ECHL

Lucas Gustafsson, free agent invite, Boston Eagles, and played five games with the Moose.

And a number of other, uh, Sam Sealy and Evan Knies also free agent invites who spent time, majority, in the ECHL last season.

So, the games are on noon both days, noon central on YouTube.

And it was Viggo Bjork's turn to step to the podium.

So he was acquired in, uh, you know, like what, three, four years ago now.

Spent some time with the Maine Mariners of the ECHL.

Made the jump to the Providence Bruins.

Best goalie in the AHL over the last two seasons.

Um, you know, in Vancouver, he was behind Thatcher Demko, Spencer Martin.

Um, he was not able to find traction in the organization, submitted a trade request, and was traded to the Bruins in exchange for Jack Stoudenga.

And he did everything asked of him, even going as far down as the ECHL and kind of making his way back up to, um, the, uh, AHL level as well as the NHL level.

He's got a gold medal representing Team Canada at the 2021 World Championship.

I don't know how to say this guy's username, but he brings up the Everblades, announced their theme night schedule.

And most ECHL teams do like an affiliation night where they, you know, wear the colors of their NHL team if it's not the same.

And the Everblades deliberately scheduled theirs against the Nailers and like promoted it that way.

And, you know, he calls us, you know, classless.

For the most part, it comes out of the draft and just makes everybody go, hoo-ha.

You're finding more of these guys that... that are coming in at 23s that have gone through the East Coast League or been through the battles, played in the American Hockey League for years before they find their way into their own.

So it's like when you're looking at your depth charts and you're saying how many actual 1A goalies are there, You know, is it better to go with a tandem? How many guys share the crease throughout the playoffs? Whereas in our case, it was just put Jonathan Quick in the net and we'll see you in 16 games kind of thing.

And we had good value for, yeah, we had Jonathan Bernier and Martin Jones, but when you've got a guy doing what Quickie was doing, and it's the same thing when you had guys doing like you know, they're starting to get Hall of Fame, but guys just didn't give the net up, right? It's like, for the most part, it's like what Vasilevsky and Bobrovskis do, that when you start the playoffs, you pretty much know that win, lose, or draw, that's who's finishing the playoffs.

You're always talking about development, and where the Carolina Hurricanes are right now, there's not a lot of space for guys to climb up into the lineup.

So take your futures, stock your AHL team and ECHL team or whatever it is with some of that talent and let them grow up because there will be some spots coming into this Carolina Hurricanes lineup here in the next two or three seasons as you're going to eventually say goodbye to Jordan Stahl, probably going to say goodbye to Jordan Martinuk, and probably going to say goodbye to Taylor Hall at some point.

That's three spots immediately.

Three.

You look at another guy that I genuinely think is the closest when it comes to defense on this young group to make the push in Kirill, a young player that had two assists over three games previously.

Five total NHL games, winning a cup with the Abbotsford Canucks, 26 points in 65 games, 20 points in 44 games last year, a minus 15, but we know what happened last season with everyone being called up, and the mostly an ECHL team down in Abbotsford.

Krill's a very interesting piece, a left-handed shot defenseman, a seventh-round pick, looking very good for where they got him, and even going as far as some that I think has a... on his shoulders the best to say with Alexey Medvedev the second round pick by the Canucks last season we know with OHL London Knights an 8-9-1 save percentage isn't the prettiest after taking over the starting role after being a backup putting up a 9-12 and exactly why he was drafted I'm excited to see how this group kind of meshes together and looking at the future of this team.

Again, it's going to be a very down year for the Canucks when it comes to the standings.

St.

Cloud State University, ECHL contract.

He's going to be playing with...

Our ECHL team, Francesco Arcuri, I don't know how to pronounce that one either.

Idaho ECHL, he's on an AHL contract.

Maxim Barbashev is on an ECHL contract.

Russia, Ontario for those two guys, 03 guys, so they're 23, 24 years old, about Sean Carrier.

from Quebec, 07, so he's a bit younger.

Paul Krugman running in with a bomb strapped to his chest.

The East Coast Hockey League of the Secret Service just staring.

I mean, it's the same.

They don't have the goons problem, right? Like...