Martone to MSU & Michkov’s first year | BSH Podcast | A Philadelphia Flyers Podcast
Heat. Heat. down. He Hello and welcome to the Broad Street Hockey Podcast. I am your host, Ryan Gilbert. Joining me as usual is my co-host, Joe De Marini. Joe, how we doing here on this uh this hot Thursday afternoon? I was just outside a little bit ago. Oh, yeah. I was uh I was outside, too. I thought it was kind of nice out. I did a lot of gardening this morning. Um it’s shaded in the morning. There was a nice breeze. I was like, “Oh, this is this is the perfect time to be outside.” Uh, hacking away at some dead plants. Yeah, it was good. Good stuff. How you doing? I’m doing no good. It’s nice nice the past few days, but the humidity seems to be picking up today. There’s a heat warning for tomorrow, so it’s it’s going to be a hot one out there this weekend, man. Um, yeah, man. It’s hot. Um, yeah, got, you know, not not a ton of news to discuss, but there’s some, you know, Porter Martone to Michigan State. We’ll get into that. Matt Vichkov, his his first year here. um in the thing in the uh in North America with the Flyers. He recently in the thing in the thing Well, he hasn’t because he’s gone back to Russia and whatnot, so you can’t say, “Oh, he’s been in North America for a year, but like Yeah. I mean, like more like the US is kind of the 1980s horror film, the thing at this point.” And you know, Yeah. Yeah. Uh we als we also have some interviews that he he had recently that were translated about uh his missed empty net uh playing Dumpin Chase. We’ll get into that as well. Of course, make sure you guys uh like, subscribe, smash that like button on YouTube. Uh join the chat, comment afterwards. We appreciate all of that. Um I don’t think anything else happened in the hockey world today. Um if you’re looking if you’re looking for something, you can check out the uh grocery hockey on our socials. 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Um but yeah, last episode we discussed um our opening night lineups. I think that was last episode. And ne neither of us had Porter Marone, so we did not. I can’t imagine you were caught off guard by him uh committing to Michigan State. Well, Michigan, yes. Going to the NCA. No. I Michigan State. Michigan State. It is because there’s Michigan and there’s Michigan State. It’s two. And then there’s the Harvard of the Midwest, which is where then there’s Western Michigan where where Bump was. Yeah. Um, no, all of the smoke had been that he was going to go to Penn State, but I imagine that maybe he’s going to get more money at Michigan. Yeah, I I just Yeah, more probably more money because Penn State apparently gave Gavin McKenna a lot of their NIL budget which makes sense and I kind of like Mart going away from McKenna so where he can hopefully drive his own line drive play be the star there and not be taking a a backseat to McKenna then everyone be like oh you know he only had these many points because he’s playing with McKenna like he’ll get a chance to play with great players at Michigan State Kayen Lindstöm’s going there Shane Pensagi Shane Sagi’s already there. Like Michigan State’s a a great hockey program, so it’s going to be fantastic to be able to watch him up there. That’s uh Fershweilers’s program, right? Um it might be uh No, he’s Western Michigan. Western Michigan. Ah, damn it. Okay. Sorry. I was going to be like, there’s the Keith Jones connection, right? Because uh him and Fursiler played together, right? Or or am I thinking of someone else? No, I think that’s I think that’s who it was. Uh Michigan State heads coach is uh Adam Nightingale there. He’s been there. um for uh for quite a bit it looks like. Uh yeah, played there, been the head coach there since 2022 as a 69 to 35 and nine, right? Pretty nice so far as start there. Yeah. So yeah, Martone going to get a full season in the NCAA at Michigan State. Probably play World Juniors as well. And honestly, I’d be surprised and potentially even shocked if he doesn’t get a few games with the Flyers at the end of the year. Oh yeah. Oh no. I I fully expect him to get a look. I mean, it depends. If his team goes on a run, maybe it would end like too late for them to get to the Flyers, but Well, I looked at it from my article for broadstro hockey.com. Like and subscribe there. Um, the Frozen 4, I believe, finishes on the 11th and Flyers play two final home games on like the 13th and 15th or something. and B. Well, and that’s also assumes that he’s going to go to the final. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He could beat them earlier before that, but um yeah, bump last year. I think played the Phantoms like two or three days after uh winning the championship. Yeah. Flyers have home games against Carolina and Montreal uh Monday the 13th, Tuesday the 14th. I believe the uh Frozen 4 final would be Saturday the 11th there. So yeah, he could easily come here. Maybe he pulls an alle Alex Bump who’s like, “No, let me go to the Phantoms.” Phantoms are going on a run, but I I think he’s going to want to get some NHL time and, you know, give give the fans something to be excited about for those last two games. Possibly get a playoff Porter as well. Playoff Porter. I was going to say, can you imagine if the Flyers are in a fight for a playoff race and he scores the goal that puts them over the edge and puts them into the wildard position? Yeah, that would be hell of an entrance. Yeah, he just he goes on a tear there and just has still called her eligible next season. It’ be be amazing. He has a Macar level playoffs. That would be Yeah, be pretty cool. But we’re getting way too far ahead of ourselves. Let’s see how he does it uh at the NCAA level first. I expect he’ll be great and um I I would be surprised if he isn’t on the Flyers at the end of this season at some point in April. He would have to totally just bomb all year at the NCAA for that to not happen, I think. But he definitely won’t be going to the Phantoms. The Phantoms, we’ve talked about it, are going to be super super young this coming season. Um, that’s cool. Everyone in the AHL makes the playoffs, I guess, but uh Yeah, pretty much. I wouldn’t be Yeah, pretty much. But I wouldn’t I don’t know if they’ll be as poised to go on a run unless the youth really just has it out the gate. But you never know. Should be a fun season for the Phantoms, too. Yeah. Carson Bj Bj Bj Bj Bj Bj Bj Bj Bj Bj Bion could make those uh you know transition to the pro game and seamlessly. It could I mean that’s that’s all they need there with Barky. Yeah, Bon potentially you know a bunch of good young guys down there with the Phantoms and and yeah, Martone he definitely could have made training camp. Could have been on this team if the Flyers were trying to compete. if the Flyers had an open roster spot or two for him, but like you don’t want to have him make camp and then not make the team and go back to the OHL where he’s playing against younger players, smaller players, you know, they’re bigger, older, faster in the college game to be, you know, see how he does in that step up to prepare him for the uh NHL level. And the Flyers, like I said, have those guys that like you want to see what Owen Tippet can do in second, second line minutes. Like you have Meech Golf Connectne going to be