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But about Bow Bangor management fantasy hockey podcast.
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Welcome in one and all to Bangor management, The Fantasy hockey
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Today is our week 22 waivers episode.
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For some of you, it's the first week of the playoffs.
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It's also just the best time to be talking about fantasy hockey
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playoffs with like hundreds of like minded people.
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So that's a good thing to do before we dive into the content
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already. I know we said I said it before
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we dive in already, but we have we have we have some stuff to
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talk about. So playoffs.
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We are going into the semifinal week, week 22 in our fantasy
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Hockey League. How's everyone really?
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I wish you you guys gotta be on YouTube for this because I think
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Josh and I are like devastated on Jake is like the most joyful
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person I've ever seen in my entire life.
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Like Jake's, when he has his first baby will not be as happy
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as he is right now. So.
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Yeah. Anyone care to give a brief
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recap? Josh goes first in the woods, so
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maybe he could go first in the room.
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I'll go. I'm I'm effing depressed.
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OK, this is the most ridiculous week ever.
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OK, this should be an easy win for me this week.
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OK, I go into the week, right? I've got McDavid dry, Sydal
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celebration, Pasternak, right? Sunday night before the playoffs
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start dry, settle out for the season.
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OK, now I'm down to only three top five players in the league.
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OK, I'm still feeling OK. You know, like I should at least
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make it out around 1:00. I would have to do this.
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We need to say that, that our rosters like 22 rosters deep.
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So it's like you're like, I only have 4 top five picks now.
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That people are not gonna have pity for you if you say it like
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that. So anyways, I go into the week,
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the week with three top five players, right?
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So we are recording this on Saturday.
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Combined passes played three games, McDavid 2 celebrating 2.
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That's a 7 combined games. In those seven combined games,
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my three players are tied for points with Anthony Cirelli on
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my opponents team who's played only the games and has two more
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this week. How does that make sense?
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And these days, 26 points in two games and I have 6 points in
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seven games from Pasternak, McDavid and Scalabrini.
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It's just I've never seen three top five players on three.
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I mean, I'm not going to loop in past the other two.
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He's actually been really good. But like, I've never seen two
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players who are arguably 2 of the top four players in the
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league this year on two different teams in 2 completely
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different situations decide to forget how to play hockey in the
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first week of playoffs at the same time.
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It doesn't make any sense. I have two new players on my
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most hated list #1 Anthony Cirelli for sure.
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I hate this guy so much #2 this is a more random one, but this
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happens to me every time. Shane effing Pinto should not
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even be rostered and he puts up a shorthanded point against me
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every single week I play him. And it's going to win them.
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It's going to lose me in the match up.
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So anyways, I'm doing great. Josh's matchup is, is currently,
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uh, he's losing 7-8. He does have tiebreaker though,
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So like A-77 with would end up making him, you know, go
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through, but a lot of intricacies with goalie cats and
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everything. Like it's, it's literally a
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chess match right now. Yeah, it's it's tough.
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I'm I'm in, I'm in the same boat.
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I so Josh ended up finishing third.
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So he's playing the 6th place team.
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I finished fifth and I'm playing the 4th place team.
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Jaky will will not say anything about his macho because he's he
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finished eighth and playing the first team and is just like
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killing his match only he has he's like picking up guys that
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are on IR like he's picking up guys that like have one game
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left. He's like, oh guys, this is so
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nice. I'm so happy.
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Meanwhile, Josh and I are like, losing our hair and pulling
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everything out and not sleeping. But yeah, it's fine.
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But yeah, now my matchup, I'm losing 6767.
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And then only gets worse from here.
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Yeah, so it does only get worse from here because I'm on Monday,
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my team pops off like I get points, I get everything like
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the bigger Cats. Meanwhile my opponent has like
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half the amount of games with me on on Monday.
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But lo and behold, Mendoza, Jack McBain scored a shorthanded goal
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against me and gets a fight, and I'm playing against Kastelic,
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who also gets a fight and goes off.
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So meanwhile I'm down in Pimms for like the week I think
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Tuesday I was down 170IN Pimms. OK, Tuesday and already a
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Shorty. The week was off to a disaster.
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Then low and behold, Brent Burns, who's like should not be
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rostered, gets like 5 shots. That's the equivalent of like
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the last month and a half of his production in one game.
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He's got two hits. He hasn't had like two hits I
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think in like 3 months. If you look at this game log,
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it's just straight zeros, except they did the last game.
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It says 2. It's just you can't make this
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up. Like Tommy Novak who averages
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like .2 blocks a game. He gets three blocks against me
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and I'm gonna fight for my life in blocks.
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I went into this. So many guns does that, it's
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crazy. I went into the week I should
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have won, I should have won the hits by like 35 and the best
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hits team in the league. Now we're going into Sunday and
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I might win hits by like 5. It's actually insane how
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everything has happened this week.
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Uh, meanwhile my opponent has played like 4 goalies and he's
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averaging like a 930 and I'm somehow like still competitive
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in save percentage and end goals against average.
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So it's literally gonna come down to the, like the, the, the
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games tonight, how is goalies perform will probably decide my
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matchup. And I, I'm, I've spent hours
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planning every single pickup. I, I have not made a pick up for
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the last three days. Like Josh keeps looking at me
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just like, I can't say I'm surprised you haven't even made
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it your second pick up yet or whatever.
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I'm like big breathing like if he does this, I do this.
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If he does this, I do this. Anyways, I I'm stressed.
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I'm just ready for this to be over, whether it's a win or a
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loss. Meanwhile, his opponent picked
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up Dylan Larkin, who's not even gonna play this.
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Week because he's still gonna beat me.
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It's crazy. I'm having a great time.
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I am coasting, which let's be honest, based on how bad my
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injuries were over the past few weeks and I I got destroyed in
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my last two weeks, my team got completely decimated.
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So going into this week, I'm an eighth, I'm playing the first
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place team and my team has just gone off firing on all
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cylinders. And wait like this, the 1st
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place team has been so far in first place the entire season.
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Like didn't finish season like a 50 point gap on 2nd place and.
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Like. He clinched the playoffs like a
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month. So.
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So just to give you an idea of how dominant this first place
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team has been from the start of the season to the end.
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OK, good. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. And so, so for all you cultured
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viewers, listeners who have seen Miracle on Ice, you know, I'm
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not looking for the best players, Craig.
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I'm looking for the right ones. That's me.
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I put together a team of the right players with the right
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chemistry. That's how it works.
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And yeah, I, I got a few All-Stars here and there, but
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other than that, like, you know, Sean Walker, what a guy he's
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been doing so well for me. I I also.
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On the podcast. Yeah, you did.
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You did. Marco Kasper has come up.
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He had an 8 rods in hits. Jackie has like a bunch of guys
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on his roster that should not have been on anybody's roster,
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and yet they're like all coming together because the playoffs
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that they're going. On seat, what our opponents are
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doing to us, we're the most random guys are popping off.
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You know, they had this random guy like Nikita Kucherov who's
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got like a billion points, you know, shouldn't even be
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rostered. Yeah.
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And and like I, I will say that I don't, I don't necessarily
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believe it's 100%, but it's looking like 95.
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I I think I don't even know unloose to be honest.
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Yeah, I think it's like pretty unlikely.
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I mean, because he obviously has the tiebreaker on me and like,
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you know, he gets a Shorty or he overtakes me in power play
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points there or a crazy Pimms game.
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Like these things do happen. But like the the predictable
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categories, if you will, points, shots, hits and blocks and even
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like, you know, saves. I've got that in the.
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Back SO. Who could?
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Travis played two games. He has eight points, 10 shots.
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Somehow he's even better than Anthony.
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Cirelli Yeah. Imagine 44 points per game in
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the fantasy playoffs. Hegel's no slouch either.
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And I guess like, I mean, I won't dive too much into this.
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I'm in like another league that I think it's pretty serious
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league and I have the Tampa stack there too.
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So I'm just, I'm just all in like.
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Games this week. Super fun for us To people who
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are playing against Tampa players.
