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Week 6 News & Updates + Would You Rather| Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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Pop is start us off with numero Uno on the tidbits, Josh.
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All right, first tidbit of the day.
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Dougie Hamilton is out with a lower body injury for at least
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one week. Luke Hughes, Will manpower play
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one in his absence? Who could have seen this coming?
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The man's bones are made of paper and his skin is made of
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glass. No, I mix those up.
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But yeah, no, he is a certified squishy boy and it sucks for me.
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I have Dougie and it's great for any Luke Hughes owners.
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I still don't love Hughes in bangers leagues.
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I feel like he has no category coverage, and he's also just not
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the most involved on that power play.
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It's really the Jack Hughes and Brat show, and then anyone else
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who could chip in on a secondary assist, you know?
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Basically, you basically just described Dougie Hamilton as a
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pretty epic science project. So cool.
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And yeah, I mean, this has been an issue his whole career.
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I I think, look, it's just a matter of time before Luke
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Hughes actually starts being good.
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I know it's it's tough because we have a decent sample size and
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it I get it, there's a heavy dose of skepticism and it's
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reasonable. But I mean, he has the draft
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pedigree, he's playing with amazing players.
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So this could maybe. Not the nepotism.
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Yeah, big time. Sometimes.
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Yeah. Like I'm trying to be like
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unbiased as a Dougie owner because it's just I feel like
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doggie owners hate Luke Hughes and Hughes owners hate buggy.
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But but it's just, I think a big thing is the handedness.
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I think they really like Dougie being a righty where because
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like everyone else on that power play units are lefty.
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So and I think also Dougie has the shot option Luke, he's just
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that's not in his arsenal. So I think Dougie fits better on
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that power play. At some point in time, it's
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going to be Luke Hughes is Hughes.
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I don't know, but it's just a matter of time when.
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So we'll see. This will be his chance to run
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away with it. And if not, then Doug will get
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it back when he returns. Now we'll just say like, I'm not
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really encouraged from what I've seen from Luke Hughes, I feel
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like it's been extremely underwhelming.
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You feel you have to own them because of deployment and he's
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still might not really coming through for you.
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I'm seeing a lot of people like drop him for like the
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Blankenburg's and the Fabers and whatnot.
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So yeah, Josh smiles and say favor.
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Can you just traded him away for a fleece?
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But yeah, anyways. Yeah.
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All right. Moving on to my next injury from
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my team. We've got Joey Decor to placed
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on IR with an upper body injury, will miss at least the next
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week. Phillip Grubauer, be the starter
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until he returns. A lot of times when you have a
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starting goal and he gets injured, it's the automatic move
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to go pick up the backup and you just write it out until your guy
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returns. I don't think this is one of
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those cases because you usually want to do that if it's like you
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have the starting for a really good team because you know, the
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backup will, you know he's not gonna be as good as you're
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starting goalie, but he'll essentially be the starting
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goalie for a really good team. But when his team like Seattle,
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where their best position is probably goalie, like the reason
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they've been doing so well is a lot because of discord and
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Grubauer kind of sucks. I'm not really interested in
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grabbing. Him group power is awful, but
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are you interested in Matt Murray?
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You mean Stanley Cup winner Matt Murray?
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
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Yeah, no, I'm not. I don't want any Seattle goalie
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as of right now. I just saw a report that said
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they're gonna have a better update on the court in the next
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few days, so it's looking. No.
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It's not, it's really not a good sign.
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So we'll see if it's more like a long term thing or not, but at
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least a week and hopefully it's not much more than that because
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they need them. Yeah, but on to some good news
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for my team. Wayne Goss.
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Asphere is returning tonight and will take back power play one.
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Let's see if he can last longer than one shift this time.
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I love how you actually wrote that.
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It's so funny. He, he's he.
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This is his power play. There's there's no doubt about
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it. I'm still high on Nikishin as
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someone to own. Doesn't take away from that.
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But as long as costs to spare is there, there's no offensive
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defenseman on this team. He's the guy.
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And we, we hate Rod for fantasy purposes, but power play, 1
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defenseman surrounded by good players.
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Good news if you're a gossiper owner and if you somehow on your
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waivers pick him up. Yeah, and I think he makes the
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power play better. So the Carolina power play has
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been one of the struggles consistently.
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I think with glasses period there they'll it'll at least be
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the best version of itself and hopefully they seem more
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success. But it's available.
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You pick them up. Would rather have ghosts and
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Luke Hughes. Yeah, 100%.
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And honestly, who knows how long it's gonna last.
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But at the moment, Rod actually has the lines that make sense as
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the lines which I don't think we've seen in the past like 5
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years, but he has. Kind of suspicious.
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Fetcho Jarvis online one on Power Play 1.
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He has Fetch Iho Jarvis, Euler's gossip spear.
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Like that's obvious, so obvious. Any you know, I could show my
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freaking 7 month year old, you know, I'd be like, hey, here's
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the lineup. Who would you put on power play
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1? And he'd be like, Oh, well,
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obviously these five. And I'd be like, well, you'd be
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surprised to, you know, have you heard of Stephen Neeson?
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Alright, so. So Kevin's got a few technical
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difficulties. Shall we keep going?
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You make the call. Keep going.
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I'm just gonna try to turn this back on.
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OK, anyways, so there. But my my kid is gonna be a
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fantasy hockey prodigy, is what I'm trying to say.
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And he's gonna you surf Rod for Carolina Hurricanes coach one
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day anyways. It actually happens that'd.
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Be nuts. You heard it here. 1st OK, Roope
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Hintz returns to the lineup and slotted into line. 2 power play.
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1 bumping off Tyler Sagan. No surprises there.
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This starts power play is nuts right now.
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They're I think third in the league and they're just popping
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off. So definitely if for some reason
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I can't imagine he was dropped, but if he was, then you grab
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him. But I don't know, not much to
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say here other than it's exciting that he came back and
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Tyler Sagan stock becomes pretty much a drop.
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What I think is worth opening though is line 2 instead of line
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one definitely impacts root base value.
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I think that's why we're seeing why Johnston really take a take
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up as well because he's playing with Brandon on line 1.
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I think that's huge. And if that sticks huge for why
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Johnston less good for Rupe, but also rupee is the type of guy
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like he's a he's a Dylan Strome archetype, right where he's kind
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of just like very points, not really much category coverage,
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but if you look at his stats for the.
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Season like yeah. He's shooting a lot more than
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anticipated. Like last I checked he was
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averaging around three shots a game, which is huge.
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It's not a style. So either he's aligned 2 and
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that allows him to be more of a shot taker because he's not
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playing with one of those big guns that usually take the
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shots. So just it's me thinking about
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is this sustainable? Is this maybe a new new floor
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that he's found given the new deployment?
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Is it connected? Is it correlated?
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Or is it just like a phase and you try to trade them on that
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value? You know what I mean?
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Yeah, I think that he's a pretty, pretty clear cell high.
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I mean, obviously he's just coming off injury.
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So wait for him to, you know, string together a few healthy
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good games. But it's tough because honestly,
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I think line one, line 2 doesn't really matter here.
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What matters is whichever line Rantanen is on.
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So I think whatever line Rantanen is on is the line one
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for when hints came back, it was Wyatt Johnston and Rantanen.
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So that was line one last I checked.
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I actually think that now it's Henson Rantanen.
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So I don't think it's a lock. It's a fluid situation.
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Yeah, exactly. I think that top 6 is kind of
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very mixed and matched. Sam Steele obviously is a lock,
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but other than that, there's. Gotta have some steel.
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Yeah, exactly. I I have a like from what I see
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is Robertson hints segment line too.
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OK. Yeah.
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So this is an extremely deep team.
