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The 2026 NHL draft is quickly
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approaching and we have several mock
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drafts out there now after the scouting
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combine. I am Ryan Gilbert. This is
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Thomas Williams joining me for Broad
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Street Hockey and we're going to be
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reacting to some of the recent mock
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drafts here, specifically around the
0:21
Philadelphia Flyers here. Uh let's just
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get right into things here, Thomas.
0:26
Starting with the most recent mock draft
0:28
of uh Scott Wheeler had this recently
0:31
this week had them taking the only
0:33
defenseman that has been mocked to the
0:35
Flyers recently is Maxim Sakalovski uh a
0:38
big 6'7 seven and seven seven and a
0:41
quarter he is uh 7 and a quart inches
0:43
240 pounds out of the London Knights. So
0:46
you know Keith Jones loves that height.
0:48
You know the Flyers love drafting London
0:51
Knights. What are your thoughts on uh
0:52
this big defenseman? I mean, I feel like
0:54
that's the reason why it was mocked to
0:57
them. I know Maddie mentioned it on uh
0:59
hyperbole recently, but like it this
1:02
mock of Sakowski to the Flyers was just
1:05
like Scott Wheeler kind of seeing like,
1:07
oh, we know Flyers draft big. We know
1:10
that they like London. And I think he
1:11
literally wrote that in the write up.
1:13
So, it's like, oh, this is an easy
1:14
equation to make. But so like if we're
1:17
just taking the player for what he is,
1:20
he he is an interesting case because you
1:23
look at his profile as like a hard
1:26
hitter doesn't put up any points. I
1:27
think he had eight points for London
1:29
this year
1:30
>> um in like 50some games and like so
1:33
you're not seeing anything and like
1:36
coming from the OHL to like a defenseman
1:38
that scored under 10 points is like you
1:40
don't want it that even close to your
1:41
first round. Like I think someone even
1:44
like the Flyers drafted Luke Volwswick
1:46
out of out of Red Deer I think like two
1:49
like last year I think and he like
1:51
scored more and I think he was like a
1:53
fifth round or a sixth round pick and
1:54
that was in the dub but like um yeah
1:56
like but with Sakalovi specifically he
2:00
moves well enough that you can envision
2:02
him being like a solid shutdown guy like
2:06
like for his size like he's massive and
2:09
he skates well enough that he has this
2:11
like weird kind of like deep stride in
2:14
his skating that he can move around the
2:16
ice. Um, well, but it's also like I
2:21
don't know how well that could translate
2:23
to the NHL and then like it's it's
2:27
hard because if you're d if you're
2:28
drafting like a shutdown guy, you want
2:30
some more tools in the first round and I
2:32
feel like so with Sakalovski
2:34
specifically, if the Flyers were to go
2:36
with that, I feel like I would just
2:38
trust them. I would want to trust them
2:41
with like, okay, like this is your guy.
2:43
He's gonna like go to college and then
2:45
like he's gonna develop part of like his
2:47
B game rather than like him just being a
2:49
shutdown and and a punisher and a
2:51
massive hitter and he's like a prick.
2:53
Like I I remember watching um him
2:56
against uh the Sue. I think it was in
2:59
the playoffs. Um and Brady Martin,
3:01
famous like almost flyer, he like he was
3:05
killing him the entire game. like he
3:07
like would like demolish him over around
3:10
the boards and like got right into his
3:11
face and was like smiling and grinning
3:13
at him and looking down at him. So like
3:15
he can be a really fun player. Like I'm
3:17
sure like Flyers fans will love him,
3:19
especially like the London Connection
3:21
stuff, but I I just I don't see the fit
3:23
as like maximizing your first round
3:25
pick. Like as a second first round pick,
3:27
sure, whatever. Like you're getting your
3:28
physical guy if you go like all skill
3:30
for the first pick. But as you're like,
3:33
here's our first round pick of like us
3:35
making the playoffs and maybe getting
3:36
the most out of this late first that we
3:39
have and hopefully we're like picking in
3:41
the late round for the rest of the like
3:43
for a few more years. Um I I just don't
3:46
see it. It's not a lot of it's not a
3:47
high upside pick.
3:49
>> Yeah, you're not maximizing that pick
3:50
with no uh no pun intended there with a
3:52
with Maxim Sakalowski here. Uh he's been
3:55
over in North America for two years now.
