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But about bow banger management fantasy hockey podcast.
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Woo woo, ghostly woo for Jakey. We can do the ghostly woo woo.
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Yeah, you're ready for adults. Impeccable.
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Welcoming everybody to Bangor management.
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The Fantasy hockey podcast with Kevin and Josh.
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Today we are going to go over the week 21 spicy spicy Franks,
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red hot topics today and some spicy meal back questions.
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I was actually looking at the hall of meal back questions we
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have today and I'm pretty sure there's a lot of them.
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Yeah, some guys popped off the discord, so thank you very much.
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Yeah, honestly, it's got to the point where like I don't even
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have to post the weekly. Like, hey everyone, we're
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collecting mailbag questions. Like people are just shooting
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them at all times and I'm like, alright.
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Great. I love it, love it.
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I feel bad sometimes because I know that sometimes people ask
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like really time sensitive questions in the mailbag
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channel. And when those happen, I usually
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try to answer them over description.
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Like by the time the episode comes out, it might not be
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pertinent anymore or you might miss your window.
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But in general, like if you guys are listening to this, like keep
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shooting questions the mailbag channel because there's a lot of
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gold in there. Yeah.
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No, it's great. Helps us have stuff to talk
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about. So it's yeah, I love it.
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Alright, let's get into. This stuff to talk about it, but
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also need to address a well, I'm gonna say a few things to
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address 1 the lack of 1/3 Co host.
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Jake's got some work stuff so he wasn't able to make it for this
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recording session unfortunately, but he should be back on the
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next one. So everybody sending positive
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vibes for work and for his fantasy matchup because I know
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as he said in the last episode, he's going to need it.
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Yeah, as as all of us will to be.
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Honestly, yeah, it's it's a rough time in this league.
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It's a it's a rough in the sense that it's going to be hard to
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get through, but it's kind of great because the I feel like
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these level has just been elevating year over year and it
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makes it really fun. It makes it more stressful, it
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makes it harder, but it makes it more.
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I mean, our league of record this year had 14 teams and going
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into like the Sunday of the last week before the playoffs, 10
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teams were still in the mix. Only two teams were clinched.
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So that's eight teams, 10 teams total like being in the the
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playoff hunt. And it came down to like some
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crazy matchups. Like we had the 14th seed
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eliminate somebody and like the 13 seed the RIP points off.
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So honestly, it was a lot of a lot of spoiling happened, which
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I love to see. I think it's just fun.
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Yeah, it's super fun. But I lost we will get into
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these hot topics and before we do, just gonna resend a reminder
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to everybody. Make sure you drop us a follow
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comment alike all that good stuff.
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We're always here to help. And the 10 and he's got all
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that. Confidence too, I love when I
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look at my hand and I take my watch off and I see like the 10
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that I have on there just reminds me how.
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For me, it's the I always had, whenever I go on vacation, I'm
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always wearing my slides. And so I have that slides tan on
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like that, like line of white on my feet and it's so.
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Funny. Well, you know what you tan with
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your slides on. I don't actively town.
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I'm usually walking around a lot and I'm just always walking
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around like in my slides. And so you just get that, that
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nice tan line. Funny story, I ruined my slides
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on my vacation because I went there and they were already.
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I like those. I had those Adidas slides and.
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That's what I have, yeah. I.
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Love, I love them. They're super comfy everything
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but like they're old. So like they were peeling a
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little bit and then I went to like I stepped in the water with
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them and water got absorbed everywhere.
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Everything started peeling off. I was like they're cooked and
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just leave them there and I'll have to eventually get a new
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pair. But damn, sad.
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Curling out. Yeah, porn one out for the
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Adidas slides. They've been through a lot.
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Yeah, and we're about to go through a lot too.
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Let's get started with these hot topics, Josh.
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Let's let's. Let's lazy.
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So I feel like it's getting harder for me.
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The hot topics is I have to avoid stuff we're going to talk
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about, like stuff that's like news related.
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I have to avoid stuff we've already talked about.
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You'll have to avoid sometimes. Still worth a deeper
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conversation. Yeah, but anyways, sometimes all
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set it up where I have these hot topics.
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They're not part of the news episode.
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But The thing is, I don't know what your would you rathers are
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gonna be so you then, because they're so interesting topics
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they get thrown in there. Anyways, let's just get into it.
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Even though we talked about it fairly recently on our last
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episode. Connor Ingram, the coach
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essentially just said that he is the undisputed starter rest of
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season. What is his value?
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What is the line? What is who are you ranking him
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above? Who below?
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Like where do we draw the line on rank room?
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I mean, I I feel like we gave a lot of value to Tristan Jarry
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before because we were like, he sucks, but he's a starter for
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Edmonton. I kind of feel like I'm in the
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same boat with Connor Ingram, except I might get slightly
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better quality just because it's hard to be worth interest.
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And Jerry, guys, this guy was waved last year, like 14 months
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ago or something. And then I don't know what
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Edmonton did, but they made a bunch of mistakes.
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Yeah. And yeah, he's bad.
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So Connor Ingram, I like him as like a top 15 to 20 option rest
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of season. I think low end like bulk
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starter yeah, like would I rather Alex Lion or a UPL where
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I know the quality is be better? They might get less starts over
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over Connor Ingram. I think you're league categories
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or points scoring might influence a lot there, but you
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get more wins. He should.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm taking Lion or UPL over Ingram every
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day of the week. But it's like you said, like he
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will get more starts than either of those guys.
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But let me throw some names at you in terms of like kind of
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like volume guys. Would you rather Spencer Night
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or Ingram? Ingram.
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Joey Decord Ingram. Um, would you rather either of
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the Toronto guys? Ingram.
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Would you rather Mackenzie Blackwood?
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Hmm. I think right now I'm going
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Ingram. We're as we're recording, we're
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in Week 21 is the fantasy, fantasy playoffs.
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Like, yeah, Colorado just said that, you know, they're gonna
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roll with the guys getting them to wins.
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And Blackwood has been awful. I feel like, you know, a lot of
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people are dropping Blackwood and I'm like, you guys, you have
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to pick him up. The upside is there, but a
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certain point you have to pay for the match up in front of you
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too. So it's like a depending on your
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goalie room. It's a risk reward there.
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But are they Connor Ingram? You're giving him the leash.
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He's basically Connor, like a Mackenzie Blackwood, but with
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more starts. Yeah, so I'm.
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Like, OK, two more names for you.
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Yeah. Jacob Markstrom.
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Hmm, that's tough because Marshall is playing all the
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games too like he's like a lioness Walmart.
