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Alright, let's let's get started with our hot topics for this
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week. OK this weekend pretty hot
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preface. What hot topics is?
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I don't wanna be that guy, but I have to ask, is it preface or
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preface? I think it's preface.
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I think it's. A preface.
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Yeah, exactly. If you're, it's actually an
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Italian word, so. Everyone a lot of people say
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preface but I I just wanted to ask because we're big pre facers
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or prefers on this podcast. I think I depend on the
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sentence. I read it as preface, but I say
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it as preface. Anyway but you.
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Know. Anyways, what is hot topics?
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Hot topics is this is just names that keep popping up this
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usually the past week, everyone's talking about them.
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They have dying questions all about this one player, two
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players who are in a similar situation, whatever, something
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like that. So we just like to sometimes
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it's not always a specific question that we get and it's
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not always something newsworthy happened, but it's just good to
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talk about some players that a lot of people care about.
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So that's kind of where we're at.
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So this week on our Hot Topics TM, we're starting off with
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Jackson Lacombe, who, fun fact, used to be a forward.
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So yeah, it's actually pretty crazy stuff.
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So the reason he is a hot topic is and I'm Ducks are just nuts
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so far this year, right? They're ranked #2 in the league
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and they are scoring about a touchdown a game.
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It's crazy. The offence is popping off Leo
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Carlson, Cutter Gautier, Chris Kreider, you know, like every
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Troy Terry, like they're all getting in on the action and
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Jackson Lacombe is getting like one point, like one assist when
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they're putting up like 14 goals.
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So everyone's wondering like I have the power play 1 defenseman
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on a team that's just going absolutely nuts and he doesn't
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seem to be getting involved in a lot of the points.
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What is going on? Are there better days ahead?
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Is this just what to expect? Is Olin Zellweger coming for his
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job? Like there's so many things
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going on with Jackson Macomb. So what do you guys think about
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JL? Personally, I love that we
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always start the Jackson Lacombe thing with a real nice preface
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that he used to be a forward. These three or forward?
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Yeah, you need the context also. Be surprised every time somebody
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says it, like as if you've never heard about it before.
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Yeah, this is the hottest of topics.
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Just the Anaheim Ducks in general.
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My favorite team other than the Canadians to watch this year.
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So good. But look at Detroit, who's also
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a super hot team. Insider is just not joining in
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on the fun yet, right? It could be a similar situation
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with a really offensive what? You know that meme where it's
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like someone just gets a shot fired like a rap, like a random
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stray at someone and like what you say of me for you, it's like
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me being the slider owner in our league and you just bring him
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up. I don't know where to say how he
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sucks. Anyways, it's a very similar
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situation and if you but but but let like look, it's it's really
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obviously been disappointing for for him so far.
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That being said, I think it's a combination of what's gonna
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happen is that Don's gonna slow down and he's gonna get a bit
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better. I don't think Seliger is gonna
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really make a run for the power play one after getting there.
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Anaheim's winning and he got paid a ton of money.
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That's a recipe for continued deployment.
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It doesn't necessarily mean yeah, exactly follow that money.
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It doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to be like a point
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per game defenseman, but better days are ahead I would say.
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Yeah, I think when it comes to Lacombe, he was one of those
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names that like Frank Nazar, his name is just always super highly
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touted for the production you're getting.
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People think like I feel after the contract in the offseason or
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earlier this season, it's just people are putting him on a
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pedestal being like, I'd rather look over this guy, look over
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this guy. His category coverage right now
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is basically the same as last year, except with .2 less points
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and .2 more power play points. So like the math, not math.
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And I think the shots and the blocks that you're getting or
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where you can expect, that's not really why you were rostering
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him. I'm not encouraged for Lacombes
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like Outlook. The good news at least is that
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his power play production has been good.
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Like it's hovering around .3. So for a team that's that's.
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Really good. Yeah, but he's doing he's
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points, you know .45. So 2/3 of his points are on the
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power play, which is not sustainable, right?
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Like nobody, nobody averages that.
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So you expect his point threshold to be higher?
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The power play at least stays the same.
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The thing is you're worried when anime is doing all this good
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stuff and he's not getting it on any of the action, it's kind of
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concerning. I'm not threatened by Zell
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Worker, but would I be surprised if weeks down the line when the
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power play is not clicking as much they change things up?
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Like I will not be surprised. So that's in the back of.
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My prize I'm not I mean it seems like my kind of opinion is
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usually there's no way someone's coming to your serp this guy
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like not this year. I feel like that's usually Jakey
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who like says it's gonna happen and I'm always like no, it's not
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happening, but obviously it does happen sometimes as we saw with
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the whole left Shanoff thing, but but in this case I really
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don't see it. I think that first of all, like,
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even if he's not touching and getting any points on it, if the
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power play succeeding like it is now, they have zero reason to
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change it up like there's and the winner.
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If he's not, yeah, that's like the team cares if Jackson comes
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not getting points on, you know, the power play, but the power
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play scoring, they're just happy the power play scoring.
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So I really don't see him losing his spot.
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I think people were overly hyped on him to going into the year.
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And it's funny because somehow the Ducks are doing way better
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than expected, but he's doing worse than expected.
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All that to say, his points are going to go up, but he's not
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necessarily the most exciting fantasy asset that everyone
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thought he was going to be. OK, we lost Kevin because I
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guess I went on for a bit too long.
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My bad. Try and be more succinct next
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time. Let the.
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Net would you say of me for? Yeah, exactly.
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Did we actually, like, lose him? Is he not in the recording?
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Kevin, can you hear us? No, he's gone, but he'll.
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Come back, he's gone. Yeah, yeah.
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He'll come back though, don't worry.
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OK. We can keep going into it the
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next one and we'll give our opinions.
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Then he'll hop back in by the time you get to it.
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So the next hot topic for this week is Thomas Harley Muro.
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He's gonna of the Dallas Stars. I feel like this is such a
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talked about topic, but like I feel like my opinion at least
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just tides in general are kind of shifting against what I would
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have expected to start the season.
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So going into the season, first of all, I wasn't too high on
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either of them because both of them are there and they were
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challenging each other. But I definitely thought that
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he's going is super overrated for fantasy and that Harley
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would have a really good shot at taking the power play 1
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deployment from him, but he's gonna just put up an unreal
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week. Dallas is shoot like firing on
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all cylinders and their power play is really clicking and he's
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a big part of it. I really think that the Thomas
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Harley Dream might be dead, at least for the next like month or
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two. Yeah, yeah, I OK, I agree.
