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Week 18 Waiver Wire Targets + Streamers | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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  Anger Management Fantasy hockey podcast.
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  Will woo. How you doing?
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  Over there, Kevin. I am crying inside, feel like I
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  have a lot of internal bleeding, feel like somebody just smashed
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  me in the face with a hockey stick.
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  Ohm, my God. Who would you say did all that?
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  So some. Would say I asked for it.
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  I would say like check the tapes because I don't remember asking
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  for all that. You, you literally asked for it
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  could not have been more clear. I know it wasn't sure if you
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  were talking about your past fantasy week or Igloo fest.
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  Yes, Sir, where you were going with I am on Five.
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  Hours of sleep right now, but I woke up.
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  I'm here for the podcast. I am committed.
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  Way more committed than Matthew Olivier will ever be in his life
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  to anything. And yet.
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  He's pretty committed to wrecking you every time.
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  This is the one thing that maybe he's better at.
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  Being committed is destroying my fantasy week guys.
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  I mean, listen, you guys heard me, you guys heard me taunt him
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  on the episode 2 episodes ago and the the week has not gone as
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  planned. I will say it's feel like
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  everybody's looking forward to this and I'm just here like in
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  pain. Like at least my my pain is
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  entertaining for some. But no, this is this has been a
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  disastrous week, if I'm being honest.
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  My fantasy week is it, is it the whole in the ground?
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  It's dog awful. Matthew Olivier had like no
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  points for like a month. Plays against me in week 17 of
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  the fantasy hockey season and somehow becomes a 2 point per
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  game player. 2 point per game Matthew Olivier earlier this
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  week on one night there was 3 hockey games.
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  I have three Rangers players and three Ottawa players and
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  arguably like three of the best on both teams.
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  Matthew Olivier scored double the amount of points out of all
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  those players combined. I have Brady, I have Batherson,
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  I have Dylan Cousins, I have Trocheck, I have Will Cooley.
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  I even have Artemy Panarin who decided this is the week he's
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  not even gonna play. And yet Matthew, Olivia
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  outscores all of them and then double it.
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  I just, I just, I don't even know what to say.
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  It feels like this is confirmation that there actually
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  are hockey gods. So everybody needs to be careful
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  moving forward and don't upset anybody.
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  Don't talk to anybody, especially players that suck
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  because they will be good against you and I just feel like
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  I've been talking for 5 minutes but I could go on for another
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  hour. It's fitting because we
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  mentioned him on our last week waiver episode.
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  So today, first of all, welcome and everyone in Bangor
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  management, the Fantasy Hockey Podcast, Josh and Kevin.
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  Wow, so you're actually shows up at my door or something?
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  Like laughing like Matthew lived in the comments door.
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  I'm about to get beat up. He's gonna show up with his
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  truck, trick puck from next game and be like, here you go, this
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  is for you. It was like Tuesday when they
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  they played last Tuesday when they played earlier in the week.
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  I'm just like, I just had this reaction.
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  I'm dying the discord because I'm like, I can't believe it's
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  actually happening. The last night it happens again.
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  Like he has another two points. He scores early on and then it
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  gets another Matthew Olivier, two goals, 2 assists and two
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  games. How does this make any sense?
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  Imaginative Columbus's first getting did not get postponed.
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  And I had to play against them four times, them three times.
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  This is ridiculous blessing for you.
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  You got saved from another two points of Matthew Olivier.
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  Yeah. On that note are weak 18 waivers
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  episode where you mentioned Metro Olivier last week.
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  Everyone should have listened because then then you could be
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  on the other side of the coin for what you just heard for the
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  past few minutes. People pick up the Discord and
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  they were like Kevin, like I heard you, I heard you like the
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  start of vendetta against him. I picked him up just for like
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  the giggles and they were laughing like can you play guys?
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  And every week, please. No, you can say that.
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  I don't think that you can. Whatever.
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  OK, bleep. Bleeps and giggles.
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  Bleeps again, let's let's get into it.
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  But before that, follow us on Spotify, Apple podcast, wherever
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  you get your podcasts. We are there and give this video
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  a like on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel as
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  well. All the socials are in the
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  podcast subscription and be sure to join that discord community
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  where you can be on the you can see Kevin and the venting
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  channel. You could see yourselves in the
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  bragging channel for picking up Olivier and just, you know, bask
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  in the glory of all that is picking him up against Kevin
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  measuring a fantasy week. But yeah, it's a great place.
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  Come join the Discord community. There's no way that in two weeks
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  when he plays Josh, he does the same thing.
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  I refuse to believe. He did it last time.
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  Last time he. Played like one last. .4 point,
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  he got like a four point game against you, then goes like a
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  month without any points and then plays me and puts up a
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  three-point game. I was expecting the same thing.
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  But I don't taunt him. You know, I'm, I, I show
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  respect. I had him last year.
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  He was a bankers beast. Olivier, I love you.
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  Take it easy on me in 2 weeks. Don't do it, Olivier.
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  Josh is actually gonna do before you were famous, so be nice to
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  me. These other Jeremy Lows all
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  story from the Bible. You're gonna wear it.
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  You should actually around next year.
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  He's your real daddy. Sasha to Let's dive into our
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  Week 17 choices. OK, let's get into our Week 17
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  choices. So we had Corey Perry.
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  Since then he's played three games.
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  One goal, one assist, 2 points, one game postponed.
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  Nothing we could do about that. Can't control.
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  Damn Jackie. I can't control the weather.
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  Yeah, no, still kind of that as a as a win.
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  He's got another game left already, 2 points on the week.
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  Postponement sucks, but he's still making the most of it.
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  So that's a dub. Then we had Matt Zuccarello.
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  The plural of Matt let us down this week, actually.
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  Three games played, zero goals, one assist, one point.
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  I mean, you still got one more game.
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  Wouldn't be surprised if he pops off.
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  It evens out the numbers. But that's not how we do it
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  here, unfortunately. Got to take the L on that one.
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  And then we had Elias Lindholm. 2 games played, more like 1 1/2,
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  two goals, zero says 2 points and then injured.
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  But you know, I'm kind of as a double because he played like a
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  game and a half, got you two goals and then you pop him on IR
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  and make another pick up. And that was in the first like 3
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  days of the week. So we're still gonna count that
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  as a W. The injury sucks.
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  I'm going to Iceland homeowner. It's very annoying, but with the
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  Olympic break, hopefully he can get a healthy income back right
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  after that. So that brings our season record
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  to 30 and 15. I feel like we keep hovering
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  around this like. Every time we make a three
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  picks, it's like two wins and 1L, you know?
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  So it's like 67% is pretty, pretty solid.
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  So yeah, let's keep it. Let's keep the fun times going
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  and try and bump those numbers. Up So going into next week is a
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  very interesting week. It's the Olympic break week,
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  which means we've got a half a week, then about 3 weeks of
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  Olympics and then a second-half a week combined to make the
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  fantasy week. So there are no two game teams.
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  There are three to six game teams.
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  So the three-game teams are Boston and the Rangers.
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  Notably, the two teams are the best playoff schedule.
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  It makes sense they're not getting their games now because
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  all their games are coming in the last couple of weeks.
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  So a good time to trade for them.
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  You can be like if there's a team lower in the standings, you
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  could tell them look how bad their schedule is the coming
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  Olympic break and then you grab them and then they're sick for
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  the playoffs. 6 game teams, there's Buffalo, Florida
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  Islanders, Pittsburgh, Washington, so not too many 6
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  game teams, busy nights. So the first half a week, Monday
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  and Wednesday are busy, then there's the whole break and then
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  the second-half of week, Thursday and Saturday are busy.
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  So teams with three off nights, there's a lot of them, so I'm
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  not going to list them all off, but let's get into our top ten
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  points guys for this week. Quick profile check.
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  Yeah, um. You know, you know me on weeks
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  like this, I always like to ask the word when some teams are
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  playing six times and some teams are playing three times, who are
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  you dropping on Boston? And you're like that, you're
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  that's worth keeping, worth streaming through the bad
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  schedule. Yeah.
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  So it's tough because as I mentioned, these guys all have
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  the best playoff schedule, right?
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  So who am I dropping? I mean, I'll drop Lafreniere if
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  he's even rostered. Really.
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  Um. Yeah, a lot of people cited
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  because they're like, OK, when's Panarin moves, does his role
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  like cement gets cemented as increased?
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  Trocheck was out for like 2 months at the start of this
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  season and Lafreniere had power play 1 and he somehow lost it to
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  Will Cooley. Like it's he's he's nothing.
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  He sucks like. Every opportunity.
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  Yeah, just for years I thought, I thought that it was the
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  coaching refusing to put him on power play 1, not giving him the
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  opportunity. But at this point, he's had the
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  opportunity. It's not going to work on the
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  Rangers. So.
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  Yeah, I mean, I think if you got traded, he has a chance to turn
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  his career around, but as it's going on the Rangers, it's just
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  ain't it. Could be December.
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  Yeah, exactly. No people.
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  Actually it was a good a, a good I can.
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  I saw some good ones right now, but somebody said like Jack
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  Eichel would be a good name for that.
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  Yeah, for Sam Darnold's career path a little bit not not
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  exactly the same. And I close obviously beast, but
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  we don't think of that. That's a good one, actually.
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  Yeah, well, I still don't. Know, I guess he's already won.
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  Yeah, he's already won, Darnell. Darnell needs as they comeback
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  guys. Yeah, but you know, I actually,
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  I saw a comment on that YouTube video where someone said Josh is
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  very smart. Hockey is the only sport to care
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  about. So I stopped after the first
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  half of the comment and Josh is very smart, but that's the way
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  to go. Hockey all the way.
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  Yeah, so. All the Rangers are account.
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  I have one for every platform. So yeah, so Rangers, I'm
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  dropping laugh. Um, I'll drop Gaverick off if
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  you have him. I know he's power play one, but
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  he hasn't been doing anything with it.
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  I would not drop Panarin, Trocheck, Cooley.
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  OK, Kevin's guys, JT not dropping those guys obviously,
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  or Fox obviously injured. But those five guys, I think
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  anyone other than those five guys interested again is an easy
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  drop. And then for Boston.
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  Oh yeah. But I was going to say like
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  especially on the Rangers, but I also feel like it's a similar
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  story. The roster guys on these teams
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  are not to be dropped this week. It's a totally difficult thing
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  and it compromising such a great playoff schedule, I'd definitely
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  rather just hold for that. I mean, obviously if you're
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  fighting, you gotta do what you gotta do to pick up the players,
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  but nobody's dropping Panarin, nobody's drops dropping
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  Trocheck, JT, etc. And I think for Boston it's
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  similar, right? Pasternak is not getting dropped
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  in any universe. You can name a few that you
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  consider drawing, but I think it's like there's a huge tear
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  break between the obvious stars. And I mean.
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  Here's the. Here's an interesting one.
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  He's actually on the up and up, but I would drop him.
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  It's a freezer Minton, he's been sick and Elias lineman Zach are
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  both out. And if it wasn't the Olympic
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  break, I would say don't drop him.
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  But I think Lindholm and Zach should both be back by the end
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  of the break. And Boston Lee has one game
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  before the break, so essentially holding it in for one game of
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  good deployment. And then he comes and then by
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  the time the Olympic break is over, he's only got 2 games left
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  and he's going to be back to line 3.
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  So that's a guy that like, I know people are getting excited
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  about a week like this. Um, I would drop them.
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  I'm trying to think who else? That was the main reason why I
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  asked this question, because I know Minton is lying.
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  He's a double injury replacement, right?
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  Two guys ahead of him got hurt and he's like, he has a good
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  banger category coverage. So he has a nice kind of fantasy
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  archetype for him, but. Yeah.
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  Do you drop a guy like Sean Kuraly who's been kind of
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  killing it, bangers wise? Yeah.
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  I think what is the bangers guys?
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  Then you're asking about volume. I feel like there's sometimes
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  you just can't overcome the volume right, Like he's the one
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  time before the break and you can pick up some playing three
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  times. I'm gonna how good Corelli's
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  he's not gonna be good enough to overcome somebody else playing
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  three times. You can stream.
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  If you're sitting in like first place and all you care about is
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  playoff schedule, then I'm not dropping them.
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  Yeah, OK. If you're really playing for
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  just isolating the playoff weeks like you're set, you're not
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  worried about losing your playoff seed or anything like
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  that, then that obviously makes more sense to just hold and
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  maintain your team effect. If you're fighting for a spot
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  then 100%. The last thing I want to touch
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  on before we get into the top 10 is that people are always asking
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  for advise that we answered this in the mail backup sort of a few
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  weeks ago I think. But like, how do you use your
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  ads or you know, plan for your goalie starts in a week like
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  this? Because the week is like 4 weeks
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  long. We're getting three games
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  before, three games after type of thing.
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  In between there's like 2 1/2 weeks.
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  So you know, on, I don't know about all the fantasy platforms
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  out there, but I know on Yahoo specifically, you still gotta
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  hit your goalie starters. You still only have three ads.
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  How are you managing your team situation?
