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Week 16 Add, Drop, Hold + Jake is MIA | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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  Bummer about Bound banger management fantasy hockey
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  podcast. Woo woo.
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  Alright, welcome everyone to Bangor Management, the fantasy
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  hockey podcast with Josh and Kevin and not Jakey again
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  because he is still in Florida, which is just crazy.
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  I feel like it's like 4 episodes now.
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  He's been in Florida. I mean, listen, Jacky, Jacky has
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  different priorities than we do, yeah.
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  So I guess we can. That's it.
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  You know, we're just devoted to our fans.
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  And he's big. He's.
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  Not. Yeah, exactly.
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  So make sure to, you know, tag him in all your your hate mail
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  and. This is his address.
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  number. Alright, anyways, so this
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  episode is add hold, drop. We're going to recommend each
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  one. Add 1 hold and one drop.
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  Pretty self-explanatory as of week of January 13th.
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  Nice, nice and succinct. I liked it.
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  Good words, thanks. You would have never used that.
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  Word. Yeah, we don't need him.
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  Alright, so I'll start with my ad.
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  I feel like I've mentioned him a ton this week in my in like
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  every episode we've mentioned I've mentioned him because Josh
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  Norris is my ad for the week. He is just so solid.
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  He's got very solid proofs all season with .65 Pimms, two
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  shots, 7.4 faceoff wins and 2.6 hits such as really good cat
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  coverage. And then his points in power
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  plays were really good at the start of the season and they've
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  been awful the past month, corresponding with the demotion
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  to the third line. But he was recently moved back
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  to line one with Ketchup and Batherson and asked three points
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  in his past three games. So grab him before someone else
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  does. This is really a really good
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  pickup. Yep, I like everything you said.
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  I mean, listen, Josh Norris is banger league like Hall of Fame
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  at this point. I feel like yeah, we've talked
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  about him so much. He has such good deployment now.
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  CAD coverage is there as a pure C, you don't really have a lot
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  of guys that do that. So he's always worth picking up,
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  I think. And right now is the time to do
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  it. Any kind of deep leak, you
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  should absolutely be on your roster even in shallow leagues
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  right now. Like he's definitely more roster
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  worthy than a lot of your guys that are way higher percent
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  owned. So Yep, my ad is Logan Cooley of
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  the Utah OHE said Utah Hockey club.
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  But. It's not the Utah.
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  He's 47% owned and why he is my ad is because in every two
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  leagues he's on waivers and as a Logan Cooley owner in one of my
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  leagues, I've tried shopping him because he's been really hot.
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  But people are just like don't buy the hype for some reason.
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  They don't want to give you any kind of value for him.
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  So if that's the case, I'm going to say just add him, keep on
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  your roster and enjoy Hot Rod because he just got better
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  deployment. With Gunter being out, they kind
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  of consulted on that Line 1 and that P1.
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  So he's playing there. Last two games he's played 23
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  minutes, 24 minutes, almost 25 minutes.
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  So he's definitely getting ice time.
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  Right now he's playing with Clayton Keller and Nick
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  Schmaltz. He's getting as best deployment
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  as he can get. He's the 1C for this Utah team.
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  And I think Skye Limit, like he was a highly touted prospect.
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  The power play is really good. I think you could do worse.
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  And if he's available in over 50% of leagues, like that's the
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  time to get. Him yeah, this is a a no
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  brainer. I mean, I think he should be
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  owned in most leagues at this point has been putting up unreal
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  numbers for consistent amount of time even before this guenther
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  injury and getting moved to the top line.
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  So now he's only going to get better with that deployment and
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  he's the line one power play, one centre on a team.
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  He was a third overall pick like 2 years like 3 years ago.
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  And and so it's not a surprise that he's breaking out and
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  having a great season. And I don't expect him to coolly
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  off anytime soon. Whoa.
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  You just have it all up, so you could say that.
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  Didn't you? I just thought of it, I mean.
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  There's a lot of guys that are rostered like more than he is
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  that I'd rather have. Cool.
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  Yeah, he he's been better than Stamkos lately.