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And if they actually are moving towards a consolidation of the
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top 6, I think that's really good for their offensive output.
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And Rupee is pretty much a staple on the 1st power play.
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I'd say he's not Rantanen or Robertson level staple, but he's
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been there for a while. So I actually really like it.
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And Kevin, to your point of him being a demonstrable archetype,
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I was ready to say yeah, but without the faceoffs?
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Nope. He's taken a lot of these off
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and he's shooting a lot, too. Actually, that's just been
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really hasn't done that before. No, that's true.
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No, it's new Rupe, rupe nupe. But yeah, I like it a lot so.
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This this Dallas top six gives me like Toronto last year vibes
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like Matthews, Marner, JT Lander is like Johnson, Rantanen
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Robertson hints. Like honestly, I think it makes
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sense. You put two stars on each line
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and you have a third guy gap filled that you know.
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Has. Pretty sure that's three stars
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on each line. Some still OK, You know, the
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dollar store. Yeah.
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Alright, let's move on to the next one.
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You can set me up like that and not expect me to go for it.
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Anyway, it's like I don't even think I was setting you up.
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Rasmus Dahlin is out indefinitely for personal
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reasons. Wish him and his family all the
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best, but in the meantime, who's getting power?
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Play one. It seems to be Bowen Byram.
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But also the Sabres suck again. So I don't know how, like, in
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our league, normally you see news like this and you expect
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like the ownership percentage to jump up right on one of these
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guys. Like at first obviously was the
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uncertainty. Is it Byrum?
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Is it power? But I think we've seen that it's
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Byrum like in the game since Salinas left.
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But he's just done nothing with it to the point where in early
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he hasn't even been grabbed. Yeah.
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And I don't really any interest. I don't have interest either.
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Like we, we said this in a discord to like people were kind
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of trying to estimate who it was going to be.
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Was it gonna be buying power? Like people were going deep into
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the files of like what they did before.
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I thought I was leaning, I was leaning Byram and ended up being
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correct. But I also said like, I don't
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know if that's a valuable position.
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Like would you rather have Byram or like Lesional or something?
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You know what I mean? And we'll.
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Talk. Probably later but but I just
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more interested in that than a Buffalo team does.
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Just like beating themselves and can't do anything and keep
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getting hurt. Everybody that was on an English
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sentence, but you know what I was trying to say.
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Yeah. I was gonna be traded to a team
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that's about to win the Stanley Cup, so keep an eye.
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On where everyone is going to be traded, just sell the farm all
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power power. I feel like yeah, but power is
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gone. And they drafted it.
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There's no way they're taking power.
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They're not trading. Right.
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It sucks because like, there's no reason for him to be there.
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He has such a top, top pedigree and a little bit less of a
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sample size. So I feel like they'd get more.
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But yeah, I guess it's a lot of money for a team to take on.
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Either way, it's just a disaster.
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I will say that they're dealing with a lot of injuries right now
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and so it could be interesting to keep an eye out on when Zach
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Benson comes back, which we'll talk about this.
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Benson is traveling with the team and should return to a Line
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1 roughly one rule bumping off either Jack winner Alex Tuck
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from power play one when he returns.
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So Benson returning. I mean, Jason Zucker is dealing
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with some pretty bad like viral illness right now, so he might
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not turn for a while, but he's out.
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Josh Norris should be back in a couple weeks when these guys all
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come back. If Darlene still out, then I'm
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more interested in looking at, you know, Bowen Byram slash,
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Owen power, whichever one of them is leading that power play.
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So maybe you pick them up like a game or two before you know
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Norris or whatever comes back. But like now, it's not really
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interesting. I'm I am a Benson owner, so I've
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been kind of monitoring the situation closely.
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They said, they said, oh, week was the estimate and then it's
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been a week and right now they're about to go on like a
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four-game road trip. He just missed the first game in
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Carolina. They have a four days.
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They have a four day gap between the end of the Carolina game and
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their next game. And if we decide if he's going
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on the road trip or not. And a report has not earlier
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today said he wasn't at the morning skate at all.
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So did not actually sure if he's going to be traveling with the
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team on this road trip. So if he doesn't, I think he's
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missing out at least another week.
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So by the time you're listening to this, maybe we have some
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clarity on the situation. But as of right now, I've my
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guess is he's missing another week.
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So but I do think the Buffalo power play and also team will
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get better when he comes back because it's just an influx of
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talent that they're replacing with scrubs.
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Yeah, yeah, pretty much. I still think it's going to be a
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fun fantasy team if you're on the top guys like.
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Yeah, I mean teachers still sick.
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Tage is good, and I mean, I'm curious to see what Byron can
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do, but I don't have high hopes for him.
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But like you said, Zach Benson's gonna be good.
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And I, I've been holding out hope for years from Jack Quinn.
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So I know. So I drafted him last year like
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the last round and he disappointed me, put up straight
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zeros in the first two games of the season and then he dropped
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him. Yeah, I've been that guy for two
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years. Welcome back, Evan.
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Yeah, thanks. Alright.
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This episode I feel like I'm just having some technical
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issues as always. Alright, Thatcher, Demko is
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day-to-day for load management reasons, expecting to miss games
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throughout the season to prevent injury.
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I think they just want to be safe with him.
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They know that they can trust LinkedIn enough to play some
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games here and there. So I think this is something
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that if you're a dumb owner, you could just expect for the rest
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of the season just randomly here and there.
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He'll pop on to day-to-day, but honestly, if you have R Plus,
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it's not necessarily the worst one.
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A guy when your goal is not playing.
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If you just get to the day-to-day tag, you can just pop
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him on your IR plus pick up a stream and then bring him back
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when he's healthy and playing. So maybe this is the ultimate
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fantasy hack, you know? Just trade for demonical for
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this reason, but I'm it's definitely a little inconvenient
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when you know you're expecting some starts and the guys just
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gonna miss like maybe a few games at a time or what not.
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Would you rather Demco or Bennington rest of season?
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Demco. Even with the the starts
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fluctuating and everything. Saint Louis, More like St.
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Puis, am I right? OK, Sorrows.
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Sorrows, Yeah. Honestly, Josh, you're wearing
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that shirt. I expect more sophisticated.
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Comedy. I do not.
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So would you rather do? Course no.
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As you said, the brilliance of what?
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That is super bad versus you could have also said Vancouver,
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but whatever. Wasn't roasting Vancouver
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though. It doesn't.
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It doesn't work the same. You can't just replace any
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syllable with poo, you know? It has to be this very specific
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one to be fun. True, yeah.
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Democrat Joseph Wall was about to come back from his stint with
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the Marlies. I take Demco also, that's in
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like 3 bullet points. I don't know why you're spoiling
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it for everyone. I didn't.
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Yeah no kidding. That's totally fine.
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Alright, OK, next Sean Monahan got injured but then came back
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the next game, but that injury was enough to bump him off line
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one in favor of Fantilli, but not off power play 1.
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And Fantilli seems to be running with this opportunity.
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So I think this could be finally what Jake's been hoping for and
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saying for for ages that I mean, yeah, the power play 1 still
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hasn't happened, but if until he keeps killing it and he keeps
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that line 1, I feel like it's only a matter of time.
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I don't think Mona has someone who will get bumped off in his
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favour. I think they would bump off
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probably Ken Johnson. But it seems like this could be
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this could be a time to this could be a time to buy on
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Chantilly and maybe sell Monahan.
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And I just got Monaghan, but he wasn't the main piece of the
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trade so. I still think Monahan's a good
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good player in a bangers league, especially with faceoffs.
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Right, like. Yeah, he doesn't really shoot
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her, hit or block. Yeah, exactly.
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I mean, like that said, but where there is the power play
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upside and he's been underwhelming offensively.
