Who stood out this week at Penguins Development Camp?

Who stood out this week at Penguins Development Camp?

Penguins development Camp wrapped up on Wednesday and there were definitely some players that stood out Pat and I are going to discuss which of those players did that right after this you’re locked on penguin your daily podcast on the Pittsburgh Penguins part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day hello and welcome back to another episode of the locked on Penguins podcast I am one of your hosts Hunter hodies you can follow me on Twitter huner hodies joined by my Coast Patrick damp you can follow him on Twitter at cam for wet and you can follow the shows Twitter _ penguins of course thank you all so much for making this your first listen slatch of the day we are free and available on all platforms and finally today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel make every moment more as the playoffs wind down the Sports Stop sporting like we want them to but this summer FanDuel is hooking up all customers with a boost or a bonus daily that’s right there is something for everyone every day all summer long visit fanduel.com to get started so Penguins development Camp wrapped up with a tournament on Wednesday and it was awesome seeing all the top prospects go at it but in the end there could only be one winner and that is team one with golender Sergey mov defenseman Owen Pickering and also defenseman Harrison brunick they have won the Michelle Brier cup as well as the rest of their team as well and the star I think of this tournament overall has to be Sergey mov with the way he was playing throughout I will say following the coverage of both Eric majeski and Taylor hos was spectacular they do such a great job with development Camp every year if you are not following them on social media or DK Pittsburgh sports for Taylor you’re doing it wrong they both provide tremendous coverage of this and by the looks of it mha was making every save out there and the only player to beat him today Pat Bren jger best on best in that situation but just really impressive from mov throughout development camp and I guess hasag movat is kind of on at this point to see if he signs his ELC this year or if he goes back to Russia to play for his hometown team I’m very curious to see what he does the rest of this summer because while yes I’ve said it on the show that development Camp is just glorified practice for the most part it’s just these guys getting into a more professional environment than they’re used to because you see it if you follow development Camp throughout the week all the big names are there all the coaches from both the NHL Club the AHL Club as well as the ECHL Club are all in attendance obviously all of management is there as well keeping an eye on it so this is a more professional environment for those guys and I think mov really wanted to and he even said it himself get more of an idea of what the transition to American or North American American professional hockey is like so I’m very curious to see what he does but by all accounts throughout Camp he impressed everybody he you know if you follow Michelle ciolo on Twitter pens inside scoop she talked to a lot of players about mov and they were all just raving about his performance to the point you even had one of the guys uh I believe it was it was Owen Pickering in fact who basically came out and said oh I met him he looked very good see him play it was great then I looked at his Elite prospects page and realized oh my God this guy is really good so I think the Penguins may have found themselves a diamond in the rough here if they can get him over to North America but they will have to have a Frank conversation with him to say that listen chances are you’re probably going to start in the ECHL because we want to get you consistent playing time because if he goes to the AHL he’s going to get backup minutes and he’s certainly not going to be NHL ready anytime soon so if he wants to make the transition over to North American professional hockey it’s probably going to be at the ECHL level but I don’t think there’s a bad path for him if he wants to come over play in the ECHL get his feet wet in North America not a bad decision by him but if he wants to go back to Russia he’ll probably get KHL time which as we’ve said probably the second best pro league on the planet so that’ll also Aid in his development but we also know how difficult it can be once you sign with a KHL team to get out of it and come to the NHL we talked about that with Haley Taylor Simon last week with the Flyers and everything that they’re going they went through with mitov so very curious to see what he does but very encouraged by what I saw right and we discussed that earlier this week we think Wheeling definitely would be the place for marish AO just because when you look at wils spray right now Pat it’s kind of a tandem of lson and lumus especially if the Penguins going in next season with both jari and AD delovic I think there’s a very good chance of that considering how I think most teams are done making moves at the goal tender position right now I mean I know it’s still only July 10th but I think most teams are pretty set at the position heading into next season so I feel like that’s going to be the tandem for the Penguins for next season and then again you have the other two goalies in wilbury the Wheeling job I think is a lot more open for mov compared to wilbury so I think that would make the most sense and I did love seeing picking talk about Misha of it when you look at those quotes it feels like he barely knew who he was before this development camp and then I think when he saw him play he was like okay this kid is the real deal and I also loved seeing the competitive Spirit of some of these guys you know brunick Pickering joerger mov