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Week 15 News & Updates + Would You Rather | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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  Brought up about Bound Bangor management and fantasy hockey
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  podcast. Woo woo woo woo for Josh.
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  No woo for Josh today he he's off.
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  He's off sulking about how bad the celebrity trade was for him.
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  That's not true. He has such nice hair
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  celebrating not Josh. Josh got good hair too, does
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  have good hair. I was only gonna say we didn't
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  even talk about who's gonna do the drink the Jingle while Josh
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  is out. You just kind of went straight
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  forward and you killed it so. You know what?
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  I started doing the countdown. I was practicing as everyone
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  knows it, trying to make it big in the karaoke scene.
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  But I just missed the podcast too much and I Can't Sing well.
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  So part of it, I think you. Mistake.
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  I've heard you. Say thanks man, Much
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  appreciated. Without further ado, welcome to
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  Bangor Management, the fantasy hockey podcast with Jake Blank
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  and Kevin Blank as Josh. But Josh will be back in a few
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  episodes. Josh's wife saw the bonus
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  episode and she was really upset with his answers, so now he's
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  punished and he couldn't record today, so that's exactly what's
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  happening. I think he's shampooing
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  celebrities hair but that's just my yes.
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  Just doing crazy things to celebrate you right now because
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  we can't talk about on the podcast.
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  It's cause Josh is playing Kevin this week in our league of
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  record and celebrating only has two games.
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  So he's been, he's like, he's amping them up trying to get him
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  to like get the most out of those two games, you know?
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  Yeah, if only Dry Saddle and McDavid didn't combine for like
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  10 games this week against me. It's actually crazy.
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  Like, so I think I've talked about the match that I have with
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  Josh earlier this week. But yeah, we're playing each
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  other in week 15. So as we speak, we have the some
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  of the games behind us already and Josh is already complaining
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  in the group chat, even though we both use a similar model for
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  projections for the weekly. Like I keep tabs on like, you
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  know how my guys are performing, how many games they play in the
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  week. So I can estimate like, OK, like
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  I'm projected to win hits by this amount or lose points by
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  this amount. And like Josh, Josh is supposed
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  to like destroy me this week. Like it McDavid and drive
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  Seattle average like 2 points per game.
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  They both have 5 game weeks. Like it's it's a disaster for
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  me. OK, and Josh little no shame is
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  in the group chat being like, Oh my God, I can't believe like
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  Edmondson just got eight blocks against me or whatever.
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  I'm like, dude, you're gonna beat me my double digit
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  categories this week. Chill on the block stock.
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  Like I think blocks in his are like the only categories
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  actually have a chance to win this week.
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  Yeah, because the audacity to complain about it after after
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  like a Monday. He was complaining in the group
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  chat and then how like Kemper had a bad game of Ladora had a
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  bad game when they play like Tampa and Dallas, like two of
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  the best teams in the league, Like, Oh no, my goalies played
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  poorly, like the odds of the toughest matchups.
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  Anyways, Josh is just gonna complain the whole week and then
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  he's gonna beat me like 2:50 this weekend and I'll be like, I
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  I mean, I don't know. Anyways, he's awfully.
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  Silent when he has those big wins.
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  So it's when there's no complaining going on that that's
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  when you know things are scary. Today is our week 15 news and
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  updates and the famous would you rathers.
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  This is going to be fun. Just us 2 on this.
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  Let's see if you can split the difference between both of us.
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  I feel between the two of us, I might have a chance of splitting
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  the difference a little more. So hopefully I did a good job.
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  But listen, I'll put it out there.
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  I feel like my on the scale of 1 to 10 for would you rather today
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  I'm like out of 7.5. I don't think it's going to be
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  the best week, but trying to not recycle players.
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  So let's see if today was going to go well, but we have a lot of
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  news to cover as well. Yes, and follow us on Spotify,
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  to join the Discord community before we dive into our new
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  stories. Kevin has some news, I suppose.
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  Guys, if you're listening to this, it's a special episode
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  because we are dropping the fact that we have a giveaway, our
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  first giveaway on the podcast, and it's courtesy of Dobber
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  podcast, honest, you're probably very familiar with Dobber Hockey
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  for so many years now, like pillar of the community, they do
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  exceptional work. Honestly, they're great.
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  So if you don't already follow like you know any kind of Dobber
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  I don't recommend a lot of fantasy hockey resources that
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  are not banger management, but Dobber Hockey I would highly
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  recommend and they gave us 10 copies, 10 to 15 copies.
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  We're gonna see how many we actually finalize of their mid
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  season guide for 2026 to give away for free to the banker
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  management community. So super hyped about that and
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  So super excited if you have any questions, just DMS on the
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  this and thanks again for Dobber.
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  could benefit from it. So that's that.
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  And listen, if you didn't catch all that, feel free to rewind
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  and relisten, but we're gonna mention it on all the episodes
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  leading up to the expiry date of the entry, so yeah.
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  Yeah, that that's January 18th, 7:00 PM.
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  That's yeah, you have to 7:00 PM Eastern Time, Yes, important.
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  We got some Australia folks in there because I'm your folks in
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  there. So 7:00 PM Eastern Time on
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  Sunday, January the 18th. Yes, 2026.
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  If you invest the time, if you have to go back and enter the
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  That's it. Some Back to the Future stuff
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  right there. OK, let's dive into our first
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  news story of the day. The Columbus Blue Jackets fired
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  Dean Evanson and hired Rick Bonus as head coach.
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  Whoa. That's this to me feels like a
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  very IRL type thing. I know that when new coaches
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  come in, they can really reshape things.
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  It doesn't happen overnight. You know, you get used to a new
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  system and new coach is a great coach.
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  I know that the bonus has like a really remarkable career, but
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  every time I think of him, I just think of his disappointed
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  face when his teams lose in the playoffs.
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  But Columbus needs to get to the playoffs.
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  So, you know, I mean, like, listen, it could be, but this is
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  a great team, high flying team and they got a lot of great
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  players. He's had success with The Jets,
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  with the stars and getting the best out of his talent.
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  And that'll translate for fantasy.
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  So I like this and I think it's it's great for all their fantasy
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  assets on the Blue Jackets. And the biggest thing with
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  Columbus right now has been like how they're choking leads in a
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  third period. I think that's the story of
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  their season. I think their playoff team, they
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  have the caliber to be a high flying offence, but they just
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  leak goals and they can't hold a lead.
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  That's pretty much the situation here.
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  I think Rick Bonus has come in to kind of steady the ship.
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  So in terms of fantasy impact, I think, I think listen, Columbus
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  is already like a team that has some fantasy relevant assets.
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  I think everybody gets a bump because the team should be
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  better. And I think the biggest bump
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  will probably come from, you know, the defence and the
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  goaltending. If they're they're leaking less
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  goals, that means they're winning more games.
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  That means, you know, Jet grieves, you know, gets more
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  wins under his belt. Instead of winning 40% of the
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  game, maybe he wins 50 to 60% of the games.
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  Because I really do think that, you know, Columbus made a move.
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  Now it's kind of surprising because they won their last game
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  against Seattle was like a close fought battle where like, OK,
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  like, maybe, you know, ties are turning and then they fired the
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  coach. So it was kind of like, OK, this
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  must have been planned no matter the result, obviously.
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  But I'm I'm as Jed Greens owner, I'm really happy about this
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  because he's been exceptional this year.
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  He's been like a top five goalie in terms of like, you know,
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  quality of play and saves above expected is just a team in front
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  of him hasn't really been playing up to their to their
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  level. And if I have other Columbus
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  assets, I'm I'm happy about this.
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  So we'll see how it goes. Obviously, maybe maybe get goose
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  plays less games Now. That's the main thing because
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  he's been playing like every game, even in the back to backs.
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  Maybe he plays less games and they they do more of a split.
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  But I'm not reading into it until I see with my own eyes.
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  But overall positive, I think for Columbus.
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  And like, I mean, you know, I I was joking when I said I was
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  disappointed face when his teams losing the playoffs.
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  But all kidding aside, like, you know, he coached the stars to
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  the Stanley Cup Final in 2020. That was the COVID year he's
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  brought his teams to the playoffs in most years.
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  So this could be really, really fun for the Blue Jackets.
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  And I agree with you. Maybe he'll get less games, but
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  it means that the they might be more quality starts.
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  So I think net positive you'll be happy as a dead Greeves
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  owner. Alright, so let's get to #2 I'm
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  actually sad Josh is not here to to be like really passionate
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  about this one. This is about one of his
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  players, but Dougie Hamilton was scratched but then put back in
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  the lineup. Is there a trade incoming?
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  He, I think we, we, we're going to save this for the hot topics
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  to dive too much into it, which is on the next episode.
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  But I know he would be pretty pretty heated right now, so.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's it's big news, right?
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  Dougie gets scratched and we're all like, OK, this what does
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  this mean? This is a big deal, right?
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  Like he's one of their premier defensemen on the team.
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  Like he's one of the biggest names.
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  We know that he kind of waved the trade to San San Jose in the
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  offseason. Like they they kind of had a
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  trade deal ready for that. And he said, Nope, I'm not going
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  there. So now I think the situation is
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  even more really given, you know, the performances of New
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  Jersey. So I last I heard the little
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  birdie told me that he's willing to maybe move his note.
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  He's willing to go to a team that's on his no move clause
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  depending on the fit. But I really feel like this is
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  just trade is going to happen. I think New Jersey needs cap
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  flexibility. This is a way for that to
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  happen. And also like they're ready to
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  move on, maybe get some new new juice in the locker room and
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  everything. But poor Dougie.
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  I feel like he's kind of got thrown under the bus here.
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  Like he hasn't really been, he hasn't been the same offensive
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  guy we've talked about. You know, you've heard Josh
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  complain on the podcast for the last two months on how bad
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  Dougie Hamilton is for his fantasy team.
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  I do think that if he gets traded to another situation,
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  like he could be actually like a top 10 defenseman, there's
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  nothing stopping him from being that good again.
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  I think if he gets traded to like, you know, a Toronto Maple
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  Leafs or a San Jose or, you know, I'm trying to think of
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  another destination, but like a team that really needs a power
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  play, one power play, one quarterback, he's going to be
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  like hover around the top ten guy because he still shoots a
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  lot. He's not the best category
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  coverage guy, but like he's a good power play quarterback.
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  He'll get you points and shots and from a defence bin.
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  That's pretty cool. Yeah, all.
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  You know what? Stay tuned for our Hot Topics
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  episode while all dive more into it.
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  But I I'm really on the same page as you for a lot of those.
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  Yeah, let's go to the next one. Sean Monahan returned from
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  injury and took back a spot on line 2 power play.
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  One, as we know, Columbus is going through a lot of changes
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  right now. Their units are kind of all over
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  the place. What do you think about this?
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  I mean, I think Columbus this this was right before the firing
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  and hiring of a Rick bonus. So I think the lines are in a
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  blender right now. I think Monahan with bonus
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  coming in, has the opportunity to have, you know, more
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  responsibility and I think this could be a positive tick for
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  him. But I'm I'm not trying to read
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  into what the lines are going to look like and project.
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  I think bonus will have his own spin on things and and make
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  decisions for him. Like maybe Monaghan comes back
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  to line 1 after this. I think we'll have to wait and
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  see practice lines go and everything like that, but I
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  think it'll be an adjustment to see how everything shakes out.
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  And then once things shake out, we can make an accurate
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  assessment on like what we think the situation is and how to
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  protect these players. But for the moment, I feel like
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  this is probably positive from Monaghan and the fact that he
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  went back to power play 1, even though we saw guys like, you
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  know, Charlie Coyle and and Sillinger beyond power play one,
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  which is like should not be the case.
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  I'm waiting to see how things shake out.
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  Yeah, and, uh, you know, the, the role that he would play here
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  would probably be more net front if he is to stay on the power
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  play 1. You know, he Joe Pavelski played
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  under bonus when they went to the to the finals then in 2020.
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  So to me, like if you already have experience with the player
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  like that, then I think that it could be sort of interesting to
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  see how Monaghan can develop in this way.
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  That being said, still for bangers, like, look, if the
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  whole team gets better, he's a part of this team, you're going
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  to have a prominent role. There's no way Coil or Gaunts
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  are going to take his line to Senator Roll.
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  So I think that I like this. I just think that for the whole
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  team, the coaching change is nice.
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  Then we got Kasperi Kapanen returned from injury and as a
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  three as points in three straight games playing Line 2,
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  no power play. Yeah, he's been a he's been hot
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  off the waiver wire in most Yahoo leagues recently.
