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hot topics for week 13. Let's do it.
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Alright, first hot topic for this week, we've got the Anaheim
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Ducks, specifically some guys like Troy Terry, Leo Carlson,
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Jackson Lacombe, Lukas Dostal. I'll highlight Terry and Dostall
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as two of the big ones that we've been hearing a lot about.
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The Ducks are in a bit of a tailspin, started off the year
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way hotter than anyone expected and have been way worse than we
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expected recently. And some people are saying, you
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know, do I drop Terry? Do I drop those style?
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What's going on with them and uh, what do you guys think?
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Yeah, I still I still think that they're like gonna make a push
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for the playoffs. It's it's definitely a
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different, different Ducks than we were used to seeing, you
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know, pretty much about a month ago.
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But it's a young team and I say this all the time with young
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players, very unpredictable. Goutier, also right, has been
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it's been a pretty bad last few weeks.
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Actually, I. Feel like he's the only one
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that's been like decent. His shots have been nuts.
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Gothier yeah, yeah, but like over the past two weeks, I mean
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since like the, you know, December 11th, he's has two
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games with points, 2 points in in each of those games.
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But like that's almost three weeks of continuous horrible
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points. But it's the whole team.
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They're not scoring much. They're letting in a lot of
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goals. Do I think they'll turn it
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around? Yes.
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Probably not going to be as hot as they once were.
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Overall though, yeah. I mean, I would say it's a buy
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low opportunity for some. OK.
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So which ones are buy lows and which ones are I'm avoiding?
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So let's say Lucas Dostal. That's a big one.
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Yeah, he's very polarizing right now.
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I think he's been the worst goalie in fantasy I think since
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coming back from his own injury. And this is a scary one because
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it feels like if you're sending any goalie for him, you're
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taking a massive, massive L in the immediate future.
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But I'm still willing to do that for I think the low end starters
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I'd be willing to do for the style knowing that I'm sending a
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better goalie and should be getting more value along with
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Dust Kyle. So I'm thinking of like if I had
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UC sorrows, would you do sorrows for the style plus?
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That's an interesting one. It's.
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Really scary right now. Conviction.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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Look, I do believe there's brighter days ahead for Dostal
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and the Ducks. They just cannot be this bad and
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he cannot be this bad. But I think you have to tap the
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expectations. I don't think he's gonna go back
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to what you know, I don't think the team is gonna go back to the
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start of the season. I think that was them vastly
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overperforming. So I think if you can get a
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decent plus, I don't mind doing this arrows for dose style plus,
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but at this point it should be a sizable plus.
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Yeah, what if it's like a what if it's like Sara's Ford Dustal
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Plus Chantilly? Yeah, I like that.
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I'm taking that. Yeah.
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I'm taking that's relevant. And that's a good one.
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Yeah, I think it's a realistic 1.
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You can do as. Well, doesn't that that is a
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really solid. Solid knowing that the Guida has
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the style in your league probably really needs the goalie
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help and it'll feel like holding the start.
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This point is like negative value.
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Yeah, absolutely. But but overall, like I think
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Terry is a big one, like people have been dropping him recently.
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He's got bumped down to line 3, power play 2.
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I think, I don't know if that's sustainable.
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I think he's gonna end up with a top six, it feels like.
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And back on people one at some point, they're kind of splitting
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their power play units right now.
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Like we're seeing even go to on Power Play 2 and they're using
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Crider on Power Play 2, and that's kind of like a big sign
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that this is a split unit. And I think Terry is the most
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dispensable of the bunch at the moment because he's fallen from
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so high. So you believe?
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I'm trying to, I'm trying to buy Terry, honestly.
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Absolutely buy Terry right now. People want to drop him so
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depends what you're willing to sell, but in your case Josh
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would be a perfect below for your team.
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I literally like I'm trying so hard, but the guy in our league
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who has him doesn't make trades. So and also obviously I sent the
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trade offer and then Terry immediately puts up a
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three-point game after being off for for a while, which is just
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the classic try by low curse. So probably be able to pull it
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off. But I do like Terry as a bi LO
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in certain situations. I don't think that this line 3
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power play 2 exposure is gonna stay.
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I think he's definitely the top 6 power play one rest of season,
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but it might take a few weeks for it to get back there.
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I don't want it to be like, I told you something, but like we
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did say to like, sell all your ducks, guys.
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And yeah, like, Leo Carlson, the Jackson Lacombe when he was
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popping off, like, even the terrorists and the critters,
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like, it felt really scary because they held the high value
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for so long. But look how bad it is right
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now. And like, it's not gonna be this
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bad forever. They'll go back to being good
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again, but they're not gonna hit the highest they were hitting at
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the beginning of the year. And let's not forget, like, this
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team is still in the process of becoming a competitive team.
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Like, I think we were all, like, writing them in the playoff
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picture being like, alright, this team is actually good now
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we have to treat them as such. But last year, they were so bad.
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Like you don't go from being so bad to like so good.
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Yeah, fully agree. Alright, next we've got another
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situation of guys, a team that was overperforming and now seems
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to be falling, and that is the Boston Bruins.
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So we've got some notable names like David Pasternak, Morgan
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Geekie, Charlie McAvoy, Jeremy Swagman.
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What do you think of these guys? Are these more bylaws or any of
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them? You know, I know that like
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Pasta, I have him on my team. He's been underwhelming.
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He's he's got like 3 points in his last four.
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Games three pasta. Yeah, I mean, that too was just
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absolutely ridiculous, geeky, slowing down a little bit.
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He's still, I mean, these guys have still been like, this isn't
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the same as the Ducks. It's like like, first of all,
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they were really hot, but also like passing geeky have still
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been solid the past couple of weeks.
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It's not like they're like completely falling off.
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Macavoy is having a slow return, but I think defenseman in
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general, like you can't expect him to be point per game and
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then swam in as the as the goalie for the Bruins.
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You know, if they're losing games, then you know, we're
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seeing Corpus also get some starts here and there.
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What do you guys think? So I actually like the Ducks as
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a team more than the Blues. This.
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Year Brilliant. Bruins, I'm sorry.
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Sorry. Thank you.
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Yes, I I was, I was about to catch myself.
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Yeah, I and the Blues. Yeah.
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To be fair, it's true. So.
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So it wasn't wrong there. I mean, when you look at their
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records, you could see that like they they both have similar
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amounts of wins. But the thing with the Ducks is
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that they're they I think have more of a spread out lineup,
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whereas the Bruins are extremely top heavy.
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So that to me means that I'm like less worried about
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Pasternak and geeky than I am about, you know, Leo Carlson and
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Cutter Goji or Troy Terry, whoever you want to put in
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there. I mean, I, I think that, like,
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you know, players have to score and the concentration to those
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guys is gonna be there. Pasternak is still going to be
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elite, even if he's fallen off a little bit.
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Zero worry there. But I do worry that the Bruins
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are just going to continuously not be good for the rest of the
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season. I don't think they have a very
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good team O the whereas the Ducks, they won't be what they
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were at the beginning, but they'll they'll steady out and
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they won't be this bad. And I think they'll be in the
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fringe playoff conversation, whereas the Bruins, I don't
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think are going to make it. I mean, I remember looking at
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this Bruins lineup, I think it was one of the first episodes
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when you went to Korea, Jakey. And I remember, I remember
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telling Josh, maybe it was even before that.
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Maybe we were all three of us still there.
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But being like, I look at this lineup, but this is not a
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playoff team to me. Like they were at the time.
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They were top of the division and felt like and we were all
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like, OK, like, I guess never count on Boston type of thing.
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And like, obviously I think Boston is a team that's always,
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always wants to compete and there's value to that.
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Where like their assets are going to be strong in the team
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itself is gonna try to pull one put wins together never gonna
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tank. But if you look on paper like
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Steve's line 1, like what what do we?