3:58
He did put up 84 points for the uh 16
4:01
and under Atlantic Coast Academy there,
4:03
which I just did some quick research.
4:05
That was that led all defenseman with 84
4:07
points, 34 goals, 50 assists, but yeah,
4:11
only only eight points there in 44 games
4:14
for the London Knights. I imagine he
4:16
goes back there again this coming
4:17
season, uh committed to the University
4:19
of Maine for the season after that. Uh
4:23
but yeah, the Elite Prospects Draft
4:24
Guide, which we'll be referencing here a
4:26
bit, says, "Undeniably the draft's
4:28
meanest, most physical player with the
4:29
potential to be become so much more a
4:31
high probability NHLer with top four
4:34
upside." I just think a lot of Flyers
4:36
fans will see this and get PTSD to to
4:39
Sam Moran, another big 6'7 defenseman,
4:43
first round pick who ultimately,
4:45
unfortunately, his big body uh gave out
4:47
on him with multiple knee issues. I
4:49
mean, at least like Merren's the whole
4:51
thing was like he couldn't skate at all.
4:53
So, like at least Sakalasi has that
4:55
going for him. Like he does possess some
4:57
skating skill, but yeah, like it's it's
4:59
still like you're drafting a mean a big
5:01
mean guy, maybe a maybe like the
5:04
high-end potential of him being a number
5:06
four eventually, like a I don't even
5:08
know what the comparable is, like an
5:10
Eric Cernac or something like But
5:12
Cernach has like Yeah.
5:13
>> Zor Zidorov is what Elite Pro does.
5:16
>> Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah.
5:18
But even Zorva's height, like he
5:20
shouldn't have been on the second pair.
5:21
Like he's a bottom pair. I don't know,
5:23
whatever.
5:23
>> Yeah. And and like Yeah, he he's young
5:27
here. He's uh 17, turns 18 on July 12th.
5:31
So, a long runway for him definitely
5:33
with somebody uh of that size. So, not
5:36
not exciting for fans either because
5:37
fans want to see guys and want to see,
5:38
oh, do they have a chance to make the
5:40
team in in the next year or so? And
5:42
Sakalowski definitely has the longer
5:43
runway. Um, and yeah, but he that's the
5:48
type of guy that that always holds a lot
5:49
of value. Everyone's always looking for
5:51
big defenseman. So, there definitely
5:53
could be worse picks out there. Um, and
5:55
than Sakalovski.
5:57
Um, then going over to the mock drafts
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before that, I did a mockdraft roundup
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for broadstrohockey.com. Go like and
6:04
subscribe over there earlier this week.
6:07
Um, there were two centers mocked to the
6:10
Flyers twice. And and let's start with
6:12
the one that Flyers fans might be
6:14
dreading here. Uh Jack Hexall, even
6:17
outside of the Hexaw name, Jack Hexall
6:19
seems like a Flyers type of player. It
6:23
basically projects to be a Scott Laden
6:25
type guy who could maybe be a second
6:27
line guy at most. Projected to go later
6:31
in the uh first round than the 21st
6:34
overall pick. Uh what do you think about
6:36
about Jackie Hexaw here?
6:38
>> I I think he's a safe pick. like that
6:40
that's the whole thing is like again he
6:42
doesn't has have some like immense skill
6:46
um the USHL this year because of the I
6:50
feel like because of the like new NCAA
6:53
and the CHL rules that took some talent
6:55
of the USHL um I found watching a little
7:00
bit of the USHL this year like it felt
7:02
more pro ready than the OHL like and and
7:05
other and WHL and QMJHL like it felt
7:08
more like this is the kind of pace that
7:11
you're going to be dealing with at the
7:12
pro level rather than like OHL, you're
7:14
like if you're playing against Brford,
7:17
you're just going to get opened up like
7:18
crazy and and Brford's going to walk all
7:20
over you and have opportunities and um a
7:24
much more shallow league where US far
7:26
more like balanced and and competitive.
