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  But about Bound Bangor management Fantasy hockey
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  podcast. Boo, woo and only two wheels
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  today. Because we are.
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  We have the ghost of Jakey with us as we speak.
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  Yeah, there you go. Well, that was actually a pretty
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  good ghost Woo. Yeah, exactly.
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  I'm. Impressed but welcoming
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  everybody to Bangor management the fantasy hockey podcast on
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  today is week 19 news updates and the famous would you
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  rathers. I know, I know listen, I know
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  trade behind us in most leagues. But would you rather are still
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  relevant because I went a little waiver wire today.
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  Little, little would you rather on the waivers, you know.
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  Like there's no point in the hockey season where you don't
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  have to make a choice between two players.
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  Whether it's by trade or it's by waiver wires, so would you.
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  Rathers are always relevant and Kevin's always keeping it fresh
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  and spicy for us. And we're, we're literally
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  recording this Tuesday evening and it's going up Wednesday
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  morning. So literally the closest return
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  is possible. I mean, turn around, not return,
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  but this is this is the last news episode before the trade
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  deadline in the NHL, which is this Friday, which is crazy.
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  I feel like we're getting so many news to new tidbits every
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  day. Yeah, this person's on the move.
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  These are the teams that are interested, blah blah blah.
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  Yeah, so many rumors, but I think I think this is kind of a
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  calm before the storm episode where, you know, not not much
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  has happened just yet in terms of trades.
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  We're hearing like you said, a lot of rumors circling, but
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  we're not going to report on it until until it.
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  I mean, our next news episode is going to be post deadline and
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  that's what we're gonna have a lot, a lot of fun stuff to talk
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  about. But until then, we've got some
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  we've got some tidy business to to talk about.
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  Awesome. Maybe maybe a little trade
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  relevant. Would you rather is in the later
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  in the episode. So stay tuned.
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  Make sure you stay until the end.
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  I like. It because I think some are
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  definitely worth talking about right now in case they do happen
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  but yeah a lot of injury talk to we're gonna get to today.
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  But before we do get into it just to remind everybody for not
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  button. But yeah, without further ado,
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  let's get into it because we got some big news.
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  Josh's psyched about this one. Alright, let's dive right in
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  because I am so excited about this.
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  This is in all uppercase. I literally, I don't know one of
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  the best things that happened to me.
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  I'm rejoicing super. Hard choice, Jim.
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  Hiller is gone. Our prayers have been answered.
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  DJ Smith, interim head coach for the rest of the season.
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  Let's ignore the fact that DJ Smith is doesn't have the best
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  reputation and Hillary is gone. I don't care.
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  You can have a talking monkey behind the bench and it would
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  be, we'd be better off. I'm so excited as a Kemper
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  owner, as a brand Clark owner. I mean, that's got to be the top
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  two guys who Jim Hiller was a terrorist on.
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  So I'm very, very excited. Look, we still have to what was
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  it, Kylies mix it up ever since we got called out for.
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  Is it temporary? Temporary expectations.
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  So you have a temporary. Temporary.
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  Yes. You're not tampering with them,
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  You're tempering them. Exactly.
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  Tempered steel. Got it.
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  OK. Yeah.
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  Sorry. I'm just.
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  I'm jacked up right now. I'm so excited about this.
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  I was literally the night before this happened, I was losing my
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  mind about how much I hated Jim Hiller.
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  Like everybody, this could also saw.
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  Yes, I losing because first I was, I was losing my mind to you
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  guys in our group chat and then I was like, you know what?
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  If people are in the Discord, they deserve to see the real,
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  the yeah, they, they, they deserve to see the crash
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  outlook. If you, you open, you know, you
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  open your heart and let everyone see your Matthew Olivier crash
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  outs. So I, I will do the same and
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  bear my heart and soul in the discord.
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  And so I absolutely went off on how much I hate Jim Hiller.
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  And I guess, you know, LA management is in the Discord and
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  they saw that and they were just like, I didn't realize that,
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  that Josh felt this way. And so they got rid of him.
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  But anyways, let's talk about implications.
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  First of all, it could be the implication.
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  Exactly. It could only be positive.
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  Look, it doesn't mean all of a sudden ever you think
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  everything's perfect, but it can only be a positive because
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  Hillary, it was an awful coach. He was just doing like terrible
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  deployment didn't the lines didn't make sense.
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  It this all stems back really like and this is not just me.
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  This is me like, like I have my hatred strong, but like, this is
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  me reading all sorts of LA Kings, like fans like and news
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  and whatever. And like everyone hated him ever
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  since he lost the series to Edmonton in the playoffs last
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  year with that ridiculous goalie interference call challenge.
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  I don't know if you remember that that kind of turns the
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  entire tide of the series, right?
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  And it was like the most obvious, like essentially like
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  they tied it up late after coming back from like three
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  goals. Hiller decides to challenge when
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  it was obviously a good goal. Then they so Edmonton goes on
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  the power play and then scores again and then they win the
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  game. And that just turned the whole
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  series. So once hated Hillary ever
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  since. And yeah, so in terms of
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  specific players, I mean Kemper, right?
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  Like I feel like if. The team starts winning.
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  Again, that's it's. Good for the goalies in general,
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  right? That's kind of what you're going
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  with here. So like, look, I'm not like he's
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  been so bad, right? So it could only go up and at
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  least we have some sort of catalyst to kind of hope that a
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  change is coming. Then there's for Clark.
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  I mean, he had already kind of forced Tiller's hand to put him
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  on power play one because the power play was so bad without
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  him and then it became like OK with him.
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  So but now like, I think that spot is even more secured.
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  I think we're seeing a more consolidated power play 1.
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  I mean, that's also a bit due to injuries and stuff, but I think
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  that is great. And I'm curious to see if Ella
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  is going to keep adding right with the Panarin trade was like,
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  we're big buyers, but then they kept being terrible.
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  But now they fired their coach and they're still like, they're
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  still in the race for the playoffs, like they could still
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  make it if they stop sucking. So I'm very curious to see.
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  I mean, yeah, they give yeah. But I'm curious to see if they
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  if they make another move to to add and and how they could
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  improve after this coaching change.
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  I think they want another centre and I think they want line.
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  I think that's, I think the the line rumors are like you've
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  mentioned multiple times on the podcast already, I think those
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  are very strong. I think Habs might retain 50%,
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  but like his contract expires at the end of the year, so they
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  don't really care. Listen, they added Panera, they
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  lost Fiala. So it kind of feels like a a
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  slight positive because Panera is better than Fiala, but it's
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  still you wanted both the big boost.
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  So they're kind of in a pickle and the results haven't been
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  there. It's so ironic that they they
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  fired they fired the coach literally after a shutout.
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  Yeah, I know, but. It was like, OK, from the backup
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  goalie nonetheless. I know.
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  But Daisy, yeah. So I think just positives to
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  come from this. Is it a little too late?
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  That's the only worry in my mind.
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  Like they don't believe that themselves there are competing
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  team. So they just like, you know, not
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  I don't say punt this season because it's Kopitar is like
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  final fare. Well, they're actually like,
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  alright, let's give up like. Yeah, and they're so close.
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  They're like 3 points out, you know, so.
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  But they kept mortgage the whole future for this year when
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  they're already not like a solidified team, right?
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  So I can't imagine they're making a big move.
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  So I'm curious to see who they add besides lining.
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  If that actually does get confirmed.
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  There's lining enough to move the needle.
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  I don't think so. Maybe we just see some fun games
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  at the end of the season where like some power play goals and
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  stuff. But besides that, I I don't I
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  don't see them moving a little too much unless let's DJ Smith
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  can really like turn the tide of this team and get everything
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  settled, But I just think it's a little too late.
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  So. I will say I think that first of
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  all, there's the general kind of new coach bump.
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  So we'll hope to see that. But that's kind of like a vague,
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  you know, idea that, you know, there's like we've seen it
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  happen, but it might also just be like anecdotal evidence.
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  I do think like Smith has the reputation of being really good
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  for developing young players. So I really do think Brandon
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  Clark is the biggest beneficiary of this.
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  I think that he's he's 62% owned right now.
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  So he's probably owned in most leagues, but if he's not owned
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  in your league, I think this is serious, serious pick up for
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  rest of season. So I would definitely recommend
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  that. And then yeah, with Kemper,
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  we'll see how the how the team does.
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  I do think you mentioned that they wanted to centre and line,
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  but I think they're also looking at a defenseman.
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  So not a specific one. I think they're looking at
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  adding a defenseman. And if they can add a defenseman
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  who's actually good at defence, again, that could help, that
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  could help them win games, could help the goalie.
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  So, so it'll be interesting to see.
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  But you know, end of the day, Jim Hiller is gone.
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  I'm happy and yeah, we all rejoice.
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  I mean, that's a perfect segue because talking about
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  defenseman, we just got a defenseman on the move to the
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  Oilers. Massive, massive deal.
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  So. Huge move.
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  Let's talk about it. Connor Murphy from Chicago to
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  Edmonton, 50% retained a second round pick going the other way.
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  I mean this feels like the not this is the least fantasy
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  relevant trade. That's this is the last piece
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  they needed to win the cup so. It's over.
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  Just Jerry will now finally be a good goalie.
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  You know, Engram starting like his third game in a row, like
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  tonight. So like, yeah, Jerry so bad.
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  But yeah, we don't have to rehash that.
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  But yeah, so for this very not fantasy relevant, Connor
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  Murphy's had relevance as a streamer in the past for hits
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  and blocks. I looked at his averages this
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  year. They haven't been there.
