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Barbara Bound Bound Banger Management Fantasy Hockey
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podcast. Whoo, whoo, whoo whoo.
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OK, somebody, someone had no case on his team last night.
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Someone I know Kates on his team last.
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Night exactly. Close attention to step
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directions. Optional roller coaster.
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I kept texting Kevin and Josh. I was like, wow, this Philly
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game, I also have type it on my team.
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Things were going really well and I was like, Oh my God, yes,
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no Kates. And then about 1/2 an hour later
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Kevin's like, oh, I was expecting something crazy.
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He didn't do anything. It was like, Oh my God, no way.
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They took his goal away and then I saw it again.
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I was like, wait, it's there. And then they took it away
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again. And then finally this afternoon.
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Snap snap, snap, snap. It was just I.
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Don't know the toll that 4 stat corrections can have on an end,
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yeah. Well, your office friends out
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there, did you get the reference or no?
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I actually didn't, but I with all the office references we
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keep making I really need to just binge.
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That should be like watching Office.
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I have seen the office but once. Michael gets a vasectomy that he
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gets the vasectomy reversed. When he gets another one.
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Again. You don't wanna pull the four of
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us, he says. Oh.
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My God. Anyways, the people are here for
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hockey. Yes, yeah, yes.
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Welcome in one and all Two, Banger Management, the Fantasy
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Hockey podcast with Jake, Josh and Kevin.
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I'm related because of Noah Cates.
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How are you guys doing? All might want to talk about is
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dying. I've lost my team's relatively
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healthy. I just.
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Been some troll check. I've lost Josh Norris, I've lost
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Alexander Romanov, I've lost Brock Besser.
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I can keep going but. No, that was the end of the
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list, but. Phillip Heidel, who I had who
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had to stream because Josh Norris was hurt, is that also
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hurt? OK.
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But do you have the displeasure of owning Andre, switching off
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on your team? Because I would.
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I would wait. I would wager that how I feel
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seeing his dumb face on my roster every day is worse than
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how you feel looking. At all the dumb faces on my IR,
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yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, look, if you're able to weather the storm, Kevin,
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though, your your team is scary after so you got.
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Almost 4 Josh with all those names being out like lost 57 so
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wait until I get some of my healthy guys back.
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Yeah, they're not opponents anymore and you're back to being
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friends again. It's going to be interesting
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when I play. You guys don't know when that's
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coming up first. But now with Josh and I played
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each other is just like Battle of the Depress.
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Like it's just like everything, everything goes wrong.
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And it's like whose team has more things going wrong for them
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than the other? Like that's the competition.
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Yeah, and. Then I also had like 5 injuries
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last week, like they weren't as high stakes as yours but like it
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was my only guys like performing well.
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Gosh was like oh Dang my 15 throughout the picture.
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Got the spare Mr. Babe meanwhile.
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I'm you mean the best defence in the league?
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Yeah. Oh yeah.
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So we're definitely going to dive into him on our Week 3 News
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and Updates episode. That's what we're doing this
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episode. Yeah, I felt like a good
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opportunity to. Segue.
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Surprise surprise if you haven't read the title.
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Yes, also some would you rathers like Kevin specialty if y'all
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are avid listeners to the anger management fantasy.
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Hockey podcast today are spicy spicy, so stay tuned until the
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very end because. Josh and I don't look at these
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before. We're going to be very
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surprised. I'm excited.
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Yeah. And before we dive in, sorry.
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I hope I could handle this space.
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Me too, me too. So yeah, you can find us on
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Spotify, Apple podcast, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Rate US five stars. If you like what you hear, you
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could see the link tree, which has all the links to the socials
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in the podcast description. Definitely come join the
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Discord. We've there's been dozens of
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people who joined recently. Welcomed.
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There, Yeah, it's really, really nice to engage with the
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community and speak to everybody.
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That was an interesting development.
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Reference the either of you see. That I have lost the
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development. That that's an amazing show
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though like the first the. First bias is a is a never nude
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and he's like, there's dozens of us anyways, you can keep going.
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But yeah, so definitely join the Discord community.
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It's a really great way to engage with us.
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And we're just happy it's growing and we have all of you
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to talk to there. And you know, Josh can talk
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about the depression of his team and you guys can vent to us, but
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we are also helping each other with pickups and such throughout
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the year, trade discussions and all that.
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It's a really, really great place.
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So come on in. One in the waters.
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Water. We have candy.
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Yeah, the first time Kevin introduced it, you said get in
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wall, it's hot, so get in wallet.
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Get into wallets and nice room temperature before it gets too
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hot. There you.
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Go perfect. Alright, so we get into some
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tidbits. Feel like 5 minutes.
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We haven't talked about anything.
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OK. We budget some time for
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lollygagging, but this was excessive, so thank you to
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everybody for sticking around. Let's dive.
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In right this one I should have said last week and I'm so
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embarrassed I didn't mention it, but this is massive, massive
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news. Especially if you're a half span
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lane. Hudson, our Lord and savior has
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signed an 8 * 8.85 mil contract extension.
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What a master class by Kent, Hughes and Hughes we trust.
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This is awesome. Very exciting.
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If ever there was a doubt that Hudson was going to be P1, not
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that there was, but you know, he followed that money.
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I know Dobson's making more, but still.
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This is I saw like all the non Habs fans kind of like poo poo
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on this being like, Oh my God, overpaying the kid, whatever.
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And then like all the Habs fans are just like so thrilled
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because of what this contract means.
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Like do we offer it? Forget that like Jackson Lacombe
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and Luke Hughes gonna say more money than.
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This. Yeah.
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And less than those two guys, yeah.
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So Hudson is without a shadow of a doubt better than both of
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those players as of right this moment.
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Yeah, and it's getting paid less.
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So I just think this is a phenomenal contract.
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If you look at, you know, people that analyze contracts and stuff
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like this is they're saying this is one of the best value
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contracts in the whole league and how it's going to age.
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So beautiful work by Ken Hughes. And I think this just honestly
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takes some pressure off of Lane Hudson that to fight the
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contract has done is have to worry about that.
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I think he just focus on what's on on the ice and I expect good.
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Thanks. Yeah, it's a absolute master
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class. As you said, everybody should be
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excited about this and the Dopson making more money of it
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all has nothing to do with the power play one that's gonna be
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Hudson Spot. It's just a great way to build
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an amazing foundation for years to come for the hubs.
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And Dobson, Hudson and Matheson is a really good duo.
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Pairing, yeah, No, they're looking good this year.
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Very exciting. Time how was are looking good
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this year. The less bright.
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Spots Patrick Liney is day-to-day with a lower body
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injury. No surprise there.
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I don't know about you guys, but I think his days as a Canadian
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are very numbered. This was for sure his last year.
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I think if you can't even stay healthy, it's a Gigi.
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I just think that like, unfortunately I don't see us
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getting any value in return at the deadline.
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That's it. Like we'll see if someone will
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take him. We might have to pay even to get
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rid of him it I mean it. Obviously, we're gonna pay.
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This year, well, it depends. Let's say they're a really good
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spot and they want that money to make up to get someone at the
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deadline to make a push this year.
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You can see them paying like paying like a third or something
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just to offload that contract to a bottom feeder and then use
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that cap space to to get another rental.
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If you were right. Well, that's not a rental,
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that's a long term, you know, 8 more years.
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But but yeah, no, it's, it's definitely I think JQ was the
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highest online going into the season.
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And I think I've never, I don't know if you're if you're ready
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to, I don't know if you ready to call it quits on him.
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I am. I have no interest in him in
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fantasy this year anymore. And yeah, I don't know, you
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think? I've never owned one in fantasy.
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Yeah, I actually did drop them in a points league, in a bangers
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league. There was no real upside that I
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saw. Obviously not going to say that
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it was a good pick at value and I get that much, but
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realistically he's a drop in almost every league format.
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The IRL ramifications though, He simply just does not perform
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well under pressure anymore. He was amazing in the preseason.
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And he's just slow. He's not the same guy anymore.
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Yeah, it's not good for He's like a detriment 5V5 and then on
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the power play we just don't need him so.
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Absolutely, Yeah. So that's it.
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It it does. The the biggest thing with this
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point, though, is I think it opens up a lot of interesting
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doors for what they're gonna do with the Lions.
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Kevin has said in the past that he doesn't think love cost.
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He's staying power play 1. And after watching Demon Doll
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play last night, I get it. He's just so good.
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Yeah, but I just think that Bulldog gets bumped over Slough,
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you're saying? Yeah, I mean it was more like if
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we're giving Line a spot there and they wanna keep Line A
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there, the only other guy that can get bumped for Demidov is
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Slough. That would not be shocked if
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that was that was what they did. Now that there's an opening,
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maybe it's Bolduc tickets they gets bumped, but I mean either
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way, I think, I mean I've makes a way to keep one in the short.
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Term yeah that Demidov Hudson connection is nuts.
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I don't know if you guys watched the game last night, but
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obviously one of them needs to figure out when to shoot right.
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They passed like one too many times on like there were a few
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times but they were just zipping it back and forth.
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Super fun to watch. But anyway, something to keep an
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eye out on. But definitely if you have line
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A and you don't have an IR plus spot to stash him, do not be
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worried to drop him. I mean, he's probably on your
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roster as if you're listening to this.
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She's already here so. Yeah, you could even just drop
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them and pick up someone else power plus like it's not Yeah,
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it should not be owned for us this.
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Yeah, this next one's pretty consequential, though.
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Yeah. So moving on to another mark
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version of an team, we've got Monza Kopitar of the LA Kings is
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out week to week with a foot entry, but he is traveling with
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the team. So that's a good sign that it's
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not going to be too long of a timeline.
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And another note from that team is Corey Perry is healthy and
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ready to make his season debut. One Corey Perry.
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That's it exactly, taking copies.
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So it was Trevor Moore who had cope with our spot on P1 and now
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that Perry is back, it seems that he's taken that from more
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again. I don't think Kopitar is out
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long, long term, so this is more of a streaming thing than a long
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term thing. But Perry's been a solid net
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front guy even in his old age, you know, so it's gonna be
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interesting to see how he drags them to the Cup final for a loss
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this year. Yeah, bed right now on the kings
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that make the final. It's it's written in the stars.
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Yeah, but the NHL script writers have already put it down in the
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record books. Main thing for me though is a
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few things that we'll touch on them quickly.
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The fact that Kopitar out and they straight up with Perry
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there who has not played yet this season just shows how
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little faith they have in any defenseman running this.
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Power, yes that's big. So Clark and Dowdy.
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At this point I have 0 hopes of them ever getting Barclay one
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this year which is crazy. I see them.
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It's like, Oh my God, wait, a power play quarterback on
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waivers psych like, no, this is just it's it's not, it's not
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happening. Clark is supposed to be a power
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play guy like that was. His I don't get why they're.
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Not being offensive, kind of like specialist, not not making
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his way there. So I think someone in the next
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year or two on the Kings, like management, is gonna get fired
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and they're gonna put Clark on power, play one once they, you
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know, get rid of whoever's idea it is to keep him from there.
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Either that or they're gonna trade him, which would be really
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dumb, but they've made some really dumb moves this
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offseason. So we'll see if they keep that
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trend going or if they rate the ship.
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So the other note is biofuel gets bumped up to line 1 centre
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between Fiala and Kempe which is a big deal deployment wise.
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Like they have a guy ready to take a jump and now he's getting
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the opportunity. So I think this is going to be a
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lot of responsibility for biofuel, but we should see his
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points take up and also more category coverage technically,
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because I feel he's just going on the.
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Yeah. I wonder if like if I feel kind
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of runs with this and kills it over the next week or two that
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Kopitar is out and then you see Chris close to returning.
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I feel like he could be a great salary.
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Not that he's not gonna be good this year.