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I'm expecting another six points from Sorely in the next two
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days. We'll see.
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We'll we'll provide an update next week and I'll let you know
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what ended up happening. But I believe in you guys.
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I know you're down and out, but I think, I think.
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If you guys are in the discord I'm like depressed in there.
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I keep sending screenshots of my opponents players being like
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what is this? You know it's bad when you start
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pulling the screenshots. I was doing that to you guys
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last night. I was just like, like look at
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this, you know, like like it to the words can't even describe.
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You just need to send the picture because it's worth 1000
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words. Right.
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I love looking at the game log and then like how like
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unrealistic the things are. Like when Brent Burns like had
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those games, I'm like counting the games I believe.
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That's it. I love doing.
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That if I if I added every game from last night all the way to
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like February 3rd, she would be less productive than what he did
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to me right now. You know, this is this is what
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you know, when you're like on on like new some news, whatever,
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like fuck you, whatever. And you see those ridiculously
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cherry picked stats and then you know, this is how it happens.
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If someone got wrecked in fantasy and he's like, let me
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look this up. This is ridiculous.
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You know, and you pull up together like Anthony Sorrelli
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has as many points as past like McDavid and celebrity combined
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this week. You know, like Brent Burns has
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the most shots on goal he's had in his entire career.
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Whatever. You know, like those stats come
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from just someone pissed off fantasy player.
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Jack, Jack McBain Mendoza. He's now on my hate list.
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I, I cannot, I, he's, it's Matthew Olivier's Public Enemy
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#1 Mendoza's number two. I'm sorry.
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Just what he's done to me, what he's done to my body, It's not.
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It's not. Fair.
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And on that note, I think we should get into stuff.
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Let's talk about our previous week choices.
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Obviously that was the first week of the playoffs for a lot
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of people, so let's see how we did to kind of guide everyone.
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So our first pick was Jamie Benn, 3 games played, only one
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assist. We're counting that as well.
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He still has one more game this week.
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The process was there Line 1, I mean power play one on Dallas on
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a four-game week with another four-game week coming up.
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He should be doing better than he did and he was really hot
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before that, so there's still hope.
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There's still one more game left where he could turn into a good
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stream, but for now we're gonna have to count that as an L then.
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We he's averaging over a double, double dose.
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So I will say yes, that's there. That's good.
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Yeah, no, that's definitely a good thing to point out.
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You're not just seeing straight zeros like if you had McDavid or
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Celebrity this week. So next we have bring these are
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four games played, one goal, one assist, 2 points.
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Gonna count that as a win. Um, he's just been playing
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great. He's got another four-game week
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coming up. So I'm very happy.
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I've been recommending everyone to pick him up and when they've
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been like, you know, looking at similarly type like play like
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percentage owned players, I think he's gonna have a really
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good finish. And then we have Alexis
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Lafreniere. This is a big topic of Yahoo
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glitching out and telling me he was 18% owned when I knew it was
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more. I just wasn't sure if he was
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below the 40% threshold. Turns out he was, so it was
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still legal. But since then, four games
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played, one goal to assist, three points, huge W.
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This was the most obvious pick up, I think of the playoffs.
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Like you get a guideline on power play, one on the team with
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the most insane playoff schedule up for a former first overall
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pick popping off like it was a no brainer.
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So not surprised that's W 2 and one on the week.
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I'm pretty happy with how we did and I talked to were the ones
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with the W. So if people have the options
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between them, then I hope they chose correctly.
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That brings our season record to 36 and 21.
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And I think that's a lot of a lot of preface for what the
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people are really here for, which is week 22.
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So should we dive into that? Either the first week of the
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playoffs for a lot of leagues that have their championship in
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Week 24, or, you know, the semifinals.
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So if you're still with us, happy you're here, Congrats.
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Um, listen, we're here to build championship contenders, so
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let's get into it. Let's do it.
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All right, two game teams for this week.
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There are none. Nobody has to be dropped because
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of their schedule. So that's pretty exciting. 4
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game teams. We got a nice amount here.
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We got Boston, Columbus, Chicago, Dallas, Florida,
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Montreal, New Jersey, Nashville, Rangers, Ottawa, Philly, Tampa.
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The busy nights are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and when I
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say busy nights, I mean almost every team in the NHL playing on
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these three nights. If ever there was a week to
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focus on off nights, it is this week because you are not going
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to be able to fit guys into your schedule who don't have off
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nights. I have such a good team for off
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nights. If only I could make the
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semifinals. Teams that have two off night
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games, you got Boston, Buffalo, Chicago Rangers.
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Obviously the Rangers are the pinnacle of schedule for this
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week because they play on all the off nights.
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It's actually and four games. It's ridiculous.
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That's why a couple of Rangers guys made this list who you know
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otherwise wouldn't have, but the schedule is just too beneficial.
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And then Buffaloes, the only other team who doesn't play
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Tuesday and Chicago is the only other team that doesn't play
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Saturday. So those are all things to keep
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in mind as we get into our top ten list.
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But let's dive right in to what the people want to hear.
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Kevin, you want to start us off with?
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#10. Alright, at #10 we've got Mason
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Marshman of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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They are, he's playing line one, power play one.
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They've got a four-game week and he's been a little cold lately,
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but he's got the deployment and Columbus has been nuts and they
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are they are recently bumped at the Islanders out of a playoff
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spot. They are fighting for their
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lives. We talk about, you know,
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wanting, wanting guys on teams that are fighting for their
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lives. So I think that you can have a
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very solid week for you. But because of his cold streak,
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that's what made him #10 and not they're on the list.
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Hope he doesn't play well because if I do make it to the
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next round my opponents. My opponent?
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Oh no, I feel so bad for you. Yeah.
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So, so I actually, I, I like the the formula here of guy with top
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line and power play exposure on a team that's been scoring a lot
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and performing very well and who's been underperforming.
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So it's a clear candidate to regress towards.
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Yeah. Progress towards the mean just
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in case they get better and to keep in line with, you know,
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doing stuff that he was similarly doing earlier in the
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year. But even without it, you know,
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he has been cold. But just like with Jamie Benn,
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the charts have been OK. So even if you've been riding
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into the point cold point streak, he's been decent.
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So yeah, I really like it as a pickup for this week.
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And is there a hotter team than the Columbus Blue Jackets right
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now? Buffalo, yeah.
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Yeah, honestly, the both, both of those two teams.
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But like. I'm gonna be rooting for both of
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them in the playoffs. Like if the Habs don't make it.
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Yeah, I think the Habs should make it.
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Like it would be devastating if you don't.
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Yeah, I mean, it's kind of been like assumed we're gonna make it
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for like months now and all of a sudden they're playing terribly.
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And I mean, look, if they keep playing terribly, they're not
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gonna make it. They're currently tied with wild
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card teams. So let's not get onto a Habs
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tangent, but Speaking of the other hottest team in the NHL,
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Buffalo Sabres, let's go to. #9. At #9 we have Jason Zucker of
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the Buffalo Sabres line 2 power play one.
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He's the only guy on this list who is not a four-game week.
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But because of that off night on the Tuesday, it's essentially A4
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game week because that's how just packed those those three
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days are, especially the Tuesday and Saturday.
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So that's why he makes the list because it's kind of like a
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four-game week for him. He's been averaging close to a
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point per game over the past couple of weeks and he's on that
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power play. Buffalo, like we said, is
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probably the hottest team in the league.
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It's every time we bring up, you know, Zucker, we have to bring
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up or one of these Buffalo guys. We have to bring up the trio of,
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you know, pick up, pick up a bull guys on Buffalo.
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You've got Zucker, you've got done, you've got Norris.
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Norris has been ice cold. So I wouldn't go with him right
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now. And don't just vary kind of like
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on and off. I just feel like sucker.
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I mean, this is the same conversation we've had for
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weeks, right? He's just the safest floor and
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and he's been performing lately. And when you just need a one
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week sample size, you go with the guy who's been hot.
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So that's kind of how we ended up with Sucker.
