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Like I would love to see if you like I
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mentioned this in the slack earlier and
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I I wonder how much they're going to
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look into this in the future with so
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many right-handed shots to play at right
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wing, but I I do wonder if they give the
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Michkov left wing thing a try again
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because he is better on the right, which
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is his natural side. But
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I know Tocker also loves his freaking
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handed sidedness matchups there and
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if you want to get him into the top six,
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especially if you know, Tippett gives
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you the speed and the size and Martone
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Maybe you have to shift him to the left
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hand side because I would love
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eventually to see Michkov and Martone
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play together for that size aspect or
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even Michkov and Forrester because
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you've got some they need some size. I
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think Matvei Michkov's biggest problem
0:45
this year beyond the fitness and Rick
0:48
lack of understanding about what kind of
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player he is is the fact that teams have
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been going to him. They've been
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gravitating them. They've not given him
0:56
any space to work and this is the one
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area where I'll give Keith Jones a lot
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of credit on the size argument because
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if they had a big center to help
1:05
distract from that and really take away
1:07
from that, I think that would help
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Michkov a ton. He has no space to work
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out there. I don't think it's even just
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a size thing. I think it's offense. Like
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if he's on a line with Kates and Barkey,
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he's the easy mark for the opponents to
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go smother. Like Kates is not He's
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scoring He's probably like a 40 to 50
1:23
point guy. That's awesome. Denver Barkey
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is a rookie in this league. Who's the
1:27
guy on that line that's going to create
1:29
the offense? It's Michkov. So when
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you're trying to defend against that
1:32
line, if you just smother Michkov, you
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can you can shut them down pretty
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Um He needs an offensive foil. Someone
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who can kind of take the heat away to
1:42
create that space for him, but And you
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know In an ideal world, I think they'd
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Couturier even up there, right? A bit
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um before his offense completely fell
1:54
off a cliff. I mean, he was not He was
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>> Right. And we saw Couturier and Michkov
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work out in that regard at times.
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And he's got that defensive mindset as
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well. Yep. And Couturier when he
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actually is capable of doing that is
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really I I wish man, you want to talk
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about I wish I could throw him some sort
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of like Lazarus machine and de-age him
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like 10 years because Couturier in his
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prime and Michkov would be a beautiful
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combination together, but unfortunately
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Couturier is like Luke Glendening's my
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best partner now. What
