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Top 10 Sleepers for 2025-2026 · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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Barbara Bound Bound Bangor Management Fantasy Hockey
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podcast. Whoa.
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Wow, wow. I'm gonna start imitating you.
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This is my new thing. You just like him, that was.
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Crazy the fact that you just let me know now I'm gonna F with you
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so hard. Yeah, he's gonna be like, my
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name's Jake and I'm. Kevin's a very smart guy, super
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analytical, but the one thing he can't do is find alternatives to
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words. I'm gonna F with you.
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It's just a really wanna swear, but I don't want, I don't wanna
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ruin the algorithm. You could have said Fudge.
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I know, but F sounds more vulgar even though I'm not saying the
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whole word. It's true.
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I I love saying just the first letter.
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Yeah. Alright, alright, point taken.
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Welcome into Bangor Management Podcast, The Fantasy Hockey.
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How are? You all doing.
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Yeah. South of the border.
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Have you heard any French at all lately, Josh?
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I went to a Renaissance fair, and that's a French word, yeah.
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That is so funny. It was actually really fun.
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My goal when I went there was to eat anything that was on a stick
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and I had like 7 different foods.
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It was. Great.
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Was it like burgers on a stick or something or you actually?
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I had. Food that belongs on a stick.
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Steak on a steak was pretty good.
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I had cheese on a steak on a steak, like steak, you know,
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like. Those that are not.
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Fried Mac and cheese on a stick. I had one of those Turkey legs.
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That's what I really wanted. On OHP, OK I.
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Had a piece of pie. On a stick or it's on a bone?
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It was on a stick. Everything's on a stick.
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That's what's the Renaissance is about.
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We're going to make a hockey Renaissance fair.
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All the food on a hockey stick. I like it.
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Yeah, that's a good point. All right, today we are doing
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our top 10 sleepers for this coming fantasy hockey season.
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podcasts and find the link to all of our social media in the
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link tree, which as always is in the podcast description.
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Should we start with Imagenes? Sorry, here you go.
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I think we need to preface it by just kind of explaining what our
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description of sleepers are. These are guys that I mean, we
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play in deep leagues or leagues are 12 to 14 teams large and it
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goes like 20 rounds deep, right? So you win, you win your fantasy
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leagues by getting those scrappy guys off the waiver wire that
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contribute more value than where they were obviously drafted or
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not drafted. So these are all guys that are
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going pretty late in your draft, either undrafted or far in the
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double digit rounds. And that should round out your
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fantasy team in a in a good way and give you that value.
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So we have a 10 guys that were gonna name and some and.
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I'll mention anyone on this list is gonna be picked in single
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digit rounds and I think that's a great this is like a great way
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to like you said, round out the team.
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And a lot of these guys might be, you know, I think in all our
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stuff we talked about for the experienced listeners, all the
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names we mentioned are names they've heard of already are
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considered fantasy relevant. Maybe we might surprise some
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people, some of these guys. So that's I think it's an
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exciting episode coming up. I feel like last year guys like,
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you know, Marchenko are probably on this list, right?
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And and those guys end up being league winners.
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So maybe there's some big time league winners in on this list.
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This year for sure, and even if you're in like a, I don't know,
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14 round league, 12 teams, whatever, you know, like this,
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these guys are way past ADP. Probably at the end of your
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draft, if you see someone in ADP like that's higher, but they're
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not these guys. Like you could still reach for
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them in the last 2-3 rounds because these guys do have the
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upside that they could end up being mainstays on their lineup.
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It's all about who's on the board.
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Yeah, yeah. Alright.
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So our honorable mentions, we've got Alex Laferriere, Ryan
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McLeod, and Matt Coronado. Ryan Ryan McLeod won fantasy
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leagues for a lot of people last year because he ended up being
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the 1C4, the Buffalo Sabres and he just like killed it.
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I mean, I had him in our category league and he was a
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monster. He won me shorthanded points
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like 2-3. Weeks in a row, Crazy.
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That was a crazy span of like 2-3 weeks where he was just
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putting up crazy shorties and he had two like four goal games.
