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  Go ahead. Yes.
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  Well, I obviously have a preface because I always have a pracht,
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  Alright, yeah. What's this?
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  What's the second provide? Looking on the 3rd preface is
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  when you say today is gonna be the day.
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  I just had a moment of, I hope everybody seen Good Will
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  Hunting. If you haven't, five on five
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  star masterpiece, etcetera. Masterpiece.
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  But for those who. Have seen it my minor spoiler
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  but but Ben Affleck has gives a speech like Matt Damon about
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  like how like he's always wishing that he's gonna like
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  drive up to the house and the one day and he's like knock and
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  he's not gonna be there and like he's gonna he's just like always
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  waiting for that moment. That was me this morning when
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  Jake was just like today is gonna be the day.
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  I was just like always hoping that it's going to happen, but
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  in the back of my mind it's like it's there.
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  Then it happened today in like full circle.
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  Everything comes and I missed missed my call and I missed my
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  calling in life as a super genius.
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  Down under turn mathematicians, yeah.
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  Honestly, hey, there's still time.
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  I mean, yeah, I I love it too. Wonderwall used to be my go to
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  karaoke song. So so definitely, definitely big
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  fan over and I've seen it live. Yeah, Africa only I only that'll
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  become my song and my favorite song.
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  Kind of like end of undergrad, but at the start I was a big big
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  Wonderwall guy. Nice, that's my girlfriend's
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  favorite song. It's so high.
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  I heard it live at Osheaga. It was no way.
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  Yeah, it was really late. No, it was just Allium
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  Gallagher. But you know, we take it.
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  OHK. I was just at the win on last
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  last Friday night and we it was for DJ Snake who if you listen
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  to EDM, like everybody knows. Also if you even if you listen
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  to EDM, I feel everybody knows at least one DJ Snake songs like
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  they just don't know what Sam I guess.
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  But that was pretty high. It was like -24°C outside and I
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  was having a great time. So.
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  What we've done something you would expect, but yeah, enough
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  lollygagging, guys. I believe you're talking this
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  much. But honestly, it's crazy,
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  alright. Let's go through the two week.
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  Yeah, so I think this is like our our least like hot told you.
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  So two week update we've had in a while.
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  So I think we're gonna have to review some of these and see if
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  we still stand by our takes. So first we had as a buy low two
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  weeks ago, Matthew Noyes. Since then, seven games played,
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  one goal, 3 assists, 4 points and the back cat still sucks.
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  So he has not turned it around into in the past two weeks since
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  we recommended him. Do we still recommend him as a
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  bylaw? I I would still love to by law
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  Matthew knives. I think this is just one of
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  those that I think turn around is maybe the ceiling is not as
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  high as it was like before the season started.
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  Like he's not average over a point per game.
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  But I think the thing the floor should be a lot higher than
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  this. And I think it's already started
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  to bounce back a little bit, but like to leave start one of the
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  worst teams in the league and probably not making the
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  playoffs, but I can't imagine they're going to stop trying so.
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  Yeah, I think they're gonna try to the end and is gonna be a big
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  part of it. I agree I would still buy on him
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  if anything now his price is even lower probably cause he
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  hasn't turned it around yet. So yeah still like that one.
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  Then we had sticky Bobrovsky. Since then, three games played,
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  one win, 2.99 goals against, average .866 save percentage and
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  possibly splitting starts with the denial Tarasov.
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  Is this still a BYLO that we we stand behind or or are we
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  adjusting our expectations at all?
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  I think the splitting starts means he's an even bigger by
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  low. But listen, this is my this was
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  my pick. And obviously if you if you
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  bought him, you haven't seen the results just yet.
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  But the main thing that I was like very adamant on when you're
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  buying a browser key is to not pay the big bucks for him,
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  right? Like he was a bylaw because he
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  was easily acquirable. Feel you could acquire him for
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  like the best goal that was not on waivers type of thing with
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  how bad he was and a few acquired him for that.
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  I'm still happy I did and I'm holding him because I think
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  Florida is making the playoffs. They're currently not in the
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  playoff spot. It would be unfathomable for the
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  back-to-back champs to not make the playoffs.
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  Um, so I think a run is, is upon us.
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  Um, I worried about Tarasov long-term.
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  Absolutely not. I think Bob is their guy.
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  I think they're just giving, they have the opportunity to
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  give him a break leading up to the Olympic break and Tarasov is
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  giving them good quality. So I understand why he's getting
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  a couple more starts here and there.
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  And Bob has always thrived when he's had less games on his
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  plate. So the fact that a backup can
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  come in and you know, take some of the load off and give him
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  time to rest, I think we'll help him get back to the better
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  version of himself. So I think post Olympic break, I
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  think was going to be on fire. That's my take.
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  We'll reevaluate when that happens, but I'm still buying.
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  Just making sure you're buying at the right price and the price
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  is very low. Yeah, yeah, OK.
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  And then we had most ciders since then, six game played,
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  zero goals, 4 assists, 4 points. Honestly, four and six for a
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  defenseman is super solid. And I think that like he still
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  could be bought lower than his value, but he's already started
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  trending upwards. I think so.
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  And I expect Detroit to make an acquisition offensive wise that
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  that might help the power play more.
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  Yeah, this one was. This one was right and he's
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  definitely gotten a lot better. He was at .33 points for game
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  nights at .67 over the last two weeks.
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  He was out one shot and I always had 2.2.
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  I mean, you know, like these are just things that you look for in
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  a bounce back. So I'm pretty happy with it.
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  But you're right, I would still look to buy them because I think
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  that his value could go up. His hits have been strangely,
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  weirdly not good. But hopefully that just
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  regresses positively and we get a lot of good things moving
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  forward. So I would have been happy
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  having bought him and I still tried to buy.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Then our cell highs, we had Clayton Keller since then, six
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  games played, three goals, three SI, 6 points, but zero points in
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  his last three games. So after we recommended him, he
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  had like a monster like game or two, but then he has no points
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  in his last three. I think that, I mean, and also
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  one thing we kind of highlighted at the time was that he wasn't
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  going to become a complete dud. It was mainly the playoff
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  schedule that we were trying to like offload and turn him into
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  someone of equal value with the good playoff schedule.
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  So I still stand by that. You know, he should still hover
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  around point per game. Also at the time he was at like
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  1.4, something like that. I'm still, I think that's a,
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  that's a clear win. Then we add Mika Zibanejad.
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  Since then, seven games played, five goals, 3 assists, eight
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  points. Alright, is this one that we
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  have to readjust or? Are we getting away with?
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  This are we still saying he's a sell high or is it just are just
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  accepting that image is the best player in the world?
