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Barbara Bound Bound Banger Management Fantasy Hockey
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podcast. Woo woo Hoo.
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Nice. Welcome in all the Bank
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Management, the Fantasy Hockey Podcast with your favorite host
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Jake, Josh and Kevin. How are you all doing headed
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into this week too? Honestly, I'm buzzing.
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I am so excited this season is finally here.
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I'm so excited we finally get to talk about waivers.
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Waivers is always like a beautiful time of the year by
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year. I mean also every week because
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it's just I'm always looking to improve my team so my my watch.
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This is always like 3030 players deep, so I'm a little crazy.
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Yeah, same. I mean, especially at the
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beginning of the season, I whittled it down overtime, but
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it definitely beginning of the season.
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Anyone who remotely sparks my interest, I'm like watchlist,
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watchlist. So yeah, now I'm very excited to
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be talking a Week 2 streamers and excited to dive into the
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season. Yeah, it's a big one.
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It's gonna be really fun, and especially we mentioned this on
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the mailbag episode, but this early on there's a lot of
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opportunity for value. You get some really fun guys
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that can help you for this week and the rest of the season.
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So we'll be talking about all of that before we begin.
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Help us help you. Help us help you.
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Yeah. So yeah, let's give a quick
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explanation so for how we're going to do this waivers episode
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and then we'll dive into some big names for this coming week.
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Yep. So waivers is always fun and
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last year I feel like we kind of mentioned just a lot of names
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and maybe not all of them were always useful.
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So this year we're kind of trying to keep it concise.
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These are names that we actually want on our teams that we
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actually consider picking up. We're only considering guys that
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are less than 40% owned. So we're not gonna recommend the
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guys that are already like 5070% only because those guys are
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probably not rostered, like not on waivers in your leagues.
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We're doing a mix of, you know, three-game guys that we think
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are really good four-game guys to optimize the calendar and
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your lineups, A mix of both. We're gonna talk about the
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deployment, why we like them and what you should be streaming
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them for. We're gonna do points guys,
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we're gonna do bangers guys, we're gonna do goalies.
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We're going to cover all of it, so stay tuned.
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Anything you could ever dream of, we will talk about.
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Off nights like full nights, like obviously the schedule in
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in week 1 and Week 2 is kind of weird because like all the teams
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play on like 2 separate days, so it's kind of hard to fit people
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into your lineups. And you're still also trying to
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bolster your team with good quality players that weren't
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drafted. So we're going to talk about all
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of. That, yeah, I think as the
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season goes on, it's going to be more about optimizing the weekly
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lineup in terms of off nights, in terms of four-game teams.
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But now it's going to be a mix of bats, but also guys who we
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see are under owned and just should be owned in every league.
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So it's gonna be a bit of a mix of both.
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And in the fashion of our offseason content, everything
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must be a top 10. So we will be doing a top 10 for
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points guys, and then we'll be sprinkling in some bangers and
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some goalies as well. Outside of the top 10.
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So a lot of a lot of things are to be mentioned today.
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And let's get started with #10. All right, at #10 we've got Ivan
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Barbashev of the Vegas Golden Knights playing line One, Power
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play 2. Yeah, I think the main thing
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with Barbashev is you're getting exposure to Jack Eichel and that
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top line. You would love for him to be on
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that Power Play 1. I don't think it's gonna happen,
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but still P2 and the exposure to Jack Eichel and Barbershop and
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Barbershop is known to like be a category kind of guy where he
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can hit, he can hit as well. So that's why I think I like him
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in this ten spot. Very streaky though, so if you
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do pick him up for this week and he pops off, I would even
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consider selling him cause he if if he is playing with both
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Michael and Marner, it's a lot of perceived value there.
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Nevertheless, yeah, for this week, he's definitely good to
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grab off your waivers. Yeah, we're all going streaking
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on the quad. All right #9.
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At #9 we've got it's turbo time. Toyo Teravainen, Line 2 power
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play, one on the Chicago Blackhawks, 4 game week with two
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plus off nights. 0 peripherals but very good for points.
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Yeah, have two points in his first game.
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Yeah, he can be like a 65 to like maybe 6065 point guy, which
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you're happy to have on your squad.
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You'll be frustrated with the back categories, but for a
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four-game week like this week, you could do worse.
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I think just you're getting exposure to the top end assets
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on this Chicago team and like we've talked about it in the off
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season, like they have just a bunch of wingers that are kind
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of mediocre. Next to Bedard, he looks like he
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might be the one that maybe has the highest value.
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So I would take a shot on him in a four-game week, all right?
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Yep #8. At #8 We've got Jake Debrusk of
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the Vancouver Canucks line one power play 1.
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I like the Braska lot this year. He has averaged last year two
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shots and a hit, which is decent for for bangers leagues.
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But that line one power play 1 exposure last year he was bumped
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on and off of power play one. With Miller leaving and other
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moves in the off season, I think he's pretty much cemented his
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spot on that line on power play one.
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If Elias Pettersson bounces back at all, the brush is going to be
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right there for the ride. So I like him a lot as a low
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owned guy who could have a lot of upside and he's got a
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four-game week with two off nights.
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Yeah, and he's left wing, right wing eligible, so he can squeak
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into your lineups pretty easily. He's kind of similar to Brock
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Besser, who is a little bit more highly owned.
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Like he's around 45 to 50% owned.