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Yeah, it was it was really nuts. I mean, I would say the caveat
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with him is the Norris's health because that'll cap a lot of his
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value. But I mean, I think I said that
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at the end of last year when we were talking about him as a
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streamer and then Norris was healthy and he still put up some
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ridiculous games. So I don't think he can do that
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crazy stuff season long. But I think he's a, he's a good
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sleeper, honorable mention, a guy who could be, you know, stay
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on your team for a lot longer than you expect.
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And we said Alex Laferriere, not Lafreniere.
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So just we're talking about the guy on LA, he had some time on
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in the top six last year and I think that's where he's going to
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be valuable. These deep guys.
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It's all about finding guys that are, you know, top 6 and
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deployment on their roster and not huge names, but because they
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have that deployment, they end up they end up contributing a
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lot more than you would expect. Yeah, and he was like a double
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double last year at certain points.
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He was on power play one for certain points, Someone to keep
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an eye out on. And Coronado, you know, I always
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say follow that money, baby. So you just follow the he just
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got paid big time. So that's another I want to keep
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an eye out on, especially on a Calgary team where there's a lot
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of empty spots in that lineup that someone opportunist that
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could jump in and take advantage of.
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Absolutely. Alright, let us begin with. #10.
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Nice. All right #10 Also on Buffalo,
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we've got Jason Zucker. Last year he had .73 points per
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game, two shots and one hit. He honestly, he was a staple on
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my roster last year. I picked him up off waivers and
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he was a stud and the reason why he was a stud was because of how
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good he was on the power play. Last year.
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It felt like every other game he had a power play point and and
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this year I expect him to keep the same deployment as last
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year. And why should he get any worse
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right? Like, I think Buffalo, if
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anything, like we don't expect much of them from a team overall
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this year, but they still have fantasy assets that are that are
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worth having on your fantasy team, right?
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Like he's gonna play on the power play with Tage Thompson,
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Rasmus Dahlin, no more J Patrick, unfortunately.
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So maybe that gives more shot volume for Jason Zucker.
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Yeah. And I think another thing that's
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cool about Zucker is he has nearly zero name value.
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I don't think anyone really is going into their drafts being
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like, I can't wait to draft Jason Zucker, you know, I think.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Other than other than people on
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this podcast right now, but yeah, so that's one of those
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ones where like you can literally get him in like around
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17 and he could be a power play. One guy who sticks around your
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roster for the entire season. That's really hard to like when
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you're throwing your dart throws and here's a dart throw that you
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know you have a year under his belt of showing that he can be
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roster mainstay. So it's very interesting.
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Yeah, last year was one of his best years on any team.
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He's obviously a journeyman. He's played on like 4 different
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teams in the NHL. I guess the only the quote UN
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quote fury I have with a guy like this is Buffalo's not gonna
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be a playoff team in all likelihood.
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If they are, all the better. I mean he's going to succeed,
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but if he's not then he may get traded, which usually is not a
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good thing mid season. However, the one time that he
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did get traded mid season was 20/19/20 from Minnesota to
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Pittsburgh. He ended up getting 12 points in
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15 games on a new Pittsburgh Penguins team, which is a
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really, really good line for how he can perform switching squads
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mid-season. So.
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He's lovely by pencer, by Penguins fans because of that
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one. Like, you know.
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Yeah, he was a stud and he was so good last year.
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I mean, I think this is a great choice late in your fantasy
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hockey. Draft.
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I think it's just one of those things where he's the type of
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player that maybe this year he doesn't get 60 plus points, but
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he gets 50 points, but half of them are on the power play or
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something, you know what I mean? And that's very valuable because
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power play points give you that extra boost.
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I think if he does get traded, that's a good point, Jackie.
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If he does get traded, it's probably for a team that wants
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to put him in like their middle 6, so like line 2, line 3.
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So maybe he loses deployment, but as long as I'm Buffalo, we
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love that. Also, you're picking him so late
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that like, you have to worry about that.
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You know, if you get half a season of great production out
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of him, then I'd happily take that from like, you know, around
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1718. Type.
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Absolutely, yeah. All right #9.
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And #9 we've got Mackie Samutsevich for the Florida
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Panthers. I really like this guy.
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So last year his overall stats don't look that amazing on paper
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.43 points, 1.8 shots 1.9. But it really picked up toward
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the end of the season when he got some power play one time.
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But then in the playoffs he got scratched.
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So he's, you know, he's a very high upside and the floor is,
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you know, someone you're gonna drop.