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That is great logic. Yeah, I think, I think between
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Zucker and Marchman, this is really it depends on what your
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team situation is. If you value the off nights
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more, I'll Zucker, if you can, just if you value the four games
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more, go Marchment, it's up. I think it's so close.
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It just might depend that, but would you rather three games of
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Marchman or three games of Zucker?
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That's the question because a lot of teams might have to be.
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Somewhere, if your team already has a couple of Rangers players
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and you don't need the off nights, then I would take the
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four games of marchment. But I was kind of just counting
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Sucker as a four-game because he's one of two teams that
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doesn't play on the Tuesday. Yeah, it's a tremendously
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valuable off night week like like you were saying.
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Yeah, it's crazy. Alright, here we go to.
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Number. 8 talking about off night guys got our first of the
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New York Rangers players are gonna mention this list and that
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is Vladislav gap Rykov line one power play 2 four-game week this
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week 4 game week next week. We don't have to keep going into
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the Rangers just are the pinnacle of playoff schedule
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especially this week. This is the most important one.
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He's been randomly putting up points.
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Look, if this was a regular season week out, he would never
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sniff this top ten because I don't trust the longevity of
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what he's doing. But with the ridiculous schedule
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and how hot he's been, you just need him to be good for four
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games for this week at least, right or eight games if you're
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thinking 2 weeks ahead. Um, you know you got you gotta
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you gotta have at least one Rangers go on your roster going
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into next week. That's kind of how I feel with
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the schedule. He's a really.
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Good past month. Yeah, his points have been
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surprisingly good. Like, you don't know, I don't
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know. You don't know why.
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He's the guy who plays a lot of minutes, but it's not like he's
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exceptional offensive threat. The thing is, he doesn't get you
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at like any shots or blocks. Like, that's just surprising
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because he's like a defensive defenseman, you would think.
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Yeah. And he's putting up things are
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not any of the back cats, but I would say this one is is a
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higher risk reward because you are getting the volume of the
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games from the defensive position on a team that is like
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they're obviously the Rangers suck and they're losing games,
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but they're kind of like putting up points now, which is still
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like fun for fantasy. But Gavrilov himself, I feel
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like is a risky enough asset that like if you need a guy you
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can fit in the office because you're full on the other night,
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he's like the perfect candidate because you can get those
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points. But I'm not streaming him for I
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need to flip hits, blocks or anything and I needed defensive.
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I'm not streaming over COV. If that makes sense.
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It's not a bad cats pick up. This is hoping for some points
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and again, like it doesn't make regular season.
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This would never be a recommendation because the the
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process isn't there. But when you're thinking at one
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week at a time and it's really at the end of the day boils down
19:21
to how his hot streak and the Ranger schedule, that's pretty
19:24
much it. Yeah.
19:26
All right, let's go to the next one because it's a similar kind
19:29
of idea. At #7.
19:33
At #7 we have Gay Perot, also the New York Rangers line one
19:37
power play 2 again, Ranger schedules, unreal pros and
19:40
putting up points not gonna get you back at.
19:42
So this is kind of like the the forward version of Gavrilov,
19:44
except Perot's actually a good offensive prospect.
19:47
So it kind of makes sense if he gets points and that first line
19:50
of him as a bandaged and laugh, it's been kind of on fire.
19:53
So if you need the points and you need the good schedule, I
19:56
like Parrot as a pickup. And honestly, if some by some
19:59
miracle I make it out of this week, I'll get my guy.
20:01
Go, you know, take a visit to JT and get if you're wondering who
20:07
my God, so you. Admit you have a guy.
20:08
So. I am too busy putting together a
20:13
superstar squad over here, so unfortunately I have, I am
20:17
unavailable to do so. But yeah, I think that like the
20:22
difference between Perot and Gathercole is quite substantial.
20:26
I'm much more interested in Peru because I don't really get why
20:31
Gabbert Kov has been so good, whereas Parrot actually had a
20:34
lot of offensive potential coming into this year.
20:36
I think when we did the top 10 Calder finalists, he was #10 and
20:42
so but. Also to note, we did not have
20:45
Schaefer on that list, so. Way to keep us accountable.
20:51
I have to. I still have major regrets about
20:53
that. Yeah, but listen, line one,
20:57
playing with Zibanejad and the goat Lafreniere.
20:59
I I like it. I I think also like you look at
21:03
so Pearl has not been my favorite player just because
21:06
he's the type of guy that will get you like like an average
21:08
night for him is like one assistant zeros across the board
21:10
type of thing. And like, it's just like not not
21:14
fun to look at, but there are still value there.
21:16
And if you do get like a few shots or something, you're
21:18
happy. So I just want to, you know,
21:20
preface or preface now we're getting into, and this is very
21:25
much like a volume for the points.
21:27
Like if you get a lot of points in your leagues, like if a block
21:30
is equivalent to like 2, if two blocks makes one assist, like
21:34
you might have a better chance of like picking up a volume guy
21:37
that's gonna get you blocks then banking on Peru's assist type of
21:40
thing. So just know your league
21:42
settings and what makes the most sense.
21:43
But for bring your cats, like he's not the most category
21:45
coverage type of guy, but he is getting good minutes.
21:48
He's averaging over 19 minutes a night.
21:50
It's encouraging for him to be able to continue this pace.
21:54
Yeah, alright, let's go to the next one.
21:57
At. Number six at #6 we have Victor
22:02
Arvidson of the Boston Bruins line 2 power play 2, four-game
22:05
week this week and next week. Not as good as scheduled the
22:08
Rangers because the off nights, but two more 4 game weeks coming
22:11
up. And again, I mean kind of the
22:13
theme here is like guys who I don't believe in keeping this up
22:17
for long term, but it doesn't matter because we need them to
22:20
keep it up for two weeks. And Arvidson's been that line
22:23
of, you know, Zacha Arvidson and Middlestadt has essentially been
22:26
the Bruins top line for the past month.
22:29
They've been on fire. He's just been killing it.
22:31
So normally I wouldn't be recommending a line to power
22:33
play 2 guy like this, but with the schedule and just how hot
22:37
he's been, it's kind of a no-brainer pickup.
22:40
You're welcome to everybody who I told to pick up this line over
22:43
Lynn Home and everything else and sorting that out there.
22:46
We'll get to that, yeah. I he he's also just been very
22:51
solid with the points lately, which is which is nice to see
22:54
from from a guy who hasn't really done it in a few years.
22:58
So this whole Boston team still doesn't make any sense to me.
23:01
But I guess while I I had just simply have to concede that
23:05
they're in contention for the playoffs and it's staying that
23:08
way. Are you in any way, and I'm
23:10
talking deeply here, interested in Lucas Reichel?
23:14
I saw the one game he had where he put up put up two points.
23:18
But he scream. He had though, yeah.
23:21
Yeah, but like, he's playing blank three with the worst
23:25
player in the world, Elias Lindholm, so I'm not.
23:28
Player in the world Morgan Gigi. That's true.
23:31
That's true. So it evens out to just a
23:32
regular line. No, I'm not, I'm not.
23:36
I'm not too interested. I mean, we're gonna get another
23:38
sample site. We have one more game of Boston
23:40
before next week. If Rachel puts up another two
23:42
point game, then yeah, I would I would consider picking him up
23:45
because again, you just need him to have like a hot week, right?
23:47
And if he's going into the week with like 4 points in two games,
23:49
but if he just does nothing this next game, then it's just like
23:52
one of those flash in the pans. I mean, most likely that's what
23:54
it is anyways. But it's something worth looking
23:57
at is a good call out. Yeah.
23:59
I just wanted to mention. It's crazy how like we we went
24:02
into display off season kind of touting these Boston players
24:06
because of the schedule, like they have the 444, just like the
24:09
Rangers, like, you know, plan to get them pasta, you know, like
24:12
pasta Lin hole Macavoy, and then it ends up being like, you know,
24:16
Arvidson Zaka Reichel, you're like, what do we?
24:20
How could who could have predicted this?
24:21
You know. Not me, I'm the one stuck here
24:23
with Pasta and Linton. SO yeah, alright, let's go to
24:29
the next one. This one is an interesting one.
