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Week 3 Waiver Targets & Streamers + Is Svechnikov Droppable? | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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  today, because that's crazy today.
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  A moment of silence. I don't know what he's doing,
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  but it can't be better than this.
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  Yeah, Honestly, there's nothing better than this.
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  I was, yeah. I was looking forward to
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  recording this episode without Jakey specifically.
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  Yeah, exactly. I mean, last couple times that,
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  you know, when I've been missing and then I listen to the episode
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  later, I always get roasted. So should we each just roast
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  Jakey quickly? I got going out there just to
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  make the, you know, keep it going.
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  It's part of the tradition. Whoever's not here has to be
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  roasted. I think.
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  I have yet to miss an episode, so I have yet to be roasted.
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  Not flex or anything, but. Very true.
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  OK, give it. Give us a geeky roast.
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  Jake, your team sucks. No.
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  OK, I like it straight. To the point where now you say
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  something he's working out right now as he's listening to this.
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  And he's just like, gosh darn it, I should have been there.
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  Yeah, but he would be saying actual swear words, not gosh
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  darn it. Yeah, exactly.
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  Man, I should have prepared our roast for that, for this.
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  OK, well, you think of your roast.
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  I'm just gonna. Make you more likely to have
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  Jake would have the best team in the league if it was only based
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  on a junior numbers. That is that.
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  Is that is true? Jake is our resident.
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  What is it? Would you say like a junior?
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  Junior stats expert. Yeah, he's a he's a child lover,
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  that. Is a very particular choice of
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  words. I will not argue with you on
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  that one. Let's just let it slide.
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  Alright, welcome. Let's move on.
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  Welcome. In After a Minute and 45, you
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  are finally here listening to Bangor Management, The Fantasy
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  Kill Podcast with Josh and Kevin today.
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  Jakey is Mia, but he will surely be here on the next episode.
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  Yeah, and today we're going to cover our streamers waiver
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  targets for Week 3 of the fantasy hockey season.
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  some extra fun. But yeah, today we're going to
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  cover our top 10 streamers for this upcoming week.
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  We're going to go over some banger guys.
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  We're going to go over some goalies to get you some starts,
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  goalies to get you some quality starts.
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  And yeah, let's dive in, Josh. All right, so let's dive in with
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  our top ten points guys for this coming week.
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  As always, it's under 40% owned on Yahoo to be as relevant to
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  everyone, so at. #10 giving me a look there I was like I what?
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  Am I supposed to say something? You're the numbers guy, you
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  know, I'd love to see it. But the numbers cemented.
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  You've cemented yourself as the numbers, Mason.
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  Exactly. So, yeah, the numbers numbered.
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  No, I have no idea what. That is like a Black Ops one
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  reference for all my camera guys out there.
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  The only game I ever played was shell so.
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  Shell OK, we got a little connoisseur over here.
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  Yeah, NHL 14, that was my stuff. All right.
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  Yeah, exactly. I'm trying to avoid that so we
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  don't have to sleep. I don't know if that's a
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  believable anyways. OK, cool.
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  So getting into a #10 we've got Jordan Eberly of the Seattle
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  Kraken playing line. One power play, one.
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  This is the one that is like, I feel like such a deep cut.
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  He's 2% owned last, uh, last I checked.
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  And the thing was Seattle players in general for the past
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  since their existence is that they're just none.
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  They all suck for fantasy. It's one of those teams where
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  they spread the wealth, but there's also no wealth to spread
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  so. Like, that's actually very well
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  said. Yeah.
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  So it's just like everyone who had a chance of having a shred
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  of value just doesn't. But this year seems to be a
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  little different. I think that look shout out to
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  our not shout out of flashback to our rankings where Kevin had
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  Seattle four and. We will roast me for it.
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  But yeah, so so looking. Good.
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  Like I'm a I'm a Joey Decord owner now, so I'm I'm fully on
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  the Seattle bandwagon. But honestly, like they do look
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  a little different this year. They look like they're sharing
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  the power play time a little less.
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  Like the power play 1 is power play 1 instead of more of a
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  split. And they're top guys are putting
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  up some points and Eberly's getting the deployment.
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  He's on that top line with McCann and veneers and the three
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  of them are all kind of popping off lately.
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  I've really chipping in like 2 shots and I hit a game as well
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  as the power play points. So I like him a lot.
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  He has a four-game week this week, so it's definitely an
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  interesting pickup. Yeah, I mean, in our League of
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  Record, Josh sniped him from me this this this current week, but
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  four-game week next week. And when you look at a guy like
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  this, it's the deployment that matters.
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  He's playing line 1P1 and he's averaging like close to 20
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  minutes a night. So that's what you love to see.
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  And if you look at last year's, he was at 1.5 shots, 0.3 hits.
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  So you're comparing what he's doing this year to last year,
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  and he's way more involved this year.
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  So you can look at that and be like, oh, maybe it's a trend
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  that it won't hold, or maybe they're just like they're
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  playing different this year because last year they had some
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  injury issues and everything as well.
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  Yeah. So honestly, I really like this
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  pic. He could be higher on the list
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  if we saw more production. We had longer sample size just
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  because like we know there's guys ahead of him that probably
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  have more potential and for higher upside.
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  But I really like this pic and he's available in literally 98%
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  of leagues. So for your for your deep
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  leagues out there, take a look and in your shallower leagues,
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  these other nine guys are probably be more helpful, but a
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  really good shot for this upcoming week specifically on
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  four games. Yeah.
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  And I will say just in general, general note that if you're
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  looking to find your own kind of guys or you're looking at the
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  trends and you're seeing guys getting picked up, a lot of guy
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  put up a couple of points last couple games.
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  One of the biggest indicators of if this is sustainable as Kevin
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  had mentioned is on their game locks.
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  You can see their time on ice for their game.
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  And that is probably the biggest factor I think for if I see
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  someone who put up a bunch of points and I'm like debating
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  whether to pick them up or not. Obviously the first thing is
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  deployment, but the second thing is the the time on ice.
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  And if you're seeing someone getting, especially as a forward
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  like 20 minutes plus, that's a huge indicator that you should
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  pick them up. Absolutely.
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  Honestly, like now we're talking about process when it goes into
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  like waivers and stuff. And our job here is to give you
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  guys names and kind of like take away that process for you guys
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  if you don't have the time to look into it or you're not as in
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  the day-to-day. But realistically, if I'm
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  looking at who are hot guys that are getting picked up and it's
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  like Andre Miller who happens to have like a two goal game that
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  is a defenseman that is not known for points and has like
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  scarce category coverage. And then you have like, I don't
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  wanna poop on anybody else, but you have other podcast platforms
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  that are being like, oh, hundred Milla must pick up must.
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  Yeah, right now I look at that. I'm just kind of like, are you
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  even watching the games or like, what do you.
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  Yeah, have you. I don't know.
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  I don't want to. Have you honestly like this?
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  When you come? When you have.
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  The wrong there. Yeah, exactly when you have the
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  experience, you know or at least you're a lot better at knowing
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  when these things are blips or when they're in actual possible
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  trend. And to us here, I mean the
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  country Miller he had literally his first game of the season.
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  Not unreal game like that was such an obvious do not pick up
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  in in our in our minds that because he doesn't have the
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  deployments, he's never shown that in the past didn't have
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  like the crazy ice time or anything like that.
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  So anyways, not to harp on that too much, but just sometimes,
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  like when you're looking at it yourself trying to make a
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  decision, these are the kind of things that you can think of.
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  Let's move on to the to the next one at #9 we've got Vladimir
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  Tarasenko of the Minnesota Wild. He is currently line 2 power
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  play one big star in asterisk next to power play one because
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  that is what makes a difference here.
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  Look, I mean, I thought Tarasenko's days of being
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  fantasy relevant or done. I still don't think this is
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  gonna last very long. But in terms of streamers, I
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  really like him. Minnesota's power play has
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  started off the season just absurdly hot.
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  They're. Too good like it cannot.
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  Be like, yeah, no, it's definitely unsustainable.
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  So I wouldn't be looking at Tarasenko as the solution to
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  your long term problems. But in terms of a four-game week
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  with multiple off night games and when a power plays this hot,
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  you ride the wave. So he's definitely a great pick
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  up for this week. Yeah, I mean as long as he's
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  power play 1, he will be relevant for fantasy just
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  because of how good that power play has been clicking.
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  That's pretty much what we're looking for right now because
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  he's not, he's no longer the guy is going to get you like a lot
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  of shots or any category coverage.
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  You're pretty much just hoping for maybe one shot a game and in
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  a power play point. So but he's exposed to elite
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  offensive assets like he's playing on the same power play
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  with Kaprizov and boldly. And those guys have been two of
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  the best fantasy players since I started the season.
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  So the exposure to that is, you know, obviously valuable.
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  They have a four-game week, which is why he's on this list
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  as well, because streaming power play points is very difficult.
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  When you when you think about it, you're not gonna stream
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  points from a defensive position because all those guys are
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  rostered. So getting a guide just gives
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  you exposure to that category or those points in your fantasy
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  leagues is is rare. So when there are there, their
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  name comes up. But yeah, if you by the time you
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  listen to this, I mean we're recording literally Saturday
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  evening, so. Yeah, we, we learned our lesson.
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  We learned our lessons from from the first week when we got, we
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  had Josh Norris as one of our top pickups and then he got
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  injured like a day after we recorded.