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  Yeah, um, I mean, listen, what do you, what do you think?
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  I, I'm, I don't put too much stock into this.
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  If there's no power play 1, even power play 2, like I'm not, I'm
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  not putting too much stock in a guy after three games, but it's
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  certainly worth mentioning. But I don't think it's super
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  fantasy relevant. Yeah, I'm more of an all over
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  Captain Man myself. And who's?
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  Been. I know you are.
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  He has been great. What a pickup for me and our
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  league of record. Kasperi Kapanen's kind of just
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  been doing this whole career where he goes on stretches
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  because I think there was a quote from one of his teams that
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  he previously played on, one of the best players was like, yeah,
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  coping is the fastest player in the league.
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  So when you have the speed, and that's funny because playing
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  with McDavid, right? But when you have the speed and
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  you know you have the ability to be a very good player, but it
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  just comes in waves, like without the deployment, I'm not
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  that encouraged by it. Nothing wrong with playing line
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  2 with dry sidle, of course, but dry saddle.
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  I've spoken about this a bit. It's not like Crosby where it's
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  like he's gonna really make the best of like all the players
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  around him. It doesn't always work like
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  that. You have to have be good in your
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  own right to thrive on a line with McDavid or dry subtle.
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  So I'm not reading too much into this.
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  If ever he gets power play 1 it's a different story, but it's
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  impossible. Pretty much so, barring injury.
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  No, I mean, listen, it's only been a few games.
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  Like if you release them into themselves, then I'll be
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  interested. But right now I'm just like,
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  this is just another kind of quote UN quote random name that
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  gets to play the top six that we always like.
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  Oh, we're interested because people make David Drysol never
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  ends up working out. Like they go through hot
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  stretches, then they go really cold.
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  And when they're cold, you don't really want them at all.
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  So and especially with no power play like that already limits
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  the ceiling of the value of the player.
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  So yeah, not the not too hot on this.
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  My advice for transaction would be sell if you can, because I
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  wouldn't be surprised if you get some sort of something out of
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  it. He.
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  Don't think anybody buying this. Very Kapitan.
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  No, but like it's like a sweetener, you know, like the
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  buy low, sell high. We always talk about adding a
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  piece. I would try to add him as a
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  piece if you can in a deep enough league.
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  Before this week he was like 2% roster, now is 19% roster
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  because he just had a hot stretch.
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  But I'm, if you can sell them, sell them like if you were in a,
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  like you said, like the deepest of leagues.
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  But yeah, I can't imagine there's a lot of leagues out
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  there like that. Yeah.
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  I'm not interested in adding off waiver wire and actually got
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  Brad Marshawn is out with an injury on telling Dallas taking
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  his spot on power play 1. So the the Panthers the Panthers
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  are very interesting because you know they're playing with so
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  many injuries yet still kind of getting it done.
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  It's amazing how deep this team. Is, I know, wild?
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  Yeah, I it's disappointing because Marshall's been on a
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  tear all year. We've recommended him as a cell
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  high a few times and like, Yep, that's when he's been playing
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  beyond his averages, how serious the injury is.
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  I mean, it seems like it's kind of day-to-day right now, yeah.
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  Doesn't seem super, super dangerous for like, you know,
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  his long term viability. But I will say like Marshall has
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  been a sell high and I think, you know, Matthew could Chuck is
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  about to come back as well. Like feels like any game now
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  he's about to return. This is a huge bump for Lundell
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  and his value. Like he's gone through stretches
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  where he's been super valuable and other stretches where like
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  you don't really want him on your team.
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  So I think this is great for Lundell.
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  He's exposed to higher quality players for longer periods of
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  time throughout the game. Now is getting power play one
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  time. We'll have to see.
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  Like does Lanell get bumped off as soon as contract comes back
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  or is it somebody else that gets bumped off and then when
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  Marshawn comes back, like how does that shake out?
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  But I think overall this is just like if you have Lindell or is
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  available, I'm more interested right now while he's on power
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  play 1. Then when marching comes back,
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  if he gets bumped off, I'll swap my positions there.
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  But that's pretty much it. And hopefully machines not for
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  too long because he's actually been really viable for fantasy,
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  even though we do believe he's is so high.
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  Yeah, it it's, it's still like encouraging to see that he's
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  he's got the banger cats this year, which is nice.
• 17:59
  I mean, he's just kind of been playing beyond what we think
• 18:02
  he's going to do. Obviously to now to sell them,
• 18:05
  considering he's hurt, yeah. But when he comes back, I still
• 18:08
  think they're gonna put him on the power play.
• 18:11
  Yeah, you should be power play one when he's healthy.
• 18:13
  Yeah, All right. Connor Bedard returned from
• 18:16
  injury and is back on line one power play one.
• 18:19
  But now he's day-to-day with an illness.
• 18:21
  To me, there's not much to say. He's healthy as far as the
• 18:24
  injury goes. And when he's back, he's back.
• 18:26
  But I've heard it's a pretty bad stomach bug going around the
• 18:29
  Chicago Blackhawks. Yeah, it's, it's that kind of
• 18:33
  sucks. Burakovsky is someone on our
• 18:36
  waiver wire. Are you interested at all?
• 18:38
  Just because he was doing really well with bar when they were
• 18:41
  playing on the same line. And Bertucci's just been fire
• 18:43
  all year. So, yeah, I mean, that's kind
• 18:45
  of. Yeah, I mean, yeah, Bertuzzi had
• 18:48
  a stretch where he was basically droppable and people dropped him
• 18:50
  where we would like sell high, sell high, sell high, sell high
• 18:52
  while you can. And then then people waiting for
• 18:55
  him to go down to 0 before cutting him one bizarre back.
• 18:59
  This whole team becomes viable in certain ways, right?
• 19:01
  Like you're playing with one of the best players in the NHL.
• 19:03
  Like this year was true breakout like that we talked about in the
• 19:06
  offseason. Like we mentioned him as a
• 19:08
  breakout candidate. We want to hold ourselves
• 19:10
  accountable, but we also wanna, you know, talk about the wins
• 19:12
  that we have. And I think, you know, saying
• 19:14
  Bidart is has a chance to be a true breakout candidate this
• 19:17
  year was a big win for us because up to this year, like he
• 19:20
  had not even gotten close to a point per game.
• 19:22
  So this year he was one of the best picks in fantasy.
• 19:25
  And now you all of his wingers are widely available pretty
• 19:29
  much. And like you said, Burkowski.
• 19:31
  And if you're in a deeply like our league, you know, we roster
• 19:34
  almost 300 players and he's still on waivers our league.
• 19:36
  So you have to be in a similar league for him to be viable.
• 19:40
  He was really hot before the injury, so if he starts heating
• 19:43
  up, I'll be interested again. But right now I'm not.
• 19:45
  I'm not trying to be proactive about it if I have better
• 19:47
  players, you know? Yeah, sorry.
• 19:49
  I meant that Bertuzzi was super good when Bedard was there.
• 19:52
  Then you're right, it went through quite a cold stretch.
• 19:55
  But Burakovsky was like less of a sure thing during that period.
• 19:59
  But the fact that they were able to like, I mean, this is the
• 20:02
  best they've both played in years.
• 20:05
  So Bidard. Like I'm interested in if you
• 20:09
  have the space, like I've Full disclosure, thought about
• 20:12
  picking up Burakovsky. Maybe I will over the next.
• 20:15
  Few days we're going to compete with the FAB now.
• 20:17
  That's it really. Have any left but say?
• 20:20
  We have the least five in our legally we just keep spending
• 20:24
  money on players nobody else wants.
• 20:25
  Yeah, that's it. I always like, you know,
• 20:28
  there's. Something nostalgic spent $20.
• 20:31
  She loves this year. Like throughout multiple
• 20:33
  occurrences. Now I have Skinner, who I
• 20:38
  drafted, who's now on the same team she loves.
• 20:40
  It's just a mess. Yeah, it's just a mess.
• 20:43
  But when it's used wisely it could really work out.
• 20:45
  So I think I also spend 4 on Walstead who gave me many many
• 20:48
  good weeks and only giving me less good weeks.
• 20:50
  But yeah, that's drizzled high when you could.
• 20:54
  I should have thought I should. Hopefully he's listening.
• 20:57
  He's like, Nah, man, I'm taking that personally.
• 20:59
  And now I'm just gonna start doing super well again.
• 21:00
  So do your thing, OK? Jacob Jaker in his day-to-day
• 21:05
  with an illness. John Carlson taking his spot on
• 21:07
  Power Play 1. I yeah, I mean, this is pretty
• 21:12
  much a straight swap. You know, when he comes back, he
• 21:14
  probably gets that power play 1 back.
• 21:16
  There were some inklings on some practice reports I saw that like
• 21:19
  chicken was skating, but it wasn't getting on the power
• 21:21
  play. So people were like, oh, like
• 21:22
  the John Carlson Buffalo power play 1.
• 21:24
  I think it's just he's not ready to play in the game.
• 21:26
  So they don't want to like they want to usually when the power
• 21:28
  play lines are practicing, they want the guys are like almost
• 21:31
  certain to play during the game. So I think it just goes to show
• 21:35
  that like, he's not ready to come back.
• 21:36
  He still hurt like, or sick, sorry.
• 21:39
  And yeah, I I expect this chicken is healthy like you just
• 21:42
  bump spa bumps off Carlson and same old, same old.
• 21:47
  Yeah, I think, I think that well, the other part of this is
• 21:50
  that they got Ethan Frank currently playing power play one
• 21:54
  there. So I would say, yeah.
• 21:56
  I mean when he when he has his games, he has his games actually
• 22:00
  at the game where I think he got a hat trick or scored, he got 4
• 22:04
  points I believe. That was a crazy yeah, they beat
• 22:07
  Montreal, they destroyed them and Frank I think was the first
• 22:12
  star because he was just on an absolute terror.
• 22:14
  So but he to me is the obvious when chickens back he's getting
• 22:18
  bumped off situation. So I don't know why they don't
• 22:21
  put protests there. And don't forget, Tom Wilson is
• 22:24
  still missing as well. So yes, he's he's also
• 22:27
  day-to-day and I feel like at any moment as soon as he comes
• 22:30
  back bumping off somebody from that power place also.
• 22:32
  Yeah, I mean, they got Leonard Strohm, Franco Ovechkin, Carlson
• 22:36
  there right now. I think Frank and Carlson are
• 22:38
  the ones that are gonna go all for Chicken and Wilson when
• 22:41
  everyones. Healthy.
• 22:42
  Yeah, most likely. All right, then we got JT Miller
• 22:46
  returned from injury and bumped off, not Laferriere Lafreniere
• 22:50
  off power blue one. I wasn't bluff.
• 22:53
  The the lesser laugh the lesser laugh.
• 22:56
  Still crazy to think about but anyways.
• 22:58
  Alright so this is interesting. Also sad Josh is not here to
• 23:03
  trash JT. You mean it's?
• 23:07
  Very player. Yeah.
• 23:08
  I think that. I mean, obviously, like a few
• 23:11
  days ago while he was hurt, you could have bought him even
• 23:13
  lower. But to me, I think that this is
• 23:16
  like a time that I would still be interested because the
• 23:18
  Rangers are in shambles right now, and they're really not
• 23:20
  supposed to be bad. I mean, we'll probably get into
• 23:24
  this at some point, but probably next episode.
• 23:28
  Talking about Panarin. You may, yeah.
• 23:30
  I mean, I was just gonna say like these these guys, the
• 23:34
  Raiders have been bad, but their fantasy assets have kind of been
• 23:36
  delivering like Paneras at almost 2 points per game over
• 23:39
  the last month. Like he's been absolutely
• 23:41
  insane. That Banjo has been insane.
• 23:43
  JT just came back from injury and he's had like a couple of
• 23:45
  good games, but just the performances on the ice, we're
• 23:48
  not going well. They're leaking goals.
• 23:50
  I feel like you really see the impact that's just working has
• 23:52
  had on this team while he was healthy.
• 23:54
  And I mean, that's the next point.
• 23:55
  So we can just talk about it now as well.
• 23:56
  It's just there can still week to week.
• 23:57
  And Jonathan Quick is is, you know, order and in his absence
• 24:02
  and quick has not been great like he's been.
• 24:04
  If you're the Chester and you picked up Quick and you're
• 24:06
  hoping that you were getting similar results, it's not the
• 24:08
  case at all. I think the Rangers are just an
• 24:11
  average team right now when they're leaking goals and quick
• 24:13
  is not the same guy. Like you can only do so much,
• 24:15
  right? If you're putting bad situations
• 24:16
  or put in bad situations. From the games that I've seen,
• 24:18
  he's actually look like he plays well.