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And the thing with this is that they both make a lot of money.
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They have big contracts. It doesn't necessarily mean that
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because Harley has the newer, slightly more money, flashier
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contract that there's any staple for him on the Power Play 1.
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He got it last year. But if Haskins performing and
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Dallas is winning, there's no reason for them to take him off.
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That being said, I don't think Harley is like a drop or
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anything. His archetype fits exactly,
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Yeah, exactly. And look like look, we love
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we're here for fantasy hockey. But the the slight discrepancy
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between fantasy and real life is comes in the form of defensemen,
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as we spoke about a few weeks ago.
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You know, a good centre who's amazing IRL, as Kevin pointed
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out, is filled to know right? Like he doesn't do anything for
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fantasy but the Hobbs and want to give him that .5 million
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extra. And then it was a whole
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catastrophe. That being said, they got $2.00
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is too awesome IRL defensemen and whoever is like the hot
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hand, I think they're gonna ride it.
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So keep Harley around. But yeah, Haskins.
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Would you Would you keep Harley in a league that doesn't have
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blocks? He's way less valuable, but I
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think most leagues have blocks. I think even in OK, in standard
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leagues, blocks are there in the hits are not there.
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OK, So it's just one of those things, but.
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Personally, I'm not keeping him in a league without blocks just
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to answer that. His value is completely, I would
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say negated at that point because that's the thing that is
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best at besides the potential upside.
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But with this situation with Dallas, the question was always
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his performance. We like, I no doubt in my mind,
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if Harley was on the power play, it would be performing just as
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well as it is currently. So the, the the question isn't
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is he capable? The question is, is his can then
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doing enough to keep a job? Last year and previous years he
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has not been doing that. But this year, clearly like they
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went with it again, I think Harley's best shot would have
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been if he started on the power play and then he would have just
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kept the job because it's clicking so well.
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But the fact that he's getting started there and then he's
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doing so well. Like you said, Josh, I think
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it'll be months before we get a different, like we get an
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opportunity for harder to take the spot it's gonna be.
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It's gonna take an injury or a complete drop off in
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performance. OK, next hot topic.
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This one we've touched on already a bit, but let's dive
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into it a bit more. Our team loves Chanov, Tyler
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Bertuzzi, Andre Burkowski, Connor Bedard, Chicago
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Blackhawks. What the heck is going on?
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Bedard is the GOAT. Sophomore slump is over.
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He's no longer a bust. What's going on guys?
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Police said yes, sizzling is the right word, but we said we said
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Bar was one of the biggest breakout candidates.
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If not. To put his number one or #2.
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We put him as #1 because somebody of his pedigree had yet
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to average a point per game in his career.
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This was going to be the year and what we were hesitant,
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right? Didn't really surround them with
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star-studded talent. Like it was just kind of another
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bunch of mid level wingers, right?
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But right now they're all scoring.
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So I think it's hot right now, but I don't expect this to last.
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I think Bedard's production, I'm really encouraged and like his
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category coverage is pretty lit. Like I'm in on Bedard, I'm in on
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Bedard. He's gonna be a superstar this
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season. But the pertussis, the
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Burkowski's, like the lessons. Like you stream while it's hot
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and you you hold the power play one quarterback, but these other
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guys will be streamer level guys on a weekly basis when the
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schedule is nice. I just feel like anyone like if
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Bedard's going to keep playing at a similar level, obviously
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he's like playing out of his mind right now.
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So maybe it slows down a bit. But if he this is really his
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breakout, then I feel like anyone who's on line one power
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play one with him is worth holding on to and rostering
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right now. That's Bertuzzi and Burkowski.
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We've seen them like shuffle the lines a lot in the past.
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So I do think one, if those guys get bumped off power play one or
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line 1, then I'm much more comfortable dropping them.
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But for now, I'm definitely not dropping like it's a two game
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week right now for Chicago and I'm holding on to Berkowski
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because I just think bars that killing it.
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Right now just it just depends where the floor is.
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Like for me it's would you rather Burakovsky or Jordan
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Eberly? I mean, I have both.
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So yeah, it's, it's tough. I feel like Everly has better
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backups, but right now Burkowski's just popping off
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points wise. So guess who do you expect to
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last long on your team? Abberly.
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Exactly the same thing with Kyle Palmieri like these guys are.
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The name is less flashy, it's less exciting because Chicago is
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popping off. But I still expect.
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While Burakovsky slash Bertuzzi is line one, power play one.
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I'd rather have them. I just think their spot is less
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secure than these other guys you mentioned.
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Which non Bedard player are you most excited about on the
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Blackhawks? Probably lotion off.
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I think it's just the hardest. I mean, not just to make you
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happy, Jackie, but that's always a plus.
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It's just it's hard to find a power play one quarterback
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defenseman than it is to find a forward who plays on power play
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1. Yeah, so I think he has.
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He's more stable to this than the others.
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I know he just got it, but the others have been on this team
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for years at this point. And I mean, Burakovsky's new, I
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get it. But just in general, like,
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there's no real reason for me to believe that anyone else is
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stapled to the power play one except Bidard.
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And I think Love Shanov is the one who's gonna stick around the
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longest. Second overall pick, been super
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good this year, so I'm actually really, really excited about it.
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Yeah, I agree. It's also the fact it wasn't
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just the defenseman aspect, but like you said that he's the most
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likely to keep his deployment. That's a really good point.
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Let's go on to our next hot topic.
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Joseph Walsh, Anthony Stolarz. We talked about this a bit on
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our mailbag episode, but. This is news.
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Sorry, this is the mail back. I'm so sorry news episode and
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would you rathers, but Wallace back this coming week.
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So what's going on? What's the split gonna be like?
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Is it worth rostering either? Is it worth rostering both if
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you guys want to want you want to give a quick rundown of what
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we had kind of decided on up there episode.
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I think it's 5050. We're not overly excited about
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either, but we think Stolarz is gonna be better because now he's
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gonna have less games to start. That being said, if I had to
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choose one, I personally would go with Wool because installers
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we have like the sample size of him not being that great this
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year and I think there's some unknowns with Wall that may
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actually prove to be decent value.
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I'm just really not high on the lease.
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I had them out of a playoff spot in my divisional rankings coming
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into it. I maintain that I think the
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Marner loss is massive. So yeah, I would pick Wool, but
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I'm not overly excited to own either of them.