24:33
At #5. At #5 I mean, I'm gonna stop
24:37
mentioning that saying this because I feel like this is kind
24:40
of encompassing for most of them.
24:41
But we don't care about longevity.
24:42
We just care about this week and next week, so.
24:45
I think you should keep saying. It Yeah, OK, fine.
24:46
I'll keep saying it. Connor Brown with the new.
24:49
Jersey Devil, when you say, I mean technically longevity is
24:52
like between now and the end of the season.
24:54
So could it be sort of like you're talking about next two
24:58
weeks are like even just like yeah, like rest of the.
25:00
Season I I'm more mean that long if this was right.
25:02
I'm more mean that if this was like a month ago, if this wasn't
25:05
playoffs, essentially, I would. These guys would never be, would
25:08
never utter these words, but because.
25:12
This is not me. I'm not.
25:14
Like this, because this is like so close to the end of the
25:17
season and the longevity of now to end of season is such a short
25:20
period of time. It's really just riding the hot
25:23
streaks. It doesn't matter if this guy
25:25
has never done anything like this in his career and it's only
25:27
going to last a week or two because that's all you need.
25:28
So that's kind of what I mean by the longevity.
25:31
So Speaking of guys who are, you know, never going to do this
25:33
again, but we've got Connor Brown of the New Jersey Devils
25:36
currently on power play online, 2 power play 1 four-game week
25:38
the next two weeks. And he's putting up some decent
25:41
numbers in his last four games. He has 6 points.
25:43
And look, he's got the deployment, he's got the
25:46
schedule and he's got the hot streak.
25:47
That's, I feel like that's the three, the three pillars of a
25:50
solid playoff pickup. You know, so that's kind of
25:53
that's kind of what brings him to this list.
25:55
You can argue between him and like Arvidson, who's been
25:58
hotter. Obviously, the reason I put
26:00
Brown higher is just because of the power play 1 exposure.
26:03
And like at the end of the day, like I feel like I just like
26:06
that deployment better. But you know, if you the two
26:09
between the two of them, I think it's super close.
26:11
I also like his line mates better.
26:12
Yeah. For sure.
26:14
I mean. I think it's better deployment
26:15
in general. Exactly.
26:17
Exactly. The only thing with Connor
26:19
Brown, though, I will say is that his deployment feels a
26:21
little bit more at risk than the other ones just because he's
26:24
only got it for like the first time, like this whole season
26:27
right now. So you kind of like you're
26:28
putting a lot of stock into him keeping it.
26:30
And I can't get a read on the Devils because it feels like
26:33
they're always trying to. They're still trying to win and
26:35
make the playoffs, even though it kind of feels like
26:38
impossible. Like what are you guys?
26:39
Doing it's like, should we tell them?
26:43
Like this guy, it's, it's like that, that picture of the
26:47
Dragons. And they're all serious, but one
26:48
of them is like making the clown face.
26:50
Like, that's the bells. They're like, yeah, so but
26:55
they're not taking either, not trying to lose.
26:56
So I'm like, OK, so I don't know what to predict.
26:59
Like, are they gonna keep trying to win for one more week and
27:01
it's gonna be like, very valuable, or are you gonna put
27:03
like, you know, I don't know. Anyways, I I do like Connor
27:06
Brown because if somebody's doing what he's doing, you have
27:08
to pay attention. And the minutes are decent.
27:10
So it's close between him and arising from Everton, feels a
27:14
little safer just because like we've seen it for a longer
27:16
period of time. But I think Connor Brown, you
27:19
get the higher upside because of what he's been doing.
27:23
Like I could see Arvis and getting more points, but Brown
27:25
getting more power play points because obviously that power
27:28
play deployment. So obviously league settings
27:30
have to be taken into account there and it's super close, but
27:32
I think they're both solid. And both have four games this
27:35
week in four games the week. After.
27:37
So exactly. Yeah.
27:39
Alright, let's go to the next one.
27:41
At. #4 at #4 even though he did US dirty last week, he's back
27:46
because the process just makes too much sense not to recommend
27:49
him again. We've got Jamie Benn of the
27:51
Dallas Stars line 2 power play on another four-game week, but
27:53
then only three games after that.
27:55
And it's just like he's power play one on the second best
27:58
power play in the entire NHL. That's that's, that's the pitch,
28:02
you know, on a four-game week, like, and he was, he was really
28:06
hot until like just this week, right?
28:07
Like it's kind of like, and you know, you kind of get this
28:10
feeling like, I know this isn't actually how it works, but like,
28:12
you got this feeling there's a guy who should be performing and
28:14
he has a couple of bad games in your head.
28:16
You're like, it's OK, He's banking his good games.
28:18
You know, like the averages are going to average out.
28:19
So if you get his bad games out of the way now you know that, I
28:22
mean, at least that's what I'm telling myself.
28:23
Hoping for a good game from Albanian McDavid today.
28:25
You know, like I'm like 2 games of sucking.
28:27
I deserve a game of being unreal, you know like so
28:31
incoming. I ohe the only thing is my
28:33
opponent has human so it's like it's gonna get cancelled out.
28:35
But anyways, yeah, so I think. The picture of.
28:40
So I think Ben's a solid pickup just because the process makes
28:43
too much sense is kind of like the opposite of some of these
28:45
previous ones where it's like an Arvidson, right?
28:48
Like the process does not lead me to wanting to pick him up in
28:50
a normal week, But because he's been so hot and the and the
28:53
schedule like we're recommending him, Ben is the opposite, like
28:56
he's been cold, but the process is there.
28:58
So he's the guy that I would normally recommend in this kind
29:00
of situation. He's still on line 2 playing
29:02
with Duchene 2. So it's like that's like the
29:05
deployment that changed or anything like that.
29:06
It's just like they're they had a few games where they were less
29:09
productive. It happens.
29:12
But I think on a, on a four-game week, like you bet on a guy like
29:15
this, that's power play, one who was like recently productive and
29:19
on a top three power play. Yeah, yeah, it feels?
29:23
Marchman asked. The better power play, that's
29:25
the way I see it. Yeah.
29:27
Sure. But also like, yeah, the fact
29:30
that he's hitting when he's not doing much for points is like,
29:34
you're getting something. And Dallas still wants to win
29:36
games to finish above Colorado, so.
29:39
Yeah, definitely within. Reach 4 points behind and
29:43
there's how many games left like 14 ish.
29:46
Yeah, as a as a blanket statement, I think that no team
29:50
at this stage, as we're speaking, is doing anything
29:53
different to their lineup except like Florida.
29:57
By that I mean it's not like any of the players are like, you
30:00
know, getting less ice time or, you know, fake injured.
30:03
It's like. One of the mess though.
30:05
Yeah, Florida. Bill was walking around the
30:08
locker room and he's like, Oh my God, did you like, you know,
30:10
like, strain yourself getting up from the bench just there?
30:13
Here's a free like ticket to like Mexico for a week all
30:15
inclusive. Like we need talk to everyone
30:17
you know? Like.
30:19
Don't come back until we're in the bottom 10 of the league, you
30:21
know? Yeah.
30:25
But yeah, I mean like they're they're.
30:26
Select few the Bob Roski shut out though right after.
30:30
Yeah, make me So did your cat just like walk by two seconds
30:35
ago? That was that was really I was
30:37
like. What?
30:38
No, sorry, that was my screen. Forgot to tell you guys though.
30:45
Alright, let's get into our top three for this week, so at. #3.
30:51
At #3 we have the best player on the Boston Bruins and that is a
30:55
Pavel Zacha. Line 2 power play, 124 game
30:58
weeks coming up. Formal apologies from me forever
31:01
doubting the godliness of Pavel Zacha.
31:05
You know, this is a, this is, you know what Jake picked him up
31:08
for years ago when he first came into the league.
31:12
Or am I mixing him up with someone?
31:13
Else I don't think he was home. I'm thinking Gustav.