in the in the top six. You want to see what Tippet can do there. You want to see what Forester can do there when he is uh when he’s healthy, which I was thinking about that earlier. Like I wonder if we would have even heard about Forster’s injury if it wasn’t inaccurately reported beforehand and Brier was asked about it. So he he could I’m still holding out hope that he’s healthy for the start of the year. I mean, infections are those are tricky, I think, compared to like a broken bone is a broken bone that heals and you’re good to go. But trying to weed out an infection like that that could be a take a bit more of a delicate hand than well, it’s just if the infection goes away, they’re just waiting on tests. I just imagine like if it didn’t come out somehow, like they may have waited till August or September and been like, “Oh, you know, we got these tests back. He’s been dealing with it. we’ve known about it but um you know he’s going to miss some start of the time but you know the fact that they didn’t go out and get a veteran they didn’t go out and you know keep pottier I feel like Forester’s going to be fine there so the Flyers have the wingers to you know play even middle six minutes that where Martone would be yeah I mean they’ve got so many wingers they’ve got some guys that are probably going to be knocking on the door at camp like you you don’t need to replace him for three months four months even if he’s out the whole season. Cool. Alex Bump is probably going to play a full NHL season as a rookie. Like that’s that’s just that’s good development for him. So, whatever. It’s let it ride, you know? Yeah. Yeah. You you got Bump, you got Greben who could be in the mix, you know, Dorart, Kaplan, like these guys. Obles even as as a safe veteran option. Tony Dick we saw up last year. there there’s guys that you can have up and down from the Phantoms rather than having Marton there, you know, maybe having a struggle and him having to play through it and then, you know, maybe that’s a lost year. It stunts his development, stagnates him a bit. So, keep him on the on this path, OHL, college, NHL. I feel like that’s that’s the uh route a lot of players are going to take uh moving forward. Oh, for sure. I I’m I bet there’s going to be a renegotiation of agreements because it’s going to be such a such a talent drain on the Canadian Hockey Leagues if the players are now able to go to college. And then you add in the fact that starting next season, 19 year olds, one per franchise, will be allowed to play in the AHL. So that’s further talent drain. Um I don’t think Marton will be in the AHL next season, but Jack Nesbbit, he might be. So could be. Jack, we’ll see how things play out there. Yeah. And I’m not sure if I brought this up on this podcast or just my other one, but I really wish kind of the NHL would move the draft age back a year. It would it would be a lot more exciting for Oh, Joe just made 17. No, like to 19 like back a year. So, cuz the excitement about like the NFL draft and NBA draft is these players are going on your team immediately. Like the casual hockey fans going to be like, “All right, who the Flyers get this year? All right, might see him in two or three years. We’ll see what he does then. Like they’ll never do it. There has to be a lot of logistics about it, but like I just feel like that would be a lot more exciting and then be more sure things about it. Like I I I don’t think ever happen. It would take a lot with the CHL, AHL, NCAA to all all come together on it, but maybe maybe down the line in a in a few CBAs. I I do wonder how that would impact GMs because if you draft a guy and he’s three years away, you can always sell the hope as a GM, but if you draft him and he starts immediately and he sucks, yeah, that’s your ass on the line. So I I don’t know from like I don’t know if Front Offices and ownership would be as keen to uh you know make make the draft prospects older. No, no, no. They they don’t want to change anything. They got the same 35 hockey men doing the same thing over and over. They don’t want to they don’t want to change any of the process. Nope. And they’ve got the most boring opening game. Panthers versus Blackhawks. Just so stupid. Yes, the Panthers on opening day. That’s cool. But the Blackhawks, yeah, they’re an original 16 that nobody can watch because of their cable agreement or whatever it is. It’s so stupid. Um, what are you talking about? You got the big Spencer Knight rivalry game angle there. What you They got Seth Jones. It’s going to be uh Yeah. And then Flyers starting their uh their schedule in Florida as well. Two were the first three games against Florida with a game I like that against Carolina in the mix. Do you like it? I do. I I think that’s an advantage because the the cup hangover. They might be the Panthers might be a little sluggish to start the year while the Flyers come out with a chip on their shoulder and like maybe upset or the Panthers just continue to roll which yeah, you know, I wouldn’t put it past them. Yeah, the Panthers have tended to, you know, get out to a great start like through March and then kind of coast into the playoffs that they’ve they’ve put that blueprint out there be like, “All right, don’t don’t go balls to the wall in the regular season. Secure your playoff spot, get your guys healthy, see what happens in the playoffs.” Tampa, I think, was the first one to do that after they had that 2019 season where they just set all the records and then got bounced in four by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Yeah, they were the ones who were like, “Oh, screw this. Playoffs are the only thing that matter. Yeah, but I mean Flyers do have a tough schedule out of the gate. Florida, Carolina, Florida, Winnipeg, Minnesota, Seattle, Ottawa, Islanders, Pittsburgh, Nashville through uh that’s their first October schedule there. So like I mean, but I’m I am expecting Rick Taka to get these guys good out of the gate. Um I highly recommend listening to Rick Takett’s interview on the PDO cast that was came out I think Sunday or Monday. Listen to that. He talked about a lot of systems, a lot of, you know, what worked, what didn’t work in Vancouver, what he might be able to do, you know, with with Mitchkov talking about like in Dublin and Chase. Like there’s a lot of good stuff in there. And, you know, you may not have liked the hire. You might have been like uh Kyle chasing the puck here, not wanting Rick Tocket, but you can’t you can’t help but see why the Flyers did it. And I feel like the Flyers are just becoming trying to become a team where, you know, players want to come to. And it seems like they’re drafting a lot of players and developing players and development development culture there that they’re getting players that teams are going to want to trade for. Like teams want to trade for Paling. Teams want to trade for Haway. I’m sure teams I’m sure want to trade for like Sealer and like these these bottom bottom half of the lineup role players that you know you can replace with a kid through your culture. but other teams can’t. Like I feel like that’s something that even with like getting Nesbit, getting these bigger guys in two or three years if Breier wants to cash these chips in for a 1C, they can. Yeah. No, I we’ve talked