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  Barbara Bound Bound Banger Management Fantasy Hockey
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  podcast. Woo.
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  Whoa. I never, I never realized how
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  much easier my life would be when I don't have to anticipate
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  these crazy sounds in between our woos.
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  It's. Just on the throat go.
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  It's not here. Like we, we do it to ourselves.
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  At this point I know. Ohhhhh God, you just.
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  Gotta embrace it at a certain. Point seriously?
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  I mean, I mean our discord members do love that nickname.
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  I love it, way less so. I think if anyone should be
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  upset about it, it's probably it should be Kevin, and he loves
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  it, so yeah. Sure you like he.
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  He goes beyond owning it. Welcome in one and all to Bangor
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  Management, the Fantasy Hockey Podcast with Jake, Josh and the
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  ghost of Kevin's past. That sounds really bleak.
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  He's yeah, he's fine. He's absolutely fine.
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  Absolutely fine, but legend has it that what happened is that he
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  asked his girlfriend to enter into a throttle situation with
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  Scott Wedgewood and she said no, and now he's in the doghouse.
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  So he's trying to make it up to her all weekend and he's
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  therefore missing a recording for the first time.
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  Yeah, that's, uh, that is exactly what I was told as well.
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  Exactly. So yeah, I mean it's it's.
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  Most girls don't want some outside wood entering the
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  relationship, you know. You know, she said something of
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  like the, the, the line of, like I said, pine Catan Port, you
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  know, or something. She's going to get very mad at
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  me for speaking French. Yeah.
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  Good for it and I love that I. Did I did.
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  But the audacity to ask that. Like, I know he thinks he's
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  gonna overtake Blackwood, but to go this far?
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  Seriously. Big time.
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  Big time. Yikes.
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  Yeah, yeah. So anywho, today we are doing
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  our Week 4 streamers episode. If you like what you were about
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  to hear, which I anticipate that you will.
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  Well, there's a lot of in the future anticipation and such,
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  yeah. Exactly.
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  Yeah, if you've been enjoying the show, please follow us on
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  Spotify, Apple Podcast, wherever you get your forecast.
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  Rate us five stars if you like what you're about to hear, and
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  you can find the link to all our socials and the link tree in the
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  podcast description. Discord is the main place to be.
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  Kevin loves Discord and we love Kevin and we are sad that he's
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  not. Here.
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  What's the opposite of dat cord discord?
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  Nice. Yeah, definitely, definitely
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  don't follow us on Daccord because that.
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  Is not exist. Discord is the place to be.
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  And yeah, I think that's about it.
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  Radius, five stars, the whole shamang.
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  I guess I'm throwing off my rhythm without without Kevin's
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  woo. It's just like.
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  It really sets. Them up with the.
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  Nerves. Yeah, seriously.
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  OK, maybe the next one I'll throw you off.
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  We'll see. Yeah, please go on your toes of
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  it honestly. So, yeah.
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  So let's begin with our. We roast.
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  It's true, yeah. We.
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  Didn't roast them enough? Yeah, what do you got?
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  I've What's the difference? What did?
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  No, wait, you know, this is a classic.
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  I have the punchline, but I can't think of the the question.
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  Um, anyways, I'm just gonna go with Kevin is the classic.
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  He's the GOAT of hyping up his guys and then they end up on
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  the. Waiver wire a week later.
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  Like he will convince himself and try to convince us he'll
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  fail, but he'll try to convince us that the guy he picked 19th
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  round is the new coming of Jesus Christ himself.
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  And you know, Jesus walked on water, this guy's walking on
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  ice. So yeah.
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  And next thing you know, he's on the way wire and Kevin's like, I
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  was never that into him anyways. It was just a joke.
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  You know he's trying to trade him to you.
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  Exactly, exactly that. Billy Corvin and poster.
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  That that's exactly. What season isn't looking so?
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  He was hyping him up so much. He's like, Oh my God, he's the
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  best. He's power play one.
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  He's the GOAT. I I will say, though, that I, I
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  think I savaged him enough with our Scott Wedgewood theory, but
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  but to be fair, he's he's dealt with a lot of injuries this
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  year. Not yeah.
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  Them personally like he's fine. Once again, like Kevin is fine.
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  OK, yeah, locked up in Jake's basement with Morgan Riley.
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  OK, They're both fine. It's an awful coincidence that
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  Riley is day-to-day and Kevin's missing.
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  But you know what? I'm gonna trust Jackie on this
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  one. No, no, he's good.
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  He's good, I swear. All right.
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  Let's begin with our Week 3 choices for the waiver wire
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  picks, our reputations. Takes 3, Reputation 3, here's
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  top three, whatever you wanna call it.
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  So our top 3-4 last week, just so you guys can follow along and
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  see, you know, it's good to prove that what we've been doing
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  has been shown results instead of just saying it every week.
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  So, so yeah. So what we've got is first, Nick
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  Schmaltz. This is one of the biggest W's
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  in the history of our waiver wire recommendations.
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  The fact that the fact that he was able to be on the waiver
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  wire show last week means that he was under 40% owned.
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  And if you tracked recently, but he's at like 80% owned.
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  So it's actually insane. He put up since our last
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  episode, 2 goals, 4 assists, 6 points, huge W for us.
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  And we had a whole, a whole talk about how good he is.
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  So we don't have to go into that, but just shows that we
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  know we're talking about 75% of the time we were right 100% of
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  the time. Well, good.
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  Then. To the next one, we've got Leo
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  Carlson. This is Jake.
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  He's a favorite from back in the day.
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  OK, last year, one goal, one assist, 2 points.
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  Not as exciting as Nick Schmaltz, but you know what?
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  I'll take that any day of the week.
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  He was also putting up good shots, good faceoff wins, and
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  he's another season long hold. So another big W for us not to
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  just keep patting ourselves on the back, but you know, the
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  results speak for themselves. And lastly, but not leastly,
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  although I guess it is leastly, of these three, we've got Jason
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  Zucker, one goal, 0 at one point.
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  Not the most exciting. I'm still counting it as a W
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  Sabres have actually been really good since we spoke about the
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  Sabres last week. They've gone on, I think they've
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  won four of their last five and they're looking really exciting.
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  And Zuckers locked onto that power play one.
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  He's getting you almost a double double and he's getting you the
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  power those power play points. So, So yeah, all of those are
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  guys that I'm happy to hold on to long-term.
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  Yeah, We have a really, really sophisticated metric this year.
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  Like we ran the numbers, did all the calculations.
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  We even like brought in an actuary and like a a physicist
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  to determine this. And we've come up with a great
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  nomenclature called was it a good pickup?
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  Yes. But the good is in quotation
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  marks. So that is how we're determining
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  a double or an L this year. Yeah.
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  Because last year we would do, did the guy get at least two
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  points over the course of the week?
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  And yes, that's more objective, but that doesn't take into
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  account all the other info that's going on, all the back
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  cats, all the, you know, season long hold worthiness and stuff
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  like that. So we decided to just use our
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  judgment each week and we're not just gonna judge ourselves every
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  time with just us. We know in L and we see it, but
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  just so happens that we're starting off strong.
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  We definitely know Anel when we see it, but yeah, so.
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  Look at my roster. Three and oh, it's it's always
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  good. So give us a rundown on the
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  teams playing this next week, Josh.
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  Yeah, so two game teams to avoid.
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  You've got Florida, Montreal, Seattle, Utah, Vegas.
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  I'm not gonna list all the four-game teams.
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  It's actually a decent amount. The busy nights are Tuesday,
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  Thursday and Saturday. Those are all 20 plus teams
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  playing. And actually this is one of the
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  usually this busy nights are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
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  But this week is one of the most lopsided.
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  I'm pretty sure every team in the league plays Tuesday and
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  then Thursday and Saturday have almost every team.
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  So this is going to be a big week focus on those off nights.
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  And the teams with multiple off nights this week are Anaheim,
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  Columbus, Detroit, and the Islanders.
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  So that's definitely something to keep in mind when you're
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  optimizing your streaming for the week.
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  So let's dive into our top ten points guys for this week.
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  So before we dive into the top ten, I've got 2 honorable
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  mentions. I'm not making a habit of having
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  honorable mentions, but these there's a specific reason why I
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  put them there. So 1st I'm going to talk about
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  the GOAT Mackey Samutsevich line 3 power play one on Florida.
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  The reason he's not in the top 10 is because they only have two
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  games this week. This is less of a specifically
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  this week type of thing and more of a season long type of thing.
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  He is just playing unreal out of his mind.
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  He's on power play one for now. They've been shifting it a lot,
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  but they put him on and finally they were successful.
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  So I think that he's going to stick on there and he's been a
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  bangers beast even before getting on to power play one
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  this year. At the end of last year, he was
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  great as well. And I just think that in any
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  bangers league he's only 8% owned last I checked and he
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  should be. This could be the steel pickup
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  of the season for a lot of leagues that don't know about
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  him yet. So obviously it's an awkward
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  week to do it because the two game week.
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  But I think it's still worth it to, you know, take quote UN
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  quote the L on this week in terms of optimizing the schedule
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  because this is a really, really low rostered but high value
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  pickup. Yeah, and they're giving him the
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  time. Like I have them on my team in
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  our, in our league of record. It's like just the best pick
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  I've ever made. He's so good.
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  And I was trying to work up some trades earlier with some guys in
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  the league and I was like, OK, like I have an abundance of
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  hits. I'm gonna give hits and he's
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  the, you know, I drafted him over guys like Holloways,
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  Lefkofsky, and at this point in the year, who would I rather
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  rest of season? Sam Slavish.
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  Like, you know, you drafted him under those guys, like you
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  drafted him later. Than sorry, yes, I dropped him
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  later on and I would rather him over my other more reliable
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  higher paying guys. He's getting the opportunity
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  with to Chuck and Barkov out. I think he's going to be a
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  stable on the power play one. He's got a lot of offensive
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  skill and just you could, what's cool about him is like you can
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  really just tell he makes the most of his opportunities.
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  More than 100 guys in the league gets put on or play one for like
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  a minute and gets too powerfully points, you know like.
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  Yeah. Exactly.
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  I think he's staying there when Chuck comes back.
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  Agreed. He's like Rudy.
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  Is exactly. Yeah, there's the next one.
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  Kind of interesting actually. Yes, I just tossed this on there
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  because I noticed that in our top ten, we didn't have any
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  defensemen. So we have in our Bangor
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  section, we have some classic bangers, defence minister we'll
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  talk about. But in terms of points
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  defenseman, I tossed on Brady Shea.
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  He's not very good for fantasy. OK, so which is a weird thing to
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  start with a guy we put an honorable mention, but the
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  reason I'm putting him here is because Yoshi has just been
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  announced this week to week. Unsurprising.
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  If you listened to the podcast in the offseason, we all said to
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  avoid the OC. I know they said it's not
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  related to his previous condition, just bad luck, but
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  you could just you just know a certain guys that they're not
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  going to play the full season. So anyways, a week to week Shay
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  seems to be the guy stepping in for play one for now.
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  The reason I'm not that excited about it like you would made the
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  top ten if I genuinely thought this was like a great pickup,
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  but the reason about that enthused by it is 1.