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They're playing on the back to backs.
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I does you really think they can still make the playoffs?
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Like I don't know what's happening here like why are they
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playing Markstrom, the guy who's squishy AF Yeah on back to backs
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being like maybe we can make the playoffs.
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I have no idea what's happening there, but I think if they keep
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doing that, Markham probably is better because I think I believe
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in his quality more Yeah than Ingram.
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Ingram is like a you're rolling the dice.
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That feels like you can get the 930 versus Nashville or you can
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get an 870 against Vancouver. It feels like it's anything can
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happen. Alright, last one for you, Jet
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grieves. Grieves for sure.
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Oh my God, that's funny. The quality is too good for Jed
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Grieves I think OK and and I think at worst Greece plays
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usually one less game than Ingram on a weekly basis with
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the upside of like fully taking over as well.
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I think and I think just Columbus.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Columbus wins more games than
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Edmonton rest of season. So I don't disagree.
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With any of the other ones I mentioned that you.
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Do I'm pretty, I'm pretty in agreement with most of them.
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I think all of them honestly, Yeah.
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Alright, next we've got Bobby McMahon, who Kevin picked up on
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his team two unreal games since playing for Seattle.
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He got traded a while back. He wasn't injured.
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He was visa issues for a while. It was kind of a mess.
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The coach was saying like, I mean honestly, you got to feel
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for them, right? Like they make this trade
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deadline trade to help their team make the playoffs and then
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the guy, for reasons completely out of everyone's control, just
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cannot play for them for like 2 weeks.
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So but he's finally here. He played two games, Unreal stat
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lines. Is he a good rest of season wake
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up even with bad playoff schedule?
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Or another way to word this, Would you take him over someone
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slightly worse who has four-game weeks like here?
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How about Bobby McMahon versus like Gay Perot who's got a 444
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versus 33? Man by far.
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Versus like a who else is like a solid like one of these guys
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getting picked up? How about like a like a mouse
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for? Work Frank Nazar, I'm taking
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McMahon. OK, wow, I think I'm taking Azar
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for the extra games there. But I, I mean, I I love what
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man's been doing. And I think that like to your
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point, I think you gotta go with a guy like if a guys enough
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better than someone else, like one extra game, you know, you
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still take the guy who's better. So I think I would take McMahon
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over a lot of four games. I'm just, I'm pretty high on the
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zones are I think he's been, he's been really.
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Solid been good. What I don't like about these
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are though is that like I like my players to have a lot of
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category coverage and he's like very linear in terms of like
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being shots face off wins of course is a pure and the points
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and the points feel like they come in bunches too.
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Like you can have like 4 games where have double points and
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then like 2 weeks of straight zeros.
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It feels like it's not getting any hits.
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Whereas McMahon, what we've seen is his archetype.
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First of all, he's playing big minutes.
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Like he's covered just under 20 minutes with games that he's
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played for Seattle. He's line one, power play 1 and
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he's shooting, he's hitting. Listen, I don't expect him to
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average four shots, four hits a game like he's been doing for
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these two games. But I like what I'm seeing and
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the points have come. I think Seattle team trying to
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make the playoffs too. So I think the fit there just
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works well and in Bangor leagues, I like it a lot.
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Do I think Nazar could potentially get more points in a
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four-game week? Yeah.
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But I think I like the shots and the hits of Mcmahan to make up
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for the difference there. Yeah, that's kind of how I feel,
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I think. He's a fantastic pickup despite
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the bad playoff schedule, so I think I would definitely
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encourage people to pick him up, but at least other guys at.
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Least No2 game weeks for Seattle, right?
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Like it's a bad playoff schedule, but a 333 like you're
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always doing, you're making the comparison of three versus 4 and
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you can justify a lot of it sometimes.
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It's just you're justifying it every week.
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It's always a three-game week. Yeah, but if he has the quality,
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like at a certain point, like for me, like a gay parole, it's
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a no brainer. I'm going to McMahon.
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Yeah. I think gate pro power play one
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I'd rather over McMahon with the playoff schedule, but gave pro
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power play 2, I'd rather McMahon.
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Alright, next we've got the villain of the NHL and the
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Olympics, Radco Goudis. Is he worth adding after the
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suspension noise over or can we officially call him cooked?
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Obviously we're just talking bangers leagues, but he's got
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such a like his name value in bangers leagues is equivalent to
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like, I don't want to go too far and say like McDavid in points
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leagues, but like that's kind of what he's been like over the
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past couple of years as a bangers defenseman, right?
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And this year he's been really bad, right?
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Like he's had his stretches, but like especially towards the end,
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like lately he's been really, really bad and a lot of people
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are asking, do I have permission to cut him?
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Like is, you know, like I know this is like a cardinal sin to
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cut Radko Gudas in a bangers league.
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But obviously it's suspension aside because while he's
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suspended, he's obviously a job because he's not playing.
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But when he comes back, like do is do you pick him up for the
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for like the last like week or whatever playoffs if you need
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the banger or is he just you're just not interested?
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You could find someone better. To me, you can probably find
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someone better like even before the suspension, like he was
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going cold and people were already dropping him there.
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Does suspension was just kind of like the the easy, easy make
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sure decision easy to make. So does that mean that he won't
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be valuable in knowing the last week of the fantasy playoffs or
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in the semifinals or whatever? No, I think he could definitely
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have games where he's providing good hits and blocks.
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But I just think I'm not not relying on it.
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And we've already seen the bunch of these guys come and go of
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like alternatives that can basically do either exactly what
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he's doing, even maybe sometimes even better and maybe you're
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just a little worse. And I'm not holding goods for
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that. Yeah.
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No, I fully agree. I had him on my team.
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I dropped him and I haven't looked back.
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I haven't regretted it. No one else grabbed him.
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It's crazy, like I want to actually ask you this because
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going into this season, there's always like the the prototypical
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banger, like elite guys that you know, the name is there and
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you're like, OK, this guy will like help me win my bangers
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leagues. Yeah.
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I feel like all those guys kind of like have either gotten
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worse, but I think also it's just like there's been a bunch
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of alternatives that have kind of serviced that just makes it
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less special to have those. Yeah, quote, UN quote, guys that
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used to be special. I'm getting to the point where I
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feel like I'm just not gonna draft those guys.
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I'd rather or not until like the last round, like take a take
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like a shot at a random one because they're easy to find on
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the waiver wire. You know, like it's, it sucks to
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waste draft capital on a guy and you're like, I don't even want
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much from you. All I want is you to hit and
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block, you know, and then they don't do that.