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  So. So thanks Norris for forcing us
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  to be even more up to date. But yeah, now we're really,
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  we're really recording for you guys like right before this
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  comes out. So this should be as recent as
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  possible. Obviously there's a couple of
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  games that are gonna happen tonight between the recordings.
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  Hopefully though, I feel like. Yeah, exactly.
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  Hopefully no injuries happen. But yeah, no.
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  And obviously one another thing with terracing in terms of
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  long-term is Zuccarello is gonna come back at some point.
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  Yeah, and I'd be shocked if he doesn't bump Taseko.
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  So again, don't think of this as a long term solution, but for
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  this week and maybe a couple of weeks it could be a really good
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  pick. Up if you have a forward spot
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  open to stream and you need power play points because you're
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  kind of weak at that. Like he's the name that's worth
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  mentioning. Yeah.
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  All right, let's go to #8. And #8 we've got a Zach Benson
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  of the Buffalo Sabres, the new best team in the NHL, playing
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  line, one power play 1 and talking about teams that have
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  just been popping off after starting the season.
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  Exactly how we expected Buffalo to play.
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  Honestly, even worse than we expected Buffalo to play, which
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  is saying something. The last two games they won 84
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  against Ottawa and 30 playing today against Florida.
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  Yeah, so the Florida 30 shutout. Yeah, that's nuts.
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  And yes. And Benson came in, he was
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  injured to start the season, came in his first game, 4
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  assists this past game, one power play assist and showing
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  up. Yeah, he had a shortage in those
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  four assists on the on the first game.
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  So this is a guy who this is much different than the
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  Tarasenko one. This could be a season long
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  hold. This is he has the he has the
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  name and the, you know, elite prospects status there.
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  It kind it would make sense if he had a breakout.
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  He has the deployment with very little risk of it being taken
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  because who else is taking it and it's working and like I just
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  mentioned, it's working. So they're riding the wave
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  again. Another four-game week with
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  multiple off nights. So this is a great pick up for
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  this week and you get to see if he starts popping off even more.
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  You got there early and you got to just hold on to him and if
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  not then you can always drop him for another streamer.
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  Yep. I mean, there's a lot of Buffalo
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  guys. Benson was our favorite name to
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  say. But I did want to shout out like
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  Josh known as well. Yeah.
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  And if you're in deeper leagues that have face off wins, I think
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  Ryan McLeod is worth a shout as well because he's getting more
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  eyes time. But all three of those guys in
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  your deeper leagues are obviously worth looking at.
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  Benson, I think is the name to highlight just because he has
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  the line 1P1, so the best deployment possible.
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  He's getting exposed to the top talent on the team.
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  And listen, we have a two game sample size.
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  It's not much, but he's a highly touted prospect.
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  They were looking forward to his returning to the lineup.
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  He came back and it's it's they've been super successful.
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  They've scored eleven goals in two games.
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  So no, it's not. And how many of those were power
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  play goals? I think 5 long crazy like that.
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  I know 2 today and no, I think it was like 6.
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  It was 2 today and I think 4 in the last game.
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  And he's Ottawa. So they've been just absolutely
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  unreal. Definitely in terms of the
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  rankings of the three guys you mentioned.
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  Would Benson then don't then McLeod?
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  But but yeah, like Benson and don't as well.
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  He also has that power play 1. And Buffalo's exciting now.
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  So they're really a streaky team.
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  They've always been a streaky team and usually their MO is
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  they start the season super hot and then they kind of fall off,
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  yeah, and then completely fall off.
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  So maybe you pick him up, hold them for like a month when he
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  pops off and then trade him before the inevitable fall off.
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  Who knows, But that's that's something to keep in mind about
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  a great pick up for this week. But the guys like Benson and Don
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  are the type of guys that they're young and we don't
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  really know what their true fantasy output can be.
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  But I think their their usefulness in your fantasy
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  lineup is completely deployment based like it's. 100%.
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  Like these young guys have the always the risk that get bumped
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  down the line up because you know, they're not disciplined on
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  the ice or you know, they make mistakes.
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  So let's say Benson ends up getting lined 3P2 or line 3P1 is
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  less valuable than line 1P1. So but right now that's where he
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  is. It's exciting.
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  They're scoring a lot of goals. They're probably not going to
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  mess with this after the start of the season that they had.
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  So ride with it and hopefully, hopefully these guys can be like
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  season long holds and there would be great pickups, Yeah,
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  and what better than a four-game week to do it so.
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  Yeah, exactly. That's it.
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  That's the best time to take a shot on one of these guys
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  because you're getting the good schedule anyways and and it
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  gives you some some leeway to see what they can do.
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  Alright, at #7. We've got William Eckland of the
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  San Jose Sharks line. One power play, one playing with
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  Max Celebrity. Always a great place to be.
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  Another 4 game week with multiple off nights.
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  This is one that's less about recent production and more like
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  even preseason. We were we we thought he would
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  be good and I think the Sharks are struggling a bit out the
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  gate. Even Celebrity has was
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  struggling a bit, although I think now he's up to five points
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  in in his first. Four years.
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  So it's either like zeros or a great great day for.
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  Multiple night, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  But I mean, he's young, it's his sophomore year, so he's gonna
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  have to work on the consistency. But in terms of overall, like
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  end of season, the it's gonna average out to really solid
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  numbers and Echlin's gonna be right along for the ride.
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  So we have no, we had no doubts that San Jose was going to be
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  garbage at defence, but but we know they're gonna have good
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  offensive output. They have a lot of young pieces,
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  including Eckland, who are going to take a step up this year and
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  it's gonna be a fun team to watch for all those reasons.
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  He's a good at the very least to stream and could be a season on
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  hold as well. Yeah.
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  I mean, I was really high on account.
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  I have him in our league of record.
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  I think the deployment is the biggest factor with him.
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  And we saw him really kind of pop up at the end of last season
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  where he really cemented himself as like a fantasy asset worth
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  holding. That's more than just like your
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  streamer level guy this year. He he's, I wouldn't say he's
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  popped off yet, but all of San Jose.
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  San Jose looks like they could be the worst team in the league.
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  Yeah, like I think they. Will be.
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  The Jakey have them like making the playoffs or something.
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  No, nothing that crazy, but I think he might have had them
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  like 6th in the division or something like.
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  That no, I think Ricky was higher on them than than maybe.
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  I think they were like. No, there's no getting that
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  high. He's not here, so you can't
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  defend himself, but that's the second best team in the
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  division. But I mean, San Jose's
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  goaltending looks atrocious. First of all, like Askerov might
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  be the worst fantasy goalie in the league this year, which is
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  crazy because we were kind of touting him as a 0G potential
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  guy, but he's. On.
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  Goals. But it just look at the defence
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  in front of him. We talked about the defensive
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  structure were like, damn. And Chicago doesn't look really
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  tantalizing. Yeah, and there's this way worse
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  than Chicago. Yes.
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  So say I'm surprisingly they're really bad, but equal should be
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  good for offensive. Yep, he's going to get you
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  around two shots a game and exposure to the highest talent
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  on the roster, the best deployment on the roster.
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  So on a four-game week, like these are the type of guys that
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  you want to stream like he's he won't get you less than 17
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  minutes a night between 17 to 20 minutes a night.
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  Like these are guys that are on the ice a lot that can get you
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  those peripheral categories too. Yeah, 100%.
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  Alright, this guy, this is my boy #6.
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  And number six, we have a Zach Bolduc of your Montreal
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  Canadiens. He is currently aligned to power
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  play one, which is before like before like training camp.
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  I had no inkling of an idea that was going to be the one to get
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  that power play one spot I. Thought you mentioned it on the
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  podcast at some I didn't like I started last episodes before the
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  season started. You mentioned that you saw him
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  on Power Play 1 and that like, yeah, keeps that spot.
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  There might be something here. Yeah, yeah.
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  So I started seeing some like kind of like rumors about it or
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  whatever, like a week or two before the season started.
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  But I mean, like in the summer, if you had asked me that, like
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  when we were doing like a lot of our offseason content, like mid
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  Midsummer, I would have never clocked that.
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  I mean, to be fair, he wasn't on the haves until a certain point
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  right when we got the trade. But like, I thought it was
• 17:42
  definitely going to be linear Demidov.
• 17:43
  But they put Bulldog there and they've been thriving.
• 17:45
  He's been. He had three goals in his first
• 17:47
  three games. He's shooting, he's hitting.
• 17:49
  He seems to have. They seem to really like him on
• 17:51
  the power play. I don't think it's a lock by any
• 17:53
  means, but I don't see them switching it around as long as
• 17:56
  they're successful. So yeah, I really like him as a
• 17:59
  pickup. Another four-game week with
• 18:00
  multiple off nights. So I like building a lot.
• 18:02
  And again, this could be another one of those season long holds
• 18:04
  if he keeps that deployment and the Haps keep being strong.
• 18:07
  The biggest thing with Bolduc is obviously I think the Habs.
• 18:10
  The Habs are one of the hottest teams to watch right now.
• 18:12
  If you guys watched that Nashville game where that was
• 18:16
  one of the best. Hudson empty, net saved with the
• 18:18
  feed to cool Cofield in the field, snipe and then the
• 18:22
  overtime winner by Cofield again after like 2 seconds left.
• 18:25
  Yeah, I don't wanna brag guys. Not everybody listening to this
• 18:28
  is a is a Habs fan like us, but it's really fun to be a Habs fan
• 18:31
  right now. Yeah, we paid our dues.