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I I think it's going to be, I mean, we touched on this on the
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last episode, but clear picture right here.
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I think it's going to be a 5050 split like Jackie said, but I
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wouldn't be surprised if one goalie gets a better run than
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the other when they're in form. This Toronto team has not
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started off the season hot. Like they're looking for some
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success right now. They're looking for a savior and
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maybe it's still ours when he has less workload.
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Maybe it's Joseph Wall who's coming back.
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It wasn't an injury, don't forget.
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It was just kind of like it was like a personal situation.
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So it's not like he's rehabbing from anything.
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He just needs to get his mind in the game.
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I think getting some starts with the Marlies going to help and
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then we've seen him be honestly, like he had some real quality
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last year when he came back from injury.
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I think at the end of the year he kind of stole, stole a bit of
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a games from Solars. So I would not be surprised if
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the same thing happens this year.
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Yep, fully agree with what you guys said last hot topic Sean
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Monahan add eventually. We also kind of touched upon
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this in the news episode, but this one we've been talking
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about, I feel like every week it's just as family gonna do it.
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And he finally got that line 1 deployment and is power play 1
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to follow is a big question. Jake, you let you go first
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because you're done, boy. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm loving
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these hot topics. Let me tell you these these are
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fantastic. Benihana's got nothing on this
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sizzling hot topic trick. Yeah, I'm not surprised that
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they're giving Fantilli the opportunity to prove himself as
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an amazing offensive player. Marchenko is the number one guy.
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Anyone playing with him is line 1, even if it's not technically
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line one on your insert website where you see lines of NHL.
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So will the power play 1 come out for Chantilly?
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Sooner than later, yes. It's not gonna be Monahan
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necessarily because Monaghan plays a role that I don't know
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if they want Chantilly to play until he's got a good shot,
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whereas Monaghan's probably gonna be more net front.
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Ken Johnson's just been a huge disappointment There's.
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So there's two outs for Chantilly to get the power play
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right. In my opinion.
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It's most likely going to be Chantilly taking it over
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Johnston. Johnston, sorry.
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That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if they shuffle it
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around and he's going to see it at some point.
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I just don't know when. Nevertheless, pick him up only
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35% owned. So yeah, I love him.
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I like him in all the formats really eventually.
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I think he has a lot of upside. He has some category coverage to
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him as well. I think he's really good for the
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shots. But at the Monahan especially,
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Monahan was super 1 dimensional. Like you were getting a lot of
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face off wins, you were getting double digit face off wins.
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But last year he hovered around a point per game.
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Monaghan, which we know what this deployment can do on this
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team playing with guys like Mark Franco is the star power is
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there. But clearly this year it wasn't
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really clicking as much. Monahan was averaging close to
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half a point per game. So you can say that it's a buy
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low, but he just lost his line one, right?
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So definitely not ideal and I think Fantilli could run with
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the situation. I'm curious to see what
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Monahan's value is like if he's aligned to PP1, how good is he
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for fantasy? I think I just don't see it
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being as such a much more appealing situation and if you
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already lost line one, that means the crack is there for
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maybe he loses PP1. If I'm a Monahan owner, I'm
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trying to get out as soon as possible before the sorry Josh,
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you just traded for him. But Josh, he was throwing in
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your trade. He's.
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Not there wasn't. He wasn't the centerpiece, no.
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You're not the centre piece, but if you can flip Sean Monahan
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for. Yeah, give me a name, I'll send
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it out right now. Good name like Amazon make top.
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Should you do that? Who you know is probably not
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getting P1, but you're gonna get the banger category coverage,
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which is crazy cause I feel like earlier in the season you would
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have traded me sometimes 4 Monaghan given.
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Yeah. But you know, you have to
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reevaluate as the season progresses and things change.
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Yeah, that's tough. I still like, I lean towards the
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guy who has power play 1. I don't, and I don't see
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Mctavish having any line towards.
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Breaking, but how long? They're probably 1 for.
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It's just, I really don't, I mean, look, we don't know, but I
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really don't see Chantilly coming in like Monahan being the
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odd man out. I think like at the end of the
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day, he's already been there for so long.
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He was really successful there. And they need teams need a face
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off winner on their power play. 1.
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I don't know if you guys noticed it only lasted a game, but Utah,
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Kevin Stenlund on power play one because they were like, we're
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losing too many faceoffs and we're never able to get zone
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possession like right off the start of the power play.
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So teams really care about that. So I really don't think
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Monahan's gonna be the one to go.
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They love having two options on face off also.
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So it's not like just because family could come in and win.
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Them doesn't mean they don't also want Monahan there, who's a
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better face off guy anyways. So I think Monahan still has
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value. I think if you expected
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something like last year from him, then you're gonna be
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severely disappointed. Honestly, you should have never
20:40
expected that going in. It was a clear, clear ceiling
20:43
for him. But I don't think he's like a
20:46
drop or anything like that either.
20:51
All right, that concludes the hot topics.
20:54
Now let's dive into our mailbag. Let's try and fire some of
20:57
these. Off got some good ones this
20:58
week. Oh yeah?
21:00
All right, so the corporal on Reddit asked should I trade away
21:03
Macavoy for Hagel in a Bangers cats league with Pimms?
21:06
Quick answer, yes, absolutely. But I do like, especially as a
21:11
defenseman with Pimms. Yes.
21:13
No shade to Macavoy, but Hagel was a clear Bilo for awhile.
21:16
I think he's starting to pop off.
21:18
So I'd be surprised if someone does this.
21:20
But if someone in your league is willing to take this and run, I
21:23
don't think we need to talk too much about that.
21:26
Um RG3392-ON Reddit asked. I currently have 5 injuries.
21:30
Sounds like someone we know. Matthew, Kinshuk, Dalene, Hyman,
21:34
Raquel, and Gudis but only have three IR spots still sounds like
21:38
someone we know. I'm at 3:00 and 2:00 like in
21:40
season record so far and Hyman should be back soon.
21:43
Should I hold a dead roster spot or drop goodies for someone like
21:46
McNabb, Pianc, McCabe lol Just to give you an idea of guys who
21:50
are defensemen who are available on the waiver wire.
21:53
So I think I would do that. I know Gus is great for the
21:56
banger cats, but but he you're not going to win any weeks with
22:00
this like and it depends like what your opponents look like.
