Kat's Silverman, Kat's Instincts.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Once again for Kat's Instincts with Kat Silverman of Gold
mag We're talking Carolina Hurricanes goalies, which you know it's
gonna include some Russians and here we go. So the
first Russian, Ruslan Kaziyev, six four two one pounds draft
in the fifth round back in twenty twenty three. This
past season, he made the drump to North America from Russia,
played for the Chicago Wolf and the HL, which did

(38:42):
not go particularly well. I would say it was unfortunate.
I've really liked him when he was His MHL production
in the MHL was fantastic, but as often happens, that
transition was a bit rough. His twenty games in the
HL eight seventy six eight percentage three point four nine GA.
They did send him down to the ECCH out for
one season, and that was awful, and we don't even
to talk about that. Looking at some of his comps

(39:05):
in this model, there's a swath of Chris Drieger to Hellebuk,
to Flurry to Alexey Melnichuk, who had a lot of
potential at one point and then came over and then
went back to Russia. So I don't know what to
think of all this, Kap, But that's why you're here.
What do your instincts tell us about Kaziev he is?

Speaker 5 (39:24):
I love what the Hurricanes do when they draft their goaltenders,
because they truly pick a smattering of everything. They created
everything Bagel from their depth charts. They have plays such
an aggressive physical game, which I know we've talked about
in the past, how not every goaltender comp from the
model necessarily physically matches the style of the players that

(39:48):
come up as their comps. They don't always match the
same build or career trajectory. But Connor Hallibuk's style of
being really big but unafraid to use the body, I
guess it's the best way to put it, kind of
what I would say is the best way to describe
what Kaziev does. He really doesn't mind challenging shooters, He

(40:09):
really doesn't mind coming out of his net, doesn't mind
playing the puck, doesn't mind really spending a lot of
time skating around. He does have a pretty good game
on his knees, so it's not like he's doing that
out of We do sometimes see that with bigger goaltenders
who struggle to get in and out of butterfly, where

(40:32):
they're essentially trying to prevent themselves from having to use
too much lower lateral movement. And that's not really a
concern for him. It just seems like he's got this
endless wealth of energy and he is unafraid to use
all of it during a game. It was fun as
a word that I would use as someone who is
not individually invested in the season of the Carolina Hurricanes.

(40:57):
I don't know fun is the word that Carolina Hurricanes
fans would but it was fun watching him adjust to
North American hockey, just because his timing had a learning
curve to it. There's really no other way to put it.
His timing really seemed like it operated on vibes only,
and that's okay. I thought it was a lot of

(41:20):
It was a good, high energy style of play. It
didn't seem like he lost his technique when the wheels
fell off and the train started rolling downhill at rapid speed.
But it did seem like he needed just a little
bit more spatial awareness and a little more command over

(41:42):
his timing, just because he does like to move around
so much, and it seems like he was singed of
getting into the rhythm of what the game looked like,
especially at the age all level. So we'll see if
that improves this year. Sometimes that's something that just takes experience.
Sometimes that's something that a goaltender prefers. A really wide
open rink dimension never really finds it in North America,

(42:05):
but I'd say we'll notice pretty quickly if it's something
that he's going to be able to do, because it
didn't look like it was necessarily a technique thing or
like it was a stamina thing for him. It just
seemed like he was like the vibes were misaligning a
little bit, but they were still there.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
So we'll see how that goes.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
I think he's a lot of fun to watch.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Nice why not take another Russian and why not have
one more in the system, which is what they decided
to do, of course, so they there was this I
don't think was the best year for goalie in the draft.
There wasn't like a scar Off or a Wallstead or
guys like that, but there was mentioning ones. And there

(42:50):
were two goalies taken before Simeon Froloff, who is who
they took at the forty first overall pick, and by
a lot of people's rankings, he was one of the best,
so Peter Andreanov and Josh Ravensberg, and we're certainly in
that conversation. But the fact that they were able to
get for all Off a little bit later I think
was a good piece of business. He was drafted. As

(43:11):
I mentioned the second round. He played only in the
MHL this past season, which always makes it a little
hard to evaluate these prospects. But his numbers there were
pretty good, and he has six three hundred and ninety
six pounds, so he's got good size. His equivalency in
the Hockey Prospecting models twenty nine percent. There's a bunch
of guys who a bunch of NHL ares who look

(43:32):
like that at that stage. So not really a whole
lot to say in terms of comps. We need a
little bit more data on that. But Kat, what can
her instincts tell us about Frollin And where did you
have him ranked amongst this crop of twenty twenty five goalies.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
He was a wait and see for me. I didn't
necessarily have him as someone who needed to was like
a Muss draft. But I didn't think he was a
baffling pick. I thought he was a baffling pick for
as high as he was, But I also thought that
was a baffling pick for as high as he was
given the organization that took him, because I don't necessarily