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  He's still so high, absolutely. And to me it's just like if you
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  look at the targets we had put, we were aiming pretty high to
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  like she was a top ten player in fantasy for most leagues over
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  the last month or two. Similar to Ryan O'Reilly,
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  except, you know, I think manage is a better player younger too,
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  I hope, but I'm still especially with, you know, about to be on
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  the move and like this team kind of like falling apart, like
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  they're one of the worst teams in the east.
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  I don't think you can keep up this production forever and
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  you're able to use him as a trade piece for a top top level
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  asset. And that's what I'm trying to
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  do. Like I'm not saying the manager
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  is going to zero. I'm not saying that he's going
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  to become the worst player ever, but you have the opportunity to
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  use him as an integral piece to achieve a top level fantasy set
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  and I'm still trying to do that and I think the fact that he's
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  still doing it means that he's still a great sell high so.
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  OK, I agree yeah and then lastly we had Tomash Hurdle, seven
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  games played, two goals, 3 assists, 5 points.
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  I mean that we were seeing it already at the time he was at
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  like 1.2 points per game .3 something crazy like that.
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  Now he's yeah yeah 1.3 now he's under point per game.
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  We're already seeing the drop and again, Cats wise he's been a
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  beast, but we never said he wasn't going to be.
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  Was just mainly the points were super inflated.
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  So I think that's pretty much right on target with what we
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  were saying. Absolutely.
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  I mean, it's one of those that you're totally happy if you
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  weren't able to sell them. Still OK .71 points over the
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  last two weeks average. His shots, faceoffs, hits,
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  blocks have been decent. Like this is what you would
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  expect from him. But at 1.3 was a clear over
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  performance. Hope you were able to sell.
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  We recommended Larkin, Suzuki, Stitzel, Jarvis, Kaprizov who
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  has been on fire. I doubt that you were able to do
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  one for one if by chance you packaged and got back Capri.
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  So please let us know in the discord and congratulations.
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  But yeah, hurdles definitely slowed down.
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  Still not the end of the world if you're holding him through
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  the stretch, though. Yeah, absolutely.
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  So I think, I think we're still doing pretty well.
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  It just at the end of the day, not every billow cell height
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  immediately flips a switch right after we recommend it.
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  And you know, as much as we'd love to have that power, and
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  honestly, it's been like that a lot of the time throughout the
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  season, but it's not always like that so.
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  I think last week in a two week update, we talked about Morgan
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  geeky, right? And he was, I really wanted to
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  mention this on the podcast because he had not bounced back
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  like tremendously when the two week update happened.
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  And he was one of my billows like a month ago.
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  But if you look at Morgan Geekie game log over the last few
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  weeks, he's been on a tear and you bought low.
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  He he was, he's geeking and 1/2 so or geeking and platform 3/4.
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  But yeah, I, I really think that if you bought low and you're
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  gonna have him on your roster for like that playoff schedule
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  and what he's doing now and the stack in the top line again.
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  So good things are happening for Morgan Geekie.
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  And he was very, very achievable when we mentioned him on the
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  podcast. So.
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  Alright, let's get into our bilos for this week.
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  I'll get us started keeping on my trend of picking guys on
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  Kevin's team. Honestly, I literally don't.
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  I literally don't like, I sort by like like from my bylaws,
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  I'll go on, I'll sort by rostered percentage and then
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  last 30 days average. And then I'll just look for the
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  smallest points and see if it's someone that I'm like, this
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  doesn't make sense. It should be higher.
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  So that's kind of how I end up. But just to keep having people
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  on your team. So it's funny.
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  But yeah. So anyways, Bilo for this week
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  is Drake Batherson of the Ottawa Senators.
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  In the past month, he's averaging .53 points per game,
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  .2 power play points, 1.9 shots, 1.3 hits on the season, 9 points
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  per game, .32 power play points, 2.1 shots and 1.4 hits.
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  Over the past Four Seasons, he's averaged .82 points per game
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  super consistently each year. So the .82 is over those Four
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  Seasons, but each individual year pretty much hovers over
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  that exact number. Last season he averaged .38
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  power play points. Ottawa currently has the 10th
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  best power play in the league and we saw them be top five
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  earlier this year. I'd expect Basson to finish
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  around .85 points per game, .35 power play points, two shots,
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  1.5 hits which is way better than what he's been doing the
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  past month. And throw in a great playoff
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  schedule and he's a fantastic Bylow.
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  Ottawa has also had some super high scoring games lately where
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  Batherson didn't really get involved, so that could
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  definitely frustrate the owner even more and let you buy him
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  for cheaper. Those are the best.
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  Like it doesn't matter to your player right?
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  How many points like the team scored if you didn't score.
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  But in terms of how frustrated the owner gets, the more goals
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  that are scored by their team and he's not involved in, the
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  more they're like this guy sucks.
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  Like, how do you not get a single point and set and like,
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  you know, the team gets seven goals and gets nothing?
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  So that's the type of thing that, like, I like looking at
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  because it can lead to more frustrated owners who might be
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  more willing to sell. So some targets that may be able
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  to get it done. Let me know if I am too low on
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  these or if you think some of them I know for sure you can get
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  done. Some of them I may have been too
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  low. I have Will Smith and Jared
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  McCann, Ryan O'Reilly, Nick Schmaltz and Alex Tuck.
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  OK. So I want to just quickly chime
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  in and then I'll let Kevin take the load on here.
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  Thanks. Because he has Batherson, so I
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  know he could speak a lot about, but I just want to quickly say
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  that you didn't name anyone that was like, what's gonna happen if
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  there's like a better player involved here and then there's
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  there's no extra Bath Orson to throw into.
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  The trade, yeah. Exactly.
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  Other since our token edition over here.
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  So I don't know. What he himself is the buy low
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  like my heads exploding. I don't know what to do with
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  this information. Plus after since makes sense.
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  Alright, Kevin, take it away with it.
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  I mean, I completely agree with with Josh that Batherson is a by
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  law. I think Ottawa schedule recently
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  has been kind of tricky too, like not playing the most games
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  as of late. So it gives you a bigger window
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  when the production is not there that like the sample size feels
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  bigger than it actually is. Um, and like Josh mentioned,
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  like his on the season stats are fantastic.
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  I think all of Ottawa's assets are going to be better this year
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  than they were last year. And last year they were already
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  pretty good, especially on the power play.
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  He mentioned autos had a top five power play almost the whole
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  entire season and that's not going to change in my opinion.
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  I still think they're hover around there, whether they
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  fluctuate down to 10 or up to three or whatnot.
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  I think they're going to hover around 5 for rest of season.
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  And bath is Batherson is an integral part of that and Ottawa
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  has a stack top 6. They're really like bars and
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  rags to riches. Not rags to riches, but rags and
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  riches, I guess. And, and, and I would love to
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  acquire him if I didn't already have them on my team.
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  And I feel like right now, like all also, everybody knows I'm a
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  power play lover. And if you're able to acquire a
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  guy that can have elite power play production on the low, I
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  think that's a tremendous trade because those are not easy to
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  find on waivers, to be honest, especially for a deeper league.
