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Signature Picks for 2025-2026 · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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Yeah, yes. What about Bound Banger
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Management Fantasy hockey podcast?
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Woo woo woo. The one perk of not recording in
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person is that I don't have to maintain eye contact with you
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for the woos. You also have to mention contact
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with me in person either Li do. This part of the process
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process. Jesus sounds right, yeah.
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Welcome one Welcome all to Bangor Management, the fantasy
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hockey podcast with Jake, Josh and I contact Kevin.
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How y'all doing? Well, wanna get a nickname?
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He's always getting new nicknames.
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How come I don't get any? Yes.
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You'll get some nicknames. Haul away.
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He's not as memorable as Kevin, I guess.
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No, you're very memorable. It's going to turn into a
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therapy session. No, I'm great.
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I'm very excited for this episode.
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I think. I mean, I'm also very excited
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for for two days away from our draft.
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So I'm literally spending hours every day building up my draft
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board and I'm very excited with where I'm ending up so far.
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We had actually a few people on Tiktok ask us if we have a
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rankings anywhere, which obviously, obviously we do not
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currently have any rankings out there publicly, but maybe next
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year something we can look into if people are genuinely curious.
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Yeah, definitely something that could provide a lot of value,
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like to have all of our picks kind of concrete.
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I'm sure we'll differ on a few. We'll probably different more
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than just a few so. Yeah, I'm very mainstream with
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my divisional picks, so I wonder if that'll translate to player
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rankings. You or anything but provisional
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mix. Is gonna call you.
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Ending up ending. Kevin.
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Yeah. McDavid, McKinnon, Driscoll,
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Cooley. I said what I said.
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Yeah, cool. So Speaking of players, we're
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super high on today. We have a very, very fun episode
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for you all. This is our signature picks
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episode where we basically pick one forward, one defenseman, one
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goal is that one goalie, 1 goalie that we're staking our
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reputation on. These are guys that we all
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really believe in, and we're going to give you some more
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information on that shortly before we dive in.
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You can find the link to all our socials and the link tree in the
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Everything can be found in the link tree.
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And yeah, looking forward to growing our fan base and
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communicating with all of you guys.
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And thanks for everybody for listening.
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So Kevin, wanna give them a rundown of what the signature
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picks are? Yes.
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So signature picks patent pending on the name, we are also
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open. To right than a patent.
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I said patent pending. Well, yes, copyright or
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trademark or whatever you want. Anyways, the name is subject to
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change, but I think Signature picks works well, rolls off the
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tongue. And basically it is if you're
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familiar with football in any way, it's like a my guys
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episode. And basically these are guys
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that we wholeheartedly believe in their success this season.
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We want to get them on all of our teams.
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We are like sticking our reputation on them.
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If they bust, then we're probably busting in fantasy this
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season. So these are these are guys that
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we want to make. What about busting?
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Stop laughing. You just saw me smiling.
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I saw both of you. Start smiling.
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You saw him smile. Bustin makes me feel.
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Good. That is from Ghostbusters.
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I would not have put those pieces together.
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But nonetheless, yes, these are guys that we personally, each of
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us believe. We don't have to necessarily
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agree with each other's signature picks, but these are
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guys. So if you, if you prefer Jake's
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opinion over Josh or I or Josh over me or Jakey, then maybe you
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lean more into Josh's signature picks or vice versa or whatever.
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But these are guys that we love, we want on our team and we
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wholeheartedly believe we'll have success this season
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beautifully. Played.
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You just leave credibly, beautifully.
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But yeah, so Josh, why don't you start us off with your forward
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signature pick? Alright, my forward signature
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pick is not gonna be a surprise to anyone who's been listening
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to the podcast over the summer because I won't stop talking
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about him. It is Dylan Holloway of the
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Saint Louis Blues. I think this might be my last
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chance to talk about him before the season starts, so it's a bit
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bittersweet, but let me dive in on, you know, keep hammering
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home why I love this guy so much.
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Quickly, quick summary of last year's stats.
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He put up .82 points per game, .17 power play points, 2.3
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shots, 2.1 hits. He as I've mentioned previously
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on other episodes, he really turned it off once Montgomery
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got hired as coach and especially in that big run they
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had towards the end of the season.
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I think with that pace that he had, if over the course of a
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whole season, he can easily be a point per game guy, easily
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double double. And you look at his power play
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production last year, only .17 that definitely has room to grow
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positively. So I think it's only up for
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Holloway from last season, and he's not necessarily the biggest
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name out there just yet. I think this is gonna be the
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last chance to grab him as late as you can grab him this year.
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ICM going in a lot of drafts, I could see him going around like
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789, something like that. And if you grab him there,
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that's crazy value compared to other guys who are going in that
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area. So I love Holloway, everyone
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knows I love him. And yeah, I'm going to keep
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saying it all season. I mean how I feel about choice,
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I wanna say how I feel about doing Holloway.
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Is he seems like he's under the radar and everybody else's
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projections or rankings or whatnot except ours.
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And maybe it's just because we were biased with how good he was
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for our specific league, which is just like, you know, a
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category lead that covers pretty much all categories like shots,
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hits, Pimms. And he was, he was one of the
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best players in fantasy to end the season last year.
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So I'm surprised that people aren't really, you know,
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projecting him for more points or more shots than they're
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estimating. I think if you get them in the
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sixth or seventh round, it can be like a home run pick for your
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for your fantasy teams. Obviously with Holloway, his ADP
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is like really deep on most of these platforms.
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So if you're drafting, you're draft him ahead of ADP.
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It's just how high over ADP are you willing to go to get them on
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your roster? So it definitely depends on how
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deep your league is, how in terms of teams and how shallow
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it is in terms of roster construction.
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But yeah, love Dylan Holloway. I think it's going to be a
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fantastic pick this season. Yeah, he's like a stable on your
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bangers team for sure. Even in a points league he's
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great, but he's just that much better in a Bangers league.
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And these are elite, elite stats.
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It's kind of like Brady to Chuck Light, but he's young.
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I mean, you don't even know what he could do this year because
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he's never had even last year, right?
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It was the coaching change and then Saint Louis kind of picked
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things up. This year.
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He's coming into it with a lot of great reasons that he's going
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to succeed. He himself is a great player,
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but the surrounding cast awesome.
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I think I'm the highest in Saint Louis out of all of you, so I
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think the offence is going to be there.
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He'll be a big part of it and even if it's an off points week,
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you'll still have the amazing shots, hits, combo.
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I love it, it's a great choice. I'm low keys like extremely
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getting higher on the Saint Louis as the season approaches.
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I just keep thinking. Louis Saint Louis Blues.
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As a seasonal approaches, I just remember like Jim Montgomery
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with what he did with Boss in a few years ago with them winning
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the Presidents Trophy. And like now he's going into the
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season with like a fresh start with a bunch of young talent on
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this team, a bunch of veteran talent.
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I feel like he has all the pieces to just like make this
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team really good from the start to finish.
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And given the other teams ahead of them like that also have
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questions or, you know, possible regression, I just feel like,
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Jake, your, your take of them finishing second is is maybe not
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as crazy as I originally anticipated.
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Well, well, well. How the turntables?
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Sorry, Josh. I still think that it's crazy,
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so I like St. Louis a lot, I still think.
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That's crazy as I initially. Anticipated.
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Yeah. I still think too is pretty
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nuts. And another funny thing about
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this Holloway pic is I actually think because of how much I've
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talked about him over the summer, I don't think I'm going
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to get him on my team. I think one of you guys going to
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grab him before me because The thing is like, you have to fight
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when you love a guy, you still have to fight, like picking him
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too high. That was on our draft tips
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episode and I can't let myself get into my own hype.
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You getting, you build hype in your head and it starts
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spiraling and then all of a sudden you buy 2 rounds too
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early. And yeah, I'm not willing to do
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that. I'm not exactly.
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I'm really, I'm really trying to be disciplined this year.
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So I wouldn't be surprised if one of you guys snipe him the
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round I wanna grab him just if it's the turn of the round where
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you guys are ahead of me instead of the other way around.
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But no, I would, I would love to have him and I think he's a
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really exciting pick. Speaking of which, are you
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taking Slop or Holloway higher this year?
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I know we've spoken about that, but I can't remember all the.
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Specific I'm taking Callaway. Here.
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I'm lowkey worried sloth is not on PP1 anymore.
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It's possible. Line has looked really good.
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We could. That's gonna get us off track.
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But yeah, we talk. We we, we can and definitely
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will talk about that in future episodes.
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But I kind of agree. And I think Holloway is gonna be
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pretty safe there. And he's 24 years old.
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He's just getting better. And the Blues are going to be a
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wagon. It's going to be really nice to
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watch. Cool.
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So let's move on to my Signature 6.
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That's a joke rolls off the tongue.
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I thought you were just dyslexic for a second.
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Cool. So also surprising absolutely no
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one who's been listening to the podcast this summer.
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My pick for my forward over here is Marty Nazis.
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The crowd goes wild. Surprise, surprise.
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Not shocked at. All Yeah, so he's about to
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explode for an insane year. This year he had 83 points in 79
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games. Last year he broke the rod
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curse. What, You heard of my crew?
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Sorry. Sorry for party rocking.
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Sorry, yeah, I think that was a worthy interruption.
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Definitely not a stupid way to ruin your.
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Group No, that's cool. I hear you.
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Yeah, 83.79 games last year he broke the raw curse and he
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managed to do super well after being traded to Colorado.
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And you know, we've spoken about how McDavid and dry subtle for
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years. Like anyone who plays with them,
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you want them on your team. But the truth is they never
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really been able to bring out the best in guys the way that
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both like Putrov and in my opinion, especially to McKinnon
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can. So now he's going to be a
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mainstay on that line with McKinnon, which is awesome.
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He's one of the best line, pretty much the best line mate
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you could have in the league. Yeah.
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And on top of all this, Bednar is basically the anti Rod
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Tortorella. He knows how to get the best out
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of his players for fantasy production and yeah it it's he
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was able to transition really seamlessly natures last year
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when he got traded to Colorado. So now with a summer to practice
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and starting off this year, I'm really, really high on him.
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He's currently the 60th player off our board in our league
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settings, which is a standard bangers league with faceoffs,
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and it's near my fifth round pick, but I'm considering to
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actually take him in the 3rd. And I don't think that playoff
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schedule is necessarily the biggest thing when it comes to
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our signature picks because you're Regent like you're
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willing to stake your reputation on these guys anyways.
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It's not so much about that, but the four 3-4 in the playoffs is
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just like a really sweet cherry on top.
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And yeah, I think for all these reasons, I'm super high on him
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and I think he could, he's gonna hit that 94 threshold this year.
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And if he hits 100, I'd be elated but not overly surprised.
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I think you could ask one of my thoughts I'm about to share.
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I was gonna say I honestly, I've been growing on natures as well,
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surprise, surprise, but just maybe here you rave about them
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for like. The last music to my ears.
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Kevin is just slowly like watching all of Jake's opinions.
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Am I the outsider now? But I I just think that Nature
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is playing with McKinnon on that power play.
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I don't think it's crazy that he hits 90 points and getting a guy
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like that and potentially the third or fourth round in your
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fantasy leagues, like our league is 14 teams, like very deep.
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It would be the 2022 rounds deep.
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Like getting him there, being able to produce at that level
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for points is just crazy. The only thing when Nature has
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always been his shots. I think he probably shoots more
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this season than he did last season with the Colorado, but
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it's still a he had. He just has the crazy upside.
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Like if McKinnon drops 140, nature is probably dropping 100
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realistically, if they're together the whole season and we
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know McKinnon could drop 140. So it's just like if you're
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putting 22 together, like you're projecting nature for 50 less
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points than McKinnon, I don't think that's possible.
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So all those things together just makes me think maybe his
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point ceiling is much higher than we know we're all
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projecting for, and getting them on your team in the third or
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fourth round would be crazy good business.
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Yeah, I definitely, I definitely agree.
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He's again, when you first were showing your hype for him, I
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didn't disagree because I also think he's gonna be really good.
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But obviously you were extra excited.
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But the more that we're getting close to the season, I'm looking
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into it. Fully agree.
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He's going to be a great third slash, fourth round pick.
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And also I was looking at his last year stats .47 power play
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points per game. You know who does that?
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That's that's like McKinnon, McDavid, and that was with half
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the year on a Rod team whose power play I think was 28th in
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the league. So there's really, he's just
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unreal. I think especially with where
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you can get him in the draft in the 3rd or 4th, he's one of
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those when you're picking that point in the draft, you want a
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guy who's gonna give you over a point per game, gonna give you
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monster power play points and gonna give you some shots.
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And so even if nature hovers around the 2.5 shots where he
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was at last year, the insane points upside and power play
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points upside makes him sick pick so.
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He loved his. Signature pick?
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Yeah, pretty much. He becomes Mitch Marner if he's
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able. To I mean to have around you
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another another comparable. I'm seeing yes for Brat being
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looked at as a second rounder and a lot of the rankings
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looking at not that I would take him that early, but but that's
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where he's being projected. Why is he getting projected 2
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rounds or whatever ahead of niches?
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I see them being very similar types of players.
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Rad also put up .4 something points last year, similar shots.
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So I I love NHS pick and it's like Jackie said, you know, it
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used to be. I mean it still is, but anytime
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anyone plays with me David recital, it's immediately like,
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Oh my God, you have to snatch him up.
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It'll be on random fourth line plug and it's like they're on a
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line with McDavid and dry side. You know, like I saw in practice
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Trent Frederick playing with McDavid and dry.
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So I'm like, Oh, well, I gotta add him to my watch.
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That's how you know. Yeah.
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So. So here it's the same thing,
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except he's actually a good player on his own, too.
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So yeah, no, this is a great signature pick.
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Very excited to see what does this.
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Year the eye test too. He's amazing.
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He like flies on the ice strip super good.
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So I'm really, really excited to see and you're right.
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I mean, the comparisons both Brat and Marna, right?
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I feel like he's very similar. Like the outcome range is around
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there and nobody thinks he's I mean Marner is more elite than
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Brad and Marner is the brat with nature's is to you know what I
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mean? Yeah.
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My convoluted way. No.
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Finish your sentence. Brad is the Marner, What nature
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says to Brat Boom. Like those, the proof is left to
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the reader. Yeah, cool.
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Cool. I'm glad, Kevin.
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I like that you're coming to the dark side with all.
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That it's crazy. It's it's lonely here on the
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light side. The only other thing too, like
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you said, like the eye test, obviously Rantanen is a
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significantly better player than Natures, but there's an argument
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to be made that maybe nature's play style is more suited to be
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paired with McKinnon then what Ranch was.
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So I think that maybe obviously, like Renton did what he did,
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like even without necessarily being beastly suited to play
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with McKinnon, but he's just so talented and they just could do
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the same thing just because he's better suited.
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So either way, I think it's gonna be fantastic.
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And should I get into my pic? Yeah, absolutely.
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Go. For another one that's
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surprising absolutely no one who's a fan, Yes.
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So my pick surprised to no one is Brandon Hagel of the Tampa
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Bay Lightning. So last season if I read off his
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stats you guys will be shocked. It is .43 points per goals per
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game .67 assists per game over a .67.
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Even though. It means nobody knows what it
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means, but it's provocative. It gets the people going.
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Yes it does. So that comes out to 1.1 points
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per game, which is insane for a guy that was not on P1 in the
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Tampa Bay Lightning. One of the best power plays on
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in the league. He averaged 0.13 power play
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points last season and 0.09 shorthanded points.
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He had 11 PowerPoint points, 7 shorthanded points last season.
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Can you imagine a world where a guy is getting over point for
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giving us more shorties than power play points?
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It's nuts. So that just lays the foundation
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for being able to, if he gets on that power play, it just feels
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like is the limit. It just feels like what he did
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last year is a foundation. I don't if he doesn't get a
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power play 1, I don't see him doing exactly what he did last
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year. Instead of 1.1, maybe he's at a
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.9 points per game. But the upside if he gets on
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that power play and he is one of the top five talented players on
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this team and he should be there, right?
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We're seeing in preseason, which you know, to maybe poo poo on
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this on this take a little bit is Oliver, George Strand is
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playing on that P1 ahead of Hagel.
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I just do not see that lasting the whole season.
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I think once Hagel gets there, he's going to be an absolute
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monster. And there's also the injury
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upside. If somebody gets hurt, he's
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obviously going to be the guy that's there.
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If you add like you know, .2 extra power play points to his
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production of last season, he's a 1.3 points per game player.
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1.0.3 power play point guy. You're getting 30 still with the
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shorties too. Like obviously there's not many
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leagues that play in leagues that count shorthanded points
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hours does, which makes him extra valuable.
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He's gonna be going in the fourth or fifth round in our
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league. It's just depends on your risk
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tolerance. Where are you convinced that he
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does get on that power player or not?
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I am convinced he gets on that power play.
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Obviously when you're on the clock, it's and you have to see
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who else is available in your league, But I feel like Brendan
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Hagel is just one of those guys that has such a high floor, will
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not ruin your draft, will be so consistent and then the upside
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to reach those like super high heights.
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It's just I think he's an incredible player.
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Yeah, I think I agree with everything you said.
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It's kind of like you said, where, you know, Even so high on
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him all offseason and then now we're getting the reports out
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and it's Bjorkstrand instead of Hagel as that fifth Scott guy on
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power play 1. So obviously that hampers it a
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bit. And I do think that the reason
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they're trend is specifically because of his handedness.
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Yeah, that's the only reason. So that's I think that as long
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as the top five guys in that power play stay healthy, I don't
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see Hagel cracking it. But one, Berkshire, that hasn't
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been the healthiest player in the past to like you said, any
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of those 4 forwards get injured, Hagel's the next man up.
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But also three, it's the floor, like you said, even without the
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power play, even if he doesn't do as crazy as he did last year,
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like the floor of .9 points per game with shorties, with shots,
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you know, like he's still a really, really solid pick.
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And it's like you said, this guy's the limit.
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The second he gets power play 1, he jumps up two rounds worth of
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value. So taking him for that high
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floor and unreal ceiling is a definitely a great signature
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pick. And and just to add right on to
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it before Jackie like gives his take is like I just spoke about
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maybe drafting him in the fourth or fifth run in your home league
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of record, but in your drafts, you're not going to have to
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draft. That high, like he's going to be
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a player that goes probably a few rounds later than that, like
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round seven, round 8, because you don't probably don't play
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with short handed leagues, strand points in your leagues.
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And I think just think he's a screaming value at that point
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because he's the type of guy that's going to get your points
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every week. Yeah, absolutely.
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It's it's just a simple case of nowhere to go from up and then
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up. Like it's he's he's on an
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amazing offence, which I'm obviously higher on now,
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especially since the Barkov injury.
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I think that there's little doubt they're gonna finish top
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three this year. And if anything, I actually
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kinda like that Bjorkstrand on power player one right now,
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because I don't necessarily think that's going to stay.
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And it gives you a better opportunity at a discount on a
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Hagel in your drafts, right. It's like, it's not that his
20:47
value is contingent on the power play, it's just a bonus.
20:49
And I know you said that you think it's gonna go down his
20:55
points from last. Year, he was so good last year.
20:57
It's hard to do that. Yeah, not on PP1.
20:59
Even if he hits 80 though, it's an awesome pick at cost and I
21:03
think like you said, most people are not going to be reaching on
21:08
him like this to be done at that powerfully.
21:09
I think 95 to 100 points, totally realistic he's playing
21:13
with these. Guys hit 90 last season.
21:15
Yeah, exactly. And and, you know, like the, the
21:18
concept of having someone like on the power play just because
21:21
of like the way that, you know, they're, they're, they're side
21:25
versions are right, if I'm not mistaken.
21:26
Whereas Hagel's a lefty. That's not something that is
21:30
gonna necessarily be sustainable all year if Hagel is just that
21:33
much better, which I think he will be.
21:34
So you never know how that's gonna shake out.
21:37
I would definitely be happy to pick him at cost or even around
21:41
reach. And I think you could get him
21:43
closer to cost than maybe the other two, as we mentioned,
21:46
because of his ambiguity for Power Play 1.
21:49
So I love it. It's a great, great choice.
21:52
All right, we dive into the defence.
21:54
Yes, we should do it. Did we say that?
21:57
We that we're choosing one forward, 1 defenseman, 1 goalie
22:02
We. Didn't the now?
22:03
Now they know, Yeah, All right. My defensive in pick for my
22:09
signature pick is Jake Sanderson of the Ottawa Senators.
22:14
Last year he put up .71 points per game, .38 power play points,
22:19
2.4 shots and two blocks. He is just, I think, such an
22:23
unreal defenseman in real life and in fantasy and such a clear
22:28
got candidate to take a step up this year.
22:31
We're all high on Ottawa as a team.
22:32
We just think that so many of those players are going to take
22:35
a step up and he's going to be the central piece of the offence
22:39
from the back end. Last year already he put up .38
22:42
power play points. That's pretty much, you know,
22:45
Mccart puts up while like .4 something .45 that's like that's
22:49
close to my car level power play points per game.
22:51
Obviously the points is where it was lower, but that's what
22:54
happens when the team as a whole wasn't as good as Colorado as a
22:56
whole. But this year they take a step
22:58
up. I see him his points being could
23:00
be point 8.9 points per game. His power play points, if they
23:03
stay the same, that's still amazing.
23:04
And then 2.5 shots, 2.5 blocks is not out of the question and
23:08
that's a really solid back cuts. Especially like if a guy doesn't
23:10
hit, having the shots in blocks really makes up for it, along
23:13
with the points obviously. So it's just a clear case of him
23:16
being the guy and the entire team taking a step up.
23:19
I'm super high on Sanderson, would love to get him in every
23:21
single one of my drafts. This was a Josh beat me to it.
23:29
He he's great. He's such a good choice to have
23:33
on your team this year. We all believe in Ottawa being a
23:35
really, really good force and he's definitely going to be
23:38
their power play with one guy. And you know, I mean young
23:41
defensemen, they're known to be late bloomers just in general,
23:45
right And the fact that he's been able to produce at such a
23:48
high level, being so young, I wouldn't be surprised if he hit
23:51
70 plus this year. It's going to be a really
23:54
exciting team to watch and I think this is just a fantastic
23:58
choice for your has been. Yeah, I was going to say I I
24:02
went in our show Doc to put in a name for my defenseman and I
24:07
wanted to put Jake Sanderson in there, but Josh had already done
24:10
it. So clearly I think we're all
24:12
super high on him. But if you look at his stats of
24:16
last year, .38 power play points and .71 just points per game
24:22
that you, you kind of look at them like over half of his
24:25
points were on the power play. When I look at that, I say like
24:29
it just screams to me that his five five production is going to
24:31
go up this season. And if he if he if the power
24:34
play stays what it was last season, and obviously I feel
24:36
like they're due for maybe even more positive regression.
24:40
He can hit close to a point per game and he can be realistically
24:44
one of those names that's hovers around top five defensemen for
24:47
fantasy next year. He has the shots, he has the
24:49
blocks, he has the deployment, he has the talent.
24:52
I think just this season we're gonna see centres in boom.
24:55
And you want them on your fantasy teams for that.
24:58
Yeah, I think I, I don't think he's going to be Macar Quinn
25:02
Hughes this year, but I think he could be like by this time next
25:05
year, we're talking about him in the Bouchard Werenski
25:07
conversation overall. Yeah, absolutely.
25:09
That's where I see him ending up, so realistically there's no
25:13
reason to to not reach on him and all league formats.
25:17
He's gonna be a force. I think his ADP is also lower
25:20
than a lot of guys would expect. Those guys like had been Yoshi
25:23
still going ahead of him at this point in your drafts?
25:26
I think I'm taking standards over those guys.
25:29
I agree. Yes, totally.
25:32
We'll see if you actually get them.
25:35
We all want him so. We all want.
25:39
You would have to take him to the third.
25:43
How many third round picks is this guy getting?
25:48
Yeah, but yeah, it's an awesome, it's an awesome choice.
25:52
So I'm gonna. Yeah.
25:53
Would you rather have Natures or Sanderson on your team?
25:55
Natures. OK, alright.
25:57
Dodger, safer. You could get it with the 3rd or
25:59
4th. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:01
If you grab them before my fourth round, OK, probably
26:04
that's unrealistic. I would consider starting to
26:06
take him in the 5th. I don't know if this really know
26:09
if I would. I feel like that's even still a
26:10
bit high, but I think that's kind of the value he's gonna
26:13
return on. You wanna pick players who are
26:15
going to exceed that value. But right now he's going where
26:18
in like the more like the 6th or 7th.
26:20
So like, yeah, I think even if you start taking them in your
26:23
4th rounder, like people will call you crazy in the group chat
26:26
and that's those are the best kind of picks because.
26:29
I just, I do wanna like caution the listeners and ourselves as
26:33
well that like you don't wanna be reaching on these guys,
26:35
right? Like, like it's just true.
26:36
It's just trying to the Miller was down.
26:39
So we don't know. Look, if you guys reach on on
26:43
the guys that I'm saying you're gonna get all of them.
26:44
But I mean, I'm super happy to take the guys at ADP and maybe
26:48
like around earlier than ADP, but I'm not gonna jump up two
26:51
rounds just because I really like a guy because then best
26:53
case scenario, he's breaking even on value.
26:55
But no, I love Sanderson where like if I can get him where I
26:58
think he should be going or a little a little higher than I
27:00
will be definitely grabbing. Him it also just depends on your
27:03
league and your league settings and if there's a run on
27:05
defensemen or something. Like if if 10 defensemen go
27:07
between round one and round 4 then like taking him in the 5th
27:11
is a no brainer. That point, even if it's he is 6
27:14
or 7, you know 100%. 70 have to see the flow of the draft.
27:17
But what's cool about him is that his blogs are there.
27:19
That's like, that's really, really nice.
27:21
So it's not like you're picking him and you're kind of like in a
27:23
position where you're down a defenseman who's sick with
27:26
points, but bout of backcast, like you could build a lot of
27:28
foundational greatness on your team still taking him.
27:30
That's what's really, really nice.
27:32
But yeah, listen, we'll see how it checks out.
27:35
You're right, you don't. You only want to reach on
27:37
players like if you have to. But I do think that he's the
27:40
type of guy you can also probably get a cost and be
27:42
elated with the ROI. Let's move on to mine.
27:48
So this guy I wasn't that high on earlier on this summer, but
27:55
you know, after using my burner account to write to the bank.
28:00
I do it. Take it takes off Hood.
28:04
Whoa. But yeah, so I realize I'm
28:08
actually very, very high on him. So this is Michael Sergachev of
28:11
the Utah Mammoth. Yeah, he he's really just kind
28:18
of gonna be their top defenseman, bar none.
28:22
And the more I hear you guys talk about how high you are on
28:25
them, the more convinced I'm that he's gonna be great and the
28:29
team is gonna be great. So it's just gonna positively
28:31
correlate and you're gonna be super happy taking them.
28:33
Jersey has had some good stints in his career, but barring
28:36
injury, there's no way that this former Jonathan Drouin trade
28:40
bait is not going to be their top defence.
28:44
Yeah, literally. Such a bad trade anyway.
28:49
Yeah. And and you know, another thing
28:52
that we haven't mentioned, but like you'll tell me if you guys
28:54
agree on this is I think it's a very, very good sign for how a
28:58
team is going to perform where we keep asking ourselves who's
29:03
gonna be on that power play 1, You know, but he's not one of
29:07
those guys that's in question. He's a staple there.
29:09
But you know, you have like you have Peterka Cooley hate and
29:13
Gunther schmaltz Keller like this is like a sick team with a
29:17
lot of potential for offensive output.
29:19
And I there's no doubt in my mind that with Sergachev there,
29:24
whichever one of the revolving door players that he's gonna
29:26
play with on that power play, there's going to be production.
29:28
So are you guys finally coming to my dark side in terms of my
29:32
Utah ranking earlier? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm there.
29:35
Yeah. I don't know if I'm there but.
29:37
Yeah, OK, maybe, no, you're a little bit high on them, but
29:40
like I'm definitely. Higher.
29:41
I literally put them at 5th which is like the most
29:43
conservative high on a team. Ever.
29:45
Yeah, I put them at six, but I I can see 5th or 4th honestly.
29:50
But like they're, they're good team.
29:52
Yeah, exactly. So so that's why I'm super high
29:55
on him. And to this point in his career,
29:56
it feels like he's kind of been a weird medium.
29:58
Sergachev very good point scoring defenseman to solid yet
30:01
not elite bangers guy. There was that one amazing year
30:04
where he had 64 points and 79 games with Tampa two years ago,
30:08
but this is the year I think he could beat 70 points and his
30:11
1.71 shots on goal, 1.82 blocks from last year.
30:15
You know, if he gets those numbers up to closer to two,
30:17
you're very happy with that on your team.
30:19
In our league, he's projected to go 97th overall, which is
30:23
between my seven and eighth round pick.
30:25
But I think he could drop lower than that because he's not a
30:27
super exciting player. This is one of those guys I'm
30:30
not necessarily reaching on, but I think I could get them at cost
30:33
and be very happy with what he does for my team.
30:36
And yeah, he's not really somebody that I was thinking
30:40
about coming into it. But the more I heard you guys
30:42
talk about it and the more I'm just like, you know what?
30:44
This is a guy that's super poised for success and I'm
30:47
really excited to see where it goes.
30:49
I love Circuit, I love Utah in general this year and I think
30:53
that this is a great pick. Actually, the IT was between him
30:55
and Sanderson when I was trying to come up with my signature and
30:58
the reason I leaned Sanderson was was the playoff schedule.
31:01
But yeah, no, he Circuit was gonna be amazing.
31:03
Utah is going to be amazing. I'm super high on them.
31:06
It's like you said, I really like the way you put it with the
31:08
there's so many good players on that team that we can't nail
31:10
down a power play one. There's some teams where there's
31:12
only 5 good players. So it's like, OK, here's the
31:13
power play on easy. But in this case, there's so
31:16
many good players, but Circuit chip is not one of the ones in
31:18
question. Exactly, Jiggy said.
31:19
So he's going to be awesome. It's like you said also with the
31:21
back, it's like he's not there just yet, but he's super close.
31:24
Like the second I see a two and two in shots and blocks,
31:26
especially for a defence that doesn't hit and put that with
31:29
the points. That's a guy I'm super excited
31:30
about having on my team. So the year that he did super
31:34
well two years ago on Tampa was the year where he started taking
31:37
power play one time from Hedman, right?
31:38
So it makes sense why he never really broke out before that.
31:40
He was always the second defenseman in line for that
31:43
power play one spot. So now that he's the clear guy
31:45
and last year he had some injury issues, but he was showing
31:47
flashes of it. So this is going to be a big
31:49
year for Circuit Chef. Yeah, I mean, you guys touched
31:52
on basically everything already. But I mean, Sergachev, I feel
31:55
like if I'm looking in my drafts from the few that I've already
31:58
done, there's a teardrop after where he goes in drafts to the
32:01
defenseman that are after him. I feel like he's on the cusp of
32:04
like, you know, PP1 defence that you really want on your team and
32:07
then at your job where after him is like a bunch of guys that,
32:10
you know, are still P1, are still good, but have different,
32:13
different questions that makes their value, you know,
32:15
suppressed in terms of a draft on draft day.
32:18
But Sergachev, I think he I think he can realistically were
32:21
around 30 power play points this season.
32:23
If you play the full season, he could get 4045 on five points,
32:28
30 power play points and drop 70 points this season.
32:31
And that would not be crazy. That's definitely in the range
32:33
of outcomes with how much talent is on this Utah team and and
32:36
when they consolidate on that power play.
32:38
So I'm very excited for him. I would love for him to be my my
32:41
second defenseman in my fantasy league.
32:43
I'd be thrilled. Yeah, I mean, last year Utah
32:46
finished 10th in the league in power play and I only think they
32:48
got better since last year. So he's gonna be the guy on
32:51
there. I don't think that's out of the
32:52
question at all. Yeah, cool.
32:55
Glad you guys like it. Alright, then who is your
32:59
defenseman? This one actually, I think is
33:01
surprising. Yeah, so I was looking at who I
33:04
didn't want to pick a guy that was too high on draft boards
33:07
because they're like obviously good.
33:10
And I didn't want to go too deep because then obviously a lot of
33:12
guys have questions and I don't want to stake my reputation on
33:15
the guy that I don't truly believe in.
33:17
So I chose a guy that I am notorious for not liking.
33:21
But this year I feel like he is going later than you would
33:24
expect in your drafts, and that's why I think he's a great
33:27
value. And that player is Adam Fox of
33:30
the New York Rangers. What does and Fox say?
33:33
I would try to make that noise, but I'm not going to.
33:35
I've already did. We don't want to burn the
33:39
eardrums of our listeners. But but last season Adam Fox had
33:45
0.82 points per game, 0.24 power play points per game.
33:49
His shots are in the blocks are definitely left to be desired
33:53
compared to the guys that you mentioned, he's only 1.8 shots,
33:56
1.5 blocks. But I think what we need to
33:59
remember with Fox is even if it's category coverage is not
34:03
completely there, he plays on what should be a top five power
34:08
play, let's say on one of the teams that has so much talent
34:11
that they're also going to consolidate on that, on that
34:13
power play. And this Rangers team.
34:15
Like listen, he dropped .82 points per game last season on a
34:18
Rangers team that everybody went under their projections last
34:21
season and completely underperformed.
34:24
I think this season we're all high on the Rangers.
34:27
They're all draft day values. I think getting the people on
34:31
defence been for a Tina's ready to blow up and contend for the
34:33
Presidents Trophy again is almost a no brainer.
34:36
And he's going later in drafts than he was because of how they
34:39
performed last year. So I think he could get 0.4
34:42
power play points per game. Hover around the point per game
34:45
and you're getting that in round six.
34:47
Round 7 he's going around Jake Sanderson in your drafts.
34:51
If you take him one round the head of ADP, I think you'll be
34:53
thrilled. I would be content with him
34:55
being my P1 defenseman on my fantasy team.
34:58
Yeah, You know, I'm looking at it.
35:00
I, I didn't realize this, but I'm looking at his last four.
35:03
In five years he's been illegal. Elite.
35:07
Yeah. Like really Really.
35:08
Amazing he wasn't the Vezina trophy.
35:12
That's how a lady was. Yeah, but he he did win the
35:18
Norris. What was it 2 Two years ago 3.
35:21
But like 3 to 4 at this point. Yeah, so listen, he is easily
35:27
candidate to be a point per game defenseman, which is super
35:29
exciting. It's quite annoying that he
35:32
doesn't have the bad categories. It's definitely worth mentioning
35:36
and I'm glad you did. But he's gonna go with the
35:40
Rangers. Like as far as how they're going
35:43
to positively perform, the series is going to be a staple
35:45
on that team. There are another one where
35:47
who's going to be the power play 1.
35:49
Yet he's not in question. Fox is gonna.
35:52
He's easily the best, like more so than Sergachev to Dorsey.
35:56
Fox is way better than anyone else there.
35:59
Yeah. And yeah, he's just proven
36:01
himself all ready to be an elite point scoring defenseman.
36:03
Wasn't bad last year, as you mentioned.
36:05
And I think that point per game sealing is easily a possibility
36:08
for this year. Yeah, I mean, actually I was
36:11
surprised when I saw that he put up .82 points last year with how
36:16
bad the Rangers were, how bad their power play was.
36:18
The fact that he still put that up means that with how much
36:20
we're all expecting them to bounce back, it's a no brainer
36:23
that he's a point per game guy, like .82 on such a bad team and
36:26
with a guy with that skill and with a power play with that
36:28
skill. So yeah, you're taking this guy,
36:30
he's a point, point plus per game.
36:31
He's going to have let's say .3 plus power play points per game
36:34
and then like no backup. So that's obviously the big the
36:37
big downer with him. But the fact is, like you said,
36:41
dropping in drafts because of his poor year last year.
36:45
And if you can get him, you know, a couple of rounds after
36:48
like taking a, you know, Quinn Hughes gets taken early second
36:51
round, late first round. You got an Adam Fox like 6 round
36:55
5, round 6, something like that. They could put up similar point
36:58
totals. Hughes gets like one extra shot
37:00
in a game on Fox, but it's not like he's a big back cat beast
37:04
either or anything like that. So that's a really good value
37:07
for cost. So I like Fox a lot, and
37:08
obviously they have the crazy playoff schedule of A444IN weeks
37:12
21 to 23, so that's a nice cherry on.
37:14
Top and what I also wanted to mention for Fox is you know, we
37:18
talked about the Rangers power play being it was a bottom 5
37:21
power play last season, a bottom 5 power play and he still put up
37:25
.24 power play points. What that tells me is that when
37:28
they do score power play points, the defensemen on this power
37:30
play is involved because of the way they shoot, the way they're
37:33
passing the puck. So if we expect them to be a top
37:36
five power play, we've seen it before.
37:38
Yes, there's different players on there now, but it's still top
37:41
quality and the main, the main money makers are still there.
37:44
Like you still got Panera and you still have, I mean, JT is
37:48
obviously like a huge addition to this power play as well.
37:51
I I think he can easily get .4 power play points, .4 point .45
37:56
and that just like the floor just remains so high for his
37:59
point totals and I think he's great, yeah.
38:03
Nice big and definitely not your classic type of pic is usually
38:06
you. You love those back cats.
38:08
So so like. Yeah, category coverage type of
38:11
guy, but I I would really try to find the mix of value for cost.
38:15
So yeah, now it's great. Alright, let's dive into the
38:18
goalies. My goalie pick for my signature
38:22
pick is Corel Velka of the Utah. Last year he had 26 wins, 2.58
38:28
goals against average .904 save percentage, 1 shutout and around
38:32
23 1/2 saves per game. He is my top 0G target this
38:38
year. I think Utah is going to be so
38:40
good. He's going to get the Lion share
38:42
that starts. It's him and Banachek.
38:43
Now that Ingram got waived. Sanchez is not going to get many
38:45
starts other than back to backs. The coach in the past has played
38:48
Velka even on back-to-back. So funny.
38:50
Chick gets injured. I expect from Mecca to play 100%
38:53
of the games. I think he's going to be great
38:55
on such a great team. I think he gets underrated
38:58
because you know, Utah still has that that Arizona Coyote stink
39:01
on them. So they haven't taken that that
39:04
step forward. So I think they're still maybe
39:06
viewed in the bottom half of teams in the league when I think
39:08
they could be closer to middle slash fighting for a playoff
39:11
spot. And when you have a volume guy
39:13
on an exciting team like that, then I really like where you can
39:16
grab him in the draft. Yeah, for all the reasons I was
39:20
talking about with Sergachev. I I totally agree with the
39:23
Milka. That's the truth.
39:25
And he's he's a good, he's a really good goalie actually in
39:28
his own right. I, I think he was underloved
39:30
because people watching when they used to play in Arizona
39:34
with those horrible camera angles in the arena, he, he
39:38
looked like, he did not look like he had an NHL goalie
39:41
because the whole team, it looked like a joke with the 2000
39:44
fans there. But it's part of it.