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  I think the way I see it is my ideal would be use one ad at the
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  start of the week and then save the two other ones for post
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  Olympic break. That's kind of where I'm at.
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  I think not just in terms of optimizing schedule, but a lot
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  can happen on the Olympic break. Guys could get injured and that
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  means new guys who are on waivers could suddenly gain a
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  lot more value if they get bumped to power play 1.
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  I think there's a mini trade deadline coming up before before
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  the Olympic break. So you want to have ads
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  available when shifts like this can happen.
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  So it's not necessarily, I mean also like you know, you're, you
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  don't want to use three ads at the start of the week in any
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  given week. So I think you can still
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  optimize your schedule while keeping some flexibility for for
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  big things that can happen over the course of the next couple of
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  weeks. Jake, you fill this.
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  Out. Yeah, pretty much.
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  I mean, it's tough. This week is just really
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  volatile to plan for. I think the ideal world is this
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  is not one where you wanna drop players on teams like the
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  Rangers and the Sabers, sorry, the Rangers and the Bruins, but
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  at the end of the day, you have to you have to fight for the
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  spot. So you're saying, Josh,
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  basically you keep one for the beginning and then two for the
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  after the thing. Yeah, I yeah, I.
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  Think if you have like a category you're targeting and
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  trying to like Max games like use that ad like Sunday night or
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  Monday whatever. But then save your remaining 2
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  ads to see if anything crazy happens during the Olympics or
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  any or trades or anything like that.
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  The. Problem that could be huge an
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  injury and then next thing you know, there's a huge opportunity
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  for someone for like rest of season.
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  And by the way, I wouldn't necessarily like wait until the
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  end of the Olympics. If no, I mean, it's tough to
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  come up with like one off the top of my head right now.
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  But if insert player here gets injured and there's an obvious
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  replacement online too, I mean that could be a league winner.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And there's a lot of people who
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  are going to be checked out during the Olympics and not be
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  like making ads. So, you know, especially if
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  you're playing like a fab league or something like that, like you
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  can get away with spending a lot less money by making an ad in
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  the middle of the Olympic break, something unlike A speculative
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  thing like that. So that's definitely a good
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  point. Yeah, and the process here,
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  honestly, like for for people listening, is that when you're
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  making ads, you're planning ahead.
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  Information is king right now. You're not gonna be playing with
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  the most information, especially given we know that there's gonna
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  be volatile situations coming up, given like dual Olympics,
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  people are playing hockey, not for fantasy.
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  So injuries can happen. People can go to dinner, they
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  can cut their finger. Lots of dinners will be had at
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  the Olympics. So it's true.
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  You wanna? You wanna?
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  Earn Milan Italian food is some pun intended, spicy.
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  Honestly, Like, you know, Yeah, you never know.
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  You never know what could happen with spaghetti.
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  Find out what food Jack use was cut in.
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  Was it was cutting his spaghetti up or was he?
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  Yeah, it was really hot dogs and it just did not go his way or.
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  I expect Pasternak to have a monster, a monster Olympics,
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  because he's at home now. You know he's lying in the past.
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  That's it. We are geographic masters over
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  here. OK, let's get into the top 10.
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  Let's do it. Let's start with. #10. #10 And
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  we have a name that may be surprising to many because since
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  like week two of the fantasy season, he seems to lose all
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  relevance. We've got Tony D'Angelo of the
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  New York Islanders line 2 power play question mark because like
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  DFO has them as power play 1. They're doing a split thing.
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  Obviously, in my mind, I think in all our minds, whichever
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  power plays, the Horvat Shafer one is power play one.
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  But I mean, he's at the very least getting 50% or like 45%
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  power play time. So whatever you want to call
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  that power play like 1 1/2 Um, but to note, first of all, six
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  game week. So that's the most you can get
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  this week and he's been shooting like a monster.
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  He's been shooting over the past not sure his past two weeks or
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  past month. Almost three shots a game from a
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  defenseman. So that's really, really
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  valuable putting up some decent points.
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  So I like him. It's always nice when we can
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  throw a defenseman on this list. Also give people an option with
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  the six game week and with what he's been doing it feels like
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  probably the best low roster defenseman you could pick up.
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  He's he's shooting percentage on the season is 4% and it would be
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  hard to understand, but that 4% is not counting the goals in his
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  own net. So it should be higher.
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  But but no, I think this is a guy that like Josh said, like
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  it's hard to find defensemen that are less than 40% owned.
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  We didn't practice, but like we said, all every episode and
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  every episode moving forward and Josh has always had.
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  This always have and always will.
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  Schedule 40% owned or less. So if you're in a 12 team
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  league, I would say probably half of these guys are going to
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  be available. Ideally if you're in a shallower
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  league, there's probably better guys on waivers.
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  So do your due diligence. Make sure there's not any bigger
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  names that were not mentioning that are on your waiver
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  specifically. But a defenseman that's less
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  than 40% on that shoots this volume, that has six games like
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  sending me to consider. Yeah, he could be rostered.
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  I mean, at the end of the day, there's there's no way he's
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  replacing Schaefer. If there's some sort of
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  consolidation, then obviously this is going to go to Shafer.
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  So I'm not super excited about it long term, but ride the
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  momentum of the shots and hopefully the points will have a
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  corresponding uptick sooner than later.
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  Yeah. OK, let's go to. #9.
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  Another guy who's been terrorizing Kevin this week
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  we've got Anthony Mantha of the Pittsburgh Penguins another six
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  game week followed by a four-game week.
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  So that's 10 games in two weeks always pretty crazy line 3 power
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  play 2 on Pittsburgh, but just put up a three-point game
• 18:47
  against Kevin. He's shown flashes of being
• 18:49
  relevant over the past, you know, season.
• 18:53
  So if he's on one of his hot streaks, you you ride that on a
• 18:55
  six game week and and you know, enjoy the way of.
• 19:00
  Funny, just like, you know, taunting players that are not
• 19:03
  good at fantasy hockey and then turns out like they listen to
• 19:07
  this podcast. So I'm sorry.
• 19:09
  Yeah. And I just don't know how to
• 19:12
  explain Anthony Mantha and Matthew Olivia combining for
• 19:14
  seven points in three games against me.
• 19:17
  If somebody could explain that to me, maybe you should be on
• 19:20
  this podcast. So I don't know what to say, but
• 19:25
  yeah, Anthony. You're going.
• 19:27
  You're getting wrecked this way. Just looking.
• 19:31
  These points these individual like that's crazy.
• 19:36
  No, not at all. You're just getting.
• 19:39
  Right, because I'm playing with Matthew Olympian, Anthony
• 19:41
  Mantha. Who knew?
• 19:44
  It just. It just makes no sense.
• 19:47
  I think the only the only reasoning is that sometimes it
• 19:49
  do be like that and that's that's you know, that's all you
• 19:51
  can go it then just gotta take the punches and then I think.
• 19:55
  It was gonna. Be like first of the year.
• 19:57
  I agree with you like. That and also this week all my
• 20:01
  Ottawa guys only have two games and my Rangers guys, the best
• 20:05
  one is not playing hockey. Panarin is just like on the IR
• 20:09
  Brady about this because it's got two games and they suck and
• 20:15
  it's just a. Mess Kevin, if you're ever in
• 20:17
  the mood to make a trade, you know we still haven't made a
• 20:19
  trade this year. I'm always open.
• 20:22
  In the playoffs and I'm good so. If I could offer you interest
• 20:26
  you in Dougie Hamilton, the longest active point streak in
• 20:28
  the NHL. Do you?
• 20:30
  I'll give you the goat you just scored.
• 20:33
  I know you just signed up tonight.
• 20:36
  Matt Samuelson, he's actually a monster.
• 20:39
  That's's a beast. But yeah, yeah, anyways.
• 20:47
  Yeah, yeah. Let's stick with Jake if you
• 20:49
  want. If you wanna, you know, hit me
• 20:50
  up, you can. No more.
• 20:52
  No more, I don't. Even feel I.
• 20:56
  Don't know we can't get into the celebrity trade again.
• 20:58
  We'll see what happens after the Olympic break.
• 21:00
  You always bring it up. Actually, more, you know what,
• 21:02
  we'll we'll talk about it a bit in the next bylaws.
• 21:04
  I'll high up. So let's stick with the Penguins
• 21:06
  and get into the next one. Yeah, you're right.
• 21:10
  All right, at #8. At #8 we have Egor with no Y
• 21:16
  Chikov of the Pittsburgh Penguins 6 game week and
• 21:19
  four-game week the week after Line 2 power play, one with an
• 21:22
  asterisk. The asterisk is because he's
• 21:24
  only got it while Rust is on a three-game suspension, which
• 21:26
  will last until the first game of next week.
• 21:29
  So we'll have one game of power play one.
• 21:30
  But to know if any. Malkin seems to be day-to-day,
• 21:33
  seems to be dealing with a shoulder injury.
• 21:34
  So if he's bumped off, it seems like China's next man up on the
• 21:37
  power place, so there's a chance he keeps it for at least before
• 21:41
  Olympics. I'd be surprised if the injured
• 21:43
  guys don't come back after the Olympics, but that's still three
• 21:45
  games. So he's also on a four-game
• 21:47
  point streak and he's been shooting sometimes, not
• 21:50
  consistently, but he's had games where he shoots like 5 times.
• 21:53
  And I think the coach and just everyone there kind of really
• 21:56
  likes him. So very interesting look.
• 21:59
  For sure did. You why did you remove the?
• 22:01
  Why? So apparently this happens
• 22:03
  sometimes. Apparently when players come
• 22:05
  from like overseas or whatever, it gets lost in translation how
• 22:09
  to actually say slash spell their name.
• 22:11
  And a lot of times they'll just never correct anyone.
• 22:14
  Um, but I guess since he got traded, he decided to be like,
• 22:17
  hey guys, actually this is, my name is Igor, not Igor.
• 22:20
  And so they're like, OK, And so they corrected it.
• 22:22
  So. OK, so yeah, so his name is
• 22:24
  actually Igor, not. Igor Yahoo still got the why I.
• 22:27
  Know everything. So is that surprising at all?
• 22:31
  I had I was out for dinner a couple nights ago and I had IR
• 22:37
  plus Travis connect me. Thank God I got a notification
• 22:40
  on 7/01 that Travis that is going to play his 7:00 PM game.
• 22:46
  Was that the Hattie game? Or it was the no it wasn't the
• 22:48
  game but he has like his goal and 2.5 shots and definitely
• 22:52
  could have used those stats. But he's also been sick.
• 22:54
  I wonder who he's playing against an area this week.
• 22:56
  I traded away Travis Connect me for Sam Reinhart and Connect.
• 22:59
  He's just been like doubling Sam Reinhart production this week.
• 23:02
  So I gotta love that. If you like everything always
• 23:05
  comes full circle guys. It does every time I play
• 23:08
  someone that I traded, they gave their best like that.
• 23:10
  I traded geeky away. Then he was garbage for like.
• 23:13
  Month and then I played him last week and he got like 7 points on
• 23:15
  my low and hopefully people bought low so that also helps.
• 23:20
  Connect me playing Kevin. Yeah, I know.
• 23:22
  I thought you were. I thought you were making like a
• 23:24
  thing. That connector was playing you.
• 23:25
  I thought who? Was that?
• 23:28
  Yeah. This is to be miserable, Yeah.
• 23:34
  Yeah. Yeah, OK.
• 23:35
  But the China called, do you guys like what you've been
• 23:38
  seeing from, you know the increased deployment right now
• 23:41
  given Rusts suspension? I have no interest if everyone's
• 23:46
  healthy on the Penguins, but if either Rust or Malkin or
• 23:49
  whatever is injured then I'm very interested.
• 23:52
  So while he's got that P1 spot you're interested in streaming
• 23:55
  and then as soon as he loses it you're like.
• 23:59
  I'm dumb and I don't think he has pretty much.
• 24:01
  I don't think he has long term viability this season unless
• 24:04
  unless a barring injury or trade pretty much barring P1 then I'm
• 24:07
  not that interested. What if What if they bump him
• 24:10
  off power play 1 and then replace him with Ruster Raquel
• 24:14
  on line one? Let's just say they shuffle the
• 24:16
  lines. Line 1 power play too.
• 24:18
  Yeah, I'd be shocked. In hypothetical situation.
• 24:22
  I'm still not that interested. For me, it's really the power
• 24:24
  play deployment that like when it's a fringe guy like this,
• 24:27
  like if he was putting consistent shots up, then I'd be
• 24:29
  way more interested because I'm like, OK, if he's not putting up
• 24:31
  points, he's shooting. So if that deployment happens
• 24:35
  and then he starts shooting like consistently, then I would grab
• 24:37
  him even without the power play on deployment.
• 24:39
  But as it stands now, the type of player he seems to be, I'm
• 24:42
  only interested if he has that power play.
• 24:44
  Yeah, because Russ has been a bit rusty just to say he's been
• 24:48
  not great, but so yeah, now, but.
• 24:52
  Like I know I. Know, but all this to say, it's
• 24:55
  one of those things that maybe they can shuffle it and I think
• 24:58
  anyone playing with Crosby, it's kind of intriguing.
