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But what about Bow Bangor Management Fantasy Hockey
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podcast? Whoa, whoa.
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Karaoke. Karaoke who?
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OHS you believe from creator management karaoke episode
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Welcome everybody to banker management.
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That would be fun. And we do that for a holiday
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special or something. Yeah, we got people to post,
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submit songs and then we have to sing them.
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Listen, you put it out there. Maybe the people will.
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Maybe the people will want to see that.
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So I love karaoke, so I'm down. With when before I listen, you
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interrupt me right in front of me, right in the middle of the
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welcome. Yeah.
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Welcome to Make Your Management the fantasy Hockey podcast with
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Kevin and Josh. Jake Korea, not North Korea.
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Unfortunately, no. But yeah, today we are doing the
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Week 11 Hot topics and mailbag episodes.
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So we're going to answer your questions and you guys submitted
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all over the place and we're going to discuss some hot topics
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from around the league. But I also want to give a little
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little tidbit for how much Josh loves karaoke.
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I've never seen Josh karaoke before, but before Josh moved to
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the US, he had like a kind of like a going away party.
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And I I saw Josh singing the lyrics with song.
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I didn't even know he. Knew.
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So wait, no, that was my baby shower.
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Oh yeah, I want your baby shower is going away.
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Party. Yeah, we had our baby shower at
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a karaoke bar. And that was fire, honestly.
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It was so. Fun.
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I heard it was. It was.
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All And I sang like 15 songs. Yeah, you heard me do some
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Kendrick. That's pretty good.
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Eminem as well sounds a good time.
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Yeah, it was. But Josh loved the party, so
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with whatever you started drinking like he he came up with
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the beer bets. That's what it because he just
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wanted more excuse to drink. It's funny because you're making
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it sound like I drink all the time, but I probably at this
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point, especially with the Navy, I drink maybe like once every
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two months, But like when I do, it's a it's a good time.
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I'm not a big drinker either, honestly.
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Like, yeah, I, it's just, I have somebody asked me recently,
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like, oh, don't you just love coming home and like just
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grabbing a beer or something? And like, honestly, I like.
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I feel we romanticize that in our minds.
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It's just like, oh, just like grabbing a cold when you come
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home from the office. And like, in my head, I'm just
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like, oh, that looks so good. Yeah, I see, like a beer.
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I'm just like, oh, man, that looks so, so like refreshing.
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I just wanna see you see, the Coca-Cola commercial with the
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glass is like, sweating. And you're like, OK, yeah, but
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no, I wish, I wish I I could enjoy like a cold 1 coming home
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from the office, but I don't always have the desire.
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I'm very much a drink to party not because I enjoy the taste I.
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Usually just like get me aft up. Yeah, I mean usually my go to at
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the bar is like give me the strongest thing that taste the
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least like alcohol and is also the cheapest.
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That's that's all I care about. I remember this is this is, this
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is embarrassing for me. I'm going out myself.
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But I remember when I was a little younger and one of my
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friends, he, he like ordered a double of a drink.
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I was like, oh man, why are you ordering a double?
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Like you could just get like 2 singles.
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It's like more, more liquid for you to drink.
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And he was like, I don't care about the liquid, I just want to
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get after. Completely changed my
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perspective on everything. So it's like, but you know,
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economically you're getting more for the same price, so.
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You can get more, you could get more Coca-Cola or soda, whatever
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you're putting in your face. So that was that was a, that was
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the moment I became a man. So yeah, alright, so enough
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lollygagging, let's get into the hot topics for this week.
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And there's some spicy ones. Yeah, this is a look, you know,
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would you? Rathers is Kevin's baby and
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he's, you know, nurtured it over the past like a year and a half,
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and he's gotta go. Pat, this is a new segment
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that's kind of my baby, but I'm like, I'm still working on it.
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You know, I'm kind of just trying to see who everyone's
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talking about and toss that in there.
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The issue that makes it a bit more difficult is that if it's
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someone who's talking about, usually will get that as a
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question. And so then I can use it as a
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hot topic. So or it's related to some sort
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of news and then I can't use it. So I have to find people that
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everyone's talking about. That's not a news, it's not a
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question, and it's not a bill or a cell high that we've
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mentioned. So bear with me.
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But anyways, let's dive right in.
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So our first hot topic of this week is Sebastian Aho of the
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Carolina Hurricanes. Look, I wouldn't be shocked if
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next weekend's up as one of our bylaws, but he hasn't yet.
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So I put him as a hot topic. He's been awful.
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And everyone's wondering like, what do I do with Aho?
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Like is he just cooked? Like the Rod curse finally got
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to him, you know, like what's going on?
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Kevin, are you, are you worried at all about Sebastian Aho?
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No, not worried at all. We we see star players go
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through something like this all the time.
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It's just just happened to virus right now.
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It's happened to other players throughout the season.
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I when it's guys of this caliber that they have such a big sample
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size of like, you know, this delivery year on year and year,
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I don't get worried. I think Sebastian Aho is a
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fantastic Bylow right now and I would I would be trying to to
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purchase if I had the opportunity so.
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Yeah, absolutely. And I know in the past I've
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mentioned my parabola example and I realized after the episode
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that that's actually the wrong function to use.
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It's actually a sine wave. OK, so these guys go up and down
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over the course of the season and if you grab them during one
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of the downs, then you're getting them on the way up and
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and it's great vote goes up. So.
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So yeah, no, not worried that all of us.
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Sebastian, Sebastian Aho, There's some guys that are like,
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look for the most part it's a top tier guy and he's going
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through a rough patch. It sucks, but I'm not worried.
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Once in awhile if there's like a reason behind it, something I
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can pinpoint that would make me worried, then I can get worried.
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But for the most part, if it's just a guy who's a really good
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player on a cold stretch, you just tough through it and
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definitely don't sell low. Yep.
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OK, Next we have Tyler Bertuzzi of the Chicago Blackhawks.
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So obviously first he was a huge sell high and big name out there
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for that. Now there's the whole Connor
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Bidard injury. How does that affect the
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Blackhawks? We talked about it a bit on our
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news episode, but for Bertuzzi specifically, what are we doing
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with them? I'm trying to sell Bertuzzi as
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fast as possible. I think already he's the type of
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guy that you know you've picked up on waivers and you've got
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tremendous value from, but he's still the type of guy that has
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the waiver stick to him. So it's so hard to sell and you
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don't wanna cut him just because he was a waiver guy, was
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actually producing for your fantasy team.
