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- 0:27OK, welcome in a Bangor Management, the Fantasy Hockey
- 0:30podcast with Jake, Josh and Kevin.
- 0:33Kevork. Today we're going to be doing
- 0:35our mailbag episode. As of the week of February 10th,
- 0:39this is the week of the Four Nations Faceoff Tournament.
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- 0:59OK, so let's starve into the question.
- 1:01So from Reddit efficient incident 6 asked standard head
- 1:06to head points league. So rockin are hallmark.
- 1:09Let's do it like. That we're gonna.
- 1:10Time. So firstly Sorokin or Almark.
- 1:13I would say Almark. I'm going Almark.
- 1:16Kevin. Standard head to head points
- 1:19league. Points league probably all mark
- 1:23like that you maybe there's like I guess my answer.
- 1:26No, no shame at all. It's a it's a good one.
- 1:28So all mark, all three of us cool.
- 1:30Next one Boldly or Jarvis. Jarvis Boldy.
- 1:35Think I'm going to go Jarvis? Boosted head to head points.
- 1:38Yeah, I just think the points ceiling is like Jarvis is just
- 1:41looking. Better you think, even told you
- 1:42with two extra games in the playoffs.
- 1:45If it's a standard league, it's probably ending Week 25, so
- 1:49that's one thing to keep in mind.
- 1:51So that's still two extra weeks in the.
- 1:53Week is 1. It's a 3 game versus the
- 1:56four-game, which is not a crazy difference.
- 1:58Yeah, I don't know. I'm definitely taking a guy with
- 2:00a double four-game over a guy with a double.
- 2:01Three-game I got that. I just think like, I don't know,
- 2:04I'm still gonna go Jarvis close though.
- 2:06Very. Close.
- 2:06Jarvis plays on like a rod team kind of has free reign of the
- 2:10wild. But anyways, I'll leave you guys
- 2:13with your wrong opinion. Silver Hagee.
- 2:16Studs only. Suit So Sam?
- 2:19Yeah. And Exploder Jones.
- 2:21Joseph Jones, yes. Correct.
- 2:23Caleb Jones for sure. Wow.
- 2:25Jones I have both of those guys and a points league actually.
- 2:29And no, no, no. But the thing with with the
- 2:34standard points league is that it may have a plus minus
- 2:37involved. One thing to keep in mind.
- 2:39So I will definitely Jarvis. Yeah, but anyway, I'm actually
- 2:44gonna go Ekblad for this. OK.
- 2:45Plus minus is involved. I would go good.
- 2:47As well. That's why I think it is.
- 2:48Yeah, I think it. Is that's a good point.
- 2:50I'm still thinking Jones get rid of the Dallas.
- 2:54If that happens. Breaking news.
- 2:55Yeah, that's true. All right, Ish Binion, I think.
- 3:00Binyon. On Reddit past my goalies are
- 3:03all Mark Thompson lingering and Blackwood.
- 3:06Doesn't make sense to still own the Washington tandem going into
- 3:09the playoffs. Or should I drop Lingren to free
- 3:12up a spot for another winger? Drop Linger.
- 3:14The goalie categories are wind, save percentage and shutouts.
- 3:17Drop Lingren. Easily drop lingren.
- 3:20You have the better goal in the tandem.
- 3:21You don't need both. You already have two other great
- 3:23goalies. Yeah, you don't need to have 4
- 3:26goalies. Yeah, and you look at like the
- 3:28goalie cats they have like lingerie's not adding anything
- 3:30to save percentage. He's probably just making it
- 3:32worse and he's not gonna add anything to shut out.
- 3:34So like I'll add you like maybe one win a week.
- 3:36Like that's a waste of a roster spot.
- 3:38I'm. Trying to like formulate a
- 3:39reality where this could make sense to keep 4 goalies period,
- 3:43let alone 2. On the same team and how deep
- 3:45your league is it depends how you know is it deep league with
- 3:48like you know are you guys 14 teams and there's nobody on
- 3:50waivers at all and you need to hit like you know four starts a
- 3:53week yeah then obviously you. Know.
- 3:55So, but these goalies, like with all Mark Blackwood and Thompson,
- 3:58is your top three. You're not worried?
- 3:59About. Just redundant that's why you're
- 4:00you're fine and I would drop him for a winger and then stream of
- 4:03goalie if need be. I.
- 4:04Would drop him for a guy that will help you in your specific
- 4:08matchup. Whether you need If you need
- 4:09banger cats and stream of Bangor guy.