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But the fact is he could be power play one on the best team
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in the league and he was putting a huge bangers numbers.
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So this could be one of those like, shot in the dark, dark
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throws late in the draft that could like have immense impact
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on your roster. Yeah, go ahead. 24th overall
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pick in 2021, like he's a former first round pick.
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That's that's not nothing like we're really high on snuggerud.
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It's similar idea, you know, like there's no reason to think
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that he can't replicate his top notch stuff when he was
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delivering that from last year. And we look at this power play.
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They still have the two defensemen there.
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Aaron Aaron Ekblad is one of our biggest trap players this
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season. And yeah, I mean, there is a
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chance that Bennett and Marshawn go there and bump off Thomas
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schedule connect blood obviously for Hagie, too, but he did
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succeed. Like, there's no reason to think
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that they're gonna give it an honest try with him.
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I really like it. And Walter, Chuck is out.
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I also think that he's gonna be playing online too.
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So I think. Relatively safe.
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Yeah, I think I agree with the basically everything you said.
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I think even if he doesn't get that P1 slot, I'm still
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interested in some scary because for where you're getting him,
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you're honestly getting really good value on bangers because he
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was, when he was on the roster then, you know, playing a lot of
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minutes, he was hitting a lot more than you would expect.
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Like he was hitting almost 3 three hits a game multiple times
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for a consecutive weeks in a row.
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That was so many redundant words, but yes, he's the one
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that I'm keeping on my watch list.
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Kevin, sorry. The end of my drafts when I'm
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near, you know, around 1617181920.
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When you know the guys, there are basically shots in the dark.
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He's one of my favorite guys. Target.
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Yep. All right #8.
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All right #8 we've got of the Detroit Red Wings, Marco Casper
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the Friendly Ghost. We were on the good one.
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Yeah, so again, last year the stats like the points don't look
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that enticing. It was .48 points per game, but
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he was 1.9 shots and two hits. So a double double right there
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pretty much. And he finished the season
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playing line one with Larkin and Raymond and he looked great
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there. So the biggest cap on him is
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that there's no chance from getting power play one.
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But in terms of even strength, like a double double, who's
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going to put up really solid even strength points?
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I like him a lot. I was going to say like I feel
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like he went under the radar with how much he was hitting
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last year. Like these guys they were
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getting for free basically off of waivers that are over two
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hits a game and also contributing into points and
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shots. Like these are guys that win
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fantasy leagues and major leagues.
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You need guys like this on your roster.
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Like you said, not having people.
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One obviously really caps the ceiling in terms of points, but
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he's going to be the 2C for most of the year unless he really
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sucks. But they also want to develop
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him, right? So I'm excited to see what the
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what he's going to be like in fantasy this year.
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Definitely I want to target late in my dress.
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Additionally, if anyone on power play 1 gets injured, I think
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that he's next man up over James van Riemsdyk or Confer.
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So yeah. It's like there's nowhere to go
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but up for him. This is like also former 8th
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overall picked 21 years old and he looked so good.
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The eye test draw, she liked to talk about that.
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Second to following the money and like, man, I loved what I
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saw out of Casper last year. I think he's going to be really,
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really a great player this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he
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gets 70 points. You wouldn't be OK somebody's.
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Something 70s a bit high but I could see him getting on 60.
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Yeah, like, I don't think it's it's not easy for him to get 70
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points, but I think like he could end up there.
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Like of all these guys on the list, I think he has the highest
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ceiling, to be honest. I.
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Think 60 is also ambitious unless it's on PP1.
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Obviously that's like the big question.
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But also I want, I want to say, and then we probably talk about
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#7 but people are questioning the Iser plan right now.
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Like, you know, Detroit had this big up and coming resurgence
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when, you know, Raymond and Cider took a big step.
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But since then they've kind of like stagnated or regressed.
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So Casper is one of those top picks that we need to see if
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eyes are plan messed up or not. I keep saying either plan when
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I'm not talking about the plan anymore.
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See, why isn't it like he he needs to hit on these guys?
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Like if if Kasper's a a bust, we're gonna know pretty early on
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and he's probably gonna get fired.
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So they wanted to succeed, I think.
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Yeah, they don't want him to go. Yeah, love.
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It alright #7. At #7 we've got Frank Nisar of
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the Chicago Blackhawks and you know, as I have said for
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probably my entire life, follow that money.