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  So the ability to acquire Batterson right now, I think is
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  a phenomenal opportunity. What do you I love all your
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  trash. Yeah, love all your targets.
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  I think I mean, my favorite is Ryan O'Reilly cause I think
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  that's one of the most feasible. Nick Schmaltz also super
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  feasible. I would do those two for
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  bathrooms in a heartbeat. You may even be able to get
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  bathroom Plus if your bathroom doesn't have the same name value
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  that some of these other guys have.
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  So Alex talked to like Alex talk is still not even on PP1 and
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  Buffaloes killing you. So he's still a good player, but
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  you're getting tremendous power play value there.
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  Yeah, Batherson is is a good player for bangers.
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  You're always happy with him on your team.
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  This is a slow stretch. There's a great buy low, but
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  he's not super flashy. I don't think any of these names
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  are aiming too low at all. I think they're actually pretty
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  good targets. SEC All right, Kevin, who do you
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  got? All right, my player is
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  potentially surprising because I don't think people expect this
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  to be his type of game. And also he's got a tremendous
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  playoff schedule. So why am I doing this?
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  But I'm talking about Charlie McAvoy of the Boston Bruins now,
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  yes, which 21 to 23, Charlie McCoy was at 444.
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  But also last season, don't forget Charlie McAvoy was
• 17:42
  averaging less than half a point per game, right?
• 17:45
  Nothing. That's the baseline.
• 17:46
  He had a severe under underperformance last season.
• 17:49
  This year he's averaging .84 points per game, which is really
• 17:53
  good. It's a huge bounce back from
• 17:54
  last season. Last season's over the last two
• 17:57
  weeks to a month, he's averaging 1.15 points per game.
• 18:01
  That's .3 points per game more than what he's doing on the
• 18:04
  season. He's been in tremendous form.
• 18:06
  I think Boston is still scoring so many goals and he's being a
• 18:08
  part of it. Now.
• 18:10
  One thing with McAvoy is that he's been notorious for being
• 18:12
  like, you know, a back category stud because he'll get you like
• 18:16
  almost a triple double, right? It's like 2 shots, two hits, two
• 18:19
  blocks and that's super valuable.
• 18:21
  His bankers have been, have been lowered this season.
• 18:24
  He's not, he's not averaging 2 in any of those categories and
• 18:27
  some he's barely averaging one, like he's not really hitting as
• 18:30
  much. His shots have been lowered and
• 18:32
  his blocks to lower. It hold on, you're doing the
• 18:34
  cell height. Ohhhhh I fully did not like.
• 18:41
  Yeah. Just go ahead, keep, keep going,
• 18:43
  keep going. So this is this is still.
• 18:45
  Different order. So this is Kevin so high.
• 18:49
  I was like, wait a second, what is going on here?
• 18:52
  I've got the gun. Alright, so let's talk about
• 18:55
  this. Guy Yeah, so.
• 18:56
  You gonna set it up in a negative way?
• 18:58
  I forgot we were doing that. Yeah, I was like, wait, I'm
• 19:01
  looking at these stats right here.
• 19:02
  And this is no, this is not a biolo.
• 19:07
  This is not a bylaw. If this was me anyway, you could
• 19:10
  go longer but this is McKinnon so that's OK.
• 19:17
  You should no order for the episode so sell high on Macavoy.
• 19:20
  Recommendation continues. Yeah, please tell.
• 19:23
  I do not buy Larnaca what people will think.
• 19:24
  You're dumb. You could give him McKinnon.
• 19:30
  You can. You know you can get dry sign
• 19:34
  off. So finishing my cell high.
• 19:40
  Sorry for the confusion, everybody, but I he's averaging
• 19:46
  1.15 points per game and it's not going to be that much.
• 19:50
  And I think he's already performing lower in the category
• 19:53
  coverage and those will fluctuate up and down, but
• 19:55
  across the board this season, he hasn't really hit the thresholds
• 19:58
  that he's hit in the years past. So I think for that reason, the
• 20:01
  bangers have been less, the points have been a lot more than
• 20:05
  what you would expect from him as a baseline.
• 20:07
  And the playoff schedule is elite.
• 20:09
  I think you can trade them for another guy that's like has a
• 20:12
  great playoff schedule. Is just better value overall and
• 20:16
  that's the type of move that I really want to do if I have
• 20:18
  McAvoy on my roster right now because you could capitalize on
• 20:20
  the extra points production. So if you have been listening
• 20:24
  for a buy low, this is not your guy.
• 20:25
  But if you're listening for sell high, he is absolutely your guy
• 20:28
  because I think you can target really high level players.
• 20:30
  Like I think you can get we've talked about him in the past and
• 20:34
  maybe this is a controversial, but I think Jake Sanderson is
• 20:36
  still achievable and I would rather have Jake Sanderson over
• 20:39
  macabre rest of season. I think the points is higher and
• 20:41
  I think you're getting more shots and more blocks and it
• 20:43
  makes it worth it. Take the one less games of
• 20:46
  playoffs in week 21 to 23 if you can.
• 20:49
  And it's always hard to do a one for one.
• 20:51
  So I'm giving you guys that I think should be attainable in
• 20:53
  the package. But I would love to try to
• 20:55
  acquire Rasmus Dahlin. I know he hasn't necessarily
• 20:57
  been a buy low, but I think if you have Darlene, the sentiment
• 21:01
  is maybe not. I mean, it's still good.
• 21:04
  He's been really great. But if you can figure out, I
• 21:07
  know that's why they averages are super skewed.
• 21:09
  It really I got the dogged on the timing there, but before
• 21:13
  that five point game, the difference looked way worse.
• 21:16
  If you're comparing McAvoy and Darlene, maybe a hot take.
• 21:20
  Would you rather Dougie Hamilton over Macavoy rest of season with
• 21:24
  what Doug has been able to do on, you know, the New Jersey
• 21:26
  power plant, the points production and the shots?
• 21:29
  I think that's a spicy 1. And I think chicken is still
• 21:33
  very, very attainable for McAvoy and you're getting so many more
• 21:36
  shots there. I think Chicken easily ends with
• 21:38
  more points than McAvoy and points for game pace rest of
• 21:41
  season. So these are guys that I'm
• 21:44
  trying to trade for and even more to see.
• 21:47
  I feel like he's kind of been, I feel like he's like a name that
• 21:50
  kind of like faded into the darkness this season where
• 21:53
  people used to say he was like one of the top names.
• 21:55
  And then Winnipeg has just been so bad that people have not
• 21:59
  talked about him anymore. And even when he's doing well, I
• 22:01
  feel like people are not really talking about him.
• 22:03
  And when he's doing bad, he's awful.