• 24:20
  This is just like he's the team's not doing him any favors
• 24:23
  in front of him. So that situation, but JT being
• 24:26
  back, I feel like just goes back to status quo on the power play.
• 24:28
  Like laugh has been a severe disappointment this year.
• 24:31
  Like, you know, we're holding ourselves accountable.
• 24:33
  We thought that he would be a, you know, a breakout power
• 24:35
  forward candidate, right? Like, you know, no more critter.
• 24:38
  He was the guy that could step up and they're they're even
• 24:41
  preferred like Will Cooley at times over him.
• 24:43
  So it just goes to show like the falloff is kind of here and feel
• 24:46
  like lost future in in New York is just not cemented at all,
• 24:50
  even though they just paid him. And like you said, Panarin 2.
• 24:53
  We don't know what's happening there with the contract.
• 24:55
  Yeah, and I mean fox. Fox.
• 24:58
  Is this in the next? Point Fox is on.
• 25:01
  LTIR So then you got Gavrilov and displays on PowerPoint One.
• 25:04
  He's not a power play 1 defenseman.
• 25:05
  He's a good player, but he's not, he should not be
• 25:09
  quarterback in this power place. So I mean, to me, I still
• 25:13
  believe that JT could be better than he has been this year.
• 25:18
  So I mean, do you think you could buy still or is the owner
• 25:21
  just like I held them this long? I'm gonna hold until.
• 25:25
  I'd try to buy because if you're in a bangers league
• 25:27
  specifically, especially when would face off like bangers
• 25:29
  league, I'm interested. Face off leagues I'm even more
• 25:31
  interested because he gets face off wins from the right wing
• 25:34
  position. But he has some good category
• 25:36
  coverage to him and I think the points are going to be there
• 25:38
  more than they were earlier in the season when he was like, I'm
• 25:41
  even more massive by law is just have to temper your expectations
• 25:46
  or temper your expectations when the to the right.
• 25:49
  I don't know. I think both now I forget which
• 25:51
  one I got corrected and now I forget which one supposed to
• 25:53
  say. But the temper, temper your
• 25:55
  expectations with the Rangers in general, I feel like the stars,
• 25:59
  the studs are always gonna be producing.
• 26:00
  But you know, the JT is like, I feel like once you're slightly
• 26:04
  below, but he has so much value in terms of it cause category
• 26:07
  coverage and the readers have an exceptional playoff schedule for
• 26:09
  weeks are playoff weeks 21 to 23.
• 26:12
  So always targeting those guys at the right price.
• 26:15
  And yeah, I mean, listen, anybody on PowerPoint 1 here
• 26:18
  interested in SO? In the three games he's played
• 26:21
  since he got back, he's done exceptionally well in the Bangor
• 26:24
  Cats. He's got 2 points in those three
• 26:26
  games, but the Rangers have lost five to 10/2 and 4/2 so that.
• 26:31
  Is good. That is rough.
• 26:35
  So, I mean, I don't know, I still think that.
• 26:37
  I still think JJ's a buy. I'd love to have him on my team,
• 26:40
  but not paying first round price for him.
• 26:42
  But if you can somehow buy low, it's yeah, it's a great
• 26:45
  opportunity. Evgeni Malkin returned from
• 26:48
  injury and bumped Anthony Mantha from power Play 1.
• 26:52
  Not surprising at all. I feel like this was kind of
• 26:54
  written in the stars as soon as we recommended Manta a few weeks
• 26:58
  ago when Malcolm was first heard, and we knew it week to
• 27:00
  week. But we always knew that as
• 27:02
  Malcolm was healthy, he was just gonna slap back on the Power
• 27:03
  Play. 1. I don't know if we're talking
• 27:07
  about this. Well, might as well Josh Manson
• 27:09
  it later, but tied with Pittsburgh.
• 27:11
  Eric Carlson was put on IR and earlier today as we record this.
• 27:17
  So I think that that was a surprise.
• 27:20
  I mean, Eric Carlson, owner, I don't know what happened there.
• 27:23
  The the nature of the injury is still ambiguous, but he's
• 27:27
  missing at least multiple weeks and the Malkin back on power
• 27:31
  play 1 is great for his value. We still think the market is not
• 27:35
  a guy that you want on your team long term because he's just not
• 27:38
  the same guy that he was. We've seen him be like really
• 27:39
  good with him really, really bad.
• 27:41
  If you can trade him at like the really good value for somebody
• 27:44
  that's more consistent. Would love to do that for Eric
• 27:46
  Carlson. You know, you pick up
• 27:47
  Christopher Letang. I think that's that's the move
• 27:49
  here. Letang has been on the ice in
• 27:52
  the NHL. He hasn't had his best season.
• 27:54
  He's been kind of like a average to below average defenseman and
• 27:57
  for fantasy, he's been kind of like a streamer guy on certain
• 28:00
  weeks because he does not properly won.
• 28:02
  But now that he has power play, he's a bigger, he's a better
• 28:05
  banger category guy than Carlson.
• 28:07
  So maybe you're getting a little bit of both worlds where a guy
• 28:11
  that will get you a little bit more hits and blocks and shots,
• 28:13
  not shots, but hits and blocks and some power play.
• 28:16
  One upside. But yeah, I'm crossing owner.
• 28:19
  I'm planning on picking up Letang as a straight swap.
• 28:21
  And then when Carlson's back, I'm just going to drop further
• 28:24
  Tang. So we'll see.
• 28:26
  You're going to have to compete against me with Fab.
• 28:28
  OK, no, it actually isn't my name.
• 28:34
  It's a fantastic pickup, though, all kidding aside, like, he's
• 28:38
  been really like, reliable for blocks this year, and in
• 28:42
  Pittsburgh's heyday he was their power play.
• 28:44
  One guy, sure. He.
• 28:45
  Doesn't have older, no. Yeah.
• 28:47
  And we're not expecting that to be a resurgence, but he can play
• 28:52
  with these guys and do well. So I would definitely pick him
• 28:57
  up. Joel Erickson Eck is day-to-day
• 29:00
  with a lower body injury. Ryan Hartman is taking his spot
• 29:03
  on power play one. A lot of either came back from
• 29:06
  injury bumped off power play one or injured new guy on power play
• 29:10
  one. That seems to be the theme of
• 29:12
  this week's news. Episode Everybody's paying the
• 29:15
  up. But yeah, Joel Ericsson, Ek
• 29:17
  Jake, if you will, the day-to-day.
• 29:21
  So listen, I'm not expecting a really long absence here, but
• 29:25
  Hartman in your deeper leagues, if you power play one, he's
• 29:28
  worth a look. He's had stretches of good
• 29:31
  production in the past, but he's playing in the top 6.
• 29:33
  And when he's on power play one because you're just exposed to
• 29:36
  some top quality talent there. So if you have Ericsson and
• 29:39
  you're looking for like a straight swap replacement, I
• 29:41
  would pick apartment. And then as with Ericsson X
• 29:43
  back, you just cut them and you know, get back here guy, because
• 29:45
  Eric is still one of the best banger pure seeds out there.
• 29:49
  He has had stretches of, you know, good and bad, but I think
• 29:53
  I, I would love to have him on my roster.
• 29:55
  So if you have him, don't, don't fret too much.
• 29:57
  Yeah, he's the only centre on this team for years that's been
• 30:00
  a reliable. Own.
• 30:02
  Yeah. Right, like Hartman, it comes
• 30:03
  and goes. You're obvious thing would be
• 30:05
  amazing because he's playing with increase of yeah, yeah,
• 30:09
  he's got a lot of time. But yeah, anyway, it seems like
• 30:12
  Hartman's the guy to replace him in the interim, Seth Jarvis
• 30:15
  returned from injury and bumped Jackson Blake off power play 1.
• 30:19
  Not to mention the fact that Jarvis has been crazy for
• 30:24
  bangers since he's gone like came back like the best by far
• 30:28
  that he's done all year. You know, he's played a few
• 30:31
  games and it's 424 two hits and then 6315 shots and Shorty in
• 30:37
  that period he's been a monster. So I mean, I think the you saw
• 30:42
  his quote with the Team Canada with the bleep sandwich or
• 30:46
  something. Yeah.
• 30:48
  So I really think that he took it extremely personally and now
• 30:53
  he's just he's just balling out. And I don't expect him to
• 30:58
  average like three hits a game for the rest of the season.
• 31:01
  But we see this sometimes when guys are out of line, when they
• 31:03
  come back, they come back with a vengeance.
• 31:05
  But yeah, he's been a guy that's like had some shots and hits to
• 31:07
  him the whole year. Like he's a 1.5 kind of hits
• 31:10
  ish, like 1 slightly over 1, which is not nothing if you're
• 31:13
  playing in a categories league. And then he gets like between
• 31:16
  two to three shots, which is really great.
• 31:18
  And drivers is just a phenomenal player.
• 31:19
  He might arguably be the best player on this Carolina
• 31:22
  Hurricanes team. Like that's I don't let the hot
• 31:24
  take because I know people love Sebastian Aho, but Jarvis,
• 31:27
  Jarvis is my boy. And the poor Jackson Blake, if
• 31:30
  you held him or streamed him while, you know, he had power,
• 31:33
  play one that rain is over and you know, I don't feel bad about
• 31:37
  cutting him at this point. No, I had to cut him a few weeks
• 31:41
  back because it was just up and that was even like before the
• 31:43
  Jarvis injury. It's like, you know, it'll have
• 31:45
  like a nice game and they get picked up in a bunch of leagues
• 31:48
  and then like you go to you see he's one of the most added
• 31:51
  players and then get a notification if you own and
• 31:53
  dropped in 500 leagues the next day.
• 31:54
  I'm like alright. Had a week where they had like 5
• 31:58
  games so people, a lot of people picked up like Carolina
• 32:00
  Hurricanes players and he was just one of those guys.
• 32:02
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm, I'm excited.
• 32:05
  Hopefully Jarvis keeps up the the double double over there.
• 32:08
  Yep. Jason Zucker, another one of my
• 32:10
  players, returned from injury and bumped Zach Benson off
• 32:13
  power. Play 1.
• 32:15
  Not surprising, but we know Zuckers Zucker is almost like a
• 32:18
  power play merchant. Like he's we've talked about him
• 32:20
  on the podcast before. Like he's a little bit
• 32:22
  inconsistent, especially this year compared to last year.
• 32:24
  But you'll get games where he has like 2 points.
• 32:27
  They're both power play points, four shots that hit and you'll
• 32:29
  get games where you have straight zeros and you kind of
• 32:31
  don't know what to expect on the average ends up being like
• 32:34
  pretty good. So I in deeper leagues, I really
• 32:37
  like Jason Zucker as a pic because he's one of those guys
• 32:39
  like on power play one for you know, like average power play,
• 32:43
  but one of those guys that is widely available.
• 32:46
  You're getting power play exposure.
• 32:48
  And Zach Benson, I feel like he's had his chance early in the
• 32:50
  season. He was really successful.
• 32:52
  Like when he first came back from injury to start the year, I
• 32:54
  think you had like points and like he was a point per game for
• 32:57
  like a month or like 2-3 weeks and then he got hurt again and
• 33:00
  has not been the same. So I don't think he's valuable
• 33:04
  at all anymore. But Zucker I like.
• 33:06
  Yep, nice. It's not a Borat reference.
• 33:09
  I like look up your eyes more please.
• 33:19
  They were the first ones to ever imitate Borat.
• 33:23
  It's very nice, alright. Troy Terry day-to-day with an
• 33:28
  upper body injury. He had already been bumped off
• 33:31
  power play 1 before the injury. Yeah, Anaheim was kind of like
• 33:35
  doing things with their lines. Like we saw even Gotta have time
• 33:38
  on power play to like they gone through a really rough stretch.
• 33:41
  We talked about them on our Hot Topics episode recently where we
• 33:44
  were just like, what do we think about Anaheim?
• 33:46
  Like are they the team that they were earlier in the season, data
• 33:48
  team that they were? Now the answer is always
• 33:51
  somewhere in the middle. So I don't think they're his
• 33:54
  feelings before, but I feel like they are going to try to turn it
• 33:56
  around in the near future. And Troy Terry coming back
• 33:59
  definitely helps his team. I think he's a top six player on
• 34:03
  this team and power play 1. So I feel that's where he ends
• 34:06
  up. As we record this, you know
• 34:07
  there's a game tonight, so you guys will be here in just the
• 34:10
  following morning and he's a game time decision.