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I think he's gonna be really good this year, but he might
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perform at a level higher than what he's going to do with while
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costars out and he's the the. So that's something to keep an
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eye on if you have. Definitely but also right now in
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face off win leagues too like cuz he's winger eligible.
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I think it's really cool, so. For sure, Yeah, No, like I said,
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I don't think he's gonna be like, I think he's still gonna
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be good all year, but he might hit another gear while Kopitar
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is out, in which case you can maybe get an interesting trade
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going there. So you think when Copper is back
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he's logged into power play one or sorry to line one right away?
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, they wanna have taken faceoffs.
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They're not gonna they're gonna like this computers last year.
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He's like announced it already. I know they're doing a whole
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passing of the torch thing, but you saw in Costar was healthy
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that he had line 1 and I don't see why like a two week absence
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is gonna be enough to give Byfield that spot.
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It depends how good he is. That's what I think.
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I'm not. Saying stars there, but I think
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we need to. Think you could tell people that
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though. If he does really well, you can
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sell someone trading with being like, no, he's doing so well
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there's no way he gets bumped down and you can sell them on
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that hype. Yeah, yeah.
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But I was gonna say like Corey Perry in a deeply any interest
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at all or is it more of a way than see approach or you trying
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to be proactive on this? No, this isn't a this is day.
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Oh, if I miss out on it like that, my seasons done like this
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is a very much first of all, he loses all value.
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The second gets bumped off power play 1.
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So that's the first thing. And even on power play one, he's
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not gonna be that amazing. I mean, we saw some stretches, I
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think of him on the Oilers getting some power play time and
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that's like the best power play. So no, I mean I'm happy to take
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him as a stream this week. If it fits in your schedule and
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you need a guy who can get you some power play points, then I'm
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happy to do that. But I'm not rushing to the
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waiver wire to pay like however much fab or to be the first one
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to grab him. If you miss out on him, you're
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not gonna mind in like a week. Yeah.
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He wasn't about roster able all year on Edmonton last year where
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there's a lot more offensive star power, so I'm not excited
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about that. Yeah.
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And right now he's Line 4, Power Play 1, so there's nothing
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really going there, yeah. We should transition to the
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goalie talk though. Cuz yeah, also talking about the
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Kings, we've got Darcy Kemper healthy and back in the lineup.
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I know they're playing tonight. I'm not sure if he's starting or
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backing up, but he's definitely dressing.
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So pretty much by the time this episode is out, he will be
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having started his first game or about to start his first game
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back from injury. I mentioned him as a Bilo last
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week and that was another time we kind of got burnt by our
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scheduling because that was before the before still.
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Buggered he was still, but he was.
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Still a Bilo and honestly the entry I think made him even more
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like better buy low targets. You could have maybe paid less
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for him. So I think the below window is
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closing for all the reasons I mentioned on that episode.
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I think he's gonna do a lot better than how he started off
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the season and especially they're getting some guys
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healthy. I think he might still be on
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like a bit of a slow start with Kopitar, so you might still have
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a bit more time to buy low on him.
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But once they get their health, they're injured guys back.
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Then I think he's gonna go back to being A, at the very least
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the top 15, well, if not a top 10 goalie.
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So I give you something. 'S going on with LA, yeah, yeah.
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For. Sure for temper because I feel
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people are worried about the first early games and then he
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did miss time. So what are you willing to risk
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to get Kemper on your team? Would you give up Spencer night
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right now? Who's one of the hottest goals
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in the? League 100%.
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That's. Right.
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That is an amazing flip, actually.
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Not to spoil it, but on our mailbag episode I mentioned
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that. I'm gonna mention that.
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So that's the perfect flip, I think.
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What about, I mean, you mentioned swimming is one of
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your targets before. I think you'd still do that.
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What about Joey the Cord? I would take Kemper over
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discord. OK.
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Do you do you think right now you could slip mountain before
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Kemper and multiple looking like he's missing some starts?
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I think, I think mountain bows like looking very bad to start
16:13
the season, honestly. Dobish is looking like he might
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be able to steal some of those starts there.
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Yeah. So I don't think you can get
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Kemper from Montebello. What about the worst starting
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goalie in the league right now for fantasy?
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Linas Almark, do you think they could even?
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That's in the realm of. I think you can get that done.
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I'm honestly wondering which one, which team I think can
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bounce back more. And I think I believe in LA
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about being a better defensive team than Ottawa.
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I think it. Was yeah.
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The thing is, Ottawa's going to concede a lot of goals.
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Like, they're just super leaky until they figure that out.
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So yeah, having homework on their roster.
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I would take Kemper overall Mark and I think you can definitely
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get that done. Yeah, I just wouldn't really
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want to make that flip. It's almost so even, but the
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first. Few I'd rather have Jumper.
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Fantastic. I'd probably rather Kemper as
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well. Kemper is a great goalie and
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they're 1/3 and two record to start the season is definitely
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not where they're going to be at soon.
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I'd also try to flip Freddie. Yeah, if you could pull that.
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Off Yeah, let me go check this Kemper owner in my league and
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see if I can make that happen since I have Freddy with Josh.
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Interested in a Freddie Enders? And where did that lead you?
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Right back to me. Freddie Anderson plus for
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Kemper, plus Fetch. Does she really want to pay just
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to get switched off with you? No speech talk.
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OK, moving on. All right, we've got Jonathan
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Huberdeau. The Calgary Flames is healthy
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and bumped therapy off power play one.
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Sorry, Jakey. There goes the therapy hopes and
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dreams. But yeah, yeah, I mean,
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Huberdeau came back. He got a power play goal in his
17:45
first game and then went back to his regular zeros.
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So not not expecting much from him but I am playing him this
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week so pick him up as a. Stream very deeply.
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Huber does nice because it's it's still like we talked about
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before, like he's not he's not a category coverage guy, not 100
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point ceiling guy, but he's line 1 people wanted a Calgary team
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that does not score a lot of goals.
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So sometimes he'll be involved, sometimes you won't.
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It's just like very one-dimensional, but in your
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deep leagues, like there's still value in guys like that.
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But if you're in any kind of shallower league or like most 12
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team leagues is not relevant for your leagues.
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So. Yeah.
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Yeah, you gotta be in like an arch deep league in order to
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make that worth. It Jake's gonna run this joke
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arch deep into the ground. He's gonna win the Calder so.
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No, yeah, no, yeah. Yeah, we can move on.
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But basically just with this, I don't think anyone on Calgary is
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that interesting to own, except for maybe like Mackenzie Weegar.
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And even weaker started completely, very slowly.
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Yeah, that was an English sentence if you were curious.
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He. Yeah, goodbye, hello.
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And yes, Kadri as well, but even like I saw.
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Things and wolves. And Wolf saved them last year.
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They're they're so not good this year.
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Like he has to be an absolute stud game in and game out for
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them to be somewhat competitive and it's a bit unrealistic so.
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Yeah, well Speaking of goalies to our next one.
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Mackenzie Blackwood has returned injury and should make his first
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start of the season within the week.
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So our as a Wedgewood owner, Kevin, are you quaking in your
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boots? Not at all I picked up which was
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soon as our draft finished my The only goal is I drafted were
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and Joseph Wall as my zerg strategy I.
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Want, both of which dropped at this point.
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I was forced to drop both of them because my IR was too full
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of my star players. Yeah, I had to make room for
19:39
pretty good Chuck and Trocheck, so bye bye Joseph Allen UPL.
19:44
But then I right after the draft, I picked up Wedgewood and
19:46
I picked up Freddie Anderson, who went undrafted somehow.
19:49
So yeah, I've been rocking those and it's been quite fruitful for
19:53
my fantasy team thus far, which is nice because I'm missing a
19:56
lot of good players. Wedgewood, Honestly, I was
19:59
telling the guys off the pod right before we started, but
20:02
like I've consumed so much interview material and consumed.
20:06
So much wood. I've consumed so much Wedgewood.
20:12
I I feel like I am one with the pulse now and the team loves
20:17
this guy. He he is performing.
20:20
He is the best goalie in the league this season.
20:22
It's like it's not close right now in terms of like saves above
20:25
expect in terms of like big saves keeping the team in there
20:28
and the Avalanche look locked in like they look like if you had
20:32
to bet on a team right now to Stanley Cup is the Avalanche
20:34
without a doubt. So I I I feel like there are
20:38
going to be a little bit slow in terms of like shaking things up
20:42
right now because this guy has locker room like in his hand.
20:45
Like they they love they love him.
20:48
They only speak so highly of him.
20:50
And I'd be surprised if, you know, Blackwood comes back and
20:54
then gets all the stars except back to backs.
20:56
Like there's no way. Yeah, Chase owner.
21:00
I'm worried because I think that it could be more of a 5050
21:03
split, leaning towards Wedgewood having like the, you know, the I
21:09
would say he he has the, the trust right now.
21:12
No, the the trust, like the team has to get back to trust into
21:15
black. They're gonna give them games so
21:17
he can like, get back into shape, but if he falters early
21:20
on, like they're not messing around, like, did they want to
21:23
win games? 100%, I mean, I don't see any
21:27
world where a healthy Blackwood gets fewer starts than
21:30
Wedgewood. I think Blackwood's at least
21:32
getting you think it's a percent of the starts.
21:34
I don't think it's. Important Possible not.
21:37
Yeah, anything just always would start at this point.
21:40
Not being good, I don't see why they would walk around with
21:43
that. I believe, yeah, No, but I mean,
21:47
if, if Blackwood comes in and plays and plays like good, you
21:51
know, even if he doesn't play as well as Wedgewood is, if he's
21:54
playing good and they're getting wins, they're gonna keep giving
21:56
the starts to their starting goalie who they paid all that
21:58
money to. You gotta follow that money,
22:00
baby. And no, it's going.
22:02
To be a situation like he's playing insane hockey, he has
22:06
like a 916 every game this season except for.
22:08
One, But think about it this way.
22:10
Let's say they're obviously looking at playoffs in Stanley
22:13
Cup, right? Have to think who's gonna be our
22:16
goalie in the playoffs and you can't after two weeks, you know
22:21
what 5-6 games be like? Oh, we're gonna make our backup
22:24
the the goal we were playing in the playoffs because he's off to
22:26
such a hot start. Teams just don't do that.
22:28
That's not that's not gonna happen.
22:30
So they're gonna give Blackwood every chance to get into it and
22:33
be the goalie that he was last season because they need him to
22:36
be ready for the playoffs. They're not gonna go No team
22:38
splits goalies in the playoffs. Success with success.
22:40
So they need Blackwood to be ready for the playoffs.
22:43
If Blackwood plays terribly or gets injured, then they will
22:45
immediately go back to edge because he's been playing so
22:47
well. I'll give you that 100%.
22:49
But Black was gonna get every opportunity to succeed.
22:51
I don't know if it's every opportunity to succeed.
22:53
I feel like it'll be like obviously they when he's
22:56
healthy, they want him back and, and playing games, but I, I'm,
23:00
I'm really trying not to combat this with just like a, a bias
23:04
point of view because I have which one of my fantasy team,
23:06
But it's not like just a guy you're streaming while the the
23:10
backup is, is, is hurt and. Then no, no for sure.
23:12
Possibly. Result in whatever, right?
23:14
Like he's literally been elite. Like he's been the best.
23:17
Being a 6040 or a 5545 like I, I wouldn't be surprised if
23:20
Wedgwood still gets a solid amount of starts.
23:23
I just don't see it. I think it's extremely unlikely
23:25
that which would have becomes the 1A over Blackwood.
23:30
I think it's the wrong by the way, we should move on.
23:32
If that is the case, right, like Josh, if he starts 45% of the
23:37
games, you know of the remaining 76 games of the Avalanche had
23:40
this year, that's 34 starts, right?
23:44
Like that's still very. Very good.
23:46
Yeah, Yeah. That's.
23:47
Very good. Yeah, 100%.
