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- 2:46Sounds good. That's the way to that's the way
- 2:49to get to Josh. OK, so why don't you start us
- 2:51off with our choices from Week 8?
- 2:55All right, we did pretty well for.
- 2:56We gave, unsurprisingly, yeah. So this is where we represent.
- 3:02The top three choices from last week.
- 3:04There's your prefetch, Kevin for our week.
- 3:07Appreciate your choices. As somebody who didn't listen to
- 3:10last week's episode, I really appreciate this.
- 3:12Wow, wow, wow. OK, we're just gonna die.
- 3:17I'm gonna dive right in because this is this is a lot.
- 3:21OK, So we did, unsurprisingly, very well last week.
- 3:25Here are three choices. We had Anton Lundell of the
- 3:28Florida Panthers. Four games played, one goal to
- 3:30assist, three points. That's a dub.
- 3:32That's A season long hold as well.
- 3:33And not to spoil it, but he might appear again this week.
- 3:37Next we've got Matt Coronado of the Calgary Flames.
- 3:40Four games played, one goal, one assist, 2.14 shots on goal.
- 3:44That's a huge double. Again included the shots on goal
- 3:47because that's like one of the biggest reasons why we
- 3:49recommended him as a pickup. And he I mean he put up two
- 3:52points in four games, which is solid, but the shots on goal is
- 3:54really what makes him stick out. And then lastly, we had Brayden
- 3:57Bowman of the Vegas Golden Knights.
- 3:59Four games, one goal to assist, three points.
- 4:01That's a W, but unfortunately not a long term hold because
- 4:04Mark Stone miraculously came back from the dead with
- 4:08absolutely no news preempting it.
- 4:10And it sucks for us Bowman owners because he's actually
- 4:12looking really good out there, but I'm probably going to drop
- 4:15him soon because no, no power play one.
- 4:17It's just, it's just rough to. Hold it's crazy because I was
- 4:20listening to your guys episode like the ones that I that I
- 4:22missed and so. You did listen.
- 4:27All those in the Manger management of fantasy hockey
- 4:29butt chest was listening to Josh literally say like, oh, and
- 4:34stones hurt and like nobody has any idea when it's coming back.
- 4:37And then I got like the notification on my phone being
- 4:39like Mark still coming back today.
- 4:43It's actually brutal. Like I thought I can get, I
- 4:45thought I can get at least like 2 weeks out of foam and being on
- 4:48power, play 1 and then like I pick him up and days later Stone
- 4:51comes back. Like I have this weird reverse
- 4:53curse where I make players healthy that negatively impact
- 4:56my team if that makes sense. It's also just happened to Mark
- 5:00Stone, who is going to, you know, find a way to to ruin us
- 5:04in some way at every chance he gets, whether he's on or not.
- 5:09Yeah, yeah, Linda's gotta be rostered.
- 5:13Like I just wanna go back to it for a second because I, I know
- 5:16that like Sam Bennett's kind of been a beast lately, but Lindell
- 5:19still the one getting that deployment.
- 5:21He has been, he's been great. So.
- 5:23Just like against. Me, yeah, that's it.
- 5:26But yeah, I mean for everybody listening, just wanna stress the
- 5:29whole season long point like he's definitely a season long
- 5:33hold .71 points per game over the last two weeks .29 power
- 5:38play points, 2.71 shots, 1.5 seven hits and that's excluding
- 5:41his insane face off. You need a roster.
- 5:44I mean, we, we discussed Lundell.
- 5:45You guys discussed Lundell. Yeah.
- 5:47On the last Would You rather When I was missing, which was a
- 5:50really good episode. I'm not gonna lie.
- 5:52I wish I was there to, to do the tiebreakers, but I think I was
- 5:55in my bag on that one. But yeah, Dell versus Dylan
- 5:58Strome. And I think it was like,
- 5:59honestly, really close. Eileen Lundell just because I
- 6:02think the floor is what we're seeing now.
- 6:03And then, you know, Patrick comes back in Florida, gets up
- 6:06and running a little more. I think Lundell has a higher
- 6:08ceiling. He's he's super exciting.
- 6:11I feel like it's still underrated though.
- 6:12He's like still 30% owned. It's it's just ridiculous.
- 6:15The one see on Florida getting all the good minutes.
- 6:18Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. I mean, the fact that he's even
- 6:21in the conversation with a guy like Strome who not that strong
- 6:23is like the best player in the world or anything like that, but
- 6:25like he's really good, you know, so and you know, his his
- 6:28ownership percentage is way higher than Lindell is and the
- 6:31fact that they're comparable makes it kind of crazy that
- 6:33model is so lowly owned so. But more on that later.
- 6:37So our season record now is 14 and four.
- 6:41That's really solid. I would listen to us and we'll
- 6:44see how we do it for this week as well.
- 6:46Yeah, exactly. I mean, I fully do like if I
- 6:49need to pick up for the next week, the first thing I do is
- 6:51look at our list and see if there's anyone who's available
- 6:53in our league. And I'm like, OK, done.
- 6:55All right, so going into next week, 2 game teams, there's only
- 6:58one of them. It's Seattle.
- 6:59I'm not going to list all the four-game teams because there's
- 7:01a lot of them. The busy nights are Tuesday,
- 7:03Thursday, Saturday and there's a bunch of two off night teams.
- 7:06So I'm not going to list all of them, but let's dive into our
- 7:10top ten points, guys. As always, under 40% owned.
- 7:14Small, small profile though, for the for the Seattle 2 game
- 7:17teams, anybody that you're holding through that game week
- 7:19like or is it just a Seattle doesn't have anybody that's high
- 7:23enough roster that the only one I'm thinking of is like the
- 7:26defenseman, right? It's it's done.
- 7:27It's Montour and and obviously joy Decor like those guys.
- 7:30I feel like you probably hold depending how deep your league
- 7:33is. I don't know if there's any
- 7:35forward worth prospering through this two game week.
- 7:38Yeah, I have Eberly and I mean he's also been pretty cold
- 7:41lately and lived 2 game week, so I might have other guys who are
- 7:45more droppable, which would make me hold him.
- 7:47But if he was my worst guy or like tied for worst guy, then
- 7:51I'm definitely feel very comfortable dropping him.
- 7:54There's no one other than the three guys you mentioned, I
- 7:56think that you need to hold on to for that two game week.
- 7:59Good to know. All right, let's start with.
- 8:04#10. Add a #10 we have Jake Debrusk
- 8:09of the Vancouver Canucks line one power play 1.
- 8:12He is averaging 5.3 on the season, but he's heating up
- 8:16lately .33 power play points more importantly.
- 8:19And he has three-game week this week and he's just been really
- 8:24on a on a bit of a hot streak with the a lot of like you know,
- 8:26if you look at his game log, it's no multiplayer games, but
- 8:29just a lot of ones in the goal column.
- 8:30So definitely an interesting stream.
- 8:33Yeah, literally. They're all powerful.
- 8:35Goals, he's playing. 18 minutes and he's playing Peterson.
- 8:38So you just know that that's really good deployment already
- 8:41and and the vendor can add to sneak that in there.
- 8:44Um, but yeah, no, it's honestly crazy that Jake Debrusk has been
- 8:48a guy that he's been like one of those sleeper picks in the past
- 8:51where when he was on Boston, like it's just a guy that was
- 8:53lower in the lineup that was really solid, had potential.
- 8:56Now I feel like he's just playing with like the best
- 8:58deployment possible on, on Vancouver.
- 9:01And Vancouver is a whole other story in terms of like them just
- 9:03being a mess and a team that's probably going to be selling
- 9:07assets in the near, sure. But Jake Debrusk with this
- 9:10deployment and his goal scoring ability, like he's super worth
- 9:13picking up, especially in the points league.
- 9:16And we talked banger category leagues, but points lead Jake
- 9:19Debrusk for goals. He's going to be one of your
- 9:22guys. Yeah, like Vancouver needs to
- 9:25score and their their problem this year isn't as much like the
- 9:29offensive output. It's also they're letting in a
- 9:31lot of goals. Debrusk is just gonna be a big
- 9:33part of that because he's able to Peterson for now, and I don't
- 9:36really see that changing. He had one amazing year on
- 9:39Boston, 50 points in 64 games. That pace is not going to
- 9:43continue. He's not really like an amazing
- 9:45points guy, but when he goes on streaks, the streaks tend to
- 9:48last two to three weeks and this has happened before.
- 9:50So I really like it for this week.
- 9:53Hmm. OK, let's move on to. #9. #9 We
- 10:00have Gabe Landeskog of the Colorado Avalanche, last I
- 10:04checked online, one power play one, which is crazy because
- 10:07parts this year he was line 3 power play 2 and the past two
- 10:11years he was not in the NHL. So it's a big comeback for for a
- 10:15Gabe. And this is kind of like similar
- 10:17to our Allison talks of a couple of weeks ago, right?