• 25:00
  You're right, power play 1 is the big one, but line one could
• 25:03
  be worth holding for now. I'm not that interested though.
• 25:06
  But also, that was a hypothetical, right?
• 25:08
  It's not like it's happening so. Yeah, 2 power play, 20 interest
• 25:13
  as well. Yeah.
• 25:14
  Yeah. All right, let's go to the next
• 25:16
  one. #7. At #7 we have Jake's boy from
• 25:23
  the Buffalo Sabres, Jason Zucker aligned to power play 16 game
• 25:27
  week followed by a four-game week.
• 25:29
  That's just you can't ask. For better than that, right?
• 25:31
  I don't think there's ever better.
• 25:34
  Teams per week than a six followed by a four.
• 25:36
  Um, but yeah, Zucker is kind of that guy who's like not flashy,
• 25:40
  just sticks on your team all year and he's kind of like a
• 25:42
  power play merchant feels like doesn't really do much even
• 25:44
  strength, but like Buffalo's rolling right now and soccer, I
• 25:49
  think over the past months, like .65 points with like half of
• 25:52
  them being power play or third of them being power play, some
• 25:53
  like that. So yeah, pretty much on a week
• 25:57
  like this with the crazy like crazy games per week followed by
• 25:59
  the same next week. I like him as a pickup.
• 26:02
  I will say it's kind of nice. Well, first of all, it's also
• 26:05
  not nice because they've scored like 5 and seven and four goals
• 26:10
  in the past few games. And like it was like in the
• 26:13
  seven game goal game, he had zero points.
• 26:17
  So not not groovy. On my team, on my I.
• 26:22
  R yeah, He actually hasn't gotten a power play point in two
• 26:26
  weeks, so it's very encouraging to see that he's been able to
• 26:29
  sustain and still somewhat productive.
• 26:32
  But you're right, power plays where it's at with him and with
• 26:35
  the amount of games, I think he's great to own and it's never
• 26:39
  with him. What I really like is #4 points
• 26:42
  in a single game, it's like 1-2 and more frequently.
• 26:45
  So that's a sign of sustainability with a big sample
• 26:48
  size. I like it for this upcoming week
• 26:50
  18. He's just one of the most
• 26:52
  underrated players in fantasy hockey because if you're not, if
• 26:56
  you're playing a 12 team league, you most definitely have better
• 26:58
  options than like a Jason Zucker.
• 26:59
  But if you're playing in 12 team lead that's very deep or a
• 27:03
  fourteen team league, like these are the type of guys that you
• 27:05
  round out your roster with. They're on there the whole
• 27:08
  season and you're just like very happy with what you're getting
• 27:10
  from them. And I think Jason's could
• 27:12
  delivers that every year. I had him on my team last year
• 27:15
  and it was so fun. Like this guy is like 4% owned
• 27:19
  is averaging like .3 power play points and like how does this
• 27:22
  make sense? I don't know, but I'm right in
• 27:23
  that wave and I think, do you think Buffalo being the playoff?
• 27:29
  I think so, yeah. They're nuts.
• 27:30
  What's that record in the last like?
• 27:32
  They're like something like 12-3 and one in.
• 27:34
  Their last, like I think that like 4114 of the last 16 games
• 27:36
  or something, It's not, it's actually.
• 27:38
  Absurd. Like I think that this feels
• 27:40
  different. I know.
• 27:41
  Every year, right? Yeah.
• 27:42
  It happens every year, right, where they go on some crazy
• 27:44
  streak and everyone's like, it feels different this year.
• 27:47
  They're gonna make it and then they just end the season, like
• 27:49
  completely crash and burn. But it feels different this
• 27:52
  year. Like, first of all, this is like
• 27:54
  the longest one, longest sustained.
• 27:56
  Also, like they went on that crazy street.
• 27:57
  They lost like a game or two and then they went on another crazy
• 28:00
  streak, which is they haven't shown in the past, right?
• 28:02
  Usually like they'll go on the street and then they'll see like
• 28:04
  the slightest sign of like adversity and they'll just
• 28:06
  crumble. But not this year.
• 28:08
  So I'm pretty hyped about it. Like, I mean, obviously, like as
• 28:11
  long as it's not at the expense of the Habs, but in general,
• 28:14
  like I'm excited for them. I hope I'm excited to see what
• 28:17
  they can do in the playoffs. I'd probably, I'd pretty much be
• 28:20
  rooting for them against anyone other than the haves at this
• 28:22
  point in the East, because just who doesn't like a story like
• 28:24
  that, right? I know.
• 28:25
  Yeah, I want. This, it's so tough.
• 28:28
  It's such like a close contested thing.
• 28:30
  I mean, like that means, you know, if that means the Hobbs
• 28:33
  won't make it, it means Florida, you know, the question mark.
• 28:37
  I've been following the standings a bit more recently
• 28:40
  and the way I kind of see it playing out is I think both
• 28:43
  wildcards are gonna go to Atlantic.
• 28:45
  I think the metro is kind of poo poo.
• 28:48
  So even their top guys like are like they have like when I last
• 28:52
  checked were wild card and they were higher than like 2 of the
• 28:55
  three, like like top three in the in the metro.
• 28:57
  So like, that's how I see it. I think there's room for five
• 29:00
  Atlantic teams in the playoffs. Tampa is a lot.
• 29:02
  They're going to be #1 in the division for sure.
• 29:04
  And then I think Detroit, Buffalo, Habs and Florida.
• 29:07
  That's kind of how I see it playing out.
• 29:09
  I got it and and then you just got Hurricanes, Penguins, and
• 29:13
  then who's the third years juicy and.
• 29:21
  Look. I've I've been I've been pretty
• 29:22
  low on on Washington over the past year and two.
• 29:25
  So like seeing them implode like this doesn't fully surprise me,
• 29:28
  but I'm still I'm still not buying the Islanders resurgence.
• 29:31
  And as a playoff team, I think that I think there's a solid
• 29:34
  chance, especially if Washington makes a move for an offence like
• 29:36
  a strong offence guy like they've been talking about for
• 29:38
  weeks, then I could see them overtaking the Islanders.
• 29:41
  The teams on the on the bubble right now, like the first teams
• 29:45
  looking into the wild card in the East, it's Florida,
• 29:48
  Columbus, Washington, NJ, Ottawa.
• 29:51
  I think the Rangers are out of it, obviously.
• 29:53
  I think Toronto's out of it. I think Philly's out of it.
• 29:55
  Like, you know, there's still technically in the mix points
• 29:57
  wise, except maybe the Rangers, but those seem to not convincing
• 30:01
  me that they can go on and run and win this, which is crazy.
• 30:03
  Toronto guys, like I don't think anybody had them not making the
• 30:06
  playoffs and that's not true either.
• 30:09
  I think a lot of people would have.
• 30:11
  Yeah, then I have the 5th, I don't have them. 8th I have had
• 30:14
  still. But to meet like Florida's
• 30:17
  making the playoffs, there's no world where they don't make the
• 30:20
  playoffs. Back to Pakistan, like champs
• 30:21
  and they're starting to get healthy.
• 30:25
  So who did bump in? Yeah, Boston or the Islanders
• 30:28
  Feel it easy, the easy choices. But then after that, like I
• 30:32
  really like Columbus. Who are they?
• 30:34
  Bumping. I like Columbus, you know, Well,
• 30:37
  I think, I think Columbus could bump like it's gonna be, I don't
• 30:39
  see Islanders holding on to that third spot in their division.
• 30:43
  So I think it's going to be Columbus or Washington.
• 30:45
  And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it's Columbus over
• 30:47
  Washington. I like them better as a.
• 30:49
  Team Washington in the playoffs, but.
• 30:51
  No, I know. They're not certain.
• 30:55
  Yeah. So anyways, let's let's keep
• 30:58
  going. Yeah, it's easy to talk about
• 31:00
  because it's fun to speculate, especially at this point in the
• 31:03
  season things. Are starting off on this one.
• 31:05
  Yeah, let's go to the next one. All right, at #6.
• 31:09
  And number six, another Buffalo bro.
• 31:12
  Buffalo, we've got you got Josh done of the Sabres line.
• 31:18
  I guess you get bumped down recently to line 3.
• 31:20
  So line 3 power play one six games followed by four games.
• 31:24
  He hasn't been as crazy as I'd hoped.
• 31:27
  I have him on my team. He's pretty inconsistent, I'll
• 31:30
  be honest. Like he'll have games where he's
• 31:32
  a monster and he'll have games he's putting up pretty much
• 31:34
  straight zeros, which is not what you want to see.
• 31:36
  But on a six game week with that deployment on the team that's
• 31:38
  that hot. I still feel like he's a great
• 31:41
  pickup. And honestly, like maybe it's
• 31:43
  because of how my team is constructed where I just have so
• 31:45
  much garbage because I consolidated so hard.
• 31:48
  Like don't not even on my radar dropping because I've a lot
• 31:51
  worse players, but I think I think brighter days are ahead.
• 31:54
  Also, I don't think line 3 is permanent or anything like that.
• 31:57
  Him and Benson have been flopping, flip flopping all the
• 32:00
  all season with line one, line 3, all that stuff.
• 32:03
  So I wouldn't put too much stock into that.
• 32:04
  The main thing is that his power play one spot is secure and
• 32:07
  that's the most important. So I like Donuts like.
• 32:09
  This. So I think that if Buffalo is to
• 32:12
  make a push for the playoffs, it's going to be Tage Dulene.
• 32:16
  And then there's gonna be a lot of volatility.
• 32:19
  There's pretty consistent, but not a star or anything.
• 32:22
  And then for the big weeks, it's going to be pretty volatile.
• 32:25
  He's not on this list, but someone else who's been
• 32:27
  absolutely crazy last month, Jack Quinn.
• 32:30
  Jack Quinn. Cloud Those playing Cloud
• 32:34
  McCloud this week. No, you're talking pointing on
• 32:38
  myself. Like a point he's at a point per
• 32:40
  game over the past month but I still couldn't recommend him
• 32:42
  cause it just the deployment doesn't is not good.
• 32:45
  But and Jack Quinn also, he's also been super good.
• 32:48
  You know, I think that they really want Don to succeed
• 32:52
  because they just gave him the big contracts.
• 32:53
  So they'll probably give him opportunities more so than just
• 32:56
  line 3. But when it comes down to it, I
• 32:59
  think this whole team is one of those that it's going to be
• 33:03
  tough predicted because they're going to have to spread the
• 33:05
  wealth that they want to win. Tage is gonna be a lock, Delene
• 33:09
  gonna be a lock. But on any given week, it's
• 33:10
  tough. So I agree with the process of
• 33:13
  picking done. I think it makes sense.
• 33:14
  And I would probably pick him over a Jacquin, over Orion,
• 33:17
  McLeod, Zucker, I think maybe I'd take it.
• 33:21
  But hey, they're neck and neck on this list for a reason.
• 33:24
  But it's going to be there. I think Buffalo is going to
• 33:27
  score a lot of goals. So hopefully like this is the
• 33:30
  week done as a part of that with how many games they have.
• 33:33
  I have to ask the worst question ever, but since these are the
• 33:37
  two last Buffalo players we're talking about on this list,
• 33:40
  spoiler alert. Is Josh Norris worth a stash?
• 33:43
  With how good Buffaloes being? He's 20% owned right now.
• 33:47
  He is looking IRR eligible. People don't wanna hear.
• 33:51
  I mean what's the most leagues is probably not worth a stash
• 33:53
  but. Look, I mean, we we're all Josh
• 33:58
  Norris fans when he's healthy, but which is a big asterisk.
• 34:01
  On the season, every time. 9 points per game.
• 34:05
  Yeah, I think at this point, like I don't think he's gonna be
• 34:08
  the line 1 centre. I think that it's probably gonna
• 34:11
  be line 2 centred. I think they like Tage at centre
• 34:13
  this year. But power play, who does he jump
• 34:17
  off that power play? Right now it's it's you got
• 34:20
  Tage, you've got Dalene, you've got Zucker done.
• 34:24
  And right now, I think the 5th Austin, he asked that Austin
• 34:27
  usually gets bumped off for for Norris.
• 34:28
  So nor should be line 2 power play one or line 3 power play
• 34:31
  one. Line 3 would be with with like
• 34:33
  Don or something like that. So no, I definitely like Norris.
• 34:36
  His two biggest hits against him is his health and the fact that
• 34:39
  he's a pure C. But other than that, he's and I
• 34:42
  don't think he's going to be that bangers beast that he's
• 34:44
  been in the past. I don't, I don't think I would
• 34:45
  expect the hits that we kind of expected going into the season.
• 34:48
  I think, yeah, I think that ties into kind of his like health
• 34:53
  issues. I feel like he's not as willing
• 34:55
  to like lay the body, but he's gonna get you like two shots
• 34:58
  will get you like 7 faceoff wins and he should get you like .9
• 35:01
  point 0.85. Really good for a guy that you
• 35:04
  can just stash. Pick up power play points point
• 35:08
  2.3. .3 on the season. Yeah, no, fine.