22:02
Maybe they're very injured. My personal opinion would be
22:05
that good. This is the most dispensable and
22:07
I know it sucks, but yeah, I would I would do that for like a
22:12
Pianc or McCabe. I think that I read that Gudis
22:17
is back soon. Like I don't know if soon means
22:21
two weeks, but I'd be surprised if it's longer than that.
22:24
They put them so they. Are, but it was retroactive.
22:26
So like he can be activated at any point.
22:28
But the fact that we as of this recording, I don't think we have
22:32
news on the timeline. I think it's more ambiguous and
22:35
there's kind of indefinite, but not like season ending type of
22:40
thing. Like we don't know what it is,
22:41
but it's not serious. Yeah, so I guess the way I see
22:46
it, if I was in your shoes, I hate drop in someone like that
22:52
because I do think he has a lot of value in a bangers league,
22:54
even though this year he's not as good as he's been in the
22:56
years past. But at the same time, it's
22:58
really hard to hold a dead roster spot.
23:00
I don't know, personally, I would be patient.
23:03
If you feel like your team is going to struggle to make the
23:05
playoffs, then I would feel comfortable dropping him.
23:08
But if you're usually like, you've been in this league for
23:10
years and usually you're pretty comfortably making playoffs, you
23:13
had a really good draft and you have the luxury of holding a
23:15
dead roster spot, that's what I would do.
23:18
So I mean, I have personal experience with this.
23:20
I'm currently in this situation. We have three IR spots.
23:23
I had 6 injuries. I had, you know, Trocheck,
23:26
Brika, Chuck, Josh Norris who were staples on my IR and then I
23:31
had Raquel, Zach Benson and who else.
23:35
I mean I had Romanoff for a while then Romanov came back now
23:37
was England and I didn't drop any of them.
23:40
To me, I was in the boat where I just had too many that even if
23:44
I, you know, drop the one, it wasn't making a difference.
23:47
My matchup, right. So at that point I just like I
23:49
lost 114 last matchup because I had so many dead Rossy's pods.
23:54
I I fell in the standings, I fell, I dropped a lot of points.
23:57
But The thing is, my point, my, my team is not better off
24:02
cutting these guys, trying to make an impact this week and
24:05
then being way worse off in the future where I'm giving these
24:08
valuable guys to my opponents who are not dealing with the
24:10
same injuries that I'm dealing with, right?
24:12
So my, my only, you know, success outcome is holding these
24:15
guys and then making up the value later in the season when
24:17
they're coming back. So in your case, Hyman is back
24:21
this weekend, which is good. And Josh, I think you're echoing
24:27
now. Oh no, yeah, my Airpods died.
24:30
Let me see how it goes. The phones.
24:34
But in the meantime, all that to say, Hyman's coming back.
24:37
I think if you had to drop anybody as good as, but I think
24:40
he's significantly better than those other guys on waivers.
24:43
So I would try to hold out one more week at least for some
24:46
extra information. Yeah, but like take gudas versus
24:49
like alien Bushell sure is available in this guy's league.
24:54
I hear you, but. Michelle is just a hits guy.
24:57
And and good, as you're saying, as the blocks.
24:59
Yeah, good. Has the blocks as well.
25:01
So far this season and it's 1.71 blocks for Michelle and one
25:06
point, sorry, 1.71 for grades, 1.25 for Michelle.
25:10
So and Bushell is more Pimms than Gudis.
25:12
So to me I'm like, you know what?
25:14
This is obviously the one I'd cut because the other guys are
25:17
really, really excellent to Chuck dully and obviously you
25:21
got to keep them Hyman, Raquel as well.
25:23
But Gudas, I think you will find hitting guys like Colton Doc,
25:28
I'm pretty sure down here, he's a monster, you know what I mean?
25:30
He hits everything. So to me I would say goodness is
25:34
dispensable and then that way at least you can mitigate some of
25:36
the blow for now. Yeah, OK, so I've got a bit of a
25:42
mixed bag there, but I feel like I will say Gus has been a bit
25:45
underwhelming this year, so I don't think it's crazy to drop
25:47
him. Let's move to the next one.
25:49
We've got Prince Venom on Reddit asked in an 8 team league with
25:52
goals, assists, points plus minus power play points,
25:55
game-winning goals, faceoff, wins, hits, blocks.
25:57
Should I drop Fox or Harley for Truba?
26:00
If not, how long do I hold on to these guys before we even get
26:03
into it? You're not dropping Fox and
26:04
you're holding it for the whole season.
26:05
So let's get into the Harley versus true because that's the
26:07
real question. I I mean, it's an 8 man league,
26:13
88 team league. So honestly, that just means
26:16
there's gonna be a lot of quality on your waiver wire.
26:19
A guy like Harley is completely dispensable in my opinion.
26:21
Like a guy like Truba, you just streamed the hot position from
26:25
that point because the replacement value is so, so
26:27
high. There's going to be guys on
26:28
waivers that outperform the guys on your roster on a nightly
26:30
basis infinitely like this, unless like you're starting like
26:33
30 guys on a weekly, like every night right in the eight team
26:37
league. The waves are just going to be
26:38
ample, ample, full of quality Truba.
26:41
Absolutely. I'm streaming ahead of Harley
26:43
and then when Trump slows down, I'm cutting it.
26:45
I'm streaming somebody else or there's going to be better
26:47
production on the waiver wire. At that point.
26:48
Fox, you do not drop. I know he's more one-dimensional
26:51
when you're talking about like all these categories, but he's
26:54
on a Rangers team that not only has the best playoff schedule,
26:57
but he's going to be one of the defensemen that is going to
26:59
contribute to most points. Honestly, he's been pretty good
27:02
this season thus far. I feel like he has lived up to
27:04
what you expected from him. He's just not a hits guy.
27:08
The blocks have been there. The shots have been OK.
27:10
Like, I think you're getting exactly what you expect from Fox
27:12
and you know, one that on my team.
27:14
Yeah, when I said don't draw Parly earlier, that was more for
27:17
like 12 or 14 men, like leagues, like like 12 teams or 14 teams.
27:22
You know, Truba is roster able now and I would take him over
27:26
Harley unless you have like 35 or 40 roster spots on your team,
27:29
which you don't. So yeah, take Trump over Harley.
27:34
Yep. OK mass chingon on Reddit AST.
27:38
I'm in A10 team bangers league and I need a defenseman.
27:41
Should I trade any of Boldy Jarvis or niches for Arensky?
