Xavier Bourgault

So Phil Daou has been a solid Belleville contributor as well.

Bourgault, Xavier Bourgault.

So, again, they should have a better team in Belleville.

And Tyler Boucher, we talked about earlier in the show, he was the most impressive of all of the players from Saturday in Montreal.

Slavkovsky picks that free.

And now Ottawa with Xavier Bourgault.

Spreads it in behind his own net.

Scott Harrington off the boards.

Senators control, up the center they go.

Rolled into the Montreal zone.

Played right off the boards by Deneau, but given away as a centering try for Xavier Bourgault.

Just got through to the line.

And the puck dribbles out to center for Ottawa.

Xavier Bourgault plays it in off his backhand.

Picked up by Matheson.

Just underway in Montreal.

Habs stay with it on the forecheck.

Middlestad pinching it again.

Taken away by Xavier Bourgault.

Middlestad stays with it.

Leaves it as Nick Cousins delayed again.

Cousins on the goal line going for the one-timer and just missed connecting as Bourgault was, rather make that Boucher, was in a perfect spot, but missed.

Ten-

Couldn't ask for a better setup

Wow.

10 seconds to go, and this will be Ottawa's last rush with the man advantage, as Hoyt Stanley gets to the line, dumps it in.

Puck bounces up in the air, now comes free, and Bourgault tried to chip it and run, and it didn't work.

Back to even strength hockey now as the Leafs get back to the Ottawa line and in, and Lettieri couldn't handle the puck, loses it.

Ridley Greig is still gonna have Sammy Blais on one wing, but he's gonna have Tyler Boucher on the other.

And on the fourth line, Ryan Suzuki will center Blake Montgomery and Xavier Bourgault.

On the back end, Tomas Chabot with Hoyt Stanley, Ben Hutton with Cam Karaty, and Tomas Hamara with Djibril Touré.

Linus Ullmark is expected to start in goal.

But again, none of these guys are must-haves on your NHL team.

And ironically, there's another smaller body, but a former Edmonton Oilers draft pick, and that's Xavier Bourgault.

Drafted 22nd overall in 2021.

A little on the smaller side, but he's got some wheels to his game, man.

The other guy I have on here may be a little bit of a, a different name too.

Uh, Za- uh, you know, Xavier Bourgault, um, little bit older, but, you know, he has that former first round pedigree.

You know, was on, uh, Team Canada's world junior team before COVID interrupted that one, and made his NHL debut last year, but clearly, uh, has taken a step forward, has improved his standing within the organization.

And it really wouldn't surprise me if we see more of him in the NHL this year than we did last year with, you know, only two game, a cup of coffee.

And I l- I love hearing you say that, Henry, because, and I talked about this recently, when we did our top 10 last year, Ross, did we have Bourgault on there? I-

Yes, we did.

I believe we did, and he was a guy I put my stamp on.

I said, "This guy's gonna have a big year." And as we do every time, we sent you over our top 10 list, and your first remark was, "Boys, Xavier Bourgault does not belong on this list." And I was like, damn, that's, that's hard to hear from Sens Prospect that we messed up on one of our guys and he doesn't think they should be on the list.

Guys who are still in the organization who are ineligible, let's start with the graduates who were on this list last time.

Levi Märkänen, Shane Osika, and Xavier Bourgault.

All of them are considered graduated now, so they are no longer on this list.

But if you look, some of the names, Pillsey, like Victor Lodin snuck in at number 10 one year when we did this.