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But I I've been saying like I have two things that I want to
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gloat about today. This is a very small one, but
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I've been on the Fantilli train for a while and I think it's
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about time now. He was drafted in Leo Carlson
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here. I don't expect it to be Leo
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Carlson. Esk, who's been a monster still
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myself high. I maintain that.
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But nevertheless, yeah, I expect a lot of things, Chantilly
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playing with those two wingers, Marchenko and Voronkov.
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And yeah, we'll see how it goes. Would would you actually buy
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Chantilly right now though? Like in anticipation that he his
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deployment gets bumped up even more to the power play 1 and
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everything. If the Fantilli owner hasn't
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already priced in that line one bump, then I would be very
18:01
interested in getting mentally for like pennies.
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But if like the Chantilly owner is aware of the bump and is and
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you know, he just put up like 2 two point games in a row and so
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he's like, no, now he's now the cost of him is line 1 Chantilly,
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then no, there's no point. You're not getting him for the
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value. So it's if you can get him for
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value. I'm very interested though.
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Until you're quadri. Ah, good.
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One, that's a really tough one. I feel like.
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I feel like I still gotta go. Kadri, I know he's been so, so
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bad, but like fantasy, like just start had like 2 good games and
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we don't even know if the deployment is gonna stick.
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And Kadri, if you know, he could get traded, I think it's very
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likely he does. And normally I would say that
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make his value worse, but since it's been so bad already I feel
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like it's only make it better. Yeah.
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What about Mason Mctavish? I'll take Chantelle over
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Mctavish. Same answers for both but
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eventually. But I think I'm a bit higher on
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Chantilly, so there's a lot of upside like.
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It's just a lot. The expected value calculation
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is higher for Kajari because the floor is so much higher, but if
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it hits a fantilli, you're really hitting.
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Yeah, until you ceiling is higher at this point, like if he
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can break through that deployment, which he seems to be
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starting to, then I would take him.
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OK. Cole Perfetti returned from
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injury and bumped Alex. I follow off line 2, power play
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1. Jakey rejoices.
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In the dumps, no. Honestly, if you had picked up
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your follow like at the start of the season and ridden with that
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power plant deployment until now, you know you got more than
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you would have expected out of him and you're pretty happy with
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that couple of weeks long stream.
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I'm but we said this Tasha Perfetti if possible, and now
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like he hasn't popped off just yet.
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It's only been it's gonna games, but I expect him to be very
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serviceable for your fantasy team and hopefully you're.
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Able to be like a slightly worse Gabardi.
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Yep, I can expect like 7:30. That's one of the talked about
20:00
the majority. For all the new listeners, it's
20:05
a jar we put in every time we talk.
20:07
It's a jar we put coins in every time we talk about Gay Velardi,
20:10
who is Joshua's GOAT if you were listening.
20:12
Last year for him, just so we can.
20:13
Talk you have to at this point you've made somebody trades, why
20:16
not give alerted to the list? I just have no one of value left
20:19
to trade because I just strip the whole team.
20:21
But doesn't seem to be a problem.
20:22
You're trading waiver wire guys for studs, so.
20:25
Gotta do what you gotta do. Listen, OK, Swap them.
20:29
Yeah, that's Speaking of Burkowski and the Chicago
20:32
Blackhawks. Frank Nazar is out with an
20:35
injury. He had already been demoted off
20:37
power. Play one for Tyler Bertuzzi
20:38
before the injury. Also to note left, Shanov bumped
20:42
Rinzel off power. Play 1.
20:43
Jakey was right. Yeah, this is my big.
20:46
Dick was wrong for so long, and then he was right.
20:48
No this. This one, like I mean, the
20:52
Fantilli 1 is still fluid, but to me Rinzel it, it didn't make
20:57
much sense. There was no real reason that he
21:01
was going to be a staple there. And Lev Shanov is the second
21:06
overall pick. They drafted him to be the
21:08
defenseman of the future and Chicago is hitting on all
21:13
cylinders. It's crazy they're doing so
21:15
well. Bedard right now is looking like
21:17
a top five pick next. Year.
21:19
Yeah, it's bizarre. That I know that sounds insane
21:22
but he's looking so good, no. No, Josh said something.
21:27
We won't repeat it, but it's not.
21:28
What did you say? I'll have to watch the episode.
21:32
Yeah. Yeah, anyway, love Shanov to me
21:36
right now is is an absolute must pick up because it's a bad week
21:41
two games so but I picked them up knowing that he had the two
21:44
games this week and. You gotta think.
21:45
I'm gonna yeah, yeah, I'm gonna hold him for a while.
21:48
It's gonna be. We still expected Chicago's
21:50
gonna negatively regress sooner than later, but just surrounded
21:55
by this offensive talent, I expect a lot and I'm really,
21:58
really excited about it. Plus two hits, two block size
22:00
game. That's not nothing.
22:03
That's something I'm excited, yeah.
22:05
It kind of feels like he's either getting a power play
22:07
assist or zeros. So that's the type of archetype
22:10
of defenseman you're getting. But would you rather love
22:12
Shannon or Luke Hughes? Give me.
22:14
Left enough? Yeah.
22:15
So it's just one of those things that, yeah, he, his name maybe
22:19
doesn't have the sparkle to it just yet.
22:22
And the Chicago Blackhawks are on fire.
22:25
It feels like everybody that's on that team is just only
22:28
getting goals. So who's assisting on them?
22:30
It has. I have no idea.
22:31
It's like, Oh yeah obviously. Like almost all those points are
22:35
goals. Bertuzzi has like 6 goals, no
22:37
assists. Stuff out to everyone, yeah.
22:40
Seriously. Seriously.
22:41
Not OK. Yeah.
22:42
Would you rather? Own Love Channel or Shafer?
22:45
Shafer. Shafer.
22:46
Shafer, come on, Jake. Leave it to the master, Jakey,
22:51
OK? Let's see.
22:52
Alright, OK, let's move on to the next slide.
22:56
Tristan Jarry is out with a lower body entry for at least
22:59
three weeks. Archers shield off will be the
23:01
full time starter while he's out.
23:02
I just picked shelves up because Decor went down and I'm actually
23:05
very excited about having on my team.
23:07
We'll see if he could, if he can keep up the good work,
23:10
especially with the full workload of being a starter.
23:13
But it's if he plays well and the cord comes back.
23:15
I'm not dropping Sheila so I'll just run 3 goalies.
23:18
When are we calling the Penguins the real deal?
23:21
No, I mean, Kevin's not a believer.
23:23
I want to be a believer, but I'm still not a believer.
23:26
But like I want to be for so many reasons.
23:29
First, I think it's really hype and mainly because my fantasy
23:33
team is very relevant on it, mainly because I've Crosby and
23:35
now she loves. But it just, it doesn't make
23:37
sense to me. Like it just the logic is not
23:39
there. I know, like I want to give them
23:41
credit obviously as well, but their upcoming schedule is not
23:46
is not great, but they're playing bad teams.
23:49
Like yeah, we we talked about she loves being a pick up on the
23:52
week 6 waiver episode. So if you have a listen to that
23:55
and you're looking at, you know, guys that you want on your
23:57
waiver wire or something like go listen to that episode we
24:00
mentioned Sheloves. Yes, Pittsburgh this current
24:02
week, week 6, they have two games.
24:04
Next week they have two games. There are two games this week.
24:06
Nashville, both Nashville is awful.
24:10
And then next week, they play Seattle and Minnesota on a
24:12
back-to-back. Yeah, both games they could
24:15
realistically win, too. Like Minnesota's Minnesota is
24:17
not super hot right now. And yeah, Seattle just lost.