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Like I like both of them playing on the wings of Elias
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Pettersson. The deployment is great.
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I really like him this week. At #7 I think this is the only
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defenseman on this list, so we'll work on that for next time
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to have more deep for you guys. But points wise it's not as
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easy. We've got Sam Rinzel of the
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Chicago Blackhawks. He's line one power play, 1,
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four-game week with two off nights.
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He is I think I'm pretty excited about Rinzel.
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If he's available in your league, I would be snatching him
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up right away. It's hard to find a power play
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one quarterback on a team that had such a highly ranked power
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play like Chicago last year. In his first game, he didn't get
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any points, but he I think led his team in waste time, got four
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blocks and a shot and a hit. So I think that he's a really
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solid pickup. The biggest thing I think would
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resell is how much he was on the ice.
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If you wanna be a defenseman that contributes to category
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coverage, like you gotta be on the ice a lot.
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And that was one of the biggest things that I noticed in week
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one with the exposure to P1. He could be like the fantasy
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defence that you pick up at the beginning of the season, last on
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your roster the whole year. Yeah, yeah.
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Whatever. Yeah, definitely happened.
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It's just I, I, I wouldn't sleep on left Shanov.
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I know you guys aren't nearly that high on as high on him.
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As I was not even really high. On I would sleep on the air.
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But I don't really know. I mean, second overall pick last
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year, it's their guy. He's supposed to be their guy in
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the future. So I don't think there gonna be
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good at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if he
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gets a crack there. But nevertheless, Rinzler guy
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for the next few weeks for sure. Four-game week, all off nights
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is really good. Jackie Samrin Sell or Cam
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Fowler? Fowler.
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Integrated cell, yeah. It's like OK.
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Yeah, no, there, there's no way. Like, did you know who Samanza
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was three months ago? Thought about it.
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It's not about who. Who was valuable 3 months ago?
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About who's valuable, right? Now.
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Exactly. It's not about who's better at
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golf, alright? Alright, let's go to #6.
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At #6 We've got the star of Week 1, or at least day one.
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Frank Nazar of the Chicago Blackhawks Line 2 power play 1
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again, A4 game week with two all plus off nights.
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He popped off game one with two points and he's a super exciting
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prospect. We had him.
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We mentioned him in the offseason as a guy that's a good
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late sleeper target in your fantasy leagues.
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If you didn't grab him but he didn't grab in your league,
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now's the time before he really keeps the pop off.
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He's going to play a big, big part on this Chicago team all
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year that I'm very confident about and you can see that he
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can just have these amazing games with four and all of them
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off nights. It's great.
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I would really, really like to have them one more team this
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week. The biggest thing to know with
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Frank Nazer, though, is that you can't really expect this
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category coverage to be there. Like, yeah, he's a pure C, which
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already limits his potential production on your fantasy team
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depending on how shallow you are.
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We playing very deep leagues when these are was like drafted
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in our league but I would expect a high point threshold where you
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might not get the shots that hits the blocks.
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But even in a bangers league, if it's deep enough like he could
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provide some value. And I will say though that I was
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impressed with his face off wins in his first game of the season.
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Absolutely he's off wins. So that's nothing to ignore in a
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face off win league. And obviously, like player,
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that's sick. Yeah, like we're banger
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management. We focus on the bangers, but we
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also got to mention guys that are like good at points too,
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right? So Nazar is just gonna be one of
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those guys that maybe he's more one-dimensional, but he can
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still be valuable. I think he like could be like a
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Dylan Strome type of thing where you know you're not really
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getting much category coverage but you're getting a pussy that
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can get like .8 points per game plus.
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Yeah, and Strum was nuts last year.
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So get in, get in while you can. All right, breaking into the top
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five at #5 we got. William Eckland of the San Jose
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Sharks line 2 power play 1. He really had a strong end to
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last season. I'm a bit not happy about his
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even strength deployment. I was hoping he would be a
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staples to celebrity. He's getting shifted between
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line 1 and line 2. Though, Yeah, it's not, it's
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not. They haven't decided yet the
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exact lines, but power play, one with celebrity.
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I think that's gonna be a surprising power play for a lot
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of people. And also if.
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You play a year. Go ahead.
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They're going to be figuring things out.
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I This is not the type of team that I would read into as far as
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even strength deployment. The one sure thing is that
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celebrating their star and they're gonna do what they can
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to support him. I believe Eckland's the best bet
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at an accompaniment because Will Smith is also really good at
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centre. So I wouldn't be surprised if
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Will Smith, Sorry if William McQueen, plays the vast majority
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of the year on his line with. Celebration, that's the thing to
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like Will Smith we thought would play centre potentially on this
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team, but turns out it's gonna be playing winger, which is
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better for his fantasy value specifically because he's going
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to be playing with celebrity in on 55 and on the power play.
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And I think Eckland being drummed down from line 1 to line
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2 is more about like evening out the lines that have some quality
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kind of spread out. But I wouldn't be shocked if you
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know, after a few weeks, they put Will Smith back at centre
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and excellent gets bumped up back to the line one.
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Like as you're listening to this, maybe they're practicing
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with Elon on line 1 instead of line to do so.
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Really it's a very fluid situation, so monitor it.
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But whether he's line one, line 2, he's valuable.
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And if you play in short handed leagues as well, at least I
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count short handed points. Like he's plays on the power on
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the penalty kill as well. So extra dimension to his game.