27:47
I don't want to treat natures I don't want I treat.
27:50
I think boldly for Oransky is close and that I singled out
27:53
boldly because he has the worst playoff schedule, a lot of these
27:55
three guys. So I'm thinking long term as
27:57
well. I think if you had to give me
28:00
like a player right now for the rest of the season, like no
28:02
schedule, I'd probably take boldly over Jarvis.
28:05
It's definitely close. But I think nature isn't here
28:07
above both of these guys. But we're Ensky is arguably a
28:11
top three to five defensemen rest of season as well.
28:14
And he hasn't put out the numbers that he did last year.
28:16
But we didn't expect that to hold.
28:19
I love Arensky. I think this is a good trade.
28:21
I think you're getting fair value.
28:24
I agree. I would do boldly Jarvis, but I
28:26
would probably keep Natus. Oh no, sorry.
28:29
I would definitely keep nauseous.
28:30
Yes. And yeah, Boldy Baldi, I would
28:35
rather, I would rather Warenski than Boldy.
28:38
And I think if you absolutely need to, if you really need a
28:40
defence when you could do the Jarvis Warenski trade.
28:42
But to me, I'd keep natures Jarvis and then significantly
28:47
less Boldy. Yeah, I agree with everything
28:50
you guys said. All right, Intelligent invite 3
28:53
on Reddit asked in a Cats league, would you take Nasar or
28:56
Heinemann? I'm definitely taking Heinemann.
28:59
I think Nasar was a big sell high.
29:01
Heineman, he's not going to necessarily keep up the points
29:03
that he's been doing, but just the brackets are unreal and he's
29:07
like a great guy to round out your roster with.
29:09
His his shots and hits have been nuts.
29:11
Nasar, we said it from the beginning.
29:13
This is not the type of profile that is sustainable.
29:16
You also just got bumped off P1, which is huge for his first of
29:20
all points value. And that's really why the only
29:21
reason you were rostering him, the Blackhawks power play is
29:25
going off and he's on PB2. Like you do not want to see that
29:28
if you still have Nasar. I'm trying to get out as much as
29:31
possible. Try to sell them on, you know
29:33
the flashing name of like waiver wire to rags to riches type of
29:36
thing right? Get him off your team.
29:38
I would rather have Heineman. It's funny you say the fact that
29:42
he's like P2 and like the power play 1 is popping off and I just
29:44
picture, you know that like Squidward meme where he's like
29:46
looking at. This is Paul Robert Patrick like
29:50
running with the with their things and he's.
29:52
Yeah, that's like Bedard and left Shanov skipping through and
29:56
these are just looking through the window.
29:59
OK, Ian O2 on discord asked. I have too many players and
30:05
would like to package A2 for one using Marshawn and Geeky.
30:08
Who would be a good player to target?
30:12
Well, we just talked about Marshawn before.
30:15
I think Marshawn and Gigi for Debrincat gets done.
30:19
Yeah, but but that was like, I don't know, you may be
30:23
overpaying there a little because I think like you could
30:26
give less good than geeky and still pull that off.
30:29
The thing is like, he needs to open up a spot.
30:31
Like he's desperate and geek. He's probably like his worst
30:33
player, like right, If he's talking about these two guys,
30:36
like. Do you think there's any world
30:39
where you can get like Brayden Point with these two guys?
30:42
Yes, I think Brayden Point is one of the still the Best Buy
30:46
lows. The owner and hourly does not
30:48
want to sell them. He's convinced that he's valuing
30:50
him as if like he's been on a tear.
30:52
So Josh is about to pull off a trade, I'm sure.
30:57
Not not, I'm trying. I just got couture off, so I'd
31:00
love to. I'd love to stack them together.
31:01
I'm sure make it happen. Then you'll probably send your
31:03
two best waiver guys. But nonetheless, yeah, I think
31:07
you can get point. I think you can potentially get
31:10
Reinhart. I just traded for Reinhart in my
31:12
league. I think you could target Jasper
31:14
Brat, who I also just got in a trade.
31:16
I think both of those guys are they don't have a sting to them,
31:20
but the owners are definitely not happy.
31:21
Like it's been pretty inconsistent as of late.
31:24
I'm not worried about Brett at all rest of season.
31:27
Reinhart definitely has more question marks to his name given
31:30
like no Barkov and he's been. His value has definitely
31:33
fluctuated recently, but I would I would trade both of these guys
31:37
for them. And I'm just when you're doing a
31:38
2 for one and you need to open up a spot because you have too
31:41
much talent on your team, like yeah, I don't mind doing an
31:44
overpay for a trade just to get the better player because I know
31:47
I can stream production. I'm confident that my ability
31:50
and also like the value is just not there on your own team
31:54
because you need a spot. So I would do.
31:57
Those are some of the names that I would do.
31:59
Yeah, Dylan Gunther is a decent one as well.
32:02
Yes, I like that a lot, especially with the whole
32:05
getting bumped off power play one for a game scare.
32:06
You couldn't like sell it like oh look he's not even a lock
32:09
when like they realized how dumb that wasn't immediately fixed
32:11
it. So I like that a.
32:12
Lot I would say though, that you know, if he has so much talent
32:15
that he's trying to do package to upgrade his team is probably
32:18
stacked. That means probably has a good
32:20
try to make the playoffs and then are you going to be happy
32:23
with Gunner team and two weeks in the championship?
32:28
Probably something a good point. Yeah.
32:31
Because they will say that Boston has the best playoff
32:34
schedule, tied with New York. They also have a 444, which is
32:36
why, like, normally I've geeky on my team.
32:38
Normally I'd be sending out so many offers because he's such a
32:40
cell high. But I really like the playoff
32:42
schedule and I don't think he's this type of cell high who's
32:44
gonna drop off completely. So I'm holding on because of
32:47
that. You could get cut or go to.
32:49
No. No, he's way too hot.
32:51
Good, he's. Marshall's been hot.
32:55
Yeah, but go to go to is ridiculous right now.
33:00
So I think that's I think that's rough.
33:02
Also. I mean, we, we spoke about this
33:04
in a previous episode, but aim for aim for Trojak.
33:07
Maybe Jason Robertson. Josh just did Jason Robertson.
33:10
Yeah, but I like Trocheck even better.
33:12
If you can pull that off, that'd be amazing, and I don't think
33:15
it's impossible. Would you trade them for JT
33:17
Miller? Yes.
33:20
I would, yeah. Yeah, what about Ovechkin?