7:28
Um, so to see him be able to produce at
7:33
a certain level, like I believe he was a
7:35
point per game. Um, which is like kind
7:37
of high-end in the US USHL for a draft
7:40
eligible. um doesn't have immense size,
7:43
doesn't have immense speed, doesn't have
7:44
immense skill, but it's just like the
7:48
work ethic and the ability to think the
7:51
game and and see open ice and see the
7:55
opportunities that are ahead of him are
7:57
pretty pretty high-end. Um not as like I
8:00
wouldn't say top of the draft or
8:02
anything like that, but I I feel like
8:04
there are
8:06
things that you could do you could do
8:08
worse than Hex for sure. Like I I think
8:11
if the Flyers were to get him
8:14
wouldn't be a very pretty pick. It
8:17
wouldn't be like oh like this guy's
8:19
going to be like like see like this like
8:22
trajectory of like a Zarovski or
8:24
something from last year where he's like
8:25
a KHL rookie of the year and and and
8:28
whatever and like putting up highlight
8:29
reels and um banking on his skill. Um,
8:33
but he's going to be a player that will
8:35
eventually like work probably do two or
8:37
three years in college and then like
8:38
work his way into being like, "Oh,
8:40
here's our third line center right away
8:43
when we need him because we like traded
8:45
a bunch of prospects away kind of like
8:47
where the Wild are right now or
8:49
something like with a Strammo like
8:51
here's our perfect 3C that we can just
8:53
inject into the lineup and he knows
8:55
exactly what to do kind of thing." Um,
8:57
so yeah, I I I like Hexl. I I I I would
9:01
rate him if I I don't do rankings cuz I
9:04
I hate them. But like and it feels like
9:06
very prickish for me some like me to do
9:08
a ranking. But like if I were to say
9:10
like around if I were to go like player
9:14
by player and pick who I'd rather have,
9:15
I think Hexaw would finish around like
9:17
30th. So like again like not like crazy
9:20
low, not like Sakalovski just feels like
9:23
out of the blue where Hex feels more
9:25
like yeah sure we'll see you in two or
9:28
three years but like we'll see you at
9:30
dev camp. See if you stand out at all
9:32
like Yeah.
9:34
>> Yeah. Hex had 58 points in 59 games in
9:38
the USL which was 15th most. uh his two
9:41
I'm assuming line mates Ryan Rasinski of
9:43
the Sabres prospect and Cooper Simpson
9:46
of uh Bruins uh there also were ahead of
9:49
him. Um yeah, EP says robust two-way
9:52
center who combines productivity and
9:54
physicality, pace and speed are low uh
9:56
but passing skill is high enough to make
9:58
him a middle six forward. He seems like
10:01
a guy that the Flyers could maybe trade
10:03
down and still try to get later in the
10:05
first round. Uh Mike Morali of NHL.com
10:08
is one of the two along with Corey
10:11
Proudman in his June 1st mockdraft that
10:13
have the Flyers taking him. And
10:15
interestingly enough, uh NHL.com Adam
10:17
Kimmelman does not have Hextoall going
10:19
in the first round in the most recent
10:21
mock draft. So that is something uh that
10:23
you know speaks to where Hextoall is
10:26
kind of all over the place. He does have
10:28
another kind of Flyers connection uh
10:31
going to Michigan State this fall. uh
10:32
Flyers, you know, very closely worked
10:34
with them with Porter Martone. So, yeah,
10:37
he seems like a safe pick. That would be
10:39
a very okay, fine type of reaction,
10:42
right? On on draft night.
10:44
>> Yeah. Like I don't I don't think at 21
10:46
you like you're not screaming uh it's
10:48
not as boo, not to bring that up, but
10:50
like it's not a thing where like it's
10:52
hard to imagine a prospect being there
10:54
be like you have to take this guy or
10:55
take him make mistake and then they text
10:57
Hexall. Um, again, yeah, like if they
11:00
take Hex Doll, I'm sure there'll be
11:01
people like yelling and screaming online
11:03
about it, but um
11:05
>> it's kind of like a fun story also mixed
11:07
with like a decent prospect.
11:10
>> Yeah. And so the other center that was
11:12
mocked to the Flyers twice, both by uh
11:14
Alfention Kimmelman and also uh Joe
11:18
Yordan of Blitzer Report is Alexander
11:20
Command. Command a Swedish center there.
11:24
He's more seems to be more highly
11:26
regarded than Hexl. Maybe has a higher
11:29
end upside, would you say?
11:31
>> Yeah, I would say for sure. Like if
11:33
Command hits, then I think you're
11:35
looking at a solid second line center.
