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- 0:00Barbara Bound Ball banger management fantasy hockey
- 0:02podcast. Whoa.
- 0:04Wow. Whoa, you didn't do it.
- 0:09I didn't do it today. I didn't.
- 0:13I didn't straight up just no fun.
- 0:15I see how it is OK. Wow, I'll play along nice.
- 0:19Welcome in one and all the Banger Management, the Fantasy
- 0:22Hockey podcast with your favorite hosts, Jake, Josh and
- 0:27Kevin. How's everyone doing this top of
- 0:31the morning? I've never been better.
- 0:33I'm fantastic. I am always happy.
- 0:37Oh my God, that's hard to beat. That same sentiment echoed
- 0:41yesterday. Josh was talking about your
- 0:44matchup. Is echoed and his echo now
- 0:48always just glass half full, you know, like.
- 0:51Because he knows he's gonna beat me.
- 0:55You're ridiculous. Please get a little ridiculous.
- 0:59Yeah, no, I'm good. Am I look like I'm recording
- 1:02from, as Kevin put so nicely, a horror movie in a cabin in the
- 1:06woods? Yes.
- 1:08But I'm actually in my new house.
- 1:09I just moved in a few days ago and this is.
- 1:14Would. Yeah, this is my my Home Office.
- 1:17I have not had time to set up anything, not even some decent
- 1:21lighting. So that's why it looks like this
- 1:23right now, but we'll figure that out over the coming weeks.
- 1:26Hopefully I can have some nice stuff in the background.
- 1:28Speaking of cabin in the. Woods, yeah.
- 1:31Favorite horror movie? I'm so not a horrible person.
- 1:35No I I don't get why I would want to be scared when I could
- 1:38just want laugh instead so I only watch comedies.
- 1:41It's that's a very fair way of looking at it.
- 1:43Do you have one movie that you've seen that you think is
- 1:45the scariest movie that you've seen now?
- 1:48OK, back in the day it was Harry Potter 3.
- 1:52Alright, but but I got over it. It's still scary.
- 1:56About that. Was the werewolf.
- 1:57The whole like, the whole like, you know, kind of like ambience,
- 2:00you know, like the yeah, the winner is dark, you know?
- 2:04Yeah, exactly. It was definitely a lot scarier
- 2:07than the first two movies. OK.
- 2:09And like, it was a new director. He took like a new direction
- 2:11with it, like super like artsy and sick, but like, it was a
- 2:13little scary. But no, I mean, even did force
- 2:16me to watch it and that was pretty scary.
- 2:19But the thing about it is I could just block my eyes anytime
- 2:22it gets too scary and then I'm fine.
- 2:24So team, you'll recognize the non Disney version.
- 2:28That was scary. The Disney version.
- 2:32Though yeah, the moment I realized that I watched the
- 2:35wrong one. That was probably a top 10
- 2:37terrifying moment, but I think. About that twice a month.
- 2:41At least. Weekly like I cannot, I cannot
- 2:45believe what we had that realization.
- 2:47You have to watch it because you'll see even more.
- 2:49You'll be like, wow, Josh was dedicated to watching this
- 2:51because. Like this $8 sign dollar sign?
- 2:55Yeah. I feel like two things have to
- 2:58be believed. No, just one.
- 3:01Honestly like I would love to know if anyone of our like
- 3:05listeners has watched the original Miracle on Ice and what
- 3:07their thoughts were. Actually, what when we had these
- 3:10initial conversation, one of our listeners commented that there
- 3:13was of Miracles and Men, which is about like the Russian side
- 3:16of it, which I still haven't gotten around to to watching,
- 3:18but it sounds super interesting. Very wondering what I watched.
- 3:23When Cameron gets traded we could all do a watch party and
- 3:25celebrate the Russian getting traded or something And.
- 3:28Love. OK, no, if we're doing a one
- 3:30movie, it's the Disney version. So we can watch it ever you want
- 3:34after all, right? But we did horror movie.
- 3:39Uh, I don't. I also don't love horror as I
- 3:44guess the genre I don't know well.
- 3:47Do you have one that comes to mind?
- 3:48Like I I know, I know. Probably the scariest movie was
- 3:52The Ring. Oh my God, yeah.
- 3:55I haven't seen it but I know that's like the one like
- 3:57crawling. No, no, that that movie is is
- 4:01terrifying. And then Scary Movie 3 is like
- 4:04also kind of scary, and it's based on The Ring.
- 4:10Those are so good. So like, that's what, you know,
- 4:13like a movie that's like a total parody.
- 4:14That's like actually OK, like this is this is a little scary.
- 4:17Like that's how you know they're the original is like terrifying.
- 4:20Yeah. Yeah, how about you?
- 4:22Kevin, I'm trying to think of something I watched recently
- 4:25like weapons was really don't know if you guys saw weapons.
- 4:27I've seen them. I was gonna say that.
- 4:29I've seen a lot of like trailers without my consent, but I'm
- 4:32watching TV and then a trailer, a horror movie trailer comes on
- 4:35and I get really scared at the trailers.
- 4:37So I'm always like, I'm not watching that.
- 4:39But I saw the trailer for weapons look super scary.
- 4:42It wasn't super scary, but it's like a little off putting, you
- 4:45know, like, yeah, one of those, but I love it.
- 4:48So that was a good call. That was yeah.
- 4:50Also like, I don't know if this is a thing for everyone, but
- 4:54ever since I had a baby, any movie where a baby's like
- 4:57endanger or like like whatever, I'm just like, I cannot watch
- 5:00this, you know, like, I don't know, this is a thing or not.
- 5:03Yeah, just like, Nope, I'm not. This is not enjoyable for me.
- 5:06I don't want to imagine, you know, like anything like that.
- 5:08So I'll just turn it off. Yeah.
- 5:12OK, let's begin with our Week 16 waivers.
- 5:18Before we dive in, follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcast, wherever
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- 6:21Sunday, let's say we said 7:00 PM earlier.
- 6:24We'll we'll cut it off at 10:00 PM.
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- 6:48We will run the raffle and give a give notice to all the winners
- 6:51after and super fun. Yeah, it's a it's super hype.
- 6:55I mean, I, I know that Kevin and I both have Excel models for our
- 6:59matchups, and Kevin's better than me.
- 7:01He manually puts in stuff so that he gets the more updated
- 7:03numbers. But I just use season averages
- 7:05and I import all my data from Dauber and then I'm able to just
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- 7:11you want to tinker around with Excel stuff as well.
- 7:15Yeah, they're they're honestly amazing.
- 7:16So shout out to them. And hopefully, if you're
- 7:19listening to this, you win 1, you win a copy.
- 7:21Yeah, we want all our fans to be winners.
- 7:24Except, wait, I was going to say except you guys because I'm
- 7:28competing against you guys. That's true.
- 7:30I have a fan, so yeah. All fans of each other, you know
- 7:34that's a. Yeah, exactly.
- 7:35Except when we're playing each other.
- 7:38I'm still a fan of you guys. No, you have not been a fan of
- 7:41me this week, that's for sure. Position of power and it's just
- 7:46ridiculous anyway, like 11 my yeah, you could believe that.
- 7:54Too. That's too.
- 7:55Easy getting heated. He's not.
- 7:57Just one, I think you did, you did something bleep dollars $5
- 8:02No, but I think. You.
- 8:03Yeah, like right before that. Anyway, Yeah, Kevin's not been a
- 8:08fan of me this week, as you can see by keep dropping.
- 8:10Glass off Kevin of yourself. That's her for Kevin is dishing
- 8:15out profanity on a level that I've never seen.
- 8:18Before so I'm so happy guys. Never been better.
- 8:23I think that's gotta be like the biggest cry for help.
- 8:27I'm so good, guys. Don't even worry about it.
- 8:30Nobody checking on me, Everything's great.
- 8:32Exactly. Alright, let's get into this two
- 8:35week update. Yeah, let's get into it.
- 8:37OK, No, this is the week 15, yeah, week update.
- 8:40Yeah, you're mixing up with our bullish episode, which is coming
- 8:43up. But yeah, let's go on over our
- 8:44week 15 choices for last week. So first we had Jared McCann of
- 8:48Seattle. Crack in four games played, two
- 8:49goals, 2 assists, 4 points. Huge W Actually, he cracked the
- 8:5240% list, so he will no longer be on our show unless he dips
- 8:56below it again due to an injury or something uh, knock on wood,
- 9:00but but no huge huge win there and I don't think we're
- 9:03surprised about that one. Then we had Patty Kane, four
- 9:06games played, zero goals, two assist, 2 points.
- 9:08Look, it's a multi point week, but pretty much 0 so that so
- 9:11we're gonna hold ourselves accountable.
- 9:12Put an L and I'll see this one was on me.
- 9:14I shouldn't have put him in the top three.
- 9:15I was kind of biased because I have him on my team and I was
- 9:17just hoping that he would get power play 1 back from JVR.
- 9:19But it looks like look, I don't think this is going to be a long
- 9:22term thing. If you have pain in a deep
- 9:23league, you're not dropping him. But for the time being JVR James
- 9:27means like is the guy on power play.
- 9:28So I'm not looking to pick up cans.
- 9:30So that was my bad on the recommendation.
- 9:32So I got you 2 points though, but could have been a lot
- 9:34better. And then we add Ryan O'Reilly
- 9:37like 4 games played, three goals, 3 assists, 6 points,
- 9:40massive W. He finally cracked 40%.
- 9:43I think this is five or six weeks in a row where he was our
- 9:46number one choice. Every week he was a win.
- 9:49It's crazy it took this long, but we pumped him past 40, so we
- 9:51no longer have to mention him on the episode.
- 9:53So, look, it sucks we're missing out on our free win, but it's
- 9:56good that we can get some variety in there.
- 9:58So on the season that brings us to 27 and 12, guys, we're
- 10:02killing it. I mean, we could have honestly
- 10:03given ourselves the W, Patty Kane.
- 10:05I think I'm glad we're holding ourselves more accountable
- 10:07because it gives more weight to our to our record.
- 10:09But yeah, this is a sick record. We're doing really great.
- 10:11Not to pat ourselves on the back too much, but let's get into.
- 10:16Yeah. I was going to say I have Patty
- 10:18King in one in one of my leagues and like it heard of hot like
- 10:20the the two points, but then after that he's he's kind of not
- 10:23been good at all. So I felt like it was not
- 10:25disingenuous, but like was I happy with him on my team?
- 10:28No, even with the two points. Even with the two points had
- 10:30like no category coverage. It's honestly see how they one
- 10:33single singular deployment change can completely change a
- 10:36person's value because he's still in the top 65V5 and
- 10:40playing a lot of minutes, but not on the power play 1.
- 10:43Then he's useless it feels like. It does feel like that.
- 10:47And also one last thing on McCann, just it's a bit more of
- 10:51a longer trend than even just a week.
- 10:52Over the last 10 games, he's only not scored a point in one.
- 10:55Yeah. He's not like a really good
- 10:57stuff. I mean, also this whole Seattle
- 11:00team, I mean, you'll see when we get into our top 10 for this
- 11:02week, but this whole Seattle team has been just absolutely on
- 11:06fire lately. So and this is their final
- 11:09four-game week of a streak of 3/4 game weeks in a row.