it felt like they were really taking this tournament pretty seriously they loved winning the Michelle Brier cup and I think even Tom custos said this to the media after he even said like you could tell some of the players were a bit upset that they didn’t win this and I think this is only going to help them as they continue their development for the rest of this year heading into next year well it’s a classic Mike Tomlin ISM but iron sharpens iron and you also keep in mind that yeah I’ve you know as much as I say this is glorified practice this is a chance to make an impression on the coaching staff and management that if you’re a younger player and you want to turn pro or make that next step in your development this is the place to do it and yeah these guys should most of them stay in the system will end up being teammates at some point but in development Camp you’re competing against every other player on the ice you have to make an impression you have to show that you have value as a potential Pro and a potential option in the penguin system should your name get called so you end it in one of the most competitive environments with a fouron four tournament with yeah it’s the Michelle Brier cup which I don’t think any of us knew that was the name until today but at the same time if you’re on in that tournament you’re in this camp and they put you in that situation they’re evaluating what you’re like in highly competitive situations and it’s a good chance and a good time for you to stand out as a prospect and by all accounts today everybody was full go there was no ah it’s the end of the week we had a fun week week together at development camp we went to a pirates game we played pickle ball we did a fun little Community event at Dick Sporting Goods no this was their chance to come out and say I want to be a part of this organization and I want to be a professional hockey player right no I agree with you and it was just a lot of fun following it and seeing you know who’s taking a lot of strides with their development and I can’t wait to see how this continues you know heading into August heading into training camp in September see if some of these younger guys can really stick around and make it really hard on Mike svin the coaching staff to really send them down to the AHL ECHL or back to their junior teams in general but I do think that’ll do it for this opening segment coming up in the second segment Pat and I are going to do a post July one look at the Metropolitan Division see who the contenders are in this division also see who the pretenders are and the teams that are also in the middle as well but before we get to that we have to tell you all about our first sponsor and that is eBay motors passion drive and patience the formula for winning championships is also what keeps your ride or die alive eBay Motors has everything you need to maintain your vehicle and leveled up to Peak Performance superchargers roof racks exhaust kits LED headlights and more whether you’re into a speed power or style eBay Motors has got you covered with over 122 million parts for your number one ride or die you’ll always find exactly what you’re looking for and with eBay guaranteed 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know I got the Devils wrong last year they didn’t get good goal ending they were very banged up the Islanders ended up getting the number three seed in the Metro this year but as long as New Jersey stays healthy they get good play from Jacob marrom I do think they’re going to be back in the playoff mix and make the playoffs I do think Carolina is set to take a step back this year I don’t think they have enough goal scoring in the lineup overall but I still think this is a playoff team when you look up and down that lineup I also like a couple of the moves they made on defense for example they signed Shane goess bear really like that move and they also Al got Shawn Walker one of my favorite players from free agency he can play on the right or the left side that’s a really good fit for Carolina down there and then the rangers they really haven’t done too much yet they’ve been kind of quiet you know obviously they acquired Riley Smith from the Penguins but still this has been a very quiet off season from the rangers they signed Sam Carrick to be their fourth line Center they have the same defensive group right now we have to see what happens with Jacob trouba that’s a very messy situation to say the least up in New York but I think when I look at the Metro right now those are my top three heading into next season I would agree with you I think though at this point I would probably put Carolina third just because I look at a lot of what walked out the door for them and you think about the names they lost gensel not that big of a deal they didn’t really have him long term obviously that was a go for it move on their part and I think we all kind of in the back of our minds knew that’s what it was going to be because just you knew he was going to be able to get paid on July 1 and he obviously was from Tampa Bay but you also you also lose Tera vinan Brett pesy and Brady Shay and as much as I like Walker and gos despar I don’t think they’re at the very least or at the very most excuse me those are lateral moves and then I the the big dog for me in the Metro this year is New Jersey because they have had a wonderful off season and then you add in the fact that they finally have a coach that’s going to match the talent that they have in Sheldon Keef They solved their goal tending problem and assuming they get they stay healthy it works in tandem with their goal tending where they don’t need markstrom and Allen to be great they just have to be good enough and everybody else on that roster will make up the difference and this is not your dad’s New Jersey Devils teams they aren’t a slow