- 4:11If you need more shots or points, stream one of those guys
- 4:14and then. The general idea of holding 2
- 4:16goalies on the same team literally means that there is
- 4:18like an embedded opportunity cause there where one of them
- 4:21literally just does not play a night and you're better off
- 4:24clearly having Thompson and lingering at this point.
- 4:26So I think I'm much happier keeping keeping Thompson and
- 4:30just dropping when you're trying to stop him.
- 4:32Could be a decent idea, but like.
- 4:34I don't think anyone's going. You're not going to get much.
- 4:36Yeah, OK. Optic Killer 2000 asked.
- 4:41Standard points. They need to drop one of Seth
- 4:43phones, Doughty, Lacombe, Morrissey and cider.
- 4:46OK, first of. All Yeah.
- 4:48Have questions? Optic Killer 2000 Are you a fan
- 4:52or not a fan of Optic Gaming? The question We've all been
- 4:57dying. Yeah, that was not my question.
- 5:00I'm an Optic Gaming fan so I'm just wanna know I'm not giving
- 5:02advice to somebody that's gonna kill Optic Gaming.
- 5:04Yeah, maybe. Or maybe he's an optician.
- 5:10We're good. Yeah, invite day, killer by
- 5:13night. Hockey by.
- 5:15The way let us know in the comments or send us a message on
- 5:18Reddit or something. I'm actually curious, but to
- 5:20answer your question. So OK, standard.
- 5:22Eliminate Eliminate the obvious ones that you're.
- 5:25Not home is getting dropped. Yeah.
- 5:26I mean, I think you're obviously not dropping more Seasider Seth
- 5:29Jones, right? It's obviously between Dowdy and
- 5:31Lacombe. Yeah, I would say that, yes,
- 5:33because even if plus minus is involved, like yes, still that's
- 5:36the case. It's not everything.
- 5:37I think Luke Combs deployment is not 100% certain.
- 5:40We've already seen him getting bumped off P1 here and there.
- 5:43I think they want to succeed. It was just off for so long.
- 5:46He just got brought to the Four Nations face off like he's
- 5:48building up his stamina and he's like hockey, hockey sense again.
- 5:53I think he his his production is not production, but his
- 5:57deployment is not in question. Yeah, I think it's an easy
- 6:00lacombe as. Well, he's gonna Stanley Cup
- 6:01contender. Confidently look home.
- 6:04Yeah, I mean, the only value he had really was being on power
- 6:07play one, even though Anaheim has I think the worst power play
- 6:09in the league. But the fact that he doesn't
- 6:11even have a lock on that really makes his value worse.
- 6:14And he's a good streamer, like we'll mention on streaming shows
- 6:17when he's hot and whatnot, but if this is your decor, like you
- 6:20don't not need to roster him. Yeah, OK.
- 6:24Next on Instagram. Ben Sharot is my daddy.
- 6:28This sounds familiar. Asked create a fantasy league
- 6:33based on vibes. No stats, just players energy.
- 6:36Who are you drafting? So I picked my all time favorite
- 6:39for this one. Not currently in the league, but
- 6:41Ilia Bryzgalov because the vibes are as Immaculate as it gets.
- 6:46He's just one guy. I don't know if you remember
- 6:50when he was talking about like how he would, you know,
- 6:52rationalizes letting a goal, then yeah, it's a universe is so
- 6:55big. We are so small.
- 6:58What the. And then there's like, what does
- 7:00it matter? Why are you mad?
- 7:01It's just game. Like it's just game.
- 7:05Good. So like there's there's this is
- 7:10like first overall easy for me. Like move over Gretzky goals and
- 7:14assists combined. Alibris Gala was my choice for
- 7:17sure. I think my thick is, is
- 7:20definitely Corey Perry. I don't know if you guys have
- 7:22ever watched Corey Perry, Corey Perry being a worm dog, like a
- 7:28compilation on YouTube, but it's just like him, like stealing
- 7:31player sticks like like spring water into like another guy's
- 7:34gloves, like just doing like random, like wormy moves.
- 7:38And it's just hilarious to watch.
- 7:40Yeah. So Corey Perry for the.
- 7:42Vibes. Yeah, I like it.
- 7:44Kevin, you have one. Yes, absolutely, and I was gonna
- 7:48answer this question on my alt account.
- 7:50Daddy is Barkov. But.
- 7:53But I think my answer I spoke to you guys about it would be Pavel
- 7:56Datsyuk, the getting, getting paid on the contract.
- 7:59Man's just all about that money touching.
- 8:04That's a good answer. So yeah, this would make it
- 8:07pretty sick. Team, just for context, because
- 8:09I realized it didn't give the story behind that, but he was
- 8:12holding out for a new contract and they didn't wanna pay him
- 8:14and then he finally got paid after holding out training camp.