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Even when you're kind of like, then you see all these guys on
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waivers who start putting up two hits, two blocks and you're
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like, Oh, I gotta hold on to my radical good.
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It's like he's going through a rough stretch and you just see
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them pass you by. You know, you could have picked
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up a Mentia Samuelson or something, you know, like, um, I
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just think it's an easy, easy position to fill.
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So I kind of agree with you. I think the days of spending
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draft capital on these kind of fingers, guys like it.
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Doesn't Romanov like, pretty highly Alexander Romanov?
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We forget about it because he's been hurt for so long, but that?
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That's that's like less on him, his performance and more of the
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fact he got season he. Wasn't banging that much either
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when I had a yeah so. I like, I'd much rather like if
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I'm gonna use draft capital on bangers, I much prefer like a
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forward who's a double double, but I think that's a lot harder.
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Like who can, you know, go point 5.5 points per game, whatever,
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fetch. Yeah.
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But even like lesser ones, like, you know, I mean key for
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Sherwood, he is unbelievable. Like, well, you know, like like,
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yeah, exactly. So like these ones I'm willing
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to spend. That's where I'm willing to
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spend draft capital on bangers. But I agree with you the the
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defensemen, like, you know, I picked up Truba last year mid
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rounds and I'm pretty excited about it.
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I mean, this year I got for free, but last year drafted him
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and then he had his worst year as a banker, you know, So like
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it's A and it just sucks when you have such like low
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expectations slash like what you want them to do and they can't
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even do that. So the upside just isn't there,
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it feels like. Alright, let's go to another
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disappointing defenseman. We've got Seth Jones of the
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Florida Panthers. How do you value him rest of
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season when he's back from injury?
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Since the Panthers are tanking so hard, what are some
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comparable names that you know you'd be willing to, let's say,
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drop to activate him or something like that?
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Hmm, where do you? Draw the line like obviously
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he's gonna be power play one on the Panthers, but that's a lot
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less exciting when guys like, you know, we don't know if
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Reinhardt's gonna be there or Bennett or Marshawn, right?
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So like that probably should be a lot worse than it was before
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he got injured. And you know, it's not like he
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was the best at back cats. Like I just can't see them
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giving it their all right, Like no, he's just coming back from
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injury and they're kind of actively tanking.
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So like, would you rather like health healthy, right, Assuming
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he comes back this week, would you rather Seth Jones or like
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keep bringing his name up? But I feel like it's just
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comparable, like Brent Clark or Seth Jones, you know?
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To me as Brandon Clark, like Latina wants to win, he's the
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power play, one quarterback on the power that I was preparing.
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That's been a little bit better. I know Clark just had a really
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bad game, but I'm also like, I believe in it for the future.
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Whereas Seth Jones, it just kind of feels like, you know, the
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bangers are not like I feel we associate him with like being
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really good bangers guy and also the power play.
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But the bangers have not been really there, right?
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Like it's a little bit of blocks, a little bit of shots.
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The hits are not as there at all.
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And the power play. How good is the power play gonna
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be when you have like Lundell Samutsevich and vehicle
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replacing your 33 studs that are on the on that lineup?
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So I don't know what to expect, but I my vision of Seth Jones on
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how I see him rest of season when healthy is like point 6.6,
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five points per game, hovering around two shots, hovering
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around 2 blocks and be slightly below, slightly above and like
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maybe .2 power play points. Yeah.
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And I feel like you can probably stream production like that if
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you're in a shallow enough league for PowerPoint defence
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being readily available. But if not, like, you know, you
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could probably would you like? Would you rather Jones or
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Thomas? Robot.
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Thurman Thomas, robot for sure right at that point, but Seth
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Jones or like, are you holding a, you know, Shauna Walker,
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who's? Gonna take to inform.
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Walker What about like a Lacombe or a John Carlson?
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Whichever 1 ends up on power, play one.
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Yeah, You know, I think I probably take Jones over both
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them just because of his like cemented position on there.
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Like I think like I would still take like I still treat him as a
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power play 1 defenseman on like 1/2 decent team because even
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with all their injuries, it's still Florida, right?
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We're taking children. Chicken was so bad.
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He's been really bad. Normally I would I would much
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prefer chicken, but with how bad he's been and Jones just being a
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bit of a question mark, I'd rather take the chance on Jones
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at this point. I.
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I feel like I'm still going chicken because I know at least
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Washington has healthy guys and like their best personnel is
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there. That's fair.
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And I think, I mean, yeah, it's probably chicken.
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It just, he's been so bad that like, like, you know, it's kind
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of hard not to take the question mark versus just how bad he's
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been. But but yeah, so it's a it's
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definitely interesting. Like I think he is like Jones is
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worth a pickup if he's available in your league.
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He's only like 64% owned because he's been injured for so long.
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And he does have two, four-game weeks in the next two weeks.
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So I think he's definitely worth a look.
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But I think you definitely have to temper your expectations
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because of just the state of how Florida is right now.
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Jones or McKenzie Weaker. I'll take Jones, yeah.
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Even in a bangers league like. Um, yeah, I, I still think like,
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I still think there's upside there.
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Like I don't think he's like completely like done and for the
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season, but but like yeah, and Calgary's just so, so bad.
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Like Jones. I'm confidence get more points,
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hardly points than Wigger. Wigger will get more and more
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brackets. So yeah, but other.
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Points enough to make up for like the quote UN quote leader
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bad cats that we will get you it's.
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Just a different archetype. But I think it is, I think like
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Jones, like his back has are not what people give him credit for,
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but they're also not zeros. So there's there's still some
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value there. Has not been impressive since
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the trade either, so yeah. All right.
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Oh yeah, I said. Calgary is on Utah.
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My bad. Yeah, yeah.
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Alright, last one. I feel like we get this one all
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the time, but we're changing who The Who.
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The second option is Yakub Dobish and Jacob Fowler.
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People are really hyped on Fowler.
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Is he taking the net or is he worth a pickup?
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Or is it still Dobish all the way?
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Hmm, to. Me, I see it as a pretty clear
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as Dobesh like like no question. I think that I got a comment on
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on Reddit like I, you know, I make the weekly post with our
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waivers like summary and someone essentially commented because we
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had recommended Dobesh right, as you could like quantity pickup.
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And essentially the comment was something like, Oh, it's going
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to be Fowler over Dobish, you know, and I essentially
19:13
responded being like, the only reason Fowler got called up is
19:16
because has had two back to backs and they have just 0 faith
19:19
in Montana at this point. They do not want him touching
19:21
the ice again, so they put Fowler in for both those back to
19:23
backs. Doesn't change the fact that
19:26
Dobesh is still the starter on the Habs.
