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Barbara Baum Baum Bangor Management Fantasy Hockey
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Podcast. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Welcome in. Welcome in.
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Well, come in to Bangor Management the Fantasy hockey
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appropriately addressed Jake appropriately dressed Josh and
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Kevin, what is going on? I was the only one wearing
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exactly lost episode. We were all hyped to to wear the
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jersey and you know, and then what's this?
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Team. Fine, I'll put it on for the
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next episode. Love it, love it.
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Get changed right now on. Camera on video.
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We talked about it. Oh my.
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God, that's what you guys want to see?
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OK, I see how it is. So today we're doing our Week 6
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Now we're going to see all the YouTube, all the YouTube views
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We're not interested in this anymore.
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When we hit 100, Kevin will shake that booty.
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I already bounced. Last booty shake promise what?
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What did not come through, regrettably.
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So maybe this time now that we. Have the conditions met?
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I forget. I think the conditions were met.
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Wow. Let's see about that.
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We'll keep the tracker we gotta keep track of.
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We gotta get the hilarity jar. We gotta get the booty shaking
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the. Yeah, then you can join.
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The majority or is that just? My God.
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Alright, you cannot say that. Majority OK, never mind Palardy
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jar I'm I'm. Trying to be, don't know.
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We got, we got it. OK, let's let's.
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See what he did I. Love lolly gagging Josh.
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Let's begin with our Week 5 reputation stakers.
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Or OK, let's let's start with our week 5 choices.
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This was this was our first rough week, but I will say it's
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not all our fault. So starting with William
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Eckland, he got injured immediately and pretty much
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played zero games over the past week.
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So I'm putting that as an elf because if you picked him up,
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you weren't happy with that. But I will say it's not our
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fault. Because he's also on my roster.
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I'm sorry guys once again. Honestly, that's on us.
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You know what I said, It's not our fault, but we should have
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known not to recommend someone from Kevin's roster.
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We we said we weren't going to and then we had to because my
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guys are just so good at getting hurt.
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Yeah, exactly. Ready to be hurt again.
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But yeah, so we had to explain that we had Troy Terry has zero
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goals, 4 assists, 4 points, including some shorties.
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PowerPoint man, Anaheim just going nuts.
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So this is a huge win. This is going to be a season
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long hold. This is a guy who we won't be
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able to mention again for this season because he will easily be
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over 40%. So love that for us huge win.
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And lastly with Anthony Mantha, he only scored one goal and he
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got bumped off power play one for Ben Kindell kindle.
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I don't know if he's a a book reading platform or or not, but
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either way, I think I'm going to consider Mantha NFL despite him
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still getting a goal, because I want to hold ourselves
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accountable. So that puts us at 7 and 2 seven
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and two on the season. Let's dive into some schedule
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stuff there's. One quick thing before we move
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on, I just want to say that it may not be the worst strategy If
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you know, let next year late in your draft, you're debating who
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to pick. Just pick someone with an
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alliterated name. It's just it's just like, I
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don't get it. Mitch Marley.
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Too late, but still. Troy Terry.
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There are other ones too, like the alliteration things.
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Were what? Just those two.
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Exactly. Insert name here.
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Yeah, it's a alliteration. King was a big thing in the
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offseason, so yeah, I've yet to see a what is the.
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Let us know in the discord or in the comments if you know when.
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Alliterated player, not illiterate.
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Alliterated who's bad just because I was not?
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Love to see what the professor team you could come up with.
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That's all alliteration. It's a strong squad.
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I would love to see what you could come up with.
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Are there any alliteration Goalies?
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I don't know but. Anyways, Raquel.
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Not a goalie, but I like that one.
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OK, let's dive into dive into this.
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But if you guys think of a goalie, you can spit it out.
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Cool call field. Alright, continue.
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OK, cool. SO2 game teams this week.
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We've got Chicago, Pittsburgh and the Utah 4 game teams.
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We've got Columbus, Edmonton, Islanders, Rangers and Vegas.
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So was actually able to list all the four-game teams this week
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because there's not a ton like there's been the past couple of
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weeks, which makes it even more valuable if you can get players
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on those teams to stream. Busy night start Thursday and
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Saturday. So usually it's Tuesday,
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Thursday, Saturday, but Tuesday, the way we kind of do it is 20
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plus teams playing. And I think it was on the cusp
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at like 18, but we're not going to count that.
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And I'm not going to list all the office teams because anytime
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there's only two busy nights, there's a lot of multiple off
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night teams. So let's dive in to our top ten
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points guys. As always, under 40% owned.
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We should first. Of all, go ahead.
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Don't ruin my countdown. I would never.
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Second of all, if this is your first waiver show, we have, you
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know, the top ten. We cover top ten guys that are
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more points focused, but also like your banker management.
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So these guys are including banger categories.
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But then after this top ten, we also cover five guys that are
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like way more just banger oriented.
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If you need to stream guys just for hits, blocks, Pimms, like
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those type of things. So a lot of names and we're
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going to cover the goalies as well.
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Goalies for quantity, goalies for quality.
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So lots to help your teams out and I will begin the countdown
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with #10. Nice at #10 we've got Jordan
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Eberly of the Seattle Kraken. Some of these guys just kind of
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keep staying on our top ten list.
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You know, they stay low rostered, they stay putting up
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decent numbers. They stay with their deployment
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and so we'll keep mentioning them still line one power play
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1. Seattle is not necessarily the
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most exciting offensive team, but they're a lot better this
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year than they happen in previous years and really just
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doing a surprising amount of work for someone who only 13%
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rostered. He's gone up like 5% over the
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past week but he's they only have three games and it's not
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off night games. So it's less this week specific,
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but I could see him sticking around your roster for longer
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than you'd expect in deeper leagues.
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I mean, last time we recommended ability was 1% owned a few weeks
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ago. Now he's 13% owned.
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I mean, with this deployment goes out, he's both goes up, but
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this deployment, like these guys are always interesting.
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Yeah, it's only a three-game week, but he's going to be
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playing like 20 minutes a night. So yeah.
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And he's been pretty successful thus far.
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Yeah, in deeper leagues. Definitely worth the stream.
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Yeah, and and they're in the they're in the race this year.
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I mean, like not is we're far from the playoffs, but they're
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tied for third with the Kings and the Oilers.
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I think those are way better. They're way better than Seattle.
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But I mean, you know, they're still there, still trying out
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here. And he's a big. *.
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Team yeah, so and it's nice to see because he has really solid
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pedigree from years past, but then in recent years hasn't done
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much. So if you could keep this up and
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be a like a 60 point guy, he could be really good.
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Long season season, long hold. Yeah, I think I was the only
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Seattle believer. Hey, I dropped the cord.
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In my house, apparently on my tables.
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OK, let's move on before Kevin gets too smug, alright?
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I have to brag about these things because my team is about
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to lose 115 in week 5 so alright #9.
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At #9 we have an interesting 1 cause it's kind of a mystery
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name, but I'll throw three names out there actually.
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We've got Owen Power, Bowen Byram, and maybe even Michael
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Kesselring. Big news just came out that
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Rasmus Dahlin is taking a personal leave.
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Hope all the best for him and his family, but this is like an
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indefinite leave. Feels like it could be at least
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a month if not longer. And the big question is who will
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get the power? Play one quarterback spot on
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Buffalo. They're going to play today
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before like after we record. So I think we'll know the answer
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by the time by the time this recording goes up.