24:21
Should we do court? So it's it they could win
24:24
realistically the next four games and we're talking about
24:27
once Pittsburgh gonna slow down. I think the schedule catches up
24:29
to them at some point. I also think the players start
24:31
to regress a little bit. But as of right now, like I'm
24:33
happy to have she loves on my team.
24:35
He's going to get probably get 3 out of the next four starts.
24:37
And you're happy with that? Yeah, I'm thinking way ahead
24:40
here, but the Atlantic and Pacific, so both ocean bound
24:45
divisions are very top heavy compared to the metropolitan and
24:51
the central. And are not bound by oceans.
24:54
Exactly. And if you think about it, four
24:59
games each week in the week 21/22/23.
25:02
So that's most of your playoffs if they're going to be fighting
25:04
for a playoff spot. And she loves is the starter.
25:07
I'm really excited to own him there.
25:09
I know this is like a temporary come up and say Jerry comes
25:12
back. Quick a quick Nick.
25:14
They're not a 444, they're a 4354.
25:16
Still great. Still great playoff schedule.
25:18
Yeah, exactly. And Jerry, they've demoted Jerry
25:21
to the AHL. They're not attached to them.
25:23
If she loves, does super well over this stretch and becomes
25:26
cemented as the starter and they're fighting for a playoff
25:28
spot, I'm excited for that. As a season long on a season
25:32
long hold. Extremely.
25:34
I was this close to dropping skirt Stuart Skinner for him.
25:36
I'm just, I don't know what I'm doing.
25:39
He started having his own issues, yeah.
25:41
Yeah, but she loves a great pick up, Josh and I think everybody
25:44
listening should definitely grab him off the waiver wire despite
25:47
the, you know, not a lot of games over the next two weeks.
25:50
Jake, you know if you want to acquire him in a trade when
25:52
Decor comes back. Well, we'll, we'll talk.
25:58
We'll. Talk, you watch Miracle on Ice.
26:00
I did exactly. I've earned the right to have a
26:02
phone call. Quick, quick side phone call.
26:07
Quick side tangent, like I like I go on a walk with with Eva,
26:10
like every day we got a nice little walk and I'm on the walk
26:13
and I get that like one of these trade offers right And then and
26:17
I'm like looking at it, I'm like, Oh my God, I have to make
26:18
this decision fast because I feel like sometimes people like
26:21
pull the offers, whatever, you know, and I'm like, I gotta call
26:23
the guys and I'm like, sorry, you know, but I gotta start
26:25
working the phones, you know, like like call you guys off of
26:29
like, you know, ask your opinion and all that.
26:30
And I was like, I'm looking, I'm looking real G, you know, like
26:34
working the phones I can grades. And she's like, I hate you so
26:37
much. Discord's 4 though, for all the
26:39
listeners, like if that happens to you, like go to the Discord,
26:42
we respond very, very quickly also there.
26:45
So if you ever get a trade and you're like, Oh my God, is this
26:48
too good to be true and you're just debating whatever right in
26:51
there, we have a trade discussion channel and that'll
26:53
help a lot. So yeah, we'll be there to
26:55
answer. Seamless, we'll discord plug.
26:58
We've seen a lot of trades happen in the Discord lately,
27:01
and we'll talk about them on the next the next episode.
27:03
Like on the mailbag, we'll mention some of the trays that
27:05
you guys were able to pull off because some of them were great
27:07
deals, better deals than what Josh pulled off just recently.
27:11
And Will. Get into that just yet.
27:13
We're. Still, I'm still salty.
27:14
Yeah, anyways, let's move on to the next one.
27:17
Joseph Woll is in the AHL for a conditioning stint.
27:20
His return is imminent and he should split starts with
27:23
scholars unless one vastly outperforms the other.
27:26
So that was alluded to earlier on when Kevin spoiled it for
27:28
everyone, but uhhh. No, he's alive.
27:31
Yeah, exactly. My demise was greatly
27:33
exaggerated, but yeah, this is interesting because Stolarz
27:37
really has not been good to start the year.
27:40
And I think actually his numbers are going to get better as he
27:43
gets fewer starts. I think that's just the type of
27:45
goalie he is. He can't handle the full starter
27:48
workload, but when he has the half workload, he does a really
27:51
good job. So I'm actually not panicking.
27:53
If I'm a Steelers owner, I'm kind of happy.
27:54
I'm like, I'll lose some volume, but I think the rates will go
27:57
up. And I'm very interested in Wall
27:59
if you're interested in a tandem goalie on a solid team.
28:01
This is going to be, I think, first of all, a good opportunity
28:05
for Wall where we saw last year, he came in after missing some
28:07
time and ended up being pretty solid as well.
28:10
Like he he has it in him to be a good quality goalie.
28:14
Like, you know, maybe not get you the most stars because
28:16
they're splitting, but he can get you like, amazing starts.
28:20
We'll have to see what he does when he comes back.
28:21
But we were getting questions about, like, you know, what's
28:23
his deployment going to be? I think they split.
28:26
I think they split unless one goalie vastly performs at the
28:28
other. Like exactly like you said.
28:30
And this could be an opportunity to buy low on Solaris because I
28:34
feel like he's really been struggling with the volume and
28:36
they wanna give him the volume right now because they don't not
28:39
trust Hilda be like they had a back-to-back just recently and
28:42
they were like, we're not confirming who the second the
28:44
goalie is starting the second year of the back-to-back.
28:46
And you're like, OK, like stores just started playing
28:49
back-to-back games. Like that's where we're at right
28:51
now. Like, we know how much she was
28:52
getting. So I think Wall is going to be a
28:54
welcomed presence in the dressing room and they'll be
28:56
able to split. And maybe it's sucks for fantasy
28:58
that nobody's getting all of the starts, but better all around, I
29:01
think. Yeah, I think that was a really
29:03
good point about a stellar Spylo.
29:05
And it feels really counterintuitive because it's
29:07
like, well, coming back, you know, in people's minds just
29:10
makes dollars worse. But if you're OK with, you'll
29:14
have to go in. If you're buying him, you're OK
29:16
with having a tandem goalie. But if you are, then you can get
29:18
him for like way less than his actual value because of how bad
29:22
he's been. And because of wool coming back
29:24
is gonna freak out. And he stole our owner, so I
29:26
like that a lot. OK, PLD is having abdominal and
29:31
adductor surgery and will be out three to four months.
29:33
He's cooked. And not the good kind.
29:39
Sometimes I write these notes late at night and then I just I
29:42
just read it. Yeah, this, this is this is bad
29:46
like for his. Feel bad for him, yeah?
29:49
Yeah definitely sucks, glad to have didn't trade for him.
29:55
I mean, imagine, imagine going back in time, like looking at
29:58
that Velardi trade. I know and.
30:01
For that and they also got more I mean they really pulled off
30:05
quite the heist there, Winnipeg. But yeah, look, he was good last
30:09
year. He's still not a bad player and
30:12
his career is not like done, done, done.
30:14
But this is like this year. This year.
30:16
He's irrelevant. And I wouldn't say I'm super
30:20
excited about Connor McMichael on the second line, but
30:23
definitely watch list, keep an eye out, see what he can do.
30:27
Yeah, I take the biggest beneficiary is just chicken.
30:29
I think he's just cemented his power play one spot even more
30:31
with this. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
30:35
OK, Should we get to some good news for Kevin?
30:38
Who? I've been waiting for this one.
30:40
OK, Vinny Trocheck has returned from injury for the New York
30:45
Rangers and is line 2 power play 2.
30:48
Will Cooley is keeping power play one for now.
30:52
So this is a mixed emotions if you're Kevin because he has
30:55
Trocheck and Cooley. So I think he's just happy as
30:57
long as one of them on power play one because they weren't
30:59
they were never both going to be.