• 35:11
  It's just are you dropping someone for Norris with the
• 35:15
  chance that Norris, just like, you know, gets injured the next
• 35:18
  game and then like, someone else snatches that guy?
• 35:20
  It depends who you're dropping. Yeah, so.
• 35:22
  But I'm definitely happy to have noise on my team.
• 35:24
  Yeah, not like ours are not dropping him if it's if it's ten
• 35:28
  team, probably 12. I mean he's 20% older.
• 35:32
  He's on IR right now like. Yeah, yeah.
• 35:35
  It's just that you can't. He's just never healthy.
• 35:37
  It sucks because he's such a good producer, but you know
• 35:41
  what? I'm still holding on.
• 35:42
  Look at the averages. It's don't look at the averages.
• 35:45
  It's deceiving because it's like really a problem with.
• 35:47
  If you're in a spot, then all you need is for him to last
• 35:50
  three weeks, right? You just need him to last for
• 35:53
  the playoffs and put up. Those numbers and you're happy
• 35:55
  then you can get injured before the playoffs, like the real
• 35:57
  playoffs. You're like, I don't care, my
• 35:59
  fantasy season is done and you help me so.
• 36:02
  I think that's kind of what people like Kevin are hoping
• 36:04
  for. So yeah.
• 36:05
  So yeah, I would definitely stash him.
• 36:06
  If you get him for free, why not?
• 36:08
  Yeah. But alright, let's move on to
• 36:10
  another one of Jakey spuds. All right, at #5. #5 we have the
• 36:16
  best player on the Washington Capitals, Justin Sordid.
• 36:20
  If line 2 power play 26 game week of note though, the week
• 36:24
  after the two gamers. So there's a chance you pick him
• 36:26
  up for this week and then drop him after, but he's been sick
• 36:29
  he's. Like.
• 36:30
  First of all, if you're in a face off wins league face off
• 36:33
  this from the winger position is always very nice.
• 36:35
  But just I mean look, usually I'm not a fan of putting guys
• 36:39
  who aren't power play one anywhere near like the top 10
• 36:42
  and I'm not even usually interested in holding them
• 36:45
  unless they're bangers. But he's just killing it that
• 36:48
  line 2 if of him. What is it him Wilson and is a
• 36:53
  protist. Yep.
• 36:55
  Of course they think they're killing it.
• 36:57
  It's sort of because like always involved in all those goals so
• 37:00
  so I really like him on a six game week.
• 37:03
  I will say though. For two.
• 37:04
  For myself, I feel like I like the Buffalo guys more than sort
• 37:09
  of and maybe the production doesn't align with with having
• 37:12
  that take, but to me it's just like a process like line 2,
• 37:16
  power play 2. And he's playing on a power play
• 37:18
  with Lexapro. So, you know, nobody's getting a
• 37:20
  point, first of all. If you crash out, just like
• 37:26
  don't come back this episode with all your slander, OK?
• 37:30
  Like, you know. Really.
• 37:32
  I actually lied pro. This is not even on power play
• 37:34
  too so. So there's still hope then?
• 37:39
  Yeah, they're still have some respect on his name somehow.
• 37:44
  I think Ethan and Frank got a little disrespected when you
• 37:46
  said the best player on Washington, but it's fine.
• 37:50
  But I just think process wise, I like these other guys a little
• 37:53
  bit more because I think the deployment is safer and that
• 37:56
  leads to higher end chances and minutes.
• 37:59
  But you can't argue with what sort has been doing on the ice
• 38:02
  and in the stat sheet. I will say that something to
• 38:04
  monitor is PLD coming back because PLD, he's been skating.
• 38:09
  The team loves him. He was a big part of what they
• 38:11
  did last season. Everybody hated him.
• 38:14
  I treated him off my roster last year and then I, you know, cause
• 38:17
  Josh kept telling me that he sucks and I need to trade him
• 38:19
  and then I traded him. Then he was good, then, yeah.
• 38:22
  He was good, but if he comes there's no no world in my mind
• 38:27
  where sort of keeps line 2 and PLD is healthy.
• 38:32
  I don't know, I. Don't think that killed in line
• 38:35
  3 and have him play with I mean the goat either right?
• 38:40
  Or Ryan Leonard and Connor McMichael.
• 38:42
  That means that they like 3 loaded lines, you know.
• 38:45
  I could see it honestly, like with how well that.
• 38:48
  You played with Wilson a bunch and with SO.
• 38:53
  My guess it's also like who do you think if they think PLD is
• 38:56
  better? This may be counterintuitive but
• 38:58
  I could see him being more likely to put on line 3 because
• 39:00
  since they since the line 2 is already clicking, why mess with
• 39:04
  that when you can put a better player online 3 and keep that
• 39:06
  line 2 going. So and also he's like coming off
• 39:09
  of like a really long, yeah. So even if he works his way back
• 39:12
  up to line 2, I don't know if he immediately slots in there.
• 39:14
  But at the same time, it's a really good point, right?
• 39:16
  Like if he does come in, it definitely puts the deployment
• 39:18
  in. Question in my mind, this is
• 39:19
  like a real, real life hockey take.
• 39:22
  Just put yourself in your shoes. Like this guy is like a veteran.
• 39:25
  Like he's also been a presence in the locker room.
• 39:28
  Like people like him like he comes back from injury and it's
• 39:31
  like you're giving away his spot to a kid who doesn't have like
• 39:35
  doesn't deserve it yet type of thing.
• 39:36
  You know what I mean? It just feels like it's a
• 39:38
  seniority call at that point. That's how I'm visualizing it in
• 39:41
  my whether that happens. It's obviously just one of the
• 39:44
  options. Not not necessarily guarantee,
• 39:46
  but if people does come back and like you picked up sort of early
• 39:49
  week and then he gets bumped off the second, you know, after the
• 39:52
  Olympic break, but still week 18.
• 39:54
  I would not be if he's line 3 power play 2.
• 39:56
  It would not be as hot as holding, if that makes sense.
• 40:00
  Yeah, I think that's that's a very fair point.
• 40:03
  My take on comparing him to the Buffalo guys is, is that if
• 40:05
  you're in a league that is deep enough that both these guys are
• 40:08
  on waivers, Zucker and sort of just taking two guys I own, I'd
• 40:13
  rather pick up sort of. I think the upside is.
• 40:14
  High, but what's the? If you're in a league that's
• 40:17
  deep, he's just been like he has these games.
• 40:20
  Where you know? Still look at the points and
• 40:24
  he's playing with better players.
• 40:26
  I'm surprised you'd rather sort of falls under.
• 40:28
  Beast, but I'd be more like I'd rather if I had to drop one, I'm
• 40:33
  dropping sort of. If I'm in a deep enough league,
• 40:35
  I'd rather. Hold like cheeky says, stuff
• 40:38
  like that. Drop whatever the other.
• 40:40
  Yeah, because it means that like you're in a league that's deep
• 40:43
  enough that you can go for the upside.
• 40:45
  I think sort of has more of a chance to get better shots and
• 40:48
  points. But if I'm in a league that's
• 40:50
  like deep enough that I could rather just hold, I feel like it
• 40:53
  makes sense. There are leagues that I've seen
• 40:56
  guys at super question mark that they're on waivers, but I think
• 40:58
  that's sort of has been really like good as of late.
• 41:02
  And I think the surrounding counties is amazing.
• 41:05
  So that's one of those things that it's just like I feel like
• 41:07
  you're getting more security with Zucker, but it's going to
• 41:10
  be like 85 type of thing, whereas the sort of it could be
• 41:13
  like a one point per game or like a .5.
• 41:15
  So I'd rather just take the swing if I'm going to leave this
• 41:17
  deep enough. I mean, yeah, at the end of the
• 41:20
  day, it comes down to like you have the Buffalo guys who have
• 41:23
  way better deployment, but you have the the sort of who's been
• 41:26
  doing a lot better. So in some cases, like, yeah, so
• 41:30
  it's like who do you go with for that week?
• 41:32
  Like if we take the PLD part out of it and we're just looking at
• 41:35
  it as it is, I'd put sort of higher just because it's tough
• 41:38
  to like, I don't like it's like if we put sort of follow those
• 41:41
  guys, you have sucker at like 6 and donut like 5 and they've
• 41:44
  been pretty bad lately. You know like, like, but it's
• 41:47
  the process, right? Which is why.
• 41:48
  They're. So.
• 41:50
  They're on waivers, which is what it's for.
• 41:51
  That just makes sense. Sort of is the better pickup I
• 41:54
  think. For this.
• 41:56
  But the PLD thing is definitely something to consider.
• 41:59
  So I think it also depends what you're targeting right?
• 42:02
  Like if you don't need the PowerPoints but you want more
• 42:05
  points, which is kind of counterintuitive, but that can
• 42:08
  happen right? Where you just care about the
• 42:09
  point total and not if it's on power play or not, then I
• 42:12
  probably lean sort of. But obviously, if you need any
• 42:14
  power play points, I'm going with either the Buffalo guys.
• 42:17
  Yeah, I mean, even though Zucker doesn't have one in the last two
• 42:20
  weeks. Yeah, it's one of those.
• 42:22
  Out there, right? Yeah.
• 42:23
  Yeah, that's what I'm saying though.
• 42:25
  That's why I think ride the bike.
• 42:27
  If you pick him up, then I would go for sort of, but I'd rather
• 42:30
  if you're in a league that's deep enough, I'm more
• 42:32
  apprehensive to draw Zucker. Yeah.
• 42:36
  All right, let's go to the next one.
• 42:39
  At. #4 at #4 I love it when you call me Evangelista.
• 42:48
  We got Luke Evangelista of the National Predators line.
• 42:51
  One power play, one only five games, but still solid.
• 42:54
  And then four games the week after.
• 42:56
  It's actually interesting on this list, the top four guys are
• 42:59
  all 5 game guys and the bottom six are all six game guys.
• 43:01
  I just couldn't like, I like these guys all enough better
• 43:05
  than the bottom 6 that I think even with the one fewer game,
• 43:07
  they were there with being higher.
• 43:09
  But you guys could tell me if you agree as we get to them.
• 43:11
  But yeah, so we've got Evangelista of of the Preds.
• 43:14
  He seems kind of locked that line.
• 43:15
  One power play, one spot down. Predators are a lot better than
• 43:18
  we expected here five games and four games the week after that.
• 43:21
  He his shots have slowed down, but we know that he has it in
• 43:24
  him to have a good shooting week, so I like him as a lot as
• 43:27
  a pick up. Last game he got bumped off
• 43:29
  power Play OneDrive. What for Marshalls.
• 43:32
  For who? Marshall.
• 43:32
  So. Yeah, OK.
• 43:34
  That was something I was keeping an eye on, but I don't know if I
• 43:37
  trust that to last. But that definitely puts a puts
• 43:40
  an asterisk there. Yeah, if it does, if it does,
• 43:43
  obviously I think we we agree he's lower on this list.
• 43:46
  But overall it's such a weird thing with this Nashville team
• 43:51
  because they're they're so veteran based.
• 43:53
  I mean, if they think they're making the playoffs, they're not
• 43:56
  trading O'Reilly, they're not trading Stamkos, right?
• 43:58
  That's not going to happen. But I'm still not convinced that
• 44:01
  they're gonna hold. So if they do blow it up and
• 44:05
  then he's kind of like the lone man there, like I don't think
• 44:08
  like, let's say rest this season.
• 44:09
  It's that great. But for the week 18, you know, 5
• 44:12
  and then four games in Week 19. Yeah.
• 44:14
  I mean it's it's definitely worth a shot, especially if he
• 44:17
  solidifies the power play 1 back.
• 44:19
  Yeah, but that is a big point. If Marsh so has it over
• 44:23
  Evangelista, then just put Marco's name here instead
• 44:27
  because that he's also super low rostered so you could just flip.
• 44:29
  Them. People shooting and hitting. 13%
• 44:32
  so. Yeah, I think Marshall is
• 44:34
  getting traded. I think even if Nashville is in
• 44:37
  a playoff spot, I think they're still gonna trade assets.
• 44:40
  To me, that's what I would do as a GM Like, I mean, I guess
• 44:42
  that's really hard and I'm just doing it from like treating
• 44:45
  people as numbers type of thing. But you're not willing to
• 44:47
  Stanley Cup this season. It's just, to me, it's just not
• 44:50
  happening, right? And then you put yourself in
• 44:52
  such a worse spot next season if you hold all these guys.
• 44:55
  So to me it feels like inevitable that these guys are
• 44:57
  on the trade. In terms of martial
• 44:59
  specifically, I really thought, you know, he was like day-to-day
• 45:01
  for like a month. I really thought it was like
• 45:04
  day-to-day for trade reasons. I thought they were just holding
• 45:06
  him out and then like he was never playing another game as a
• 45:08
  Nashville Predator again. So I'm pretty shocked that he
• 45:10
  like made it back into. Some point like they can't use
• 45:14
  that as an excuse anymore. They're all right.
• 45:17
  Yeah, no, exactly. So like, I don't know.
• 45:19
  I don't know what that was about.
• 45:21
  It's very, I mean, that's usually what happens to my guys.