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But for now, the best we can say is it'll probably be their own
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power bone. Byron Michael testing was kind
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of a thorough in, but I think it's gonna be one of those two.
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And I think it's always interesting to see what a highly
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tied, touted offensive prospect can do when given the
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opportunity. My money's on power here first.
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Overall, I think there's, you know, the the boats pointing in
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his direction, if you will, because that makes sense.
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Yeah. And and he's a but, but it's
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gonna be a short leash. Like if one game he doesn't do
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anything. I think that they could give him
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the opportunity if sixth round Kesselring gets it over former
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first round picks Byram and power.
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That is so sad There's. No one.
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But anything's possible with this Buffalo team, so for now,
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power would be the one I'm most interested in.
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And then Byram. And then, yeah, we'll see.
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This requires a little bit of first of all, hope all is the
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best with Dalene. Like I don't know if people are
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in tune with what was happening, but in the off season, like
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there was some major health issues happening with his wife
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or fiance. And then now he's taking a leave
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of absence because she's having heart surgery.
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So they're going back to I think it's like a heart transplant or
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heart surgery. So like they're going back to
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Sweden and get to spend some time together.
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I'm assuming like it was probably paying a toll on him
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and hard to focus. The team is also bad.
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That doesn't help. So I.
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Could have done was be good you know and support him.
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But like, imagine like you have all this like health issues and
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stuff happening in your personal life and then you have to go
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play for the Buffalo Sabres and the load of everybody's heard
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and nobody's there. So, but all that to say, people
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were asking like, oh, what do we think?
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Like, is it gonna be like a weekly, monthly, like the whole
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season? Like, what do we think?
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And obviously there's like, there's no right answer.
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If anybody pretends to know how long this is going to be, like
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they're lying. Nobody can know how long it's
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going to be. I'm assuming that it's going to
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be at least a month. I think that's like a fair
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estimation because she's going to have the surgery and I'm
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assuming he wants to be there with her like during the rehab
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process and everything, which I'm assuming is pretty serious
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for heart surgery. Like I have not looked into it.
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I have not also gone to medical school yet.
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So I'm not a doctor, just getting that out there.
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Not a doctor yet, but I won't be for a while.
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So once they start handing out PhDs in the fantasy hockey, you
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know we'll all be doctors. Oh yes, that we will be.
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Yeah. All that to say, I think we need
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to look at what happened last season.
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The power had more of the P1 time when Darlene had those like
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back spasms. Byram I think also gets an
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opportunity though, because I mean, listen, it's gonna be 1 of
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the other, right? I don't think it's gonna be
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chilling Byram. He was in trade talks like he
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wants to be kind of like more of the main guy on a team.
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He got traded from Colorado to be behind Darlene and Buffalo,
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which is unfortunate for him, but maybe they give him a look
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as trade bait. That was kind of like a logic
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that I had in the back of my mind, but I feel like it's gonna
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be power. It's really 5050 though.
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Yeah, yeah. So we'll know more.
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They could put both. On power, yeah, honestly, the
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offence, the forwards aren't good enough to force their hand
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to only put one defenseman. Yeah, exactly.
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They have nobody like healthy that's actually good on this
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team. They're even talking.
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To other than. Two and they they're missing
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like 3 guys on PP1. So yeah, now it's less.
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So keep an eye out and honestly, like I'm still not even sure
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like this doesn't feel like when you miss out on the pickup like
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that, you're you know, it's not going to be like a season
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winning pick up. I don't think neither one of
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these guys get back at. So it's already kind of just
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pure points and Buffalo is kind of not a great team.
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So we'll see. It's still interesting though.
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It's always interesting when you have the chance to take a power
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play on quarterback. So keep an eye out on which one
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it is. We will message in the Discord
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when we know. So get in there for the up to
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date news. Kevin, let's go. #8. #8 another
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defenseman I was excited actually about this week because
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I think there's 3 or 4 defensemen in our top 10 for
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points and I feel like we always trying to make an effort, but I
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don't wanna force it either. So so I'm excited at #8 We've
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got Cam York of the Philadelphia Flyers currently line one power
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play 2, but that power play is kind of A1A1B or just a full
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split at this point. I'm use power play 2 with like
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connecting and Michkov. So what really is the power play
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2, right? So now he's putting up points,
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he's putting up good blocks as well, and he's definitely an
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interesting pickup three-game week, but has multiple off
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nights. This is definitely a good 19
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points in 11 games on the season.
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Like that's huge. He's been.
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Former first round pick. And he got paid in the
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offseason, right? This is one of our our signings
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from the top 10 signings. And I said something that truly
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I believe in and I've always said, and I always will, and I
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never will not say. And that's follow that money,
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baby. You do always say that it's
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true, yeah. But I feel like.
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You're really. They score a lot.
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Yeah. Go ahead, Kevin.
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No, I was gonna say I like, I like Yorkie.
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He kind of gives power slash Byram vibes where it's just
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gonna be more 1 dimensional in terms of the points.
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Not gonna get you the category coverage.
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He blocks decent. Yeah, he blocks more, but like,
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I'm not expecting shots or or hits, but I still like them
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because at least, you know, the role is kind of like setting
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where you're getting whereas Byram and power.
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I mean, as of right now, we don't really know what it's
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going to look like, but I think York is fun, very famous guy,
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you know, love playing board games.
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He's like a real Kawhi Leonard fun guy, you know?
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Yeah. I wish I did a Kawhi Leonard
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laugh. It's like nobody could do it
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like Hawaii. Does.
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I won't even try to impersonate. Yeah, he's like a mushroom, am I
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right? She's a fun guy, OHS.
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Though. I wish you guys could all see
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our heads. Actually you can.
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They can on YouTube. Finally got released on video.
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Yeah, let's go to #7. At #7 we have Kyle Palmieri of
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the New York Islanders Line 2 Power Play 1, four-game week
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with multiple off nights. This is another one of those
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guys who keeps hanging around our top 10's and it's a lot
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about the process, right? We talk about the process and
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how to choose a pickup and it's really I think the ice time is
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just glaring. Guy like that playing over 20
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minutes a night and has that power play 1 deployment on an
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Islanders team that is a bit more offensively exciting
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because Shaffer and Barzel being healthy.
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So I like Palmeri a lot. Yeah, the deployment you would
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obviously in an ideal world, he's playing with Horvat.
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That would be best case scenario.
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But even with this line too, as long as he has that P1, he's
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still pretty valuable for your fantasy leagues if you're in
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deeper leagues, like he's only 16% owned.
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So he's widely available. I was honestly, I have him on my
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team. So maybe as we listen to this,
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he's about to get injured. Just watch out, monitor his
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health status before picking him up.
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But he last year he was averaging 2 shots a game.
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This year it's it's hovering around 3.
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And like we're, yeah, we're almost two months into the
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season. So you're kind of thinking, OK,
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maybe this is more sustainable than I thought.
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We're not two months in this season.
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Is it almost two months? Into It's about to be week 5.
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That's like a month. Yeah, but week 1 is like a week
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and a half ish. So it's like the seasons
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basically. We're almost a month and 1/2
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into this season. Yeah, I'm not ready.
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I still have that. I thought I had more time.
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But all I have to say that the the underlying metrics and his
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shooting is is very encouraging. So on a on a weekly basis, I'm
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never afraid to pick him up. He's on that P1 and the
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Islanders are not the islands of last year like last year we
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were. We would be shocked.