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Those were Josh's first words. He was, he was birthed and he
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was like, where's that buddy? I gotta follow it.
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Honestly, you guys are not far off.
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He just signed A7 year 6.6 million contract after only
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playing 56 NHL games so they clearly believe in him and want
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him to succeed. Unfortunately he's a centre so
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he's gonna be lying to even strength, but he should still be
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power play one playing with Bedard who we all think is gonna
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take a step forward this year. This should be a really sneaky.
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Well I don't know how sneaky after that signing you know, but
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this could be a late round guy who's gonna contribute a lot of
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points. Unlike some of the other guys we
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mentioned. He's not the biggest back Cats
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guy but points wise I like him as a sleeper.
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A lot. Yeah, me too.
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I would have way rather the Canadians hold on to the 13th
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overall pick in 2022 rather than trading for DOC.
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That's what ended up happening like this.
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This, not Nazar, should have been our team.
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And then he scored all Montano and nobody understood what was
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going on. And that never would have
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happened. They wouldn't have scored on us.
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And yeah, anyway, enough. Stress out for another game if
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we made the playoffs or not. Yeah, yeah.
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What I do love about this is that Bedard is such an amazing
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sniper and then I feel like on the power play and is going to
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be feeding him a lot of bugs. He's not much of a goal scorer.
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He's way more of an assist guy. And I think that they're gonna
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go really well. He's a part of their future.
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They wanted to start developing and getting good.
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Also it's a really nice here for Nazar.
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I expect big things like I feel like he's the type of centres
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are dime a dozen in fantasy. We always say that there's a lot
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of centre depth in the league for your fantasy leagues.
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I feel like he's the type of guy that, you know, you take with
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one of your last picks in the draft, nobody has them on their
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radar because there are bigger names available and you know
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there's guys ahead of them that are more proven.
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And then he ends up surpassing all those guys and becomes a big
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value. Alright, fan of his.
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Yeah, you, Josh. Yeah.
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Alrighty #6. At #6 we've got Dimitri
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Voronkov, who last year had .64 points per game, 2.1 shots and a
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hit and was part of that really fun Columbus Line One
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PowerPoint. One, I think last year he spent
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the whole season alternating between my team and your team,
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Josh. You picked him up like you
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outbid me when I originally wanted to grab him and then I
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waited and then eventually you dropped him.
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He had a little like a week long slump and then I grabbed him and
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held on to him for the rest of the season.
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He he, he was like, I think the sneakiest guy on that Columbus
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team, right? Because he was like the the
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first guy to get bumped if things were going wrong.
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Yeah. So he was kind of always on
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that, that, that cusp. But as long as he had the
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deployment he was producing. Yeah, really.
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He also at times played centre and he's never as impactful
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offensively when he did that this year.
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If you have like a healthy Monahan and Fantilli and he's
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playing next to Fantilli, who was finished the year really,
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really well, I really think that he can go and do a lot of great
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things. I also don't see Boone Jenner
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necessarily having a stable on that power play 1, so Veronica
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ends up there. Should be line one power play
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one. That's where he was last year.
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They really like missed the net front guy on power play one.
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Line one, it was him, Monaghan and Marchinko, the Russian lines
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with Mona Hanov. But yeah, I mean, there's no
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reason for him to get bumped off.
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You know, obviously, like they start the season and if he they
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don't do well, you know, then anything's possible.
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But he's gonna get the shot for sure.
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I, I, I think he gets the deployment and you'll have to
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monitor, you know, what the lines look like when you're
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financially draft comes on. But I don't expect Jenna to be
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the line 1 left wing. I think he ends up probably
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being either a line 2 winger or line 3C and I don't think he he
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gets the power play 1 foot Jenner.
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So I expect Voronkov to have great deployment this year and I
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think it's gonna be a sneaky guy at the end of your fantasy
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drafts. He's one of the best leaders, I
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think, alright #5. Alright, this is a fun one at #5
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We've got Zieve Boyum of the Minnesota Wild last year.
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Stats. Zero regular season game play.
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Regular season games played so not much to report there.
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It's only up from here. Exactly, but even though he put
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up straight zeros in the regular season by not playing, he did
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play in the playoffs and he got to be power play one over Faber
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in his brief stint. So that's a really interesting.