39:47
It's true. And now Utahs shaping up to be a
39:50
real serious team. One thing we haven't mentioned
39:53
broadly is when a team is in contention for the playoffs,
39:58
that's the best. Those are the best fantasy
40:01
assets to own. It's not an elite playoff
40:04
schedule. You're right, with two games in
40:05
the Week 23 Finals, that's a bit of a bummer, but the fact that
40:09
you have a team that's not going to be a shoe in for the
40:12
playoffs, they're not resting. This guy, he's a an absolute
40:16
machine. He's handled back to backs in
40:18
the past and I have little doubt that he's going to get all of
40:20
those playoff week games and he's just really, really good.
40:25
And finally he's gonna have the best team in front of him that
40:28
he's had in his career. So I've grown higher on Utah
40:32
throughout the year for all the reasons I already mentioned, and
40:35
he's probably the one who's going to benefit from it the
40:37
most. Yeah.
40:39
I mean, like Josh said, I think he's definitely one of my 0G
40:42
targets later in drafts. We're going to have to be
40:44
finally stop. Copying me.
40:47
The, the, the, but I do like to pick that I that I put in that
40:52
I'll talk about later a little bit more even though I guess
40:55
more expensive. But I really do like the Malka.
40:58
I think he's a tremendous goalie.
41:00
He was on my team's last year. They had to ride him like no one
41:05
has ever wrote everybody anybody before because because they they
41:11
literally had no other goalies. He was playing every game, even
41:14
the back to backs and the coach spoke so highly of him.
41:17
Now, even when people were concerned about, you know,
41:20
Ingram coming back from the player assistance program and
41:22
taking starts away from Velka, I did not waver in how high I
41:26
thought of America in my fantasy draft and then let it like, you
41:29
know, few weeks later, Ingram gets waved and he's no longer on
41:32
the Utah team. But Vermont has no competition
41:35
for starts right? Right now.
41:36
I think the only thing is his ceiling is probably a little
41:39
capped with save percentage and goals against average, but
41:44
you're still getting this like really high quality later in
41:47
your drafts. I think it's a no brainer.
41:49
Yeah, absolutely. It's it's a really, really great
41:51
choice. And he he's not someone who
41:53
comes to mind really when I think 0G.
41:56
I don't really know why, but the more I think about it, the more
41:59
he's probably at least Top Model in my top three for that guy.
42:05
Not necessarily gonna gonna say like you should worry about
42:08
taking him as much as Sanderson. Sanderson, Sanderson I love, but
42:14
the Malka I like a lot. And I think whoever has him this
42:17
year is gonna be super happy with the return.
42:19
He could probably end the season top 10 Wrangler.
42:22
I wouldn't be surprised. So just.
42:24
Because I'm a little surprised by top 10.
42:26
But you know what it is? It's of the 0G guys.
42:29
I think he's the best actual goalie.
42:31
Of course, goalies are super dependent on their teams
42:33
production, but he's a really, really great goaltender.
42:37
And he's the type of guy that if he went to a Dallas, I mean,
42:41
maybe a bit better, but he's like that good.
42:45
I think he's just never had the team.
42:47
So finally having a really good team in front of him, it's going
42:50
to be amazing to see. Let's move on.
42:53
Lucas Dostal of the Anaheim Ducks, my man, I think he's
42:58
going to be great this year. I was going to go back and
43:00
forth, like I couldn't really decide between him and Montalbo.
43:03
But when it comes down to it, I think most drafters are going to
43:06
pick Montebello a few rounds higher than the style.
43:09
And I think that they could end up ranked kind of neck and neck.
43:12
And that's just not because we're Habs fans.
43:14
I think that objectively, Montana is just more of more
43:18
hype around him than the style, probably mainly because the Cubs
43:22
made the playoffs last year, Anaheim didn't.
43:24
But I'm very high on Anaheim. And yeah, it wanted was ranked
43:28
124 to stall 169. And I think that they're gonna
43:31
be very, very close. It's a much bigger discrepancy
43:34
than I was expecting. And it doesn't matter where
43:36
you're considering it because most of your, I know we don't
43:40
really put too much talk into ADP, but a lot of your league
43:42
mates for all the listeners out there will.
43:45
So if you could grab the style later, that's really, really
43:48
good. I'm very comfortable with him
43:50
being MY0G guy this year. It's riskier than the Malka, I
43:55
will say, but I think that the return could be there.
43:58
And I'm just, yeah, I'm very high on the Ducks.
44:00
I firmly believe that they're gonna be in the running.
44:02
And for the same reason that I just mentioned to Josh, where I
44:05
find that they're gonna try to play their guys.
44:09
Like you want players on teams that are in contention yet not a
44:13
shoe in for the playoffs. I think that that's kind of why
44:16
I'm really high on him. A 334 playoff schedule.
44:19
So they got 10 games in that span.
44:21
I think he's going to get nine of them.
44:23
And it's exactly, exactly what you need to try to put yourself
44:26
over the edge and when your league playoffs.
44:29
Yeah, I I love those Talisa 0G guy in terms of him versus
44:33
Amalka, I think Dostall take goes around or two later.
44:36
So that means that you can get even more value out of him for,
44:39
you know, where you're picking him in the draft.
44:41
I think I view them very similarly as volume guys on
44:45
teams that are gonna take a big step up this year.
44:47
And I'm pretty, I'm pretty. I also, like I said, I also have
44:50
him as one of my 0 targets. So another one of those guys
44:53
will see who he ends up with. But but yeah, I see Anaheim
44:57
fighting for a playoff spot. I don't think they're gonna get
44:59
one. But again, we've talked about
45:00
this a lot them as kind of similar in the Habs trajectory,
45:03
but one year off. But look at how well Montalbo
45:05
did last year, right? So that could be a this could be
45:08
just those big year, especially with Gibson being shipped out in
45:10
the offseason. So I I love this pic.
45:13
Yeah, Yep. Should I get into my pick?
45:18
Yeah, sure. Go over.
45:22
So my pick for my goal is significant.
45:25
Pick what we consider. Significant.
45:31
This is a significant signature pack, everybody.
45:34
Yeah, it is. And there is none other than the
45:37
goalie for the Vegas Golden Knights, Aiden Hill.
45:41
Now, I feel like this is potentially the least flashy
45:45
goalie pick you can make. I feel like nobody wants Aiden
45:47
Hill on their roster except me. But I would be thrilled to have
45:50
him as my 1G in my fantasy leagues.
45:53
And the main reason for that is, you know, you're getting a
45:56
goalie on a team that could win the President's Trophy that we
45:59
expect is going to be in the running for the Stanley Cup this
46:01
season. They just paid this guy.
46:04
And he has, I mean, sorry, Jackie, but he's got no
46:08
competition behind them. Akira Schmid is not going to
46:10
take starts away from from Aiden.