31:16
That's how I mixed it up with. Like it's way better than Google
31:20
7. Yeah, no, this is a I honestly
31:22
like, look, he has power play 1 and he's got those two four-game
31:24
weeks, right? So that's enough, enough to be
31:26
on the list. And then he's just been insane.
31:29
So look, does it suck as a Lintonen Pasternak owner?
31:33
Just like my guys are like Squidward and you see Zaca like,
31:36
you know, like like Sponge Bob and Patrick with like
31:39
Middlestadt and Arvidson kind of just like a Roman around.
31:42
So that's kind of how I feel. But yeah, no, he's under 40%
31:47
owned still. This is a great pick up for the
31:48
rest of the playoffs. Now he's been playing and the
31:50
deployment. This morning he's 41% owned, but
31:54
we made this list last night, so.
31:57
Everyone's trying to make me look bad.
31:58
That's what it is. They were.
31:59
Everyone was like, I'm gonna make the pick up.
32:01
Gonna wait until after you know. But he's hitting, he's blocking,
32:05
he's got 6 points in his last four games.
32:07
Like you can't ask for much more from a guy that's like hovering
32:10
around this roster percentage with this, you know, quality of
32:13
playoff schedule as well. Like he's the type of guy that
32:15
you know, makes her opponents hate list after this week type
32:18
of thing, you know, like. You don't bring home to your
32:21
mom? Sure, because I'll beg your mom
32:27
now. Wheel snipe, Sally.
32:33
I mean, that's, that's it. That's that's what it comes down
32:35
to. I, I was gonna say something,
32:38
but I feel like following that is pretty difficult.
32:42
No, I mean, well, Long story short, like I, I think, I think
32:46
that Boston's hopes now are basically balancing out the
32:50
lines. Imagine one day he does get the
32:52
opportunity to play with Pasternack.
32:54
He'd be sick. Other than that, I I think it
32:56
will be a little bit volatile moving forward, but you can't
32:59
deny what he's been doing. So at least for now, I really
33:01
like the pick up. And yeah, definitely don't bring
33:03
home to your mom. Alright, let's go to.
33:11
The best number in the entirety of numbers #2.
33:19
Oh yeah, big #2 guy, alright #2 we've got Frank Nazar of the
33:24
Chicago Blackhawks Line 2 power play, 1 four-game week with that
33:27
juicy off night on Saturday. So great schedule for this week.
33:31
And he's just been on fire. He's a prime, you know, prime
33:34
suspect for this and these classic like end of season highs
33:38
where he's like a young guy on a team that's not competing
33:40
anymore and he's getting the good deployment and he's got the
33:42
talent. So I think he's a great pickup.
33:44
He was a solid pickup for last week and I think he's gonna
33:46
write it into another solid week.
33:48
He gives me like a little bit better than than gay parole
33:53
vibes type of thing, whereas like you are not expecting the
33:55
category covers like realistically you could get and
33:57
run a face off wins league, but you could end up getting a week
33:59
where it's like one assist in a shot type of thing and you're
34:02
happy with that because you're in the points exposure.
34:04
But I'm thinking he's much more likely to get a point than Perot
34:07
in my opinion. He's surrounded yeah, and power
34:10
play 1 and he does block a little bit.
34:13
I will say I'll I'll give him that.
34:14
So if you're not Lida has blocks and from the forward position,
34:17
it's always valuable. Not expecting hits and just the
34:20
shots. It's like between one or two
34:21
every game pretty much. So now we're getting yourself
34:24
into. But anybody that's tied to be
34:25
dark in a four-game week on a power play like this, like
34:28
that's currently has a good run of form I'm interested in.
34:33
Yeah, well, well said. I just wish he was averaging
34:36
over two shots a game, but hey. Yeah.
34:38
Yeah, what? What can you do?
34:40
Also. Also, if I say somebody's form
34:43
has been bad, what do you, what do you, how do you take that in?
34:47
What does that mean to you? I mean, it clearly means they're
34:50
just like fat, you know? I was gonna say.
34:54
I I like, and you said something earlier like I'm currently
34:57
losing 78 and I'm like, oh so European.
35:00
Yeah, what do you mean? Because like everyone, like in
35:05
hockey terms, like OHT, like they lost 32, you know what I
35:08
mean? Yeah.
35:09
But even if it's like your team, I get it from your perspective,
35:12
right? Yeah.
35:13
It's always. It's always.
35:15
That's like a test. Your team is always first, yeah.
35:19
There's somebody in the discord and I said like, oh, like this
35:22
guy, he's been in bad form or whatever and he's just like,
35:24
what do you mean like bad deployment?
35:26
And I was just like, OHK, I guess.
35:28
Like that's not like a people don't just like associate that
35:31
with like like a good run of form or like being.
35:33
Yeah, no, you're talking like Matt Famicom coming into
35:36
training camp, like. After a weekend, that shady
35:43
Maple or whatever. It is exactly all right.
35:48
Let's get to this one. The bane of everybody's
35:53
existence, Number one. At #1 we have probably the
35:58
person I hate the most in this world and I'm not.
36:01
I don't really hate a lot of people so maybe it's not hard to
36:03
top that list, but my hatred runs deep.
36:06
This person ended my fantasy season this week most likely and
36:10
and I hate him and I just wish only the worst for him going
36:12
forward. And that is Anthony Cirelli of
36:15
the time. Possibly do another four-game
36:18
week. He has 6 points in two games
36:20
this week with another two games to go.
36:21
Let's see what he does. It's gonna be fantastic.
36:23
He's gonna have another good week next week.
36:25
If you're playing with Kucherov, then you know you can be a pylon
36:29
with a stick tapes to you and you're going to get a couple of
36:32
points. So it's there's a clear, clear
36:35
pickup and I hate them and that's all I can say.
36:39
He's averaging a triple single, so it's like one shot, one hit,
36:43
one block pretty much basically hovering around there.
36:45
So are they even a triple single?
36:47
Does he get 3 points every game he plays?
36:49
Maybe that too. Who do you hate more sorely?
36:54
Or Matthew Olivier Cirelli. Easy.
36:57
Really. Yeah, cause I guess it happened
36:58
to in the playoff week. Yeah, I mean, I also like, I
37:01
don't hate Matthew Levy like you do.
37:02
Like I think I kind of think it's funny when he does it to
37:04
us. And also I kind of, I kind of
37:07
discovered Olivier last year and he was really good for me.
37:09
So I still have the good vibes from.
37:11
That yeah, the multipoint games against me randomly throughout
37:16
the meeting. He he did it to me too, right?
37:18
Like it's, it's been scientifically documented that
37:20
whenever he's against me and you, he's gonna have the best
37:22
week of his career. But no, my, my hatred for Sir
37:25
Ellie is, it's funny to say it runs deep when it just existed
37:30
since like the past week. But you know, it's I'm glad he
37:35
didn't go to the Olympics. It's a it's a consequential
37:41
time, so I definitely understand.
37:43
Your yeah, this is like everyone in the discord is telling me
37:47
that I have to join the Bangor Management league next year.
37:49
And I'm like, you guys don't understand how mentally unhinged
37:52
I am. Like it's actually like I'm
37:55
sitting in bed and I'm like, I hate him.
37:58
I hate him. I hate him rocking against the
38:01
wall the corner like. Putting bullets in his shotgun,
38:07
taking them out, putting them. In literally like this was this
38:10
was kind of the pitch to me when when we were talking about like
38:13
starting the pod, right, you guys were like, you overreact so
38:15
much this stuff and you're so insane that we think you would
38:18
be good on the podcast host. And I'm like, what?
38:22
Yeah. I'm like, you know what, if you
38:24
want to unleash my insanity on the masses, then then go for it.
38:29
But yeah, anyways, I hate him but he's a fantastic pickup.
38:32
I feel like I live your emotions like 80% of your threshold.
38:36
I just don't have like the I, I think what keeps me from that 20
38:42
extra percent that I'm missing to be at your level is the fact
38:45
that I am in multiple leagues. Because then what happens is I'm
38:47
like, I'm getting 8 dollars, $9. I'm pooped on in my in our
38:52
league of record. Matchup.