• 34:13
  So we'll see if he ends up playing.
• 34:14
  But as you hear this, he might be ready for the next game,
• 34:17
  right? So not worried about that style
• 34:19
  IR plus. And then if he ends up playing,
• 34:21
  you could cut somebody to activate them.
• 34:22
  If you need help to see who you're going to cut to activate
• 34:24
  them, ask us in the discord. Always happy to answer those
• 34:27
  questions. But yeah, Troy Terry also Josh
• 34:30
  highlighted as like a major bylo candidate because he's a guy
• 34:32
  that has like some shot volume, some points upside.
• 34:35
  Leo Carlson too, his massive bio.
• 34:37
  We talked about it before. Like he's not gonna be the best
• 34:39
  player in fantasy like he was for like feel like a month
• 34:42
  earlier this season. But still a valuable centre so.
• 34:46
  Yeah, they they've, they've been a bleep sound, which possibly.
• 34:50
  Probably they've been bad. The same the same bleep sound as
• 34:53
  Sept Orvis was referring to yes, like 1-8 and one over there last
• 34:58
  10 before the game tonight. So I mean, yeah, real, real not
• 35:02
  good over there, real not. Good.
• 35:05
  Real not good. OK Anze Kopitar is on IR with a
• 35:10
  lower body injury. Alex Laferriere.
• 35:12
  The superior laugh is line 1C while he's out.
• 35:16
  Unexpected. Has he played?
• 35:18
  I don't think he's usually a yeah.
• 35:21
  I don't think he's usually a centre.
• 35:23
  That's kind of the thing they've been using him there and the one
• 35:26
  episode you missed earlier, Jake, Josh and I really went in
• 35:29
  on this, but like he's been like a double triple.
• 35:31
  So like three shots, three hits recently and getting some face
• 35:34
  off wins too. Like his category coverage has
• 35:36
  actually for some reason super under the radar, it feels like,
• 35:39
  but it's getting massive deployment right now.
• 35:41
  So I'm really interested in life every year and I have them in
• 35:44
  one league that I play with other hockey hockey fantasy
• 35:47
  experts and I've been holding him like so I I think he's very
• 35:50
  valuable while especially while Kopitar is out because he's
• 35:53
  getting to play with better players.
• 35:55
  The kings obviously are Tina does not score many goals and
• 35:58
  they have trouble scoring goals. But when somebody with this
• 36:01
  deployment and exposure to the power play like it's it's a good
• 36:06
  situation and I'm interested in life area, especially if you're
• 36:08
  in a bangers league, like we obviously bang your management.
• 36:11
  We prefer bangers league, but we try to give you guys information
• 36:13
  for point sticks and every kind of league.
• 36:15
  But for bangers leagues, he's been insane.
• 36:17
  He's probably rostered, but if he's not, take a look at your
• 36:19
  way or. Yeah, this.
• 36:22
  These stats are like a cherry from four years ago.
• 36:25
  By I know like like top six deployment.
• 36:28
  We're top 6 deployment and better shots.
• 36:31
  I mean, this is actually a bangers dream, at least for the
• 36:36
  time being. Because, and you know, the, the
• 36:39
  most impressive thing to me is that he's able to keep this up
• 36:41
  with the faceoffs too. And I say that because, like,
• 36:44
  when you're playing winger, which is what he's been playing
• 36:46
  his whole NHL career, you're used to a certain style of play.
• 36:49
  And to be able to keep up the banger that's while also playing
• 36:52
  centre, it's really, really encouraging for his.
• 36:55
  Yeah, in Bangor leagues. That's awesome.
• 36:57
  He might get facility that would be really cool for him.
• 37:00
  Yeah, I mean like the golden ticket is to have the face offs
• 37:05
  from the winger, so he's already got that.
• 37:06
  But yeah I mean just to be able to slow his centre 2 would be
• 37:09
  nice. Thatcher Demko on IR with lower
• 37:12
  body injury. Kevin Lankinen is the starter in
• 37:16
  his absence. It doesn't really matter who
• 37:18
  plays because Vancouver sucks. No offence.
• 37:20
  They are really not good and it just feels like, I mean, yeah,
• 37:25
  if they I almost feel like one thing I just kind of want to
• 37:29
  take take from this is we we spoke about key for Sherwood as
• 37:32
  a sell high on our recent buy low sell high episode.
• 37:35
  Do you think if you're a team that you have like a lot of
• 37:38
  negotiating power with them? You know what I mean?
• 37:41
  It's it's like, sorry, do you think they have a lot of
• 37:44
  negotiating power with you? It's like, no, I only want a
• 37:46
  first round pick. It's like, alright, well, enjoy
• 37:49
  doing whatever you guys are doing.
• 37:51
  It's just, it's just horrible. Like they've been really bad.
• 37:53
  It's, it's tough to be a Vancouver fan right now.
• 37:56
  Honestly, I, if we have any Vancouver fans listening to
• 37:59
  this, I'm, I'm really sorry. I feel that we've been there as
• 38:02
  I have as a big time fans. But in recent years, like we
• 38:06
  knew when the new regime has been kind of very optimistic.
• 38:09
  Even when we were bad, we felt we were taking strides forward.
• 38:12
  I feel like Vancouver is just like always in the middle
• 38:14
  ground. They never committed to rebuild
• 38:16
  and they're never like competing.
• 38:18
  There wasn't that middle ground, but like on the lower end of it.
• 38:20
  So it's just been really bad in terms of, of this.
• 38:23
  We can also throw in the Sherwood injury in there as well
• 38:25
  because I think he's just kind of like we're gonna trade you so
• 38:29
  we don't want you to be on the ice.
• 38:31
  So the bad timing with my cell high recommendation.
• 38:34
  But if you can still sell them, absolutely try to.
• 38:37
  I think now with the time, like your window for doing that is
• 38:39
  probably closing as we speak. And Demco, I mean, the best sell
• 38:44
  high we might have had this season was when I mentioned
• 38:46
  Demco think a month ago when he just came back from a previous
• 38:50
  injury, had played like four or five games.
• 38:52
  That was like one of the best goalies in the league.
• 38:55
  And if you were able to sell them right after we made that
• 38:56
  episode where we said like, get him off your roster ASAP, you're
• 39:00
  probably really happy right now. If that didn't happen and you
• 39:03
  know, you're still holding the bag, they said that they might
• 39:06
  shut him down for the year. Like there's a potential
• 39:09
  possibility that he doesn't plan on the game this season, which
• 39:12
  would be devastating. Once again for, you know, Demco
• 39:14
  owners and just the Canucks in general.
• 39:15
  I feel like this guy, his career is completely like went off the
• 39:19
  rails due to injury and what's what's their incentive to play
• 39:23
  him right now? Like they they just want a
• 39:24
  better pick. So why would they rush their
• 39:26
  goddess already a little bit hurt.
• 39:28
  Just rehab for the season. Let us get a better pick and
• 39:32
  then next year we come back and try again.
• 39:34
  So if you need a starter, I think Lincoln is a guy that you
• 39:37
  can expect a lot of volume from. But like is the quality gonna be
• 39:41
  there now? It's completely match up
• 39:42
  dependent in my opinion. So yeah, yeah, it's.
• 39:48
  I mean, even that like, they they can lose to anybody.
• 39:51
  Yeah. So it's it's tough.
• 39:53
  And like Anon has been serviceable as a starter, but
• 39:55
  they're not the same team as they were last year.
• 39:57
  Like they got rid of Queen Hughes and JT Miller.
• 39:59
  There are two. I know it wasn't tumultuous
• 40:01
  locker room situation, but still.
• 40:03
  I mean, it's tough to even stream.
• 40:05
  All right, on to some good news. Ali actually pulled us back from
• 40:09
  injury. Jakey rejoices.
• 40:10
  Yes, yes, I do. The best juice.
• 40:14
  You keep it all day. He is the man he is.
• 40:19
  I mean, I don't wanna I think Hagel on the on the scale of
• 40:22
  who's more snubbed as not getting power, play one.
• 40:28
  Like I think Hagel's higher on that list.
• 40:31
  But like produce is good man. Can we finally admit that he's a
• 40:35
  good player? Yes.
• 40:35
  He's had straight zero. Well, not straight zeros.
• 40:37
  He's had a few shots since he got back from injury, but before
• 40:40
  that he was on an absolute tear. So.
• 40:43
  He'll go through stretches, but at the end of the day he's a .75
• 40:47
  points per game player with two shots and nothing else, and if
• 40:49
  you want that on your roster, Congrats.
• 40:51
  If you don't, then you probably have a better player on your
• 40:54
  roster. I am still so excited to see who
• 40:57
  is seasoned with more points between him and Dorothea VI am
• 41:00
  just. Like I think you're right now,
• 41:03
  sorry, get infinite percent more power play points.
• 41:06
  He's been nuts. I don't know if you've seen, but
• 41:09
  he's also susceptible to getting like line 4 deployment at random
• 41:12
  points because the coaches special, but whatever is in the
• 41:16
  top 6 and on power play one, which is always the case for the
• 41:19
  power play one, he's still he's just like mental.
• 41:21
  Yeah, just saying right now Dora fave is 33 points and Proteus is
• 41:26
  31, so it's pretty darn close. How many?
• 41:28
  Points does Dorothy have have? That's 19 to yeah.
• 41:34
  So just saying. But that was not the beer bet.
• 41:39
  So it wasn't. I got beer about you that more
• 41:45
  power play points. But yeah, I'll take that.
• 41:51
  William Neal and a return from injury and bump John Tavares off
• 41:54
  power play 1. I think they should probably
• 41:57
  both be there. That's just me, but they had a
• 42:00
  pretty insane win last night so. I think Matthews goal was pretty
• 42:05
  nuts for the toe drag and everything like that.
• 42:09
  Was nice to see as a new Matthews owner.
• 42:11
  Right, Tricky. Yes, yes, it was.
• 42:13
  And it's like honestly, like I hate to do this, but like, well,
• 42:18
  first of all, I just want to also just before get into my
• 42:22
  personal vendetta situation because I did trade celebrity
• 42:24
  for Matthews and that's been a little bit tough.
• 42:27
  There was a little more to the trade.
• 42:28
  I also got Sutherland and I gave it all away.
• 42:30
  But anyway, so the fact that they, I think I heard the
• 42:35
  announcer say that going into the second period, Colorado
• 42:38
  didn't have a regulation, lost the entire season.
• 42:41
  And the fact that the Leafs were able to win, that is something
• 42:45
  like that's like a big, big accomplishment for a team.
• 42:48
  That. Yeah, and for a team that has
• 42:50
  been found it out all year, I mean, obviously they had a lot
• 42:53
  to figure out with Marner, but even past that, like people were
• 42:55
  just trashing on them like crazy.
• 42:57
  I'm really kind of excited to see like I still have them out
• 43:01
  of the playoffs from the beginning of the season and I
• 43:05
  still don't think there are by any means a sure thing to make
• 43:07
  it this year. But even even at that, I like it
• 43:10
  better because they'll be battling till the very end.
• 43:12
  So back to my thing. I traded away celebrity.
• 43:16
  So every day, like halfway through the game, I'm looking up
• 43:19
  my right celebrities got no points.
• 43:21
  This is good. I'm feeling good at the end the
• 43:22
  game with three points, five shots, at least 10 face offs.
• 43:26
  Like what have I done? So last games already played, he
• 43:29
  didn't get a point and Matthews just got too.
• 43:32
  Last night. I had a really good game, a lot
• 43:33
  of face off. So you gotta hit a decent like
• 43:36
  he got two shots, I think. But still, I was so happy.
• 43:39
  It was a nice goal too. So yeah, that was like a nice
• 43:43
  sigh of relief. Temporary sigh, unfortunately,
• 43:45
  but yeah. You gotta take your wins when
• 43:48
  you can. When you trade it away
• 43:50
  celebrity, um, but yeah, I mean all all this also like circling
• 43:56
  back to the power play, John Tavares getting bumped off power
• 43:58
  play 1. It's a pretty big deal for John
• 44:00
  Tavares's value. Do I think this is going to
• 44:02
  stick? Absolutely not.
• 44:03
  Think their best power play is the power play with John Tavares
• 44:06
  on power play 1 is just the kind of mixing things up right now.
• 44:09
  Leonardo really hot when he came back.