23:50
No, he's still, he's not one of those guys like Kevin said that
23:53
you stream, it's like Jake Allen when Markstrom comes back,
23:56
right? Or you know, I mean, I don't
23:58
want to spoil a bunch of our news coming up, but it's not one
24:00
of those guys. Areas like the clear backup
24:02
who's just there because the starters injured and the second
24:04
starters healthy. You drop them like you wanna
24:06
wait and see what happens with Wedgewood.
24:08
And I could see him being a long term hold.
24:10
That being said, I just don't see him becoming the starter
24:12
over Blackwood. But who knows?
24:14
I haven't always been right about everything, just most
24:16
things. That is.
24:17
Important to remember. Yeah.
24:19
OK, let's move on to the next one now.
24:22
We're getting into all my teams news, but Shane Gostisbehere is
24:27
day-to-day with an injury. Breaking my heart because he was
24:30
off to such the unreal start this year and Andrew Miller had
24:34
the first shot at power play one while he's out.
24:37
He did not have a great game last game, just to be fair.
24:42
So I'd be interested to see. I don't think us be out long
24:45
term. They sent him back from the he
24:46
was on the road trip. They sent him back to Raleigh.
24:48
I think he should be back within a week or two.
24:50
But obviously, you know, we'll have to wait until we get more
24:52
information. But assuming it's a longer term
24:56
thing and not short-term, it'll be interesting to see if it's
24:58
Miller or if Nikitin could take the spot on power play.
25:02
I mean, he's been abuse. Yeah, absolutely be Nikishin and
25:06
that's not a bias thing. He Andre Miller is just not an
25:08
offensive defenseman and unlike I was saying when Kopitar comes
25:12
back, I think Byfield could stay on line one more so than you
25:16
guys. That's my belief here.
25:18
When Gossip Spears back, he's gonna go back to power play one.
25:21
He's a specialist when he does. That's barring.
25:24
And he's been. Success happens.
25:25
Yeah, unless it's some real crazy, crazy, insane run from
25:29
Nikisha. Where's my car level?
25:31
Not going to happen, but yeah, I do think that you can expect
25:34
some Nikitin exposure on power play one over the next little
25:36
bit. He's also been playing 1920
25:40
minutes a night, so this bumps him up to 2223 minutes a night.
25:43
Coupled with the fact that he's really decent shots, very good
25:47
hits and blocks, I'm very, very excited to be an occasion owner
25:50
now. And yeah, he looks great.
25:52
Yeah, I'd buy him if you could. Actually, that was a hard time
25:56
to buy because of like the more the optimism that's, you know,
25:59
surrounding, yeah, given the gossiper injury.
26:01
But like, listen, I'm first to say when I'm wrong and I was
26:03
wrong about Nikisha, like I was not.
26:05
I feel like it was like 3 or 4 weeks ago, like right before the
26:08
season started where I was kind of like being like not
26:09
interested in the kitchen. If he's like not playing any,
26:12
not playing any special teams and he's playing like 16 minutes
26:15
and there's just not enough to get any fantasy relevant
26:20
production. But he's already showing him
26:22
himself. Like in the middle of.
26:23
Doing exactly like the most of the time and is getting learning
26:26
more time already. So he he's proving to be like a
26:29
a fantastic pick in your in your fantasy league.
26:31
If you drafted him like at cost because he was going pretty
26:34
late. And now with the gossiper
26:36
injury, just obviously some upside.
26:38
The fact that they went to Kendra Miller first shows like
26:40
we gotta follow that money too, that we spoke about it in the
26:42
off season how Miller has a little bit to him where he can
26:47
play like big dog minutes, but he's not like a power play
26:49
specialist by any means. I would be like we we just
26:53
talked about Nikisha's value on P1, but like he's not there yet.
26:56
So obviously you have to monitor the situation.
26:59
We also just kind of made fun of people saying Miller was a must
27:03
add. And then by the grace of God
27:05
they get blessed with you one after it got.
27:08
But honestly, like even with P1, because of the fact that the
27:12
Gostisbehere entry is unclear whether it's even long term or
27:16
if it's short term, and because the fact that I wouldn't be
27:18
surprised in the kitchen gets probably one over Miller.
27:20
I'm still not picking Miller up. I know that like, I don't know
27:23
what you guys think about that, but I feel like they could be
27:25
like, you pick him up and then next game goes, this was back or
27:27
Nikisha's power play 1. And The thing is that even with
27:30
the power play, like first of all, Miller didn't have a good
27:33
game and wasn't didn't do that well with it.
27:34
But also the kings probably just sucks.
27:36
Like Rod is, he's a great coach and we know he's a bad fantasy
27:40
coach, but he's just he's just an awful power play coach.
27:43
Like ignoring the whole especially because obviously I'm
27:46
biased and whatever, but he's just they've been garbage at the
27:49
power play for years and they have enough talents to be good.
27:52
And I was, I do, I've been doing a lot of deep dives into what's
27:54
going on with the canes because I am switching off and ghost
27:57
donor. So, so I, I feel like I've got a
27:59
pulse like Kevin does with the, with the Wedgewood stuff.
28:02
And, and it just seems like everyone's like Rodney, he runs
28:07
the power play also. And they're like needs to find
28:08
someone else to be the power play coach.
28:09
Like they, they need to figure something out.
28:11
It's like the Habs. Were clearly it's not work.
28:13
For awhile, right? Yeah, exactly.
28:14
I mean, last year they were 28th.
28:16
This year they're still garbage. I don't see it changing unless
28:19
they make a change, right. So.
28:21
Stop playing games. That becomes like a true
28:23
problem. It's actually fix something to
28:25
win games again. Yeah, exactly.
28:27
I mean, maybe that's why they can't win a game in the
28:29
conference finals, right? Just because, you know, in the
28:31
playoffs, when the stakes are that high up against a strong
28:33
opponent, you need your special teams to show up.
28:35
But anyways, all that to be said, I'm not dying to pick up
28:38
Miller, even though he's the one taking the spot for now.
28:41
And keeping close eye on the kitchen.
28:43
He's probably not available in your leagues, but if he.
28:46
Is. Strong consideration if you're.
28:49
On your waiver wire, add Nikishin over.
28:52
Miles 100% would you? Letter one and the question over
28:57
shape, Theodore. I would add Theodore because of
29:00
the a stone injury. That's that's the big question,
29:03
right, We haven't spoken about. The spoilers?
29:05
We haven't gone there yet. Yeah, definitely worth the
29:07
conversation, right? Like it's one more banger guy,
29:10
one more, you know, pure offensive guy.
29:12
And who are you rather take the shot on?
29:14
I really like how well-rounded Nikishin is so.
29:18
I think Nikishin has more chance that like Nikisha's a guy that I
29:21
would be based on so far. Obviously it's still small
29:23
sample size, but even if he never gets power play one, I'm
29:26
happy to hold him on my roster all year or as Theodore.
29:28
I think I'd way rather feel Theodore than Kishan while
29:31
stones out. The second stone comes back,
29:33
there is a drop. So kind of two ways of looking
29:36
at it, short term and long term. But alright, let's go on to the
29:38
next one. My boy Stefan Neeson is nearing
29:42
a return from injury this week, and there's a strong chance
29:45
he'll bump Meyer slash Mercer off power play one since he was
29:49
there for all of last year. And I don't think that Keith has
29:52
any loyalty to either of those guys being on power play 1.
29:55
So I think that if he's only adding 2% owned and in more
30:02
necessary casualties. But you know, in a lot of
30:04
leagues, let's say he's not a known name, right?
30:07
Most people don't realize that this random guy who dropped
30:10
fourth liner. Yeah, I mean, it makes sense,
30:13
right? He's super random.
30:14
Why is he on the power play one for the levels all year last
30:17
year? But the fact is that if he's
30:19
back on that power play one, it's it was the third best in
30:21
the league last year. If I'm remembering correctly.
30:23
He he's not the main guy that he's not gonna get in on every
30:26
powerfully points, but he's there.
30:27
He'll get some of them and he's almost a double double.
30:29
So I think he's a really good guy who can round out a roster.
30:32
So anal bangers league like definitely I would I would pick
30:34
him up before that injured tag leaves.
30:37
It's gonna be I think they said he's not playing in the
30:39
back-to-back, but he's playing the game after.
30:41
So I would pick him up now if you can, obviously if you could
30:45
stash. Him and also there's just
30:46
another reminder like we've been speaking about it in the
30:48
Discord. So if you're there, you've
30:50
definitely heard of this before, but like we've talked about the
30:52
cell window on Timo Meyer. Cell.
30:54
Timo like last game he got straight zeros as well and now
30:58
Steven Mason is coming back. I mean, I feel like team was
31:00
just the type of guy when he's doing well, you can you envision
31:03
it never ending and then you get hit by a brick wall at some
31:06
point and everything goes wrong and he becomes a mini session.
31:09
Obviously not that bad, but. It is hard to be that bad.
31:14
It is hard to be that bad, but. They should just do A1 for one
31:17
IRL, that'd be so cool. Yeah.
31:20
So tomorrow could be line 4P2. On Carolina and such could be
31:24
line 2P2 on New Jersey. No, but 100 percent, 100% sell,
31:36
sell Meyer. And I know Mercer's off to hot
31:38
start and a lot of people have been asking about him, but I do
31:41
not trust him to keep power play one at all.
31:43
So I would not even for this week.
31:46
So I wouldn't stream him personally.
31:47
Can I give you a quick rapid fire names for?
31:50
Meyerson role, though? The Nason role is something that
31:54
no one else replicates. That's what it is.
31:56
That's why. He's only net front type.
31:57
Yeah, exactly. Mercer is like way smaller than
32:00
Nathan. They need Mason to be there and.
32:02
That's why we could just look over.
32:03
Stuff. Yeah, he's gonna be there and
32:07
he'll he'll knock one of them off for sure.
32:10
Would you would you trade team on Meyer for for artery
32:16
lichenin? No.
32:20
OK. Would you just?
32:22
Not a guaranteed power play on Kevin.
32:23
Fiala. Yeah, for sure.
32:26
OK yeah but you have to wait like 3 months until they sick
32:28
again. Yeah, I feel like if you can do
32:32
2 Meyer for Brandon Hagel, that's like the biggest of wins
32:35
you can do. Like we've been talking about
32:36
Brandon Hagel being a billow, he's still a buy low.
32:40
I see his roster percentage, people stopping by low at some.
32:44
Point He loves people. To get a point.
32:46
And as Hegel owner, I love it too.
32:49
Really. Do you think you could do, do
32:51
you think you could do Timo Meier for like Marco Casper and
32:54
would you do that or is that too?
32:55
Low. I wouldn't do that.
32:57
OK. The thing is, like Myers still
32:59
solid for shots and hits like even though he's he's shouldn't
33:03
well, he should be, but he won't be power play one for most of
33:05
the year. So that's why I think anytime he
33:08
starts producing a lot of points wise, you sell him.
33:10
But I. Mean for Nick Euler's, if you
33:13
can make that happen, who just got his first goal of the
33:16
season. Like I'm the biggest healers is
33:19
my ice pick this year and I feel great so far with how he's
33:21
proving me right, but I would still take Elers over team.
33:24
His underlings were solid, but he was just like not getting on
33:27
the scoresheet somehow. Yeah, and he's also passed a rod
33:30
team. It's also a rod team and yet you
33:32
drafted special cover in the sixth round so.
33:35
No, alright, no, yes I did. I'm gonna start doing a tracker.
33:41
How many times you guys mentioned that to just make me
33:43
more depressed? Anyways, next, sticking with the
33:47
theme of the devils, Jacob Markstrom is out for two to
33:49
three weeks. Jake Allen will get most starts
33:51
in his absence. So this was, we talked about it
33:54
last week, but now there's a natural clear timeline.
33:56
So two or three weeks is not that big a deal.