(44:08):
think that they needed to do that. They didn't need
to do all that. As the kids would say, I
think he's probably a longer term project for them. Just
like you said, he's still playing in the NHL. Hopefully
we'll see some kh I'll action this year, but right
now his conditioning looks like it's not fully ready to

(44:30):
move over to North America. I do think that he's
still kind of working on his decision making because he
does like to play a little bit of a more
athletic game, but he's not quite as explosive or powerful
as keziyev Is.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
I think he's gonna wait and see for me. But
I don't think he was a mistake to pick. I
just think they probably picked him with I don't know
how to put it. I think they picked him knowing
that they need to make sure that they have goaltenders
ready at multiple different stages, which I think some other

(45:08):
organizations could probably learn from. I do think that he's
always off though, and I think they probably know that too.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
The Kines, I think, just like having a robust and
deep system at every position, so why not why not
just take another goalie? Yeah, So anyways, certainly many other
teams would like to have half the depth that the
Kanes have at their prospect system. But thanks cav forgiving
us your instincts on the Caroline Hurricanes' goalies.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Victor, there is something else we got to talk about.
Don't we have something special to give to the listeners.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
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(46:10):
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Speaker 2 (46:26):
We'll be back right after this dig in Dynasty Day

(46:46):
Carolina Hurricanes. Addition, what do we got going on over here?

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Victor?

Speaker 2 (46:50):
People always love the drafts that the Canes make, and
I believe you've got them ranked as your number three
system in the National Hockey League. My goodness, that's pretty good.
And it starts with their no brainer.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Who's that?

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Yeah no brainer is Nikita Artemanov, twenty twenty four, fiftieth
overall pick. They find such value in these drafts five
to eleven, one hundred ninety two pounds. He has been
over in the in Russia for the last two seasons
as a teenager. He was eighteen this first season, nineteen
this season, and he had twenty three points in fifty

(47:24):
four games for Torpedo last season and thirty nine points
in sixty three games this season. Pretty awesome stuff in
the playoffs. After they got eliminated, he went down to
the VHL playoffs and was pretty great for them, playing
is clicking, almost had a half point per game, so
that's nice that he was able to get a little
bit more playing time and experience in the playoffs. Pretty

(47:45):
great stuff. Looking at his FHL player cards, seven point
seven zero is what I have him at. He's not
the biggest volume shooter, just seventy percentile, but again, he
is playing. He's a teenager playing in a men's league,
so you know, he's probably deferring a little bit on
the shots. His hits and blocks are a little bit
below average, and overall his bash should be a little
bit subpar. But he does take a fair amount of
penalties if you like that sort of thing, and his

(48:07):
play driving numbers for the KHL are pretty good. But
let's find out a little bit about our tomorrow from
our FHL scout Jesse.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Tony has this to say. Nikita is a very good skater,
good edges, but he needs to work on explosiveness and speed.
Good passer, puck handler, almost too willing to pass off
to a teammate, although being such a young player in
the KHL it's not surprising and Tony likes that his
coach is the professor. This is probably the weakest part

(48:37):
of his game, that is shooting is Tony's not sure
if it's just being a young player in the KHL
and not enough confidence, and he's going to need to
work on it. Hockey IQ good vision, good IQ, able
to find open teammates and make creative plays to get
them the puck. There is some panic in the higher
KHL competition. However, for checking, Nikita does four check. There's

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a good work ethic in both zones, hounding the puck,
works hard to get the puck into the defensive zone.
Hopefully continues this. It should fit well with the Hurricane style.
So the best asset, Tony says, it's the work ethic
two way player. Biggest concern the shooting the lack of
explosive skating are the two areas Tony worries about the most.

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The top tier outcome Tier two, top six powerplay and
PK time. That's because of his work ethic, ability to
pass the puck and willingness to play both ends of
the ice. The meeting out comes more of a Tier
three player, bottom six a little bit of PK time,
and that's because his work ethic will keep him in
that mix. But the offensive side of the game may

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not develop. In the NHL stylistic comparable, Tony's going with
Chris Draper, possibly with higher offensive upside, and Mason Black.
The NHL ranking has this to say, Nikita Artamanov versus
Riley height of the Minnesota Wild, Artamanov is the big
winner six st four to thirty six Victor. Is that
how you see it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:06):
I do Artamanov more. I like him quite a bit
more he's been playing professionally in Russia and playing against men,
I mean, bigger, stronger, faster competition, one of the best
leagues in the world. So I definitely lean Artamanoff here,
and I think that I would much rather have him
on my team. Of course, I'd like that both of
these guys, but if I had to pick, I would
take Artamanov. His p and achially is also approaching eighty,

