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Recording in progress. I'm leaving that in.
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But what about Bow Banger Management Fantasy Hockey
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Podcast? Woo, guess who's back?
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Recording in progress. Neither of you wooed.
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I would after. After I promise.
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OK, good. Kevin's back.
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Tell a friend. I'm live from the basement,
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everybody. I got my friend Morgan Riley
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here. Kevin's gonna have to post a
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picture in the discord of him with like today's newspaper.
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He like I'm OK. I caught up with the episodes
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earlier today and I was like, man, people in the discord keep
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referencing like the basement I had like is that just because
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like people are missing me? Or is that because like the guys
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on the pod actually talked about me being in the basement and you
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guys actually talked about me being in the basement so.
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I feel like the thing about like roasting the person missing the
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episode that's so great is it makes me really not wanna miss
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an episode. So like, what are they gonna
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say? You know, like this.
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Was the first time I missed an episode after over a year.
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And yeah, I will say I had a great relaxing weekend, but
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that's never happening again. No kidding.
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Good. Yeah, the incentive structure to
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not miss is definitely in place. Today we're doing our Week 4
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News and updates episode and Kevin special.
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Would you Rathers, We absolutely cannot do a would you rather
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episode without Kevin? I think no.
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Matter the. Instances if you had to like
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mail it via carrier pigeon to us.
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To make sure that. Your brothers are red.
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He would do it. He loves.
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Would you Rathers who? Doesn't.
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Honestly, I feel like it's the best part of this podcast.
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It's a. It's a.
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Great. My favorite part is the puns,
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but you know, to each their own. What should our?
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Stay, stay for the would you rathers.
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Exactly. Yeah, obviously.
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Of course that's. Imports, of course.
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Bangor management to the Fantasy Hockey podcast.
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Wherever you get your podcasts. Josh, begin with #1 on the
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tidbit list. OK, this is not a real top 10 so
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that's what Jake was allowed to say #1 instead of Kevin.
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I know everyone in the discord was missing it and actually
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recording. Everything.
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I was kind of scared to be honest.
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I'm Batman. Oh yeah, no, I love doing that,
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but it wrecks my throat. So anyways.
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That's why you're not a throat coat.
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Yes, I knew I set myself up for that one.
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So OK, jumping right in. Finally some good news for Josh
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Shayne Gostisbehere is back at practice and we'll be playing
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tonight and take back his spot on power play 1.
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Not that it's a very good power play one, but Despite that Ghost
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had a really strong start to the season.
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He still 85% roster. So I don't think I don't think
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this is like a guy who got dropped.
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He was out and have the chance to grab him, but he's been
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playing. He was playing like a guy who
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should be higher than 85% rostered.
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He's very streaky player in the past, but he seems to be doing a
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lot better this year. In fact, one thing that I really
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like about him compared to previous years is that he's
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blocking a lot and actually taking shots.
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In the past, he's been one of those classic like points
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defenseman who does zeros in the back, back end.
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So the second he's not putting up points you hate having on
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your team. This year it's been more fun.
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Obviously, small sample size. All that to say, I'm very
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excited. Yeah, I think.
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I believe they didn't give Nikisha chance.
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Yeah, that's, but we talked about how it's, you know, with
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the rookies. It's definitely interesting and
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the language barrier is probably worth mentioning too, right?
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That's the big thing when equation yeah, but I will say
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for Gosto this this Carolina defensive core is beat up right
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now. Like no sloven, no country.
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Miller. I feel like ghosts in the past
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has struggled in the category coverage because he's playing
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line 3 minutes. Like maybe now he just gets more
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time on ice and know his back categories become more reliable.
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Yeah, I mean, even like a guy, even a ghost, like if his body
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is there, some pucks will hit him and he'll get those blocks.
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So yeah, the more ice time he has, the more chance he has for
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getting hit by Fox. But maybe, you know what?
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That's kind of a good point. Maybe which should be looking to
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sell him before like slaving and those guys come back because not
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that they'll get in the way of his points, but maybe they can
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get in the way of his back cats. So that's definitely something.
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Interesting to spare. I feel like Josh has had him on
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his team. I feel like the last three.
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Or four year, I drafted him second to last round, which is
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like 19th round. It just I see him there and I'm
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like this guy shouldn't still be here, you know.
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So even though I don't want him on my team, I still take Yeah.
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And he's been sick. So definitely Carson's been
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great too. Same type of player also.
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But yeah, so that's very exciting in the discussion of
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Canes players. We've also got Pioda Kochetkov
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back at practice and expected to play this week.
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So it's all you Freddie Anderson owners expect this starts to be
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split more evenly moving forward.
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Honestly, I think that's. I don't think that changes the
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difference because it feels like Brandon Bussey has been playing
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all the honestly, dude, God would be playing too, right?
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Like he's Freddy's not getting an extreme workload.
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He's still playing every other game basically so.
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Yeah, 100%. It may take the one I think I
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actually. But I don't think I've seen
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enough from Kochetkov to. Be ready so.
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That impressive pro now Freddy's also 1/4 of his 5 starts this
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season, so it's not. Like it's gonna be a. 50, it's
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gonna be 5050 like it's always going to be.
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So yeah, exactly. Going forward I want to own
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Kochetkov of all these rules for sure.
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No doubt. I don't see a big difference
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between Chekov Anderson if I'm being real.
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Yeah, I was on that train for years.
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It's just Anderson gets hurt. It's not.
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Yeah, Jiggy saying this is the Anderson owner last year who
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just. Had you saying this.
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Also has Kochetkova like hasn't played a game in leagues?
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Yeah, just worried about Freddie Anderson being heard.
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I get it, but I'm just. Saying no, I mean it's.
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Like the guy that you're saying is coming back and gonna be the
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one is the guy that's also currently hurt.
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Yeah, I don't think a checkup is the picture of health either,
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but I think it's gonna be a clear 5050 personally.
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Like I actually, despite Carolina being one of the best
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teams in the league, I'm not really interested in either of
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these guys. First of all, I hate having a
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tandem goalie who has to be picked.
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Look, if you can pick up for free like Keith Anderson, that's
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a different story, like for 0G, But let's say you like drafted
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him like I'm never I never loved drafting A tandem goalie.
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And then second of all, the whole, the line of letting so
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few shots against so the safe percentage always kind of gets
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cooked even in a good game. Well, maybe that one.
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No defence, no defenseman on the roster anymore.
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They'll let more shots against. Yeah, maybe, But maybe they'll
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let in more goals. Too Anderson Anderson's last
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game against Colorado, he was 44 for 48 so.
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That's pretty wild. Yeah.