33:58
So if you're the Markstrom owner, you're pretty excited and
34:00
if you're the Allen owner, you're disappointed that you're
34:02
not getting more use out of him. Lucky for me, I'm playing Galen
34:05
this week, so the one week where he has relevance, that's fun.
34:08
But but yeah, so nothing, nothing much to be said here
34:11
other than if Alan's available in your league, then stream for
34:14
the next two to three weeks. And another plug for the
34:16
discord. We were on top of this before
34:18
even the injury was announced. We were watching the games that
34:21
we saw Marshall kind of leave hobbled and we were just like
34:23
pick proactively pick up Jake Allen.
34:24
And then like 2 days later we saw a week to week and the Jake
34:27
Allen and pick ended up being fantastic.
34:29
So shouting out the discord. I mean, that's a that's a great
34:32
plug because what's better than that getting like a live update
34:34
from someone watching the game being like, it hasn't been
34:36
updated anywhere yet, but we saw this happen with our eyes.
34:39
Go grab him. So yeah, no, it's a great place
34:42
to be. Yeah.
34:43
OK, back to my injuries. We've got Patrick Kane
34:48
day-to-day with an upper body injury.
34:49
They just said that he'll miss their next two games but could
34:52
be back for Saturday's game. In the meantime, they at first,
34:55
they tried JVR on his power play one spot.
34:57
The JVR is washed. So now they have cast on his
34:59
power play one spot, which makes a lot more sense.
35:01
So great time to be a Casper owner.
35:03
But obviously once Kane comes back, he's gonna get his power
35:05
play one spot back. But in the meantime, I mean,
35:09
Casper, we already talked about in bangers, in deep bangers,
35:11
like should already be rostered. So it's kind of just like a fun,
35:14
you know, bonus. But if he's not rostered, I love
35:16
him as a stream until Kane comes back.
35:18
Nope, he hasn't been shooting as much lately which is unfortunate
35:21
but I still think the kid has a lot of talent but he's kind of
35:24
low key getting overshadowed by the other rookie on the.
35:28
And it's Manny the GOAT. Yeah, the GOAT who I'm also
35:31
playing against this week, are you?
35:33
Actually I have. Yeah, they're looking.
35:38
Really. Nice people in games, yeah.
35:41
This is, yeah, They're looking like a really good team.
35:44
I guess the Atlantic is kind of wide open with all the Florida's
35:47
injuries. Yeah, yeah.
35:48
And Buffalo. And Ottawa.
35:50
It's really fun. Yeah, it's yeah.
35:53
And I mean, you know, just basically don't, don't do
35:57
anything drastic with the cane situation.
35:59
Keep them if you have them because I think it's actually
36:02
gonna be a very decent power play this year.
36:04
Weren't they even really good last?
36:05
Year they were good, last year they ranked 4th in the league
36:07
and now they're starting. Off kind of work that was like a
36:09
blip or if that's. Like actual thing, but I mean
36:12
Dylan Larkin's off to an insane start.
36:15
Lucas Raymond are the next piece of news is he's healthy and back
36:18
on his line. One power play 1 to bring gets
36:21
off to a solid start and Kane like I got him around 15 cause I
36:24
needed a points guy at that point in the draft and I looked
36:27
at his last year stats. Last year you put a .8 points
36:29
per game and .4 power play points per game.
36:31
That's unreal. That's enough.
36:33
Especially getting that in the draft where you did, that's
36:35
crazy. Value, Yeah, it's crazy.
36:37
Obviously he's old, so he's gonna get these day-to-day
36:40
things might happen here and there.
36:42
I mean, this injury, literally he just crashed in the boards
36:44
kinda hard and I think he was, he finished the game, but then
36:47
the next day it seemed like he was like sore because he's like
36:48
30 something years old. So they giving him some some
36:51
time off. I don't need anything serious.
36:53
Also, I've been seeing a lot of people mentioning that with the
36:55
Olympics this year, Kane wants to play really well to kind of
36:58
see if you can get a spot on the US team despite being older.
37:01
So there's some there's some motivation there for him to to
37:04
really play as well as he can this year.
37:06
Anyways, all to be said, I mean, he could be an interesting below
37:08
if he's injured, but also he started off the season hot.
37:10
So I don't know about that. So this power play is Larkin
37:15
Cider, Debrincat, Cane and who's the 5th?
37:18
Raymond. Raymond is OK.
37:20
That's why you haven't updated yet.
37:22
Yeah, Yeah, It's a strong power play.
37:23
I'd be happy to win any of these guys, even honestly, Like you're
37:26
feeling generous, Josh. Well, that's it.
37:28
Like I drafted Cider was like one of my go to guys.
37:31
I got him. I was super excited.
37:32
I'm like this is one of the top power plays in the league and
37:35
there's performing like a top power play in the and he's just
37:37
not involved with anything so far.
37:38
So it's just one. That doesn't involve the
37:40
defenceman on it. It's like Florida's.
37:42
Power. But I've been watching and I
37:44
don't, I think it's just the way the way she goes sometimes, you
37:47
know? So I definitely like cider as A
37:50
and by low right now, yeah. Alright, so I guess we.
37:54
Move on. Yeah, Yeah.
37:57
I guess we did both points there.
37:58
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Jake Walman is healthy and
38:01
returning to the lineup but shouldn't be rostered in leagues
38:04
without blocks. Some of these guys like get such
38:06
their roster percentages throw me off a lot.
38:09
He has a lot of hype around him but he's literally never taking
38:11
good shot. Spot on power play 1 so not much
38:13
to say. There Wellman has high because
38:15
he's on Edmonton and he's had success in the past being a
38:18
fantasy relevant name so people like like.
38:20
Roasting assigned to a big contract.
38:22
Yeah, yeah, but he's just the guy you stream for blocks pretty
38:25
much. I did not want to consistently
38:26
run with this guy. Unless you're like in a
38:27
tremendously deep league where waivers are very thin, then
38:32
obviously this is worth rostering.
38:34
But in mostly, he's not. Yeah, this is not Jake Walman on
38:37
San Jose, who did kind of like everything, right?
38:40
Yeah, even on Detroit, he was really good here.
38:42
He's just there as a defensive defenseman and that's that's his
38:44
job. Yeah, so OK, Jared McCann is
38:48
day-to-day with a lower body injury, which sucks because he
38:51
was off to a really hot start to start the season.
38:53
Berkeley Catton got his first NHL game and 1st NHL point, he
38:57
was on line 1 and Jaden Schwartz got the P1 spot in McCann's
39:01
absence. This is day-to-day, so hopefully
39:04
it's not out for too long. I heard it's like a injury that
39:08
he's dealt with in the off season as well, so hopefully
39:11
it's nothing serious and this doesn't develop into more than
39:13
just day-to-day. But for the moment, I feel like
39:15
you don't pick up anybody that replaces quote UN quote McCann
39:18
spot. Although we did suggest Jordan
39:20
Eberly as a stream last week. Like if you listened to our wave
39:23
episode. Like literally.
39:25
Got all this week? For Week 3 because Seattle had
39:28
four games this week and also like we've just like whatever
39:31
he's been doing lately, you should yeah, exactly, Josh said.
39:35
Like he's already got a goal this week and he honestly looks
39:37
really solid and he was only 2% of the time.
39:39
Now he's 3% owned, so 1% of you guys are listening to us and.
39:43
Yeah, honestly, I saw that was more like, I feel like that came
39:47
from us, but yeah. And I got some DMS being like,
39:51
yo, thanks for the Jordan Eberle show.
39:53
Everybody picked up all the Buffalo guys in my league.
39:56
So I ended up getting Eberly and he's been sick, so listen.
40:00
He has been like honestly like I picked him up last week and he's
40:02
also shooting and hitting randomly.
40:04
This could be a little mini resurgence for him.
40:06
I would love to hold him for a for a.
40:08
While very vibes, just kind of like, you know, yeah, old,
40:11
stubborn and on the ice with good deployment and can get
40:14
games with the good peripherals, but always kind of just like
40:18
looming around the points. Yeah 100% Speaking of the Kraken
40:24
and Brandon Montour is out indefinitely for personal
40:26
reasons. Kale Flurry took his spot on
40:28
power play too. Dunn was already power play one
40:31
but Mantras super solid usually even without the power plant
40:34
employment since they usually have a bit more of a split power
40:36
play. Don't know what's going on with
40:38
him. Hope, hope, all the best for
40:40
him, but but you don't know how long he's gonna be out for.
40:44
I think this is just kind of like reinforces the fact that
40:46
they're gonna try to consolidate a little bit more.
40:48
I think Vince Dunn gets more work on his shoulders, so good
40:50
for him for fantasy. But if you have Montour,
40:53
hopefully you can just stash him on your IR and hopefully he's
40:55
back soon and everything's OK with him and his family.
40:58
Yeah, but I definitely like everyone who's on that power
41:01
play 1 unit for Seattle. I think with Montour out, it
41:04
makes it more of a power play 1 instead of a power play 1A.
41:07
So that's another shout for the Eberly or while McCanns out
41:11
Jaden Schwartz, stuff like that. Yeah, exactly.
41:13
Yeah. One of Shane rights are going to
41:15
be relevant there and if Berkeley Catton does stay up, I
41:18
think they're going to give him some some minutes because he's
41:20
supposed to be very good. We had a question about this and
41:25
it actually because the person brought up Cat and I ended up
41:29
like he ended up on my radar. Kevin was like wow, his first
41:33
game tonight. So that's another.
41:35
Reason I picked him up yet? I actually picked him up in my
41:38
points league, so that was no, it was really clutch.
41:43
It's also like a keeper league there so.
41:45
OK, that changes. Things for sure.
41:46
It was like an interesting thing nevertheless.
41:50
You know the issue of course, like you just could get sent
41:52
down, but I believe he's skilled enough to be on that power play
41:56
one. If they do consolidate, I can
41:58
see guys like Jane Schwarz being there, but I really for sure,
42:00
like you said, it was really good pickup for this week.
42:04
Yeah, OK. Jonathan Marchessault is
42:07
day-to-day with lower body injury.
42:09
Luke Evangelista takes the spot on.
42:10
Power play on it was Nick Blankenberge originally, but I
42:13
guess he didn't do anything with it.
42:14
So now it's Evangelista. Much more excited about
42:16
Evangelista than Blankenberg on there.
42:18
So we'll see. I mean, again, it's when it's
42:20
day-to-day like this and you know, Marcel is getting the spot
42:22
back when he comes back. It makes me more wary about
42:25
picking up a guy because you could pick him up and then the
42:27
next day he's back bumped off it.
42:29
But it's definitely keep an eye out if the injury is longer than
42:32
than we think or if they run with it right.
42:34
Sometimes on a power play like this, like yes, Marso should get
42:37
the spot back when he comes back.
42:38
But if they just start clicking with Evangelista, he could keep
42:40
it. So something to keep an eye on.
42:42
That's more of a watch list thing.
42:43
Evangelist says a decent player like he's he's not.
42:47
He hasn't really translated for fantasy and his career so far,
42:50
but he's only 23 former second overall pick, 3 assists in five
42:54
games this year is not horrible numbers.
42:56
You know this is. The two year 3 mil contract.
42:59
Yeah, it could be a breakout year for him.
43:01
I'm not elated to have him on my team.
43:03
We're super excited by this. But if you're in a deep league
43:06
like Kevin's in like a 3000 roster league, he's already
43:10
rostered there. But you could do worse than
43:14
trying to stream them. Watch.
43:17
List now and watch list. Yeah, yeah.
43:19
But but yeah, it's there could be something there.
43:23
On the Buffalo front, UPL is practicing with the team and
43:27
should be back within the week and it'll be interesting to see
43:30
how they split starts because mine has been really good to
43:31
start the year. Obviously going into the season
43:33
ups the starter lines the backup, but this could be
43:36
another one of those Wedgwood Blackwood situations where where
43:39
it's more of a 1A1B or even a 5050 alone like 5050.