19:27
He's been fantastic for them and they need to win games so
19:30
they're going to keep going with the guys.
19:31
Been fantastic who has the slightly more experience?
19:34
So I'm very hyped on. Fowler is the goalie of the
19:36
future for the Habs and if Dober starts playing poorly I could
19:40
see finally taking it. But right now there's no reason
19:42
to think that Dobish isn't the starter.
19:43
So for this coming week I'm 100% Dobish.
19:46
I think he could get there. If he plays well enough, he can
19:48
get all this starts. Do you think we're in the
19:51
situation we're kind of like Colorado, where the team is
19:54
like, we need to get wins? So the goalie that is giving us
19:56
winners, the one that's gonna play because Dobesh is not, you
19:59
know? Like oblivious to the bad game
20:02
here here, right, like both have just followed just had a bad
20:06
game. Dobesh just had a bad game.
20:07
So it's kind of like I think the best has lead it's.
20:11
Too, the same way that in the fantasy season, like at this
20:14
point where it's the playoffs, there's no more to like leeway.
20:18
It's just you have to win. That's the same point we're at
20:20
in the season for a team like the haves where they are in the
20:23
standings, they need to win. There's no more you know that's
20:25
why they're done with Monsanto, right?
20:26
There's no more trying to get him to regain form or any of
20:29
that. It's like, no, we need wins.
20:30
We need the guy who's gonna perform now.
20:31
So if Fowlers becomes if Dobish, like Dobish has the edge right
20:35
now because he's done it for longer, they're going to keep
20:37
going to him. But if he starts playing poorly,
20:39
they'll easily top toss Fowler start and if power plays poorly
20:42
goes back to Dobesh. Like they they have the options
20:45
but they will go with whoever is winning them games.
20:46
So there is the possibility. But at least for this week,
20:49
Dobesh has the edge and I. Also want to clear up, I feel
20:52
there's this misconception or just like idea with the public
20:56
that just like Fowler is a God like that.
21:00
Like, you know, it's just a matter of time until he gets his
21:02
spot. Like they can only hold him out
21:04
for so long. But like, he's got he's got he's
21:06
gotten games. He's had amazing games.
21:07
He's also had really bad games. Yeah.
21:09
So I'm like, really young still. Yeah.
21:11
Like, he's not the, the the God that's gonna save our season.
21:15
And we're making a bad decision not playing like they could give
21:18
him starting just like not run away with it and not succeed.
21:20
Absolutely, absolutely in the range of outcomes.
21:22
And I think we need to kind of separate the fact that he's such
21:24
a good prospect that doesn't translate to like actual NHL
21:27
production right now. That's.
21:29
Exactly it I think people are really hyped on his future and
21:32
what he's going to bring to the hives in the future and they're
21:34
mistaking the fact that he's up right now.
21:36
They're they think it's the time, but it's probably not
21:38
there yet and we're. Habs fans, so like, we're trying
21:40
not to be biased here either. Like, I love Fowler.
21:42
Like we're really excited about his potential.
21:44
But you know, Better has won a lot of games to have this
21:46
season, so yeah. All right, so let's get into our
21:50
mailbag questions for this one. Yeah, fun times.
21:54
We got some good ones, so let's dive right in.
21:57
Jodari on Discord asked Would you rather draft a team of
21:59
players 36 and up or a team of 21 and younger?
22:04
This is tough, but I feel like I feel it just takes a few 21 like
22:09
under guys to be really good, that it makes it worth it.
22:13
I mean like the players are. Gonna say find me a player 36
22:16
and up who's better than celebrity, you know, might be.
22:18
Five players combined that are better than celebrity?
22:20
Probably not, yeah. Yeah, no, so.
22:23
And The thing is that also throughout the season, it could
22:27
be like close ish, but especially this time of year,
22:31
you you go the 21 and younger all the way.
22:32
This is one of those young guys pop up and have a great finish
22:35
to this season. And this is one of those old
22:36
guys are injured and missed the rest of the season.
22:38
You know, so that's easily 21 and younger.
22:41
Also. It's more fun.
22:42
Yeah. All right.
22:45
Evan 2827 on Discord asked if you guys had to watch one team
22:48
play hockey from each division for the rest of your life, who
22:51
would you pick and why? So obviously for Alan, we're
22:54
picking the Habs because we can't pick.
22:55
The Habs because absence no I. Feel like that's a fair, that's
22:58
a fair one. We still have three other
23:00
divisions to cover. At the look, they have to pick
23:04
one. That's what I have.
23:06
OK, well, this is tough because it's about the team, right?
23:08
It's not about the players because it's the rest of your
23:10
life. So like all these players are
23:12
gonna come and go. It's about.
23:14
So what do you what do you even think about in that case?
23:16
Like I think you think. About coaching and like team
23:18
archetype and. That over the course of a
23:21
lifetime it changes like having. Identities as well.
23:25
That's true, some teams do have an identity.
23:27
So which team? Do you like to root for?
23:30
I think that's more of the question too, Like, but it's.
23:32
Just tough because like the way this question is worded and like
23:35
the idea of it, I feel like so much of like what we think of a
23:38
team as the players, right? Because this is what makes up a
23:39
team. But over the course of a
23:40
lifetime, these whole rosters will change and everything will
23:43
change. So I guess like, what's the one
23:46
constant, you know, like the jersey, you know, like just pick
23:50
the one jersey like the most or just pick which one you think
23:52
has the next like the best future or the funnest to watch
23:55
in the next like 10 years because that's all you could
23:56
predict and it's random after that.
23:58
So. Yeah, exactly.
24:00
So I mean, if we're going off that, the team are most excited
24:03
for for the next 7 years. Buffaloes.
24:07
Uh, no. I was gonna say San Jose.
24:10
Still talking to the Atlantic I. Was just going like random, but
24:13
like like, so yeah. So I would go San Jose from the
24:16
Pacific. Um, I think from the, from the
24:21
metro, I feel like Chicago with Bedard or is that I always mix
24:29
up the Chicago. Chicago's in the the specific.
24:32
Yeah, Central. OK, Yeah, cool.
24:34
So. So yeah, give me a second.
24:35
Division, you already did the Pacific, you can do the Central,
24:38
yeah. Exactly so.
24:39
So give me, give me San Jose and give me Chicago, just because I
24:42
think they're gonna be really fun to watch for the next
24:44
however many years. Then in the metro, in the.
24:50
East. In the East, who's a fun team in
24:53
the Metro Division to me? I'm narrowing it down to like, I
24:58
think Columbus could be really fun.
