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2024 CHL Player of the Year Predictions
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Jun 1, 2024
The Hockey Writers prospect crew of Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini and Dayton Reimer get together to give their predictions on who will win the Canadian Hockey League Player of the Year Award from the finalists Jagger Firkus, Easton Cowan and Mathieu Cataford.
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Final award player of the year and there's three great names here
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I mean, all these are definitely deserving, but it's going to be tough
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Jaeger, Ferkus, Easton Cowan and Matthew Catford. I have Peter, who are you going for this one
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I mean, I say three great names here. Oh, I the Homer in me wants to pick Easton Cowan
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because of that point streak in the regular season and playoffs. But man, which I got, Ferkus did
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I mean, absolutely unbelievable. I mean, we talk about Zane Perreck pushing 100 points
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Ferkus almost had 130, 31 points clear of his next teammates, which were Atle Calvert and Brayden Jaeger
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That to me alone is impressive. And again, the W.H.O. was very, very highly competitive
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There were, you know, I don't know how many hundred point players there were. I think there were at least like seven or eight
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In there, there were ten. And one of them was a rookie who is draft eligible in Tariq Perrassic
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But you look at the names also in there, you know, Zach Funk
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Riley Height, Berkley Catton, Andrew Crystal. These were all supposed to be top names
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And Ferkus has continued to get better every single season, ever since he got drafted and to put up 60 goals, 65 assists
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To me, I think that, you know. Everyone is going to point to his size
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but he shows that size doesn't matter at all in his game. So he is going to be my pick for player of the year
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because he was just absolutely dominant from start to finish. I mean, I haven't really looked at like his game by game breakdown
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but I could I could probably imagine that he had very little games
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where he had zero goals or zero goals, zero points in that aspect
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So I'm going to have to double check on that. But yeah, Jair Ferkus is going to be my player of the year
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Yeah, Dayton, is it Ferkus for you as well, or? It is, I think if you considered playoffs
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I would maybe tend toward Cowan because he was just an incredible force
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for the London Knights in the playoffs. That 34 points in 18 games led the league
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and was seven points ahead of the next guy in Denver Barkie
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He was London's driving force and the 40 point streak. Very impressive
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I don't know if it's more impressive than what Jagger Ferkus did, though. Like that's that's an incredible season from an incredible player
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almost a goal a game like that's that's incredible. I love that
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Four games that very much. Four games where you didn't register a point for Ferkus
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I just I just wanted to jump in there. That was what I was looking for. I was hoping you'd find it while I vamped about
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Yeah, he's he's a really, really good player. He should have been on Team Canada
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And he technically he kind of was, but he should have played. Should have been there with with a lot of W.H.L
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guys that they ignored. Yeah. Next year, I really hope he is if he's still back in the W.H.L
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But until then, I think he is the best prospect in junior this year
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