43:44
I think Line has the job currently and we saw what he did
43:48
with Florida before he saw. We know that he can.
43:51
Not nobody for sure. Exactly.
43:53
He's not a nobody. He's kind of like a Scott
43:54
Wedgewood where he's not a nobody.
43:56
Yeah, exactly. The he can play games for your
43:59
team and win them. And I think Buffalo right now is
44:02
is trending in the more positive direction since he's been
44:06
starting games. And I think they wanna roll with
44:08
that. So unless he falters, I mean,
44:10
they're gonna give you PS and starts when he's healthy.
44:12
But right now I kinda see as line leading the pack.
44:15
And people, the Buffalo fans love him too.
44:17
Like the whole fan base really has put themselves behind him
44:21
because he's just made so many big saves for them and one game
44:24
so. For sure, it's just it's hard
44:25
for me to see UPL being like a guy who only starts back to
44:29
backs like I just. Don't know, it won't be that
44:32
it'll be. Mine being the one me like you
44:34
said, but it's gonna be a split regardless.
44:37
I think they're just gonna ride the hot hand like this team
44:39
wants to make noise this year and they have an opportunity to
44:41
given like the landscape of the division.
44:43
So I think they just want to finish lost and it's wide open.
44:47
So and they got some youth in the lineup right now with Benson
44:50
and Don and things are kind of looking more bright.
44:53
So I think, I think it's just whatever's working, they're
44:56
gonna, they're not gonna mess with that.
44:59
Who gets more stars lie in our Wedgewood?
45:02
Lion. George.
45:03
Yeah, Lion. I mean UPL is not a Blackwood
45:07
so. Yeah, it's it's a lot.
45:09
Different and we've seen Lion play more games in the recent
45:12
past. I do things like Wedgewood, we
45:14
saw in interviews, like Wedgewood said he's been itching
45:16
for the opportunity to just be a starter somewhere and he finally
45:19
has it right now and he's like been flying with it.
45:21
So it's going. To be actually been like just
45:24
nonstop like which wouldn't be content.
45:27
As my girlfriend, I was in bed. It was 1:00 AM.
45:29
I was watching a 4 minute interview of Wedgwood after the
45:31
last game. She was like hey, we have to go
45:34
to bed. And I was just like, wait,
45:35
there's still 3 minutes left on this interview.
45:38
I need to know what he's eating for dinner tonight.
45:40
It might affect my starts later in the year.
45:44
So funny. OK, on the Vancouver Canucks,
45:50
Brock Besser missed two games due to personal reasons, but he
45:53
may be back after the next one. Something interesting, though,
45:56
is key for Sherwood took his spot on power play one while he
45:58
was out. Yeah.
45:59
So that's. Yeah, I know.
46:00
As if Sherwood wasn't already enough of a beast for bangers.
46:03
If he's getting power play one time, obviously when better
46:06
comes back, he's gonna get the spot back.
46:07
But that power play is super fluid.
46:09
Like there's no one, no one. Even Peterson could get moved to
46:13
power play 2 on any given night. Like there's really the only.
46:15
Person started to heat up right now so yeah I feel the only work
46:18
with him but. I don't know.
46:20
I'm just saying that literally the only player who's guaranteed
46:22
power play one on that team is Quinn Hughes.
46:24
Everyone else can be switched back and forth.
46:27
So the fact that Sherwood's an option is just very interesting
46:30
to keep an eye out on. Already worked out.
46:33
Yeah, exactly. It's very will be interesting to
46:36
see what happens when Peter comes back, because if Sherwood
46:38
does well, like, he might not be the one who gets bumped off,
46:39
could be Garland, could be brusque.
46:42
I don't think anyone has a lock on that power play.
46:45
Agreed. OK, big one, our classic annual
46:49
mark stone is injured comma comment mark stone week to week
46:53
with an injury. This is a classic mark stone
46:55
though. He'll start the season.
46:56
I feel like last year also starts the season putting up
46:58
ridiculous points. He's ranked like #3 or #2 in
47:01
every league and then just gets injured for for like 2 months
47:05
and it comes back. I can't even use the Yeah
47:07
exactly. They can't even use the LTR
47:08
loophole anymore. So I don't know why they keep
47:10
they're just used to breaking his legs after a couple games.
47:13
But you don't have to do. He's like, no, there's no TIR.
47:16
Thank you. The team this time?
47:21
Sorry, Mark, you know the deal. Mark told us he said he's
47:27
cracking up. Be like they.
47:28
Know they know. Anyways, I'll have to be said.
47:33
I was honestly like recommending people drop shade Theodore
47:36
before this news came out and I stand by that.
47:39
But but now that marks on his injured shadow is a huge pickup
47:42
or hold and he's gonna be sick for the next week to week until
47:46
Mark Stone comes back. And I would very much consider
47:49
one Theodore starts popping off selling high on him.
47:52
You know, obviously, like obviously other owners are going
47:55
to know the deal for the most part, but you might be able to
47:58
convince them that he's doing so well, they're not going to bump
48:00
him off power play. 11 Stone comes back.
48:02
I don't know if you can convince anyone to buy him high.
48:04
Once he's on that power play for a bit, I would definitely take
48:07
the opportunity to offload. Him I mean you would probably
48:09
hate this Josh, but I think like a good opportunity is Theodore
48:14
gets power play one. It's been one game since he got
48:17
it since the injury to mark stone.
48:19
But I feel like don't wait until we get like more accurate news
48:22
on stones injury to be honest. Like if he has like 2 good games
48:26
or like just two games where he's not playing like a full
48:29
drop, like I'm trying to flip them instantaneously because.
48:32
Might you say I would hate that? Fully agree.
48:33
Because I was gonna say you can flip him for Morgan Riley and I
48:37
would and I would and I would do that because Josh is a huge
48:39
Morgan Riley hater. Even though.
48:40
He's a no, I'm not. I'm not a Morgan Riley hater.
48:42
I'm a Kevin. Overhyped his guys a bit.
48:45
Too much. He's only a point per game
48:46
player after. Three weeks of this, obviously
48:49
not gonna last, but anyways, I do.
48:51
I would take Riley over Theodore so and I think you can
48:54
definitely get that done. So I like that a lot.
48:56
As the Riley owner would never accept it, but you can try.
48:59
Yeah anyway, Speaking of the Golden Knights, this is actually
49:04
even, I don't know if I would even bigger than stone news is
49:06
pretty big, but this is big news too.
49:07
Eden Hill got injured last night.
49:09
Still no news. Um, Cassidy said they'll know
49:12
more by the end of this week, but Akira Schmid, he's going to
49:16
get all pretty much all the stats other than back to backs
49:18
until Hill is back. Obviously there's also the
49:20
looming Carter Hart signing, which he's on two year 1.8 mil
49:24
contract, but he's only eligible to start December 1st.
49:27
So first of all, OK, first we have to see what happens with
49:30
the Hill Tree. I will say, having watched it,
49:32
it does not look good. It was a non contact, one drop
49:34
in really scary and he couldn't put any weight on his leg.
49:37
He was helped off the ice. I don't see how that doesn't
49:40
become at least a couple weeks of injury, if not over a month.
49:44
So definitely pick up Akira Schmid or you can wait until the
49:48
news comes out, but he might be grabbed by someone else by then
49:49
in your league. And then with the whole Carter
49:51
Hart thing, first of all, like I said, he can't, he's not
49:53
eligible to play until December 1st.
49:54
So you're in the clear until then, assuming the hill entries
49:57
longer than that. And then heart comes back.
49:59
They're going to give heart starts, but he hasn't played in
50:02
like 2 years, right? Yeah, it's there's, there's no
50:04
guarantee that he comes in. People think he's the Messiah
50:06
like he's about to, you know, you pick him up and then he's
50:10
100%. He's like the goat.
50:12
So I just think that there is a chance that let's say Hills
50:16
injury is past December 1st and heart comes back.
50:18
I could still see Schmidt being the 1A and that he'll definitely
50:22
get fewer starts once hard is there.
50:23
They want to give her some chances.
50:24
They didn't sign in for no reason.
50:26
But I just how does a guy go from not playing for two years
50:29
to playing in the highest league, highest level in the
50:31
world, right? It's gonna take time.
50:33
So I don't think heart is the answer to to all your prayers,
50:37
if you to all the 0G prayers out there.
50:39
And I think she could be a solid pickup.
50:41
I. Think it's it's more punctuated
50:46
with goalies. It really is like we've seen
50:49
players go to, you know, the leagues in Europe after the NHL
50:54
and then come back and play in the NHL and have success with
50:57
goalies though, like it's very, very tough.
51:00
So I'd be, I'd be surprised if Heart comes in and then like,
51:07
let's say his first, starting in his first game with Vegas this
51:09
year to the end of the season, becomes the goalie who plays the
51:13
most games on that team. Whether it's paired with Hill or
51:17
paired with Schmid, I think both of those guys are gonna get more
51:20
starts. So for fantasy this season, I'm
51:22
not at all interested in Carter Hart.
51:24
And I actually think that Schmid could be a very decent pickup.
51:28
I think if you're a goalie needed team, like you've already
51:30
had other goalie injuries, like maybe you're down Markstrom,
51:32
you're down a few other guys. Like I think Schmid is a
51:36
valuable pickup in terms of like a guy that's on a good team that
51:38
should get wins and that will get you started for your fantasy
51:41
team. Do I think he's gonna break
51:42
fantasy? I don't think so, just because
51:46
we've seen it like when he starts games from the start,
51:48
he's not the best, but when he comes in cold, he has some
51:51
success. So Josh made a joke.
51:53
So maybe they're just played the other goalie for a shift and
51:56
then push me in after. But I think he's definitely
51:59
valuable if you need goalies, but I'm not forcing him on my
52:02
roster after the Hill injury. He's a career backup, but I just
52:07
think that if. So he has.
52:09
Hills. Potential to develop but.
52:12
Yeah, it's not like Wedgewood, who who did have like a brief
52:14
stint on Arizona, who were awful, where he was like
52:17
actually the starter. Schmidt has not really been like
52:19
a starter for sustainable period of time.
52:21
We don't know how it's gonna go, but it's definitely not
52:23
something like a sure thing by any means.
52:25
I think he can be like a Freddie Anderson, like he gets you wins
52:30
over 50% of the time, but he's averaging close to like 900 save
52:34
percentage. That's The thing is, just like
52:36
Vegas is such a good team that even if Schmid doesn't play like
52:39
the best, as long as he's getting starts, it's gonna be
52:42
relatively solid. At the very least, you're gonna
52:44
get saves and wins, even if the rate stats aren't always there.
52:47
Yeah. Yeah, OK.
52:49
John Klingberg of the San Jose Sharks has a lower body injury
52:53
but is expected to join the Sharks on their road trip, so he
52:55
should return soon. Dmitri Orlov is taking his spot
52:58
on power play. 1 I think is going to be back any day now.
53:02
So I don't really have much interest in in Orlov.
53:06
I don't know about you guys. No interest in Orlando but like
53:09
that's ridiculous. Kleinberg is just chilling on my
53:11
IR and like. You picked the most straight to
53:14
your IR, you can't complain. I don't know if I complain about
53:21
my team so. So the guy was hurt when you
53:23
picked him up. He's like, God damn, he's just
53:25
taking up. My.
53:27
It's like when I picked up. Bark year one.
53:29
What have I continued to do? Yeah.
53:31
Exactly. No, but but with with him, it's
53:37
just I'm the lowest on him yet I'm the one who ended up with
53:40
him on my squad. Because you have no defence mode
53:42
team. Yeah, they're horrible, they're
53:45
awful, but I'm also thinking that he could be a .6 point per
53:53
game player with like .25 power play points.
53:56
You can be exactly what you hope Cam Fowler will be for your team
53:59
who is also on your run. No, I had high hopes for Camp
54:02
Fowler, which which are dwindling day by day.