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  He puts up no bad cats and two, Nashville is currently ranked
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  32nd in the league in power on power.
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  Play percentage like literally dead last.
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  I just checked this before and I was like oh is this an
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  interesting pick up? And I'm like oh they're ranked
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  dead last. All that to be said though.
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  Last year they were 18th, which is not that bad.
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  And he's gonna be line one power plant and penalty kill one.
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  He's gonna get a ton of ice time with the OC out.
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  And again, we didn't have any other defensemen here.
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  So if you're looking for a defenseman who's gonna give you
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  the highest chance of getting some points but no back cats,
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  then I thought I'd mention she is an honorable mention.
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  Yeah, like, I mean, his only competition there is probably
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  Justin Barron, who hasn't really proved it yet as an NHL.
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  Defenseman, Yeah. He he, he's easily the veteran
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  there. And despite the fact that they
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  suck and they're probably, yeah, continue being bad, like they
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  have no choice but to try, like with the contracts and
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  everything, and like the fact that their teams full of
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  veterans, it's just not clicking, which is very sad.
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  But whatever, yeah, they're gonna do their best to make it
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  work. If she is their number one guy
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  and he's clearly getting the opportunity, you could
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  definitely give that a pickup. It's definitely worth a look.
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  Yeah. And you know what, on that vein,
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  I actually didn't write him here, but I'll add him in off
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  the top of my head in terms of defence because I do, you know,
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  I want to give some positional options to people.
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  I noticed just last night that Zane Perec was given a shot at
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  power play one on the Flames and he got a power play assist.
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  So again, this is 0 backwards and just not like the best
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  necessarily not a guarantee to keep it over the course of the
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  entire week. But as opposed to shape, Perec
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  was, you know, people going into the season, we're expecting to
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  get power play one. He's a young guy like rookie
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  who, you know, has the potential.
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  So I could see him chipping in power play points here and there
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  if he keeps the power play. Again, the flames are not a good
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  team and he offer zero back cats, but it's just another
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  another defenseman option there. Before we dive into our top ten
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  of my top 10 is always I'm actually genuinely excited about
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  these. These were just like defensemen
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  I wanted to throw in just so there's positional options for
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  people. I'd prefer paretic overshoe.
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  Yes, me as well. That's why when I, when I just
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  noticed that I thought of it, I'm like, you know what, He is
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  still technically under 40% owned even though it's close.
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  So he makes. The yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  So Thomas Coverage got two games next week.
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  Yeah, that's the only reason he wasn't.
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  He probably have my number one if he had an actual decent
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  schedule. That's it.
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  And look, I mean, he he's been on our our top, you know, 10/5
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  for both bangers and points before.
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  He's a stud overall. If for whatever reason, you know
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  you don't need the optimized lineup next week, for instance,
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  you have like a lot of guys already playing over your
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  opponent next week, then he's the one that I would go for.
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  Sure. Yeah.
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  All right, let's dive into. #10 that's tough.
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  Maybe he is the throat guy. Not not big toll on me.
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  I like that a lot though. That was good at. #10 We've got
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  Victor Olafson of the Colorado Avalanche, currently Line 3
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  power play one, which is why he made this list.
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  So the Avs are have been tossing around those, flipping around
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  those power play units. And honestly, I did not think
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  there would be a moment in time where none of Nichushkin,
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  Leskinen or Landeskog was on that power play one.
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  But that's where we're at right now.
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  It's Nelson and Olafson on power play one obviously with the
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  three locks of McKinnon car and niches.
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  So anyone who gets a shot, anyone who gets a shot on that
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  power play is worth a look. He only has a three-game week
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  with off night. So it's not like an optimized
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  schedule thing, but more like if he can keep that power play one
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  spot, then he's definitely worth holding in points leagues.
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  At least he put up a power play point and seven shots in his
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  last game, which is kind of huge.
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  So and I know the coach had talked about how he likes his
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  shot and he wanted to try him on power play when at some point.
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  So I'm not surprised to see him there.
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  I will say that Bednar seems to love blending those power play
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  units, so I'm not seeing him on there and thinking that he's a
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  lock there long term, but if it starts clicking then he'll stay
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  there, so it's definitely worth taking a look.
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  Yeah, I'm with you on that one. I think it's an interesting
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  opportunity for him cuz he's kind of like the Shane Gosses
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  Sparrow forwards, right? He's just like, he just.
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  Produced Ghost is the GOAT this year.
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  Yeah, no, I mean, he's not technically that level, but
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  regardless, that's where he's found offensive success in the
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  past. So I wouldn't necessarily be
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  surprised if he stays there over Nichushkin Landis going and
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  looking who are all better players than him.
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  Yeah, but if it works, it works. So this is a decent week to take
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  that opportunity, even though it's just like a regular three
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  games. And I guess he's got some off
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  nights that he's dealing with. But regardless, I yeah, I think
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  it's totally worth a shot. And look, if it sticks, then
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  that's great because he's playing with the best player in
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  the world. And McKinnon?
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  Yeah, exactly. I love nature, slow tangent like
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  it keeps me up at night that I didn't pick him in our main
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  league like. It's actually really.
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  Rough. He's so, so good and I knew it.
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  That's the worst part is like you were talking about it all
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  summer. So it's like, I know, but I
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  totally get it. At the same time though, because
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  sometimes you get in your head, you're like, I know every all
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  the signs point to him being amazing.
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  I know it. I feel it in my gut and you're
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  like, but what if I'm overhyping myself and I built this up too
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  high and you try and get him one round later?
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  So you'd feel safer with the floor and then you get snatched.
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  So yeah, definitely know how you feel with that because I got a,
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  I got sniped on a couple of my signature picks too, so.
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  Sorry about that, but. Yeah, it's all good with you and
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  Kevin grabbed one of mine so it's all good anyways, moving.
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  I'll try this next one. Yeah, he's fine.
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  I'll try this next one at. #9. What?
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  OK. I wanted to try.
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  Wait, no, it's not even like my I have a really good Batman
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  voice I could do. I'm.
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  Batman. Show up or not?
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  Strider, Yeah. I'm a little fright to knock and
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  a lie. Wow.
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  It does take a toll on you though.
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  You know, it hurts my throat when I do that.
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  Once they go like Kevin. Wow.
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  Yeah. Anyways, Chris Kreider of the
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  Anaheim Ducks, assuming he's healthy by then, it was just an
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  illness keeping him out. I would be expecting him to
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  hopefully come back tonight cause I have on my team.
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  If not, he should definitely be back by next week.
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  And he's line one power play one on a Ducks.
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  Team that is seeming pretty, pretty fun, honestly.
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  Crider has five points already. I think he's only played four or
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  five games, so four of those are goals, multiple on the power
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  play, which is exactly what we expect from him.
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  If he's, you know, kind of hitting his let's say, like
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  ceiling or kind of what he does on a team, what he contributes,
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  it's being that power play goal guy just in the net front
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  tipping them in or just hitting and rebounds and he seems to be
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  doing well there. Anaheim at one of the worst
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  power plays in the league last year and this year they're also
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  really hot start. Look, they're not winning many
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  games, but they're having a lot of fun along the way and scoring
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  a lot of goals. So I definitely like Ryder this
• 18:39
  year, or at least as a pickup for this week where he has
• 18:41
  multiple off nights. Yeah, obviously they're not
• 18:44
  like, you know, a total, total win now team, but I do think
• 18:49
  that they're gonna really try to make the playoffs.
• 18:50
  They're not in tanking territory anymore by any means.
• 18:53
  Yeah, I mean, the moves they made in the offseason, like
• 18:55
  those are not tanking moves. Like getting like a Crider,
• 18:58
  getting a Grandland, that's like, OK, let's let's actually
• 19:01
  try and do something. Let's try and turn this rebuild
• 19:04
  into a playoff or, you know, into let's start moving up
• 19:07
  instead of just getting more draft picks.
• 19:08
  So it's definitely their intention to compete more and
• 19:11
  they're definitely competing more and like I said, they're
• 19:14
  scoring goals and Crider is going to be a part of a lot of
• 19:16
  it. Absolutely, yeah.
• 19:18
  And like there, despite their massive signing of Lacombe, like
• 19:22
  I, I don't really think they're they're not a shutdown team.
• 19:24
  So they're they're a team that if they're gonna win, they're
• 19:27
  gonna score a lot. And I.
• 19:28
  Actually. 76. Yeah.
• 19:30
  Exactly. I really like their power play
• 19:33
  potential too. And I think that just because of
• 19:36
  who he's been to the Rangers in his career so far, like it would
• 19:41
  be hard for him to lose that, you know, like, I see other
• 19:44
  players. Yeah.
• 19:45
  Like, I think like, you know, the Seneca, Mctavish, Gautier,
• 19:48
  like, these are guys who have a lot more, like offensive
• 19:51
  potential even this year than Cryder.
• 19:52
  But it still doesn't mean that they're gonna take him off.
• 19:55
  And as far as this week, this is really good.
• 19:59
  He's got the two off night games, especially Tuesday,
• 20:01
  Thursday, Saturday, being so packed.
• 20:03
  Like, you're gonna get the utility out of it.
• 20:05
  Why not give it a try? And in an illness is nothing
• 20:08
  like people don't come back from an illness.
• 20:09
  And it's not like. It takes them a while.
• 20:11
  Natural. Environment size exactly so.
• 20:14
  Yeah, no, and in terms of the power play like spot, it's not
• 20:17
  just that. I mean, they traded for him,
• 20:19
  they wanted him and you're not gonna trade for a guy like that
• 20:22
  if you're not gonna put him in a position to do what he does
• 20:24
  best. But also he's got that net front
• 20:26
  spot and all the guys you named are more like skill guys.
• 20:28
  I mean, I could see Seneca, he maybe has some great tis game,
• 20:31
  but I mean he still rookie and he's gonna be load managed over
• 20:33
  the course of the season. So so now criders, definitely
• 20:35
  the guy there. Alright, let's move on to the
• 20:37
  next one. How are you doing?
• 20:39
  It. No.
• 20:39
  We can take turns. You go.
• 20:42
  Hmm. #8. Ooh, spooky. #8 We've got Sean
• 20:50
  Couturier of the Philadelphia Flyers 4 game week, line one,
• 20:54
  power play one. I like this, especially in face
• 20:57
  off win leagues. He's always been in the past a
• 20:59
  guy that in a face off win league, a guy that's worth
• 21:01
  rostering even he's putting up almost zeros Everywhere else he
• 21:04
  just puts up double digit faceoff wins.
• 21:06
  So he's always valuable in that sense.
• 21:08
  But the fact is he's getting deployment, getting to play line
• 21:10
  one with connect me and Tippett and he's getting to be power
• 21:13
  play one. Look, this is not like Crider
• 21:16
  where I think it's a lock. I could see them moving it
• 21:18
  around, but you know, your plan needs at least one guy who is
• 21:22
  strong at faceoffs to get you started on a good spot and
• 21:25
  Couturier is making the most of it.
• 21:27
  He had a four point game and he's chipping in here and there,
• 21:29
  so I like him a lot in a four-game week.