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I'm not in no shade against Steves himself.
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Like he actually has like kind of decent fantasy value for like
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the name and whatever, but there's just so much lack of
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depth here that I don't see this team being in the playoff race.
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And they were for so long. And now I think we're starting
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to see like their value kind of like regress, regress, regress
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boat goes down. We talked about both GOAT was
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really up, water drying out, both coming down.
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So I'm still I'm still happy with with Pasta and geeky and
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like, even though their production over the last two
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weeks has definitely faltered. I want them while my team for
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like the playoffs because they have like that elite playoff
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schedule. Like we talk about the Rangers
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all the time, like they have that 444 in week 21 to 23, but
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there only tempering expectations.
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And I think we we we're encouraging you guys to
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capitalize on the sell high and it fell.
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It feels bad because they were holding this value for like 2
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months, but at a certain point you have to trust like your gut
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and your projections on these players.
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And like I don't think Geek is a point per game player.
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That's what he was averaging for two months of the year.
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Now I think last year was a .7. Maybe he ends the season at .8.
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That's still really good for where you got them in your
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drafts or off waivers even. But if you could have
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capitalized on him selling at the .1 value, 1.3 in value, then
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yeah. But I'm I'm more happy with the
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Boston guys on my roster than the Ducks guys on my roster, if
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that makes sense. Yeah, I mean, one thing with
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Boston, like you mentioned, is that they have an elite playoff
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schedule weeks 21 to 23. They have four games all three
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of those weeks. So honestly, if they go through
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a rough stretch, then I'm trying to buy low on all these guys.
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I mean, obviously anytime you can buy low on Pasternak is a
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huge win. So if he keeps being slow for
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the next week or two and you can send, you know, like your second
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or third round pick who's over performing for pasta, I'm doing
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that in a heartbeat and geeky as well.
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If he slows down, then I wouldn't mind buying low on him.
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I definitely don't want to touch him with what he's been doing
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lately just because he's been so good.
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I actually sold high on him even though I still love him.
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I think he I think he's gonna be a really, really solid rest this
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season. But he was a clear cell high.
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Macavoy I think you can buy on. He's just a solid guy.
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Like to have on your team power play 1 and and gets good bangers
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and swim as well. Like just the really the playoff
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schedule and the fact that these top assets, like even if they
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might not do as well as they did at the start of the season,
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they're still going to be really good.
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I'm looking to buy all these guys if they keep being slow.
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For the right price. For the right price, always.
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OK, here's an interesting 1. I feel like this is just all
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throughout the year we're getting questions on some
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Colorado Avalanche guys such as Val Nichushkin, Gabe Landeskog,
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Arteria Lebanon, Brock Nelson. The reason I included these four
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guys specifically is because this is what it feels like is
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the the carousel of power play one, right?
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So you've got 2 open spots because the locks are McKinnon,
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Mccarran, Niches. And it just seems like on any
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given night, any given week, two of these four guys are going to
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be there and it's never going to be the same ones.
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So what do you say to people about, you know, how to value
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these guys? What should they do if they have
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one and he's on power play one, he's not on power play 1, they
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can drop, they can make a trade. Like, what do you, what do you
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do with these types of guys, huh?
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I mean, I was going to say like this, these values for these
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guys are are it's all deployment based, right?
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And the issue is that deployment fluctuates.
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So you don't wanna have to like make a move on waivers like pick
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up this guy, drop this guy, pick up this guy, drop this guy every
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time following the line combinations.
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So the ones that I think have the steadiest deployment, I
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mean, we know Nelson is going to be the line 2C.
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Like we know that's kind of set there.
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All these guys should be the top six.
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It feels like like that feels like a safe bet to make the big
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question on this call right now. Seems like the guy is like the
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one with the most sure thing deployment and it's been a few
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weeks now that he's on CPU one and that he's playing with
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McKinnon on line 1. And I think that's just such a
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valuable spot specifically because he's also left wing,
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right wing and getting face offs out of it as well.
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Like that's always a huge bonus. He's not even centre eligible
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yet and he's getting face off wins.
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So if you're in the accounts face off and I think he's even
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extra valuable and he's shooting a lot too.
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Like I'm very surprised by his shot quantity as well.
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So he's covering those bangs. It's very Boone Jenner
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reminiscent for me in my opinion, except with more points
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upside given who's playing with. I think she's the one that I
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want the most out of this group. Right now.
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For me, it's Landis Cog, Nelson, Lechner, Nichushkin.
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Yeah, but keep in mind, literally, let's say tonight,
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you know, yeah, news comes out, Nichushkin and Lacking are now
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on power play 1. Landeskog Nelson to power play
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2, your value immediately flips. So for me, I don't particularly
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want any of these guys on my team.
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What I wanna be doing is I wanna be whichever ones I do have on
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my team, I want to sell while they're on power play 1.
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And if you got, if you have one of them and he's not on power
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play 1, then I'm depending on how deep league is, sometimes
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they could just be a drop. But for the most part I'm
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holding until they get that power play deployment back
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because it will happen at some point.
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Wait for them to rack up a week or two of solid points and then
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just sell them. Like I'm and the second one of
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these guys I have gets on power play 1 and puts on some good
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deployment, some good points. I'm selling them, it's just not
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worth the headache all year. Yeah, I think stand alone
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Nichushkin kinda has the least amount of reliance on the others
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to be good. Yeah, but he also has a pretty.
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Low floor, Yeah, he is the best player I sort of, but yet.
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But he's one of the least. Yeah, yeah, like, yet I still
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agree with your rankings in a way, because Nelson has the
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highest floor, I think has the lowest ceiling.
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And and Landeskog though, to me, there's like just something
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special about the fact that he's on the team again and stayed
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their captain the entire time he was away.
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And now he's playing with McKinnon.
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Like, it's not like they need to get it going.
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Like he's a team player, he'll wanna get it done regardless.
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But I I think that that Landeskog is the highest chance
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of playing with McKinnon for the duration of the season.
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You know what I mean? Like it'll still fluctuate, but
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and even if the the power plays in the question, I think that
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the the short, the even strength exposure that Landeskog is gonna
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have to McKinnon makes him my favorite of the bunch because I
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think that's the most likely. And then there's nature, who's
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just the best person ever made so.
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Yeah, no, I mean, like I agree with you guys as rankings.
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It's just in my mind, like, do you wanna hold a guy who like
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and the playoffs could just get demoted to properly to and
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immediately lose all value? Or would you rather bank it for
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a guy who's just guaranteed to have that deployment?
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You know, so like, even though. The upside of the bank it I want
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to, but it's like who are you? Who's realistic in the trade
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that it's raining? Here, but you might not agree
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with I'd rather have Troy Terry than any of these guys.
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Hmm. I'd rather have more detail,
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obviously, but I think that's probably.
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Yeah, would I think I'd rather land this cog over over Troy
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Terry. Yeah.
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Maybe I'm just, maybe I'm just buying too much into the hype of
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the recent production. I just, I just don't believe
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that it's gonna be the whole season.
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I think as long as Landeskog has this deployment, I prefer him
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over Terry, especially because Terry has the bad deployment
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right now. But if you like, I had to guess
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which one of. Them, I'm assuming Terry, like
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line 2 power play 130. Yeah, that's what I'm kind of
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assuming. Yeah, come play off time, I
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don't, I think the deployment you'd much rather have Troy
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Terry. But then if if come playoff
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time, Landeskog is line 1P1, to me it's like not even a
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question. I'd rather him.
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So I'm taking the chance on. I'm taking the gamble.