- 10:20Anyone on that power Play 1 is immediately worth picking up,
- 10:23especially on a four-game week, which Colorado has, and
- 10:27especially a guy like Landis Goku in the past has shown that
- 10:29he can be, you know, a really solid contributor.
- 10:31Obviously, a couple years out of the NHL, it doesn't do him any
- 10:34favors a couple years older. But again, it's just that
- 10:36deployment makes him immediately interesting.
- 10:39Definitely this to me. I, I, I mean, there, there's
- 10:44something to this, right? Even if you look at his ice
- 10:46time, it's ramped up a lot over the past few weeks.
- 10:49And it's like you said, you literally wasn't in the NHL for
- 10:53two years. So I wouldn't be surprised if if
- 10:58he does immediately contribute on the power play if they keep
- 11:00him there. This is a guy who has so much
- 11:03respect among the team for coming back after the brutal
- 11:07injury and he's been the captain this entire time.
- 11:09They haven't taken it away from him.
- 11:11So of course if it's not working like, you know, they're going to
- 11:14do what's going to make it work. But I wouldn't be surprised if
- 11:17he has a longer leash. 3 points in his last four games.
- 11:20One of those was on the power play, putting up good shots and
- 11:23over 18 minutes for the three of the last four games as well.
- 11:28I mean, that's. Great.
- 11:29Yeah, I would say note is sorry, one note is that Nichushkin's
- 11:34back at practice and he should return next week.
- 11:37So I will be curious to see how that affects land Discogs
- 11:40deployment. So I think just to anyone we're
- 11:42recommending, it was like thinking about picking up.
- 11:44You have to keep that in mind. But I do like him while he's on
- 11:47that Power Play 1. I was gonna say this is just
- 11:50like a deployment question, but if you wanna get into a little
- 11:54bit like the the behind the scenes though, like people have
- 11:56been talking about Colorado, like they've got what, 1
- 11:58regulation loss this year? It's actually insanely, this is
- 12:02a juggernaut team that's here to win the Cup.
- 12:04And they're like not slowing down.
- 12:05They're taking every game seriously.
- 12:06All their goals are getting shutouts.
- 12:08No matter who it is, no matter which kind of wood it is, it's
- 12:10getting a shutout. So.
- 12:14It's just that they're they're on a roll right now.
- 12:15You kind of want access to this team in any capacity, whether
- 12:19it's their defensemen, they're forward or their goalies.
- 12:22For Landis Cog, I am a little bit not worried, but I think the
- 12:25deployment is is super sketchy. Like even if nutrition doesn't
- 12:28come back, would I be shocked if they put somebody else in that
- 12:30spot? No.
- 12:31But I will say though, people have been talking about how
- 12:34difficult it is to play against Colorado this season and in the
- 12:38fact that in the past they haven't been that way.
- 12:40Like the last two years, the team that they were playing that
- 12:43people were playing against in the Stanley Cup when Colorado
- 12:46won the Stanley Cup was not the same the last two years.
- 12:48They were missing that. They were missing that like kind
- 12:50of like hard to beat mentality. And I think Landis problem
- 12:53brings that to this team and seeing him in a position of
- 12:55power on this team is like good for the team aura and
- 12:59everything. So they might like him and if
- 13:02this sticks long term, like where might we might see the
- 13:05rejuvenation of Landis Fox Value where you probably drafted him
- 13:08in like the last few rounds of your of your fantasy league.
- 13:11And unless you're an hourly where he got drafted in like the
- 13:13seventh round for some reason. Crazy.
- 13:16I think, like I said, this is completely tied to the
- 13:18deployment and they keep shifting it around.
- 13:19So it is like a sketchy pickup but very high upside, Yeah.
- 13:24So gold differential, OK goals, 4 minus goals against.
- 13:28That's how it's calculated. In 3rd place Tampa Bay at 16 and
- 13:322nd place Dallas at 17. In first place Colorado at 43.
- 13:38It's not. Crazy. 43.
- 13:42What I would bet my house there in the Stanley Cup, I would not.
- 13:48Her seal. That's just such a big
- 13:51difference. Yeah, my God, that's not.
- 13:54To say that sorry shot. They've just been on one.
- 13:58It's like if you're if your goalie is playing Colorado,
- 14:00unless your name Jasper Walstead, like do not start them
- 14:03it feels like. Yeah, but Jasper.
- 14:06Yeah, Speaking of the Minnesota Wild, why don't we move on to.
- 14:11#8. At #8 we have the plural of
- 14:16matte which is Mats Zuccarello of the Minnesota Ohio playing a
- 14:20line one power play one. Since coming back from his
- 14:22season beginning injury. He has .89 points per game, only
- 14:26a three-game week, but that power plays ranked 4th in the
- 14:29league and I like what he's been doing points wise since he
- 14:31coming back from injury. I mean, we just talked about
- 14:35Colorado being a juggernaut. I feel like Minnesota, what
- 14:38they've been doing recently, has been juggernaut esque.
- 14:41Like, is this not the hottest team in the league right now?
- 14:44Both their goals are also getting shutouts.
- 14:46Like is their day job? It is their day job, but it's
- 14:52it's just it's just wild. Like I remember talking about
- 14:54Zuccarello being a potential stash before he came back from
- 14:57injury. And I feel like everybody was
- 14:58kind of downplaying, you know, I even made a joke.
- 15:01I was just like, we didn't take into account how much missing
- 15:04Mazarella would affect his team because they were like sucking
- 15:06to start this season for a long time.
- 15:07And Josh was bragging about how he put them six in the division
- 15:10and blah, blah, blah. But But now it looks like, you
- 15:14know, they got the goalie tandem like win any game and the power
- 15:17play is is clicking like crazy. I just wish it was start with
- 15:20defensemen on this roster. That was like worth having when
- 15:23during 4th and nobody's worth rostering.
- 15:25It's crazy, but Zuccarello has been like one of the best
- 15:29statues you could have made. He's he's averaging close to a
- 15:32point per game. He's exposed to top five power
- 15:35play. He's playing with the best
- 15:36players on the team and it just looks like he's just gonna be a
- 15:38solid roster mainstay, especially on a, on a weekly.
- 15:42You're able to stream him like that's crazy production.
- 15:45He's always good for points like he's always reliable and and
- 15:49he's completely disrespected completely.
- 15:52He, he is the Nikita Kucherov among average players on your
- 15:57way to put it. Actually, he's he's totally
- 16:01underrated. I mean, he's hovered in like the
- 16:05.85 points per game over the last few seasons.
- 16:08Last year was his worst point per game season as of late.
- 16:12But Minnesota? I had him.
- 16:14Yeah, there you go. But now Josh doesn't have him,
- 16:16so whoever wants to pick him up at 28% owned, which is
- 16:20ridiculous to me, You can definitely do worse.
- 16:24I mean, I don't think you should be on waivers, especially in
- 16:26points leagues, but in bangers too.
- 16:28I mean you're getting good value there.
- 16:32Physical. Everything close to a point
- 16:33where you pick him up. There you go.
- 16:34Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
- 16:37Exactly. Alright, OK. #7.
- 16:42I was really. Good at #7 We have Patty Kane of
- 16:46the Detroit Red Wings line. 2 power play 1 averaging .87
- 16:50points per game .47 power play points per game, 2.93 shots.
- 16:56Only a three-game week. But what he's been doing has
- 16:58been kind of nuts for where, you know, first of all, for his
- 17:01rostered percentage, which is 39 and for where he's been kind of
- 17:06like taking in the draft if picked at all.
- 17:08I feel like he's just getting like mad disrespect for being
- 17:11like as old as he is, But Detroit has one of the best
- 17:14power plays in the league, currently ranked 13th, But I
- 17:16wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised them to crack top ten like soon.
- 17:19And Kane is a huge part of that. He's kind of like the non
- 17:22defenseman power play quarterback for that team.
- 17:24So I really what shocked me with him, I drafted him super late
- 17:27this year. I just needed a bump in points
- 17:29in power play points. But what shocked me is the shots
- 17:31on goal. He's really been shooting a lot
- 17:33and that makes him go from like, you know, a Mazzarello type who
- 17:36is going to get you points and powerfully points but not do
- 17:38anything else to like a guy actually pretty excited about
- 17:41having on your team. Talk about an amazing player
- 17:44who's like also coming into this season under appreciated.
- 17:48You know last year wasn't off here for him too.
- 17:50It's it's very funny that it came like right after Zuccarello
- 17:53because it's a similar story. He had Kane has pedigree of the
- 17:58most elite. He's been such a great player
- 18:01for so long. And Detroit was worse this year
- 18:04than last year and they're gonna they're gonna be good.