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  Is one of the minutes this year. That's why they averaged in
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  lower. Like he's been kind of like a
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  third pairing guy. Yeah, and I kind of expect the
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  same in Edmonton. He could be a top four guy in
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  Edmonton and if he is, I can see him having like some like two
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  hit, two block type of coverage. I just think this this shores up
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  there. Their penalty case saw somebody
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  say, you know, Connor Murphy was on the best PK in the league,
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  which was the Chicago Blackhawks power penalty kill.
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  Which Sir, I didn't not realize they had the power penalty
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  penalty kill. But yeah, I mean, maybe that's
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  just kind of a special teams move to help them there because
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  they know they're gonna take a lot of penalties.
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  I guess. I don't know.
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  But I mean, if you get better on defence, get better on defence,
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  you gotta help your goalies out where you can.
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  That's it. I feel like a lot of these types
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  of moves are like so not flashy and most like more casual fans
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  will kind of just blow them over.
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  And in terms of fantasy, you kind of just blow it over.
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  But it's the kind of move you make to kind of gear up for
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  playoffs. Like you said, show up, you
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  know, like look at a certain point every time you have a
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  goalie, like their goal has been a whole story for like 5 years,
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  right? Like how awful their goalies are
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  at a certain point, maybe you're like take a look at the defence,
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  right? Like what are the odds that
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  every single goal you you get in trade for whatever is terrible?
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  I mean, look at Stuart Skinner on Pittsburgh, right?
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  He's killing it. So, so maybe it's a defensive
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  issue. So adding a, you know, kind of
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  like quiet solid like by like 4 or 5D like this to your team
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  like it could help. So.
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  So we'll see, but not the most nasty relevant.
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  I'll say though, if this, if this bumps down Darnell nurse
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  minutes at all, if you have Darnell nurse has like a banger
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  stud and he's ends up playing like line 3, which I'm not
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  saying is going to happen, but I'm saying it's in the range of
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  outcomes. If it's like, you know,
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  Bouchard, Ecomb, Wallman, Murphy and a nurse and whoever else
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  they decide to put there like that's a hit on nurses value in
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  terms of like being a, a banger cause you had them for the he
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  was the prototypical like two shots, two hits, two blocks type
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  of guy. He's not getting you many points
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  or anything else. But that's still very valuable
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  in bangers leagues. If he's not even gonna get you
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  the minutes, then he's probably not hitting those thresholds.
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  Yeah, absolutely. That's a really good point.
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  All right, another massive trade.
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  Michael McCarron was traded from the Nashville Predators to
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  Minnesota for a second round pick.
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  That seems to be the the classic trade ship these days is you
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  just toss a second round pick their way and they're like,
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  we'll send you a, we'll send you our bottom six guy, you know,
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  But I really like McCarron. Actually, I considered picking
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  him up at times this year because he's a pure C.
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  That's the downside. But he was giving you solid like
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  Pimm's faceoff wins, hits, blocks some shots.
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  So like, he was giving good category coverage.
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  Yeah, exactly. Um, so we'll see what I mean.
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  Minnesota just does not have a good playoff schedule.
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  And obviously this is like the Super like deep, deepest of
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  deep. Like you need like a a centre
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  who can hit some of those cats. So that's not the most fancy
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  relevant, but you had mentioned before, like when we won this
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  trade got broken like super recently.
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  Honestly, this happened like an hour ago.
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  Yeah, exactly. This is a good indicator.
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  We know Minnesota was looking for a centre pretty hard.
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  They were in the rumors with Trocheck.
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  They were in the rumors with Thomas maybe pretty much every
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  set, like, you know, this is a very centre heavy deadline, it
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  feels like and there's there's a lot of teams that need them.
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  So Minnesota is in the thick of it.
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  Does this mean that they're no longer in the hunt for these
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  other centres? Obviously it's a completely
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  different caliber of player, but do you think they're like
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  calling it like this is our centre that we acquired at the
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  deadline and and we're kind of done?
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  I mean, I think the main centres that were on the on like the
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  trade block are Vincent Trocheck.
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  I think he's the main commodity. Think Robert Thomas.
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  I think Nazim Kadri, from what I heard, Vincent Trocheck doesn't
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  want to go West. Yeah.
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  So I think we narrowed it down to probably Carolina, probably
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  Detroit as we're recording this. None of those things have
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  happened. We're probably gonna see those
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  happen on Friday, most likely, yeah.
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  So he's out of the question now. Robert Thomas.
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  It was like a I'd be so shocked if he gets traded to like today.
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  It was like. Yeah, he's probably going to
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  Buffalo. Yeah.
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  So I think Minnesota just realized that the landscape just
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  didn't suit them and I don't think they wanna Kadri.
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  So for them this is kind of like a rental shorts under centre.
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  And to me, this is a huge win for Erickson, Eck and Hartman
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  because I think that basically tells you that rest of season
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  those two guys are going to be the top two seasons of the team.
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  Right now I think Hartman is playing with Kaprizov.
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  Andrew likes the next playing line 2 with body.
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  So as of right now, like I think both have value.
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  Whoever's on power play 1 is going to have like the more
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  value. But now you don't have to be
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  afraid of, you know, your life and getting bumped off and
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  losing. Was all this trade value I think
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  or fantasy value? Yeah, I think that's all the
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  really good points. And I think this is like it's an
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  interesting way to look at like such a minor trade, right?
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  Like the same thing you did, like to it to a lesser extent
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  with like the Murphy one and how that could affect the Darnell
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  nurse. You know, like there's kind of
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  like upstream effects to to a lot of this stuff.
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  So it's just interesting to look at, you know, you see a lot of
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  these kind of inconsequential traits and you kind of try and
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  get an idea of what it means for the future, even though like all
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  this is going to be answered in three days, you know.
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  But if you have, if you can have some ideas three days in
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  advance, then you could, you know, maybe take advantage in
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  some way. So it's definitely interesting,
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  but that's all we've got trades for now.
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  In the next like 2 days it's gonna get wild and I'm very
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  excited and our next episode will have a lot more for you.
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  But until then, let's move into the injuries portion of this
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  episode. I.
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  Will say this is another chance to plug the discord like we've
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  been talking about the trades and all the rumors like as soon
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  as they're happening. So if not already in there,
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  please join. You won't regret it.
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  I think now we're getting to you know, playoff crunch time.
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  So now is the most important to be on top of your game.
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  Do you do you want to just a little tidbit on the Robert
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  before we get into all the injuries?
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  So I think, yeah, I think it's definitely worth talking about
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  because he's the type of centre that could be available in some
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  leagues on waivers, like. Yeah, I'm surprised how many
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  people in the Discord are asking if they should pick him up
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  because early he's been owned all year.
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  But I didn't realize that, you know, he's available in leagues.
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  But pretty much pretty much it emerged today that a lot a lot
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  of rumors to the point where I'm like, it feels kind of like a
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  done deal of Robert Thomas going to Buffalo.
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  And honestly, like it makes a lot of sense.
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  They've got a lot of assets that they can give up and that won't
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  necessarily hurt them too much. So I'm seeing like centred
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  around like Owen power, Jack Quinn, first round picks like
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  that. And in both direct, like in one,
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  like some people might think like, wow, that seems like a
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  huge hall for Saint Louis, you know?
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  But at the same time, you have to remember like Robert Thomas
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  is a 26 year old 1C on an amazing contract.
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  So those, you know, you got to pay up for those.
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  So look, it seems like it's a fit on both sides.
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  I think it's just a matter of time and you want to discuss the
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  implications of it. First of all, if Thomas is
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  available in your league, just make him an interesting pickup.
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  I think absolutely I. Think he's a must pick up before
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  the trade deadline because I don't wanna risk missing out on
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  him with a bunch of potential of him going to Buffalo.
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  I'd be proactive in trying to make a pick up.
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  And if it doesn't work, it doesn't get treated, it doesn't
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  work out. And you know, you can take that
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  L, but I think just the upside is so, so massive that I would
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  take a swing. Yeah, without Buffalo is playing
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  this year. Like they're serious contender,
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  you know, they just don't have like the name value of like some
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  of these other teams. But like, imagine if it was like
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  Edmonton or Pittsburgh. I mean, obviously Edmonton or
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  Colorado or whatever, you know, yeah, exactly.
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  Like that's where Buffalo Buffalo is ahead of like, you
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  know, half those teams, like are most of those teams at this
• 16:51
  point in the in the season? So it might not be like the
• 16:54
  biggest name in your head, but like, look, Robert Thomas, if
• 16:56
  you get traded there, there's a solid chance he's playing with
• 16:59
  Tage Thompson online one and Alex Tuck or done or whoever
• 17:02
  they throw in as the as the third guy on that line.
• 17:04
  But like Tyson is having an unreal season.
• 17:07
  Robert Thomas, other than this year has been an over point per
• 17:10
  game player. Like yes, he doesn't do much in
• 17:12
  terms of peripherals other than face off wins, but like it's not
• 17:15
  easy to pick up a guy who's gonna be over game.
• 17:17
  And Buffalo has a great playoff schedule.
• 17:18
  Week 21 to 23. They've got a 433.
• 17:21
  But that middle week they have, they're one of only two teams
• 17:24
  that don't play on the Tuesday. So that's essentially kind of
• 17:27
  like having a four-game week on on that week.
• 17:28
  So it's a huge pickup. Like you said, this is the type
• 17:31
  of thing where I like doing a preemptive pickup because the
• 17:34
  upside is just so high. Duh.
• 17:36
  So if he's available in your league, sincerely take a look
• 17:39
  and if you can cut your worst player to pick up Robert Thomas
• 17:42
  and you'll have your answer by Friday whether it's happening or
• 17:44
  not. So you pick him up on a
• 17:45
  Wednesday, you have to hold him for two days until Friday.
