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Tony Ferrari

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
213 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

That's the guy that's going to play in the middle of your lineup.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

He's not going to make a mess.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

There's not going to be a whole lot of fuss around his game.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

He's just going to do what you need him to do.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

He's not going to lose shifts on a regular basis.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

He's also not going to go out there and dynamically win shifts either.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

He's going to generate scoring chances and do things in a very simple, tactical way.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

And sometimes you just need that, especially when you're in a game where

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

it's 2-1 and it's late in the game, you need to waste a minute and throw Morozov over the board with whoever is on his line.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

You're probably going to get a good minute out of him.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

So he's a guy like that that I look at where you're not necessarily excited, but NFL teams need offensive linemen.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

When the Ravens drafted a big offensive lineman this year, I was ecstatic.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

So you need to be excited when a guy like Morozov gets drafted as well.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

Yeah, I think the interesting thing to me is,

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

We always look at everyone's draft boards, whether it's the public draft boards or somehow you get a sneak peek at an NHL team's draft board, and no one does exactly the same.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

And when they are, it's usually because people are copying off other people's work.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

So when you're looking at a draft board that's completely unique, that's the reality across the NHL.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

I remember at the draft in Vegas, I'm talking to one team about a player, and they're like, oh, we have him as a top 15 guy.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

We're hoping to get him in the second round because people don't value him that way.

Canucks Central
Who's on the Rise?

I talked to another team about the same player.