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So. Do you have a Palm Pilot?
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You know, I just don't remember those.
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Yeah, Bob Pilot. Yeah, it was like an iPod touch
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before iPod touch like, existed. Yeah, I thought they were
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pretty. Cool.
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They were saying that was like, I got my dad's old one, which
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was then given to my older brother and then was given to
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me. And I was like, this is so cool.
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And then like about a month later, the iPod Touch came out
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and I was like, this is trash. Yeah.
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Did you guys ever get a Game Boy colour?
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No, I had a Game Boy SP. That's fun.
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Yeah, it's not the same. Envoy colour.
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That was like the. Old angle?
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Yeah, the old. Pokémon yellow blue red on
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there, Yeah. I didn't see the yellow Game Boy
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colour. Just not to brag or.
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Anything a huge. Brag so.
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And then there was pagers. Wow, that's a way back.
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OK, anyway. We should get paid every time
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somebody sends the message in this code or Patrick goes off.
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That would be really cool, like. Work like someone needs me.
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The emergency. Yeah, alright, let's begin with
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the hot topics. Alright, so for our hot topics
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this week, usually just people that are players that are
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getting talked about that we didn't mention in our, you know,
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news episodes or Vilosell High. Here we have one that we did
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mention, but I want to talk about it again.
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But yeah, let's dive into it. So first we have Connor
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Hellebuyck. It's just I feel like even since
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we recorded our Vilosell High, which was like about less than a
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week ago, very recently actually, we talked about him,
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it just keeps getting worse person worse.
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It's insane how badly he's doing, how bad his team is
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doing. And we had highlighted him as a
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bi Lo, but a lot of people are saying, should I like sell him?
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Like, what can I get for him at this point?
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Like, and so just wanted to see if we should reiterate, you
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know, like, is he still a Bilo? Did anything change in the past
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couple of days? Like, why are we worried at all
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with how bad they've been now that we've looked at it more?
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Or are we still like this is a buy?
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I mean, to me, definitely still worried about Winnipeg in
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general, just because they've been so bad.
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Do I think you're gonna be this bad?
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Never deleted 32nd out of 30 second teams.
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Can only be uphill from here and they.
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Cannot get worse unless there's expansion mid year.
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I just want maybe one or 33rd team because yeah anyways.
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People get relegated. I would love a relegation
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system. Relegation systems are elite.
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North American sports are not. Have those, but they're not
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ready yet. The markets would collapse.
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Alas, no, I mean, I think Connor Hellebuyck is due for a bounce
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back, but it's gonna be tied to the success of this team, right?
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Like it's very rare that we see a team be like this bad and the
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goalie be exceptional. So just so happens to be like
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the best goal in fantasies on the worst team in the league
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right now. So it's no surprise that he's
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doing as awful as he is. Maybe the degree of the
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awfulness is a little bit surprising.
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But yeah, I mean, if I have hella book I'm I would never
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have hella bug because I never drafted goalies that high.
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But if I did have them and I swapping for a guy like
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equivalent value, I would try to do that.
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You're not getting any of equivalent value for what hell
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about and what you drafted him for.
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If you can still flip them for like a second or third round
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pick that was like drafting in that range, I would do it.
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Like you could get like a do you like yes for brat, one for one.
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Yeah, I think, I think you can. Yeah, everybody has enough of a
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by law that I think we should do that.
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Yeah, I'm taking bread at this point.
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How is where your team's at looking for like actively trying
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to get rid of halibut, Then like, that's it.
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Like, we're not saying he's gonna become the halibut that he
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was last year. That was never gonna happen.
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We're not saying he's gonna be remotely like that, but he's
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going to be a lot better than he's been now.
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But like, like Evan said, like if you can sell him without
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selling low, then I would do it. But otherwise it's better to
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just hold, wait for his value to go up a bit and then see if he
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has a hot stretch. Sell people on the fact like,
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oh, you know, he was just coming off injuries, starting slow the
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team, you know, whatever. But he's hot now.
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Look, he was the first round pick and then flip him for for
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value. But definitely don't sell low.
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You dropped him to when your goalie says week in week out
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like it did last year. Yeah.
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And II while I do think that it is literally it can't get worse.
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That's just not gonna happen. So I do like the concept of
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swapping him for like a brat. Someone else has a buy low
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because you're better off. Just like hoping that you can
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pick up a goalie off waivers who's gonna like for someone
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else and get actual decent value in return.
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Obviously this is probably the worst first round pick to have
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made this. Year JT Miller.
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No, this is worse. Well yes, I didn't have the 1st
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and worst pick this. Year like it's it's really,
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really bad and like there are many goalies who I think I'd
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rather over him over drafted way later.
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That being said, it is also a buy low opportunity if you can
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sell him for like something irrelevant.
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You know what I mean? Like I wanna sell him.
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I want to buy low if I if I don't have one, but I'm buying
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low because I know there's probably still gonna be growing
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pain for the next few weeks especially.
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Yeah, but that's why we made our buy low, sell high episode
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recently. Like the targets I was putting,
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it wasn't exceptional guys. It was like guys I see that are
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on bad teams are performing really well, like the VCR S the
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Dustin Wolves. I would even do Sorokin for
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sure. I would do broken for Hello
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Buck. I feel like that's a yeah, the
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best kind of guy you could give that.
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I wouldn't feel bad about getting off my team.
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Yeah, and getting help in return.
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But the guys that you have, like, you know, the bird in the
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hand, like the gust of sins or like the campers or whatever, it
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feels scared because I feel like you don't have to give that much
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of A help right now. But he still has a lot of name
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value to him, right? Like people that have held back
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on their team, drafted in the first round, they're not gonna
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give him away for Dustin Wolf. Will just got picked up two
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weeks ago, you know what I mean? So all the targets are always in
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a package, but I think it's very attainable right now.
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Like guys would help are probably on the bottom of your
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standings. So yeah.
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Yeah, he he's simultaneously like a cell, if you can, and
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also a pilot. It's like a weird.
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I have them. I don't want to sell because the
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doctor. Right.
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Yeah. But realistically, I feel that's
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a very small amount of leaves. You can probably get a deal like
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that done. Yeah.
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I would do it. There it is.
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You know what I mean? It's like it's weird.
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Yeah, I mean, that's just also comes into place like my own
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philosophy on fantasy hockey where I'm never really drafting
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goalies at high anyways. So I think the replacement value
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is higher. You could just pick up Brandon
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Bussey and be finite. Time is better than Connor
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Hellebuyck right now, right? Or you know what I mean, like.
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Yeah, talking about guys you could pick up to be better off
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than Connor Hellebuyck. Let's move on to the next one.
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We've got the first of a few guys that I took from Kevin's
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team, not to piss him off, but just because.
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I literally went through the whole rock, just like let's talk
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about this guy, let's talk about this guy.
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I mean, some interesting guys talking about.
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So next we've got Jack Grieves at the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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He started 12 of the last 13 games.
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Going into the season, I think everyone kind of expected this,
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right? But then the season started and
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Redskins is getting more of the starts.
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At half it was 50. 50 50 and and now all of a sudden the past
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couple of weeks, it seems like grieves is the guy again, just
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like like again, like people expected going into the season
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and he's been doing well despite the team being huge chokers in
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the third. So we did briefly touch on this
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in our would you rathers about we had greens versus Sorokin.
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I still said Sorokin, but taking Kevin said grieves.
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But kind of where do you see grieves?
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Like do you see him as a buy low sell high?
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Just a hold? Like pick him up if you can?
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Like what? That's kind of the vibe around
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grieves these days. I think, I think as a whole, I
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mean, I have all of my team, I'm not really trying to sell them
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because I mean, if I can sell them in a package to get a
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better goalie than obviously I'd love to do that.
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But I'm not going out of my way to try to get him off my roster.
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And I don't think you can buy low, right?
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Like you'd be buying a fair price.
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So I just, I feel like it's more of just like a hole right now.
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If you have him on your team, if he's on waivers, I'm honestly
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very interested in picking him. Up Why don't we see a couple
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names that we would drop for Jet Greaves?
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Let me see, I mean, OK, let me let me give you a list of my
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list of names and then you guys can tell me if I'm crazy or not,
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OK? Yeah.
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Let me, let me, let me pull this up.
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Just getting it out of the way and.
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OK. Tell the tell the listeners what
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kind of categories we're taking into account.
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We're talking about these. Goalies wins, saves, save
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percentage, goals against, average and shutouts.
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That's our five goalie cats in our league.
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Yeah, I think it's pretty standard.
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Besides we add saves on top of it.
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I think most goals goals have a mostly.
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Have names I just wanna say we did speak out.
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Sorokin and Grieves. You could probably send Sorokin
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for Grievous plus and then I'm really.
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Happy with that, yeah. I also really nice move so I
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wouldn't buy either unless you could actually do it for your
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selling the name value for someone who is comparable in
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return. Yeah, exactly.
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So it's a good strategy. OK, so.
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Give us some names of guys that you'd rather have Jack Reeves
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over them. OK, guys, that I'd rather have
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degrees over them. Yeah.
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OK, I'm gonna start low. OK, let's start Skinner.
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Yeah, yeah, Score of. Crazy.
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Yep. I.
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Both my team I know, but from like gay what was a month or two
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ago or just the biggest sell high and we recommended it and.
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Like 2 months ago at this point. Yeah, crazy.
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I'm Demco, obviously, right? My brother came over Carter
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Hart. Is that crazy?
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I don't think that's crazy. I mean, but I've also, I think
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we're similar in this, like I value volume a lot with goalies,
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so. Is anybody getting more volume
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than? Greens, I'm saying so I think
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there's a lot of value there like even like early season 1,
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like the cord was playing like decently, you know, and he was
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getting like every single start. Even when he said his like like
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quality started dipping a bit. I was like this guy still
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getting every single start. You don't you can pick up
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quality on waivers. It's very hard to pick up
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quantity of goalie starts somewhere.
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So I do value that a lot. So I will take him.
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Spencer Knight like this guy for sure.
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I would take over the cord. I would think the court over.
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I mean, what they look what they've been doing, Yeah,
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Seattle games, yeah, cause they've played four back to
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backs in a row. OK, I mean, I I still think the
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Jaguars play significant amount more games than the rest.
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So yeah, like I I can justify saying I would take to court
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over Sorokin and I did say I would take Reeves over.
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Sora, I guess that's. So like that's kind of where I
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would probably go, but we could climb a bit higher like Wolf.
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I mean, that's not much higher in my opinion.
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No, he's been also. Easy, I would take your ovaries
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you. Busy.
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I'm taking the grieves. I'll take pussy.
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Yeah, I would definitely take that pussy.
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Yeah. I just think my rationale and
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I'm not just saying some greens owner and I'm, I'm biased in a
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certain way, but if you look at the stats for Jet Grieves and
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look how bad Columbus has been, the stats are exceptional.
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So now if Columbus even gets better, which I'm predicting
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they do, I feel like they finish the season strong.
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I feel like they make a push for the playoffs that I'm assuming
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Jacques gets better and he's already playing all the games,
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even on back to backs. So it's like if Thomas has a
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four-game week, I'm getting four games from Jack Greaves, which
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it just feels like there's a lot of value in itself.
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Realistically, in a lot of things, you can hold degrees and
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still here going starts and whatever, you know.
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Yeah, that's an. Interesting move.
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I'm just saying I'm putting it out there like I'm not saying
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you part doesn't get many shutouts, which is fine.
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But I think the saves are so high.
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The goals against average and the save percentage right now
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are exceptional On the scene at 9:10 on the season.
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This is through the tumultuous Ness of of Columbus choking
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third period leads consistently, right?