• 17:48
  I think it's well worth it. So definitely worth a look.
• 17:51
  And I think the only implication that's worth noting in terms of
• 17:54
  a negative would be whoever gets bumped off that power play one
• 17:56
  because we know Robert Thomas is going to be there, right.
• 17:58
  So I mean Josh and I discussed it a little bit before we
• 18:00
  started recording, but it's going to be either like Josh
• 18:02
  Norris, Josh done or Jason Zucker.
• 18:05
  Things sucker is pretty safe with him being the net front
• 18:07
  guy. So it'll probably be like Morris
• 18:08
  or Dome thing. The more we discuss it, the more
• 18:11
  I was like probably N chips to spot just because of how we use
• 18:14
  like a trigger man on the power play and it's good for a power
• 18:16
  play goal. But I wouldn't be shocked if
• 18:18
  he's gonna gets bumped off of him being like, you know, just
• 18:21
  the centre for centre swap there.
• 18:23
  Yeah, I honestly like, I think it could be any of the three
• 18:26
  like equally, and it's definitely going to be 1.
• 18:28
  They're not going to trade for Thomas and not put him on power
• 18:30
  play 1. So it's definitely one of those
• 18:32
  3. And I do think whichever 1 gets
• 18:34
  bumped off is an immediate drop. So yeah, I guess we'll we'll
• 18:37
  have to wait and see on that one.
• 18:39
  We'll have to wait and see. But now time to get into this is
• 18:41
  some some big boy news. I mean, we we foreshadowed this
• 18:44
  on the podcast. I'm surprised it happened this
• 18:46
  early, but given how the season is going and how the games are
• 18:49
  going, like not shocking. It was just the timing was a
• 18:53
  little off. But JT Miller on IR most likely
• 18:58
  for the rest of the season, like we talked about him being one of
• 19:00
  the candidates for being shut down.
• 19:02
  It was like, hey, it was Adam Fox.
• 19:04
  The guys were like battling injuries the whole year.
• 19:06
  Now finally happens, they put him on IR, they said it's a new
• 19:08
  injury, not what he was dealing with the rest of the year.
• 19:11
  Do I buy that? I'm not sure.
• 19:12
  I think it's just like an excuse to be able to be put him on IR
• 19:15
  and be ambiguous with what's happening.
• 19:16
  But how do we? How do we feel and the
• 19:19
  ramifications here? Um, first of all, in terms of
• 19:21
  who would replace one power play 1, I think it would be will
• 19:24
  Cooley. I mean, he was already on power
• 19:25
  play one at many times during the year.
• 19:27
  And I mean, it's gonna be a mess, right.
• 19:29
  Trucks also on his way out. No, So it's gonna be Fox,
• 19:32
  Savannah, Chad and then last year Cooley, Cooley and Piper.
• 19:37
  Oh yeah, So it's no longer a power play.
• 19:40
  I'm super excited to be a part of like a guy like Cooley is
• 19:44
  great because he's just a bangers guy and he probably went
• 19:46
  upside is obviously solid, but like, yeah, exactly.
• 19:49
  So it's obviously better to be on powerful one, but I'm it's
• 19:52
  not like one that I'm like, Oh my God, I have to get a piece of
• 19:54
  that. But in terms of Miller himself,
• 19:56
  just to make it clear, there haven't been official route.
• 20:00
  You know, no one officially said he's out for the season.
• 20:02
  This Is Us kind of speculating because it is that kind of like
• 20:06
  perfect storm of like he's been dealing with injuries all year.
• 20:09
  The team is doing awful. He's doing every after every
• 20:11
  game. He's having these press
• 20:12
  conferences. That make them look
• 20:14
  embarrassing. That are just embarrassing and
• 20:16
  so he's clearly is dealing with something.
• 20:18
  He went straight to IR and they have nothing to play for.
• 20:21
  If anything, they'd rather be losing tanking, so this is one
• 20:23
  of those situations where it makes a lot of sense for him to
• 20:25
  be shut down for the season. So that's why we're saying we're
• 20:28
  kind of viewing it as that. But he can be back as soon as a
• 20:31
  week from now, so we'll see how it plays out, but I wouldn't be
• 20:34
  surprised. I was talking about this with a
• 20:37
  waffle Stomper in the discord, which shot out waffle Stomper,
• 20:39
  but he said he's basically a long time New York Rangers fan
• 20:42
  and like he likes JT, but it kind of feels like, you know, he
• 20:45
  came in for a year. They already made him captain
• 20:47
  when there's been guys are like longer tenure there, the
• 20:49
  Trocheck, the Savannah Jazz, Adam Foxes, maybe even the
• 20:52
  Chester. So you kind of put the captain
• 20:54
  armband on him. Maybe not everybody agrees with
• 20:56
  the decision. Then you know, you have to have
• 20:58
  the all nice results to back up your play.
• 20:59
  Like is he going to be able? Is he to be the guy to put, you
• 21:03
  know, because of Banjara and hype him up or whatever when
• 21:05
  he's not even performing on the ice and he hasn't he's just got
• 21:08
  there type of thing. So and we knew it was a
• 21:11
  controversial decision already, but now he's not even going to
• 21:15
  be on the ice. It just kind of feels like a
• 21:16
  whole mess with this Rangers organization and.
• 21:19
  Brutal year to to pick JT Miller as my first round pick.
• 21:22
  It's. Actually crazy.
• 21:23
  That's Josh. You.
• 21:24
  You've been blessed with so many trees this year.
• 21:26
  And I don't know how it happened, but somebody offered
• 21:29
  Josh Connor McDavid for his JT Miller and Tage Thompson.
• 21:33
  And like, was it week two or three?
• 21:35
  It was it really early on, yeah. And and listen, in our league JT
• 21:39
  Miller is usually like a first round pick because we play in a
• 21:42
  full bangers category leagues with like face off wins, Pimms
• 21:46
  hits, shots, shorties which JT excels at.
• 21:49
  Plus, the Rangers had the best playoff schedule going into the
• 21:51
  season, so it made him like an even better first round.
• 21:53
  Pick him. Yeah, we've seen him hit like
• 21:58
  100 points in the past or close to like it's he had a lot of
• 22:01
  upside going into this season. And so the other guy, he was
• 22:05
  buying low selling McDavid after a few weeks, then low and
• 22:07
  behold, probably derailed this whole entire season.
• 22:10
  I don't know, teach has been unreal.
• 22:12
  So like. I still rather have McDavid.
• 22:14
  I mean, yeah, for sure. But it's like, I don't know if
• 22:17
  it's a season ending move, but it's definitely definitely,
• 22:19
  especially with if JT is out for the season, then I'm definitely
• 22:22
  feeling pretty. Good about self-imposed huge
• 22:24
  obstacle. Yeah, that's.
• 22:25
  Fair yeah, I'm I'm pretty I'm happy I got to get out of JT and
• 22:29
  my my consolation prizes McDavid so definitely and yeah and I
• 22:34
  mean pretty much everything said he's out for the season probably
• 22:38
  and and this Rangers team is kind of just imploding.
• 22:41
  I will say we were we were kind of high on the Rangers going
• 22:43
  into the season. I feel like everything that
• 22:45
  could go wrong went wrong. We were also like we look at
• 22:48
  playoff schedule in advance, right so that definitely
• 22:50
  influenced me taking JT my first round.
• 22:52
  Kevin picked Canaan in the second round he picked Trocheck
• 22:54
  in the third round look, both those guys are not going to be
• 22:56
  on the Rangers, but it's next week.
• 22:58
  You know, like, it's it's tough because like, I still stand by
• 23:01
  looking at playoff schedule way in advance, but this is just
• 23:03
  kind of shows that, you know, a season's a long time and a lot
• 23:07
  to happen, right? No one, even no one thought the
• 23:09
  Rangers would be selling all these pieces going into the
• 23:12
  season. They thought they'd be a
• 23:13
  contender. So, so just something to to note
• 23:16
  for future years is that you know, you always got to be able
• 23:18
  to like improvise, adapt and overcome.
• 23:22
  You gotta always gotta adjust. I will.
• 23:24
  I will say though, we talked a little Cooley getting the
• 23:26
  biggest bump out of this JT Miller just because he's the one
• 23:29
  that probably slots in that power play 1 and that's just
• 23:31
  call button is in his deployment.
• 23:33
  But I really do like what I'm seeing from Gabe Perot like end
• 23:36
  of season. I feel like there's no reason
• 23:37
  why you're not going to like let the kid run and see what he can
• 23:40
  do. And if he's getting top 6
• 23:42
  minutes and potentially power play 1.
• 23:44
  I think he can be like a fantasy darling.
• 23:45
  If you're like in a deeply like a 14 team league.
• 23:48
  I feel like he should probably be owned, but I mean him and
• 23:52
  this next guy talk about that's replacing Mark Stone.
• 23:55
  Let's talk about that Mark Stone day-to-day.
• 23:58
  But it's like a true day-to-day. Is it is it really we're ready?
• 24:00
  We're trade deadline. I did not see the injury.
• 24:03
  OK, it's literally like, OK, but when I when I was younger, I
• 24:08
  would get nosebleeds a lot, OK. And my friends got to one of my
• 24:12
  friends make a joke that like they'd accident, like they'd
• 24:15
  accidentally like step on my shoe and my nose would start
• 24:18
  bleeding, you know, or like someone would like the wind
• 24:20
  would blow in my direction and my nose started bleeding.
• 24:23
  That's Mark Stone with injuries. Like if you watch this play,
• 24:25
  he's like Ski doesn't even have the puck.
• 24:27
  He's like skating by and like Letang kind of like taps him on
• 24:31
  the arm like literally the most nothing play in the world.