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I would not expect similar performances for the rest of
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the. Season.
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I can't imagine they get 48 shots against him again.
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So yeah, but they're rematching so.
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Just to say it, last year I Anderson played 22 teams.
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Could check out Blade 47 and Caroline is a.
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Black and things are better than they.
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Were last year, I understand was heard exactly.
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So yeah, to me, 26 years old for Kochetkov versus 37 for
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Anderson, I would definitely keep an eye on it.
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I'm very interested in. Just only differences enough to
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be a deal worker either way like during the same.
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Yeah, let's just wait for Anderson to break and then we
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can say checkoff anyways. Yeah, could have anything back
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yet. Then it's too late.
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That's the problem, yeah. Next we've got Roope Hintz
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day-to-day with an injury. Tyler Sagan is taking a spot on
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line one, power play one. Very interested in Sagan as a
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stream until hence his back. I think it's short term, so I
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wouldn't look into this too much, but line one, power play
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one on Dallas is a very desirable place to be.
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So your performs when he's in these positions.
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Last year he was really, really good.
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He also had a ton of injury issues, but it's really
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something that like when he had the opportunity and we wrote him
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off coming into last year, he didn't have any, you know it, it
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had been years of no production and then last year he really
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stepped it up. So if it's some sort of short
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term hold, it's really, really interesting.
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I'm not, I'm not breaking the bank trying to get him on my
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roster. He's played one game thus far
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while Hintz was out and he didn't really nothing.
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He played like over 20 minutes. He had one shot in 10 days off
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wins. So I I feel like if he's going
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to get any production, it'll be power play production and maybe
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he'll look into a secondary assist or an assistant.
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Maybe he'll even get the goal. But those are the three options.
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No. I'm not breaking the bank, but
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he's definitely a streamer, yeah.
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Yeah, All right, Brad, Marshawn's day-to-day for a
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personal matter. Hope everything's OK with him.
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In the meantime, Carter Verhaeghe is taking his spot on
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Power Play 1. So this is what it takes for
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Carter Verhaeghe to get Power Play 1.
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You need to literally five of your starters to get injured,
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and then it will happen. But just in the future for any
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Veggie owners this year, assuming Veggie ends the season
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on Florida and is there again next year, don't expect enough
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power play one. If you want to draft him late
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and you know, like his even strength production, that's
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fine. But they just hate him there for
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some reason. This is like the Brandon Hagel
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of the of the Panthers, right? They just don't want to put him
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on power play 1 even though he should be there.
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So just a note in the future. I think we're already seeing
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this in the off season. So hopefully, hopefully no one
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fell for the classic trap. But anyways, for now he's there.
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I don't expect it to last though.
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If you get any window to try to sell them at all, you take that
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and you take. You take that and you run.
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Yeah, take a screenshot of that Daily Faceoff power play 1
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Carter for Hagee, send it to everyone in your league and be
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like, hey, anyone wanna trade for power?
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Play one on on Florida Carter Verhaeghe and see if you get any
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bites. That's exactly what I would do.
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OK, Dylan Strome is day-to-day with an injury.
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Connor McMichael taking his spot on line one power play 1.
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Again, it's day-to-day. So a lot of these entries are
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day-to-day and they haven't kind of released the timelines yet.
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So it's hard to make moves based on a day-to-day guy because the
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guy could just come back the next game and then the guy you
10:07
picked up the stream or whatever just loses the spot.
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But Connor McMichael we saw was really solid last year.
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He's probably already rostered. So this is the type of thing
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that like, if you have him, it's great.
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Wallstrom is out. Yeah, if he's playing centre on
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the line 1 obviously if you like movies, had a really slow start
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to the year for what we expected from him.
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Like I think this is finally the year that maybe.
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We're only someone could have could have.
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Predicted this movie. I mean, we were mentioning how
10:30
we were saying Ovi was a little too high, but.
10:33
We were mentioning that someone who I will not mention was
10:36
saying that he's gonna keep on trucking.
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But you, Yeah, Silence is notable.
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Silencing his silence is deafening.
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Is criminalizing a word? I just invented it.
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I I like it. I think it's really cool to have
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like. Incriminating shit.
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It's probably what I wanted to say.
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Yeah, yeah, that is. It's it's very interesting to
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have a winger shift to centre, especially when you're playing
11:05
with Ovi and he played well with Ovie when they bought the line
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one opportunity. It's obviously not a big deal
11:10
with Strong out. There's no brainer.
11:12
Strom is their number one centre but it's kind of cool to see.
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Like for a stream I would. Be interested to see the
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possibilities there for a bit. Yeah, yeah.
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And on the topic of the Washington Capitals, PLD
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returned to the lineup but interestingly did not get his
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power play one spot back. He's lying. 2 power play, 2
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right now and it's Chicken. Finally, who's there?
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No more Sunny Milano, It's right now it's Chicken and McMichael.
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Who are the 2 fillins? And when Strum comes back, the
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question is which one of them gets bumped?
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I think when Michael gets bumped, but but we saw them kind
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of be resistant to Chicken on power play one this year for
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some reason. So it'll be interesting to see
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how that shakes out. All that to be said, I have 0
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interest in PLD this year. I don't know about you guys.
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Produce so much on this line. You always makes it produce.
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He's so good, he's so tall. You guys focus on like power
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play a lot and. All thinking it was.
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Like, but he's amazing, Protis is an amazing player, so if your
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PLD's playing with him, I'm very intrigued.
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Plus, Wilson is. He's like a size and I'm like a
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power play. Like someone's on the power
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play. They don't even exist to me
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anymore. Exactly.
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I don't know if we can technically say on the podcast,
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but. Yeah.
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That's a good point. Yeah.
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There's gonna take you through bleeping now.
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Just made the bleep like less loud.
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We are fans of these guys and For these reasons, so Protis is
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very good with PLD playing with protists.
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I think it's very intriguing. And I also think that you may
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just need to lower your volume because.
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It's not that loud. Well, every there's always a big
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echo from the basement. There.
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You didn't tell me you were torturing him too.
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I thought you were just keeping him down there.
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For she's in your basement. Stop lying.
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Yeah. Vicky makes me listen to only
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his parts of the podcast on. Repeat.
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Kevin wakes up 1 morning. He's like, Saint Louis is gonna
13:13
win the division. Yeah.
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A lot of produce, a lot of oh God, you guys can't say that on
13:19
the. Yeah.
13:21
A lot of that, yeah. OK, Michael Granlund is
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day-to-day with an injury. Actually, I think they just
13:26
mentioned that it's gonna be around 3 weeks.