33:24
He's washed. He's washed.
33:27
I don't know. You can still get Panarin.
33:28
I don't know Forza. Gran would be a good one.
33:33
For these are all good things. Well.
33:35
Sounds like a flash of light behind you.
33:37
Are you getting conducted by a UFO?
33:43
It's yeah, yeah. My God.
33:47
Alright, next we've got keeper CAT4 on discord asked in a
33:51
points league, when you're down but not out in a matchup, is it
33:54
better to pick up a goalie or a goalie with a good matchup, or a
33:58
forward with scoring potential as a Sunday hero?
34:02
I oftentimes in a situation like this will go with the goalie
34:05
because the the I want to say like the points are more
34:13
reliable to come. Like, you know, he's gonna get
34:16
shot and, you know, is gonna get saves.
34:18
Whether he gets blown out or not.
34:19
Like that's a different question.
34:20
Obviously you want to stream a gallon a good matchup, but the
34:23
points is never guaranteed. So that's where my mind is.
34:26
So I'm like, if I need a safe bet, I'm going goalie.
34:31
If I'm really down and out, then maybe I go with a forward that I
34:34
know has some scoring ability. Just in our in our league.
34:38
I think it was Week 2 where somebody Sunday streamed Charlie
34:43
Lindgren for a like 31 save shutout and then completely
34:46
flipped the match up. So you never know what can
34:48
happen with the goalies going off like that.
34:51
Yeah, it's also so league dependent, right?
34:53
It's just like, OK, you said points, it's not a category, but
34:57
that's scoring format, all that stuff.
35:00
In a bangers league, it's close, right?
35:01
Because you can stream someone for shots and they could get you
35:04
that and at least have one category mitigate the damage.
35:06
But in a points league, if you know that there's a guaranteed
35:09
start from a goalie, look, if it goes badly, you're gonna lose
35:13
anyways. And if you're looking for a Hail
35:15
Mary, at least you have someone getting the reliable starts.
35:18
Whereas for a player, it could still be straight zeros, even if
35:21
it's McDavid, you know what I mean?
35:23
So at least you're getting somewhat of a floor with a
35:26
potential high ceiling. I would go with the goalie.
35:28
I go with the goalie as well and obviously this is a points
35:30
league. I think the only question here
35:32
is like what are the goalie points?
35:34
Like is it like .2 for save and like 5 points for a win or is it
35:37
like 3 points for a win? Or do you get penalized for a
35:39
loss? Like take that into account, but
35:41
answer goalie I think. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
35:44
Goalie has the most upside. All right, Perry on Discord
35:47
asked, is the Connor Bedard breakout finally here and do you
35:51
think this continues? We've already talked about this
35:53
a bit on our hot topics. I think we all agree that the
35:56
breakout is here, he is him, uppercase him.
35:59
And yeah, I'm definitely interested in anyone who plays
36:03
with kind of regard on line one or power play 1.
36:05
I think Bedard is like a second round pick next year.
36:09
Can I can I give you some names and see if you'd rather like
36:11
where we joined up with our line real quick?
36:13
Before you do that, I don't think that the pace of 128
36:17
points is sustainable just to say, but I actually don't think
36:22
like a hundreds impossible. Which is saying something
36:24
because it's surrounding cast sucks.
36:26
Maybe they'll bring in someone good at some point during the
36:28
year, you never know. The reason I really like it
36:31
though is because the vast majority of production come from
36:35
assist, yet he's shooting a lot. So I think like the goals can
36:39
have an uptick and he can be really, really great.
36:43
Yeah. I'm curious for your list.
36:44
Let's work our way up. But the order?
36:46
Matt Boldy. But our.
36:49
That's a tough one, but I think I go bizarre.
36:51
OK. Bidard or Jake Guentzel?
36:55
Bedard. Bedard I like Denzel, but I like
36:58
body better than Denzel. Bid order Tempe.
37:04
Bedard. Yeah, let's keep it rolling.
37:06
Let's go guard. OK, Bedard or yes for rat?
37:15
JV. TBI.
37:16
DHL, The Bedard. Really.
37:24
So Josh, when you run. I think that I think Brad gets
37:30
more points and more power play points, but Bidard gets more
37:34
shots and more faceoff wins. So I think I probably for this
37:41
year, I'll say Brat, next year, I think I could actually say
37:46
Bidard. Kajaki, since you also said
37:48
Bidar, Bidar or Highlander? That's good.
37:54
I'm going to Willy Styles. That's good.
37:56
That's good. I'm like extremely high on
37:59
Bedard but. I could tell, I think.
38:02
I think we're gonna. Stick around value right now.
38:04
I think I'm gonna go Nylander, but I wanna hear you your next
38:07
one. And don't say nature because I
38:09
got a soft spot for nature. That's just me.
38:13
I mean my next one is probably Nature is the perfect name or
38:18
Marner. I'll take the take over Marner.
38:23
I take Kneeland over Marner as I take Newlander over Marner as
38:26
well though I don't think. That's crazy.
38:27
Another drink is a Mariner hater.
38:28
Yeah, crazy. I don't hate Marner.
38:31
Reinhart. He didn't feel like he didn't
38:33
tell us that you were least fan. No, I think, look, guys,
38:38
bodyguard. Why Johnson.
38:41
Yeah. Or Bedard?
38:42
Bedard. Johnston's nuts, though.
38:44
He should be a. Top three I think nature is the
38:46
is the the next. Like natures, Orbit are natures.
38:52
OK, we're all over the place. Let's move on to the next.
38:54
Why? Why?
38:55
What did I say? What did I say that was so crazy
38:57
about nature? Like who?
38:58
Who of the people you named are better than ninjas?
39:02
Marner. No.
39:05
I think you're you're, I don't know where this Mariner heat
39:07
came from, but. It's it's just like his shots
39:09
are not nearly as reliable and and I I think Nylander.
39:13
I don't think Warner nature is pretty crazy.
39:15
I don't think that's crazy. I think it's very close.
39:17
Yeah, and Nylander over Marner. Nylander got 1.77 points per
39:20
game this season. That's.
39:21
Ridiculous. You know, when I said we're all
39:23
over the place, I mostly meant we're getting on a crazy
39:25
tangent. We should keep moving.
39:26
Anyway. Badarn, where's the line?
39:29
I'm very high on Bedard, but I think nature says the line
39:33
somewhere between Nylander and Najis.