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And I think you can have a lot of points, some shots and some
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power play points. Yeah, only three-game week with
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uh, not 2 plus off nights next week.
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But uh, he's just more of a season long guy who should who
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should definitely be held. Yeah, yeah, all right #4.
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At #4 We've got Alexi Lafreniere of the New York Rangers line. 2
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power play, question mark. He's a kind of bouncing around.
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Power play 2, power play 1. The coach said he's gonna
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they're gonna try one power play one, but he's not getting the
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full crack at it just yet. Trocheck's there for now.
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I'd be very surprised if he doesn't get it within a month.
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I don't know what you guys think.
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At the very least it'll be a back and forth type of thing
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because the coach specifically stated he wants to give him reps
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on power play 1. And obviously that's the reason
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I'm talking about so much is because that's such a huge, it
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is part of his value, especially on a team like the Rangers that
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should have such a strong power play.
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But even without the power play, his first game he got six shots,
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three hits. He if he takes a step up in his
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back, that's a really safe floor to have.
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Yeah, absolutely. I I really think obviously the
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the power player 1 deployment is the big question mark for his
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value. But even without it, we're
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seeing him be valuable in terms of banger banger leagues where
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he can contribute to those shots and hits and he can be a walking
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double double this year. Whether he gets P1, honestly,
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I'm not sure. I really think this Rangers team
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is starting the season very slow.
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They want to get things going. You know, we saw JT, we saw
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Panarin be not in training camp, which is helping them start
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slow. Whatever works is whatever's
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gonna stay, so we'll see how that goes.
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All right #3. At #3 we've got Nick Schmaltz of
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the Utah. They play 4 games with two plus
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off nights. He's aligned 2 power play.
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One. I, we talked about this a lot in
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the offseason. I think Utah power play is gonna
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be unreal. I think they're gonna have such.
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They have so many offensive weapons and Schmaltz is just out
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of all that group of awesome forwards they have.
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He is every year underrated. Sure, he's not the biggest back
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cat guy, but points wise he always delivers and he's always
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extremely underrated. So if you're in a points league,
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he should 100% be rostered. If you're in a deep fingers leak
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he should still be rostered. So take a look at his very low
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rostered percentage and grab him if you can.
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Yeah, and this is one of the best teams that he's played with
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because when he was on Chicago, I guess they were they were
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decent. But you know, he's only really
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spent it. He spent the majority of his
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career with the Coyotes and now the Utah Mammoth.
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And as far as things go, I mean, he's he's hit basically 60
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points in his last Four Seasons. And now playing with good
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players who have matured, they're not particularly a young
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team as they were last two years.
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I think this could be a really good year.
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I wouldn't really be shocked if he had 70.
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It's not such a big jump. No, I think he, I mean, he hit
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63 last year. I could really strongly envision
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him hitting 70. If you look at his Utah lineup,
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this top 6 is stacked. It feels like whether you're on
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line one, line 2, like you're, you're in good hands in terms of
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like your 55 deployment. He's P1 on a power play that
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we're expecting to be very successful with.
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Logan Cooley, baby, I, I love schmaltz.
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You just have to know that you're getting a guy that's more
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one-dimensional. But these are still guys that
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even in bangers, like we said before, you still need these
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guys on your roster to get points to hit those categories.
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He's gonna get over two shots a game.
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He could get you point 8.9 points per game like that would
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be nuts. And he's still on waivers.
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So what better opportunity than to pick him up for a four-game
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win with two off nights and and ride that?
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Ride that train, baby. It's gonna be one of the most
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boring low key point per game at Jason players this year.
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But every year, like every year, literally it's But I think we'll
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just do better with points. Yeah.
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And then after a while, you're like, all right, he's getting
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his stats, he's getting me points, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, if he's not on your team like you don't, you don't look
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at your opponents team schmaltz there and feel intimidated.
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But you're. Not they should be your 10.
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Point set up zero to timber shivering with smalls.
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So so yeah, it's gonna come and it's going to be very, very
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under the radar. But you heard it here first.
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You should pick them up. All right, going into the top
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two at #2 we got. Owen Tippett of the Philadelphia
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Flyers, he is playing line 2 power play one.
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They only have a three-game week next week.
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But he's just should absolutely be rostered in most formats as
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long as your league is deep enough.
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But still like he's just should absolutely be rostered.
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First of all, we know the shots and hits are there.
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He's when he's playing at top of his game, he's an elite shot hit
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guy. And you throw in the fact he's
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finally got power play one, he's free of Torts.
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Michkov is going to be sick and he has to play with him on power
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play. Every sign points to awards.
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A huge breakout for Owen Tippett and he should absolutely be
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picked up. I like Philly as a dark horse
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team and I don't think they're gonna be fantastic, but I think
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that they could make a push to be like a low key playoff team.
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Are you just saying you have Ursin on your roster?
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Speaking into it, but who? Ironically, he's got such a good
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shot that I feel like he's never tipped in a goal, but that's
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kind. Of unfortunate.
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I was thinking about as you were talking about.
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I was like oh this is an important point to add, but
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that. Wasn't.
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Important. Thank you.
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Nevertheless, the post Tortorella is what I'm really
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excited about because you saw it on Florida when he was kinda
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coached not by Tortorella. He was really, really good there
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and it's just suppressed his value.