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So that's a big loss for Anaheim, who was off to a really
13:32
hot start. Grand literally had just come
13:34
off A5 point game. So that's a really brutal Frank
13:37
Vatrano taking his spot on power.
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Play one in the meantime. Good for you Jakey.
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And I mean I will say that once Crider comes back, it'll be
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interesting to see who gets bumped off power play one.
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I assume it will be trying to cause he's taking that net front
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spot, but it could also be Gautier, but he's been killing
13:52
it so so that'll be interesting to see.
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But for now, Grantland out Vetrano has a spot.
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Yeah, I think Crowder coming back, Vetrano for sure gets
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bumped over Toronto has severely fallen out of favor on this
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Anaheim team. Like he's stuck on line 3.
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He's playing like 11-12 minutes a night.
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He's still somehow good for bangers, but like even last year
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he wasn't crazy for points, but I think periodic they've all
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evaporated. Like he's not he's not a points
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guy on this team anymore. You're holding him for shots and
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hits and maybe now with the power play exposure he he gets a
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more points but I can't imagine that lasts long with Crider like
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around the corner about to come. Back.
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Yeah, Honestly, this could be one of those situations where
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we're trying to get a couple of power play points, then you try
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and sell high before creditor comes back.
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Yeah, so at Jakey. Exactly it.
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But you know, on a minute per minute basis, he's like the best
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shot hit guy. Ever.
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Oh yeah, he's such a good back Cats guy.
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Yeah, you're rostering him, banger.
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League. No matter.
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What? Yeah but look I don't know if
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anyone would realistically buy. However, if somehow you can sell
14:54
based off the power play exposure, I definitely agree
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worst case. You just people love people love
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guys who have great back hats and have had points upside in
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the past, so I feel like you can.
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Definitely actually trade him to a team that needs banger
15:08
categories and get like a guy that used to be a waiver guy
15:10
that is like submitted himself as like a season long hold type
15:14
of thing. Yeah.
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Yeah. I look if he has more more time
15:18
on ice, he'll get like six shots, six hits and like a power
15:21
play point and then you sell them for.
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Yeah, exactly. Something to keep an eye on
15:25
selling for anyways so. Yeah, I was just gonna say that
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actually. Would you rather have Steven
15:31
Stamkos or Frank Vatrano? Vetrano.
15:35
I literally would not want Stamkos on any of my teams.
15:38
Ever we get some Stamkos questions like in the discord
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and stuff? I'm like guys.
15:41
Like the answer is always if it's damp course or blank, the
15:44
answer is always blank. Anyways, Ricardo Raquel had hand
15:50
surgery in about 6 to 8 weeks. I think Ben Kendall was getting
15:54
first crack at power play one but I don't see that necessarily
15:56
sticking. But yeah, another.
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Team, let's go. Add it to the list of Kevins
16:03
injuries. Brutal.
16:07
This is nuts. I don't know.
16:08
I don't know what you did to deserve this.
16:11
I really like got too cocky after the draft or something
16:14
like. You know, that's probably what
16:17
it is. You didn't, you drafted too
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well. And the fantasy gods were like,
16:21
we need to make the year interesting for everyone else.
16:23
So we're gonna give him a sorry, we're gonna give him a lot of
16:26
injuries and. And yeah, my bad, a lot of
16:32
injuries and then see how he reacts and you still went in so
16:36
you know, it's all good anyways, but.
16:37
Silver lining, not just like maybe I'll get less injuries in
16:39
the second-half of the season, but I know those things are not
16:41
correlated, so. That's yeah, I know, but in your
16:44
head it's like I did my time, Yeah.
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So yeah, Raquel being out again, like Pittsburgh actually has a
16:50
solid power play, so if Kindle sticks on there and can get
16:54
shipping some power play points, that could be an interesting
16:55
look. But I'm not dying to pick him up
16:58
or anything like. That I didn't realize he was an
16:59
11th overall pick. Yeah, yeah.
17:02
And they just brought him up. Yeah, that's that's interesting
17:05
actually. Cause I feel like he's the type
17:07
of player also that is susceptible to being scratched.
17:10
So the main domain names that I have on my radar for this power
17:14
play, one spot, because I don't think Kindle keeps it.
17:16
Is Kris Letang meant? Yeah.
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And The thing is, I think they needed defenseman for that
17:23
second power play unit. So unless somebody can replace
17:25
Lang, I don't think he gets bumped up.
17:26
Manta has been pretty solid with his updated deployment.
17:31
So I'm thinking maybe he gets a look or Covenant just got
17:34
brought back up. You had you had a game winner.
17:37
Stop trying to make even a thing.
17:40
And then he got called up. So like after the after he won
17:42
the game for his team, he like got on a plane and he came to
17:44
Pittsburgh. So listen, I'm just putting it
17:48
out there. Yeah, I mean that's.
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Another possible. That's another guy who
17:53
susceptible to be scratched though, so I'm not dying to pick
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him. Up.
17:56
You know, they just brought him in.
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Raquel's out. They're not gonna scratch him
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now. I wouldn't be surprised.
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Listen, I want to be shocked, but we'll see.
18:05
Yeah. I just keep an eye on, I don't
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yeah, that that fifth guy is gonna be super interchangeable
18:10
on this power play with Raquel. Yeah, unless someone like really
18:13
clicks there, in which case that's a very interesting
18:15
pickup, but for. Now just keep it there.
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And then he's just gonna become an even bigger monster.
18:20
Is actually nuts. I don't know what this guy is
18:22
doing. It is not sustainable.
18:23
Sell high. But yeah, if it had to be said
18:28
anyways, this is a big one. Quinn Hughes.
18:30
I mean, it's just day-to-day, but he's day-to-day with an
18:31
upper body injury. In the meantime, Phillip Clinic
18:34
is taking his spot on power play.
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One that's a massive loss for Canucks team.
18:37
That's already pretty brutal, right?
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Like that's like. The starting to actually, like,
18:43
get better, yeah. Like Peterson has kind of woken
18:48
up a little bit where he's had a few.
18:50
Pretty good. One or two good games, yeah.
18:52
Queen has been honestly disappointing, but like Conor,
18:54
Garland has been great, Besser has been great.
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Especially where you got them in the drafts or even picked them
18:58
up like this was. You're getting more value than
19:01
what you paid for them, first of all.
19:02
Our sleeping is obviously. Our steep Gains obviously
19:05
podcast. Had a nickel to the jar.
19:10
Ronick honesty is very interesting because he he can be
19:13
the type of guy that what he has good menace.
19:15
He can really stuff the stat sheet and also like just being
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on the P1. He's not a bad defenseman.
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He's had looks there in the past and he succeeded.