31:00
So so now this is this is huge. Trocheck is for anyone who
31:04
doesn't know, we got a question actually about this for the mail
31:07
bag, but it was just a short question so I just responded
31:09
immediately. But Trocheck is a bangers beast.
31:12
If you haven't played in the past and he was injured most of
31:15
this year, so you don't know what he does.
31:16
He hits the back hats amazingly and he contributes in points and
31:21
Rangers have a 444 in the in the playoffs.
31:23
So this is just he's only 60% owned right now.
31:27
If he's available in your league and in a bangers league, I would
31:29
run and grab him. He was.
31:31
He was ranked 13th in our in our full category Bangers league
31:35
last year, which means just like shots face off wins, hits,
31:39
blocks, also shorthanded points and he led the league in
31:42
shorthanded points last season too.
31:43
So that's also noteworthy. I think if he gets if he gets
31:47
people one, it's just the cherry on top like I drafted him in the
31:50
third round of our league without the assumption that he
31:52
was going to get P1 just because of everything else that he
31:55
brings to the table as well as the playoff schedule.
31:58
I have to will cool in the sixth round, which was, like we said
32:00
multiple times, already a reach, but it's turning out not to be a
32:03
reach thus far. I will say like he's been
32:06
extremely solid. He's shooting, hitting, blocking
32:08
and also getting, you know, points now.
32:11
So really thrilled about that. I think we saw Trocheck one game
32:15
return and it was the first game that they won.
32:19
This is an at MSG. So yeah, I don't wanna I'm not
32:23
putting anything out there too much.
32:25
But listen, it's maybe it was church was the the missing piece
32:28
for this team to finally click and for them to finally balance
32:30
the lines properly in the top six.
32:32
I'm very optimistic. If you didn't buy low on Panarin
32:35
just yet, I think the window is probably closed or closing.
32:40
So optimistic. Ranger.
32:43
Someone else owned him. Yeah.
32:45
Yeah, so. So I'm gonna points league, and
32:47
this is just for anyone who's in a point.
32:49
So you're transitioning to bangers for the first time.
32:51
I got him in the sixth round. Kevin picked him, who's a very
32:53
experienced fantasy player. He has a podcast, if you didn't
32:56
know, in the third round. OK, You know, it's not a flashy
33:00
name. And if you're used to like point
33:03
production, points leagues, whatever.
33:04
Like you don't, there is a whole other level of elite that Trojak
33:10
brings to your Bangor team. He's almost like, I mean he he
33:14
could be drafted, he wouldn't draft him in the first round
33:16
because he just doesn't have that point ceiling.
33:18
But he always ends up ranked in a bangers league, especially
33:20
with face offs. Like as a top 10 fantasy asset.
33:24
It's really really elite stuff. And if somehow, some way the
33:30
owner in your league does not value him the way it should be,
33:32
just try to try to buy. Like I know it's tough with the
33:37
hype. Just got back and had an
33:38
amazing. Game, but being the trocheck
33:41
owner, I've received like I don't want to say so many
33:43
offers, but he's been in talks and people just like they think
33:46
he doesn't have the name value so that they can buy him for
33:49
less than he's worth. But then you look at the numbers
33:51
and you look at like where he ends up on the season and he's
33:54
an insane there If you're in first of all, minimum bangers
33:57
league. But also just like category
33:59
leagues, like the deep ones, the ones that have a lot of category
34:01
leagues, like category leagues, categories, categories.
34:04
Anyways, you know what I'm saying.
34:06
Yeah, we get it. He's great.
34:08
He's a. He's a.
34:09
Star Yeah, yeah, to give a big like you could send like a mad
34:12
boldy for him if possible, even like a yes for brat.
34:16
I would easily rather throw check.
34:17
You know, these are guys who may have a lot more clout and hype,
34:20
but Trocheck will be more valuable for your team.
34:22
But you can definitely get. You can definitely get project
34:24
plus. Yeah, I think.
34:27
People Dear Brat Yeah, 100% yeah.
34:30
OK, on to more good news for Kevin.
34:32
William Eckland is returning from injury and will be line to
34:35
power play 1, bumping off Alexander Wennberg from power
34:37
play 1. So Kevin's team is starting to
34:40
get healthy. He's gonna have to change his
34:41
team name from hospital to something else.
34:44
But you know, this is really exciting for for Eckland.
34:47
He was off to a really hot start to the season and I expect him
34:49
to just slot right back in and do what he was doing.
34:53
Amazing yes, minutes are gonna be great.
34:56
The sharks have been actually really good recently.
34:59
Like they're they're very competitive.
35:01
They're both of their goalies are actually doing really well,
35:04
which is surprising and they're splitting half and half is like
35:06
Ashcroft gets one game that gets the next game and both goals
35:09
have actually been putting in good performances, which is
35:11
rather surprising given like the decor on this team is not great.
35:16
Like we talked about earlier in the season in the in the
35:19
preseason, it's not good, but celebrity is a tank excellent,
35:23
the second best player on this team if he's still available on
35:26
your waivers, like there's a lot of guys that I'd rather have
35:29
excellent over. So definitely go check your
35:32
waivers and I think would you rather like Eklund or I mean,
35:37
these are easy decisions, but like all the the Chicago guys
35:40
that are on waivers right now, like the Burakovsky's, the
35:43
Bertucci's, like you've got to take over them.
35:46
No, he's a good one actually. I'd rather have a Clint than
35:49
Barbashev. And Barbershop has been nuts.
35:51
Yeah. Yeah, if you have Barbashev and
35:54
want to try and do A1 for one, I feel like you can pull that off.
35:57
I ranked them fifth in my Pacific Division rankings.
36:00
Nor their rank. Where they ranked?
36:04
6th but still. Oh, he's good.
36:09
OK. So good.
36:11
Yeah, Blues rank janky. Alright, next.
36:15
Moving on. Yeah, Ryan Nugent Hopkins will
36:19
miss at least one week and has been placed on IR.
36:21
Zach Hyman is returning this week and will take his spot on
36:23
power play on the old one in one out.
36:26
And until both of them are back, Jack Roslovic will be the one to
36:29
get the last spot on that power play.
36:31
And Roselli's popping off. It's really annoying because I'm
36:33
playing him this week and this is like the one week he's going
36:35
to be relevant. But but yeah, I know he's a
36:37
someone had asked if he's a good stream for the week and I hadn't
36:40
heard about the RH injury yet and I knew Hyman was coming back
36:43
and I'm like 1 Simon's back. Roselli's useless because if
36:46
he's on the power play 1 doesn't matter to the even strength
36:48
deployment, but but then with the RH injury now he's useful
36:52
until until all those guys are healthy.
36:54
So definitely an interesting streaming pickup, especially for
36:57
a four-game week, although one of the games has already been
36:59
played at this point. Do you think Ross Levin has any
37:01
value once Hyman and Nutra back? Because you seem like you had
37:07
some, but he's like different. Like he's not just a Tomasek,
37:10
you know what I mean? Like he's not.
37:11
No, I mean, we've seen this so many times with like, so many of
37:14
us. Down.
37:16
He's better than. Thomas So what about like a
37:19
mangiapane? Victor Arvidson what it was in
37:21
that spot? Jeff Skinner, like it's it's all
37:23
it's all guys who are like exactly like this kind of player
37:26
and he's nothing special compared to those guys other
37:28
than to his friends and family, I'm sure.
37:30
But we like, we don't know. We don't know, Maybe, maybe they
37:35
hate him, you know, but. You know what it is, though, I I
37:38
totally agree with the fact that he's like the same level of
37:41
player as those guys coming into it, but he's actually producing.
37:45
He didn't hit one. Oh yeah.
37:49
But not only that, I mean, last game, two points, no power play
37:53
the game before 2 points, one power play, right.