- 8:17And then when he was getting his medical done, the doctor was had
- 8:19a status stethoscope checking his heart rate and he was just
- 8:21like, oh, doctor, how's my heart rate?
- 8:23What do you hear? He goes, oh, just a normal
- 8:24heartbeat and he goes, Nah, sounds like judging.
- 8:28It was brilliant that you know what else is great?
- 8:30I think it was like 2011 or 2012.
- 8:34This would have been like an amazing top three picks.
- 8:38For. Sure, you know.
- 8:40The goat. Yeah, this is like this would be
- 8:42a serious team. Back Corey Perry.
- 8:45Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
- 8:49From Instagram, Armin asks if you can rank IR stashes from now
- 8:54until the end of the fantasy playoffs.
- 8:56What would you say? OK, so we did this into three
- 8:58tiers. First tier we got.
- 9:02So these are all guys on IR right now.
- 9:03Just to keep in mind, if you have an IR spot in your league,
- 9:06that's obviously very important for this tier. 1 Kaprizov and
- 9:10Nichushkin Tier 2 General Marchenko, Tier 3 Norris, Lozon,
- 9:16Miro, Heiskanen and Dobson AS. Opposed to other.
- 9:20We had a whole Caleb, Seth Jones, Connor confusion there.
- 9:24I just wanted to make sure. Everyone has.
- 9:26Not the other. Yeah.
- 9:28So I think that Caprice was clearly in the league of his
- 9:31own. But because nutrition is gonna
- 9:33come back sooner, the expected value, if you will, is
- 9:37comparable. And then Jenner and Marchenko
- 9:41again, Jenner, like not Marchenko caliber at all, but
- 9:46because he's going to come back sooner.
- 9:48And then Norris Lasagna and Dobbs and all kind of ambiguous
- 9:51like what their situation is and or just not that.
- 9:54Great. I mean, I think Dobson is
- 9:55probably gonna be out for the season.
- 9:56He's basically a zero. So if you have a free AD, stash
- 9:59him on your IR, but I'm not expecting anything.
- 10:02You're probably getting him either your semifinals or
- 10:04finals, kind of like Marchenko, but Marchenko seems a little bit
- 10:07more optimistic. We've heard no news, so I don't
- 10:10know what's happening there, but he's been out for a while.
- 10:12He's basically pure, purely hits guy.
- 10:14So yeah. And Norris week to week
- 10:16obviously, but he's really good to having a bangers league.
- 10:20I would like to get him on my on my IR stash.
- 10:23All stackable. Yeah, yeah, I think the best one
- 10:26even within the Tier 1 is Ashkin, just cause he supposed
- 10:28to be back after Four Nations. All doesn't feel like a statue
- 10:31at this point because if you have on your ass, you probably
- 10:33know he's coming back. Yeah exactly, but it's probably
- 10:35stash quote UN quote like buy low opportunity is still.
- 10:38There. Yeah, exactly.
- 10:39Yeah, and any league that he's like available which?
- 10:42Is available in half of leagues. Really.
- 10:44Yeah, he's like 49% owned. Wow, that's gotta be picked up.
- 10:48Absolutely. Hey from Instagram, Emily asked
- 10:53if you could draft players from any era in the NHL, in NHL
- 10:57history, who would be your top picks?
- 10:59So we all named our our top. So for me, I'm going to go
- 11:05Maurice Richard on this one. There was a movie about him, and
- 11:09there was, yeah, they used to. Call was in goon.
- 11:15Yeah, shoot, I should have said Xavier Laflamme.
- 11:22That's what I really meant. You're welcome.
- 11:25Yeah. I just think it would have been
- 11:26fun, like Loki, watching that era of, you know, we've been
- 11:31really. Cool ref and like causal riot in
- 11:33Montreal. Yeah.
- 11:34Could you imagine like actually like winning all three stars and
- 11:38just like, walk, like going to the rank and like watching them
- 11:41play in black and white? Before they invented colour.
- 11:49Straight vibes. So yeah, that's that's.
- 11:52My guys like chain smoking on the.
- 11:53Bench, Yeah, yeah, No, that would actually didn't.
- 11:57They have like a divider with a French and English section at
- 11:59the time. Maybe I wouldn't be shocked,
- 12:01yeah. It was crazy times back then.
- 12:03Yeah, that's like that's less cool or not cool at all, but
- 12:09yeah, I think it would have just been a really cool air to watch
- 12:11and like. Yeah, if you clean the house on
- 12:13top of the world too, right? So yeah, fun having more on your
- 12:17fantasy team while the haves are winning Stanley Cups.