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But right now with the Dart injury, I think all of Chicago
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right now is gonna go through a go through hell right now, I
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think. Yeah.
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So if I have Bertuzzi, honestly, I'm trying to, in my head, he's
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like, I'm picturing milk and I'm like, you know, this guy's for
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some reason is going off like crazy.
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But it's not sustainable. And we know that at some point
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in the season he can end up on waivers.
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And I think we're two peas in the same boat.
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If I have him, I'm trying to make a swap.
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I think you can target guys like, you know, Dimitri,
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Veronika, POV, you know, I'm thinking about my team like
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Brankov, Echlin, like I feel like Bertucci's been
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outperforming these guys, but I'd much rather have the the
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guys I just mentioned over him because of the sustainability of
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the deployment long term. Yeah, the way I look at it with
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these types of guys is definitely you want to trade
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him, you want to sell high. But I don't necessarily like
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trying to do. I mean, we never like one for
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once, right? No, I see it.
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It's like you use him as like a piece in like a 2 for one to
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upgrade to like another tier. So you take your Brandon Hagel,
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you take, you tie on a Tyler Bertuzzi and you turn that into
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a I don't know who he turned that into.
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Sebastian Aho. Sebastian Aho There you go.
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Easy one. 1 + 2 equals OHHHHH. No, but maybe, maybe a Hagel and
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a Hagel Bertuzzi can get you like a like a Tage Thompson or
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something potentially. Yeah, yeah.
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Although has been pretty sick, but so these guys.
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So absolutely, that's the one. Yes, I like that a lot.
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Exactly. So that's how you are in a
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piece. Exactly.
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All right. Next we have John Klingberg of
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the San Jose Sharks, the power play 1 defenseman who also gets
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scratched sometimes. But who also gets demoted?
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The PP2 sometimes. Yeah, that I'm not really as
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worried about. I think that was kind of a.
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Blip. That's only happened five times
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this season. Yeah, but I think he's settling
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in now and he's on a really hot streak and he hasn't had a
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streak like this all year. I know he's had streaks where
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he's been OK, but he hasn't had a streak of four.
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I think it's four games now where he's got 7 points.
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He's putting up back Cats. And look, I pulled up.
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Classic Kevin. You're pulling class.
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No, no, look, look, I don't think he's, I don't think he's
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gonna be a darn radish who you pick up and all of a sudden, you
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know, becomes like a rocket ship.
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But like, I could see him being someone who sticks onto my team
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longer than I expected. Yeah, but I I still think he's
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one of the one of the lowest end power play 1 quarterbacks
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available in fantasy. I think like what's, what's
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another that? Would take him over.
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I would take him over like whoever's quarterbacking
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Toronto's power play right now if.
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It's barely There's no guy quarterbacking Toronto power
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play. That's, I guess there's that.
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Who would I take him over? I would take him over.
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Anyone quarterbacking Phillies power play I take.
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Yeah, but that's you're, you're literally painting the bottom of
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the barrel right now like that. There's no guys that are
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usually. There.
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OK, Let me think of someone who's actually worth rostering
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that I would take him over. Yeah, that's a power play.
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One quarterback who would take him over.
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Calgary's powerfully on quarterback.
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Rasmus Anderson. Yeah, I mean, no, but.
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No, you're not. No, not right now.
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No, obviously not right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if in
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like a month I'm happy you're having clean big than Anderson.
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No, I think, I think Anderson has too much of the Black Cats.
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First of all, just favor that. It really is.
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That's why I was trying to think of guys who are like just on the
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points wise and. Also, just like good too.
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I'm just saying I feel like Josh and I are on opposite ends of
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the spectrum on this Klingberg one.
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I think he's more optimistic than I am, but within the
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expectations. But it's just hard, like you see
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a guy put up 7 points in four games with the back, so he's
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been hitting and blocking and I know that, but he's.
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He has games like that at certain points to like where
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you're like, OK, he's doing that.
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And then Jake talked about in the beginning of the season like
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he wants to change his game or whatever.
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Then he just. Going back to zeros, no, I'm
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definitely not buying into the back cats.
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But I don't know, I just don't see him necessarily.
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I'm not worried about Orlov. Like if that's what it is, I
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don't think he's all of a sudden like, but amazing player, but
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like in a deep league. I'm happy that I picked him up
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and I'm kind of curious to see what he can do with it.
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Yeah, I'm just saying that like obviously when a guy is exposed
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to PP1 anywhere, especially for a defence, like you don't find
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these guys randomly on waivers very often, right?
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So I'm definitely interested, but to me, there's like a 5050
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chance that come next week, you're gonna wanna pick up the
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new hotness. The would you rather receive
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boom or? I was about to say I'm.
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See, I I feel like I'd rather just take the chance on boom at
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that point and like, yeah, there's a real possibility that
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climbers is better, but I don't know what the ceiling is.
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William, right now. You just got traded to a
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different situation. Like there's more upside there
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than what I've seen climber do the whole season where he's on
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PP 11 week, he's on P2, the next week he's scratched one game.
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Like to me, the I already know what I'm getting with Klingberg.
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I don't think we're unlocking a new potential with him, you
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know, halfway through the season, whereas William just got
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traded. He's young, like he's
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developing. I think there's potentially more
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upside, but I'm also very realistic in the sense that I
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don't think he's gonna be a stud of all studs, but I'd rather
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take the chance. Look, I could easily see
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Klingberg being a drop in like a week or two.
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I could also see him, you know, being solid and being like the
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type of guy that you were, like, damn, I wish I'd picked him up
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so. He'll be like 20 D'Angelo of
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like last year where it's like nothing.
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He's on, he's on there, he'll get a point here before games.
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How many points do you have on the season?
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Probably 7, yeah. How about you go check?
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Let's see, he's got 14 points, so he's got half his points were
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in the last four games of the season.
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Seems like the perfect time to grab him, yeah?
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I'm not opposed to grabbing him and seeing how it plays out, I'm
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just tempering my expectations. Yeah, absolutely.
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I'm. I'm hoping that it works out.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he gets dropped and and yeah, I
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guess. OK, here's one.
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Would you rather have Klingberg or Dougie Hamilton?
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I'd rather Dougie. Yeah.