• 18:34
  It's been since like 2021. We have definitely paid our
• 18:38
  dues. But Bolduc, he's kind of like,
• 18:41
  if you look at his game log, his ice time isn't the highest like
• 18:45
  those. Yeah, I think most guys on this
• 18:46
  list have higher. Einstein.
• 18:48
  He's hovering around 14 to 15 minutes.
• 18:50
  And we just said how valuable it is to have guys that are like 17
• 18:53
  plus minutes a night, because those are the guys that usually
• 18:56
  have the best deployment. But this kid, what he's doing
• 18:59
  with this 15 minutes a night, and I feel like there's there's
• 19:02
  room to grow like he's doing, he's doing what he's doing with,
• 19:05
  let's say, not the most, the best deployment possible on the
• 19:09
  roster. I think that as he gets settled
• 19:12
  into the roster more and as the Habs develop and and gain
• 19:15
  momentum, I think he can be one of the biggest beneficiaries.
• 19:18
  So he has like a safe floor right now and you're getting
• 19:20
  exposed to season long upside. I really like this.
• 19:23
  Right? Like this pic?
• 19:25
  Yeah, and he also has the floor of the back cats, right?
• 19:28
  He's like chipping in with hits and with the shots and hits.
• 19:31
  So even when he's not putting up points, you're still not getting
• 19:33
  zeros. So yeah, this is a great one.
• 19:35
  Yeah, well, we reference back out.
• 19:37
  It's it's the banger categories. We're talking like shots, hits,
• 19:39
  blocks Pimms like he's not a Pimms guy, but he's he's
• 19:43
  hovering around being a double double, which is two hits, two
• 19:45
  shots. Guys like that, guys like that
• 19:48
  contributing points as well are are how you when your your
• 19:51
  banger leagues so. 100% double double s with power play
• 19:54
  exposure. Who actually do something with
• 19:55
  it? And I will say that I feel the
• 19:57
  hubs do need to figure out their power play because it's not, I
• 20:00
  don't think it's the best power play right now.
• 20:02
  And we have a lot of personnel that can be that can be changed.
• 20:05
  I think that's kind of like what led to this.
• 20:08
  We still have A1 and A2, but we definitely, it's not as strong.
• 20:12
  It's not a clear like last year it was like we had a one and a 2
• 20:14
  was like a joke. You know, this year we have a
• 20:16
  one, but the two could be a solid unit on a lot of like on
• 20:20
  like lower teams, right? We just have so many good power
• 20:23
  play like guys available that it kind of forces us to have to
• 20:28
  like close to even units. So that's always not ideal for
• 20:33
  fantasy value, but it's still a clear #1 so I wouldn't worry
• 20:35
  about that. But they do.
• 20:36
  I can see some shuffling happening if they don't start
• 20:39
  clicking on the power. Play I think Demidov ends up on
• 20:42
  CPU one like right now we still P2 but I feel like it's
• 20:44
  available that he gets to P1 and I wouldn't be surprised if laugh
• 20:47
  is one of those guys ends up on P2.
• 20:49
  It's going to be laughable, dude.
• 20:51
  I mean, it's obviously not going to be Suzuki, Cofield or Hudson.
• 20:53
  So but for now, Bulldog has that power play one.
• 20:55
  He's got the four-game week and is a great pickup.
• 20:59
  Well, Speaking of power play ones and power play twos are
• 21:02
  kind of balanced. This is a good segue to our
• 21:04
  number 5. Nice segue at #5 We have Jake
• 21:09
  neighbors of the Saint Louis Blues.
• 21:10
  He is currently line one power play 2.
• 21:13
  But again, in this the case of the Saint Louis Blues, both
• 21:16
  power plays are power play, you know, like 1.5.
• 21:19
  Yeah, exactly. So I will say though, I have
• 21:22
  noticed they've been switching up the units a bit and it seems
• 21:25
  like they might. Actually consolidate a little.
• 21:27
  Bit yeah, exactly, they might actually be moving towards more
• 21:30
  of a power play one power play 2, in which case it's too bad
• 21:32
  for neighbors. He's currently on the the two.
• 21:34
  But but it's very situation is very fluid, as they like to say,
• 21:39
  and I wouldn't be panicking yet. And if you look at neighbors's
• 21:42
  stats right, so far, he's just been killing it points wise,
• 21:46
  shots wise, hits wise, it's a really great bangers pick up
• 21:50
  only three games this week and and not off nights.
• 21:53
  So this is less of a this week focused and more of in general,
• 21:56
  but but definitely like neighbors a pickup.
• 21:59
  Honestly, very similar to Bold Duke where he doesn't have the
• 22:02
  best deployment on the roster. Like his Einstein will still
• 22:05
  hover around between 14 and 15 minutes, which like we just
• 22:08
  said, I'm going to go into it again, but obviously it could be
• 22:11
  better. But for bangers leagues like
• 22:13
  neighbors, a guy that hits like he's going to get through over
• 22:16
  three hits a game he has he's played four games for his 3623.
• 22:21
  So like that's that's the guy that I'm bangers like you gotta
• 22:22
  keep an eye on, especially when he's scoring goals and exposed
• 22:25
  to the top talent on the roster. So we've heard this name before,
• 22:28
  like neighbors has been relevant in fantasy like for the last few
• 22:31
  years. I think last year people really
• 22:33
  expected to jump on his part and we didn't get it.
• 22:35
  And then we saw the emergence of guys like Dylan Holloway that
• 22:38
  kind of like, I think slowed his momentum.
• 22:41
  But this year is slowly building back up like being fantasy
• 22:44
  relevant, especially in your bangers leagues.
• 22:46
  So. I don't feel.
• 22:47
  Like it's not ideal, but the hits and the points match up
• 22:51
  right now are there. Yeah, 100%.
• 22:54
  I will say, like you said, like last year, I expected that big
• 22:57
  jump from him and it didn't come.
• 22:58
  And it's like you said, he's kind of been passed in the depth
• 23:00
  chart. So honestly, I don't see that
• 23:02
  big jump coming from him possibly ever.
• 23:04
  But it's not a bad thing. I mean, it's it's not it's not
• 23:06
  great obviously, but it's not it doesn't mean that he's not fancy
• 23:09
  relevant. It just means that like he's
• 23:10
  more of a guy that rounds out your roster as opposed to a guy
• 23:13
  who can pop off and become a crazy steal.
• 23:15
  So not necessarily the most exciting pic, but he's gonna get
• 23:18
  you those back cats like really nice back at and he's gonna chip
• 23:21
  into the point. So he's definitely someone
• 23:22
  you're happy to have on your. Team and you're shallower
• 23:24
  leagues he's the type of guy that you stream on a weekly
• 23:27
  basis and in your deeper leagues that are maybe like 15 to 20
• 23:32
  roster spots deep in terms of like who you're starting.
• 23:35
  This is the guy that like you know he's probably like top
• 23:37
  three bottom guys on your roster, but he's still very
• 23:39
  valuable. You're not dropping him.
• 23:41
  Yeah. Exactly.
• 23:42
  Yeah. All right, let's move to #4.
• 23:45
  At #4 we've got Jackson Blake of the Carolina Hurricanes,
• 23:49
  currently line 2, power play 1. He sniped technicals properly
• 23:52
  one spot. I don't think it's actually
• 23:54
  that's surprising. It sucks as they switch owner
• 23:56
  myself. Yeah, but but yeah, no, it's
• 23:59
  he's been putting up really nice shots and he's been putting up
• 24:02
  points. He's the guy that they paid and
• 24:05
  you got to be following that money and he's getting a chance
• 24:08
  at power play one. We know Rod is no not shy about
• 24:12
  having not necessarily the fans consensus 5 guys on that power
• 24:17
  play unit. So I'm not super shocked to see
• 24:19
  Blake on there and getting a shot there.
• 24:21
  Also. They just haven't been doing
• 24:22
  that well. So he likes to shake things up.
• 24:24
  I will say though, with Rod, it's a double edged sword,
• 24:27
  right? So he got moved to power play
• 24:28
  one. You're like, that's awesome.
• 24:29
  Pick him up, but don't be surprised if he gets bumped back
• 24:32
  down at some point. But for now, he's on power play
• 24:34
  one. He's putting up great shots,
• 24:36
  putting up points, So only three games next week and and not off
• 24:39
  nights, but still a really solid pickup.
• 24:42
  Carolina is on this huge road trip right now.
• 24:46
  Like, they played two games at home to start the season.
• 24:49
  I mean, they're also, as we record this, the only undefeated
• 24:52
  team left in the NHL, right? Like they're gonna lose a game
• 24:54
  eventually. Maybe they're going through
• 24:57
  right now, like they played New Jersey, Philly, San Jose,
• 25:00
  Anaheim. So you're not really like
• 25:03
  intimidated by any of those opponents.
• 25:06
  And they're about to go all on the road.
• 25:08
  They just play San Jose in Anaheim on the road now.
• 25:10
  They're going to LA, Vegas, Colorado, Dallas.
• 25:13
  All this is going to be their first loss.
• 25:16
  So yeah, I mean, like they could realistically lose all four of
• 25:18
  those games. Like it's not like those are all
• 25:21
  top teams that can. Give them.
• 25:23
  I mean they. Won't but, but yeah.
• 25:24
  They won't. But all that to say, it's been
• 25:28
  really good for Jackson Blake thus far was really encouraging
• 25:31
  is his points and his shots and. His actually for me.
• 25:35
  And we've seen Rod put Blake on P1 in the past.