about it. Third lines win cups. You get a really good third line and that’s kind of your competitive advantage. Even a good fourth line. People were knocking the Florida Panthers for having abort a bad aborted a bad fourth line. And uh I I thought their fourth line was pretty effective. Like yeah, at least matched up against the Oilers. It was uh AJ Greer, Thomas Nosk, and Seamis. Samvich was on there for a little bit. I think there was a bigger guy on there for Gajovich. Yeah, Gaj was on there. like yeah the the Panthers like a team like that you can put plugs on the fourth line because the top three lines tire the other team out the fourth line goes out there and just you know wins battles wins the shift that that’s all they have to do. Yeah. Um but yeah those players are they have value the Flyers their strength is on the wing. They have in three years they might have like 16 NHL caliber wigers and nowhere to play them. So, you know, the the trades will have to come just to get value out of these guys that are clearly ready for the NHL but don’t have a roster spot because they got beat out by better guys. Yeah. So, we’ll see how it plays out. Yeah. One more thing with Marton is my pipe dream now is he convinces him and Vince Aggie convince Kaden Lindström to only sign in Philadelphia. Force his way out of Columbus to Philadelphia. You know, give Columbus, give Columbus a few wingers, a defenseman, and get that get that two seed to go with uh go with Leno and Nesbbit. You mean a guy who had back problems for like two straight years? If he has a good year and he’s healthy, come on down. We have no risk right now. Okay. All right. Yeah, but I’m a little I’m a little It’s a little riskier for me. Yeah, it’s a little risky, but if he has a good season in college, I feel like those would hopefully be uh behind him. Uh no pun intended there with the with the back injuries. H good one. Yeah, good one. Yeah. Um I mentioned the Mechov dump and chase thing. Have you seen this video that’s been going around about how he’s saying he he hates dump and chase? And absolutely, he should hate dumping chase. He’s a player that if every player was like him, there’d be controlled zone entry every time. Like we see when it’s three on three, especially, even four on four, how important puck possession is. And like he’s just taken that one step further to five on five. But at the same time, you have to understand there are times when you want a dump and chase, when you have the other team tired out, when you’re up by two late in the game, just get the puck in deep. Don’t make any mistakes. So, you know, that’s why sometimes you see Mitchkov on the bench cuz he doesn’t want to play dump and chase. You don’t want him playing dump and chase. You don’t want him out there in the corners potentially taking hits. But, you know, I feel like Rick Tacket will give him the leash that he needs to to be creative offensively. And the Flyers have enough pieces where they can get a good defensive center or winger on his line with him. See, that’s that’s where I’m at. like he doesn’t have to chip and then retrieve it himself if he wants to like ring it around the boards and Tyson Forester’s on the off wing to pick it up. Like that’s fine. Like that works. That that’s good. Um and you can’t just play one style of hockey because then it’s way too easy to defend. Like you can’t just be like opposing teams will see Mechov with the puck and they’ll be like, “Oh yeah, he’s just going to he’s just going to carry it in.” And then they cut that off and then he never gets his own entry. So you you have to mix it up. You can’t just and we saw that with the Flyers. They were scoring off the rush in bunches uh in 2023 24. And then when the games got heavier when teams started being like playoffs are coming, we got to kind of get in that right frame of mind, that more physical game, they took away all of that space, all of that speed, and the Flyers just like nosedived from there. Couldn’t buy a save either, but you know, not scoring doesn’t help. Yeah, that’s what I was going to make. like for the first period and a half of the game have Mitchkov dumping in every time. So the defense expects that and then he fakes a dump in goes around the defense and like makes a play like you can’t be predictable. You that’s the whole thing. You cannot be predictable. You have to have different options up your sleeve. I think he’s smart enough to know when to do what as well. Um and you know I also I don’t think I would want Noah Kates trying to do a controlled entry. I don’t know if he has the puck skill to do that. like you need a mix of different kinds of players. I think on my opening night roster I had Noah Kates as the left wing for like Z and Knee or something, right? Like you know, I’m going to pull it up right now because you had uh Yeah, you had Kate. Yeah. Um and everyone’s pointing to the Florida Panthers as like a dump and chase team, which they are, but they’re not they’re not chimping chimping chimping chimping it in. They’re they’re they’re not chipping it in. going for a line change and then hoping someone on their team recovers it in the process. They are I have to watch the tapes again, but it looks like they sling it around the boards and their forward is already like up on the play and in that board battle draws the defense in and then they are able to set up from there. Like if you have a a second line of the future, it’s Tyson Forester, Zegris, and KKnne. I can see a world where like what I put Luchenko there. I put Lucheno at the line. Yeah, that’s it. Okay, sure. That would work, too. Um, but I mean, if Tyson Forester is the one that’s going into the corners to get the puck back and he can find one of Zus or Connecting, as soon as the puck’s on their stick, you set up shop in the offensive zone and you go to town. Like, you just need one person who’s able to win those board battles reliably. Of course, then you get into the problem. It’s like, oh, that guy’s going to be in the board battle. Well, we just do this, that, and the other, and we can defend him. But Josh Kney is no slouch either. I think he can uh he gets after it a bit. Yeah. No. Yeah, he he gets in there and and yeah, like you can talk about trying to play this system, trying to do this for check and whatnot, but so much of hockey is just like on the fly and being smart and intuition and knowing what knowing what your teammates are going to do, like knowing the chemistry, having, you know, a structured play style in place, which is why I think they were so successful two years ago under Tortoella that they had that style and then, you know, they lost pieces, they they traded away some pieces, you know, players weren’t playing up to their potential. So, we saw what happened last year, but yeah, I mean, they they have the pieces now where they can put solid lines together. Not not a top line, but a few second lines, a few third lines. That’s all you need cuz I mean, if Ziggress hits, if he gets back to where he was in his first two seasons in the NHL, then like maybe. But, uh, no, I Yeah, they the Flyers have been clearly targeting prospects with high hockey IQ. all of the a lot of the recent drafties, Luchenko especially. Um I would say Nesbit probably has a really strong hockey IQ. Uh