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What are they? Start choking half as many
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leads. You know, it's I, I think the
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baseline for what we're seeing right now is so high and I think
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there's a lot more room to grow. Alright, I'm ready.
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OK, so we know that does make. Sense we know that grieves Kevin
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has a crush on. Green, but like I would take
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over Melco. Yeah, yeah.
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OK. I think Bobrovsky is close.
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I don't think that's. Close.
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I think it's close. I think you're getting a lot
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more wins with Bob, but I don't think those stats are gonna be
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exceptional. And I'm getting more and more
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games with grieves. Count wins.
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Like a lot though. Yeah, if you're in a point, I'm
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we're talking category things like point things, obviously the
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winds are heavily favored. Look, I mean, I don't like
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Reeves. I'm not, I'm not a grieves hater
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or anything like that. I just, I think we have to
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temper, temper expectations. Sorry, got my head with that one
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over the last couple of episodes.
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The temper, expectations, just it's easy to get caught up in
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it. I'm just like, I don't want to
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throw this at you, but you know, you were the biggest Josh Norris
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guy for so long and he slowed down tremendously.
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Look, I'm not saying that I like I do like greens.
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I just think that some of the guys are you put are too high.
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Like I think Bobrovsky Evergreens is a no brainer.
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And I know like you look at the numbers, like the number brainer
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numbers are like close. But yeah, that's what happened
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to the guy who's performing like a like a really highly higher
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than you would expect. So let's look at the start of
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the season though. What's Bob Grabowski save
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percentage on the season? I mean, it's been a bio for a
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while. I'm talking on the season, Mr.
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Hall, Season at this point, OK. He does this.
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Like 885. Yeah, stocks also coming back.
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Yeah, you're, you're. Saying you're saying Columbus is
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gonna get better, but you don't expect Panthers to get better
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when Columbus. Has no one 3% of his games.
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And they're coming. Back, yeah, OK, so let's say you
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was .65% of his games, OK with 70% of the games, he's gonna 70%
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of his games. I mean, Greece is winning less
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than 50. Percent of it's only 43% of his,
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Yeah. So I'm saying that if he wins
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50% of his games, even with what they've been doing right now, I
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still take grieves. OK, I I disagree.
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He's better. He's a better state percentage,
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better goals against average, five more saves.
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Yeah, but you're but that's what happens to the guy who's so high
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or maybe not a sell high, but like I.
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Don't consider 40% of his games. OK.
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And the other aspect, he's a sell high.
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I think the the wins is about where it's gonna be.
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That's. Yeah, nothing beats a
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directories holiday. Let's move on to the next one.
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Alright, another contentious. I mean, this one I think we
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agree on, but it's also on Kevin's team, Ricard Raquel of
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the Pittsburgh Penguins, this one, Kevin says he hasn't seen
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this. I've seen it.
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A lot of people are talking about anyone.
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People are complaining about reproduction.
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They're saying he's online. One power play, one with Crosby.
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This Penguins team is popping off and he's at .55 points per
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game over the past month. Now, the reason that such a good
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player is because of his bad cats and the points is just
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upside. So I'm still super happy to ever
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kill. I'm not dropping, you're not
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selling, but I felt it was worth a discussion because a lot of
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people are kind of panicking. They're like why is this guy
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with such good deployment not producing points wise?
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Like even in points leagues this is decent because the shots.
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Are so. Yeah, exactly.
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So really, I'm not, I'm not bummed about this at all.
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That being said, like, does this turn them into a buy?
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Because yeah, that's not been good.
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Like, yeah. For me, the only thing I'm
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worried about with Raquel is that he gets traded and that's
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gonna worry throughout the whole season.
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That's not anything new with how he's been playing anything like
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that. And that's that shouldn't really
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affect. I mean, I think it could affect
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the game actually because his deployment, I can't imagine him
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having better deployment on any other team than he has right
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now. At best, they can see this game.
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There's certain players in the league that like, no matter
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whether playing, you know, they're gonna be good.
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And then there's a different tier of player where it's just
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like they could be good, but there's a lot more uncertainty
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on the situation. And Raquel falls into that
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category where like if he if he goes with different team, it
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could be really good or it could be really bad, to be honest.
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Like the volatility is there. I mean, I have Rachel on my
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team. I haven't really been seeing the
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Super negative feedback, but I just think he's one of those
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guys that's like 65 and own. So he's on waivers and a lot of
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leagues still and he definitely, definitely has been a sub par in
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terms of the points. But it was also like heard for a
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little bit. It's just because I've been so
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insane. Like every 3.5 shots over the
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last month, 2 two hits over the last month and a block 3.5 two
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and one. That's just crazy and I think
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points are just going to regress positively.
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Last season was .86. This on the season right now is
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a .7. I could see him and the .75
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point 8. If he goes on a heater, I would
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probably try and sell by not even the cell high of like I
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think he slows down, but more of that trade aspect.
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Like worst case you got value for him when he's on a heater,
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Best case you trade him high and then he gets traded to another
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team and his value plummets. Yeah.
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So I do think that's something to consider for Rachel.
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But in terms of the points, I'm not worried at all.
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The backups are enough to to make him a someone you're happy
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to have on your team until the points come back.
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I think also just if Pittsburgh is in the playoff picture,
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they're not gonna trade him. Do not treat anybody.
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And right now? Everyone in the East is in the.
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Playoffs. So come the trade deadline, like
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they're gonna if it's close, they're gonna go for it.
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I think they're not they're not gonna sell Crosby's last year
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not gonna be alright. We're just like Tank and now
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it's just it's. Impossible.
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It's very fair. It's definitely, definitely
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mean. That's gonna be, I think that's
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gonna be the situation there in. I could see them being like 4-5
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points out, but also like four or five teams out because of how
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close the East is. And then that's going to come up
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to do this kind of deciding like, do I go for it here?
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They do. There's no point on taking the
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season wall Crosby selling your roster.