• 45:24
  Our day-to-day, they're out for like 2 months.
• 45:26
  But usually that doesn't, that's not a thing, right.
• 45:28
  So I really thought he was getting traded.
• 45:30
  Now he seems to be on the team getting power play one time.
• 45:33
  Could be a showcase. For for a trade.
• 45:36
  I think he's the most likely to get traded out of the guys.
• 45:39
  I don't know you guys think, but I think he's the one that the
• 45:41
  team likes the least. He's the least integral to her
• 45:43
  success right now. They've been doing so well about
• 45:45
  him so. Yeah, so I think if they can get
• 45:47
  that, you know, contract off their off their books and you
• 45:51
  know, get something in return or even just even just dumping him,
• 45:53
  I think could be could be good for them.
• 45:55
  But again, you have to find a team that's willing to take him
• 45:57
  with that contract. So so we'll see what happens,
• 46:00
  but maybe this mini trade deadline of the of the Olympics
• 46:03
  will cause some action. But yeah, so anyways, Evangeline
• 46:06
  star March. So whichever one you're seeing,
• 46:07
  I mean, there's games today. So whichever one has power, play
• 46:09
  1 like the last game you know? That's why I would go with the
• 46:13
  two. Alright, at #3.
• 46:19
  At #3 we have Mudboy. He's been on this show a lot
• 46:23
  over the over the course of the season.
• 46:25
  And surprise, if you told me at the beginning of season, this
• 46:27
  guy would be on my team for months and this guy would be
• 46:30
  mentioned on our pod so many times.
• 46:31
  I'd be like, what year is this year?
• 46:34
  But we got Jordan Eberly of the Seattle crack in line.
• 46:38
  One power play, 1, five game week.
• 46:40
  He's been so solid. It's crazy.
• 46:42
  Like he's you know, he'll go through like his ups and downs,
• 46:45
  but for the most part he's just super consistent in the last
• 46:48
  week. He's got 6 points in his last
• 46:49
  four games and he's on the past month he's averaging .85 points
• 46:55
  and like .35 power play points. Now, the back cats haven't been
• 46:59
  great. Like he's at like 1.9 shots and
• 47:01
  like .9 hits. But like that production of
• 47:04
  points in PowerPoints from a waiver guy is kind of nuts.
• 47:07
  He's been hovering around actually like close to 30% owned
• 47:10
  lately. I remember when I picked him up,
• 47:12
  he was 1% owned. So, you know, one of those.
• 47:15
  Yeah, exactly one of those good feelings.
• 47:17
  But but yeah, no, with how he's been playing, how Seattle's been
• 47:21
  playing, they're actually, they're probably actually been
• 47:23
  like deceptively solid. I know we talked about this.
• 47:25
  I mean, I won't go into too much.
• 47:26
  I feel it's on a show every week.
• 47:27
  But anyways, yeah, I'm really sick.
• 47:30
  Yeah. I, I think the Seattle team has
• 47:33
  a lot of success. He has a lot of potential
• 47:35
  success in the future too, because he's on that like the
• 47:37
  best kind of set deployment would play with the best players
• 47:39
  and he's just part of that line success.
• 47:41
  So unless people are getting traded, which I don't think is
• 47:45
  going to be the case. Um, I really like his situation
• 47:49
  and like you said, like he's just consistent.
• 47:50
  Like he was the one of the Kyle pulmonary type of guys before
• 47:55
  the injury. So I really like elderly.
• 47:59
  If you're in a deeper league, like this is the type of guy
• 48:00
  that's like probably already been rostered for a while.
• 48:03
  But if you're in a shallower league and you want to stream a
• 48:05
  guy on this upcoming week, like it's rarer, you'll find guys
• 48:08
  that can produce at such a high level consistently and then be
• 48:11
  available for pickup. So.
• 48:14
  Yeah, I mean, McCann is the the guy to own on this team, I
• 48:18
  think. And then we're gonna, I don't
• 48:20
  know, no spoilers. But at the end of the day, it's
• 48:22
  it's one of those things that I think they're just turning into
• 48:25
  a top heavy team, which is the best thing that you want for
• 48:28
  fantasy. You know, I wouldn't be
• 48:31
  surprised if I'm shocked to say this, but I wouldn't be
• 48:34
  surprised if they make the playoffs.
• 48:35
  I think it's pretty nuts. The way that the Western
• 48:39
  Conference is shaking out is that like the top three teams in
• 48:42
  the Central, the top two teams in the Pacific are are pretty
• 48:45
  much locks and then it's just wide open after that.
• 48:48
  I mean, it's crazy. The East, I feel like it's just
• 48:51
  super competitive, way more teams fighting.
• 48:55
  Exactly. Tampa, I feel like.
• 48:56
  No one Tampa, maybe Caroline to Carolina, but yeah, it's really
• 49:00
  just happen like 100%. So I mean, I like the way that
• 49:04
  this is shaking out and just the Seattle assets in general,
• 49:06
  they're totally under the radar and under appreciated.
• 49:10
  So yeah, and their matchups this week, they're playing Anaheim,
• 49:13
  they're playing LA, Dallas, St. Louis, Vancouver.
• 49:17
  Tons of opportunities. For you ask for like other than
• 49:20
  Dallas and Dallas hasn't even been that great lately.
• 49:22
  Like that's got to be like 4 of the easiest games to play.
• 49:25
  And Dallas can let in goals. I mean, auditor, even though he
• 49:28
  was my bi lo a few weeks ago, it finally he's turned it up.
• 49:30
  But it's not of those like he could just have a game where he
• 49:33
  lets him seven goals and against a team as hot as Seattle, I
• 49:35
  wouldn't be surprised if that's the game, you know.
• 49:37
  Yeah. So.
• 49:39
  Baby. All right, let's go to the next
• 49:43
  one. My favorite number in the whole
• 49:45
  alphabet at. #2. He cares so much more about the
• 49:51
  alphabet. We've got we've got a treat for
• 49:56
  you. It's actually multiple number
• 49:58
  twos. Plural of Matt is Mats
• 50:01
  Zuccarello of the Minnesota Wild line one power play, 1 five game
• 50:04
  week. We know we recommended him last
• 50:06
  week and it doesn't seem to have been the best week for him, if
• 50:09
  that. If anything, that just makes me
• 50:10
  think that this week is gonna be even better.
• 50:12
  And on to the fact that I'm playing him this coming week.
• 50:14
  It's pretty much guaranteed just the smorgasbord of points.
• 50:22
  You don't know that word. Smorgasbord.
• 50:24
  Whoa. You've never had a smorgasborg?
• 50:26
  No, it's like like a picture, like an all you can eat buffet.
• 50:31
  It's just like an absolute like, just like everything you want.
• 50:34
  I actually know that word from the animated Charlotte's Web
• 50:38
  movie back when I was a kid. And watch Miracle on Ice Disney
• 50:43
  version. I didn't know I was watching the
• 50:46
  wrong one. Anyways.
• 50:49
  Did you, did you consciously know when you were saying that
• 50:51
  the smorgasbord is Scandinavian? It's it's Swedish, but still.
• 50:55
  I did not know that. Clever.
• 50:57
  I love. Those kind that I did.
• 50:59
  Everything falls into place. Exactly.
• 51:04
  Yeah, so zuccarello, I mean like.
• 51:06
  It's hard as long as you maintain that deployment, even
• 51:08
  if he's putting up like straight zeros, he's gonna be recommended
• 51:10
  on here because the deployment is too elite and he's shown in
• 51:13
  the past to be a player who can be elite at points that there's
• 51:16
  just no reason for him to be this low rostered.
• 51:18
  So on A5 game week and coming off a down week, like certain
• 51:21
  guys when they have a down week, I'm just waiting for the
• 51:23
  explosion. Like it's like not that he's
• 51:25
  like such an elite player or anything like anymore you know,
• 51:28
  but like not and not to compare him to McDavid.
• 51:30
  McDavid had two games of zeros and I was like OK, something
• 51:33
  crazy is about to happen. And then he had a 5 game .5
• 51:35
  point game. So like there's some guys were
• 51:37
  like, you know what their averages it would be.
• 51:38
  So if they have a quiet week, you're just like, OK, it's about
• 51:41
  to average out pretty hard. So that's how I feel securely
• 51:43
  this coming week. Yeah, I I got I got that and I
• 51:47
  can't resolve is also been nuts. So it's kind of a question mark
• 51:50
  as to why Zuccarello hasn't benefited from there.
• 51:53
  I think it's only a matter of time that he just gets on the
• 51:57
  train of benefiting from Cybersoft insanity.
• 51:59
  Like it just really makes no sense.
• 52:02
  He's basically gone like 2 points per game plus and you
• 52:05
  know, like those last eight games or something.
• 52:07
  I'm playing the guy who has Kaprizov and Zuccarello next
• 52:09
  week so. Yeah, that's a fun stock to own.
• 52:13
  It is one of those like goes under the radar but it really
• 52:16
  cool. I remember when I played him, it
• 52:18
  was not fun. I just dreamed terror single to
• 52:20
  mitigate that a little bit, but it was futile so.
• 52:26
  So you still commands. You're still tired and that guy
• 52:29
  had like a crazy points week. It took me a shutout and a short
• 52:32
  handed point just to tie the Week 77.
• 52:36
  That's it. But I forget who.
• 52:37
  I think Sam Reinhart came in clutch and got me like a goal in
• 52:40
  the last game of the season and the last game of the week and it
• 52:43
  was like an empty netter and I tied goals that week so.
• 52:46
  He does that, he's very close, does do that.
• 52:48
  He's very close. I'm learning is one of those
• 52:51
  guys that like some of these games are just so late that I
• 52:54
  can't stay up. And so when it does happen and I
• 52:57
  go to bed and like he's got straight zeros and I wake up, he
• 52:59
  ends up having like 2 points, like three shots, two hits and
• 53:03
  like 2 face off with or something.
• 53:05
  He's like the anti Jack Reeves and escarole.
• 53:07
  Yes, I can go to bed and no matter what the score is, I'm
• 53:11
  gonna wake up to my guys having lost, like the amount of times I
• 53:14
  went to bed during like, Jet Greaves winning the game and
• 53:16
  like the start of third period, then waking up and him having
• 53:20
  lost like 5-3 after letting like three goals in the last two
• 53:23
  minutes. Or the asker of 1 this week of
• 53:26
  three? Nothing.
• 53:26
  This week they're beating Edmonton 30.
• 53:28
  I'm like alright guys, safe to go to bed.
• 53:30
  I go to bed, I wake up. They lost 4, three in overtime
• 53:33
  and they were like two goals with the goalie was pulled to
• 53:36
  tie the game. I'm just like and I like flip 3
• 53:39
  categories for my matchup is just and then Matthew Olivier
• 53:43
  and then Anthony Banda because I'm going through it this week.
• 53:47
  I feel like what happens is that Reinhart tucks you in and he's
• 53:50
  like, I'll do my best to mitigate the issues and the
• 53:53
  other players are giving you have any like, caresses your
• 53:56
  hair and then you fall asleep and then you wake up.
• 53:58
  You like. Thanks for trying, Sam.
• 54:04
  And then I have like ask Richard who they like spit on my face
• 54:07
  during the night or something like.
• 54:10
  I don't know what bigger management fan fiction you guys
• 54:12
  have been reading. You can write something your fan
• 54:15
  fan fiction. I think that's pretty.
• 54:18
  Awesome. I'd like to.
• 54:19
  I'd like to not be involved. That's where the next year.
• 54:23
  Stay for the fantasy advice and then really stay for the fan
• 54:26
  fiction. OHP Alright, let's get to the
• 54:30
  top one. Alright #1.
• 54:34
  At #1 we have Mattie Veneers of the Seattle crack in line, one
• 54:39
  power play, 1, the number one seed for the team, five game
• 54:41
  week. We just mentioned Eberly as the
• 54:43
  third and we've got beers at the top.
• 54:45
  He's been absolutely unreal. And we talked about Jackie
• 54:49
  alluded to it when he said McCann's the guy to own and
• 54:51
  second guy to own is, I'm not going to say because it's been
• 54:54
  years. So it would go, it would be
• 54:56
  McCann veneers Everly and then done somewhere in there as well.
• 55:00
  But but yeah, no, it's it's crazy what he's been doing.
• 55:03
  I mean, he's got the pedigree, right?
• 55:05
  He had his first his rookie season was unreal.
• 55:07
  I remember I picked him up like towards the end of the year that
• 55:08
  year and he was a monster. And we've kind of been waiting
• 55:11
  for him to do something. He's he's not an issue of
• 55:13
  deployment. He's always been pretty much
• 55:15
  line one power play one on this team.
• 55:17
  But also the team has been kind of bad.
• 55:18
  So now that the team is kind of picking it up, he's picking it
• 55:21
  up. I like this a lot of say rest of
• 55:23
  season holds. He's also been kind of hitting
• 55:24
  some cats as well. So it's a pretty, pretty nice to
• 55:27
  see if you if you dropped it in super late in your draft.
• 55:30
  Yeah, Anything to not own a Matthew A We got Mats, we got
• 55:34
  Mattie Matthew. Forget it should.