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Yeah, I know it's potential awful, but just like we've seen
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Dougie hit high, high ceilings before and like he's playing a
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better team. Just New Jersey feels like
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you're every week you cross over a different star player that's
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no longer playing for them and then at a certain point you're
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not a good team anymore. But.
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Absolutely no. Look, honestly, for Klingberg to
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hold any value or only like anything like that, I think he's
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got to do this for another one or two weeks.
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If he can be, you know, this good for another one or two
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weeks, then we're getting into conversation.
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OK, this is a serious as serious asset that could stick to your
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team for a while or it just is 1 hot week.
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So we'll see what happens. But in a lot of leagues, you
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gotta make the pick up before they become a certified.
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Yeah, you hold just to take the shot.
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So that's what I did, but we'll see what happens.
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All right, next, we've got Alex talk.
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This name pops up everywhere and I feel like, I don't know about
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you, Kevin, but I feel like I'm lower on him than pretty much
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anyone who's talking about him And the thing that keeps.
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Putting on him. Putting up points and like
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jackets and stuff and it's like making me look silly for my
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opinion, but it's just he will never be powerfully one.
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Like he gets it like here and there when there's injuries, but
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like the coaching staff clearly does not want him there.
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And Buffalo is not a good team. Like he shouldn't be.
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He his deployment and like the type of that he's a bad player,
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but just who he is and his deployment should not be leading
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to the point production that he's getting right now.
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Yeah, I love his back. Is that I've never said bad
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stuff about he's he's a solid back cats guy.
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But people are always like, should I do Alex Tuck or this
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power play one guy? And I'm always like, for the
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most part, it's the power play one guy.
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You know, like, obviously like that's not a blanket statement,
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but usually it's a guy who's like similar but just has
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probably 1. So that's why I felt the need to
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to mention him as a hot topic. No, he's definitely like
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relevant in the conversation to like over the last, over the
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last month. He's at almost a point per game,
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which is not nothing. And for a guy you drafted where
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you did like, that's tremendous value.
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The thing is, the power play is not anything exceptional.
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Like he gets stretches of P1 depending on the injuries and
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Buffalo's been really beaten up. So he's been there a little bit,
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but like .23 and I expect that to go lower because he just
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doesn't have the consistent exposure there.
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The main thing with Alex Tuck and why he's like always higher
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ranked than you would expect is not only because he gets
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shorthanded points, which he's actually really good at, he's
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actually one of the forwards that blocks the most.
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So I mean, we playing bangers categories league.
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So the block from the forward position there are very valuable
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and the shorties as well as one of our is one of the categories
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in our league of record, which I feel like is very rare.
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People don't usually play with shorthanded points, but it makes
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him very valuable there too. Last season he had 9 short
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handed points. This is only got 1.
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So he's due for some regression there, but nonetheless.
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And his penalty minutes also are usually pretty good.
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Yeah, so. And he's one of those guys that
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doesn't rely on on like a fight or a game misconduct to get his
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penalty minutes. It's just because it's like a
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little bit of discipline on the ice and takes some miners.
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But I, I, I completely agree with you where it's just like,
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you know, you're putting Tuck versus he's just basically
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Brandon Hagel, but like light. Yeah, exactly.
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The thing you know, I mean like Brandon, he's actually good.
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I'm not saying talks on a good hockey player, but Hagel, we've
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seen him hit over point per game for this season, be a short
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headed monster as well. Shoots a lot, never gets on
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power play one, but he still valuable.
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Whereas Tuck, I feel like it's like maybe 75% of Brandon Hagel
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is just kind of like the worst Brandon Hagel or the older,
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uglier kind of version type of thing.
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Not, not, not saying. What do you mean?
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I'm not talking about his looks, I'm talking about like, you
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know, hypothetically. Yeah, OK.
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No I I I fully agree other than it looks part.
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OK, Either way, I feel people understand where we're coming
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from with with talk. And I'm not saying that he's not
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gonna be valuable for your fantasy team, but I'm just
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saying that you can probably, you probably trade him for
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someone that would be more valuable longer term.
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Yeah, honestly, like a lot of these hot topics are gonna
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graduate into Billows in the next or sell in the next the
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next week. But yeah, I know that's a good
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one. And then lastly, this is a
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really hot topic, especially as Habs fans.
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We've got Jacob Fowler of the Montreal Canadiens.
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We mentioned the news episode he got called up and also that
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Montalbo got sent down for a conditioning stint.
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Obviously, Wanted was not going to stay in the AHL, and
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honestly, I'd be pretty surprised if Fowler stays up in
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the NHL for the rest of the season.
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But if he can be good while the other guys are floundering,
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they're gonna keep him up. They wanna win.
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So that's the the big, the big butt.
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And he's getting starts. He's starting again tonight.
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That's going to be his third start in four games for the
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Habs. So as it stands right now, he's
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the starter. Look, do I think it's gonna
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last? I'd say it's completely
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performance dependent. And there's just no real way to
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predict that, especially with like a guy like this who's never
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played in the NHL before. But if I was a betting man,
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which I'm not, I just do fantasy.
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But if I were a betting man, then I don't think he's gonna
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finish the season in the NHL. I mean, I really want him to,
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but realistically if he's, I don't think multiple staying in
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the NHL the whole year. So he's realistically going to
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be back. And then does he keep his spot
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over Dobesh? Like, I don't think that's
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impossible, but I feel like if keeping power on the roster is
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not to be the backup. So he's the goalie of the future
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for the Habs, so they want him to be getting playing time.
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So unless he's playing in the NHL, they'd rather just have him
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be the starter in the AHL. But now the question is for, you
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know, people are seeing Fowler on the waivers in their fantasy
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leagues. Like the question is, who are
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you dropping to pick up Fowler and taking the chance on this
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opportunity? Great question.
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First of all, I would drop either Montebello or Dovish
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Forum. Like at this point, no one's
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gonna grab the other guys. So you know, like if you're, if
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you really want to have the Habs goalie right now, you take
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whoever's the guy getting the starts and then you can drop him
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for one of the other guys. They start getting the stats, so
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I would definitely do that in terms of some starters.
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So I would draw for Fowler. Who would you, you.
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You start us off. Yeah.
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I mean, my mind goes straight to my team, so like Jack Greaves.
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OK, I was thinking that too. I think the upside on Fowler is
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enough that like, it's worth it to drop a guy like Reeves, even
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though I like Grieves. It's just I don't like what
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Columbus has been doing. My team is like, I don't have
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any stud studs like I have, I have grease, I've asked Rob, I
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have Stuart Skinner who's now Pittsburgh Penguin.
