Will Scouch

And I get the feeling that trying to learn where you're

balancing act is, especially as a defenseman, right?

Like how confident can you be on your retrievals?

How, you know, how can you be a competent holding onto the puck and how long can you hold onto it?

You know, reading options, creating options, all that stuff.

In NCAA, you got to do it really, really quickly.

And I do wonder if it was like a balancing act that may have gotten a little out of whack.

I also wonder how much it was that,

As the season went on, other college programs just got better and more cohesive and kind of pre-scouted a team like North Dakota a little bit more and applied more pressure to them.

I watched the game they played against Wisconsin, and I don't think he was particularly good in that game, but I don't know who at 17 years old would have played well against a Wisconsin team that played like that.

They were just all over him all game long.

It's a really tough call.

Like I don't, I think he is a guy that, you know, today, I don't think you could say he's the number one, two, three, four, five best player, but the, the positioning and the habits and the stick skill and open ice and the playmaking and the shot quality, like there's something there.

And I, I, I still, I agree with what you're saying.

I totally get where you're coming from.

And I just feel like it's just such a strange case that I think we'll just have to see play out.

I don't really know the answer.

Yeah, he's another one.

It's a very interesting year for defensemen because I think all the really good ones are all very different from each other in different ways.

really depends on which way you sort of value the position and what you're looking for.