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So either you're blowing it up and trading and getting getting
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value for it because then what's your, it's like you just chose
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the middle ground where like you don't go all in, you don't go
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all out and you're just in the middle and the worst scenario
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happens. Yeah, that's definitely
19:02
something to keep in mind. Alright, next of Kevin's
19:05
players, we've got Drake Batherson.
19:07
Batherson just been insane this year.
19:09
I think he's been a bit of a cell high for awhile and I'm
19:13
just wondering what you guys think, if you think what he's
19:15
been doing is sustainable because it's been pretty much
19:17
all season, he's been pretty good, yeah.
19:19
So this is where you expect him to finish season point per game,
19:22
almost a double, double type of thing?
19:24
Or do you think that he's been overperforming and it can only
19:27
go down from? Here gonna be cold lately.
19:29
Like just a bit. Weeks has been a little, little
19:32
colder. But it's still really good.
19:34
I mean, he he's always been a very good player and now he's on
19:38
a team that that can score a lot.
19:40
Yeah. So I really like it.
19:41
But that being said, I wouldn't expect it to necessarily.
19:47
He wouldn't like you could end .9 and you're still happy.
19:49
Yeah, right. It could be like a a little bit
19:51
of a step down of what he's been doing, but you're definitely
19:55
happy with where you dropped. Him, I think he's a good piece.
19:57
I see a lot of people asking I'm trying to trade for this guy and
20:01
I saw one of these in the discord recently right.
20:03
I forget the exact one. It was like trying to trade for
20:05
like I think was trading from a car and they were willing to
20:08
offer. I think it was like card and
20:10
they were like but I know I need to add another piece that's like
20:13
an actual relevant guy. I don't want to break the bank
20:15
either. And they were like, what if I
20:16
add Batherson and was like, I think that's a great trade.
20:19
Patterson has name value. He's good, he's good, but you're
20:21
taking a big step up by getting my car there.
20:23
So I like him as a piece in a trade for.
20:25
Like that, he's one of those pieces like different, different
20:28
level of as baldy, but the same type of player where it's just
20:32
like he's the entry point into the top level assets of the
20:36
league. Like you can get like a knee
20:37
Lander, you could get like a Matthew could Chuck who I've
20:41
tried and I failed. But yeah, I think that's the
20:45
type of player that he is. But if you look at his numbers,
20:47
his category coverage is the same.
20:49
Yeah. His last season he ended up .83
20:51
points per game this season at 1.03 and the power was a .38.
20:56
And the this is around the same or slightly higher.
20:59
So you can see the difference in points of the power play getting
21:01
better. And but the floor is already
21:04
what he did last year. Everything.
21:05
And I think we're seeing it with all of Ottawa's assets right
21:07
now. They're basically has increased
21:10
across the board. So would I be surprised if all
21:13
the Ottawa assets spend like 1520% better than last season?
21:17
I wouldn't. I don't think so.
21:18
It's like everybody's playing at above what they did last season.
21:21
Just scored more goals. This year the shots and the hits
21:24
are the same as what they were last year.
21:25
Like just over two shots, 1.5 hits like pretty pretty
21:29
standard. The power play is still elite so
21:31
wouldn't be surprised if the end point per game.
21:32
I wouldn't. I wouldn't be surprised would.
21:34
I've done my house on it and all I think.
21:36
But I think he ends up .9 minimum.
21:39
Do you want? Do you want we're qualified the
21:41
rest of the season? Suddenly close.
21:43
Coffee has the edge in shots, but he doesn't get any of the
21:46
hits. Yeah, and I think, I think it's
21:48
more power play points and I think coffee probably gets like
21:51
.10 to .15 more points. Oht really?
21:56
I think. It's on the season.
21:58
Mathers has been considerably, I mean, not better, right?
22:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like. Much When you think of coffee,
22:03
do you think of a high volume shooter that probably gets close
22:05
to a point bringing hasn't reached there yet, right?
22:07
He's that point 951.3 But you're right, the hits are there like
22:11
these are guys that were. Drafted, I think during the same
22:13
tears. Just depends on where your team
22:14
needs more. But like, if I was drafting
22:16
first, at this point right now, I'm probably going, I'm probably
22:19
going Batherson. I think it's just it's really
22:21
it's easier to stream hits than shots, but maybe that's just our
22:24
league like where we're at right now with frequencies.
22:26
So that definitely, but it's it's super close thing to.
22:28
Your also a more convinced on the Senators power play being
22:32
consistent throughout the whole season.
22:33
That's fair, although they have but it's true getting like top
22:38
four in the league and then had most recent streak of not being
22:41
good at all. So definitely alright, last one
22:43
we have Adrian Kempe. We also touched upon this a bit
22:45
and our last would you rathers episode.
22:49
But are you worried about the fact that even though it doesn't
22:52
show like this on daily phase of like Adrian Kempe is on power
22:55
play too right now. Is that do you think that lasts
22:58
like that Obviously definitely affects his Kings also are
23:01
really struggling to score goals and ever since he signed his big
23:05
contract, kind of like, you know, he's over it.
23:09
So are we worried about 18 Kemp because we had talked about him
23:12
as a great buy low earlier in the season and at what point is
23:15
he just low and not a buy? Yeah, I mean, I'm not actually
23:19
worried about this. Like he is their best offensive
23:22
player on this team and he definitely been underperforming
23:26
as of late. But also, yes, you said he's on
23:29
power play too. I I hear you.
23:31
But at the same time, they're kind of like new to this one A1B
23:34
situation. If they do consolidate, there's
23:36
no panties put on it. And look, I mean, his average
23:41
isn't looking disappointed because he had an insane start
23:44
and then it's been a pretty tumultuous ride since.
23:46
But I'm still really happy you, especially the charts combo
23:50
that's consistent and I do think the points are going to turn
23:54
around. He's 100% of BI LO and I read 0%
23:59
into what Daily Faceoff is showing as a power play units
24:02
because realistically, everybody knows Adrian Kempe's the best
24:05
forward on this team. He's arguably the best player on
24:08
this team. The team knows it.