37:56
So yes, of course that's a big part of it.
37:58
But there's a chance that like I'd say like I would still
38:03
roster him when they come back if you're in a deep enough
38:05
league but don't have like the longest leash.
38:08
I know what I mean. The one of the biggest traps in
38:10
fantasy is this guy's playing with McDavid slash Dreidel at
38:13
even strength, but not on the power play.
38:14
Like he's a must pick up. And then they do thing, you
38:16
know, so like, look, Russell has had stretches of being a good
38:19
streamer in the past. Like when he was in Columbus, he
38:21
had that one like hot streak. And then so over the years he's
38:24
done stuff. I think he has no longevity.
38:26
I think it's right him until he's hot and then drop him and
38:30
then just be happy with what you got.
38:31
Out but don't drop him like right away if he gets bumped off
38:34
power line. Give it one, maybe 2 heroes and
38:36
then drop. Them exactly.
38:38
Yeah, exactly. OK, lastly but not leastly,
38:42
Victor Hedman is day-to-day with an injury, Darren Radish taking
38:45
his spot on power play one, but he actually already add it.
38:47
While Hellman Headman was healthy.
38:49
This was something we saw last year, right for to get the team
38:52
bump in there like let's move our elite power play one
38:55
quarterback, team captain off power play 1 and put instead
38:58
Darren Radish so. Who's getting scratched and
39:02
plays like 8 minutes a night when he's not on P?
39:04
One exactly and isn't even like an offensive defence and like
39:06
who is this guy? Why is he getting power play 1?
39:08
Looks like it doesn't make any sense.
39:11
Of dirt on the John Cooper, there's no.
39:13
Other way Exactly, Yeah. Anyways, honestly, like this is
39:17
a weird case where this is such an elite power play normally.
39:20
I mean, they've been kind of mid this year, but they'll turn it
39:22
around. But I'm just I'm not like dying
39:23
to pick up Darren Radish, even if headwinds out for like a week
39:26
or two. Like I just, I don't see it.
39:29
I would say Headman has already has this spells of like even
39:32
last year we saw him getting bumped off people one at certain
39:35
points. He also goes through dry spells
39:37
and then is sick for like a month and then another month
39:40
he's not as great. So he's definitely not the
39:43
Victor Hedman of like 3 or 4 years ago.
39:45
So you have to definitely alter your expectations.
39:49
But I think right now, I think it's a good buy low, but as long
39:52
as you're buying low. Like what's a throughout a?
39:56
Like if you could do love love. Chanoff plus that's really low.
40:00
I mean, it's not. That I don't like.
40:01
Disagree. I like left.
40:03
No, I like love stuff, but like, you know what I mean?
40:05
That's like a guy who just got picked up off waivers type.
40:07
And you still you managed to flip somebody like that.
40:09
I'm not saying impossible, but like you think that's how low
40:12
you can get. I think you could do Morgan
40:14
Riley for Victor Hedman right now.
40:15
I just traded away Morgan Riley and.
40:17
He's like what you do. Weeks.
40:21
Eric Carlson, Victor Hedman. No.
40:23
Really. I mean, maybe that's just my
40:25
bias, but wow, Carlson has played 25 minutes a night and
40:28
he's shooting and. She's got this pair from working
40:31
right for. Victor had yeah cause Jasper is
40:34
gonna get hurt again. OK.
40:37
No doubting. I'll take Hedman overdose.
40:39
Yeah, the power play exposure. Yeah.
40:42
That only get done especially cause they're both not power
40:45
play 11. Yeah, apparently not a.
40:48
Should do at Carlson for. You probably should and I've
40:51
honestly if you think if you send that it gets done.
40:53
No. Why can't they just put Hagel
40:55
there? Is it a radish?
40:56
It's actually. Understand.
40:57
Like, it's 5-4 words. It's so bizarre.
41:01
Yeah, this happens all the time. And then Headman ends up back
41:04
there, so yeah. Alright, Kevin, take us home to
41:09
the Would you rathers, everyone's favorite part of the
41:12
episode. Yes, they would rather segment
41:14
the best segment from Bangor Management if you made it this
41:17
far. I've heard the Hot Topic segment
41:19
is creeping up in people's rankings.
41:21
Nothing like you rather, right? That's what we have.
41:26
Like to do some good ones this week.
41:29
Funny enough we've actually talked about a lot of the names,
41:31
so maybe some extra relevant context here.
41:35
But as always, I try to split the difference between Jake and
41:38
Josh and get them to pick a different player, meaning I
41:42
maybe I should get hired by Vegas to put some betting lines
41:45
out there. I don't know, Let's see.
41:46
But the one from each position. Let's start with the left
41:50
wingers. Would you rather and get your
41:53
comparison wraps? Yeah, absolutely not.
41:55
I'm looking down because I found my comparison app ready.
41:57
Thank you. And by comparison app, we mean
41:59
probably your regular fantasy app.
42:03
Would you rather Brad Marchand or Alex Debrincat rest of
42:07
season? Wow.
42:09
This is great. I know that Marshall has been
42:11
super. Hot Marshall has been super hot.
42:15
All right, let's get let's get a look at what's been what's been
42:17
going on with these guys. And Marshawn just got the right
42:20
wing eligibility as well, so he's left wing, right wing.
42:23
So yeah, so I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go with Debrincat on this
42:29
one. Firstly, all the credit to
42:33
Marshall, who is, you know, seeming like Old Marshall, like.
42:38
Right scoring at will right now. Yeah, 3-4 years ago he was like
42:41
a first round pick in most fantasy drops and then he fell
42:45
off considerably on Boston and. Like Channel 700.
42:50
Yeah. But the The thing is that his
42:53
goals are really where the bulk of his points are coming from.
42:57
We always talk about how goals are not sustainable.
42:59
Yes, they need someone to score. And he being the veteran
43:02
presence that he is filling in, doing the job that he needs to
43:05
do. But obviously 1.2 goals per game
43:09
over the last 14 days. Two points goals, our goals OK,
43:14
I was looking at a season average, which is also one.
43:16
Yeah, no, it's 1.2 goals per game over the last 14 days,
43:19
whereas the brackets got a nice balance, four shots on goal per
43:22
game. We know he's a shooter and I
43:24
like Detroit. I mean, maybe they're performing
43:26
a little bit above their level right now, but he's on a really
43:29
good line playing with Patrick Kane and he's.
43:33
Going to be just got. Power Play 1.
43:35
He just got moved to line one with.
43:38
Yeah, even better honestly. So he's going to be power player
43:41
one there, which which is a loaded power play.
43:43
It really is. So I think it's just a safer
43:46
option. And I actually really think that
43:47
if you have Marshall, you can send them for Debra.
43:49
You'll be happy with that return.
43:51
I. Might be able to get to bring to
43:52
plus. I'm going with to bring it also,
43:55
I think the point is going to at worst even out at like expect to
44:00
bring it to end with more than Marshall Pimms.
44:03
If your lead counts, that is a big edge for Marshall shots is a
44:06
big edge for to bring it. I think the three that Marshall
44:09
is doing, I expect them to be closer like let's say 2.52.7 or
44:12
as it brings at 3.9 and I think that's maybe drops down like
44:15
3.5. But still he's gonna have a big
44:17
edge there. Power play points definitely
44:19
giving the edge to Detroit. They've had a top four power
44:21
play last year expected to slow down, and Marshawn gets one hit
44:25
over to bring kids like .1, but it's not that material, so I
44:28
went with the Brink. Yeah, I would have been closer
44:31
if I put Caulfield over the brink, the Caufield instead of
44:35
Marshawn. Yeah, that would be a closer
44:38
one. I think.
44:39
I would crawl field over the brink.