• 55:37
  Actually, absolutely, Matthews. Don't even get me started.
• 55:42
  Don't talk to me about that. He's been fine.
• 55:45
  He's been fine. But yeah, with veneers, if I'm
• 55:49
  not mistaken, he actually won the the Calder Trophy that year
• 55:53
  because he was, yeah, he won the Calder Trophy.
• 55:56
  So there is the look, I mean that in that year they actually
• 56:00
  they made the playoffs. So he's he can be a really great
• 56:05
  player. He was drafted second overall a
• 56:07
  super young and he's just leading.
• 56:10
  Well, McCann really is like he's now at 42% owned.
• 56:13
  Last week we recommended him. So I hope everyone listened to
• 56:15
  that. But any top heavy team, Tampa
• 56:19
  Bay, Colorado, obviously Seattle's not there yet, but
• 56:23
  like they're they're trying to be like a Walmart.
• 56:26
  You know, Avalanche, I would say, I think it's really, really
• 56:32
  one of those teams that I would like if you can pick them up
• 56:35
  there, I can't see it being better than owning these guys
• 56:38
  like during this hot. Streak, so they're one of the
• 56:41
  teams in the league. They are definitely one of the
• 56:44
  teams of all time. What I say that?
• 56:47
  No, but Josh always says that. What I will say with Maddie
• 56:51
  Bonniers, though, is that like, yes, he's hot right now and yes,
• 56:54
  he's absolutely worth a stream. But it's also fun with the guys
• 56:57
  like this is that you still don't even know what they're
• 56:59
  selling is. It's kind of one of those
• 57:01
  players that they're young, they're in a great situation to
• 57:05
  deployment is solid and when they're ramping up, you're like,
• 57:07
  OK, this is exciting. Like where are we going to go
• 57:09
  type of thing, right? And I think we're on that train
• 57:11
  with Matty Bonniers. Where where where is it going to
• 57:14
  go? Like he's still playing with
• 57:15
  McCann and Everly and other great players.
• 57:18
  So I really think this is one of those situations, you know, you
• 57:21
  can pick him up and maybe we're experiencing the Madonna's
• 57:24
  breakout that, you know, pulses Olympic break.
• 57:27
  He has some more rest and then he's coming back on fire and
• 57:30
  ends the season really hot. Like he could be one of those
• 57:32
  guys that's like a second-half of the season league winner for
• 57:34
  you. So I'm not I'm not putting that
• 57:36
  into the universe too hard and taking my reputation on it.
• 57:39
  But with guys like this were drafted so high that have the
• 57:42
  pedigree that are starting to heat up once they've been in the
• 57:44
  league for a little bit, like you know that that's in the back
• 57:46
  of your mind as potential for a result that can happen.
• 57:50
  Yeah, young, dumb and full of potential.
• 57:52
  Yeah, very, Oh my God, very, very brief, brief question on
• 58:00
  this. Do you think that, like, would
• 58:02
  you rather own players who are not in the Olympics versus in
• 58:06
  the Olympics? We haven't seen this happen.
• 58:08
  The best players are going to the Olympics though, so I want
• 58:10
  to own the best players. So it's.
• 58:12
  Been a rather the best players on my team and then not go to
• 58:15
  the Olympics. It's been yeah.
• 58:18
  Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
• 58:21
  You know, yeah, exactly. It's.
• 58:22
  Been 12 years since for the Snacks since they've been in the
• 58:25
  Olympics, right? It was 2014 was the last time
• 58:27
  the NHL players went to the Olympics and at that time, 80
• 58:31
  points in the season was the best.
• 58:34
  It was like Jamie Benns type thing.
• 58:36
  So at this stage, with how much offensive star power there is, I
• 58:40
  feel like the general ideas that I want players not going to the
• 58:43
  Olympics, I feel like it's going to slow them down a lot and the
• 58:47
  other guys are going to have a pretty unfair advantage coming
• 58:50
  back. I think it's just it goes
• 58:51
  please, like you can be like, oh, you know, they're riding the
• 58:54
  momentum of the high and like the adrenaline of having done
• 58:56
  well or or what not. And that can really influence
• 58:59
  that We saw with Bennington last season, right?
• 59:00
  Like it wasn't even the Olympics, just the Four Nations,
• 59:02
  but like. That was like 3 games.
• 59:04
  I know this is a bigger tournament so I just wanted to.
• 59:09
  Country and it's like it's more like the mental aspect of it as
• 59:12
  opposed to like the toilet takes on your body.
• 59:14
  But these guys play already so many games during the season
• 59:16
  that no, some of them still have a lot of three on those tires
• 59:19
  because they haven't been in the playoffs so.
• 59:22
  Yeah, I mean, for me, the main concern with the Olympics is
• 59:25
  injuries. I think that's just like, I'm
• 59:28
  gonna be watching like so stressed because I have like a
• 59:30
  bunch of players going to the Olympics.
• 59:31
  I'm just like please don't do anything.
• 59:33
  You know, like. That interests you.
• 59:35
  So that's my main, my main issue with guys going to the Olympics.
• 59:38
  I think it can go both ways in terms of other than entry, like
• 59:40
  it go like you're saying they were like they're more tired
• 59:42
  than not getting that rest. But it could also go like in
• 59:45
  terms of certain players, like Salami, I feel like him getting
• 59:48
  to play with like Crosby, like and like all these guys, you
• 59:50
  know, like it's just, it's gonna be like, I mean, kind of like
• 59:53
  actually like I had I have like on my notes app, like towards
• 59:56
  the end of the season, I'll take notes for the coming season,
• 59:58
  like for guys on a draft, whatever.
• 59:59
  And I remember reading like or like seeing at the end of last
• 1:00:03
  year, like at the like worlds or whatever, like celebrating you
• 1:00:06
  was playing with like Crosby or whatever, I forget which, which
• 1:00:08
  championship it was for the players that get like eliminated
• 1:00:11
  from the from the playoffs, right.
• 1:00:12
  And they were playing together. And like, all I was saying was
• 1:00:15
  like, like another goal, Crosby celebrating somebody, Crosby,
• 1:00:17
  like, Oh, Crosby says. This is amazing celebrities
• 1:00:19
  like, you know, like growing so much and learning so much and
• 1:00:22
  we're taking the note being like celebrity is about to have a
• 1:00:24
  monster year. Like that was like, you know,
• 1:00:26
  like I was like, I need to get celebrity obviously take you
• 1:00:28
  like grabbed him like like before I could this year, but I
• 1:00:30
  still ended up with him. But but that's the kind of thing
• 1:00:33
  where like, so him getting a play with all those guys at the
• 1:00:36
  Olympics, like I think it's just one of those things that can
• 1:00:38
  really help like the growth and development of a player.
• 1:00:40
  So in that sense, yeah, in terms of the older players, on the
• 1:00:42
  other hand, that could be like it could take a toll on them for
• 1:00:45
  sure. It could be like, oh man, they
• 1:00:46
  could have really used that, that like 2 week break, you
• 1:00:49
  know, to like like heal U, especially guys who are kind of
• 1:00:51
  like fringe injured, but playing through it.
• 1:00:53
  Um, so there's definitely goes both ways.
• 1:00:57
  Yeah, OK. Alright, let's get to our top
• 1:01:02
  five bangers with a capital B. Banker management, Let's talk
• 1:01:06
  about some bangers. It's little tidbit, but um, my
• 1:01:14
  girlfriend was listening to a different podcast not related to
• 1:01:16
  hockey at all a few days ago. And then somebody in their
• 1:01:21
  podcast, like 2 girls talking and then one of them said like,
• 1:01:24
  oh, something like anger management.
• 1:01:27
  And then she like did a double take was like, wait, are they
• 1:01:29
  talking about like Bangor management?
• 1:01:31
  Whatever. She was like, obviously not, but
• 1:01:33
  it was still funny that she it was like a moment of her like
• 1:01:36
  putting the pieces together of like the name of the podcast so
• 1:01:39
  that you just said you just say and just like, you know, Bangor
• 1:01:42
  management like you don't even think twice.
• 1:01:43
  But it's a play on words, guys. It's a plan or genius.
• 1:01:46
  Genius. Alright, let's try to go through
• 1:01:52
  these quickly. Yep, alright, at #5. #5 We've
• 1:01:57
  got Alex Laferriere, the better laugh of the LA Kings 5 game
• 1:02:01
  week. Like we talked about him a ton
• 1:02:04
  over the past couple of weeks. We won't dwell on it too much,
• 1:02:06
  but he's a guy who could average you like three shots, three
• 1:02:08
  hits, which is just unreal. So love him.
• 1:02:10
  I will say, obviously Kopitar should be back at some point,
• 1:02:13
  either before or after the break, so I expect this is time
• 1:02:16
  to take a dip. But I still don't like his
• 1:02:18
  bangers that were sick and before Kopitar got injured, so
• 1:02:21
  I'm still not too worried about him.
• 1:02:23
  Yeah, he's been so good. But you're right with the last
• 1:02:26
  appointment, it's it's definitely a question.
• 1:02:28
  Mark yeah, this is one of those guys, like we said multiple
• 1:02:30
  times, like he's playing a lot of minutes and he's already has
• 1:02:34
  that player archetype. So if you need shots and hits
• 1:02:36
  and some points exposure, like this is one of the better guys
• 1:02:39
  that are going to be available to you in terms of like being
• 1:02:41
  able to stream and hit all those categories from one slot.
• 1:02:44
  So I love him. OK, the best, the best Alex
• 1:02:52
  laugh. Yes, absolutely.
• 1:02:55
  I definitely would not drop him this week.
• 1:02:57
  But do you love him? Yeah, I love him.
• 1:03:02
  Alright, alright, let's go to the next.
• 1:03:04
  Slide not love this guy, but at. #4 at #4 We've got Yakov Trenin
• 1:03:11
  of the Minnesota Wild 5 game week.
• 1:03:14
  Honestly, like he could have been on this list every week for
• 1:03:16
  the past couple of months, but hasn't necessarily had the best
• 1:03:19
  schedule. So I've put other guys ahead,
• 1:03:21
  but this is very much a pure, pure hits, 4.8 hits averaging on
• 1:03:25
  the on the season and he's just a beast.
• 1:03:28
  Puts up like 9 hits regularly, stuff like that.
• 1:03:30
  Especially. Games with nine hits, yeah.
• 1:03:33
  It's actually nuts. So like in terms of like a
• 1:03:35
  forward who hits this, you can't really do better than than
• 1:03:37
  trending this. Year I have so much sustained
• 1:03:39
  damage from my matchups with this guy because it feels like
• 1:03:44
  every time it just he can't keep doing this line hits nine hits.
• 1:03:48
  You know, no idea at all that somebody hits has against me in
• 1:03:51
  my fantasy matchups, but snap. Snap.
• 1:03:54
  Snap. Seriously, you need your own
• 1:03:56
  Olympic break. You're emotional.
• 1:03:59
  You're look at the analysis and you're like, oh, this guy's
• 1:04:01
  average like 4.7, five hits like per game.
• 1:04:05
  Then you play against them and he double s that.
• 1:04:07
  You're like, what the hell, man? Like.
• 1:04:10
  You know what I just realized what's happening to Kevin this
• 1:04:13
  year is that usually, like he was with me on this, he
• 1:04:16
  channeled all his like, hate and bad luck against one player and
• 1:04:19
  that player was Mark Stone. But now he went to the dark side
• 1:04:22
  and likes Mark Stone and that released the energy.
• 1:04:24
  And spread out a bunch of a bunch of like lesser players and
• 1:04:28
  now they're all just turning into like monsters against them.
• 1:04:30
  So Are you sure? You don't want to be a part of
• 1:04:32
  the anger management fanfiction because I feel.
• 1:04:34
  Like. No, this is the bigger
• 1:04:37
  management anime. That would be so guys, we have
• 1:04:41
  to take all the voodoo and stuff that's happening to us and then
• 1:04:44
  make a story about it after the season, like a book that.
• 1:04:49
  Oh my God, anger management book that has zero fantasy value.
• 1:04:54
  Ohgod. Alright, let's go to. #3 the
• 1:04:58
  goat. Honestly, in my heart, he's
• 1:05:00
  always number one, but I put him at #3 We've got Jack McBain
• 1:05:04
  Mendoza. We finally know the drone.
• 1:05:07
  Thank you for whoever told us about finally put us in on the
• 1:05:11
  joke in the discord. Really appreciate it, I'm
• 1:05:13
  finally in on it. I feel like that's a safe bet.
• 1:05:14
  Anytime you don't get a joke, it's probably The Simpsons.
• 1:05:18
  So yeah, I know he's been just a monster. 1.4 shots, 3.4 hits on
• 1:05:22
  the season, face off wins from a winger.
• 1:05:24
  He gets penalty minutes and now he's getting points to he's got
• 1:05:26
  three points this week. And I was gonna say like a lot
• 1:05:29
  of that points upside came from being online with Gunther, but
• 1:05:32
  again, there's injured Mccains. Like I don't know, he was
• 1:05:34
  benefiting from McBain, not the other way around.