• 25:38
  Like, this is not the first time that's ever happened.
• 25:40
  Like he clearly has the eye for like I don't want how does he he
• 25:45
  he he has the rod gaze. I think that's a good way to say
• 25:50
  it, but. Yeah, he's one of the guys that
• 25:54
  ride like essentially, and it's it's tough owning the guys he
• 25:58
  doesn't like. We've talked about it a lot on
• 26:00
  the pod of the rod curse and all that, but the few guys that you
• 26:03
  know can evade that curse. Fact is, Carolina is right now
• 26:08
  the top team in the league and always the top team in the
• 26:10
  league. So if you could find the guys
• 26:11
  that could avoid his wrath, you. Know of the coach?
• 26:14
  Then they're they're usually going to be a solid bet.
• 26:19
  Yeah, and I think I think Jackson Blake, as long as he has
• 26:21
  that P1, that's specifically why I wanna roster him because it
• 26:25
  really gives him like super high potential.
• 26:27
  And quick tangent on switch here because fetch, I mean, listen,
• 26:30
  there's a lot of stretch owners out there if you're in a banger
• 26:33
  league specific. You like?
• 26:35
  Switch is one of those guys that a lot of people target because
• 26:38
  he got the shots that hit and the Pimms, which is an elite
• 26:40
  combo for bangers leagues. And then he's supposed to be
• 26:43
  technically exposed to the top talent.
• 26:45
  And we know he's a goal scorer. Like, he can score a lot of
• 26:47
  goals, Yeah, but right now, line 4P2, yeah.
• 26:51
  And The thing is they're winning.
• 26:53
  So I don't I don't see it's tough as fetch owner, but I've
• 26:57
  been getting a lot of questions over Discord and in the DMS
• 27:01
  about what do we do with Sketch. I just want to kind of do a
• 27:03
  little quick, quick tangent on this, but my opinion is right
• 27:07
  now it's as low as it gets. Yeah, it's as low as it gets.
• 27:10
  I just talked about the road trip, right?
• 27:12
  The biggest, the biggest reason to make changes into your lineup
• 27:15
  is when you're not winning games.
• 27:17
  So they're about to play 4 tough teams.
• 27:19
  If they start losing games, we're going to see Rod change
• 27:23
  lines up again if he ends up back online 2PP1.
• 27:27
  I think really for speech to be like return on draft day value,
• 27:30
  he's gotta be at least line 2P1. If he gets the line 1, I think
• 27:35
  we could really see him pop. It's really when you're playing
• 27:37
  with Aho and Jarvis, that's really where things happen
• 27:40
  because they don't really have a good line to see.
• 27:42
  Like it's not anything to write home about.
• 27:44
  So it's really the line, one that really changes things.
• 27:47
  But as a special, you can't drop him right now, You can't sell
• 27:50
  them right now because you'd be selling for pennies on the
• 27:52
  dollar. Will you have to do is you have
• 27:53
  to hope he turns it around, has a couple of good games.
• 27:57
  And then honestly, I'm just trying to sell.
• 27:58
  I'm not trying to have this headache on my roster the whole
• 28:00
  season like we've seen it before in the past.
• 28:03
  Never this early into the season I I'd be trying to get out when
• 28:07
  I can. If you have another manager
• 28:08
  that's willing to buy a low 1 you can get them for, you can
• 28:11
  get them off your roster for not that low of a price, let's say.
• 28:14
  But yeah, it's not looking. Yeah, it's not.
• 28:17
  It's not fun. Right, It really sucks.
• 28:18
  I drafted him. I drafted him despite hating him
• 28:22
  because I was trying to over correct in the other direction.
• 28:24
  I was like, OK, I don't wanna let my emotions take, you know,
• 28:27
  I want to try and do the logical pick in a league with Pimms
• 28:30
  shots and hits. He should be baseline doing
• 28:32
  really well with that stuff, you know.
• 28:33
  And so in terms of my team, the way it was looking in the draft,
• 28:36
  I was like, I needed to boost those categories.
• 28:38
  Even if he's not the points guy that everyone dreamed of, you
• 28:41
  know, even if you put up the stats from last year, I was
• 28:43
  like, I'll be happy with those back cats.
• 28:44
  Obviously season starts, that's super demoted.
• 28:46
  He's not putting up any back cats and he just looks as bleak
• 28:49
  as it's ever gonna look. It's only uphill from here.
• 28:52
  There's literally no work to be get worse than this.
• 28:55
  That's how we can get, that's how we can work.
• 28:57
  Yeah, OK, that's that's the one thing that could be worse.
• 28:59
  But no, honestly, there's zero chance he staying line for power
• 29:02
  play too. I think this is just a classic
• 29:04
  rod thing to do. A player plays badly, he kind of
• 29:07
  punishes him for it. He'll make his way back up the
• 29:09
  lineup. I will say my kind of hope.
• 29:12
  I heard zero rumors about this so I wouldn't say this is very
• 29:16
  likely, but my hope is let's say they keep in line for power play
• 29:20
  too. Maybe he demands a trade.
• 29:22
  He says you're misusing me. You know Rod clearly doesn't
• 29:25
  like him. Maybe they could make something
• 29:27
  work, in which case I think his value skyrockets because he is a
• 29:29
  really good player. He's.
• 29:31
  A top six forward, yeah, should be a good goal scorer.
• 29:35
  Yeah, exactly. So that's kind of what I'm
• 29:37
  praying for a switch owner. You can't drop it depends how
• 29:40
  shallow your league is, obviously, right.
• 29:42
  There's always the caveat there and depends what categories are
• 29:45
  in your league, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.
• 29:47
  But for the most part you can't drop a guy you drafted like
• 29:50
  ground 678 whatever like 2 weeks into the.
• 29:52
  Season exactly this. Really.
• 29:53
  I know you can, no matter how bad.
• 29:54
  It looks terrible. That's it.
• 29:55
  I know it looks terrible, but it's a long season.
• 29:57
  You have to remember that there's 23 weeks, 24 weeks
• 30:00
  depending on your settings and it's Week 2.
• 30:03
  If you're dropping guy this early, that's how you lose your
• 30:05
  league. Someone else is going to pick
• 30:07
  him up and. And that's it.
• 30:08
  And all obviously, like my favorite thing to do honestly
• 30:12
  every morning is go look at waivers and see who got dropped
• 30:14
  the night previously. Josh just dropped Jake Debrusk
• 30:17
  who had 10 so. I.
• 30:20
  Had to go to sleep before the game ended after first
• 30:22
  intermission. He had zeros across the board.
• 30:24
  OK, Yeah. And then he went to bed and woke
• 30:26
  up and saw the guy he dropped got ten shots.
• 30:29
  On the day. It definitely sucks, but yeah, I
• 30:32
  know. Fully agree.
• 30:32
  I mean, two guys on my roster right now are guys that Jay and
• 30:35
  Kevin dropped. So so.
• 30:37
  I will say like that always go do your due diligence and on who
• 30:42
  got dropped for waivers in the Discord this morning, I saw
• 30:45
  somebody say that they picked up Brandon Hagel who got dropped in
• 30:48
  their league because Hagel has been awful to start the season.
• 30:52
  But guys, it's been like four or five games.
• 30:54
  Like we can't overreact to guys that you drafted so high.
• 30:56
  Like he's still like 95% owned. Yeah, if overreacts, like drop
• 31:00
  in the group chat, you know, like I love to overreact.
• 31:03
  I go, I'll text Kevin and Jackie.
• 31:05
  I'll be like, my guy, suck. My team's the worst in the
• 31:07
  world. I hate life, you know, but I
• 31:09
  don't actually drop the guys, you know, like I'd say like I
• 31:12
  like. The thing is once you drop them
• 31:14
  then it's confirmed. I got no value for my 6th 7th
• 31:18
  round. Pick whatever you know there is
• 31:20
  a. Problem to it, like you don't
• 31:21
  want to hold on like if we're like week 12 and your guy has
• 31:24
  done nothing then like that's way different than like we're in
• 31:27
  Week 2 and it's been like. 500% there is always a time.
• 31:30
  There is a right time to drop. Like you don't want to be stuck
• 31:32
  holding on to a dead roster spot all year.
• 31:34
  Week 2 is not that time. #3 on this list.
• 31:39
  Yeah, alright, at #3 we've got Dimitri, Veronika V of the
• 31:43
  Columbus Blue Jackets currently playing line one power play one.
• 31:45
  We saw him at the end of last year kind of pop off and have a
• 31:48
  really solid year. He gets to play with Marchenko,
• 31:50
  who is truly shown himself to be an elite player in this league,
• 31:53
  play with Monahan, who had an unreal season last year and just
• 31:56
  a really great playmaker who rents on that power play, the
• 31:59
  deployments just really, really great.
• 32:01
  And he's a he's a solid player. I've seen him.
• 32:02
  I watched a lot of his games last year because I had him and
• 32:05
  he's the net front guy on the power play.
• 32:06
  But he's great at just, you know, leaving it in, knocking in
• 32:09
  those rebounds and and yeah, he's really this is one of those
• 32:12
  the closer we get to the top of the list, the more I'm like,
• 32:14
  these are some season long holds.
• 32:16
  And Voronkov definitely, I mean, look, we've seen him get bumped
• 32:20
  off power play one. They do like to blend if they're
• 32:22
  if things are not going their way.
• 32:23
  And he's usually the first guy off him and Jenner.