54:05
Yeah, yeah, that's a big Yikes emoji face there.
54:07
Jaw. Like, well deserved because it
54:10
is big time Yanks. But yeah, look, I definitely
54:13
wanna roster Klingberg for now. He's not really owned anywhere
54:17
because you never know how it's gonna go.
54:19
But he is extremely squishy. He cannot stay healthy,
54:22
unfortunately. Like, I'm not optimistic that
54:25
he's going to stay healthy for the duration of this year once
54:27
he comes back, but I definitely want to see what he can do when
54:29
he plays. And it's very fair.
54:32
I mean, we've talked about the Sharks being an exciting
54:34
offensive team. Obviously they suck at defence
54:36
but if you're that type of, you know, archetype of player, just
54:40
see if you can collect some power play points for you from
54:41
the back end especially. Like it hasn't even been that
54:44
great, though that's worth saying.
54:45
Version offensive team, but they've kind of sucked.
54:48
But it's still early. They should be a fun offensive
54:50
team. I'll say they definitely started
54:51
off slow though. But there's no risk in picking
54:54
up Kleinberg if he doesn't do anything for once he gets
54:56
healthy for a few games, you can easily drop him and it's no harm
54:59
done. Just really wanted the celebrity
55:01
John Klingberg stock where they both Ohio and get 2.
55:04
Shotted stack, yeah. Exactly.
55:07
It's it's it's Walmart, Demidov, Hudson, if you will.
55:14
Yeah, yeah. So Speaking of some good news
55:17
for. Myself, I was gonna say some
55:19
good news for Jake Cole. Perfetti is ahead of schedule
55:22
and should return in mid November.
55:23
He'll bump Alex Ifollow off power play one when he returns.
55:27
There's something to be said about, you know, when you're
55:29
just younger, you just heal faster.
55:31
You know, like you look at like my Patrick Kane injury where
55:34
he's like 32 or whatever and all he did was like all he did OK,
55:37
he crashed on the boards. Obviously I'm not an NHL player
55:39
that hurts. But like, you know, if you're a
55:41
young guy, you just dust yourself off or whatever and
55:43
you're back in the next, the next game.
55:45
But he's like out for like a week at least with that.
55:48
And then you look at like Cooper Fetti who's like ankle is jello
55:51
and, and he's like 22 years old or something like that.
55:56
And he's ahead of schedule by like 2 weeks.
55:59
So there's something to be said in terms of when you're looking
56:01
at health for your for your team, about taking you guys on
56:04
the younger side. Yeah, Keynes 36 by the way,
56:08
small correction there, because I was like, if he is only 30.
56:11
Two. Yeah, I know.
56:11
You're right. You're right.
56:12
Like I was like wait. I don't know where I saw 32.
56:14
Yeah, that's not old. So you're 30?
56:17
2 Probably Swifty fans out there.
56:23
I changed the lyrics a little bit.
56:25
How does he do it? He's a lyrical mastermind.
56:30
You see what he did, was he? Changed the 20 to a 30.
56:33
Let's punish you so I can get into the would you rather?
56:35
Please. OK, yeah, 22 quick ones here.
56:40
Marco Rossi has a lower body injury.
56:42
He's on a power play one, but Ericson's taking his spot on
56:44
line 1, so it's fun for Erickson Echo owners.
56:46
Fun fact, I'm playing Eric Connect this week.
56:50
Are you noticing A trend here with the?
56:53
Anyways, not much you said there.
56:55
I mean, I will say it bumps up the other minutes for the other
56:58
centres. So Ryan Hartman, who's on my
56:59
team, ended up playing like almost almost 19 minutes a
57:02
night. The first game that Ross missed,
57:04
he got three shots, hit two blocks and seven face off wins
57:07
and an empty net assist. So listen, I'll take it.
57:11
But just yeah, if you're in a deep banger thing with face off
57:13
is definitely worth a look just for some category suffrage.
57:18
And then lastly. Stuffing.
57:21
Yeah, stuffing. You know, like on Thanksgiving.
57:25
Daniel, you're, you're of no one cares, right?
57:28
No, the goats. But I wanted I.
57:31
Wanted to mention his name for note for people who don't know
57:34
him. Just just, you know, keep.
57:35
Him cortical last game I was watching that he did you see a
57:38
school every time but yeah and then lastly but not leastly
57:44
Nikita Kucherov is healthy after his illness.
57:47
But the main thing to note here is Gage Gonsalves got his spot
57:51
on power play one while he was out.
57:53
Hagel is never getting power play one.
57:56
I that's what I've learned from this Kucherov illness.
57:58
Hegel is never getting power play one.
58:00
I'm sorry. Jake has him on his team.
58:02
Kevin was the one hyping him up all summer, but it's not going
58:04
to happen. Stop trying to make fetch
58:06
happen. It's not going to happen.
58:07
He's not going to be this bad. He's gonna be really good this
58:10
year, but he's not getting Power 1.
58:12
One day, Alexie Protists and Brandon Hagel are going to be on
58:16
the same team somewhere, and they're going to finally get
58:19
Power Play 1 and they're going to outpace McDavid.
58:21
Book it. It's gonna happen.
58:23
This is justice for two players. Unless you're game what?
58:29
Send us the full fanfic later on, I'm interested in reading
58:31
this. Is also a monster this year and
58:34
so like, I mean, Hegel sucks right now but that's whatever
58:36
he'll be. He'll turn things around just
58:38
like I don't. Understand by like.
58:40
They get huge minutes, like they could play an extra minute or
58:43
two on the power play of the game come.
58:45
On it's a handedness and utility of them like roles that they
58:49
want. It's just weird.
58:54
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just there's some guys that this
58:57
happens to, but some guys can still be super valuable like
58:59
Hagel, whereas some guys they just mire, not that he's not
59:03
valuable at all, but it definitely is a much bigger,
59:06
bigger elf for him. But anyways, let's go into the
59:08
would you rather is. We've been talking about a lot
59:10
of news and Kevin said these were spicy, so I'm very excited
59:13
to hear some. Very spicy in my opinion.
59:17
I'm asking the hard hitting questions out here.
59:20
Going one per position per usual.
59:22
This is going to be hot, so let's dive into it #1 it's about
59:28
to get rather 4 to centre position.
59:31
Bo Horvat or Sam Bennett rest of season in your banger Horvat.
59:36
I know, I know, it's so recency bias and all that, but the more
59:42
I'm seeing and every game Florida just gets another major
59:45
injury and I'm just like, I think maybe Florida is just not
59:48
gonna be good this year. Bennett has obviously extremely
59:50
disappointing this season and Horvat was starting to pick it
59:54
up. I mean Horvat himself is a sell
59:57
high candidate. We have to be honest with
59:59
ourselves, Josh. 100%. Got four goals in the last two
1:00:01
games. Yeah, but like look at his back
1:00:05
guess also. Yeah, actually disgusting.
1:00:07
He's averaging like 5 shots a game.
1:00:09
He's averaging like over 10 faceoff wins.
1:00:11
He's averaging some hits too. It's just one of the few bright
1:00:15
spots on my team this year. And I do think he's a sell high,
1:00:18
but I think you could shoot for the stars with the cell high.
1:00:20
He bundle him with maybe like one other guy and go for like a
1:00:23
top three round pick. Bennett is nothing you want to
1:00:26
start the banger. One of like the better banger
1:00:29
Pure sees that you're getting linear drafts like he used to be
1:00:31
in the same category as like, you know, the Dylan Cousins.
1:00:34
Then it's Benzo Bylo too. Like he's he's gonna turn it
1:00:36
around. He's not gonna be this bad all
1:00:38
year. But I don't know it just.
1:00:40
Doesn't look good. Points was.
1:00:42
Yeah, that's it. It's the points wise and however
1:00:44
it's like a good a good player. It's not like obviously what
1:00:47
he's doing is is crazy to start the season, especially the back
1:00:49
hatch is what's the point having?
1:00:51
Lots of women have more shots and more hits on average than
1:00:54
Horvat. Like it wasn't much, but it was
1:00:56
still more obviously. Bored.
1:00:58
It's gonna get more points. Yeah, but The thing is now
1:01:03
Bennett has the quote UN quote, you know, up like a bumped up
1:01:07
in. Dependent on power play one in
1:01:08
the In the latest, they've been shuffling around those power.
1:01:11
Plays, I don't think. It's the lock.
1:01:12
We I don't think it was the lock we thought originally actually
1:01:15
suffer for JC in particular. It was like that, you know that
1:01:18
like the dictator where it's like your dad and smiles and sad
1:01:22
face and like smiles and sad face.
1:01:23
That's like janky. Looking at the shuffled lines,
1:01:25
he sees like Bennett power play too sad face savage powerfully 1
1:01:28
happy face like so. So yeah, no, the I definitely
1:01:32
would take horrified over Bennett.
1:01:33
And I know, I know, you don't want to overreact too much the
1:01:35
first couple of weeks, but it's just such a drastic difference
1:01:38
that I think I'm comfortable going Horvat.
1:01:41
Jake, I want to hear your take since you're a Bennett owner.
1:01:43
So first of all, in response to your your quote earlier, it's
1:01:47
shoot for the moon and if you fail then you'll fall on the
1:01:51
star, said nobody since someone who knows nothing about
1:01:53
astronomy. Yeah.
1:02:00
Secondly, I'd have to go horribly out on this one.
1:02:04
Obviously, I think that the Islanders are are gonna slow
1:02:08
down. You know, they're doing really
1:02:11
way better than people thought they were gonna be this year,
1:02:14
and they're still in last. But that's so impressive.
1:02:19
Seriously, they're they're almost 500 right there.
1:02:22
There are two and three. I, I thought that they were
1:02:24
gonna be a total bust, but Schaefer looks like.
1:02:26
Really. Really real and he's already
1:02:28
one. Like I did not have him in the
1:02:31
caller conversation district. I wasn't convinced.
1:02:33
First of all, would be on the team and be on PP1 because why
1:02:37
do you have the angle on your team if he's not gonna be 1, to
1:02:39
be honest? And the yeah, I mean, they're
1:02:42
rolling with it. Yeah, now, now I, I, I think
1:02:46
that it's close. I don't think it's like Corbat
1:02:48
by a mile. I would take Corvette though.
1:02:51
Yes, it's just that when? I think it'll be pretty similar,
1:02:55
like if Bennett starts getting points because now he's got one
1:02:58
out of like 8 games and Horvat doesn't score four goals in two
1:03:02
games like it'll be I feel like they'll settle.
1:03:06
In I think there's a lot of questions in terms of Florida's
1:03:10
deployment. We're seeing the line blender
1:03:12
come out and just everything's up in the air or as part of that
1:03:15
is. But it has better on the
1:03:17
Islanders though like. 100% like, but I mean also like,
1:03:20
Florida's ravaged by injuries. It's brutal.
1:03:23
Barkoff is out for the season, Chachkes out for more than half
1:03:26
the season or at least half the season.
1:03:28
And you're looking at guys, even guys like Reinhart are doing
1:03:30
terribly. You know, I picked up Seth Jones
1:03:33
in the 10th round, Super excited about it.
1:03:34
He's doing carefully, you know, like if you're owning any of the
1:03:37
Florida Panthers right now, you're not very happy.
1:03:39
So and like most of their guys are not coming back anytime
1:03:43
soon, if at all. In the case of Barkov, yes,
1:03:46
Chuck will come back. Come.
1:03:48
Back cuz I think the big issue with what's happening with
1:03:51
Florida right now is that they've pretty much been riding
1:03:55
Bennett versus the teams hardest matchups.
1:03:58
That hasn't been the case of what he's trying to deal with
1:04:01
his whole career. This is a spicy one by the way.
1:04:03
We're spending a lot of time on this.
1:04:04
You were right, Kevin, this is this is Habanero Plus over here.