it down clog It Up play defense they are fast they are mean we’ seen that firsthand over the last couple of years the Devils have speed bagged the Penguins in most of these games just because the penguins have not been able to keep up with them and almost quite literally because they play the game at a 100 miles an hour for 60 minutes and not a lot of teams can keep up with that and really on paper you look at and this is probably the best team in the Metropolitan Division as for the Rangers it’s been quiet but the flaws are still there their defense is okay like I don’t I I know we hate on them for different reasons but trouba is fine enough but he’s making way too much money for the role they need him to play and they haven’t really done anything to address that need and they can’t really move the puck all that well from the back end and they’re going to have to rely on once again power play and eigor shesterkin and as we know in the playoffs that’s not a good thing to lean on because you run into a team that can kill penalties well and that pretty much takes away your one advantage combined it all I mean I think right now the penguins are if they want to get in which I think both of us agree this might be a third straight year of missing the Playoffs they’re going to have to battle it out with Washington who has made made a lot of really good moves and while I don’t think Washington is any sort of actual Contender they’re a Bonafide playoff team now with all the moves they made and you just look at it’s it’s been a very good off season for them I know everybody has their qualms about plld I still do too but for what this team is trying to do at this moment that is a very easy risk to take and then you add in mapon Matt Roy Jacob Chan all of a sudden this is a caps team that could make some noise especially once they get their cap figured out and we know that the New York Islanders they’re always going to be there you can look at their moves and say I don’t really like it but that team has some sort of black magic that keeps them hanging around and this is going to be a very challenging season for the Penguins but should they figure out the power play should jar and AD delovic get the right kind of workload and hold up you’ve still got good top end Talent you can be in the mix for this but yeah it’s going to be very difficult and I would say extremely unlikely for them to crack the top three of the division right you you kind of took that next point right out of my mouth a little bit the penguins are in that next year of teams in the Metropolitan Division those kind of okay to middling teams overall Washington I think of those okay middling teams I think Washington right now is the best if I had to make a prediction right now I would say Washington will get fourth in the Metro and they’re making these moves I think to at least make the playoffs in oetkin final two years under contract obviously they’re still very much trying to help him go get the goal record and I think he’s going to get it either this year or next year it’s gonna be sometime over these next couple years that oetkin is gonna get the goal record and it’s gonna be pretty awesome to see but I at least understand the vision that Washington has by trying to at least get playoff hockey out of a vkin two more times before I would think he probably retires so I have Washington number four I also do like their offseason and I think after oetkin retires I think Washington could go off the cliff a little bit but I think they’re right now fourth in the Metro fifth if I had to pick one the Islanders I I really do like that Anthony duclair signing from L larell I think that’s one of the best moves of the offseason they’re hoping that ilas sokin bounces back a little bit after struggling this past year I mean seon varlamov basically took the starting job from him a little bit down the stretch so I’ll be curious to see how sokin plays you obviously Matt barzel very very electric with a puck on his stick Noah Dobson’s great from the back end yes they do play kind of that boring style a little bit but you know what you’re going to get from them every year they’re going to be in consideration for my playoff spot and then I kind of have the Penguins and the Flyers right there six and seven overall if I had to pick one maybe I have the Penguins at six Flyers at seven but the Flyers they’re going to be in the race I think again this year Pat they really showed me something this past season they ran out of gas at the end I think they’re going to be all in on torella system again and they have mechkov now so that’s going to be really fascinating to see how the Flyers play Then bottom I think if there’s a bottom tier I’m sorry to say Columbus I think you’re down there I really don’t think Columbus is going to be that good again this season so top three those are the contenders and then I feel like it’s just again kind of a lot of okay middling to kind of flat out meh in the division and then you kind of have Columbus down there in the basement if I had to guess yeah Columbus is definitely a solid eight for me at this point uh I’m I’m curious to see what they do with Patrick l because I think this is going to be for Columbus fans at least an underwhelming trade when you have a guy like him who has the talent that He has but once out once a fresh start you know that you’re not going to be really able to get a ton of value for that even though he’s still pretty young still has an elite shot can still score goals but when other teams know that you’re looking to make that move they’re not going to offer you the sun and the moon for them but then you look at them as well away from just that aspect this is a team position to be really good in three to four years they’ve got a ton of very good young prospects on the way they’ve got some talent in