11:37
Um, but that's like probably his his
11:40
peak. Again, he like he's a June
11:41
birthday, so he has a lot of runway. um
11:44
he's scoring a hell of a lot and at the
11:45
U20 level um in Sweden. So like it's
11:48
it's he's basically been like an
11:51
annoying
11:53
barky level work ethic guy in in Sweden
11:57
juniors. um young again, but like he's
12:02
he's he's the type of player that
12:05
doesn't like wow you with the the like
12:07
the skill or the soft skill, but more of
12:10
a hard skill guy, but he he would have
12:12
enough soft skill to complement the
12:16
other players around him. Like if you
12:18
were to play with say like
12:19
hypothetically play with a Mitch Calver
12:21
and Martone eventually and say he hits a
12:23
ceiling in two or three four years um
12:27
then he could hang with those guys. Um
12:30
yeah like I I see him as just like a
12:32
play driving
12:34
solidifier supporter in a role like
12:37
again like the third best player on a
12:38
good line or uh your best player on the
12:42
third line um kind of guy. Um but yeah
12:46
like I I like command. I I think if they
12:48
if they took him
12:51
there there are some doubts that I have
12:52
that he like turns it on enough to make
12:56
it into the SHL cuz he again he hasn't
12:58
played too many games in the SHL yet. I
13:01
think it's six or seven or something
13:03
like that.
13:04
>> Um so yeah, there's still some pro need
13:07
to see like some actual like pro style
13:10
games from him and see if that can
13:13
happen and and work. But right now, it's
13:15
just like you're banking on a lot of
13:17
junior production and how he looks
13:19
against like players that if you're
13:23
drafting around in the first round, I
13:24
would like the player to have some
13:27
experience at least in the SHL like like
13:30
you're talking about other defenseman
13:31
like Monty Guffson had like played
13:32
almost the entire season SHL. Uh a
13:35
defenseman Yuo Pipper in played almost
13:38
the entire season in Liga. like I would
13:40
I would like hypothetically to have this
13:44
prospect play at the top do domestic
13:47
level that they could. Um but it yeah I
13:51
I think I think you're looking at a
13:53
solid solid pick. I think he has more
13:54
upside than someone like Hexl
13:57
offensively but then I think this the
13:59
floor with him is lower than Hexl if
14:02
that makes sense.
14:03
>> Yeah. No, that absolutely makes sense.
14:05
He he does seem to be ranked higher by
14:07
most outlets. Uh he was ninth in scoring
14:11
in the under20 league there in Sweden.
14:13
Uh 44 points, 17 goals in 30 games.
14:17
Yeah, just six games in the SHL. And
14:20
that is something that kind of worries
14:21
me a little bit with drafting these
14:23
players that are over in Sweden is not
14:25
really necessarily controlling where
14:26
they're playing because the SHL is a
14:29
legit league. Like those teams are
14:30
trying to win. They're not going to give
14:32
into an NHL team being like, "All right,
14:34
play my guy third line minutes, second
14:36
line minutes when they're they're trying
14:38
to trying to win over there." Um, yeah,
14:40
command uh 6 foot and a half inch there
14:43
among the most competitive players in
14:44
the class. EP says ultra physical for
14:47
his size. Also has the playmaking and
14:49
finishing chops to project as a third
14:51
line NHL center. Shades of Joel Ericen
14:53
Ek or Jake Evans there. So yeah, another
14:57
potential middle six center for the
14:59
Flyers to add to to their pipeline cuz
15:01
they don't have enough of those.
15:03
>> Yeah, I mean that's the thing like but
15:05
that's the thing like if you're drafting
15:06
around this range it feels fine to get
15:09
this guy but it's just the fact that
15:10
like the Flyers already have so many of
15:12
these guys and they drafted them way
15:14
higher.
15:14
>> It doesn't really feel good. Um but
15:17
yeah, that's where we're at.
15:19
>> Yeah. Uh, another center who is mocked
15:21
to the Flyers by uh, Steven Ellis of
15:24
Daily Faceoff back on June 4th was
15:26
Oliver Suvanto. Another European guy
15:28
finished. He seems he might be one of my
15:31
uh, I haven't done too much research
15:33
yet, but one of my top targets um, so
15:35
far. 6'2 and three quarters. Um, played
15:38
in the LIA last year, put up 11 points
15:41
in 48 games. Shades of Jordan Stall,
15:43
who's putting up some good numbers now
15:45
in the Stanley Cup final. Uh what do you
15:47
think about uh this Finnish center?