- 11:12So like I said, you may see some of them pop up on our on our
- 11:15list coming up, but let's get into our week 16 waivers.
- 11:20So 2 game teams this week are LA and the Utah.
- 11:24There's a bunch of four-game teams.
- 11:25So I'm not gonna go through all of them.
- 11:26There's only one busy night and that's Monday, which is kind of
- 11:29crazy. Normally, normally it's Tuesday,
- 11:31Thursday, Saturday, but it seems very spread out this week.
- 11:34And Monday is the busy 1-2 off night teams everyone because
- 11:38it's there's no busy nights other than Monday.
- 11:40So you have to worry about the off nights this week pretty
- 11:42much. So let's get into our trait
- 11:45points guys. Yep.
- 11:46Sorry, once again, whatever there was a lot of numbers there
- 11:51you go with the two game teams. If we also we always got asked
- 11:54the question like who we dropping on this two Week 2?
- 11:56Week I can tell you who I'm not dropping from LA and that is
- 11:59Brent Clark. We talked about him two weeks
- 12:02ago in the waiver episode and usually what we do, I feel like
- 12:06for the most part in our waivers, we talk about a guy
- 12:08who's like already shown the signs of popping off and or like
- 12:11is mid pop off. You know with Clark one that was
- 12:14an early one that was like he hasn't popped off yet.
- 12:16It may take a week, but I think this is like a good really long
- 12:20term pickup and now it's paying off.
- 12:21So, um, with a guy like that, I'm not dropping him.
- 12:24Obviously the bigger names Kempe, you're not dropping by
- 12:27Fields. What about after dropping Fiala
- 12:30in our league? I would never drop off your yeah
- 12:32in a league with shots and hits even like even A2 game week I'm
- 12:34on dropping. Yep, either.
- 12:37Dowdy, you can shoot him into the sun.
- 12:38You shouldn't be used in the first place.
- 12:40Yeah, you'd be surprised at the roster percentage, but but yeah,
- 12:44no, he shouldn't be. He shouldn't be rostered.
- 12:46We obviously not dropping Kemper even though he's been no poo
- 12:49poo. Yeah, so that's LA from the
- 12:53Utah. I mean, I'm also, I'm not even
- 12:54dropping Jack Mcbean and I have it on Utah, you know, like.
- 12:57Even I was curious. About yeah, like, I mean, look,
- 13:01it's tough. Also like I'm not really
- 13:02fighting for a playoff spot right now.
- 13:04Like I'm kind of a bit more comfortable so I can hold on to
- 13:07these guys if you're in a pinch. Like I don't know, I just, I
- 13:11feel like Mcbean's like he had a random like 3 point game but
- 13:14like it's random because of who he is, but it's not random.
- 13:16Because who he was playing against my fantasy team.
- 13:20Well, no, that makes it not random.
- 13:22That's class, you know, you know.
- 13:23It took him like a month before that to accumulate 3 points that
- 13:28he got three points in one night.
- 13:30When? The Seven.
- 13:31Shots get 3 points. Yeah, and seven shots was like
- 13:33the same as like his last, his shot totals for like 3 weeks
- 13:36prior combined. Yeah, yeah.
- 13:38But I will say like there is a, it's not like Matthew Olivier
- 13:41where it came out of nowhere. Like they put Dylan Guenther on
- 13:43McCain's line and I saw the coach say that he really likes
- 13:46them together and then they pop off and have an amazing game.
- 13:48So I think that bought a little leash for them to be on the line
- 13:51together at least for another week.
- 13:52And so I just think he has a lot of value, especially faceoff
- 13:55wins from a winger with the massive hits.
- 13:57Anyways, I like him a lot. I'm not dropping him like that.
- 14:01Well, I mean Patricias as long as he's power play 1 I mean.
- 14:05But he hasn't. Been really not great for about
- 14:07a month. It really depends how deep your
- 14:10league is like in our. League, normal league, like if
- 14:13you're if these guys are on waivers that we're about to talk
- 14:15about today, like I dropped their for them.
- 14:18Yeah, that's fair. I think some good guys available
- 14:20that you could you could drop him for.
- 14:21I don't think he's untouchable. Is it crazy that I'd rather drop
- 14:23AKA than McCain? No, honestly, with how good he's
- 14:27been in the in the Bangor cats, it's like I I'd get it.
- 14:31You want different things from beach, both of them, and one of
- 14:33them is really elite at what he's giving you so.
- 14:36That's. It Yeah, yeah, he's been on a
- 14:37tear in Charlton heads. Yeah, OK.
- 14:40So I think that's pretty solid on the drops go back to get into
- 14:44this week. OK, Yeah.
- 14:45So let's get into our top ten points guys for week 16.
- 14:50Kevin, start us off with. #10. #10 We have the aforementioned
- 14:56James van Riemsdyk of the Detroit Red Wings.
- 14:58JVR line one power play one only a three-game week.
- 15:02But look, as much as it sucks at Patty Kane, owner JVR has been
- 15:06really sick lately. Like he's been I think almost
- 15:08point per game over the past month.
- 15:10And he's been one of their top producers.
- 15:12He I was watching one of their games and like he's like
- 15:14directing the power play from the net front.
- 15:15Like he'll be like like point a stick, like pass it over there,
- 15:18you know, pass it over there. Like he's doing a good job on
- 15:21the power play and even strength getting three line one with
- 15:23Raymond and Larkin. So as long as it's deployment
- 15:26lasts, I think he's an interesting pickup.
- 15:27I grabbed him. But but yeah, I mean, I don't
- 15:30think this is a long term hold, but for this week while he's
- 15:32hot, you know, run, ride the hot streak.
- 15:36Yeah. It's almost the same, the same
- 15:40besides the fact that like we're interested because I'm Power
- 15:42Player 1 and it's going well. So if by the time you're
- 15:46listening to this somehow you know, Patrick Kane is back on
- 15:49Power Player 1, not interested in Van Reeves like anymore.
- 15:53We can only be so, so up to date because we have to record enough
- 15:56that like we have a sample size and like recent data and enough
- 16:00time to upload the episode. But then I don't know unless
- 16:04we're uploading like Sunday morning right before everything.
- 16:08We're pretty crazy up-to-date, like we're like literally a day
- 16:10away. It can't be, can't do sooner
- 16:12than that. So now I think, I think he's
- 16:14safe until this comes out. So I was #10 on the list also,
- 16:19right? Yeah, exactly.
- 16:20So. Yeah.
- 16:22All right, let's go to. #9. #9 We have Victor Arvidson of the
- 16:27Boston Bruins Line 2 power play 2 only three-game week.
- 16:30You know someone has to be doing well if I'm recommending a line
- 16:332 power play 2 three-game week guy.
- 16:35But Arvidson shots have been unreal.
- 16:38He had a ten shot game lately a few games ago and his points
- 16:41have been popping off. This is definitely a short term
- 16:44hold in my opinion just unless he gets the deployment bump.
- 16:46I just don't see someone with that deployment sustainably
- 16:49having this level of points. But the shots have been there
- 16:52even before the points came. So if you need, if you need a
- 16:54shots, then you need of some points for this week, then you a
- 16:56solid pickup. And just to mention, like, he
- 16:58only has three games this week, then Reeves like only has three
- 17:01games this week. A lot of other guys we're about
- 17:03to talk about four games. So I think that's like a tier
- 17:06break in between like who I'd rather have on my option on my
- 17:09roster. Like I don't think I would
- 17:11rather Arvidson over any of the four-game week guys this week.
- 17:14I just want the the quantity and the volume.
- 17:15So if and also Pravachan, we always forget this, but all
- 17:21these guys are less than 40% owned.
- 17:23So if you're playing in the league that's like 10 teams or
- 17:26even lower or even some 12 team leagues, like check your waiver
- 17:29wire. If there's guys that are over
- 17:3040% on, we're looking at Yahoo. But like throughout the other
- 17:33platform that's kind of similar. Check if there's other options
- 17:37that are still good because there might be names that are
- 17:39available on your waiver wire and we're not talking about
- 17:41today that might be better. So just do your due diligence
- 17:44and make sure we're not letting anybody slip through the cracks.
- 17:47But if you're in a deep league and Irvington is available and
- 17:50you need the shots, I think he's one of those guys for that.
- 17:54Yep, Yep. OK, let's go to. #8.
- 17:59And #8 we have someone who Jake almost put as a cell high but
- 18:02then he was too low rostered so we have him in our waivers
- 18:05instead as a pick up for free. And that is Michael Backland of
- 18:09the Calgary Flames Line 2 power play, 2, four-game week.
- 18:13Again, the deployment makes it scream unsustainable.
- 18:17But if you look at the numbers and what he's been doing, it's
- 18:19been unreal. So Calgary's not a good team.
- 18:21He doesn't have good deployment and he's like old and not, you
- 18:24know, this type of player, which is crazy thing to save before
- 18:27recommending him. But when a guy's riding a hot
- 18:29streak like this, you pick him up, especially on a four-game
- 18:31week. And then if he runs out of steam
- 18:33halfway through, you still get a couple good games out of him.
- 18:36Yeah. So here's deployment.
- 18:37I mean, that means he's not power player one, but his
- 18:40minutes are huge and with the minutes that's contributing to
- 18:43him being super good high shots, really great shot volume over
- 18:47the past two weeks, he's at 3.14 shots per game.
- 18:51His faceoffs are awesome. And if you play in a league with
- 18:53faceoffs, the unsustainability comes from the fact that he's
- 18:56been very good on the power play, especially over the last
- 18:59week and he's not on power play 1.
- 19:02So obviously that can be considered fluky.
- 19:04Nevertheless, like this is clearly a noticeable high streak
- 19:08with the minutes, with the production.
- 19:10I really like it as a pickup for this week, but really has to do
- 19:15with the four games and I don't think it's sustainable and I
- 19:17don't think like I didn't put him as a cell high because of
- 19:19that. He's too low rostered.
- 19:21That being said, there is something to say about if Kadri
- 19:24leaves will play a bigger role this and not so like that's some
- 19:28upside, but really I'm just looking at it for this week and
- 19:30I like it. Garmin Calgary has a bottom
- 19:33three power play in the league, so you're not really expecting
- 19:35those power play points. All this production came from
- 19:37the last two games. You had three PowerPoints and
- 19:39the last two games and before that it was a while since he had
- 19:42another PowerPoint click. I'm scrolling through his game
- 19:44log and I can't find another one.
- 19:47Yeah, it's just these centres that play a lot of minutes.
- 19:51They'll have stretches where, you know, they're getting
- 19:53exposed to the offensive production of the team.
- 19:55And he went through a stretch where he had 11 points and seven
- 19:59games or something. And I played him coincidentally
- 20:01during that window and it was lovely and.
- 20:03So did I do that again? Yes, yeah, good times.
- 20:07Alright, let's go to the next slide.
- 20:09Alright #7. #7 we've got Matt Zuccarello of the Minnesota Wild
- 20:16line one power play 1, four-game week.