24:09
They just paid him as the best player on this team.
24:12
So what? What if Daily Faceoff shows the
24:14
campaign as the first unit and the one Nobody's panicking,
24:17
right? But like whenever they face off
24:19
posting like that, it's just changed the mentality of how
24:22
reviewing the situation. But the union with campaign is
24:24
the best unit in my opinion. That's not.
24:26
True. Actually, right now it hasn't
24:28
been. And I'm talking about you long.
24:30
Time. You know what?
24:31
I mean, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?
24:33
And I think when they do figure this power play situation out,
24:36
temp is gonna be on the best unit.
24:38
I also feel like, like, I don't know if it's going to happen
24:41
this season, but it feels like a ticking time bomb of one,
24:44
Hillary's getting fired. And if he ever does get fired, I
24:48
think all the top players on LA are going to get significantly
24:51
better. So it's hard to bet on something
24:53
like that, you know? But if they keep dropping us
24:56
right now they're in the wild card spot, the second wild card
24:58
spot, but they're fifth in their division.
25:00
So if they keep dropping in the standings, then that might push
25:03
things to a point where he gets fired.
25:04
And I think that makes a company a lot more valuable.
25:06
Regardless, he's a good. Buyer, if you still look at the
25:08
stats though, like he's still shooting, he's still hitting.
25:11
He's shooting less than last year, but he's hitting a lot
25:14
more than last year. But the banks are still good
25:16
basically is what I'm saying. Last season was a .9, this
25:19
season he's at .75 point 8. Hovering around there.
25:23
Like it's not what you drafted him for, but it's not like
25:26
terrible. I'm not being like anything else
25:28
out of my roster type of thing, especially with the bangs.
25:31
So I think this is his floor right now, like even through the
25:33
bad stretches, like we've seen him be abysmal this season as
25:36
well. He was a tremendous bio at a
25:38
certain point where he had like no points over the last month
25:41
type of thing. But I'm I think on the season
25:43
like he's never gonna finish and put 75.
25:45
That's I'm can guarantee it. But my life on it, guys.
25:49
Oh my God, no pressure. No pressure, yeah.
25:53
Yeah, that's that's that's our hot topics.
25:55
If it a contentious ones, you know, didn't mean to stir the
25:58
pot so much, but let's move on to our mailbag.
26:01
So we've got a few questions here to answer.
26:03
So we have Dan Brown at home on Reddit.
26:05
Ask that you guys do a mini league for fantasy hockey during
26:08
the Olympics. Not sure what platform you would
26:10
do it, but it could be really fun.
26:12
I was thinking about this like today, actually.
26:14
Yeah. Are you guys thinking of doing
26:16
any sort of fantasy league for the Olympics?
26:18
Like I know you, we like the like the office pools for for
26:22
playoffs. I wonder if you have similar
26:23
thing for Olympics? I'd love that we could do.
26:25
Some bigger management, Olympics, fantasy hockey thing.
26:29
Want to figure out the logistics obviously, but in concept I
26:32
would love to do that because I think it's really fun.
26:33
Yeah, that could be a fun way to like, you know, a lot of the
26:36
people in Discord are really excited to do some sort of
26:38
thing. I mean, some of them already
26:39
started out their own league, but like a lot of people wanna
26:42
do some sort of anger management sanctioned league.
26:44
This could be a nice like dip the toe in for like a couple of
26:46
weeks, see how. We can just go through like
26:50
very, very briefly because we have a lot of questions to get
26:51
to. But Josh mentioned office pools.
26:54
It's kind of like where, you know, go for the fancy for the
26:58
actual NHL playoffs, we basically have a fantasy league
27:00
where everybody can choose players to fit on the raw.
27:03
So you have to pick 13 forwards, 4 defensemen, 2 goalies, but you
27:08
can't make any moves or any Ross.
27:09
So everybody can pick any player they want as long as it's only
27:12
one player. So like, you know, you take big
27:14
David dry side, all those other two year 13 forwards and you
27:16
basically to pick teams that like make it far and score the
27:19
most points. We could potentially become like
27:21
that for the Olympics. I feel like we can have people
27:23
submit their their choices, overall disk order something and
27:27
then, you know, we make an excel sheet tabulating everything and
27:29
then it. Sounds a lot like more simple
27:31
than it is actually like it. Yeah, there's always like the.
27:34
Talk. I'm sure there's a platform.
27:35
That does, yeah. We'll have to.
27:36
Look into it that's. That's really fun.
27:38
I like. It really.
27:38
Cool. Thanks.
27:39
We have. All right Justin EMF on Reddit
27:43
asked would you trade Erickson Eck for Hesher in a Bangers cats
27:47
league? Feels like all the Devils are
27:48
major bylaws right now. All the devils are major by
27:52
laws, some of the premier, you know, category coverage banger
27:58
centres like he's he's in the same kind of archetype as like
28:03
the show checks that cousins the menace.
28:04
Yeah, all those guys. So I guess the question is like,
28:07
we know Erickson's gonna get more shots and hits than he
28:10
sure. Yeah, we know he's gonna get
28:11
more face off wins if your league counts that.
28:13
How close are the shots? Do I feel the shots are like not
28:15
negligible, but it's not. I feel like.
28:18
Super lopsided. Looked at the stats recently, I
28:20
view Ericson is like a close to a 2.82.
28:23
OK, let's. See, it's a pretty decent
28:25
difference, but you could Fact Check me on that this year.
28:28
But yeah, so we've got those back hats.
28:30
Definitely an Ericsson X fever. He's at 2.6 on in last month 3.
28:35
OK, that he's shooting a lot more than he usually.
28:37
Does last year 2.5? OK, I always thought of him as
28:40
more of a Dylan Strome type of type, but OK, let's say we take
28:43
those shots on goal out of it. That's the same face off wins
28:46
goes to Heather, but mostly don't count that hits go to
28:48
Erickson Eck. The real question at the end of
28:50
the day is who do you think is gonna have more points to our
28:51
play points? Also, there's the playoff
28:54
schedule, which goes in. He's your paper, so give me
28:57
something easier, I think. I think that's a great one,
29:00
yeah. Yeah, I concur.