39:36
But hey, I'm there with celebrity as well and I don't
39:39
think celebrity to Bedard is such a crazy mix, right?
39:42
Like I'm higher on celebrity, but I think because.
39:45
You will meet Team Canada. Yeah, which is not crazy.
39:48
That's nice. Yeah.
39:49
OK, I'm moving on to the next one.
39:50
Yeah. Why?
39:51
Swan 7934 on Discord asked what should I do with Freddie
39:54
Anderson if the three goalie situation on Carolina sticks?
39:57
If there are no good goalies on waivers, am I better off
39:59
dropping him and streaming goalie starts?
40:01
Yes, drop him. There's he's not.
40:04
OK, I'll say my opinion. I think he's a drop.
40:07
I think any goalie that's part of a three man rotation is a
40:09
drop. And especially when he's not the
40:12
main guy of the three. I think it's pretty clear.
40:13
Checks the main guy of the three at this point, and Freddy's made
40:16
of Glass and Carolina. We've talked about how they're
40:18
not the best for goalie. That's even though they put up
40:21
wins. For all these reasons, I'm very
40:23
happy to drop Freddie. I'd rather look he's gonna get
40:25
you Max one start a week. I'd rather just stream a guy
40:27
with a good matchup that week. I think, OK, that was the thing,
40:30
right? Because I mean, I remember
40:32
answering why Swan in the Discord and he basically said
40:35
like the available guys on his waivers right now are like you
40:39
have to scream like an Eric Comrie on a back-to-back type of
40:41
thing. It's not like you're not picking
40:43
up a Columbus goalie or something like that.
40:47
Like nobody would reliable starts just basically streaming
40:49
on back to backs, would you? Rather them and with that.
40:52
OK the thing with with Freddy though is that I feel like he
40:55
always has. He has the upside of like a
40:58
Brandon pussy getting sent down or something and he just like
41:02
ends up having a floor of two stars per week type of thing
41:05
where? And even if they go to two
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goalies and even if it had two goalies is 5050.
41:12
Which I think is also like dedicating one ad every week or
41:16
multiple to goalies to not only hit your stars, but also compete
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in that category. So I think the value of having
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that ad used for your forward and streaming there, whereas
41:26
yeah, Freddie is not going to get you more than one start a
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week. We're just streaming that other
41:30
start anyways. So I think honestly, like given
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the situation, I would keep Freddy and keep the flexibility
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of using my as however I want. The first thing.
41:42
Is dropping Freddie. But I just I hate having a guy
41:44
who's gonna play one game a week on my team.
41:46
And sometimes, like if Caroline has A2 game week and the
41:48
rotation falls a certain way, then Freddie gets 0 games in a
41:51
week. That's just answer spot.
41:53
It sounds like his league of super deep.
41:54
Eric Comrie is like Freddy's on waivers and hours and we have a
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very deeply still, I mean like if he was cut worthy right at
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the end of the day. Ask Rob and Elvis over him.
42:06
Yeah, At the end of the day, if it's something that you have
42:13
have like that, if it's not deep of a league and you have nobody
42:17
else good to pick up, then yeah, that's rough.
42:19
But if you have decent players, I would definitely do that and
42:23
then go for the stream. So that's where I'm at.
42:25
I see where you're coming from, Kevin makes a lot of sense for
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sure. And look if Blissy does get.
42:32
And it's not like that covers the pinnacle of health either,
42:35
like another injury and cachet comes back into the spot that he
42:37
had before. I'm just saying, like I think
42:39
the floor is high enough that you're getting similar
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production from what you'd be streaming.
42:42
So that I'd rather just hold the spot and not have to worry on a
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weekly basis of like, first of all, hitting my stars, getting
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the production and also like having the flexibility.
42:52
Does that mean you can't stream better production?
42:54
Absolutely you can. You probably could.
42:56
But for me, it's the stability of the situation.
42:59
Yep, let's go to the next. OK Shepard Commander on discord,
43:03
in a points league, how do you feel about having no extra D or
43:06
just one goalie? I have a lot of forwards with
43:08
guys like Trocheck getting healthy.
43:11
I always want 2 goalies at least if you have two goalie spots.
43:15
I think that's just depending on what your league format is.
43:17
But in 99% of leagues like you want at least two goalies.
43:20
But I don't hate just 4D and no extra DI.
43:23
Think that's very feasible, especially if you have a star
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team where you have a lot of value in your forwards.
43:27
I don't hate that at all. Yeah, I'm with you there.
43:30
Yeah, that's usually how I run my teams as two goalies 4D and
43:33
then just thrust forwards. OK, easy peasy on discord asked
43:38
is fetch truly back from the shadow realm?
43:41
He's got increased time on ice, line one power play 1 and is
43:44
putting up good numbers. I think I could take this one if
43:48
as the switch holder in our league, but also the one who
43:53
just dumped him. The way I see it is switch at
43:57
the start of the season was the lowest of the low you can was
44:01
putting straight zeros. He had terrible deployment and I
44:03
knew that wasn't gonna last. I'm not surprised.
44:04
I'm surprised that line one, power plate one, I expected him
44:07
to land on line 2 power play one, but I'm not surprised he's
44:09
made his way there. At the same time, I wouldn't be
44:12
surprised if he makes his way back to line 4 power play 2 at
44:14
any moment, right? Rod is kind of just crazy with
44:17
that stuff. I do think Switch is kind of
44:19
getting into the tune of things. I don't think he's gonna be as
44:22
bad as he was at the start of the season, but I do think if
44:25
you can sell high on him now and just not have the headache and
44:27
sell him for someone who's just more guaranteed deployment than
44:30
I would, and I did. I sold traded Fetch and Faber
44:34
for Jason Robertson and I'm feeling pretty, pretty
44:37
comfortable with that. I'm with you there.
44:41
I think you, I think you used this increased production over
44:43
the last week and a half and you trade them.
44:46
You trade them as much as you can, which is only once.
44:49
But yeah, I do not want the headache of, you know, yeah,
44:55
it's nice while he's line 1 and then he gets bumped down the
44:57
line 3 again or four and then you're you're cooked.
45:00
So I I'm capitalizing on this now.
45:02
And that doesn't mean special won't have value rest of the
45:04
season. That won't mean you won't be
45:06
good. That won't mean you won't be
45:08
elite. But if you can trade them right
45:09
now for what he's been doing and the promise of what he was
45:12
drafted to do, and you get like a reliable As for the rest of
45:15
the season, like I'm cashing out on that.