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So I just kinda feel like 3 guys that are kind of the same where
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it's just like they're good solid goalies that have upside
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but on teams that are not as good as them.
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It's just like, I guess the way I see it with Grieves is like,
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most likely he's not your best goalie.
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Most likely is your worst goalie, in which case it's worth
18:55
dropping him to take a shot at Fowler.
18:56
Or he's your best goalie, in which case it's definitely worth
18:59
it to drop to take a shot at Fowler because you're totally
19:01
situation can't really get worse.
19:03
So I think, yeah, I like I like taking the shot at Fowler.
19:07
Who else in? That lidar?
19:09
What about Skinner like? OK.
19:12
I wouldn't drop Skinner for Fowler.
19:14
I wouldn't drop bar either. I honestly like, he's been kind
19:16
of low-key really good so. I see Voltaren grieves the same
19:20
except grieves his team collapses at the end in the
19:23
third period. I mean, that's a big except.
19:25
It is, but, but I'm, I'm more thinking like, you know, the
19:28
metrics are the underlying metrics are all there that like
19:30
he's playing better than what the team results are.
19:32
So I feel like at some point the team results catch up to his
19:35
performances. That's why I'm hesitant to drop
19:37
in my. Honestly, if we're looking at
19:40
our own teams, this might be crazy, but I think I'm more
19:42
likely to drop to chord than I am to drop.
19:44
Really just cause the sustainability of the results
19:47
like. No, I mean right now it looks
19:50
like the court is like splitting starts with group hour.
19:52
He's been awful. Seattle is awful.
19:54
So like it's just not looking good.
19:56
Look, I do think that better days are ahead.
19:58
I'm not gonna drop them and I wouldn't drop him for Fowler.
20:01
But between the two, I think I'm more likely to drop him.
20:03
I just think radar is like kind of been like super underrated.
20:06
Like I I got him as a throw into a trade and I was like, I don't
20:09
really care about this guy. But then he's been solid.
20:12
But what are some other? Names I was gonna say I was just
20:14
gonna say like the sentiment is more like if you're a team that
20:16
does not need goalie, I'm not trying to pick up Fowler, but if
20:19
your team that's been in goalie hell, then I'm probably more
20:22
interested. And even if the guys on your
20:24
roster potentially better, is it worth not taking the upside of
20:29
Fowler? Probably not.
20:30
Like the guys that we just listed.
20:31
Like, like you said, like Grease is my best guy.
20:33
So do I do I wanna lose like the the consistency of the situation
20:39
to a follower that could end up being sent down, then I don't
20:41
have either of them and I'm in a worse situation.
20:43
Whereas if grieves you already have, like, let's say Blackwood
20:45
and the Walstead because you picked up off waivers.
20:49
And then do I want Fowler in that situation?
20:51
Like I don't need a Fowler, you know what I mean?
20:53
So that's kind of how I'm viewing it.
20:56
Yeah, I like it. It's a it's a very much like
20:58
high upside, but most likely gonna.
21:00
What about John Gibson? I was gonna say, I was gonna
21:03
say, Gibbs said. OK.
21:05
Always the same wavelength. You know, it's actually crazy.
21:09
Thank God Jake, he's not here. Yeah.
21:12
We'd be in Timbuk 2 all the wave like.
21:14
Yeah, he'd probably be like Cam Talbot and we'd be like, no,
21:19
honestly, right now, look, I'm not a, I'm not a Gibson lover or
21:22
anything like that. But with what he's been doing, I
21:24
think you got ahold Gibson, he's the, he's the starter in
21:26
Detroit's a decent team. So.
21:28
So no, I wouldn't drop Gibson for Fowler.
21:31
All right, let's get into the mail back questions.
21:33
This. Let's start this off, Josh.
21:35
OK, Mr. Slick Tastic on Reddit asked, what is your team?
21:39
Russia starting 5 plus goalie, assuming they were allowed at
21:42
the Olympics. So I looked through it and some
21:45
of these are obvious and some are less obvious.
21:47
So I'll go with the obvious ones.
21:49
So at winger, you've got Kucherov and Kaprizov.
21:51
They look, there's a lot of good Russian wingers.
21:53
There's the best goal scorer of all time.
21:55
But in this day and age that you're not picking anyone over
21:57
those two. Yeah.
21:58
And then at goalie, it's got to be Vasilevsky.
22:01
I mean, you could make an argument Igor, but I feel like
22:04
it's got to be Vasilevsky with the with all.
22:05
The monsters are invading. I want Vasilevsky being my.
22:08
Exactly. OK.
22:10
Then defensemen. I actually was pretty surprised
22:13
at how kind of like lean Russia is that defence in terms of like
22:16
offensive defenseman at least. So my picks were Sergachev was
22:19
the clear one and then I actually put Nikishin as my next
22:22
one. I don't know if you're pulling
22:24
up a list of of Russian defensemen, but it's it's pretty
22:26
slim pickings. Really.
22:29
That comes to mind right off the bat.
22:30
So yeah, and then add centre, look, obviously I'd rather just
22:33
toss in like Ovechkin and you run 3 wingers.
22:35
Yeah, like you need to see it's gotta be Afghani Malkin
22:38
especially like look, he's shown this year that he's still got
22:40
some juice in him and his Olympics for this year.
22:42
It's not 4 years from now. So so yeah, that's why output is
22:46
my my 5. Even though we hate him for
22:48
fantasy like does not mean that he wouldn't be wouldn't be good
22:51
for team Russia. Exactly.
22:53
OK, Nicholas Kronwall on Reddit asked.
22:55
I don't think it's the actual Nicholas Kronwall, you know, You
23:00
never know. I would be really cool.
23:04
What should I do with Demidov and Michkov in a Cats league
23:07
that has goals, assists, probably points, Pimms shots,
23:10
hits, blocks. It's a keeper league, but
23:13
neither would be my keepers. He has like some All-Star
23:15
keepers and you only get to keep three.
23:16
I've tried trading them but nobody's interested.
23:19
Can I drop for someone like Eckland or Voronkov?
23:22
Feels bad but yes Mitkov just got dropped to 1 of my leagues
23:25
and I'm not. I've never been interested in
23:27
Michkov. Demidov I have more of a soft
23:29
spot for. Obviously we're Habs fans and
23:30
also I just think he's a better player.