- 18:06I, I believe I was the highest on them coming into this season
- 18:10and I yeah, it's not. For you on that.
- 18:15Yeah, it's not to say that I'm like totally convinced that
- 18:19they're gonna absolutely be a playoff team, but they're
- 18:21they're doing things on offence and he's gonna be a huge part of
- 18:24that just because of who he is. And it's great to own him.
- 18:27So good on you, Josh. I mean, I was just, I was just
- 18:32gonna say when you're, when you're playing with the gold Ben
- 18:35Sharat, it's hard not to have any success.
- 18:37So I'm not surprised that Patty Kane is ranked #7 on this list.
- 18:42If you want to know what I'm talking about, go look at Ben
- 18:44Shiraz game log, because he's on my fantasy team and I just
- 18:47traded for him and now he's the GOAT.
- 18:49So that's, that's one thing. No, but also like, I just think
- 18:53Kane in general, he's super underrated.
- 18:56I have him in multiple of our of our deep leagues just because
- 19:00you're getting high level power play exposure from a guy that's
- 19:03less than 40% owned, that's shooting almost at three shots a
- 19:06game and exposed to high end talent.
- 19:09Now their power play is not where it was at last year.
- 19:11They were like what? Ranked top five last?
- 19:13Year and 4th. Yeah, so this year they're 13th
- 19:16is still pretty good, above average, and this number will
- 19:19fluctuate up and down. I'm really excited about Patty
- 19:21Kane. I feel like it's one of those
- 19:22guys that you can have at the end of your roster on a week
- 19:25that you're able to stream him and he'll get you great
- 19:27production shots, points, PowerPoints.
- 19:30What more can you want to be honest?
- 19:31And if you want to pick him up for this week for those
- 19:34categories, you can also hold them for the following week
- 19:36because he also the four-game week the week after.
- 19:39So you're thinking a little long term with this one, Like he can
- 19:41be on your roster for the next 2-3 weeks and you'll be happy
- 19:44about it. Yeah, yeah and I will say on
- 19:47like Jackie mentioned, he had a bit of an off year last year,
- 19:49but last year his averages were pretty similar to this.
- 19:51He had .8 points per game and .4 power play points per game.
- 19:54That's nuts. That's actually why I picked him
- 19:56like lead in the draft where I got him.
- 19:57I was looking, I was like my team can use some points and
- 19:59stuff and I like see his name there and I'm like, I was about
- 20:02to brush him off because you know, the reason everyone has
- 20:04because he's kind of like older and you know like you don't
- 20:07think of him the same as he was. But I checked his last year
- 20:09averages like .4 points per game is what like that's what the top
- 20:12like round one players do and you're happy with it, you know,
- 20:14so so. That he's doing it again this
- 20:16year is pretty, uh, pretty crazy, but it just shows that
- 20:19it's possibly sustainable because he did it last year as
- 20:22well. Exactly.
- 20:25OK, let's get into a couple of Jake's players because we got a
- 20:29bit of a run here of guys on his team so at.
- 20:32Number six. That number six, we have Jason
- 20:36Zucker of the Buffalo Sabres line 2 power play one since
- 20:40coming back. What does he have five points in
- 20:42the three games since returning from injury?
- 20:45And he's a guy that we always talk about like we've talked
- 20:49about him so much. I feel like over the off season
- 20:51and then over the course of the year and our streamers episodes,
- 20:54all that, and it's just like he's the type of guy you just
- 20:56pick up and you set him on your roster and they just forget
- 20:58about him for weeks. But that's great.
- 21:00That's exactly what you want from a you're picking up from
- 21:02weavers. You know, you don't look at him
- 21:03and, like, you know, shake your fist in anger every time.
- 21:05You know, that's usually what happens with a bad waiver
- 21:07pickup. You know, with a good one, you
- 21:09pick him up and then you don't have to drop him for a few
- 21:11weeks. Yeah.
- 21:11I mean, that's literally me. Like when I have a.
- 21:13Guy putting up zeroes. I'm like.
- 21:15I've seen this. Like old man yelling at the sky,
- 21:20you know, like, yeah, so so Zucker is a great a great set
- 21:24and forget it type of guy. He's got that power play 1
- 21:26exposure and kind of like with Patty Kane for the multiple
- 21:30weeks, only three games this week before games the week
- 21:32after. So it could be a nice multiple
- 21:33week stream. Yeah, I was gonna say like I
- 21:36told Jackie to, that I'd rather suck her over Lexie protest
- 21:39because I just hate protests. And then God sent me down and
- 21:43ruined my webcam. Do you think that the heart.
- 21:47And he was just like, I'm not gonna trade for protest, I'm
- 21:49just gonna pick up Zucker if Kevin likes him so much.
- 21:51And then then Jake plays against me and Zucker drops like 5
- 21:53points in three games. So yeah, gotta love it.
- 21:56Do you still want do you still want such protests over Zucker
- 21:59or how we feel? Now I take protest over Zucker.
- 22:01Yes, well, you could probably make that trade so.
- 22:03Yes. No notice, owner does not want
- 22:06to give him to me. I've been.
- 22:07Trying you want to keep those .3 points per game, does he?
- 22:10Listen, I I I guess. You know jokes.
- 22:13I actually I'm trying to trade for produce just so I can send
- 22:15them to you. Do it, I'll give you sucker.
- 22:22That's a win in your book, Josh, I'm telling you.
- 22:25Look, I, I think that this is an amazing pickup for the next two
- 22:30weeks because he's honestly just been so good to me.
- 22:36Yeah, well, I actually was going to say besides the the protest
- 22:39disrespect was that Zuckers just a staple in his power play.
- 22:43One. It's like no matter where he's
- 22:44playing in the line where his line one line 2 line 3 is gonna
- 22:47be on the P1. Buffalo is also one of the teams
- 22:49that was severely injured. Like they're just starting to
- 22:52get back. Like Benson just came back, who
- 22:53is probably going to be a drop, even though I held him for three
- 22:56weeks while he was day-to-day. Josh Norris is is coming back.
- 23:00Like Darling had missed time, like he's coming back.
- 23:02So I feel like this power play 1 is, is getting close to being
- 23:05near 100%. And we saw it last year have a
- 23:09lot of success. Like Zucker was the guy that I
- 23:11had on my roster the whole year last year because he had line
- 23:141P1 or line 2P1 and he was converting those power play
- 23:17chances. Like you're his shooting
- 23:18percentages deceptively high. It's like at 18%.
- 23:21And I'm not saying that that's not sustainable.
- 23:23It's just because the way he plays in front of the net, he's
- 23:25getting those chances. So I like him a lot.
- 23:28I feel like he's that big guy, will surprise you when you pick
- 23:30him up and you'll be really happy you did.
- 23:32So I would say strongly considered and that's number six
- 23:34on our list. Yeah, it's high percentage
- 23:37shots, right? Like that's that's definitely
- 23:39part of it. So you look at like a Jake
- 23:42Debrusk, right? He's shooting a lot more, but
- 23:46his shots are, you know, he's more of like a sniper from the
- 23:48outside. Suckers like a get in there and
- 23:50just do your worst type in. 30 places.
- 23:53Yeah. Because of that is deployment is
- 23:56safe. I really think that he's one of
- 23:59those you mentioned him is like our best late round pick this
- 24:02year, right for a reason. He's just so reliable.
- 24:05And yeah, one of the exactly. The other guy we highlighted, I
- 24:08was looking back or like our top 10 sleepers or top 10 breakout
- 24:12candidates and guys we mentioned Morgan Geekie on like every
- 24:15episode. He was like a sleeper breakout
- 24:18candidate. And then I hope you guys picked,
- 24:20I hope you guys like listen to us in the off season and then
- 24:23took our advice because if you have Morgan Geek on your roster,
- 24:25like this guy is tied for like the league in goals and yeah, if
- 24:28you're like Josh or Deacon everywhere, so.
- 24:31Yeah. It's actually it's actually
- 24:35crazy this geeky pick up. I know it's a bit of a tangent
- 24:38and us patting ourselves on the back for but I mean we did.
- 24:41It's like you said, we did all offseason.
- 24:43We said Morgan Geekie is that guy and like he doesn't even
- 24:46need pasta. You know, like the the coach
- 24:48keeps saying like he's like, oh, Morgan Geekie leading the league
- 24:50in NHL and leading the NHL in goals.
- 24:52I should probably demote him to line too, you know, and Kiki's
- 24:54like, alright, hold my beer. I don't need pass that score
- 24:56goals. Seriously, He's literally been
- 24:59better than past though. It's been nuts and are two brick
- 25:03top breakout candidates were celebrating and Bedard who are
- 25:07both playing like first round picks.