46:12
Wrong. Kira, Kira.
46:18
Akira's gone, baby. But Aiden Hill I think
46:21
realistically could get mid 30s and wins this season if if you
46:25
know, Vegas is the juggernaut that we think they are.
46:28
His save percentage and his goals against average are not
46:30
going to be anything crazy. Like he's not gonna get you like
46:32
a 9.915 or anything like that, but he can hover around a .910
46:37
or a .907 and just the wins or what you're getting the wins and
46:41
the starts. He will get 55 starts minimum
46:43
this season. He'll get 30 plus wins and
46:46
you're drafting this guy. He's he's probably like between
46:50
the around the 15th goalie off the board and in a lot of
46:52
leagues he can realistically finish goalie #7 or 8 in your
46:56
fantasy league this season. And I think that's just
46:58
tremendous value. Josh, go first.
47:01
OK, no, I I love this pic. I think that I think his ADP has
47:07
him around. I think the 80s as a pick.
47:10
So he's not a late, late round guy.
47:12
You're not going to get him at the same spot.
47:13
You can get him milk or Dostal, but obviously the quality of the
47:16
team he's on is just way higher than what we're talking about.
47:20
Literally like having said they're gonna be fighting for
47:22
presidents trophy. They just added in 100 plus
47:24
point player in Mariner. They're only getting better.
47:26
All they ever do is compete at a high level and Aiden hell is
47:29
just one of the most unexciting names that you love you when
47:32
they're drafting. And you know what, that's
47:34
exactly the type of guy that you wanna take because he can fall
47:37
around her too because of how unexciting that name is.
47:39
So I love this pic. I think he just goes a bit
47:42
earlier than I'm willing to take my first goal in the draft
47:44
because I like going super late. But if you're not going for like
47:47
a crazy 0G strategy, he's a great, great pick that you're
47:50
going to pick him after a few other goalies that are going to
47:52
do way worse than him. So definitely a value where you
47:56
can grab him and a curious meet. I'm sorry, Jake, it's just not a
47:59
competition. Yes.
48:02
So OK, so spoiler alert, I'm not actually like thinking that
48:05
she's gonna take the stars away, but y'all are still you are
48:08
still wrong. Yeah so so here's kind of my
48:12
thoughts on this. I think that he's gonna screw
48:17
your percentages a little bit for the save percentage and
48:20
goals against average, which for A0G strategy, I don't know if
48:26
it's like, I don't know if it's necessarily the best thing
48:31
because like Josh said, you have to pick him a bit higher than
48:33
the other guys. So if you're gonna pick Hill, I
48:36
would kind of consider picking Hill in tandem with another good
48:39
goalie on a good team. Do you know what I mean?
48:41
It's not that I'm low on. I think I'm obviously highest on
48:45
Vegas of all the three teams that we mentioned, way higher on
48:49
them than the Ducks add-on Utah. And you're right.
48:51
I mean, Kevin, if his trajectory is just to play more and more
48:54
games, 35 two years ago, 50 last year and if he hits 55 this
48:57
year, he got 32 wins in 50 games last year.
49:00
That's an insanely good winning percentage.
49:02
It's really, really top. It's just it's just that he
49:05
himself is like not that great, which is fine because for
49:11
fantasy, like I think the Milk is a much better goalie.
49:14
Yet I can see Hill being ranked higher, right?
49:16
Yeah, you're also picking Hill higher.
49:18
So that's fine. But if you pair pair Hill with a
49:22
Skinner, you're kind of like, you know, you're punt and save
49:26
percentage, but you're gonna get the saves, you're get the wins
49:28
and you'll be very happy. And these are guys that you
49:30
could both, but in like the mid to later rounds, I guess
49:33
Skinners maybe going a bit later than Hill.
49:36
Yeah, I think that's a great pair.
49:37
I like how you're talking about it.
49:39
I mean, this is going a bit a bit away from the the guy
49:42
himself and more into general golly drafting strategy.
49:45
But yeah, like targeting the same like you're either I like,
49:48
unless you're picking goalies like really early, I like either
49:50
going for quality or quantity. If you're trying to take one of
49:53
each, you're just gonna end up screwed on both fronts.
49:55
So yeah, that's a great pair up that you're mentioning and
49:58
definitely a good point. I will say one thing that may be
50:01
a concern. I don't know if either of you
50:02
are concerned about this. I see that Carter Hart might be
50:05
linked to Vegas. Is that any concern to you,
50:07
Kevin? I mean, listen, I think I still
50:10
think Aiden Hill is the guy, but I would be more concerned if
50:13
Carter Hart signs there. Maybe he doesn't get 55 starts,
50:16
he gets 50 starts, you know what I mean?
50:18
That's kind of like how I view this situation.
50:21
I don't think they're signing card is after what just happened
50:24
and he's coming in and being the one where they just paid Aiden
50:28
Hill to be the guy. You know what I mean?
50:30
Like you just got a six year contract.
50:31
They're not going to sign a guy off the street and split 5050.
50:35
There's just no way that happens.
50:37
Yeah, he he's been like a very serviceable goalie for them when
50:42
it counted last playoffs were were met, but when you were on
50:45
the Stanley Cup, he was a beast and even two years ago was a
50:47
931. Like this team wants to compete.
50:50
They're great team and for the most part I think he's gonna be
50:53
a very reliable goal to get you these wins and look for.
50:58
What they know, they know he can win.
50:59
They know he's done it before. They want him to be the guy.
51:03
He is the guy. It's just about, you know, I
51:07
think when we're talking about goalies, like I'm more confident
51:10
in Eden Hill having more wins, probably more more save will be
51:14
closed, but like more a better save percentage and more goals,
51:18
better goals against average and the two guys you guys mentioned.
51:20
But it's just the cost. That's the big question, right?
51:22
It's like, where are you drafting these guys?
51:24
If you're drafting Eden Hill and 10th around then you're drafting
51:26
dust style over Melka and around 1516, like what's the
51:29
opportunity cost there? So it definitely comes into
51:32
roster construction and how you're willing to when you're
51:34
willing to take certain guys. I just think that you can get
51:37
elite production out of Indian Hill where a guy that's going to
51:40
be a mid round pick, that's why. I'm yeah, yeah.
51:44
And that's like a great, great my guy situation and you'll be
51:48
happy with them like. You mean significant signature
51:50
pick? Yeah.
51:53
This this name. Signature Picks TM, the name
51:58
that we definitely didn't come up with the right before
52:01
recording this episode. I love it.
52:05
I love it. Alright guys.
52:06
Well, thank you to everybody for listening.
52:08
I think these are all great choices.
52:10
Super fun episode to do. Significant pick signature,
52:14
significant, significant signature pets signature picks
52:20
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