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This sort of power play goal out of one out of 10 games this year
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looks like it's way more consistent.
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So I'm not afraid of these Islanders players anymore
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offensively. And I think Palmer is one of the
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better winger assets that you can get.
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I just wish he was on line 1. I just, yeah, it's crazy, but
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yeah. Yeah.
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You know, similarly to Eberly, it's not a flashy name.
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It's not exciting. And also the Islander, Yeah,
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basically both the Islanders and the cracking, you know, they
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were very, very bad teams last year.
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So with them improving this year, this is like the veteran
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residence on their team and I imagine they're gonna get the
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deployment all year. Shot volume is gonna be strong
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all year. This week Paul Mary is a better
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pickup because of the two off nights and the four-game week.
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That being said, I wouldn't be surprised, especially in deeper
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leagues, if they just turn into reliable season long holds that
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way better than anyone you'll find on waivers.
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They're not super exciting, they're not going to have trade
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value, but they will positively impact your team.
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No, just for context, like we play in a 14 team league with
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your 20 starting roster spots on like every day.
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So he's he's one of my better, you know, mid Tier 4 words where
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I'm not really dropping him and I'm not trying to trade him or
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trade for him, but he's just like solid production from that
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one roster spot on a weekly basis.
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And those are valuable in deeper leagues.
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Yeah. Alright, let's move on to #6.
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Alright, at number six we have someone who has never done
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anything wrong in his life and that is the Saint Corey Perry of
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the LA Kings. Line.
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Yours it that. Way yeah, Line 4.
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Power play 1 and he's a point per game on the season and he's
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only played nine games, but he's got 9 points in those nine
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games. This is not one that I think is
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a season long hold, but this is one that I think is an easy
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stream while he's running hot. He's got that power play one
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spot and honestly, I don't really see him losing it right
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now because they're doing well with him on it and they weren't
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doing well with him not on it. So obviously the even strength
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points, nothing exciting, the ice times not that exciting,
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which is why I don't think it's a long term hold.
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But definitely for while he's writing this hot streak.
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I'm very interested and I did web and R League but only a
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three-game week with no off nights.
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That the P1 is obviously what's He's 40, he's 40.
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That's crazy. And he's still the net front
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presence, just like being a bleep to server in front of the
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net. Doing crazy stuff.
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It's gonna fight Stream the Bleah 5 Timms.
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Yeah, I feel he's like in the old man's strength territory,
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you know, or you don't wanna F with him in front of the net
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and. You're welcome, everybody.
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And honestly, it says, yeah, well, look, I am, I'm with you.
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He's not a season long hold. You definitely have to ride the
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hot hand though. And you know, that being said,
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he got 30 points in 81 games last year.
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I think he could get 40. This.
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Year and .5 points per game. That's not really a.
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Seasonal, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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It's gonna be an improvement though, but far cry from the
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point per game pace is on right now.
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Yeah, yeah, He has nine points. Six of them are goals like
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that's. I do not see that stainable.
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There is future to be. If he had 4040 points, how many
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goals would that be? That'd be like 22 something
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goals and yeah, and the 10 something assists.
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Anyways, that's not sustainable for Corey Perry.
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He's also playing like 12 to 14 minutes a night on a regular
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basis. I feel like without line for
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deployment, but recently it's been taking up the last game
20:24
played 17 minutes. So it is getting more ice time.
20:26
Like this guy is just a menace on the ice.
20:28
Honestly just finds a way to score goals.
20:30
I think in a week like this that you can absolutely stream him.
20:33
Yeah. OK.
20:36
All right. Moving on to #5.
20:40
OK, at #5 another defenseman, very exciting stuff.
20:44
We've got John Klingberg of the San Jose Sharks, currently line
20:47
2, power play 1, and he gets to play with the best player in the
20:51
league, Macklin celebrity. So I think any anyone who has
20:57
anyone who has access to Macklin Big Mac, you know, they are
21:02
worth rostering. And he's getting that powerfully
21:05
on deployment for now at least. I know Orlov had it before.
21:08
I think it's clearly Klingberg. The coach said why we signed for
21:11
him to be powerfully one. My only concern is that the
21:14
power play hasn't been clicking that great with him on it versus
21:17
they were doing better when Olaf was on it.
21:19
But I don't think I don't think he gets bumped.
21:21
So I like Klingberg as a one of those power play 1 quarterbacks
21:25
who doesn't do much back cats but but you know, shipping some
21:28
points here and there. I have him and I picked him up
21:31
for the exact reason that you mentioned is because he's
21:35
playing on power play one with Maclin.
21:37
He is someone I was extremely low on for a while and I'm still
21:42
a bit scared because he's had a lot of injury issues in the past
21:45
few years. The one big difference though
21:48
between him now and him these like, you know, in the past 3-4
21:52
years is that he was always a secondary defenseman.
21:56
Last year he was obviously buried behind Bouchard.
21:58
Before that he was on the Leafs where Riley I think had a pretty
22:02
strong hold on the power play 1. And when he was on Dallas ahead
22:06
of he, he was often ahead of Haskin and Harley wasn't in the
22:09
league yet. So when he has the opportunity
22:11
to be power play 1, he really shines and there's a nice bonus
22:14
that he's hitting, which where that come from chill.
22:18
So you stay healthy, but also like keep it up in a way.
22:22
So yeah, he's been really great. And I'm not saying season long
22:26
hold here. This is this is more of a stream
22:29
as opposed to like a true waiver wire pickup that you're coughing
22:32
it in. But I would roster him for now
22:34
with the deployment. It's we talked about this even
22:37
before the season, right? Like he's a power play 1
22:39
defenseman that is not going to be heavily rostered in your
22:42
fantasy leagues. He's only 811% owner right now,
22:45
11. That's not that is not a lot,
22:48
but for power .1 defenseman tied to Michelle Brini, William
22:52
Macklin when healthy. I I think there's there's way
22:57
worse guys that you could pick up, especially for this
22:59
exposure. I like Gatlinburg.
23:01
I will, I will say keep your keep your expectations in check
23:03
because he had a few games where he was just like three shots,
23:06
hits blocks and you're like, Oh my God, category coverage is
23:09
here or whatever. Like do not expect category.
23:11
Coverage, yeah, he's very one-dimensional in terms of
23:14
points, but there's a lot worse. Depends on that.
23:16
You can stream 4 points so. I, I don't know though, like,
23:19
like I, I, I'm not saying this hits are sustainable, right?
23:22
But like, it's not that one-dimensional this year.
23:25
Like he's doing stuff. It's, it's fun.
23:28
I mean, yeah. He's playing this game has a lot
23:30
of, he has a lot of hits with, he has a lot of games with zero
23:32
hits and then there's like one game with like three hits and
23:35
then it kind of averages it out. Yeah, no, not really at the
23:38
averages and it's way less exciting than when I'm looking
23:40
at it on a night by night basis. But yeah, because you never
23:45
expected, Kevin said. So yeah, you're like, wow, he's
23:48
sitting like crazy because it's so much more than you expected,
23:50
which was 0. .5 Fair enough. OK, let's go to.
23:59
Right now, these are some exciting names.
24:01
Now we're breaking into the top four with #4.