29:02
And that actually has to do with the fact that I don't think
29:05
Eric's gonna play line one with. Capresso that's always mixing it
29:10
up, but it's not locked. In Europe there so no, but I
29:16
mean not nothing wrong with playing with buddy.
29:17
Don't get me wrong. It's just like you're playing
29:19
with capris off. You could hit that ceiling if
29:21
ever they do. Capri solve Ericsson neck body.
29:23
Like, I mean they have like they've been flipping it on and.
29:25
Off like if it's best that would be wild.
29:28
But I mean, yeah, I think you should the safer bet and he
29:31
should be better than he has been.
29:32
Absolutely. Alright SMF BSG on Discord asked
29:37
in a dynasty league when's the right time to stop fighting to
29:40
make the playoffs and start thinking about next year?
29:43
That's a really good question. So like essentially they're
29:45
asking let's say you're like, you know, 8 teams make the
29:48
playoffs, you're in 10th or something.
29:50
You know, at what point do you just start selling your players
29:52
for picks and just be like alright, this year is not
29:54
happening, let's make it tonight.
29:55
Let's like lock load up for next year or do you keep fighting to
29:59
make that playoff spot? It's tough.
30:01
I mean, I'm going to keep her league where people already
30:02
started selling assets for next year.
30:04
It is slightly different. There's a lot of intricacies
30:07
here. I I'm more of a believer in kind
30:12
of like hold and don't be the first one to make the market.
30:15
Kevin, I think you're the opposite.
30:17
You like to sort of set the standard.
30:18
Right away, depending on the situation obviously, but.
30:21
Yeah, it's tough. I mean, I would say now was when
30:26
like you shouldn't have started already, I don't think.
30:29
I think now is when you can start thinking about it.
30:31
Just depends how far out of the playoffs.
30:32
You are. Yeah, exactly.
30:34
To me, just completely depends on the strength of your team and
30:37
the strength of the teams around you.
30:39
Because if you know, there's like 3 teams that are like
30:41
juggernauts because they've been accumulating picks for for for
30:45
years or whatever. Like you can make the playoffs
30:47
in the eighth spot or the 6th spot, but you know you're gonna
30:49
be a severe underdog. Then I think you can start
30:52
selling picks when those teams are ready to buy.
30:54
Because when those 3 tenders and one of them makes a move to buy
30:57
something like the other ones gotta like compete as well
30:59
because they know that, you know, they also have to make
31:01
moves to make the team better. But if you're in a league where
31:04
you know, it's kind of like a situation where you know your
31:06
team is supposed to be good, you got unlucky throughout the
31:09
season, you're hovering around the last playoff spot.
31:12
I would just stick it out and and try to make the place, make
31:15
the class. You never know what can happen,
31:16
but obviously you have to know how good your team actually is
31:19
compared to the teams around. You and I will also add to that
31:21
that if your team has a really good playoff schedule this year,
31:25
like if you have a bunch of Bruins and Rangers players on
31:27
your team and you know, if I squeak into the playoffs, I'm
31:30
gonna have like a 10 game advantage on all my opponents
31:33
like throughout the playoffs, which is gonna skew it in my
31:35
favor. Even if there's some drug or not
31:36
teams, then I'm fighting to make the playoffs.
31:38
If you happen to have a bunch of guys who this year have a bad
31:40
playoff schedule, then like squeaking in, you're probably
31:43
going to get knocked out immediately.
31:44
I think that makes a big difference as well.
31:46
So something to keep in mind, OK Cara, each on Discord asked if
31:50
you're partway through the week and losing badly.
31:52
Do you cut your losses and stack your team for the next week or
31:55
try to stream to flip one or two cats?
31:58
I I turned to ident to try to just flip one or two cats.
32:02
So basically I'm usually in a playoff spot, so that one to two
32:06
category flips actually does make a difference to me.
32:10
It still accounts for something. I mean, you could also just plan
32:12
for next week and then next thing you know, the guy who
32:14
picks up, how's it cold or has like a small injury, right?
32:18
So I kind of want to get the points where I can.
32:21
That's sort of where I lean. What about you guys?
32:26
Yeah. I mean, unless we already talked
32:28
about I, I kind of like competing this year when I can.
32:32
No, wrong question. What we're talking about this
32:35
week versus next week, Yeah. Yeah, you said this year.
32:40
I like competing this week when I can, but I really have a I
32:44
feel like I do a good job of keeping a pulse on my team and
32:47
and even, you know, after three or four days throughout the
32:49
week, if I'm significantly down in certain categories, like
32:54
sometimes face off wins, it looks like I'm down by 40 or
32:57
hits, I'm down by like 20. But then I have, you know, like
33:00
my guys like Brady could Chuck and Will Cooley who play
33:03
back-to-back on Saturday, Sunday.
33:05
I know that, you know, the script discrepancy there is like
33:08
bigger than it seems because all the guys that contribute to
33:10
those categories haven't played their games yet type of thing.
33:13
So I feel like I have a good job of keeping the pulse on that
33:15
situation on my team and then also within reach.
33:18
I always want to take back the points in the best case
33:21
scenario, able to bank the points, make a move that helps
33:23
you this week and that leads into next week.
33:25
That's always the goal. But we have three ads in our
33:29
interleague. I'll use two for this week.
33:31
I'll usually keep one for the following week as well.
33:33
That's kind of my plan. But when it's within reach, I
33:37
like competing this weekend, getting those points.
33:40
OK, yeah, I pretty much agree with all that.
33:43
You know, ideal situation. Let's say it's a Saturday,
33:45
right? And you're trying to figure out,
33:46
you know, if you should stream for this week.