• 21:31
  Yeah, me too. And you know, he's shooting
• 21:34
  considerably less so far on average this season than he was
• 21:37
  last season, right? He was hovering around 2 and
• 21:39
  this year's at 1.5. So, you know, on a four-game
• 21:42
  week with like a real opportunity to make an impact,
• 21:46
  especially for face off. So I would expect the shots to
• 21:48
  positively regress. I don't hate really as an
• 21:52
  offensively. Good.
• 21:54
  I know. I'm not I'm not highest on them.
• 21:56
  Like I don't think they're like some amazing team or anything.
• 21:59
  You know, they're they're definitely a far from a
• 22:02
  juggernaut, but I also think that they have the opportunity
• 22:06
  to score a lot of goals. So, you know, next week they
• 22:10
  don't have like the toughest opponents necessarily either,
• 22:13
  right? They have, they have Pittsburgh,
• 22:17
  which is always like a fun game because it's the Pennsylvania
• 22:20
  rivalry. Yeah, got Nashville easily.
• 22:22
  They could score on Maple Leafs and Calgary.
• 22:25
  So, you know Maple Leafs. Are really good.
• 22:27
  Schedule, but we'll may play and Wool hasn't played all year, so
• 22:31
  there's. Also Stolarz has been pretty bad
• 22:33
  actually so far. He has, he absolutely has.
• 22:36
  And there's then we got the the idea of Ursin just letting in
• 22:42
  everything that. So I think that realistically,
• 22:46
  if they are gonna win similar to Anaheim, they're gonna score.
• 22:50
  And he is line one on this team and power play 1.
• 22:54
  I think that's flexible. I wouldn't be surprised if
• 22:56
  Flexible gets it, but he's still the guy who's gonna get the most
• 23:00
  minutes of anyone on the Flyers. Forwards, obviously, but yeah.
• 23:04
  Yeah, exactly. So it's definitely a good stream
• 23:07
  for this week and maybe it could be a hold.
• 23:11
  Alright at. #7. It really does take a toll.
• 23:16
  It like my throat is hurting like Jesus.
• 23:21
  At #7 we've got Pavel Zacha of the Boston Bruins, currently
• 23:25
  line 2 power play, 1 four-game week.
• 23:28
  And this is a guy that he's one of the freakiest players I've
• 23:32
  seen over the past couple of years where he'll go from being
• 23:35
  just unrestorable for a couple of weeks, just putting up
• 23:38
  straight zeros to being just insane, just points every single
• 23:43
  game. I mean, that's what happens.
• 23:44
  You get to play with pasta, even if just on the power play and
• 23:46
  not even string, right? But yeah, so Zach is on one of
• 23:50
  his hot streaks. Been killing it to start the
• 23:52
  year. I don't think this is one of
• 23:54
  those long term holds, but this is one of those ride the waves,
• 23:56
  enjoy the point, enjoy the points while they come.
• 23:59
  And then once he starts putting up zeros again, don't feel bad
• 24:01
  about dropping him. Yeah, for sure.
• 24:04
  And he, he has been on somewhat of a good streak lately.
• 24:08
  But as you mentioned, it's really good.
• 24:10
  You know, in his past three games at the time of this
• 24:14
  recording, he's recorded at least pointing every one of
• 24:17
  those. When players play centre,
• 24:20
  sometimes it impedes their offensive ability because they
• 24:23
  have to be more defensive responsible.
• 24:25
  Yeah, for him, like, I think there's zero correlation.
• 24:28
  It's just are the points gonna come or are they not?
• 24:30
  And if they come next week, great.
• 24:32
  If not, like you know, it's there's nothing you can do, but
• 24:36
  it's still worth it because when he goes off, he goes off.
• 24:40
  Yeah, and they've got four games, some more chance of it
• 24:42
  and he's just on one of those streaks right now.
• 24:44
  You're not grabbing in the middle of his zero streaks
• 24:46
  hoping that he turns it on. Like I said, he just ride the
• 24:48
  wave and then and once the rides over, you know, you just Chuck
• 24:51
  him and. Pick up some.
• 24:54
  Like nobody's getting emotionally attached to having
• 24:57
  him on their roster so. So don't do that and just pick
• 25:00
  him up and hopefully hope for the best honestly.
• 25:03
  Yeah. All right, Yeah.
• 25:07
  Whoa, number six. I sounded dead there.
• 25:12
  Yeah. OK, interesting.
• 25:14
  We've all tried a different one on the next one anyways, I have
• 25:17
  number six. We've got Connor Garland of the
• 25:19
  Vancouver Canucks schedule wise, just the regular three-game week
• 25:22
  with no off night, So not not multiple off nights, So not too
• 25:25
  exciting there, but he's line one power play one.
• 25:27
  Vancouver is not the most exciting team, but Garland,
• 25:29
  honestly, with how bad Patterson has been, Garland might be the
• 25:32
  most valuable forward on Vancouver, which is crazy
• 25:35
  because you've got Peterson, you've got Besser.
• 25:37
  But Garland last year and this year it's just one of those kind
• 25:41
  of random ish. Like doesn't have really the
• 25:43
  name value, but he just puts up numbers.
• 25:45
  So I like him as he could be a season long hold.
• 25:48
  Not particularly the most exciting week this week, like I
• 25:50
  said, with no, not the off nights of the four-game week,
• 25:52
  but he's just one of those guys that slow rostered that can just
• 25:55
  stick around for a while. Yeah, I asked you this last week
• 26:00
  and I'm not sure if you've changed your mind on it.
• 26:02
  Would you trade technical for Garland?
• 26:06
  I would not, but it's just it's look, who would I rather have on
• 26:09
  my team for the next couple of weeks?
• 26:11
  Garland. That's that's that's a no
• 26:13
  brainer. But Garland's just doing what
• 26:15
  he's going to do for most of the year, which is be someone who
• 26:18
  rounds out your roster and is not exciting.
• 26:20
  But you know, we'll just chip in and you're not like need to drop
• 26:23
  him. Switch is absolutely garbage
• 26:25
  right now and we won't get into it too much.
• 26:28
  But he still has the potential to go back to being the draft
• 26:31
  value of where you got him. You know, like, obviously over
• 26:33
  the course of the season, his averages are now gonna suck
• 26:35
  because he's off to such a bad start.
• 26:37
  He's not gonna make up for that. But the past is in the past,
• 26:39
  right? I'm only looking forward at any
• 26:41
  point. Rod can move him back up in the
• 26:43
  deployment or he can decide he wants to play hockey again.
• 26:45
  And, and he can get it back. So as long as my team's not
• 26:50
  really struggling too hard, I have the I have the luxury of
• 26:53
  kind of just holding on to him and seeing what he can do.
• 26:56
  Yeah. You know, I'm looking at this
• 26:58
  like their division is a very weak division in the Pacific.
• 27:02
  And I think that Vancouver has a real chance to to, you know, try
• 27:06
  to make a push for the playoffs. I don't think they will make it.
• 27:09
  I think, yeah, LA is underperforming like crazy.
• 27:12
  Edmonton and Vegas are definitely like the top three
• 27:15
  there. And the top three?
• 27:16
  Are just too strong. Yeah, I do think the Ducks are
• 27:18
  better, frankly. So that puts them in contention
• 27:21
  for a wild card spot. But you know, I've spoken about
• 27:24
  this before. These are the type of players
• 27:25
  that you want to own because they need to try and this
• 27:29
  they're also non entangling territory by any means.
• 27:32
  I really don't think they're great, but they're way better
• 27:35
  than Calgary, right? So they're.
• 27:37
  Yeah, I will say they don't sleep on.
• 27:39
  I don't sleep on the crack. And I kind of, yeah, I mean, I'm
• 27:43
  not the biggest fan in terms of like fantasy value because, you
• 27:47
  know, they spread it out so much.
• 27:48
  But in terms of just specific rankings, like that's why I'm
• 27:50
  kind of excited about my decored pick this year because it's
• 27:53
  exactly like you said that look at their division and OK, Jose
• 27:57
  and Calgary are just absolute just bottom tier garbage.
• 28:00
  OK, like that's just easy, easy games.
• 28:04
  And then Canucks and Anaheim. OK, I'll put Canucks next.
• 28:07
  They're pretty close to bottom to your garbage.
• 28:09
  I know you're saying they could make a push playoffs.
• 28:11
  I don't make a push for playoffs.
• 28:12
  Not gonna be as bad as those garbage teams.
• 28:13
  So there gonna get some of those free wins, but they're still
• 28:16
  pretty, pretty trash unless Peterson decides to play hockey
• 28:19
  all of a sudden. So like switching Gov and then
• 28:22
  Anaheim is going to be fun and they could make a push for
• 28:24
  playoffs, but they're not like the scariest opponent.
• 28:26
  It's not like you're benching your goals when you see going up
• 28:28
  against Anaheim. So it's like 4 out of eight and
• 28:31
  you're 1. Seattle, one of the teams that's
• 28:32
  four of their seven opponents who is a pretty easy, pretty
• 28:37
  easy 1. I actually picked this year 2
• 28:39
  goalies from the Pacific. I picked Kemper and Discord and
• 28:43
  I did look into this beforehand and I was like, this is such an
• 28:46
  easy division. There's so many kind of those
• 28:48
  free, free games. So yeah, something like that.
• 28:51
  But back to Garland, he is on Vancouver.
• 28:53
  He's gonna get to play against a lot of these teams.
• 28:55
  So. So Vancouver guys could be
• 28:57
  interesting to own. I wouldn't want to own more than
• 28:59
  one. And Garland's probably the top
• 29:01
  one to own other than Quinn Hughes, even though he has been
• 29:03
  kind of underperforming so far. Yeah, he he's like an excellent
• 29:07
  bylaw. But when when it comes to it,
• 29:09
  you know, if if Garland is getting the I always wanna say
• 29:12
  Grantland, like, it's OK, yeah, they're so similar, but I feel
• 29:16
  like they're also kind of similar insofar as their career
• 29:19
  trajectory, right? Like 1 is like, you know, Crosby
• 29:24
  and the other one of the George Larock.
• 29:25
  It's like. Yeah.
• 29:26
  It's like they're similar vibes and everything.
• 29:29
  Both play in the Pacific Division, but yeah, it's his
• 29:33
  shots are a little volatile, which I don't love.
• 29:35
  Still for this week, it's definitely a good pick, but his
• 29:38
  minutes are amazing. 23221923 This is just like we have to
• 29:45
  pretty much hang our hat on the process over everything and the
• 29:48
  process the concept of him succeeding makes.
• 29:51
  A lot of sense, like you just know that someone on that team
• 29:54
  has to score right, especially with those components.
• 29:56
  And you look at all those they, they don't have anyone at centre
• 29:58
  essentially. So you can ignore the centres
• 30:00
  for now. And you look at all those
• 30:01
  wingers and they have so many wingers who potentially could be
• 30:02
  that guy. And you look at your first, you
• 30:05
  know, your eye first hits Besser.
• 30:06
  You're like Besser's done it before, but he's kind of been
• 30:08
  underperforming all of last year and this year as well so far.
• 30:10
  Then you look at, you know, Debrusk, maybe you know, he can
• 30:13
  do it because getting the deployment, he was decent in
• 30:15
  Boston, but he's not doing much with it.
• 30:16
  You look at our steep Baines. Sorry I couldn't help myself.