24:06
And #4 we've got Victor Olafson of the Colorado Avalanche line 3
24:10
power play 1, three-game week with multiple off nights and
24:14
he's I think he's starting to cement his spot on power play
24:17
one. I really think that it's finally
24:20
starting to click with him on it, him and Austin as the two
24:23
non lock guys and he's put up. He had that that five point
24:28
game, which was nuts. Then put up two games as heroes,
24:30
but he was still shooting. He had four shots and three
24:32
shots, which is still very nice to see, and then he put up
24:34
another two goal night in his last game, including a power
24:37
play 1. So I kind of like what I'm
24:40
seeing from Allison and I honestly don't think it would be
24:42
crazy for him to break into the top six at even strength either.
24:45
Like I don't think Ross Colton has that much of a hold on line
24:47
to winger that Allison can't take it.
24:50
Talk about turn stable. Now I know Ross Hilton is my
24:54
goat. Anyone who was playing last year
24:56
and picked up Ross Colton in the first month knows what I'm
24:58
talking about. When that was a season winning
25:00
pick up until he got injured. Yeah, Josh was convinced he was
25:03
going to be like a top 50 fantasy player.
25:06
He should have. He would have been if he hadn't
25:07
gotten injured. You stand by it, OK.
25:10
But but either. Way I would have gone to state
25:12
of coach put me in. Yeah, Victor Oleson is only 19%
25:17
also he's available in 4/5 of your leagues.
25:20
And the one thing that to mention with him though is he's
25:24
still averaging like 13 ish minutes a night.
25:27
That's not really what you want. And we talk about the process,
25:30
right? And I guess it seems
25:32
counterintuitive here because we're recommending a guy that is
25:34
not really getting a lot of minutes, but his production,
25:37
even with this, you know, level of minutes is pretty, pretty
25:41
high, like 30 minutes a night and still averaging three shots
25:44
a game. So that's that's pretty
25:46
incredible. And it's always like with him,
25:48
he's exposed to one of the best power plays in the league.
25:50
I know the Colorado Avalanche right now, if you look at the
25:52
numbers, like their power play isn't necessarily super high
25:56
because they started so slow to start the season.
25:58
But I was clicking because he's on it.
26:00
And also the upside if he gets bumped on top six and he's
26:03
playing like 1617 minutes a night, like he could actually
26:06
blow up. Like he could be like in the
26:08
realm of like league winning pick up if you're picking him up
26:11
at 19%, only gets bumped up to the top six, playing 17 minutes
26:14
a night, averaging 3.5 shots a game and like way more points.
26:17
It could be huge. And I wanna say that he's on
26:19
Joshua's team and he was on my team before and I dropped them.
26:21
But either way, this is very exciting.
26:25
I think just having exposure to Nathan McKinnon and and like
26:30
Marty Natures, Mackenzie Block would not not scratch that.
26:36
But yeah, no, I love Victor Olson.
26:38
I wish I didn't drop him. I love picking up Kevin Scraps
26:42
in our league. It's always ahead of the curve,
26:44
like always ahead of the curve. And then sometimes I just can't.
26:46
Hold so he's a bit early and then drops the guy and I'm like
26:50
huh, I got out bid on him when he originally picked him up so
26:52
now I'll grab him. The next guy is gonna blow up.
26:55
Greek took from from New Jersey. You heard it here first, boys.
26:59
Don't take that to the bank, but do follow his telegram or
27:01
whatever because it's hilarious you.
27:03
Do follow his telegram or his Instagram.
27:07
Yeah. OK, let's go to the top three.
27:09
All right #3. #3 we've got Ivan Barbashev of the Vegas Golden
27:15
Knights Line one power play 2, four-game week with multiple off
27:20
nights, and the Line 1 is currently Hymm, Eichel and
27:23
Marner. So they've been shuffling around
27:25
those that top six a lot. We'll see how long this sticks.
27:28
This one to me is very much a I know, like it's strange to say
27:32
because he's one of the higher percentage guys on this list,
27:35
but I feel like he's just a a stream while this line one
27:39
sticks and I don't love the guy. He's not power play one, but
27:43
he's putting up numbers on that even strength line because it's
27:46
just such unreal line mates. And with the four-game week, it
27:48
felt like a no brainer. He he he's he's a plug on line
27:52
one with good players and has been for the past few years.
27:56
The the way I'm looking at this is that if this gets Marner
27:59
going, because he was slumping a little bit for like about a
28:02
week, week and. Still live.
28:04
Yeah, yeah, he, but he's turned it up recently.
28:07
He's. Like he's certainly.
28:09
Yeah, yeah, for sure. But the points have been there.
28:12
And obviously that's because of, you know, Michael and not
28:15
Barbashev. But Barbashev is bad enough to
28:18
stick around there and still have the lines balance, the
28:21
balance out. You know, he's not a bad player,
28:24
but he's not some like amazing fantasy player.
28:26
And if this if this balance keeps Marner going and Barbashev
28:29
just has a piece of that, he could, he could be a real asset
28:32
to your squad for especially next week with the with the
28:35
deployment and the off nights and everything.
28:38
Yeah. I just wouldn't bet my house on
28:40
on the sticking. But The thing is, like we do
28:42
streamer shows like this because while it is sticking, right now
28:46
is the time to get in and take advantage of the production.
28:49
He's 30% owned, like 29%. He's also over point per game
28:54
this season. Last season he was at .73 off
28:57
top of my head, .73 points per games and he was averaging two.
29:01
Yeah, that was off the top of your head, Yeah, I mean. 2
29:04
decimal points. I was, I was in some trade talks
29:09
with somebody in Barber shops on that person's team.
29:11
So I was doing my research but and he was I think average last
29:15
season at 1.6 shots or something like that, like 1.59.
29:19
I'm actually curious that accurate?
29:20
Can you check? Sorry, like it's like 1.6 like
29:24
1.59 or 1.58 or something like that Anyway.
29:27
OK, 1.59 shots, 1.49 hits. That's actually.
29:30
Nice but alright either way. All that to say I think this
29:36
production is not sustainable. But like you drive it home like
29:39
boat goes up when he's playing with partner so now is the time
29:43
to stream him. A classic.
29:44
Stream 4 Game week. Hopefully it sticks.
29:48
Yeah, yeah. And I think it will for the next
29:51
week. He has seven points in his last
29:52
five games, and Marner has similar production.
29:55
So yeah, you know, it's good. If it works, it works.
29:59
Yeah, that's alright for now. Yeah. #2.
30:05
At #2 we have Kevins favorite guy because he's on his team and
30:10
not injured. Knock on wood, we've got.
30:12
Just chase them crazy. Dimitri Veronika of the Columbus
30:16
Blue Jackets line. One power play, 1, four-game
30:18
week with multiple off nights. He's been putting up great
30:21
numbers. I know he's been the last like 3
30:23
games. He hasn't gotten a point.
30:24
So he's on a bit like slow. This is like the opposite of a
30:27
Barbashev, right? Barbashev is a guy who I don't
30:30
trust season long, but right now it's hot, so you pick him up as
30:33
a stream, whereas Rankov is not necessarily killing it the past
30:36
week. But I trust him much more with
30:38
his deployment and nice time and line mates and all that fun
30:41
stuff. Yeah.
30:43
Yeah, Brankov is a double double.
30:44
He's currently 32% owned, but he was like at 45 before that.
30:48
He got dropped a lot. I would say bleep bleeping a lot
30:54
because in week 5 Columbus had a two game week.