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He was the 12th overall pick in 24.
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Sorry JK I took your line and if you can keep power play one with
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guys like Capri, solve, boldy and friends then he should be a
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great late pick. Yeah, You know, Josh likes to
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say follow that money, except for in the case of Faber,
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apparently he's got a pretty big contract.
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And like they're like he, like Boyum literally did not play a
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game in the regular season in the playoffs, which is a huge
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test. They decided to put in power
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play. One like that shows that this is
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obviously where they want him to be.
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Yeah, I don't. Expect anything for late back
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categories at all. Shots, hits, blogs, probably
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nothing. But hey, I mean if you get a
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defenseman getting 50 points in their rookie year even with
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negligible back cuts and basically what, a 12th ROM pick
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maybe I think even later. He could be like a Lane Hudson
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Light. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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Which everyone would have been very happy with last year.
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The one thing with a William is, is I don't.
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I feel like there's a part of me that really believes that
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there's a chance he doesn't end up in the NHL the whole season.
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Like let's not forget they they traded for now I'm blanking on
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the name, but they traded for David Yurachek, who was a young
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stud defenseman that kind of like busted on Columbus.
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We expected huge things from him and Columbus.
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He gets to Minnesota. He doesn't even make the lineup.
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So I don't know if that's a your check thing or is it just like
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young defensemen not named Brock favor?
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They can't really trust him because they're defensive course
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is pretty old. He's going to be playing with
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Jared Spurgeon, who is obviously very experienced and I think
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that's a really good way to balance out his pairing.
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But it's really all about the give you 1 If you're on people,
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you one with mad Baldy and and Kaprizov like you're going to
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get some points. I, I just feel like you have to,
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I, I think he's gonna get pushed down into ADP just because it's
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a little squishy, the situation. Yeah, for sure.
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I mean, obviously if he doesn't play then you know, that's a
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draw. Anybody's not on power play one
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that's a drop because he's not gonna contribute anything
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fantasy wise. Really the main reason that we
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have him on here as a sleeper is because of the fact they played
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him in the playoffs and put in power play one over favor.
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If they if that hadn't happened, I wouldn't even suspected that
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would they would do that, you know, because like Jagger said,
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I always say follow that money, you know.
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So I would have thought Faber was that guy, but I guess they
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view him as more of a defensive defenseman.
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Cheers. Liam is more of a pure offensive
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guy, so in those situations it's very possible for the guy to
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come in and take power. Play 1.
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That's the thing. Minnesota doesn't have like an
20:03
offensive guide to even Spurgeon was P1 defensive for a stretch,
20:08
and he's not that guy either, right?
20:10
So they really need somebody like this.
20:12
So I think we're gonna give an opportunity to succeed.
20:14
I just feel like he's the type of player that probably gets
20:18
drafted too high in your fantasy leagues where it doesn't add up
20:21
to the value. Like if you draft them around
20:23
12, I think it's a little too early.
20:24
Yeah, don't reach, especially the year check thing like you
20:27
mentioned is kind of weird. But maybe it's just a year check
20:30
thing. Yeah, I think, boys.
20:32
Just not be panning out. Yeah, Boyum's the the plan, but
20:37
I wouldn't reach. I agree.
20:38
Next four are interesting because these are all super
20:41
banger league potential. Like they're amazing for banger
20:45
leagues. Let's dive into.
20:46
The have a fun. Night song don't Call My Name,
20:49
Don't Call My Name number. So and at #4 we've got don't
20:56
Call My Name, Ryan Donato, yeah, who put up last year, his best
21:00
season .78 points per game, 2.3 shots, 1.3 hits.
21:04
And he won our hearts, yeah. All three of our hearts.
21:10
Most importantly, to give you an idea of how much of A breakout
21:13
year this was, he literally got twice as many points as his
21:17
previous best. So his previous best was 31
21:20
points in 2022, and last year you got 62.
21:23
So he's only 29 years old, had a double his previous record
21:27
season, and he's gonna be stapled to Bidart online.
21:29
One power play, one that's another.
21:31
This is one of these guys who, like only the guy who had him on
21:34
his team last year is gonna remember him during the draft,
21:36
you know, or if you listen here. Do we think Chicago is gonna be
21:42
somewhat significantly better than they were last?