24:59
Yeah, I also like. I've always liked New Jersey.
25:02
Like New Jersey was one of my teams when they had brother.
25:04
I was just like a big fan of that era.
25:07
I just go in New Jersey 2. Yeah, I mean, I feel like I'll
25:15
take I'll take Columbus. I I feel like like fan till he's
25:18
really becoming like legit Marchenko.
25:20
Also Jenna, what about also does Jackie is I'm over it honestly,
25:25
like with all the injuries, it's just like I like I feel like
25:28
that I actively don't want to watch New Jersey because he's
25:30
always injured. I'm always like, they should be
25:31
better than they are. How the media falling, Yeah.
25:34
OK. And then last but not least, the
25:36
Atlantic and we're not allowed choosing the haves.
25:38
I can tell you one thing, I'm not choosing Toronto unless it's
25:43
just to watch them lose every year.
25:45
In Toronto not choosing Boston, yeah.
25:47
Exactly. I mean, Ottawa has been been
25:50
kind of crazy, but I feel like now's the time to get to hop on
25:53
the Buffalo bandwagon, you know, like it's, I think it's gotta be
25:57
Buffalo for me. To me it's Buffalo or Florida
25:59
and Florida only because Barkov is there and you want to player,
26:02
but like that's not gonna be there forever.
26:04
It's not gonna last like that much longer with all these
26:06
injuries. I think Buffalo is the team to
26:09
go. I think I just have a lot of fun
26:10
rooting for Buffalo because the team deserves some success,
26:14
yeah. They deserve some joy after like
26:16
put. An asterisk there, but yeah.
26:18
Alright, let's go to the next one.
26:20
JD Whale on Discord asked does punting categories work in
26:23
fantasy hockey like it does in fantasy basketball?
26:25
Absolutely. I think the biggest talked about
26:27
punted category in our league is faceoff wins.
26:30
And the way to kind of look at it is a category that doesn't
26:34
correlate with any other categories.
26:36
And that's also why, you know, I like targeting specifically guys
26:39
who get power play goals in our league, because power play, if a
26:41
power play goal is a power play point, a goal, a point and a
26:44
shot, that's 4 categories for one action.
26:46
So, so yes, punting is definitely a thing.
26:49
You could punt goalies by, you know, going 0G and then kind of
26:52
like trying to like, you know, in our league, we've got both,
26:56
we've got both quality and quantity categories, right?
26:59
And so oftentimes you can be like, I'm gonna run fewer
27:01
goalies that have better like quality and those are easier to
27:05
pick up on waivers, you know, guys who aren't going to get as
27:07
many starts, but when they do, they play well.
27:09
So then you punch the volume category.
27:11
So yes, it's definitely a thing. And I think it's definitely a
27:14
definitely important even week by week, right?
27:16
I will say though, that, um, fantasy basketball, it's way
27:20
more prominent. Like punting categories is a
27:22
serious strategy that you go into the draft with.
27:24
Like you build your team with specific archetype for certain
27:28
categories that you wanna hit in hockey, we'll say I would say
27:30
it's harder in hockey because a lot of the categories are way
27:33
more correlated together. But I think my favorite category
27:36
that I pushed all the time is plus minus.
27:38
Like I'm in a plus minus. I don't even look at the plus
27:40
minus. I'm drafting my team, right?
27:41
That shouldn't even be a category.
27:43
It shouldn't even. Be a category and like Josh
27:45
said, like the ones that are least correlated with other
27:47
categories are the ones that you want to punt ideally, like face
27:50
off 1 is another one. Like if the guys on the centre
27:52
is not gonna face off wins. I don't really care about that,
27:55
right? So I think those are the easiest
27:57
categories to pun If you wanna get in the nitty gritty of it,
28:00
like blocks and hits, you can technically punt as well.
28:02
Like I know a lot of defensemen are, you know, shots, blocks,
28:04
defencemen with power play upside, but no hits.
28:06
Those are easy to find. So definitely feasible, but I
28:10
will say a little harder. I I tend to not go into it
28:14
punting any categories unless it's plus, minus or yourself
28:17
wins, yeah. Agreed.
28:19
All right, Dobby on Discord asked why are Bangers cat
28:23
leagues your preferred preferred format?
28:27
I mean, I think this is a easy one for me to answer and it's
28:31
just because I think bangers, categories, leagues requires a
28:34
lot more strategic input and that's what makes it more fun to
28:39
me. I feel like points does a lot of
28:41
heavy lifting for a lot of your league.
28:44
I feel like you can be, let's say, a bad fantasy manager and
28:47
still have success in points leagues, but if you're a bad
28:50
fantasy manager in categories leagues, it'll show more often.
28:54
I think being more well researched, I think being
28:56
smarter with your ads plays a bigger part and I like being
29:00
rewarded for being a better fantasy player.
29:01
That's why I prefer that format because you can really truly
29:04
build your team how you want to build it and make strategic
29:06
decisions like, OK, I'll sacrifice a bit of this to get a
29:09
little bit better here with points.
29:10
It's just kind of like all put together and I think it takes
29:14
away a little bit of the strategy.
29:16
I. Fully agree.
29:17
I think Katz is like a bit of a chess match especially.
29:19
Also if you're like, you know, you have a little Excel model
29:22
like me and Kevin do, you could go to the week.
29:24
You know, which categories you should be are up for grabs
29:26
essentially. You know which ones you should
29:27
be targeting for ads and stuff like early on in the week.
29:31
And you know, especially like when you're up against another
29:34
good manager, like when Kevin and I play each other, it really
29:37
feels like a chess match because like you wanna make pickups
29:40
early in the week because you want to maximize the games
29:42
played of your pickup. But also like, let's say there's
29:44
like 3 categories up for grabs, you know, like it's box face off
29:47
wins. And I see Kevin makes a face off
29:48
win pick up. I'm like, OK, maybe I don't
29:51
bother with the face off wins. And I could actually drop a guy
29:53
on my team who's kind of garbage other than faceoff wins and then
29:56
pick up like a hits blocks guy. And now he kind of wasted his
29:59
ad. And like, but then he reacts to
30:01
my ad, you know, and then you're waiting until like the end of
30:03
the week also to save an ad for the last minute like like twist.
30:06
So I think there's just a lot of fun we had there and a lot of,
30:10
like you said, rewarding smart managers, which is because like
30:13
points is kind of, I just view it as like point soup.
30:16
You know, it's just like a bunch of stuff happens, it gets
30:19
converted into a number and then poop, you get like, you know,
30:21
your total and it's just, it's just you're just picking whoever
30:24
you think is just the best in general, right?