• 22:05
  But I still think rest of season, Morrissey will get you a
• 22:08
  lot more power play points. Maybe not a lot more
• 22:11
  PowerPoints, but more power play points, more points in the back
• 22:13
  categories. Honestly, there's so negligible
• 22:15
  at this point because of macro not hitting the high ceilings he
• 22:17
  was hitting before that. I would make that U.
• 22:20
  What do you guys think? Am I?
• 22:21
  Am I cooking for my cell high? Yeah.
• 22:24
  OK. So yeah, so this is your cell
• 22:25
  high, not your biology. It's a great sell high.
• 22:29
  It's a fantastic sell high and one more time it is a sell high.
• 22:33
  So although we we've gone to the bottom of that, I think that I
• 22:39
  really like it and he's concerned before.
• 22:41
  Yeah, it was one of my main targets.
• 22:44
  So I was gonna say the only issue I have is the fact that I
• 22:47
  think the targets are also performing very well dully and
• 22:50
  you're right, it's. Kind of obvious.
• 22:52
  Going really well. Yeah, it's a one.
• 22:54
  It's a thing. I think Hamilton, you need to
• 22:58
  get back a sizable plus because I actually like Mcavoy's outlook
• 23:01
  simply better than Dougie's rest of season.
• 23:03
  No knock on Dougie there. It's it's nice to see the
• 23:06
  resurgence, but I just think Macavoy is he's a good
• 23:09
  defenseman. He's on pace for a career year.
• 23:12
  Sanderson, I think I would rather Sanderson.
• 23:14
  I think that's fair. That's a good that's that's
• 23:17
  probably my favorite flip that you mentioned, but also he's
• 23:20
  been OK now. I would try.
• 23:22
  Other last month. I think cider and Haskin are
• 23:24
  like two sides. Cider and what I was going to
• 23:27
  say, those are your two chickens, been decent actually.
• 23:33
  Been doing. Yeah, yeah.
• 23:35
  You know he's been good like the last two weeks, especially two
• 23:38
  shots, two hits and 1.14 points per game with a .43 power play.
• 23:41
  That's that's tough to buy. I would still try to do it 5
• 23:45
  don't even think it's unattainable though, because I
• 23:47
  think that McAvoy has just been on fire for like a longer period
• 23:50
  of time. So I think that the chicken
• 23:52
  owner would be willing to sell. It's just hard like I wouldn't
• 23:55
  add McAvoy plus for chicken. Like that's not one of the ones.
• 23:58
  You make 2 for two, and you make it seem like you're getting good
• 24:01
  value. Yeah.
• 24:02
  So basically fantastic recommendation.
• 24:04
  I think that the archetype of hit like the shots, hits not
• 24:08
  being what they were, it's a little discouraging for bangers
• 24:10
  leagues. But yeah, I still think the
• 24:12
  points are good. But we'll regress to a .85 which
• 24:15
  you're not unhappy. .8 I feel like .8 is realistic for McAvoy.
• 24:18
  And that would be a huge drop, massive drop.
• 24:20
  If that's the case, you're happy to get them off your team.
• 24:23
  Yeah, for me, I think it's a great sell high.
• 24:26
  Fully agree. Like there's no he's gonna
• 24:28
  maintain this. I think my issue with with
• 24:29
  selling with the sell high or anything.
• 24:31
  The reason I didn't pick a defenseman this this week is
• 24:34
  because I was looking at it and like all the defensemen have
• 24:36
  insane numbers lately have, you know, like every defence in like
• 24:39
  so I was gonna put actually as a cell high this week.
• 24:42
  I was gonna put Bouchard right and it was gonna be for like the
• 24:44
  top of the top, obviously, because he is a top three
• 24:46
  defensemen. But like everyone is just
• 24:48
  killing it. Like it's actually insane what's
• 24:50
  been going on. So, so like it's just hard to
• 24:54
  find targets because everyone else is also overperforming.
• 24:57
  So like it's hard to sell high when you're also buying high.
• 25:01
  That being said, in terms of your targets, I think, I think
• 25:03
  Cider and he's getting are both fantastic ones.
• 25:05
  Those are clear slam dunks to me.
• 25:07
  Like if you can, it does happen. You have McAvoy on your roster,
• 25:09
  like you're giving away like the 444 playoff schedule, but you're
• 25:12
  getting a tremendous value in players back and still a pretty
• 25:15
  good playoff schedule as well. Like those would be slam dunk
• 25:17
  trades. Yeah, I think chicken could get
• 25:19
  done and I would like that as well.
• 25:22
  I don't think you're getting Dolly.
• 25:23
  Like I don't think you're making it sound trained for.
• 25:26
  Yeah, so don't think you're getting Sanderson just is also a
• 25:28
  point per game, but I think you could pull that off.
• 25:30
  And I think Sanderson also would be a fantastic one and also has
• 25:32
  a great playoff schedule. So.
• 25:34
  So I like all those. In terms of Dougie, I prefer
• 25:37
  McAvoy for Dougie, I just think that he has so much less risk
• 25:40
  involved where and the ceiling is like pretty similar.
• 25:43
  I mean dougies shots as a defence in our elites even when
• 25:45
  he was garbage all season he was still shooting a ton.
• 25:47
  So he definitely has that on him and like if Luke Hughes is out
• 25:51
  for the season, then I don't think Dougie has any risk and I.
• 25:54
  Think uses all for the fantasy season anyways.
• 25:57
  OK, well then. This in four to six weeks, but I
• 26:01
  feel like they're gonna air on caution because new trees is not
• 26:03
  gonna be in the playoff race. That's my take.
• 26:05
  Yeah, yeah. So I guess we'll see.
• 26:07
  I mean, really, there's no reason for used to come back and
• 26:09
  take it from Dougie, but we've seen this coach and management
• 26:11
  be really dumb with how they they do things and just MacBook
• 26:14
  doesn't have that issue, right, doesn't have that stress at all.
• 26:17
  So I think I still take McAvoy over Dougie.
• 26:19
  But if you can get like Jason, if you get doggie with a big
• 26:21
  plus, I think it's actually closer than people would think.
• 26:24
  So if it's a doggie owner like me, right, and they've been
• 26:26
  holding him through all the downs and now he's turning it
• 26:28
  up. And so a lot of people might
• 26:30
  think, Oh, I gotta get him off my team now while he's good
• 26:31
  before he becomes garbage again. You know, then that's that's a
• 26:34
  situation you could take advantage of.
• 26:35
  If it's an owner was like I held him this whole time and now he's
• 26:38
  finally playing potential and this I knew he was this good
• 26:39
  going to be this good rest of season.
• 26:41
  Then don't trade with him. But it's very different to
• 26:43
  mindset for that. But I like it.
• 26:44
  Also infer infer forward like that.
• 26:47
  Like you can definitely do that too.