• 44:11
  He was a massive by low earlier. Like we highlighted him several
• 44:14
  times. We said like, guys, listen, if
• 44:16
  you have an opportunity to buy like a second round value player
• 44:19
  for way cheaper. He was awful for so long.
• 44:22
  He comes back, he's played two games.
• 44:23
  He has five points. So he's kind of been on fire.
• 44:26
  And if you bought low, you're really happy to turn around may
• 44:29
  be upon us. And for Tavares, if you're
• 44:32
  holding, don't don't try to sell them on pennies for the dollar
• 44:35
  right now. When somebody tells you like
• 44:37
  always on P2, let me buy them. Just hold.
• 44:39
  And I think he gets back to P1 in the near future.
• 44:42
  So and Toronto, gun to my head, my life is on the line.
• 44:46
  I'm not betting for them. I'm not betting on them making
• 44:48
  the playoffs. But listen, they're gonna try.
• 44:51
  They're team that they can't tank the IT would not be
• 44:54
  acceptable in this organization. Even if they don't make the
• 44:56
  players, I think almost everybody's getting fired.
• 44:59
  That would be a huge, huge L. So listen, not impossible.
• 45:02
  But if they do make the playoffs, maybe it won't be here
• 45:05
  next year. Taking my metaphor to the
• 45:09
  extreme. In other words, he doesn't think
• 45:13
  Toronto is gonna make the playoffs.
• 45:15
  You don't have to put that much on the line.
• 45:16
  Like it's cool. No, no, you're forcing me.
• 45:20
  You're holding up the street. You could just simply say what
• 45:26
  he thinks gonna happen. It's all the same.
• 45:30
  Ohhhhh, man, I I just I just also want to add to this that
• 45:35
  one of the reasons for their success is a team.
• 45:37
  I mean, like Nielander coming back, the fact that the fact is
• 45:40
  like he's been also pretty wishy washy all year.
• 45:44
  So hopefully that he can be decent for the Leafs.
• 45:46
  And we're saying this house fan. So we're just saying like this
• 45:50
  is this is committed to the fantasy perspective.
• 45:54
  But they've got some pretty good depth pieces and Cowan's been
• 45:58
  pretty decent and Robertson's been pretty good.
• 46:00
  I wouldn't say I love them for fantasy by any means, but I
• 46:03
  picked up Robertson and unfortunately got hurt, but he
• 46:06
  was actually almost a point per game and decent Shaws hits.
• 46:09
  So keep an eye on that because when a team's not scoring,
• 46:13
  things are not going to really look good for the secondary
• 46:17
  players for fantasy. But now that the Leafs have
• 46:19
  stepped it up, like I would say watchlist Robertson, when he
• 46:22
  comes back, maybe you'll pick him up.
• 46:24
  And Cowan's actually been pretty solid.
• 46:25
  So just saying, keep an eye on those names.
• 46:30
  Shea Theodore returned from injury.
• 46:32
  Still no power play won, though. Yeah, I mean, this is this might
• 46:36
  be the least impactful news because we're like Theodore was
• 46:39
  drafted as a guide to be on the Vegas power play, which is a
• 46:43
  massive power play to be on. But it felt like after like a
• 46:46
  few weeks into the season, he got bumped off and never got it
• 46:49
  back besides injury. So now he's healthy.
• 46:52
  If he's on your waiver wire, I'm not super interested unless he's
• 46:54
  getting that power play 1 deployment, which is not the
• 46:56
  case. So you monitor the situation if
• 46:58
  you ever gets it. We'll mention it here on the
• 46:59
  podcast, the discord, but until then, like, he's not a guy that
• 47:02
  I want on my roster. Yeah, I mean, Marner has had
• 47:07
  years of playing, you know, very good defence as a forward.
• 47:12
  And he's the one like I know that, you know, when you play a
• 47:15
  power play there, you want offence, but you also need to
• 47:18
  make sure that if something goes wrong, you have a guy chasing
• 47:22
  back and able to play defence. And Marner is able to do that.
• 47:26
  He has done it in the past. So I'm not surprised that if
• 47:30
  they keep rolling with this. Yep, the five forwards.
• 47:33
  All right, then we have Carter Hart is week to week with a
• 47:38
  lower body injury. Akira Schmid is the starter
• 47:41
  until he or Hill returns. Until Heart or Hill returns.
• 47:45
  To clarify, I mean, it, it was even like he wasn't that good
• 47:51
  Heart before the injury. Do you think that if Schmid does
• 47:54
  super well, which I don't think he will, but do you think if he
• 47:57
  does that he can actually cement himself as the starter?
• 47:59
  Because I feel like none of these guys are.
• 48:01
  Hill is the best chance to be their guy, given the fact that
• 48:05
  Heart kind of hasn't been really good with the opportunity he's
• 48:08
  had. Do you think that there's a
• 48:10
  chance though, that Schmid can even just solidify himself as
• 48:12
  the starter? Is this an opportunity for that?
• 48:15
  I mean, for me, I think he was the starter and as a record this
• 48:19
  like they said that he'll may play next week.
• 48:23
  So I I think Hill is like literally on the cusp of
• 48:27
  returning. And if he's on your waiver wire
• 48:29
  like he is in a lot of leagues, I'm very interested in picking
• 48:32
  it up because I think he's significantly better than both
• 48:35
  Schmid and Heart. And it would be the goalie, the
• 48:37
  main goalie on a Vegas team that is a Stanley Cup contender.
• 48:40
  So that means we're gonna be getting a lot of wins.
• 48:42
  Maybe the quality won't be like exceptional, but isn't above
• 48:45
  average goalie in terms of like qualities stats.
• 48:48
  So if he's on your waiver wire, really interested in that.
• 48:51
  If he's, you know, on a team that's in the bottom of the
• 48:53
  standings, I'd be interested to buy low like right now before
• 48:56
  because there is not going to give you a big heads up on like
• 48:58
  when he's coming back. It'll be like I even saw this
• 49:01
  news and passing earlier today. Like I was, you know, scrolling
• 49:03
  on Twitter for my hockey news, you know, keeping up to date on
• 49:06
  everything. And I saw like they said, like
• 49:07
  he might back up in a few games or something like next game.
• 49:11
  So OK, it's gonna back up. That means he's really close to
• 49:13
  starting. So is it a full full starters
• 49:17
  workload when he's healthy? I don't know, but until that
• 49:19
  moment, all you have is Schmidt as a starter and very interested
• 49:22
  in having him on my roster to to, you know, be the starter for
• 49:26
  Vegas. And I think you can get decent
• 49:28
  quality from him hard. Just does not seem that like
• 49:31
  that's the guy for for them. And even when when he was back
• 49:35
  and then the heart is healthy. Like, who's gonna be the backup
• 49:37
  between him and Schmid? I think right now Schmid has the
• 49:41
  edge. But like, who knows?
• 49:44
  Yeah, so there there's a chance you're saying that heart would
• 49:47
  come back before Hill comes back.
• 49:49
  No, I think he'll, I think from what my understanding is an
• 49:51
  injury timelines, I think he's gonna come back before heart.
• 49:54
  So that way when he'll comes back, she will be the backup and
• 49:57
  then the heart is healthy. Who's the backup?
• 49:58
  Is that Schmid or is it heart? I think honestly, it's so
• 50:03
  ambiguous, I don't even want to put my stamp of approval on
• 50:05
  either of them. But I think the the main the
• 50:07
  main thing is that he's going to be the main diet like the one at
• 50:10
  least and probably start like 55 to 60% of the games and then at
• 50:14
  least and then we'll see from there.
• 50:16
  But you know, he's he'll has been kind of squishy as well.
• 50:19
  So by banking on his health for the rest of the year, I don't
• 50:23
  know, even this injury was way more significant that came out
• 50:25
  of nowhere. So.
• 50:27
  Yeah, I think he's the only one that you kind of want to own.
• 50:31
  Basically at this point, yeah. Which is crazy because Vegas is
• 50:33
  such a good team. Yeah, Yeah, it is.
• 50:36
  OK. We got Simone Nemeth returned
• 50:39
  from injury, bumped Luke use off power play one, but then he got
• 50:42
  scratched. Yeah.
• 50:43
  So this is just weird. I mean, I think that Dougie's
• 50:48
  probably the first defenseman on the way out.
• 50:50
  That's who they would want to trade, but not much.
• 50:52
  Could actually be a really good player.
• 50:54
  Like for the NHL. I don't know if he's he hasn't
• 50:56
  cemented himself as an amazing offensive defenseman or
• 50:59
  defensive defenseman yet, but there's a lot of promise with
• 51:01
  him. So it's tough.
• 51:03
  I mean like in a dynasty league it's great and redraw league.
• 51:06
  I have no interest in owning him.
• 51:07
  Yeah, I mean, we're talking we're talking to redraft right
• 51:10
  now and for this year, like in most leagues, images not roster
• 51:13
  able and the fact that like, you know, you got you got power play
• 51:16
  one for like a game and they got scratched.
• 51:18
  I looked at the coach and the coach said that they really
• 51:21
  like, you know, COVID Chavez came back and they really liked
• 51:24
  his place. They wanted him in the lineup.
• 51:25
  That's kind of why Ducky got scratched and then they brought
• 51:27
  Duggy back and then got scratched.
• 51:30
  I think that's kind of going to be the situation now.
• 51:32
  They have too many defensemen ones gotta go and maybe they're
• 51:36
  gonna keep alternating. But the coach said that this
• 51:38
  image came back from his injury. He hasn't really been up to
• 51:41
  speed or like play to the level that he did before injury.
• 51:44
  And that's why one of the reasons why he gave to, you
• 51:47
  know, scratching him. But I think Hamilton inevitably
• 51:50
  gets treated. An image will be in the lineup.
• 51:51
  Will he be fantasy relevant? I don't think so.
• 51:54
  Only if we see a sustained presence on power play one which
• 51:57
  I think Luke cues would just be the guy there for that at that
• 51:59
  point. But if it's not the case, we'll
• 52:00
  tell you and we'll let you know that I'm not holding you an
• 52:03
  image through this scratching or injury or process.
• 52:07
  You just don't need to do that like.
• 52:08
  You're better off like rostering a less good player with a lower
• 52:12
  ceiling because not much like it's it's just yeah, I don't I
• 52:15
  don't really think there's anything here.
• 52:18
  OK, then we have Robert Thomas is out with a lower body injury.
• 52:24
  Brayden Chan is taking his spot online.
• 52:25
  One power play, 1 tough, tough. I mean, Thomas has had injury
• 52:30
  issues in the past. Like, I think, you know, he
• 52:35
  hasn't had the greatest year either.
• 52:36
  I thought he was going to be really way better than he is.
• 52:38
  I thought the Blues are going to be better than they are.
• 52:40
  So yeah, I mean, to me, this isn't like a hugely relevant
• 52:46
  situation for fantasy Shen Shen could have decent, decent
• 52:51
  peripheral categories. But even at that, like it's not
• 52:53
  even a double, double on the year.
• 52:54
  And one guy who I like, who I actually picked up who's been
• 52:59
  decent lately is Jimmy Snuggerud.
• 53:02
  We highlighted him in the off season and like the past three
• 53:05
  games he's gotten 4-5 and four shots and two hits in each of
• 53:09
  those games. So like, that's not and the main
• 53:12
  thing is the minute. So of course that can just go
• 53:14
  away. Employers, it's always
• 53:16
  inconsistent. But in the meantime, I kind of
• 53:18
  like that from the Blues. Yeah, I mean, Thomas, the injury
• 53:21
  does not seem to be long term. It was just kind of like a
• 53:23
  day-to-day thing. So he might miss this game, but
• 53:26
  he might play the next game. So if you're Thomas owner, like,
• 53:28
  you know, don't be too worried about him missing an extended
• 53:30
  period of time. I just think the Blues are in a
• 53:32
  situation right now that they're they're not really competing.
• 53:34
  They're trying to find their mojo.
• 53:36
  The only hope for them, I think is, you know, they go after this
• 53:40
  Olympic break. Maybe they turned it up, but I
• 53:42
  think that it's too far gone into the season right now that
• 53:45
  they made the playoffs for Shendo.
• 53:47
  I think I I think this really bumps up shens value Brayden
• 53:51
  Schenn because line one power play 1 and him having this
• 53:54
  banger, you know, archetype to his play makes some very
• 53:57
  valuable for fantasy, especially in bankers leagues.
• 53:59
  And I think also he's playing for a trade like he's his name
• 54:03
  has been circulating in trade in trade talks for a while.
• 54:06
  I know Toronto is a team that was like significantly
• 54:09
  interested. I don't know if you can say that
• 54:11
  significantly interested, but I know Shane was.