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  Yeah, I mean, Stamkos is a whole other story.
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  He's never gonna drop too much in roster percentage, even if
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  he's not playing great. Yeah, but but yeah, no.
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  Definitely or Dylan Strome rest of season.
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  'S so bad, but he started off so.
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  Hot 82%. Yeah, I mean, Trump had an
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  unreal start to the season though, but he did just get
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  bumped off line 1 so it could be cooling.
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  I wouldn't be surprised. I would take cool.
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  Yeah alright, let's get to to Jake's ad.
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  He mentions William Eckland, another guy that we mentioned in
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  our streamers episode. Yeah, he is super hot lately.
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  All factors lead to this being a breakout campaign for Eckland.
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  His minutes have been consistently awesome all year.
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  He was previously picked 7th overall by the Sharks and is now
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  playing with Celebrity, who is an incredible offensive force at
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  .83 points per game on the season.
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  The only reason he's not rostered in many more leagues
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  he's currently at 18% is because his peripherals are
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  inconsistent. However, if he can average 2
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  plus shots on goal per game and keep up this points per game
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  plus pace, this seems which seems totally reasonable.
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  His roster percentage should shoot up relatively quickly and
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  you don't want to miss the boat. So yeah, this is a great pickup.
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  Yep, I mean, I think what you have to pay attention because he
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  the deployment was a really big factor.
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  Like Jake has mentioned previously, the shots weren't
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  there before. Now that they're there, he's
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  kind of has some peripherals to back up his production because
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  he's used, he was on trial for being like, you know .8 points
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  per game guy with like zeros across the board.
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  Besides that, now he's away easier hold and I think with the
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  deployment plan celebrity like he, he could realistically be a
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  rest of season hold that should be like, you know, 60 to 70% in
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  your fantasy leagues and provide some really good value for you.
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  So now's the time to get in while he's still a majorly
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  available. Yep.
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  All right, moving on to our holds.
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  So my hold for this week is Sam Bennett.
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  His points have been awful the past month with only .15 points
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  per game, but his peripherals are still great with one PIM,
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  2.5 shots, 7.3 faceoff wins, and two hits.
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  So let's just get things straight.
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  He's not going to go back to the crazy hot start out at the
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  beginning of the season. I don't if you remember that,
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  but he started off really nuts point wise.
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  But he should definitely bounce back to above .5 points per
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  game. And when you combine that with
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  his, perhaps he's a guy you're super happy to have on your team
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  in a bangers league. So don't do anything crazy and
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  try and drop him in a bangers league because of how awful his
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  points have been lately. They will come back and you'll
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  be happy that you held on to. Him, it's tough, right, because
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  like whenever you have any type of player on your fantasy team,
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  if you're getting zero points for any consistent amount of
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  time, like that's it's hard to own, yeah, because you're like
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  this guy is providing 0 value. Obviously, he's still being
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  consistent with his shots and his hits.
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  And if you play with Pimms and face off wins, those are always
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  great. He's aligned 2 and Matthew
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  Patrick was one of the best players in the league, right?
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  Yeah, I feel like that Line 2 has kind of been a little bit
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  colder at times, which isn't magical truck ceiling, first of
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  all. But Bennett, he's just always
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  reliable to be that like, you know, that gritty centre who's
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  gonna continue to contribute in the banger categories and also
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  give you points. I think now's the time to just
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  hold and see how it goes. It's really hard to drop a
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  player that has his level of deployment.
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  So don't hold that. Don't, don't drop.
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  Please hold. And the points are yet to come.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  My hold is honestly, this was tough.
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  But it is Brock Besser of the Vancouver Canucks.
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  I mean, listen, the Vancouver Canucks, I don't know if I could
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  say or a S show, you know what I mean?
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  Yeah, that word, I don't want to say it, but it's yeah, it's a
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  mess. Thank you, Josh.
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  Right now he's playing with Peterson and the brusque.
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  And so you're saying, OK, the peripheral peripherals, the
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  deployment is really good. Let's peripherals have been so
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  bad. He's getting no points.