38:56
As opposed to what? Other kind of never mind.
39:02
You know what I mean? But in our league record match
39:05
up, it's really not going well for me.
39:07
And that's the one that I care about the most.
39:08
But then I look at my other two matchups where I'm playing that
39:11
I still I still have two things that I care about and I'm like,
39:13
I'm the underdog and those and I'm like doing well.
39:15
So because it's kind of like, it's like a little bit of a
39:17
silver line, like, OK, my, my journey ends here, but it
39:20
continues here for a little bit and like doesn't feel as good.
39:24
But it, the mental, the mental load that it alleviates gives
39:28
you more room, you know? Yeah, but you see the reaction
39:31
I'm having now, each meeting in two leagues and this happening
39:33
to me in both leagues simultaneous.
39:34
What if you win? Both leagues, yeah.
39:37
I mean, if you win, if you win both leagues, I'd say it's like
39:40
30% better than winning one league.
39:43
If you lose 1 and win the other it like you're like 90% like
39:49
you're you're way less upset basically.
39:51
OK but if I lose 2 then I'm literally going to like.
39:55
I feel like losing but it's like a marginal difference.
39:57
Like if you lose 2, it's like it's you're not that much more
40:01
pissed than if you lose 1. That's the thing, emotionally, I
40:04
feel like there's only upside here.
40:06
Look at at the end of the day this is the wrong time to be
40:09
coming to try and recruit me. Guys notice end of season is
40:11
when I'm at my most miserable with fantasy and just ready for
40:15
the break. The time to get me is like
40:17
Labour Day weekend. So we'll see what?
40:18
Happens. I will say the only thing I'll
40:21
add for Sorelli is look like if there is a line shuffle and he's
40:24
not with Kucherov, which has happened.
40:26
I mean, it's possible they put point there and whatever.
40:28
Like even if he's playing with Hagel and Gensel, I'm not as
40:33
interested, but I still am interested.
40:34
Like so for for now, as things stand, has his spot on.
40:37
The number one here I totally agree with.
40:40
You not just these lots, it's not just these last two games of
40:42
this week, like he's been averaging over point per game
40:45
for the last month. So it's like it's been a
40:47
consistent production. Like he's not like we said
40:49
before, he's not a category stuffer, but he's consistent in
40:51
what he does. This Tampa team is just insane.
40:54
And they also want to lock down that top spot because buffaloes
40:57
keep giving them a run for their money.
40:59
So, you know, they they have some work to do and they're
41:01
going to keep scoring goals. And you're playing on the same
41:04
line. Nikita Kucherov, who averages 4
41:07
points a night. Like, yeah, some of those RIP
41:09
off. This is the most the most
41:10
no-brainer pickup. The only downside of this pickup
41:13
is that he's not gonna be playing against me next week.
41:15
So yeah, you know, that's that's that's a big deal.
41:17
But but yeah, other than that, I hate him and he's a great pick
41:22
up. Alright, let's go to the top
41:24
five bankers under 20% on for this week.
41:28
Again, this is gonna be very scheduled based, so you're gonna
41:30
hear some names that you haven't heard most of the season and
41:34
also since we cut down to under 20% the past couple of weeks.
41:37
So but it's nice to have some new names.
41:38
So let's dive right in with. Should we just do the five and
41:42
then we'll talk about them? Alright, so here's the five guys
41:46
we're recommending for this week.
41:47
We've got Beck Wallenstein, Brayden Schneider, Ty Cartier,
41:51
Matthew Olivier and Mark Kastelic.
41:53
So 2 of Kevin's top headed guys is the number one and two, but
41:57
very nice. So all four, the top four that I
42:00
mentioned all have 4 game weeks coming up, including two
42:03
Rangers. Again, we've talked about that
42:04
schedule enough and mountains on Buffalo, they have the
42:07
three-game week, but with that off night on Tuesday, which kind
42:09
of makes it into a four-game week.
42:11
Obviously like look at your team and if you already have Rangers
42:14
players you don't need to bother picking up a Buffalo guy.
42:16
But if you don't have a Rangers guy and you can't grab one, then
42:19
these Buffalo guys are kind of like pseudo 4 game weeks.
42:21
Yeah, well, I just want to like, say exactly what that means.
42:24
It's basically that the New York Rangers have the off night and
42:27
Buffalo has the off night just just in case, like anyone's not
42:30
following that logic. And the Rangers are better
42:33
because they have four games as opposed to Buffaloes 3.
42:35
Exactly that. Yeah.
42:36
So Malestein, like he's been, he's just really solid hits,
42:39
averaging 3.5 on the season 1 block.
42:42
So he's actually a solid blocks and he's a good guy, but not
42:45
much else too exciting to say about him.
42:48
Schneider is another one that's not like too exciting.
42:50
Like he's been averaging like 1.2 shots, two hits, 1.6 blocks
42:54
on the season, 20 minutes of ice time.
42:57
Like I like a lot of bangers guys better.
42:59
This just comes down to the to the schedule.
43:01
Like we could fit in at the end of the day, it's volume with
43:03
fingers, right Um, Cartier kind of same vibe, just a pure hits
43:08
guy. He had that random 5 game seven
43:10
point streak which ended immediately when I picked him up
43:13
um, so I wouldn't expect points from him, but again, hits from
43:17
from that four-game week, but any interesting ones are
43:20
obviously the top two guys to talk about so.
43:22
I do like Archie though, a bit like I always say, I think he's
43:26
quite good and he's getting, it's like his minutes are
43:29
volatile as can be really like 17 and then like 11 and 13, you
43:34
know what I mean? So it's like it's really all
43:36
over the place. But but hey, I mean, I think
43:38
that he he's kind of like a a guy who needs to to prove that
43:42
he can be in the league and the no better opportunity on Rangers
43:46
team right now playing with I mean, I know you hate J Miller,
43:49
but not bad. It's just decent deployment for
43:51
him. So yeah, I think he'll do
43:54
decent, decently well with us. And the main thing with these
43:58
bangers guys overall is that you want to stack volume because
44:02
these the hits usually are very predictive.
44:05
Like a guy that averages 3, its will be very accurate averaging
44:08
three hits. So stacking the volume makes it
44:12
no guarantee that you're gonna get what you're looking for.
44:15
And I'm the fact that you put my #2 headed at the top 2 here,
44:20
Kastelic and Olivier just means that listen, they're hated for a
44:24
reason. And it's because they do harm to
44:26
your fantasy team when you play against them.
44:27
So if you have the opportunity to pick them up on your own
44:29
team, then there you go. Yeah, yeah.
44:33
Alright, let's get into the goalie section because these are
44:37
probably the highest impact pickups you can make in any
44:39
given week, especially in the playoffs.
44:41
Let's start with some quantity guys.
44:43
Um, I'll just list them and we can talk about them.
44:45
So we've got Connor Ingram, Joel Hofer, and Yakub Dobesh.
44:49
Dobesh being under 40% owned at this point in the season is
44:52
baffling to me. Maybe this is another one that
44:54
overnight flipped to 40%. You could.
44:56
Check, I'm about to. Call me out again, but when I
44:59
when I wrote this down, he was he was below.
45:02
So that to me is the 35. Yeah, that's crazy, right?
45:05
Like he's at this point, it's been already two weeks of him
45:08
being the clear starter. I know it was a lot of like
45:10
Murky for a lot of the season. At this point.
45:13
It's really crazy to me how low roster he is.
45:14
They have Carolina, Columbus and then a backup back-to-back of
45:17
Nashville Carolina. So it's not easy matchups.
45:20
But the Habs are endure die mode.
45:21
They need to win every single game they can.
45:23
And if Dobish keeps performing well, which he has, he's going
45:26
to get every non back-to-back start.
45:28
So he's gonna get you the quantity and has a decent shot.
45:30
He's won 65% of his games this year.
45:34
Yeah, that's there's a reason. Yeah, I mean, there's a reason
45:37
he's #1 on this list and I, I, I agree with the order.
45:41
So we had once again Ingram 3, Hoefer 2, Dobesh 1.