45:17
Yeah, 100%. I am looking forward to not
45:20
having to talk about Sketch as much for the rest of the season
45:23
now that he's on my team. Next, we've got Yoshi's Woolly
45:27
Worm on Discord. Ask.
45:30
Some of these names, it's amazing.
45:33
In a Cats league with wins, goals against, average save
45:36
percentage and shutouts, which three of these five goalies
45:39
would you want Sorokin decored? Allen, Wall, Askerov, Tamie,
45:43
Sorokin and Discord are the easy ones.
45:45
And then of the other three, right now it's looking like
45:48
Askerov is the best of the three.
45:49
Alan my last 1. So it's really between Wall and
45:51
Askerov and I'm leaning Askerov. I mean, I think, I mean, I like
45:57
Askarov a lot. I have him in our league, so I'm
46:00
a little biased now, but I picked them up instead of
46:02
Freddie Anderson. So he's in a similar situation
46:05
where he's starting every other game, but right now it's been
46:07
like a week or two that he's actually giving you quality.
46:10
I agree with Josh. I think Decor and Sorokin are
46:12
the two most guys, but I think Wall is in that conversation
46:15
too, like he's going to be in a similar situation to ask her of
46:17
just on a team that's supposed to be better.
46:20
So he will be better than Askerov.
46:23
It's potential right now. You got to take the value ahead
46:25
of you and maybe you mustache wall and you have the
46:28
opportunity to decide after, but I think Alan is the clear cut.
46:32
Yeah, I'm with you there. I'd probably lean Askerov as
46:36
well. And I mean, look, they want him
46:40
to be the starter, so I know they have it.
46:43
They tried and it didn't work, but now they're good again doing
46:46
the tandem thing. So we'll see if it ever becomes
46:48
him as a starter. And being good is a question
46:50
mark. But it's got the highest ceiling
46:53
and what's looking like the highest floor because the sharks
46:55
are not bad. Yep, Yep.
46:59
OK, Jordanian discord asked what is your current favorite jersey
47:02
in the NHL? OK, ignoring other than the Habs
47:05
because we're all Habs fans. My favorite is actually the
47:08
Florida reverse retro ones. The ones where like it's the
47:11
light blue with the palm tree. Don't know if you know what.
47:13
I'm talking about the Penguins jersey light.
47:18
Blue. Yeah, Actually, I don't know if
47:19
this were reversed. I don't know what they were, but
47:20
it was essentially, yeah, the light blue with the palm tree.
47:22
I love those. Those are pretty thick but OK.
47:25
No retro jerseys, just like classic current NHL jersey.
47:30
Uh, I mean, I think they have one of the masters is I don't.
47:35
I'm so we can't see the haves because it's our team.
47:39
Iconic though. I like the Rangers jerseys
47:41
though. I do, they're nice.
47:42
Do like the I like the colour scheme.
47:44
I'm a when I'm not a Canadian sports fan, I'm a New York
47:47
sports fan, so New York Giants. I'm gonna go with, I think I'm
47:52
gonna go with the wild. Actually, green is my favorite
47:56
colour. So I like the green and I think
47:58
the logo is just kind of high logo.
47:59
It's like the sunset with like the, you know, the outline.
48:02
And tell what the logo is when you're not looking at it.
48:04
When you're looking at it from far, you have to like, be
48:06
analyzing it to actually see what it is, yeah.
48:08
The logo, many layers. It's so, so sick.
48:13
I would probably I OK, I just need to say the retro the
48:18
Buffalo sabers with the Buffalo head is insane, So sick.
48:22
So that but and by the way, they were good back then.
48:25
So switch up the jerseys and see how it goes.
48:27
And you know what, let's do it. I like the Utah mammoth jersey.
48:33
Nice, I like it as well. It's pretty hype.
48:36
It's. Finally added bleachers to their
48:38
practice ring. So listen, moving up in the
48:40
world. Yeah, I I like it.
48:43
It's it's kinda looks like someone created it, like
48:46
creating a dynasty team on an NHL video game, but.
48:49
It works. I've made jerseys like that.
48:53
It works like so does Seattle, but I like Utahs better, so
48:57
let's go with that. That's fun.
48:58
OK JD whale on discord asked. I just made a massive trade.
49:02
I sent Panarin, Luke, Hughes, Schaefer, Dostal.
49:04
I think this was 2 trades combined into one but let's just
49:06
take it as a one. I sent Panarin, Luke, Hughes,
49:09
Schaefer and Dostal and I received Quinn, Hughes, Dorfe V,
49:11
Harley, Morrissey, and Cooley. How'd I do?
49:14
He killed it. I mean, JD, well, I was helping
49:17
him with his trade in a discord. He traded A-Team, was desperate
49:21
for goalie like nobody on the waiver wire.
49:23
He traded the style for Morsi and Cooley straight up.
49:26
That was a one for two exceptional trade in my opinion.
49:29
And then he treated, he treated Panarin, Luke Hughes and
49:33
Schaefer for Quinn, Hughes, Dorff and Harley.
49:35
That was a three for three. I think that's a huge win for
49:37
him as well. Obviously you're giving away
49:39
Premarin, which is him, and cues are going to be battling out for
49:42
who's the best player in this trade, But I think you know, the
49:44
points from the defenseman position there are really
49:46
valuable Luke, who's by far the worst guy in his trade.
49:50
Schaefer is nice, but I'd rather do effective over him and Harley
49:54
as a throw in to replace her Luke queues I think is a great
49:57
value. So exceptional trade.
49:59
Yeah, first of all, kind of fun. Kind of fun.
50:01
This. He traded Luke for Quinn.
50:04
That's cool. But yeah, this is a steal.
50:08
A big time steal. I mean, even if Harley becomes
50:11
essentially irrelevant, taking that out of the question, yeah,
50:15
I mean, it's monstrous. Huge win.
50:18
The Panarin is like the best name by far that you gave away,
50:21
in my opinion. And Quinn Hughes could get more
50:22
points than him. So as a defenseman.
50:25
Probably won't, but I'm a parent owner.
50:27
Somebody. Not impossible though.
50:29
It's not impossible, that's for sure.
50:30
It's so it. Depends, yeah.
50:32
What's his hair grow back or not?
50:34
You just gotta keep shaving it. That's it.
50:36
That's a good job, JD. Well, you did very, very well
50:40
there. Yeah.
50:41
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