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  He's not even shooting. And that's like the only thing
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  that is known for it, right? Yeah, we're seeing his usual
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  linen. JT Miller not even play on PP1,
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  not really get much ice time. So right now something's
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  happening. Something's happening in
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  Vancouver and it's not good, but I think when Vancouver starts
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  ticking, it'll be when the not the breast with Besser, when
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  Besser starts turning up, like their success will be correlated
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  together. And maybe it takes AJ Miller
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  trade for that to happen. Who knows?
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  Maybe they change the lines up, who knows, but when better
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  starts ticking is when Vancouver gonna start seeing success, and
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  I think that was the time. Hold him, don't drop him.
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  He has too big of a name that you can drop.
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  If you can sell him, I'd consider that, but I just want
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  to really give some confidence to Besser owners who are really
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  frustrated that they're not really getting anything out of
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  him right now. I would say unless there's a
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  really good option on your waivers, I would not consider
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  dropping them. Yeah, I fully agree he's too
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  good to drop. And yeah, he's been pretty
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  brutal lately, but it's like you said, just the entire Canucks
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  team is a mess. I mean, Patterson was was your
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  buy low for the week? Yeah, so like.
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  Gonna turn around. I I think we.
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  Scored two like. Yeah, and he's never gonna lose
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  his deployment. He's always gonna be line one or
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  two in power play one and he's gonna be their go to guy for
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  scoring. So he's a really good hold.
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  Yeah, don't get too frustrated and do anything rash that you'll
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  regret for the rest of the season.
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  And I mean, if only Jackie had we've already had a hole that I
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  really that I really liked. Jake's old is Matt Michkov of
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  the Philadelphia Flyers, So this is what Jackie has written down
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  for him. So Mitkov was Jakies week 13 by
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  low and since then his shots on goal per game have gone way up,
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  but the points are still lagged with all rookies being
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  inconsistent. This is going to be a thing
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  we're going to expect from Michkov, but we know he can also
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  be a star in the League One day. If not this year, I'd expect his
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  shots on goal to positively regress a lot as it's more
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  comfortable playing in the NHL in a shallow points league or
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  Jake's in a shallow points league where he holds.
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  Michael has been rough holding him at times throughout the
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  year, but when he gets on a hot streak is very nice to own him
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  and he doesn't think that should be dropped by any means.
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  The Tortorella volatility is obviously something that you
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  keep in mind with rookies specifically, but he's averaging
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  over three shots on goal game and 0.3 power play points a game
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  over the last week. He clearly has a lot of
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  offensive potential on the Flyers that Satina needs that
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  and he's arguably their best weapon.
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  So if they want to make a push for the playoffs, it's gonna be
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  on. Mitch comes back, but it's it's
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  hard to it's hard to drop a guy that has that kind of like
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  talismanic, you know, effect for his team, right?
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  Yeah, I fully agree. I don't think, I don't think you
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  could drop him. I think that's one of those guys
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  who since he's a rookie, is gonna be very streaky and you
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  kind of just hope that his hot streak corresponds with your
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  fantasy playoffs because we've seen him this season even be
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  just electric and unreal. But The thing is that all these
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  rookies, they come into this 82 game season playing against like
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  big NHL ers, they're not used to it.
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  Some guys like Mitch have even came from like, you know,
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  Russia. So it's not necessarily used to
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  North American hockey either. And so it's a bit of an
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  adjustment for sure. But when you're an elite talent
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  like that, you find ways to score and get points.
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  And even if Tortorella is gonna mess around with his deployment
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  and stuff, at the end of the day, Michkov is the future of
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  that team. And so other than really connect
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  me, he's the guy to own on Philly.
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  My advice is you hold them. You can never drop him.
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  You hold them and then as soon as he starts turning it up with
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  points and stuff you try to sell them.
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  Yeah, I agree. My advice alright, and then my
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  drop for the week is Matthias Ekholm.
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  I always look at I love doing these drops.
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  It's my favorite part of this episode because I just wanna
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  yell at the screen when I see some of these guys being roster
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  to this highly because it just makes no sense.