1:04:08
But yeah, I just find that went to trucks back, it'll be easier
1:04:13
for them to manage stuff as far as like deployment and versus
1:04:19
different lines. So I think it's gonna get
1:04:21
considerably better. Nevertheless, you can't deny
1:04:25
what Arby's been doing. It's really, really impressive.
1:04:28
So we were all excited about and it's deployment with the Barkov
1:04:34
injury, but let's also not forget the fact that ignoring
1:04:37
playoffs because obviously fantasy hockey doesn't take
1:04:39
place over the playoffs. Man, it's never like cracked
1:04:42
like really 50 points, right. He's that's just the kind of
1:04:45
player he is. Obviously the reason he's so
1:04:47
loved in bangers league is because the Pimms shots face off
1:04:49
wins hits, which she shouldn't, you know, get up to the level
1:04:51
he's done in the past that first, that's for sure, no
1:04:53
doubt, but he's not suddenly going to become a point per game
1:04:56
player just because Barca was out.
1:04:57
I mean, we kind of hoped he would take a step up.
1:04:59
Doesn't seem like it. He'll get back to his baseline
1:05:02
for sure. I'm not worried about him doing
1:05:03
worse, but I think that we have to kind of adjust our
1:05:07
expectations of what the post Barkov Panthers look like.
1:05:12
Yep. Yeah.
1:05:13
So I'm going to go Horvat, Josh. Horvat, Kevin.
1:05:16
Horvat It was so long for one that we all agreed upon, but.
1:05:21
OK, fair enough. Really good, no taking.
1:05:25
If we agree, we just move on. #2 Mackenzie Weeger or Charlie
1:05:30
McAvoy. Now, let me preface this with
1:05:34
some context. Because Wigger was a top five
1:05:36
defenseman drafted in your bangers leagues.
1:05:38
McAvoy went severely lower. But McAvoy always had kind of
1:05:41
like a he's always been like a low-key bright spot in banging
1:05:44
because he also touches Pimms. And this season I feel like this
1:05:47
is weaker, slowest start to the season is bigger categories have
1:05:51
not been where they usually are. He's not shooting and he doesn't
1:05:54
get points. So and I think McAvoy right now
1:05:57
in Boston looks better than we anticipated.
1:05:59
He's getting way more involved in the offence.
1:06:01
So we're seeing McAvoy kind of like he's, I think he has a
1:06:04
four-game point streak right now and he's blocking, shooting,
1:06:09
pimping. So I think it's a conversation
1:06:12
and not a complete disrespect on like all that's not ahead of
1:06:15
ourselves type of thing. I think it's a I think it's a
1:06:18
really good one. I still have to go with Uighur.
1:06:21
I do think that over the course of the season, the back hats
1:06:24
will sort themselves out and we're just going to be
1:06:26
significantly better for back hats.
1:06:27
And I do think that Calgary is just an offensive black hole.
1:06:31
So I could see MacBook getting more points, but it's not like
1:06:34
Boston is the the picture of a amazing team either, you know,
1:06:38
so I see Mac by getting more points, but I see the the back
1:06:41
hatch difference still being heavily enough in in wiggers
1:06:44
favor to to pick him over McAvoy.
1:06:45
But I actually think it's a really good one, which is really
1:06:48
crazy because like you said, like I mean weaker was a top
1:06:51
five round pick, was probably around 10 pick.
1:06:54
So it's gotten a lot closer. There's a realistic world where
1:06:57
McAvoy ends the season with like, more shots and more blocks
1:07:00
than weaker. Like, you won't.
1:07:01
You won't overtake them in hits, but last season week or 2.27
1:07:06
shots McAvoy 1.96. That's a .3 difference.
1:07:09
Like that's not huge blocks 2.37 for weaker microwave 1.62 which
1:07:14
is low but we've seen this season that it's already like
1:07:18
way closer because weaker is not.
1:07:20
A lot of I think like there's a lot of kind of wacky stats this
1:07:26
early in the season because averages don't have enough
1:07:28
sample size to kind of balance out.
1:07:30
I know that I have a lot of guys on my roster that I was banking
1:07:33
on is like classic bangers guys and they just have not been
1:07:36
providing the category coverage that I was hoping for or
1:07:38
expecting. And I kind of expect that to
1:07:40
even out over time. Like look at like a cider.
1:07:42
You know, he hasn't been doing the the hits and blocks I've
1:07:44
been expecting from him necessarily, but it's annoying,
1:07:47
but I'm not really worried about it.
1:07:49
I feel like players don't just forget how to, you know, do that
1:07:51
and don't necessarily jump up to a whole other level that easily,
1:07:56
especially at this point in their careers.
1:07:58
So I don't think it's crazy to to go McCoy over weaker, which
1:08:01
is saying something. But I.
1:08:02
Think if you if you have Michael, you could trade him for
1:08:04
weaker and I like that. I'd still do that obviously, but
1:08:08
don't forget McCoy has a 444 playoff schedule.
1:08:10
Yes, that's definitely true. If you could trade a Wigger for
1:08:13
McAvoy. Plus, I feel like that's
1:08:15
something that I strongly be looking at.
1:08:17
Yeah. Oh, man, this is hard.
1:08:22
That's a good one, Kevin. Like it's, it's a good, good
1:08:25
question. I, I'm maybe just gonna lean
1:08:29
McAvoy honestly, but I, I don't like that I said that.
1:08:36
Calgary looks not fun to watch to be honest.
1:08:37
I just feel like I want no parts of their team.
1:08:39
Yeah, and pasta still. Passed out, right?
1:08:41
At least the Boston has him. Yeah, it it, it's the two, the
1:08:45
two real factors for me is 1. As Kevin has said, it's really
1:08:48
not in Boston's DNA to tank. And I think that Calgary's chill
1:08:53
with just being like, alright, give us McKenna.
1:08:56
This is like, I think they're way cooler with that.
1:08:58
I I mean, I don't necessarily believe that Uyghur spot is as
1:09:03
firm on power play one as McAvoy.
1:09:05
That's definitely true. Macavoy is playing with Absolute
1:09:09
Superstar and the closest equivalent you have on Calgary
1:09:13
is Jonathan Huberdeau. That's former 100 point player
1:09:17
Jonathan Huberdeau. Literally exactly it's.
1:09:20
Now this is a really good one because I don't disagree with
1:09:22
Jake's take. Like I said, I'm leaning weaker,
1:09:24
but this is really close. Playoff schedule 2 and don't
1:09:27
forget, I mean last year going into the draft, I'm talking like
1:09:31
2425 season. Macavoy is probably drafted even
1:09:33
higher than weaker. He had tons and tons of injuries
1:09:36
last year. It was really bad.
1:09:37
But years prior, Macavoy's been very good, super reliable for
1:09:42
bangers and I think that it's it's enough to put him over the
1:09:45
edge versus Wigger in my opinion.
1:09:48
I'm not sounding the alarm on Wigger just yet, but I'm
1:09:51
definitely like my eyes are peeled on the situation that
1:09:54
like maybe this could be a down. Year.
1:09:55
He's got his pulse on it. Yeah, I got my pulse on it.
1:09:59
Kevin is your choice. Honestly, I just feel like if
1:10:03
you if you ask me like who I want on my team resident season
1:10:05
leading into the playoffs, like I think I want McAvoy.
1:10:08
Wow. I think there's gonna be
1:10:10
substantial difference in points.
1:10:11
I think we plan to leave that has Pimms as well.
1:10:14
I think the blocks in the shots are gonna be closed and I can
1:10:16
just get my hits somewhere else, so.
1:10:18
Fair. All right #3 going goalies.
1:10:22
Now the hottest goalie in the league are one of not named
1:10:26
Scott Wedgewood, but Spencer Knight or Thatcher Demko.
1:10:31
That's a really good one. You know what I'm going with
1:10:36
Knights. I'm going with Knight too.
1:10:39
You guys think neighbor in this early season night?
1:10:41
Researching night is a clear cell high, but I just do not
1:10:46
believe that Vancouver is significantly enough better than
1:10:49
Chicago this year. And Demko has a man named Kevin
1:10:54
Lankinen hanging out with him and Spencer Knight has nobody
1:10:57
hanging out with him. So nights 100% getting more
1:10:59
starts than them. Go Night doesn't have the entry
1:11:02
history and I don't see Vancouver being enough better
1:11:05
than Chicago to make it worth going to Temko.
1:11:08
Not exactly what I was going to say.
1:11:09
The injury thing is huge and Lankinen's a very formidable 1B.
1:11:15
So that's instead of demco. Instead of Demco I almost put
1:11:18
Saros but that have been harder. I would go Saros.
1:11:21
Over sorrows. OK, so I split the difference
1:11:23
there. Yeah, yeah, very interesting.
1:11:26
I feel like if you were A0G team and you ended up with Spencer
1:11:29
night, like you're thrilled right now.
1:11:30
Yeah, 100%. Alright, this next one I think
1:11:33
is my favorite one. Give us yours.
1:11:37
I would take. I would take them go wow, yeah,
1:11:41
I think, I think Vancouver is going to be a better team than
1:11:44
than Chicago. And that's the.
1:11:46
One enough better to to make it worth losing, like however many
1:11:50
starts, indifference. Yeah, I think so.
1:11:53
I just don't think, I don't think Spencer and I can keep up
1:11:55
the. No, I I fully agree he's.
1:11:58
The percentages that he currently has right now and if
1:12:00
he's getting you like not enough wins and also like like he's not
1:12:04
gonna be able to get you a 940 and losses forever.
1:12:07
You know what I mean? So that's that's my that's my
1:12:09
take. But this one is my favorite one
1:12:11
to ask. I don't know if you guys saw it.
1:12:12
I hope you didn't, but no Seth Jarvis or Tim Stutler.
1:12:18
Wow, that's a really good one. And you know what?
1:12:21
I'm going South, Jarvis. I think that Jarvis is the real
1:12:25
deal. When Jakey drafted him, I was
1:12:26
like, Jake, you weren't you weren't even that happy with the
1:12:29
pic at the time. You were like, I kind of I kind
1:12:31
of panicked and I was like, this is one of my favorite pics from
1:12:33
your draft and or being proven right already.
1:12:36
So far he's just he's just unreal.
1:12:38
Honestly, he's so, so good. Especially our league counts
1:12:40
shorthanded points. It hasn't come yet, but it will
1:12:42
and and stuff. So like Ottawa first of.
1:12:46
All the game long, first of all, and just see like he has not
1:12:49
been bad, but the glaring thing was too.
1:12:51
So right now is that he has he doesn't have the power play
1:12:54
points yet whereas last season he averages 0.4 which is elite.
1:12:58
Yeah, 100%. I mean would be fair for the
1:13:01
next like still six weeks probably.
1:13:04
To be fair, still definitely gonna get more powerful points
1:13:06
because Carolina is just an awful power play, but I see
1:13:11
Jarvis getting more points overall points and still drives
1:13:13
gonna get more shorties and I like drivers's back cats better
1:13:17
as well. So and he has that triple
1:13:19
eligibility versus Stitzel only has two of those 3
1:13:22
eligibilities. Obviously that's such a minor
1:13:24
fact, but yeah, no, I'm. Very taking into account the
1:13:26
tool is now going to be playing with Dylan Cousins and Drake
1:13:29
Batherson on one line. I did see that and I like that a
1:13:32
lot. Obviously it's not sustainable
1:13:34
because one check comes back that's going to get mixed up.
1:13:36
But Cousins is the GOAT so years ago.
1:13:40
But I mean, also that means that he's not getting that this was
1:13:42
not getting face off wins anymore if he's playing with
1:13:43
Cousins, or at least it's getting cut in half.
1:13:45
So yeah, driver doesn't. Really count that, Yeah.
1:13:48
So I'm pretty comfortable going. With all hits stools drafted
1:13:56
higher. Yeah, yeah.