• 30:22
  You look at like, like Evander Kane, you know, that's not too
• 30:25
  exciting. Vancouver just traded for Lucas
• 30:27
  Reichel. We'll see what he can do, but so
• 30:29
  far, whatever. The only guy who actually, yeah,
• 30:31
  you didn't see that. No Rachel for 1/4 rounder.
• 30:35
  Oh wow, OK, well definitely talk more about that in the news
• 30:38
  episode, but. That's yeah.
• 30:39
  Well that's a bummer for Chicago.
• 30:41
  They spent like I think a first round pick on him.
• 30:43
  Yeah, and not to get into, but Long story short, the only guy
• 30:47
  over the past year and then this year who who's a winger who's
• 30:50
  actually produced consistent semi consistently for Vancouver
• 30:54
  has been Garland. So at a certain point you got to
• 30:56
  stop looking for the guy and be like, alright, the guys are in
• 30:58
  front of me. He's not the most flashy name,
• 30:59
  but you know, that's how you go with.
• 31:01
  Anyways, let's move on to number. 5.
• 31:06
  Easier. Easier on the yeah, yeah.
• 31:09
  This is awesome. I love this selection over here
• 31:13
  and he's the one to me who who's just shaping up to be an
• 31:16
  absolute stud for bangers leagues and Mid Finney of the
• 31:19
  Detroit Red Wings. He's got 4 game week with
• 31:22
  multiple off nights, so just saying Detroit's a really good,
• 31:25
  really good one and he's lined one power play one for now, with
• 31:27
  a big caveat of when Patrick Kane comes back, he's gonna bump
• 31:30
  him off power play 1. So that's a big thing.
• 31:32
  But even before Fanny got that power play spot, he was killing
• 31:36
  it at even strength. He's gonna he has line one on
• 31:37
  lock. He's having great chemistry with
• 31:39
  Larkin and Larkin's on just an absolute terror to start the
• 31:42
  year. And Detroit overall is is doing
• 31:44
  really well to start the year. So I mean, this guy was a
• 31:47
  seventh round pick. Yeah.
• 31:49
  That's like, I love seeing these kind of stories.
• 31:51
  That's so hype. It's like Marty Saint Louis
• 31:53
  being undrafted and then becoming a Hall of Famer.
• 31:55
  So it's really exciting. He's also, like you said, for
• 31:59
  bangers. He's shooting, he's hitting.
• 32:00
  I'm playing against him this week and he's wrecking me.
• 32:02
  And yeah, no, it's it's a really fun pic.
• 32:07
  Like I said, don't pick him up expecting him to be power play 1
• 32:09
  all week. Kane is not playing today, but
• 32:12
  he's been skating and I would expect him to come back midweek
• 32:14
  next week. But I don't think Binny's entire
• 32:17
  value is tied to that power play like certain players are.
• 32:20
  Yeah, and right. There's no reason he's gonna
• 32:23
  necessarily lose line one right now he's playing.
• 32:26
  With Mark, no chance he loses line 1.
• 32:27
  Yeah, very likely he's just gonna keep it.
• 32:30
  I mean it's. Like when Kane comes back,
• 32:32
  Raymond's getting bumped back up to line one.
• 32:34
  It's gonna be Raymond Larkin and Finney, and line 2 is Debrincat,
• 32:37
  Casper, Kane. I I mean, imagine that like
• 32:40
  Finn, he's gonna be playing with both Raymond and Larkin.
• 32:43
  Yeah, I, I'd rather, I mean, that's the vast majority of
• 32:47
  people's minutes. We like to talk about the power
• 32:49
  play being the crux of value. That's more for defensemen
• 32:53
  really, especially when it comes to points.
• 32:55
  There's the banger guys like Gudas, etcetera, that their
• 32:57
  value has nothing to do with power play.
• 33:00
  But then when you're looking at call it like Nikishin, like with
• 33:04
  the situation with Ghost, do you know what I mean?
• 33:06
  Like that's when power play comes into it for forwards.
• 33:10
  I mean, OK, I don't wanna say almost like it when they're not
• 33:13
  on power play. That's just me trying to make
• 33:14
  something out of nothing with this nonsense.
• 33:16
  Hagel situations. So not to bring my woes into
• 33:20
  this, but for a guy like Finney who's got both banger cats and
• 33:24
  point potential, I really like it because now he's just going
• 33:27
  to be playing with better guys for more like minutes of that.
• 33:33
  You know, it's more important like the power play more
• 33:37
  important when a players on a really bad team, when it's a
• 33:41
  forward on a really bad team, because the only time that team
• 33:43
  is really gonna like they don't score much goal, many goals,
• 33:45
  they're mostly gonna score on the power play.
• 33:47
  So if you're not on that power play, they're not getting many
• 33:49
  even strength goals. So you guys not getting many
• 33:50
  points. But if your team is kind of
• 33:52
  firing on all cylinders like Detroit has been for the start
• 33:54
  of the season, then they're putting up numbers at even
• 33:57
  strength in addition to the power play.
• 33:58
  So obviously power play is better than not power play, but
• 34:02
  he's not gonna lose all his value.
• 34:03
  And it's also the back cats. You know, if he didn't have any
• 34:05
  back cats then I would be like a lot less enthused about it.
• 34:08
  But the fact that he's put up numbers, even strength so far
• 34:11
  this year, he gets to play on a great even strength line and he
• 34:13
  has the back cat support, then I really like him as a pick up
• 34:16
  this week. Yeah, like the aforementioned
• 34:18
  Pavel Zacha, if they take him off power play 1.
• 34:21
  It's way. Less desirable than like a
• 34:23
  Finney off power play one, right?
• 34:25
  Yeah. So 100%.
• 34:27
  That's a concrete example there, all right. #4.
• 34:33
  I'm losing it, Kevin. We need you back, man.
• 34:37
  You need a recording of him saying the numbers, you know,
• 34:39
  seriously, go to your basement, we have him locked up and just
• 34:42
  get him. This.
• 34:43
  That's not a real thing. For the listeners.
• 34:48
  Right #4 I've got two guys who are kind of similar.
• 34:51
  We've got Zach Benson and Josh done, Benson's line one power
• 34:54
  play 1, Don's line 2 power play one.
• 34:56
  Both the Buffalo Sabres both just a three-game week with not
• 34:59
  multiple off nights. So in terms of the optimizing
• 35:01
  schedule, not that exciting. But there's something exciting
• 35:04
  going on at the Sabres this year.
• 35:05
  And I will say they've done this in the past, right, where they
• 35:09
  get our hopes up that they're going to be relevant and good
• 35:11
  and they go on a really hot streak and then they just crash
• 35:13
  out before the end of the season and end up just missing the
• 35:16
  playoffs. But you know what, let's take it
• 35:19
  on as a new year, new savers and they've got a lot of new
• 35:22
  players. So you know, you can give a give
• 35:24
  some to that. All that to be said, they're on
• 35:26
  a tear right now. They're really killing it and
• 35:28
  they're producing a lot of offence.
• 35:29
  And Benson and Don are both big parts of that.
• 35:32
  Obviously it kind of runs through Tage Thompson, Rasmus
• 35:34
  Dahlin, but those guys are like 9900% rostered.
• 35:37
  But Benson and done have not yet reached that 40% threshold.
• 35:41
  They're both around 25% and they're both really good
• 35:45
  options. I think these could both be
• 35:46
  season long holds or at least one of them will be.
• 35:49
  I think Benson slightly better than done because of that even
• 35:51
  strength deployment. Although don't I like his back
• 35:53
  hats better? But but yeah, no, I like both of
• 35:56
  these a lot. Yeah.
• 35:58
  My take here though is that if you have the choice between
• 36:01
  both, I would easily go with Benson because the the minutes
• 36:05
  have been like really, really elite.
• 36:08
  There 100%. Encouraging to see that with
• 36:10
  like a young guy on this team and look, I mean his averages
• 36:14
  are skewed. Let's be real. 4 assists in his
• 36:16
  first game was ridiculous and. Then he missed a lot of games.
• 36:20
  Yeah, exactly. But he went right into it and
• 36:23
  he's been playing a lot. He is more of like a quote lock
• 36:27
  in this team's future than loan. They invested super high draft
• 36:30
  capital whereas they just traded for done which doesn't mean
• 36:33
  anything negative for him. It's more positive for benzene.
• 36:35
  So I would say the spot on power play 1 is much more secure for
• 36:40
  Benson. That being said and a week
• 36:42
  coming up like this, I'd be happy to roster both, especially
• 36:46
  in a deeply if they're on. Agency.
• 36:49
  I will say the advanced stats are loving Josh done.
• 36:53
  I keep seeing posts about his like expected goals for and like
• 36:56
  him being on the ice and all that kind of fun stuff.
• 36:58
  And I've been watching the games and his eye test has really been
• 37:00
  he's been passing it. So I still prefer Benson over
• 37:03
  done because of the deployment, but I do like Donuts and option
• 37:06
  a lot. So if you're choosing one of
• 37:09
  these guys, take Benson. If Benson's already taken, take
• 37:11
  Don. And I'm happy with either one.
• 37:12
  Yeah, yeah, they should trade one of their defensemen to get a
• 37:16
  better forward. Yeah, exactly.
• 37:17
  I don't, I don't know. What the deal is over?
• 37:19
  Here maybe like Kesselring for JJ Peterka.
• 37:25
  What? No, but if that's another fun
• 37:28
  thing is, is the Savers been doing this well and Kessler
• 37:30
  hasn't even played yet and he's actually a really solid
• 37:32
  defenseman and he's coming back this coming week.
• 37:35
  So that could boost them even more.
• 37:36
  So it's I'm excited to see what they can do.
• 37:39
  Yeah, they're always a fun team to watch and yeah, like you
• 37:42
  said, they burnt us in the past, but all you can really do is
• 37:44
  look at like the new season. As yes, exactly.
• 37:47
  I mean, I'm in like a weird spot where I currently have three
• 37:50
  savers on my team, which is not somewhere I want to be, but I
• 37:53
  kind of have to wait and see which one is the OK.
• 37:55
  So I've got Tage, who's obviously a lock.
• 37:57
  He's amazing. But then I also picked up Zucker
• 37:59
  and and done. So I'm kind of waiting to see
• 38:04
  I'm gonna drop one of them at some point unless they both keep
• 38:06
  killing it, which I doubt. There's just not enough love to
• 38:08
  spread around that consistently. But I'm kind of waiting to see
• 38:12
  which ones the guy who's more valuable.
• 38:14
  But all that to be said, savers are fun right now and I've been
• 38:17
  watching a lot of their games because I have so many of them.
• 38:21
  Alright, alright, at number. 3. Telling you like, like, what's
• 38:27
  cool about the way Kevin does it is that he has the consistent
• 38:29
  like, yeah, exactly. We keep cracking like.
• 38:32
  Yeah, no, this is tougher than I thought.
• 38:35
  I'm gonna be practicing in my room.
• 38:37
  I was gonna be like, do not know how to count.
• 38:39
  So are you practicing? Do you have a?
• 38:41
  Cold. Exactly.