33:48
I love a guy who's like playing on Sunday and four games the
33:50
week after. That's always the ideal
33:51
situation. So you can do both, but you've
33:54
always got a bank. The points this week, you never
33:56
know what's gonna happen next week.
33:57
You never know if you get an injury, whatever is going to
33:59
happen. So if you can flip under 2 cats,
34:01
assuming your league works like ours does where each cat is its
34:04
own win and you get 2 points in the standings, then that's what
34:06
you got to do. Alright, let's go to the next
34:09
one. Mojo JoJo on Discord asked
34:12
what's one piece of fantasy advice you once preached but
34:14
you've since changed your mind on and why?
34:17
So I've got 2 quick answers for this.
34:19
First one is this is kind of like the inverse.
34:22
Like I always preach 0G. This year I went medium G and
34:26
I'm never not going 0G again. OK, I preach 0G, I didn't follow
34:31
my own advice and that's never happening again. 0G is the way
34:34
to go. I will say the one reason I kind
34:36
of like over thunk it is because I knew both these guys were
34:39
going 0G. So I thought it was gonna be a
34:40
lot of competition for those, you know, waiver ad goalies.
34:44
So I was like, OK, if everyone's going 0G, maybe the move is to
34:46
go medium G I mean, it's not the end of the world, but I
34:51
definitely prefer, yeah, I definitely would prefer to go to
34:53
go 0G. So that's one that I continue to
34:55
preach and then one that I've kind of a little changed my tune
34:58
on. I used to completely ignore
34:59
injury history. I used to say that that's last
35:02
year. This is this year.
35:03
Let's ignore that. And, you know, if an injured guy
35:05
drops later in the draft and I, I take that, you know, but some
35:10
guys you just have to take the injury history into account.
35:12
Like I like one guy that I always target in drafts is Josh
35:15
Norris, right? And this year you picked him in
35:18
the tenth round. Great value for what he should
35:20
be doing. And then he gets injured and
35:21
missed a ton of time. He's actually been healthy for a
35:23
while now, you know, But like, it's just a big question.
35:26
You look at Mark Stone, right? He's playing amazing, right?
35:28
This is one of those like, oh, man, I wish I hadn't.
35:30
I had ignored the entry history. He still missed like over a
35:32
month of time. Yeah, look at Jack Hughes,
35:34
right? He went to dinner.
35:35
That's a big, big mistake, right?
35:37
So like it just. Using knives again.
35:39
Yeah, exactly. So like I think that it's you
35:42
don't wanna overthink it, but if you're in a spot where you have
35:47
two guys who are like close and one guy, maybe he has higher
35:49
ceiling, but he has that injury history, maybe I go with the
35:52
safer bet. Yeah, I think I definitely agree
35:55
with Josh and we've never been a a group of people that touts
35:58
drafting goalies. But I think I think going
36:01
series, obviously the the move in terms of like, you know, the
36:03
replacement now you can get with the guy off waivers after an
36:05
injury or something is huge. Something that I've touted that
36:09
I've changed my tune on is I think this season, this is not
36:14
advice, specific advice, but I think this season I didn't
36:17
prioritize defensemen in our league where I kind of took the
36:20
chance on defence that were drafted later besides Sanderson.
36:23
Sanderson was like my rock and then I just drafted kind of like
36:25
guys away later. And I think I'd just rather our
36:28
league is very deep, right? We're starting like 20 guys and
36:31
four of them are defensemen. So if I can get the because you
36:34
always want the offensive value from a defensive position
36:37
because it's a scary situation, right?
36:39
There's not many guys contribute that way.
36:41
But if you can, I would just like I don't give me the bangers
36:44
the and then I'll just get my offensive production for my
36:46
forwards. I'm prioritizing those first.
36:48
So that did not answer anybody's question, but do you?
36:51
Would you recommend that or did you do not like that?
36:53
You did. I'm having a good time because I
36:55
think defensemen are easy to stream because I don't feel bad
36:58
about cutting somebody in, picking up somebody has a better
37:00
schedule, so I'm not tied to anybody for at any point in
37:03
time. And it's easy to stream as well.
37:06
So I feel like the things that are hard are already on my
37:08
roster, and the things that are easy I can easily get even
37:12
better at, if that makes sense. Yeah.
37:14
So essentially in the past you've.
37:16
In the past I've gone Do you wanna go hard?
37:18
On defensemen, but now you've kind of changed your mind and
37:20
you like going later for. Defensive, yeah.
37:22
So I've drafted like 3 offensive defensemen, the first like 7
37:24
rounds in the past this year, drafted one.
37:26
I was just like, I'll find the rest out, figure out the rest
37:28
out after. Yeah, so I used to ignore
37:30
playoff schedule because our league prioritized prizes for in
37:35
season as opposed to playoffs. So I would say like, that's one
37:39
thing. Like I would just be like, yeah,
37:40
who cares? Just go for the guy that's gonna
37:42
win the season, then he'll figure it out.
37:44
Playoffs dialogue off. That's based on the fact that
37:47
our league is kind of changed the structure.
37:49
So I would say playoff schedule is a huge thing.
37:51
Now. Another one is that, and I know
37:54
this is gonna be funny because he doesn't.
37:55
You guys made fun of me for this.
37:56
But like I used to really think like you can take like you could
38:02
focus on the young players and just like think that they're
38:04
going to be amazing and it is better to take your old reliable
38:08
and in many cases, like celebrities been an absolute
38:11
stud this year. You picked them a little bit
38:14
later than Crosby, let's say. But Bidard, it was like 3 years
38:17
before he got his mojo. Yeah, right.
38:19
So so that's one thing. It's like basically the new
38:22
shiny object is not always better.
38:25
Yeah. My thinking was if you win, if
38:28
you lose fantasy, like you don't get a prize for 6th place.
38:31
You know, it's not like a stalk where you can make like a little
38:33
bit of money and then like get out of it.
38:35
It's like you either win or you lose.
38:36
So the volatility should, you know, like if it works out
38:40
great, you win, and if not, it doesn't.
