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Top 5 back-end players. Makar, Hellebuyck, and Evangelista—Oh my! · Jablam Sports Hockey

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Jablem Sports Hockey, your home for everything happening around the NHL.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Peter Bojiranov, and every episode we break down the biggest stories, topics, and every hockey fan's thoughts and what they're thinking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: With the writers, TV, and radio experts from all 32 NHL teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: This episode, we got your top five LDRD and goalies.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's left defenseman and right defenseman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And trending now, of course, everybody's talking about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Halibuck, Makar, and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: First off, I want to give a shout out to Jesse in Toronto.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was helping me with some testing, doing some audio testing, and we got into it because he loves his devils.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of hilarious since he said they need another top five, top nine forward, uh, hopefully a center.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then hours later, Evangelista gets traded to the Devils.
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  SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk about that later.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to remind all listeners in two days we have our 32-team preview episodes coming out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna all gonna be happening in the next month, probably bleeding into the season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's drop the puck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Time for your top 20.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, top five defenders.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, if you want to see the top 20 for left defensemen, right defensemen, and goalies, check out my substack hockey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, top five left defensemen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five, Matthew Schaefer, the silky, smooth skating defenseman.
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  SPEAKER_00: He kind of reminds me of Scott Niedermeyer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number four, Miro Heiskinen.
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  SPEAKER_00: In my opinion, he's highly underrated, especially his hockey IQ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, Rasmus Dalin, the Dalai Lama, a big minute muncher as a hulking all around defenseman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, right these, Zacharinsky, one of the best puck moving blue liners of this generation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And is this generation great on defense?
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  SPEAKER_00: Jeez, these guys are studs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And number one, Quinn Hughes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love this guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He totally controls the game with his vision and edges.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go now to the right defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five, Brock Faber.
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  SPEAKER_00: This guy's moving on up.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's an extremely reliable modern two-way defenseman, and he's still growing, folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number four, Charlie McAvoy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a complete physical D-man who has a great defensive IQ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, Mort Sider.
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  SPEAKER_00: He kind of reminds me of Chris Pronger, hulking, big-hitting defenseman who can also put up some big points.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, big point guy, Evan Bouchard, the man with the Bouchbaum.
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  SPEAKER_00: He can skate and quarterback the league's best power play.
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  SPEAKER_00: And number one, everybody knows, Cal Makar, Moneymaker Makar.
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  SPEAKER_00: The$20 million man is the best defenseman in the game with his generational skating and hockey sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, let's go to the Netminders.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five, Igor Shirkin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Technically gifted goalie with amazing reflexes, and boy, he can make huge, spectacular saves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number four, Logan Thompson.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a composed goalie who combines excellent size with strong positioning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, Ilya Sorogin.
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  SPEAKER_00: He can replace early and make difficult saves look easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, my man Andre Vasilevsky.
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  SPEAKER_00: Technically sound goalie who combines explosive movement and always steps it up in big games.
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  SPEAKER_00: And number one, where's he going?
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  SPEAKER_00: Connor Hellebuck, the big war horse goalie, has excellent positioning, and boy, he can he steal games with lots of shots on net.
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  SPEAKER_00: And time, time, time, time, time for trending now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the number one goalie we just mentioned, Connor Halibuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Boom! But Mike dropped bomb by his agent, Ray Petkow.
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  SPEAKER_00: He released a statement to the public that they requested a trade earlier in the summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So obviously, they're trying to put some pressure on Jets GM Kevin Shovel Dayoff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they want to get him moved out before the season begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't know, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it's tough for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tough all around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hellbuck, he's got five years still remaining on his 8.5 cap hit, which actually looks pretty good for the best goalie in the game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, in my opinion, my top three landing spots, that's what I like to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where could he go?
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  SPEAKER_00: My top three, Buffalo, Utah, and Jersey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and obviously a big great upgrade for all those teams, especially if he goes to the Devils.
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  SPEAKER_00: What could they get back?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
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  SPEAKER_00: At least if they're in my opinion, if the Jets are moving Hellebuck, they should be in a rebuild mode, especially with how good the Central is right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at least a decent retool.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the Devils, I could see Jake Allen, a great top five goalie prospect in the league, in the world, that's not an NHL.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mikhail Jagarov, he's a great goalie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe Dawson Mercer and one of the firsts that they still have for the next two years.
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  SPEAKER_00: From Utah, Carl Vemelka, I think, would probably be moved.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of their top prospects, either maybe T Jaguinla or Deone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I probably butchered his name there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think obviously Caleb would be great, um, but like, would they move off of him?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think Tej Vimalka would be proper for Hella Buck.
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  SPEAKER_00: And from Buffalo, of course, everybody's talking about Buffalo.
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  SPEAKER_00: You would think Uka Pekka Lukinen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I could say his name well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe not the guys on ESPN, though.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think he would be the one going, and I would like if they're gonna go with that uh hit for him to Buffalo, try to steal Consta Helenius.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think he's great, he's young and he's great, and possibly a first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go to the Luke Evangelista trade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so he was shipped to Jersey for Colorado's first and a second round pick from the Preds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Boy, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trade a 12-goal player for uh or I wouldn't, I would say I would nix that like a first and a second for a 12-goal player.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's see what the new Devil's GM Summy Sonny Meita has to say about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he probably likes his fancy stats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Evangelista did lead all the predators in Corsi 57.3% and expected goals shared, according to natural stat trick.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the big man, Money Makar, of course, signs that biggest deal in NHL history now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thought Caprizov was huge, but this is even bigger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bam! Eight years extension 1.6 one one point.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm taking one point on 163.2 million total, 20.4 million per year.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's 0.4 million under the max.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, that extension kicks in next season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's crazy money.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, if you're ever gonna give anybody that kind of money, it's probably a guy who's won the Calder, the Norris, the Cont Smite, the Stanley Cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, he's got some hardware.
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  SPEAKER_00: Folks, that's it for this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do you think Halibuck is going?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if you have any other questions about this episode, or if you have any questions for me, let me know in the comments.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's P B O J A R I N O V.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, till next time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye.