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No, there you have it folks, I got.
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Them do you know the movie The other guys if I made a.
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Reference. Yeah, of course.
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The Mark Wahlberg, remember when they're like in the bar and he's
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That's exactly what I just heard when you said you're was like.
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Woo, that's what I was going for.
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So I've been practicing that. Or like medieval church cross
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between one of those. Alright, well, woo, welcome and
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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Yeah. And you do a lot of nickname
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worthy things. It's just like he's the last
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person I met. Just not that guy.
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Just flows better, like with the last name in the in the intro
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to, you know, give a. Yeah, welcome to Bangor
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Management, the fantasy hockey podcast with Dirty Josh and the
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Thanks for the F shack. With Jake 30, Josh and Kevork or
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Well, Josh didn't know you had a Prius.
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No, I don't whether the other guys reference.
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Yeah, we're going deep into the. Yeah, you gotta.
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Let me start getting to the hockey.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's what we're here for,
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y'all. Yeah.
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So you've got on your team, you've got your guys and then on
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waivers there's the other guys and that's we'll be talking
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about. Yes, streaming waivers or
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league. We're giving great advice.
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Yes, well said. OK, let's begin with yes, Week 4
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choices. Yeah, so we'll go over our
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choice from last week, as usual to keep track of how well we're
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doing and keep patting ourselves on the back.
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So last week, first, we had Dimitri, Veronika V of the
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Columbus Blue Jackets. He put up two goals, one assist,
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three points over the past week. Easy W, easy season, long hold.
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Easy Josh beating himself up for letting Kevin grab him off
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waivers first. Even started yet and I already
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spent my fab and you guys were like oh you already spent $4.00
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of Veronica, what are you doing? Boom.
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No, it was a great pick up. I had him last year and I I
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should have grabbed him. I knew he was good anyway.
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You had him when he was Voronkov.
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You never. Had exactly was actually so
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true. I didn't have his fully evolved
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form nicely add Will Smith The Fresh Prince.
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He put up two goals, 0 sis, 2 points another W again.
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This is another season long hold that I mean the sharks really
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popped off like Eckland celebrity Smith.
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I don't know if you guys realized, but their numbers are
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717273. No, sorry 73 to Foley, but that
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they have like. It's fun when they play together
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anyways. Well, Smith is a good figure.
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And then Emil Heineman, only one assist, but ten shots and 19
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hits. I'm counting that as a win.
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This is another in a bangers league.
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It's nuts what he's doing honestly in terms of shots and
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hits and only. Wanted him.
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Yeah, exactly. Line 1 and he's getting, you
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know, he got a sniff at power play one while Barzel got
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scratched from missing a team meeting.
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So yeah, I like kind of in a lot 3 dubs makes us 6 and no on the
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season. I like the way this is going.
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I would definitely listen to us for advice.
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Only good recommendations. Heineman is like what is this?
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This is insane. Stats.
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I didn't expect this amount, these amount of hits like he's
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just, he's trained his game A. Little you know, it's crazy.
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I'm pretty sure he got drafted in our league.
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Yeah. And then I think.
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Like not picked up words like straight up.
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Drafting We played the league with a lot of Habs fans so
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people know of the Hind. They know about Hein.
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Alright, let's get into it. Two game teams this week.
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We've got Columbus and New Jersey.
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Don't drop Brankov, just ride it out. four-game teams.
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Not gonna list all them because there's a lot busy nights
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Tuesday and Saturday. Thursday is not up to 20 teams
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playing so I'm not considering it.
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Usual schedule tonight. Brutal lately.
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Yeah, but this one's not as bad. Only two, only two busy nights
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this week instead of the three and then two off night teams is
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just too many to count. All the four, all the four-game
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teams have two off nights because there's only two busy
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nights and then a couple others. But we'll mention it when we get
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to the players. So let's jump into the top ten
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points, guys under 40% owned that we can pick up.
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I'm actually really excited about this top 10 and I always
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am, but I feel like there's some real interesting and good guys
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available in most leagues. Don't worry, none of them are
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available in our league. I checked.
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And we'll, we'll, we'll also give insight into if these guys
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are rest of season holds or if they're just like.
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Streamers, some of them are there's definitely both kinds in
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here. All right, Kevin, throat go
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welcome back. Start us off with. #10.
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Nice #10 We've got Anthony Cirelli of the Tampa Bay
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Lightning Line 2, power play 2. I'm not that excited about that
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deployment, but he's putting up the numbers.
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He gets to play with Hagel, who is pop starting to pop off as we
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expected. And you know what?
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I've always said that I'm such a deployment.
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I'm not gonna say the word because I don't wanna give work
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to anyone editing this to bleep it.
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But I love the power play, right?
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So I see a guy not on power play one or line one, I'm like, I
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don't want to pick him up. But the numbers speak for
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themselves. He did this last year as well.
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And it's kind of like Hagel who's not getting power play but
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still gonna put up great numbers.
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So I like Cirelli is a pickup. He goes on a couple hot streaks
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too and like the power play tube for Tampa hasn't been the worst.
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I would say it's like probably one of the better power play
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twos in the league. So he'll still get you some
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power play exposure. He's also playing like 20
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minutes and 90s on the PK's on the second unit of the power
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play. He's on the line to like they
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want him in crucial situations. He's so good at winning those
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face off. So he's starting a lot of
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defensive zone. He's just going to be on the ice
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a lot and that helps with the category coverage.
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He's not known for that, but he can get some blocks, you can get
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some shots and the points exposure is really nice right
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now. If you need a pure, see this
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upcoming week like he's a good option.
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But this one I wouldn't. I wouldn't hate to drop him if
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he goes on a cold streak. Absolutely not.
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Yeah, far from the season long hold, but with the deployment,
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yeah, it's it's a good one this week.
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Yeah. OK.
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Next we've got #9 and #9 we've got Marco Rossi, the Minnesota
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Wild. They've got a four-game week
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with two off nights line one, power play 2.
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There's another one of those where it's like he's not on
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power play 1, so I'm not that excited.
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But his even strength points great and he's been putting up
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really good numbers and they have a really good schedule this
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week. So for all those reasons, I like
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him as they pick up at least for this week.
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But this is another one that I don't necessarily consider a
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season long hold. He's only 27% rostered in Yahoo
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right now and as we speak like 3 power play points in the last
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four games, even on P2. It just goes to show that, you
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know, he can still make stuff happen.
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He's getting exposed to the best players on that on that team
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with Kaprizov and Boldi and playing line one.
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Like Ross is just one of those guys that it's not flashy.
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You kind of like he always teeters on being like a drop or
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a hold for extended periods of time.
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But when he's playing with guys like that, like he's worth a
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look, especially on four-game week.
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Yeah, this is also like not an ordinary 4 game week.
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They're playing very easy opponents.
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It's Carolina is a tough one, but other than that, you know,
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they have a very attainable schedule even over the next two
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weeks honestly. So I wouldn't even be in much of
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A rush to drop him. But for this one specifically,
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day Thursday, Friday, Sunday. So Saturday is a busy day.
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It's an amazing schedule playing the Predators, Hurricanes,
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Islanders and the Flames. Yeah, these games.
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Could three of those. Four are huge, yeah, huge.
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And even the Carolina one, like they're gonna need to score if
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they wanna win. So I think realistically this
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could be a massive week for him and I really, really like.
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It. That's the kind of analysis
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people come here for is they gotta score if they want to win.
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Yeah, yeah. I just mean obviously, like
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they're the toughest team they're playing.
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Yeah, and Minnesota is, look at the start, stacking some wins.
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So when you're playing, you have a week like this where you have
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a couple teams that you gotta beat if you wanna make the
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playoffs. Really interesting to see.
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Zuccarello should be back this week, so we'll see how that
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shakes things up. Obviously helps Ross, he's not
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on Power Play 1, so it's not gonna hurt him in terms of that
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already, but it might help him with his wingers.
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So we'll see what happens with that for sure.
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Alright, let's go to. #8. At #8 We've got a guy who Kevin
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outbid me on a few weeks ago, Kyle Palmieri of the New York
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Islanders Line 2 power play one only three-game week, but I like
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him a lot. The first thing I think that
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jumps out at me with him and the reason that both me and Kevin so
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much money on him is the time on ice.
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He's been doing around 20 minutes a night, which is just
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unreal for a forward who is not a big name.
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So I like the time on ice a lot. He's doing stuff with it.
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He's producing some numbers. I like his linemates playing
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with Brazil. So I think Palmer is a really
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solid pickup and this is one. This is again, it's not
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necessarily a season long hold, this one that I could see
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sticking around a lot longer than you would expect.
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He's the type of guy that, you know, you need a right winger.
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He's only 16% owned, so it's not that much.
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But if you're in a deeply, we play in the league where we're
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starting 20 guys on every night, like he's going to be a good us.
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Probably on my roster for the rest of the season.
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He's averaging .75 points per game, .27 power play points,
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three shots on goal. Like you can't ask for much more
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than that with the hit also thrown into that.
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So it's hitting those banger categories as well.
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I really like Paul Mary and I don't read too much into the
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line 2 deployment either. Last last game with Barzal being
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scratched for missing, he showed up late.
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So he got scratched for the game, which is not only
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punishing him but pushing the team to be honest.
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Like you gotta stack these wins. But they talked about how like,
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they want to be really good about punctuality and whatever.
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So listen, I get it. But he's still playing with top
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guys on that team. Like he's going to be a top six
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player in this roster for the foreseeable future unless
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something crazy happens. His ice time is really good if
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you need a right winger, shots some hits points.
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Like he's one of the better options.
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Yeah, and, you know, they're doing exactly the opposite of
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what I expected them to do. They have such a good goalie and
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Sorokin and, you know, coming into the season, I figured that
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if anything, they're gonna be low scoring and also low goals
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against and still be bad. So I was right.
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They're bad. They're lost in the
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Metropolitan, but they're fourth in scoring and last in goals
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against. So with the addition of
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Schaefer, who was a cell high on my list last week, I still think
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that he's as Ohai, but there are a lot more fun than they were
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last year. And Palmieri a good part of
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their offence. So it's a really.
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Normally I stay away from Islanders, but this year they
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seem to have some more offensive firepower.
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Definitely Shafer coming in is a big part of that.
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Absolutely and and I like what they're doing.
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I have fat on my team and he's been pleasant.
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Surprises though is under understatement.
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Right, so. I'd rather hunt for butter.
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Logan Cooley. I think I'd rather have that
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well has better offence, but I I like harvest back out but.
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I'm not taking offence, but anyways all that.
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To say, yeah, fair, like if you take out that stuff like that
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then I would rather coolly, but I think both of them were steals
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where they got drafted. The biggest thing for Islanders
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players this year is the power play.
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Like last year they had one of the worst power players.
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They were never getting any goals.
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And this year, like they're serviceable.
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So that already just like raises the floor for all these players.
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As long as Barzel can tell time, we're.
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Good, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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OK. Moving on to. #7.
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At #7 We have Jordan Eberly of the Seattle Crackin 4 game week
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with two off nights. Line one power play 1 this is
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one that I think I actually stole from Kevin off waivers.
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So you know, a lot of back and forth, a lot of recommending
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guys we've already picked up, right?
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Cause I mean, if that's not a way to show that, you know, we
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believe in what we're saying as well.
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We put our money where our mouth is, but this is one that's so
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surprising to me because he's so old and.
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He hasn't been. He hasn't been.
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Relevant fantasy, relevant in years, if ever and and yeah no,
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but he's really, really doing well to start the year .8 points
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per game .2 power play points he's 2.4 shots 1.2 hits and he's
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putting up he's the time on ice in its last three of his last
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four games he's played over 21 minutes that's crazy that's a
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crazy amount of ice time for a forward to be getting on line
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one power play one he's only 8% owned it's jumped up 4% over the
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past week, but I think he's got. To be recommended him two weeks
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ago when he was like 1% owned and we had people like pick him
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up and he ended up having a sick and they were all like thank you
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so much. Bang your manager recommending
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Jordan Everly and I was like, yeah, you expect from anger
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management. We recommend.
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The best please no. I love it cuz it feels so random
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but it feels like a diamond in the rough.
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This is like similar to Palmaria where I don't.
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It's not the same player. Exactly, it's like he doesn't
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have to be a season long hold, but I think he could stick
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around your line up a lot longer than you'd expect.
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Yep. Yeah, great pick for this week.
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Yeah, and there's like we have him, him and Paul Mary.
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Honestly, I feel like they're you could look at the stats and
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averages and they're literally the exact same.