1:13:59
Are you picking them and feel like you're, you feel like
1:14:01
you're. I wanna hear that I picked
1:14:03
Jarvis. I, I, I'm like, I mean, I, I
1:14:10
really wanna try to remove my bias out of it.
1:14:13
I'm a Jarvis owner. It's like when people talk about
1:14:17
stocks, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's like on any like of
1:14:20
like these these these shows like for finance or whatever,
1:14:23
they're like, you know, like I have to disclose my owning.
1:14:28
So I own Jarvis in our fantasy league, which is definitely the
1:14:31
same thing as a hedge fund manager owning meta, but.
1:14:34
You know owning Jarvis is way more fun than.
1:14:38
Owner because. That's a lot.
1:14:40
But look, I'm honestly just gonna, I'm just gonna go with
1:14:48
with. Jarvis suspense was killing me
1:14:51
there because. Like one thing got.
1:14:55
Involved the wonderful things he does.
1:14:58
Yeah, I really, I really think it's it's a year where Jarvis is
1:15:06
gonna he he seemingly just exploding.
1:15:08
We're all super down on raw teams in general, but this year
1:15:13
they have a little bit of an offensive spark that seems a bit
1:15:16
more unique. If somehow they can make that
1:15:19
power play work, amazing. If not, I still think he's got
1:15:22
such a great floor. It's not like Stitzel's been 100
1:15:25
plus point player in the password.
1:15:27
This is like someone who's elite, I think.
1:15:28
They're but Jarvis not gonna get 100 points.
1:15:31
No, I don't think that's the case.
1:15:32
It's just like, it's just the track record of stood still does
1:15:35
not necessarily make me think like, oh, I have to do this.
1:15:38
Yes, the drop had there and everything.
1:15:40
Yeah, if you have drivers, you can name your Team USA Jar Jar
1:15:44
Binks. Nice noted.
1:15:48
And and last season they were virtually like same point per
1:15:53
game. It's just that Jarvis had the
1:15:54
edge in short handed points and shots and stuff.
1:15:57
So look, I mean, this is Stitzel's first year with
1:15:59
respectable amount of faceoffs. So I would take that out.
1:16:02
Of the I also will face shooting more and I feel like that's more
1:16:05
sustainable than drivers shooting the way he is shooting
1:16:08
currently and still has. Exactly.
1:16:09
Four shots per game. Four shots per game, yeah, which
1:16:12
is too much. But Stitzel has also been under
1:16:14
2 in the past, right? So I think that's gonna happen
1:16:17
is that Jarvis is gonna end up with about .5 more.
1:16:22
I feel like my heart wants drivers but my brain tells me
1:16:24
still so. Yeah, but my body, yeah.
1:16:31
I think still, just in my head, the way I'm rationalizing it is
1:16:34
I feel like Stutzel will get more points, more power play
1:16:37
points, more Pimms, more hits, and then I feel the shots will
1:16:41
be negligible enough. And yeah, I'm missing out on the
1:16:44
shorties, which is pretty huge for our fantasy league, the fact
1:16:47
that Jarvis is so elite at those.
1:16:49
But I think overall I'm I'm happier to be exposed to Otto
1:16:55
was the fact that it was attacked.
1:16:57
There's the fact that if you got Stitzel, you would have all 5 of
1:16:59
that power play 1 so. That's the Infinity Stones,
1:17:02
right? Yeah, exactly.
1:17:03
That was complete. I was hoping one of you guys
1:17:06
would sway me strongly in One Direction or the other, but
1:17:09
nobody did. And that's why I'm still my mind
1:17:11
and my body and my feelings are split.
1:17:13
So. Wait, wait, So what?
1:17:16
What wins in this scenario? I think I'm going still OK and
1:17:20
if I have drivers I'm trying to get total plus so.
1:17:24
Oh wow. That's shaky looking.
1:17:26
I I do a 2 for two and try to get like, you know, Jarvis plus
1:17:30
somebody else and then get an upgrade quote UN quote to
1:17:33
Stutzel another upgrade. I think it's a little difficult
1:17:37
to do at this stage on the name value, frankly, but yes, I would
1:17:40
do that. It's so even to me it's like
1:17:42
it's 5149. You know it's really close and
1:17:46
drivers was drafted like 2 rounds later so.
1:17:49
Yeah. Yeah, this next one, I feel like
1:17:51
it's gonna be a no brainer, but it's just the fact that we have
1:17:54
to raise the question. Karel Marchenko or Sam Reinhart.
1:18:01
I don't think that's that's, that's a spicy like I'm sorry, I
1:18:03
don't think that's as easy as you think it is.
1:18:06
No, I don't think it's easy, but I feel like when you know, you
1:18:08
look at the name value and you're like, alright, well, I
1:18:10
gotta pick one, right? I'm going Marchenko and I know
1:18:15
that's. Crazy, actually.
1:18:17
I know, you know, it's, it's nuts.
1:18:19
Maybe I'm just in a silly goofy mood.
1:18:21
But no, I mean, I really think that this Barkov injury has way
1:18:26
more effect than I mean, we already expected it to have a
1:18:29
massive effect because he's obviously one of the top players
1:18:31
in the league. But I think it's just I'm so
1:18:34
happy that I avoided Reinhart when I did it because of that
1:18:38
Barkov injury. So I think that this is not some
1:18:41
sort of, I mean, Reinhart even with Barkov, there was like
1:18:44
barely point per game, right? So I wouldn't be surprised to
1:18:47
see him be like .8 over the season.
1:18:49
And Marchenko I think could hit point per game and is going to
1:18:52
shoot more. Reinhart, you know, I'll give
1:18:54
him the shorties still, But but that power play, which normally
1:18:57
is such a we've talked about in the past, Reinhardt like over
1:19:00
half his points come from a special team usually, whether
1:19:03
it's their elite power play or their shorties.
1:19:05
And their power play clearly is a huge mess right now.
1:19:08
And so I think that I think I'm comfortable going Marchenko.
1:19:12
And I mean, OK, listen, I'll just give you my take two, but
1:19:15
I'm 100% going Marchenko, I think, I feel like it wasn't, it
1:19:19
wasn't so long ago that we were like not buying Reinhart as a
1:19:23
second round pick. And I think we're seeing the
1:19:25
impact of Barkov has on not only his value, but just like the
1:19:28
teams value. Whole team, yeah.
1:19:29
Whole teams value Marchenko has played five games thus far this
1:19:33
season. He has five goals and he has
1:19:37
only one assist. So that first of all, leads me
1:19:40
to believe like maybe he's due for some regression.
1:19:42
He's not going to be able to score only goals and not get any
1:19:44
assists. But also he's played five games.
1:19:47
These are his shot totals for all the games, 84505.
1:19:53
Like the guy is nuts. He's averaging over four shots a
1:19:56
game. I, I, I feel like if you listen
1:20:00
to Bangor management in the off season, Marchenko was one of the
1:20:03
guys that we were touting the most.
1:20:05
We saw the Yahoo ADP had him like severely, severely
1:20:08
suppressed that we said, listen, this is the guy you should get
1:20:11
on all your rosters. It's just about how early do you
1:20:13
decide to take them compared to your league mates?
1:20:15
Hopefully you have more chance on your team because this guy is
1:20:18
a stud and we've seen, like other guys on Columbus, kind of
1:20:21
start slow. Except Marchenko was like the
1:20:23
exception that he's driving that first line and you wanna expose
1:20:26
it to anybody around him. I think Marching was a stud.
1:20:29
I'd be willing to make that flip.
1:20:31
If you have Reinhart, you drafted in the second round,
1:20:33
some guy drafted Marchenko in the 10th round.
1:20:34
It's Week 3 and I'm making that swap.
1:20:36
So. You can make it happen.
1:20:38
I don't know if that was a tougher decision for you JQ,
1:20:40
but. Honestly, it was, and then I
1:20:45
looked at the numbers from last year and aside from the power
1:20:48
play discrepancy, it really wasn't so far off.
1:20:50
Like it was less than 1% difference point per game.
1:20:54
People just don't wanna believe in being like this.
1:20:56
Good. Yeah, yeah.
1:20:59
Yeah, listen, it's it's, it's there.
1:21:03
I mean, I I really think that he's going to be an amazing
1:21:05
offensive player this year. He's we joke about him being the
1:21:08
best krill in the league. He's not.
1:21:11
Not yet, but he's. Easily the second best curling.
1:21:16
No, I, I all kidding aside, I, I'm really, I just like Columbus
1:21:21
as like an offensive team that that gets the best out of their
1:21:25
offensive players. Five goals, five games.
1:21:28
No, that's not gonna happen. He's not gonna.
1:21:30
It has happened already, so it's not gonna happen again, you're
1:21:33
saying? Sorry, I just mean that pace of
1:21:35
82 games that that's not that's not going down.
1:21:38
But like you said, Kevin, the offence funnels through him.
1:21:43
He is the best offensive player on this team and his stable line
1:21:49
one power play 1 all year. I just don't know if Reinhart
1:21:52
can necessarily take that jump and be like the guy that Florida
1:21:56
just runs through. So because of that, I'd say at
1:21:59
least until the truck comes back, which is months from now,
1:22:03
Columbus is going to score more goals than Florida.
1:22:05
And afterwards, with the adjustment, like, who knows?
1:22:07
So I'm gonna go with Marchenko, yeah.
1:22:10
Yeah, I think it's worth having a conversation where we draw the
1:22:13
line, like Marchenko or like Jason Robertson.
1:22:17
Marching Roberts off to a hot start.
1:22:19
Too. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
1:22:20
So where are you? Where are we?
1:22:22
Doing too many miles to feet. I'm gonna go Marchenko.
1:22:26
Marchenko or Kyle Connor. Connor.
1:22:28
Connor. OK, Marchenko, Phillip.
1:22:31
Who's Forsberg? Hey you.
1:22:37
We got this team. Literally doing the exact same
1:22:40
thing you did last year. I mean, his bags are still
1:22:42
elite, but I don't know, I think I might go Marchenko if you
1:22:47
factor in the playoff schedule as well.
1:22:49
And it's like Mango shoots really well also, right?
1:22:52
So. First, potentially make that
1:22:53
trade. Bonus on him is the hits.
1:22:56
Potentially get Marchenko plus and it's not like your team
1:22:58
needs any more hits if I'm being real.
1:23:01
Yeah, I'm looking. I mean, you're the first guy
1:23:02
definitely get Marchenko plus because the name value and where
1:23:05
they were drafted. But yeah, I can go take
1:23:07
Marchenko. I'm totally looking into this
1:23:09
right now because. This is a very well literally on
1:23:12
the episode Let's brat. Why?
1:23:18
I'm gonna get more points, is gonna get more power play points
1:23:20
and he's gonna get more hits. But.
1:23:22
It's gonna make up for like the over two shot difference most
1:23:24
likely. Yeah.
1:23:26
OK. The power plays a.
1:23:28
Big Chanko owner also owns protest in our league so that's
1:23:31
no. Alright, so I think I think we
1:23:35
should leave it there, but. Yeah, that wraps it.
1:23:37
Up having conversations on. Beauty I like.
1:23:40
It that was very good, very good long episode.
1:23:43
So thanks to everyone who listened all the way through,
1:23:47
but a lot. Of very little.
1:23:49
We just cannot shut our mouths there.
1:23:52
If you enjoy the show. Years.
1:23:55
Oh my God, we'd like to get there One episode without
1:23:59
throat. Go on, just one.
1:24:01
We were so close. The next one I missed the
1:24:04
episode. You guys could not mention the
1:24:06
code or you can refer to me as the throat code is not here.
1:24:10
Now that makes it so much worse. Yeah.
1:24:15
Alright. Jackie, take us home country.
1:24:17
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1:24:33
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1:24:35
this whole throat. As you should.
1:24:38
Not that's all. That's embracing it way too
1:24:40
much. Take us off into song, Josh.
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But a bound bound banger management fantasy hockey
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