even like even Shane Vanagi, like he’s not a great skater. He has some skill, but he he knows his role and just knows where he has to be and what he has to do. Like that knowing knowing your role is important. And like we talked about with Garnet Hathaway or Ryan Paling or Nick Steeler earlier, those guys, they all know their role and they excel in it because they’re not trying to overextend themselves to be players that they know they’re just they’re not like Garnet Hathway isn’t delusional enough to think that he could be playing on a line with Conor McDavid. Like it’s it’s he probably could, but you know, it’d be Yeah, he he could be the third the third piece. He could be like the the Zack in there to go in and throw the body and maybe not score as much, but go and throw the body. But yeah, you need you need players that buy into whatever role they’re going to be. You know, if they know, you know what, I’m on the third line tonight. I’m on the fourth line tonight, but I know I’ll get my ice time if I if I play the right way, if I if I play well. That’s like that’s what we talked about with Lar. That’s the whole Larara’s whole mindset coming in with Arison. He’s like, you know, whoever plays better is gonna gonna start. Like that’s just how it is. And that’s I feel like is kind of why it’s important to have the culture that the Flyers are building is to get like all right get these guys to buy in be like all right who’s who’s sticking it out here who has a good attitude through these rebuild years I think that they’ve weeded that out by now and they really are starting to turn turn a corner I mean you saw that this offseason with Priier going out getting those you know one year twoear pieces to kind of shore up things after doing nothing last year going into the year being like all right let’s figure out what Farabe is. Let’s see what Frost is. Let’s see what these guys can do. And they didn’t have any kids coming up either. So that like there was just, you know, let’s just see what happens last year. And yeah, that should hopefully be uh where they bottom out. I mean, it kind of sends a message to the room to this this summer, the offseason moves, like, hey, I can’t go big game hunting, but I can get you a little bit of help. You will not hopefully not have the worst goalending in the league. you have a role player in D’vorak who can fit any position at like probably in the bottom six, but if you need him on the second line due to injury or he’s having like a hot streak, whatever, like fine. Um, but they got to show Brier, hey, if we’re in the playoff race, you got to let us you got to let us go. You can’t you can’t just start subtracting pieces. um if they’re in a position like they were this year where they Well, okay, this year was weird because so many teams were like within five points of each other. That’s how it always is. Not this was weird, dude. Like the way that the East, especially the Metro played out, like the Penguins, the Rangers, uh who else in the Metro missed? Um Islanders. Islanders. like all of them were so close to each other that if one team had a bad week and the other team had a good week, it just flipped the entire order. If that doesn’t happen this year and the Flyers are also at the bottom of the standings, then you have to consider trade deadline. I’m sure Brier will communicate to the players like, “Listen, you guys did your best. The standings are where they are. I’m getting first round pick offers for Christian before act like I gotta I gotta do what’s right for yeah I still have to keep an eye on the future. Um, sorry. Yeah, it kept open flexibility. Kept up with a one-year deal, only a two-year deal for for he kept that flexibility. If they’re in the mix in the Metro, which I want to get into one of these next episodes is like look at the Metro here. Like, because you got the Canes, you got the Canes and Devils, they’re making the playoffs. Capital, the Capitals are probably making it. Um, are going to be in the mix. We’ll see if Columbus can repeat what they did or grow off that like Rangers, who knows what’s going on there. Islanders and Pittsburgh’s just selling. So, I mean, Flyers could very well be in the mix um in the Metro next season. And one thing you said there, uh going back to it, you said Breier didn’t really go big game hunting there, which kind of made me think like he almost like where would you rank Zegris among the players moved this off season? Obviously, you had Mner, then you have Nick Eers. Is Zebras the next best player that was moved? I guess the maybe the highest ceiling player that was moved. Uh Brock Basser stayed with his team. Um I guess Keandre Miller was a big trade going to uh Carolina. But as far as forwards are concerned, especially centers, like obviously Ziggris isn’t a a huge a huge target out there, but he’s one of the best players that that got moved. Well, players with the best potential, I I would say, but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that’s true. I I don’t consider it a big fish, though, considering how little I don’t either. I I don’t either. But it’s just like trying to think about it. Be like, cuz I’ve been talking about this whole time like this Z trade could be a steal. And because it happened the week of the draft, like no one’s really talking or thinking about like, all right, we got Trevor Ziggress. We’ll see what he is. But if Ziggris hits, he can be a legit 1C. He can be a legit 1C and you have solid two-way defensive centers behind him. Yeah, I’m I’m really excited to see what he can do. Um uh yeah, it should be fun. It’s the last year of his contract, too, which means he’ll be an RFA next year. And uh well, there’s a few RFAs on the Flyers that they’ll have to make decisions on. Yeah, I saw someone said like the Flyers have like 20 RFAS next year going down cap wages. You got Zegris, Brink, Dedale, Zamula, Erison, uh then a bunch of non-roster guys. Dorwart, Rizzo, Rebankin, Galce, Yanjon, Tamala, uh Jean, Avon, Hunter, McDonald, Andre, Ethan Samson, Kolasov, like Breer has a lot of business he’s going to have to uh tidy up between now and uh next July for those guys. I think the the big ones will be Arison uh Dale and Zegris. Like th those are the three I would say those are the three critical ones where you have to keep some cap flexibility for. Um I don’t think any of the other guys especially on the on the Phantoms have shown enough to prove that they’ve earned a big raise. No. Like they probably still get like a two-year bridge deal, a million bucks, something like that. Yeah. Not worried about those guys except Andre. Andre. Andre is one who like might demand more. Or Mula. Brink. I Brink. Brink is the one I was going to bring up. How much is he going to make? Cuz you know, Forester just got 3.75 for two years. Kate’s got four million for four years. Like I I see Brink in that three to4 million dollar range, which I feel like is a a good deal for him. Yeah. If he keeps it up. If he keeps it up, obviously. If he keeps it up. Yeah, I think I think in the $3 million range would probably be appropriate. I I don’t know what the cap percentage will look like, but yeah, I don’t think it’ll be as much as Noah Kates because he’s moreed one-dimensional. Um, but he might score more. Yeah, we we’ll see. Like Bobby Brink had the sixth most points on the team last year, which seems crazy. 