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It feels like interchangeable, but it really has four games
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this week, so you gotta. Prefer the off nights?
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Two off nights, yeah, it's a great choice.
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OK, next we've got. Number six.
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Number six, we've got Victor Olofsson of the Colorado
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Avalanche. Fun story here is that Kevin
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picked him up then dropped him right before his five point game
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and now I have so we'll see if we'll see if anything comes of
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it, but he's currently line 3 power play one.
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This is one of those super high potential upside that could end
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up being a drop in a week type of guys.
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So he you know, don't expect that 5.3 power play .7 shots.
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You know 3 bucks like crazy game like that to happen possibly
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ever again for the rest of his career.
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But I will say that Colorado's power play has been struggling
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to start the year and they've been shuffling it around a lot
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and they put Olson on power play and they score 3 power play
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goals. That's gotta buy him at least a
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week of power play 1 deployment, which is why he's a good pick up
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for the week, if not longer. I know before the season even
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started that the coach had mentioned wanting to give him
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looks on power play 1. He mentioned he really likes his
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shot and I just really like the potential there.
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So it's rare that you can pick up a guy with this potential
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Solo rostered. He jumped up like 20% after that
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five point game. But we were going to recommend
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him even before that five point game.
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So and we did recommend him actually before that.
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So so yeah, I like him a lot. Firstly, kudos to Kevin for
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enthusiastically road coating after dropping him before the
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five point game I had to. We are truly, truly dedicated to
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the grind, so let that be known. Second of all, this is what he
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does. He's a power play specialist.
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He's, I mean, I think we spoke about him being compared to
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Shane Goss's beer or Tony D'Angelo.
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Like he's the forward version of that.
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He's pretty irrelevant otherwise.
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But if he does keep this, playing with Kyle Macar, Nathan
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McKinnon, Nichushkin and obviously their best player,
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Marty Nachos huge. Contracts.
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Conversation for another time. That's massive.
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Like this should be a very tall power play in the league and I
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expect him to stay there cause I don't really think his
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competition is as strong as it may look like.
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An is a better player so is Rock Nelson but for the power play
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why not have him there? He's also a left-handed shot and
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if I'm not mistaken, Macar, McKinnon and Natures are all
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righties, so you need. That place to be, Yeah.
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Yeah, we'll say another thing that I liked about him, which is
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why I picked him up is that in two of his last four or five
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games, or at the time picking up two of his last four, he put up
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seven shots on goal. That's like one time is like,
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OK, that could be a fluke, but already one time shows they have
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the potential to do it. 2 times is like, OK, this guy's a volume
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shooter. So even if he's putting up
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zeros, I mean, I picked him up, he put up zeros the next game,
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but he put up three shots on goal.
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I'm happy with the shots. You know, like it's not an
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exciting stat line, but he's not giving you zeros on nights where
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he doesn't show up, show up on the worksheets.
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So I like him a lot. Yeah, yeah, really sucks about
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Allison because I I think also the thing with him is the
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archetype of player that he is, is like Josh just said, he's a
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volume shooter. Like we're seeing him do this
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with third line minutes, but there's a very real possibility
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that he ends up on line 2. Like and I can see him getting
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the line 1 looks if they're having troubles there like
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McKinnon and natures will always be there.
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But is it crazy to have olives and be left wing online one?
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Like it's not crazy. I think he can end up being line
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2 instead of a where Colton is right now.
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Like he could end up being on the same line with Tristan and
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Brock Nelson and. Then that lineup is wide open.
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Other than other than McKinnon and Natures Online one there's
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Everywhere is up for grabs pretty much.
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The fact that they're already giving up one time and that the
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P1 started to click after they put him on there is super
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encouraging. The fact that he could also get
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a bump up in 55 minutes as well. Like right now he's doing this
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with like 1314 minutes a night. Like, honestly, that's not a
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lot. So the fact that he's able to
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put up this kind of production with those minutes, if he gets a
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1617 minutes, it could even be, I wouldn't say like the ceiling
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goes up because like, I'm not gonna say what's going to go
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from seven shots and nine shots, but you might see more of those
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3-4 shots instead of those zeros, zeros and ones every
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other game. So yeah.
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Yeah. It's a lot of potential.
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How do you say that? I'm I'm thinking like like even
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even like another way of like Dora Feb of last year, Dora Fev,
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not with the crazy insane pace that he's on.
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Basically, that's exactly what you can expect and they were
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literally on the same team. It's a perfect comparison.
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I wanna put it out through that like there's a very real chance
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like Paul Mary or Everly we talked about right before, have
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better weeks, but they don't have the potential that Allison
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has to be like a season long hold and honestly, like just
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tremendous value for where you got him off of waivers. 100%
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Alright, let's move on to. #5. At number 50, we have Trevor
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Zagaris of the Philadelphia Flyers.
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He's line one power play 2, but it's kind of weird.
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Obviously Couturier's day-to-day, so that's why he's
19:17
currently getting line 1 looks. Before that he was line 3, but
19:20
really and power play 2 is like split power play unit.
19:23
So it's kind of weird the lines in Philly.
19:25
I wouldn't put too much thought into that.
19:27
At the end of the day, Zegers is putting up unreal numbers.
19:30
He's pretty like, I think we all agree that he, if I had him, I
19:34
would, you know, maybe try to offload him.
19:36
But in terms of a pickup, you obviously wanna pick up a guy
19:39
who's putting up these numbers. It's just a three-game week, but
19:42
this could be someone who lasts on your roster.
19:45
Yeah, but this is not going to be one of those guys that's like
19:47
a top five best player on your team, but for somebody that you
19:50
probably picked up on waivers, you're gonna get tremendous
19:52
value out of him. I think Zagreus is also one of
19:54
those names that you always have the potential tied to him, even
19:57
though the production on the ice hasn't always been there.
19:59
But in a week like this, like, and how hot he's been, at some
20:02
point you just got to ride the streak until it ends and that's
20:04
what you got to do. Yeah, exactly.
20:07
I mean, this is the the points section and the points have been
20:09
there. Now with Couturier out, he may
20:11
even be getting bigger minutes for this week.
20:13
It's good. As Josh mentioned, I think he's
20:15
a good player to consider offloading if he is on your team
20:19
at the right price. But if you're holding him like
20:21
this is a good week to ride it out, especially if Couturier
20:24
keeps him like his absence is a little bit more prolonged and
20:28
Zagros is on that line 1. Yeah, OK.