• 24:34
  And he's just like goes like, Oh my God.
• 24:37
  And so it's like he's like hunched over one of the benches,
• 24:39
  like leaves, leaves the game and just doesn't come back.
• 24:41
  And it's just like nothing happened.
• 24:43
  He just, you know, people are like he clearly maybe aggravated
• 24:47
  something at the Olympics. And this was like reactivating
• 24:49
  it with the tiniest little like hit or whatever.
• 24:51
  But like this reason we call him Mark Glass, right?
• 24:54
  So I wouldn't be surprised if this is a if this.
• 24:58
  Last year and then they add somebody to.
• 25:00
  The line 3 days today, he didn't get the memo that that rule has
• 25:03
  been changed so. Why did you put your LIR?
• 25:08
  Exactly. He's like, I got injured at my
• 25:10
  regular time of year, so you know, let's do it.
• 25:12
  But but yeah, I know. So like, I feel like this is
• 25:16
  this is gonna this could be one of those like kind of like
• 25:18
  lingering day to days that last for a bit.
• 25:21
  I'm not ready to go as far to say that he's gonna last until
• 25:24
  like fantasy playoffs and all that.
• 25:25
  But at the end of the day, Vegas is pretty comfortable in the
• 25:27
  playoff spot. So this is like the opposite end
• 25:30
  of the JT Miller, right? This is like maybe he gets shut
• 25:32
  down for the rest of regular season because they don't need
• 25:34
  him in this regular season. They just want him ready for
• 25:36
  playoffs. So that I mean, that happened to
• 25:39
  me last year when I had dry sidle, right?
• 25:41
  This happens to. His goal, literally.
• 25:43
  And then they were like, alright, well, just you.
• 25:44
  Know that's it. This is literally the two sides
• 25:46
  of the coin. It's like having a player on a
• 25:48
  team that's so bad that they'll shut them down for the season or
• 25:50
  having on the player on a team like so good that they'll shut
• 25:54
  them down for the season to come back for playoffs.
• 25:56
  So I'd definitely be wary of this as a Mark Stone owner.
• 26:00
  I mean, most trade deadlines are over, so I don't know if there's
• 26:02
  much you can do about it just to hold and hope he comes back.
• 26:05
  But his power play 1 replacement should be Brayden Bowman.
• 26:08
  And we saw this earlier in the year when when Mark Stone was
• 26:10
  injured earlier because he's always injured, we saw Brayden
• 26:13
  Bowman come in and actually be pretty solid on that Line one
• 26:16
  power play 1. So I think line one power play,
• 26:18
  one on Vegas, hard to get better deployment that Bowman.
• 26:21
  I think he's like a real prospect.
• 26:23
  I hadn't really heard of him before he got called up
• 26:25
  originally, but I picked him up during that run and then mark
• 26:27
  some magically came back like 2 days later.
• 26:29
  But anyways, I'm over it. But yeah, so I think, I think
• 26:33
  Bowman has some sneaky potential for sure.
• 26:36
  I mean, I had picked him up earlier this season like a 20
• 26:38
  man league that like has nobody on waivers besides 0% owned
• 26:41
  guys. And he was like very valuable
• 26:43
  for a while. Like he was getting, you know,
• 26:44
  top 6 deployment with power play one basically like as much as
• 26:48
  your talent can take you, you will go.
• 26:50
  And I think this is a similar situation now that Mark Stone is
• 26:52
  out. Like I'd be seriously
• 26:53
  considering streaming woman, even though like his roster
• 26:56
  percentage is still gonna be low, he might be able to
• 26:58
  produce, you know, better than the name value, you know, so
• 27:00
  I'll keep my eye on it. But I am I I do.
• 27:03
  Maybe this is just the optimist in me, but I do really think
• 27:06
  this is gonna be like a true day-to-day for Mark Stone.
• 27:07
  Like I think he'll miss like a two to four games and nothing
• 27:12
  more than that. So it's not a long term
• 27:14
  solution. But if you need to stream a
• 27:16
  couple a couple games to flip the top of your match up with
• 27:19
  some power play exposure, I think you can do worse in the
• 27:22
  Vegas power play. Yeah, I like, I like I said,
• 27:25
  like wouldn't pick up Bowman expecting him to be like a
• 27:27
  season long solution. Yeah, but if you need the stream
• 27:30
  and then with the you know, you hope you hold them for a couple
• 27:33
  days and if during those days you hear that Mark stones out
• 27:35
  for a longer period of time, then you could hold on to him.
• 27:36
  So you got that. You always got that kind of like
• 27:38
  little upside. The upside?
• 27:39
  Yeah, alright. Roope Hintz of the Dallas Stars
• 27:43
  is day-to-day. It's just an illness, but he was
• 27:45
  placed on IR, so I thought it was worth mentioning.
• 27:47
  Jamie Benn replaced one power play one.
• 27:49
  I was thinking about picking up Ben like last week, but I was
• 27:51
  like, oh, Rupee is gonna be back in like a day, so there's no
• 27:53
  point. I still kind of feel that way,
• 27:55
  like I'm not going to pick up just because it's an illness.
• 27:57
  If it was like anything else like upper body, lower body,
• 27:59
  whatever, like I would be like more inclined to stream, but I
• 28:04
  kind of feel like it's there's not much here.
• 28:05
  It's three games though in a row that he's messing with illness,
• 28:08
  so it must be like a pretty severe illness to keep him out
• 28:11
  this long. I don't know if they're lying
• 28:12
  about anything, but he hasn't played in the Olympics so
• 28:14
  definitely something to monitor. That as retro Olympic Village,
• 28:19
  yeah. Yeah, I don't know what he was
• 28:20
  doing there, but I was gonna make a joke, but I probably.
• 28:24
  Won't I was about to make a. Joke.
• 28:26
  But I was like that. Probably can't go on here.
• 28:29
  But either way, it's retroactive so to February 25th, I believe.
• 28:34
  So I think basically activate him whenever he's healthy.
• 28:36
  And what they've LED us to believe is that it's not
• 28:39
  serious. So maybe Wednesday morning you
• 28:41
  find out that like he missed the back-to-back on Monday, Tuesday,
• 28:44
  but maybe he ends up playing later this week.
• 28:47
  I think he'll be good to go for the weekend games.
• 28:49
  That's my take on it. And I will say Jamie Benn, like
• 28:52
  he's serviceable. He's never exciting to me.
• 28:55
  I think it's just you see him produce, but then you look at
• 28:57
  his minutes and they're like 12 minutes, 13 minutes.
• 28:59
  I'm just like, it's just doesn't do it for me.
• 29:01
  That's why I like I, I was so close to, I mean not so close
• 29:03
  picking him up, but I was looking like very much because
• 29:06
  if you remember, like right before the Olympic.
• 29:08
  Break yourself. Yeah, good move you.
• 29:10
  Know like right before the Olympic break, he put up like 7
• 29:12
  points in four games, you know, and so and you're just sitting
• 29:14
  there for two weeks looking at that game log and you're like,
• 29:17
  look at these four games. You know, like right before the
• 29:19
  break. And then you have him coming
• 29:20
  back and being on power play one because the Rantanen injury and
• 29:23
  then and hence being out. But it's still then you look at
• 29:25
  the minutes in that game log and like you said, like 12 minutes
• 29:27
  and you're just not sustainable. So no.
• 29:29
  So yeah, not much, not much else to say there heads should be
• 29:32
  back by the weekend. Another one that is a bit
• 29:35
  unclear if it's just a nothing or if you'll turn something.
• 29:38
  John Gibson of Detroit Red Wings day-to-day with an injury.
• 29:41
  He left mid game of the the last game he played.
• 29:44
  And in his absence, Cam Talbot would be the starter again.
• 29:48
  This one I saw most recent reports said that he seems to be
• 29:51
  fine. He just got a bit shaken up.
• 29:53
  So I don't, I wouldn't read too much into this if I mean it's a
• 29:57
  good, good exercise to have anyways, if Gibson is out for
• 30:00
  any period of time. How interested are you in Cam
• 30:02
  Talbot? I mean, listen, Cam Talbot is
• 30:06
  almost 40 years old, so I don't know how much you can handle the
• 30:10
  workload. And I'm saying workload to be to
• 30:14
  be proper. But I would definitely be
• 30:16
  interested. You're picking the starting
• 30:17
  goalie on a Detroit team that is going to make the playoffs, that
• 30:19
  is still fighting for seeding. So you could you could
• 30:22
  definitely do worse. Like, do I prefer, you know, the
• 30:26
  starter that is Cam Talbot over? I don't look at Tristan Jarry
• 30:30
  right now, probably. Like you'd rather anyone over
• 30:33
  Tristan. He's not even the starter
• 30:35
  anymore. Would you rather him over Connor
• 30:38
  Ingram if he's a starter? Yeah.
• 30:40
  Probably right, Yeah. So it's just that he'll be in
• 30:43
  that range. He'll be like a 80% of what John
• 30:46
  Gibson was previously is kind of how I put it, 75 to 80% of him.
• 30:50
  But looks like we have nothing to worry about.
• 30:53
  You guys might be listening to this already and, you know,
• 30:54
  Wednesday morning practice and they already said John Gibson is
• 30:57
  he's fine. It looked like he said they got
• 30:59
  you got like a even in the face or near the shoulder area and
• 31:01
  they kind of nicked them a little bit.
• 31:02
  And he he, he felt awkward, but then he was just fine.
• 31:06
  And they really tempered our expectations of the house
• 31:11
  severity. Injury was after the game.
• 31:12
  So nothing seemed like nothing to worry about.