23:32
Yeah but I just don't think this is the year for either of them
23:34
to pop off. I think Mitch Comma has better
23:36
chance of popping off this year than Demidov does, but I I'd
23:40
rather have a wrong call in England than both of them.
23:42
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but.
23:44
That's tough. I mean, those guys both happen
23:46
to be on your team, so it's you. Know but also have the other
23:50
situation is just line one power play one guys that you know are
23:53
gonna play be playing close to 20 minutes a night.
23:55
I'll give you I'll give you Mitch Gov because he's not part.
23:58
He's like Philly's a mess. You know, like, and even though
24:01
I agree, like he's a year older than Demidov and in the NHL.
24:04
So like theoretically he should. Pop off 30 minutes a.
24:07
Night. That's it.
24:08
I just I hate his deployment. So yes, I agree with him cough
24:10
drop Domino's power play 1 and I just think his upside is so much
24:14
higher than these other two guys that I wouldn't drop him for
24:16
those guys if but I mean, I've got bumped up like we've seen
24:19
him go back and forth, right, But I think the Habs have
24:22
realized or will realize that their team is best when he's on
24:26
power play 1. So for that reason, I'm holding
24:28
them at all versus guys like this.
24:29
Look, he's definitely droppable for in in some, however,
24:32
depending on how shallow your league is.
24:34
But with these specific names, yes I dropped me off for them
24:36
but not dumb it off. I would drop them enough for
24:39
either of these guys too. So it just it just sucks that
24:42
you're in a situation where you know, you feel like you should
24:44
be able to give value for these guys because you know, they're
24:46
young, they're the next All Stars of the league, it feels
24:49
like, and yet nobody wants them on their fantasy team.
24:51
So at a certain point, you gotta do what's best for your team.
24:54
And if you try to trade them everywhere and nobody wants
24:56
them, even in the lowest of stakes of trades, like the fact
25:00
that Ethan and Veronica are available just tells me that
25:02
there's probably other guys that are also worth streaming as
25:04
well. So.
25:05
Absolutely. OK.
25:07
This question was alluded to on our news episode, but easy peasy
25:10
on Discord asked does the trade definitively bring Quinn Hughes
25:14
up to macar territory for undisputed defensemen in their
25:18
own tier in next year's draft? So let's preface by saying this
25:22
by saying that Quinn Hughes was already the undisputed #2
25:25
defenseman in the league. So I guess let's treat this
25:27
question, does does this bring Quinn Hughes?
25:29
Like because he was undisputed #2 but there was no question
25:32
that car was #1 Does this trade make Quinn Hughes and a
25:36
discussion with Makar? To me, To me, no.
25:40
I still think it's Makar by far. And you've seen Makar do it at
25:44
this high of a level so often already that I don't think
25:48
anybody's close to Macar. Like I think the gap between
25:51
Makar and the next best defenseman, which is Quinn
25:55
Hughes is still way larger than the gap from like McKinnon to
26:00
McDavid it feels like. Yeah, I.
26:03
Like McKenzie, McDavid is close enough that you're like, OK,
26:06
like these are two studs, but it used to be McDavid and then
26:08
friends, you know, and now it's just like, it's McDavid,
26:11
McKinnon cultural. Like all these guys can put up
26:13
the points in the shots, whereas Makar, I don't think anybody's
26:18
consistently like I would. Monsters are invading.
26:20
I'm choosing 1 defence. But it's, it's Macar and I, I
26:22
know I'm happy, you know what I mean?
26:23
Yeah, there's a lot of monsters invading in this.
26:26
Yeah, why do they keep inviting, especially during this hot Hot
26:29
Topics and Mail by week 11 episode?
26:31
What I know it's crazy. Look, I mean, I tend to agree
26:35
with though what Kevin said. The one thing I'll say is that
26:38
we don't have to make that decision just yet.
26:39
Let's see how he plays on Minnesota before, before we, you
26:42
know, decide. So I think it's possible.
26:45
He's like I said, he's already #2 and he's going what Nissan
26:49
car so special in addition to just being like the best
26:51
offensive is he also does get to play with McKinnon, right?
26:54
Like that's not nothing. So now Quinn Hughes, instead of
26:57
playing with, you know, Jake Debrusk and Brock Besser and the
27:01
husk of Elias Pettersson, he has to play with Carol Kaprizov.
27:05
He has to play with Matt Boldy, like Mascarello.
27:08
Yeah, exactly. You know, like, yeah.
27:11
So I think there's a chance. I think there's a chance that
27:13
this could boost him to that level, but I think we just have
27:16
to wait and see. It's too early to tell.
27:18
But Mccarter is also like pretty decent on blocks whereas I know
27:20
Quinn Hughes getting 0 block zero hits.
27:22
So that's fair and Mccarson elite shooter, he was better
27:25
than I expected but but he's still not that level.
27:28
So that's definitely assuming he doesn't randomly elevate that
27:31
part of his game. Then yes, my car is is still a
27:34
step up. But this definitely does better
27:36
things for Connie's value. So listen, we're not, we're not.
27:38
We're not trying to push that down.
27:41
It's more just like Makar is just so good.
27:43
Yeah, OK, Bertos Pink Soccer on Discord asked.
27:48
I can't believe you chose this question now.
27:50
I knew I would have to read this name and it's, it's hilarious,
27:54
but yeah. He asked if you had a bad season
27:57
due to unlucky weekly matchups. Do you trust the process and run
28:00
back the same strategy next year or try to change things up?
28:03
So this is like your team's doing well, but this is like the
28:06
classic. My team has the most fantasy
28:08
points of any team in the league this year, but it also has the
28:11
most fantasy points against of any team this year and what the
28:13
matchups? So do you run that back?
28:15
Do you change things up? I'm running it back.
28:17
That's like if your teams, like the way I feel about things is
28:21
if every time, like if I have the option of both someone on my
28:25
team and someone I'm playing get a goal or neither does, I'm
28:29
always taking the both get a goal because even though it's
28:31
net the same for my match of that week, it just means I have
28:34
a better team. So I kind of view it the same
28:35
way as look, if you're if you're doing everything right and
28:38
everything's against you, you keep doing everything right.
28:41
Don't overthink it. Yeah, it's more first of all,
28:44
like if you like Josh gave the perfect example, like we talked
28:47
about fantasy football sometimes or fantasy hockey is just like
28:50
your team score so many points, but you also end up playing
28:52
against like you're the second highest score.