20:32
We've got at. #4. We've got a banger management
20:39
favorite feel. He appears on every episode of
20:41
Always Streamers and waivers until he pops past 40%.
20:45
I could see him staying on this episode a lot.
20:48
We've got Mackie Samutsevich of the Florida Panthers Line 2
20:51
Power Play 1, and just especially in bangers leagues,
20:54
the shot hit volume. Stud.
20:56
With the potential of being power play one-on-one of the
21:00
best teams in the league, it's just such a no brainer for me.
21:02
This is this is a very much season long hold type of guy.
21:06
And yeah, I think, I can't believe that he's still so low
21:09
rostered. That Florida lineup needs help.
21:12
Like it just feels like nobody's producing right now, even even
21:15
even Mackie, like the fact that he's able to have this kind of
21:19
category coverage for your bangers leagues and still be
21:22
less than 40% owned and also have the ceiling with the
21:25
deployment in terms of five you 5 and on PS1, like he's a he's a
21:29
slam dunk. Like you got him either super
21:30
late in your draft or off of waivers.
21:32
And I think he's providing way more value than than what that
21:35
cost was looking forward. Like he can be a season long
21:39
hold. Yeah, and he's way off that 40%,
21:43
he's at 11. Yeah, that's wild.
21:46
And and to me, with the opportunity he has, I, I think
21:49
he's poised to be a mainstay on the power play 1.
21:52
They're shaking things up because they're not doing that
21:56
well right now with all the injuries they have.
21:58
But even with to Chuck coming back, like I don't think he gets
22:01
bumped. He's been really good for
22:03
offence even last year as a rookie.
22:04
And I think that this year it's really good to have him on your
22:08
squad. So this is more waivers and
22:11
streamers in this so far is like keep them, keep them around.
22:14
Yeah, like you pick them up for this week and it could be the
22:17
foreseeable future. I was just gonna say like maybe
22:20
they do some weird stuff with the lineup and it doesn't end on
22:22
MVP one, but without a doubt their best power play 1 unit
22:26
will include him. So whether they want to go with
22:28
their best unit or not, like it includes him on there.
22:30
So and you kind of got to trust the coaching staff to make the
22:33
smart decision at some point. At this rate, you're gonna hear
22:36
his name for a while on this episode.
22:39
You're tired of hearing him about him?
22:40
Then pick him up and get that percentage above 40 for us, you
22:43
know? Exactly.
22:44
We we gotta do what we gotta do, guys.
22:46
And he's he's part of giving the best advice.
22:48
So like, you know, Mackie, you don't have to go home, but you
22:50
can't stay here. And in order to get him out
22:52
finally, please start picking him up, people.
22:56
Exactly. OK, let's go to. #3.
23:02
At #3 we have Anthony Mantha of the Pittsburgh Penguins 4 game
23:06
week with two off nights, line 2 power play 1.
23:08
To me, this is a clear not season long hold.
23:10
This is a stream that you ride out until he fizzles out.
23:14
But he's been on fire points wise.
23:16
Pittsburgh as a whole has been on fire and he has power play
23:19
one with Raquel injured. So that's a big opportunity for
23:21
him. He's playing with Malkin on even
23:23
strength when Malcolm playing out of his mind, playing with
23:25
Justin Brazo who's also playing out of his mind.
23:27
Everything screams unsustainable.
23:29
But on a four-game week with two off nights while they're still
23:31
riding that high, you absolutely take the shot.
23:35
Totally agree with this one. He has been a very productive
23:38
player in his career and it's just been like a catastrophic
23:44
past few years as a journeyman. But you know that he can succeed
23:48
if he's around the right players.
23:50
It's I mean, look, Pittsburgh is such an interesting case right
23:53
now. Like not to get too much into
23:54
it, but I think they're overperforming.
23:56
I think we all agree. Nevertheless, to have this
24:00
opportunity to pick up a guy who's under 40% owned for this
24:04
week with this amount of games on a red hot squad, yeah, you
24:08
gotta go for it. I wanna say with Mantha, we not
24:14
to do not to be a little a little discord discord guy
24:17
again, but we talked about him in the discord.
24:20
We had some questions about who should we pick up or whatever.
24:23
And I remember Josh answered one of our discord members and was
24:26
like, listen, Manta looks kind of good right now.
24:28
Pick them up. You got like a point in two
24:30
games in a row. And then he's been on this
24:32
person's roster for since since then.
24:34
And now with how hot Malkin is and the Raquel injury and him
24:37
getting bumped up to P1, like it just feels like this production
24:41
can keep like continue and Ritola taught.
24:44
Like Josh said, it's not one of those guys that's gonna end up
24:46
on your roster the whole season. But with this deployment right
24:49
now, you have to have a look for game week.
24:50
Like why not? Yeah, yeah.
24:53
OK, let's go to. #2 the goat. #2 we've got a pair of teammates,
25:02
Troy Terry and Chris Kreider of the Anaheim Ducks.
25:06
Both line one power play one both somehow under 40% rostered.
25:10
I mean, Crider I get while he's under 40%, it's because he was
25:13
injured. Well, he had, he was sick for
25:14
the past like 2 weeks. So obviously that drops down the
25:17
ownership percentage and it'll go back up.
25:19
Terry is just Terry and get up. Sitting on that.
25:24
One, I just came up with that, but he's at 1.3 points per game
25:29
.4 power play points, 2.3 shots. He just they're killing it.
25:34
Especially like that top line of Terry Crider and Carlson are
25:39
going nuts. Goatee is also going nuts.
25:41
All them on power play 1 and times are really fun team.
25:44
I mean we kind of said this in the off season and going into it
25:46
we knew they were going to be a fun team full of really good
25:49
scoring threats. We didn't pinpoint necessarily
25:52
that which ones were going to be the top, top guys, but I feel
25:56
like it's just all of them. I feel like really like the top
26:00
ones on the top line and Gautier, like all those top four
26:02
guys, they're somehow spreading the wealth where all of them are
26:06
like point per game. And it's really, it's really fun
26:08
to watch. I don't think the ceiling for
26:11
this team is going to stay this high like forever.
26:14
I think at some point they'll they'll slow down.
26:15
But right now it's like everybody's eating and while
26:18
everybody eats, Troy Terry eats. So it's looking real good.
26:22
Right now I think both Terry and Kreider our season long holds.
26:27
Yeah, in deep. Relief how deep your league is,
26:29
but with this deployment of what they're able to do with this
26:31
deployment, it's looking good. Yeah.
26:34
It's getting to the point where you hear playing with Leo
26:38
Carlson is in that like playing with Larkin kind of vibes or
26:43
playing with Suzuki territory. You know, it's like it's not
26:46
playing with McDavid or playing with Crosby, but Carlson's been
26:49
a monster. With the deployment, yeah.
26:52
Yeah, being super relevant and you know, this year a big
26:55
difference is that they have a clear, more clear if you will
26:59
power play one versus power play 1.
27:02
A Yes, it's huge. Yeah, and Terry has shown a lot
27:06
of offensive promise in his career, so I'm more excited
27:09
about him than Cryder. But hey, they brought in Cryder
27:12
for a reason, and it's to be that net front guy who's going
27:14
to play a big part. So I really like both of them
27:17
and especially for this week, I would happily roster 1 if only
27:22
one's available, or both if you can.
27:23
Yeah, I mean, four-game week with two off nights, take both
27:26
of them. Why not?
27:27
And I will say that Kreider has been a nice surprise.
27:30
I took him as a dart throw lead in our draft and he's kind of
27:33
doing just exactly what you want, what they want.
27:36
When they traded for him, right? He elevated their entire power
27:38
play. He's just that net front guy and
27:40
he's just banging in rebounds to making deflections and getting
27:42
those those greasy goals. I don't know if you saw he had a
27:44
goal recently that he actually didn't even score the goal, but
27:47
the goalie knocked the net off. And so they awarded him the goal
27:50
because they were like it was going in and the goalie knocked
27:52
the net off. So so we take those in fantasy.
27:55
That counts just as much as a regular goal.
27:57
So it's that like I like both of them as a a season long holds
28:02
and let's move to. Number one, they're.
28:05
Gonna make this one's gonna make Kevin happy because he has on
28:08
his team at #1 we have William Eckland of the San Jose Sharks,
28:12
currently line 2 power play one. But I wouldn't put too much
28:14
stock in that even strength deployment.
28:16
He can easily jump to line one at any moment.
28:18
And really that whole kind of Sharks team is well, not the
28:22
whole team, but that top line is a really, really popping off of
28:25
the three young ones, Celebrity, Ecklund and Smith.
28:29
It's this is a clear season long hold and I think the ship may
28:33
have sailed on the sun. If you haven't picked him up
28:35
yet, the one listening to this episode.
28:37
Yeah, he has nine points in his last five games.
28:39
Him, him and Celebrity look like the two biggest forces on this
28:42
team. As you're listening to this.
28:44
He'll probably cross over the 40% mark, but just just above.
28:48
So I would say really get him while he's hot.
28:50
Like we've known Eckland to be one of those prospects that has
28:53
such a high ceiling. And last year at the end of it,
28:56
we saw already the breakout kind of start.
28:59
And this year it just looks like it's full throttle, like it's
29:02
San Jose started slow and now it looks at the scoring at will.
29:05
I want I wanna piece of anything close to this top line, this top
29:09
power play playing with celebrity.
29:11
I just think that there's so much potential for Eckland to be
29:14
first of all season long hold, but also on a weekly basis.
29:19
He just we already seeing he has a high, high ceiling.
29:22
So you pick you pick him up for the floor, he's shooting, he's
29:24
actually blocking as well, which is a bonus to have for a
29:27
forward. But the points and the scoring
29:30
ability is there. Yeah, and I will add in just
29:32
cause I didn't mention any, we didn't mention any defensemen
29:36
here in this list, but toss in John Klingberg on the same vein.
29:39
He hasn't put up points yet since coming back from his
29:41
injury, but he's putting up really solid back cats.
29:44
Not that I necessarily expect it to last, but it's nice.
29:47
And it's like and said, I like having a piece of that power
29:50
play one on San Jose just to see they have a lot of firepower.
29:52
Just see like what they can do. It's a It's worth taking a shot
29:55
on. Yeah, John Klingberg is like
29:57
filling up the statue is getting like three shots, hits and
29:59
blocks every game. It's been 2 games thus far since
30:02
his return from injury, so I don't want to read too much into
30:04
it. Like he's never been the type of
30:05
guy that's going to be a category coverage banger guy.
30:09
But listen, if it's happening now, write it and he's getting
30:12
exposed to the P1 instead of Orlov, who was very serviceable
30:16
in his in his absence, right? So that makes me that makes me
30:19
think that maybe it's just the guys around them on that power
30:22
play or elite and whoever ends up having that defensive spot
30:25
will have good production because Orlov is not like, I'm
30:28
not saying he's a bad player, but he's not he's not a power
30:31
play specialist. Let's say yeah.
30:32
So the fact that he could do what he did with that deployment
30:36
just goes to show that maybe that defensive slot on San
30:38
Jose's more noteworthy than we initially, initially.
30:43
Thought yeah, I don't think it's like a power play that's run
30:45
through the defence. I think it's very clearly run
30:47
through the forwards. But end of the day, the defence
30:49
gonna get plenty of at the very least like secondary assists,
30:51
right? So.
30:52
And the time of ice helps sort of category coverage.
30:55
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the big difference between
30:58
Eklan this year and last year is the shots.
31:01
That's something that's huge. He was getting good minutes and
31:04
he's actually a pretty reliable blocker throughout his career,
31:07
so I don't think he's his eligible.
31:11
Yeah, for for a forward that's. Yeah, it's it's all.
31:15
Right. Yeah, exactly.
31:17
Nobody's awesome. Not irrelevant, yeah and look
31:21
like I mean, I think he could hover around a point where game
31:24
moving forward and that's the pace that he's at.
31:26
Even if he's not playing line one, he's still getting huge
31:30
minutes and it's really the power play that's exciting.
31:33
Again, like Hagel vibes. It's 25 minutes 20 like another
31:38
25 minutes. This is.
31:39
Ridiculous they're giving him rest days and practice because
31:42
he's playing so much and like they want to be fresh and hot.
31:45
So I mean I saw report they were like excellence that I practiced
31:47
and I was like here we go another injury.
31:49
I'm going to the Discord chat. And then they were like, it's
31:52
just, it's just a maintenance day.
31:53
Like he, he just played so much so.
31:55
Yeah, that that's a flex. It's like we need you for the
31:57
game. So yeah, exactly.
31:59
Chill at. Home, Yeah.
31:59
You talking about practice? Yeah.
32:05
Amazing. OK, let's get into our top five
32:10
bangers for the week. Some not necessarily as exciting
32:13
names, but you know, some plug in, plug and chug guys.
32:16
So we can top ten we just listed are obviously like we want guys
32:19
gonna be able to provide points for your fantasy teams.
32:21
But we're also we talked about guys that are good in Bangers
32:24
league specifically because we are banger management.
32:26
But these top five bangers are guys that you're picking up
32:30
solely for those banger categories.
32:31
Like you need hits, you need blocks, some shots as a good
32:34
bonus. These are guys that you want on
32:36
your roster for this week. So let's start toilet but at the
32:38
top of the top five by threw in some some interesting ones that
32:41
also give you some other aspects.
32:42
But definitely, yeah, so at. Wait, before you begin, Kevin, I
32:45
think you literally just set the record for most times saying
32:48
Bangor in a 32nd span. Don't tempt me with a challenge
32:52
because I'll do it again. And you know, you hit that.
32:55
Be super hard every time. He's like banger.
32:59
Hard. Beat.
33:04
It's like was it was it a SpongeBob episode where you see
33:06
like the lip like get like locked and loaded to see like
33:09
the the be like the banger? Yeah, it's like, it's like that
33:14
meme with. Mouth, yeah.
33:16
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
33:17
That's what I was thinking of. Alright, so our top five bangers
33:22
we got #5. Jake McCabe of the Toronto Maple
33:26
Leafs, 4 game week with multiple off nights.
33:29
He's averaging 1.4 hits, 2.6 blocks so far, but I see it
33:32
being closer to two and two. And yeah, nothing really
33:35
exciting here. Just has a good schedule and
33:37
he's going to get you hits and blocks.
33:38
And he's been really solid this year in terms of just like
33:40
overall general value. Like there's not a guy you
33:42
drafted in most leagues, no. And yet, like he's providing
33:45
really good value at the back end of your roster.
33:48
He he's like the Cirelli of defensemen, always reliable.
33:53
You know, he's like the type of guy that like, if you're friends
33:56
with him, it's like, hey, what are you up to?
33:57
Is like not much chilling you, not much.
33:59
And then you just like go and have pizza pockets and play
34:01
Xbox. That's something to live by, not
34:04
gonna lie. That's actually like one of the
34:07
biggest compliments I think you can give someone.
34:09
So that's. Exactly, exactly.
34:10
You're not getting like anything like you're not gonna like
34:12
cookie with steak, but like he like only has like NHL like 19
34:18
or something, but. It was a good time.
34:21
I'll take it. There we go.
34:24
OK, that's. #4. And #4 we've got Leanne Bichel
34:33
of YEAH. You were in the Hudson.
34:38
No, I just felt like saying it like that.
34:40
I think it's Lion Bischel, but I don't know why I put a little
34:42
sink on it. Yeah, Michelle sounds so
34:45
sophisticated. I wanted to have a little fun
34:49
with it because there's not much to say. 3.3 hits, 1.3 blocks on
34:52
the season so far. 4 game week with multiple off nights so you
34:56
know Leanne's your guy. Yeah, yeah, a lot less fancy
35:01
production than the name suggests, but yeah, he's more of
35:06
a lean visual on the ice than. Aleah Chelle You Wanna Learn
35:10
Visual on the street and the Leanne Michelle.
35:15
We spent too much time on this. Sheet of paper to be clean.
35:22
Having way too much fun with this.
35:24
But like, yeah, he's, he's not the the best banger to pick up
35:26
this week. Funny.
35:31
That's good. OK, go on before we keep this
35:33
nonsense. Should I go to number the next
35:37
one? Yeah, yes, alright #3. #3 we've
35:42
got Sean Walker of the Carolina Hurricanes averaging 2.2 shots,
35:45
2.5 hits, 1.7 blocks, 4 game week with multiple off nights
35:49
and he's power play one. This is one.
35:51
This is what I meant. I meant there was some
35:53
interesting stuff in the top three of this list because this
35:56
is like really good bangers numbers, but he's also power
35:59
play. One look, Caroline doesn't have
36:00
the best power play and he's definitely not a very offensive
36:03
defenseman, but he's got the deployment with the black cat
36:07
and base. So I like him as a pick up a lot
36:09
with the great schedule this week.
36:10
I've debated picking him up in our league sometimes all year.
36:13
Yeah. Like I just look, I'm like why
36:16
is he still there? And it's like, yeah, but it's
36:18
not fun. It's not fun at all.
36:20
But it's good, especially with the volume.
36:23
He's gonna get you the numbers and he's very important to
36:26
roster on a four-game week. I think, I think the one of the
36:32
main things with Walker is that with the ghost injury and the
36:34
other defensive injuries, he's going to be playing first of
36:36
all, a lot more minutes because no slave and no Kendra Miller.
36:39
Still, he's getting that P1 exposure.
36:43
But I don't want to read too much into it because that feels
36:46
really squishy. Like by the time we know you
36:48
listen to this, maybe he's not even practicing there anymore or
36:50
what not. The situation just seems super
36:52
fluid. So I'm not, I'm not reading too
36:54
much into that, but the bangers aspect of it has been really
36:57
good for Walker. So yeah, that's why it's like
36:59
he's banging and he's got that potential upside of, you know,
37:01
maybe he'll chip in a power play point or something, which is
37:04
always crazy from a guy who just have for his bangs.
37:06
Exactly. Alright, let's go to #2.
37:11
At #2 we have Phillip Veronica of the Vancouver Canucks.
37:14
He's at .5 points per game, two hits at 1.5 blocks.
37:17
This is kind of similar vibe to Walker where with King Quinn
37:20
Hughes being injured, Corona gets power play 1.
37:22
So he has the back hat floor with that point ceiling or like
37:27
upside, but Quinn Hughes day-to-day.
37:29
So there's a chance that by the time you know, you're listening
37:32
to this or by the time it's next week, Hughes is back and he
37:34
loses that power play one spot. But at the end of the day, he
37:36
still gonna get you hits and blocks.
37:39
Yeah, it's the same concept as Walker to me.
37:42
It's just that Vancouver's, I don't even want to say
37:45
Vancouver's power play is better, but the chance of a
37:47
defenseman producing there on Vancouver is better.
37:50
And he's just like more offensive than Sean Walker is.
37:53
Nevertheless, like banger categories are more kind of here
37:57
to stay and the power play presence is almost irrelevant.
38:00
Yeah, it's just an upside. It just like you take it for the
38:03
bangers with the upside, it just compared to a guy who just bangs
38:06
and doesn't have that upside. And why not go with the one who
38:08
has the chance? You call it bangers with
38:11
benefits. It sounds.
38:12
It sounds off, but that's the idea.
38:15
I like it alright. And at the top at #1 we've got
38:24
Emil Heineman of the New York Islanders.
38:27
He has .6 points per game, two shots, 4.4 hits, just absolutely
38:31
absurd numbers that he is putting up.
38:33
He was one of our top recommendations for last week
38:36
and he stays as one of our top recommendations until he gets to
38:39
40% maybe. So let's let's push him to the
38:42
moon now. This is a great pickup.
38:44
He's at the top of the list despite being the only one of
38:47
these five who doesn't have a four-game week with multiple off
38:49
nights. That's just I think this could
38:51
be a season long hold. Yeah, yeah, I, I think he's
38:54
awesome for banger leagues, like really, really great.
38:57
And, and he's kind of going under the radar.
38:59
I feel like the only people who drafted him are Habs fans, not
39:02
Islanders fans, because they were fun because they got rid of
39:05
Dobson. But he is.
39:07
So actually, if there's any Islanders fans who did draft
39:10
him, let us know in the discord. But he's actually a really good
39:12
player. He was good last year, just
39:13
didn't have the opportunity. And now he's getting top
39:16
deployment and performing and then some.
39:18
Like I would even consider trading for him if you're in
39:23
enough league, if you're in a deep enough league.
39:25
Like I've considered trading for Heineman I.
39:28
Think he's trading for Heineman? Yeah.
39:31
Too crazy, but that's it. He doesn't have the name value.
39:33
That's why he's rostered so low. So if you could pick him up off
39:36
waivers, that's great. And if you're in a deep enough
39:37
league that you want like this is more in the waiver territory
39:41
of a season long hold, I consider them for this week.
39:44
Right. Yeah.
39:45
Yeah, he's 25% owned, so he's available in 3/4 of your
39:49
leagues. He's hitting a bunch, he's
39:51
shooting a bunch. I'll say his minutes fluctuate a
39:53
lot. Like one game you can play 19
39:55
minutes and I see we can play 12, then play like 18 again,
39:57
then 12. So it's just like you don't
39:59
really know what you're going to expect.
40:00
But nonetheless, no matter how many minutes he's playing is
40:02
getting you like over three hits a game.
40:04
Yeah, it's unreal. Yep, Yeah.
40:07
Alright, so our top three skater pickups for the week are William
40:10
Eckland, Troy Terry and Anthony Mantha.
40:12
Let's move on to the goalie section of the episodes.
40:16
We'll start with our quantity goalies.
40:17
These are ones we're going to get you 2 plus starts on the
40:19
week and are under 40% owned. Let's start with. #3.
40:24
At #3 We've got a Venger management favorite, art tours,
40:28
Sheila Offs of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
40:32
They play Toronto, Washington, and then a back-to-back New
40:35
Jersey and LA. And they're alternating starts
40:37
between Shiloh and Jerry. So he's gonna get two of those
40:40
four starts. I mean, listen, it's the top
40:43
team in the league. You're literally number one in
40:45
the. League you're literally able to
40:46
pick up one of their goalies that's in attend them right now
40:48
I'm not saying that Pittsburgh gonna stay at top of the league
40:51
forever but we we talked about she loves being a goalie to have
40:54
potential this season. I don't wanna flex on everybody
40:57
again, but in the offseason we talked about our top 10 signings
41:00
and he was #10 so we just put it out there that Jerry was cooked
41:03
this. Should have been #1.
41:06
Looking back, we had to put him there, but yeah.
41:08
But no, I mean, they've both been kind of serviceable thus
41:11
far. And she loves has been better
41:12
than Jerry in my opinion. So looking at a week, I guess
41:15
we're able to get two stars out of him.
41:16
Like I'm interested. Yeah, they're both good.
41:18
I mean, we we don't like owning goalies and tandems, but on week
41:21
saying you know that they have guaranteed 2 starts versus I
41:25
mean like I'm looking at these teams and these are not easy
41:26
matchups, but Pittsburgh is the wagon coming into this week.
41:30
That's exactly teams are afraid of Pittsburgh, not the other way
41:33
around. Exactly.
41:34
So that's it. And because they are good teams,
41:37
you still gonna get a lot of shots.
41:38
And at this rate, Pittsburgh just gonna come out with a win.
41:41
So he's definitely, definitely worth an ad.
41:45
Yeah, all right. At. #2.
41:48
We've got VTech Vanicek of the Utah and the only reason?
41:53
He's getting. Utah, the only reason he's
41:56
getting multiple starts is because they have two back to
41:58
backs. They've got Buffalo, Toronto and
42:00
then Montreal, Ottawa, so he's gonna get two of those four
42:03
starts. Utah is also looking like a
42:05
wagon to start the season so and he's done well in the two stars
42:08
he's had so far this season, so I like him a lot. 2
42:11
back-to-back, so you know, you're for sure getting those
42:13
two starts, which is already valuable.
42:15
Like sometimes we can expect a goal to get more than more than
42:18
two or two without any back to backs.
42:20
But you know, getting a sure thing here that's like
42:23
back-to-back I like a lot. Hopefully he gets Ottawa.
42:25
Ottawa is just a team that is kind of like all over the place.
42:27
Like they can score a lot, but usually only the third period
42:30
and they concede a lot. So you know you're gonna get
42:32
good chances to win. Yeah.
42:34
Great pick. Yeah, they're the 1 little
42:38
caveat I'd mentioned here is that they're away on these
42:42
games, so it's like. That is really harder.
42:45
Yeah, it's definitely a bit harder, but Utah still look good
42:48
enough team that I think they have a good chance of winning
42:51
going into these matchups. All right.
42:54
And at the top at. Number one.
42:58
Akira. Akira can't help it.
43:02
We've got Akira Schmidt of the Vegas Golden Knights.
43:05
You're starting goalie for the Vegas Golden Knights.