19:21
So I'm definitely interested as long as he uses that uses kind
19:25
of squishy too. Like we're getting to the point
19:27
where it's not these injuries kind of happen, so.
19:30
Maybe around the family, I wouldn't.
19:32
Be surprised if this day-to-day thing lasts 2 weeks.
19:35
Listen, it could. Be happening with my.
19:36
Guys back but. It definitely happens.
19:39
And I think those are a bit more like I'd rather a guy just be
19:41
this guy's out for two weeks right off the bat, and then the
19:43
two weeks is up and he comes back.
19:45
Then this like day-to-day out, day-to-day out is so
19:47
frustrating. But anyways, yeah, that's a
19:49
very, very strong possibility, yeah.
19:51
Chronic Spider or if for sure yeah, uses a note Tronics there.
19:56
There's nobody else. No, 100%, yeah, All right.
20:00
Zach Hyman is expected to be back November 1st and will bump
20:04
Jakey's David Tomasek off Power Play 1.
20:08
Yeah, so I think this was a, you know, whoever quote UN quote
20:12
risked it or, you know, sniped time in late in their drafts
20:16
with the injury tag is getting paid off big time here.
20:18
I don't think anyone expected him to be back this soon, but
20:21
that's pretty huge. We'll see if he bounces back and
20:24
comes back as his like how he was in the playoffs last year or
20:26
if he comes back how he was in the regular season last year.
20:28
He had a super underwhelming season.
20:30
So but I mean this also could be a note to, you know, Bilo window
20:34
on a lot of those Edmonton guys might be closing because I'm
20:37
coming back like human bumping Tomashek off play 1 is a huge
20:40
upgrade. So and him just coming back into
20:42
even strength lineup. So I expect a lot of positive
20:45
regression to come when he comes back for those other players I'm
20:48
looking at like Bouchard, I mean, even Mcdavid's been not
20:51
great. Dry settle's been solid, but
20:54
like you expect them to be. No, I mean, it's been great.
20:56
They expect him to be elite. So all these guys are kind of
20:59
guys that I would, you know, I think there's a chance to buy
21:02
low on them and it's going to run out one time and comes back.
21:05
Yeah, the only thing with this one, the only person this may
21:09
affect negatively is Nudge everyone else gets better,
21:13
especially Bouchard because yeah, like I I know that doesn't
21:16
really make much sense cause forward and defenseman.
21:18
But we were talking about this in the last episode, Josh in the
21:22
Bilo sell high about how it makes a lot of sense that him
21:27
getting in the goalies phase, which Hyman does super well, one
21:30
of the best in the league. It it's gonna make Bouchard shot
21:33
a lot more effective in his production is going to pick up
21:35
whether it's a goal or assist deflection.
21:38
Tomasek does not do that as well.
21:40
Nuge, however, has been very good this year as a mainstay
21:43
with McDavid and I think that that could definitely change.
21:47
I saw. I think that's.
21:49
Right. Maybe you'd be willing to sell
21:50
news. Yeah, I think that's a good, a
21:53
good sell high. I mean, already he was
21:54
overperforming what we kind of expected him to do.
21:56
So I think he was already a good cell high, but now we have a
21:58
clear indicator of something that may, you know, directly
22:00
impact him negatively coming up. So I like that as a sell high
22:03
and still Bouchard's a great buy low, although he has started
22:07
putting up some points, so it might be.
22:08
Harder. So I feel like people that were
22:10
holding out for this have been reinvigorated, let's say, and
22:15
are less likely to sell. But you never know what the slow
22:18
start to the season. Maybe on the averages it looks
22:20
bad. Yeah, yeah, OK UPL is healthy
22:25
and started his first game. Expect him to split starts with
22:28
Alex Lyon. Unless one of them way
22:29
outperforms the other. I really expect them to be
22:32
pretty much 5050, which is too bad because Buffalo actually
22:35
seems like gonna be fun this year and it just.
22:38
These tandems are killing me for fantasy value.
22:40
You know, like it seems to be how a lot of.
22:42
These are not the ones that needs one of these guys actually
22:45
get starts. No, for sure.
22:46
I mean, it's not like this year, it's not like really hurting me,
22:49
but it's just all these teams moving towards this tandem kind
22:53
of strategy. It really sucks for fantasy.
22:55
I hate holding a guy who's not who's gonna play one game a
22:57
week, you know, like it just it sucks so much it.
23:01
Makes the other goals that are getting the bulk of the stars
23:03
more valuable. And yes.
23:05
And if anything, it levels the playing field for the teams in
23:08
your league that are in the same position where everybody is kind
23:10
of starting a tandem guy or whatever.
23:12
Yeah, that's how I'm trying to see it.
23:14
But I went zero G so hard. I left my drafts with 0 goalies
23:17
on my roster. So, so, so any, any goal that
23:21
I'm about that I'm able to pick up that can get me like 2 stars
23:24
on the week, I'm pretty thrilled about it.
23:26
Yeah, 100% there. And like right now.
23:29
For awhile, just we'll put that out there.
23:31
Me too. Yeah, I do.
23:32
I mean, just the way he started off, this is obviously going
23:34
into the season, everyone would choose Apple over lying.
23:36
Absolutely. The way Lion has kind of taken
23:38
advantage of his opportunity, I think he's definitely the 1A
23:41
right now. And I think I'm not reading,
23:44
this is not to say that I'm having this take because UPL
23:46
played one game and it wasn't the best game.
23:48
Like it was his first game of the season after he missed weeks
23:52
with an injury. I'm not reading too much into
23:53
that performance. Like we saw you people have
23:55
actually good quality starts last year.
23:58
So I'm not worried per se because of that.
24:00
It's just mostly how well line has performed and I'm reading
24:04
more into that than the other way around.
24:06
But if IPL starts playing well, then it could go the other way
24:08
around. Yeah, something to monitor for
24:10
sure. OK Roman Yosi is week to week
24:13
with an upper body injury, shaky.
24:15
And I mentioned this on one of the I think it was the male or
24:18
on the streamer episode last week, but it is new so I figured
24:21
I'd officially mentioned in the new episode.
24:22
Anyways, it's not related to his POTUS, which is his injury from
24:25
last year, something postural tachycardia syndrome, stuff like
24:29
that. But Brady Shea taking his spot
24:32
on Power Play 1. And as we mentioned on the
24:34
stream episode, it's very rare that a guy gets to take over
24:37
power play 1 and I still have 0 interest in him, but breathe is
24:41
that guy. He just does absolutely nothing
24:43
even with the deployment. So look, if you're desperate,
24:47
you need a defenseman who has a shot at getting you a power play
24:49
point as a stream for the week, then you could take a shot on
24:52
him. But honestly, I don't have much
24:54
interest. Yeah, like just to compare this
24:56
to the Vancouver situation, I'm way more interested in Ronak.