- 20:18Those are the words I love to say.
- 20:19Line one, power play, one and four-game week.
- 20:21You know, that's right up my alley for these recommendations.
- 20:23But I will say that Minnesota recently put on IR Joel
- 20:26Ericsson, Ek and Matt Boldy, Eric Neck was day-to-day so that
- 20:29like, you know, OK, but where did this body thing come from?
- 20:32I don't know, super random, but this definitely makes Gorilla
- 20:37worse. I mean, look, even strength will
- 20:39get more minutes, but he was already playing line one with
- 20:41Kaprizov. It just makes the power play a
- 20:43lot worse. But in general, the fact that
- 20:46you have a guy like this line on power, play one on a team like
- 20:48Minnesota that has such strong firepower, and he gets to play
- 20:51with all those best players and on a four-game week, like you're
- 20:54definitely getting a couple points out of him for the week.
- 20:57Yeah, absolutely. And I I think I just wanna say
- 21:00that yeah, would boldly and Ericsson egg being out there is
- 21:03a chance. I mean, there's not a chance.
- 21:05I'm just gonna say like they're gonna rely on the remaining good
- 21:08players a lot, right. So it's gonna be like prison and
- 21:11Zuccarelli feel like that line is gonna be on the ice a lot. 4
- 21:14game week. And we know body is missing the
- 21:16whole week. They put him on IR.
- 21:17They said he's missing at least four games because of like how
- 21:20he works with IR. So I don't notice severity of
- 21:23the injury yet, but I know for this week it bumps up Zuccarello
- 21:27in my opinion. Yeah.
- 21:29Yeah, I, I'm. Not plays worse, but yeah.
- 21:33Yeah, cause I feel like he his minutes have been pretty decent
- 21:35all year and without the star power on the while it is scary.
- 21:38I'm not saying I like disagree. I think it could even out, but
- 21:41it's it feels more like high risk, high reward because it'll
- 21:43be power played. Like if it's power play
- 21:46dependent, it's tough because it'll probably score less on the
- 21:49power play. Yeah, yeah, it's a great
- 21:52recommendation. It's just it's a bit scarier
- 21:54than what it should have been. For sure.
- 21:56That's why he's lowered down on the list.
- 21:58Yeah, alright, let's go to number six at number six, the
- 22:05first of two Seattle crackin on this list.
- 22:08We've got Maddie Bonniers line one power play 1 four games
- 22:12again, my favorite, my favorite thing to say and he's been kind
- 22:15of crazy lately. I don't know if you guys have
- 22:17checked out his game log, but he's been, you know, shooting
- 22:21face off wins and he's getting some blocks and the points
- 22:24obviously. So we kind of mentioned in how
- 22:26McCann, you know, we can't mention him anymore because he's
- 22:28over 40%, but we still have some other guys on that crack in the
- 22:32team that are some of their top guys and very low rostered
- 22:34because I don't know, I think crack and just have that
- 22:37reputation of kind of spreading the wealth and not really having
- 22:39any good fantasy assets. But but this year seems to be a
- 22:43little different or at least this last month.
- 22:44So I love Maddie Beers as a pickup.
- 22:47Yeah, Beers. Beers had an amazing rookie
- 22:50season. I think you won the folder.
- 22:52Yeah, he won the Calder. And then he just kind of fell
- 22:55off the face of the earth. And now, I mean, I wouldn't be
- 22:59surprised if he's like properly good for this week and rest of
- 23:02season. Like he is a good player.
- 23:04He's still super young. And yeah, I mean, for for this
- 23:08week, you'd like it's definitely great for the Hall streak.
- 23:10But this is the type of guy that if he's still doing well, I'm
- 23:12not thinking about dropping right away, especially because
- 23:14the following week he has three games.
- 23:15Not great but it's not like he only has 2 so I like it as a
- 23:19pickup and hopefully hold. Yep, definitely has pulled
- 23:23potential. Yep, I was going to say though,
- 23:27with with veneers, I I don't know why, but it's stuff like
- 23:31him and the next year we're about to talk about for some
- 23:33reason, a part of me is not buying into it, but that doesn't
- 23:37that doesn't mean that for this week when you're streaming him,
- 23:40it doesn't not a good option. It just means like the long term
- 23:43long term potential. What does it?
- 23:45Profit on the next one is like it's almost the exact opposite
- 23:49type thing about him in the nice guy you.
- 23:51Know. So.
- 23:53Well, it's OK, let's go to. #5. #5 We have Jonathan Taves of the
- 24:01of the Winnipeg Jets flying 2 of power play one what year is it?
- 24:064 game week, yeah. I mean, yeah, like Jonathan
- 24:12Taves being being relevant in the year 2026.
- 24:18If you told anyone that a year ago, two years ago, like, they'd
- 24:21be like, yeah, what are you on? You know, like, and this is very
- 24:25clearly not sustainable. I said they're the opposite
- 24:29because he's old. Basically.
- 24:32They're like he's super old when he is young and he's on a team
- 24:36that's supposed to be good and is not good and beers on his
- 24:39team. I don't think we're supposed to
- 24:40be really good. Although we who was it, Josh?
- 24:43You were higher on them. Coming in, it was me.
- 24:45It was Kevin, but then I was the one who drafted their goal.
- 24:48Yeah, yeah. So we were like a little higher
- 24:50on them than consensus, but like Veneers is on like a not good
- 24:52team that's actually been pretty decent this year.
- 24:55And so it just feels like the exact opposite scenario.
- 24:58I buy into the banners one more as a long term, but for this
- 25:01week I see why we got Jonathan Tays there hire.
- 25:04He's been really decent. I mean, his shooting percentage
- 25:07over the last four games has been 66%, so.
- 25:11Why should many when few do trick?
- 25:13Yeah. Well, said, Kevin Malone.
- 25:17But yeah, I like it just feels like it's working, but it
- 25:22shouldn't be working. So in my head, like personally
- 25:25I'd prefer Backland or Zuccarello or veneers over
- 25:30Jonathan Taves, but I think he's like deserves to be in this tier
- 25:34as well. I will.
- 25:35Just put them in the thieves. Definitely takes over backlines
- 25:39because backend doesn't have power play 1 so.
- 25:42Shooting the shooting upside, whereas Tate is like getting one
- 25:46shot and it's it's not a goal. He's probably not shooting that
- 25:48shot. Yeah, that's fair.
- 25:50I mean look, he's on a hot streak right now.
- 25:52None of us think it's gonna last, but they have a four-game
- 25:54week yeah, that middle grouping is kind of all a similar tier.
- 25:58Um, so you can, you know, choose how you wanna do you wanna order
- 26:01it? I still probably definitely
- 26:03takes over Backland and then I think I still take him over over
- 26:06Zuke with those injuries and then beers and takes you could,
- 26:09you know, switch but. I'm sure took over him.
- 26:13OK, so. There you have it.
- 26:16That's it. Wrap it up.
- 26:17That's that's it. Lock it, lock it in, you know,
- 26:20like have been really good. We don't think it's sustainable,
- 26:22but for a four-game week, he's worth a shot.
- 26:24Especially seems like he's cementing a spot on that power
- 26:26play one because they weren't garbage before he joined it and
- 26:29now he's on it. So any remaining Cole Perfetti
- 26:33holders, which I really hope no one, I think this is the final
- 26:38straw. You should just dump them.
- 26:41I think anybody who's been owning Corbetti, but also just
- 26:43like where does he stand with this team?
- 26:45Like he was supposed to take a big step up and be like an
- 26:47integral part of this offence. I think he might be cooked here.
- 26:50Like he might need to get traded and then for his valley to like
- 26:52bounce back or something. I think next year they're going
- 26:55to try them on. I even maybe later this year
- 26:57they'll try on the power play 1 again.
- 26:58I mean, he was so good there end of last year and in the playoffs
- 27:01and then they shipped out Ellers and the goal was obviously just
- 27:05put Profeti where Ellers was. And then their whole season went
- 27:08to a dollar sign, dollar sign. And so pretty much like they
- 27:12were scrambling, you know, and like he is, you're not going to
- 27:14take off any of the other four guys from the power play.
- 27:16You're not going to take off Morrissey, chiefly Connor
- 27:19Filardi. That's a nickel for the
- 27:21majority. It's been awhile, but but yeah,
- 27:23so so it's obviously like perfect.
- 27:24He's the first guy down and they had to shake something up, so I
- 27:27wouldn't be surprised to see him there again next year.
- 27:30But for now, I think. Your interest went to a dollar
- 27:33sign dollar sign is is significant is certified banger
- 27:36management phraseology because. I wanted to see the other one,
- 27:40but what does? Like nobody.
- 27:42Dollar sign. Dollar sign.
- 27:45Yeah, But sure, if you want to. OK, let's go to.
- 27:55Let's go into. I think this top 4 is a separate
- 27:58tier from the previous six that we mentioned.
- 28:01So let's get to #4 at #4 This is the only three-game week that's
- 28:08cracked at the top 8, but I thought it was worth mentioning
- 28:12This high up. We've got Charlie Coyle of the
- 28:14Columbus Blue Jackets Line 3 Power Play 1 can note on power
- 28:18play one. Yeah, and ever since their
- 28:20coaching changed with Rick bonus, he loves Coil and Coil
- 28:24clearly loves him because he's been popping off The shots on
- 28:27goal have been unreal. The points have been unreal
- 28:29power play points. He just really like it's kind of
- 28:31crazy because he should not have been owned in any league before
- 28:34this. And then he would be a great
- 28:36pickup and will be, you know, if you guys are listening to this
- 28:39when you guys are listening to this.
- 28:40But in our league, he was owned for like months and there was no
- 28:44reason for it like the the Yeah. Anyways, good for the owner.
- 28:47He saw into the future, I guess, but it sucks that none of us
- 28:50were able to grab him. But yeah, so this is I think
- 28:52this is a fantastic pickup. As long as he keeps running hot
- 28:56like this, he's going to keep that power play on deployment.
- 28:58He clearly doesn't need, you know, the even strength
- 29:00deployment to be successful with it.
- 29:01Like he's shooting like crazy even with the deployment he's
- 29:03getting. So I really like him as a
- 29:05pickup. They have a four-game week the
- 29:06week after, so this could be a two weeks in a row pick up.
- 29:10And both going up for all Columbus assets of feels like
- 29:13this Rick bonus change was like exactly.
- 29:15What money did? Except for Monahan for the
- 29:17moment. I'm still, I'm still keeping my
- 29:20eyes out. But I think Chantilly got a huge
- 29:21bump too. Like he's been on fire.
- 29:23I think just there's a honeymoon of the new coach always it feels
- 29:26like so we'll have to see like how the both simmers down like
- 29:31maybe maybe the title post crazy How how did the the sales of the
- 29:34boat carry it after the waves end?
- 29:37I don't know, Yeah, go really hard in this metaphor, but.
- 29:40Haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean many times so he.
- 29:42Knows my actually my first ever crush was on Keira Knightley
- 29:47from Particular. You're gonna stay on.
- 29:50Well, first of all, Bloom over Johnny Depp.