41 points, 12 goals, 29 assists. Um, I mean, all these guys should get more points next year as well with the with the power play hopefully not being not being absolutely dreadful. So, yeah, I mean, a lot of good pieces here. The Flyers got to figure out what they’re doing on and, you know, they have the cap space next off season to either sign their guys or go after other RFAS potentially. Yeah. Uh, speaking of RFAS, next season, um, I’ve hinted at it before, but do you think it’s coincidence that Brier got 2027 first and third round picks? Like, do you think he did that on purpose, or is it just a coincidence that that is a offer sheet bracket? And before we get into this, I know you can only give up your own picks, but having auxiliary picks makes it a little easier to sell a fan base in a rebuild that you’re giving away an unprotected first round pick. Um, I think it’s just purely coincidence. It is nice that they have them. Um, I don’t think the Leafs had No, the Leafs did have their 2026 first round pick. They traded that to uh Boston and the Carlo deal. Uh, the Kings, I don’t know what they had in terms of their third round picks when they offered up for KZO. Like, I can’t imagine the Flyers were like, “No, give me 2027 for Kusmeco or no deal.” Like I imagine they they they specifically targeted a 2025 pick for Shawn Walker, so I wouldn’t put it past them to like, you know, want um a specific draft here. Um Kings have their own third round pick next year as well as Dallas is. So maybe maybe Bre was Kings were like, “Yeah, we’ll give you a third round pick.” B was like, “All right, can you make that 27?” Well, it’s possible. There there’s there’s a there’s a little tinfoil hat theory going on there. I like it. Yeah. And if they go up another bracket where it’s a first, second, and third round pick, like you give up your own second, who gives a crap? You still have a first and third. Like, it’s it’s whatever. It’s why if they do trade Risto, we haven’t done this in a while. I clearly can’t speak anymore. I’ve lost the ability to speak English. Um, Risto should bring back a first round pick, but if the best you can do is a second, you get a 2027 second round pick and then you have extra picks in for three the first three rounds. So you can make a bigger offer sheet move. And then I I was just going to say if you go up to the two firsts, a second and a third bracket, you give up your you get to pick two of the following three years first round picks. And at that point, you would hope the Flyers are competitive and they don’t really care about what that pick is going to be. Easy sell. Yeah. I mean, a lot of it depends on what happens this coming year. Like the Flyers show that okay Ziggress Ziggress hits uh Couttoriier can still be a solid middle six center Dale Ddale takes a step forward York shows that he’s a solid top four defenseman Mishka has a great year connecting age as well like if the Flyers if Arison and Var works like maybe they do go out next year and go big game hunting for some of these RFAS because that’s what I feel like they’re going to have an advantage there because they have the Comcast money. They’re one of the few teams that’s going to be spending up to the cap. And there are a lot of good RFAS next next summer. So many. And going into this, just know 95% of these guys are probably going to they’re probably going to renew their contracts at some point in this season or at any time before July 1st. Um, and the other thing is that many of them are on rebuilding teams such as the Columbus Blue Jackets or the Anaheim Ducks or the Chicago Blackhawks. Guess what? Those three teams have tons of cap space. They have so much cap space that they could match just about anything. Um although Columbus after signing that prover contract might be in a little bit more dire straits, you know, but um should I I made a small list of uh highly exciting RFAS? Do did you have any to add to this list? We talk about them. I I did not real. I got the cap wages page up as well. Um, no. A lot of those guys there you have on this list, if you want to just run through them real quick, look like they I’d take all of them on the Flyers. Oh, absolutely. Um, Connor Badard, Adam Fantelli, Leo Carlson, Logan Kulie, uh, Thomas Harley, Jason Robertson, Shane Pinto, Cole Perfetti, Kevin Kinsky, Simon Edmonson, and Jackson Lome. Um, I would target. Is there any one of those in particular that you would target? because I have one that I would go after hard. Well, I mean, I’d love Badard or Fentelli or Carlson. I don’t think they’re getting too RFA. Uh the one guy that I was looking at a few days ago and I feel like could be realistic is uh Logan Kohley or also from Utah, Barrett Hayden is also an RFA hat. And they don’t have Barrett Hayden’s like a 40point guy right now. He’s not gonna Yeah, he’s kind of mid. Yeah, he’s kind of mid, but I feel like he could be like a like a how the the Blues got two kind of mid guys, but it worked out like he’s, you know, six foot one center. Um, but I think Kohley would be my top guy that’s potentially realistic. Mine is Carlson. Um, and I’m going to tell you why. The Ducks are cheap. First of all, they’re cheap. Second of all, uh, it’s not Greer. Uh, Verbique. Verbique is the GM of the Ducks. He plays hard ball with his RFAS. Drydale and Zegris missed training camp because they couldn’t get contracts done. Guess what player is like in the middle of that right now? Mason McTavish. Like they play hard ball and are just jerks to their RFAS or at least for Beak is. I can see a world where Carlson is like not going to be jerked around and the Flyers just swoop in and be like, “Hey, here’s $12 million a year for three years. Come play in Philadelphia.” and he signs that. Yeah, it’s just it’s it’s so easy to dream about these offer sheets, but then you look at like who’s been signed by them and who like it’s very rare for them to not get matched. But like these guys are definitely potential trade ships. We see that, you know, with McTavish and Rossi on the on the market now kind of because the Wild don’t want to pay Rossi. McTavish is appears to be on the outs in Anaheim. Like I feel like there’s going to be two or three of these guys that are going to be able to go out and get them and the Flyers will have the pieces to either, you know, trade a player or picks to to go out and do that. Jackson Lome also on the Ducks is another guy I’d look at. He had a he’s a a left shot defenseman, I believe. Um yeah, he had just a dynamite dynamite season uh with the Ducks last year. Let me pull it up real quick. In 75 games, he had 14 goals and 29 assists, good for 43 points as a defenseman. Um, he was getting almost all of that on even strength. He had 12 even strength uh goals and 21 even strength assists. So, he’s 6’2. Like, that’s that’s he’s trending in the direction of a top pair defenseman, I I would say. So, if you can offer sheet him because the Ducks have to pay Carlson, you know, there’s there’s there’s ways to ways to maneuver this. I I’m down to have the Anaheim Ducks as like a Flyers farm team to go out Ddale, get Zris. I’d love McTavish. I’d love Carlson. Like, I love I love what they’ve been doing up until, you