• 31:14
  But we've been here before. John Gibson was worth
• 31:16
  mentioning. Yeah, absolutely.
• 31:18
  Alright, Travis, Connect any of the Philadelphia Flyers is
• 31:21
  day-to-day, and Owen Tippett is getting his line.
• 31:25
  One power play, one spot in his absence.
• 31:27
  I think he was a game time decision for the last game and
• 31:29
  then he missed the game and the coach has already said that he's
• 31:32
  a game time decision for the next game.
• 31:33
  So this is very much not going to be a long term thing.
• 31:36
  No, I I mean, I like tip it in bangers leagues, regardless of
• 31:39
  that deployment. I mean, because he's good for
• 31:41
  shots and hits, but I wouldn't expect this to wouldn't bang on
• 31:44
  this last long. I'm still tippet.
• 31:47
  I've been seeing like very slight, like root trade rumors
• 31:50
  about like I've been seeing some tippet to Boston rumors, which
• 31:53
  would be insane because their playoff schedule.
• 31:55
  As a as a tippet owner I'd be a big fan of that.
• 31:58
  But uh, but yeah, no. Honestly I wouldn't read too
• 32:00
  much into this connecting stuff. It just sucks if you have him
• 32:03
  this week and my opponent has him so I'm pretty I'm OK with
• 32:06
  this. Well, for once it happens to a
• 32:08
  doctor's opponent INL what happened to all my opponents?
• 32:13
  Guys always get healthy when I play them.
• 32:15
  I mean, they did. I'm playing against the guy who
• 32:16
  has Robert Thomas and Logan Cooley, 2 guys who have been out
• 32:18
  for literal months and then they come back the week I played.
• 32:21
  Them like crazy and ultimately as Matthew Olivier, who for the
• 32:24
  moment is 1 game one goal. So our curse is is real and
• 32:30
  active. It's crazy, you look at his game
• 32:31
  log and it's just zeros between when we played him like.
• 32:34
  He plays, he drops 4 points in two games plays, Josh scores a
• 32:37
  goal. You're welcome to literally
• 32:40
  every banker management fan that picked them up.
• 32:42
  Memes once again. I think it's just it's gonna be
• 32:44
  a thing every year. It's actually crazy, like I
• 32:46
  think we're gonna like add that like the Matthew Olivier, like,
• 32:49
  you know, index, like what weeks you should pick him up.
• 32:51
  It'll just be the weeks that me and Kevin play him.
• 32:54
  And he'll deliver, you heard. Guys anyways, let's go to the
• 32:58
  next one. Quentin Byfield of the LA
• 32:59
  Kings's day-to-day with an injury.
• 33:01
  He just that was kind of like last second.
• 33:04
  He was just announced out of the last game.
• 33:06
  So I don't know how serious this is.
• 33:08
  Andre Kopitar gets a spot on power play one while he's out.
• 33:11
  How interested are you in Kopitar?
• 33:13
  All by fields out. Feel like I'm almost never
• 33:15
  interested in Qatar. Like no matter how to my in my
• 33:18
  mind, he's always line one people one and he just doesn't
• 33:20
  do anything with it. So he'll have stretches where he
• 33:23
  does stuff. But like I've seen this guy get
• 33:25
  like one shot in four games. So he's not somebody that
• 33:28
  particularly one of my fantasy team, unless you're trying to
• 33:30
  stream face off wins. So that's that's literally all I
• 33:35
  have to say for do you think that you know, I saw him get a
• 33:37
  look with Panera and Kempe, like they were like, OK, let's try to
• 33:40
  get you going type of thing, but I don't know if that's going to
• 33:42
  last. We'll have to see with the new
• 33:44
  lines with the let's see how how things shake out.
• 33:47
  He could definitely he can't be set up for more success than
• 33:50
  being you know between those two guys and on power play 1.
• 33:53
  So if you can't make it work, then then not interested at all
• 33:56
  ever. But.
• 33:58
  I mean this last year, so they. Ever was doing a lot of heavy
• 34:02
  lifting. There, Yeah, for sure.
• 34:04
  No, I agree. And then in terms of Byfield, I
• 34:06
  really like Byfield rest of season if you can get healthy
• 34:09
  and stick on power play one like he was power play 1 before the
• 34:12
  coaching changed before the injury.
• 34:13
  So assuming he goes back there, I think the exact type of player
• 34:17
  who didn't have the deployment all year, you know, he's got the
• 34:19
  pedigree. He's we've seen him at flashes
• 34:21
  in the past. He's the type of guy I could see
• 34:22
  having a good finish to the season.
• 34:24
  But he's been like underperforming the whole year.
• 34:27
  So I feel like people have a negative, negative view on by
• 34:30
  field just because he he was supposed to be a breakout
• 34:33
  candidate this year, right? And nothing happened.
• 34:36
  So would you would you hold, even though the results are not
• 34:38
  necessarily there hoping like let's you have to drop like a
• 34:42
  like a Zuccarello for the chance at Byfield?
• 34:44
  Like would you do that? No, I'll just keep Zuccarello at
• 34:47
  that point, Right. So that's a, that's a fairpoint.
• 34:49
  Like in in our league, I just have like so many tropical guys
• 34:52
  that I'd love to take the shot at by field.
• 34:54
  But yeah, but they're still better options for sure.
• 34:58
  All right, let's move on to the next one.
• 34:59
  Mikael Granlund of the Anaheim Ducks is day-to-day with an
• 35:02
  injury, and Beckett Seneca is taking his spot on power play. 1
• 35:07
  And honestly, I don't understand, I don't think how, I
• 35:10
  don't see any way that he could get bumped off Airplay one with
• 35:13
  how well he's been playing. This season insane.
• 35:15
  If he is nuts. I'm fully on the train like yes,
• 35:18
  he he's my captain. Yeah, exactly.
• 35:21
  So I think there's a chance Brandon comes back from injury
• 35:23
  and just doesn't get his spot back.
• 35:25
  Or he bumped somebody else off. Yeah, I.
• 35:27
  Think Troy Terry is is cooked for the rest of the season.
• 35:29
  Like I think he right now he's hurt.
• 35:31
  We're not going to talk about him.
• 35:33
  He's so relevant. It feels like no, no, no shade,
• 35:36
  no whatever criteria. I'm sorry if you're listening,
• 35:38
  but it seems like your fantasy peak is behind you.
• 35:44
  Sanaki Seneca. I don't know how you wanna say,
• 35:46
  but whatever the right way of saying it is that's he kids a
• 35:49
  beast and he's only he's literally only 48% owned like so
• 35:52
  he's never on our waiver shows, but he still available in half
• 35:55
  of the leagues. If he's available in your
• 35:57
  league, I'd like seriously consider adding.
• 36:00
  I really like Anaheim schedule rest of season, so I would
• 36:03
  definitely pick him up. He's probably better than the
• 36:07
  two worst guys on your roster is is my guess, unless you're
• 36:09
  looking at 10 team league yeah, but the grand and I did say
• 36:12
  grand. I think he would have value when
• 36:14
  he's healthy because I do think that he's going to be an
• 36:16
  important part of this team. I see him either as you know,
• 36:19
  top six and probably power play one, but I wouldn't be shocked
• 36:23
  like Josh said, if he's power play 2.
• 36:24
  We'll have to monitor the situation will give you all the
• 36:26
  information as soon as he comes back.
• 36:28
  But for the moment, the Ducks are the Ducks are playoff team
• 36:31
  like we they were so hot and they were so dog awful and now
• 36:35
  they're so hopefully one of the teams were already penciling in
• 36:38
  for the playoffs. So.
• 36:39
  For sure. I mean, they're second in their
• 36:41
  division. Like they're, you know, they're
• 36:42
  better than Edmonton, that's for sure.
• 36:43
  Like it's honestly they, they can be better than Vegas.
• 36:46
  I think they could win their division.
• 36:48
  That's crazy. I know, but.
• 36:49
  Think about it where they were last year.
• 36:51
  I know it's actually nuts, but very exciting future for the
• 36:54
  Ducks and the future is now old man, as they say.
• 36:57
  I feel like there is a sleeper team to make a move.
• 36:59
  Like I feel like they were low key, low key in on Panera.
• 37:01
  And I'm just talking out of my my a dollar sign, dollar sign
• 37:04
  there. But I think they have it in them
• 37:06
  to make a move to go quote UN quote all in this year without
• 37:11
  sacrificing the future. They have a lot of assets and
• 37:13
  they're still a young team, right?
• 37:14
  Their window is just opening. So I would not be surprised if
• 37:16
  come Friday we hear somebody went to went to Anaheim, could
• 37:19
  have some fantasy impact. Yeah, fully agree.
• 37:23
  Alright. And lastly, Arturi Lehkonen of
• 37:24
  the Colorado Avalanches day-to-day with an injury, he
• 37:27
  wasn't on power play one when he got injured, but those kind of
• 37:30
  couple of wingers, like the top 4 wingers are always kind of
• 37:33
  shuffling around. So if anything that just kind of
• 37:35
  solidifies. Right now it's a Nelson and
• 37:38
  Landeskog on power play 1. So when guys like Luckin or
• 37:42
  Nichushkin get injured, it just it just solidifies the power
• 37:45
  play one spot for the other guys.
• 37:46
  And as we always mentioned Colorado, somehow they have the
• 37:49
  league worst power play. But it doesn't matter.
• 37:51
  More ice time and power place first valuable. 1st and every
• 37:55
  offensive metric but have the worst power play in the league.
• 37:58
  You could not make that up. Like it's just not somebody at
• 38:00
  the tip the scales and be like you can't be too overpowered.
• 38:03
  Like something has to go wrong here.