- 29:53I would do crazy things for Orlando Bloom, but.
- 29:58I actually like, I somehow, I don't know how this happened.
- 30:01You know, like they talk, people talk like gaps in your education
- 30:03where like you somehow like miss out on something.
- 30:06I never watched Pirates of the Caribbean as a kid.
- 30:08I don't know how that happened. Like it was right up my alley.
- 30:11Like there's, it was so popular. There's no reason I should have,
- 30:13but I never did. And then like I told that to
- 30:15Eva, like I want to say like a year or two ago.
- 30:18And she was like, what? We're watching all of them now,
- 30:21especially because I had made her watch Lord of Rings with me,
- 30:23what she loves, but I still had to make her do it.
- 30:24She's like, you're watching all these now, like you're going to
- 30:26love them. And so we, like, watched all of
- 30:28them, like back-to-back. And I was obsessed.
- 30:30I was like, Oh my God, these are the best things ever.
- 30:32You know, I was acting like Jack Sparrow.
- 30:34She's like, yeah, you're only like 20 years, too.
- 30:35Late, you know, like. I was like trying to talk to
- 30:39people about it, like have you seen this movie part?
- 30:41Like what are you talking about? Michael Bolton and the Lonely.
- 30:48So then I showed even that because I was like, OK, well,
- 30:50you know, I didn't get the song beforehand, but now I get it
- 30:52even, like way more and it's so good, yeah.
- 30:56It's. It's so it's a certified banger.
- 30:58So good, fantastic. First of all, the trilogy, the
- 31:01first 3 movies are exceptional as a trilogy, like it stands up
- 31:05against so many other trilogies. The 4th and 5th movies after
- 31:08that, they're kind of like it was more like a little cash grab
- 31:10It felt like I was a little disappointed.
- 31:11The last one they came out it was like very disappointed.
- 31:13I thought it was dog water but. You go into it like knowing
- 31:17that, then it's not too bad. Fair.
- 31:18You can still enjoy it still Jack Sparrow.
- 31:20It's just the last one it felt like.
- 31:22So they made him like, stupid, and it's just like one of those
- 31:24like, stupid humors. And he's always got a little
- 31:27stupid tube, but you know, it's cooking, right?
- 31:29He was not looking at the last one.
- 31:31That would great way to put it back to Charlie Coyle.
- 31:34OHS fudge. Now I want to say something else
- 31:37about parts of the Caribbean, but.
- 31:38Yeah, sorry. I have the best memories ever
- 31:40because first of all, they are exceptional movies.
- 31:42So if you haven't seen them yet, please go watch them.
- 31:44They stand the test of time. They do.
- 31:47But I remember they used to come out in the in May every year,
- 31:50like end of May, June. So I'd go get like all my
- 31:52friends would go watch them at the cinema like for my birthday.
- 31:54And I was like core memory unlocked.
- 31:56Now everybody can share that high memory with with us and we
- 32:00specifically. Guys, I can't imagine I was
- 32:02there, yeah. It was based on a ride at Disney
- 32:06World. I thought you gonna say it was
- 32:08based on a true story and it's like what?
- 32:13How do you think the Seattle Kraken got their name?
- 32:15Ohv, my God. Well, yeah, it's based.
- 32:19It was based on like a ride it oh, it's Disneyland, whatever,
- 32:22but. Same diff yeah, never been,
- 32:25never will, but it's fine. Having a crazy day.
- 32:30What 1 illiterate 1 He is an illiterate.
- 32:35He doesn't really count though, does it?
- 32:36If it's a CH&CI, don't know if that counts.
- 32:39I wonder if any English majors are out there.
- 32:41Let us know if that counts as alliteration.
- 32:43If it's the same letter but not the same you sound.
- 32:46But one more note on you mentioning the Columbus Blue
- 32:48Jackets assets going up. I did pick up in our league Kent
- 32:51Johnson. I didn't put him on the list.
- 32:53I don't think he's warranted. He's done enough yet to warrant
- 32:55being on the list. But I saw a quote from Rick
- 32:58bonus essentially being like, I love this kid.
- 33:01He's like, he's gonna keep getting a ton of ice time as
- 33:03long as he keeps, you know, like showing up and being great,
- 33:05whatever. Essentially being like, I love
- 33:07Ken Johnson. He put him back on power play
- 33:08one. His ice time jumped by like 5
- 33:10minutes since, uh, since the coaching changed.
- 33:12First game he didn't put up any points.
- 33:13Second game he had a goal and an assist, including a power play
- 33:15point. And then there was also quotes
- 33:18from Johnson essentially being like, I like coming to the rink
- 33:21again. I like my job again, you know,
- 33:22Like, so clearly, you know, the old coach was not very well
- 33:26liked by some of the players in. I don't know if you saw that
- 33:29Elvis Presley's quote where he got just like post game, Like,
- 33:32you know, you guys are winning now.
- 33:34Like, is it like a new system? Like, you know, like healthy
- 33:37guys like new coach. And he's just like new coach and
- 33:39like, yeah, so clearly he was not a fan.
- 33:41Specifically it makes sense for sure because like he was even
- 33:44getting benched on back to backs.
- 33:45So like I'm sure he's thrilled that he's able to just like play
- 33:47hockey again. I wonder how the other players
- 33:50on the team that because like Ken Johnson 2 like his role was
- 33:53like garbage and now he's actually playing minutes again.
- 33:57So. Yes, it was garbage.
- 33:58Exactly. There's a lot to like here with
- 34:02Johnson actually, I know he's not on the list, won't spend too
- 34:05much time, but he he was like not he was like, you know, near
- 34:08.9 points per game last year like that's really elite.
- 34:10This is a huge fall off. So actually like as we started
- 34:13talking about Columbus, I went to pick him up in our league and
- 34:16lo and behold, I was delivered the negative news.
- 34:19But but yeah, so I I like it as a pickup a lot.
- 34:24But coil, I mean, this is this is wild.
- 34:26His his shots have been. Awesome.
- 34:28We're talking Columbus. What?
- 34:30What you said, this is wild, but we're talking about Blue
- 34:33Jackets. That one went over my head.
- 34:35I'm going to be honest. Yeah, I I like it with Goya.
- 34:42Long, long. Sorry, such a stupid joke.
- 34:47It was a stupid joke, but it's. Fine, Yeah, alright.
- 34:50Should we get into our our main recommendations?
- 34:54With the top three with #3. I never know if I could say the
- 34:58word like top three or if that's like encroaching on Kevin's
- 35:01territory. OK, as long as I have the.
- 35:02As long as I don't say number. OK, cool.
- 35:04Yeah. You just gotta make sure you
- 35:06don't jump over the fence. Yeah, exactly.
- 35:08So at #3 we've got another Seattle crack in Jordan Eberly
- 35:13of the Seattle crack in another 4 game week line one power play
- 35:15one. He's kind of hopped on and off
- 35:17this list a long time, but over the past month he's been unreal.
- 35:21He's been at like .85 points per game, .4 power play points, 2
- 35:25points on the shots. Like it's really crazy what he's
- 35:27been doing. He's been on my team.
- 35:28I've been loving it. You guys could call me out if
- 35:31you disagree. I did put two of our top three
- 35:34guys are guys on my team. So if I'm being too honey, let
- 35:36me know. But I think these are solid
- 35:38ones. But I've really been unreal, and
- 35:40other than Jared McCann, he's my favorite pickup for a for a
- 35:42crack in this week. Yeah, like he's gone full Davy
- 35:46Jones this season. And yeah, and he's just, he's
- 35:52just been really reliable. I I'd say that it's actually
- 35:55been a little slower for him than I thought recently just on
- 35:58the averages, but it's still on the season as a whole.
- 36:01Like it's really good. And what I like about it is the
- 36:03consistency, right? Again, over the last 10, he
- 36:07scored in pretty much every game.
- 36:09So that's a really great sign for someone you pick up because
- 36:13when the walk of the production comes in one game, everyone
- 36:15knows like, that screams unsustainable, but this is
- 36:17sustainable. So yeah, I think it makes a lot
- 36:21of sense. They have them here.
- 36:22I mean, we talked about him like we obviously like Week 2 or Week
- 36:253. I picked him up super early in
- 36:26the season and we had them kind of like in that Kyle Palmeri
- 36:29type of conversation of like a guy who's like not too exciting,
- 36:32you know, but like he's getting sick deployment, sick minutes
- 36:34and it's just going to like stay on your roster all year, like
- 36:37surprisingly. So I'm curious if people picked
- 36:39him up early on and he's just stuck with another user like you
- 36:42did with me. But I mean, he actually had a
- 36:44cold stretch at one point. I think I dropped him and I
- 36:45picked him back up. But but for the most part, he's
- 36:48on my team almost all year. So.
- 36:50But right now he's got a four-game week, so it's easy.
- 36:52Is it a hot take to say that I'd rather have Jordan really on my
- 36:55roster than protests? I'd rather have really.
- 37:00I haven't. I haven't monitored protests as
- 37:02of late but but before that injury.
- 37:05You don't need to. Yeah, I didn't really like gonna
- 37:08bring 4 power play points over the past month, so Produce will
- 37:11not have that. Yeah, let's go to wait till he.
- 37:15Picks it up. Wait.
- 37:16Till this picks it up, you'll see.
- 37:23Alright then I'll take this to just saying.
- 37:26Yeah, he was so sick. Guys alright at #2.
- 37:32At #2 another guy on my team, we see if I didn't put either of
- 37:35them at #1 to show that I'm not biased, but at #2 we've got Josh
- 37:38Stone of the Buffalo Sabres. He's currently line 3 power
- 37:41play. One wouldn't be surprised him
- 37:42back at line one in a few days, four-game week and he's been
- 37:46insane ever since I picked him up.
- 37:48That's the if you go to his game log and you look, when did he
- 37:50start being insane? It's exactly the game.
- 37:52I picked him up. So not that that's really
- 37:55valuable to anyone, but just wanted to brag a little.
- 37:56But yeah, I know he's been crazy.
- 37:58His last like for the teams. OK, sorry, my bad.
- 38:01I'll get in there. I'm a genius.
- 38:03But yeah, no, it's been really, really good.
- 38:06We talked about him I feel like a few weeks ago and we said this
- 38:10could be like a season long pickup.
- 38:11He's really good. And then he actually had like a
- 38:13really quiet like 2 weeks. So I think a lot of people
- 38:15dropped him and guy who had him argue dropped him and I snatched
- 38:18him up and I was like, I know even if he's putting up like
- 38:21some of these no point games, like I know the potential is
- 38:23there. And just all the advanced stats
- 38:26I was seeing were saying Josh done is the best player on the
- 38:29Buffalo Sabres, which is crazy because obviously there's
- 38:31Thompson just put up a 5 point game and obviously Thompson's
- 38:33the best and darlin' S the best. But Buffalo fans love Done.
- 38:37They love what he's doing. They're talking about how they
- 38:39want to like lock him up already on a contract extension.
- 38:41They're saying how they fleeced Utah for the Peterka trade.
- 38:44The vibes are just super positive around Done and I'm
- 38:48very happy. I'm gonna hold them all season.