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I just don't think it's worth taking the gamble because even
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line one power play 1 Landeskog is not going to be point per
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game. Troy Terry can be point per
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game. OK, but give me, let me give you
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the situation. You're stuck with Troy Terrace
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with the playoffs, or you're able to have Landis Cog and if
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he loses deployment, you're able to pick up Mason Marchman who is
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line 1P1. But I mean that that situation
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doesn't make sense because I can also pick up Mason Marchment if
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I have Troy Terry instead of Landeskog.
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I know, but you're saying that you're less likely to do that if
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Troy Terry has a good deployment because you're gonna be like,
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OK, I'm not gonna drop Troy Terry for another guy that has
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equal deployment. I'm just gonna take the chance
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on the guy that I rolled with the whole season where land is
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call. You won't feel bad about cutting
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if you gets the bad deployment. Yeah, but I mean, Terry has the
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good deployment then. Then I'm happy to hold him.
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Like I'd rather have him than mice Marchman.
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But I think, I think the difference is so small that I
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don't I don't care if that's my backup option, whereas I want
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the chance that the upside Atlanta is called is gonna give
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me if he has a good deployment come playoff time.
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I guess I disagree. I think I think you're too low
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on Terry. I saw you telling people to to
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drop him in the discord and I'm just like OK, like if you look
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at. This game log and people were
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dropping for like actually good players.
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No, I know, I know. But for me?
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Like somebody was. Nobody had Horvat and Elise
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Peterson on their waivers, and I was.
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Just like, yeah. You could cut Troy Terry for
19:27
them, you know. Yeah, yeah.
19:28
But in a league as deep as ours, like I'm, I'm trying to buy
19:31
super hard and I would take him over any of these Colorado guys,
19:33
but but that's just me. Let's got to go to the one.
19:38
I think Landeskog is the one that I would just rather take A
19:40
chance on over, but I agree with the other 3.
19:43
The thing is, even Landeskog, like I like what he's been doing
19:45
in Bangers Cats, but I think if he loses his deployment that
19:48
goes down as well. So I don't think any part of
19:50
what he's doing is guaranteed. But it's a mixture of like early
19:55
season, like he wasn't necessarily playing at his full
19:57
potential yet either. So like now he's like full
19:59
potential plus good deployment. What does full potential with
20:03
lesser deployment look like too? Like we don't know that that's
20:05
scenario yet. But I don't know, I just.
20:08
Also Colorado just an insane team.
20:09
Like if I have the chance of getting a guys playing with
20:11
McKinnon and Mccarr, like I want that chance.
20:14
I guess I don't know, I just think that Landeskog ceiling is
20:17
what Terry's just gonna do. So that's why I'd rather just
20:20
take Terry. But uh, but I can see, I can see
20:23
why you know, you want that deployment for sure something
20:25
it's it's guaranteed. Alright, let's go to the next
20:28
one we've got. I mean this we've touched on on
20:30
a decent amount, but felt like I just had to include as a hot
20:33
topic. You've got Steven Stamkos, UC
20:34
Cyros, Ryan O'Reilly. What's going on with Nashville?
20:37
Is this real? Is it not?
20:39
Do we sell? Do we just enjoy?
20:42
What do you think you sell? You sell as soon as possible.
20:44
Guys like where were you? Just lived it with Anaheim.
20:46
We lived it with all these other teams that were so hot that were
20:49
not as good as they were playing as Nashville is just the team
20:53
right now that over the last month or so, like they've been
20:55
elite. It's it's crazy to say like with
20:57
how bad their Rosser looks and, and you know how bad it's been
21:01
in the last few years right now over the last month or like
21:03
winning a lot of games and it's giving you the opportunity to
21:06
sell on these guys whether you can actually, like a lot of
21:09
people still have the stink like Rhino Riley, still less than 40%
21:12
owned. So like who's realistically
21:13
buying at that point? I think Stamkos 2 is available
21:15
in the in a lot of leagues and he's probably the the national
21:18
predator with the most value right now.
21:20
So I'm I'm trying to sell for anything I can.
21:23
And I think that your best opportunity to sell isn't a
21:24
package like make it a 2 for two where you know he's not the
21:27
centerpiece of the trade, but he's pulling a lot of weight as
21:29
like the 1B of the trade and get something done sorrows.
21:33
I'm highlighting it as a cell highlight.
21:35
He was a drop earlier in the year.
21:36
Now you have the opportunity to sell high on him and get a guy
21:38
that you know he's gonna be on your offer the whole season that
21:41
listen, all goalies are inconsistent.
21:43
So when anybody showing any kind of consistency either way like
21:46
it's due for regression. Yeah.
21:49
Yeah. So so I I actually do agree for
21:53
fantasy with that for sure. The one thing though, is like
21:57
IRL, and I don't think they're a good team.
21:59
Like I'm pretty sure I had them bottom of the central in my
22:02
predictions this year. But we also know that when they
22:07
traded for all these guys, like they were, they were like they
22:10
were supposed to be pretty good. Did it just take this long to
22:13
come together? And are they now going to like,
22:15
make a push for the playoffs? No, I, I don't think so, but I
22:22
get, I think that storyline and that possibility is why you
22:25
could possibly sell high on these guys because you can be
22:28
like, look, this isn't like just a random garbage team of garbage
22:30
players that is randomly turning it on.
22:32
These were guys who were supposed to be good, then became
22:35
garbage and now they're playing good again.
22:36
So you can be like, look, it's, it's happening.
22:38
They just took them a year to, to figure it out.
22:40
So I think I don't believe in that, but I do think you can use
22:43
that to your advantage. Yeah, I I learn where you guys
22:46
are with that. The thing is that I I mean, you
22:49
saw Trotz said he was like, I need more out of this group.
22:52
I know there's something there like we can, we can.
22:54
What's he gonna say to being a good team?
22:56
Well, it could just, I mean. Less out of this group and
23:00
everybody. So do you do you think that this
23:02
like behind the scenes, this recent production from Stamkos
23:05
is essentially just an audition to like get traded somewhere
23:07
else? I don't think it's only an
23:09
audition like, but I think it it ends up being one.
23:14
OK. Yeah, Sense.
23:15
Yeah, I mean, the one thing that I kind of like about their
23:19
fantasy value more now than I did before is that at least like
23:22
they're all playing on the top line together.
23:24
Four, Yeah. O'Reilly and Stamkos, that's
23:26
something that they haven't done.
23:28
So that can actually also add to the cell high of it all.
23:32
But yeah, I mean, I, I don't believe in them.
23:35
But I wouldn't think Soros needs to be traded like.
23:38
Yeah, he's the biggest. Selling.
23:40
I mean, you gotta try it, try to treat him.
23:42
Yes, he's the biggest seller to me because I don't think they're
23:44
gonna win that many games, but it doesn't necessarily mean that
23:47
Stamkos is production is going to be as horrifically bad as it
23:51
has been in the past. Year and a half, right?
23:53
Look, I can see him being someone that actually stays on
23:55
your roster, which is way more than I've said about him for the
23:58
past few months. I don't think he's gonna be
24:00
anywhere near what he's doing now, though.
24:02
Yeah, yeah. Alright, lastly, we've got Zach
24:06
Hyman slash, Ryan Nugent Hopkins, AK McDavid and
24:09
Draisaitl beneficiaries that those two guys are going nuts.
24:13
McDavid Dreidel, they've got like 55 points combined in the
24:17
last like 12 games. It's just nuts.
24:19
And when you've got a guy in human and Ryan Nugent, Hopkins
24:21
who are on that power, play one with them, get to play with them
24:24
at even strength, they're going to get a bunch of points as
24:26
well. So these guys are doing really
24:27
well too. So what do we think about them?
24:30
Do we think they're sell highs? Do we think that we're just
24:32
happy to be along for the ride, McDavid and Dreidel, and just
24:35
enjoy having guys with that deployment?
24:37
What do you think? I mean, I'm happy that I have
24:40
them on my roster, but you're selling high like you.