30:57
So he's gonna he's the type of player that and especially in
31:00
your more shallow league, like unless you're really deep league
31:02
like 2 game week ago like this, you cut him, you stream somebody
31:04
would better a better schedule. But four-game week upcoming,
31:08
he's a line 1P1. He's a double double.
31:11
First of all, don't forget it will be interesting to see
31:13
because I feel like Columbus has kind of been slowing down a
31:15
little bit and Monahan just got hurt, but he's potentially not
31:20
missing anytime there. They might be trying this new
31:24
line with Chantilly line 1 after the Monahan injury.
31:27
So it'll be interesting to see if a Fantilli learns any
31:30
Russian. But for the moment, I'm really
31:34
in on for on call just because he has a category coverage.
31:37
Like he's a banger league stud. Like this is the guy that picked
31:39
up off waivers after the draft and he's getting you two shots,
31:42
two hits, which is already like super valuable and he'll get you
31:45
over .7 points per game. He's really like one of those
31:49
like silent killers for your fantasy team.
31:50
Like I just think he does it all four-game week.
31:53
I'm really excited to have him. Yeah.
31:55
And what is different than last year is that they tried him on
31:59
Centre last year, which considerably took away from his
32:01
offensive production. Line 3.
32:04
Yeah, exactly. So there was the deployment and
32:07
like some people just don't produce offensively when they're
32:09
playing centre. Winger is a lot easier to do
32:11
that. He's he's hitting, which is
32:14
nice. And I think that that's
32:15
sustainable considering he is massive.
32:19
I'm just waiting for him to mention 65. 240 Get out of town.
32:26
Is he actually 240 Monstrosity? What is he actually 240?
32:30
240. Pounds.
32:32
That's not OHK, my God. And he's 65.
32:38
Easy Finance No 65, Blue one. I was going to say, I wonder if
32:45
he has blue eyes. No, no, but he isn't.
32:48
He's a Russian good unit. Yeah.
32:50
Yeah. Well well I mean non Russians
32:52
could have wise anyways. Absolute Unit and the Pimms are
32:57
the pimps. Are kind of nice.
32:58
Yeah, the people like he's he he gets like a minor penalty every
33:01
game. So like that, that's gonna piss
33:03
off the coach. But like you still have line
33:04
one, right. So clearly it doesn't piss him
33:06
off enough. I very excited about Fantilli if
33:11
he actually does get this line 1 deployment.
33:13
I know that they were wearing off a little bit, but eventually
33:16
has a offensive skill set that Monaghan simply does not have.
33:20
So if if Marchenko and Voronkov could bring that out, that's
33:23
great. But yeah, back to Voronkov
33:25
double. Double is amazing and that's
33:27
like what we look for in someone who could also get above .7
33:30
points say, but definitely a season long hold.
33:33
To your point and that we've been talking about like bonus
33:36
transaction here, not in the top 10, but Adam Fantilli, if this
33:40
line one sticks, he will be valuable for fantasy.
33:44
Like we talked about how he's not relevant as long as Shawn
33:47
Monahan has that line 1P1. And it's tough to say because,
33:50
you know, I think he has a lot of potential, but he's just
33:53
stuck in a deployment, right? Like not gonna run.
33:57
They can run 2 centres on line 1.
33:59
So Monaghan hurt maybe is the catalyst that's needed for
34:04
fantasy to really blow up. Because he's Fantilli is only
34:07
35% owned. He was also heavily dropped this
34:10
last week because of the two game week.
34:13
But we've seen what he can do. Last season I feel like when he
34:15
was in that line, one spot when Lana hadn't heard, he really
34:18
thrived. So it's just hard for them to be
34:20
like, alright, Monaghan, like you can't get your spot back
34:23
even though he was killing it as well.
34:25
But maybe we're seeing the tide change right now and now is the
34:27
time to jump in on a four-game week.
34:29
Take your chance as we record it.
34:31
We haven't seen any actual games yet since the Monahan injury.
34:34
So we don't know if this line 1 is actually going to stick.
34:37
It could be that it was just a practice thing while one hand is
34:39
hurt. But eventually when you're
34:41
listening to this Sunday, Sunday afternoon or evening and he's
34:46
line 1, he played line one. Pick him up like that's a guy
34:49
you should prioritize. I would put him probably had a
34:52
Barber shop. Yeah.
34:56
Yeah, alright, last one, let's touch on #1.
35:01
And #1 we have my 16th round pick from this year, Chris
35:07
Kreider of the Anaheim Ducks playing line one power play, one
35:11
with Leo Carlson, the GOAT. It's actually crazy how many of
35:15
these young guys are breaking out at the same time this year.
35:17
It's nuts right now. Celebrity and Bedard leading the
35:19
league in points and Leo Carlson right behind them.
35:22
Super fun. Anyways, back to Chris Kreider,
35:25
he's doing exactly what they wanted him to do.
35:28
He's getting those he's doing the net front power play 1,
35:32
getting those Tippins, those rebounds.
35:33
He's just score. He's at a point per game, mostly
35:36
goals and you know, point per game of goals is not
35:40
sustainable. But he is just more of a goal
35:41
scorer than assist guy. So it makes sense with his kind
35:44
of archetype of player and Anaheim scoring seven goals a
35:47
game, which is super sustainable.
35:48
So I mean, it's kind of kind of crazy to not pick up Crider.
35:52
Obviously not gonna score 7A game, but there's just so many
35:55
guys on that team with Carlson and Cutter Gautier and just
35:59
everything going on there is super fun.
36:00
So having that deployment on a team like that right now is just
36:03
invaluable. This is a season long gold for
36:04
sure. The he's going to slow down like
36:08
for sure doesn't mean that he's not someone I'm.
36:10
Super excited as well. I mean.
36:12
You know, he when he's on pace for 75 goals or something like
36:16
he's 78. Sorry.
36:18
So it's yeah. And even without the four games
36:22
next week, I'm happy to make him the number one spot.
36:26
Absolutely. It's it's encouraging to me that
36:31
he scored many fifty. Well, not many.
36:35
He scored 150 goal season and other like 3639.
36:38
Yeah, and these are somewhat recent.
36:40
Exactly. So although the pace is not
36:43
gonna be there, the assists are bound for some positive
36:46
regression. 2 one on the season. I'd expect some more.
36:48
And even if the goal is slowed down like next week, like I
36:51
wouldn't be surprised. Five points in these three
36:53
games. Yeah, and, you know, like how we
36:55
always joke about how when someone leaves Buffalo, they
36:58
become amazing. At what point do we start
37:01
thinking about that, about the New York Rangers?
37:03
I mean, look at Crider, look at Truba, you know, like and the
37:06
Rangers are garbage. All the goal scorers, yeah,
37:09
exactly. Elite goal scorer, Jacob
37:11
Trulock. But I mean, yeah, no, it's
37:14
crazy. They're just like, I mean, when
37:16
they inevitably trade Lafreniere, I feel like he's
37:18
gonna pop off, you know? So so yeah, no, I love Cryder.
37:21
Super happy to have him on my team.
37:23
He is also a sell high but also a great pickup.
37:26
He's also only he's 40% owned as we speak like.
37:30
When I made this was 37% owned. So there you go.
37:33
All the people are picking him up, so you wanna hop on that
37:36
train. He's been back from injury or
37:39
illness. Sorry, it's been four games.