- 38:50I'm very excited about it. The one thing I will say that
- 38:53that makes me apprehensive about this one is that his shooting
- 38:56percentage has been ridiculous. Is that 45% since he has been on
- 39:00this ridiculous stretch? That's.
- 39:03Been on Josh's roster? Yeah, so that.
- 39:06Is something to play for. And.
- 39:11Also the last 16 games, yeah, that's crazy, yeah.
- 39:16Yeah, and and the shot hits are are not great.
- 39:19I obviously see why he's here. He's on a hot streak on a team
- 39:21that's been funny, like really kind of high flying as of late
- 39:26as as Kevin mentioned. So honestly to me, I do like it.
- 39:29I think the position's fair, but this is really a volatile
- 39:32choice. It could go really well for you
- 39:34or really poorly. I don't think there's any in
- 39:36between. Yeah, I will say in terms of
- 39:38that shooting percentage being crazy high before this streak,
- 39:41he was like like in all the like luck metrics, he was like last
- 39:44place like he was, it was like huge regression coming.
- 39:47And now he definitely like overcompensate the other
- 39:49direction. I think it'll be somewhere in
- 39:50the middle. But but, yeah, while it's hot,
- 39:52in a four-game, we could, yeah, right.
- 39:54That fourteen wins in 16 games is actually absurd.
- 39:56I didn't realize after their 10 game win streak, then they lost
- 39:58the game and they just went right back to it.
- 40:00But that's a. That's nice, yeah.
- 40:03OK, take us to. Number one.
- 40:08At #1 we have Ryan Leonard of the Washington Capitals Line 2
- 40:13power play 1 four-game week. We talked about Leonard a lot I
- 40:16think over the past couple of weeks.
- 40:17This could be one of those that we just keep mentioning until he
- 40:19pops 40%, but he's just, he's fantastic.
- 40:23This is, look, I didn't expect him to be this good this year
- 40:26because I didn't think he would have a spot on power play one.
- 40:28The second he got that deployment, it's kind of like
- 40:31there's some of these, there's kind of this tier guys, right?
- 40:33Like young guys who haven't broken out it, but you know,
- 40:35like from watching and like the type of prospect they are, like,
- 40:38you know, they're NHL ready and like once they get the
- 40:41deployment, they're going to be elite and maybe not leave me.
- 40:44That's an exaggeration. They'll be really good.
- 40:46But writing letters in that category, like I'm also thinking
- 40:48like Brian Clark and LA right? Like that was like we're just
- 40:51waiting for him to get power play 1.
- 40:54Off the top of my head, I'm trying to think of a couple.
- 40:56I mean, Adam Fantilli, right? That was another one.
- 40:58We were like the second gets power play 1.
- 41:00So that's kind of like a tier of like you don't wanna hold them
- 41:03all year when they're not power play one because they're not
- 41:05doing much. But like once they get it, you
- 41:07gotta hop on that and just they both goes up into rocket ship,
- 41:10as we like to say. We do like to say that, yeah,
- 41:15this is good. Thank you.
- 41:16Then I'll. Go ahead.
- 41:17I was gonna say this is the type of guy that you'd probably end
- 41:20up picking like late middle rounds next year because he's
- 41:22been good, but it's not like super flashy and then he ends up
- 41:25being like one of the steals of the draft next year.
- 41:27And what happens with younger players.
- 41:30Obviously it's a bit of a bit of a mixed bag.
- 41:32You could have great weeks, you could have not so great weeks.
- 41:34But as the season goes on, usually things get better and
- 41:38better. You know, like you mentioned
- 41:39with Profeti finishing the year last year super strong and I
- 41:43think that Leonard's just, I've been wanting to get Leonard on
- 41:46my team for the whole season just because I think he's gone
- 41:50more or less under the radar. And it's really funny.
- 41:52It's starting to pick up. I haven't been able to acquire
- 41:54him. So it does not looking like now
- 41:55is a good time, but I think it's a great choice.
- 41:58And in any deep bangers league, he's probably, I wouldn't be
- 42:02surprised if he's rostered already, but there's enough.
- 42:04The percentages are not there. So yeah, he should be picked up
- 42:07and more for sure. Yeah, absolutely.
- 42:10Another thing I guess to point out with like these young guys,
- 42:13um, kind of popping off towards the end of the season, I feel
- 42:16like the Olympics will actually help that even more because I
- 42:18think what tough thing with these young guys is that they're
- 42:20not used to the full 82 game like intensity of an NHL season,
- 42:24right? So a lot of times they can get,
- 42:25you know, kind of like, like, like looking down and like, you
- 42:29know, like they're just a bit hard on them, right?
- 42:31And so you have the Olympic break coming up, which is not a
- 42:33break that we normally have. And they're all going to get to
- 42:36get rested because none of these young guys are going to the
- 42:38Olympics for the most part. And then they get to come back
- 42:40strong if they have the deployment and they get like a
- 42:42full, you know, canister of energy going for the for the
- 42:45rest of this taking the rest of the season.
- 42:47Like, I think that a lot of these young guys could have a
- 42:50surprisingly good end of season because of that.
- 42:52Yeah, the same line of thinking with Ken Johnson.
- 42:56Yeah, exactly the same. Thing.
- 42:58OK, let's go to so I know sometimes sometimes we recap our
- 43:03top three. It's in a top ten now, but our
- 43:04top three Everly Done and Leonard, but let's go to our top
- 43:08five bangers with a hard B under 40% owned exactly.
- 43:14They are all part of the Bang Gang all right #5.
- 43:20At #5 we have Yakov Trenin of the Minnesota Wild.
- 43:25He has a four-game week. He's been one of the best
- 43:28hitters in the league all year. I just wait for any four-game
- 43:31week to Chuck him onto this list because if you want hits, he's
- 43:34your guy. Question for you, Josh.
- 43:39Why? Kevin, why is he?
- 43:42My question is why is it so low on this list?
- 43:45Cause I feel like I'd put a like.
- 43:47I feel like he is a lot more one-dimensional than the other
- 43:51guys on the list. Like I feel like he's going to
- 43:53be, he'll be the best hitter on the list for sure.
- 43:55But like some of these other guys, they'll block.
- 43:57They can offer you some points, they can offer you some shots,
- 43:59some Pimms. I feel like him, it's really
- 44:01just pure hits. OK, I hear you.
- 44:04For me, I would have swapped him in #3 but I guess we'll see.
- 44:07We'll discuss them when we get there.
- 44:08I could be a bit biased cause I had him on my roster and was he
- 44:11was awesome so we can talk about it when we get there.
- 44:14We are trending. I feel like he might even play
- 44:15more ice time now that they have some injuries and they have to
- 44:18rotate the lines a little off him.
- 44:19So 4 game week and he's hitting a hitting a bunch to keep it
- 44:25family friendly but. Yeah, he's looking out the $8
- 44:30sign dollar sign. Comes out of that.
- 44:32He's doing that to other people, so.
- 44:34Bingo, yeah. Alright #4.
- 44:38And #4 back again, we've got Radko Gudas of the Anaheim Ducks
- 44:444 game week this week. Look, he hasn't been that insane
- 44:47to the point that he's an automatic include every week,
- 44:49but he is an automatic include any week.
- 44:51They have a four-game week, especially A4 game week with I
- 44:54mean, I was gonna say all these off nights, but actually it's
- 44:56pretty, we mentioned this pretty kind of jumbled and not really
- 44:59any busy nights, but they do play Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
- 45:01Sunday, which in general is the off nights.
- 45:03So so that's why he's here. He's still hitting like 3.5 hits
- 45:07per game, 1.8 blocks. His Pimms are up again, which is
- 45:10really nice in Pimms leagues because he used to be really
- 45:12good for that and then he wasn't doing great for that at the
- 45:14start of the season. I guess it kind of ties in with
- 45:16the Ducks just sucking lately is like, you know, I feel like when
- 45:19teams aren't are doing poorly, they take more penalties and or
- 45:22that kind of like is a vicious cycle.
- 45:23So or not so vicious cycle if you want the Pimms.
- 45:26So yeah, I like Judas for this week.
- 45:28And I mean, he should still be rostered just rest of the season
- 45:31in Vengers leagues, even though he's been a bit underwhelming
- 45:33because you're just not going to find that distance for most guys
- 45:36on the waiver wire. Yeah, I mean, he's been a name
- 45:39on this list forever, feels like.
- 45:40I feel like last week was the first time that we didn't
- 45:42mention him. But he deserves to be here if
- 45:45she's in, if you're in a true bangers league, like this is a
- 45:47guy that's never on waivers, it feels like.
- 45:50So if he is now trying to pick him up and hold him for the rest
- 45:54of the season, even though Anaheim has, like Josh said,
- 45:56been really bumpy as of late, I still think he's the type of guy
- 45:59is going to deliver for you and come to fantasy playoffs.
- 46:01And you need to have like a strong defensive presence for
- 46:05like banger cats. Like he's your guy.
- 46:07Do you think the blocks positively regress?
- 46:10He's been like weird where like he had two games in a row with
- 46:14six blocks and then after that they completely disappeared for
- 46:16like 5 games. So it's averaging out to like
- 46:20what it should be, but obviously it's not as fun.
- 46:22You'd rather just have the consistency.
- 46:24I think it'll go, it should be around like 2, two per game.
- 46:27Like that's kind of what I would expect.
- 46:28Because as of late it's been, it's not even close.
- 46:30But on the season it's not bad, right?
- 46:32So it's yeah, hopefully that picks.
- 46:35Up. That's why server hits, though,
- 46:36yeah, I don't want to include him if it wasn't a four-game
- 46:38week just because he has been a bit slower.
- 46:40But long term, I'm not too worried about it.
- 46:42And he's just like you plug into your roster and kind of forget
- 46:44about and he delivers for you. Alright, let's go to. #3.
- 46:51At #3 we have Adam Klapka of the Calgary Flames 4 game week.
- 46:56I may have put them too high. I had them on my roster for like
- 46:592 weeks and he was really good. Like he was he would randomly
- 47:02get me points. He was getting hit, he was
- 47:03blocking also he would shoot. And the thing with him versus
- 47:07like a trend is like he had he has dents where he plays line 1,
- 47:11like he randomly gets shuffled around the lineup and since his
- 47:15Calgary and everything's wide open, like he gets top tier
- 47:18minutes sometimes. And I was watching some of the
- 47:19Calgary games. I remember I owned him the week
- 47:21that it was the 2 battle of Alberta games.
- 47:23And that was also the most insane McDavid dryside all week.
- 47:26So I was watching both of those even though they were super late
- 47:29and like even though they were getting absolutely demolished,
- 47:31like the commentators were all saying like Klapka so good, you
- 47:34know, like they just really liked him.
- 47:35So I think he's a really solid pickup for if you need hits and
- 47:38he can provide a bit of more other stuff.
- 47:40Probably should have trend in higher just because he hits
- 47:42more, but I do feel like Klapka could randomly like I don't
- 47:46really expect trying to do much outside of it.
- 47:48I feel like Capcom can get you some blocks, you some shots and
- 47:50randomly get you some some points.