• 38:44
  Anyways, at #3 we've got Emil Heineman crazy he is line one
• 38:50
  power play 2 on the Islanders 4 game week with multiple off
• 38:53
  nights. I love that schedule and what
• 38:54
  he's been doing is just unreal. I mean, if you were a house fan
• 38:58
  and saw him play on the haves last year, this isn't the most
• 39:01
  shocking thing. If you're, if you never heard of
• 39:04
  him, which is very fair. You're like who the hell is this
• 39:06
  guy? And that's a very fair reaction
• 39:08
  as well. But but he looked he there was a
• 39:11
  stretch last year with the hats. They were kind of very up and
• 39:13
  down and there was a stretch where, I don't know if you
• 39:15
  remember, but he got like hit by a car in Salt Lake City and like
• 39:19
  broke his wrist or something. And he missed about 2-3 weeks of
• 39:22
  games and the Habs went on a crazy losing streak.
• 39:25
  And then he came back and they started winning again.
• 39:27
  And obviously, like he was a fourth liner on the haves.
• 39:29
  Like it's not that much of a difference, but there's
• 39:32
  something there. And he always brought the
• 39:33
  energy, was always a good banger.
• 39:35
  And now he's being given the chance on line one power play 2
• 39:38
  and they don't have a split. They have a clear play one, but
• 39:41
  it's not the biggest. Like it's one of those power
• 39:43
  play ones that stays on for 90% of the time, so it's not
• 39:47
  irrelevant. All that to be said, he's
• 39:48
  putting up really good numbers points wise.
• 39:50
  The banks are unreal. He's averaging almost five hits
• 39:52
  a game and I don't see any threat to his deployment.
• 39:55
  If anything, he has the upside of if he keeps playing
• 39:58
  amazingly, he could maybe get elevated to power play one at
• 40:00
  some point because there's a lot of guys on there who aren't
• 40:02
  locks. So I like kind of in a lot,
• 40:04
  especially for a week like this with his schedule lining up
• 40:06
  perfectly, I would definitely take a shot on him.
• 40:09
  So, so like the quote UN quote bear case over here is that a
• 40:12
  lot of his points are from goals.
• 40:13
  Listen, it is what it is. The bull case is that he's
• 40:17
  scoring a lot of goals, and those come from shots, yeah.
• 40:21
  So to. Me like one of the best
• 40:24
  indicators of an amazing player to pick up is when we're
• 40:28
  speaking about top ten points guys and they also have five
• 40:33
  hits a game. That's ridiculous.
• 40:35
  Like that is for the listeners, especially those who play in
• 40:39
  bangers leagues, which I guess most of our listeners.
• 40:41
  Do. It's and listen also like just
• 40:46
  to say points leagues do allocate a.
• 40:49
  Portion hits, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 40:51
  So like it's not gonna be as much as a goal or whatever,
• 40:53
  which Hanneman has plenty of, but still like I would say he's
• 40:57
  like a must roster right now going into next week, 2 off
• 41:00
  nights and four games. Like that's like a dream dream
• 41:03
  for a guy producing like this. And hey, I mean he's he's a new
• 41:07
  addition to this team already had a consistent line 1
• 41:11
  deployment. What's stopping him from going
• 41:14
  to this power play 1? Jonathan drew exactly.
• 41:17
  Yeah. That's it.
• 41:18
  That's exactly it. It's not like there's some like
• 41:20
  5 like stars locked on there. I could definitely if he keeps
• 41:22
  putting up numbers, I could see him doing that.
• 41:25
  Why is not the type of coach who is afraid from putting a kind of
• 41:29
  no name guy in a position to succeed?
• 41:30
  You know, like he's he'll do it if he thinks it's the right
• 41:33
  move. And if Heineman keeps doing what
• 41:35
  he's doing, he's kind of going to force his hand.
• 41:36
  So I really like him like you said in a bangers like I think
• 41:38
  he's a must pick up, especially on a week like this.
• 41:40
  See what he does and see if you can stick out in your roster.
• 41:42
  And with those hits, it's like, even if he just goes completely
• 41:45
  cold on points, he's still gonna be a nice addition to your team,
• 41:48
  at least as a stream for the week.
• 41:49
  So the the floor is so high that that I feel really comfortable
• 41:54
  making this pick. Up.
• 41:55
  Yeah, he's like, I, I mean, you know, even and like you said
• 42:01
  with the hits and I think that's also relevant for the shots.
• 42:03
  He's shooting a lot and I think the shot is gonna keep going,
• 42:06
  like, yeah, he's getting that those minutes.
• 42:08
  Reflects off to like an unreal start to the year and Heinen's
• 42:11
  kinda stapled to him on line 1, so I really like seeing what
• 42:14
  they've got going on right now. No, Absolutely.
• 42:16
  Would you rather Hineman or Samutsevich Russ this season?
• 42:21
  I got to go Samos gavage because Samus Savage has the power play
• 42:24
  one right now over Heineman. They're both like elite shot
• 42:27
  hitters. I think Sam Savage probably
• 42:30
  shoots more whereas Heineman hits more, but they're very
• 42:32
  similar to me. But Samus sketch I think is on a
• 42:35
  much better team and has the power play on deployment.
• 42:39
  So I'm going to go sandwich. But the fact is that like I was
• 42:42
  just saying how much to me, Samus Gavich is such an
• 42:45
  underrated pickup, right, even on A2 game week.
• 42:47
  So the fact that, you know, it's even a conversation that
• 42:50
  Heineman is in with him, then it shows how solid will pick up
• 42:53
  Heineman. Could be for sure, and for this
• 42:54
  week I would rather him just because of.
• 42:56
  The because the four games and the off nights.
• 42:58
  Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
• 43:00
  Like, if you're in a pretty deep league and you're gonna end up
• 43:02
  dropping whichever one by the end of the week anyways, then go
• 43:04
  with Heineman. But I do think that some savage
• 43:07
  could stick on your team long term.
• 43:09
  Agreed. Hurried.
• 43:10
  Alright. #2. And #2 we've got another pair of
• 43:16
  names. Sometimes you've got, I've got
• 43:17
  these guys who are very similar on similar teams, so I kind of
• 43:20
  group them together and. Similar names.
• 43:22
  Yeah, exactly. Will and William, We got Will
• 43:26
  Smith and William Eckland of the San Jose Sharks.
• 43:29
  Will Smith is currently line one power play 1, Eckland line 2
• 43:31
  power play one. They both have a four-game week,
• 43:33
  although they don't have the off nights, and they're kind of
• 43:36
  popping off right now with the celebrity.
• 43:38
  That's a Jake finally getting rewarded for his his picocell
• 43:42
  Aurini. I knew it was.
• 43:43
  Coming that was, I sent Josh a trade involving celebrity in it
• 43:48
  and like I I was getting a good return and I was like, Nah, you
• 43:50
  know what? I just can't do this.
• 43:51
  And then the next night, he was. Like pops off.
• 43:54
  Yeah, thanks. To be fair, not asking for my
• 43:57
  you're asking for my first round pick.
• 43:58
  So it's not like I was buying low per se.
• 44:00
  No. Absolutely.
• 44:01
  But no, it definitely like the type of thing that you wouldn't
• 44:04
  have sent after that game happened.
• 44:06
  So So yeah, no, definitely, definitely.
• 44:08
  But anyways, Will Smith and Eckland both are getting to
• 44:11
  enjoy the celebrity action. I mean, they're doing some of
• 44:13
  the action themselves, right? They're both like highly touted
• 44:16
  prospects who are taking a step up this year and it's really fun
• 44:19
  to see. It's kind of like what we said
• 44:21
  would happen with the Sharks, right?
• 44:22
  And even like even when they win, they're winning games like
• 44:25
  65 because their defence is atrocious.
• 44:27
  So but. That's what the.
• 44:30
  Well, we had also mentioned said this about the Sharks over the
• 44:32
  course of the offseason, but yeah, similar to the Ducks.
• 44:35
  But yeah, we had mentioned this with the Sharks in the off
• 44:36
  season of just. That's the same vibe, right?
• 44:39
  Like terrible defence. I mean, obviously this is a lot
• 44:41
  worse than the Ducks defence. Ducks have solid defence, but in
• 44:44
  this case the Sharks, right, this garbage defence, they're
• 44:46
  not going to win many games. The one they do, they have to
• 44:48
  score like six goals and they've got the personnel to do it.
• 44:50
  You know, they got the guys who are ready to take that step up
• 44:53
  and have some really fun games. They're all young guys, they're
• 44:55
  gonna be not that consistent, but when they pop off they're
• 44:58
  gonna get like 4 point nights like they all did and they last
• 45:00
  like 2 games. So if you look at their game
• 45:02
  logs you'll see that, I mean, I'm sure getting picked up a
• 45:04
  ton, especially coming up on a four-game week.
• 45:05
  But yeah, if you have the chance to grab either of them, I think
• 45:08
  that's a really sick. I'd go with Smith over Ecklin
• 45:10
  right now just because of that even strength deployment, but
• 45:13
  it's also not a lock. But you may as well go with what
• 45:16
  for now is the better deployment.
• 45:18
  Yeah, and like definitely a agree on all fronts, except I
• 45:21
  think I'd rather Eckland over Smith only cause of shots have
• 45:24
  been so good. And he's like really decent
• 45:27
  Blogger. Like, OK, he's a he's like a
• 45:30
  block per game type forward. Like I think he's gonna be
• 45:33
  really good. Hey, it's like you can't go
• 45:34
  wrong with either, especially for a week like this.
• 45:38
  But yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, even if he's not
• 45:42
  playing with celebrity there, he's gonna get a lot of minutes.
• 45:45
  So 100%, I think it's really very, as Kevin would say, you're
• 45:49
  splitting feathers on this one. But yeah.
• 45:51
  Exactly. Because that's a real thing, so.
• 45:54
  And this is like, I actually think, like, anybody could just
• 46:00
  be like, hey, coach, put me in. It's like, what position
• 46:03
  defence. Yes, please come.
• 46:05
  Like, yeah, they are actually so bad on defence.
• 46:08
  It's not particularly. And like, Klingberg is not some
• 46:11
  savior. He's been hurt that week.
• 46:13
  Love that cool pick. Him up.
• 46:15
  Kevin would call me up, be like, yeah, you picked him up to your
• 46:17
  IRA and I was like, yeah, but still.
• 46:19
  Yeah. So he's he is paid like 0
• 46:22
  dividends and it's not like it's costing me too much.
• 46:24
  But regardless, mini rant. But all this to say, when he's
• 46:28
  back, like all it is is potentially to add to the
• 46:31
  offence. So there's other reasons to
• 46:32
  think there will be good. There's two types of teams.
• 46:35
  I think there's those trying to compete like Vancouver, who may
• 46:39
  not have a chance and but they're still gonna like get the
• 46:43
  most out of their players like Garland.
• 46:45
  And then there's teams like this, which like, look, they're
• 46:47
  not gonna make the playoffs. I was the highest on them and I
• 46:50
  clearly wasn't right about that. But at the.
• 46:53
  End, but they're gonna have fun doing it.
• 46:54
  Exactly. So they will have big games and
• 46:57
  it's just about developing their players.