21:44
Year. No, they're not gonna be worse.
21:46
And they're gonna be like bottom 2-3 team.
21:50
Yeah, they're just gonna be more fun to watch.
21:51
Like there's gonna be more hope, but standings wise, I think
21:54
they're gonna stay the bottom feeder.
21:55
They're not ready to take that step yet.
21:57
That's not a bad thing. That's just not.
21:58
Where they are more goals scored though.
22:00
I'm just asking because we got two players here on Chicago, on
22:05
our, yeah, on Chicago in the sleeper list.
22:07
And then we also have Bedard with like breakout candidates,
22:11
right? I mean, yeah, all these are.
22:13
And I agree wholeheartedly with all these.
22:15
So that's a good sign. I think what's really exciting
22:19
about Chicago is all their assets besides Bodart are cheap,
22:22
like for fantasy, like you're not dropping them at a high cost
22:26
like playing with Donato. The rest of the top 6 is
22:30
Burakovsky, Bertuzzi, Naser and Turbine.
22:32
And like, all these guys are going to be drafted late in the
22:35
double it runs in your fantasy leagues and some of them are
22:38
gonna be way more valuable than that, right?
22:39
Because align align one, no winger playing on PP one and a
22:44
double digit rounds in your fantasy leagues is nuts.
22:46
And like you're not dropping Donato pretty early, but I have
22:49
a, I have a couple. Would you rathers Granato or
22:53
Ivan Demidov? Demidov.
22:56
And never know. OK.
22:57
OK, Ryan. Saying that, maybe.
23:00
That's honestly. What about responsible single
23:04
in? Then add overstand coven.
23:06
I think so too, Denado. OK, Donato or Mark Stone, I just
23:13
wanted to make you guys laugh. Don.
23:17
I think that I will probably. End up being better ohhhhh
23:19
that's right that's funny it's. Donato or Jonathan Huberdeau.
23:23
Donato, NATO. Close well there you go so I
23:26
feel like you know these are guys you're drifting around
23:28
131415 anos going after this so I feel like he's going to be a
23:32
target for most people in the end of your drafts.
23:34
If you're listening to this podcast, you want good advice,
23:37
so keep that in mind when you're.
23:39
Driving, I think that's a great one.
23:42
Alright for dress. Alright, this one I'm actually
23:47
very excited about. I think he could be huge.
23:50
We've got Owen Tippett of the Philadelphia Flyers.
23:53
Last year he put up only .56 points per game, 2.4 shots and
23:57
1.5 hits. But we've shown we've he's shown
24:01
that he could be that volume shooter and hitter.
24:03
He's coming off a down year where Tortorella was still
24:06
coach. Tortorella is gone.
24:08
He should be on power. Play one with Mitch who's going
24:10
to break out even more. All the signs are pointing to
24:12
Tippit being a bangers beast this year.
24:14
I really want him in my draft if I can get him at the right
24:17
price. Yeah, I love this.
24:20
He's gonna be a guy that's drafted away later than the
24:22
value that he's getting. Just because we've seen him do
24:24
it in the past. It's not like we're projecting
24:26
that much, right? Like we've seen him be that guy
24:28
already. It's just Tortorello used to
24:30
bounce him in and out of the lineup, up and down the lineup.
24:33
I think with some consistency, he and the volume, if he gets
24:37
the volume, he's going to be sick for fantasy.
24:39
I think it's gonna be a career year for him.
24:41
Like he's never cracked 60 points and it's all signs point
24:45
towards that being possible. He was a really decent player on
24:49
Florida, but he just was never able to do that.
24:51
And then Tortorella, as we spoke about, was just him and Rod are
24:55
always competing for who's worse.
24:56
Yeah. It's true, I mean.
24:59
It for fantasy 4 fantasy, not for actual NHL.
25:03
Yeah, they've also got like a quietly sick team Philly like.
25:08
They have. I don't know.
25:09
Awesome lines, no? They have a.
25:11
Fun. Quietly fun.
25:13
Yeah, even Line 3 like Tyson Forrester, Noah Katz, Bobby
25:17
Brink, like no one thinks about these guys ever and there except
25:20
for their loved ones and parents.
25:24
And plus on this podcast. Yeah, but like he said, loved
25:27
ones. Already, that's not bad.