- 47:52But actually the main thing for Capcom versus trending is the
- 47:54Pimms. That's his penalty minutes are
- 47:56really good. Prefer to have trend because I
- 47:59feel like you'll shoot more, hit more and the blocks are like
- 48:03pretty pretty much the same. And also like to keep in mind if
- 48:07you want to try to optimize your schedule for picking up players
- 48:09like Klapka does have a two game week the following week.
- 48:12So it's a pure stream for this week, which is not in the world.
- 48:14Guys like this, you probably were picking them up for just
- 48:17the pure stream this week anyways, but it's always nice to
- 48:19know that you may not have to absolutely drop them right
- 48:21after. So that's why I would have I
- 48:23would have put him on the list, but I still think he's a
- 48:25valuable option for this upcoming week.
- 48:27And like you said, the Pimms are are great like a guy that's
- 48:29always down to have a fight or or undisciplined on the ice is
- 48:33always nice to pick up because streaming Pimms is is it's not a
- 48:37linear science. These guys that are more likely
- 48:39to do it, but really guarantee so.
- 48:41Yeah, it's really hard to stream.
- 48:42So I know that I held on to Evander Kane way too long in our
- 48:45league because he was so good at Pimms, was like, even though
- 48:47he's putting zeros everywhere else, he's just getting a minor
- 48:48penalty every game. Then those pimps dried up, so I
- 48:51was like, hey, what am I holding this guy?
- 48:52But but yeah, I know, like, it's really hard to stream Pimms
- 48:55consistently. You can have a guy who gets in a
- 48:56fight every game and then you pick him up and then he just
- 48:58becomes like, you know, super nice for like a week.
- 49:01So it's really. And you pick up a guy who, you
- 49:03know, you just wanted him for points.
- 49:04So you pick up like a Ken Johnson type guy.
- 49:05He randomly gets a game misconduct.
- 49:07You know, that's the highs and lows of playing with Pimms,
- 49:10Yeah. Let's go to the next one.
- 49:12Yeah, let's go to. You.
- 49:16Think he's like not interested, move on please.
- 49:19That's good. Yeah, no, that's very, I'm the
- 49:22only, I'm the only person who gets excited about Adam Clarke.
- 49:24But yeah, let's go to #2 we've got Ellie Tolvanen of the
- 49:27Seattle Kraken again. This he's I think been our
- 49:30bangers list the past three weeks cause they've had
- 49:31four-game weeks all three times. Again, A4 game week and shots,
- 49:35hits, blocks, points, does it all.
- 49:38I'm playing against him next week, so he's going to pop off
- 49:40even more. It's just everything's lining up
- 49:42to this being a great pick up. Yeah, and even though the points
- 49:46of dried up, like he does go on those random streaks where he's
- 49:49like, good for points. Yeah, I don't know.
- 49:53I think it's really great. And I know without power play 1
- 49:57consistently, it's tough to rely on that.
- 50:00Nevertheless, I feel like this power play is kind of just all
- 50:03over the place. It does fluctuate at different
- 50:05times. He'll be there.
- 50:07So it's nice to know that he's like he could appear on the
- 50:10points list as well, but he's just safe here.
- 50:14So I feel like it's a it's great pick up for this week.
- 50:16If you can, he's safe. You know, we put him nice in a
- 50:18safe spot, can't go wrong there. But now he definitely, he
- 50:22definitely is the type of guy you're like, I love these types
- 50:25of guys. You like, see the name and
- 50:26you're like, huh, which list do I put him on?
- 50:28He's good for both. Yeah.
- 50:29So those are the best, obviously.
- 50:31I will say that the points they dry up for a while and I think a
- 50:34lot of that was correlated with Chandler Stevenson being hurt or
- 50:38sick, whatever it was, but he missed some time and I think
- 50:41that definitely impacts him because he's a 2 on this roster.
- 50:43So I think now that he's back, I wouldn't be surprised that the
- 50:46point start to take up a little bit and he's been just so insane
- 50:48for Bangor, like the shots that hits the blocks, they've all
- 50:50been there and he's had games where he's been like truly elite
- 50:53at all of them. So it's actually crazy to know
- 50:56that like the ceiling is there for all three categories and
- 50:59when the points are there, I mean Seattle is like low key top
- 51:02ten power play. So if he ever gets PP one time
- 51:05consistently too, like he he's exposed to some aggressive
- 51:08situation. I love talking.
- 51:10I feel like even if he's not like we didn't put him in the
- 51:13points category, but like his main foundation is the bangers
- 51:16and what he can deliver there. But with the points upside that
- 51:18he has, I actually like having him on my roster.
- 51:21Yeah, me too. Yeah.
- 51:23OK, let's go to number one. Number one, the man that I
- 51:29discovered, Jeremy Lozano, the Vegas Golden Knights gonna bring
- 51:34that every time he's on, he's on the list.
- 51:36So every four-game, yeah, 4 game week this week, 4 game week next
- 51:40week, actually looking at head at Vegas schedule, OK?
- 51:44And the next 12345 in the next six weeks, they have four or
- 51:50more games. Five out of six of those weeks.
- 51:53Wow. So if you're looking for a
- 51:56pickup for six weeks of just insane schedule, pick up a Vegas
- 52:00player and in this case, pick up Jeremy Lewis on for bangers and
- 52:03you're going to be set for bangs for the next month and 1/2.
- 52:06So actually probably be longer than because that goes over the
- 52:08Olympic break. So you'll have it for like 2
- 52:09months. So yeah, now he's a great pick
- 52:12up. He's been insane for hits and
- 52:13blocks and Pimms. He's been shooting a little bit.
- 52:16Not much to say. Here's a plugin guy with great
- 52:17schedule coming up. Yep.
- 52:20For sure, I may rather lose all over goodies.
- 52:23Come to fantasy. Place so I said.
- 52:25I know, but also my logic was sound when I said it two weeks
- 52:28ago. But listen, opinions changed and
- 52:30we listen. Maybe in two weeks I changed my
- 52:32mind again, who knows? But they're always making a
- 52:33decision right in this moment with the information we have
- 52:35right now. And he's just been on a tear
- 52:37recently. It feels like he's playing like
- 52:39a lot. Like for the whole season he was
- 52:41playing 14 to 16 minutes a night.
- 52:43Bottom pairing now, I guess with some injuries, like he was
- 52:45playing 20 minutes a night recently.
- 52:47It's not if Jeremy doesn't play 20 minutes a night like he can
- 52:50do some damage. So exactly.
- 52:53Would love to pick him up if he was available.
- 52:56Yeah, I. Was trying to.
- 52:57Train and I'm changing. The string made sense.
- 53:01Even Josh came on you. Know I was losing then.
- 53:04You guys convinced me and now I wish I'd stayed on my train like
- 53:08you're trying. So fun.
- 53:10Yeah. It's a feather splitter over the
- 53:12over there with this one. But like realistically it's, I
- 53:15mean, they could they could both be very good and do similar
- 53:18things, just with the minutes. Lawson's doing a lot.
- 53:20Yeah, who doesn't want to hop on the banker management train, you
- 53:23know? Yeah, it's a fun train.
- 53:28Alright, let's get some goalies. Let's do that.
- 53:30So we've got top three quantity goalies.
- 53:33These guys are gonna get 2 plus starts under 40% owned.
- 53:35Look, I'm going to propagate this third one with he sucks,
- 53:39OK, but it's hard to find goalies who are going to
- 53:42guarantee to get you 2 plus starts that are under 40% owned
- 53:45and they Anyway, let's get into it with. #3.
- 53:49What number three, we've got Jonathan Quick of the New York
- 53:51Rangers. I know don't come after us.
- 53:53He sucks, he's a garbage. But like I said, we need we
- 53:57recommend three guys were gonna get you guaranteed 2 starts
- 54:00under 40% owned and there really aren't that many.
- 54:03There's no teams this week that have two back to backs that I
- 54:05could you know, that's always a cheap one for me.
- 54:07I'm like O2 back to backs easy. I'll take one of those.
- 54:09But there weren't any this week. He is the starter for the
- 54:13Rangers. I know that's not a great place
- 54:14to be these days. They said they're essentially
- 54:16retooling their trading Canarian, but this week they
- 54:19play Anaheim and Leona back-to-back and then San Jose.
- 54:22I'm not too scared of any of those matchups.
- 54:24Look, with quick they can let in like 10 goals against, you know.
- 54:27But like, look, if you need the volume, he's a guy.
- 54:31I wouldn't, it's tough to say he's he's in their top three for
- 54:34this and and I wouldn't pick him up, but that's kind of how it is
- 54:37because I couldn't find anyone else would get multiple starts.
- 54:39Can I always? Do this.
- 54:41Yeah, this is bad. I just wanted to say this like,
- 54:44it's like, it's fair, I get it. It's but it's obviously really
- 54:48tough. The one thing I will say is that
- 54:49Quick has been a very top tier goalie in the league for years.
- 54:53Obviously he's gone through like a stretch, but it's not the type
- 54:56of like if anybody can kind of just bounce back from it and
- 54:59then still be good at someone who's like 1 multiple Stanley
- 55:02Cups and it's kind of just like sticking around for the vibes.
- 55:04So I will say that it's it's been bad.
- 55:07He's the guy I least rather on this list quality and quantity
- 55:10starters, but it's not impossible that he actually has
- 55:14an OK week with these matchups. But again, like, he's the least
- 55:17of the six we're going to mention.
- 55:19Yeah, yeah. But what I was going to say was,
- 55:22first of all, Quick has been like the worst school in fantasy
- 55:24because you have to start him because you picked up the start
- 55:27on the Rangers. So he's been in your lineup
- 55:28every time he's played and it's been dog awful.
- 55:32Like is losing you weeks or in category league.
- 55:35If you're in a points league, it's it's been bad, but if
- 55:41you're desperate for a starter like he's one of the guys that's
- 55:45going to be available. There is a name that you did not
- 55:47put on this list, Josh and that OK, I may rather have out of all
- 55:52these 3 goalies potentially that's maybe starts yeah I I
- 55:56mean. I think it's under 40%.
- 55:58I think so. He's 26% owned on Yahoo right
- 56:02now. What do you think about Joel
- 56:05Hofer? OK, so I I looked into Hofer.
- 56:09I wasn't like I wasn't certain he was going to get multiple
- 56:12starts. Does anything should He's been.
- 56:15He's been unreal. He's been the starter.
- 56:16Technically, he has gotten Carolina.
- 56:19They beat. They beat Tampa.
- 56:23Yeah, it's tough because like this section, The thing is next
- 56:27week they have three games and one in back-to-back.
- 56:29So he's getting one to two starts.
- 56:31Yeah, like if he doesn't get that first game, he's only
- 56:34getting one start next week. But is that gonna be better than
- 56:36Jonathan Quick? That's the thing.
- 56:39Well, yes, I'd much rather look for sure, but that's.
- 56:42Not guaranteed. So you don't feel comfortable
- 56:43being on this list That's. It but no, I I that's a great
- 56:47name and honestly, I should have put him in the in the quality.