24:43
You can't make Davis averaging close to three points per game
24:45
over the last month. This is ridiculous.
24:48
Yes, McDavid is arguably the best player in hockey.
24:52
Like it's him and McKinnon the top 2.
24:55
And if McKinnon was doing this, I'd still say the same thing.
24:58
I'd be like all the surrounding assets are benefiting from his
25:00
production right now. Like, yeah, that means they're
25:02
still elite assets. Like they're still top 20
25:05
players potentially like in in fantasy, but I'm trying to trade
25:09
them for guys that I know are gonna be there.
25:11
Even when the production regresses from a from Hyman and
25:14
and like I think Nuge, he's a consistent sell high every time
25:17
he hovers around a point per game trying to get him off my
25:19
roster because he doesn't have any category coverage, just part
25:21
of the merchant. Cyman has some category coverage
25:23
to him. I feel he's like a better asset
25:26
to own. But I'm still trying to
25:27
capitalize on this extra production right now and get
25:29
somebody that I actually can be really good rest of season that
25:32
I know is gonna have the same ceiling but the higher floor as
25:36
well. Yeah.
25:38
Yeah, it's just, it's like I, I mean, and, and Kevin's been the
25:43
highest, I would say on Hyman of all of us.
25:47
Like maybe when he. Yeah.
25:49
And like, you know, like, yeah, and even that's yeah, you know,
25:55
it's crazy that he just doesn't hit at all anymore.
25:58
Like what is that? He has like over his past five
26:04
games, he has one hit that yeah, it's crazy.
26:07
It's actually absurd. So while I while I think that
26:11
they're obviously gonna slow down and that's part of it.
26:14
I mean, it's it's tough because Hyman could could have these
26:19
like a season average is a point per game.
26:21
Like I don't think that that's crazy impossible.
26:23
His last two weeks average is basically 1 1/2 points per game,
26:27
which is ridiculous. So you you should sell, but it's
26:32
got to be a very good return. Like do you think it's out of
26:35
the question to get natures back?
26:38
Michael still been really good. So I think that I know that's
26:40
tough. You could get like you Hyman,
26:42
Hyman or Nylander. I'll definitely take Nylander.
26:46
Yeah, can easily get done right now.
26:48
I like that a lot, yeah. I yeah, I mean Nylander, I mean,
26:53
it's just been super tough in Toronto overall, but yeah, I
26:56
think that I I'm much. More familiar with Joe?
27:00
Johnston for sure. Johnson I'm more confident
27:02
having hymen than than nudge, though.
27:05
Like, I like him. Yeah, yeah, 100% huge.
27:07
So I'm gonna bring it more. Brat.
27:11
People are going crazy for saying that.
27:13
People say we're crazy for saying that you could get Brad.
27:16
Plus, absolutely you could. I think that would be an amazing
27:18
trade. Yeah, I would do that.
27:20
That's a really good bylaws so high.
27:22
Yeah, those were all great names.
27:24
OK, let's hop into some questions for this week.
27:28
So let's kind of rapid fire some of these if we can.
27:31
Joshua Furon on Discord asked how does FAB work and what's
27:34
your strategy for using it? So FAB is free agent bucks in
27:38
our league. We get $100 budget to start this
27:40
season and then all our pickups are next day pick up.
27:43
So we put in a claim for tonight and then it'll come in the next
27:46
day. And then you could choose to put
27:47
in $0.00 or you could choose to put in however many dollars you
27:50
want from your limited budget. And then if you and another
27:53
person both bid on the same person, whoever put in the most
27:55
money will get that player and waiver priority is the
27:58
tiebreaker. So that's kind of a quick
28:00
rundown of how FAB works. What's your strategy?
28:02
For me personally, I think there three big times where you want
28:05
to be spending FAB. One is the start of the season
28:08
when values are kind of all over the place and you can really
28:10
find gold. 2 is trade deadline. I think crazy stuff happens at
28:15
the trade deadline and that's where you know you want to have
28:17
some FAB to to spend. And three is the playoffs.
28:20
If you want to make good streamer pickups, then your
28:22
opponent you know is going to pick up similar people, then you
28:24
can use your FAB to to get the edge there.
28:26
So for me, that's kind of my strategy.
28:29
Yeah. And I think the FAB system, I
28:31
think it's very unpopular in fantasy hockey.
28:35
I know I started from fantasy football where FAB is like very
28:38
popular. And when I came to hockey, it
28:42
was kind of like it was hard to convince people that I think the
28:46
FAB system is is worth it and and useful.
28:50
But when in our league of record, like people were staying
28:53
up until 3:00 AM or like going to bed at 10, putting alarms to
28:56
wake up in the middle of the night to make pickups for
28:58
separate days. And some people are on the West
29:00
Coast. So for them, like it's a huge
29:01
advantage too because for them it's midnight, whereas East
29:03
Coast is like 3:00 AM. So to me it was like a no
29:07
brainer. It removes the first come first
29:09
serve aspect of hockey in general, where it's like, OK,
29:14
because you were on your phone at the time of like a injury,
29:18
you're able to get this guy that's like gonna be a game
29:20
changer. Like imagine Mackenzie Blackwood
29:22
got traded last season and you were the you have owner at the
29:27
time, I guess, or whatever and and you miss out on that because
29:31
you were at work. You know what I mean?
29:32
Like it's just one of those things that it kind of evens the
29:35
playing field and allows people to also have a strategy in terms
29:38
of like, how much money am I worth?
29:40
Am I gonna spend on this guy? Same opportunity I dropped 51
29:45
fab of our $100 fab budget on Blackwood and it ended up being
29:50
like the best pickup of the year like totally worth it.
29:52
So it's. Just save Joshua season because
29:54
he went pure 0G and he was able to pick up like a guy that ended
29:57
up being like a top five at goalie for his fantasy team.
29:59
So all these are pros for the fab system in general.
30:02
I think yeah, there's something nice about waiting day of the
30:06
senior goalie getting confirmed and picking up and for a stream
30:08
or or whatever. Like that's a very fun aspect
30:10
too. But I think in terms of like the
30:12
competitive integrity, that system is not as good as the fab
30:16
system. And I think that's kind of like
30:18
when you're playing for a lot of money, especially in your
30:20
fantasy leagues or you know, you're trying to just be
30:22
competitive in general, I think you want to kind of prioritize
30:25
competitive integrity. And I think it was.
30:27
There was some obstacles in the beginning of getting people on
30:29
board, but I feel like now it's been three years we have in our
30:31
league, I think everybody's happy with it.
30:33
Yeah. It's amazing, like it used to be
30:36
in our league that you pick up somebody and then you could pick
30:39
him up the day of, but he's only on your roster the next day.
30:42
And then some other leagues that I've been in have it, you pick
30:45
them up and then these on your roster the same day.
30:48
So what we did was essentially you can add and then they're
30:51
they're only on your team the next day, which like, of course,
30:53
sometimes, like you said, it's OK waiting to have the goalie
30:56
confirmed. It's great.
30:57
But this works a lot better. And you can also draw up a
31:00
player on the same day. So if you have to activate
31:02
someone from IR, it's that way. So it's what's called continuous
31:05
rolling waiver system. That's like the important thing
31:08
is that you can, there's always you have to wait till the next
31:12
day for the pickup. There's a good amount of
31:14
strategy that's involved in that.
31:15
Like you said, it's evens the playing field almost entirely
31:18
and as far as how I spend my FAB, I agree with Josh's list of
31:23
three. The goalie 1 is also I would say
31:25
like a nice fourth there. The one thing is that for
31:29
football, the first two weeks of FAB, like people spend all of it
31:32
basically for hockey, you have to actually be so much strategic
31:34
and how you even it out. I've probably spent a total of
31:37
like 17 on shelves this year and he's not.