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Him and Lafreniere, who we just both, we both mentioned
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Laviolette and Tortorella are not good coaches, four players,
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fantasy value and I'm very excited to see what type can do
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this year. Tip it.
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Honestly, he's the type of guy that I would, you know, go on a
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limb and say he's like a must roster guy in bangers leagues.
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Yeah, yeah, he's literally only 34% owned as we are recording
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this insane. By the time you hear this, he's
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higher, he's over 40, but last season he was at .56 points per
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game, .09 power play points, he was never on the 1st power play
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and he averaged over half a point of game and he's basically
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a walking double double. He'll get you like 2.5 shots
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hovering near to two hits a game already.
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Those guys are valuable in bangers leagues.
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Now you're telling me who's the best forward on Philly?
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Michalov. Should be Miss Grove connect.
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Me. OK, well, I was gonna say Travis
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connect me. Yeah, I think right now it's
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still Travis connect me and he's playing on the same line as Owen
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Tippett. So when you're playing like
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let's say that line is line 2, potentially centred by Zagreus.
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If you're playing on the line with the other best forward on
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the team and you're exposed to that power play 1, I feel we
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could have a breakout season by Owen Tippett.
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He could average point 7.8 points per game with the double
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double in the back and that would be a ** pickup this early
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in the season. Yeah, he and he's also like
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didn't, didn't know how old he is.
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Take a guess. 2423. 26 so still like.
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Yeah. Yeah, but like, I feel like he's
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been. Around for old.
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Yeah, seriously, he's washed. Dumping.
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So there goes my point. But he's no, he's gonna be
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really good. And Loki close to 1 block a game
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which is not not valuable in bangers leagues.
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Yeah, yes, exactly. All right, you do the intro,
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Kevin, for the big reveal over. Here the big.
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Number one, Number one, we've got Josh Norris of the Buffalo
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Sabres line. One power play, one just a
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three-game week, but this guy is criminally underlined like it's
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actually crazy. What is he 26% something like?
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That 26% as we speak. This is the #1C for the Sabers.
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I know the Sabers is not an exciting team.
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I know Norris has his injury history, but this guy's gonna
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get to play with Tage Thompson at even strength.
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That power, he gets to play with Rasmus Dahlin.
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He is a great player himself. Other than the injury history,
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there's no reason for him to be this low rostered.
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It's honestly it blows my mind Kevin got him in our draft and I
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was super jealous because every year I take him super late and
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even though he gets injured it's still worth it for the draft
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value. But but yeah I mean he shoots,
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he wins faceoffs, he hits, and the points and power play points
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are gonna come as well. So I think this is just a no
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brainer pickup. If he's available in your league
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and you can afford to pick up a centre, you need to grab him
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right now. There's not many centres that
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can average like point 7.8 points per game and also get you
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over to hits a game, and Josh Norris is one of those names.
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Yes, this upcoming week he only has three games, but this is not
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only and also would you rather have a four-game week guide that
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is not necessarily the best or a three-game weak guy that you can
20:13
severely count on? I'd rather do three-game week
20:15
even though you're trying to maximize games played this early
20:17
in the season. I think Josh Norris is a steal.
20:19
I think he's gonna be up over 50% owned very shortly.
20:24
I, I think sky is the limit for this kid as long as he stays
20:26
healthy. That's the big, the big asterisk
20:28
because he hasn't really been healthy for for long in his
20:30
career. But I'm expecting big things
20:33
this season from Josh Norris. Yeah, I'm with you guys all the
20:37
way. He's the number one guy with the
20:40
best season long potential, owned under 40% on Yahoo
20:43
leagues, and I'm just really excited by what he can do.
20:48
He should basically replicate or even exceed what Cousins did
20:53
last year when he was with Buffalo, and that was really
20:56
decent production. Yeah, change of scenery is
20:59
probably what they both needed to get the best out of them.
21:01
And look, if he stays healthy, he could be a really valuable
21:04
asset. That's the big if for him.
21:06
But like, he's healthy now, so why not grab him for free?
21:09
You know, like if he gets injured and you don't want to
21:11
hold on to the injured guy then you can drop him.
21:13
But don't you know, I don't get why people are not picking him
21:16
up, assuming he's injured when he's still healthy.
21:19
Exactly, and if he gets hurt IR station pick up the replacement
21:22
or. Something.
21:23
Yeah, exactly. You wasn't on your router to
21:25
begin with it listening to this to this episode, so.
21:27
Yeah, rate. Should we dive into our top five
21:31
bangers for this week? Yeah.
21:32
So yes, the the the top ten that we just spoke about.
21:35
Obviously some guys are good at bangers, but these are also guys
21:37
that we can rely on to mostly get points.
21:39
Now let's talk about bangers, guys.
21:43
Yeah, because we love hanging bangers.
21:46
Yeah, exactly. Hard B Alright at #5 #5 thank
21:54
you Kevin. We've got Jake McCabe, he they
21:58
have a four-game week and he last year put up 1.1 shots, 1.8
22:03
hits and two point one blocks. This is just a solid defensemen.
22:06
You need that close to two and two at the backside.
22:09
Got four games that week. It's just one of those plug and
22:12
play. Nothing too exciting, but it
22:13
could flip you one or two cats. Hits all the mangoes you need at
22:17
a higher than average threshold, then can ask for much more.
