Drew Helleson

You got Leo Carlson, Judd Caulfield, Sam Colangelo, Sean Farrell, Nathan Gauthier, Cutter Godier, Mikhail Granlin, AJ Greer, James Hablin, Alex Killorn, Nikita Klepov, Cruz Lucius, Jeff Malott, Roger McQueen, Niko Majatovic, Nikita Nestorenko, Marcus Nordmark, Lucas Pedersen, Colson Petrie, Ryan Paling, Mathis Preston, Ethan Precision, Beckett Seneca, Igor Sidorov, Troy Terry, who's injured right now, but we already knew that, mon trough, Frank for Toronto, Anton Wahlberg, and Tim washy.

And on defense, you got Drew Helleson, Tyson Hines, who is injured, but we'll talk about him on another video as well.

Nick Jensen, Jaden Kurtz, Jackson Lacombe, Tristan Luno, Pavel Minchikov, Travis Mitchell, Ian Moore, Corey Schumann, Connor Smith, Stan Solberg, Noah Warren, and the best name on the list so far, Jet Wu.

Love that name.

Those are three really significant defensemen.

So you've got Jackson LaCombe up here, and you've got Pavel Mintchukov a pretty significant step below him, and then it's like who are these guys? Nick Jensen, Ian Moore, Drew Helleson, and Tristan Luneau, that's not the makings of an NHL Stanley Cup playoff defense corps, and it's, th- that's why I refer to the Red Wings as the Anaheim Ducks of the East.

They've got Lukas Dostal, Jackson LaCombe, Leo Carlsson, Cutter Gauthier, and Beckett Seneca.

Five guys.

Well, here's the defense.

It's Helleson and Luno.

Who's so when Bruce wall will be gone.

None of them are going to be taken up that much.

Tyson Hinz played 11 minutes a game in the playoffs.

Ian Moore played 10, right? Drew Helleson played nine.

So these are guys who now are gonna suddenly jump up to be 16, 17 minute a night guys on your blue line? Like, I, I know that they added, um, from Ottawa, uh, the, the one guy.

His n- Nick, um, his name's escaped me off the top of my head.

And I love Jackson Lacombe, man.

Like, I think he's a hell, he's a number one defenseman on any...

I love him as a player, right? I think Mintcheff can improve, but oof, like Tyson Hynes, Drew Helleson, Ian Moore, Tristan Leno, like, come on.

That's your number four to number six D-men, none of them with a boatload of experience, and none of them that the team itself didn't really play much in the playoffs.

Played every game last year for the Ducks and looks for all the world to be their power play QB again this season.

He'll be partnered with Drew Helleson, who was limited to only 15 points in 60 games.

They'll like to see more defense.

activity from him in terms of regular appearance on the lineup card than last year.

But short-term and big money kind of seems to be the solution here, no? I would agree with that for sure.

Once again, you do have Beckett Seneca two years away from RFA, and then next year you have Tristan Luno and Drew Helleson, who are both RFAs as well as the team, I think, who got most screwed over this year when it came to essentially this rising cap.

Obviously, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Anaheim Ducks.

And the one thing we do know about Cutter Gauthier is there's not many players around the National Hockey League who at 18 or 19, because they got sent back to the American Hockey League, just say, get me the hell out of here.