• 46:59
  They'll shuffle things around, but they want Will Smith,
• 47:01
  William McClain and Celebrity to be like 3 of their five power
• 47:06
  play players for years to come. The 4th is probably going to be
• 47:09
  Mesa, which I don't know if he's going to be relevant at all this
• 47:12
  year, probably. I don't think so.
• 47:14
  I think they're really like managing his time, like they're
• 47:16
  scratching him every second game or something like.
• 47:18
  That you know. Rostrum, But Smith and Eckland
• 47:20
  are here to stay all year, and it's gonna be really, really fun
• 47:23
  to watch. Yeah, now all they need to do is
• 47:25
  find a power play quarterback for their future.
• 47:28
  I mean, maybe Dickinson over the future, who knows.
• 47:30
  But for now, they've got Klingberg.
• 47:33
  And leave it at that. This is all right at #1.
• 47:42
  But. It was great.
• 47:45
  At #1 we've got another two namer, Dimitri, Veronika V and
• 47:50
  Sean Monahan of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
• 47:52
  Both 4 game weeks with multiple off nights, both line one power
• 47:56
  play 1. And Veronica, I'd say, has been
• 48:00
  outperforming what people expected and Monaghan has been
• 48:02
  severely underperforming what people expected.
• 48:05
  Despite that, I'm not worried about him at all.
• 48:07
  He's kept his deployment and he was elite last year and I don't
• 48:10
  see why that would, you know, he might not be the as elite this
• 48:13
  year, but it's not gonna be as bad as it's been to start the
• 48:15
  year. So Columbus is, like I said,
• 48:18
  have an amazing schedule and both these guys like are just
• 48:21
  they get to play with Marchenko, who's the best krill in the
• 48:23
  league, and they get to play on power play one with Warenski as
• 48:26
  well. And it's just this is a great
• 48:28
  team, great line 1, great power play 1 and they're gonna Broncos
• 48:33
  gonna keep killing it. He's shooting and hitting as
• 48:34
  well and Monaghan's turn it around, so I like both of them
• 48:37
  as a pick up this week. Yeah, I still have a few
• 48:41
  reservations about him on Monaghan online one, No, sorry,
• 48:46
  I have reservations about Monahan on Power Play 1 all
• 48:49
  year. OK, that's the truth.
• 48:50
  I really do think and I'm like the outlier here, I know you and
• 48:54
  Kevin are pretty high on Fantilli keeping that line to
• 48:59
  Power Play 2 situation and Monahan being a staple to Power
• 49:02
  Play 1. I don't necessarily think that's
• 49:05
  the case. I, I know in the past we said,
• 49:07
  oh, maybe they'll bump Ken Johnson off.
• 49:10
  Yeah, just because he's a centre.
• 49:11
  I, I, I think that they made Bum Monahan off.
• 49:14
  That being said, you're right. He's drastically
• 49:16
  underperforming. He's still gonna get big minutes
• 49:18
  and he's playing with these insanely fantastic players in
• 49:22
  the chemistry is there. Monahan has been a really solid
• 49:27
  addition to every team he's been on especially.
• 49:30
  When he has got him because he was really, yeah, but he was
• 49:33
  really injury prone in Calgary. So like he was really good.
• 49:36
  Like people kind of forgot how good he was because he spent so
• 49:39
  much time injured. And then he's kind of been
• 49:41
  rejuvenated since that trade to the Habs, right?
• 49:44
  Where we, they gave us a first round pick to take him and then
• 49:47
  we flipped him for a first round pick because he did so well with
• 49:49
  us. Then he did amazing on Winnipeg
• 49:51
  for that brief run. And then Columbus, he's just
• 49:53
  been killing it ever since. Yeah, exactly.
• 49:55
  He he's, he's just so reliable. He's he's the Toyota of NHL
• 50:00
  players, you know what I mean? Like Toyotas are great cars.
• 50:06
  Like you're always happy to have the Toyota.
• 50:08
  You know, it's like, I'm trying to think like it would be like
• 50:13
  Mcdavid's a Ferrari, but like, which would you rather in a
• 50:16
  snowstorm, probably. Still make David.
• 50:20
  Whatever. For all intents and purposes,
• 50:23
  Toyotas are great cars. Monaghan's a really great
• 50:25
  player. And sponsored by the way, no.
• 50:28
  Sponsor. Maybe someday, though.
• 50:30
  Yeah. Listen up, Mr. Toyota, but not
• 50:34
  even as your real name. Mr. Toyota was my father called
• 50:38
  me Sean. So.
• 50:47
  Yeah, just just look, it's for this week.
• 50:50
  I think I'd rather Voronkov. He's already had that
• 50:52
  production, but but Monaghan is really I think in bangers
• 50:56
  leagues with face off some must roster.
• 50:58
  Yeah, if he does lose that power play one, we'll definitely be
• 51:01
  discussing it on a news episode. I do think it's, I wouldn't say
• 51:05
  likely, but I'd say there's a 30% chance that he loses it.
• 51:09
  I just think that he's not even like.
• 51:12
  I think both for Rankov and Johnson would lose power play 1
• 51:16
  before Monahan, but obviously like like because we've seen in
• 51:19
  the we saw it in the past, right.
• 51:21
  Voronkov last year was bouncing a bit between probably 1 power
• 51:23
  play 2 even line 1 and line 2 and Johnson as well.
• 51:27
  Johnson, I mean, just got promoted power play one until
• 51:28
  like last week was Boone Jenner on there.
• 51:30
  So I really I really don't think Monahan spot is in peril.
• 51:34
  I think that Bentley could get a shot there, although they seem
• 51:37
  to be trying out everyone but fancily.
• 51:39
  But but yeah, so I'm not too worried about his spot there.
• 51:42
  But definitely in terms of this week, I'm not worried about
• 51:44
  either their spot there. And and I also prefer Veronica
• 51:46
  for this specific week from one hand season long, but Veronica
• 51:50
  for this specific week just because he's the one who's been
• 51:52
  hot right now. So ride the hot hand.
• 51:54
  Yeah, Fantilli is not a Hegel situation, by the way, who's
• 51:56
  like put me in coach and like he's just like, no, he's just
• 52:00
  young. And then they wanna like let the
• 52:01
  other guys like this is this is a real up and coming team that
• 52:06
  almost made the playoffs last year.
• 52:07
  I don't think it's impossible for them to replicate that. 100%
• 52:11
  they can almost make it again this year.
• 52:12
  Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
• 52:16
  All right, shall we dive into our top five bangers?
• 52:20
  Yazir, let's do it. Yeah.
• 52:22
  Alright at. #5. At #5 we've got Will Cooley so
• 52:30
  talked about on this podcast. Look, we know that he's
• 52:34
  underperforming points wise, but he's still a bangers beast. 1.1
• 52:37
  Pimms, 2.3 shots for hits a game so far.
• 52:40
  Look, you're not complaining. Like maybe you know, you were
• 52:43
  expecting a bit more points from him, but in terms of the back
• 52:46
  cats, you are not complaining or very happy with what he's doing.
• 52:48
  So definitely, and I see him, I just saw him drop below 40%.
• 52:52
  A lot of people are dropping him.
• 52:54
  So that's the type of guy analogue like ours who I would
• 52:57
  very happily grab and hold all season because of how good he is
• 53:00
  at the back hats. And he still has that potential
• 53:02
  at at points, right? I mean, right now he's been
• 53:05
  bumping around between line 1 and line 2 at even strength, but
• 53:09
  there is kind of a big hole where Trocheck left.
• 53:12
  But check is going to be back soon and the second Trocheck
• 53:15
  back coolies either playing with Panarin and Trocheck or he's
• 53:19
  playing with Miller and Zibanejad.
• 53:21
  That's amazing. Line needs to have it even
• 53:23
  strength. Obviously he's never getting
• 53:24
  power play one, but like for where you got him and the back
• 53:28
  cats that he provides, he's got the points are gonna pick up.
• 53:30
  All that to say, I love Will Colisa bangers pick up.
• 53:32
  Yeah, when you said for where you're going, I'm like maybe not
• 53:36
  in the sixth round. Yeah, unless you're Kevin, who
• 53:38
  reached on him like crazy, but. Like.
• 53:41
  His sixth round pick is doing better than my six round pick so
• 53:44
  I can't really talk. My six round pick sound about it
• 53:49
  alright, not bad. OK, so we're all having a
• 53:51
  slightly disappointing 6 round. Yeah, yeah, I will say it might
• 53:54
  not slightly disappointing. Mine is in the toilet, but you
• 53:57
  know you guys are. Let's get my six round pick next
• 54:00
  year. I'm gonna forget honestly.
• 54:02
  Hope for another Samus cabbage in the 17th.
• 54:04
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I think.
• 54:07
  Over my 6th. Honestly same and same for my 6
• 54:12
  and Kevin. 6 though. We love Samutsevich on this
• 54:15
  podcast so yeah, cool is honestly not much to add.
• 54:19
  Must roster and Bangor leagues and I think the offence will
• 54:22
  come not in like anything drastic.
• 54:25
  I mean he's still probably gonna be a .6 point per game guy, but
• 54:29
  it goes back category thoughts and especially his hits.
• 54:31
  Wonderful players. Roster.
• 54:33
  Exactly. Definitely.
• 54:34
  Not everyone's gonna be a point per game player.
• 54:36
  You just have to. Despite what every Yahoo player
• 54:39
  fantasy chat tells you, not everyone is supposed to be
• 54:42
  getting multiple points every single game, and not everyone's
• 54:44
  a drop the second they don't put up a point.
• 54:46
  Yes. Exactly.
• 54:48
  I don't know why I look in those chats but it's.
• 54:52
  Entertaining, but it's it is. Entertaining.
• 54:54
  It's plenty of guys not doing well.
• 54:55
  It's really bad place to be because everyone just piles on
• 54:58
  and you just feel even worse about your pick.
• 55:00
  Ask me how I know. They're living in the sketch
• 55:03
  fantasy chat like the rim place to view.
• 55:07
  Anyways, let's go to #4. OK.
• 55:14
  Caught up in the excitement. Yeah, and #4 we've got Nick
• 55:18
  Seeler of the Philadelphia Flyers.
• 55:19
  He's kind of been a favorite of mine over the years for Blocks 4
• 55:22
  game week. He's averaging 2.3 hits, 1.9
• 55:25
  blocks so far. The next couple guys going to
• 55:27
  talk about are very unexciting. This is just let's say you need
• 55:29
  guys to kind of plug in for those back hats.
• 55:33
  I know we didn't mention many defensemen in the points area,
• 55:36
  so that's why I'm gonna mention a lot of defensemen here in the
• 55:38
  back Cats Bangers area. So I know there's much to say
• 55:41
  here, it's just kind of hits and blocks.
• 55:44
  Yeah, it's not Nick Ellers, it's Nick Seeler.
• 55:47
  Yeah, exactly, although I don't. Know who I'd rather have?
• 55:51
  Yeah, it's Josh. Yeah, I.
• 55:55
  Do he is a honky terrorist? A fantasy hockey terrorist,
• 55:59
  alright. #3. Nice at #3 we've got Brendan
• 56:03
  Dillon of the New Jersey Devils, that was a good one.
• 56:05
  Another four-game week he's averaging a shot 2.4, hits 1.9
• 56:09
  blocks. He also had like two goals in
• 56:10
  those last three games. Don't expect that to continue.