• 26:48
  I feel like there's a lot of guys who you'd be able to
• 26:50
  attainable. For would be a lot easier to
• 26:52
  attain. Yeah, because there.
• 26:54
  Are definitely not. I mean, Batherson.
• 26:56
  Drake Batherson, even some Batherson and bothersome back.
• 27:01
  Yeah, yeah. I was gonna say you can get a
• 27:03
  plus like even a second. Plus Batherson 4 Batherson plus
• 27:09
  yeah. Alright, thank you, Taylor.
• 27:13
  Not so high. Yeah.
• 27:17
  All good. As the great Fergie from the
• 27:20
  Black Eyed Peas once said, let's get but darted in here.
• 27:32
  I want to hear about that one in the discord, OK?
• 27:34
  Connor Bedard of the Chicago Blackhawks the worst below for
• 27:38
  this the song talk about his pillow.
• 27:43
  Yeah, when you hear about the pitch more than the joke.
• 27:46
  The saddest part of this bylaw recommendation is that I
• 27:49
  realized Connor Bedard was not even born yet when that song
• 27:53
  came out. So we're getting old, guys, No.
• 27:58
  Anyway, on the hockey part of it, I think this is simply the
• 28:02
  only time he'll be a buy low all season.
• 28:04
  He's actually started heating up very recently, but since coming
• 28:08
  back from injury he has eight points in his last 11 games.
• 28:11
  There's nothing wrong with that at all of course, but he's at
• 28:14
  one point 4 on the season and that's with his pretty slow
• 28:18
  stretch lately. With the Olympic break coming up
• 28:21
  and the ability for him to hit on that elite tier that we know
• 28:26
  he can after they return, I'm extremely optimistic for his
• 28:29
  rest of season outlook. I highly doubt they're making
• 28:31
  the playoffs, but with how wide open the wild card is in the
• 28:34
  West, I wouldn't be surprised if they really try to make a push.
• 28:38
  Frankly, I don't think they have any decent players to sell, and
• 28:41
  while I'm not entirely sure they'll be buyers, they probably
• 28:43
  won't be. But the entire goal of the
• 28:45
  Blackhawks franchise is to get Bedard going, so they're
• 28:49
  definitely going to play him with their best players that
• 28:51
  they do have right now. Or if somehow they do turn into
• 28:53
  buyers, then it can only mean that things would be looking
• 28:56
  better for him. He's also an amazing goal
• 28:59
  scorer, and on the season he's out of 15% shooting percentage,
• 29:02
  but over the last month he's at 5.6.
• 29:05
  There's natural positive regression due there.
• 29:07
  And add that on to the fact that he only had one power play point
• 29:10
  since returning from injury. He'll have the rest of the
• 29:14
  Olympic break to rest his shoulder.
• 29:16
  And he's definitely one of those players I'm looking to target
• 29:19
  for the rest of this season. This is a prime example.
• 29:22
  I'll also just add we were talking about this last episode
• 29:24
  of Players. You want them during the Olympic
• 29:26
  break. You know, this is like the best
• 29:28
  example of a non Russian player who I'm so happy he's not going
• 29:33
  to the Olympics. He has time to rest up the
• 29:34
  shoulder and I expect he's gonna be incredible after the break.
• 29:38
  So the targets I have Cole Call Field, Evan Bouchard, JT Miller,
• 29:43
  Matt Boldy and myself high, but no spoilers there.
• 29:48
  I. I love probably Charlie McAvoy,
• 29:50
  to be honest. That's a good.
• 29:51
  Addition. To this I feel like.
• 29:53
  Another kind of related, but I wish.
• 29:55
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you could try, but no, I
• 29:58
  love this. I think Bidart is the Best Buy
• 30:01
  low going into the Olympic break.
• 30:02
  The great thing is they have no more games before the Olympic
• 30:05
  break. So you could spend the next
• 30:07
  three weeks hounding on the Bedard owner trying to convince
• 30:11
  them that Bedard sucks because he hasn't turned it around just
• 30:13
  yet. And, and maybe, you know, I I'm
• 30:16
  trying, I I've sent out an offer for for Bedard.
• 30:20
  So I just think that, oh damn, that's always a red flag to the
• 30:24
  to the owners when they get off the offer.
• 30:26
  The same guy from multiple of us.
• 30:28
  They're like, what's going on here past.
• 30:30
  But yeah, I know he's also like fantastic playoff schedule.
• 30:34
  Like it's a 11 games over week 2123.
• 30:37
  But the off nights is very key, especially week 22.
• 30:40
  They have an off night on Saturday and there's only two
• 30:43
  teams in the league that have an off night that night, which is
• 30:45
  Chicago and Rangers. So that's that's really just
• 30:49
  yeah. And he, we saw him at 1.4
• 30:51
  earlier this season. I think this Olympic break, like
• 30:53
  you mentioned is gonna be so huge for him.
• 30:55
  So yes, huge, huge, huge Bilo opportunity.
• 30:57
  There are very few players that I wouldn't be willing to send
• 31:00
  for him. Honestly.
• 31:01
  I'm trying to do McDavid for Bedard, but like, you know, I
• 31:08
  think that there's definitely a lot of good stuff.
• 31:10
  Anyways, in terms of your targets, I would take Bedard
• 31:13
  over. I think all of them.
• 31:15
  The only like maybe question mark is Bouchard, but I do think
• 31:18
  Bouchard is a massive cell high right now.
• 31:19
  I just think if you're doing Bouchard, you should get dark
• 31:21
  plus without just unbelievable. He's been.
• 31:24
  But all the others like Coffield, like definitely take
• 31:27
  the dart and coffee has been unbelievable.
• 31:29
  JT would take Bidart for sure. And and J's actually been really
• 31:31
  good lately. Boldy as well.
• 31:33
  Like yeah, no, but artists like these are great targets.
• 31:35
  Can't wait to see what the hell this but no spoilers.
• 31:40
  Do you always does this? Like he picks two guys, buy low,
• 31:43
  sell high, and then he puts them for each other and then you
• 31:46
  don't find out until you listen to the whole episode.
• 31:47
  So yeah, it's just the kind of market page.
• 31:50
  Yeah, and bad jokes, nothing much to add on my side, I think,
• 31:57
  but that is a tremendous Bylow. Um, I sent an offer like a while
• 32:01
  ago before Panarin was on IR because he's being held up for
• 32:05
  trade reasons. So they're not was not able to
• 32:08
  make it happen. But I think he's a phenomenal
• 32:11
  player. I think the ceiling is super
• 32:12
  high. And like Josh said, I think the
• 32:13
  Olympic break is really a lot of good things for his value.
• 32:17
  And also like, if you're, I was gonna say if you're in a keeper
• 32:20
  league, but if you're a teacher who has big artist never trading
• 32:23
  Bedard. Yeah.