43:07
They play Detroit, Tampa and Anaheim and he should get 2 if
43:11
not three of those starts. Yeah, I mean even the and the
43:17
Lindblum. Karl Lindenbaum.
43:20
He just got shelled against Colorado, So I think I think
43:23
Schmid is probably going to be the guy.
43:25
Now, both of these goalies are not the most impressive to me in
43:28
terms of like what quality you're getting.
43:30
Yeah, But you can't argue with the quantity that's offered to
43:34
them at the moment with Hail being injured.
43:36
So Akira on a great team too. So you always know you're going
43:40
to get over 50% chance at a win whenever they play any kind of
43:43
game. So I like him a lot this week.
43:45
I may pick him up so. Yeah, well, it's always 50%.
43:48
Either they win or they lose, you know?
43:50
True, but sometimes you would think that they'd never win.
43:53
Yeah. Yeah, you're you're excited to
43:56
have a starting goalie on any team as a stream yet if it's the
44:01
biggest school, the Knights, who was like a top team in the
44:03
league, you're you're very happy to have that.
44:05
And the fact that he's so low rostered honestly surprises me
44:09
because he's been the go to guy for a bit.
44:12
He's not performed super well, but they can win and they will
44:15
win a lot of their games. And if he's a part of that,
44:18
that's just a great person to hold until he'll comes back, I
44:21
think. Exactly.
44:22
While Hill is out, like starting goalie for Vegas, that has
44:26
value. Yeah, Yep.
44:28
OK, let's get into our top three star quality goalies.
44:30
These are ones who are gonna get you.
44:32
Probably quality starts. OK, now we've all said it so so
44:38
these are going to be ones who get you probably only one start
44:40
on the week, but it should be a good one so at. #3.
44:45
We've got Jonathan Quick of the New York Rangers.
44:48
They're playing a back-to-back against Detroit and the
44:50
Islanders. Not necessarily the easiest
44:52
opponents this year, but also not necessarily the scariest and
44:56
quickest coming off a 23 safe shutout versus Vancouver.
45:00
So even though. Yeah, it's crazy that he's still
45:03
around, still kicking and still still putting up shot.
45:06
Out. Especially on this Rangers team,
45:08
which has been terrible. But but yeah, now he's showing
45:12
that he's still a solid guy to pick up for a spot start.
45:15
Back-to-back wins for the Rangers, though, So maybe trying
45:17
to turn the corner here. And I just feel like even yes, I
45:20
like cooking, but no, I mean, I wouldn't.
45:24
I wouldn't bet my house on that. But I will say, just like it
45:27
feels like in recent years, quick as he's not getting the
45:31
workload and I said workload that Egor is getting, but it
45:36
just feels like he's just one of the best quality qualities out
45:39
there where you know, you just need a spot.
45:41
Start here. You know, he's playing to the
45:43
back-to-back and then it comes through for you in flying
45:45
colours. So I I love Jonathan.
45:48
Yeah, yeah, well said. He's not getting the Igor load,
45:50
he's getting the quick load. OK, yes, next.
45:54
Yeah, OK. At. #2.
46:01
We've got Casey De Smith of the Dallas Stars.
46:05
They have back-to-back Nashville and Seattle.
46:08
This is the one that I I like the matchups a lot.
46:10
Not particularly worried about those teams.
46:12
And Dallas is one of the top teams or should be.
46:14
They'll they'll get there in the standings.
46:16
They're kind of mid right now, but they'll they'll get back to
46:17
number. One, they'll get back to the.
46:19
Top and dismiss, she's been solid in the past for spot
46:21
starts. It's almost better for a quality
46:25
star goalie if the team is underperforming slightly because
46:28
it's like, OK, guys, we gotta win, you know?
46:30
Yeah. So I think like on teams that
46:31
are easily beatable for the Stars, Nashville and Seattle, I
46:34
mean, we're not worried about them going into this matchup and
46:37
he should be able to get the relatively easily.
46:40
Yeah, when you're streaming for a quality start, honestly the
46:42
the most, like the best thing you can rely on is a team win.
46:47
Like you'll never be able to predict a guy getting a 960 save
46:51
percentage or whatever. Like you're never gonna be able
46:53
to predict that. But you have to stream the goals
46:55
that you think have the best chance to win.
46:57
That should be your goal. And I think Dallas is always one
47:00
of those teams. Yes. 100% All right, let's go to
47:04
the last one. Number one at #1 we have Charlie
47:09
Lindgren of the Washington Capitals.
47:11
They're playing back-to-back against Saint Louis and
47:13
Pittsburgh, obviously vastly different opponents right now
47:16
based on how things are going. Pittsburgh is number one in the
47:18
league in Saint Louis is poopoo. But.
47:22
Jackie told me they gonna finish second in the division.
47:25
OK, any chance we get to rag on that prediction, we will take
47:30
it. But yeah, Lingren is.
47:31
Called to mention my great ones just.
47:33
Yeah, Lot. Of good ones too, but.
47:35
Yeah, Lingren is coming off a brutal start where he led a
47:38
touchdown in against the auto ascenders.
47:41
But Washington is still a very good team and I mean, I will say
47:45
I will keep it. I would keep an eye on which one
47:47
of these starts he's going to get.
47:48
I think you'll be able to determine it based on the next
47:51
game that they play when they play against Buffalo.
47:54
If Lingering gets the start, then I think he's going to start
47:57
against Pittsburgh because I don't see him getting two starts
47:59
in a row. If Thompson gets the start
48:01
against Buffalo, I think Liam's gonna get the Saint Louis one
48:04
because they've been giving kind of two starts to Thompson, then
48:07
one to Lingren, back and forth. So if they stretch it to three
48:09
starts in a row for Thompson, then I see Linger and getting
48:12
the next one. So that's worth keeping an eye
48:14
out on. I think you could, even before
48:15
they announce it, you could predict which one he's going to
48:17
get, and I think it's vastly different if he gets Saint Louis
48:20
or Pittsburgh. Yeah, exactly.
48:22
I think yes, yes, applause. We've seen Lingren be able to to
48:28
prove himself in matchups like this and I think this is a a
48:32
great week to stream if you need one quality start.
48:35
Yeah, I mean him. One game he led in seven goals
48:36
and another game he got a 35 save shutout.
48:38
So, you know, he's definitely capable.
48:41
Yes, yeah, yeah, he could have big games and Washington is such
48:44
a good team, like you said. OK, that wraps up our Week 5
48:49
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