• 32:26
  So so if that happens for an extended period of time, you can
• 32:30
  drop him as long as he's on power play one.
• 32:32
  I I think he's a season long hold.
• 32:33
  I I love Rankov. I haven't been our league.
• 32:36
  I picked them up right before right after the draft and did I
• 32:39
  had some guys that could put on IR and he was a guy that I spent
• 32:41
  some fab on, which is like I would say surprising before the
• 32:44
  season even started to spend fab on a guy.
• 32:46
  But I spent $4.00 on on Mr. Wedgie, Scott Wedgewood and
• 32:52
  $4.00 on Voronkov and both guys have been pretty sick.
• 32:56
  I think. Which one has been the best
• 32:57
  goalie in fantasy besides? Like he was I mean it's his time
• 33:00
  is coming with black would come back, but you know what money.
• 33:02
  Will see, will see. I'm a little a little.
• 33:04
  Optimistic, we talked about this.
• 33:06
  It doesn't mean he's an instant drop like we'll see what
• 33:07
  happens, but. I want to give some context with
• 33:10
  Brankov because yeah, so he started the season line 1P2.
• 33:14
  They've played four games thus far.
• 33:17
  He's a point per game and he's averaging over two shots and two
• 33:22
  hits. He has two hits in double,
• 33:24
  double four of these games. So already double, double.
• 33:27
  Now context. I've been watching the games.
• 33:30
  Last game they put him line 2PP1, which line 2 I think
• 33:35
  severely impacts his fantasy value because that line 2 is way
• 33:39
  worse than that line 1. Like you want to be playing with
• 33:41
  Monahan and Marchenko. But the good news is that I
• 33:46
  think they put him in line 2 because they wanted to get their
• 33:48
  other guys going because Ken Johnson has been awful for
• 33:50
  fantasy this season and he's the guy that's supposed to be like
• 33:53
  contributing to the success of their team.
• 33:55
  So they put Johnson on line 1 and then they got smacked by
• 33:58
  Colorado 41. And then what do we what do we
• 34:00
  see the very next day? Voronkov line one in practice.
• 34:05
  So I think it was just kind of like a test to be like, alright,
• 34:08
  let's see if we can get something out of our other guys
• 34:09
  be playing with our two best players on the roster.
• 34:12
  And then it didn't work and they're like, alright, we can't
• 34:14
  mess around with what works. Like we gotta get him going a
• 34:16
  different way, but we're going to keep this line one together.
• 34:19
  And I think that's very encouraging for wrong call.
• 34:21
  Like, I was a little nervous when I saw the line, too.
• 34:22
  I was like, oh, no, here we go. But then they put him back there
• 34:25
  right away, and he kept P1. Like, they want people to start
• 34:29
  the season. They bumped him out to P1, which
• 34:31
  is also good news. And he's a big guy.
• 34:33
  Like, don't forget, Jake is not here, but there is a size queen.
• 34:35
  And he will tell you Brankov is like 6-5.
• 34:37
  Yeah, this is a big. He's he.
• 34:40
  He's massive. Yeah.
• 34:42
  So in terms of the tallness factor, he's probably our top
• 34:44
  choice. Yeah.
• 34:46
  Absolutely. But all that to say, I think he
• 34:48
  has some physicality to him and we're seeing it already.
• 34:51
  And I think the deployment right now is here to stay.
• 34:55
  I, I love having Veronica of all my roster.
• 34:56
  If you're in a deeper level, he's a must roster.
• 34:58
  He's only 16% on right now. This upcoming week, I'm
• 35:01
  expecting big things, but these two guys ahead of him, we'll get
• 35:05
  to #2. Right now these guys are like
• 35:07
  these guys are studs, but let's go #2.
• 35:10
  OK #2 I will say not to, there's no way to prove this, but Kevin
• 35:15
  knows I prepared this doc before last night's game.
• 35:18
  So sorry, my voice is a bit raspy because I'm a bit under
• 35:22
  the weather, but but yeah, so #2 got Nick Schmaltz.
• 35:26
  He's got a four-game week line, one power play, one on Utah.
• 35:29
  I had him on this dock before he put up that Hattie and assist.
• 35:32
  We talked about Nick Moulton, we talked about AS.
• 35:34
  Well, yeah, so this is such a we've told you so if you got him
• 35:40
  already, that's great times running.
• 35:43
  Out on our Week 2 waiver show. So literally last week we told
• 35:47
  you guys Nick Schmaltz is one of our top three guys to pick up.
• 35:49
  Yeah. So if you if you listen to us,
• 35:52
  is already on your roster, in your in your.
• 35:56
  I don't you're shaking that shaking that booty right now.
• 35:59
  Yeah, exactly. Everybody who picked up National
• 36:02
  was shaking that booty after last night's game, 100% and
• 36:06
  look, do it again. Look, if you haven't picked him
• 36:09
  up, he's still not over 40% owned.
• 36:11
  So he's still qualifies. And I'm telling you, I mean,
• 36:14
  we're telling you he's going to be probably hover around 50%
• 36:18
  owned for the for the full year. This is like one of those clear,
• 36:21
  clear as day season long holds. There's zero threat to his
• 36:24
  deployment. He's one of the top guys he's
• 36:27
  getting. He's stuck to Keller.
• 36:28
  The two of them have that chemistry.
• 36:29
  They're always going to be on the same line.
• 36:31
  And Utah is going to be a very strong offensive team this year.
• 36:34
  They finally finding their groove right now.
• 36:36
  It feels like they started off. Slow.
• 36:38
  Now they're putting in the goals.
• 36:39
  I think the only guy who went to get a point is like Sergachev.
• 36:43
  Yeah, exactly. Keller would have been a good
• 36:44
  buy low before last game. I think now all Keller owner saw
• 36:47
  that four point game, they're alright, we're so back.
• 36:50
  But yeah, no. And Schultz is gonna be there.
• 36:52
  Like, obviously Keller's the guy, but Schmaltz is his
• 36:54
  sidekick, so he's gonna get to benefit as well.
• 36:56
  So yeah, this is a huge, huge buy.
• 36:58
  He's not a flashy name. He's not a guy that has a lot of
• 37:01
  let's say name recognition, but he's the type of guy that like
• 37:05
  he's on your roster. He's at the end, at the end of
• 37:08
  your roster. He's like .8 points per game
• 37:10
  with like over two shots a game and you're just flying and he's
• 37:14
  a centre right wing eligible. So he has a position flexibility
• 37:17
  as well. He's just a great guy to round
• 37:19
  out your roster. He's just so underrated.
• 37:22
  It's just every single year he's hovering around 3025 to 30%
• 37:27
  owned. And then when he'll go on his
• 37:28
  really hot stretches, he'll like jump up like 1015% and then
• 37:31
  he'll slow down a bit. But like it's just crazy to me
• 37:34
  how no one's like really caught on or the most most people
• 37:37
  haven't really caught on to just.
• 37:38
  This guy's close to point per game player.
• 37:41
  All right, number one, very exciting times for this guy as
• 37:45
  well. At #1 we've got Leo Carlson of
• 37:49
  the Anaheim Ducks line one, power play one.
• 37:51
  This is one of those cases where you see the start of the season,
• 37:54
  how it's going. You're like, there's a guy who
• 37:56
  you knew at some point in his career was gonna pop off because
• 37:59
  of where he got drafted and how high of a prospect he is and all
• 38:02
  that. And I think we could constantly,
• 38:04
  confidently say this is Carlson's breakout year.
• 38:07
  Absolutely. This guy was drafted to be the
• 38:10
  1C on this team. Like I know Mctavish just got
• 38:12
  paid and he was there first, but Leo Carlson is the the future 1C
• 38:16
  for this team. Like he's going to be the face
• 38:18
  of this team is it's as a recording this right now.
• 38:21
  Like we're recording this literally right before Sunday,
• 38:23
  Sunday morning. So he has four games played and
• 38:28
  he has six points. So yeah, over talk.
• 38:31
  About the shots in face off wins as well.
• 38:33
  Yep, faceoff wins. He's hovering around 8 per game,
• 38:36
  which is nuts. Yeah, and then the shots are
• 38:39
  over. 3A game so. That's unreal.
• 38:42
  I mean, this is like what we expected celebrity to be doing
• 38:44
  this year, right? I mean, listen guys, it's four
• 38:47
  games, so we can only so much into it.
• 38:49
  I don't expect them to be a four shot per game guy.
• 38:51
  No, no, but he was highly drafted and he has the potential
• 38:56
  to really be the Talisman for this team.
• 38:59
  I think like he's surrounded by some pretty good, pretty good
• 39:02
  talent. I think the power play is going
• 39:05
  to be better than last year. Like these guys were excited to
• 39:08
  have on your roster last season and they had the worst power
• 39:10
  play in the league. Now this season, like don't.
• 39:13
  They can only get better. They can't.
• 39:15
  Be worse did a good job of of getting some good vets to round
• 39:18
  out that part. I mean, look, I.
• 39:20
  Tried Chris Kindergarten? PowerPoint like around like 16
• 39:23
  and I mean, I kind of I think I may have scoffed it a bit in the
• 39:26
  off season, but he's just he's stapled to Carlson on line one
• 39:29
  power play 1 and he's like a power play specialist at this
• 39:32
  point in his career, right in the.
• 39:33
  Past he was, I mean even always in his career, right, like even
• 39:35
  when he had that fifty goal season, how many of those were?