22:21
Yep. #4 Similar, similar guy, pretty much the same exact
22:26
player. Yeah, at #4 we got Connor Murphy
22:29
of the Chicago Blackhawks last year. 1.2 shots, 1.7 hits, 2.3
22:33
blocks. Again, these two defensemen are
22:35
unexciting. It's just you need a guy with a
22:38
four-game week. Murphy has the off nights over
22:40
Mccabes. That's why we ranked higher.
22:42
But very similar stats. And these are just, you know,
22:45
easy plug-in streamers to flip a couple cats.
22:47
This is why you're playing in categories league.
22:49
You should have some sort of calculation telling you what
22:52
categories you want to be targeting that week.
22:54
If you see that you're going to struggle on hits or blocks, not
22:56
struggle but like you are close to flipping them, then you wanna
22:59
pick up these guys. These are not the most exciting.
23:03
Players that are. Present in the NHL.
23:06
Thing but they some these are guys that are like always useful
23:09
to stream like these are the names that become common in the
23:13
hockey workplace with them just being valuable on A4 game weeks.
23:19
Yeah, I'd make game multiple times last year and it was
23:21
always nice. That these are the types of guys
23:23
who are gonna end up on like everyone in your leagues team at
23:25
some point. Just anytime someone in a pinch
23:27
and needs like those stats, they pick up these guys because they
23:30
just have the consistency and it's like I just need like three
23:33
hits in the next two games just to win that category.
23:36
I'll just pick up a Murphy Remicade, whatever, but like I
23:38
think our top 3 here is a is a lot more exciting.
23:40
Yeah, they're fantasy journeyman.
23:42
That's what I would call, yes. Yeah.
23:45
Yeah, this this top three door to talk about some forwards that
23:48
can not only get you hits, but also some shots and some points
23:51
and at #3 we got. Marco Casper of the Detroit Red
23:55
Wings, they have a four-game week and two plus off nights.
23:58
Last year he had 1.9 shots on goal and two hits, so pretty
24:01
much a double double. He's centering line 2 with Kane
24:04
and Debrincat so there's definitely some offensive upside
24:06
there. And what the great schedule this
24:08
week. I definitely like him as a
24:09
pickup for bankers and in a bangers, a deep bangers league.
24:12
I think he's a season long hold. I'm the highest of anybody on
24:16
Casper. I like him a lot.
24:18
There's a lot of potential there.
24:20
He is a real tough, you know, uphill battle to climb, to get
24:24
power. Play one he's not gonna get.
24:26
In he's never getting power play 1.
24:27
I don't, unless there's an injury, I don't think he's
24:29
getting power. Play 1.
24:30
Yeah, it's very obvious. But he could still provide a lot
24:33
of value and I was shocked when I saw that last year he
24:36
basically averaged a double double because he had really
24:38
good point stretches too. I think he's an amazing season,
24:41
long hold and I'd really like to have all my team.
24:46
Yeah, I think the one thing holding him back from being just
24:48
like a guy that you're getting drafting in the top 8 rounds is
24:51
the no power play one. If he was on power play 1A
24:54
double double young guy with the breakout potential, he would
24:57
definitely be a way higher. The fact is, without that, it
24:59
caps his points ceiling, but he's still a great a great
25:02
pickup and super low roster right now.
25:04
Yeah, yeah, I I'm definitely the lowest of the three of us on on
25:07
Casper, but his category coverage is undeniable and I
25:12
think his game is just going to progress throughout the season.
25:14
So all right #2. All right, this is a polarizing
25:19
one, but at #2 we've got Evander Kane of the Vancouver Canucks 4
25:23
game week with two plus off nights.
25:25
I could input last year stats because he didn't play last year
25:28
in the in the regular season. So I put his career stats here
25:31
and on his career he averages 1.3 Pimms per game with 3.5
25:34
shots and 2.4 hits. That's just absolutely
25:38
ridiculous banger stats. And then you throw in the fact
25:40
that he's on power play 1 to start the year.
25:42
I know Kevin doesn't think that's going to last, but at the
25:45
very least he's going to give it a shot for it.
25:47
So he has the points potential and he has the potential for
25:50
these back cats. The only one of the big ifs is
25:54
his age and the fact that he's a bionic man after all those
25:56
surgeries. So there's definitely a lot of,
25:59
yeah, there's a lot of ifs here, but there's a lot, a lot of
26:03
upside. So if you're the type of person,
26:05
fantasy player who likes grabbing a guy with super high
26:09
upside and worst case scenario if he's available and you grab
26:12
him worst case, OK, cost you like a week because of him not
26:15
performing and then you drop him or something.
26:16
I don't know me. This is such a huge upside
26:18
pickup that if he's available in your league, it's a league that
26:21
counts Pimms shots and hits. I'm grabbing him immediately.
26:24
He was one of the best picks to ever have in Bangor leagues 4
26:29
years ago. Three years ago even, it was a
26:32
bit of a different story on Edmonton.
26:33
He was buried in the lineup. But what's cool about it here is
26:36
that it'll similar to the Sharks where he is going to be front
26:39
and centre of this team for their success.
26:41
Line 3. For now, that's not exciting,
26:44
but I wouldn't say that jump to line 2 is impossible over
26:48
Arshdeep Bains so. Yeah, he's not going to be stuck
26:57
arch deep in the lineup the whole time.
27:00
That's a good one. OK, what I was going to say
27:06
about Evander Kane is I'm definitely more on the
27:09
pessimistic side compared to both of you in terms of like his
27:12
threshold. That's the point right now.