• 1:05:36
  You know, like it's actually crazy.
• 1:05:38
  The shots are coming like the the points.
• 1:05:40
  I love this guy. I huge fan.
• 1:05:42
  This is probably my pickup of the year, which, you know, it's
• 1:05:45
  not as flashy as some of these other pickups of the year, but
• 1:05:47
  I'm pretty happy about. It other pickups of all time,
• 1:05:50
  but definitely next season I wanna pick him up just like a
• 1:05:53
  name my team and those. But I mean he's been on this
• 1:06:00
  list for a couple weeks now he's if you've been in the discord
• 1:06:03
  you've been hearing about him from even before we started
• 1:06:06
  mentioning him on this top five list.
• 1:06:08
  Josh picked him up, told people to pick him up and people did
• 1:06:11
  and they're really happy. So I think that this is one of
• 1:06:14
  those guys that like if you're especially in the categories
• 1:06:17
  league, like he hits everything you need and then some, so.
• 1:06:21
  I feel like for a face off wins league he's a must own.
• 1:06:24
  Actually, it's more than just waivers.
• 1:06:25
  He's definitely already better face off in the. 15% face offs
• 1:06:30
  and bangers. And a lot of face off that's out
• 1:06:33
  there. If that's the case then then I
• 1:06:36
  feel like there's more than 15%, but hey, it could be.
• 1:06:39
  Wrong, but it's good. It's like 30%.
• 1:06:41
  Like, there's gotta be more banger leagues out there, guys.
• 1:06:43
  Yeah, I suppose, but. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:46
  But I will say like. That's kind of like my whole
• 1:06:49
  strategy normally, right, is the consolidating and then you have
• 1:06:51
  to make the correct pickup to make upward and picking up Jack
• 1:06:54
  Mcbean is like the perfect like you consolidate like 2 guys into
• 1:06:57
  one like equals their points. And then you just pick up and
• 1:06:59
  convenient to like absolutely demolish all banger cats and
• 1:07:02
  you're like so happy. So that's kind of the the Josh
• 1:07:05
  playbook. Yeah, it's working well so far.
• 1:07:07
  Yep. All right, all right, let's go
• 1:07:10
  to the next. One number two, the best.
• 1:07:13
  Number, Kevin's favorite number, yeah, exactly.
• 1:07:15
  And #2 we've got Jeremy loss of the Vegas Golden Knights when we
• 1:07:19
  talking about it for weeks other than him specifically, Vegas in
• 1:07:22
  general had just monster schedule for like weeks in a
• 1:07:24
  row. We're coming to an end to it in
• 1:07:26
  the in the next two weeks, but 5 week this coming week, 4 game
• 1:07:29
  week, the week after. So I mean, he's just been a
• 1:07:32
  monster. He's been hitting a ton.
• 1:07:34
  He's been throwing, shooting some like shooting over around 1
• 1:07:37
  blocking over one penalty minutes and he's playing first
• 1:07:42
  first line pairing lately. So he's getting a lot of
• 1:07:43
  minutes, which is just more time to absolutely demolish some
• 1:07:47
  bodies so and eat some pucks and get some penalties.
• 1:07:50
  So so no big big lows offence here and and still a great.
• 1:07:53
  Pickup drops invented Jeremy Lauzon so.
• 1:07:56
  I discovered him. Before he was good Elon Josh's
• 1:07:59
  fantasy team a few years back so.
• 1:08:01
  Listen, no, that would be like I picked him up and then he became
• 1:08:04
  like a monster. All those are the days.
• 1:08:06
  So that's how you consolidate because I was able to just I was
• 1:08:09
  like, I don't care who I dropped my I've so many garbage guys on
• 1:08:11
  my team. I'll just grab those all.
• 1:08:12
  And then he killed it. Little, little little.
• 1:08:17
  What am I trying to say? At least it doesn't have
• 1:08:19
  anything else to say so. Yeah, Little was on, Yeah.
• 1:08:24
  No, don't put that booty on me. Wait.
• 1:08:29
  Gonna walk out to the parking lot, there's gonna be like a hit
• 1:08:31
  squad of like, the strongest guys in the NHL, yeah.
• 1:08:35
  Jeremy, you are so big though, so attacked me.
• 1:08:40
  Alright, number one. Number one.
• 1:08:44
  Number one, we've got a mile Heineman of the New York
• 1:08:47
  Islanders 6 game week, so that's monster week for him.
• 1:08:50
  Over two shots, over three hits, points potential, gets to be on
• 1:08:54
  one of the power play units. Whatever is going on over there
• 1:08:57
  gets to play with both Horvat even strength.
• 1:08:59
  We've loved Heineman all year and the fact that he has a six
• 1:09:02
  game week this week makes him a no-brainer #1 to me.
• 1:09:05
  Just playing with Pilot now. I mean, you know the.
• 1:09:08
  Carson. Sushi.
• 1:09:11
  So why all the suits? Like I don't wanna start like I
• 1:09:14
  just started saying I like. It Doctor.
• 1:09:16
  Seuss Yeah. There we go.
• 1:09:20
  Yeah, yeah. We've got the shots for you.
• 1:09:26
  The shots from Hardeman on A6 game week, like not much more to
• 1:09:29
  say. Also his blocks are are still
• 1:09:31
  kind of a thing. It it's not that it was just
• 1:09:34
  super hot at the beginning. He did slow down, but it's
• 1:09:36
  picking up again. I wish I had him on my team.
• 1:09:38
  I actually tried to trade for him at some point and the guy.
• 1:09:41
  Rejected it so same looking. I actually sent a lot of value.
• 1:09:44
  I sent two guys that would greatly improve his roster like
• 1:09:48
  he would like tripling his points like potential and then
• 1:09:51
  yeah he was just like he just like rejected it and then him
• 1:09:54
  and started doing well again cause horrible came back.
• 1:09:56
  So love that. I haven't sent him any more
• 1:10:00
  offers since. Twice like the same.
• 1:10:05
  Within a monster. OK, so for session favor of
• 1:10:07
  actually been sick. He he sent you one of them and I
• 1:10:10
  just don't know how that makes sense.
• 1:10:12
  Like the fact that you're able to get Jason Robertson for line
• 1:10:15
  line 2 stretch after a week plus Brock Fabers power play one for
• 1:10:19
  one game. You know, yeah, they're
• 1:10:24
  definitely not wait for you in the parking lot, but.
• 1:10:26
  Yeah, exactly. Let's do the goalies.
• 1:10:30
  Alright, let's go to the goalies.
• 1:10:32
  For top three quantity goalies, under 40% guys who should
• 1:10:37
  guarantee you get at least 2 starts this week.
• 1:10:40
  This was an easy week because there's just so many games, so I
• 1:10:43
  actually got to choose some good ones, not just guys who are
• 1:10:45
  guaranteed quantity. Yeah.
• 1:10:48
  All right. So at #3. #3 we've got the
• 1:10:53
  plural of Artur, which is our tours.
• 1:10:56
  She loves the Pittsburgh Penguins.
• 1:10:59
  They play a back-to-back Ottawa Islanders, then they play
• 1:11:03
  Buffalo, New Jersey, and then another back-to-back Rangers in
• 1:11:05
  Vegas. So he's guaranteed at least two
• 1:11:07
  of those starts on the back to backs.
• 1:11:09
  And him and Skinner have kind of been alternating starts.
• 1:11:11
  Skinner definitely has the edge. If at any point they decide they
• 1:11:14
  want to stop alternating, it's going to go to Skinner.
• 1:11:15
  But he's getting you at least two starts, possibility of
• 1:11:18
  three. And these are, you know, kind of
• 1:11:21
  a mixed bag of opponents. You've got some weak ones, some
• 1:11:24
  strong ones. But first of all, especially on
• 1:11:26
  the back to backs, if he gets like, I mean, Ottawa and
• 1:11:29
  Islanders, I'm not too scared of either of them.
• 1:11:31
  And then if he gets the Rangers and not Vegas, that's a sick
• 1:11:33
  matchup. And also he's just been really
• 1:11:35
  solid. And the Penguins are second in
• 1:11:37
  their division. They've been really good.
• 1:11:38
  So I like she loves this week. Yeah, he's definitely my least
• 1:11:43
  favorite on this list. I mean, like he's he's
• 1:11:46
  definitely my least favorite. This is a matchup thing because
• 1:11:49
  he's he's just really not been that great ever since I spent
• 1:11:51
  like 50,000 fab on him. But but I will say he he he beat
• 1:11:56
  the Oilers and actually had a really solid game against them.
• 1:11:59
  So maybe this is a sign of better things to come.
• 1:12:01
  Scanner. I still think is is the one to
• 1:12:03
  own here. Obviously that's reflecting the
• 1:12:05
  own discrepancy, but I do like the Penguins.
• 1:12:07
  So. Let's get to the next one.
• 1:12:11
  At the best number in the whole alphabet #2.
• 1:12:17
  At #2 I really don't wanna be. Has not gotten old yet.
• 1:12:23
  No, I love it. I don't know.
• 1:12:25
  This guy is still not 40% rostered.
• 1:12:27
  I feel like we talked about him every single week for like
• 1:12:29
  months. Maybe running was been.
• 1:12:32
  I know he's been consistently good.
• 1:12:33
  Like I'm ready to drop my guy. But we've got Phillip Grubauer
• 1:12:37
  of the Seattle crackin play back-to-back Anaheim, LA,
• 1:12:40
  another back-to-back to back Dallas, St.
• 1:12:42
  Louis, and then against Vancouver.
• 1:12:44
  He's definitely getting you at least two.
• 1:12:45
  I would guess he would get 3 because he seems to be the
• 1:12:48
  starter right now instead of discord which sucks for me but
• 1:12:51
  it's all good and four out of five of these opponents are
• 1:12:54
  super easy. So first of all, group has been
• 1:12:57
  great, Seattle has been great. He's going to get multiple
• 1:12:59
  starts and it's against easy opponents so it's a no brainer
• 1:13:02
  to have him on this list. Yeah, I still think Decord like
• 1:13:07
  I I wouldn't, I think Grubauer is making a real case to be in
• 1:13:11
  the tandem. But like the quality is there.
• 1:13:14
  We've spoken about how hot Seattle is, but I definitely
• 1:13:16
  don't think it's 100% going to group hour and then you should
• 1:13:18
  drop the cord. This is the quality section.
• 1:13:20
  But I do like it and these are decent matchups, very winnable.
• 1:13:26
  Yeah, I mean, the Cord has had two good starts in a row.
• 1:13:29
  So, you know, a glimmer of hope for us to court owners, but it's
• 1:13:32
  definitely been the group hour show for the past like month and
• 1:13:35
  1/2. Do you think there's any chance
• 1:13:37
  that that you can get traded? Group power or.
• 1:13:42
  The goalie needed teams out there like you might be one of
• 1:13:44
  the names that is on the. List I don't see I don't see the
• 1:13:48
  court getting traded, but Grubauer, it really depends on
• 1:13:52
  how confident Seattle isn't the cord and it doesn't seem like
• 1:13:55
  they are right now. If they feel like they don't
• 1:13:57
  need group power and that discord could handle it, then
• 1:13:59
  they would be selling group at his all time high and it's
• 1:14:01
  amazing and amazing sell high. I think they get a lot of value
• 1:14:03
  for it. They can turn that into like,
• 1:14:05
  you know, an actual like another forward who can provide offence.
• 1:14:09
  So I think that it would be really interesting like move for
• 1:14:12
  them, but they have to have faith into court.
• 1:14:14
  So if the court can start stringing together some good
• 1:14:16
  wins, they can start giving him some more starts, then I could
• 1:14:18
  see that happening. But as it stands right now, I
• 1:14:20
  think they're fighting for a playoff spot.
• 1:14:22
  They're not going to do anything that they think jeopardizes
• 1:14:24
  their chances. Yep.
• 1:14:26
  Yep. Alright, alright, I'm excited
• 1:14:28
  for this next one. At #1.
• 1:14:31
  At #1 we have he, he's popped off and owns percentage, so he
• 1:14:36
  just barely is eligible to make. I think he's like 30-7,
• 1:14:39
  something like that. But he's been insane.
• 1:14:40
  We've got Alex Lyon of the Buffalo Sabres.
• 1:14:43
  Buffalo has just been on an absolute heater and UPS's
• 1:14:47
  injured. I mean, I don't know if you say
• 1:14:49
  fortunately or unfortunately, fortunately for UPL,
• 1:14:51
  unfortunately for Lion owners, he's only out for a week, they
• 1:14:54
  said. So he should be back after the
• 1:14:56
  Olympic break. But Buffalo has six games on the
• 1:15:00
  course of the week 18, including two back to backs.
• 1:15:02
  So it's not the easiest matchups.
• 1:15:04
  They've got 2 back to backs of Florida and Tampa, which is very
• 1:15:07
  difficult. And then they've got Pittsburgh
• 1:15:09
  and New Jersey in the middle. So this is actually like, you
• 1:15:12
  may be surprised to hear him at #1 compared to like Seattle
• 1:15:15
  matchups. But what Buffalo's doing, like
• 1:15:17
  you just have to, you know, put some respect on the name, right?