25:29
I'm like, I think it's going to be really, really fun to to
25:33
watch this team this year and they can surprise and like maybe
25:37
just just miss out on the playoffs.
25:39
And so doing tip it, good player, maybe 60 points there.
25:42
And with the bangers categories, I love it.
25:44
Absolutely love it. Yeah, I don't think they're
25:47
gonna be doing the teams gonna be that good, but I'm very high
25:49
on Tibet. I think last year we saw him
25:51
also, he was like a buy low candidate for a while because
25:54
his shooting percentage was absolutely disgusting.
25:56
For somebody that shoots as often as he does and not getting
25:59
any goals. We're going to expect that to
26:01
change this year and he's going to go back to, you know, his
26:04
probably career average shooting percentage, if not a little
26:06
better. Do you take Tippit or Michkov
26:09
this year? Mitch got.
26:12
This is just the way you said about the responsible pick with
26:15
Demidov Donato before. Like that's how I feel like I I
26:18
think the responsible pick is tip it.
26:20
But Mitch. Calls really I think Mitkov has
26:23
a way higher point ceiling and that's why I would take Mitch
26:27
cover tip, even though tip is getting the category coverage a
26:29
little better. Yeah, I think Mitch Cobb is just
26:32
too valuable in terms of points. He's gotta get 15 plus more
26:35
points I think to be. Killed gets 50 points I think.
26:37
Really probably gets over 75 points this year.
26:40
I'd be willing to be your bed that I think tip.
26:42
It probably gets around 60 to 65.
26:44
Those guys, for me, the biggest question is, is does Michkov
26:47
shoot? That's because if he's getting
26:49
like if that, if it's a 15 points difference, but Mitch is
26:52
getting like no shots and Tits getting like 3 plus shots and
26:55
like two hits, then I'm going to tip it, you know?
26:57
But if Michkov is getting the points with the shots and the
26:59
only difference is that hits, then yeah, go Michkov.
27:01
Would you rather tip it or Pavel Buchnevich?
27:04
Tibet. Tibet.
27:06
OK. And Bush is going to get more
27:08
points. But yeah, tip the back hats are
27:10
just a huge difference. Yes, let's talk about these last
27:13
two. I feel like together because
27:15
we've already spoken about them previously on a breakout
27:19
candidates. So once again, we're gonna talk
27:20
about #2 Morgan, Geeky and number one Will Cooley, Jakey's
27:25
favorite player in the whole league.
27:30
I knew Jake was gonna be so happy, like how angry he was at
27:33
me for putting Ovechkin as a trap a few weeks ago.
27:36
Putting Cooley as #1 on the sleepers I knew would make his
27:39
day. So.
27:41
Just had the. All those forgiven, you are
27:45
amazing. Not that any of us get too
27:46
emotionally attached to our players.
27:50
The 2 Not at all. I love Will Cooley so much in
27:55
every way, no. Sorry, that was very he just
27:59
loves the way he moves on the ice.
28:00
Yeah, exactly. That he could do physically.
28:03
Yeah, let me tell you. He could do that to Jakey any
28:07
day. Yeah, I, I think there's, I
28:11
don't think there's necessarily even a tear break amongst these
28:13
guys because I think they're both awesome on teams that are
28:16
gonna be better this year. I believe in Rangers way more
28:19
than the Bruins, but Geeky's gonna have a larger role with
28:22
the Bruins then Cooley will with the Rangers.
28:24
Nevertheless, I think that Cooley is that line 2 left wing,
28:28
no doubt about it. And Geeky is going to be playing
28:30
with Pastor, not going, very few players to play with that it's
28:34
better for your fantasy value. So these two guys easily #1 and
28:39
2 on this list I find. I know I said Casper's got the
28:42
potential to hit the highest points, but for all intents and
28:45
purposes, I love this one and two.
28:47
Yeah, I think the biggest difference for me is Geeky's got
28:51
that power play one over Cooley, but Cooley's gonna get like
28:53
three times the hits. So it's really just a different
28:56
type of player. I want to say one thing for
28:57
Cooley that made me really hyped about him and put him at #1 is I
29:00
read an interview with Sullivan, who's the new coach for the
29:03
Rangers, where he said he was asked what's like the biggest,
29:05
you know, surprise or whatever from the team you're coming
29:08
into, like from watching the tape.
