JotCast | PHR Live Chat: 9/24/25

PHR Live Chat: 9/24/25

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Hawks

2:38

Who plays with Bedard? Does Teravainen-Bedard-Nazar look nice?

Josh Erickson

2:40

Right, but then who's your second-line center? That would be way too much too soon for guys like Ryan Greene and Oliver Moore. This is the issue you run into. The plan seems to be to continue to have faith in Bedard to drive his own line while giving Nazar some "insulation" at 2C with Teravainen and Tyler Bertuzzi on his wings.

Jackets

2:40

Who plays top line with Monohan and Marchenko?

Josh Erickson

2:42

It'll be Dmitri Voronkov. Hard to overstress how dominant that trio was at even strength last year, and they've continued to skate together to begin camp.

Stars

2:42

How do they do their lineup with the top 6 missing one guy and the bottom 6 having too many?

Josh Erickson

2:43

Seems like Sam Steel will be getting the step-up (along with Mavrik Bourque, obviously). They like him a lot internally, and given their cap situation, they need to squeeze what they can out of that $2.1MM cap hit.

DRW

2:44

Talbot to EDM and Cossa plays backup?

Josh Erickson

2:45

Not the most far-fetched thing I've heard, at least in terms of Talbot getting dealt and Cossa getting the promotion. If he gets off to an undeniable start in Grand Rapids, I would absolutely shop Talbot. The Oilers being the landing spot, though... they've dumped so many resources into making Stuart Skinner work. They made no move this summer to address their goaltending. He'd have to be posting a sub-.890 mark for them to finally bite the bullet and make a deal at this point.

Oil

2:45

Walman - Bouchard top pairing what do you think?
Walman - Bouchy
Ekholm - Kulak
Nurse - Emberson/Stecher

Josh Erickson

2:46

I don't think that's realistic. They've been using Walman on the right side, and he's been outspoken about being comfortable there. I imagine he's with Nurse and Kulak is on his natural left side with Emberson/Stecher on the bottom pair.

Cats

2:46

What does the 3rd pairing look like?

Josh Erickson

2:47

I mean, it's gotta be Dmitry Kulikov and Jeff Petry by default, no? That top four has been so good that you can't justify breaking Forsling-Ekblad or Mikkola-Jones up, at least not yet.

Cats

2:47

Is Lundell getting tired of 3rd line minutes?

Josh Erickson

2:48

Is it really third line when you're getting to play with Brad Marchand? He played nearly 17 minutes per game last year. Add in the back-to-back Cups and I don't think he's losing any sleep.

2:48

Any thoughts on where Kuznetsov signs and what expectations should be for him?

Josh Erickson

2:49

It's been pretty quiet on him recently, hasn't it? I still think he's a fine 3C for somebody. The Rangers still make sense. The 30-40 point range is realistic if he gets 70+ games.

Preds

2:49

In all honesty, does Brady Martin make the team this season. Bunting - Martin - Wood would kill.

Josh Erickson

2:52

I like that the Predators have left the door open for so many kids to realistically compete for jobs at forward. Martin, Matthew Wood, Fedor Svechkov, Joakim Kemell, Reid Schaefer... there's a world in which all of them break camp. I'm still wary of rushing Martin's offensive development and turning him into another David Legwand, which the Predators can't really afford to do. But if they can insulate him between two veteran linemates... maybe swap Marchessault out for Wood... I see a fit, for sure. He's looked great so far, although let's check back during the second week of preseason.

Rags

2:52

I've seen Morrow play extremely well on LD, does Gav-Fox, Morrow-Schnieder, Soucy-Borgy make sense Vaaks on 7th D?

Josh Erickson

2:53

If he's comfortable with it, that would be a great solution to the otherwise spotty puck-moving ability on that back end. I can't speak to how well he's fit there (or really if he's gotten many reps there). In theory, though, that could be a great solution, albeit with an expensive bottom pairing.

Sens

2:55

How do they deal with the whole top line conundrum and what does that mean for depth?

Josh Erickson

2:55

I'd run it back with Tkachuk-Stützle-Giroux. Don't muck with what works. I really wonder if Arthur Kaliyev gets a shot in the top nine if Batherson misses time to begin the year.

Flyers

2:55

I see the Flyers opening with Konecny-Couturier-Tippett, ________ - Zegras - Michkov, Foerster - Cates - Brink, ________ - Dvorak - Hathaway. Bump prolly gets a good look and so does Grebenkin, Richard is maybe an option, but for top 6 do they upgrade the 3rd line and move Couturier or Zegras with someone down to the 3rd (probably Tippett and Zegras) or would they break up the amazing FCB line? Who draws in on the RD3 spot assuming its York-Sanheim, Seeler-Drysdale, and Zamula with someone until Risto is back?

Josh Erickson

2:56

Anthony Richard is what he is – a great AHL scorer. I would much rather have Alex Bump and Nikita Grebenkin in those slots and embrace the youth movement. Still curious as to what they do with Jett Luchanko. Would guess Noah Juulsen at 3RD – he's a Tocchet favorite.

OggyDoggy

2:57

why no news on Cal Foote? are Danil Aimurzin and Daniil Isayev coming to USA to sign with Detroit?

Josh Erickson

3:00

All else aside, Foote wasn't an NHL-caliber player by the time he got pulled from play. There's no interest in him for a reason. He was still showing considerable defensive deficiencies playing in the Slovak league last year. He won't be back in the NHL.

Not sure next summer is the best time for Danil Aimurzin to make the NA jump considering the slow start he's off to. Isayev will garner some considerable interest on the goalie market next summer, I imagine. They're not bringing him in if it blocks Cossa, though, and Gibson is under contract through 2026-27. Detroit could get easily beat out if someone has a clear backup job open for him.

Alright all, that's the top of the hour. So many awesome questions today – thanks!

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