15:51
>> He's an interesting case cuz cuz he he
15:53
was getting hype a lot around the World
15:56
Juniors because he played well there. um
15:58
he was getting hype kind of post that
16:01
and in the spring when people were
16:02
catching on and paying more attention to
16:04
the draft and seeing like more
16:05
finalizing their rankings and then now
16:08
you're seeing like I think Prawman put
16:10
out Prawman in his mock or Wheeler in
16:12
his mock I think um put him at like 28
16:15
like 29 or something like that like he
16:17
just completely dropped and I think it's
16:19
I think it's less about Suanto but more
16:21
about other players like um a command a
16:25
uh hexall a other player Sakalowski that
16:29
we've already talked about like those
16:30
types of players I think get raising
16:32
their stocks and Sonto seeing like old
16:34
hat at this point cuz he was already
16:36
seen as like a top 10 pick that then
16:38
went down and kind of like not as as
16:41
shiny as other players. Um but I I like
16:45
Suvanto. I I I think he's obviously
16:47
massive. He's 6'3. Um already 214 pounds
16:51
which feels absolutely insane to beat
16:53
that. And then also he's extremely
16:55
young. his September 3rd birthday. So
16:57
when we were talking about like Jet
16:58
Luchenko being oh youngest player in his
17:01
draft or whatever, he's two weeks
17:03
younger than he was in his draft year.
17:05
Like he Suvanto is about math. Uh less
17:09
than two weeks away from being a 2027
17:11
pick. So like extremely extremely young.
17:15
Um and already that big. I feel like the
17:18
ceiling is just like pretty high. Okay.
17:21
But then we're talking about maybe a
17:22
potential like where Jack Bergland is
17:25
right now in terms of like
17:29
playing in the SHL and then or or
17:31
playing like around where he is. even
17:33
though like Suvanto kind of performed
17:36
around where Bergland did um this season
17:40
in Liga um compared to SHL or whatever.
17:43
But like I I think the inter the
17:47
interesting thing is if they determine
17:48
if the Flyers determine that Suvanto has
17:50
room to grow in physical tools like
17:52
skating and like skating and slow pace
17:55
is a little bit of an issue. um his shot
17:57
isn't great, but like the the way that
18:00
he plays the game is just so standard to
18:02
be the 3C. Again, like another example
18:05
of like if you draft him and you're like
18:07
going for it and you have like if if the
18:09
Flyers have that 1C and then you have
18:12
Ziggress and then you're like we traded
18:14
away Forester and Tippet to get that 1C
18:16
or whatever and like for a good
18:17
defenseman and they're like we need a 3C
18:20
like Luchenko and Bergland are better
18:22
wingers or something like that or we
18:24
just need someone 3 years from now
18:26
Suvant's probably banging on the door to
18:28
be that. Um, but then like this the like
18:32
the ceiling isn't there to be anything
18:34
more. Like I I think his ceiling's lower
18:36
than a Nesbbit and a Luchenko
18:38
personally. Um, but I I still like him
18:41
enough to really think of him as a a
18:44
good target to have um at this level.
18:48
again like just like if you have a a
18:50
smart guy that's big and like so mature
18:53
for his game and like could probably go
18:55
right to the AHL and then he's just a
18:57
step away from the NHL like and then see
19:00
where it goes like play on a really good
19:02
Phantoms team play on teams with
19:03
Luchenko and Berglin play on a Phantoms
19:06
team with like potentially bump for a
19:07
little bit or depending on what they do
19:09
this summer or um like good prospects um
19:14
and Ilopatov um see what happens with uh
19:18
like that AHL team and and how he stacks
19:22
against other players and to to be just
19:25
a step away from the from the NHL is
19:27
pretty good. Um I don't know his league
19:29
of contract situation. It might be
19:31
already figured out, but um yeah, like I
19:34
I I like Suanto. I I think if the Fly if
19:37
the Flyers took him, I would not be
19:41
I I would not be disappointed at all. I
19:43
think he there is the potential that he
19:45
goes way before like I've I've heard
19:48
some scouts talk about him as a top 10
19:50
pick still and like just because he has
19:52
the size and and and plays down the
19:54
middle and like if you're comparing him
19:56
against would you rather take him or
19:57
like a a Ryan Lynn like who's a small
20:00
defenseman um would you rather take him
20:03
or a a Wyatt Cullen who like grew eight
20:07
inches in a in like two years um or like
20:11
a uh like Yeah, I'm just trying to think
20:13
of like mid mid- first round guys like
20:15
he'll be compared to those guys rather
20:17
than compared to the guys in the later
20:19
part of the first round I feel like so
20:21
um he might have some team that just
20:24
falls in love with him and falls in love
20:25
with the package and takes him like 12th
20:27
overall or something like he's a blue
20:29
like St. St. those Blues feel like that.