45:45
Ingram just not. No, that's cool.
45:48
I get it. He's the most exciting to talk
45:50
about. So yeah, Ingram's just like not
45:53
that good. But I saw that someone commented
45:56
on this. Realistically if none of the
45:59
goalies can work in Edmonton, maybe it's Edmonton thing really
46:03
like so I don't even know. If it's possibly the best
46:06
goalies and this absolutely there either right?
46:09
Like, there's enough of a trend. Like, you know, it's like at a
46:12
certain point, if you're the type of person who, like, you
46:14
know, all your exes were, you know, awful people or whatever,
46:18
like at a certain point, you know, like that, you know, start
46:21
looking at the person themselves.
46:22
Right. Like, yeah, so that's how it
46:26
feels with Edmonton, you know, all their ex goalies, you know
46:28
all, they were so bad, the garbage player, whatever, you
46:30
know, and then they go in there in a happy relationship in
46:32
Pittsburgh. Stuart Skinner, you know, he's
46:33
doing great now. You know, like it's yes, they're
46:36
not targeting the right goalies for sure, but the system there
46:39
is watch McDavid skate and score some goals and then we'll sit
46:44
back and hope that we let in fewer than he's manages to score
46:47
this game. Like that's what it's been for
46:48
years. I think there's some sort of
46:50
aspect to like a mental aspect to having such talented forwards
46:54
on your team where you feel you can have, you know, more leeway
46:57
to play sloppy defensively. I don't know, I'm I'm
46:59
spitballing here, but I agree with you.
47:01
Essentially. I don't put I don't put blame on
47:03
the Edmonton goalies anymore. At this point.
47:04
I think it's the the defence, but they're not any favors
47:07
either. Exactly.
47:10
Like it's, they're not bringing like I think John Gibson, who,
47:14
you know, can clearly succeed in an environment that that's
47:19
friendly to him succeeding. Now, I'll caveat, Anaheim's good
47:22
this year and they were all good last year when Gibson was still
47:25
there. All this to say, like you put
47:27
someone like him who's at this stage in his career, like a top
47:30
15 to 20 goalie, I guess in the league he would have.
47:33
Been. Like Ingram's, you know, like a
47:36
borderline starter, maybe like. 30 But Ingram was like fantastic
47:39
last year before he went in the players program.
47:42
Like he was really good and they got him for free.
47:44
Like the the issue, I mean, yeah, we don't have to dive too
47:48
much into why Edmonton. So to say that I don't think
47:50
that he's he's clearly the starter moving forward.
47:53
For them. Jerry is not a thing.
47:55
But it's always like he's clear to the starter until he's not
47:58
though. But they've seen that.
47:59
There's a chance. I mean, if he plays with Jerry
48:02
was playing golf, just like they'll sign an ebug and put him
48:05
in there at this point like I think, I think.
48:08
You know, yeah, right. You could stop him.
48:11
McDavid frequently so. If I Simon McDavid breakaway,
48:14
they're gonna sign me. They will.
48:18
Like podcasting from the ice. I mean just playing with I got
48:22
helmet Cam. For those in the discord, Josh
48:26
posted some highlight tape from his from his last game of him
48:30
scoring a goal. It was pretty sick.
48:31
It was on a breakaway. Somebody commented like only
48:34
Jake could have saved that shot. Now, he said, even prime Jake,
48:37
he couldn't save that. That's what it was.
48:40
Yeah, it was actually really funny.
48:41
Like I was playing in like my beer league, whatever, had
48:43
another great game as usual. I got myself on my fantasy team.
48:47
I would never lose, let's just say, but I'm better than
48:50
Kucherov, OK, Anyways. And then like I go home and then
48:54
like someone on the team, I guess like when there's like the
48:56
live barn thing right where there's it's filmed or whatever.
49:00
And someone on the team like went through the tape and was
49:02
like, I was just looking at the game and I saw this like sick
49:04
goals and they just sent it and I'm like, oh, so I'm gonna send
49:06
it to like everyone I know. And that's the discord.
49:08
Obviously all my best friends. So I just decided I was having a
49:12
garbage fantasy night. I'm like, this is the highlight
49:14
of the night. Interesting you guys lost 13
49:17
three. Yeah, but I got 3 points.
49:19
There you go, that's all that matters at the end of the day.
49:22
Honestly, like it's kind of bad, but like throughout my like
49:25
hockey career, I feel like I've always been on losing teams.
49:28
But like, so as long as I do well and have a good time, like
49:32
I'm happy, you know, at a. Certain point of all the teams
49:34
you are on losing, you gotta look.
49:37
I mean, I'll be honest, I am very sloppy defensively.
49:41
I am pure offence. I'm like a winger who like, you
49:44
know, I cheated, cheat up to try and get those like, you know,
49:46
long passes or you know. You're like, you're like J2
49:49
Miller on that play from the beginning.
49:53
I was gonna say no wonder you hate like Rick Tackett and all
49:57
these guys cause you would never survive on their.
49:59
Fat. Oh my God, I would get
50:00
absolutely murdered. First of all, I'm definitely in
50:04
way worse shape than Michkov was showing up the training camp
50:06
outside immediately devoted to like a Line 4 just like him.
50:10
And then yeah, no, if he makes me play defence, I'm cooked.
50:13
You know, If I don't score a goal, I'm like, this game was a
50:18
waste of my time. So back, back to this.
50:21
Anything to Alan Hooper. Yeah, I mean, I hope he's been
50:25
doing. I mean, I think it's just been
50:26
giving you exceptional quality. Like there's a reason why he's
50:28
kind of run away with a starting job here.
50:30
Like they give anything the odd game he'll play every every
50:32
three or four games, which sucks for me because I picked them up
50:37
hoping for a trade. It didn't happen.
50:38
And then he just got like one star since then.
50:40
So I basically have a dead spot this whole this whole week
50:43
finally caught him but. You're like a kind of crazy stat
50:47
that I don't remember the exact amount of.
50:49
It's very interesting. It was some crazy stats saying
50:52
that like in the entire NHL this year, I think there are only X
50:56
amount. It was a small number.
50:57
I can't remember exact amount of goalies over 0.900, like save
51:01
percentage. Like it was a very small amount.
51:03
Like it was it was like under 10.
51:05
Like I don't remember the exact amount, but it was a tiny
51:07
amount. And Joel Hofer is averaging on
51:10
the season at 9:07, so does that make him a top 10 goalie in the
51:13
league? I'll let you guys decide, but
51:16
no. But it was really crazy like.
51:18
OK, Scott was 916. Logan talked 9/15.
51:22
Less them all because there's. There's how much was it?
51:24
How many were? You.
51:25
There's a lot. They change the stat was posted.
51:29
They probably put like a certain amount of games played.
51:31
OHT yeah, yeah, they put it there was a limit on games
51:33
played. I'm still not really down like
51:34
this, all a lot of fantasy relevant guys, but.
51:36
Yeah. It feels pretty low compared to
51:38
past years. That's it.
51:39
I think like we just have to readjust our definition of like
51:43
good rate stats for goalies. I mean, I think the NHL has
51:45
purposely been trying to do everything they can to increase
51:47
goal scoring just to make the game more interesting to the
51:49
casual fan. So that obviously hurts goalie
51:52
stats. And, you know, you got an error,
51:54
adjust things. And I think we're getting to an
51:55
area where there's a lot more goal scoring.
51:57
So all I have to say, the fact that Joel Hofer could be over
52:00
900 is much bigger of a deal than it may seem on the on the
52:05
surface. Any goalie I think that's
52:07
averaging over 900 on the season and it's having a decent
52:10
quantity of starts is something worth looking into.
52:13
But I like the list Ingram, Holfer and then Dobish at #1
52:16
even though they have a pretty tough next week, the Canadians
52:19
so. We'll see.
52:20
They gotta win, though. They gotta win and they find
52:22
ways. Can I ask you guys, Minnie,
52:25
would you rather for these goalies, all three of these
52:28
quantity goals that we mentioned, who are you willing
52:32
to to draw Brandon Bussey for? Because we've been getting busy
52:37
questions in the Discord and it's just like he's playing half
52:39
the games now and they're quality has pretty much fallen.