27:15
I'm trying to keep a professional.
27:16
OK, you guys can laugh. Let me just talk about Evander
27:20
Kane. Listen, Week 1, you can't read
27:24
too, too much into it. Only two games.
27:26
Now, Week 2 is gonna get a four-game week.
27:30
I think the peripherals are really going to depend on how
27:32
much he can stay on the ice. So I would I would say his floor
27:36
is a double double and with the potential exposure to power play
27:40
one like as you're listening to this, like with the practice
27:43
lines, anything can happen. He could be power play 2.
27:45
He could be on no power plays. So make sure you just take a
27:48
look at like daily face off and see what the updated lines look
27:50
like. If he's on power play one, he's
27:52
like full stream ahead. Even power play 2 if you need
27:54
bangs. I'm still interested.
27:55
So I really like him for the banger categories.
28:01
Alright, Jake, are you OK? Jake.
28:02
Is still like dying a lot. Looking at Arshdeep's NHL stats
28:07
from last year, it's pretty good.
28:11
So maybe she came. We'll have a tough time, but
28:13
we're taking you. Obviously he looks like a pretty
28:18
good player. Just the pun of the century.
28:24
Jake is nothing that will get them to puns like.
28:29
That that was exceptional. That was the equals MC squared
28:33
of puns I. Was thank you, I was pretty
28:35
proud of it. Was awesome.
28:38
OK, OK. Move on to move on to to the
28:42
first. Yeah, all right #1 on this
28:46
banger, top five. All right #1 banger for this
28:51
week is Mackie Samutsevich of the Florida Panthers.
28:55
They have a three-game week, but he's got the sorry.
28:58
They have a four-game week but but don't have the off nights.
29:02
Last year you put up 1.8 shots on goal and 1.9 hits.
29:05
So pretty much a double double. He's not getting power play one
29:08
right now. I do think he has a shot at it,
29:10
but even without that he put up two points in a power play point
29:13
in his first game. I really like Simon Sketch this
29:15
year. Jackie sniped him from me and
29:17
I'm over it. Yeah, he's currently on line 3,
29:21
but this is such a fluid situation.
29:24
The coach has said multiple times he wants him in the top 6.
29:26
Yeah, exactly. And like Florida, is arch deep
29:29
in injuries right now. I saw you saw you gearing up for
29:36
that one. Put it away to say the name
29:39
again. You couldn't.
29:42
Yeah, this is great. I don't think Kevin got the fun.
29:43
Will have to explain it to him. Later, yeah.
29:45
Yeah, time to go into it actually, just like really
29:48
listen to this afterwards. And yeah, it's really complex.
29:53
Yeah, I'm. Thinking about it.
29:56
No. No, he doesn't get OK.
30:02
Anyways, this is great, yeah. It's great, is the man.
30:06
I have some Moskvich and a lot of my leagues, I'm thrilled to
30:08
have him. I think the one thing that
30:10
hasn't been said yet, like yeah, he's line 3, but Josh said like
30:14
he's going to end up in the top 6, but he's still getting good
30:16
minutes even if he's not in the top 6.
30:18
The main thing is if they if Ford decides not to go with the
30:21
two defensemen power play, I think he's the guy that's going
30:23
to get up there. Yeah, 100%.
30:25
It's either him or for Hagee, and I think they'd much prefer
30:27
him. So I'm really feel like Rangers
30:31
leagues that are that are pretty deep.
30:33
Like he can be a season long hold and I'd be seriously
30:35
considering adding him if you have the room.
30:39
Yeah, but before we get to the end of this, let's get into our
30:41
goalies. So we've got our top three
30:43
quantity goalies. So those are guys who are gonna
30:45
get you 2 plus starts and again, as everything on this episode,
30:48
it's guys who are under 40% owned so that it applies to most
30:51
leagues. So at. #3. #3 We've got Spencer
30:57
Knight of the Chicago Blackhawks.
30:59
They play 4 times next week against Utah, Saint Louis,
31:02
Vancouver, Anaheim. He should get three of those
31:04
four starts and none of these. All these teams could be good
31:08
this year, but none of them is super scary to me.
31:11
Utah. I love you.
31:13
I love Utah. I think Saint Louis is sick.
31:16
Vancouver, Anaheim, you know, but none of them are like a top
31:18
five team in the league. But realistically, like we're
31:22
going into week two, you probably drafted goalies are
31:25
gonna help you get your starts already.
31:27
So if you're really in a pickle that you need goalie starts, you
31:30
either punted goalies completely or like you're only two.
31:34
Goals say that's. UPL and Kochetkov and that's it
31:37
and. I was gonna say that's a bit
31:38
rich coming from you and Jake didn't say anything about him
31:41
too, because the two of you guys wanted goalies card that this a
31:44
top three applies to you guys more than anyone.
31:46
So you know that there's a lot of people out there who go full
31:48
0G and neither of these quantity starts.
31:50
Sure. Hey, listen, all my team, I got
31:52
Scott Wedgewood, who depending on when you're listening to this
31:55
as a recording. Blackwood is not currently back
31:57
yet. I I'm, I'm happy with Freddie
32:00
Anderson. So listen.
32:01
Yeah, I'm definitely listening to this section in Incognito
32:05
mode. Yeah, Jiggies Burn is on full
32:07
flight, right? Now.