20:31
But um yeah, like again I'm ranting, but
20:33
like yeah, like it's I feel like the
20:35
Flyers it's a good fit and just it makes
20:38
sense for what they're doing. Um but he
20:41
is also like just cut from the same
20:43
cloth with a lot of prospects that they
20:44
have.
20:45
>> Yeah, he is mocked to the Blues by
20:47
Kimmelman there as.com went up into the
20:49
Islanders. He seemed like such an
20:51
Islander as well at at 13th overall
20:53
there. But it's even more impressive
20:55
that he he stuck around in the LIA there
20:57
for 48 games being almost, you know, a
20:59
2027 draft class guy. Uh he
21:03
>> did sign a one-year extension with Tara
21:06
back in April, so he'll be there for one
21:08
more year. But yeah, maybe after that he
21:10
gets an exception plays with the
21:11
Phantoms. Like yeah, he seems like at
21:14
the very least a 3C and you know, if
21:16
he's able to grow these tools playing
21:19
against not playing against not men,
21:21
like give him in the phantoms for a bit.
21:23
It seems like a guy that has the floor
21:26
of a hexall type and has a higher
21:28
ceiling. Well, that that's the thing
21:30
with these these players that like play
21:31
their full season in pro European pros.
21:34
Like I I'm sure I'm sure it's talked
21:36
about like among NHL scouts or whatever,
21:38
but I feel like that is just like such a
21:39
like underrated thing to think about cuz
21:42
if you look at players that are like
21:44
you're talking about players that are
21:45
playing in the in the US development
21:47
program and they're playing like the
21:48
oldest player that they face is 19, 20.
21:51
They might play colleges like a couple
21:53
times like all that stuff and then like
21:55
or you're playing in the OHL and the
21:57
Yeah. the oldest player you play is 20
21:59
years old and and he's going to be a
22:00
future electrician in Sudbury. Like like
22:03
I don't know what like how you can
22:05
compare that to PE to then players like
22:07
who have played professional and there
22:09
are players playing in the NHL who have
22:12
played like I I wish I remembered the
22:14
exact prospect. there is a prospect that
22:16
like is playing on a on a team that's
22:20
just like full of actual NHL team NHL
22:23
players that you would know like like
22:25
old former grinders or whatever like
22:27
there's a prospect that is just like
22:30
among these players and and in a locker
22:32
room with them and understanding and
22:34
learning from them and a pro level and
22:35
then comparing it to like even Calam
22:38
Holtra who might go third overall like
22:39
yeah he's playing in the OHL like yeah
22:41
he's one of the best players in it but
22:42
like he's playing like he has the
22:44
advantage obviously of being like
22:46
related to Steve Nash and all that
22:47
stuff, but like and Manny, but like it's
22:50
it's um yeah, it just feels like you
22:52
it's comparing apples to oranges cuz
22:54
like there's these players that have
22:57
have the distinct advantage of like
22:58
already being pro and and and playing
23:01
around that and like above college and
23:03
like stuff like that. Like like Malta,
23:04
that's why I love Malta Guffson. Like
23:06
not to go on a ramble, but like when
23:07
when the Flyers were off out of the
23:08
playoffs and like had maybe like the
23:10
12th overall pick, I was like Malta
23:12
Guffson all the way. like he's just like
23:14
so sick and I don't know but whatever.
23:17
>> Yeah. And and not sorry for Flyers fans
23:19
who bring this up but like someone like
23:20
someone like Jay O'Brien playing against
23:22
high schoolers and going in the first
23:23
round rather than someone playing
23:25
playing against men over over in Europe.