- 25:08So listen, I know that's not the craziest thing to choose like 2O
- 25:11first overall picks that are that are didn't have the best
- 25:15years in the beginning. But I I just think the fact that
- 25:18they're doing so well and we highlighted those in the
- 25:20preseason, I think is just a testament to doing The Dirty
- 25:23work. We could put it, we could put
- 25:26ourselves on the back. Celebrity was like good.
- 25:28And it was his first year. But Bedard, that was like, it
- 25:32was a question mark. It was like, is this gonna be
- 25:34another laugh or is it about time?
- 25:36And we chose About Time and it seems to have worked.
- 25:39Yeah, speaking to sucker people benefiting from yeah.
- 25:44Last thing is that I just really want to stress that he should be
- 25:48in any deeper league. 12 plus teams just just really just pick
- 25:52him up, ride the wave. Buffalo is not going to be good,
- 25:55but when they score he he has like a really high percentage of
- 25:58the team's points since coming back from injury.
- 26:01So yeah, I really like it and it's not a flashy name, but
- 26:04he'll get you the stats. Go ahead speaking.
- 26:07Of anyway, Speaking of people benefiting from Connor buzzards
- 26:10resurgence at #5 at #5 we have Artem left Shanov of Jake's team
- 26:19as well. Just getting of the Chicago
- 26:21Blackhawks line 2 power play one and four-game week coming up.
- 26:26And he's just he's the power play one quarterback on Chicago.
- 26:28He gets to be an assistant in the Bedard show.
- 26:31So we talked about him. I think this is possible.
- 26:34I think we've talked about him every week since he became power
- 26:36play one quarterback on that team and we should because his
- 26:40roster percentage stays super low.
- 26:42And like you look at the numbers like his season like averages
- 26:45obviously skewed because he wasn't partly one all season,
- 26:47but more recently, right, he's putting up really solid points
- 26:50and and numbers for defenseman. So there's a lot worse guys that
- 26:54are rostered way higher. Let's just say, let me put it
- 26:56that way. Yeah, I I I was faced with the
- 27:01decision where I had to drop a defenseman recently and it was
- 27:04between him and like what wasn't between him and he was just like
- 27:08one of the ones I just picked up.
- 27:09So naturally it's like, oh, I'm streaming him whatever, or
- 27:12Nikishin who I drafted and I dropped Nikishin.
- 27:14Now I'm having a little bit of regrets because I probably could
- 27:17have tried to figure it out elsewhere and occasions been OK.
- 27:20That being said, I like I confidently kept Levashov.
- 27:24I think the upside is huge. It's a volatile Chicago team,
- 27:28but this is 1 where I'm I'm patting myself on the back here
- 27:32because I I had a feeling he was gonna be good just because of
- 27:37where he was picked in the real draft and I really, really like
- 27:40it for a near term hold and hopefully longer.
- 27:45Yeah. I mean, listen, we've
- 27:46highlighted him already. We don't go too much into the
- 27:48weeds, but power play one on a team that's clicking right now,
- 27:52they're 14th in the leader power play.
- 27:54And but you're getting access to Bedard and the other best
- 27:57players on this team. Like we need a defence minister
- 28:00to get you power play points. Like he's one of the best
- 28:01options. Yep.
- 28:05OK, let's move on to the last of Jake's team, guys.
- 28:10Exactly where you're here for the list of the Las Vegas team
- 28:14guys number 4. And #4 we have Matt Coronado of
- 28:19the Calgary Flames line, one power play, one shooting over
- 28:23three shots a game. But more recently, it's closer
- 28:25to like four shots a game. He only has three-game week.
- 28:28But just what he's been doing. And honestly, that Calgary team,
- 28:31like their top guys are actually producing right now.
- 28:35And the top guys would be Kadri Coronado and Rasmus Anderson
- 28:38pretty much as like the top three guys.
- 28:40And those guys are just popping off our play points, points
- 28:43shots. So yeah, Coronado should
- 28:45definitely be scooped up. I mean, we talked about him in
- 28:47previous weeks and if anyone grabbed him when we first talked
- 28:51about him, they're super happy. So it's not too late.
- 28:53He's still low percentage owned, but I think, I think he's not
- 28:57long for this streamer episode. I think he's going to be over
- 29:0040%. It's it's very rare that you're
- 29:03able to pick up a guy off of waivers in your leagues that is
- 29:07elite at a category. And Matt Coronado is, and this
- 29:10is singular. Matt don't, don't get, don't get
- 29:13confused with with Mats Zuccarello, Matt Coronado just
- 29:17one guy and he's getting elite level of shots.
- 29:20This is one of the shots I feel like are, are the thing that
- 29:24leads to the most, you know, offensive production.
- 29:26Like if a guy is shooting a lot, you're going to get more goals,
- 29:29more assists. It's just you're involved in
- 29:31the, in the play more often and Coronado is shooting like a
- 29:34crazy amount and he's got the, he's got the points that back it
- 29:37up recently. So I, I love Coronado.
- 29:40I wish I, I had him in our league.
- 29:41Jackie somehow has him and my somehow, I mean, he went to
- 29:45waivers and he picked him up. So so.
- 29:48Wizardry. The only the only thing that's
- 29:51worth mentioning is he literally plays on the worst power play in
- 29:53the league. So listen like you're not.
- 29:55I wouldn't pick him up specifically for power play
- 29:57points. I'm not saying those are
- 29:59impossible to get, but statistically it's the least
- 30:02likely to get is with a guy on this team so.
- 30:05Yeah, on everyone on Calgary, he has the he's he has the third
- 30:10highest paying contract. He got Jonathan Huberdeau at
- 30:1310.5 million. Cool, cool, cool.
- 30:15You Nazim Kadri had 7 million and then Coronado at 6.5.
- 30:20Why that's important is because he just got this contract and
- 30:23the reason they gave it to him is to be this offensive
- 30:27producer. He hasn't he didn't really do
- 30:29much yet in his career to deserve that much money.
- 30:32We were kind of surprised in the off season.
- 30:34That being said, this is what they want from him.
- 30:37So he's gonna keep shooting. It's it's a low percentage for
- 30:41the power play like Kevin mentioned.
- 30:43That being said, with great shots come great point,
- 30:47responsibility or whatever, Uncle Ben, said the spider man.
- 30:51Yeah, that that was not the coat.
- 30:54Exactly. And also, you know, something
- 30:57that something that I truly believe and have always said and
- 31:01always will say and probably will continue to always say and
- 31:05have always continue to said is to follow that money baby.
- 31:10Very wise. Words.
- 31:10I mentioned this in the offseason.
- 31:13Exactly, exactly. Yeah, he's on my team for the
- 31:17shots and the potential point upside.
- 31:19So follow that money, as Josh said, and whatever my Spiderman
- 31:23quote was, and you'll be happy owning Coronado for the next few
- 31:25weeks. Exactly.
- 31:27Bingo. OK, let's dive into. #3 the
- 31:32goat. #3 There's a fun one for U.S.
- 31:35House fans. We've got Zach Bolduc of the
- 31:38Montreal Canadiens currently line one power play 1 and he has
- 31:42a four-game week this week and a four-game week next week.
- 31:44This is a nice two week stream that could last longer if he
- 31:47keeps this deployment. He's popping off his five points
- 31:50in his last two games since getting that bump to lineman
- 31:52power play one. If you have a long memory, you
- 31:55could remember a couple of weeks ago where he started the season
- 31:58on Power Play 1 and was absolutely killing it out of the
- 32:01gate. So this isn't something
- 32:03completely new or out of the ordinary for him.
- 32:06And I think that if he keeps having success like this,
- 32:08they're not gonna bump him off Power Play one.
- 32:10They've already tried like before.
- 32:11It was kind of like it felt inevitable that Demidov was
- 32:13gonna take it, and then Demidov did take it, but then he didn't
- 32:16really run with it and now they're kind of shuffling things
- 32:18up again to see what they can get going.
- 32:20And it's working right now. So I really like Bolduc as they
- 32:24at least for the next two weeks with two, four-game weeks.
- 32:26But honestly it could be a hold as long as he has this
- 32:28deployment. I don't wanna, I don't wanna be
- 32:31a be too annoying here, but if you guys are in the discord, I
- 32:37recommended successful Duke to many people and many people are
- 32:41happy because he's been on fire lately.
- 32:44It was more of like, listen, I just saw this guy got bumped up.
- 32:46I think he should be an option for your team.
- 32:48Maybe like, listen, if you have the opportunity to take a take A
- 32:51chance on him and then people have come back and be like, oh,
- 32:54like great, great pickup because he's got 55 points in his last
- 32:57two games. It's really a question of the
- 33:00deployment, right? Like we saw him buried in the
- 33:02lineup averaging like 1314 minutes a night.
- 33:04That's not good. Now he's playing with some of
- 33:06the best players on the team. P1 exposure.