- 12:19You get like 3 hat tricks in the game one time or something crazy
- 12:22anyway. Nine goal.
- 12:24Patricks. Yeah, yeah, you can move on to
- 12:26yours. Josh.
- 12:27I'm gonna verify this. So mine would be Gordie Howe, I
- 12:31think, especially in the league with Pimms.
- 12:33Um, it's called the Gordie Howe Hatrick Furries and right, you
- 12:35know, any guy who can get a goal and assist and five Pimms and
- 12:38like irregularly in a game is just amazing.
- 12:41Isn't a fight or is it 5 Pimms? It's a fight, but you get.
- 12:43Five times. But what if you get 3 minor
- 12:45penalties? Is that a Gordie Howe hat trick?
- 12:47No it. Has to be.
- 12:49What do you games conduct? But No 5 No.
- 12:52Fight, No, it has to be a fight and also if it was a keeper
- 12:56league then you could have held him for like 30 years.
- 13:00That's true. Good point.
- 13:03He invented Kimberly. Point, yeah.
- 13:06My pick going goalie here but getting hot chick on your team.
- 13:11Why? You don't need to own any other
- 13:12goalies. Probably in your under fantasy
- 13:13team if you got him. No, it's just like so fun to
- 13:17watch like with like the cage and everything.
- 13:18Yeah, you. Got that funny home Iconic.
- 13:20Yeah, so it turns out more. Richard only scored five goals,
- 13:23so there goes yeah. Cost of a fantasy pick.
- 13:28Yeah, Seriously. Seriously.
- 13:30And wait, No way? Gabe Vilardi on Instagram asked.
- 13:34This is not surprising. He's our biggest.
- 13:36Fan Whoa, who has been your favorite fantasy pickup over the
- 13:39last few years? Keep in mind Josh picked up
- 13:43Vilardi. Or did you drive Vilardi last?
- 13:45Year. Last year I picked him up.
- 13:46OK, Yeah. And this year I drafted him.
- 13:49Yes, OK, so what's your answer? I'm sorry, Gabe, but my, my
- 13:55favorite pickup ever was actually, I think it was two or
- 13:58three years ago. It was Troy Terry.
- 14:00Yeah, he went on an insane run and then I managed to flip him
- 14:03for David Pasternak around like winter.
- 14:04Break disgusting trick. Yeah, yeah.
- 14:06So whole league went off. Yeah, it was great.
- 14:09Like pasta I think had like. Pasta had like the most awful
- 14:12first half of the season and Terry was just like automatic,
- 14:16like he was getting like one to two points a game.
- 14:17It was insane. And then I traded them right as
- 14:20they swapped souls back. You know, like the freaky Friday
- 14:23ended and passed. That went back to being and past
- 14:25those body and yeah, it was. This is the beginning of Gabe
- 14:28Vilardi's origin story. This.
- 14:30Is we love it all began. Because we obviously know you're
- 14:33listening, but we love you. Yeah, My favorite pickup.
- 14:37I've had so many, you know, but. Yes, we've all made many
- 14:41pickups. So many pickups, few were good,
- 14:44but one of my best ones was Tage Thompson like two or three years
- 14:49ago when he was triple eligible and he was on waivers for most
- 14:52of the year. And then he just, you know, blew
- 14:55up at the end of the season. And then the next year he was
- 14:56like a top five round pick. That was that was so fun to
- 14:59have. That was.
- 15:00Crazy, that was so jealous. That was incredible.
- 15:02That was before, you know, yahoos handing out triple
- 15:05eligible like it's their day job.
- 15:06Yeah, yeah, it's true. That was really Yeah, yeah,
- 15:11yeah. So I have one serious one and
- 15:15then one less serious 1. So I'm going to start with the
- 15:17less serious 1. And I think we all can agree
- 15:20that the GOAT pickup was like 3-4 years ago, Nola Chari, like
- 15:25it was just always so great. Yeah.
- 15:28It's like, did he have eligibility?
- 15:30He did. He know he was pure.
- 15:32He was. Pure C but like when Nola Chari
- 15:35was getting like 2 blocks and four hits and six face off
- 15:38centre, right? Like that's the only thing that
- 15:41sucked about that is that eventually you kind of had to
- 15:43drop him. Like for someone else.
- 15:45It was like more promising for points.
- 15:46So there were a lot of swings there.
- 15:48But yeah, I also, I picked up Jason Robertson in his rookie
- 15:53season and that was awesome. That was really, really great.
- 15:562020 to 2021 Rage did as well in a different league.