37:42
He's got five goals. He's shooting A lot like the the
37:47
the foundation for the solid production is there, the
37:50
deployment is there. That's what you want to first of
37:52
all, look at obviously exception Victor Allison, but I think
37:57
there's no reason why he's not a season long hold, especially in
38:00
your deeper leagues. Like obviously always depends
38:02
how shall your league is we we say that, but yeah, he's he's
38:06
super fun to have. OK, let's dive into some bangers
38:11
with the Heart B. Bangers.
38:13
There we go. No, don't.
38:15
Bang on video YouTube, baby. Alright, let's get into this
38:22
with the number 5. At #5 we have the bane of
38:26
Kevin's existence, 4 points per game, Matthew Olivier of the
38:32
Columbus Blue Jackets. He's averaging 1.3 Pimms, 1.5
38:35
shots, 3.5 hits and he's got a four-game week with multiple off
38:39
nights. Love this as a Bangers pickup.
38:42
Don't expect the four point nights.
38:44
Unless he's playing me again. That was crazy, Semisonic said
38:49
famously in 1998. You don't have to go home, but
38:51
you can't stay here. But Macchio Olivier is just
38:54
never leaving this list. He's always here.
39:00
You like first of all, I mean, in in serious like deep bangers
39:04
leagues, he's gotta be picked up.
39:05
He's always a menace and super good asset to your team because
39:10
of the Pimms too, right? He's a he's a bleep disturber.
39:12
So yeah, yeah, not much to say because we talk about him
39:16
literally every week. But start picking them up so we
39:19
can move on to other players. Bingo.
39:23
This is the guy that you want on your team if you want, if you
39:25
want to prioritize hits like this is, yeah, this is the dude.
39:28
And the guy will talk about #1 but he's more than just
39:31
one-dimensional like that. But we'll.
39:33
Get. OK, well, I'll skip ahead.
39:34
Let's see. Let's go through the list first.
39:37
#4. #4 I will say I am excited about this top five things this
39:41
week because they're all four-game guys with multiple off
39:44
nights and three out of five of them, no two out of five of them
39:47
have points upside as well. And one of them you've got Emil
39:50
Heineman of the New York Islanders .62 points per Game, 2
39:54
one shots, 3.9 hits and again four-game week with multiple off
39:57
nights. He's been a guy that we've
39:59
talked about I think every week at this point he keeps hopping
40:02
between the points one and the bangers one.
40:03
But on a four-game week, I mean in a bangers he should already
40:06
be rostered. The hits is absurd and the fact
40:08
that he has line 1 deployment and he's putting up points like
40:11
that with the shots he says season long hold.
40:13
I think we'll get a look at PowerPoint One at some point.
40:16
That wouldn't be possible. Yeah, I mean, it's drawing.
40:19
Exactly. Get injured and then.
40:23
Will probably most likely be the case.
40:24
Let me go pick up joy for everybody.
40:28
That's the next level, helping out the the listeners.
40:32
We're not not much to add like he's he's been really solid in
40:35
his Bangor category coverage and the points, the points floor has
40:38
been higher than we anticipated. And I feel like with all of us
40:41
and there's always, there's always more that can be gained
40:44
with the extra deployment that can come.
40:45
So Heineman is super fun and I wish to have still had them, but
40:49
I'm happy with Dobson. Yeah, can't complain.
40:52
Alright, let's get to #3. At #3 We have someone who
40:57
already did his stint on IR, so he atoned for being on Kevin's
41:00
team. Alexander Romanov of the New
41:02
York Islanders, 2.5 hits, 2.6 blocks per game, four-game week
41:06
with multiple off nights. I really wanted Romanoff this
41:09
year on my team. I just feel like he's a more
41:12
under like under the radar like kind of Buddhist type of player.
41:15
But he's younger. He got paid in the offseason.
41:18
He gotta follow that money and and I like what he's doing a
41:21
lot. Yep, I will say I have I'm a
41:24
Romanov honor obviously, since he was already hurt.
41:28
But yeah, he only missed like thing two weeks.
41:31
But nonetheless, I think his bangers since his return from
41:36
injury have been more scarce, I will say, but I'm not worried
41:41
about it long term. I just feel like it can be any
41:42
any given week where he just blows up for a massive banger
41:46
day where he's hitting and blocking like crazy.
41:48
His minutes fluctuated a lot. So I feel like the games that he
41:50
gets close to 20 minutes are better than the game gets close
41:52
to 16 minutes. But he's still going to be like
41:56
even even the banger league stuff like the goddesses, the I
41:59
don't wanna say the other names like the tribes or whatever.
42:01
They'll have goodies where they just good what?
42:09
The plural of goudis is a goodbye.
42:11
Goodbye. Yeah, you're right.
42:13
The The good Eye of. Who you're fighting with you.
42:20
We'll be inconsistent for bangers, but Romano was one of
42:22
those guys that even when those games happen, I'm not worried
42:25
about him long-term. Yeah.
42:28
Alright, another banger League stud.
42:30
Let's get to number. Two at #2 We've got the man that
42:34
I discovered in his breakout year, Jeremy Lozano of the Vegas
42:39
Golden Knights. 1.5 times per game, 3.7 hits, 1.7 blocks, 4
42:43
game week with multiple off nights.
42:45
I love those. I really wanted him this year as
42:47
well but I ended up taking Gospel over him in like the 19th
42:50
round which we'll see how that works out.
42:53
But anyways I love Loza banger he just super super solid and
42:57
honestly I've wanted to put him on this list for like 2 weeks
43:00
now but Vegas keeps having like 2 game weeks so I was like I
43:02
can't recommend a bangers guy who has a bad schedule but he
43:05
finally has the good schedule so he made it.
43:07
Yep, and I feel like recently has been more it's tough because
43:11
I feel like when I hear Vegas people talk about him, they see
43:14
him more as like a liability. But then he almost scored last
43:18
game. He he's tripping points more
43:20
than I feel like. I mean, he's not a lot, but it's
43:24
more than you would anticipate if you're anticipating 0.
43:26
So it's not impossible that he sneaks in a point here or there,
43:30
but like, he's really hits guy. You just expect your entire team
43:34
to put up zeros every night. You're gonna be so happy every
43:36
night. With these type of guys, that's
43:38
what that's what it is like with the Romanovs low songs, the
43:41
goodbye like. They're just.
43:43
They're just, you don't expect the points, but when they're
43:46
there, it, it feels like cherry on top, you know?
43:49
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, this section is all about
43:51
volume and he's going to get you, he's going to do a lot with
43:54
the volume. Yeah, 4 game week, tons of hits.
43:57
He could swing it for you. And he, yeah, he averages well,
44:01
him and Heinemann of the most on this list basically.
44:04
So I like it a lot for this. Week, yeah, but let's get to
44:07
what Kevin's been waiting for since the start of the episode,
44:10
because it's finally something good for him, and I feel bad
44:13
just talking about all the bad stuff.
44:16
Number one. At #1 we have Kevin's literal
44:21
best friend Will Cooley of the New York Rangers.
44:24
He's averaging .9 Pimms, 2.4 shots, 3.6 hits, four-game week,
44:29
multiple off nights, and he just got put on power play 1 and
44:32
scored a power play goal. You're not going to find many
44:35
guys putting up this category coverage who are on power play
44:37
1. So look, is it going to last
44:40
that long? Who knows what happens when
44:41
Trocheck comes back. At this point, I'm pretty
44:44
comfortable saying that laughing here is not getting back on
44:46
power play whatever the rest of the year.