• 39:38
  Possible. He's one of the best net front
• 39:40
  guys you can have. Yeah, elite.
• 39:42
  First of all, playing the net front and also tipping pucks
• 39:44
  into the net. Like he's honestly.
• 39:46
  Is known to be one of the best tippers in the.
• 39:47
  League since Pavelski retired, he might be #1 at that kind of
• 39:50
  role in the league. And, and Carlson gets to play
• 39:53
  with him. He gets to play with Carlson
• 39:55
  more like. And and yeah, this is just a
• 39:57
  clear breakout if Carlson hasn't been snatched up somehow in your
• 39:59
  league. He's only 31% owned.
• 40:01
  Right. That's just, that's
• 40:02
  unbelievable. Tend to be like undervalued
• 40:06
  because in a lot of leagues starting two of them and there's
• 40:09
  a lot of elite guys at that position.
• 40:11
  But if you're in a league that starts like 3 or 4 centres on
• 40:13
  your roster like Leo Carlson, he's going to be elite for your
• 40:19
  team. Like this is the guy you pick up
• 40:20
  and he's going to be on your on your roster the whole season.
• 40:23
  That's it. Out of all the ones we've listed
• 40:24
  so far, this is the clearest season long hold.
• 40:27
  There is 00 threat to his deployment and he may go through
• 40:31
  some, you know, ups and downs because he's still so young.
• 40:34
  But overall, in terms of season average, then the year you're
• 40:37
  gonna look at that, then his like numbers and say wow, that
• 40:39
  was a really amazing season. I would not be surprised if he's
• 40:42
  the guy that's like .85 points per game, like 2.7 shots, 8
• 40:47
  faceoff wins and you're not gonna get any hits or blogs.
• 40:50
  But there's another type of player to use stream or however
• 40:52
  your roster for those things. Like you have money roster for
• 40:54
  the points? Yeah, 100%.
• 40:57
  All right, So those are top 10 state skaters that are not like
• 41:04
  pure bangers, let's say. Yeah.
• 41:06
  And now let's do a top five bangers.
• 41:09
  I think we're gonna we're gonna hone this a bit in the future
• 41:12
  weeks. We might make these bangers more
• 41:14
  pure bangers. This week we have a mix of pure
• 41:16
  bangers, but also some guys who might be able to contribute in
• 41:18
  other ways as well, so. Yeah.
• 41:20
  You know, we obviously had some banger guys too, right, Like
• 41:23
  Boulders neighbors and other guys that can contribute there.
• 41:26
  But I think streaming points is also very important for even in
• 41:30
  your bangers, right? Yes.
• 41:32
  But also there's something that you guys wanna see or specific
• 41:36
  kind of like tidbits or advice that you guys wanna hear.
• 41:40
  Let us know either and DMS or on Discord.
• 41:43
  Like shoot us a message on what you think if you want us to
• 41:45
  change the. Format a little bit to trying to
• 41:47
  figure out the best way to format this episode.
• 41:49
  We want to give you too many names, but we want to give you
• 41:52
  relevant names. So yes, exactly.
• 41:55
  We could talk for hours. Yeah, exactly.
• 41:58
  So for our top five fingers at #5 we've got Brayden Schenn of
• 42:03
  the Saint Louis Blues averaging 7.5 face off wins and 3.3 hits.
• 42:08
  This one of these names that always pops up on our bangers
• 42:10
  recommendations for streamers or just he could be a season long
• 42:14
  hold, depending on how deep your league is and if it has face off
• 42:16
  wins and hits. But but yeah, that's what he
• 42:19
  does. He can ship in points because of
• 42:21
  the way Saint Louis sets up their their roster of having
• 42:24
  other really like splitting things up.
• 42:25
  He gets to play with some pretty, pretty great players and
• 42:28
  he's just elite at face off win hits from a centre winger,
• 42:32
  eligible position. Absolutely.
• 42:35
  He's he's has the reputation to be one of those guys that is
• 42:38
  like a set of Percy that is one of the better bangers and his
• 42:43
  value kind of like really depends on where his deployment
• 42:45
  is on the Saint Louis team. I will say as Saint Louis gets
• 42:48
  stronger, I feel like he gets less relevant because he's not
• 42:52
  one of the. Better in terms of points.
• 42:54
  Yeah, but for bangers, he's elite.
• 42:57
  Yeah, and I feel like oftentimes these types of guys like the
• 43:00
  worst their points get, the better their bangers get.
• 43:03
  Like once they kind of their game kind of transitions.
• 43:05
  So I feel like I'm seeing that a bit from this year.
• 43:07
  Like, I'm not as enthused about his, uh, his points last shots
• 43:10
  as I've been in the past, but his hits have gone up more than
• 43:13
  what I expect from him in the. Past the best banger centres are
• 43:16
  guys that play line 3 and line 4 because those guys are on on the
• 43:20
  team to be more defensive. Like those are the lines that
• 43:23
  you throw out when you're not trying to, let's say score a
• 43:25
  goal, but more to like counter the opponents like top lines.
• 43:29
  And I'm thinking about like guys like Shan, guys like Corali,
• 43:32
  like these guys have always been solid for face off.
• 43:36
  They'll get you some category covers with the shots that hits
• 43:38
  the block. In the Jordan stall was a
• 43:40
  classic. Exactly.
• 43:42
  Alright, alright #4. #4 We've got Blake Coleman of the Calgary
• 43:48
  Flames. He has a four-game week with
• 43:50
  multiple off nights. He's been averaging some really,
• 43:52
  really good bad cats, including also throwing.
• 43:54
  In some solid like this, I feel like he's quiet because Calgary.
• 43:57
  Nobody thinks about Calgary. 100% but he's just one of those
• 44:00
  kind of bangers guys that just you pick him up early in the
• 44:02
  season and then he just sticks on your roster somehow because
• 44:05
  he just keeps putting up numbers.
• 44:06
  So he's averaging 2.6 shots, 2.8 hits and a block and points as
• 44:10
  well. So he's a great pick up for this
• 44:12
  week if you need bangers with the upside of points as well.
• 44:14
  The category beverages honestly Illite and he's very flexible
• 44:19
  with his roster eligibility. Pretty sure he's left wing,
• 44:23
  right wing and centre. So depending on your on your
• 44:26
  platform. But he's he's the type of guy
• 44:28
  that I love having on my roster. And sometimes he gets dropped
• 44:32
  and when he does get dropped, I feel like I mean, we played a
• 44:35
  very deep league, so I'd be picking them up.
• 44:37
  But this type of guys getting you a double double and blocks.
• 44:40
  And he's also good for shorties if you have stories in your
• 44:42
  league. So always keeping that in the
• 44:44
  back of my mind. Love Blake coming on a four-game
• 44:46
  week. Yeah.
• 44:49
  All right #3. And #3 we've got probably the
• 44:52
  biggest name in terms of Rangers defensemen over the past couple
• 44:55
  of years. We've got Radko Gudas of the
• 44:57
  Anaheim Ducks. I don't know if there's just
• 44:59
  like not that many bangers leagues or what, but he's always
• 45:03
  under 40% owned somehow. And in my mind he's like the
• 45:06
  best bangers defenceman out there.
• 45:08
  If your leagues like Pimms, hits, blocks, all that.
• 45:11
  Right now he's averaging 1.5 shots, 4.3 hits, 2.5 blocks and
• 45:16
  he's just, he's not slowing down in terms of his bangs.
• 45:18
  It seems there's just gonna be another, another classic good
• 45:20
  this year. This is one of those if you're
• 45:22
  in bangers league he's probably already owned, but if you
• 45:24
  somehow isn't then pick him up and hold them all season.
• 45:27
  He's only 27% on right now, like I, I refuse to believe that
• 45:31
  there's only like 25% of banger leagues out there.
• 45:34
  Yeah, on on Yahoo specifically like that's just wild to me.
• 45:37
  I will say, like going into the season, I was a little lower on
• 45:40
  Goudis and Trouba because I kind of felt like they're they're
• 45:42
  banger years were behind them a little bit like Trouba for sure,
• 45:45
  but I thought good is his ice time would kind of like get
• 45:49
  decreased a little bit, but he's still hovering around 20 minutes
• 45:52
  a night most, most games. That's elite to be able to get
• 45:56
  like over five hits a game and like over 2 blocks a game like
• 45:59
  this is a guy really nice. He's still gonna be one of the
• 46:01
  best bangers in the league for the for the rest of the season.
• 46:03
  It seems like Trouba I'm less interested in though.
• 46:06
  Like that's why he's on this list.
• 46:08
  He was a popular name in the past, but now I feel like his.
• 46:11
  I had him. I had him last year and it
• 46:14
  wasn't fun. In like years past, he was a
• 46:16
  great. He would get you like two hits,
• 46:18
  three blocks like he was. He was.
• 46:20
  Always more block oriented. Three hit, three blocks in the.
• 46:22
  Past yeah and he was in the same like tier as good but he really
• 46:27
  dropped off last year which is why I was avoiding him.
• 46:29
  But that have not stopped. And listen, like these guys are
• 46:33
  always susceptible to be having like that seven hit game and
• 46:36
  like fire blocks, like it's in the range of outcomes always.
• 46:39
  But I think you gotta look at the ice time and for bangers
• 46:43
  guys specifically, like the more you're on the ice, the more time
• 46:45
  you have to hit and block. More time to bang?
• 46:48
  More time to bang, baby. If Gus is, if Gus is rostered, I
• 46:53
  think this next guy is is a good shout, especially if he's
• 46:56
  healthy. But yeah #2 we got.