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whereas Heights is falling back down too closer to sixty.
So there's that, and looking at the hockey prospect me
within two Artamonovs has gone up to sixty eight percent
chance of being a star at heights has fallen down
to twenty eight, so there's a little bit of support
there as well. He also six point four to five
is what I have him as in the in my
puckstud list at Fantasy Hockey Life. And also the bash

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is a little bit average as well. Doesn't shoot a lot,
doesn't hit or block. This is Riley height, so also
a little bit subpar in terms of the bash. Looking
at some other comps for our Tamanov, there's some interesting
ones here. Nick Bastrom is one that's probably not super realistic.
Kent Johnson is another one. I think that he could
end up being like that. So we await the massive

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outcome or massive breakout from artaman Off and I think
you can get there. But check this out, Jesse, the
notoriously pessimistic Jay Fresh has Nikita Artamanov at ninety four
percent chance of being a star and one hundred percent
chance of being an NHL or that. If I don't
know what confidence is, find someone that loves you as

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much as Jay Fresh loves his artamanof Jesse, I.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Love it, I love it, Victor. All right, then let's
go on to the need to know prospect.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Yeah, I need to know is Bradley Nadeaux. And he
was a twenty twenty three first rounder, thirtieth overall, five
eleven hundred and seventy two pounds. He finished college last
season and got an couple, got into an NHL game,
and this season had a couple but mostly was in
the AHL and fifty eight points in sixty four games.

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Pretty awesome stuff for a guy who played mostly as
a teenager in the AHL. Thirty two goals was a
part of that. That's really awesome stuff. He also was
on that U twenty team for Canada did have two goals,
including an absolute beauty. He did as much as he could.
I think he was even the leader scorer for that team,
which wasn't saying a whole lot, but he actually did

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have some really nice attempts there. Looking at the Fantasy
Hockey Life Player card, I have him as a seven
point eight, meaning not super confident that he can get
up to a seven, but I do think he has
that potential, which is pretty nice. Not a lot of
guys have that in my model. And then the shots,
I have him at eightieth percentile, hits at sixtieth, and

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blocks at twentieth. Overall, Bradley Nando should be slightly above
average in terms of his bash, but let's see what
else he's slightly above average at.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Jesse Tony speaks on Bradley Nade and here's what he's
got to say. For the skating, very good, fast, almost
always in motion, passing and handling. That's a positive. He's
a passer, able to handle the puck enough to get
his shot off, shooting excellent shot. The one timer is
just elite. Bradley has very good hockey IQ and vision

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according to Tony, and he didn't see any panic at
either level he viewed. Didn't see a lot of for checking.
Bradley does play some defense, but probably not his strong suit.
But the best asset, Tony says is the vision that
he creates seam passes to get the puck up the ice.
As mentioned before, he has an elite level one timer

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and the biggest concern needs to get a little more
physical and pick up his defense. So the top tier
outcome Tier one, top six winger, powerplay specialist. That's because
of the vision and the elite level shot. The median
outcome Tier three, bottom six with spotty power play time.
That's if the physical aspect does not improve and the

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lack of defense continues. Stylistic comparable a more mobile Brett
Hull type, and the final thoughts in today's NHL, Tony
thinks Bradley can make a career. Hopefully he does not
become the next team of Polkinan. He could really help
out the Canes offense well. Bradley Nadau in the NHL

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Rankking Pole goes up against Maverick Bork of the Dallas
Stars and a Doe in the win fifty five to
forty five percent over the young mister Bork Victor. Is
that an accurate assessment of the relative standing of these
two gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Yeah, I think so. I like Bork a lot. He
seems like he's going to be settling in to be
a third liner with Dallas, and what he did this
year was fine. He looks like an NHLer, but he
also looks more as like a depth guy. I'm not
sure he's going to push his way all the way
to the top of the lineup. There's really not any
room I wouldn't. I don't think unless you're Why Johnson
type and you're going to force your way, and we've
already Johnson do that, and I think if Bork was

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going to do that, he would have shown more already.
So I'm going to take Nadou. He hasn't been at
that level yet, but every step of the way he's
been killing it and he really provides that finishing that
Carolina so desperately needs. So I definitely would prefer him.
I think it's a better organizational fit. I think he
had some more unique skill set that he brings, and
I think that overall he's.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
A better asset.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
His pnhle is also way higher. Eighty three is where
he's at Bork this season fell down to thirty seven,
so that's not as exciting. Looking at the hockey prospect
between the two, Nadeau has forty one percent chance of
being a star to Bork's fifteen, and I have Bork
at a seven point one two, so I still have
some faith that he can get up to that, but
the low percentage shows that it's a little bit pessimistic there.