44:41
I think the Brink kid is like set up he his shooting volume,
44:45
honestly. Like we haven't seen Cofield hit
44:47
the heights that we expect from him this season.
44:49
Yeah, I'd I'd place a safe bet that the Brinker gets more shots
44:53
than Cofield this season and then all the power players
44:56
you're gonna give the edge to to Detroit for the power play
44:59
probably. So that's just the points.
45:02
So. Yeah, that's, that's a closer
45:05
one for sure. Yeah.
45:08
That's where I think I would probably choose choose coffee
45:11
over there, but to bring it to really good.
45:13
Yeah. So yeah, Yep, also to bring it
45:15
for me, but Marshawn is like a clear cell high right now.
45:17
Like, yes, popping on all cylinders, if that's even.
45:21
Yeah, that's good in English. All right, let's go with the
45:24
next one. We're talking about the centre
45:26
position, two guys we mentioned on this podcast.
45:28
Somehow, someway, who would have known?
45:31
But would you rather Nazem, Kadri or Rupe hints rest of
45:35
season? Ohe, easy hints.
45:36
Yeah, yeah. That's, that's easy.
45:38
I thought maybe with the line 2 deployment you would have a
45:41
little bit more ambiguity. Calgary.
45:44
We're like Poojari. See, Jiggy?
45:47
That's how you do it. Leave it to the professionals,
45:52
OK? Ohk God, yeah, there's no
45:59
there's no like comparison between the teams as why you.
46:01
Gotta go. What about he Sure hints.
46:04
You can't. You can't have do overs.
46:06
Yeah, you missed, you missed, but I'd actually go he sure, I
46:10
think. He should.
46:13
Interface Open league. I'm going higher.
46:15
No face off win league hence. Hence yeah, I think at this
46:20
point I go hands over he surfing and no face off in league.
46:22
We love he sure as a bi Lo check out the you know, most recent
46:27
Bilo episode where he makes an appearance.
46:29
However, there's no competing with the Shaw volume and I think
46:33
hints is really good in that domain.
46:34
You said to Josh earlier it was like a really good.
46:36
Observation. Maybe we don't know.
46:38
Thing with the assist guys, he may be shooting more right?
46:43
And we just don't know. The hits, the shots are
46:45
sustainable. Well The thing is that with
46:47
versus Heather specifically, even if hints drops the shots,
46:50
he she's not a shooter so I'm not worried about her passing
46:53
him. Exactly.
46:55
Hey, Kevin, what's next? Next one defenseman position
46:59
OHB. Would you rather?
47:00
I mean, this is gonna be a slam dunk as well.
47:02
I feel like yeah, sorry. Victor Hedman or Lane Hudson
47:06
Lane. Lane Hudson, baby.
47:09
Yeah, the one who's actually on power play 1 and not injured and
47:12
not washed. After the way, way ahead of of
47:17
Hudson in your in your fantasy leagues, right like he was.
47:19
Not an iris. I mean, he was Hedman's like a
47:23
yeah. There wasn't any of us who did
47:25
it, but fair was a half one so. Yeah.
47:27
So where's the question here is where's the line with Victor had
47:30
been now? Like would you rather have been
47:31
or his cannon and he's been just popping off.
47:35
He has just. Partially wrecked by his skin.
47:38
And this past week. It was brutal.
47:40
The one week of fantasy relevance he's had in the past
47:41
five years. But I mean, at this point, I
47:45
feel like he's solidified that Dallas power play and they're
47:48
popping off. I think I gotta go.
47:50
He's going and I would never thought that I would say that.
47:54
Had been or John Carlson. I go ahead, man.
47:58
Really. OK.
48:00
I'd probably. Carlson there, certified Caps
48:02
hater. That we.
48:04
Know Sergachev? Sergachev overhead.
48:08
Sergachev So that's what I'm saying.
48:09
Philly Hedman is completely falling down the rankings.
48:12
That's why it wasn't crazy that I'm taking Eric Carlson overhead
48:14
men like it's making me rethink my my take.
48:19
So you're like sending it and then cancelling it and sending?
48:21
It I didn't send it yet, but I was, I was like the name value.
48:24
I just gotta do that, right? I dropped Yeah Carlson in the
48:26
15th round. But yeah, I was kidding.
48:28
I know you take sadder overhead, man that.
48:30
Was yeah, I know you just want to rub it in.
48:32
You can't bring me down. I'm treating away all my all my
48:35
underperforming guys, but I'm getting value for all of them.
48:37
So you know outsiders and excellent my list.
48:39
I think Eric Carlson's a decent decent balance.
48:43
There I would take Hedman over Carlson.
48:45
Yeah, that's where I think it's like a.
48:46
Good. Are you expecting him to get
48:47
more points because Carlson will get more shots?
48:50
Absolutely. And he's on a part where that is
48:53
definitely like. Not I just not necessarily so
48:56
bad. Like I said, I really want to be
48:57
buying the Penguins as a, you know, this resurgence, but.
49:02
Admitted Dougie Hamilton. It's tough.
49:05
Hedman. It's tough.
49:08
To Hughes. Probably, probably had been.
49:10
Honestly, I think Doug is just a headache tone right now.
49:12
First of all, there's a whole injury thing, but then also.
49:14
As if Hedman is not on P2 right now.
49:17
Yeah, but like, it's Darren Radish and like.
49:21
All right, let's move on. Yeah, what else you got?
49:25
Goalies Jake is gonna love this one.
49:27
Would you rather Stuart Skinner or Samuel Montalbo?
49:33
Montevallo. Monte Skinner.
49:38
And I have double shell. I'm like extremely anti tandem.
49:41
But I'm so annoyed. Like there's just ridiculous
49:44
like all the weight he lost. Like not a thing.
49:48
Apparently he actually has a. Mustache.
49:51
Mustache is actually the source of his powers.
49:54
He has to do like Panera and just he shaved his parent,
49:57
shaved his head and got his powers back.
49:59
Skinners gotta either grow a beard or shave the mustache.
50:02
Something's wrong here. He he just can't get it
50:05
together. I don't know why they they don't
50:07
just trade for a decent goalie after all.
50:09
This I believe that inside Carter Hart, honestly, it's.
50:11
Crazy have Connor ringworm. That's true.
50:14
OK, so question on this. Last week we said we'd rather
50:17
Dobesh over month, you will clearly.
50:19
Well, I think Josh. Said Montana.
50:21
I'm pretty sure. You said Johnson Montalbo too,
50:24
I'm pretty sure. OK, so it was close enough to at
50:27
least have the. Conversation.
50:28
It was. It was.
50:28
It was. Yeah, so they keep giving.
50:31
Wants to build the starts. I'm still picking Dobesh because
50:34
he's better and he's performing better, and they just want to
50:37
give it to Monbo. It's the same situation.
50:39
They just want to give it to Skinner.
50:41
But Skinner is just nuts. Like what?
50:44
What's the deal? Like, I get it.
50:46
Like, it's not easy to be a goalie, especially when the team
50:49
is primarily offensive and they're gonna score a lot and
50:51
still win games. Did you guys see the McDavid
50:53
goals last night? Oh my God it's ridiculous dude
50:56
on my team. Columbus had the lead going into
50:59
the end of the game and then letting what was it like 2 short
51:02
handed goals in the last few minutes for them to like lose
51:07
the lead and then have to go to overtime.
51:09
Yeah, Skinner got the win, but he led in like 4 goals in like
51:12
19 shots. 1414 shots. This is absurd.
51:18
That's too easy. Good.
51:19
But he's on the team that's gonna make content for someone.
51:23
Yeah. No, no, look.
51:25
I thought this was important. Go ahead, go ahead.