31:39
Even on my team anymore. So you you can't be too afraid
31:42
of making mistakes, but also don't do that.
31:46
And at the same time, like, I got busy, like, I don't think
31:48
like 3. And now he may be the starter on
31:50
Carolina. So sometimes it's like, not an
31:52
exact science. Hello Tails.
31:54
Before the injury though, obviously but.
31:55
Yes, yeah, yeah, exactly. But but yeah, there's like right
32:00
now he would be worth like 30 type thing, which is let's say
32:03
3030% of your FAB or 40. So yeah, it's really fun and you
32:07
should try it in your league if you haven't it.
32:09
It makes it a lot more interesting and strategic.
32:12
Yeah. And all the bigger management
32:13
leagues next year will have the same fab system as our banking
32:16
management lease. So everybody can look forward to
32:18
that. Yeah, alright, Frank on Discord
32:21
asked what's your opinion on brackets versus reseeding as
32:24
playoff formats for both fantasy and in the real NHL.
32:27
For me, it's receding should be always.
32:30
I hate that the NHL changed to brackets.
32:32
I think it makes it so boring. Like we're gonna get another
32:34
year of Edmonton, LA and it's just dumb.
32:37
And it's a we're also going to get you have Colorado, Dallas
32:40
and Minnesota, 3 best teams in the NHL.
32:43
Only one of them is making it to the third round.
32:45
Only two of them are making it to the second round because of
32:46
the way that that the brackets work.
32:49
So for me receding is is definitely the best.
32:52
Yeah, that'd be fun. I think for fantasy as well, I
32:54
think reseating is is great. It adds an extra element to, you
32:58
know, make you care about the regular season and like a lot of
33:03
leagues probably have six teams making the playoffs.
33:05
So you already care about, you know, being in the top 2 so you
33:07
can get that by week. But in our league of record, we
33:09
have 14 teams, 8 make the playoffs.
33:12
So having the reseeding really helps because you don't get a
33:14
bye week if you're in the top, but you end up playing against
33:18
doors teams. So you get an advantage there.
33:20
And what I really love about category leagues as well is
33:23
that, you know, you don't have to buy week, but you get the
33:26
tiebreaker. So we have 15 categories in our
33:29
in our league of record. One of them is shut out, one of
33:32
them shorthanded points, which have the most like the, the
33:35
smallest number of quantity in that, you know, category.
33:38
So very often times those end in draws.
33:40
So 13 categories up for grabs. But if you end up getting 1 and
33:44
you get a tie breaker, a lot of matches and like 7-7, it'll be
33:48
tiebreaker for whoever has the higher seed.
33:50
So it's like an added incentive. I I really like that element of
33:53
category leagues where, you know, receding plus a
33:56
tiebreaker. Yeah.
33:59
Cause in points it's gonna be like never that too.
34:01
Yeah, gonna are gonna end up with the same amount of points
34:03
on the at the end of the week. Like it's almost impossible.
34:05
Yeah, OK, Ace on Discord asked dynasty question for when Jake
34:09
he returns. It's like he he called it.
34:12
Who are three younger players slash prospects you're excited
34:16
about across the league? OK, well, I'll put you on the
34:22
spot, but. Well the man was out of out of
34:25
the country for like the last like 3.
34:26
Weeks. So I would say like, like to me,
34:30
if you're starting a dynasty league right now, there's a
34:34
world in which I have Celebrity and Bedard in my top three.
34:40
OK, sure, drawing would be 1. Over Siddle, it really over
34:45
Mcdata. Dynasty, yeah.
34:48
I'm, I'm still taking McDavid, McKinnon, Macar, Dry Sidal like
34:53
in in dynasty, even though it's dynasty, I was just treated for
34:58
celebrity. That's little biased, but like
35:00
these guys are all first round picks.
35:01
But I'm taking the guys that have been averaging a 1.5 points
35:04
per game for like the last 10 years and I'm thinking on them
35:07
doing that for like the next five years at.
35:08
Least I think this question was more geared to like who are guys
35:11
who may be having small broken into the NHL that you'd be
35:14
excited for over the coming years.
35:16
And that's why he asked Jake, because Jake knows all the
35:18
junior guys. Yeah.
35:22
So I, I think, I think one name to think about is James Higgins.
35:29
He has the opportunity to play with Pasternak for the next few
35:33
years depending on when he comes up to the NHL.
35:35
Because they like, I, I know Lynn home has been serviceable,
35:37
but like really they don't have like a solid #1C.
35:42
And I think they dropped him to be that guy.
35:44
I also that that's that's one from this past draft class.
35:50
Another one. I mean, I think Misa could be.
35:53
About anything Misa as well. Yeah, MISA could be amazing,
35:57
especially considering how incredible you already see
36:02
celebrity is, so that could be really, really nice.
36:05
And you can easily take one big spot on that power Play 1.
36:09
Yes, yeah, fully. I mean, I wouldn't even be
36:11
surprised if he makes an appearance later this year.
36:14
But like, like, don't judge that for what's gonna be in the
36:19
future. And someone who hasn't really
36:23
broken. Oh, actually, I haven't.
36:26
I haven't. Even better name Cole Hudson.
36:29
Now, now, this is a believer. Spicy.
36:31
Yeah, this is spicy because like, unlike Lane Hudson, who
36:34
came into an ideal situation in Montreal, Kohl's going to a
36:38
situation that has Carlson, at least for now.
36:40
And and Jacob Chicken is going to be a solid part of their
36:42
future. So I just, I just see that they
36:47
have similar collegic productions laying in coal.
36:49
They're both in really, really good and.
36:52
Same DNS. Yeah, I mean, it seems like they
36:56
could they could have like similar career trajectories,
36:58
even if it may take a little bit longer.
37:00
So right now, like, I mean, he's definitely on your dynasty
37:05
roster. I would assume in in football we
37:07
have something called a taxi squad where you don't have to
37:09
play the guy and you could just sort of keep him there.
37:12
So he's like, yeah, he's like the number one taxi squad guy.
37:16
Like I would say he could be really good.
37:18
It just may take a little bit of time in the NHL.
37:20
But once he gets going like I'd say like 2 years into his
37:23
career, he could be really, really fun to have.
37:25
Nice. We'll do a lot of dynasty
37:27
content in the offseason. I think that's kind of like
37:29
gonna be a lot of fun. A lot of people are really into
37:31
that. That's where a lot of leagues
37:32
start, before you know all the redrafts that get back into the
37:37
fold. OK.
37:38
Yeah, and let me just give me just give really quickly.
37:41
I just want to give names from the past three draft classes
37:44
that are already in the NHL that haven't done too well yet.
37:47
Ryan Leonard. Lev Chanov And from this year
37:53
it's a little bit tougher because the ones that are in the
37:55
NHL, I mean like it's pretty much just a just Matthew
37:59
Schaefer and I think he's gonna be insane so.
38:01
Yeah, that's. That's that's kind of it.
38:03
But those, those two that have already been in the NHL, I think
38:06
that they're gonna have like really good careers.
38:08
Yeah, I like that. OK Bertos, Pink sucker on
38:12
discord asked who are the guys you end up drafting every year?
38:16
Also, who have you kept drafting expecting a breakout but kept
38:18
failing for the second part of it?
38:21
I feel like Lafreniere Classic, right?
38:23
Yeah, like every year. I mean, it's just answer to both
38:26
parts of the question. Like I usually like stay away
38:30
from Lafreniere but I fell for it this year because of the
38:32
Rangers sick playoff schedule and I thought he had a shot at
38:35
power play one because of what the coach was saying in the off
38:36
season and they still have the six playoff schedule.
38:39
He got time and power play one. Turns out he just sucks.
38:41
So I fully have no more interest in Lafreniere because if he was
38:45
never going to get more opportunity than this year.
38:48
So that's my my breakout guy guy keep drafting every year.