- 56:50I mean, I like all the quality ones I put and the matchups
- 56:52aren't the aren't that crazy for him and it's also Saint Louis.
- 56:56But no, he's worth mentioning his name because he has been
- 56:58really good. And if you think that he can
- 57:00get, he's getting the two starts, then I would definitely
- 57:01prefer him to maybe not all three of these guys, but to the
- 57:05to quick for sure. I just wanted to throw it out
- 57:07there because I think he's been a hot name.
- 57:09Do like potential, the new start on Saint Louis, he's playing
- 57:11exceptionally well. Like, if the team is ramping up,
- 57:14you know, like Dylan Holloway is about to come back, like maybe
- 57:16that's getting. Healthy.
- 57:18Yeah, Robert Thomas, But who even knows like.
- 57:23Dylan Holloway Yeah, yeah, No, I, I, I fully agree.
- 57:28I'd rather hope for them quick. It just I wasn't certain about.
- 57:30The two starts. No, I get it.
- 57:31He he kind of just doesn't belong on either list.
- 57:34It's just a bit ambiguous, but he he should be better than all
- 57:37of these names. I do agree it just depends on
- 57:40what he gets. Yeah, so, OK, let's go to number
- 57:44two, Number two of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
- 57:48We have Archers, Sheloves, multiple Archers, and he's been
- 57:54kind of like up and down all season, but it seems that him
- 57:58and Stuart Skinner are kind of splitting starts now.
- 58:00And Pittsburgh's been solid all season, a lot better than we
- 58:04expected. They're playing Seattle, Calgary
- 58:07slash Edmonton and then Vancouver.
- 58:09So as long as I forgot to check which where his alternate starts
- 58:14are going to line up. Jake, you're a Sinner owner.
- 58:16Do you know? He should.
- 58:17He should play the Calgary game as his.
- 58:19First game as we thought, yeah, that's perfect.
- 58:22So he's going to get Calgary and Vancouver.
- 58:24That's sick. I'm taking those two starts any
- 58:26day of the week. That's probably the two deal
- 58:28teams you can play against in any given week.
- 58:30So signing this is a great pickup.
- 58:33Yeah, I'm sorry, Jake, you're getting Edmonton with Skinner.
- 58:36Yeah, that, that part sucks, but Skinner's been a lot better.
- 58:39Obviously can't be on this list. He's at 52% owner right now so
- 58:43either way. Right.
- 58:45She loves can still could still bleep the bed but. $10 had come
- 58:52out but. But I like I do like it with the
- 58:55matchups. And honestly, the last two games
- 58:57he's been really, really good. Yeah, like 920 and 968.
- 59:01So well, he actually lost both those games, which is pretty
- 59:05crazy. She loves.
- 59:06But but yeah, I think it's a great choice for this week.
- 59:10Yeah, no, that's a that's a good one.
- 59:11And let's get to our number one at #1 he keeps popping up
- 59:17Phillip Grubauer of the Seattle crack.
- 59:19And they seem to be in pretty much a time split.
- 59:22I'm very curious to see what's going to happen today because
- 59:24for the first time Grubauer got back-to-back starts.
- 59:27But like from what I was reading, I think they just
- 59:30wanted the cord playing in his hometown.
- 59:31So that's why they kind of for the back-to-back they did that.
- 59:34So if Decor. So I don't know if like if
- 59:37Gruber gets this next start and they just go back to alternating
- 59:39then it's like OK to court just lost going to start.
- 59:41If the cord gets to go back to alternating then it's just a
- 59:43weird blip. I don't think there's any world
- 59:46where the cord gets less than 50% of the starts, but I could
- 59:49be wrong with how well group hours been playing.
- 59:50And Seattle is just rolling so they have no real reason to want
- 59:53to switch up what they've been doing with the alternate starts.
- 59:55I'll have to say he should get multiple game two games this
- 59:57week because of the four-game week they're playing Pittsburgh
- 1:00:00Islanders, Anaheim and New Jersey.
- 1:00:03You know, I wonders in Anaheim, very not worried about
- 1:00:06Pittsburgh. Like Jackie said, even when she
- 1:00:08was putting up 6 numbers, they still aren't necessarily winning
- 1:00:10all their games. So I'm not too worried about
- 1:00:12that. And then New Jersey is very like
- 1:00:14hit or miss, either they're scoring five goals or they're
- 1:00:16the worst team in the league. So I'll say none of these are
- 1:00:18once I'm too worried about, especially on a Seattle team
- 1:00:20that's been unreal lately and group has been really good.
- 1:00:24Yeah, one thing here and totally agree he he belongs in the spot
- 1:00:28number one on the quantity goalies.
- 1:00:30He could be really good for quality too.
- 1:00:32I still think the court has a has a leg up to be the one, not
- 1:00:36the one a like the actual one. And NHL teams know the schedule
- 1:00:42by and large better than better than we do as fantasy hockey
- 1:00:45analysts. And the truth is they're playing
- 1:00:4712 games in three weeks, even if it's not back-to-back
- 1:00:51necessarily. Like I understand why they did
- 1:00:53the split because group hours are very formidable backup, but
- 1:00:57Decor and I would still say beyond this week should be the
- 1:01:00actual starter. That would be my guess, but
- 1:01:03we'll see. I mean, I agree, I do think that
- 1:01:06if Grubar keeps playing unreal, they're going to have to keep
- 1:01:08alternating fighting the second group hour, like misses a step
- 1:01:11and also like we know who group power is, right, Like he's not
- 1:01:15gonna do this all season. There's just no, you don't just
- 1:01:17suddenly yet, however old he is, you know, like just become be
- 1:01:21like I'm gonna be good this year on, you know, like it just
- 1:01:23doesn't happen for the most part.
- 1:01:25So I don't expect it to last. But for the next week or two or
- 1:01:29until he loses that step, I think they will be alternating.
- 1:01:31But in the long run, I'm definitely a discord as the
- 1:01:33starter. Those show a peek behind the
- 1:01:36curtain a little bit. But if you if you opened the
- 1:01:39Phillip Grubauer Yahoo chat, I've been in there recently
- 1:01:42answering people's questions because I was just like.
- 1:01:44You you talk in the Yahoo chats. Of course you're crazy all the.
- 1:01:49Time sometimes I should start referencing be like, hey, I'm
- 1:01:52from Bangor management, check us out or something.
- 1:01:54Maybe I should start doing that. But the goal is to pick up and I
- 1:01:58looked, I looked at the group, our chat and I just every time I
- 1:02:00click on the player, also click on the Yahoo comes just see what
- 1:02:03people are. Saying for sure I did the same.
- 1:02:04And then people are just like, obviously when you're in a
- 1:02:06specific players chat, it's always gonna be biased towards
- 1:02:09that player, obviously. But then I'm like reading some
- 1:02:12of the comments and then somebody just like I need to
- 1:02:14activate Blackwood. Do I drop like John Gibson or
- 1:02:16Grubauer? And I just like answered like,
- 1:02:18well, obviously Grubauer, like John Gibson is the starter, like
- 1:02:21the main starter on a team. That's like winning a lot of
- 1:02:23games being insane or whatever. And then people are just like
- 1:02:26downvoting me and like, and I'm like, OK, like somebody that
- 1:02:31that was crazy. But then the person that
- 1:02:33actually like put that initial question like was like, oh,
- 1:02:35thanks for your comment. Like I appreciate it or
- 1:02:37whatever. People are just like, do I drop
- 1:02:41who's better group or decorate? I'm just like, it's a split.
- 1:02:44But I think the court is like their main guy if anything
- 1:02:46happens and I'm getting downvoted.
- 1:02:48So I just, I can't believe you actually messaging these chats
- 1:02:51like that's crazy. That's very.
- 1:02:52Brave is literally like, we're all Mark and I was just like, I
- 1:02:56was actually tough. It's a genuine question what I
- 1:02:58said like if you need James this week, obviously Drew Bauer, but
- 1:03:01like I think all Mark has way more upside rest of season.
- 1:03:04So yeah, anyways. Now these things are like such a
- 1:03:07hive minds of like that everyone in that chat for the most part
- 1:03:09is people who own that player are on the hype train.
- 1:03:11So if you say anything against the player, you're getting
- 1:03:13downloaded. The only time where you can say
- 1:03:15something bad about a player in their chat is if they're playing
- 1:03:17really bad and then everyone hates them.
- 1:03:19Everyone's like you, suck you, loser you.
- 1:03:21Know you're right, he's bad. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:03:24But if a guy's playing well, even if it's the most
- 1:03:25unsustainable thing in the world, everyone's like to the
- 1:03:27moon, he's the GOAT. There was a group hour or
- 1:03:30Walstead and it was like 7 votes Grubauer 8 volts Walstead.
- 1:03:33And honestly to me that's actually pretty close, but I
- 1:03:36still think I'm going Walstead but like a slight smudge just
- 1:03:39cause like what we've seen him do previously.
- 1:03:41I don't know, it's getting very frustrating as well.
- 1:03:43So there. Is about to drop.
- 1:03:44Off all tie. It's scary, but I don't know.
- 1:03:49Yeah, alright, let's go to our quality goalies real quick.
- 1:03:52These are once we get you one good match up again, under 40%
- 1:03:54owned. Let's start off with #3 at #3 we
- 1:03:59have area Conry of the Winnipeg Jets.
- 1:04:01Obviously this is not a name that inspires much confidence or
- 1:04:04excitement, especially with how he was with helping out.
- 1:04:06But Winnipeg is on a bit of a hot streak lately, having won
- 1:04:08three of their last games. They're playing Chicago and
- 1:04:11Saint Louis on the back-to-back. And I just think that it's
- 1:04:14either one of those is a great matchup and you know, if one
- 1:04:16effects on a little hot week, he should be able to get that one.
- 1:04:19This one is where I'm taking hover over Camry.
- 1:04:22That's one where I'm like, if he could get that game, like who
- 1:04:25would you rather in that game, Hofer or Camry?
- 1:04:29I guess let's see what his what the other option is.
- 1:04:31It's either Dallas or LA. For.
- 1:04:34Wait, what? Am I on the wrong week?
- 1:04:35Sorry, my bad. Um, no wait.
- 1:04:42Basically I'm saying if you would you rather have hope for
- 1:04:45playing Winnipeg or. Call OK for the Winnipeg game,
- 1:04:48Sorry, I thought talking about their back-to-back the coming.
- 1:04:50Week. No, sorry.
- 1:04:51Which school would you rather have in?
- 1:04:52That game that each other I'm definitely taking Hofer over
- 1:04:54comedy. It's just that it's not a
- 1:04:55guarantee that hope is getting that start taking like in in
- 1:04:58addition, like Saint Louis is going to be like a rested that
- 1:05:01against Winnipeg, whereas Winnipeg is going to be on a
- 1:05:03back-to-back. So that's the second game of
- 1:05:06their back-to-back. But it's just the not
- 1:05:08guaranteed. But yes, if Hofer gets that
- 1:05:10start, he's he's above for me for.
- 1:05:12Sure. That being said, I do agree that
- 1:05:14Comma is gonna like if he starts one of these two games like
- 1:05:17Winnipeg should win like the games, but I still think like
- 1:05:21hopefully will get better percentages etc.