• 32:23
  But just imagine what he can do when he actually gets good
• 32:27
  wingers. You know, like he's playing with
• 32:29
  Turbo Turbine and Tyler Bertuzzi, Burakovsky, Frank
• 32:33
  Nazar. Like they're so starved for good
• 32:35
  players, they have to use their second line centre to play them
• 32:37
  on the wing of Connor Barth to get value.
• 32:39
  So imagine next year. It's going to be crazy.
• 32:42
  He's definitely a first round pick.
• 32:44
  Yeah, yeah. Alright, let's get into me and
• 32:47
  Jackie Salhus and Kevin's Bilo. Yeah, so start with my cell.
• 32:52
  Hi, my cell high for this week is Ilya Sorokin of the New York
• 32:56
  Islanders. Over the past month, Sorokin has
• 32:59
  a 75% win rate, winning six out of eight of his starts, 1.89
• 33:03
  goals against average, .936 save percentage and three shutouts. 3
• 33:08
  shutouts in eight games. The Islanders are currently
• 33:12
  third in their division, but I'd be surprised if they make the
• 33:14
  playoffs. Sorokin's numbers have been
• 33:16
  insane since returning from injury, but look at the
• 33:18
  opponents he's faced. He played New Jersey, who at the
• 33:21
  time were dog awful. He played Minnesota, OK that's a
• 33:24
  strong opponent. Played Winnipeg, the worst team
• 33:26
  in the league, and that was the only garbage game he had in this
• 33:28
  stretch. Played against Edmonton, OK
• 33:30
  strong opponent. Vancouver, garbage.
• 33:32
  Seattle week, Philly garbage. Rangers, garbage.
• 33:35
  Plus an open air and so like so extra garbage.
• 33:38
  Like he's only played two real teams in Minnesota and Edmonton
• 33:41
  during this crazy stretch. And although he still played
• 33:43
  great against them, it's not sustainable.
• 33:44
  I mean, even if he was playing this against great teams, like
• 33:47
  the numbers he's putting up are just not getting three shots
• 33:49
  every eight games. So Sorokin's a fantastic goalie.
• 33:51
  The combination of new goalie coach and him getting healthy
• 33:54
  seems to have really helped his game.
• 33:55
  But you have the opportunity to use his name value and insane
• 33:57
  stats to flip him for a goalie on a team that you can be much
• 34:00
  more confident in than the Islanders.
• 34:02
  So main thing is the team. If I was more confident, the
• 34:04
  Islanders I wouldn't like obviously regardless this is
• 34:06
  sell high because of how ridiculous he's playing.
• 34:08
  But if I had more confidence in their justices in outlook, I
• 34:10
  wouldn't be like, alright, get him off for sure.
• 34:12
  But like, I don't know if I'm making this up, but I'm pretty
• 34:15
  sure earlier this season people asking about drop in Sorokin
• 34:17
  like they're bad. He was so look, you know, you
• 34:20
  know what the floor is and it's a drop worthy.
• 34:23
  So some targets I'm looking at Jake Ottinger, Phillip Gustafson
• 34:26
  and Mackenzie Blackwood. Yeah, I mean like he he is one
• 34:32
  of the best goalies in the league.
• 34:34
  I think as like from a skill standpoint, you put them on
• 34:37
  Edmonton, they win the Cup, you put them on Colorado, you know,
• 34:40
  and I think like, you know, he's a better goalie, frankly, than
• 34:42
  than all the ones you mentioned. It's just that I totally believe
• 34:46
  in Dallas and Minnesota and in the Avalanche way more than I
• 34:52
  believe in the Islanders. I also think that it's gonna be
• 34:55
  one of those stories that they're going to fall out of the
• 34:57
  playoff picture or definitely not be a lock for 3rd place.
• 35:02
  So I really like the recommendation and the targets
• 35:05
  as well. It's OK.
• 35:09
  Let me just say that at one point said when or would you
• 35:13
  rather it was Grieves versus Sorokin.
• 35:15
  I am now firmly taken the Sorokin side like to be honest
• 35:19
  regardless. So I still.
• 35:20
  Think. Wait.
• 35:20
  I wanna hear you. Say it.
• 35:23
  Say it. Obviously looks like a big win
• 35:26
  for Sorokin right now and. Yeah, that's probably it.
• 35:29
  He was listening to the podcast and then he, you know, like that
• 35:33
  said, no, he's been on fire. But I definitely think that it's
• 35:37
  worse days ahead the. They can't be better this ahead.
• 35:41
  No, this is not 44 Save shot out 35 against Edmonton and come on,
• 35:46
  let's not. He might win the Vezina this
• 35:49
  year, to be honest, I think and I think.
• 35:50
  He'll make the playoffs. Like I think he's a top
• 35:53
  contender. Even without, he's still yeah.
• 35:55
  Yeah, like it's him probably. I think you should be in the
• 35:59
  running this year to be honest. If insane, yeah.
• 36:01
  Like he's never in the running because people just like he's
• 36:03
  had his due type of thing. But yeah, no, he's been
• 36:07
  tremendous. And listen, I feel like people
• 36:09
  have thought I hated broken in the past.
• 36:11
  Do not hate Sorokin. He was one of the only goalies
• 36:13
  that drafted last year and it was tough, but he ended the
• 36:17
  season really strong. Then you just go through the
• 36:19
  stretches like broken is a tremendous goal.
• 36:20
  He is just the team he's on is not always able to deliver
• 36:23
  results that like help him out. And no matter which goalie it
• 36:28
  was, if they're putting up these numbers over this stretch, you
• 36:31
  try to sell them. You try to sell them to one of
• 36:33
  the goalie on one of the best teams in the league.
• 36:35
  That's a great goalie. That's Blackwood, that's on
• 36:38
  Anger, that's Gustafson. If you can even I would, I would
• 36:41
  honestly try to do like Stroken plus player 4 Vasilevsky.
• 36:45
  Like if the Vasilevski owner is like lower in the standings and
• 36:48
  needs a little more depth and you have the luxury of being
• 36:50
  able to give up a medium player leading up to it.
• 36:55
  But would you do Sorokin plus bathroom for Veselovsky?
• 36:58
  Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you would.
• 36:59
  Have that He's been insane. Tampa has been insane and I
• 37:02
  trust them a lot more than Islanders.
• 37:04
  Yeah, so that's the type of thing that I would be trying to
• 37:07
  do, because Vasi is within reach no matter how good he's been
• 37:10
  because of how good Sorokin's been.
• 37:12
  And they both have name value, obviously Maslowski, but it's
• 37:16
  just nuts. Would you trade Broken One for
• 37:18
  One for Connor Hellebuyck? No, no, at this point I'm a I'm
• 37:22
  off the the halibut train. I haven't been sending offers.
• 37:25
  Yeah, yeah. So that's that's a crazy
• 37:28
  situation. But nonetheless, I think Sorokin
• 37:30
  right now, like when we talk about him in two weeks, he's not
• 37:33
  gonna have three massive shutouts on his roster.