30:27
So. So yeah, I think it's more fun.
30:29
And if you've never played in a category leagues before, like
30:32
obviously we talk mainly about category lease here, like Bangor
30:35
management Bangor leagues. I think it's the most fun also
30:38
format. I don't want anybody to be
30:40
intimidated. I don't like it's, I think it
30:42
requires more strategy, but it's still really fun and I think
30:45
it's very rewarding. And next season, like we're
30:47
going to be running Bangor management community leagues as
30:50
well for everybody to get involved in.
30:52
It's going to be the same settings as our personal league
30:54
of record. We will be in some of the
30:57
leagues to play with some of you guys still trying to convince
31:00
Josh to participate, but I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
31:04
So if you haven't had any of those experiences yet, I think
31:06
you can look forward to that next season.
31:08
Yeah, alright, show me Peugeot on Discord asked do you guys
31:12
prefer to trade just straight players with no pics or involve
31:15
picks in your trades? In our league of record, we
31:17
don't have picks trading because it's it's full redraft.
31:21
But I know to me, I would love to to get picks involved.
31:25
I know that I would always use that as like, you know, oh, this
31:28
treat is close for you, but let me throw in like a little pick
31:31
up grade there, you know? Box or something?
31:33
Yeah. Exactly.
31:34
I feel like it's a nice way of just kind of like slightly like
31:37
tipping the scales one way or another to get a trade done.
31:39
So I think it just gives more flexibility and anything that
31:42
makes more trades happen makes me happy.
31:44
So so I could see really enjoying that.
31:46
I personally like it's tough, right, because I I just love a
31:51
good trade. What that includes pics or not
31:53
Yeah, like Josh said, our our main league of record does not
31:56
involve pick trading. But the thing with like, and I'm
32:00
a commissioner in a lot of leagues for, you know, football
32:02
and hockey and I've seen a lot of SHIT.
32:08
And, and to me, like what I've seen is what people are not as
32:12
experienced and you include pick trading, it leads to a lot of
32:16
people getting taken advantage of and it kind of like ruins the
32:19
integrity of the league. When I know I've seen startup
32:22
drafts in football where some guy that's very experienced will
32:25
offer trade and be like, Hey, I'll give you this like third
32:28
round pick for your 4th and 5th round pick.
32:30
And the guys like, Oh yeah, of course I get a better third
32:32
round pick. I'm giving two worst picks, of
32:34
course. But it's like a redraft, like
32:36
it's a, you know, startup league for dynasty or something like
32:38
that. And like, you're losing a lot of
32:40
value on that. And then I'm like, I don't
32:42
believe in vetoes either, but I know clearly this guy made a
32:45
really bad trade that compromises the integrity of the
32:47
league. So like, I have trouble trusting
32:48
everybody to be smart with the training.
32:50
But maybe that's just me issue. Yeah, but in general.
32:53
It's fun at least when there's no picks involved.
32:56
If someone makes a dumb trade it only ruins like that season you
32:59
know doesn't carry over to future years so.
33:01
So there's definitely less stakes involved there for sure.
33:03
Alright Cornucopia express on discord asked what each of your
33:07
go to pick me ups after being knocked out of the playoffs so I
33:11
can go first in this one. I've only ever been.
33:13
Do you even have? A pick me up, Josh, like I was
33:15
about to say I've I've. Only ever been knocked out of
33:17
the playoffs once and the day it happened my first child was
33:22
born. So I'd say my first and only
33:25
child. So I'd say my pick me up for
33:27
being knocked out of the playoffs is having a baby.
33:32
Funny, what a coincidence. No, I that's never happened to
33:36
me. Honestly, I don't know if I have
33:41
a pick me up because the losses really hit me and they really
33:46
stick with me. And to me it's just like, OK,
33:49
I'll get him next week, but at some point there's more next
33:51
week, right? Yeah, so and like we'll talk
33:53
about this in the first week of the playoffs.
33:55
I think for me, what I do is I try to rationalize what happened
33:58
and it's outside of my control. I feel a little bit better about
34:01
it. Like I did all the right things
34:04
and it's still just didn't work out.
34:05
I think I gave myself the best chance to win and if I just got
34:08
unlucky that unlucky, like I'll be devastated, but at least I
34:11
can be like, I didn't make any bad moves, not on me, you know,
34:13
like this guy picked up. I don't know who I played
34:18
against. Was the name Colin?
34:20
Graff last week you put up like 6 points in a Shorty, yeah.
34:23
Who did? I played against Nick Dowd like
34:26
after the trade and you got like 10 hits in one game and I lost
34:30
hits that we can have the best hits team by far.
34:32
I'm just like, there's nothing I could have done.
34:33
How am I supposed to predict Nick Dowell is going to get 10
34:35
hits in one game and completely shift the whole match up?
34:39
Like some of the things you just can't plan for.
34:41
And I think thinking about those things, I'm like, OK, like, you
34:43
know, what am I supposed to do? Yeah.
34:45
And that helps me cope. I've got my.
34:47
Excuse locked and loaded this year with Crystal being out and
34:50
last year, no joke, like my top five picks all were injured
34:54
going into the playoffs. So, you know, it's nice to have
34:57
a little, it doesn't actually help at all, but it's nice
35:00
having a little excuse at the ready, you know, so everyone
35:02
knows that you're still the best.
35:03
But it wasn't involved, all right?
35:07
Mojo JoJo on Discord asked Wool or Stolarz.
35:10
Rest of season, Can we say neither?
35:14
No, but it was like, if you have to choose one, who are you going
35:16
with? I think right now still ours is
35:21
playing better, yeah. I think it's it's, it's like,
35:24
no, it's pretty. Believe you to better
35:27
performances, Yeah. It's pretty bleak and leaf
35:29
slant, but he just go with who's doing better right now I.
35:32
Think right now probably leans towards if you had to make me
35:34
pick no gun to my head. Exactly been a.
35:37
While since the gun has been to my head and what better way to
35:40
do with them this week? Yeah, OK.
35:42
Why Swan 7934 on Discord asked. I seem to encounter phenomenon
35:46
where I clinch a by entering the bye week, the team goes
35:49
absolutely nuclear and everyone stays healthy.
35:51
Then once the buy is over everyone starts having some of
35:53
the worst performances of their season.