• 46:59
  Alexander Romanov of the New York Islanders, OK, there's an
• 47:04
  asterisk here because yes, he missed today's game, but it was
• 47:06
  a game time decision. I'd be shocked if he misses,
• 47:09
  like maybe he misses one more game, but but yeah, so obviously
• 47:13
  keep an eye out on that. But if healthy, this is one of
• 47:15
  those season long hold bangers. He's averaging a shot, 3.8 hits
• 47:18
  and three blocks. Getting three like hits and
• 47:21
  three blocks from a from a player from a defenseman is just
• 47:24
  elite in terms of bangers. I was really, I really wanted to
• 47:27
  target him in my draft. Kevin actually picked him over
• 47:30
  goodness in our draft and I think that's the right move
• 47:32
  because Romano, first of all, younger, he got paid in the
• 47:35
  offseason. They got rid of Dobson, which
• 47:37
  means more ice time for him and all the signs pointed to him
• 47:40
  being his bangers beast and he's starting off the season as a
• 47:42
  dangerous beast. So no surprises there.
• 47:44
  If healthy season long hold for bangers.
• 47:46
  Love Romanov. Yep.
• 47:47
  I mean, I saw an interview where he kind of said, like, he's very
• 47:50
  disappointed in his first few games.
• 47:52
  Like, he thought he had been playing bad.
• 47:53
  And the coach kind of backed him up and said, like, he thought
• 47:55
  the last game Romanoff played was like his best game of the
• 47:57
  season thus far. Yeah.
• 47:58
  So I think it kind of just goes to show that like obviously was
• 48:01
  also the human element to this, right?
• 48:03
  That's why I feel like Josh and I and Jake are are very well
• 48:07
  researched because we're not only like looking at the numbers
• 48:09
  and the game logs and whatever, but we're also watching almost
• 48:12
  all of these games too. Like such a big difference.
• 48:14
  I know me and Josh like we're whenever we have a free evening,
• 48:18
  which is almost, I don't want to say almost every evening, but we
• 48:23
  have stuff to do as well. But our large revolve around
• 48:26
  fantasy hockey. So 100% from 7:00 to 10:00 or
• 48:30
  11:00 PM, we're watching all of these games on multiple monitors
• 48:34
  and we're having the eye test as well to to incorporate into.
• 48:38
  Our especially early season is that if like if let's say, like,
• 48:40
  I mean, everyone who's doing this loves hockey, right?
• 48:43
  But obviously the varying degrees, like some people only
• 48:45
  wanna watch games that their team plays in, which is totally
• 48:47
  fair. Or, you know, if you're doing
• 48:50
  the fantasy, you only want to watch games that are fantasy
• 48:52
  relevant to you. But if there's ever a time to
• 48:54
  force yourself to watch as many games as possible, it's early
• 48:57
  season because that's where you'll see a guy who's, you
• 48:59
  know, maybe putting up kind of zeros on like their the game
• 49:03
  log, but then you see them play and you're like this guy
• 49:05
  special. And you could tell from the eye
• 49:07
  test. So this is the most and by, you
• 49:10
  know, a couple of weeks in the season, it's too late.
• 49:11
  It's all those guys have been snatched up.
• 49:13
  But that's your now is your time to kind of get that that leg up
• 49:16
  on other people just by watching hockey, which is already super
• 49:18
  fun. So.
• 49:19
  And I will say like it's a separate tangent right now
• 49:23
  because we're talking about Romanov, but like he was a game
• 49:26
  time decision. We don't have clarification on
• 49:28
  what the injury is. So obviously like if we get more
• 49:31
  news like we'll we'll mention in the Discord to everybody that's
• 49:34
  there. So if you're not there, drop
• 49:35
  Savala once again. Like the community?
• 49:39
  But it's it's really good to stay up to date.
• 49:41
  Like honestly, as we're recording this live, I saw we
• 49:45
  we, we already went through our theatres.
• 49:46
  But Victor Olofsson, I don't know if you saw this, Josh.
• 49:49
  But I did see this. He's getting P1 exposure right
• 49:53
  now and he's had some good words from Jared Bednar.
• 49:56
  So just to guide us, he's been shooting like four shots a game
• 49:59
  with like line 3 exposure. So if he's getting P1 time on
• 50:04
  this team and then I think he's gonna get top 6 minutes in the
• 50:07
  near future. Like this is a guy that Josh is
• 50:10
  gonna have to fight me for on the waiver wire, so.
• 50:13
  Every every time there's someone I'm excited about, Kevin's also
• 50:16
  excited about him. But you.
• 50:17
  Know Kevin keeps outbidding me to our list.
• 50:19
  Fly on, especially from the deep, deep league.
• 50:21
  Yeah, Kevin, you keep outbidding me, but at a certain point you
• 50:24
  gonna run out of money. So even blowing through your fav
• 50:27
  to start the year. So it's.
• 50:29
  All part of my plan. I don't regret anybody that's
• 50:31
  been on my roster, except maybe Ryan Hartman.
• 50:34
  Um, yeah, we didn't spend that much money on him.
• 50:36
  So it's. Funny, I did.
• 50:38
  Alright, let's go to our #1 Bangor.
• 50:40
  Number one banger. But this is also again, this one
• 50:44
  also could contribute points. But we've got Jason Zucker of
• 50:46
  the Buffalo Sabres again, four-game week with multiple off
• 50:49
  nights. He's been averaging three shots
• 50:51
  and 2.3 hits per game. And he's his ice time is low.
• 50:55
  So we we talked about the ice time.
• 50:56
  It's not as high as you'd like it to be.
• 50:57
  He's line 3 power play one, but he's a power play specialist.
• 51:00
  And when you're getting power play production from a guy who's
• 51:03
  also shooting and hitting, then it's just cherry on top.
• 51:08
  So grab him as a banger, you grab him as a banger, and you
• 51:10
  stay for the for the points, right?
• 51:12
  Yeah, and his first, he played earlier today, but including
• 51:16
  today in his first five games, he has three hits in three of
• 51:20
  the five games. So he's adding that element to
• 51:23
  his game because we saw it last year.
• 51:25
  Like Jason Zucker was one of my favorite guys that have on my
• 51:27
  roster because yeah, he was extremely available on waivers
• 51:31
  and he was getting you .3 power play points per game, which if
• 51:34
  you're able to stream that kind of production before we got us
• 51:37
  like 5% owned, that's elite to have, especially when you're in
• 51:40
  a deep league and really scouring the waiver wire for
• 51:42
  value. And this season, like it looks
• 51:44
  like he's really hitting more often and shooting more often.
• 51:48
  So that's. Supposed to be popping off like
• 51:52
  we. Mentioned powerplays popping off
• 51:54
  and clearly is working with him on it right there.
• 51:56
  Was successful with him there last year.
• 51:59
  This year it's the same thing. So I think there's only upwards
• 52:02
  value as well. Like if he ends up getting that
• 52:04
  top top 6 minutes like last year he was line 1P1.
• 52:07
  Yeah, I mean, earlier this year he was also like, I feel like
• 52:10
  he's getting jumbled around at even strength, but that P1 is
• 52:13
  pretty much a lock for him right now, especially with how things
• 52:15
  are going. So I love that.
• 52:17
  I mean, right now, this week specifically with how amazing
• 52:20
  Buffalo schedule is, I think it's a no brainer to at least
• 52:22
  grab one of these three names mentioned on Power Play.
• 52:25
  One either the Zucker, Benson or done.
• 52:27
  I'm honestly I'm tempted to grab more than one.
• 52:30
  For me it would be Benson first, then Zucker, then then done I
• 52:34
  think. Yeah, unless you are more
• 52:37
  looking for fingers then you would go Zucker over.
• 52:39
  Benson, not gonna get you any hits, but I think, yeah, he's a
• 52:43
  higher point, more points than I think Zucker has more value than
• 52:48
  Josh done, who may be a little more squishy in terms of
• 52:51
  deployment and sustainability. So that's kind of how I would
• 52:54
  rank those three names. Yeah, but all three of those
• 52:57
  guys, like I said, I'm tempted to grab don't maybe this week as
• 53:01
  well, even though I already have Sucker and I have Thompson.
• 53:03
  So it's like. It's probably overkill, but.
• 53:05
  On a full, on a four-game week, like there's worse things that
• 53:08
  you could. Do that said exactly.
• 53:10
  So that's our that's our bangers really dive into our goalies.
• 53:13
  Yes, we should. Now we're gonna talk about 3
• 53:16
  goalies. That should get you 2 starts
• 53:18
  that are less than 40% owned. So already we're kind of like
• 53:21
  dwindling the pie there. But we don't want to name guys
• 53:24
  that are probably raised in your leagues, right?
• 53:25
  So yeah, exactly. So Connor Hellebuyck?
• 53:28
  No, exactly. #3 we got. Our tours Shilohs, so they're
• 53:35
  playing Vancouver, Florida and Columbus and it seems so far
• 53:37
  that they've been alternating starts between him and Jerry.
• 53:40
  But Jerry is getting the last start of this week, which means
• 53:42
  that she loves should get the first and third start of next
• 53:44
  week, which would give him Vancouver and Columbus neither
• 53:47
  both our teams that could be solid, but neither is a team
• 53:49
  that scares me and she loves has been good so far this year.