29:10
And he said, yeah, I was watching.
29:11
There are some Rangers games that I hadn't, you know, caught
29:13
last year because I wasn't Rangers coach.
29:15
And he said the biggest surprise to him was how much he was
29:18
impressed by Will Cooley. So when your coach says that
29:21
about you, that's just a really good sign.
29:23
That means he's going, even though he's not, get power, play
29:25
one, He's going to get really good deployment, gonna get good
29:26
ice time, good teammates at even strength.
29:28
And he's a hitting beast. So I'm very excited for him.
29:31
I mean, he is arguably the best manager in the league not named
29:34
queue for Sherwood, right? So as long as as long as he's
29:38
still doing that, he's gonna be very valuable.
29:40
I expect him to take a point step up this year than he was
29:43
last year, like last year was at 0.55 points per game and this
29:46
was mostly with third line minutes and no power play
29:48
exposure. This year, I expect him to be
29:51
probably maybe close to 0.65, which would be a good jump for
29:54
the type of player you're getting.
29:55
His shots could be a little better.
29:57
I think if I had to pick between him and geeky in a bangers
30:01
league. I still think I go will Cooley
30:03
just because of like how unique it is to have that high level of
30:08
good volume. Jake like smiling as he is.
30:10
He just thrilled idea. But I was gonna say what's
30:13
really cool about Morgan geeking?
30:14
I wanna give him his flowers as well.
30:16
He's probably one of the best players in the league for
30:20
fantasy that is going to have line 1P1 and go this late in
30:24
your draft. I think there's not many guys
30:26
are going to have the same level of deployment playing with a guy
30:28
that's going to get over 100 points.
30:30
We know possibly get over 100 points and he's tied to the hip
30:32
with Morgan geeky. So I think he's going to be
30:35
sneaky, sneaky value. His ADP is so low you can get
30:38
him seeking your dress. Sneaky geeky.
30:41
That could be his new nickname. But yeah, just very excited
30:44
about both of these guys. I feel like they're very
30:45
attainable in your dress as well.
30:47
Even if you take them a few rounds ahead of ADP, they'll
30:49
still be a bargain. Who's gonna get more points this
30:52
year, Will Cooley or Tom Wilson? Tom Wilson.
30:55
Wilson, Yeah. We want your better, Jackie.
30:58
Yes, Wow, you're crazy. Double, double or nothing.
31:02
Geeky, I remember you looking at your beer best last year.
31:04
Just be like, oh man, that was crazy starting off on.
31:09
This this is the new me. Here you're saying.
31:14
Do it. We're doing it.
31:15
So that means that. Was thinking about Kevin.
31:18
Point breeding basis Tom Wilson gets more points than Will
31:21
Cooley. Here.
31:22
Wait, if I lose? No, that doesn't make sense.
31:27
Yeah, point point per game base is fine.
31:29
PG Well, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, that works.
31:33
I guess that wraps it up y'all. You're not to say either way,
31:36
whether you're geeky or you're cool, you're still gonna do well
31:39
in your drafts. That was off the dove, OK.
31:46
Wait, so are you both involved in this beer bat?
31:48
Yes, we are both involved in this beer bet.
31:50
Alright, you're. Talking, trying to be involved
31:51
in every single year, but this year.
31:55
And then that episode is going to be lit.
31:58
Yeah. F word lit.
32:02
And also, you know, as we're wrapping up, listen to our
32:05
previous episodes if you haven't already.
32:06
We've covered power forwards. We covered breakout candidates
32:09
we covered. What else did we cover?
32:11
We cover. We covered.
32:12
Stuff. Stuff.
32:14
Top 10. A lot of top 10's and more to
32:17
come. Yeah, trap players, breakout
32:20
candidates, power forwards, biggest offseason trades, a lot
32:24
of signings, like we really, really went through it and.
32:26
Like it could be made into a top ten, then we're gonna do it.
32:29
Yeah, we're gonna cover all the positions as well.
32:32
You know, top 10 centres, left wings, right wings, defensemen,
32:34
goalies. Like stay tuned for that.
32:35
We're gonna cover all of it. Yeah, maybe even next week we'll
32:38
do a top 10 replacement for swear Word words.
32:41
And then after we do a top ten of our top 10 episodes.
32:44
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