• 56:13
  It's so funny seeing the transaction trends on Yahoo and
• 56:16
  you see a guy like Dylan put up a goal in two straight games and
• 56:18
  he's like the most added person and I'm like, do you guys?
• 56:21
  Just think that this is random like defensive defensive
• 56:24
  defensemen just now going to become prime like Alex Ovechkin
• 56:27
  because he scored two goals. Like you know you got you gotta
• 56:29
  use the logic like he didn't get any deployment improvement.
• 56:32
  It was just that happens every NHL player will eventually score
• 56:35
  a goal. Even Scott Gomez that one year
• 56:36
  still scored a goal. You know what a disaster.
• 56:41
  Look, it'll happen. So anyways, yeah, don't expect
• 56:43
  the offence to continue. But again, in terms of a plug in
• 56:45
  and get a couple shots, hits and blocks, he solid for that.
• 56:49
  Yeah, well said. He's got two first names like
• 56:52
  Ricky Bobby and. He wants to go fast.
• 56:56
  Exactly. Exactly.
• 56:57
  I think, I think it's definitely when it comes to Bangor
• 57:01
  defensemen that you're trying to stream, it's definitely one of
• 57:04
  those things that you just kind of you pick them up and you drop
• 57:08
  them at the end of the week when they're unless of course, they
• 57:10
  have another four-game week, whatever.
• 57:11
  But nothing special about either Sealer or Dylan.
• 57:15
  Sorry to their families for yes. Other than to their loved ones,
• 57:21
  you know not. Exactly.
• 57:22
  No, I'm sure they're great guys, but yeah.
• 57:26
  But OK, yeah, go for it at. #2 We've got Sean Walker of the
• 57:32
  Carolina Hurricanes 2.1 shots, 2.4 hits, 1.7 blocks per game.
• 57:37
  But what makes this one a little more interesting than the others
• 57:39
  is that with the Gosta spare injury and the Country Miller
• 57:42
  injury, Sean Walker was the gun power play 1 Jakey.
• 57:45
  I'm sorry Nikisha's not getting power Play one this year if.
• 57:47
  If you if they lose both those guys and and and Slavens injured
• 57:51
  too and they just have like no NHL defensemen and Nikitin still
• 57:54
  not getting that power play one spot.
• 57:56
  It's not going to. Been, but that's fine.
• 57:58
  He's still sick at bangers so so and he's still putting up points
• 58:00
  at even strength. But anyways, back to Sean
• 58:02
  Walker. He's got that power play for
• 58:03
  now. It's gonna be very brief.
• 58:05
  Both Miller and Gosta spare should be back in the next week
• 58:08
  or two, but until then, you know it's a banger with some
• 58:11
  PowerPoint upside very rare to find one of these on the waiver
• 58:13
  wire. So a very good stream for the
• 58:15
  week. I just like don't get how rod.
• 58:19
  As approaches. Like, no, but like it just like
• 58:22
  doesn't make any sense. Like Sean Walker is actually
• 58:24
  like a pretty fairly decent IRL defenseman.
• 58:29
  Yeah. So like obviously that's.
• 58:31
  Doesn't have an offensive bone in his body though.
• 58:33
  Yeah, this makes sense. Doesn't make sense.
• 58:36
  You import this like 6 foot 4 beach God from.
• 58:38
  The depths of Russian. And next thing you freaking
• 58:43
  know. Sorry what?
• 58:45
  Freaking not a swear word, but next thing you know I I'm just
• 58:49
  like like why? Why not use this talent on your
• 58:53
  team? Like I don't get it like.
• 58:56
  I mean, look, Technical's line for power play too, so I'm.
• 58:58
  Right there with you. No, that's like a true, true
• 59:02
  question mark disaster situation.
• 59:04
  Like they must hate each other. But Nikisha.
• 59:07
  Hasn't done anything yet. He can't even speak English.
• 59:10
  They're both Russian. Oh my God, there we go.
• 59:13
  Wow, we were. You're onto something.
• 59:18
  OK, OK, maybe we, huh? Maybe.
• 59:22
  We like learn English and then you could be power play.
• 59:24
  One exactly you watch. Me actually.
• 59:27
  Nice. Actually it's.
• 59:30
  A Miracle on Ice. What's wrong with you?
• 59:32
  OK, anybody in the discord who like, can you just like, please
• 59:35
  encourage both Kevin and Josh to watch Miracle on Ice?
• 59:37
  Because like, I'm trying and it's just not working and it's
• 59:40
  the best movie ever. So maybe I'll make Eva watch it
• 59:42
  with me tonight. We'll see.
• 59:44
  Please do. You're gonna love it On crime.
• 59:45
  Yeah, it's. Amazing.
• 59:46
  OK, I will say though, actually funny that I mentioned that the
• 59:51
  English, but I saw one of the beat reporters or whatever
• 59:54
  trying to like hypothesize why Nikisha didn't get put on Power
• 59:57
  play 1 and they were like, he doesn't speak English.
• 1:00:00
  And you know what? When you're on the ice.
• 1:00:01
  You need to communicate and like yell out, you know, like.
• 1:00:03
  Pass it to me so I can best of. Whatever, you know, like, so I
• 1:00:06
  don't know, that could be just BS, but who knows?
• 1:00:09
  All that to be said, Sean Walker, interesting pick up for
• 1:00:11
  the week. He's not gonna keep power play
• 1:00:12
  one once either of Miller or Gosser come back, but he's got
• 1:00:15
  the back hats. So with a little bit of upside.
• 1:00:18
  I think at this rate if Rod had Kucherov, Ovechkin, Kaprizov and
• 1:00:25
  like like, you know, Tretiak and Nets and.
• 1:00:30
  Like, you know, like, yeah. Like insert 2 amazing Russian
• 1:00:34
  defensemen here. I'm blanking Andre Markov and
• 1:00:36
  like I don't know someone. Else yeah.
• 1:00:39
  He would just not feel the power play 1.
• 1:00:41
  That's what he would. Be like I decline the power
• 1:00:45
  play. Exactly.
• 1:00:47
  Alright, let's forget the goal and regroup.
• 1:00:49
  Exactly. We figured it out, Josh, after
• 1:00:53
  all these years. He'll actually call a.
• 1:00:56
  The challenge, even though there's been no goal scored,
• 1:00:58
  just so they can take a delayed game penalty and make it 4 on 4.
• 1:01:01
  Exactly. Yeah, that's it.
• 1:01:04
  There's something going on here. I think we're fine.
• 1:01:06
  Yeah, we finally discovered it. Sorry, Hurricanes fans all.
• 1:01:10
  Right. Number one.
• 1:01:12
  Nice at #1 For our bangers we've got Jacob Trouba.
• 1:01:16
  He's back baby. One shot 3.1, hits 2.4 blocks
• 1:01:20
  per game with some random offence.
• 1:01:21
  Again, don't expect it to last, but it's fun when these guys get
• 1:01:25
  you points here and there. You know, maybe his demise was
• 1:01:28
  greatly exaggerated because he as recently as two years ago was
• 1:01:33
  one of the top bangers defensemen out there.
• 1:01:35
  Last year he had a bit of an off year.
• 1:01:37
  That was the year I drafted him obviously.
• 1:01:38
  And and now he seems to be back in his hitting and blocking
• 1:01:42
  ways. So yeah, great pick up.
• 1:01:45
  They have the two off nights this coming week so definitely a
• 1:01:48
  solid 1. For sure.
• 1:01:49
  I mean, like if this is somewhat of a resurgence to Jacob Trouba
• 1:01:54
  of old, like there were there were times where he was like a
• 1:01:57
  top five round pick in our league.
• 1:01:59
  He was he. Really puts up the back ends.
• 1:02:02
  Yeah, and like, for a defenseman to go that high with 0 offensive
• 1:02:06
  potential, never power play one, just shows like, OK, there's
• 1:02:10
  something here. What's most striking to me.
• 1:02:12
  OK, his most recent game that he played at the time of this
• 1:02:16
  recording, 28 minutes. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 1:02:19
  If he can do that like period and somewhat relatively
• 1:02:25
  consistently even 25 plus like there will be production there.
• 1:02:30
  Yeah. For sure, The Sims are probably
• 1:02:32
  not part of his game anymore. That's fine.
• 1:02:35
  Because when he randomly get you like A5 PIM game where he does
• 1:02:38
  something stupid and get some major or something like that or
• 1:02:40
  gets in a fight, you know, yeah, it'll come.
• 1:02:43
  Yeah, that's, that's fair. I mean, it's just like at one
• 1:02:45
  point it was just ridiculous. Like it was all he.
• 1:02:48
  Doesn't have a pimp this whole year.
• 1:02:49
  Yet I know it's crazy. So, so yeah, I mean for for his
• 1:02:53
  opponents. I do hope that he doesn't do
• 1:02:56
  that because it seemed mean, but but for fantasy, obviously it
• 1:03:01
  pays off. Just just this is really good.
• 1:03:04
  Like this is a really great, great option.
• 1:03:06
  And with the two off nights, I mean, if he gets the minute,
• 1:03:10
  man, it's crazy. Yeah, all right, all right.
• 1:03:13
  Our top three skater pickups for the week are Dmitri Baranov,
• 1:03:17
  Will Smith and Emil Heinemann. We'll check back next week to
• 1:03:21
  see how those guys do. Moving on to our.
• 1:03:24
  Goalies. One moment I know I said I'd
• 1:03:26
  rather Ecklund and that was that was for season.
• 1:03:30
  So I just wanna, yeah, correct the record there to say that I
• 1:03:33
  think that his, like his deployment is more reliable, but
• 1:03:35
  Smith is currently playing with. Celebrity, That's it.
• 1:03:37
  That's exactly why I put Smith over account just for this
• 1:03:39
  specific week because he currently has the deployment.
• 1:03:41
  But I fully agree with what you're saying.
• 1:03:43
  All right, let's go back to the goalies.
• 1:03:45
  So let's start with our quantity goalies.
• 1:03:47
  These are the ones who are going to get at least two starts for
• 1:03:49
  you. So at #3 we've got Akira.
• 1:03:53
  Akira. Do it.
• 1:03:56
  I love that. Kira Ashmead of the Vegas Golden
• 1:03:58
  Knights. Aiden Hill got injured and is
• 1:04:01
  week to week, and Carter Hart got signed, but he's ineligible,
• 1:04:05
  ineligible to play until December 1st, which means Akira
• 1:04:08
  Schmid is your biggest Golden Knights starting goalie for the
• 1:04:10
  next month. So yeah, exactly.
• 1:04:15
  So they play, they don't have the best schedule next week.
• 1:04:17
  They only have two games and against Carolina and Colorado.
• 1:04:20
  So it's going to be rough. But you know what?
• 1:04:23
  It's still Vegas. If anyone could compete with
• 1:04:25
  those two teams, it's Vegas who are playing amazing hockey,
• 1:04:27
  unsurprisingly, and Akira is gonna be the guy.
• 1:04:30
  So definitely good for quantity of starts and should be decent
• 1:04:33
  for quality, at least in terms of wins.
• 1:04:36
  Do you know if both those games are home?
• 1:04:39
  One the Carolinas away and Colorado's at home.