• 53:52
  So this is a really solid for quantity, but also should give
• 53:55
  you solid quality. You know, you're getting
• 53:57
  yourself into, right, Like, Pittsburgh is not going to be a
• 53:59
  team that we're incredibly enthused about their projections
• 54:04
  and they're not this season, right?
• 54:05
  Like, so, yeah, I was trying to be nice about it, Josh.
• 54:08
  There's no being nice in fantasy hockey.
• 54:10
  Let's just tell them the truth. I think she loves is a great
• 54:13
  goalie in himself. So I think he's, he's not, he's
• 54:16
  not. It's not impossible to get a
• 54:18
  good game out of him too, right? So yeah, that's kind of what
• 54:21
  we're saying. What I'm seeing here, what she
• 54:23
  loves. OK, at #2 we've got Cam Talbot
• 54:28
  of the Detroit Red Wings. He has been off to an amazing
• 54:31
  start. He's an option, amazing star.
• 54:36
  He they've got Buffalo and New York Islanders on a back-to-back
• 54:39
  and then Saint Louis. I would expect Talbot to get the
• 54:42
  Saint Louis game in addition to one of the back-to-back games.
• 54:44
  And he's just been really good in Detroit's been really good.
• 54:46
  So this is one that actually is a pickup for this week, but also
• 54:49
  could be a a long term hold. Yeah, absolutely.
• 54:53
  I think watching this Detroit goaltending duo is going to be
• 54:59
  very interesting because the thing that really wants to win,
• 55:02
  everybody drafted Gibson as a starter here.
• 55:04
  We all thought Gibson was the starter.
• 55:06
  Isn't tall, but like 38 years old.
• 55:07
  Like, this guy is crazy. He's on his last legs, right?
• 55:10
  But he's saved them early season already.
• 55:13
  Like Gibson has looked completely awful, completely
• 55:16
  washed. And then Talbot came in and
• 55:17
  looks like a stud. So definitely switching to
• 55:21
  monitor. Yeah, I wouldn't like, I'm not
• 55:25
  like grabbing Talbot thinking he's Detroit starter for the
• 55:28
  rest of the. Year.
• 55:29
  I think it's very much going to go back and forth depending on
• 55:31
  who plays well, who plays poorly.
• 55:33
  Also tell us really old. I wouldn't be surprised if he
• 55:35
  got injured at some point, to be honest.
• 55:37
  But but for now, for this week at the very least and for maybe
• 55:40
  the next couple of weeks, he's putting up great numbers on a
• 55:42
  team that seems to be off to a really hot start.
• 55:44
  And you should get you multiple starts.
• 55:47
  Yeah, and I'm not, I'm not too intimidated by Buffalo, NY
• 55:51
  Islanders on a back-to-back. Like obviously we've kind of
• 55:53
  seen both teams be able to score early season.
• 55:56
  Yeah, but Talbot has been putting up solid numbers.
• 55:59
  Yeah, and not worried about Saint Louis either.
• 56:01
  No, and the top goalie for quantity starts.
• 56:05
  If you were in the discord he's probably already on your.
• 56:08
  I know I keep pimping that out, but.
• 56:10
  Yeah, it's really no look. It pays to be in there.
• 56:12
  It pays to be in there and you don't have to pay to be in
• 56:15
  there. So it's really just all wins for
• 56:17
  everyone. Fun fact, my opponent next week
• 56:20
  has him and actually drafted him, which makes zero sense.
• 56:23
  But now it's gonna cost me next week.
• 56:25
  So that's really fun. But it is Jake Allen of the New
• 56:28
  Jersey Devils. So Markstrom is out for a few
• 56:31
  weeks, which means Alan is the starter of a top, definitely top
• 56:35
  three in the division team. They're playing Toronto and
• 56:37
  Minnesota and back-to-back and then San Jose and then Colorado.
• 56:40
  This is a case of it's going to be he's going to get the
• 56:43
  quantity for sure. Like he's going to get three of
• 56:44
  those four starts. So he's going to be the most
• 56:46
  starts and he's going to get starts for the weeks to come
• 56:48
  until March return. So he's a great pick up in that
• 56:50
  sense. I don't love that Toronto,
• 56:52
  Minnesota back-to-back and I don't love that Colorado one
• 56:55
  either. So I wouldn't be surprised if he
• 56:57
  doesn't have great games, those ones.
• 56:59
  But in terms of quantity at least, this is the best pickup.
• 57:02
  I think new jerseys are really good team this season.
• 57:05
  I think Jake Allen is still a good goalie.
• 57:07
  He's only 2%. He was 5% owned.
• 57:10
  The injury happened, he went up 17%, is at 22%, so it's still
• 57:13
  available in almost 80. Percent is still so low.
• 57:16
  He played. He played Columbus as a starter.
• 57:18
  He played Columbus, Florida, mention three wins.
• 57:21
  Yeah, three wins. No new.
• 57:23
  Jersey's great and Allen's great, I'm just saying it's not
• 57:25
  the easiest opponents other than Salvation, but it's still gonna
• 57:28
  be solid. He dropped a 900 save percentage
• 57:31
  against Edmonton, 955 against Florida, 958 against Columbus.
• 57:35
  So clearly, like he still has quality in him.
• 57:38
  If you were in like, like I said before, listen, I don't wanna, I
• 57:41
  don't wanna touch our skills too much, but I was watching the New
• 57:44
  Jersey game and I saw Alan get ruled out with cramping.
• 57:47
  I saw Markstrom come in. I saw Markstrom get shaken up
• 57:50
  the end of the game. And then I went that I told our
• 57:53
  friends in the Discord like, we have some goalie, we have some
• 57:55
  teams that are asking for advice that are 0 yeah, 0G that really
• 57:59
  need goalie. And I told them, listen, like I
• 58:01
  just saw Markstrom look hobbled as he was leaving the ice.
• 58:06
  Jake Allen was currently listed as out because he left the game
• 58:09
  with cramps. I said I would pick up Jake
• 58:12
  Allen right now proactively and see what happens.
• 58:14
  And then next thing you know, next day we're like, OK,
• 58:16
  Markstrom, he's injured the day after.
• 58:18
  It was like Markstrom week to week and you just picked up the
• 58:21
  murder on the New Jersey team that looks like one of the best
• 58:23
  in the league. Yeah.
• 58:24
  So no great pickup. Yeah, he could.
• 58:27
  Wait to play. Him until Marshall comes back,
• 58:29
  he's gonna be like a top 10 goalie.
• 58:30
  Yeah, tell Marshall gets back. Just view him as.
• 58:32
  Markstrom pretty much. Pretty much.
• 58:36
  All right, let's get into our quality goalies.
• 58:37
  These our goalies were probably only gonna get you one start,
• 58:39
  but it's gonna be a good one. Again, under 40% owned at #3
• 58:43
  we've got. Just took that from me.
• 58:46
  Yeah, we're going a bit long on this episode.
• 58:48
  So yeah, we've got Calvin Pickard of the Edmonton Oilers.
• 58:53
  They've got back-to-back Seattle and Vancouver.
• 58:55
  These are both teams that well, Seattle's off to a better start
• 58:58
  than Vancouver, but neither of them is one I'm particularly
• 59:00
  scared of. But none of them are bottom
• 59:02
  feeders either. But Edmonton's also a really
• 59:04
  good team, and Pickards shown that he could be a solid goalie,
• 59:07
  so I like this is a quality pickup.
• 59:09
  Edmonton's a good team. They're playing back-to-back,
• 59:11
  you know, getting one of those starts.
• 59:12
  You can guess that better than not, they will probably win both
• 59:16
  of those games. They should win both of those
• 59:18
  games. So you're streaming a win and
• 59:20
  good goalie. Goalie stats #2 Kind of the same
• 59:25
  thing #2 we. Got Charlie Lincoln.
• 59:27
  Yeah, yeah, I like this one a lot.
• 59:29
  I mean, he's played one game this season and it was a 35 save
• 59:31
  shutout. So I mean, we've seen him in the
• 59:34
  past be a really, really solid 1 be goalie and they're playing
• 59:37
  Columbus and Ottawa, both teams who have kind of struggled out
• 59:39
  the gate. So I'm not scared of either of
• 59:41
  those teams when lingering playing as well as he has in
• 59:44
  Washington is playing pretty solid.
• 59:45
  So, so yeah, that's another really solid quality one.
• 59:48
  And the number one. Number one, we've got Esper
• 59:51
  Walstead again. I think we had him as a quantity
• 59:53
  one last week because they had two back to backs and look at
• 59:55
  that, another back-to-back from Minnesota and they're playing
• 59:58
  Utah or San Jose. Obviously San Jose's the dream
• 1:00:01
  scenario, but but Utah is off to a slow start as well.
• 1:00:04
  And it's definitely a tougher matchup than San Jose.
• 1:00:06
  But Minnesota's so ridiculously hot right now that that I love
• 1:00:09
  this as a quality pickup. Yeah, I Walter has you know, we
• 1:00:14
  talked about him having the potential to be a really good
• 1:00:16
  goalie and it's on these back-to-back.
• 1:00:18
  So you really get the opportunity to show you show
• 1:00:20
  you're made of. If he gets a San Jose game, I'm
• 1:00:22
  like thrilled because San Jose has like that's one of the worst
• 1:00:24
  things they have yet to win a game.
• 1:00:26
  So you know that better than now you're gonna get a win out of
• 1:00:29
  this matchup and that's kind of what you want when you streaming
• 1:00:31
  goalies so. Yeah.
• 1:00:34
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