35:55
It's not just that though, they'll have family members that
35:58
children be born, other personal reasons to miss games, or just
36:00
randomly become day-to-day. It seems like all this is too
36:03
much for coincidence and there's some kind of bi week juju going
36:05
on. My question is, have you found
36:06
any remedy for this? Maybe some sort of ritual,
36:08
prayer or sacrifice? I don't think there are any
36:11
witch doctors or gypsies near me, but I'm willing to travel if
36:13
needed. Is there anyone in ancient
36:15
Canadian mythology who can help me?
36:17
I'm one week into a two week Emmy and desperately need some
36:20
help. We've all been there, my friend.
36:23
Yeah, I think, I think like. The only like, like I think
36:26
Canadian mythology. The only thing I think of is
36:27
like Terry Fox. I was just thinking about Terry
36:30
Fox. I was like, maybe we should all
36:31
go run a marathon and we'll get some good juju.
36:34
But yeah, it's, it's tough out there, I think.
36:38
Have you ever tried praying to our Lord and Savior Matthew
36:42
Olivier? Because I know that if you don't
36:45
pray to him and you antagonize him, bad things happen.
36:48
So maybe if you say good things, good things happen.
36:52
That's the only thing that came to mind potentially, um.
36:56
Yeah, I've, I've got nothing because this, this, I mean,
36:59
look, I just lost dry slightly. I'm still really not over it.
37:02
This is the second year in a row he's done this to me, so I know
37:05
the feels. Yeah, there's, you know, cruel.
37:08
Mistress. It really, really is.
37:10
And you know, if you, if you think, if you find anything,
37:13
please let me know because I'm wanting to do a very
37:15
superstitious things if I think it will help me.
37:18
We're gonna watch this, be on the roof doing some rain dance
37:21
or something, and maybe that will help.
37:24
But if that's what? It takes to heal dry side.
37:26
I will do anything anyways my. Knee or hip or whatever it is
37:30
exactly, just take. All my bones and you know, use
37:32
them as you will. I will slither around and you
37:35
know, as long as they win. Alright, let's go to the next
37:39
one. Gnome on Discord asked.
37:41
Any sneak peaks for the banger management fantasy leagues?
37:44
Are we going to going with 12 team leagues, 14 teams reversal
37:48
in the third of the draft? Are the boys going to be in the
37:50
same tier slash league or will each be the final boss of three
37:52
different leagues? If you all participate, what is
37:55
what are some sneak peeks for next year?
37:57
What a great question, yeah. I mean, listen, I feel like
38:01
we've done a couple sneak peeks in the past on, you know, these
38:04
episodes or whatnot. But for those who have missed it
38:06
or you know, maybe let's listen to sitting for the first time.
38:09
The sneak peaks I can say are full peaks because I will give
38:13
you all the settings. It's going to be exactly the
38:15
same settings as our league of record.
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It's going to be probably 12 teams for everybody, and it's
38:21
working teams. I think for the Bangor
38:25
management community leagues would probably be 12 because it
38:27
would be easier to manage. But listen, maybe if we get so
38:30
many applicants, maybe we'll do 14, whichever.
38:33
One is divisible by the amount of people who like which one
38:36
that. Makes sense.
38:37
The most will be but I think it'll be end up being 12.
38:40
It's always 15 categories. We've got 10 categories for four
38:43
words. We got 5 categories, 4 goalies.
38:46
It's goals, assists, points, power play, points, shorthanded
38:50
points. Also shots.
38:52
Pimms. Pimms for the bangers, face off
38:55
wins, hits and blocks. So those are all the categories.
39:00
For forwards, pretty much almost anything you can think of, minus
39:02
like takeaways and like time of ice and stuff like that.
39:05
Yeah. And for goalies it's always
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wins, goals against, average save percentage, saves as well
39:12
quantity of saves and shutouts. So 15 total categories.
39:15
It leaves a lot up for grabs. Very strategic.
39:19
And the three Ads every week, minimum 3 goalie starts and
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you're starting roster is going to be pretty large as well.
39:26
It's 4 centres or left wings for right wings for defensemen and
39:30
two bench spots and a few yeah 2 goalies and a few IR plus slots.
39:37
So it's gonna be a lot of fun and it's.
39:39
A snake draft. Yeah, snake drafts.
39:41
We can potentially get tempted with a third round reversal,
39:44
although we do not personally play with third round reversal.
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Not because I think it's bad, I just think that, you know, our
39:48
league has been going the way to.
39:50
Go. It is Snake.
39:51
It's just third round reversal helps the teams that are not
39:54
getting McDavid, dry Seidel and McKinnon.
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And so there's a strong argument to having that be a more fair
40:01
draft. We've just done now without it
40:05
for so long that it it'd be tough to convince the rest of
40:07
our league to to make that change.
40:08
But I'll consider it for the community.
40:11
Leagues and we won't be in every league, but I'm putting it out
40:15
there like I will be participating in one league.
40:18
I'm pretty sure Jake will be participating in one league and
40:20
Josh, if I can convince him, will be participating in one
40:23
league. Leaving it out there.
40:25
Maybe the whole community begs him, maybe he will actually
40:28
confirm. I will.
40:29
Say it's. It's very unlikely because
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unlike Kevin and Jake, I am not good at, you know, not putting
40:38
all my emotions. No, it's not even that because
40:40
you, you, you're, you're, it's not like, I don't know, I just
40:42
can't handle it. A lot of emotion.
40:43
In our league of record as well. If you have no.
40:45
You fully do, but I just, I don't know, it just gets to me
40:47
and I just like even one league like you've never tried.
40:50
It I think you could try. We joined that public league
40:53
together one that one year, and then I read.
40:55
Them like that's just me and you and and whatever and I cared
40:58
about it the whole time and you didn't know.
40:59
The way I see it is like their. Community.
41:02
I already get so devastated whenever I get injuries and if I
41:05
have twice as many teams, that's twice as many players who I have
41:08
who could get injured. And anyways, we'll see.
41:10
I'd say it's unlikely, but but I won't.
41:12
I won't rule it out because you never know.
41:15
This is. A win, but it's gonna be a lot
41:18
of fun. We still have to find out what
41:20
the structure is going to be like, if there's like a
41:22
hierarchy or tiers or whatnot. But we're thinking about some
41:25
cool, you know, division names or league names for all the
41:28
leagues out there. And you can trust us once we
41:31
have an update in the. Obviously, we're going to dive
41:33
deep into it and see what makes the most sense, what, how many
41:34
people are going to participate. And it's just gonna be a lot of
41:37
fun, yeah. It is all right, Blue Goon on
41:41
Discord asked. Hi guys, with the playoffs
41:43
around the corner, what strategy and advice do you have for teams
41:45
that have players that might be shut down, whether they're on
41:47
teams like Dallas, Carolina at Buffalo, or tanking teams like
41:51
Ranges in Florida? This is the trickiest part of
41:52
the season because I don't know whether to play guys like Dry
41:54
Soda and Carlson who might be a healthy scratch or stream them
41:57
for a matchup specific player. So this makes it sound like it's
42:01
kind of like a weekly, weekly logs, right?