• 38:04
  Yeah. I don't know if I'm making this
• 38:06
  up, though, but it did. I feel like I saw Jared Bednar
• 38:08
  say like he's gonna miss a lot of time.
• 38:10
  I think I saw that as well, yeah.
• 38:12
  So maybe day-to-day for now, but I would not be surprised to like
• 38:16
  this guy is on the shelf until the playoffs.
• 38:18
  And I think the only the only thing that would be a maybe, you
• 38:21
  know, he wasn't already, he wasn't power play 1.
• 38:24
  So nobody's getting bumping, getting a bump up there.
• 38:27
  But I do think it means, you know, you rely more on the
• 38:29
  chicken and those under those other wingers that, you know,
• 38:32
  the Ola sins as well. I think those guys probably
• 38:34
  become more integral to the success of the team because
• 38:37
  somebody got to step up to score the goals that let you know what
• 38:40
  I scored. So.
• 38:40
  For sure. And I think the one guy on
• 38:43
  Colorado these days that seems to be killing it that we
• 38:46
  recommended to pick up on our waivers show is is Gabe
• 38:49
  Landeskog. So I think that, you know, if
• 38:52
  this solidifies his bottom line on Power Play 1 like this entry,
• 38:55
  it makes him even more of an ad than we already said so and he's
• 38:58
  already kind of popping off so. I think that's really good.
• 39:01
  I would definitely get in on that, yeah.
• 39:03
  The issue with Lincoln was always his deployment.
• 39:05
  We were never, we would never be able to guarantee that he kept
• 39:07
  it. Now I feel like guys are
• 39:08
  dropping. So we always said if if he has
• 39:11
  line one power play 1, he is very valuable.
• 39:13
  It's just never be sure if he was going to keep it.
• 39:15
  Now you're kind of more sure than you were before.
• 39:17
  So if you have this, if you have the chance to grab, now's the
• 39:20
  time. Yeah, great.
• 39:22
  Let's talk about a few players who came back from injury.
• 39:25
  We have Brayden Point of the Tampa Bay Lightning line, one
• 39:27
  power play 1. He demoted Brandon Hagel from
• 39:30
  power play one, as we've been saying for months.
• 39:33
  So I really hope that all the Hill owners listen to us.
• 39:36
  Jake's a Higel owner. He did not listen to us.
• 39:39
  I think he was sending out offers.
• 39:41
  I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one, but I think.
• 39:44
  He never goes too hard on the offers.
• 39:45
  He gets caught up in the moment. I feel like he's just like odds.
• 39:48
  He he he sees a self fulfilling prophecy of what the the best
• 39:52
  outcome is. And I mean, we all do it.
• 39:54
  You know, it's it's hard not to think about like this guy just
• 39:57
  sustaining what he's doing. But that's why you have, you
• 40:00
  know, your co-host here to. Life really like.
• 40:03
  Down to reality a little bit. I feel like it's one of my
• 40:05
  strengths, but also kind of weakness.
• 40:08
  I take it overboard. I feel like out of the three of
• 40:09
  us, I'm the most like, if I have a guy who's doing well, I'm
• 40:11
  immediately like, I need to get rid of him, you know, 100%.
• 40:14
  Sometimes, like sometimes it's great because like, you know,
• 40:16
  there's definitely times where I sell high and it's awesome, but
• 40:18
  sometimes I it's not great. Like I sold gospel for like
• 40:22
  pretty cheap. You know, I was like, he's going
• 40:23
  to fall off. Or Eric Carlson a few years ago
• 40:26
  when he had that. That was a little win, but he
• 40:28
  definitely didn't drop off like I like I thought he was going
• 40:31
  to. But yeah, I feel like we tried
• 40:33
  to keep each other honest and. But yeah, anyway.
• 40:35
  So I hope everyone sold Brandon Hagel and they got the chance.
• 40:37
  And I. Hope he's still a beast.
• 40:38
  Yes, yeah, It's just that he was number one.
• 40:41
  Yeah. And he he was just playing out
• 40:43
  of his mind. So he was a huge, so high.
• 40:45
  And I hope everyone bought Brayden Point at some point this
• 40:47
  year as we were kind of like talking about it nonstop because
• 40:49
  he's lying on power play one with Kucherov on Tampa.
• 40:52
  Like, you know, and he's he's playing, you know, he seems to
• 40:54
  be getting his groove back. So I I definitely would to have
• 40:58
  points going into the fantasy playoffs, especially week 21 to
• 41:01
  23 or 2224. Tampa is a great schedule.
• 41:04
  So I'm really hoping that a lot of you guys bought low on him.
• 41:09
  Yeah, I mean bring Point, I feel like when he was injured were
• 41:11
  telling you to buy low when he was dog water before the injury
• 41:14
  were telling you to buy low. When he was about to come back
• 41:16
  from injury were telling you to buy low when he got hurt again.
• 41:18
  We're telling the Bible like every.
• 41:20
  We were super confident and Brayden Point the whole season
• 41:22
  it felt like. So hopefully you listen to us
• 41:24
  and hopefully you had the opportunity to capitalize on
• 41:25
  that. So we were able to pick him up
• 41:27
  off waivers just crazy enough, but I wish it was I was in those
• 41:30
  leagues that just feels like free value.
• 41:32
  I picked up Mark Stone in one league.
• 41:33
  Somebody had cut him crazy and I was shocked I was able to pick
• 41:37
  him up. I had to use my waiver claim on
• 41:39
  him, but listen, the man was like 1.5 points per game for a
• 41:42
  long time in the season and now he's hurt.
• 41:44
  So yeah, it all comes full circle.
• 41:46
  Classic Mark Stone alright. And then Carillon Marchenko of
• 41:51
  Columbus Blue Jackets came back line on power play 1.
• 41:53
  He bumped Kent Johnson off of power play 1 and he's also kind
• 41:57
  of picking up where he where he left off.
• 41:59
  So again, I hope there was a time where Marchenko was a great
• 42:02
  buy low. So I hope a lot of you guys were
• 42:04
  able to get on that and they've got a great schedule rest of
• 42:06
  season. And Ken Johnson, I mean,
• 42:09
  Columbus is kind of going through it right now because I
• 42:12
  feel like everybody's sake that the dog warns you didn't have
• 42:14
  Bunny right now. We're not.
• 42:15
  We didn't mention them today because they're just illnesses.
• 42:17
  These guys are probably gonna play next game.
• 42:20
  Um, and Ken Johnson was a scratch, so that's something to
• 42:23
  note there that he's, he needs a change of scenery, I think.
• 42:26
  Like not even. Not even.
• 42:28
  Not even the bonus bump could could save Ken Johnson.
• 42:30
  So yeah. Yeah, alright, that that takes
• 42:34
  us to the famous would you Rathers?
• 42:37
  Jake's not here, so. So Kevin's gonna have to split
• 42:40
  the difference between me and him, which I think is a lot
• 42:42
  harder. Yeah, me and Josh never saw the
• 42:45
  difference. We're on the same wavelength.
• 42:46
  That's why we need that's we when Jake is here is like
• 42:48
  perfect, like the difference, but we'll try to project what JQ
• 42:52
  would would choose I. Think yeah.
• 42:55
  But for those of you listening for the first time, welcome.
• 42:58
  This is the best segment in all of fantasy hockey where I choose
• 43:03
  five would you Rathers? I choose one centre, left wing,
• 43:05
  right wing, defenseman, goalie. And I try to split the
• 43:08
  difference trying to determine, you know, where is the line that
• 43:10
  we can separate these players Really good for, you know, trade
• 43:14
  conversations. But now trade deadline is behind
• 43:16
  us. So we're going to focus on more
• 43:17
  guys are close to your waiver level, maybe slightly above the
• 43:21
  bottom guys of your roster, most likely most of your leagues.
• 43:23
  And you guys are just hot and popping on on the waiver wire.
• 43:26
  Um, so interesting conversations to be had.
• 43:29
  Let's get started with the left wing position.
• 43:33
  Would you rather rest of season and we're always talking full
• 43:37
  banger categories without face off wins because most things do
• 43:40
  not have face off wins. But like, you know, shots, hits,
• 43:43
  blocks will add shorties. We'll add the pins in there.
• 43:47
  Would you rather Gabe Landeskog, who we just talked about, or
• 43:51
  Ricard Raquel of the Pittsburgh Penguins?
• 43:55
  Wow. OK, that's tough.
• 44:00
  It's like there's the the recency bias and there's the
• 44:02
  like whole season, you know? Yeah, like whole season it was,
• 44:06
  it was recall for sure. But recently bias, it's
• 44:08
  definitely Landeskog. Crosby's injured, so they
• 44:12
  definitely take a hit. So now his line is Raquel Rust
• 44:14
  and Kindle. Like, I like Kindle, but that's
• 44:16
  definitely a huge downgrade. The part is not so yeah, the
• 44:19
  power play has been nuts. It hasn't stopped.
• 44:21
  That's honestly. Crazy Carlton and I feel like
• 44:23
  he's got like 3 points in his last three games.
• 44:26
  Yeah, I mean, there was that one game they played against like
• 44:28
  Vegas and they got like 4 power play goals.
• 44:30
  Like that's really tough. I love Raquel's hits and blocks.
• 44:35
  But you know, Landis Scott, we're not we're not counting the
• 44:38
  face off wins because he's been shooting, he's been hitting
• 44:40
  power place nonexistent for Colorado.
• 44:43
  I think I still gotta give the edge to Raquel.
• 44:45
  He also has one extra game in the finals.
• 44:47
  Although like both have both have great playoff schedules.