- 33:09He's playing like 1617 minutes a night.
- 33:11This guy, this guy has the potential.
- 33:13We saw a loser in Saint Louis. We saw it earlier in this year.
- 33:17We know that when he's given the opportunity, he can thrive and a
- 33:20lot of players on this team are have been kind of cold.
- 33:22If you're looking at the house like we've we've gone through
- 33:24tough stretch, like we're only starting to come back into form.
- 33:27Our power play is ranked 10th in the league.
- 33:28He's a part of it and it looks like he's he's actually like
- 33:32making a name for himself on the power play.
- 33:34Like that's one of the opportunity like places that
- 33:37he's actually thriving and we don't want to mess that up.
- 33:40So I can see him holding this. So for the next two weeks,
- 33:43you're getting four games this upcoming week, four games the
- 33:45next week. That's just a way, first of all,
- 33:47to be efficient with your ads and not waste moves because
- 33:50moves are very valuable and they can sway categories, they can
- 33:52sway matchups. So a guy like this that you're
- 33:54able to pick up for long term and have a great exposure in the
- 33:58meantime, it's just one of the best pickups.
- 34:01Yeah, big time agree with everything you said there.
- 34:05And I think that he his spot on power play 1 is now safer than
- 34:08Slomkowski's. So when they had before all the
- 34:12injuries, when they had new hook dock, etc, I think they really
- 34:15wanted to make it work with slop on that line 1.
- 34:17And now it's like they don't have the luxury of playing
- 34:19around with it. So this is working right now
- 34:21with buildup on line 1 and I wouldn't be surprised if that
- 34:24sticks. And if it's power play,
- 34:26production sticks, they're not just going to put Demidov there
- 34:29over Bolduc. Just vibes.
- 34:32That's not gonna happen. So I think they're really gonna
- 34:35keep this going. And I know it sounds obvious,
- 34:37like they're gonna do what works, but it's really just
- 34:40like, this is a young team that they're still trying to develop,
- 34:42but now they really just also want to win, first and foremost.
- 34:46So I really, really, really like it.
- 34:47And the four games each week. Brilliant.
- 34:50Amazing. There, there's only one Canadian
- 34:53team in the playoff spot right now and I think the Habs are the
- 34:56second team that needs to get there because this division,
- 34:58first of all, is wide open. We have the talent for it.
- 35:00I think we were, we were there for most of the season and then
- 35:03we had a really bad stretch because both of our goalies are
- 35:05due to and looks like we're finally building ourselves back
- 35:09up and it's exciting. Yeah, yeah.
- 35:13OK, let's go to. #2. At a #2 we have the go Darren
- 35:20Turnip. I mean, Darren Radish just never
- 35:23gets old. The Lightning flying to power.
- 35:27Play 1 three-game week this week, but four-game week the
- 35:30week after that. And if you haven't heard the
- 35:34name Darren Radish or this is new to you, go check out his
- 35:37game log and that'll convince you.
- 35:39Enough said right there. Pretty much.
- 35:41He's powerfully on Tampa already.
- 35:43That's something a big thing Hedman is right now.
- 35:48But sirens going off as well. Hemans LTIR so Radish definitely
- 35:53has it until headwinds back. Even 1 headband comes back.
- 35:56Radish had it before he got injured and Radish is running
- 35:58away with it. He just scored a goal last game.
- 36:01I think it was the hardest shot goal of the season with 100.1
- 36:04mph. Are you serious?
- 36:05So I don't know. That's crazy.
- 36:08Yeah, so it was absolutely insane.
- 36:11This guy is just killing it. The whole Tampa team is waking
- 36:13up and he just woke up one day and found himself on power play
- 36:16one playing with Nikita Kucherov.
- 36:17So and he's like, I cannot lose this opportunity.
- 36:20This is a huge, huge pick up. This is, I don't want to go so
- 36:24far, say season long hold just yet because we'll see what
- 36:26happens when human gets back, but this has potential to be
- 36:29really, really good. Do you guys know the movie being
- 36:31there with Peter Sellers? I do not OK.
- 36:35I also don't know who Peter Sellers is.
- 36:37Peter Byers. This is like Kevin is the
- 36:44biggest cinephile of everyone of us on the on the podcast.
- 36:48He loves movies, OK? He's like Michael Bolton from
- 36:51The Lonely Island song. And you don't know who Peter
- 36:54Sellers is. He was the original Pink
- 36:56Panther. Anyway, more to this.
- 36:59Point you have Kevin just started watching movies in like
- 37:012020. That's true.
- 37:03That's true. That's true.
- 37:04Anyway, so the reason I'm bringing it up is because
- 37:06basically it's about this, this simple gardener who ends up just
- 37:09kind of like being in the most important positions in all of
- 37:14society. Like he meets the president and
- 37:16this and that. And he just like rises up in the
- 37:18ranks just just not because of hard work.
- 37:19He's just there and like things happen.
- 37:21So that's Darren Radish right now and literally just like you
- 37:27said, came out of nowhere. And the this scary thing for for
- 37:31Hedman owners is that like this has happened even before Radish
- 37:35was good and his ice time has been awesome over the last three
- 37:39to five games, especially. I mean, where did he get all
- 37:42paying playing 28 minutes a game last year when he was taking
- 37:44over that power play one that didn't happen, That's happening
- 37:47now. So I think this is an awesome
- 37:50pickup. I'm not surprised at all if he
- 37:53keeps it with head when he comes back.
- 37:55So yeah, no, it's going to say like I feel like in the in the
- 37:59discord that I'm shouting it out again.
- 38:01But we've got, we've had some pushback.
- 38:02Like some people are not buying into the radish.
- 38:05They're like as soon as admin comes back, it's a straight
- 38:07flip. And yeah, I don't know if
- 38:09they're just admin owner that is kind of in denial a little bit
- 38:12or kind of enthusiast. I think when Hedman wants to be
- 38:15on PP1, he'll be on P1. I think he has the, he has the
- 38:18leadership and he has the pedigree that whatever had been
- 38:21once had won't get, I feel like, but he's also not stupid.
- 38:24So if the team is clicking and they're doing well, he wants the
- 38:27team to win. Maybe they don't shake things
- 38:29up, but I think right now with this deployment you'd be you'd
- 38:33be just as stupid to not pick up there and reddish because.
- 38:36You're calling our viewers stupid, but you know.
- 38:39No, but you probably should pick up Darren Reddish.
- 38:41Yeah. I think it's hard to find this
- 38:43production from a defensive position.
- 38:45And what's scary is he's doing what he's doing right now and
- 38:48Tampa still has a 28th ranked power play.
- 38:50Like, this is a power play that's consistently like top
- 38:52three in the league. Like you're playing with the
- 38:54highest talent available. Brayden Point hasn't even been
- 38:57clicking yet, not even healthy right?
- 38:58Now imagine when they're clicking on all cylinders and
- 39:01Darren Radish is quarterback in his power plate and they go from
- 39:0428th to like top five. Like, can you see the potential
- 39:07there? That's just, I am extremely
- 39:10heartbroken that I did not pick him up in our own league.
- 39:14But yeah, I just think this could be, listen, I'm not
- 39:16getting ahead of myself. I'm tampering the expectations.
- 39:19I know it hadn't comes back. It'll be a conversation, but
- 39:22there's no risk right now to pick him up and ride it while
- 39:25it's hot. And I think that's what you
- 39:26should do. Yeah.
- 39:28Yep. All right.
- 39:31And then at #1 that number one, someone we already discussed of
- 39:37it this episode because he was a recommendation from last week,
- 39:40is Anton Lindell of the Florida Panthers.
- 39:42We are going to keep recommending him until he pops
- 39:44that 40% owned line one power play 1 four-game week this week.
- 39:49And I mean, look, we've talked about it, but ton it's he's the
- 39:53number 1C for the Florida Panthers, a team that is off to
- 39:56a slow start, but is going to get way better.
- 39:57They won back-to-back Stanley Cups, in case you forgot, and
- 40:01he's playing amazing. So this is really a no-brainer.
- 40:03Like I'll throw all shout out a previous.
- 40:06No brainer pickup that we told people to make, which was Adam
- 40:08Fantilli. And look at what he's been
- 40:11doing. You know, like obviously the
- 40:12last like Gamer 2, he has no points because Marchenko's been
- 40:14injured. But like, no, he's gonna be
- 40:16insane. He's already over 50% owned and
- 40:18he's gonna keep climbing. Lundell is this guy, you know,
- 40:21like I think family is better, but like, Lundell has been doing
- 40:24amazing this year. He's going to continue to do it.
- 40:25There's nothing, there's no ticking time bomb on, you know,
- 40:28there's no one coming back who's going to end what he's doing.
- 40:31Barkov's not coming back during the regular season if at all.