38:52
This year was the first year in like a while that I haven't
38:54
drafted Romania OC. I got burned last year and I was
38:56
like alright, never again. But but he used to be a guy who
38:59
always finds his way on my team. I always draft the Bark Off.
39:03
Bark Off is my guy. This year I did not have the
39:06
opportunity to draft him. We drafted right after he got
39:08
hurt, so he wasn't on my board. But every year I want Barkov on
39:12
my team. I feel like he was the staple of
39:14
my Ross, like the last three years it feels like.
39:15
So she had last year Jackie had him, but he's he's my favorite
39:21
player in the NHL. So I'm always trying to get him
39:22
on my roster. I was even drafting with my a
39:24
first round pick felt like 3 or 4 years ago.
39:28
Yeah. And you were able to get him
39:30
like the second in recent years. But he's still just always a
39:33
stud. I always end up with him on my
39:35
roster. I was also end up, I feel like
39:36
killing Cousins in recent years or Josh Norris, like these guys
39:39
always end up on my roster somehow.
39:41
And in recent years? Yeah.
39:45
This year I have all two of them.
39:47
Yeah, what about you, Jakey, who always ends up on your team?
39:50
Forsberg. Phil Yeah, that's.
39:52
True, true. Yeah.
39:54
I think he's just super good for Shaw's hits.
39:56
And like every year also, I really want Brady to Chuck in
39:59
the first round, and I don't take him because you're just.
40:03
Too. Exactly.
40:04
Yeah, sorry, things are too early, so poor Jake doesn't get
40:08
to grab him. Kenan or McDavid or.
40:12
Matthews or whatever, that's it. And I mean, I'm trying to come
40:15
up with another name but but Laugh is the perfect perfect
40:19
name for part. 2 of this question Slough like no laugh
40:22
for like to break. Out.
40:23
No, no, but yeah, too. Yeah.
40:26
Sloth. Is kind of getting good though,
40:29
and like the second-half every year he's decent.
40:34
It's about laugh. OHS yeah Lafreniere just cause
40:39
it's laugh and laugh are way too way too.
40:41
Close. Yeah, I feel too oftentimes get
40:44
Fiala, Josh or is that just last year?
40:48
Um, I'm not sure if it was if it's more than last year, but I
40:51
do feel like he always drops lower than I would expect for a
40:55
guy who can like get close to point per game.
40:57
But yeah, I'm trying to think if there's anyone else who like
41:00
ends up on my team a lot, but I. Mean, I mean it's, but it's.
41:04
Not find a way to trade top guys.
41:06
Yeah exactly. I feel like McDavid and Matthew
41:08
no Matthews actually ends up on my team almost every year at
41:12
some point. Yeah, yeah, he does.
41:16
He does. I wish I was gonna say it.
41:18
Not exactly a breakout, but Lionel, I always think is gonna
41:20
be good. It never is.
41:21
Yeah. Lately I know he had a.
41:23
Great day. So he had an amazing start to
41:25
his career. But I keep thinking like new
41:27
opportunity, new chance, like there's always a new storyline
41:30
that makes me believe in lying. And it's just.
41:31
Like, nice, it's just all right? Renkan on Discord asked.
41:36
With Ketchup and Hughes coming off IR, who are the new best IR
41:39
stashes to Target? JT Miller, Connor Bedard.
41:43
I think JT Miller is one of the most accessible right now
41:45
because he wasn't even popping off that hard before getting
41:47
hurt. Yeah, you have the best playoff
41:49
schedule and he's a banger beast.
41:51
So in bangers, these really wanna target him.
41:53
I think Bedard is still hard to acquire him because like how
41:56
good he was before the injury. But he's a guy that like, if the
41:59
team that has bad artists near the bottom of the table and then
42:01
you need the production, they can't wait for him to get
42:03
healthy again. He's one of the better stashes.
42:06
Edmond, I think is a tricky one. Somebody was trying to trade.
42:10
He was asking me if it was OK to trade Marchenko for Headman.
42:13
That was like this is not even close like.
42:16
I'm not interested in the admin unless unless you can get him
42:18
for like peanuts or pick him up for free.
42:21
So I, I really, I think JT Miller is, is the best one you
42:24
can target. Would you trade Choice Terry for
42:26
Hedman? Honestly, I'd rather have Terry,
42:29
but but if you believe in headmen, it's not the end of the
42:32
like. I think that's a fine trade to
42:33
make. Yeah.
42:34
I just don't particularly believe in heaven.
42:36
Kempers are good, prices low. That's it.
42:40
Like hopefully he comes back soon.
42:42
Trying to think of guys who like might be a bit longer term, but
42:45
I think JT. Fox used to be one of the best
42:47
dashes, but now he's about to come back as well so.
42:49
Yeah, alright, let's. Watch Jarvis.
42:54
So that's actually a really good one.
42:55
You're right. Jarvis is probably stops here
42:57
one. It's still still unclear what
42:59
his timeline is, but I tried to get him from Jackie and in our
43:03
trade, but Jakey said no, even though he could be out for, you
43:07
know, the whole season. But.
43:10
My favorite is still JT just cause I think like he's the one
43:12
that has the highest value and the most the most easily to
43:15
acquire as well. Yeah, exactly.
43:17
OK, SAC Notch on Discord asked As a recent member of the Bangor
43:21
management community. Can you describe your imaginary
43:24
friend Jake to me? He psychologist joined from the
43:30
Apples and Gino's collab. So happy to have a happy to have
43:33
people join the community and listen.
43:35
You finally get to meet our third host that we were not
43:38
lying about that is fully real and actually not AI or.
43:41
Any show them your hands so they can show us not AI.
43:45
Shake that booty jiggly so we know it's real.
43:48
Exactly. Yeah, yeah, I'm a, I'm real
43:54
life. That's all skills about
43:57
yourself. People want to get to know you.
44:01
I like long walks on the beach, I suppose.
44:04
OK, nice. So he's very original.
44:09
Let's move on. We've got Brian on Discord to
44:11
ask this question earlier this year, but he wants to know if
44:13
our answers have changed since then.
44:15
Keep five of these guys for next year.
44:17
Goals, assists, plus minus pin, probably points, game-winning
44:19
goals, face off, win shot, hit blocks are the cats.
44:22
He's 100% keeping Crosby. So keep four of the following
44:25
guys. Reinhart, Forsberg, Genther
44:27
Batherson, Dalene Bouchard. OK, so wait, is Crosby included
44:32
in the five? Always keeping it so so like
44:35
croppies, but he's. Saying so, four other ones.
44:37
Out there for. Exactly.
44:38
To me, Reinhart is a 100% you're keeping.
44:40
Yeah, to me, Bouchard is a 100% you're keeping and Alina is a
44:43
100% you're keeping. Agreed.
44:45
So for me, that's 4. Then it's between.
44:47
You have to choose one between Forsberg, Gunther and Batherson.
44:50
Honestly. Like, I think you'll have a
44:52
better idea near the end of the year, but if you have to choose,
44:55
like in the near future, I think I'm leaning.
44:59
I mean, Forsberg is the guy that you have to, like, convince
45:01
yourself not to take. It feels like, right.
45:03
It's just like, OK, yeah, the numbers point towards keeping
45:05
Forsberg. But like, how big of a jump can
45:07
the other the other guys take? I'm leaning Gunther Hayes.
45:12
Gunther Forsberg. Batherson.
45:15
Yeah, that's the world where Forsberg is the worst.
45:17
Then this is my last race of the three, not because he's bad, but
45:19
just I prefer the other two guys.
45:20
Yeah. And then Forsberg I think is the
45:23
more like guaranteed. Like it just feels crazy and not
45:25
keep him again, they're just still feels like he's got that
45:27
crazy upside and he's still super young, so he can just have
45:30
that breakout year any year where it's going to be just
45:32
insane. I'm still going Forestburg, I
45:34
think, just to be on the safe side with the floor of the shots
45:36
and hits. Yeah.