• 54:14
  But the rumors that I saw was like, if you want Shen, then you
• 54:16
  gotta give a Cohen plus and they don't want to trade Cohen.
• 54:19
  So I, yeah, I don't know if that's going to be assessed
• 54:24
  gonna happen at any point, but he might, they might be giving
• 54:26
  him this deployment so that he can potentially get good looks
• 54:29
  for a trade. Nonetheless, I'm interested, but
• 54:32
  Thomas should be back within the next game or two it feels like.
• 54:36
  Is it not Cowan? Cowan Cohen.
• 54:39
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 54:40
  I've seen people say it all. Over that too.
• 54:41
  And like, I think this is like Voronkov vibes where it's just
• 54:44
  like it's Leviosa. You're somebody of different
• 54:50
  versions, I don't know which ones are good one anymore.
• 54:52
  Yeah, I think it's it's a challenge, but I yeah, I mean, I
• 54:57
  agree with everything you said. The one thing I'll add to it,
• 55:00
  though, is that the Blues have gone on these crazy late season
• 55:04
  runs in the past. Obviously that's really tough to
• 55:07
  depend on. It feels different this year.
• 55:09
  It feels like there was no hope. But in 2018 it felt like there
• 55:12
  was even less hope. You like Pat Maroon scrapping
• 55:14
  with another guy in practice? So they won.
• 55:17
  So they want us to never. You can't.
• 55:21
  You can't count them out. But it's definitely looking
• 55:23
  quite bleak. Alright.
• 55:26
  And last, this is tough. This is interesting.
• 55:30
  There's a lot to this one. Thank you, smiling.
• 55:33
  Brayden Point How are the lower body injury?
• 55:35
  Brandon Hagel may be taking his spot on Power Play 1.
• 55:40
  So I mean, listen, we just got some news because if you saw the
• 55:43
  injury, it did not look good, guys.
• 55:45
  It was actually it. It looked devastating.
• 55:47
  It looked like something in his knee blew up.
• 55:51
  So I really feel for Brayden Point because listen, he didn't
• 55:54
  have the hottest start to the season.
• 55:55
  He was a massive by low. Then he kind of turned it up
• 55:58
  after a small injury stretch and now this injury is devastating.
• 56:04
  Last news I saw was like literally as we're recording
• 56:06
  this, there was news that dropped from John Cooper.
• 56:08
  They finally were able to get an assessment on Britton Point and
• 56:11
  they said they avoided the worst case scenario.
• 56:13
  Like his season is not over. Does that mean his fantasy
• 56:16
  season is not over? I don't know.
• 56:18
  I think it's it's a significant week to week situation maybe
• 56:23
  with the Olympic break. I mean, he's not going to the
• 56:25
  Olympics. That's basically certain at this
• 56:26
  point, which is devastating for him.
• 56:28
  I really feel bad for him. He was one of the first names
• 56:30
  that were penciled into their roster.
• 56:32
  But is this fantasy season over? I think at this point, if you're
• 56:36
  in point owner, you're just hoping he comes back for like
• 56:38
  that week 21 quarter final week for most fantasy leagues.
• 56:42
  But it it I don't wanna project. I'm not a doctor, obviously, I
• 56:46
  don't know, but knee injuries like that are pretty significant
• 56:49
  and they're not gonna mess around without Tampas playing
• 56:51
  for the actual playoffs. So in the meantime, though, I
• 56:55
  expect, you know, Brett Anthony Cirelli to get a bump in minutes
• 57:00
  as the other the other prominent centre on this roster and
• 57:04
  whoever gets that power play one spot will be coveted.
• 57:06
  Is it finally Brandon Hagel like we saw Hagel get looks there
• 57:09
  during the game as point got hurt.
• 57:12
  Maybe my signature pick is finally to come to fruition in
• 57:16
  January. But listen, while we have all
• 57:19
  big sample size of Tampa having injured guys and then putting
• 57:22
  Bjorkstrand on there, then putting Nick Paul on there, then
• 57:25
  putting Gonzalvez on there and Brandon Hagel remaining on power
• 57:28
  play too. So I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
• 57:31
  putting my life on the line for this one.
• 57:33
  But if he does get it, I I would expect huge things from Brandon
• 57:37
  Hagel for the rest of the season.
• 57:38
  That would be massive for his value.
• 57:40
  But we have enough experience under our belt to know that to
• 57:43
  take this one with a grain of salt.
• 57:45
  So, yeah, I mean, this is like I knew about the point injury, but
• 57:51
  but I I found out about this news while reading it was
• 57:56
  believably one because it's like I knew about the injury, but I
• 57:59
  didn't even bother checking like the lines to see what it is.
• 58:02
  I was like, oh, whatever. Another stupid situation where
• 58:05
  Hagel's gonna get snubbed, the nugget power play one.
• 58:07
  But lo and behold, he's actually listed there.
• 58:10
  Like he's actually listed as powerful.
• 58:13
  So thanks Anger Management for telling me about the news.
• 58:17
  Earlier in the season 2 where they had another injury in the
• 58:20
  mid game, they put Hagel there, but then the next game it was
• 58:22
  like somebody else. So that's why it's still so
• 58:25
  early that I don't know what the next game is going to look like
• 58:28
  and we'll have to wait and see. But if he does get it, we're
• 58:30
  very optimistic either way. You're holding Brandon Hagel,
• 58:33
  right? It's not like he's a waiver
• 58:34
  wire. Better you got to pick up and be
• 58:35
  proactive about it. Like he's already rostered.
• 58:38
  So you just hope that it is actually going to be him,
• 58:40
  finally, and that you're rewarded.
• 58:42
  Yeah, because The thing is is like, I was thinking I was like,
• 58:44
  wow, like now that he's got power, play one, if he does
• 58:46
  really well with it for like a game, maybe 2, do I sell?
• 58:49
  And the truth is, I feel like nobody would be willing to buy
• 58:52
  them at the price that he can actually be.
• 58:54
  He could be so good. The fact that he's unable to be
• 58:57
  this amazing like over the past two years without getting power
• 58:59
  play one as wild. Like I say, protists, but like,
• 59:02
  I love protists. But Hagel's been wildly good.
• 59:07
  He got and he can replicate a similar pace for the rest of the
• 59:11
  year. And honestly, it feels like Sky
• 59:13
  would be the limit because anybody attached the culture of
• 59:16
  it can be good. He plays well, Kucherov, he's
• 59:19
  with him on line 1, which we've seen and he's done super well.
• 59:22
  So I just, I mean, I think, I think you just like hold and
• 59:26
  just enjoy because this could be amazing.
• 59:29
  Yeah, I mean, listen, you temporary or temper your
• 59:32
  expectations, whichever 1 is the correct pronunciation.
• 59:34
  You do that. But he's he's like the final
• 59:37
  evolution of the produce archetype.
• 59:39
  Like the guy that's thought not on the power play, but we'll get
• 59:41
  you like three shots and basically average a point per
• 59:44
  game. I think he could be like 1.11
• 59:46
  point, 2 points per game player if he gets power play one with
• 59:48
  like point 2.25 but without that is like a point 1.15 power
• 59:53
  player deployment. And yeah, I just if you have
• 59:57
  Hagel, you should be excited, but if you can sell them on the
• 1:00:00
  prospect of power play 1 before we know if it's actually
• 1:00:03
  confirmed and you get value for that, then do that.
• 1:00:05
  But or else just like wait and see.
• 1:00:07
  And he's the guy that's gonna produce with the opportunity if
• 1:00:09
  he gets it. So yeah, no, no harm in being
• 1:00:12
  patient. Yes.
• 1:00:14
  All right, let's get into the wood you rathers for this week.
• 1:00:18
  We had a so much news to cover. So that was a lot of a lot of
• 1:00:23
  news. A lot of people heard, a lot of
• 1:00:24
  people coming back from injury. So hopefully you guys brought
• 1:00:27
  bear with us, born with us, whatever it is of Cohen Kawan, I
• 1:00:33
  have no idea. Keen.
• 1:00:35
  No. It's.
• 1:00:35
  Definitely not Kawan. 100% it's not cool.
• 1:00:42
  But if you if you're listening to this episode, we we're
• 1:00:45
  usually the three of us. It's me, Jake and and Josh and
• 1:00:47
  Josh is currently not here. So I come up with five.
• 1:00:51
  Would you rathers one of each position, left wing, right wing
• 1:00:54
  Senator Dan Scoli and I try to split the difference between
• 1:00:57
  Jake and Josh and have them pick different guys.
• 1:00:59
  So today we will see if Jake and I disagree.
• 1:01:03
  And I can also kind of predict where where Josh is going to go.
• 1:01:07
  But let's get right into it for the first.
• 1:01:10
  Would you rather talking about the left wing position?
• 1:01:14
  Would you rather rest of season, and this is for Bangor leagues,
• 1:01:18
  Travis Connect me or Andre Svechnikov in our league, these
• 1:01:23
  guys got drafted a few picks apart.
• 1:01:26
  Josh actually drafted stretch Nikov and snipe me and then I
• 1:01:30
  drafted Connect Me right after and then was very happy with
• 1:01:33
  connecting for a long period of time because actually was like
• 1:01:35
  line 4 for like a month and 1/2. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:39
  I mean that they've got very similar playoff schedules.
• 1:01:42
  So that's kind of, you know, in the, that makes things even more
• 1:01:46
  difficult. The the gut reaction here is
• 1:01:49
  Sveshnikov just because he's more reliable for the double
• 1:01:52
  double. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if
• 1:01:58
  if connecting ends the season with more points.
• 1:02:01
  He did it last year by on the average by quite a wide margin.
• 1:02:06
  And you know, I, I mean, I guess I would say that both of them
• 1:02:10
  are pretty reliable for Pimms, although connecting is a bit
• 1:02:12
  more spicy with his place sometime.
• 1:02:17
  I mean, I was my gut reaction was fashion Akov.
• 1:02:21
  The more I think about it though, the, the, the more I
• 1:02:25
  think that's, I don't know, there's this is tough for you.
• 1:02:28
  What did you rate yourself a 7.5?
• 1:02:30
  You're starting off real hot here.
• 1:02:32
  I know, I know. You know what, I'm gonna go
• 1:02:34
  connect me. The deployment is reliable.
• 1:02:36
  You don't have to deal with RAW as like a bit of a headache.
• 1:02:39
  And I think that connecting can get more points, get more power,
• 1:02:46
  more penalty minutes. And then the, I mean, the power
• 1:02:49
  play points are probably not going to be as good just because
• 1:02:51
  I don't think that. I think, I basically think that
• 1:02:56
  when special is on the power play, there's a higher chance of
• 1:02:58
  them scoring, but there's also a chance it's just not there.
• 1:03:00
  So it's too much of a headache and you're getting a bit more
• 1:03:03
  reliability, connecting safer. That's my choice.
• 1:03:06
  God, that was tough. I was really.
• 1:03:08
  Hard I I feel like Josh's pick would be switching kickoff for
• 1:03:11
  sure so. When he said he's not on the
• 1:03:14
  team anymore, yeah, there there's gonna be sound.
• 1:03:17
  Logic, but these guys are honestly very close in value.
• 1:03:21
  They're similar archetype. I think the big question here is
• 1:03:23
  also the risk tolerance you have and like you said, the safe pick
• 1:03:27
  I think is maybe connect me because I don't think connect me
• 1:03:30
  is at risk of being line 4 power play to you know, so which we
• 1:03:34
  know is in the cards for session Yakov.
• 1:03:37
  But when both are playing at their optimal potential, I think
• 1:03:40
  stretched Jacob is the better player.
• 1:03:42
  I think he should edge it out and shots edge out in hits, even
• 1:03:45
  though both are very comparable. The main thing here though is
• 1:03:48
  like Carolina has an abysmal power play, but Phillies power
• 1:03:51
  play is nothing to write home about either to be honest, and
• 1:03:54
  that's recently I feel the Carolina power play has been
• 1:03:57
  better if you're looking at recent play, special has been
• 1:04:01
  better overall on the season connection has been has more
• 1:04:05
  points. He's been averaging more points,
• 1:04:07
  but also like don't forget specialists horrible for like a
• 1:04:10
  month and 1/2. So this really is like your risk
• 1:04:13
  tolerance, I think, because switch could end up being one of
• 1:04:17
  those guys that gets bumped down the line up, but I'm I'm going
• 1:04:20
  stretch if it was me and I think.
• 1:04:23
  Josh will totally understand. Yeah, I totally understand.