- 40:34So yeah, so Wendell is a is a no brainer pick up and we're going
- 40:39to keep hammering it home until until he's no longer allowed to
- 40:41be discussed on this episode. He's 39% owned.
- 40:44So I feel like this maybe the last episode we'll talk about
- 40:46him if he keeps it up but flies in Florida's got a four-game
- 40:50week. They're they're starting to get
- 40:51hot and like when they when they start to get hot, you want
- 40:54pieces of it. I know a lot of the guys on this
- 40:56team have been disappointing. Bob has been disappointing for
- 40:59for long stretches. We know Reinhart started the
- 41:01season extremely slow. Now he's popping off.
- 41:03I I think I suppose could Chuck gets back, this team is going to
- 41:07be poised to really make a run and that should be in the next
- 41:10few weeks. So I think you want Lindell
- 41:11right now for that. When catcher comes back, you're
- 41:13going to get, we already saw last game Reinhart was playing
- 41:17with Lundell and they got they got points together.
- 41:20So I would not be surprised when Chuck is healthy, he's gonna be
- 41:22playing either with Lindell or Reinhart Will and those are two
- 41:24of the best wingers in the league and you're able to get
- 41:27the the line 1P1 centre attached to one of those wingers is just
- 41:31a no brainer. Yeah, yeah.
- 41:34Well, if I told you that you can get the line one power play 1
- 41:38centre on Florida who's also from Finland.
- 41:42You'd be like Alexander Barkov. Daddy, I want you.
- 41:46So, but but in all seriousness here, like he was drafted,
- 41:50whatever that was, he was drafted to be, to be like, you
- 41:55know, a really important part of this team.
- 41:57He was 12th overall in in 2020. So to be to, for this to be
- 42:03happening right now, it's it's not surprising.
- 42:05It's just that Bennett had such an insane playoffs last year
- 42:08that everyone thought he was going to be the big deal.
- 42:09But guess what? Lindell got 18 points and 23
- 42:13that's really good. So he already cemented himself
- 42:16as relevant with Barkov there and now has proven he could be
- 42:19in like, not elite, but very, very good centre in the NHL.
- 42:25So as the year goes on and they get back, but like pieces like
- 42:28to Chuck, this is an awesome, awesome pickup all year and we
- 42:31won't be able to talk about him anymore.
- 42:33So keep up the pickups y'all. OK, let's move on to our top
- 42:39five bangers with a hard B under 40% owned for this coming week.
- 42:46So let's start with. #5. At #5 we have Brayden Schneider
- 42:52of the New York Rangers, new to this list.
- 42:55He has a four-game week this coming week. 1.12 shots per
- 42:58game, 2.36 hits and 1.6 blocks averaging 18 1/2 minutes a
- 43:03night. That's just one of those.
- 43:05Not much to say. He'll get you those hits and
- 43:07blocks and shots and four-game week.
- 43:11Yep. And this this I will say though,
- 43:13is like if you're looking for a guy that you wanna hold on your
- 43:15roster for multiple weeks, he's not the guy.
- 43:18Like he's a four-game week this week, but then a two game week
- 43:20the week after. So this is just you pick him up
- 43:22for this week, stream for the games, and then you'll probably
- 43:24cut him for the person that you listen to on the next mega
- 43:27management waiver episode that we tell you to pick up as a
- 43:29four-game week. Exactly.
- 43:33OK, let's move to #4 at #4 we have Josh Manson of the Colorado
- 43:40Avalanche. 1.3 shots per game, 2.5 hits, 1.4 blocks, 4 game
- 43:45week this week. And yeah, he's been doing some
- 43:48really cool stuff with the with the hits and blocks and shots.
- 43:50So another, some of these dangers are not the most
- 43:53interesting, but you know, you plug them in and they flip a
- 43:55couple of cats for you. So nothing always has to be the
- 43:58most exciting pickup to to be the right pick up.
- 44:00But listen, the guy in Colorado you're always excited about and
- 44:03Manson has had a, he's had some some high level bangers in his
- 44:07game. Like I feel like every other
- 44:08game you can get like a four or five hit or four or five block
- 44:11game and you wouldn't be surprised.
- 44:12So just knowing that that's in the range of outcomes for a guy
- 44:15you're picking up on a four-game week is is nice when you're
- 44:17trying to stream a banger. Yeah, there are some games where
- 44:21he's scarier out there than Marilyn Manson.
- 44:24So no, actually though, like you know, the game log from a few
- 44:30six hits, four hits, another four hits, this happens.
- 44:34So if he has the a lot of games this week, it's really good.
- 44:39Yeah, hit the Marilyn Manson. Thing yeah, he does that.
- 44:45OK, let's go to. #3. At #3 we have Jack McBain of the
- 44:53Utah Mammoth. They he has 1.3 shots per game,
- 44:572.6 hits per game. He has a four-game week this
- 45:01week, 4 game week next week and a four-game week the week after
- 45:04that. So if that's freaking Kevin are
- 45:07wondering why I picked him up in our league.
- 45:09And also he he wins faceoffs from a left wing position.
- 45:12So if if your face off win league, he's great for that.
- 45:15And so actually any Utah guys that you're thinking of of
- 45:18streaming, there's 3-4 game weeks going up for that team,
- 45:21then that's followed by one game week.
- 45:23So you could drop him then. But still, three weeks of
- 45:25streamers in one pickup is pretty nice.
- 45:27Or you can just pick up Ben Shrot and be happy because he'll
- 45:30get more hits and blocks than all of these guys without having
- 45:35the 12 games. But no, McCain, I feel like he's
- 45:38notorious for being one of those guys that you stream when you
- 45:40need hits and he's also going to get you face off.
- 45:42So in those in those deep face off win leagues, like he's
- 45:44always a guy that's on your radar.
- 45:46And listen, he doesn't have the most time on ice, but you're
- 45:49getting volume from him and that's what you want when trying
- 45:51to stream a banger. Many scored a goal last night,
- 45:53so elite points upside. That's funny.
- 46:01OK, let's go to. #2. Hat #2 We've got Brendan Dillon
- 46:07of the New Jersey Devils, another guy with four games this
- 46:10week and four games next week, so that could cover multiple
- 46:13weeks of streaming. 2.7 hits, 1.8 blocks.
- 46:17And he had that random streak early on in the season where he
- 46:19was putting up points. So you know, the fucking hit him
- 46:22and it can go in sometimes. So, yeah, definitely a little
- 46:24bit of upside there. Yeah.
- 46:28I, I, I think, listen, you're streaming around New Jersey.
- 46:31He's playing close to 20 minutes a night.
- 46:33This is a pure hits and blocks guy.
- 46:34Like we're not getting fancy with it, but you got four games
- 46:36this week, four games that week after that.
- 46:38So you can even potentially save your pickups then and be
- 46:40efficient with it. I like Brendan Dylan.
- 46:44And he likes you. Well, friends.
- 46:46Yeah. Yeah, we're having fun here.
- 46:49On the office where we wanted to get hits and blocked that puck.
- 46:52Exactly. OK, Should we go to?
- 46:56Number one. At #1 this, I don't know how.
- 47:01I mean, maybe there's not as many Bangers leaks as I thought
- 47:04or what, but this guy should be on in every single Bangers
- 47:06league. We've got Radko Gudas of the
- 47:09Anaheim Ducks 4 game week. This week he's averaging 1.7
- 47:13shots, 3.6 hits, 1.9 blocks. And that's on the season where
- 47:16he started off a bit slow. But in the last like 2 weeks
- 47:19since coming back from injury he's been an absolute monster.
- 47:22Hits, blocks, shots, penalty minutes.
- 47:24He does everything you want from a Rangers defenseman and he's
- 47:27sitting at 23% owned. Last I checked he should be
- 47:30around 40%. I'd say like pretty much every
- 47:33bangers league he should be owned in.
- 47:35This is wild like he to me. First of all, poor Jacob Trouba.
- 47:40He just made him totally irrelevant for for fantasy.
- 47:43Hockey we told you guys we told you guys sell high on true, but
- 47:46everybody was like, but maybe he can maybe he can keep it.
- 47:49Maybe this is the true of all we told you guys.
- 47:52So true, but some people sold the money.
- 47:54For him, yeah. Or that, but some of you were
- 48:02able to pull off some great trades with him and, and I hope
- 48:04you're one of those people. Yeah, it's just like, what?
- 48:07What's so insane with this? Goodest thing is that he does
- 48:11this with not a lot of ice time. But even when they give him just
- 48:16any time, like in 13 minutes and 58 seconds, 14 minutes left two
- 48:19games ago, four shots, two hits, two blocks.
- 48:22How do you do that? What kind of motivation do you
- 48:27have to be like, let's destroy or whatever his actions.