• 1:04:42
  OK, OK. I mean, look at this.
• 1:04:45
  This is horrible matchups. Like, let's be real.
• 1:04:48
  Yeah, it's OK. At the end of the day, it's like
• 1:04:50
  you're like you said. I mean, if there's one team that
• 1:04:53
  can compete with these other two studs, like Vegas could be a
• 1:04:56
  president was gonna say a president's choice.
• 1:04:59
  No Presidents trophy winner. No, you will not be able to find
• 1:05:03
  the Vegas Golden Knights in your local supermarket.
• 1:05:06
  Or maybe you. Can, but it doesn't look in
• 1:05:07
  Vegas. Exactly.
• 1:05:10
  But yeah, I know that this is this is an amazing team.
• 1:05:13
  And I still remember that one time you stream Schmid like 3
• 1:05:16
  years ago and how happy you were when he had an amazing game like
• 1:05:20
  speed. Yeah, real, real difference from
• 1:05:23
  your number today. So yeah, exactly.
• 1:05:27
  Yeah. All right, number.
• 1:05:29
  Two, we could, yeah. I think we could have a group
• 1:05:31
  number one and two together because they are on the same
• 1:05:35
  team and it is Jet grieves and Elvis Presley skins.
• 1:05:38
  They are splitting starts. They're going back and forth
• 1:05:40
  right now and Columbus has four games next weeks, including
• 1:05:43
  including two back-to-back. So both are guaranteed to have
• 1:05:46
  two starts. They're playing Buffalo and
• 1:05:48
  Toronto and one back-to-back and Saint Louis and the Islanders on
• 1:05:51
  another back-to-back. Honestly, I'm not particularly
• 1:05:53
  scared of any of these matchups. None of them are like the Sharks
• 1:05:56
  are like one of those like home runs.
• 1:05:58
  But I mean, obviously Buffalo has been solid so far.
• 1:06:03
  Toronto's been pretty bad actually, even though they
• 1:06:04
  expect to be better. Saint Louis has been awful and
• 1:06:06
  Islanders I'm just never scared of in terms of goals against.
• 1:06:10
  So yeah, all these matchups are solid.
• 1:06:12
  Both these guys have been playing super, super well and
• 1:06:14
  they're splitting the starts, so both of them are gonna get you
• 1:06:16
  the quantity and should be decent quality as well.
• 1:06:19
  So Lewis is an absolute, absolute bleep storm right now.
• 1:06:23
  Like. You had the number 2.
• 1:06:24
  Yeah, yeah, this is abysmal. And Toronto and Buffalo are both
• 1:06:29
  beatable and I just think that the Columbus is a simply better
• 1:06:31
  team than the Islanders. So all these other Toronto and
• 1:06:35
  Saint Louis are on paper the scarier matchups and Columbus
• 1:06:38
  could easily win them given how things are shaking up especially
• 1:06:42
  look like. I really don't know what's going
• 1:06:43
  on with Toronto goaltending. It's still growing pains.
• 1:06:46
  Without ones, yeah. So yeah, I mean, I wouldn't be
• 1:06:49
  surprised if Columbus at least competes in all these games.
• 1:06:52
  Yeah, and I think of these two out prefer to have Grieves, but
• 1:06:56
  Grieves is a lot higher rostered and Riley has been just as good
• 1:06:59
  as him to start the year honestly.
• 1:07:01
  So Redskins is very low roster. So if Greece is taken in your
• 1:07:04
  league and need a multiple start goalie.
• 1:07:06
  I mean Redskins is doing the exact same thing as Grieves
• 1:07:08
  easily. They're literally alternating
• 1:07:10
  starts and they're both putting up great performances.
• 1:07:12
  So I think people just believe in grieves more over the long
• 1:07:16
  term, which I agree with, but for now merely has is just as
• 1:07:19
  good. Yeah, well, they're doing the
• 1:07:21
  back-to-back, I mean. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:07:23
  Like it's a popular thing these days.
• 1:07:25
  I don't necessarily agree with it, but hey, it's.
• 1:07:27
  Happening. Alright, let's go to our quality
• 1:07:30
  goal. These are goals.
• 1:07:31
  We're gonna get you one good match up.
• 1:07:33
  So we'll start with Levi Merlin of the Ottawa Senators.
• 1:07:37
  I know, I know the Ottawa Senators have sucked so far, but
• 1:07:40
  they're playing against Boston and Chicago.
• 1:07:41
  Neither 1 is a team on particularly worried about and
• 1:07:45
  Marilyn is going to get one of those starts.
• 1:07:46
  Maryland has been good in the past and maybe Ottawa should
• 1:07:50
  like Ottawa should be turning it around.
• 1:07:51
  Obviously the loss of Brady Chuck is massive, but I'm still
• 1:07:54
  think they have it in them to put up a couple of solid
• 1:07:56
  performances. I concur this is a good pick and
• 1:08:00
  they can beat either of these teams.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah. All right, next one.
• 1:08:05
  I know you wanted to get to this one.
• 1:08:07
  Yeah, because I wanna cry. Yeah, because I just dropped
• 1:08:10
  this guy in our league. Because I had to do it for
• 1:08:12
  Dobish, because I think it was so good.
• 1:08:15
  I think so, too, because I think that Kara, because the Canadians
• 1:08:19
  are a lot better than the Pittsburgh Penguins, Whose way
• 1:08:24
  better goalie is Arthur Sheloves over Jerry.
• 1:08:27
  I think Jerry's been decent to start.
• 1:08:29
  Yeah, he has. And like they're.
• 1:08:31
  They're also doing the splitting start thing.
• 1:08:34
  Yeah, which is super annoying and like anyway, whatever, but I
• 1:08:38
  think that she loves is actually a very solid IRL goalie and this
• 1:08:41
  Pittsburgh team is winning like they.
• 1:08:43
  Are it's actually crazy. It baffles me, but I'm not
• 1:08:46
  complaining cuz I have Crosby and he's just killing it.
• 1:08:49
  I don't know how this guy doesn't age but he ages like
• 1:08:51
  wine. But anyways, they have a
• 1:08:52
  back-to-back of Saint Louis and Philly again, two teams I am not
• 1:08:55
  scared about at all. I love She Loves Us A as a spot
• 1:08:59
  pick up here this week because it's going to be A.
• 1:09:01
  I think it's a really good game for him.
• 1:09:02
  Yeah, for sure. And Saint Louis once again
• 1:09:05
  sucks. So.
• 1:09:06
  Right, for now. For now, they're gonna turn
• 1:09:08
  around. For now, it's awful.
• 1:09:09
  So they could easily win both these games.
• 1:09:12
  Have you noticed how like every time they've been exciting over
• 1:09:14
  the past five years, they the year they won the Stanley Cup
• 1:09:17
  and last year, they start off absolutely terribly and then at
• 1:09:21
  some point in the season, either over winter break or they hire a
• 1:09:24
  new coach or whatever, they just turn it around and go on a crazy
• 1:09:26
  run. Yeah, So I think that's just
• 1:09:28
  what they do. So they're crazy run could still
• 1:09:30
  come. They've done it.
• 1:09:31
  They did last year. They did it the year they won
• 1:09:32
  the Cup. But you know you gotta lose a
• 1:09:35
  bunch before you could turn it around, right?
• 1:09:37
  I guess. That's why they call it the
• 1:09:38
  Blues. Exactly.
• 1:09:41
  But I'm. Alright, numero Uno.
• 1:09:47
  Number one, we've got Charlie Lindgren of the Washington
• 1:09:51
  Capitals. They've got a back-to-back of
• 1:09:53
  the Islanders in Buffalo again, two teams I'm not too worried
• 1:09:56
  about. And the Caps seem like they're
• 1:09:58
  saying to me that their demise was greatly exaggerated because
• 1:10:01
  they're playing super well to start the year.
• 1:10:03
  I'm still not buying it. But you know what?
• 1:10:05
  Look, I never said they were gonna drop out of the playoffs.
• 1:10:07
  I just said they were gonna be the Presidents Trophy winner or
• 1:10:09
  runner up again or best in the East or whatever they did last
• 1:10:12
  year. So I'm sticking to it, but they
• 1:10:14
  are after a really hot start and Lingering is a really solid
• 1:10:16
  goalie. He played, I think he played in
• 1:10:18
  the second game recently, but his first game was a 35 save
• 1:10:21
  shutout. So, you know, I like him a lot
• 1:10:23
  as a spot. Start here and there.
• 1:10:25
  Is this the best division right now?
• 1:10:28
  Like they're so. Natural young.
• 1:10:30
  Like I. Mean, I mean, the Atlantics we
• 1:10:32
  thought was gonna be so strong and is kind of a bleep show,
• 1:10:35
  yeah. Wide.
• 1:10:36
  Open wide open, the Atlantic, like the Red Wings, could
• 1:10:39
  definitely make the playoffs and.
• 1:10:41
  Like I think it would be so fun if it was like Habs, Red Wings,
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  Buffalo, that would be so fun. It would be awesome.
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  Which is where the standings are reporting and but look at this
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  like the Metropolitan Division. I have no clue how this is gonna
• 1:10:54
  shake out. I mean, I'm pretty sure the
• 1:10:56
  Islanders are not gonna be there.
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  Even. Billy are not gonna, are not
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  gonna make it. I could tell you.
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  That. Yeah, yeah.
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  And the others though, I mean Caroline is such a a.
• 1:11:06
  While he's away and they're making it, New Jersey's making
• 1:11:09
  it for sure. Washington it's hard to bet
• 1:11:12
  against them with how they're playing, but then you look at
• 1:11:14
  Pittsburgh, you look at Columbus, they're both killing
• 1:11:16
  it too. The Rangers, who knows what's
• 1:11:18
  going on with them. You know, I I thought they we
• 1:11:20
  all thought they were gonna bounce back and they they're
• 1:11:22
  struggling hard right now. I still do think that the
• 1:11:24
  injuries in the preseason are we're holding them back and I
• 1:11:27
  think Sullivan still getting used to how the best line
• 1:11:29
  combinations whatever the trocheck injury.
• 1:11:31
  No need to dive into that. All that we said yes, I think
• 1:11:33
  the Metro is one of the strongest divisions right now
• 1:11:35
  and it's a very entertaining to watch.
• 1:11:37
  Yeah, exactly, exactly. So yeah, thank you to everybody
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  who's absolutely fine once again.
• 1:11:58
  I was gonna say you could just see that to him.
• 1:12:00
  What happened? Are you done recording when you
• 1:12:02
  go to your basement? This is not real, Josh.
• 1:12:06
  Enough with the Hooligan 30. My goodness.
• 1:12:10
  Also, tell Morgan Riley I say hi to you.
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• 1:12:22
  Hey, you know what, maybe Lol will solve that power place.
• 1:12:25
  Maybe doing them a favor. He's looking real good actually.
• 1:12:28
  So it's looking real good. But yeah, so thank you to
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  Tomorrow, our Week 4 Buy Low Sell High is going to drop.
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  Very, very fun. I'm really excited about that
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  one. So yeah, me too.
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  Whoa. I did it.
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  For Kevin Nice. Because he would probably do
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  that sound. Gone, but never forgotten.
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  Yeah.