• 37:36
  Guys, we did this earlier this season.
• 37:38
  We did it with Askerov. We did it with Jasper Walstead,
• 37:40
  who is now a drop. I'm not saying it's gonna go to
• 37:43
  being a drop, but these guys are averaging like almost perfect
• 37:46
  stats for this kind of time. It never holds up two it's too
• 37:50
  hard to do so like the guys that just can't keep doing it and
• 37:53
  let. Me experience that on my team
• 37:55
  one day, yeah. Yeah, let's let's move on to
• 37:58
  Kevin's Bilo. Yeah, all right.
• 38:01
  My bi Lo is a player that I love spelling.
• 38:04
  His first name. It is Brian Rust with a Y, not
• 38:07
  an I. That's how you spell Davis,
• 38:10
  Brian. With a wife.
• 38:12
  That's fine. Yeah.
• 38:14
  No, I think 1 should be spelled with an I.
• 38:16
  OK, hot take. No shade Brian Rust, but I
• 38:19
  believe you're a bi lo so. So that's why you're in the cell
• 38:23
  high section of the episode. But the listen, I feel like
• 38:27
  people don't give Ryan Russell credit that he deserves, feel
• 38:30
  like he's always just a solid winger to have in fantasy.
• 38:33
  He plays with Sidney Crosby. He's on a top five power play in
• 38:36
  the league. Last season he averaged .92
• 38:38
  points per game, .25 power play points and was very close with
• 38:42
  three shots on goal game. This season, right now, over the
• 38:46
  last month, the shots have still been there.
• 38:48
  The points have really not been there.
• 38:50
  His production has basically been cut in half from the season
• 38:53
  to what he's been doing over the last month.
• 38:55
  There's not a small sample size. Like, yeah, he's been battling
• 38:57
  injuries here and there. Like he's also one of the guys
• 39:00
  that is in the squishy camp. It's like, damn, Josh Norris,
• 39:03
  Jack Jack Hughes, So yeah, all all of those boys.
• 39:07
  But when they're healthy, they're tremendous fantasy
• 39:09
  hockey players. And over the last month, Brian
• 39:12
  Ross is a .0, 0.45 points per game.
• 39:16
  He's still playing on a line with Sidney Crosby.
• 39:18
  He's still power play 1. And this is still a top power
• 39:21
  play in the league. I think this is a tremendous
• 39:23
  opportunity to make your team better.
• 39:25
  And it's like one of those not flashy moves that you can make
• 39:28
  that ends up being a championship decision for your
• 39:31
  fantasy team. I think you can send like middle
• 39:34
  range guys. Like I think you can send, I
• 39:36
  don't know, this is a hot take, but like a Nick Schmaltz for
• 39:39
  Brian Russ and I would love to do that.
• 39:41
  Brian Russ is a guy that will hover over one point per game.
• 39:44
  Like just under one point per game and get you .35 power play
• 39:49
  points and close with three shots a game.
• 39:52
  I think that's tremendous value for a guy that you can acquire
• 39:55
  for pretty cheap because people don't associate him with high
• 39:57
  level name value and the production is not there right
• 40:00
  now. I think it's all guys that you
• 40:03
  could get for Brian right now. And I think you can send like an
• 40:07
  Alex Tuck as well. I think you can send us Steven
• 40:09
  Stamkos. I think you can send a.
• 40:13
  This is tough. No, I'm not gonna say that name.
• 40:17
  Not gonna say that name. What name?
• 40:19
  Yeah. I was gonna say Ryan O'Reilly,
• 40:21
  but I feel like Ryan O'Reilly if I have him on my roster.
• 40:23
  I wanna aim higher than Brian Rust.
• 40:26
  So, but would I rather Brian Rust?
• 40:29
  Like, gun to my head, my life is on the line.
• 40:31
  Who do I rather have on my fantasy team?
• 40:33
  Rest. Of the houses on Zillow.
• 40:35
  So many crazy things happening. I just think Brian Rust could be
• 40:40
  like a .92 points per game like what he did last season except
• 40:43
  better because Pittsburgh is better.
• 40:44
  Like is it crazy that he finishes on a point game piece?
• 40:46
  I don't think it's crazy. Could he get I'm like I don't
• 40:49
  think I'm going three shots a game.
• 40:51
  Could he get .35 power play points?
• 40:52
  Yeah. What do you think Rhino Lot is
• 40:54
  gonna get realize gonna get like 1.7 shots a game when he ends up
• 40:58
  coming back down to earth, maybe .2 power play points and like
• 41:02
  .85 point eight points per game. I think it's very realistic.
• 41:05
  I think you'll be happy with Brian Rust on your roster now.
• 41:08
  Right now if you tell me that people think I'm crazy because
• 41:09
  looking at the numbers and be like why are you telling me this
• 41:12
  guy is like getting three times as less points as Ryan O'Reilly
• 41:14
  is going to be better. But this type of trace you do to
• 41:17
  win your championship, you send Ryan O'Reilly, you get Brian
• 41:19
  plus somebody else. You make it a 2 for 2.
• 41:21
  You get 2 upgrades in the long term when you're laughing.
• 41:24
  Yeah, I fully agree. I agree with the with the buy
• 41:27
  low. I agree with all the targets.
• 41:28
  I think I'll take rust over all those guys I've always been high
• 41:31
  on. His biggest issue is staying
• 41:32
  healthy, so as long as he can do that Pittsburgh unreal playoff
• 41:35
  schedule as well. Of course, 35 is not so.
• 41:38
  No, I love rust. Yeah, This small caveat, I would
• 41:42
  think tiny though, because I don't think it's as much of an
• 41:45
  issue is that if they actually do trade four players, because I
• 41:47
  actually think they're turning into buyers and sellers, that
• 41:52
  screws with his deployment. But I doubt that they're gonna
• 41:54
  actually clear that that's gonna happen too.
• 41:56
  If anything would be Raquel would be more affected
• 41:58
  potentially he'd be going the other way in a trade also.
• 42:00
  So I think that it's a fantastic choice and I expect really good
• 42:04
  things for him rest of the season.
• 42:06
  No, I think if you can treat like a Nick Ellers as well, I
• 42:08
  think that maybe I can get done. Nick dealers gave Vilardi, Kevin
• 42:13
  Fiala, like I'd rather rust over all these guys.
• 42:15
  So if you have any chance to make a swap like that like I
• 42:18
  would do that. Yeah.
• 42:19
  Right. OK, right cheeky, Take us home.
• 42:22
  With your cell high, not your bio.
• 42:27
  This guys are so. High.
• 42:28
  You know what? I don't really mind this order.
• 42:30
  It's actually kind of fun. It was confusing because it
• 42:33
  happened by accident. Ahead of the curve.