28:53
You play against the first highest score and you just get
28:55
bad luck sometimes. And I mean, I've had years like
28:57
that where, I mean, last year for fantasy football really
28:59
wrecked me. I was like the highest scoring
29:00
team and I did make the playoffs.
29:02
It was honestly heartbreaking. And that happened.
29:04
Sometimes you just you're you are a victim to the schedule and
29:08
there's nothing you can do about it.
29:09
And it really sucks. Um, I'm trying to, to step away
29:13
from that situation a little bit and just be like, OK, if
29:16
something went wrong or you know, I lost and I was like, I
29:18
trusted the process. I'm gonna stand back and
29:21
reevaluate. Like, OK, what was my process?
29:22
Like what did I was my strategy this year?
29:24
Like usually going into a year, if you have a process, you wanna
29:28
put it up for debate and see like, did I choose the right
29:30
one? Was it my competitors do?
29:33
And a lot of that could be like, you know, where you draft
29:35
certain players, like are you going goalie heavy?
29:37
Are you punting goalie? Are you going more centre heavy?
29:40
If you're in a category that has face off, there's so many
29:43
components I can play into this so but if you're just had bad
29:47
luck like you said in the question, I'm running it back.
29:49
Like I'm not trying to get cute with it.
29:51
You have to take every individual situation for its own
29:55
and sometimes there's no correlation.
29:58
Like your team wasn't bad, it was just every other team was
30:01
better than yours. Hypothetically, you know.
30:03
Yeah. On a new week.
30:06
Yeah, just trying a rapid fire a few of these as we can.
30:11
Francis on Discord asked what do you do when your lineup is
30:14
optimized, barring injuries? How do you avoid tampering with
30:16
perfection? So I remember in his message, he
30:19
was saying that he's just like Jones and make some moves
30:21
because he's bored with how good his team is.
30:23
And so I'll say, first of all, don't mess with perfection.
30:26
But when you're in this situation, this is the prime
30:28
time to do some 2 for ones and some consolidating, you know,
30:31
free up that streamer spots you can get back into picking up all
30:33
these exciting names there. It does kind of suck when your
30:36
whole team is just guys who are like undroppable.
30:38
So, so yeah, that's my, the first thing that jumped out to
30:41
me is just consolidate. It's the first and the only
30:43
thing that you have to do. Your team is so good, you don't
30:45
have any room to make any moves. That means first of all, you're
30:48
subject to bad schedules on a weekly basis, which even if your
30:51
team is perfect, you might still losing just because of sheer
30:54
volume. You know like last week I have
30:58
Trocheck, Panarin and Will Cooley on my team and Rangers
31:01
had a two game week so I ended up getting crushed in my matchup
31:05
because component just had so much volume on me.
31:09
This week the Rangers have 5 game week so I have the
31:13
advantage going into my next my next match up so.
31:17
But the main question is what do you do when your team is stuck?
31:20
You trade. And that's what I'm gonna
31:23
recommend you do here due to for ones always get the best player
31:25
available in a trade. And if you keep doing that,
31:29
you're gonna get even better. So yeah.
31:31
OK, Jordan, Discord asked. Everyone loves the newest shiny
31:35
thing in fantasy hockey. What's yells take on drafting
31:38
for potential versus drafting for the sure thing?
31:40
What do you think would win over the course of the year?
31:42
A team that's in every round hit on a safe floor guy or a team
31:45
who hit on 50% of their high potential swings?
31:48
What percentage of swings would it take to outplay the floor
31:51
guys draft? So this is a great question.
31:53
This is kind of how you look at the draft and I think it's as
31:57
unsatisfying of an answer as it is.
31:58
I think it's A kind of a mix of both.
32:01
The way I see it is early on in the draft I much prefer taking
32:05
the sure thing. And then later on in the draft
32:07
is where I go for those drafting for potential like shots at the
32:11
dart board because the cost of missing is so much lower later
32:15
on in the draft and you get such a bigger advantage, like hitting
32:19
on an All Star in round one versus taking a sure thing.
32:22
All Star in round one is the same thing, right When he gets
32:25
around 13, you know, if you hit that all start, that's a big
32:27
difference. So that's kind of how I look at
32:29
it. For those that are not watching
32:31
on YouTube, I was nodding along to everything Josh was saying
32:34
because I completely agree with it.
32:36
It's just you'll never see me draft like the rookie that's
32:40
poised for a step up. Why does you draft cost like the
32:43
Connor Batards that you know, he's been disappointing going
32:46
into this year? He was drafted in like the third
32:48
round where that was way too rich for me.
32:50
Like I I'm happy to miss out on that and draft like a Tage
32:55
Thompson in their third round, then draft Connor Bedard and not
32:59
have him get anywhere close to what we're expecting and then
33:01
feel like I have a third round bust.
33:03
Yeah, So I'm, I'm not saying like, you know, this year, if
33:06
you would have made the bar draft pick, you would have been
33:08
thrilled because he was playing the first round value, right.
33:10
But I'm happy to miss out on that and get the sure thing that
33:12
early because the consequences are missing on a pick that early
33:16
are way more severe than missing on a pick later when I'm later
33:19
in the drafts. I know that like after around
33:21
10, there's a bunch of guys are just gonna end up on waivers
33:23
anyways. And also depends how deep your
33:25
league is. You know, like the deeper your
33:27
league isn't. Our draft is like 20 rounds.
33:30
I know that I need to make sure I have the study of the
33:32
foundation for my roster. I don't have the luxury of
33:35
making taking big swings early on because the impact is so much
33:38
more consequential. If I'm in a team that's only
33:41
starting 10 guys, then maybe I'm more likely to take swings
33:45
earlier on because I know that the replacement value is already
33:48
going to be really high. So you have to take that into
33:50
account. You're making decisions like
33:51
this. But like Josh said, like we're
33:54
not gonna get into the hypotheticals of like how much
33:56
percent do they have to hit for me to want to take them type of
33:59
thing. But it's just like earlier on,
34:00
I'm way more risk averse than later on.
34:03
Yeah, I think that's how it should be.
34:05
Yeah, OK, Joshua Furon on Discord asked which franchises
34:09
are the most directionless right now.
34:11
Vancouver seems to have picked a direction.
34:13
Looks like Nashville and Calgary will be.