25:00
Like they're both what I think bad teams, even though maybe
25:03
Vancouver's got a little bit more promise than Nashville.
25:06
But Ronix actually a good offensive defenseman.
25:08
Shay is just they need someone, so he's there.
25:14
Warm body to stand on the blue line and not touch the entire
25:17
power plate. Well, I just spoke to Roman.
25:22
Yosi was in the basement with me.
25:23
Now that he's hurt and he's getting hurt.
25:29
How big is this basement? It's huge, Jake, you really went
25:32
all. Out.
25:33
Wow. I don't even have a basement
25:36
either. The craziest thing he's like.
25:39
Yeah. Everybody wants you told Josh
25:41
was like, maybe he's in your basement.
25:43
He's like, I don't have a basement.
25:43
I was like, I don't have a basement either.
25:45
I. Then who's basement am I in the
25:50
deal that that scene in the Harry Potter one where where
25:54
Harry finally confronts Voldemort?
25:57
Voldemort still in the back of a Professor Kohl's head?
26:00
Sorry. Spoiler No kidding.
26:03
You better. Give me the stones.
26:04
Like I don't have the stone that he goes.
26:06
He's lying. Or like yeah anyways.
26:16
You're a wizard, Harry. I'm a what?
26:21
You're not. I'm sleeping with.
26:25
OK, just Harry. Anyways, let's let's get back on
26:27
track, alright. Covington returned from injury
26:32
and regained his spot on line One power play 1.
26:34
Surprising absolutely no one. Not much to say here.
26:37
Yeah, we thought we spoke about this and.
26:39
And yeah, he's back. He came back earlier than
26:43
expected. No, no more Harry Potter.
26:48
OK, Robert Thomas is day-to-day with an upper body injury.
26:52
Jimmy Snuggerud taking his spot on power play one.
26:54
Although I will say those lines are very fluid and constantly
26:57
getting blended. I will I will say though, this
26:59
is like definitely great for Snuggerud because he was
27:02
basically a drop before this injury.
27:04
He was he had got bumped down on the line where he was playing
27:06
like 10 minutes a night or less. And at that point he's not
27:09
really valuable for fantasy. And like, yeah, he was an
27:12
exciting prospect. Tend to call their kind of
27:13
favorite going into the year. But given the start of the
27:16
Blues, I think they're they're really trying to mix things up
27:19
and he's he's falling out of favor there.
27:21
This this Thomas injury gives life back into his fantasy
27:23
performances for the near future until Thomas comes back.
27:27
But even Thomas hasn't been a stud.
27:29
So this Blues team really is struggling.
27:31
Although Dylan Holloway three points in the A points in three
27:34
consecutive games, so. Oh yeah.
27:36
Maybe the bright side is finally happening for.
27:38
Him, he heard that he was embarrassing me cause I went so
27:41
hard. He's promoting him this summer,
27:42
so he's a he's bouncing back just like I knew he would.
27:46
I heard Jake you tried to sell him for more cider, which would
27:48
have been pretty crazy, but. He did anyways.
27:55
Lastly, but not leastly, Joseph Wall is back at practice and
27:58
should be ready to start in a week or two.
28:00
That's a pretty exciting if you're anyone but the Stolarz
28:03
owner. I expect them again to be kind
28:07
of a tandem. This is why I know Stellaris
28:09
value jumped up with the whole wall taking a leave before the
28:13
season started. But with those leaves, you never
28:15
know they're gonna come back and it wasn't like a guaranteed he's
28:17
out for the season stars as the starter.
28:19
So I remember like stars being ranked in similar places as
28:22
like, let's say like a camper or, or in Allmark.
28:25
But when you have like a guy who is the clear starter versus a
28:28
guy who starter until his buddy comes back and they can split
28:31
the shares again, I'm always going with the the more safe
28:34
bet. And Solaris hasn't been great
28:35
honestly so far this season. He was really good the last two
28:38
years, but maybe having the fewer starts was what he needed.
28:40
Kind of like Kevin was mentioning off the pod with
28:42
Wedgewood where he's just kind of running out of gas from
28:44
starting like 10 straight games. So maybe some goalies just, you
28:47
know, the lighter, lighter workload helps them have those
28:50
elite numbers. So it's kind of obviously as an
28:53
owner, you just want them to get all the starts and have all
28:55
great starts, but sometimes that you're better off getting fewer
28:58
starts if they're higher quality.
29:00
Wool, or rather Stollers has never been like he's had enough
29:04
of a sample size in his career to have never succeeded as like
29:07
an actual starter. He's never really had that role.
29:10
He's been a good tandem guy and the leaves are gonna be a decent
29:13
team. They're gonna win the majority
29:14
of their games. I think I'd be more.
29:17
I don't know. I mean, it sucks, as you were
29:19
mentioning, owning a tandem situation.
29:21
It's very annoying to one of those guys, but I'm more excited
29:24
about Wall. Plus, big thing here is that it
29:26
was a personal thing. That's why he was out.
29:28
It wasn't an injury. So there's no real risk of re
29:31
aggravation. There's no like easing him into
29:32
it. When he practices and he's ready
29:34
to play, it's like a new season for him.
29:37
Yeah, 100%. All right.
29:39
Master, should we get to everyone's favorite portion of
29:43
the episode? I've been looking forward to
29:45
this. I tried to cook this week so you
29:47
guys have to let me know how it goes.
29:48
But OK. Hopefully you guys haven't seen
29:50
the names. Now I didn't think, I never.
29:53
Did Ricky always speaks? I feel like he always speaks.
29:56
I can read. It.
29:57
Wow, Jakey, you're a peeker. Yeah, the worst insult in.
30:04
Bangor management history We have anything worse than this
30:07
you're. Really better believe that
30:09
peaker. He's a Peaky Blinder.
30:13
He's alright. So the owner of the Peaky Point
30:17
alright. I'm just cutting you off.
30:19
OK. For those who are new here,
30:23
welcome. This is the Would You rather
30:25
section of the podcast of this episode where we cover Would You
30:28
Rather one versus another one of each position.
30:32
And we'll discuss and see if I can split the difference.
30:35
I'm always trying to make JA disagree.
30:38
So if I can get one on each side, that's a success.
30:41
My book. So let's go with the first
30:45
position we are covering the goalie position.
30:48
Would you rather rest of season Logan Thompson or Darcy Kemper?