44:48
But Trocheck probably a seniority over over coolly.
44:52
But also their play was awful all season and then they finally
44:54
scored a goal with him there. So we'll see.
44:56
We'll see what happens, but the fact is you're getting the
44:58
bangers regardless and the power play one upside is just a huge
45:02
bonus. Yeah, I mean, the the only bad
45:05
thing is that Kevin owns him on his team, so he's bound to get
45:09
hurt A. Lot of big nobles got hurt like.
45:11
Literally done. Finding guys who get injured.
45:16
I'm I'm at dinner and I I don't have no idea what's happening.
45:20
All I see is we'll put we'll Cooley got a power play goal
45:22
after seeing him if you want in practice.
45:24
I talked about it in discord. I told everybody like keep your
45:26
eyes out like well cool people wanna see if it goes well scores
45:29
immediately. I'm like let's go and then
45:33
Saturday morning I wake up and I see like will Cooley getting hot
45:36
helped off the ice. That looks like it tore his ACL
45:38
like the whole teams around them like they're helping him to the
45:40
locker room. I'm like about to beat myself
45:43
and then and then somehow he finishes the game.
45:48
So I'm like, OK, like maybe dodged a bullet there.
45:50
Hopefully we don't see anything else to come out.
45:52
Hopefully we don't see like, oh, like, yeah, he finished the
45:54
game. But like season ending injury, I
45:57
would not be would not put that passes after like the history
45:59
we. Finished.
46:00
The doctors are now jello. Yeah, so hopefully, hopefully
46:05
he's healthy at the time of you listening to this and you're
46:08
able to pick him up because he is a stud.
46:10
He was my sixth round pick. Like we talked about in the in
46:14
the draft recap episode, how like we have regrets and like
46:16
who's our biggest regions or whatever.
46:18
He was my biggest reach. I was not unhappy to have him on
46:20
my team. I just took him a little too
46:22
early because I was convinced that Jake or Josh would take
46:24
him. So yeah, the cons of having a
46:28
podcast with your league mates, but he's he's honestly like
46:32
lived up to that draft capital. And with this deployment, I feel
46:36
like he he has a super high floor.
46:38
And that goes up. Boat Boat, boat is is becoming a
46:42
rocket ship guys. Why this is?
46:45
But it's both. It's both going through this
46:47
because of things like I don't understand.
46:50
Look at this. It's a bird.
46:52
It's a plane. No, it's a boat.
46:55
Bully Yeah, it's a little cooler.
46:57
We'll Chili's dropping the boat. I won't drive the boat for.
47:00
All those OK, so our top skaters for the week are Will Cooley,
47:06
assuming he can stay healthy, Chris Kreider and Dmitri
47:09
Brankov, also assuming he can stay healthy.
47:11
That's two of the three guys on Kevin's team.
47:12
We're really risking it. This week.
47:14
He's got a good team, so hopefully it works out.
47:17
Let's move to the bully section. Finally going to find out if
47:20
there's actually a curse on my team or not.
47:21
Like we're doubling down on this after William Macklin last week.
47:25
We're like, alright, if something happens, something is
47:28
up, somebody put a curse on me. Yeah, yeah.
47:30
Alright, let's get into the goalies. #3 at #3 on the
47:34
quantity goalies 2 plus starts for the week.
47:37
We've got our tours. Sheila offs of the Pittsburgh
47:40
Penguins, one of the top teams in the league.
47:42
As everyone expected. They only have two games next
47:44
week but he should get both those starts with Jerry on IR
47:48
and both those games are against Nashville who suck.
47:54
Yeah, I feel so bad. He.
47:56
Has the opportunity now to cement himself as the starter.
47:59
Yeah. And I don't know why it's
48:01
exciting. I can't understand why it
48:03
Pittsburgh is good, but they are.
48:06
As Crosby is just just online. Let's go, Ben Kindell.
48:12
Yeah. So so he if this actually, if he
48:17
holds that I, I I'm excited about this as like a season long
48:21
hold and and he's gonna win his two games this week in all
48:24
likelihood, right? I mean, you can't ask for much
48:27
better even compared to the next two guys we're gonna name.
48:30
I think that she loves us. Probably looking like he could
48:33
be the best season long hold. So we'll see how it goes.
48:36
Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, I mean, not much that
48:39
you're getting a goalie that's gonna be a starter for a team's
48:41
winning more games than they're losing and he's less than 40%
48:44
owned. This is feels like quantity with
48:47
the opportunity to be quality as well so.
48:49
Yeah, I'm just waiting to see which of you guys picked him up
48:51
in our league. He just got dropped for some
48:53
reason. It's.
48:53
Probably. Yeah, OK, Let the bidding war
48:58
commence. Maybe it'll be because I just
48:59
got, I just got an injury to one of my goalies, so let's see what
49:02
happens. Tune. #2.
49:07
And #2 again, we've got Akira. Akira, look, we can't stop
49:13
mentioning the starter for the Vegas Golden Knights until,
49:16
until Carter Hart is eligible to play.
49:18
It just came out that that Hill is out for months, so who knows
49:23
how long that is. But like, months.
49:26
Yeah, we don't know how many months, but yeah, month by month
49:29
to month, as they as they say. But but yeah, so shamed.
49:33
Look, they're giving Lindbom some games and I'm giving Jamie
49:35
100% of the starts, but they're playing four times next week.
49:38
He's getting at least two of those, probably 3, but at least
49:41
2. They're playing Florida
49:42
Islanders and then back-to-back Saint Louis, Minnesota and and
49:46
yeah, until December 1st when Heart could come back.
49:48
Just pick up a key if you need a goalie, yeah.
49:51
Yep, and it's not the hardest matchups either.
49:53
Like Florida is not intimidating like in years past, the
49:57
Islanders are not intimidating. And then Saint Louis is awful.
50:00
Maybe they're maybe they're turning the corner, but for now
50:03
not intimidating. And Minnesota, I feel like they
50:05
can always score a lot of goals, but also letting a lot of goals,
50:08
so. Yeah, I mean, they have to go
50:09
Brock Faber, but. The true goat.
50:13
Yeah. But yeah, all right, let's touch
50:15
on #1. OK, number one, we have Darth
50:20
Vadar of the Philadelphia Flyers.
50:24
They play three games next week. Sanderson did just come back
50:27
from injury, but they like to alternate start and Ursin is
50:30
getting the last start of this current week, which means that
50:33
Bar should get the Edmonton start and the Dallas start.
50:37
That's two pretty hard opponents, to be fair, but he's
50:39
been putting up really sick numbers somehow on this Philly
50:43
team, so I still really like him as a pickup.
50:46
Yeah. I mean, I would, I would
50:47
probably edge on like we have him #1 because he's been so
50:54
solid. Yeah.
50:55
But would I be surprised if she loves or or Schmid have have
51:00
better weeks? No, but you know what they're
51:04
gonna get at least those two starts.
51:05
So that's the the full guarantee.
51:07
I think Schmid is floor is 2 starts and I think she loves is
51:11
getting at least one probably 2. So given the Jerry injury, but
51:15
all three of these guys are option are great options.
51:18
We have them at 123, but it's not like a way better than the
51:21
other behind them. You know what I mean?