34:15
But lots of teams are in win now mode and several are building
34:17
for the future. But which ones are the least
34:19
clear in your opinions? And if you were the GM of these
34:21
teams, what direction would you take?
34:24
So I think let's maybe each give like 1.
34:28
And I mean, the obvious answer is obviously Buffalo always.
34:32
They just nothing they do makes any sense versus like trying to
34:35
compete, tanking. Um, they finally made a move,
34:38
which was hiring a new GM and so we'll see what happens with
34:42
that. I think if I'm them like you
34:45
don't need a tank. They have a lot of good pieces.
34:47
They just need to trade some of their defence bin for forwards.
34:49
I think specifically Byrum, I wouldn't resign Tuck.
34:53
I would try and trade him for value and that's kind of how I
34:56
would look at it. Yep.
34:58
I mean, Buffalo is a great on sort of feels like they're
35:00
always not rebuilding but never competing.
35:02
So that's you're in the middle ground of hell that nobody ever
35:04
wants to be. I think for me, my biggest, the
35:08
biggest answer is probably Nashville because I just feel
35:10
like Nashville, you know, it was too free agencies ago that they
35:14
signed like 4 guys off and on waivers on free agency and
35:18
thought they were completely rebuilt their team and ready to
35:21
compete. And they were one of the worst
35:22
team in the league last year was the same this year they're also
35:25
bad. It just kind of feels like they
35:26
still have these guys on their roster, right?
35:28
So it's just like, you know, get them off your roster and start
35:31
to rebuild. I feel this is the year they're
35:33
probably going to go in that direction.
35:34
But as of right now, like they self stem codes of O'Reilly,
35:38
it's just not Marsha. So like Yoshi is always hurt.
35:42
Yeah, nobody's talking about Yoshi this year.
35:44
It's crazy. Like for fantasy, like he's
35:46
nobody has mentioned his. Name it's true, he's like a
35:49
ghost he's. Literally a ghost.
35:51
Like is he still even alive? That's what it feels like, but
35:54
your. Natural.
35:55
Yeah, fully agree. OK, Frank on Discord asked
35:58
what's the best punishment you guys have ever seen for
36:00
finishing last in fantasy hockey?
36:03
I mean, there's obviously the classic one, right?
36:04
Like the the Waffle House challenge.
36:06
I don't know if this. Is like always wanted to do
36:08
that. Yeah, so for the viewers who
36:10
don't know what that is, it's the last place person has to go
36:13
to Waffle House and hang out there for 24 hours.
36:16
But for every waffle they eat, it cuts off an.
36:19
Hour, Jake. Or pancake or whatever.
36:21
But for every unit of food served that they eat, it cuts
36:25
off an hour of the time they have to spend there.
36:28
And what's funny is like, I always thought that was a really
36:31
dope like punishment. But what I've learned since
36:34
moving to the US is Waffle House is known as like the most ghetto
36:36
dangerous, like restaurants, shop or something like Waffle
36:41
House literally like has some of them have like security guards.
36:44
Are you saying yes, yes, I'm 100% serious.
36:46
So it puts a whole new spin on that punishment.
36:48
It's like I'm kinda stressed out, you know, Like I'm sure
36:51
there's some that are nicer than others, but you know, some of
36:52
those Waffle Houses I would not want to hang out and for 24
36:55
hours. If you're if you're watching on
36:57
YouTube like or you know wherever, I want you guys to
37:00
leave a comment and let me know if your league has a punishment
37:03
for. Your wanting to implement it.
37:05
I would love to have a punishment.
37:06
It just feels like all the punishments kind of teeter on
37:09
having some sort of like financial impact and I feel you
37:12
can't impose like a financial impact for a leading people
37:15
already dishing money out to play and then they end.
37:17
Up being funny. It should be something funny but
37:20
also need to play with people that you know are going to
37:22
commit to a bit of not just gonna bail if they finish last
37:24
place. Right.
37:24
Yeah, it's really hard, like someone doing beer bets and then
37:27
not drinking all the beers. Who like and I'm just starting a
37:30
podcast with a person like that. It's crazy.
37:32
Honestly. And then that person runs off to
37:34
pursue a karaoke career. In Korea, that would be.
37:36
Nuts like you could never get enough.
37:37
But yeah, I I wish we had a punishment for our league of
37:41
record. I think that would be really.
37:42
Cool. Next year we'll implement one
37:44
next year. We have, we have to do give us
37:46
some ideas in the comments or wherever you're listening to
37:49
this. Let us know what you guys would
37:50
love to see and maybe you will find a way to record that or
37:54
something. I don't know.
37:55
We'll talk. About None of us are gonna
37:56
finish last, but no. For those other people.
37:59
Yeah, exactly. OK, bordering on Discord asked
38:02
at this point in the season, who are you guys picking to win the
38:05
Cup? I want to see houses on Zillow
38:07
level of certainty. Well, my house is always on
38:10
Zillow, but I'm, I'm putting it on the Colorado Avalanche right
38:15
now, I feel like. This is gonna.
38:15
Take I mean I feel like there's no it's demo or Dallas right
38:18
now. It feels like whenever they
38:19
match up whatever around that ends up being the team who wins
38:23
that matchup is going to win the Stanley Cup.
38:25
Right now we're recording this in the middle of December.
38:27
If things are realistically it's but it's.
38:31
The Habs for sure. Susanna Coupe.
38:35
What should be a team from the east out of nowhere?
38:37
That'll be crazy. Yeah, it would be crazy, but
38:39
it's. Kind of like those teams OJ 82
38:42
on discord asked how are you guys able to answer?
38:44
Would you rather so confidently off the Dome?
38:46
I've been playing fantasy hockey for years and wouldn't be able
38:48
to answer without going through and comparing their stats,
38:50
deployment, team stats, etc. Do you have a process or just
38:53
photographic memories of everyone's stats?
38:56
So. Photographic memories,
38:57
everybody. Starts fantastic question.
39:00
I think being chronically online is a is a big chronically.
39:05
The fantasy, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
39:07
So no, I mean Kevin and I are and Jake are all super, super
39:12
dialed in. And first of all, in terms of
39:15
let's say like team stats deployment like that.
39:18
I know off the top of my head like you name a player, I could
39:20
tell you exactly like like for the most part what they're
39:23
deployment is unless it's like changed in the last few days and
39:27
Kevin too like and all of us like so we're very dialed into
39:30
the deployment. That's a huge part of justifying
39:34
these answers. And in terms of the stats, like
39:36
also like I'm always first of all our own teams.