- 48:30I don't even know if he has one. Yeah, he just goes out and just
- 48:34absolute monster. He does the most like this is
- 48:37what he he'll just pad your your banger categories and make them
- 48:40so elite. And when you hit and potentially
- 48:45blocks. I mean, look, four games this
- 48:47week, 3 next week. Like just if he, if they play
- 48:50him over 15 minutes a night, you're gonna get insane stats.
- 48:53Insane. Yeah, his last game he had over
- 48:5520 minutes of ice time, so something to keep an eye out on.
- 48:58Your shots, two hits, four blocks in that game.
- 49:00Amazing. And this may be futile because
- 49:02you're like, oh, he's not available in my bangers league.
- 49:04And like, listen, he's so low roster percentage that we have
- 49:07to mention him just in case he actually still is on there on
- 49:10the waiver wire. Like almost available in 80% of
- 49:13leagues is nuts. I listen.
- 49:16Please get the roster percentage up so we can stop talking about
- 49:18them because I feel dumb trying to recommend people to pick up
- 49:22radical goodies in a bangers leaks.
- 49:23I just feel like that's no better that he's already he
- 49:25should be already rostered right?
- 49:26So. I thought you're gonna you wanna
- 49:28talk about him because I got him for free.
- 49:29This. Year, I mean, I don't know how
- 49:30you got him for free either. That's a different question.
- 49:32And I, and I'm still kicking myself, but yeah.
- 49:37OK, let's move on to our top three quantity goalies, guys who
- 49:41should get you 2 plus starts under 40% owned.
- 49:44Let's start with. #3 we will actually, before we go into #3
- 49:51absolute #1 reputation stakers. Oh, yeah, OK.
- 49:56So I was thinking that I feel like since it's already a top
- 50:0010, the reputation seekers is kind of obvious.
- 50:03It's just the top three guys that.
- 50:04It is kind of obvious. It's worth mentioning.
- 50:06We could still say it, we can still say it.
- 50:08So our top three for this week are Anton Lundell, Darren Radish
- 50:11and Zach Will Duke. Yes, 2 four-game guys, 1/3 game
- 50:14guy, defenceman in there. I feel that's kind of ballsy
- 50:17when you're going crazy getting down to it when we're
- 50:19recommending at the first pin for as a reputation sticker for
- 50:21points. Yeah, definitely pick up all
- 50:25those guys and reap the rewards. And now, yeah, getting into top
- 50:30three quality quantity goalies on quantity, quantity volume,
- 50:34baby volume. Yeah, these guys will get you at
- 50:37least 2 plus starts. So let's get into #3.
- 50:41OK #3 We have Eric Comrie of the Winnipeg Jets, also known as the
- 50:47Connor Hellebuyck knee replacement guy.
- 50:50They are playing four games this week against Buffalo, Montreal
- 50:53and then back-to-back with Buffalo and Edmonton.
- 50:56He's won half the games. He started getting about 26
- 50:58saves per game 3.0 two goals against average .897 save
- 51:02percentage. Look, he's not the flashiest
- 51:04name, he's not Connor Hellebuyck.
- 51:06Winnipeg's not the Presidents Trophy winners, but there's
- 51:09still a solid defensive team and he's going to get two to three
- 51:13of those starts. Listen, when you get the chance
- 51:16to pick up knee replacement guy, you've got to do it.
- 51:18Yeah. But but looks like we we
- 51:21recommended comma as a pick up for all those goalie needy teams
- 51:24out there. We don't wanna we don't want to
- 51:25mislead anybody and say that he's going to be a top tier goal
- 51:27and just do a hell of it was doing.
- 51:28That's not the case, obviously, But there's a lot of teams out
- 51:31there that went 0G and that I've been struggling at the position
- 51:34because we're seeing a lot of goalies be bad this year.
- 51:36I think he's going to be average.
- 51:38And if you can pick up an average goalie for, you know,
- 51:41six weeks, they will be able to get your production on a team is
- 51:43going to win more than they lose.
- 51:45I think you do that and on this week he'll get two or three
- 51:47starts. I think that's a great pick up.
- 51:50Yep, agreed. OK, here's a fun one at.
- 51:55Number. 2. Back from the dead, we've got
- 52:00Tristan Jarry of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
- 52:03They play Philadelphia, Tampa and Dallas.
- 52:06He's been really good since coming back from his injury.
- 52:10I expect him to get two of these three starts.
- 52:11Sorry to the GOAT artours. And yeah, he's been putting up
- 52:15really solid numbers. So I like, I like Jerry.
- 52:18I mean, Tampa and Dallas are pretty scary opponents, I will
- 52:21say so. So, you know, that could be
- 52:25interesting to see how it goes. But Philly, I'm very happy with
- 52:27that matchup. Yeah, this sucks.
- 52:30As much as I'm super happy that we had three guys on our top ten
- 52:35points, guys on our on my team. This is this doesn't negate
- 52:39that, but I have she loves and what the heck, man.
- 52:44Good. Yeah, that's fair.
- 52:46But still, I'm like, like, I'm miserable.
- 52:49With Skinner, so that's like, that's like gaining another.
- 52:51Goalie. Yeah, my opponent picked them
- 52:54up. Kevin, when you have the chance
- 52:56to pick up the future goalie for the Pittsburgh Penguins, you do
- 52:59it. No, you picked up Skinner.
- 53:02Yeah, exactly. I said what I said because
- 53:07Tristan Jarry is clearly going to be an Edmonton Oiler because
- 53:10they think that's an upgrade, which is not to be the case.
- 53:14And Tristan Jarry, just as long as you give him the opportunity
- 53:16to show his true colours, he will show you his true colours.
- 53:19On a week like this and he's been hot, I don't mind streaming
- 53:21him. But like, do I really have
- 53:23conviction to put Tristan Jarry in my line up against Dallas and
- 53:25and Tampa? No.
- 53:28Well, do I want to start against Philly?
- 53:30Yes. And then if I need another start
- 53:33and I'm desperate, I will. I will put Tristan Jarry in my
- 53:35lineup. But I completely know that he
- 53:38could let in five goals on ten shots and my week is over and my
- 53:41goalie categories. Yeah, it, it could go, this
- 53:45could be catastrophically bad, but it, it still is a good it
- 53:50is. No, but it, it could work.
- 53:52Also because Pittsburgh, like I, I don't believe in him at all,
- 53:55but I leave, I believe in Pittsburgh like leaving it all
- 53:58out there every single game trying to be good.
- 53:59Also talk about quantity. He has, he's like, of the three
- 54:04goalies we're mentioning the most saves per game.
- 54:07That's pretty good. Like actually like ads, because
- 54:10that's really what it comes down to, right?
- 54:12I mean, it's games played, but also the saves in those games.
- 54:14So Pittsburgh's letting quite a few shots come their goalies
- 54:18ways as of late. And I think, I think that that
- 54:21could be helpful. But I look, if he stands his
- 54:23ground against Tampa, Dallas, you're looking at 40.
- 54:26Says if he doesn't, you're looking at like pulled in the
- 54:29first period. So it's going to be 1 or the
- 54:31other. But yeah, look, I guess you
- 54:34could do worse. On a moments notice, everything
- 54:36can go well or everything can go bad.
- 54:37We've seen it before. Like we've done this every year.
- 54:40It feels like for the last feels like 100 years at this point.
- 54:43But yeah, I think I think he's getting traded this year.
- 54:46I think a team wants to make a goalie upgrade.
- 54:51And if you're on YouTube, somebody do the quotation marks
- 54:53around goalie upgrade because we we know what he can do.
- 54:56But maybe that's why the running with him right now to up his
- 54:59trade value a little bit and be like, hey, look, this is what
- 55:02you could be trading for. Here's Tristan Jarry,
- 55:04rejuvenated while rejuvenated Stanley Cup winner Justin Jerry.
- 55:11But yeah. OK, well, following that glowing
- 55:14recommendation, let's go. Number one.
- 55:19At #1 we've got Jakob Dobesh of the Montreal Canadiens.
- 55:24They have two back to backs next week, which means he's
- 55:26guaranteed 2 starts. So they've got Ottawa, Winnipeg,
- 55:29and they've got Toronto, St. Louis, and first of all, that
- 55:32second back-to-back. I'm super happy with either of
- 55:34those teams. Love those matchups.
- 55:36And honestly, Ottawa, Winnipeg, I'm not too worried about
- 55:38either. So I think these are good
- 55:39matchups. He's been OK.
- 55:41He he's not as good as he was to start the season.
- 55:44Monty just beat Vegas so. The biggest period, to be
- 55:49honest, if you look at them, they they've been losing games.
- 55:51Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I, I I totally get that
- 55:54still. Great performance not to get 30.