32:09
Did you drop the one goalie and Stuart Skinner?
32:11
So we'll see how that goes for him.
32:14
Yeah, Calvin Pickard's back up. Do you?
32:19
Yeah. Sorry, were you gonna say?
32:21
No, you go. No, just these three.
32:25
Don't talk about two or one yet. Yeah, that's what I thought,
32:28
yeah. Cause I.
32:29
Was gonna no because I was just gonna say like of these three, I
32:34
think Knight is the one who's the safest bet to be a starter
32:39
all season. He's not my favorite for this
32:41
week, nor is he actually technically my favorite, but he
32:43
is the safest. He is exactly my third favorite
32:46
this week in terms of. At least if I had to rank him
32:50
then. Chicago is going to be bad, but
32:53
he's their guy and he was supposed to be a really great
32:55
goalie coming out. Of the great the first game of
32:57
the season against against Florida, his old team, they
33:00
didn't win, but he had a good game, which is I think what
33:02
you'll be saying most of the year if you have him.
33:05
He might be like the style of last year, just like, you know,
33:09
not on the best team, you're not always gonna get wins, but you
33:11
kind of look good even in the losses.
33:13
Yeah, that might be his situation, but let's talk about
33:15
#2. #2 We've got a guy that Jackie likes to bring up every
33:21
year, but it's just he's too early.
33:23
But we've got a yes for Walstead of the Minnesota Wild.
33:26
And he would be like, what? How is yester Walstead getting
33:29
two starts when Philip Gustafson is a clear number one?
33:31
I'll tell you, listener, it's because they have two back to
33:33
backs next week. So he's going to get both back
33:37
to backs. So they have one back, which is
33:40
LA and Dallas. So he's going to get one of
33:42
those two and they have one which is Washington and Philly.
33:44
So neither is, I think the first back-to-back is definitely
33:47
harder, but I think he probably ends up getting Philly and I'm
33:52
not sure which one of LA Dallas. Either way, Minnesota is a solid
33:55
team. Yeah, and I like him a lot.
33:57
I think he gets Dallas and Philly.
33:59
I think he's just. Gonna fucking suck.
34:01
I actually think you're right. Like I think they should give
34:03
him LA though because LA is not doesn't have the offensive
34:06
Dallas does. So we'll see.
34:08
But they'll just give the goes the extra rest by splitting them
34:10
like one each one each. Exactly.
34:12
Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, the the main
34:16
thing with Walstead is I remember in the offseason when
34:18
Jake said the draft him and. Vicky was just looking at Week 2
34:23
and he was trying to get everyone to save the waiver add.
34:25
I'm kidding. I'm teasing.
34:27
But I I think, listen, like this is a week where they just paid
34:33
Gustafson, first of all, so he's gonna be the guy.
34:36
But if you're a backup goal and you want to make a name for
34:38
yourself, like it's in weeks like this where you're playing
34:41
on back-to-back so you can actually like show up and and
34:43
put a good performance out. And then who knows what the
34:46
future holds. But in he's supposed to be a top
34:50
prospect, top quality goalie. And this is going to be the
34:52
first week here that we can actually see if that's true or
34:54
not. Yeah.
34:56
Exactly. And #1 the.
34:59
GOAT number one, we have the best goalie of all time are
35:03
tours Shiloh's of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
35:06
He is playing Anaheim, LA and San Jose.
35:09
Should get two of three, if not all three of those starts.
35:12
I'd say two or three probably. They might still want to toss
35:14
Jerry in a game here and there. But the reason we're calling him
35:17
the GOAT is when we're recording this, he just put up a shutout
35:19
against the Rangers and also because he's the best to ever do
35:23
it. So yeah, now he's a great, great
35:25
pickup. He's writing high going into
35:28
Week 2 and seems like a he's the starter for for Pittsburgh.
35:32
So even though none of us are particularly high in Pittsburgh,
35:34
at least with these opponents, it's going to be a good.
35:36
Week if you're new to the podcast, first of all, welcome.
35:40
We're glad to have you. Should be an exciting season
35:42
ahead. If you're old to the podcast and
35:44
you're listening in the off season, we talked about Arthur.
35:47
She loves on our top 10 signings and he just cracked the list.
35:50
Some said he wasn't, he wasn't worth mentioning, but we said
35:55
this guy has talent and that he could potentially be the starter
35:58
for this roster. So I'm just trying to give us a
36:00
round of applause here and going into Week 2, he's gonna be a
36:06
great pick up. But listen, I it would be
36:08
shocking if they give Jerry a chance at this.
36:10
No, but the fact that they went that she loves for game one just
36:14
shows like the confidence and Jerry is already like yeah, low,
36:17
low, low. Starter at this point.
36:19
And they saw, they probably saw something in practice that they
36:22
were like, we can't start this guy week 1 or this guy is so
36:25
much better so. Yeah alright, should we go to
36:28
our top three quality goalies? This is guys who are gonna
36:31
probably only get one game again under 40% owned, but we think
36:34
it's gonna be a good game so at. #3. #3 We've got Danil Tarasov
36:41
of the Florida Panthers. They have a back-to-back this
36:44
week, but either against Detroit or New Jersey.
36:47
Obviously New Jersey is a very strong team offensively.
36:50
Detroit not as much, but they still have some some offensive
36:53
firepower. But either way, it's the Florida
36:55
Panthers back-to-back champs and and if you need a spot start in
37:00
the in a pinch, then he's a good, solid guy.