51:22
They're kind of all in the same tier 3 names you should target.
51:26
Yeah, if you have a fab system like I wouldn't necessarily put
51:30
way more on LIDAR. Yeah.
51:33
I probably put like 2 bucks on each.
51:35
As long as I get, as long as I get one of these guys, I'm
51:37
happy. Like if you're if you're if
51:39
you're in a scenario where you need goalie starts, like your
51:42
options are these are three of your best options and you're not
51:45
trying to be picky with the quality at that point.
51:47
You know what? I.
51:47
Mean yeah, it is fair that she loves his third though only
51:50
because they only have two games so there is a chance that he
51:54
just doesn't get the other one, which would be a bit ridiculous
51:57
but you never know. Whereas Lidar is going to get
51:59
the Edmonton one and one of the back to backs.
52:01
So you know that the floor is 2 and Shamir has I would say the
52:06
opponents are are are kind of tough between Saint Louis and
52:09
Minnesota, but and Florida. We have no idea, if it was for
52:12
me I would think I would prioritize Shamir Vladar just
52:14
cause I feel like he's more likely to get wins than Bledar
52:17
is. Yeah, there's all this to say is
52:19
very close. Yeah, OK, let's go into our top
52:22
three quality goalies. These ones we're going to get
52:24
probably only one start, but it should be a good one. #3.
52:30
At #3 we have Akira's buddy Carl Lindbom of the Vegas Golden
52:34
Knights. They have a back-to-back Saint
52:36
Louis, Minnesota. I would love to grab the one who
52:39
plays against Saint Louis. They are such a disaster.
52:42
But I'm not too worried about Minnesota either.
52:44
Like Kevin said, they could score goals but they're not
52:46
winning many games. So I like Vegas's chances in
52:49
either of those matchups. Yeah, same.
52:51
Yep #2. And #2 we've got Calvin Pickard
52:55
of the Edmonton Oilers, Philly and Columbus.
52:58
Neither one of those teams is scary at all to me.
53:01
And Hyman might be coming back this week, so the Oilers might
53:03
get an even bigger boost. So I like this one a lot.
53:08
Yeah, yeah. I don't know if I haven't
53:11
necessarily like a preference as to which one he plays, but with
53:14
Hyman coming back, we've spoken about it a lot.
53:16
The whole team is gonna get better and Edmonton should win
53:19
both. That being said, these are away
53:21
games if I'm not mistaken, so that's always kind of tough,
53:25
especially when it's like hot. Yeah, it's harder, but they
53:29
still should be able to pull it off.
53:31
And without Monahan if he is out for an extended period of time.
53:34
Like we're excited about Fantilli, but as a team they're
53:37
going to be less good. Yeah, for sure.
53:39
Something to keep in mind. It's also just Edmonton is
53:42
usually going to be favored in their matchups.
53:43
Like that's just how it is when you have McDavid and Draisaitl
53:46
on the same. Team they got the best player in
53:47
the league in McDavid and Josh, who I just acquired in a trade.
53:51
Yeah, I can't believe I have with David.
53:53
I was just, I'm so hyped. Yeah, you may.
53:55
As well say about those JT Miller and Tage Thompson and got
53:59
McDavid in return and I didn't even I got the offer just got
54:02
sent to me and I just pressed except I didn't.
54:04
Want to work? I don't think it's so crazy on
54:06
paper, but like obviously like you could do a lot with.
54:09
It David could get more points than JL Tage combined at the end
54:13
of the year that's. Just that cats are obviously an
54:15
L but I think points wise it's a huge one.
54:17
No, no, like I agree that you won the trade.
54:18
I just think and he could have probably given you, I don't
54:24
know, like the JT is such a buy low.
54:26
But yeah, McDavid is so exciting at this point in the season
54:28
because you can there's so much ahead of you to pick someone up
54:30
off waivers. So yeah, case in point, you
54:32
wanna be giving the two in the 2 for one at this stage in the
54:36
season. Yeah, I've got so many guys I'm
54:38
ready to excited to pick up and I don't have to drop anyone.
54:42
I'm sure you have a she loves spot.
54:44
Yeah. Yeah, alright.
54:48
OK #1. At number one, I've got 2
54:51
goalies because I like both of them and they're both gonna get
54:54
one start for this week at least, and that's Cam Talbot and
54:57
John Gibson, both of the Detroit Red Wings.
54:58
They're back-to-back is against Buffalo at home and Rangers
55:02
away. And here's why these are both
55:03
unreal. Buffalo.
55:05
Because Buffalo sucks and being at home is usually better.
55:10
So Buffalo at home is a slam dunk, but Rangers way, I'd way
55:14
rather play the Rangers in Madison Square Garden this year
55:16
than at home. Do you know the Rangers record
55:19
away right now? They're like they're away record
55:21
is 7/1 and one. Do you know their home record
55:23
is? Oh, and six or something.
55:25
Yes. Oh, and six or something is
55:27
exactly right. They got shut out in four of
55:31
their, I wanna say 7 home games so far this year.
55:34
So if you're if you're playing in Madison Square Garden, you
55:37
might be leaving with us. You're more likely than not
55:39
leaving with a shutout. How many?
55:41
How many games have they played? Madison Square Garden with bald
55:44
Panarin? That's my question.
55:46
That's true. Antro techs coming back.
55:47
So no, it's not a, it's not a free win, but I'd say it's
55:50
pretty close. But Kane just came back, so
55:54
Detroit is going to get better, and they were already very good.
55:56
And also, like, yeah, Detroit has been surprisingly super hard
56:01
to start this season. I mean, I feel they always start
56:02
like in an encouraged fashion and.
56:05
Then coming together. It falls off, but Gibson and
56:08
Talbot have both been serviceable in in spot starts.
56:12
If you'd rather have one or the other goalie, who would you
56:15
rather have? It's tough because I would
56:17
rather have the one playing Rangers, but you're saying in
56:20
terms of the goalie and not the matchup, I think I'm going to go
56:24
with Gibson over Talbot. Because we have to prioritize
56:27
one name. I'd also prioritize Gibson.
56:29
I feel like in general he's going to get more starts as
56:32
well. Like they just trade it for him.
56:33
Like he's been a big name. Talbots almost 40 so I think
56:37
this table like 38 anyways, but not important Old he old and
56:43
Gibson is usually hurt. But I will say like if they had
56:46
to write 1 goalie, it's gonna be John Gibson in my opinion.
56:48
Yes. So that's I, I wanna pick him up
56:50
with the upside of like not having to immediately drop him
56:53
and hopefully he just gets a better match up, which I guess
56:57
is subjective this week. You're you're absolutely on fire
57:01
today. He is, in fact, 38 years old.
57:03
Wow, this guy knows stuff. I.
57:07
I read podcast. I.
57:08
Know how to read? But it's been an even split thus
57:13
far with eight and eight. Gibson did have injury though.
57:17
Right. Yeah, you did at.
57:18
Some point and had a really rough start, but I think he's
57:20
been picking it. Up, yeah, so but they they want
57:22
Gibson to be the guy like you said, they traded for him.
57:24
Their stats are virtually identical so far.
57:26
I wouldn't put too much stock into it because I think rest of
57:29
season they would prioritize Gibson at 32 years old instead
57:34
of 38 year old Talbot. But hey, I mean, it could be.
57:37
Combined there 70. 5:45. Whoa, quick high level analysis
57:41
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