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  Of these guys are rostered because in plus minus leagues
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  are actually like. That's fair.
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  That is the one thing that Yahoo.
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  Default leagues have plus minus a lot of leaks out there.
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  Still play with us. That's fair.
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  OK, so my first one because. It's the worst I was.
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  Gonna say my first PSA is stop playing with plus minus because
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  that's a joke of a category but once you know so ignoring plus
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  minus because you shouldn't be playing with that.
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  Ecom has .42 points per game, 2.3 shots and .7 hits and 1.4
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  blocks on the season. So he's not good at points, he's
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  not good at peripherals, he's never going to get a shot at
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  power play 1. I don't know why he's 79% owned
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  that's. Wild 79.
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  Percent, I know. That's just crazy.
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  Like we were talking about Cooley as an ad, right?
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  Cooley's 47% owned and at home 79% owned.
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  With the defenders. That's always the defenseman I
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  find are like the ones who are like crazy high owned.
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  And this is just another great sample of a guy who's great in
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  real life but terrible for fantasy.
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  So drop him, you know, drop him, clear up your response and
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  decide do you want that roster spot to be a defenseman who will
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  get you points? Then you could stream some guys
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  who are on hot streaks. Do you want it to be someone who
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  will actually get you peripherals?
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  Get one of those 5% owned guys who bangs like crazy, you know,
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  but like these middle of the pack guys who get you a little
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  bit of points and a little bit of perhaps, but knock it at
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  anything. They're just not worth holding
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  on your roster. Drop at home, pick up a Jackson
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  Lacombe who's on, yeah, one on on Anaheim, and that's going to
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  give you that power play exposure.
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  You're not really getting much on the peripherals anyway, so
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  might as well get some power. That's it exactly.
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  Yep. My drop is I'm going a little
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  bit lower in the roster percentage this time around, but
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  it is Brady Shay of the National Predators.
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  He's 40% owned but realistically I don't know why anybody is
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  holding him because he has. He averages 0.3 points per game.
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  Wow with no power play and 1.6 shots.
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  Basically zero hits and maybe a block.
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  That's truly so. It's just out of your defensemen
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  spot if you're in a really deep leagues Even then I would just
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  rather pick up anybody that's like 5 to 10% owned that has
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  good peripherals that you can stream on a four-game week.
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  And I think that's gonna be more valuable than holding British on
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  your roster because you're not holding him for the points.
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  He's going to use your power play exposure.
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  He has a couple of points on the season because when you'll see
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  was out and he got some ice time there, but he's not shooting.
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  You're not getting any hits from him really one blocking game.
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  There's so many more defensemen that will get you more hits and
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  blocks and shots combined than Brady Shay.
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  And yet he's still 40% owned. He's one of those guys that he
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  was on Carolina last year, really good IRL defensemen, not
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  as good fantasy defensemen. And there's a lot of guys like
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  that and you just have to separate the name value with the
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  actual defensive capabilities and their fantasy value.
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  And he's like one of those guys that I really attribute that to.
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  And yeah I would say pop up pick up, use that spot to stream
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  schedule wise, get 5 or 6 games out of his roster spot and
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  you'll be way better off. Yeah, fully agree.
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  This is someone who pretty much puts zeros across the board
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  consistently. I have no idea why he's even
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  rostered at all. You look at Nashville and
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  General who's been super underwhelming this year.
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  Even Yoshi's been pretty bad lately, you know?
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  And so if a guy like Yoshi is not doing well in a team, you're
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  not expecting like Brady Shay to really be picking up the slack,
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  and he's not. So feel free to drop him and
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  clear up that roster. Spot there's so many games that
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  is just like zeros with one shot, zero with one shot, zero
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  with two shots like that's not that's not helping you and you
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  were. Saying how like hypothesis on
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  why some of these guys are so highly owned plus minus but now
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  feels like bottom of the league standings.
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  So I don't know what this guy is bringing to anyones fantasy
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  roster, but just dump him and pick up someone more valuable.
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  Yep, and there you have it. All right, so that wraps up our
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