45:37
But again, there could just pop off next year.
45:40
Maybe, maybe and end of season like, you know, they traded Ryan
45:43
O'Reilly, they traded Stamkos and you'll see is like still
45:47
dealing with his injury stuff. Marshall was gone.
45:49
Like maybe you deadlines you more Gunther than Forsberg at
45:52
that point, but I agree Forsberg is the safer point.
45:55
Yeah, yeah, I, I, I'm just gonna go with the same ones, except to
46:00
me, like it's, it's a clear Forsberg unless like I, I think
46:07
even with the trade, I, I mean, I just feel like they're
46:09
stealing is what Forsberg kind of just does.
46:12
Yeah, yeah. So that's that's it.
46:15
So I'm just gonna yeah, those are mine as well.
46:17
OK right now just what? Also asked what are your fantasy
46:20
team names? He said his are the Crosby Show
46:23
2, Kachaks 1 Cup and Happy Kemper.
46:27
Took the truck for One Cup. It's great, yeah.
46:29
They're all, really. You have to make sure you have
46:32
both of the contracts on your team or else or else doesn't
46:35
count in my opinion, like does somebody in our in our league of
46:37
record that has like a natural skin name that doesn't even have
46:39
the true skin on their roster. And I'm just like, you can't,
46:42
you can't do that man. That's.
46:43
Not you gotta have the guy who you're making a pun off of.
46:46
So for me, I yeah, go ahead, go for.
46:49
OHS in mine is I have Panarin and my team was very tied to the
46:54
success of the Rangers early on. So mine is the bread man rises.
46:58
That's not the best name. I have a picture of bald
47:00
Panarin. So it's also great because like
47:03
with all your injuries, you were lowering the standings and it
47:05
kind of like implies like the Reds gonna rise to the top, you
47:08
know? So I think it's I think it's a
47:10
great pun. I've got just like usually I do
47:14
a pun on one of my players names.
47:16
I often end up with Matthew. So I've been Stone cold Steve
47:19
Austin for a bit, But but this year I'm just just went with
47:23
Benjamin's dad's team because I had a baby and I figured a use
47:27
that that good. And then I have a picture of my
47:29
my my team picture is a picture of my baby sitting on the couch
47:32
and then a Photoshop beer in his hand.
47:35
It wasn't a real beer. Unfortunately not.
47:41
Yeah, mine, mine is just like cause it's been that for awhile.
47:45
It's Canada A, but I have another league that's actually
47:49
like I'm partnered with one of my friends.
47:51
That league name is Christopolis Michael.
47:56
Oh my God, I love that. Should.
48:02
Credits for all to him, but like, I thought that was
48:06
actually hilarious. It's a mix of Rick and Morty and
48:10
Mike Kostopoulos, the goat of the Habs.
48:11
So. I've changed, I've tried to do
48:14
the whole pun thing and every time I do my team just loses
48:18
weeks. So I've just, I'm not.
48:20
You gotta stick with. Superstitious, but yeah, just.
48:23
Little stitches. Yeah, this is the.
48:25
Team that I lose in the finals with almost every year so I
48:28
gotta stick with it. Gotta stick with what works
48:34
alright. Berto's Pink Soccer on discord
48:36
asked how many players is too many to stack on the same team.
48:39
Slash line slash power play. For me it's the Max I'm going is
48:43
3 and even that I feel is a lot. But before the end of the day,
48:47
at the end of the day, I'm not going to like lose value to
48:51
avoid a big stack, but I'm also like, I really don't want to
48:55
have more than three guys off of a stack.
48:58
Yeah, I mean, I have multiple stacks on my league record team
49:01
this year. I mean, I started the year with
49:03
the I had Sanderson, Brady Kuchuk, Drake Batherson and
49:06
Dylan Cousins. So that's not all playing.
49:09
Too much. But that was 4 out of the five.
49:11
I mean, I would still be happy with if I still had Sanders on
49:13
my team. I ended up being able to trade
49:14
him and got Reinhart and Brat. Not the one for two.
49:18
It was a pretty forward. It was not.
49:22
But yeah, I think 3 is a good number.
49:25
Also on on the Rangers, I have Panarin, tro chicken, Will
49:28
Cooley, who that's surprisingly three 3/5 of the Power Rangers,
49:33
which I did not expect. I thought that would be 1/5 of
49:35
the power play, one for the Rangers.
49:36
So. Yeah.
49:38
Yeah, I'm happy with. The three, but I don't like
49:40
having three on the same line. That's one thing if like I'd
49:44
rather 2 forwards in a defenseman.
49:47
Yeah, I'm never avoiding it, but I'm never like consciously like
49:52
overlooking a player if I think the value is right because I
49:55
have played on the same team. But if I have the option, then I
49:59
don't hate diversifying a little bit.
50:01
Yeah. OK, Joshua, if you're on Discord
50:04
asked who would you want most to be a guest on your podcast?
50:07
Is it Jakey? I am a part of the trio, I
50:12
think. I'm.
50:14
I think I'm the fries. I can't remember.
50:16
Josh is the most. Like I said burger cause I got 2
50:23
cheeks 2. Buns.
50:27
That's exactly what you meant when you said I was a burger.
50:29
Right. Yeah, and I bring all the boys
50:33
to the yard, so. I just like fries.
50:40
Yeah, who? Who would be a good podcast?
50:42
Guy for me, so non hockey player I would think like Elliott
50:47
Friedman would be cool, right? That's that would be great.
50:50
That would be really cool hockey player wise.
50:53
What hockey player would you guys want on the pod the most?
50:56
I'm trying to think it would be like who has like the best like.
50:59
Person I would want to do a podcast with Seth Jarvis.
51:02
Oh yeah, that's a good one. Like I love his personality is
51:05
one of my favorite players. I think the.
51:09
Interview. It's such a good.
51:10
Personality. If you hear this somehow we know
51:12
you're on IR for a bit. So if you, if you wanna just
51:14
come to you, if you go to Montreal, I'll go to Montreal
51:17
and we'll all do it in person together.
51:19
You know, we'll come to you Even so.
51:22
So yeah, that's our. If anyone knows anyone who knows
51:25
Seth Jarvis or anything like that, let's make this happen.
51:29
The second on top of the list definitely gave say majority did
51:35
Belardi. That would actually be insane.
51:39
You have a large. Steve Baines.
51:41
Oh my God. Or Brandon Bussey.
51:46
These are all great answers. Yeah OK smell is 007 on Reddit
51:53
asked is lacking in worth holding on to and A10 team
51:56
league if he's my worst player and I want to open a streamer
51:58
spot? I think he's easy to drop in A10
52:00
team league if he's your worst player, especially without the
52:02
power play one look, drop him and then you can pick him up
52:04
later if you get to the deployment back.
52:07
Yeah, yeah, this definitely power play one guys available on
52:09
your on your waiver wire in 10 team league and be.
52:12
Exact Windows. OK Griffin 281109 on Reddit asks
52:17
what's going on with Malkin. Is he worth holding in my only
52:20
IR spot or are there other IR stashes I'd be better off
52:22
replacing him with? So first of all, I haven't heard
52:25
any news about Mac and I don't know about you guys.
52:27
I'm about timeline. So I feel like it's the type of
52:29
thing where it's going to turn out of nowhere at some point.
52:32
But in terms of our stashes, we mentioned kind of our top ones
52:35
already. So, but I doubt those guys are
52:37
available in terms of like IR guys who are like less than
52:41
let's say 50% owned. I don't know if there's anyone
52:44
that that like jumps to mind. I mean, Dylan Holloway, I'd
52:48
rather have Holloway than Malkin.