39:39
I'm sure we know back to front because you know, you're always
39:41
looking at your own team and then even other teams because
39:44
we're always looking at these Bilo and sell highs and
39:46
everything. And personally, I like every
39:48
single day when I wake up, I look at how every single team
39:52
did the night before. Maybe.
39:53
I mean, I'm crazy. Like I like looking at like
39:56
every single and then I'll go on my watch list and look at how
39:59
every player on my watch list did the night before.
40:01
So. So yeah.
40:03
So I mean, it's just, it's just constantly absorbing the
40:06
information and some of it sticks in this, you know?
40:10
With the brain of mine, yeah. No, I mean the same answer for
40:14
me honestly, I feel like the deployment is, you know, we're
40:16
always trying to keep track of who's getting bumped up in
40:18
deployment because that's a new opportunity for waivers or for
40:22
extra value. So we're kind of pretty much
40:24
dialed in. I feel like in terms of all the
40:26
power plays, all the line combinations, like all of that
40:29
is like Josh said, I feel like I can answer the questions on at a
40:34
moment's notice. I'm snapping my fingers if you
40:35
guys are watching. Yeah.
40:38
But also like, I'm always looking at my own team.
40:40
I'm always looking at everybody else's teams.
40:42
Like Josh said, I wake up, I look at like, OK, who were to
40:44
start performance from the night before?
40:45
Who are guys on waivers that popped off that I have to keep
40:47
an eye on. So I just feel like all of that
40:50
culminates into having a good grasp on like the current
40:52
situation of the NHL and also just, you know, we've been
40:55
playing fantasy for years and years and years.
40:57
I would and with the same kind of like you know, metrics and
41:01
organization that we have now in terms of like keeping track of
41:04
everything that you get certain mental pictures of players in a
41:08
certain way. Like if I talk about a yes for
41:10
Brat, I know yes for Brad is like a 1.1 points per game
41:13
player with a .35 to .4 power play points and he'll get you
41:17
like 2.2 shots and 1.1 hits type of thing.
41:20
You know what I mean? So that's kind of how I
41:22
visualize the. Player numbers I feel like the
41:25
second decimal point. And it's and it's like, that's
41:28
kind of like how we visualize that player.
41:29
Then you'll tell me a different player, I'll stack them against
41:32
each other and see, OK, compare the relevant categories.
41:34
Like I'm not taking them to court blocks for a brat or face
41:37
off wins because it's a matter. But yeah, our league of record
41:40
has 10 forward categories that like anything a player is
41:43
actually doing on the ice or getting counted in our league of
41:45
record. So I feel like it paints a
41:47
proper picture of like how good a player is in terms of like how
41:49
well game, how well their game is rounded out.
41:53
And yeah, if you do that for everybody and then you end up
41:57
just always having kind of like a player card in your mind of
41:59
like, OK, this is this guy, this is what I expect.
42:01
This is what he's always done. This is what I think he could do
42:04
is just. Yeah, absolutely.
42:06
Feels a lot like a lot of stress, but it's a lot of fun.
42:10
It's fun, yeah, and stress, but fun.
42:14
OK, last question Joshua Fearon on Discord asked, do you keep
42:17
track of how well your past decision making process has been
42:20
like sit starts, add drops, draft picks, etc?
42:24
First of all, for draft picks, I'm always going back over my
42:27
draft like throughout the more towards the beginning of the
42:30
season, but also just throughout.
42:31
And I'll be like, wow, I can't believe like if someone on my
42:34
team is popping off, I'll be like I got him at this point in
42:36
the draft or like, oh, I can't believe I picked up this guy so
42:38
early in the draft and he sucks. Or even more like I see someone,
42:41
someone else's team is flipping off and I'm like, what round did
42:44
that guy get drafted? Who did I pick before him?
42:47
And then I start kicking myself being like, I can't believe I
42:49
made that decision, you know? So draft picks 100%.
42:52
Um, ad drops. Yeah.
42:54
I mean, like if I'm debating between two guys and I choose
42:57
the wrong one, then I'll beat myself up about it for a bit.
42:59
If it was just like a short term thing, I won't be too upset.
43:02
But it was like I was debating picking up Darren Radish earlier
43:04
this year and I didn't and then he popped off.
43:06
So I'm going to be beating myself up about that all season.
43:08
And then sit starts, especially for goalies.
43:10
I always bench the wrong one and he gets a shutout.
43:13
So yes, I always beat myself up but also congratulate selves on
43:16
past decisions. We're always making so many
43:19
decisions that it's you're never gonna be right 100% of the time
43:21
and you have to be OK with that. And if you're right 80% of the
43:24
time, that's still amazing. But it's mostly about having a
43:28
solid process that you could rely on to give you results,
43:30
positive results. More often than not, I think I
43:33
was usually have a pretty solid draft.
43:35
I'm never, I never walk away from my drafts.
43:37
I get the most stressed in my life is like leading up to our
43:40
league of record draft. And then I always feel like I'm
43:43
very happy when I leave leave my draft.
43:45
Must be nice. But they always end up losing
43:48
the Josh. So then something happens
43:50
throughout the season that makes it so that I always lose to him
43:52
in the final, in the semifinal. I will say though, for start,
43:55
since I feel like, I feel like there's nobody in the world
43:58
better than me at starting or sitting a goalie.
44:00
I, I feel like I've always, I always picked the right goalies
44:03
when it comes to having to make a decision, knowing when to sit
44:06
a goalie as well. Like our, our league of record
44:08
has, you know, 5 goalie categories.
44:10
It's wins, goals against, average save percentage, saves
44:13
and shutouts. So you're always kind of do I do
44:18
the math on like, OK, if I'm down by 17.17 save percentage,
44:22
what result does my goal has to do to like calculators?
44:25
I'll pull out the calculator. OK, he's gotta go like 32 out of
44:29
33 to unlikely, so I'll probably just either bench or whatever,
44:33
you know what I mean? So always trying to make
44:35
decisions like that. But for goalies, I feel like I'm
44:37
very reliable. For players, I feel like I'm not
44:40
as reliable. They're always great.
44:43
A lot of good players, it's hard to make a make the best choice
44:47
all the time. Absolutely.
44:48
But like Kevin says, you trust the process.
44:50
But let's let's wrap this one up.
44:52
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