38:42
It's just a way lower probability of someone like a, I
38:46
don't know, like a Michael Misa working out, then a Jason Zucker
38:50
as far as elite round Arthro goes.
38:52
Yeah. So even top of the draft, bottom
38:54
of the draft, I'm just like go for the reliability more.
38:57
Yeah, I like that. All right, Frank on Discord
39:00
asked. In a redraft league where you
39:01
can trade draft picks, how do you stay on top of the standings
39:04
while also being a contender next year?
39:06
Hmm, That's a great question, Frank.
39:08
And you can, I was gonna say like it's it's like it's you
39:12
can't have your cake and eat it too type of thing.
39:13
That's the thing. Yeah, that is the thing.
39:17
It's the least saying of sayings like.
39:19
That's the whole point of cake. Yeah.
39:21
Why are we gonna have it put a trophy case around?
39:23
Yeah. I think the only way to do it is
39:25
if you're fleecing people, right?
39:26
Like in trade. Yeah, so and that's just you
39:28
can't bank on. That also mean you can't
39:30
consistently do that. Yeah, exactly.
39:31
So at the end of the day, like unless you're you drafted so
39:36
well that you have so much to spare, you like so confident you
39:40
could you know that you're so confident you could win.
39:42
You can sell off pieces for draft picks next year.
39:44
Or, you know, when you're negotiating trades, you kind of
39:47
get a little throw in here and there to get drastic value like.
39:51
I mean, the only the only feasible way I'm seeing this is
39:54
if you you're doing a lot of like, OK, I drafted Celebri and
40:00
maybe I can flip him for like a guy that's worse.
40:04
Lots of pick. Next year that thing.
40:05
So it's kind of just like, OK, I'll have a celebrity give me
40:08
like Aho plus, you know, a second round pick next year or
40:12
something like that or whatever is fair balance for your leader
40:14
or. Something like that and it
40:17
keeper league on then that wouldn't fly.
40:18
Nobody's gonna do that because you probably have the celebrity
40:21
pick already later, do you know what I mean?
40:23
No, but I'm talking like he's talking to redraft.
40:25
Yeah, yeah. So you're trading draft picks as
40:29
well, so there's no keepers. Oh.
40:32
OK, he said. He's got redressed.
40:33
Redraft, Yeah. So you're saying, but you can.
40:35
Trade It's like I'm taking the hit this year but of the the gap
40:39
in point between Oahu and celebrity.
40:40
But I'm getting an extra high pick next.
40:42
Year. No, that's a good way to look at
40:43
it. How about like you look at it
40:44
like, I guess this isn't always like fleeces, but like if the
40:47
value in traffic you're getting is a lot higher than the
40:49
decrease this year, then if you do enough of those trades over
40:52
time, maybe this year won't be the year.
40:55
But like you're setting yourself up for years and years of
40:57
success, right? Because let's say you keep
40:59
making trades like that, you build a juggernaut and then you
41:01
can afford to make more of those as time goes on and still win.
41:04
So I also think in redraft leagues, like if you can flip
41:07
your later round picks of next year for better picks next year
41:13
as well. Like, you know, we're not
41:14
talking about 2026, we're talking about like, OK, next
41:17
year, I'll give you my 10th and 11th for your next year, 8th
41:20
type of thing. Whereas the 10th and 11th
41:22
rounder way less sure things like that year gap there.
41:25
And you know, you're going to be good at finding guys on waivers
41:27
after throughout the season as well.
41:28
So I think that's another thing that you can keep in mind to
41:30
like get better next year while not giving away any for you this
41:33
year. Yeah.
41:34
Alright, let's OK. This one's awful, Georgia.
41:38
Asked if you had to retract right now, would you rather have
41:41
to take Skinner or Jerry 1st overall?
41:46
I for my team, I don't know. I mean you gotta go jar.
41:49
You gotta keep on Edmonton. Cause he's just gonna be the the
41:51
guy that is on a team that's gonna win more games than
41:54
Pittsburgh, right? So.
41:55
I'm not happy about the situation really, although
41:57
honestly. Would you do this to us?
41:58
Yeah. Might have been looking at you
42:00
right. Now, so yeah.
42:01
I probably probably I don't. Know at least Jerry could put on
42:04
IR and pick up somebody else. Yeah, I'm stuck with him in my
42:07
lineup. It's a free roster spot.
42:10
Valuable roster spot or Stuart Skinner?
42:14
Obviously you're gonna go, Jerry.
42:16
Yeah, alright, last one. Mojo JoJo on Discord asked with
42:20
a Kiefer Sherwood trade looming. I mean, I wouldn't say looming,
42:23
but we know. It feels almost inevitable.
42:25
It's yourself high right now, can't imagine his deployment
42:27
slash confidence can get any higher.
42:29
We've touched on this already, like sell him right now because
42:32
the trade, he could only lose value it feels like.
42:34
Yeah, yeah. You mentioned with Raquel,
42:36
right? It's like there are certain
42:37
players that go to teams and it's like they're guaranteed
42:41
really well. Then there's the Michaels.
42:43
Then there's the. Yes.
42:44
Exactly. It's going to be a real.
42:46
Catastrophe. There's no team in the NHL that
42:48
is so lacking forward depth where they would put forward on
42:52
their power play unit. Vancouver's gotta be the team I
42:54
could think of where he's on their property on, right?
42:56
So like that's never gonna happen.
42:58
Like the Hits will say he's a hitpiece.
43:00
Time means less chance to get hits as well.
43:02
Exactly. Yeah, definitely.
43:04
Because if you get Trinity is for sure a bottom 6 forward for
43:07
whatever team he goes to. It's like maybe I'm gonna eat my
43:10
words after the trade happens. But no, he's not getting they're
43:13
not paying like a a team is not gonna pay a top first round pick
43:17
for him. Therefore it's gonna be a good
43:18
team who is going to get buried in the line up and it's going to
43:21
be yeah, you should definitely sell them now.
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