• 44:50
  I think it's easy to get caught up in the recency bias of
• 44:53
  limescale. I also think Raquel's like
• 44:55
  deployment is a lock, whereas limescale can get bumped at any
• 44:57
  moment. So I love me some Landeskog, but
• 44:59
  I'm still going Raquel. Yeah, it was it was close when I
• 45:04
  when I wrote this down in my mind, I was going around this
• 45:06
  cog. But then the more I thought
• 45:08
  about it, the more I was like try to separate myself from like
• 45:10
  the the last week of production. And I was like, I just I think I
• 45:13
  have to go. Raquel, I think, you know, first
• 45:15
  of all, getting the block from the forward position, both of
• 45:17
  them are, you know, when you're eligible and getting face off
• 45:20
  wins. If you wanted to add face off
• 45:21
  wins into the equation is kind of similar there.
• 45:23
  But I think to me is that the power play is a big difference.
• 45:25
  I know that Pittsburgh is a really good power play even
• 45:27
  without Crosby. And I know Colorado for some
• 45:31
  reason has the worst power play in the league.
• 45:32
  So I think that's the deal maker here for me, even though
• 45:37
  arguably on this has been better in the last week.
• 45:40
  Yeah, has been awful, but has been good.
• 45:42
  Does that mean I don't know that Pittsburgh has like a top power
• 45:45
  plant leak even after losing Crosby And then you look?
• 45:49
  At the errors. Carlson, Baby.
• 45:51
  I mean, yeah, it's like, I don't know what it is.
• 45:53
  Like you look at the person like, I mean, no Carlson sick,
• 45:56
  right? He's clearly a great power
• 45:57
  quarterback, has been through his whole career and he's
• 45:59
  keeping it up. But like you've got kill macar,
• 46:01
  you know, like like what's going on?
• 46:03
  Maybe neither McKinnon like Marty leeches Like it's like,
• 46:06
  how does it make sense? Like you gotta think like, is it
• 46:08
  a coaching thing? You think that Pittsburgh is a
• 46:10
  really good power play coach in Colorado has a terrible 1 like.
• 46:13
  I don't know what the coach. Putting the wrong players out, I
• 46:16
  don't know what it is. It's just like how does that
• 46:18
  like something like that even like calibrate, especially with
• 46:21
  the Crosby entry is what making me think that.
• 46:23
  But. I don't know, did you look at
• 46:25
  Nathan McKinnon starts when he's still averaging like .4 power
• 46:27
  play points a game, which is still nuts, right?
• 46:29
  So maybe they're just getting so many more opportunities.
• 46:31
  They're conversion rate is really bad, but they're still
• 46:33
  able to get the power play points, you know, for fantasy
• 46:35
  anyways. Yeah um, it's it's an
• 46:38
  interesting conversation. I feel like somebody got to deep
• 46:40
  dive in that in the in the offseason.
• 46:43
  Or maybe it's like, yeah, honestly, I don't know.
• 46:46
  I don't know that that is crazy, though it's true because like
• 46:48
  Mckinnon's like CarPlay points per game don't don't take a hit
• 46:50
  at all despite being like the worst power place.
• 46:52
  So it's it's very interesting. Alright, what's the next?
• 46:54
  One Where do you think Jake would have went to?
• 46:58
  I think Jackie would have gone with Landis Gog.
• 47:00
  Yeah, I think so too. I think, I mean, listen, it's
• 47:03
  easy to go with the recent hype and just follow the data at that
• 47:05
  point, especially after the like an injury.
• 47:07
  But yeah, yeah. So we'll say hypothetically
• 47:11
  split the difference there. Yeah, it's easy when you can
• 47:15
  just make up the other answer. Definitely would have went this
• 47:19
  way. Yeah.
• 47:21
  OK, OK, going to the second one. We're talking about centres now.
• 47:26
  This is a fascinating one in my mind.
• 47:29
  I feel like I asked this exact question like a couple weeks
• 47:32
  ago. Now we're here reevaluating
• 47:34
  because it makes sense again. But would you rather rest of
• 47:37
  season Robert Thomas or Adam Fantilli?
• 47:41
  It's OK, So obviously like Thomas gets all this trade to
• 47:46
  Buffalo hype. Not that it happened yet, but it
• 47:48
  feels like it's a done deal. But honestly, like I'm so
• 47:51
  impressed with Chantilly, like I'm playing against him this
• 47:53
  week. Not happy about it.
• 47:55
  I think this guy's a star. I think he's he finally got the
• 47:58
  deployment this year and he's running with it.
• 48:00
  I'm super high on Gentilly. So even though I'm actually
• 48:02
  like, I remember this question, I don't know if it was rather if
• 48:05
  it was just like a a question that we had talked.
• 48:07
  About We all went Chantilly when we made a decision.
• 48:09
  Yeah. You were not on the podcast.
• 48:11
  You're right, yeah. We thought that you would go
• 48:14
  Robert Thomas, but then you told us you would go Chantilly.
• 48:16
  Yeah, yeah. And yeah.
• 48:18
  So, so you're right. I wasn't on, but it was on
• 48:20
  there. But I still gotta go Chantilly.
• 48:22
  And am I honestly my, my like standing like the way I do?
• 48:25
  Both of them went up, but like, Bentley was already higher and
• 48:29
  they so if that makes sense. So yeah, no, I'm just so high on
• 48:32
  Chantilly. I'm very curious to see where he
• 48:34
  goes and drafts next year. Yeah, I mean, just to put it
• 48:37
  into context with like Chantilly, we know he has the
• 48:39
  edge in the category coverage. Like this guy's a banger study.
• 48:42
  He shoots, he hits, he can throw in some blocks here and there,
• 48:46
  but just the the shots and hits combo.
• 48:48
  You know that with the line one power play, one playing with
• 48:51
  like an elite winger and Marchenko, I think he set up
• 48:54
  just for success. And I think maybe Thomas is
• 48:57
  stealing a slightly higher in points if he does get traded to
• 49:00
  Buffalo or potentially somewhere else.
• 49:02
  But because right now Thomas is at what like points 27 ish
• 49:07
  points per game. Like he could get to a .91 point
• 49:11
  per game, but if until he's at a point 8.85 doing with the
• 49:15
  category recovery I still prefer him so.
• 49:18
  Well, I agree, I think. What did Jiggy say last time?
• 49:21
  He said Chantilly. Yeah, he's a fantilli think he
• 49:24
  would say Chantilly. He always said he always likes
• 49:26
  the young guys. Yeah.
• 49:28
  Well, we'll do not take that out of context, please.
• 49:33
  All right. Going to the goalie position
• 49:35
  now, this might be, I think, a slam dunk for some, I think it's
• 49:39
  some maniacal question for others.
• 49:41
  But would you rather rest of season?
• 49:44
  You're not gonna be happy about this one?
• 49:45
  Josh Kemper. Yakov Dobesh or Darcy Kemper
• 49:50
  Rest of. Season.
• 49:52
  Let me put it this way, I'd rather a flaming hot pile of dog
• 49:57
  seat whatever word I could say that's not gonna get leap over
• 50:00
  Darcy Kemper. So really, I'm tired of being
• 50:05
  non biased and trying to look at it objectively.
• 50:07
  I've hated every moment of owning camp for this year.
• 50:09
  I'm still holding on, hoping, hoping beyond hope that it turns
• 50:13
  around, but I'm taking Dobish. The haves are sick.
• 50:15
  Dobish is clearly like making like a solid argument for being
• 50:20
  the starter. He's a starter, right?
• 50:21
  Now he's fully the started. The only thing that can hurt
• 50:24
  Dobesh is if for some reason they have side to make a stupid
• 50:26
  trade for like Bennington or something.
• 50:28
  Yeah, like, I don't think it's gonna happen.
• 50:29
  I. Trust the Brandy.
• 50:31
  That's it. Like I don't think they're gonna
• 50:32
  do that, but if they did, then obviously should be kind of
• 50:35
  cooked. You're not gonna trade for a
• 50:37
  goalie if you're not going to play them.
• 50:38
  But I don't see that happening. So I'm definitely going Dobish
• 50:42
  over Kemper. Like I said, I'm I think at this
• 50:44
  point I'm going most people over Kemper.
• 50:46
  So where's the line for Dobesh? Because if we're basically
• 50:49
  viewing him as the starting goalie on a Montreal Canadiens,
• 50:52
  the winds, lot of games, Domino's record itself is like,
• 50:55
  great, right? Like, he's basically been solid
• 50:57
  the whole year. They've gone through stretches
• 50:59
  of trying to get Montebello going, and that's kind of like
• 51:01
  hindered Dobesh is, you know? Success here he had a few
• 51:04
  stretches of not being great let's.
• 51:05
  Like, but it was mostly because like, he was consistent and they
• 51:07
  they kind of messed up. So consistency trying to get
• 51:10
  multiple going. Yeah.
• 51:12
  So where do we draw the line? Like would you rather Dobesh or
• 51:16
  like a Jeremy Sweetman? That's a great one.
• 51:19
  I think I'd go Dobesh. Yeah, OK.
• 51:22
  What about John Gibson or Dobesh?
• 51:27
  That's super close. I mean, we're right there in the
• 51:29
  standings with Detroit. I guess I like if we're counting
• 51:34
  in the injury, then I'd go Dobish.
• 51:36
  If we're not counting the injury, I'd go Gibson just
• 51:38
  because I think he has like we're saying Dobesh is the
• 51:41
  starter and he should be, but we've seen the past them try to
• 51:44
  get Monty going, whereas there's no, they're not trying to get
• 51:46
  Cam Talbot going. So until Gibson, if he's
• 51:48
  healthy. Got it.
• 51:51
  I mean, that's I feel like he's like a fringe top 10 goalie rest
• 51:54
  of season Dobesh with the current position that he's in.
