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Oshawa, not very good.

Yeah, like is he the, in your opinion, is he the biggest jumper? the prospect pool like in terms of players that like especially with you seeing him now live in training camp like before training camp to now leading up to this pp1 medicine hat all that stuff um is he or maybe not the biggest jumper is he your biggest surprise

For sure, so far, because I'll be honest, when I was watching the draft and they picked him, I was like, okay, I've watched him before.

I watched him at the WHL Top Prospects game, and I wasn't too impressed.

He got good deployment, and I was like, okay, there's some flaws and stuff.

He wasn't the guy that necessarily stole my eyes.

I don't know.

Here I am.

Um, because I'm really hoping that Dobish is just going to be the primary starter and, and a little just under 30 games would be a good, good balance.

The caveat I'm going to make about my answer to who gets more starts, Montebeau or Fowler, I'm going to say my answer to this, because I'm making a prediction, it has to be what I think will happen, but I will... stoutly say this is not what I want to happen I think it will be Monty unfortunately um because I just think that's the way the Canadians are going to run it unless Montembeau just runs into a terrible streak again and and and he becomes unplayable but I unfortunately think that Montembeau is going to get more starts um I'm hoping it means that he's going to get more starts and maybe he'll be decent and they can trade him and then Fowler comes and finishes things out but we'll see Prospects.

We're moving to the prospect category.

We have a question here.

A lot of guys look good.

Um, James Higgins, the first thing I noticed was is that the opportunities weren't as aplenty for him to crank from the circle like he did so much in the Prospects tournament.

And then when he finally did have that chance, the time and the space was taken away so quickly that he's got an adjustment here to make as things go forward for him.

You can already see the difference in the competition and how that affects things.

I'm sorry.

This was in the Prospects game against the Oilers.

Yeah.

My goat, Maceo Phillips.

The, the college situation is, is so exciting as, as so many of the organization's top prospects are playing in the NCAA, whether it's at North Dakota or Michigan state or Quinnipiac or wherever it might be.

And there's, There's a lot of good stories even still.

So these players are not able to be at Prospects Camp in September, not able to be in main camp because the school season is already underway.

And yet, Ray, some really exciting stories early on, including 2025 first round pick Cole Reschne.

You mentioned Cole and Cole Reschne as he enters his sophomore season at North Dakota State.

Oh, hey

... has something to do with Fix-Wilansky in the NHL this season, so we'll see from there.

I also see that PNW Prospects in the chat, "Mueller has looked better than Rattu for sure." I completely agree.

Rattu, or Mueller, I thought his, uh, his play-making [laughs] What, did I like Mueller? [laughs]

No, that we both do-

One, I mean, something that wasn't around when I was there was the All-Star game.

I assume the All-Star game and the Prospects game is all going to continue.

And then secondary to that is like, do you guys want to be...

How is it going to showcase the skill? Because you guys are going to have an amazing league next year.

I think, I think we do you know, we do value you know, what it's going to take to, to get some more D3 opportunities.

I think you guys know the landscape of, of, you know, players that are going directly to division one hockey out of junior a, like it, the path is narrowed there as those players have, you know, have, have, sort of moved over to major junior hockey.

And for that reason, being a league that's valued by the WHL, that provides players who are on track to the WHL with the opportunity to get their foot in the door on the junior hockey side, I mean, that's the reason that we started the Prospects game in 2022.

We didn't have one last year.