23:28
>> Yeah.
23:28
>> I know. And then like well like and then
23:30
there are the cases of like maybe
23:31
physical tools and and and soft skill
23:33
like Dean Lerno who like was playing St.
23:35
Andrew College which is like a private
23:37
school up in Toronto. He was playing
23:39
that in drafted out of that. like that's
23:40
even worse than Minnesota high school I
23:42
think and like he was and then he sucked
23:45
at BC and then he had like a great year
23:46
just at BC and I was like okay well just
23:48
took you're you're you're waiting a
23:51
little bit longer where like these
23:52
players are already playing like ready
23:55
are like more ready made not have a high
23:57
ceiling or whatever but like I feel like
23:58
you can just plug in plug them in and
24:00
they know what to do but
24:02
>> yeah just to wrap up Savvto here he did
24:03
go down to the uh under 20 to power team
24:06
for the playoffs got five assists in 14
24:08
playoff games there and did get into one
24:10
playoff game with uh in the LIA there.
24:12
So, it shows his his physicality, his
24:14
maturity there already as as a young
24:16
player in this draft. Uh we started with
24:19
a 6'7 defenseman. Let's end here with a
24:22
6'7 center in Brooks Regowski, who I
24:26
know Jacob Russell is a huge fan of
24:28
here. Thomas, are you as big of a fan of
24:30
Regowski as your fellow uh Hamiltonian
24:33
brother? I mean, so Jacob like hates
24:35
Regowski, but I know it's like a joke,
24:37
whatever, but I I I don't mind Rowski
24:41
intrigues me at least. Um, he is likes
24:45
like like Sukalowski, he moves well for
24:48
his size and with I I I watch enough
24:53
Jen's games to like cuz I'm in the area
24:56
um that I've seen Regoski a little bit
25:00
and
25:01
he pulls off some moves where I'm like,
25:03
"Oh, like that like that's like soft.
25:05
Like that's nice. like kind of like Tage
25:08
Thompsonesque like you you he's the
25:10
hulking and he's like moving and he's
25:12
going like this and then he goes like
25:14
like kind of like just a little soft and
25:16
then a little like quick little snappy
25:18
play. Um and you're you're like you kind
25:21
of peek up and and get out of your chair
25:22
a little bit. Um so so I I think he's
25:26
interesting. Again, I don't see him as
25:28
being I would rather take command. I'd
25:30
rather take a a Marzovv or whatever
25:34
another center. rather take Zuvanto, but
25:36
like Regazi if they took him or if they
25:38
turned it down and like got him at like
25:40
31 or something like that um snatch up
25:42
another pick like I wouldn't hate it
25:45
completely. Um I think he has uh he has
25:48
the skating that Jack Nesbbit is sorely
25:51
lacking. Um he has the skill that I
25:55
think Jack Nesbbit also wants a little
25:57
bit. Um, Nez has some, but um, yeah,
26:00
like I I think Rowski, if you could see
26:02
a world where like he's drafted and then
26:07
developed in the in college and just
26:09
pops off like crazy
26:11
>> and then he's like and then he's
26:12
suddenly like people are really hyped
26:14
about him. So I I can see a world of
26:15
that happening. Um, I don't hate it, but
26:17
again like I feel like it's a higher
26:20
risk play than a lot of like Hexl
26:22
especially. Yeah, it seems like it would
26:25
be a good guy for the Flyers to target
26:26
if it was like last year where they had
26:28
two picks and they could get someone
26:30
like a Martone and then get, you know, a
26:32
a guy like Regowski. Uh he he has one
26:35
more year in Ashawa then committed to
26:37
Michigan State for 2027. So, you know,
26:39
that would be a good path
26:41
>> for him there. Um yeah, and you know, he
26:43
seems like as long as he stays on this
26:45
path as someone that's at 6'7, he'll be
26:48
a bottom six forward at at worst. you
26:51
know, maybe maybe if he does find that
26:52
scoring touch like a Tage Thompson, not
26:54
quite a topline center, but you know,
26:56
maybe maybe a second line guy that can
27:00
be supported by like a Marone or a
27:02
Mishkoff in
27:02
>> Yeah. Like are we talking about a Brian
27:05
Bole or are we talking about like a Matt
27:07
a Matt Cullen at his like Matt Cullen's
27:09
like a second line center at his peak
27:10
basically with those Penguins years? So
27:12
like are we talking about that or are we
27:13
talking about like Brian Bole who's g
27:15
who's like peak thirdline center at a
27:17
like mandatory and then like I think
27:20
with his Rangers years maybe he's a
27:22
third line center but um yeah like again
27:25
a really tall center so like I feel like
27:26
his path to the NHL is just easier
27:28
anyways. Um but yeah. Yeah.