30:55
Wow. Before you make your decision,
30:58
look at the numbers and see if you change your.
30:59
Mind Yeah, yeah, no, I'm looking, I'm looking right now.
31:03
So it seems like they've got a pretty so in terms of Thompson,
31:07
right? I already know how tempers been
31:08
doing. He's on my team.
31:09
But in terms of Thompson, it seems like they've got a decent
31:12
schedule of he starts two games and then gets one game and then
31:15
two in one. So that's not too bad.
31:17
Whereas Kemper expect to get more starts.
31:19
So let's give Kemper the edge on starts.
31:21
Thompson's games, though, have been absolutely unreal.
31:24
It seems like he hasn't let in more two goals in a single game.
31:27
And going into the season I was a big Washington doubter that
31:31
they would repeat like they did last year and I was not really a
31:35
huge ally believer. I just thought they would do
31:37
similar to last year. They were really good so far.
31:40
Washington's overperforming compared to my expectations, and
31:42
LA's really underperforming. All that to say, I probably have
31:47
to give the edge to Thompson despite wanting to give the
31:50
extra Kemper. I still don't think I would do
31:52
though. Like if someone offered me one
31:53
for one, I'd probably keep Kemper.
31:55
I just like the volume and I think that the potential for
31:57
quality being the same is there. But for now, you gotta go
32:00
Thompson with what the numbers he's putting up.
32:03
So I feel like Kevin thought I was going to say Thompson.
32:06
You were gonna say Kemper. I was ready to say Kemper.
32:08
And then I looked into it and I'm like, you just can't not go
32:11
with Thompson at this. Point Yeah, these are unreal.
32:15
He's only lost one game this year.
32:16
He's gonna lose more than that, but a lot of games where he's
32:20
only letting in one or two goals, which is impressive.
32:23
And I will say, like Lindgren, besides that shut out that first
32:26
game of the season that he played, he hasn't been
32:29
necessarily fantastic. He led into seven goals against.
32:33
Yeah, he let in seven goals against Ottawa, so that's not
32:36
great, but. Let's be really popular right
32:40
now among goalies is letting in a touchdown against auto.
32:43
Yeah, back to my games, the first time since like the 50s or
32:46
something. That's crazy.
32:48
But yeah, I think everyone's on the Thompson train.
32:51
Yeah, it's not that Kemper's gonna be nearly this bad,
32:54
though. And Thompson gonna get worse.
32:56
It's like it's gonna even out, like he's gonna pick it up and
33:01
Thompson's gonna just slow down for sure.
33:03
But I still think Washington is a good team.
33:07
So I and I'm just more confident in the way he's been playing.
33:10
It's enough of a sample size to notice somewhat of a trend.
33:15
So I think that. The moves that, like the moves
33:20
that defence that LA made over the course of the offseason, are
33:23
clearly pretty detrimental. I think losing Gavrilov was
33:25
really big. Bringing in Code C has pretty
33:28
big losing spins. So I think they definitely made
33:32
some really bad moves. Ken Holland is a master class of
33:35
bad Gming. And I'm not just saying that
33:38
I've Kemper and I'm upset about it.
33:39
But no, I think Kemper's gonna be still really, really solid
33:42
this year. But you gotta go Thompson.
33:44
Let's do the next one. Oh, wait.
33:45
Sorry. Kevin, before going to the next
33:46
one, I just feel like it's worth mentioning when you're looking
33:50
at goalies, we're always kind of trying to rank them against each
33:52
other, right? Because it's like so easy to
33:53
just like you're comparing the same categories and every goalie
33:56
like should be good at the same thing.
33:58
So it's easy to kind of make the translation, but when it comes
34:02
to these guys, I feel like Logan Thompson rest of season could be
34:06
a, you know, he could be a top 6 to like 12 goalie.
34:10
I think rest of season and I think Kempers range is more like
34:13
top 10 to 18 at this point. So, you know, the range of
34:18
outcomes overlaps a little bit, but I think Logan Thompson has
34:22
the higher ceiling. That's kind of how I view it.
34:24
At this point, I will say I do think that Kemper, like will get
34:28
because he's gonna have more starts.
34:29
Also looking at these, Logan Thompson starts four of his six
34:33
games. He's made fewer than 20 saves,
34:36
not because he's letting in a lot of goals, just because
34:38
they're letting, they're letting a very few shots against.
34:41
So if you have saved us a category, Kempers gonna have way
34:43
more saves than Thompson. And I think that with the extra
34:46
starts, I don't, I still don't believe in Washington that much.
34:50
And I think that with the extra starts, Kemper could get at
34:53
least as many wins as Thompson. So I like Kemper more for
34:56
volumes Cats but but Thompson more for rate stuff.
35:01
All right #2 we're looking at the defenseman position.
35:05
This is a spicy 1 I feel like but Darnell Nurse or Seth Jones
35:10
rest of season now Josh is that's a Seth.
35:14
Jones owner. Look, I knew I knew that nurse
35:17
was killing it at the back hats. She's really killing it like
35:21
this is like, these are some monster back hats.
35:23
And it's funny because I actually thought that he got
35:25
taken way too early in our draft.
35:26
I know and living up to the highest.
35:29
Performing yeah, I still I'm trying to be objective here.
35:34
I still gotta go Jones. You just gotta go with the like,
35:37
OK, maybe it's a different archetype, right.
35:39
You've got the banger defenseman versus the power play 1
35:41
defenseman. Jones is super underperforming.
35:43
Nurses were over performing right now.
35:45
But the way I see it, Jones has in the past been a guy who can
35:49
put up at least decent bangers categories.
35:51
And the fact is that there's so much upside there with being
35:54
power play one on Florida. Florida's off to kind of a messy
35:57
start right now with all their injuries.
36:00
But first of all, their injuries are going to come back other
36:02
than Barkov. So if you have the patience, I
36:05
think could Chuck coming back. Obviously that's a far away, but
36:08
I think that's going to be a big one.
36:09
But also just other injuries that they've accumulated.
36:11
And also, I think they're really blending the power play lines,
36:14
trying to find what clicks because it's been really bad so
36:16
far. And the one kind of mainstay on
36:19
the power play is Jones. I mean also Reinhart.
36:22
Obviously, but doing well. Well, it wasn't, but I think
36:26
they found a mix that they kind of like.
36:28
I think they finally put Samus Savage on power play one which I
36:30
think should have been from the beginning and they did that.
36:34
She's got 2 power play assists 2 games ago.
36:36
So I think it's going to, I think it's going to come is the
36:39
same thing with our Reinhart kind of buy low right where he's
36:41
also not been performing. I mean I think the whole team
36:43
and it's not been performing. Pretty much the only guy
36:45
performing on that team is discovered I feel like.