- 1:05:23Yeah, I. Also like yeah, I think I'd
- 1:05:25rather replace your Chicago cuz even with Bedard coming back,
- 1:05:27they've been, I know that a lot of them were sick recently.
- 1:05:31So it's definitely a good back-to-back situation for a not
- 1:05:35great goalie in. Camry Yeah, exactly.
- 1:05:37And like I said, their team is hot right now.
- 1:05:39Yeah, well, there could be worse.
- 1:05:41Worse opponents. But hey, listen.
- 1:05:44Connor Hellebuyck 3. Three wins in three straight
- 1:05:46games. Yeah, maybe the bounce back is
- 1:05:47starting to happen. Maybe.
- 1:05:51Are low and everybody was pissed.
- 1:05:53Yeah, exactly. Alright, let's go to. #2.
- 1:05:58And #2 we have a classic on this list, Casey De Smith of the
- 1:06:01Dallas Stars, They play Columbus and Saint Louis.
- 1:06:03I know Columbus has a new coach bump and Saint Louis has a Joel
- 1:06:06Hofer bump, but if you're Dallas, you're playing either of
- 1:06:09these teams. I'm not worried.
- 1:06:12Yeah, I mean, whenever there's a back-to-back for Dallas on any
- 1:06:14given week, I feel like case this Smith is on this list just
- 1:06:16because it's a team that's favored in every matchup they
- 1:06:19play except versus Colorado. So neither of these games is
- 1:06:22against Colorado. So I would expect Dallas to be
- 1:06:25the favorite in both of those games even if they haven't been
- 1:06:28flying on all cylinders. If it was me, I'd rather he
- 1:06:31plays Saint Louis, but well, I guess we'll see how that goes.
- 1:06:35I'm comfortable starting him in either match.
- 1:06:37Yeah, agreed. Yeah.
- 1:06:39OK. And let's go to.
- 1:06:41Number one, I think you might be hurt.
- 1:06:45Are you serious? Yeah, I saw them.
- 1:06:48I saw my call up a goalie because he, well, he didn't show
- 1:06:52up to practice or something. So that's why I had a little
- 1:06:54pause. OK, but then his name and I
- 1:06:57will. Yeah, at #1 we have Yonas
- 1:07:01Johansson or I think it's Halverson who's the who's the
- 1:07:04next guy up if he's injured, I could be making that up.
- 1:07:08But essentially the Tampa Bay backup because they're going to
- 1:07:12play Chicago and Columbus on a back-to-back Tampa Swan.
- 1:07:16I think they were on an 11 game-winning streak.
- 1:07:17They just lost in shootout overtime yesterday.
- 1:07:20But they're just nuts. They're wagging right now and I
- 1:07:24want any goalie playing for Tampa in the coming weeks,
- 1:07:28especially in Chicago and Columbus.
- 1:07:29Like that's easy matchups. So yes, monitor if he's injured,
- 1:07:33that's a that's my bad if that, if that's the case.
- 1:07:35But then you just pick up whoever the backup backup is cuz
- 1:07:38Tampa is that good that any warm body you can get Jakey in there.
- 1:07:42He's gonna save what, the two out of 10 McDavid shots.
- 1:07:44So he should easily get the win. So, so yeah, no, whoever the
- 1:07:49Tampa backup is, who's healthy is going to be #1 on this list.
- 1:07:54And have a backup. Their name ends with Sun.
- 1:07:57It's a good pick. Yeah.
- 1:07:59Sorry, continue. Kevin, like, I don't, I didn't
- 1:08:03see any confirmation that he's hurt hurt.
- 1:08:06But Temple and Recall, the goalie from the Miners and it
- 1:08:10wasn't Vasilevsky. They said like something was up
- 1:08:12with Johansson. So I'll just monitor the
- 1:08:14situation. Obviously, like if you're
- 1:08:16picking you up for a spot start, you probably know, like, you
- 1:08:18know, Vasko played the first half and then you get the
- 1:08:20second-half. But yeah, yeah.
- 1:08:22And I'm sure like more information will come out with
- 1:08:25you don't have to make the decision now.
- 1:08:26Right now back-to-back is next week.
- 1:08:28So you'll know when the time comes if he's healthy or not, or
- 1:08:31if you have to pick up the next. They recalled goaltender Brandon
- 1:08:34Halverson from the Syracuse. Yeah, like that.
- 1:08:38Yeah, you did actually. His name as a son, too.
- 1:08:41Yeah, exactly. Is that what you got, Jake?
- 1:08:44Yeah. That's it, no one.
- 1:08:48The one thing I will say is that Tampa's been awesome lately, as
- 1:08:52you mentioned, that has also coincided with Brayden Point
- 1:08:55being amazing again and now points heard.
- 1:08:57So maybe it's not going to be as I still think they'll win these
- 1:09:01two games. I still think that these are the
- 1:09:03best artist has an awesome team regardless, but it is a little
- 1:09:07bit scarier than it was before the injury.
- 1:09:10Yep. Yeah.
- 1:09:11One name that we didn't mention that I really want to talk about
- 1:09:14before we wrap up the pod is Connor Ingram.
- 1:09:18Because the situation with Connor Ingram, I think the last
- 1:09:21time I spoke about it with Jake on the podcast was he needed to
- 1:09:25be either sent down prior to like 5 games.
- 1:09:28So he's not so he that he can avoid going through waivers when
- 1:09:32being sent down. And then they just kept him and
- 1:09:34he just had a phenomenal game and Jerry has not been
- 1:09:36exceptional from coming back. And then the Edmonton Oilers
- 1:09:39official like Twitter was like not only Connor, he's not the
- 1:09:42only Connor, like Connor McDavid, not the only Connor
- 1:09:44like going off or whatever. So they made a post about him
- 1:09:47and then like or something of that early we were waving him
- 1:09:50right? Like that'd be, yeah, would be
- 1:09:51the first time social media team does that.
- 1:09:53But. I saw something about them
- 1:09:55essentially saying we're doing a three goalie rotation for now.
- 1:09:58So I don't think there's any interest in sending Ingram down.
- 1:10:02I don't know. I don't know we any goalie
- 1:10:04rotations never last long term. So we'll have to see how that
- 1:10:09shakes out. Most of the other ones this
- 1:10:11season for sure. Most of the other ones this
- 1:10:13season were like, this is not going to last and it didn't, but
- 1:10:15only because one of the three guys got injured.
- 1:10:17So a lot of times with these 3 billion rotations, they do it
- 1:10:20because they have so many injury prone guys, like all their goals
- 1:10:23are injury prone. So like, it's gonna sort itself
- 1:10:25out. One of them is gonna, you know,
- 1:10:27snap. So, like, we can see what
- 1:10:30happens there. But yeah, right now I'd rank it
- 1:10:32as Jerry Ingram and then Picard. Ingram's 24% known, so he's
- 1:10:35available in like 75% of your leagues.
- 1:10:38Do you think there's a chance that he could actually beat the
- 1:10:40guy traded for Gary? Like they needed Jerry to be the
- 1:10:42guy, but if England was playing better, I don't see a world
- 1:10:44where they just like, well, we need to force Jerry to keep
- 1:10:46winning games with him giving us like a 890 or something, You
- 1:10:49know what I mean? I don't know, do you know how
- 1:10:52stupid, how stupid the GM looks if they do that trade and then
- 1:10:55jars their backup? But they also made a move to get
- 1:10:57Ingram as like earlier in the season, right?
- 1:10:59Like that was a conscious move that they made to get him on the
- 1:11:01roster as a potential option. I think they're a good enough
- 1:11:05team to outscore goalie issues, at least in the regular season.
- 1:11:08And I think they're just going to be pumping Jerry up, like to
- 1:11:12like to try and get him going. Like, just how bad do you look
- 1:11:16as the GM to make that move? And then he's your backup, you
- 1:11:19know, like, and it's not like Ingram's like he hasn't been
- 1:11:21playing well, but it's not like he's like some star guy.
- 1:11:24Like look at the contract that Jerry has also, you know, I love
- 1:11:26to follow that money. I just don't see it.
- 1:11:29I don't see over there going there going to though.
- 1:11:32But yeah, I just, I just don't see it.
- 1:11:35But look, if Tariq's being terrible and he's being amazing,
- 1:11:37they're good. Like, if it's, I think there's a
- 1:11:39big gap that's gonna be necessary for Ingram to overtake
- 1:11:42him, but it's possible. I think for me, like we always
- 1:11:45talk about, you know, we're picking up goalies.
- 1:11:46We also like to have in the back of our mind, like is this a
- 1:11:48situation that could improve for the better for the guy that I'm
- 1:11:50picking up? And I think Ingram is one of
- 1:11:52those guys that I feel like he's getting at least a game this
- 1:11:55upcoming week. And I think there's always a
- 1:11:58chance that he could end up just like getting more starts and
- 1:12:00more starts and more starts. If he keeps winning games,
- 1:12:02especially if he has confidence in the team is like rolling
- 1:12:05around him. I don't know if that's actually
- 1:12:06happening, but he's put in good performances on the ice.
- 1:12:08So he hasn't played. He played Islanders, Chicago, LA
- 1:12:12and Nashville. Like, these aren't the most
- 1:12:15difficult teams, but then Jerry played Nashville during that
- 1:12:17stretch and got wrecked so. Correct yeah yeah no, that's
- 1:12:21that's definitely true yeah with this list in general, like I
- 1:12:24just wanted like guys who was sure about no, no, for sure.
- 1:12:26I usually go to the go to the back-to-back because that's like
- 1:12:29guaranteed I don't wanna recommend a guy even though like
- 1:12:31I think I'm gonna have a better start than conry, but like I
- 1:12:34don't want to recommend him and then he doesn't get the start.
- 1:12:36So that's that's the only thing we.
- 1:12:38Have conversation with him like his name is becoming popular a
- 1:12:41little bit, absolutely. I don't.
- 1:12:43I think like, it's like, I think Decor going to be the guy there.
- 1:12:46I think it's easier for Grubauer to overtake the core than it is
- 1:12:49for Ingram to overtake Jerry. But I don't think it's really
- 1:12:52yeah, like dismiss, I disagree. I think the opposite.
- 1:12:55You think it's easier for Ingram to overtake Jerry?
- 1:12:57Yeah, absolutely. OK, OK.
- 1:12:59Well, look, in that case then I really don't think it's that far
- 1:13:02off because I really don't think it's impossible.
- 1:13:04I know you're saying Josh with that the GM will look stupid
- 1:13:07fair, but at the same time like this team is just they need to
- 1:13:11win 2. Stanley comes back-to-back
- 1:13:13losses like they just want to win.
- 1:13:15I don't think it really matters. I like Brett Kulak.
- 1:13:18And what was it like a second like?
- 1:13:20It's yeah, it's not nothing. I think it was kind of silly
- 1:13:23because Jerry like, why? But whatever.
- 1:13:26At the end of the day it's not like they gave up anything super
- 1:13:29significant though. Yeah, Kevin, have you gone back
- 1:13:32into those TikTok comments and told said I told you so to
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