- 16:00But yeah, I mean you. I think that's what got you into
- 16:03fantasy hockey. So that was your origin.
- 16:05Story, Yeah. Didn't you pick up Seth Jarvis
- 16:08couple years ago? Was that a thing or not?
- 16:09Drafted him super late, Yeah, that was last year.
- 16:11I think I drafted him like super late 15th round or.
- 16:14Something. Yeah, I think the best.
- 16:17There's gonna be a lot of goalie pickups.
- 16:19Is that? Why exactly this year was
- 16:22Mackenzie Blackwood? That was like a crazy one.
- 16:25Yeah. That was like Billy who so a few
- 16:27years ago when he was on Saint Louis.
- 16:28Over that. Like that was.
- 16:30Crazy. I picked up Start Saver.
- 16:32Yeah, Billy. Yeah, that would probably be my
- 16:36best pick up. Actually, I remember you like
- 16:38you were talking about. Really, who's more than Josh has
- 16:41talked about? Gabe Vilardi, Yeah.
- 16:42It's. Crazy.
- 16:43Yeah, Yeah. I picked up Phoenix Copley like
- 16:45two years ago and traded him plus to Jackie for Matthews.
- 16:48Yeah, Laplace was Jack Hughes. The trade was Matthew for
- 16:55Phoenix Copley. Plus, for a time it felt like
- 16:58that actually. Ellis Loki.
- 17:00Cool. I remember that that Christmas
- 17:03that we ruined. No, but the the goalie ones are
- 17:08massive. I think the biggest one I've
- 17:10seen was Jordan Bennington. I picked up Bennington this
- 17:14year. No, no, like.
- 17:16Year, year that like Saint Louis wasn't lost and then they went
- 17:19on to win the Cup. Like that was a crazy pickup.
- 17:22I think he literally went like 20 and one for like the last
- 17:26half of the season or something. But that was great.
- 17:29And Ville Husso was big for me. I was sick when I picked him up.
- 17:34Oh yeah, he got. I didn't.
- 17:36The guy picked him up. Yeah, it wasn't me.
- 17:37But I picked up a Faber, I think it was last year, yeah, way
- 17:42earlier than he blew up. And then I dropped him and then
- 17:44Guy picked him up and he hunted. Nuts.
- 17:46That same year I picked up Noah Dobson before he blew up.
- 17:49Somebody else held him the whole year dropped.
- 17:51I picked him up like a week later then.
- 17:52He blew up God. Yeah, it was great.
- 17:54No, it's fun. Yeah, just shows there's always
- 17:56gold on the way. For awhile, Always.
- 17:58It's always. Like except right now.
- 18:01Trade deadlines coming up and that's when some some fresh guys
- 18:05pop out. I'm trying to think there's
- 18:08gotta be some other guys, those natures a pickup.
- 18:11At some. Point.
- 18:12He was last. Year, right?
- 18:13Yeah, but I think it was probably drafted and then
- 18:15dropped and then picked up. He was great.
- 18:17Yeah, Marchenko this year. Obviously.
- 18:20Huge. Yeah, Marchenko.
- 18:22None of us got him right, but yeah.
- 18:25Connor McMichael was solid. For For.
- 18:27He's coming back now. Yeah, he's doing well again.
- 18:29What about a? Lot of fun ones this year we
- 18:32could actually like, yeah. Like the?
- 18:332nd to focus on this. Isn't just going to pick up
- 18:36after he got traded from Dallas to Colorado.
- 18:38It feels like it was a while ago.
- 18:39Yeah, I like my annual pickup of John Gibson around the trade
- 18:43deadline. Yeah, it's about to happen.
- 18:45Is this? The year.
- 18:45It's never the year. This is the year.
- 18:49Let's see. We should do a, We should do a
- 18:51small segment on that actually. Yeah, for.
- 18:53Sure, that. Would be a good idea.
- 18:54Remember picking up Ryan Hartman when he was the 1C in Minnesota
- 18:59when Kaprizov first blew up? And I just got all like the,
- 19:02yeah, Pimm's God, but also like, he was just like, you know,
- 19:05getting all those assists from Capri.
- 19:07And what a question from Gabe Vilardi, really.
- 19:08Sparked. Yeah.
- 19:09Really. Honestly I feel like he was
- 19:13expecting. One loss and Kraus used to be
- 19:15one of my favorite pickups. Yeah, he was cool.
- 19:18I feel like he was like a charger, though, like eventually
- 19:20you had to drop him, but he was sad about it, you know?
- 19:23All right, that wraps up our mailbag episode for this week.
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