• 1:15:21
  100% reason to remember the name.
• 1:15:22
  But yeah, it's just what him and Buffalo have been doing is
• 1:15:27
  absurd. Go look at, I mean, nobody who's
• 1:15:30
  listening to this doesn't know what lines been up to.
• 1:15:32
  Go check out his game log if you if you're not familiar with his
• 1:15:35
  game. And at least for this week, he's
• 1:15:38
  getting you 2 of the three starts at before the Olympic
• 1:15:41
  break and then at least one of the three after.
• 1:15:44
  So that's three starts, possibly 4.
• 1:15:46
  And I don't know, what do you think?
• 1:15:49
  Like they seem to be splitting the tandem like that, like that,
• 1:15:51
  like half, half one UPL is healthy.
• 1:15:54
  So I mean, getting 50% of starts on like a team that's playing
• 1:15:57
  this well is still solid, right? But as long as UPL is out, it's
• 1:16:00
  even better. I think that he's absolutely one
• 1:16:06
  of the guys like he's the last goalie this year that can be a
• 1:16:10
  league winner. I think.
• 1:16:12
  I think like, you know, you, you have Brandon Bussey's taken
• 1:16:15
  literally never taken. You know, it's like, and yes, I
• 1:16:20
  just listed my guys, but at the end of the day, like I feel like
• 1:16:22
  I had to get creative. I mean, these are guys that were
• 1:16:26
  up and coming and Lions, the last one I think you'll be able
• 1:16:29
  to get. He has been tremendous.
• 1:16:31
  He's won 10 games in a row, longest win streak in the
• 1:16:34
  franchise history for the Buffalo Sabres and its numbers
• 1:16:39
  too. I mean, over that span, he's
• 1:16:40
  only gone under 90 save percentage in four of the games.
• 1:16:44
  You know he's gone shutouts high 9 high 90s high percentage is
• 1:16:47
  like this is exactly what you want.
• 1:16:50
  As good as buffaloes bin by themselves.
• 1:16:52
  He's just been absolute monster. I think that Kevin spoken about
• 1:16:58
  them trading a goalie. I think that they're much more
• 1:17:00
  inclined to keep lying than you PPL.
• 1:17:03
  I know it sounds crazy because they drafted PPL but I mean when
• 1:17:05
  you're doing this this well and finally the team is showing up.
• 1:17:09
  It's been kind of. Not like this though.
• 1:17:12
  This is nuts. He's been absolutely on fire for
• 1:17:17
  for so long. And yeah, the fact that the
• 1:17:20
  injury didn't affect him at all. Like, wow.
• 1:17:23
  If UPL does get traded, then this is crazy.
• 1:17:26
  I just like, how do you mess with what they've been doing,
• 1:17:28
  right? They've been alternating back
• 1:17:30
  and forth and they've been killing it right.
• 1:17:32
  So like, I feel like the odd man out is Colton Ellis and then
• 1:17:35
  they just sent him down and then the issue solved you.
• 1:17:37
  Know they've only been alternating back and forth for
• 1:17:40
  like, the past five games before.
• 1:17:42
  Lions, the injuries. Right, but before lions and dry,
• 1:17:45
  it was him. He was the guy because.
• 1:17:48
  PPL was injured. Yeah, like the two of them
• 1:17:51
  haven't been healthy at the same time for like almost entire
• 1:17:53
  season. One of them, I've been healthy
• 1:17:56
  together, they've been alternating.
• 1:17:57
  Yeah. I don't know, I think somehow
• 1:18:00
  lions gonna even if he does his a tandem, I still think he could
• 1:18:04
  be like bordering league winner. He's so.
• 1:18:06
  Yeah, I like him a lot. But it's just the situation with
• 1:18:10
  guys like this, I feel like is there hot right now?
• 1:18:12
  But then it always regresses at some point, like I don't think
• 1:18:14
  mine is going to keep doing what he's doing the rest of the
• 1:18:16
  season. And I think at some point he'll
• 1:18:18
  start to slow down. When that happens, you'll just
• 1:18:20
  cut him and you'll move on. He's not one of those guys that
• 1:18:22
  I think is going to submit himself as like unless somebody
• 1:18:25
  gets less VPL gets traded or he completely falls off in the line
• 1:18:28
  and really does like, you know, apples healthy.
• 1:18:30
  He's just riding the bench. I don't see line becoming like,
• 1:18:33
  you know, the guy that's going to be starting every game and
• 1:18:35
  getting you like 9 twenties, 9/20 save percentage or
• 1:18:38
  something you. Know that that can't happen.
• 1:18:40
  But at least while he's doing what he's doing and on a week
• 1:18:43
  like this, it's a no brainer. And we talked about that like
• 1:18:46
  long term potential, Sheila doesn't have that, but Grubauer
• 1:18:49
  in line both do. So those are both the
• 1:18:51
  interesting ones. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:52
  This is my favorite goalie pickup now, period.
• 1:18:55
  And it is reflected in the fact that he's increased the known
• 1:18:59
  percentage so much. Yeah, alright, let's go to our
• 1:19:03
  quality goal. These are guys who are going to
• 1:19:05
  get you spotless, probably one start.
• 1:19:07
  Yeah, spot start. And we think it's gonna be solid
• 1:19:09
  quality. So let's go to. #3.
• 1:19:12
  And #3 we've got Elvis Mursley skins of the Columbus Blue
• 1:19:16
  Jackets. They have a back-to-back New
• 1:19:18
  Jersey and Chicago Columbus. I just like what they've been
• 1:19:21
  doing lately, especially with like the code change and all
• 1:19:23
  that. Like I think I've been really,
• 1:19:24
  really solid. New Jersey's been solid, too.
• 1:19:27
  So that's not as weak an opponent as it would have been
• 1:19:29
  against New Jersey like a week ago or New Jersey pre Dougie
• 1:19:32
  Hamilton's resurrection. But I'll go, Chicago's actually
• 1:19:39
  dog water their dog off dog awful.
• 1:19:41
  And yeah, they're dog awful. And so if he gets the Chicago
• 1:19:44
  one, I like that a lot. If he gets New Jersey, I still
• 1:19:47
  like his chances. Like I said, we like Columbus.
• 1:19:49
  And there's also the yeah. And then there's also the chance
• 1:19:52
  that that he's getting more than, I mean, I'd say it's
• 1:19:54
  pretty like he's getting more than just that start, but that's
• 1:19:56
  the guaranteed 1. Yep, Yep.
• 1:19:59
  Agreed. #2. At #2 The best number in the
• 1:20:04
  alphabet we've. Got.
• 1:20:06
  Akira, Akira, Akira Schmid of Vegas, Golden Knights
• 1:20:10
  back-to-back, Vancouver and LA, two of the easiest matchups you
• 1:20:13
  can ask for. And it's Vegas.
• 1:20:15
  Las Vegas hasn't been that solid lately.
• 1:20:18
  They actually choked to a big lead or no, they came back but
• 1:20:21
  still lost to Dallas. They haven't been, you know, I
• 1:20:24
  saw that, Cassidy said. He had a video like a like
• 1:20:28
  meeting with the players like in during intermission.
• 1:20:30
  He's like, I haven't done that in like 10 years, like having to
• 1:20:32
  go through tape in the middle of Internet of a game.
• 1:20:34
  But he's like, that's how kind of messed up we've been.
• 1:20:36
  Crazy fact is, it's still, it's still Vegas against Vancouver,
• 1:20:39
  LA. So yeah, I'm not, I'm not
• 1:20:41
  worried. I like that start a lot.
• 1:20:42
  And Akira's print, like, I wouldn't say consistent, but
• 1:20:45
  he's had good games and bad games and I would expect it to
• 1:20:47
  be a good one. The opposite of consistency.
• 1:20:51
  Assisted, some would say. That's that's the word I was
• 1:20:54
  looking for. Was supposed to.
• 1:20:56
  Be consistent, which is commonly referred to as the the worst
• 1:20:59
  term there. But I will say for Schmid, I
• 1:21:02
  feel like he's been slightly better than Eden Hill and we've
• 1:21:04
  gotten a lot of Aiden Hill questions as of late.
• 1:21:06
  Yeah, to me, I still think Hill is the guy like long term rest
• 1:21:09
  of season that I want. He's he's like the same type of
• 1:21:12
  player that like I put him in the same Almark category where
• 1:21:15
  it's just like good goalie, but is the team is kind of should be
• 1:21:20
  better than what he's giving you most like the percentages may
• 1:21:23
  not always be there, but he's on a great team that's gonna get
• 1:21:26
  you wins. Now, auto is not the same team
• 1:21:28
  that Vegas is. Vegas is one of the best teams
• 1:21:29
  in the league. Ottawa may not make the
• 1:21:30
  playoffs, probably won't make the playoffs.
• 1:21:32
  So I like kill a lot more than Almark, but it's the same type
• 1:21:36
  of player that he'll hover run a 900, but it's going to get you
• 1:21:39
  like 60% of the wins. And I think that's the long term
• 1:21:43
  projection for Aiden Hill. I know right now we just got
• 1:21:45
  shelled and it's been bad, but I think Vegas as a whole has not
• 1:21:48
  been performing well. So when when the team kind of
• 1:21:51
  studies the ship, I think there's a lot better days ahead.
• 1:21:53
  Eden Hill. But Schmid, right now, he looks
• 1:21:55
  like he might be getting quote UN quote, maybe more starts.
• 1:21:57
  So in a spot start I'd definitely like him.
• 1:22:00
  Yep. Yeah, let's go to.
• 1:22:03
  Number one. Number one, we have Connor
• 1:22:07
  Ingram of the Edmonton Oilers. He actually gets 2 spots starts,
• 1:22:11
  but they're both quality so I put them in the quality section.
• 1:22:15
  1 is going to be Toronto and Calgary and the other is
• 1:22:17
  Anaheim, LA. All four of those are matchups
• 1:22:20
  I'm very comfortable with and he's getting two of them.
• 1:22:23
  So and Edmonton's been good. Look, Ingram has, if you look at
• 1:22:26
  his two last arts, he's actually not been very good.
• 1:22:28
  But Edmonton, against any of these four teams, I like their
• 1:22:32
  chances a lot. Absolutely.
• 1:22:35
  Yeah. And he's been way better
• 1:22:36
  interest in Jerry because Tristan Jarry is a dollar sign
• 1:22:39
  dollar, sign dollar, yeah. That's the comments.
• 1:22:45
  Yeah, watch out tell you, TikTok trolls out there, it's Kevin's
• 1:22:50
  coming for you. He's taking out his his Matthew
• 1:22:52
  Olivier frustration on the on the Tick Tock.
• 1:22:55
  Controls on the load for so long and now it's time for me to
• 1:22:57
  share it. Good.
• 1:23:00
  OK, let's wrap this up one more. Thing before we do, I just want
• 1:23:04
  to say that that normally this section kinda it hits a little
• 1:23:08
  different and so far as like it's like a normal 7 game or
• 1:23:13
  like 7. Days a week game.
• 1:23:15
  For fantasy purposes, this ones like 3 weeks to me lying and
• 1:23:19
  Grubauer. I would just simply want in both
• 1:23:22
  quality and quantity. Other like usually it's
• 1:23:25
  different, it's a different story.
• 1:23:26
  I understand we're going to put six names over here.
• 1:23:29
  I get why you sorted them in each.
• 1:23:31
  It makes sense to me. But like Lion and Grubauer, I
• 1:23:34
  would say like that's both quantity and quality.
• 1:23:37
  If you have the opportunity to pick up those two guys, I would
• 1:23:41
  definitely just go for those. And do you agree?
• 1:23:45
  Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, I mean, not you.
• 1:23:49
  You said that it kind of clicked in my mind that this is the last
• 1:23:51
  waiver episode we're gonna do for like the next month pretty
• 1:23:53
  much, right, given like the schedule and everything.
• 1:23:55
  So I mean, listen, we're still gonna put out content during the
• 1:23:58
  Olympic break. Maybe it'll be some more Olympic
• 1:24:00
  content. Maybe we'll do some.
• 1:24:02
  We're going to do our playoff primary that's just around the
• 1:24:05
  corner. So everybody can look forward to
• 1:24:06
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• 1:24:10
  guys want to see, like, you know, obviously drop us a
• 1:24:13
  comment in the discord and let us know there something that
• 1:24:15
  makes sense. Maybe near the end of the
• 1:24:16
  Olympic break, we can make a like a second-half of the
• 1:24:19
  waivers week 18 type of episode where we're like, alright, this
• 1:24:23
  upcoming week with everything we saw from the Olympics, this is
• 1:24:25
  what we would do. Maybe that can be valuable, but
• 1:24:28
  let us know if anything like that makes sense.
• 1:24:31
  Should like should this one be called week 18 and then the next
• 1:24:33
  one we call week 18 1/2? Yeah, part. 2 that's that's a
• 1:24:38
  week 18 3/4. That platform doesn't exist,
• 1:24:45
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• 1:24:49
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• 1:24:50
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