52:43
Out for sure. I wouldn't take Ingram.
52:47
You wouldn't. Yeah, I think, I think I would
52:50
probably take Hofer. Ingram could get you a better
52:53
quality, like it's They're in the same kind of realm right
52:55
now, and you know you're gonna get at least more games.
52:59
Yeah, I guess it is a three-game week coming up for both of you.
53:01
So yeah, it's possible. I'm comfortable with Dobish,
53:04
Hofer, I'm pretty solid on. Ingram is, to me as close
53:07
because, I mean, it is hard to forget what Bush has done on the
53:09
season, even though he's in a rough stretch right now.
53:12
Yeah, I think it's just dovish for me.
53:16
Alright. She's the pussy of Ingerman in
53:19
another. I have Ingram in another
53:20
important league though, so like in in trying to like.
53:23
We'll See has failed to reach a 900 save percentage in nine of
53:26
his last 10 games. Yeah, look, you know what?
53:29
Yeah, Coming. Is not great for him, sorry.
53:32
But that one, he did get over 900.
53:34
It was a shout out so. Yeah, yeah.
53:37
I mean, look, going into next week, like every week of the
53:39
playoffs, you have to view it as an individual week.
53:42
You can't look at what have you done for me lately?
53:44
And with that, I'm comfortable dropping him, especially if you
53:47
think he's only getting one of those three starts when you get
53:49
1 not good quality start out of a guy on your roster for the
53:53
full week. Like I take, I take hope,
53:56
friend. Dobesh for sure, and probably
53:58
even Ingram at this point. I didn't realize he was doing
53:59
that, really. No.
54:01
Yeah, it's alright. Let's go to the.
54:03
Yeah, go all all I'm gonna say it's, it's just more of that.
54:05
Like I believe in Carolina so much more than I believe in
54:08
Saint Louis. And I believe in Hope for more
54:09
than I believe in Ingram. So I'm like.
54:11
Huh. Yeah, You know what?
54:12
I. Mean it's it's a tough one for
54:14
me. But yeah, alright, let's go to
54:17
the top three quality goalies. These are guys on back to backs
54:19
who should get you one start. And we're pretty comfortable
54:22
with the match up or where the teams at or anything like that.
54:24
So we've got Elvis Presley skins, we've got Yonus Johansson
54:28
who Kevin told me how to say, and I remembered J and we've got
54:32
Casey Desmith. It's I think it's yay, yay.
54:38
Well, Richard King. Yeah, exactly.
54:41
So all three of these guys there this time instead of like, I
54:46
mean, I was obviously looking for like good like easy
54:48
matchups. So Elvis has either San Jose or
54:50
Boston, Johansen is either Ottawa, Nashville and Smith has
54:53
either Philly or Pittsburgh. So these aren't like these are
54:56
kind of like all of them, you know, mid matchups.
54:58
I don't say any like slam dunks like Philly and Nashville are
55:00
probably the easiest of the ones.
55:02
But the thing they have going for them is more the team
55:04
they're on Elvis on Columbus. Columbus has been on fire other
55:07
than Buffalo, they're the hottest team over the past
55:09
month, over the past like 6 weeks.
55:11
So you gotta trust in like their their team.
55:13
And he's been putting up some solid numbers.
55:14
You only see Hanson, Tampa, we've talked about, you know,
55:17
this whole time like they're just insane, right?
55:19
So he's I'm fairly confident in him as well.
55:22
And then Desmith is pretty much #1 on this list every single
55:25
time Dallas has a back-to-back over the course of the season.
55:27
And again, we talked about this like .900 thing dismissed also a
55:31
907 on the season. So he's been putting up good
55:34
quality all season. He's got 56% win rate on his
55:37
games, so over 50% / 900 save percentage.
55:40
And if like if he gets Philly, like to me that's a slam dunk.
55:43
Pittsburgh, they just got Crosby and Malkin back, so they're kind
55:46
of a real team again. But I'm still not scared to play
55:49
Dallas. What they went like 90 and one
55:51
or they like on a ridiculous, like insane.
55:54
Yeah. So I'm very happy with this
55:56
business, my number one. And then both other guys, I'm
55:59
banking on the strength of their team.
56:01
As for the pickups. I think Pittsburgh is actually
56:03
really good now, but but because of this doll is I'm like you
56:06
could you can kind of. Be just the chance of Philly.
56:10
Yes, that's true. You know, one thing I'm
56:11
realizing is this. It's been more so lately than
56:16
than earlier on in the season, but I feel like all the quantity
56:19
goalies maybe, maybe I'd rather dismissed first ball star over
56:24
Ingram as an example, but usually I feel like the quantity
56:27
are like I like them way more than the quality willies.
56:30
In terms of quality as well, you're saying?
56:32
In terms of quality too, yes. Yeah, it's tough.
56:36
It's tough because it's harder to predict.
56:39
Like I mean, it really varies week by week on how the schedule
56:42
looks, right? It's.
56:42
Good, because we're giving the listeners more names.
56:44
So it's really helpful to like see because like a lot of people
56:48
are in a pinch and like I wouldn't be surprised going to
56:52
be taken a lot over the next. Few days.
56:54
So I mean, I agree with you to a certain extent here.
56:58
Like I think it's kind of like they're mixing together.
56:59
Like my number one quality, I think I still gotta go to Smith
57:02
just because of how unreal Dallas is.
57:04
And if he gets Philly, I mean it's very different if he gets
57:06
Philly versus Pittsburgh. But if he gets Philly, like I
57:08
think that's your best bet. A solid 1 #2 I'd go Dobesh.
57:12
This is quality. We're talking like we're missing
57:13
the list together. Put Dobesh, then I'd put Hoe for
57:15
because I really like what he's been doing.
57:17
And then for quality, I'd probably go to Johansson and
57:20
then probably, I think that's kind of how I would do my
57:23
quality lists with all six of these.
57:25
Technical Elvis over over Johansson just because I think
57:28
Columbus is OK, been way more on fire and we've seen Johansson
57:32
kind of like falter a little bit recently in spot starts.
57:36
But yeah, I don't hate that. I also do think that like, yeah,
57:40
the change on a week to week basis, like depending on the
57:42
schedule is so yeah. All right, well, that wraps up
57:47
Week 22. I would love to have to take
57:50
some of this advice. We'll see what happens in the
57:52
next two days. Me and Kevin are, you know,
57:54
living on A prayer, as the great Mongiovi would say.
57:57
I will not be OK today. I'm I am going to the movies
58:01
tonight because I just do not want to watch my team crumble in
58:05
front of my. Eyes an ice cream factory.
58:07
So you guys know how I did that? Like, I had my birthday party at
58:10
the ice cream factory and I ate so much ice cream I almost
58:12
puked. Yeah, they gave us a bunch of
58:13
free vouchers, like for each person got to come back and, and
58:18
essentially everyone who came for my birthday was from out of
58:20
town. So they just gave us all the
58:21
vouchers, like 10 free ice cream vouchers.
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So like we have to start using them by like mid June.
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So I think every weekend we're going to be going to this ice
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cream factory just to get free ice cream.
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Things to do on your weekend. Yeah, and I would love to just
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not be looking at my phone and just, you know, wait until the
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end of the night to just see what happens instead of
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stressing throughout the day. So yeah, that's the plan.
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Everybody that's listening to this, I mean, you guys will be
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listening to this on tomorrow morning.
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So Sunday morning. And hopefully we're all talking
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about how Sorokin did not get a shutout.
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And yeah. Yeah, I'd love to talk about how
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you know, McDavid and celebrity, you know, they they called each
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other. And points.
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And they said, they said, you know, like, let's bring that
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Olympic energy back, you know, and, and they keep mine for a
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billion points. And they broke the Yahoo system
59:08
because they've never had so many points to to record for,
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for anyone. So that's all I'm hoping for.
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You know, I don't ask for much, but.
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