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James Mirtle

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168 total appearances

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Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And the Jarvis pick wasn't even their pick.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

It was a draft pick that they poached out of Toronto and made it.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

Yeah.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

I mean, they do have some guys, Slavin and Blake, and they have some players that they picked with second, third, fourth-round picks, and that's great to find value there.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

But in general, you look at how Carolina and Vegas are built,

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

They found free agents that were undervalued.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

They made trades with other teams and they won those trades.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And that's how their teams were put together.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And it wasn't really a traditional kind of rebuild through the draft the way we think of other teams doing.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

Yeah, yeah.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And I mean, that's, if you read my preview of the series, I wrote about why Carolina was having such a good year.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And in that story, Eric Tufke said that part of why they can find undervalued players is they know exactly what they're looking for and the kind of way that they play.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And they know players – he said Stan Coleman's a good example where they might be undervalued in other organizations, but they know that with the way that they play, they're going to fit in.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And an example that Tulsky used was, you know, some teams are looking to play, you know, more of like a net front defense, and they're going to want bigger defensemen and more physical defensemen.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And that's not the way that Carolina plays.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

They're playing more of a man-to-man style, and they want to have more of a skating and puck –

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

puck pressure and aggressive kind of system where they can have it.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

So they want, they'll value players more like let's say Sean Walker and Shane Costas pair and some of the defensemen that they've got over, I don't know.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And I mean, Vegas is kind of, you know, the Braden McNabs, you know, and so Carolina is looking for a different kind of a player.

Halford & Brough in the Morning
The Jays Can't Use The Injury Excuse

And that's part of why they're able to identify someone, I think like Stankoven five foot eight,