know, this off season. Basically, starting with the Trouba trade. Traded for Trouba, now they got Crider. Now they traded out Ziggers for Paling. like it seems like they’re trying to compete now while also build and it’s just I don’t think it’s going to work for them. Maybe it does with with Doall if he can actually be the real deal in net. But yeah, I mean Anaheim right now is 21 million in cap space and they’re not paying McTavish like that. That just shows how how cheap they are. And I mean they got to pay cutter next next year too. He’s an RFA and if he has another strong year, he’ll be one in a we know he’s uh not shy about asking for what he wants. Uhuh. Yeah. So, and Mikov is a RFA too next year. Like they got a lot too. Like Yeah. They have pieces that you can go out and be like, “Hey, you know, you guys are focused on here. Let me see if I can can sneak in there and uh help help you. Let me help me help you.” Yeah. Help me help you. I mean, it’s the same blunder that the Oilers ran into. They signed like Arvidson and Skinner and left themselves vulnerable because they’ taken up all this cap space and took for granted that their RFAS were just going to accept these cheapy bridge deals when they were like, “No, we want more playing time. We want more.” And they’re like, “No, no, no, no. You’re you’re too young to make those demands.” So, the Blues are like, “Hey, there’s an opportunity here.” Boom. Yeah. It’s a shame the Oilers were uh one Dylan Holloway and one Philip Roberg short short of a Stanley Cup this season. Sure looks like it. Yeah, they definitely could have could have used those two there in the Zeal Cup final. So, injuries caught up to them as well, but I mean, so did the Panthers. Panthers had a huge huge list of injuries that, you know, they just parted their way through. They they sure did. Love it. Um, but yeah, anyway, there’s some really exciting 2026 RFAS. 95% of them will be ressigned, but just in case, um, the Dallas Stars are the other one to target. Thomas Harley and Jason Robertson both up for contracts, both RFAS. Robertson always already got a pretty big contract, so he’d probably want a even larger one going forward. Um, you know, depending on the direction that Jim Nil takes the team, maybe only one of those guys is going to get paid. We’ll see what happens. Yeah, stars are interesting, too, because like, yeah, they’re clearly they’re shopping Robertson to some extent now, so he can’t really like that. and they don’t have a ton of money coming off the books next season. Like the only pending contracts they have is Robertson, Ben at a million, Maverick Bourke at 950,000, uh Harley and and Lungquist. Like they have a lot of their cap already tied up. So that that could be a situation where you go you go in and maybe target a a Wyatt Johnston. He doesn’t have a no no move clause. He’s going to be a you know a solid center there. You could trade. They’re not going to trade him. They’re not going to trade him. Well, maybe you trade for Robertson and you get you get that left wing. You trade him a right wing. You trade him a winger and a defenseman for Robertson. There’s a lot of flexibility out there that that Sure. Sure. But but what does it have to make, Joe? It has to make sense. Has to make sense. Flyers are keeping a lot of options open. So, ton of great RFAS out there. Obviously, a ton of great UFAS as well. Um, I’ve been looking at Carl Capri off stats recently. Did you know he he’s averaged like 50 47 goals per 82 games in his career so far? Like it’s just absolutely incredible. Like injured most last year, but yeah, averaging 47 goals. He would have won the heart trophy if he hadn’t gotten injured. He was unbelievable. He was unreal last season. It sucked so bad to see him go down. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, averaging 99 points per 82 games in his career. like if if the Wild aren’t signing him, which you know, I think I saw something that uh that Russo was talking about. He wants like a dry dry cidle or higher contract. We’ll see what the Wild do. Like doesn’t have to be a center. You you can win without a 1C as long as you have the depth and you have the wingers to support him. I I want to talk about that. Uh if we uh that’s why I was asking about 202122, but uh we can come back. We we can jump to that now and then we can do the do the uh draft what if after. Okay. So 2122. What was the best line in hockey? You’re taking me back a long time now. 2122. Um I don’t arguably the best line in hockey. Oh, was that I don’t know. Was that the Was that the Bruins perfection line year? No, that was before that. No. What was it? With with 500 minutes minimum played. All right. What do you got? Matthew Kachchuck, Elias Lynholm, and Johnny Gadril. That was the best line arguably in hockey. They uh I just had it up. They had a in 965 minutes together, which was the most most minutes any line had at five on five that season, a 62.2 expected goals for percentage. Their uh Corsy4 percentage was the best in the league at 58%. They were just unbelievable. Utterly dominant. Who was the weakest link on that line? Lynholm, I guess. Yes. Yeah, he is an okay 2C. He had the best year of his career. He had I think he had 82 points. Let me just double check that. um Elias Lind home and we all saw as soon as Kachchuck and Gadro left Calgary, he kind of um kind of fell off. And then in Boston last year, he really fell off. Like he is not a firstline caliber center, but you have two superstars on either side, all of a sudden you got a guy. He he did have 42 goals and 40 assists, so 82 points in 82 games that season. uh second in Selki voting. He ain’t that guy. You have a superstar winger in Kachchuck, a star winger in Kadro. I want you to picture the Flyers in three or four years. What is Porter Marone’s like biggest comp? Matthew Kachchuck. Matthew Kachchuck. Matt Bay Mechov. Johnny Gau. Very different players, but both of them are undersized, high-skll wingers. Mhm. You don’t need Nathan McKinnon or Conor McDavid to take on that kind of workload as your center. You just need someone who has the pace and the skill and the sense to keep up. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but what if it’s Jack Nesbbit? Like, what if Jack Nesbbit is just is just that guy? He’s not a 1C in any other world, but when you put him between Marton and L uh and Nichkov, all of a sudden, you got you got something. Or Luchenko even. Luch I was about to say, why do you keep your you’re your you’re your your shaft and Luchenko here. Like I don’t want I don’t think I want to put Martone and Nesbbit, two big bodies necessarily together. Yeah, put put Luchenko there for the speed two-way play. Marton for the big body and and Mitchkov for the uh you know, the playmaking. I love that. Yeah, it it’s just and I was like trying to fall asleep last night and it came to me. I was like, “Wait a minute. How wasn’t that the best line in hockey?” And I’m like, “Flyers have two of the physical like similar physically similar guys already. What if Yeah. What if the missing piece is a center that we would never expect it to be?” Yeah. I’m looking now at the Flames other lines on a money puck from that year. Like they didn’t necessarily have the depth that the Flyers going to have. Map upani backlin