37:03
And he's got good games in the NHL.
37:05
He's a, he's not like some high quality backup or anything.
37:08
But I think that, you know, Florida, even with the injuries,
37:12
could still beat any team. So, yeah.
37:14
And obviously, this is just an independent starter.
37:17
This is nothing serious. But Bob is not gonna play that
37:21
many like as many games as like your average starter.
37:24
Bob plays between 50 and 55 this year.
37:27
Exactly. Which starts up with going lower
37:29
and lower every year, so. Yeah.
37:31
I don't know if they're like committed to Tyrosol of being
37:33
the backup all year. We'll see.
37:35
But it's in games like these where he has to make a name for
37:38
himself just like you said with wasted.
37:39
So he's going to have to bring it.
37:41
Yeah, that's it's his to lose in terms of the.
37:43
Back It's not like she loves it's like a guaranteed amazing
37:45
goalie all the time you. Know yeah, best of all time.
37:47
What? What do you mean?
37:51
All right, let's talk about #2. At #2 we've got Calvin Pickard
37:55
of the Edmonton Oilers. They also have a back-to-back
37:57
against New Jersey and Detroit funny enough.
38:00
And obviously again, very similar situation where Edmonton
38:04
is a top team just like Florida, the exact same 2 opponents.
38:06
So they're gonna get, he's gonna get one of them.
38:08
I think what makes this a bit different is I think Picard is a
38:11
better goalie than Tarasoff. He's shown he can be pretty
38:13
solid in the past for Edmonton. As Kevin likes to mention,
38:16
Picard is loved in the locker room, and Kevin is convinced
38:18
that he's going to steal the net from Skinner.
38:21
By locating that, yes. I'm a lot less convinced, but if
38:24
he's gonna do it, it's gonna start here.
38:26
And Jake, he's sweating cuz Skinners is only drafted goalie.
38:29
But yeah, no, Pickard's a great pick up for a spot start this
38:32
week. But what about Ingram?
38:36
What would you say about Ingram? We, I think it's more directed
38:39
at Kevin who thinks that OK. I, I think if all of these guys
38:44
playing at their top potential, I think Ingram is the best
38:46
goalie. Ingram also has the furthest to
38:49
go to be back at his top potential, I think.
38:52
So we'll see. But right now he's watched this
38:54
guy. If you heard the news that he's
38:55
getting brought up and you know he's going to start, then I'm
38:58
like highly interested. But I mean, as of right now, I
39:02
don't think that's the case. And I think I really I really
39:04
believe that this Edmonton team is a goalie away from competing
39:08
and they're going to roll with whoever's giving them the best
39:10
as to win. So if Picard shows early on,
39:12
like we saw in the playoffs last season, like they went with
39:14
Picard when when he was healthy. If if he plays well in this
39:18
back-to-back, let's say Skinner gets shelled against New Jersey
39:20
and Picard plays Detroit and he wins and he shows out like
39:24
Picard will start the next game or high likelihood that he does.
39:28
So I think out of the guys that were mentioning like he has a
39:30
chance to run away with the job, which makes him like a little
39:33
asterisk next to his name in terms of like potential future
39:35
value. OK, let's get this week.
39:38
I will say of the three guys, he is definitely the most likely to
39:41
to do it. I still don't think it's super
39:43
likely but but he has the chance.
39:46
I don't think Skinner is the little guy.
39:48
But yeah, like Skinner would have to be awful.
39:50
Like it's not a like, even if the cards great, if Skinners
39:53
like solid, they're not gonna put the card in in as the
39:56
starter. But in the situation where
39:58
Skinner's awful and Picard's great, they will give it to him.
40:00
Where as you look at some of these other ones, Tarasov and
40:03
Bob, and even if Bob's brutal and Tarasov's great, they're not
40:06
gonna take away the starting position from Bob.
40:08
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I was agreeing.
40:13
Yep. Alright, last thing we talk
40:14
about before we wrap up top three quality start.
40:18
Number one, we've got Levi Marlin, a previous star of our
40:23
spelling bee. They're listening.
40:28
Another offseason episode. But he is on the Ottawa Senators
40:32
and he will be playing either Buffalo or Seattle again.
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Obviously it's beginning of the season.
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You don't know how good every team is going to be, but I'm not
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particularly scared of either of those matchups.
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No, and I think I think we saw last year that Marine and had
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some good quality in him, like he held down the Fort while they
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were dealing with some goalie injuries this season.
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Honestly, like all Mark is not the healthiest goalie either.
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So he's just a name that I like keep on my watch list in terms
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of like the starter goes down. I'm heavily interested in him
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this week. I feel both of these matchups
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are are I'm very confident going into and at the streaming.
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If you need a one goal, you start.
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Yeah, he he was really good last year.
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It's exciting to to see what he can do.
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So I'm I'm definitely think that this is a really good quality
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start for this week and both these teams, Ottawa should win
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for sure. Yep, I think that wraps it up.
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That wraps it up, baby. Thank you all for listening to
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our Week 2 waivers episode. Very exciting.
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This is going to be one of our regulars all seasons.
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Gonna provide a lot of value to you guys throughout the year, so
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thanks for sticking around. Every Sunday morning.
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bringing you more great fantasy hockey content throughout the
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year. And Ernie.
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Alright, that's it.