• 51:57
  Yeah. Alright, going into the
• 52:01
  defenseman position, this one might be controversial, we might
• 52:05
  upset some people here, but I think it's worth having the
• 52:07
  conversation with how things are going.
• 52:09
  But would you rather rest of the season?
• 52:13
  We're trying to make the hard decisions here, guys.
• 52:15
  We're trying to win fantasy championships.
• 52:17
  Not, you know. Not make friends.
• 52:19
  Not not not make friends and play to big name fantasy
• 52:22
  players, but would you rather Brent Clark or Adam Fox rest of
• 52:25
  season? I knew Adam Fox is gonna be on
• 52:28
  it. I thought you were gonna, I
• 52:29
  thought you were gonna go with like Dougie versus Fox.
• 52:30
  I think we've done that one in the past.
• 52:32
  So look, obviously Fox has the elite playoff schedule of the
• 52:36
  444. Hmm.
• 52:38
  But do I think there's a risk he gets shut down?
• 52:41
  Like if he's not healthy like he could be the next, you know, one
• 52:43
  to be shut down. I think Rangers are dog awful.
• 52:48
  I'm very hyped about Clark and LA.
• 52:51
  With this coaching change, it may be I I really like Clark's
• 52:55
  shots and blocks. Fox is not a back hatch of any
• 52:58
  kind person. He's a, he's a points guy, so.
• 53:01
  He can get you like 1.8 like shots, blocks type of thing
• 53:04
  which is not nothing. But I mean Clark's been doing
• 53:06
  like two shots like 2.7 blocks, which is like.
• 53:09
  Really puts them in blocks is insane.
• 53:11
  Yeah, so. You know, the Rangers are
• 53:15
  planarians gone, Trocheck is probably gone.
• 53:17
  Like who? Who's the talent here?
• 53:19
  And if you like the 585 production is not going to be,
• 53:22
  you know, sustainable. And even the power play, how
• 53:24
  good is the power play going to be gonna be losing most games?
• 53:28
  That's really tough. I think that like I definitely
• 53:30
  much prefer Brent Clark situation like who's gonna be
• 53:33
  playing with like all that not entry issue, whatever.
• 53:37
  Fox is still the better defenseman.
• 53:39
  Like just, you know, like Clark's going to be a great
• 53:41
  defence when we still young and Fox is still like a top five
• 53:43
  defence in the league in my opinion.
• 53:45
  Hmm. I think, I think you still gotta
• 53:49
  go Fox, especially because he has the playoff schedule like on
• 53:51
  his side. And I do think that like even
• 53:54
  with how high I see how much I like Clark rest of the season, I
• 53:58
  still think Fox is gonna have better points and better
• 54:02
  PowerPoints per game over over Clark.
• 54:05
  I think Clark's gonna have the better shots and blocks.
• 54:07
  But I think, I still think I go Fox with the extra games.
• 54:11
  It's so tight. I was.
• 54:12
  I came in here ready to say Brandon Clark, to be honest,
• 54:15
  just because. I wanted to I have him on my
• 54:17
  team and. I know, I know, I know.
• 54:19
  I was gonna be like, at a certain point, you have to
• 54:21
  evaluate situations and you need to just make a call and, you
• 54:25
  know, put fantasy names aside and just be like, who's going to
• 54:28
  give me the production that I need to win my fantasy
• 54:30
  championships? And I think to me, it's like I'm
• 54:34
  giving the edge for the playoff schedule that does some of the
• 54:36
  heavy lifting. But then after that, I'm
• 54:38
  thinking about like, you know, if he gets shut down, that's a 0
• 54:40
  for me, right? I'm not gonna have the
• 54:41
  opportunity to get Brian Clark on waivers or something, you
• 54:44
  know? Yeah, which I'm not saying is
• 54:45
  super available, but he's still available in some leagues out
• 54:48
  there. Like if you're 20%, yeah, if
• 54:50
  you're in a 10 or 12 team leader, there's a chance Brian
• 54:52
  Clark is on waivers right now. So I tough for me, my gut is
• 54:59
  telling brand Clark, my gut is telling me brand Clark because I
• 55:02
  just feel like and I have Fox in one of my leagues.
• 55:05
  I have the Fox sabotaged stack. So the only guys that are still
• 55:08
  going to remain near Rangers. So I guess we'll see, but it's
• 55:12
  it's tough. What do you think you would go?
• 55:17
  That's I think he would go Clark, he was trying to do on it
• 55:19
  Clark for me in in a trade like except he wasn't willing to give
• 55:23
  anyone who's not a drop. So yeah, yeah.
• 55:27
  But I, I think, yeah, I like, for me, I'm just trying to like
• 55:31
  not get too hyped about my own guys and trying to be as unwise
• 55:34
  as I can. And like the way I see it is
• 55:35
  like, think of like Quinn Hughes on Vancouver.
• 55:39
  Despite being like with playing with absolute garbage, he was
• 55:42
  still putting up great numbers, you know, and so.
• 55:45
  OK, you sold me with the playoff schedule.
• 55:48
  That's why if Clark had the playoffs, like if the playoff
• 55:51
  schedules were inversed, I would go with Clark.
• 55:52
  But I think the playoff schedule and like just who Fox is, is
• 55:55
  enough to make me still choose Fox.
• 55:57
  No. All right, last one.
• 56:00
  These are two guys that have been some of the hottest players
• 56:04
  in the NHL and their on ice performance has matched their
• 56:07
  looks. I'm talking about Matt Duchene
• 56:12
  versus Charlie Coyle. That's a good.
• 56:15
  Rest of season, who we going with?
• 56:19
  For me, it fully hinges on how long do we think Mikko Rantanen
• 56:23
  is gonna be out for? Cause if Rantanen is out for the
• 56:26
  rest of the fancy season, I'm easily going to Shane.
• 56:28
  But if Brandon and comes back in like a week or two, I'd rather
• 56:33
  have Coil on my team. So based on what I think of the
• 56:36
  entry, I think Nathan is going to be out for the rest of the
• 56:38
  fantasy season. I think they're gonna hold him
• 56:40
  until playoffs is the impression I'm getting.
• 56:42
  If like maybe a game or two just to get back into things towards
• 56:45
  the end of the season. So for that reason, I gotta go
• 56:47
  with Shane, but I think it's a great one.
• 56:50
  Dushane, I think just has higher upside, but also kind of like I
• 56:53
  don't want him at all for Antonio's back.
• 56:54
  So it's an interesting way to look at it.
• 56:57
  I'm in. Duchene was a guy that we were
• 56:58
  not on at all this year. Like he was a point per game
• 57:01
  player last year. I think one of only like I think
• 57:03
  35 or 36 players last year hit a point per game.
• 57:06
  He was one of them. He does he's very
• 57:09
  one-dimensional and that he's not going to get you much
• 57:11
  category coverage. It was just kind of like the
• 57:13
  points. I don't know how it happened
• 57:15
  that he averaged that much, but this season I feel like we were
• 57:19
  really off that boat. But if you're put into a
• 57:21
  position to succeed on the power play, one of the better players
• 57:24
  in the league, you know, playing with top talent, you reevaluate
• 57:27
  the situation. I think he's really performed
• 57:29
  with that opportunity right now. Like you said, if Brandon is out
• 57:32
  rest of season, I think you got to go do changes from the upside
• 57:34
  of being on such a better team with the deployment.
• 57:37
  But Coil is probably like the safer pick in terms of, you
• 57:40
  know, what you're getting. He's line 3C, but he's playing
• 57:43
  line one. He's playing a power play 1 and
• 57:45
  PK 1. So he's playing the important
• 57:48
  minutes there and he's delivered.
• 57:49
  So feel like every game I see, you know, Coil 2 points or
• 57:53
  whatever and I'm just like, wow, he's doing it again.
• 57:56
  It's crazy. It's actually crazy, yeah.
• 57:58
  Please Matthew Olivia at 5V5. So I'm just putting it out
• 58:01
  there, you know? Pretty much line on.
• 58:02
  Yeah. Yeah, and I don't blame us for
• 58:05
  being off of Duchene. I will be off of Duchene for the
• 58:08
  rest of his career. It's just the only reason he's
• 58:11
  doing well is because Randy's out.
• 58:12
  Like he wasn't doing well before that, like when he wasn't on
• 58:15
  power play one. And last year, the reason that
• 58:16
  he was point per game is because his line of him was Sagan.
• 58:19
  And I think Ben is the third guy.
• 58:20
  Like they were just on fire. Like they were like playing like
• 58:22
  that's how some of these teams like Florida, Dallas, like, and
• 58:25
  they actually have they get better matchups.
• 58:27
  They essentially have multiple first lines because they're so
• 58:29
  deep. So, so that's why he was so good
• 58:31
  last year. But I don't blame us for not
• 58:33
  being a big fans going into it. So you're going to shine over
• 58:36
  coil? Yeah, I think.
• 58:38
  Same for me. Where do you think JK would go?
• 58:42
  He probably chose Maverick Bork over both so.
• 58:46
  You did pick him up for a fantasy team.
• 58:48
  He did. He's a man of his word, you
• 58:50
  know, like he said something on the pod and he, he believes in
• 58:52
  it. He said he believes in his
• 58:53
  convictions. He does.
• 58:55
  He has. Convictions are not always
• 58:56
  right, but Jake is never wrong. He's just.
• 58:58
  Seriously. Yeah, that's exactly that's the
• 59:01
  saying. But no, I think you would do
• 59:04
  training here. I think it would be a three-way
• 59:06
  sweep. Yeah, Alright, I guess that
• 59:09
  wraps it up for the would you rathers.
• 59:11
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• 59:14
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