Coleman Mjapani backlin to Foley Coleman Backland Pitlick Luchich Monahan Lewis um yeah they didn’t have the the depth that the Flyers are going to have and the other note on Lindholm is that most of his other best career years I think he was on the wing I don’t think he was playing center in some of his other better career years um so if you look at his just underlying stats and you’re like well he was really good then too I think the year before that he was on the wing with Monahan and Gadro and then like the year before that it was like Monahan and Kachchuck. So yeah, he’s always taken a lot of face offs though. So I don’t know if maybe he’s the face off taking winger, but yeah, he he’s never been Yeah, that was a clearly a career year for him. 82 points. Uh next was 78 and then 64 and last year 47 in Boston after getting that big contract. Yeah. um David Posternok wasn’t enough to bring him back to uh that, you know, that level of play. Um but it just goes to show like he’s probably like a decent two seed. He was like a decent middle six center for most of his career and you know, maybe that’s just enough. If your wingers are such high level stars, then as long as you can keep up and not be detr detrimental, that that just might be enough. Yeah, absolutely. And I’m like, Ziggress. I imagine Zegris isn’t going to play poorly enough to not come back after this year unless he has more injuries. So, they’ll have Zegris, they’ll have Couttoriier as long as his his back and body holds up. They have Luchenko coming up. They have Nesbbit in a few years. They they got Kates if he wants to go back to center. Like, they have the center depth. And I’ve been thinking about this recently, like the the big knock on Zegris is his faceoffs. That that’s the one bad thing. And maybe his defensive play, too. But looking here at like last year’s point leaders face off percentage like um McKinnon just under 50% 49.9% McDavid 47% Eel 45%. Like a lot of these top topline centers aren’t great in the faceoff circle either. Like Braden Point 48%. Um Sam Reinhardt not a center but took 500 faceoffs 41%. Like you don’t necessarily need to win possession off the face off to to win possession. Like uh Thompson 42% my my boy hit Tes Thompson there. Jack Hughes 38%. Like you don’t have to win a ton of faceoffs to to be a great center. I think a lot of that comes down to the Ducks are also just bad. So, it really it really highlighted like Zegris’s weakness in the faceoff circle was highlighted by the fact that nobody on the Ducks knew how to get puck possession back. Like maybe that’s part of it too. Yeah. Like Conor Bernard 38%. Uh Nasen Condry everyone talks about as a great two-way center 46%. Betard is different. Like like he’s a 20-year-old kid. I don’t expect faceoffs left and right. I know. But under under 40% was was surprising for me. Jack Hughes is the interesting one. Um because I mean I guess if you’re playing with Teimo Meer or you also have Nikicohishir, I bet Niko Hishir is pretty good at faceoffs if he’s probably. Yeah. Yeah. Um but if you’ve got like Teemo Meer and Jper Bro, I bet those two are pretty good at getting puck possession back because they’re really really good players. So um yeah, like and like just with that like it’s not just the center. It’s not just the center. You have to get the wingers to go in to help the face off defenseman too. And I’m I’m just looking at Sean Victoria, his faceoff percentage over the years, you know, 4 from when he was 19 coming into like 47, 44, 47, 48, 48, then jumped up to 55 and has been above 50, 57, 59, 56, 55, 56 last year. Like he clearly found something to use that. So hopefully he can help out Zegris and the rest of these guys. Didn’t Jaru have a moment like that too where he just spent an entire off seasonason learning to like how to win a faceoff or probably he’s always been around 50%. Yeah, he’s always been great. 60% one of those 61% last year. That’s incredible. Unbelievable. That’s That’s just crazy, dude. What is What is his secret? I don’t understand what his Yeah. Yeah. But he does. He would have been the perfect the red hair. It has to be the red hair. He would have been the perfect like Christian D’vorak but better if if he wasn’t Claude Jaru and would have come back in with the leadership while they’re trying to do this whole new thing. But but you know D’vorak going to be a a solid third line guy, win faceoffs, play PK. Um do you think D’Vorak signed here kind of like knowing that he’ll play center or do you think he might play some play on the wing? I don’t know. Yeah, I don’t know. I What do you think, Joe? What do I think? I I think he’s gonna I think he expects to play center. Um but if one of the kids is just you can’t deny him. Like if Carson Dor for some reason has just a crazy good camp and is like going to be the 4C I guess you just move to Borak over to Wayne. I mean, yeah, I I’m sure he knows the score, which is like, we brought you in to play center, but this is a developing team, and if one of the younger players develops and is better than you, or at least has proven that they deserve a shot, and it would help their development, we we might move you around. Although ultimately that’s Tak’s decision, not Briier’s. So, yeah, who knows what the message there is. Yeah, I think he trusts Tocket and Tet trusts him. will where he’ll get uh he’ll be one of the last guys to move to win. I think Kates will move to win before him. Potentially Ziggress, but I do want to see Zegris on at center for most of the year just to see if he he can hack it there. Yeah. Um yeah, speaking of moving pieces, uh what there’s could have been moving pieces in the past two years. Like you have here, what if the Flyers uh seasons were flipped? Uh is that that’s what Yeah, that’s what we’re going through here. Uh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. pick sixth this what if they picked sixth two years ago and 12th um this past year. How would you feel about the prospect pool? I guess I’ll throw this one your way. You uh this is your scenario. What do you think? I don’t think it would be that much different than how we feel about it now. Um, for a refresher, if the Flyers had picked at sixth in 2024, some of the players that would have been available were Yakamchuk, uh, Tea Ginla, Sam Dickinson, uh, Berkeley Kenton, Zayn Parake, and Anton Silv. Um, you know, and because Demidov went fifth to the Canadians, which is so so annoying. Um yeah, like who who of those guys do you think they would have taken? Probably Ken, right? Ken is the guy I maybe um maybe Dickinson cuz then Dickinson Bonk pair. Um yeah, Dickson went 11. I mean Zeve Boo would have been there for him to take at Okay. Well, yeah, if if they didn’t take him at 12, they weren’t going to take that guy at six. I can tell you that. So yeah, I think I think maybe they would have leaned towards Dickinson. Um, and so they would have taken Dickinson sixth and then this year they would have taken Nesbit 12th. So you’re basically, you know, I might feel better about the current arrangement with Luchenko Martone Nesbit than, right? like just the other two plus whatever they would have gotten at 21 and 31 or 22 and 31. I I’d much prefer Marone over any of those guys available even after C maybe Levoff. I’d take over Martone, but like I’ll take Martone over over Senica. Take over over Lindström. I’d take the meat off. I’d take the meat off. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I feel like maybe I feel like it probably would take Kat in. Um, okay, I have pulled up here my article from last year who the Mons had the Flyers taking at 12. Uh, Yakamchuk, AIla, Yakamchuk, Helenius, Eerman, Senica, Ken, uh, Perk, Eerman, Kton, Helenius, Yakamchuk. I feel like they really like Yakamchuck, didn’t they? is is a is the big boy. Went to uh Ottawa at seven. Right hand shot. I feel like they probably would have taken Yakamchuk at uh at at six there. He scored what 100 points as a defenseman in the W or something that draft season. It was crazy. 71 points. 71. 71 points. Okay. That’s still crazy as a defense. 30 goals. 30 goals. Yeah. Still wild. That is crazy. Um and he was mean, right? That was the other thing. He was mean. He was he was he was a Keith He was a a Keith Jones typical pick there if it was a Yakam Chuck was on the board. I think I imagine they might have wanted Dickinson because I think they were hoping Dickinson was going to get them get to them at 12 and then San Jose swooped in and got him and they were like well we don’t want Boo. What do we do now? Yeah, there was a lot of smoke around Dickinson last year for the Flyers as well. But he looks good too by the way. Like a year on he looks damn good. Yeah, maybe I’ve just been Martone pill, but like I I think I really feel like Marton is going to hit and if he doesn’t, he’ll be a a great second line guy. Yeah, I think I think I’m happier with the current arrangement, which is Luchenko and 24 Marone and Nesbbit this year. Yeah. Yeah. And I I really do think Luchenko is going to make the team. Like the more I think about it, the more it just makes sense from a Flyers evaluation point of view, which also, you know, makes sense. We have to bring up here with the draft, like, all right, who would the Flyers have evaluated? Who would they have drafted? Who would they have developed properly? But with Luchenko this coming season, like they have to know what he’s going to be. They have to know if he can, you know, be just a 3C. Does he have that where he can, you know, show flashes of being a 2C? Like what are they going to have to do next off seasonason? Because if he’s still in the mix of not knowing what he is, if he goes back to juniors again this year, I could see him maybe being a part of a trade package if the Flyers take a big step this year. Oh, you mean the Flyers would trade him? Not like his OHL team would trade him. Oh, I I I’m hoping the OHL team trade him, but like if if Zegris hits, if if Couttori is is a decent 3C and the Flyers can go out and get one of those RFA centers or UFA centers like like Eel or McDavid like or yeah, trade for an RFA that you maybe trade trade Lucheno to trade, you know, a guy similar age, but his ELC he’s not going to be paid as much like to to Utah like a team like that like or trade a Nesbit. I feel like they have the pieces, but you have to see what Luchenko is going to be. That’s why you have to see how he fits with this team. Um, and also I just don’t think he has much to gain going back to the OHL. Like play him even even third line minutes. Like he doesn’t have to play second line. Play him on the third line, see how he fits in and see how he fits in for the future. Maybe give him some uh workload management too. just yeah because you know we we saw that with other rookies. Um playing 82 games is a huge jump from juniors in college too. They play like half that. So yeah, maybe if you like rest him every couple games or whatever. I’m I hadn’t considered like showing what he can be and then using him as a trade chip. I I’m not necessarily saying I’m not necessarily saying to showcase him or anything, but like No, I know the Flyers like they don’t know what he is. Like like what’s behind this Jet Luchenko door? We don’t know. Let’s get a look at that. It could be a boat. Like you never know. Could be a boat. Like let’s see what he is to see how he fits in our plans for next off seasonason when that is when they really want to go their their big game hunting. Like if he can be the 3C and Ziggress can be the 1C. Like maybe that’s just they go out and get a Barrett Hayden instead of a Logan Kohley. But if Lenko or a Leo Carlson. Yeah, there there’s different levels of guys you want to go for. Um but I do think they really like Luchenko. I don’t think they’ll be looking to trade him. But you know, if a Tage Thompson becomes available or one of those RFAS like there’s not many untouchable untouchable guys as I I need a uh I need a Tage Thompson jar for this podcast. God, I’ll say it’s like the it’s the Shawn Walker, the Scott Lton jar or take a shot. Oh boy. Yeah. Um, no, I I think they like him a lot, too. But if Anaheim is like, “Yo, we’ll trade you Leo Carlson for uh for Jet Lucheno and the Toronto First.” You go, “Yeah, yes. Thank you.” Yeah. Although Fanty’s the dream. I would Adam Fantelli would make such a great flyer, man. He would be so good on the Flyers. We we’d have a great uh lookalike as well with Ryan Quigley. He looks just like Ryan Quigley. I’m not sure if you see it as well. I’ve said it before and other people don’t see it, but he he absolutely does. He so does. Fantigy. Quintilly. Quintilly. I love it. Well, we’ll figure it out. We’ll figure it out. All right. Almost here at the hour mark. Anything else uh we want to touch on here before we close this thing out? Um, no. I think that about uh I think that about covers it. We got some some good stuff on today. Yeah. Um, yeah, hoping to put together a uh a top 10 prospects thing if if uh maybe as a podcast, maybe a separate thing with us. Um hopefully get Jacob, Cole, Thomas, Maddie, all those prospect people involved. you know, hopefully do that next week in the coming weeks here in the, you know, debt of the summer. We can talk about how talk about the future and then start about start getting into some uh, you know, player expectations and whatnot after that. Yeah, we’re we’re getting into cottage se we’re not getting into we’re in cottage season. We’re in cottage season. Um, so if you guys have any like mailbag questions or anything you want to hit us with, get at us. you know, we we’ll get to it at some point in the Discord, on socials, in any of our comments of our articles that we may or may not be reading. Um, yeah, let us know. Comment on the video. Why not? Comment on Smash that like button, comment on the video, subscribe. Uh, we do appreciate all of that. It makes us feel good. Like, it doesn’t Who who cares if it helps the show? It makes us feel good, which is really, uh, the most important thing. It is. Yeah. All right, Joe. Where can people find you? You can find me at jfdarini.bsky.social. Gilbs, where can they find you? Uh, you can follow me on Blue Sky, Ryan Gilbert. Sky.social. That’s going to be it from us for now. Believe survivors. And until next time, thanks for listening. Go Flyers.
Ryan Gilbert and Joe DeMarini discuss Philadelphia Flyers prospect Porter Martone committing to Michigan State and what the decision means for the player and team. They also look back on Matvei Mickhov’s first year as well as his offseason comments.