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Looking at some of the other comps for Bradley Nadeau,
there's some interesting ones like Alex Tuck I think is
one that maybe he looks a little bit alike. If
you want to be more pessimistic, maybe he could be
more like a Nick Bukstad or Marco Sturm, But I
think he has the upside to be more of Alex
Tuck type, but with more goals, so that would be great.
And looking at the J Fresh card eleven percent chance

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of being a star and seventy nine percent chance of
being an NHL aer, Bradley nado certainly know Nikit Artamanov
in J Fresh's eyes.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
And who is to keep your eye on prospect.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
That would be Justin Priye twenty twenty four fifth round pick,
little guy five eight, one hundred and eighty five pounds,
and that's really the big knock against him. He would
have gone a lot earlier than the fifth round to
Carolina had he been a little bit taller, but he's
still pretty short. He's been with Bea Coomo Drakar and
the queue for the last two seasons. He was eight,

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he had eighty points in sixty eight games. Last season
when he was drafted, he bumped that up to eighty
points in fifty eight games. Pretty awesome stuff for him.
He's going to main next year of the NCAA. I
think that's going to really help his development and we'll
see how he can do taking another step in development.
I like him, and I think that he has an
opportunity to develop a more well rounded game to break through,

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but I think I still think it's a little bit unlikely.
That's why I have him as a five point thirty
six in my ranks, because I have questions of whether
he can translate all that. So the thirty six percent
chance of being a five is where I have him.
Looking at his bash, he's one hundred percentile for shot,

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sixtieth for both hits and blocks, So overall his bash
should be pretty good. So you like to hear that.
Let's hear what else we like to hear about Justin
pie From r FHL scout.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Tony says this on Justin Poirier, skating is good but
needs some work, especially on the edges, passing and handling.
Tony likes him especially when in the offensive zone. The
shooting an elite snapshot and risk shot, especially down on
the facehoff dot down toward the goal. Justin lacks a
little vision as far as his Hockey IQ, but anticipation

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and poised with the puck is excellent. Ford checking. Justin
likes to fore check, to get the puck back and shoot.
The defense seems to be ford checking in the offensive zone.
That's how Justin plays his defense. But Pourier's best asset
is that shot. His tenacity is a close second. The

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biggest concern lack of focus other than when he has
the puck. The top tier outcome Tier two middle six
forward with power play time. That's because his shot first
and foremost, and for his willingness to for check and
get the puck back to shoot again. The median outcome
Tier three, bottom six limited special teams. That's because he's
smallish well, not a lot of bash going on there,

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lack of focus when playing without the puck, the comparable
being a less focused Cole Cawfield. In the final outcome,
Justin could be a special player if played in the
right role and works on becoming a better team passing
more than he does now. And the NHL ranking Mason
Black has this to say, Justin pourier versus Idar Sunyev

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and the pourier on the winning end of this fifty
nine point five percent to forty point five for Sugnie
of Victor. Is that how this happens?

Speaker 3 (59:20):
I don't know. I think I like Sunyev better actually so.
For one, he's six to two hundred pounds and doesn't
have those size concerns. He also has been killing it
at the NCAA level for two seasons now after coming
from the BHL, and that's a much tougher league. I
think that I'm gonna go with a Sunyev. I think
he has a much better chance of being a consistent

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NHL er than does Poarier, and I shows in my
ranks I have him had a six point four to four,
so I have the upside higher and I have the
probability higher for Sunyev, so give me Adr Soniyev. The
P and H league between these two is somewhat similar.
Puaries is a little bit higher, but Sounyev's is more
of a direct upward trajectory, so I like to see

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that trend. And the hockey prospect in between the two
is down to six percent and sunyea one percent. But
a big part of that is that his draft minus
one season was a little bit low, so that and
then his draft season was in the BCHL, So he's
being punished for what happened two and three seasons ago
as opposed to focusing on what's happening now. And I
think that there's a lot of a lot of lot

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to be happy about with Sunyev in terms of what's
happening now. His bash also figures to be well above average,
with both the shots and hits above average and his
blocks being just averaged, So definitely some excitement there. Looking
at some of the comps for Poia, Brendan Gallagher is
of course a small guy that everyone wants to comp to.
He was more of an average producer. His PNHL was

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a little bit higher at the in the draft plus
one season, but similar in the draft season. Maybe an
outcome like that is possible, but I think it's a
little less likely. Looking at the j freshcard for Poia,
five percent chance of being a star nineteen percent chance
of being an NHL are so a little bit more pessimistic.
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