Shane Malloy: Malhotra, Stenberg, or a D at 3? Do the twins want the twins?
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Who is Shane Malloy and why is he the guest on this draft-focused episode?
Zach Harrison Price from the Historic Wall Center. We have had a long association with Shane Malloy. He is a writer and broadcaster on all things hockey prospect and draft prospects. His hockey prospect radio show and Sirius XM, the hockey data show. He's into that as well. He's part of the pro hockey group with Jason Buchla. He joins us from his home in New Brunswick. How are you doing, my friend? Long time.
I'm doing great, gentlemen. How are you? Good. Yeah, I haven't seen you guys for a while. Matt? Yeah, been a while. We used to hang out together in the press box and sing songs, and Tony Gallagher would look over us and raise an eyebrow and be like, what are you two miscreants up to over there? So, yeah, good times.
You would probably use a word like that too, yes.
And I got to bring in on the inside. When Blake and I used to go off to cover drafts, having to do several draft shows, and particularly that Saturday show of rounds two through seven, my process was basically to keep Shane Malloy on the phone for two to three hours and ask him about like three dozen guys, if not more, heading into that. So thank you for all your help over the years, Shane. We saw you've dropped your top... Your list of top draft prospects here. Mike will bring that up on the visual. You've got Gavin McKenna, number one. Chase Reed, number two. Ivar Stenberg, number three. And then Carson Carrolls, Keaton Verhoff, Daxon Rudolph, and Caleb Malhalter. Just start me off there. Why McKenna, Reed, and Stenberg, one, two, three.
Well, McKenna primarily... I'll give you a little background. I built a system for myself inside of a performance management system because in the past, I used to work for EA Sports from 2006 to about a year and a half ago. So I did all the player ratings. So I needed to find a system to manage myself, to protect myself from myself because I'm my biggest problem. And what I did inside is I built a system for the draft where... where I would input all these data points, whether it would be my scan reports or, you know, all the attributes and skill sets and biometric information, background information, everything I can get on a player. And then it would spit out a list for me But what I did was I put bumpers in place.
So you talk about tiering. So it would tier for me. So what it did was it protected me from moving the players above a tier or below a tier. So I can move them around that tier, but that was it. So it was really based on weighting preferences of playing style and positions and certain skilled attributes that I valued more. And what comes out is the first three players on my list are in its own tier. I had McKenna at number one, and the reason primarily what bumped him ahead of everybody else is that offensive ceiling, that output. He may be the only forward in this group that hits over 100 points on a regular basis in his prime years, 23 to 31. And then Chase Reed... I weight heavily defensemen because if you look at the salary cap era of free agency or going into trade, the cost of acquisition for a top three defenseman is ridiculous.
So if you can get one at the draft, do it. So I took all that scarcity and supply and demand and applied it back to my draft ratings, which is why D-men tend to go higher on my list. And Reed was the one defenseman who I thought was going to be, had the greatest potential and probability of being a number one defenseman in his prime years. And then Stenberg was just slightly below that. I mean, these are razor sharp margins between the two. And I just find Stenberg is more well-rounded. However, I'm not entirely convinced his upside will be, you know, the 100-point range, but he could be in that 80, 85-point range consistently. Boy, but off the puck, His B game is exceptional at this age. It's outstanding.
It's outstanding. And I loved watching him at the World Championships where you just saw the confidence growing, as he noted this week in interviews, shift by shift, game by game.
Stenberg and Malhotra with their late helium, Stenberg because of the World Championships, Malhotra because of his second half and March to the OHL playoffs, they've become really a focal point for Canucks fans.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Shane Malloy and why is he the guest on this draft-focused episode?
0:02–5:20
2
What are Shane Malloy's top three prospects and how does his ranking system work?
5:20–12:57
3
Why does Shane prioritize defensemen like Chase Reed over forwards in his draft tiers?
12:57–18:15
4
Are Canucks fans overvaluing Stenberg and Malhotra compared to the class of defensemen?
18:15–22:50
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