52:49
Is that a hot take? No, I thought too, I feel the
52:52
same. So Zucker.
52:55
I like soccer a lot, and that's one that he should return like,
52:58
relatively soon, Yeah, rather than sucker arrest this season.
53:02
But like, I still like Zucker a lot.
53:05
We didn't talk about Will Smith as an IR stash.
53:08
Oh true, that's a really good one.
53:10
He's he's week to week as of as of mid-december he was week to
53:13
week. So maybe I'm anticipating like a
53:16
mid January return type of thing?
53:18
OK, damn. Thing would rather would get
53:20
even better than. Will Smith comes back.
53:22
Yes, you will. And Matthews is officially
53:25
day-to-day, so everything is sad I.
53:30
Also honestly I also do like the Eden hill IR stash like I tried
53:34
to get wire him the the manager was like.
53:36
He doesn't do trades. He doesn't, he doesn't do
53:39
trades. He also has like a full IR, like
53:42
really would have helped him out.
53:44
But no, no dice for me. But I really like that.
53:46
I really like taking the chance on a 5050 goalie on one of the
53:49
best teams in the league. I think that's great.
53:53
Yeah, Great opportunity. OK Jet ski king 2292 on Reddit
53:57
asked what's going on with Tavarus and BRAT.
53:58
Are they worth holding Both these guys are huge billows.
54:01
Absolutely worth holding onto if you don't have them.
54:03
I would honestly target them if you have them, you just gotta be
54:06
patient. Don't.
54:07
Do not sell low on them. Massive, massive opportunity to
54:10
buy low. If I have them, I'm not getting
54:12
them. I'm not letting them get off my
54:13
roster, to be honest, because you'll never get enough value
54:15
that it makes sense. And these guys are about to
54:17
bounce back, I can guarantee. You yeah, the only way to trade
54:20
them is if like you can trade them with the other person
54:22
baking in their full value and that would be a big mistake on
54:24
the other person's part. So I don't think it really.
54:26
Happens and if I don't have them, I'm really trying to
54:29
acquire them guys like it's I think these are two of the
54:32
surest bets to bounce back to being near point per game value.
54:35
Yeah, well, Tavarus is actually sort of heated up.
54:38
Like, yeah, he's massive by low from the last month.
54:42
Like we even highlighted them on this podcast in our recent bylaw
54:45
episodes. Bylaw Episodes.
54:47
Yeah alright, last question Soup Ziegler on Reddit asked in a
54:51
bangers league without face off win keep 3 of McDavid, Larkin,
54:53
Trocheck, Norris, Kevin say the line for us because I want you
54:57
to admit that who the not keep is?
55:00
Listen, I'm not, I'm not a crazy person.
55:02
Obviously it goes McDavid, Larkin, maybe you like out.
55:09
No, obviously, obviously Norris is the cut you out of this for
55:12
especially with no face off wins.
55:13
I think and I think it'll maybe even the playing field a little
55:17
bit. But I mean, no, I mean, these
55:19
other three guys are way better than Norris, Yeah.
55:21
So no, no question there, alright.
55:23
I actually think Soup asked that question specifically.
55:27
Like where's the line with Kevin and John this was?
55:30
This was an easy question for Josh to just answering this
55:33
score, but he wanted to put this in the podcast to hear me say
55:35
this out. Loud.
55:36
Actually, this is. This is such a Yeah.
55:39
Like we could get, we get a lot of questions.
55:41
We're trying to like tailor them and choose the ones that I think
55:43
we can bring value or that are like not time sensitive.
55:45
Like this is an easy one. I'm just like, Oh yeah, just no,
55:47
don't keep Josh Norris. But.
55:49
Josh, you heard that. You heard him say it.
55:51
Everyone has a record that. It's gonna be a bit now, but
55:56
yeah, no. Yeah, no, that, that's good.
55:58
But that wraps us up for our Hot topics and mailbag episode.
56:02
Thank you to everybody for listening, it's really great to
56:07
be back with you all. I am not an imaginary friend, so
56:11
that's real, but I just wanted to really hammer that point
56:16
home. Follow.
56:18
Wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
56:20
Don't. Follow.
56:22
Yeah. Since you are the fries of the
56:25
podcast, what type of fry are you?
56:30
This was urgent. We had to, he had to stop and.
56:33
Before before we wrap it up. Wait, wait.
56:36
Important. What what?
56:38
What fries are you, Josh? What milkshake are you?
56:42
And then what burger am I? I like to think I'm a sweet
56:47
potato fry. Wow, I see.
56:50
Classy. I'm definitely a an Oreo vanilla
56:57
based Oreo milkshake. That's a good answer.
57:00
I was gonna say, I think I'm a, I'm a, I'm a Five Guys burger.
57:04
Nice. That's the best one.
57:06
Because you get some free peanuts thrown in.
57:10
OK. I guess those free peanuts, it's
57:14
the thing. I know, I know, I just never
57:15
have the peanuts when I go. What, are you kidding me?
57:17
That's my favorite part. I go scoop up way too many.
57:19
I'm like, you can't stop me. These are free.
57:21
You don't even get a burger, you just go and get peanuts and you
57:24
leave. I just want there's like a whole
57:25
trough of peanuts. You just go and you just grab
57:27
them and put them in a bag. They can't do anything about it.
57:31
You heard it here first. OK, employees are not paid
57:34
enough to stop you. OK, Kevin and I went to like a
57:40
wedding one day because basically our our friends and my
57:44
girlfriend were invited to this wedding and they were invited to
57:47
the whole thing. We were invited to the drinking
57:48
and dancing after. So we went to a soccer game
57:50
during the day. And then after that we were
57:52
like, hey, are we gonna have any food by the time we go there?
57:54
You know, let's just be safe. Let's go to five guys.
57:57
So we go to five guys. Sorry.
57:59
We were. In Spain, handfuls and handfuls
58:03
of peanuts and like burger and then we're like, wow, that was
58:06
good on the walk. Oh, bleep.
58:09
He's like, what? I'm like, the bride has a severe
58:12
peanut out. Like.
58:14
I'm drinking, just ate like 2 tons of peanuts.
58:20
And that's how Jake and Kevin ruined the wedding.
58:25
So like I go home I think I brush my teeth like 5 times I I
58:29
showered, I washed my face and like like when I saw the bride
58:34
like I was about to just like bow and say congratulations.
58:39
Anyway I gave her a hug she's fine.
58:41
The wedding was great before now Five guys story I was I was a
58:48
scary, scary few hours so. It's also like we were in Spain
58:52
and we went to Five Guys for food.
58:54
Like I feel like that's just so. Yeah, don't.
58:56
Take it out for sure. Yeah, yeah.
59:00
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59:28
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59:40
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59:43
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New Year's resolution for everyone other than win the
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league. Not not lose my matchups and
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don't don't let Josh trade with Jakey anymore.
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Yeah, that. That was mine.
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That was mine. Matthews is officially
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day-to-day. This is just so bad.
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This is like. You know this.
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Maybe this will undo the first trade where you completely
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fleeced me. OK, so.
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If anything even didn't fleece you, you just said it yourself.
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So much better than culture of Josh.
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Yeah, the Gus is far is the best player in the entire league.
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He's also. Her.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. True.
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That's it. That's it.
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My my New Year's resolution is to.
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My resolution is to make at least two more trades before the
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end of the season. Trade back.
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Can't wait to see. What count is 1?
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Yeah. You're well.
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Thank you, OHS. Alright.
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Do your Jingle or whatever. Above It About Bell Bangor
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Management Fantasy hockey podcast Woo.
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Whoa, whoa, happy woo year woo. Fine, I gotta give a proper woo.
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Yeah. Do it.
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I did woo woo, woo woo. Whoa, that's terrible woo when
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you just traded away and injured Matthew.