36:47
But. But yeah I know.
36:49
So I gotta go Jones just because the upside.
36:52
But that's not to take away from how unreal Nurse has been and
36:54
how bad Jones has been. I'm going to stick with Jones as
36:58
well because there's like just really no offensive potential
37:03
for Nurse to be succeeding. Long Last year, they got the
37:06
same amount of They were averaging around the same amount
37:08
of points. Just half of Jones's points were
37:10
power play points and Nurse had 00 power plant.
37:13
Exposure How long of that season was he on Florida?
37:18
I'm in passive traded line, right?
37:19
So it wasn't the story of the season, but wasn't.
37:22
Enough. Exactly.
37:24
But it's like he was on Chicago, like the vast majority of the
37:28
season, who was just completely offensively irrelevant.
37:32
And I mean, look, this year, five points in 10 games so far,
37:36
Not bad. And the back categories for
37:37
Jones have not been there at all.
37:39
So that's we're kind of also giving it to him that usually
37:43
those are significantly better than they are.
37:45
But what if this year, with all the.
37:47
Pressure to be honest. More tactics.
37:49
Or. Hits are right in line with what
37:51
he's done in the past, it's just he's missing like one block and
37:54
half a shot. So obviously like you want that
37:56
to come back. It's all I think it's.
37:58
If you look at this game log, you're you're getting a lot of
38:00
zeros. Then you get like one game that.
38:02
Makes up for sure. That's not really. 100%.
38:06
Hello I'm speaking with. John pointing you spin, but I
38:09
think just the upside is too high.
38:10
Exactly, Kevin, I, I think I'm going Darnell Nurse.
38:15
I think, I think the category converges.
38:17
Lori is elite and I'd rather have that on my team right now.
38:22
Obviously it depends in your, in your defensive room, right?
38:25
Like if you already have two category guys and and you have
38:28
two offensive minded guys, like I'd rather have nurse, sorry,
38:32
I'd rather have Jones. But if you like one-on-one,
38:34
you're starting the foundation of your team.
38:35
I think right now I'm going to nurse.
38:39
Alright this next one is spicy AF.
38:43
I was I was looking forward to talking about this one the most,
38:45
but it's Mitch Marner or Matt Bold the rest of the season.
38:51
Wow, I see you're smarter. I mean, we didn't mention, we
38:54
didn't mention him on the bio episode this last episode, but
38:58
Jake mentioned him as a target for Kempe and I thought that was
39:02
a great point because Marner has not been doing too hot lately
39:07
separated. From Michael Doing, he's doing
39:10
exactly what I kind of expect him to be doing.
39:12
Like he didn't take like that big step up that we had the
39:15
potential of it, but he's pretty much in line for his regular
39:18
points, right? He's over a point per game.
39:20
He could he could step it up a little bit, but but he's over a
39:23
point per game. And we always know that he
39:25
doesn't really shoot mean shots somehow went down, but he's
39:28
still doing like 1.5 versus like 2.1 last year.
39:31
So. This was a straight not losing
39:33
back-to-back games. You're really not a fan of that?
39:36
100% yeah. And Boldly Like was off to the
39:39
blistering start. But he's also slowed down a bit.
39:41
But I mean, you could still she couldn't go up from where he
39:43
was. Yeah, no, that's very fair.
39:47
Honestly, I think at this point in time, I probably go with
39:51
Boldy and I think that might be that might be a hot take, but
39:54
there's a reason why I was kind of avoiding Marner in the second
39:57
round of our draft. It's just I hate like.
40:00
He's so good at points, but he literally does nothing else.
40:04
I like my points guys to also shoot boldy shoots elite
40:07
amounts. Mars gonna get more points than
40:09
body. I'm not I I think that's an easy
40:11
assumption to make, but I don't think.
40:12
I don't think it's enough off. Maybe not easy, but I think it's
40:15
a fair assumption to make. But I don't think it's gonna be
40:18
far enough off to make up for the literally like three shots
40:21
on goal difference that body is getting.
40:23
I do think the point discrepancy is going to be 15 at the end of
40:29
the year. And I agree it's not enough to
40:31
make up for the show discrepancy.
40:32
If it was like, you know, 30, like it was closer to last year
40:36
right, then that's one thing. But Mitch is not playing with
40:39
Michael. That was a big thing, that.
40:41
People he'll end up back with equal at some point.
40:44
This is not gonna stay the whole season.
40:46
Yeah, back and forth. Just not like, like to Jake's
40:49
point, like we thought maybe they would be glued together.
40:51
The fact that they're not playing together now, even
40:53
though it'll go back and forth, it just shows that it's not a
40:55
lock. And as soon as they're not glued
40:57
together, he goes two games straight with zeros.
40:59
So maybe that just leads to the fact that maybe they'll put him
41:02
back because they want production out of him.
41:04
Or maybe they're just trying to like blend the talent and on
41:08
multiple lines. But I'm doing something with my
41:10
body. I feel like, I feel like his
41:12
floor is just so safe to season and he produces even without the
41:17
talent around him. And Mitch, I feel like, yeah,
41:21
he's an elite passer and he's great for assists, but he's not.
41:24
He's he's definitely susceptible to the games where you know,
41:29
you'd rather have anybody else on your roster.
41:31
So yeah, but the ceiling is super high.
41:34
So obviously that's why it was a second round, third round kind
41:36
of guy. But Boldly is next year is going
41:39
to be a second round guy feels like.
41:41
Yeah. I I also feel like Boulder's
41:44
shooting percentage has been like quite low this year.
41:48
Like he's bound. That's positive.
41:49
Report like five goals in five games.
41:51
Yeah. He's just.
41:53
Rocketing off shots, like four shots on goal of game.
41:55
Crazy. Yeah, he had one with 10,
41:57
another with 7. Like this is crazy.
41:58
And he's shooting under 12% this year.
42:00
I think he can. Even if he goes to 13 like that
42:04
would be a big uptick. I'm gonna go with body.
42:06
It's safer the better standalone value.
42:08
I thought this was gonna be spicier than it actually was.
42:12
More like I don't feel comfortable saying it.
42:15
I think it's the right pick, but it feels good to say for sure.
42:17
Try not to have any recency bias out into it, but like just
42:20
bullies. Bristol Machine.
42:22
All right #4 looking at left wingers, two of my favorite guys
42:27
are Timmy Panarin or Jason Robertson.
42:29
Rest of season. Wow, that's crazy.
42:33
Yeah, so I want to start with this one because I I think that
42:37
I'm the least emotionally attached to the Rangers.