• 1:04:26
  It's just like, and that's my gut reaction too.
• 1:04:29
  It's just that when it comes down to it, the highs don't feel
• 1:04:33
  that much higher. They are higher, but they're not
• 1:04:36
  that much higher and the lows feel so low.
• 1:04:39
  I think and it just will have more points.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah, like, yeah, it's not crazy just because we know how
• 1:04:46
  inconsistent and volatile the raw random or situation is.
• 1:04:50
  So to your point, you may, you may, you may be better than both
• 1:04:53
  of us, but it's definitely close.
• 1:04:55
  If it were, definitely spitting feathers here.
• 1:04:58
  Yeah, definitely. This is weather.
• 1:05:01
  Letter. Letter.
• 1:05:03
  Whatever. Kwan Cohen.
• 1:05:06
  Yeah. Cowan.
• 1:05:09
  Alright. Yeah.
• 1:05:10
  Thank you. Alright, so let's move to the
• 1:05:13
  next one. Alright, talk about the right
• 1:05:15
  wing position. This one, honestly, maybe I feel
• 1:05:19
  your gut reaction will be lopsided, but I think it's
• 1:05:22
  closer or maybe I'm just it's actually close and it's not
• 1:05:24
  lopsided. I don't know.
• 1:05:25
  Those are the possibilities. And we'll talk about Mika
• 1:05:28
  Zibanejad versus Alex Debrincat rest of season.
• 1:05:33
  Hmm, what do you think? My gut reaction is out of
• 1:05:36
  curiosity. I think gut reaction is gonna be
• 1:05:38
  to drink it. Interesting.
• 1:05:42
  I wouldn't say I I OK, so for for a split second, I was
• 1:05:47
  thinking is a manage ad just because like, you know, it's
• 1:05:51
  been years of Zibanejad being an absolute stud and to bring it's
• 1:05:54
  great too, but it's sort of a little less a little less
• 1:05:58
  flashy. Perhaps it's the hair better a
• 1:06:01
  significantly better playoff schedule with the Rangers and
• 1:06:05
  despite the fact that they have been a mess, manager has been
• 1:06:08
  really on a tear as of late. Is it one of the hottest players
• 1:06:11
  in the NHL for the last month like. .6 power play points per
• 1:06:14
  game like the Rangers power play has actually low Cuban cooking,
• 1:06:18
  but they just can't win games which is crazy but he's he's
• 1:06:22
  been hot hot AF hot AF hot AF yeah I.
• 1:06:27
  Also will point out that hasn't had a point per game season and
• 1:06:32
  I feel like this is going to be his first to to be honest.
• 1:06:37
  It's funny cause like coming into the season, I would have
• 1:06:39
  basically given you the exact opposite answer, but for the
• 1:06:42
  same logic. So I would have said at the
• 1:06:44
  beginning, I would be like, you know, and we were lower on
• 1:06:46
  Spanish out because people were so high on him and for a while,
• 1:06:49
  like he wasn't doing what he's doing now.
• 1:06:51
  But anyway, my logic now is that I believe in the Red Wings more
• 1:06:55
  than I think I believe in the Rangers for the rest of the
• 1:06:59
  season. So because of that, I'm simply
• 1:07:01
  going to choose to bring it on the season to bring it has been
• 1:07:05
  significantly better. Yet if you look at the last two
• 1:07:07
  weeks, it's not even being closed because basically
• 1:07:09
  advantage has been like the best player in the league.
• 1:07:11
  So yeah, I mean, yeah, the last month, yeah, you're getting the
• 1:07:16
  shots from Debrincat that are probably gonna be significantly
• 1:07:20
  better. And I would say that the points
• 1:07:21
  are gonna average out. So because I think that the
• 1:07:25
  because I think that the Red Wings are gonna be a better
• 1:07:28
  team, a more reliable team offensively and probably
• 1:07:32
  defensively too. But for this purposes, offence,
• 1:07:35
  I'm gonna I'm gonna pick to bring it here.
• 1:07:36
  But it's definitely close and you're way better than a 7.5 so
• 1:07:40
  far, yeah. Do do you think though that
• 1:07:43
  given? The Rangers playoff schedules
• 1:07:45
  week 21 to 23. Does that edge it out for you
• 1:07:47
  with rather rings advantage? Because first of all, I think we
• 1:07:51
  don't usually take this into account with preferring you
• 1:07:55
  said. Right.
• 1:07:56
  Rather, I don't know what I said, but.
• 1:08:00
  Whatever I said, it definitely meant it.
• 1:08:03
  But I I need to preface and say week 21 to 23, obviously Rangers
• 1:08:08
  have the best playoff schedule. It's a 444.
• 1:08:11
  They have good off nights, but uh, also in a leader has faceoff
• 1:08:17
  wins. Zibanejad is truly elite dead
• 1:08:21
  because the right wing are getting those face off wins.
• 1:08:22
  I think that would put him over the edge for me 100% in terms of
• 1:08:26
  like over the brink tip. Just having that category
• 1:08:29
  coverage and the positional eligibility is is huge in a
• 1:08:33
  league without face off wins like I think most leagues out
• 1:08:35
  there and how we do this would you rather usually that's why
• 1:08:38
  it's very close. I think if you're going to bring
• 1:08:41
  kid, honestly, I feel like Josh would be like, I want to bring
• 1:08:43
  it before the playoffs. I wanted to manage AD just
• 1:08:46
  because the playoff schedule. So I think that's where he would
• 1:08:48
  lean. But also the ranges are a mess
• 1:08:50
  right now. So who knows how good they're
• 1:08:52
  going to become the playoffs even for that playoff schedule.
• 1:08:54
  Like if Panera's not there, how good are they truly?
• 1:08:57
  So I don't I don't know, but that's a lot of projections.
• 1:09:00
  You gotta do what you gotta do now.
• 1:09:02
  I'm I'm going, I'm going to break it.
• 1:09:05
  And I feel like it's just one of those situations where you know
• 1:09:08
  you're going to get an extra at least one one shot a game more
• 1:09:11
  than Zibanejad and Kabasa major cell high right now, whereas the
• 1:09:15
  brink did. I feel like he's playing it like
• 1:09:16
  his average and he'll hover around a point per game and but
• 1:09:20
  he'll get way more shots than than as a manager.
• 1:09:23
  And the power play is consistently good too.
• 1:09:25
  So disclaimer, my answer had to do with no faceoffs.
• 1:09:28
  So mine is. That's the way I approached it
• 1:09:31
  so. You know what's a?
• 1:09:33
  Good one. When you know that the faceoffs
• 1:09:34
  could kind of be a deal breaker and I don't think with faceoffs
• 1:09:37
  I would, I would still say the brink it, but like really by
• 1:09:41
  like a tiny, tiny margin. Like a.
• 1:09:44
  Really small margin because what's cool about the Rangers is
• 1:09:47
  that they got a lot of games and are probably gonna be fighting
• 1:09:50
  for a playoff spot. So that's nice.
• 1:09:51
  It's kind of the best of both worlds, Hannah Montana.
• 1:09:54
  But it's also just that I just think that the brain gets like a
• 1:10:00
  really good player on what's going to be a high flying
• 1:10:01
  offence the rest of the year. And I also think that if Panarin
• 1:10:04
  does get treated, this is without knowing the cap
• 1:10:07
  situation offhand right now. He's done very well with Kane in
• 1:10:11
  the past and to bring something goes to the Red Wings, that
• 1:10:16
  would be wild. The teams I saw that were in the
• 1:10:19
  mix for Panera and I don't know the.
• 1:10:20
  Cap situation either it was just like the main teams that would
• 1:10:23
  be in for like a higher winger like that would be like it's
• 1:10:25
  Carolina, it's Washington, it's Florida.
• 1:10:30
  So I think a lot of a lot of those destinations are good.
• 1:10:33
  Carolina would be terrible, disastrous.
• 1:10:37
  The last year or so that would be horrible would be like.
• 1:10:43
  That I'd have faith that he could figure it out, but just I
• 1:10:45
  ran. Them in situation scares you.
• 1:10:46
  Yeah it's it's terrifying. I I hope he doesn't go.
• 1:10:49
  Here, Honestly. All right, let's blow through
• 1:10:53
  this next one. So talk on defensemen, would
• 1:10:55
  you? Rather Roman Yosi or Matthew
• 1:10:58
  Schaefer rest of season. Alright, so the.
• 1:11:03
  Gut reaction here. I'm going Shaffer understandably
• 1:11:07
  why one would choose Yoshi. It's just I I think that with
• 1:11:12
  the volatility of of having a young guy on your team, of
• 1:11:15
  course it's gonna be way more hit or miss.
• 1:11:18
  That being said, Yoshi is playing on a team that's
• 1:11:23
  probably not going to be in the playoffs.
• 1:11:25
  And he's had pretty much what was described as a chronic
• 1:11:27
  injury before the season. So I would not be surprised if
• 1:11:30
  they shut him down at any time. And I also don't think like, I
• 1:11:33
  think that the Islanders have sort of been playing beyond what
• 1:11:37
  they're capable of for most of the year.
• 1:11:39
  Right now, they are in second in the Metropolitan Division, which
• 1:11:43
  is ridonculous. So I don't think that's going to
• 1:11:46
  say. But I think that even if they
• 1:11:47
  regress and end up not being very good that Schaefer, it's
• 1:11:51
  all about developing Schaefer, bringing up his confidence,
• 1:11:54
  making him a good player. So there's a lot of things to
• 1:11:56
  like for Schaefer, even though I think at times he will be a cell
• 1:11:59
  high. I don't love it.
• 1:12:01
  The back hats are not what yogis are.
• 1:12:03
  That being said, like they could simply just shut down Yoshi at
• 1:12:05
  any time. And because he's.
• 1:12:07
  Yeah. So yeah, this is Schaefer for
• 1:12:10
  me. I'm also going to Schaefer.
• 1:12:13
  I think Josh would also go I. Think Josh would be like, I
• 1:12:16
  think you'll see the better player, but he's at risk of
• 1:12:18
  getting shut down. So I'm going Schaefer.
• 1:12:20
  So kind of basically similar logic to you, but Nashville.
• 1:12:23
  We don't really highlighting their players on the cell high
• 1:12:26
  episodes on the waiver episodes. So they've been kind of hot and
• 1:12:29
  you'll see has been a little bit better as of late.
• 1:12:31
  Like he's hovering around .65 points per game over the last
• 1:12:34
  month and a good shots, good power play like we know Roman,
• 1:12:37
  you'll see, is known for. And Schaefer has definitely
• 1:12:40
  slowed down from what he did earlier in the season, even
• 1:12:42
  though we've seen like the magical games where he's
• 1:12:43
  winning, uh, and scoring crazy goals.
• 1:12:47
  But yet the fantasy production isn't like as hype as what he's
• 1:12:51
  been doing on the ice. But I think it's close enough
• 1:12:54
  that I want the I want the projection of what shaver can be
• 1:12:57
  rest of season and not the risk of him getting shut down for
• 1:13:01
  injuries. So also going Schaefer, but I do
• 1:13:05
  think you might be happier with the OC in the immediate future.
• 1:13:09
  Yeah, yeah, I think. So you think Josh is going
• 1:13:12
  Schaefer here too? I think Josh is going Shaffer as
• 1:13:15
  well. Alright, alright, these.
• 1:13:17
  Are these are really these are tough.
• 1:13:19
  I gotta tell you, these are happy.
• 1:13:21
  Maybe, I told myself, not easy. Yeah, alright, let's go to the
• 1:13:25
  next. All right, go on.
• 1:13:26
  Goalies I'm talking about. One of the hottest goalies in
• 1:13:30
  the league right now, and I'm not talking about their style,
• 1:13:32
  talking about their play on the ice.
• 1:13:35
  John Gibson or one of the other hottest goalies on the ice.
• 1:13:39
  I'll talk to them about their style, talking about their play
• 1:13:41
  on the ice. Joseph Wall of the Toronto Maple
• 1:13:45
  Leafs. That's a good old perfectly over
• 1:13:48
  there. Yeah, I.
• 1:13:49
  Like it we got, we got 2 Red Wings in these.
• 1:13:53
  I know. Would you rather so far it's
• 1:13:56
  look, I mean, they're first in the division, they're first in
• 1:13:59
  the Atlantic. So, I mean, it's definitely
• 1:14:02
  worth it to talk about it. I think that you're probably,
• 1:14:09
  and I really think Toronto is gonna be fighting for a spot.