27:31
>> Yeah. And the Flyers love draft and
27:33
size. They've drafted centers the past
27:34
few years. So I don't know. I I I feel
27:37
like a lot of these mocks, just to, you
27:38
know, kind of wrap things up are looking
27:40
at what the Flyers have done in the
27:42
past, like getting centers, getting big
27:44
guys. But like I don't know. I could see
27:46
them going for a winger to add a winger
27:48
to their pool or or going for a
27:49
defenseman even if it's not Sakalowski
27:51
there to to get a big guy. But yeah,
27:54
it's only having one pick 21st overall
27:56
does make it a bit tougher to uh take
27:59
take a take a huge swing on a guy and if
28:02
you you know get egg on your face with
28:03
your only first round pick this year.
28:06
>> Yeah. Like I I think it is interesting
28:09
where the Flyers are at because
28:10
obviously like that you would still want
28:13
they still have a mentality of the
28:14
future. Like they still have a mentality
28:16
of like I want to see and like I think
28:19
fans too want to see like production
28:23
from your the first round pick that you
28:25
have. There's an opportunity still here.
28:27
You're not throwing it away. you're not
28:29
a a Florida Panthers team or like a
28:31
Carolina Hurricanes team that is just
28:33
going to be like drafting like crazy or
28:35
you're focused more on getting those
28:37
late round gems and the first round pick
28:38
is just like whatever. I think there's
28:40
an opportunity here for the Flyers to
28:43
get something that someone that could be
28:45
important in those years that you want
28:47
to be competitive because I think this
28:50
might be the final draft that you see
28:52
someone drafted and then added to what
28:55
is eventually being like the core of
28:57
this competitive team. Like I think if
29:00
we're talking about next year and the
29:01
year after, we're talking about players
29:03
that are joining teams in the like in
29:07
the middle of their competitive cycle or
29:09
like you're talking about tech
29:10
hypothetical Flyers rosters like that
29:12
have a Martone at 24 or 25, a Mitchkov
29:15
at at 26 or whatever. You're talking
29:17
about them adding to that as that second
29:20
wave. But I feel like with this, you're
29:23
kind of this is like the the the player
29:26
that could be that little like jolt and
29:30
potentially come up in the end. Um but
29:33
yeah, I think I think it's an
29:34
interesting spot that the Flyers are in.
29:36
Um but yeah, I think there are some
29:39
players I would avoid. There's some
29:40
players that I I love that the Flyers
29:41
could take, but um it was interesting to
29:44
see who they projected to take and love
29:49
or like or whatever. But yeah,
29:51
>> people are going to have to uh subscribe
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29:55
want to avoid or see the Flyers take
29:58
maybe with this 21st pick. And yeah, it
30:00
is really important to get those guys
30:02
that can join the team on entry level
30:04
deals with those young legs in important
30:07
series when you have your best players
30:09
in the middle of their prime. So even
30:10
though it's a 21st overall pick, they're
30:12
not going to get a topline center here.
30:14
They can get a player that steps in and
30:16
is a key key contributor on the third
30:18
line of a of a good playoff team. So,
30:20
>> or or they're getting the next the next
30:21
Claw Drew. That's fine.
30:23
>> Maybe. Yeah, I' I'd be okay with that if
30:24
they got next uh Claw Juru there. But
30:27
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30:33
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30:46
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30:48
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30:50
I already got 20 guys up there already.
30:53
Great work by Thomas, Jacob, Maddie, uh,
30:55
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30:57
and everything else. So, um, Thomas,
30:59
any, uh, closing thoughts here?
31:01
>> Nope. I just hope uh the Flyers pick at
31:03
least an interesting player.
31:05
>> Yes. Yes. Give give us something to talk
31:06
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