42:42
That is. True, and I'm going to
42:44
objectively say Panarin because I think it's like really a
42:49
matter of time before they figure things out.
42:51
It just doesn't make sense. Everybody's been not good.
42:55
Calgary demolished them. WTF.
43:00
I thought that was slowly up for like finally they can get their
43:03
groove back and it's like the team has lost seven straight and
43:05
then they go home to five one. Yeah, yeah.
43:08
And I'm actually pretty impressed with Robertson has
43:10
been doing like he's, I think at this point we were too low on
43:13
him in the off season. So it's.
43:15
Nice, we all know who have been done.
43:19
That a girl, you're words, you're you're underselling.
43:24
Understand exactly. So yeah, and Panarin shots have
43:27
been there, the minutes have been there.
43:29
He's the focal point on offence. And look, we don't really think
43:31
about it as actively. It's more like, oh, he's playing
43:35
with this person or whatever. Like that means he's going to
43:37
get more production. But Trocheck being there no
43:39
matter where Panera slots, it's a matchup thing.
43:42
If Panera gets easier matchups, even for 10% of the game,
43:46
there's a higher chance scores, he's going to pick it up.
43:48
So I'm going. To go, I also think that
43:51
honestly have incredible chemistry and it's just bad
43:54
timing because before the season started, like both Panera and JT
43:58
missed time. So in the beginning they had the
44:00
struggles because they missed the training camp and then
44:02
Trojan gets hurt. They they like break the rust
44:05
off. So now they're like fine from
44:07
after training camp, but now he's lost like his duo.
44:10
So he's going to he's trying to learn chemistry with with two
44:13
other guys on the fly. I think I've been watching a lot
44:17
of Rangers games because I'm heavily invested in my fantasy
44:19
teams. So I'm just saying like Panera
44:21
is still the guy like he's still the Talisman on this team.
44:24
It feels like him more than ET if anything, and the line that
44:28
he's on are the lines that are throwing out in the crucial
44:30
situations. And I think it's just a matter
44:32
of time, especially with Trocheck on his way back.
44:34
And then next week or two, most likely, I think that's going to
44:38
be a catalyst for this Rangers to kind of like turn things
44:40
around. But that's not to take away from
44:42
Jason Robertson, who honestly, like he's definitely surpassed
44:45
everything that I thought he was going to do this season thus
44:47
far. Obviously, this season is long
44:49
and let's see if we can keep it up.
44:51
But we're getting the floor with Panarin right now and we're
44:53
still, we're seeing flashes here, but a lot of like, you
44:56
know, charts and nothing to show for it.
44:58
So I I'm still going Panera and currently, but I would not be
45:02
surprised if by the end of the year like maybe it's closer than
45:05
we expect. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to Panera
45:08
in as well. I think if Panarin wasn't
45:10
shooting, I would go Robertson. But the fact that Planarians is
45:13
still at a 2.9 shots per game, I know Roberson at 4.3, but that's
45:16
not sustainable. Yeah.
45:17
So I think that's a big indicator for me that Pan's
45:20
gonna bounce back. Alright, last one, talking about
45:25
the sinners, baby. The bread makers, my boy, you
45:29
know what's going to be. Coming in this every.
45:31
Time Dylan or every week Dylan Larkin.
45:36
I'm going to go politically correct on this one and simply
45:39
choose Dylan. That was not an.
45:43
Option going. I'm going Larkin despite loving
45:47
cousins like Kevin does. OK, But yeah, no, I mean, I
45:55
think it would have been a harder would you rather if you
45:57
chose a really elite guy who's not also performing at an elite
46:00
level, But like, it's just been absolutely insane.
46:03
And I know that Cousins has been absolutely insane.
46:05
When you've got two guys who are both killing it.
46:07
I'm gonna go with the guy who going into the season, I had
46:09
higher expectations for. So all that being said, they're
46:13
both playing sick, but I gotta go Larkin.
46:16
Yeah, I think I agree, but I'm super high on Cousins.
46:21
He's. So definitely don't agree SO.
46:23
Yeah, we know. Yeah.
46:25
No, I mean he's just a more well-rounded player.
46:27
Cousins for sure. There's no doubt about it.
46:29
The bank accounts are sick, the points are amazing.
46:31
Like he's sick but Larkin just has that higher point ceiling I
46:35
think. And that's what working Larkin
46:38
has hasn't put up. Last year I feel like was great.
46:42
We thought highly of him. He was not even a point per game
46:44
last year. Kevin, this is like you're the
46:48
biggest guy of I'm not saying power play points versus points.
46:51
Constance is averaging a point per game.
46:52
Guess how many power play points per game, Jakey. .2. .7 power
47:00
play points per game. That is the most unsustainable
47:03
thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
47:05
Really. That's not it drops to a .4 or
47:09
five power play points per game, which is what, A McDavid,
47:12
McKinnon, whatever those guys end with .4 or five power play
47:15
points per game, then that's losing out on .25 points.
47:19
That brings him to a .75 points per game.
47:24
Well, Kevin, this is amazing, but there's no way.
47:28
This Ottawa power play has currently been thus far in the
47:32
season. We're almost a month in the best
47:34
in the league and I think with the pieces they have on this
47:37
power play, we can expect them to be a top five power play for
47:40
the rest of the season. I feel like that.
47:41
You're not gonna put up .7 points.
47:43
Per game? Obviously not, but.
47:47
He's averaging point 3.3 even strength points per game.
47:51
Yeah, but also the lines because Brady has been heard and people
47:54
have been missing time. Batherson wasn't there to start
47:56
the season. No, I don't wanna I.
47:58
Don't write. Your cousin sprayed.
47:59
He's sick but like. I think Dylan Larkin season with
48:02
.9 points per game. I think Cousins will be over .8
48:07
points per game. I think the shots will be very
48:09
close and I think they'll call them guess 3, three extra hits a
48:12
game. And I think the power play
48:14
points are, they're probably around .35 point 4.
48:19
Yeah. So I would say, let's say power
48:21
play points is pretty similar points.
48:23
I'm giving the edge to Larkin pins, I'm giving the edge to
48:25
Larkin shots, I'm giving the edge Larkin faceoff wins is a
48:28
huge edge for Larkin and then hits is a massive edge for
48:31
Cousins. So it's it's close, but I'm
48:35
definitely going Larkin. He just is better in too many of
48:38
the categories that despite Cousins being so much better in
48:40
hits, I don't think it makes up for all the other categories
48:42
where Larkin is better. All right, well, we disagree.
48:45
And you was gonna be on the island on this one.
48:47
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48:49
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