42:04
Because I feel like if it's day-to-day, you just need to see
42:07
what you see if they're in or out, right?
42:10
But yeah, I mean, like at this point it's too late to make
42:14
trades and stuff, right? So, um, you have the players
42:17
that you have and there's nothing you kind of have to roll
42:18
with the punches. The way the way I see it is the
42:22
same way that you kind of get hit with random injuries and
42:24
shutdowns and stuff like that. Other people are getting hit by
42:27
that. And every time a player gets
42:28
shut down, it's an opportunity for another player to step up.
42:32
And there's a lot of these players stepping up who are on
42:34
free agency. So try not to get caught up in,
42:37
you know, how much it sucks when your guy gets shut down and just
42:40
try and think, OK, who's the next man up?
42:42
Or you see someone on someone else's team that shut down,
42:44
who's the next man up? You know, like talk about like
42:46
Kevin's been saying in the Discord a lot, Jamie Ben is a
42:48
great pickup, right? Fully agree.
42:50
Because, you know, ranting and hints got shut down to playoffs.
42:52
He's on power play one now. That would never happen other
42:55
than like end of season really. You know, he perot for a bit
42:58
until JT came back, you know, like that was a great one.
43:01
Like, you know, these kind of like random guys who come out of
43:04
nowhere because of these shutdowns.
43:06
That's that's kind of the way I would kind of mitigate these
43:09
issues. If you're looking earlier in the
43:11
season, like we talked about, like it's fun.
43:13
It's good having guys on teams fighting for playoffs to kind of
43:16
avoid this. But it just feels like it's too
43:18
hard to predict, too far out. I yeah, echo everything Josh
43:23
said. I think also, like a lot of
43:24
context matters here too. Like it's hard to be proactive
43:26
with guys being shut down because you never truly know,
43:29
right? And how devastating would it be?
43:30
If you you know, I think this is gonna get shut down and he
43:32
doesn't, then you're missing out on a lot of production.
43:34
But then like you're gonna feel awful when you start him and
43:36
then he gets shut down, right? Like there's literally no right
43:39
answer there unless we can tell the future.
43:41
If you're in a league where you have to like commit to starting
43:43
a raw like a lineup before the for the whole week.
43:47
But all of it is also contextual, right?
43:50
Like JT Miller being potentially held under Reinhart being
43:52
potentially held out has different consequences than, you
43:56
know, it being like a Malkin or something, right?
43:58
Like just every different players in their own kind of
44:00
like vacuum of, you know, situation.
44:02
And you have to evaluate it all separately.
44:04
And that's why I think we're doing a good job in the Discord,
44:07
like trying to decipher everything for everybody,
44:09
specific leagues, their own league settings and their own
44:11
situations for their roster. So if you have any particular
44:14
questions of like guys you are worried about, shoot us a
44:16
message in there and I think we'll be able to help you.
44:18
Yeah. All right.
44:19
Last question party never dies on Discord asked what do I do
44:23
about Tom Wilson? He's killing me.
44:24
Not doing what I drafted him for 10 team league with bangers and
44:27
there are lots of good players on the wire.
44:29
This was alluded to in the last episode and I I kind of cut you
44:32
off. I was like, we're going to talk
44:33
about this, but I think the fact that it's a 10 team league makes
44:37
it very interesting because I think it's very reasonable to
44:40
drop a guy who's underperforming in A10 team league, especially
44:44
like a guy like Wilson. You have him for a very specific
44:46
reason, right? Obviously, like the points
44:48
upside was really nice this like start of this season and last
44:51
season, but in general makes them so elitist.
44:53
The pimp shots hits. If he's not doing that and he's
44:56
just getting you kind of like zeros, like why are you holding
44:59
him? And when it's playoff time?
45:01
We talked about this a lot this episode.
45:02
We talked about this last episode.
45:03
There's no time to wait. There's no you know, sure, it's
45:06
a three-week span, so like you know, you don't want to make all
45:08
these rash decisions week 1 and then be screwed the following
45:12
weeks. But at the same time, like we're
45:14
far enough in the season. He's been bad since the
45:16
Olympics, right? It's not like this is just like
45:18
a little blip. I don't know about you, Kevin.
45:21
I'm willing to drop, especially in A10 team league in.
45:24
A10 team league specifically I'm willing to drop.
45:26
It would be crazy like if imagine our league of records
45:28
somebody dropped Tom Wilson, like we probably fighting for
45:30
him on the waiver wire, right. But in A10 team league, and you
45:34
specifically mentioned all that, the waiver wire is a lot of good
45:36
quality there. Like at the end of the day, if
45:38
he's only getting you decent bangers or good bangers, like
45:41
you can replace that. You can find a replacement for
45:43
that. He's not getting you the points
45:45
you got to pick up. Someone's going to actively
45:47
contribute in those categories for you in your playoff matchup.
45:49
What? Everything is on the line.
45:51
I don't feel bad. I'm willing to cut loose, but
45:54
you gotta be McMahon. Over.
45:55
Over. Tom Wilson, you.
45:56
Got to be ruthless at this point, like you gotta go with
45:59
who's giving you the production. And we're at a stage of the
46:02
hockey Season 2 where, you know, some teams are out of the race
46:05
anymore. They don't try as hard, don't
46:06
care as much. Some teams are really fighting
46:08
for it. Some teams have guys who are
46:11
injured, other guys stepping up. You know, every, every, the
46:13
situation in the league is constantly fluid and you got to
46:15
adapt. And, you know, if we're talking
46:17
about this two months ago, it would be crazy, right?
46:19
But we're in the playoffs right now.
46:21
Like, everybody's on the table to be cut.
46:23
It's crunch. Time, baby, you gotta make the
46:24
hard decisions and that's how you win leagues.
46:27
Exactly. And hopefully everyone in the
46:29
bank management community is gonna be winning leagues.
46:31
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46:34
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46:35
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46:38
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46:40
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46:42
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46:43
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46:46
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46:48
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46:51
And it's fun for us. We have such a good time.
46:53
And, you know, the fantasy playoffs is what we all look
46:55
forward to. And where it's where we're
46:57
winning is done. So that's.
46:59
Yeah. That's where we're heroes and
47:01
champions are made. So hopefully everybody has a
47:06
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47:08
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47:10
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