• 1:14:16
  Do we have any like indication on when Stolarz is coming back,
• 1:14:19
  by the way? It looks like it's.
• 1:14:21
  I mean, it was. Uncertain for so long and now it
• 1:14:24
  kind of feels like he's getting back on the ice and everything.
• 1:14:26
  So I would say like maybe a few weeks, right?
• 1:14:30
  Right. Because I was like I.
• 1:14:32
  Mean, I was almost going to say that I think that wool has like
• 1:14:35
  a higher chance of being a solid starter.
• 1:14:38
  I mean, who's gonna get most of the starts I think regardless.
• 1:14:42
  Maple Leafs have been, you know, they've been kind of ramping up
• 1:14:46
  a little bit and a big part of that in their wins has been
• 1:14:49
  walled being just a shutdown goalie.
• 1:14:52
  Like, he's actually been really good for them on the ice.
• 1:14:55
  Yeah. No, I mean, uh, but then Gibson.
• 1:14:57
  Stats, which has been like insane and he's one of the best
• 1:15:00
  goalies over the last month, but we know it's.
• 1:15:02
  Older, a little squishy. That's I think I'm probably
• 1:15:06
  gonna go wall. Because you have what I think is
• 1:15:10
  the better volume play there. I also think that even though
• 1:15:14
  Detroit, I would say has a higher chance of than Toronto to
• 1:15:18
  make the playoffs, I would also say that they have a higher
• 1:15:21
  chance of being, you know, in a position that they're going to
• 1:15:25
  want to rest Gibson come playoff time as opposed to Wall getting
• 1:15:29
  more of the starts. So you're right, actually,
• 1:15:32
  that's a very good point. I would think that when Stolarz
• 1:15:34
  gets back, he was going to split it based on what you just said
• 1:15:36
  and how good Wall has been. If you look at the numbers, I
• 1:15:38
  mean, they're winning with him and they were not winning with
• 1:15:41
  Strollers at the beginning of year.
• 1:15:42
  That's just facts. There's a lot of variables.
• 1:15:44
  I still think scholars would get more than an average backup, but
• 1:15:47
  it's going to be A1 and A2 and not A1A1B.
• 1:15:49
  Areas of Detroit keeps doing super well.
• 1:15:52
  I think as the year goes on they're going to want to rest
• 1:15:54
  Gibson for the playoffs, give Talbot a few more stars.
• 1:15:57
  Of course Gibson still gonna play.
• 1:15:58
  He'll get the majority, but I think we'll is gonna get more
• 1:16:02
  starts, slightly less quality. But overall I think it's a
• 1:16:06
  better pick. I mean, listen, it's so if you
• 1:16:09
  look at the numbers, it's so hard to go.
• 1:16:11
  Against John Gibson right now, like you're putting everything
• 1:16:14
  on the table and like this guy is winning 80% of his games, is
• 1:16:17
  letting in two goals a game only and his save percentage is nuts.
• 1:16:21
  So it's really hard. And also Gibson was a guy that a
• 1:16:24
  lot of people picked up off of waivers like over the last month
• 1:16:26
  being like, listen, Detroit's hot.
• 1:16:28
  He's playing well. He's gotten a couple shoutouts
• 1:16:30
  like it's he's actually been performing really well.
• 1:16:32
  But we've seen this before with John Gibson.
• 1:16:33
  Like he goes through stretches like this.
• 1:16:35
  He goes, he goes through stretches where he's awful and
• 1:16:38
  he also gets hurt very often. So which is one of the reasons
• 1:16:41
  why it took so long for him to actually get traded away from
• 1:16:43
  Anaheim over the years. I think the safe pick here is
• 1:16:47
  Wall and for a lot of the logic as well for what you mentioned
• 1:16:51
  is making me choose the same answer.
• 1:16:52
  I think wall is he's shown us that he can be a good quality
• 1:16:56
  goalie. He's not the healthiest guy
• 1:16:58
  either, right? Like we've seen the wall be hurt
• 1:17:00
  often as well. So you're picking between two
• 1:17:02
  squishy guys. But I like to fight.
• 1:17:05
  Toronto is going to be trying to make the playoffs so whole time.
• 1:17:07
  And I do think Gibson is just play way over expectation right
• 1:17:10
  now that I I'm a little bit suspicious.
• 1:17:14
  But listen, if I had to recommend a guy for a spot star
• 1:17:16
  right now, it's probably John Gibson.
• 1:17:18
  But uh, I feel that Wall is really up there right now.
• 1:17:22
  I would guess Josh picks Gibson. Here because he's own stole ours
• 1:17:26
  in the past who's done really well for him and like, you know,
• 1:17:29
  I mean, there is he's been really they were really good as
• 1:17:32
  A1A1B situation with scholars pretty much being the 1A.
• 1:17:36
  But yeah, I just think that this is sort of walls chance to
• 1:17:39
  cement himself as a starter. He's a lot younger than Gibson
• 1:17:43
  also. I mean, he's not super young.
• 1:17:45
  He's 27. But I like for a goalie emerging
• 1:17:50
  as a starter in the NHL, this is a good opportunity for him and
• 1:17:53
  just think he'll get more games. Basically what I said and just a
• 1:17:56
  little bit less good percentages.
• 1:17:57
  So but it's tough to go against Gibson.
• 1:18:00
  And you're right, it's been ridiculous.
• 1:18:02
  I think Detroit are better team in Toronto this year.
• 1:18:04
  So you'd be choosing a. Goal that's also playing well on
• 1:18:06
  a better team. It almost feels like a no
• 1:18:08
  brainer, but alas. Alright, last one.
• 1:18:11
  There you go. I had to throw a last in there
• 1:18:14
  for one episode. Talk about the centre position.
• 1:18:18
  Now this might be the least. This is what maybe brings it
• 1:18:21
  down to 7.5. I don't know.
• 1:18:23
  Maybe I'm just not giving myself into flowers.
• 1:18:26
  But would you rather rest of the season Adam Fantilli or Robert
• 1:18:30
  Thomas? I'm curious about your.
• 1:18:34
  Your thoughts on this first, because I don't wanna, OK, I
• 1:18:38
  don't want to say anything in sway and and I kind of need some
• 1:18:41
  swaying here because I feel like I feel like there is a right
• 1:18:44
  choice, but maybe I'm just totally off base with thinking
• 1:18:47
  about it. So instinct.
• 1:18:49
  It feels like Robert Thomas, the pedigree.
• 1:18:51
  The name, the history of production, he's kind of been
• 1:18:55
  heating up over the last month before his recent injury.
• 1:18:57
  So we're like, OK, like, you know, what are we getting here?
• 1:19:00
  The Blues are also a mess. Fantilli, on the other hand, he
• 1:19:03
  was a guy that we said like, you know, like Leo Carlson early in
• 1:19:06
  the year has a chance to be whole season winning pickup.
• 1:19:09
  And he was for a long time then significantly slowed down.
• 1:19:12
  And as of late, he hasn't been the same guy that we recommended
• 1:19:14
  to pick up. But you know, Columbus just
• 1:19:16
  fired their coach. So there's upside on the
• 1:19:17
  horizon. He has a deployment.
• 1:19:20
  He has a category coverage, just better than Thomas.
• 1:19:22
  But the points just haven't been adding up as of late.
• 1:19:24
  So what do you kind of project for rest of season?
• 1:19:27
  Which situation is better? Who do you like better as a
• 1:19:29
  talent and who do you think is a safer pick?
• 1:19:33
  Yeah. So basically like, OK, so I'm
• 1:19:34
  glad. You said it because I had a very
• 1:19:36
  similar thought process there. Thomas is back categories.
• 1:19:41
  They're peripherals are are really not very good.
• 1:19:43
  Like he just does not hit he at all And Fantilli has been
• 1:19:47
  surprisingly very solid in that in that mix.
• 1:19:52
  Now. I mean you got a guy with top
• 1:19:56
  tier deployment on what should be a very fun team rest of the
• 1:20:00
  season in Fantilli and. Another guy who's the best
• 1:20:05
  player with great deployment but bad, you know, peripheral
• 1:20:09
  categories pretty much and inconsistent points so far in
• 1:20:13
  Thomas. I mean, it's very different
• 1:20:16
  archetypes. It's a very different situation.
• 1:20:17
  So this is very cool to look at. I really want to say Thomas.
• 1:20:22
  That was easily my first instinct and I'm probably going
• 1:20:25
  to stick with that only because there is some unknowns that
• 1:20:28
  they're there are definitely unknowns that come with the new
• 1:20:31
  coach, which is what they're gonna have to deal with.
• 1:20:33
  Now. Columbus, chances are it's
• 1:20:35
  positive, but there is also a higher chance of it being like
• 1:20:40
  that eventually will get bumped off line 1 and there was had
• 1:20:42
  evidence stayed there. I would say so.
• 1:20:47
  The highs are higher for Fantilli, I'll be the first to
• 1:20:50
  say that. But I also think that with the
• 1:20:53
  slight chance the Blues do balance back, Thomas is going to
• 1:20:55
  have like a huge role in that. So I think that it's somewhat of
• 1:20:58
  a better floor play. I'll just go Thomas here.
• 1:21:02
  So I feel like Josh would have. A similar take, I feel like
• 1:21:05
  Josh's take would be like it's Robert Thomas.
• 1:21:08
  Like, yeah, he's hasn't been the same guy, but at the end of the
• 1:21:11
  day, you take the guy that, you know, he's probably going to get
• 1:21:12
  the more points. My answer is honestly different.
• 1:21:16
  Like I feel like I'm going Chantilly rest of season.
• 1:21:18
  I think I might be the highest guy on the on the Blue Jackets
• 1:21:21
  out of the three of us. So maybe I'm a little bit too
• 1:21:24
  biased here, but my take is that I think, you know, Chantilly
• 1:21:27
  gets easily more shots, easily more hits.
• 1:21:30
  So I'm already getting the category coverage there.
• 1:21:32
  The face off wins are not anything crazy.
• 1:21:33
  I should be like maybe 3 face off wins extra for Thomas.
• 1:21:37
  The power play is kind of similar, but if I had to bet on
• 1:21:39
  one getting more power play points, honestly it might be
• 1:21:41
  close that Fantilli. Like if Columbus really figures
• 1:21:44
  things out under bonus, then that's more optimistic.
• 1:21:47
  Like do I put my life that family has more points than
• 1:21:50
  Thomas? No, but I wouldn't be shocked.
• 1:21:53
  I feel like he's definitely regressed significantly over the
• 1:21:55
  last month month or so. But I think there's a lot of
• 1:21:58
  better days ahead for Columbus and I feel they have a lot of
• 1:22:01
  good pieces around him. And if he really cements align
• 1:22:03
  one power play 1, even if ends up being like line 2 power play
• 1:22:06
  1, I still think there's enough talent on Columbus that he can
• 1:22:08
  be productive. And I think he's a guy that can
• 1:22:10
  drive drive his own production. So I'm making the bed here.
• 1:22:14
  I feel like it's it may not be popular.
• 1:22:16
  I mean, Robert Thomas was a guy that not many people were happy
• 1:22:19
  with this season as well. Like you're getting maybe .8
• 1:22:21
  points per game and like a shot or shot and a half and pretty
• 1:22:24
  much nothing else. So I like the foundation of the
• 1:22:27
  category covered from Chantilly and bangers leagues and the
• 1:22:30
  upside of the points I feel like is similar.
• 1:22:33
  So, but that's kind of where I'm going.
• 1:22:35
  But maybe maybe I'm crazy like Fancy.
• 1:22:37
  He's definitely has a lot less name value than Robert Thomas at
• 1:22:40
  this point. Like Robert Thomas last year had
• 1:22:41
  1.2 points per game. Crazy.
• 1:22:43
  Yeah, yeah, I know. It's not a crazy take though.
• 1:22:46
  Like. I mean, the Blues were, the
• 1:22:48
  Blues were good last year and they're really not very good
• 1:22:51
  this year. So I get it.
• 1:22:54
  I still think it's safer, but we'll see.
• 1:22:58
  Interesting Bilo, but it could also like it could go pretty.
• 1:23:03
  Pretty badly too. Yeah.
• 1:23:04
  So we'll see. We'll see.
• 1:23:06
  He gets bumped down, doesn't make it back to line 1 and his.
• 1:23:09
  Value might be, might be significantly different.
• 1:23:12
  So yeah, yeah. All right, all wraps it up.
• 1:23:15
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• 1:23:17
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• 1:23:18
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• 1:23:23
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• 1:23:25
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• 1:23:27
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• 1:23:29
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