the roster right now and should they stay this course and not do the Columbus thing that they’ve done for years which is make puzzling moves when they seem to be on the right track this will this team will be right back in the mix in a few years and I think wedell being there is going to only eight in that even if some of his moves this summer were kind of curious you can tell he’s thinking with two tracks here one I’ve got to put an NHL team on the ice I’ve got to go get certain players just to fill out the roster even if they really don’t fit but don’t do it at the expense of getting rid of your draft picks your young talent and your prospects which he hasn’t really done it would have been nice to see Monahan go to a different team but you know maybe that’s a guy that can work with some of the younger players and give Columbus fans something to cheer about obviously Johnny GD is still there so we’ll see what happens with them but I do think this is going to be another painful year and the same thing goes for the Flyers I I don’t think they’re going to make the playoffs but I think they’re going to make noise again I’m very curious you brought up the torella part I’m very curious to see how mitkov Mees meshes with him because we know that torella has not a great track record of dealing with young Talent especially if they don’t fall right into line and while I don’t think there’s any character issues with mov there’s always a clash with JN torella so we’ll see but that those are two teams to me that are in the same similar spot they’re going to be lower in the division but they have a lot of talent coming and they are going to be very good in a couple of years towards the system I feel like always wears thin after a couple of years anyway so I feel like this might be the year where the Flyers again they’re still very much in the race in towards the system but I think the year after that the wheels may come off a little bit and TS I I hate to say it just because he doesn’t have that long of the shelf life as a coach he might d himself with a different job just because when you look at the history of some of his teams they tend to go down the longer that he’s there overall again he’s not even usually there that long overall anyway then ask for Columbus they still need to hire their next head coach whether that’s s like Dean NE and Jay woodc I’m curious to see who they go after for their new head coach and just to put a bow on this for the Penguins I do think there’s at least a path there for this team to potentially make the playoffs as a wild card team I don’t expect them to make the playoffs but there’s a path having the core keep producing at the level they’re producing especially bonting and Malin together I think Malin with how rejuvenated he was at the end of this past season having a full season next to bunting I think could do wonders for him Sydney Crosby put up 90 plus points that’s big Eric Carlson how does he do and if the power play is able to at least be average they can make some noise through there and also you know what happens with some of these Reclamation projects you know does Anthony boiler find his goal scoring touch again that he had a couple of years ago does Matt grizzli excuse me find the Fountain of Youth after he was one of the best I wouldn’t say one of the best excuse me I think one of the most underrated defenseman in the league as soon as a couple of years ago so it’s going to be interesting to see if all of that you know you can combine all that all that happens and then I think there’s at least a way for the Penguins to potentially sneak their way in even though again I still think they have quite a few more needs right now but I think that’ll do it for the second segment of today’s episode coming up to end the show yes the day has finally come cat friendly is no longer up Pat and I are going to discuss what that means for penguins and and NHL fans as a whole but before we get to that we have to tell you all about our next sponsor and that is FanDuel I love sports I love them so much that I never want them to stop but as the playoffs wind down we get fewer games and the sports aren’t sporting like I want them to but FanDuel lets me keep the sports going whenever I want all I have to do is open the app and dream up bets anytime I am in the mood and this summer FanDuel is hooking up every customer with a boost or a bonus every single day that’s right there is something for everyone every day all summer long so head on over to fanduel.com and start making the most out of your summer that’s FanDuel the official sports betting partner of Major League Baseball all right we’re back here on this episode of the locked on Penguins podcast I’m one of your hosts Hunter hodies joined by my co-host Patrick damp so Pat as I tease the day has finally come cap friendly is no longer up as it’s been taken down because it has been officially purchased by the Washington Capitals it is another good reason for Penguins fans to hate the Cal and every other rival team of the CES to not like them either and what this means for the Penguins I really don’t think that much I was listening to 32 thoughts a few weeks ago when they first kind of were discussing the news and Elliott Freeman reported that Kyle dubis has started putting in a system kind of like a cap based system where they do their own projections he did say that other teams were using C friendly a lot more than some other teams that have their own internal things and the Penguins they have their internal things so really not much is going to change there but for other teams and fans as a whole this stinks man it has been such a great resource for so many years when I do show prep every single day I’m on cat friendly writing down contracts in my notes writing down just how long a player has etc etc I loved it as a