51:27
Edmonton starts off slow, so I will say that they're gonna get
51:31
better. Same with Saint Louis, although
51:33
I'm considerably more worried about Saint Louis.
51:35
But Edmonton's going to get better and he's going to get
51:37
more wins. And that's all fun and dandy,
51:39
but the the percentages are just just absurd.
51:42
And like any game, you can have an absolute dud and still have a
51:45
win. So I'm going to get to take
51:48
Montalbo because I think the Habs are more of a shutdown team
51:50
defensively. Montana is a better goalie than
51:52
Skinner is and the reason that Skinners just not a #1 goalie in
51:59
the league, whereas Montalbo could be but much lower end so.
52:03
Yeah, I. Think it was also same for me.
52:06
I think it was worth raising the question because last week we
52:08
talked about Dobesh and what we were expecting this tandem to
52:11
look like. And then Dobesh had one bad
52:13
game, they went to Monty the next game, Monty had a good
52:16
game, They're playing three again.
52:18
So it looks like, it looks like it was just Dobesh until Monty
52:22
configured his stuff out. And looks like, I mean, it's one
52:24
game behind us. They're playing again soon.
52:27
We'll see if it keeps up. But I wouldn't be surprised if
52:30
you know, Monty falters and then Dobesh gets the next game after.
52:34
So we're not. It's not all systems go.
52:36
Dobesh is the clear back up again.
52:38
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
52:39
But Skinner is just bad. Yeah, Dobesh cried, by the way,
52:44
So much he cares. And there's a lot of blame them
52:48
for it. Yeah, what?
52:50
The Habs media flamed them for it.
52:51
Like, oh, why did we have a goalie crying when after like a
52:54
regular season loss? Like we cannot have that in in
52:57
the locker room or whatever. Like does he know men aren't
52:59
allowed to show emotions? It's just like, it's crazy.
53:03
Jacob, you're you're. Yeah, yeah, I'm getting that's
53:06
that was clearly sarcasm. It's OK.
53:07
Hope the Oilers trade for him and then he go to his goes to
53:10
win a cup with them that May. Happen.
53:12
No, I want to have still in, Yeah.
53:13
Whatever, not after flaming Jakob for showing how much he
53:17
cares. Yeah.
53:19
Spicy one. Would you rather Stuart Skinner
53:22
or Scott Wedgewood? Wedgwood.
53:24
Wedgwood. Ooh, OK, so you mean the starter
53:27
for the Colorado Avalanche that I dropped because you guys made
53:29
me? I mean, I'm still not.
53:31
First of all, no one made you drop him.
53:33
I don't know, just noise is gonna be the start of with
53:36
Blackwood. I still don't think he's the
53:37
starter. I think they're easing Blackwood
53:39
back in, I think which was a great cell high right now
53:41
actually such a good opportunity to be like look backwards back
53:46
and which would still getting the starts.
53:48
He's the starter for Colorado. Yeah.
53:50
So I think he's a great sell high if you can.
53:52
OK, let's go to the next. One rather Skinner over
53:54
scholars, though I will say I'd rather so large that I don't
53:58
like the Leafs. I don't like the leaves town on
54:00
that much. And you like dinner?
54:03
No, no, no. Not at all.
54:04
No, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't put words in his mouth.
54:07
Kevin yeah, that that's not it. It's just that I.
54:10
Dislike some less. Exactly, exactly right.
54:14
And we're Bennington. That's what I'll say that.
54:16
OK. This last one I think is the I
54:19
saved the best for last, I think, yeah.
54:21
Would you rather JT Miller or Tom Wilson in a bangers?
54:26
League. Yeah, that Josh just treated JT
54:30
Miller for Connor McDavid, guys. Tom William Miller was my first
54:34
round. Yeah, JD was my first round pick
54:37
this year. I thought he was gonna be great.
54:39
I thought he was gonna get the points.
54:40
He's a great at bat. Cats Rangers are the best
54:42
playoff schedule and he's been garbage.
54:45
He's been actually awful. I'm so happy he's off my team
54:48
and I got McDavid in return. I had to give Tage 2 as a big
54:51
pay, but like, I'm pretty happy with it, how it's going so far.
54:54
The Rangers got back Trocheck, which was like, OK, maybe
54:56
that'll boost things. They score six goals.
54:58
You know how many points got? 0.
55:01
Zero because he is cooked. That's how I know we've seen the
55:07
like, he was like 0 points. Yeah, now JT is still a great
55:12
buy low. He's not gonna be this bad all
55:13
season. I'm just riding the high of
55:15
getting him off my team from McDavid.
55:16
But Wilson is just so underrated in terms of like, kind of like
55:22
we're talking about Trocheck earlier this episode where, you
55:25
know, you don't think of them as like necessarily the same level
55:28
of some of these elite guys when you look at the end of the year
55:30
and they ranked like 10th and yearly Bangers League.
55:32
So Wilson's that kind of guy. JT is too, though.
55:35
But JT just kind of sucks this year.
55:37
So I'm going to Wilson, but maybe it's just a certified JT
55:40
hater now. Yeah, You know, I mean, fair,
55:44
all fair points. And I didn't realize how great
55:47
Wilson's been doing. Shows his combo is amazing.
55:50
His pins are gonna be fantastic. And if he could still hover
55:52
around .8 points per game like he did last year, which is a
55:55
step below what he's doing. He's currently at one point per
55:57
game. But JT has years and years of
56:01
elite pedigree. Maybe he's got to be angry to
56:05
perform. He was not happy in Vancouver
56:07
for a while and he's like elated to be in New York.
56:11
But the. Yeah, you still got to give it
56:14
to JT because of the years of production.
56:17
I think that's yeah, that's where I'm at.
56:19
How about you? How do you think?
56:21
This is I'm going, I'm going, JT, I just feel like you have
56:24
to. Tom Wilson is a beast.
56:26
I had Tom Wilson all my fantasy team last year and he was
56:29
arguably the best pick that I made last year in the draft.
56:31
Like I think I got him in the eighth round in our league,
56:33
which was, yeah, that's gross. But I think the deployment
56:36
obviously is steady. He's producing like he's not.
56:39
He's not a by law at all, if anything to sell high.
56:41
But you kind of you can expect what he's doing currently to be
56:44
what he does, just maybe with slightly less points.
56:46
And just like, can I, can we compare some cat comparisons to
56:50
see why we go JT Like, hey, shots, who's getting more shots?
56:53
Wilson for sure. Who's getting more hits?
56:55
Wilson. Who's getting more Pimms?
56:57
Wilson. Who's getting more points?
56:59
Probably JT, but probably not that far apart.
57:02
Who's a more faceoff wins JT. So other than the face off wins,
57:05
why are we picking JT over Wilson?
57:08
It's a great question, Josh. You know, I'm just saying, just
57:13
like if you put it that. Way, I think Russell Wilson.
57:17
Yeah, J doesn't shoot. He's been shooting more this
57:18
year, but I don't see that last thing.
57:20
He said 2.6 to Wilson's 2.77. So I don't think it's like that
57:24
crazy and and Wilson has like, I mean he's not a shooter
57:28
necessarily. He got like two shots on.
57:31
The last year that had like 1.9 shots per.
57:33
Game, but that was a disaster. Last year he was way better than
57:37
he was then. He's doing this year.
57:38
Yeah, yeah, I I hear you. Like this is a real disaster
57:41
too, but at least I still hope, I think.
57:44
Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not gonna fault you for picking like
57:46
I picked him in my first round, you know, like I obviously had
57:49
high hopes for him and I think he does turn it around.
57:51
I just think Wilson sick and I also just hate JT so.
57:54
Yeah, Wilson a SEC though. Yeah.
57:56
OK. Should we wrap this up?
57:57
It's pretty cool. Yeah, Let's wrap it up.
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