• 42:38
  Alright, my cell high is of the Carolina Hurricanes.
• 42:44
  Andre Spesh Nakov. I was very surprised that he was
• 42:48
  never a bi lo, and to be honest, I think it's because Josh was so
• 42:51
  low on him when he drafted him earlier this year that I think
• 42:54
  we all just became convinced that he was gonna suck.
• 42:57
  But lo and behold, he's turned it around big time.
• 43:01
  I have no idea how he managed to get out of the doghouse, but he
• 43:03
  did in a big way. And if you Diamond has them this
• 43:07
  year, congratulations because it's been paying dividends
• 43:11
  amazingly as of late. The thing is that his production
• 43:14
  has been steadily better over the last month, but it's really
• 43:18
  very recently that it's been just insane and way better than
• 43:24
  what we conceived of when we thought he was horrible at the
• 43:26
  beginning of the year. Really, it's over the last six
• 43:29
  game he scored 11 points. He's also been averaging one
• 43:34
  power play point for game, well over a double, double in shots
• 43:37
  and hits and crazy penalty minutes over the last two games.
• 43:40
  I think that most of the listeners are going to know
• 43:43
  where I'm going with this because we talk about how
• 43:45
  unsustainable and volatile players are on Rod's team, but
• 43:49
  this is just another classic example of that.
• 43:52
  As good as he has been lately, we've seen throughout his entire
• 43:56
  career, Sveshnikov has fallen in and out of favor with the
• 43:59
  Hurricanes, sometimes for seemingly no reason, and there's
• 44:02
  a solid chance that that happens again.
• 44:05
  Even if he doesn't and he keeps his good deployment, this pace
• 44:08
  is still unsustainable. So really, he's a sell high
• 44:10
  regardless. I know how hard it is to part
• 44:14
  with him because he's so good for bangers.
• 44:16
  Least he's delivering exactly what you want, but this is the
• 44:19
  best time to send him into trade if you can because the value
• 44:22
  won't be higher than this at any point between now and the end of
• 44:25
  the season. So my targets over here, we got
• 44:28
  my Bill O Connor Bedard. I actually I know you may think
• 44:34
  you need to add a plus, which I wouldn't be opposed to doing,
• 44:36
  but I think you can even try one for one.
• 44:38
  And it's definitely it's definitely not a non starter.
• 44:41
  Kyle Connor, Wyatt Johnston, Marty Natus and this is the big
• 44:47
  one. I think it could be huge.
• 44:49
  Mikko Rantanen. Yeah, this is this is sick,
• 44:54
  honestly. Like, I mean, this is the player
• 44:56
  I drafted him to be. Luckily I still got full value
• 44:59
  for him. So I'm not missing out on a on
• 45:00
  all this production. I got Robertson for him.
• 45:03
  So, you know, it's a perfect trade for me because then the
• 45:06
  other guy's not mad at me next year and he might be willing to
• 45:08
  trade with me again. So I'm always I'm always happy
• 45:11
  if that if that happens, if I, if I win a trade, but my the guy
• 45:13
  traded with is still happy. That's that's my ideal scenario.
• 45:15
  So. Kiss me, he's doing nothing.
• 45:23
  What's that of? Yeah, no.
• 45:27
  So this is a fantastic. And yeah, I know what he's doing
• 45:30
  is super unsustainable just because it's crazy he's gonna
• 45:34
  come down to earth a bit more. Like I still think gonna be
• 45:35
  solid rest of season. But yes, there is always that
• 45:37
  question like that stress in the back of your mind, is he gonna
• 45:39
  go to line 4 power play too at any moment?
• 45:41
  Like I think he's solidified his deployment like a lot more over
• 45:44
  the course of the season with how strong he's played since
• 45:46
  getting bumped up. But there is no rhyme or reason
• 45:49
  to to what Rod does, especially in terms of guys who are not
• 45:53
  AHO. Pretty much Yahoo is the only
• 45:55
  guy who doesn't get messed with. Even Jarvis will be bumped the
• 45:57
  line 3 sometimes like like he'll still be good.
• 46:00
  But like in terms of deployment, the only guy who doesn't get
• 46:02
  messed around with his AHO. So I would much prefer I like
• 46:06
  all these targets he put. I think they're they're
• 46:08
  fantastic. And I think you should aim
• 46:09
  really high with a guy like switching off when he's playing
• 46:11
  like this. So random hasn't like hasn't
• 46:14
  been that great. You know, like he doesn't shoot.
• 46:16
  He doesn't he pretty much like he's pretty much like Mitch
• 46:18
  Marner ring the season, you know, where like he does 0 back
• 46:20
  cats and then just great for like points and power play
• 46:23
  points And even that like obviously he was injured bit and
• 46:25
  so he hasn't come back fully yet.
• 46:27
  So no, I think that's a great target.
• 46:29
  Like I don't I don't think most of these get done one for one,
• 46:31
  although it's possible with how unrealistic fetch has been.
• 46:34
  I mean just like on name value, maybe not, but if you have to
• 46:37
  toss in a little plus to get this done, then toss in
• 46:40
  Batherson and call it a day. Speech Plus Bath was in for
• 46:45
  Connor Bedard, who says no. Batherson.
• 46:47
  Probably, but. Yeah, a quick, quick correction.
• 46:53
  It's actually Robert Redford in the nodding meme.
• 46:55
  Yeah, Galifianakis. Yeah, that's, I was a bit
• 46:58
  confused. I was like.
• 46:58
  That's the community was pissed. Yeah, just saying.
• 47:04
  But yeah, I mean, I think Miko Ratman is really the one I would
• 47:08
  want, but they're all, they're all underperforming.
• 47:10
  These guys. I think with the name value,
• 47:14
  Rantin and Bedard are kind of the ones that are more eye
• 47:17
  opening. We last up.
• 47:19
  I'm targeting both of them. Yeah, my McDavid trade.
• 47:22
  Yeah, in the most recent news and would you rathers, we chose
• 47:26
  Bedard over over natures, but Kevin chose nature.
• 47:29
  So like just to say that even someone like that, they are in
• 47:32
  the same ballpark. And can also choose grieves over
• 47:34
  Sorokin. So yeah.
• 47:36
  What a guy we are. Not defined by all these
• 47:40
  moments. Alright.
• 47:45
  Weird ending the season but. Yeah, it'll be good.
• 47:49
  It'll. Be the plural of of LY is really
• 47:51
  coming to ruin. I think I would be the plural.
• 47:56
  Of I would be the plural. Problem of Elvis.
• 48:01
  This is the singular many. Elvis would be Elva.
• 48:03
  And yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 48:06
  Yeah. If Elvis.
• 48:07
  Presley adverse lycans are are in the same room if.
• 48:09
  They're Elvis. Elvis Yeah, let's have this up.
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• 48:19
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