resource I know you loved it as a resource I’m gonna hand this over to you how big of a loss is this for the NHL Community as a whole now that it’s no longer up it’s huge man it’s it’s tough like you said you know we do show prep for this for a couple hours each on our own when we’re getting ready to do an episode and cap friendly was always if not the first maybe the second or third place you would go to because you wanted to discuss what kind of a contract a guy had how much money was he making what was the term does he have a no movement Clause you could easily come up with ideas for trades because you could do salary in salary out kind of deals against the cap and you also was great resource to see how many draft picks a team had going into the NHL draft especially once again if you’re talking trades okay does this team have a first do they have a second what could they package do they have other picks from other teams and it was just a huge part of hockey fandom especially for those of us who are total incomplete nerds that want to dive deep into this stuff and at the same time though I I you love to see people who do something like this get rewarded yeah it sucks that it’s the Washington Capitals and we got to say that as Penguins fans but you know these guys weren’t and former NHL employees they were just fans who wanted to give hockey fans a resource and they worked their butts off they would go to the draft without getting credentialed and they would update things from the draft they would talk to teams and get things up on their website and it ended up with them getting agreements with other franchises to work with them to manage the cap to get information about the salary cap like Elliot and Jeff said on 32 thoughts you know there were teams that legitimately used cap friendly in their front office because it was that good of a resource so it’s really cool at the same time it’s sad to lose it really cool to see people who put the work in PR provided a valuable resource for fans get rewarded get a job in the NHL because we talk about how difficult it is to break into that industry and these guys put in Relentless constant work and it landed them NHL jobs so that’s a huge get for the Washington Capitals and a great success story for the guys who created cap friendly hell it was also fun just seeing all the you know Mack GM teams that people would go up there and do onat friendly and just put out there on social media Reddit the other forums that are out there it was always fun seeing fans just cook up hypothetical trades just rosters Etc and I’m gonna miss seeing those as well I know some of them were a bit nuts but I’m still gonna miss them as well and now all eyes are on puckpedia man I’m really curious to see how Puck pedia does excuse me to fill in the shoes for cat friendly and I can only hope that it can be as good of a resource as cat friendly has been I will say it is and on one hand awesome that teams were using C friendly for The rosters but also kind of funny at the same time just because they didn’t have their own internal cap structure now I think teams are going to be scrambling a little bit to just make those improvements overall I just kind of find that funny a little bit Yeah and and you know puckpedia it’s GNA be a little rough at first because you’re just not used to it like keep that in mind when you go to puckpedia it’s going to be different it’s going to be weird because haven’t really gone to it I know a lot of people have them speaking generally obviously but they’re starting to really put the work in they just launched uh Puck GM which is a really cool resource you can it’s basically their version of armchair GM from puckpedia or from cap friendly excuse me and it’s it’s a really cool resource so when you get frustrated about cap friendly not being around anymore totally get it totally understand but I’m Pro I promise you go in check out puckpedia it’s different but it’s a very similar resource same as cap friendly hard workking team there that’s doing a lot of really valuable work in getting things put together so it’s going to take some adjusting but I’m telling you puckpedia is going to fill the void very very well right and I’ll also throw out another site for anyone that’s just looking for lines at any given time daily face off I think daily face off does a really good job keeping everyone up to date with the lines for every single NHL team so if you’re having you know trouble you know finding that information somewhere you can always go to daily face off they have that updated pretty regularly for everyone out there as well but if you don’t have anything else to add about cat friendly I think that’ll do it for today’s episode of the locked on Penguins podcast thank you all so much for taking the time to listen towatch this episode Pat and I will be back with another show for you all on Thursday to give you all the latest news surrounding the Pittsburgh Penguins so for Patrick damp I am Hunter hodies thank you all so much for tuning in we really appreciate it we’ll be back on Thursday

The Pittsburgh Penguins development camp is officially in the books and it’s time to see who stood out. Hunter and Patrick discuss the top performers of the camp and how Sergei Murashov was going off during the tournament on Wednesday. They also discuss how Brayden Yager and Owen Pickering played, plus where Murashov could play next season if he signs his ELC. After that, they do a post-July 1 look at the Metropolitan Division and who the contenders are versus who the pretenders are. Finally, the day has come…CapFriendly is officially offline and Hunter and Pat discuss what that means for the Penguins, as well as how it’s a major loss for NHL fans. They also discuss which websites will have to step up in its place.

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