- 55:5730 saves on 31 Shaws is amazing. That being said, like Dobish has
- 56:01to get two of these games and Monty is gonna get to these
- 56:04games. So it could be especially
- 56:05because, you know, they have eight games over the next two
- 56:07weeks. It's gonna maybe determine how
- 56:10those are gonna shake out for the week after as well, right?
- 56:14I think it's really good to know that you're gonna get it to this
- 56:19week and potentially 3 the next week.
- 56:22We'll see how it goes. But yeah, Montreal wants.
- 56:24To win, but I mean you could get 2.
- 56:26From the. Back.
- 56:27You're gonna flip both. Weeks.
- 56:28Yeah, yeah. OK.
- 56:29So it's two of two back-to-back. So that's how it's gonna work.
- 56:33Yeah. Yeah, OK.
- 56:34Anyway, like you said, the last two in this one, Toronto or
- 56:37Saint Louis, they're going to be both of those.
- 56:38And I also think they could be Ottawa or Winnipeg, right?
- 56:41I mean like he could win both games and I really like it when
- 56:44he has a good game. He's been awesome so.
- 56:46Yeah, yeah. OK.
- 56:49Let's go to our top three quality goalies.
- 56:52These are going to get you one good matchup start.
- 56:55This is. Just because you want to say it
- 56:57OK. Go to Yeah.
- 57:01Yeah, these are these are spot starts, so you need one star to
- 57:04change your match up. These are the guys you wanna
- 57:05pick up. We got at number #3.
- 57:09At #3 we have a Bangor management favorite, Brandon
- 57:13Bussey of the Carolina Liberating the alliteration king
- 57:18of the Carolina Hurricanes. Not the only alliteration king
- 57:21on this list. And yeah, Carolina is going to
- 57:24play a back-to-back of Nashville and San Jose this week.
- 57:27Kochetkov is currently injured though was he should be getting
- 57:31one of those two starts even if the check comes back, they he
- 57:33should get a start this week. But but yeah, so for that one,
- 57:37definitely like what he's been doing.
- 57:38His goals against average under 323 saves per game, close to 900
- 57:41save percentage and he wins mostly games he plays.
- 57:44To be clear, I was only laughing because alliteration is so
- 57:48funny. Yeah, that's the only.
- 57:50Reason Jackie was laughing. Trying to make that very very
- 57:55clear. We won't leave around this too
- 57:58much longer. Let's.
- 57:59Move on. OK, Yeah. #2.
- 58:02At #2 the alliteration king of Utah, not VTech Vanicek, which
- 58:08is a fun on Double V. You don't see that very often.
- 58:10But yeah, if you kind of check, they're playing a back-to-back
- 58:13of Vancouver and Calgary. 2 very easy to beat teams.
- 58:16And yeah, I like this a lot. I think Utah is on the upswing
- 58:20as well. So I definitely, definitely like
- 58:23this a spot start. Let me let me ask you a quick
- 58:25question here. Do you think there's any chance
- 58:27the Vaneck, you know, plays his way into more stars?
- 58:30Because we've seen veg be really bad.
- 58:33And like you mentioned earlier in the podcast, Utah plays 12
- 58:36games over the next three weeks. But that's that's a lot of games
- 58:39in a short amount of time. Like they they might advantage
- 58:42check is solid here. He might get an opportunity to
- 58:46win more starts. I'm just putting it out there
- 58:48that what do you guys think? I think he'll he'll never be the
- 58:52starter or anything like that. He's not gonna take veggie spot,
- 58:54but I could definitely see him getting more than just back to
- 58:57backs and at least in the next three weeks.
- 58:59They have such a busy schedule, so I don't think that's out of
- 59:01the realm of possibility. Yeah, I think, I think the
- 59:05problem is that he hasn't been super good this season.
- 59:09So he really have to have to have an uptick.
- 59:13I mean there were reason he's on this list is simply because of
- 59:15alliteration and his opponents so.
- 59:18The only quality is necessary to be here, yeah.
- 59:21So, so, so it's really just about the fact that the Milka
- 59:26could handle, you know, more of a starting load than any goalie
- 59:30in the NHL. So I don't think it's necessary
- 59:32that they're gonna watch. Other than fuzzy, obviously.
- 59:40How I was just gonna say maybe, maybe, maybe if it melts, like
- 59:44can't handle the load because we've seen him be poor playing
- 59:47so many games. Yeah, you know, fair, fair that
- 59:52that is fair. It's just he he's like he's done
- 59:54it in, in years past, not being said.
- 59:57Look, I, I mean, Utah has been underperforming.
- 59:59We've spoken about it a lot recently.
- 1:00:01So I wouldn't be surprised if if they start giving him more
- 1:00:04playing time than what he's had, which is like every five games
- 1:00:07he gets a. Game, but I just wanted to put
- 1:00:10it out there. I don't play a lot of games.
- 1:00:12I know Veg has been bad and if they start winning and he's, you
- 1:00:15know, winning games for them because like you said, like he
- 1:00:17has not been impressive, but Utah is on the up, up and up and
- 1:00:21in in two very easy, winnable matchups.
- 1:00:24You wanna you want them as a spot start.
- 1:00:26And I just put in the little inception behind the behind your
- 1:00:30brain. That is, that's exactly what I
- 1:00:32meant. The idea is there that maybe he
- 1:00:36plays on sway into more stars, but I'm not better Miles on it.
- 1:00:40Yeah, here's a guy at our at the next one that I think is
- 1:00:44actually taking some starts, which is very interesting.
- 1:00:47So at. Number one.
- 1:00:51Number one, we have Daniel Tarasov of the Florida Panthers.
- 1:00:55Next week they have a back-to-back Columbus and
- 1:00:57Islanders love both those matchups.
- 1:00:59But this week they had three games, no back to backs.
- 1:01:03Guess how many Bob started and guess how many Tarasoff started?
- 1:01:06Did Tarasov start three games? No, but he started two of them,
- 1:01:09which and Bob started 1 and got absolutely wrecked.
- 1:01:12So this is like not Tarasov had a really good start the first
- 1:01:17game, Bob had a terrible start the second game and then
- 1:01:19Tarasoff had like a mid start the third game.
- 1:01:21So he didn't run away with it or anything like that.
- 1:01:23But Bob's been playing very poorly and Florida obviously is
- 1:01:26win now. And if Tarasov comes in and puts
- 1:01:30up good performances, he's going to get more starts as we
- 1:01:32literally saw just this week. So he's guaranteed getting you
- 1:01:34the back-to-back, but like, there's a chance he starts
- 1:01:37taking more stars from Bob. I mean, listen, I think we've
- 1:01:41seen Bob be better when he's not starting every game necessary.
- 1:01:45And we saw Florida have, you know, just as a team, they've
- 1:01:48had hiccups early in the season. I think they're on the up and
- 1:01:50up. I think Bob needs a little bit
- 1:01:51of arrest long term. I'm not, I'm not worried about
- 1:01:53this. They just won 2 Stanley Cups.
- 1:01:55Bob is the guy. I, I think maybe in the short
- 1:01:59term, Tarasov could get a few more stars just to give Bob a
- 1:02:02break. But it's not nothing more than
- 1:02:03just giving Bob a break, in my opinion, because they know that
- 1:02:05they're going to win games at the highest level is going to
- 1:02:07be. Yeah, for sure.
- 1:02:09It's it is important to note though, that as he gets older, I
- 1:02:14would just think that that means he's going to be playing less
- 1:02:17than he has in previous seasons. So if they could win with
- 1:02:20Tarasov, especially because they're not just coasting right
- 1:02:24now like they have to compete. And this is a pretty loaded
- 1:02:27Atlantic division that's super close in the standings.
- 1:02:29So I wouldn't be surprised if yes, short term, not thinking
- 1:02:33he's a season long hold or anything is like a good 1B but
- 1:02:37over. The pussy.
- 1:02:41This is sure. I really hope nobody just like
- 1:02:45runs away with this recommendation.
- 1:02:47Just like. Oh yeah.
- 1:02:52Well, I will say he's the healthiest of the three Carolina
- 1:02:54goalies. But anyways, I think we should.
- 1:02:56I think we should wrap it up. It could only get worse from
- 1:03:00here, yeah. Thank you.
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- 1:04:27hand, OK? Wasn't it glass?
- 1:04:30Is that what I don't know. OK.
- 1:04:33I hope one day we find out because we.
- 1:04:34Also know the guy that injured Morgan Riley so.
- 1:04:40Is he in the room right now? The link to our socials in the
- 1:04:43library of the podcast description.
- 1:04:44Thank you everybody for listening and take it away.
- 1:04:47Commentary. Fancast.
- 1:04:48Woo woo. I feel like the listeners may
- 1:04:54think that their thing just malfunctioned and we just wanna
- 1:04:57really imagine. Two times speed and then at the
- 1:05:00end.