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Week 23 Waiver Wire Targets + Streamers | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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  But in Annandale Bangor Management in Fantasy Hockey
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  podcast. Woo woo.
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  Woo, welcome to Bangor Management, the fantasy hockey
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  podcast with Jake and Kevin. Today.
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  Some call us the best 2 host of Bangor Management.
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  Would you agree? Some do call us that.
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  I would agree. I mean, listen, if you're on the
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  podcast, it means you're one of the two best hosts.
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  I think that's how it works, Josh.
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  Josh is missing today because he is currently driving to Montreal
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  to meet with us. So listen, we asked him if he
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  could record from the car. He said he really wanted to, but
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  he, you know, it would have been difficult.
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  So listen, you get the two best hosts today.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's well said. Well said.
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  Today is our Week 23 Waivers episode.
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  the support. We genuinely do.
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  Hopefully, hopefully you're, you're either battling it out
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  ready, already locked in for the semis next week or the finals,
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  depending on your your fantasy settings.
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  How are we doing, Kevin, these days?
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  I mean, so we're recording this Saturday right before all the
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  games of the day and you guys are going to be hearing this
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  Sunday morning. So it's going to be stressful.
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  And to the weak, like obviously like going in Monday was a
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  horrible day for me because my opponent once again started his
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  match up with a shorthanded point.
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  And it, it, it feels like everything has been going
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  against me these playoffs but somehow like barely squeaked by
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  as of late. Wednesday looked like my matchup
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  was completely over. I was like, I would have given
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  myself like a 10% chance. Then the Thursday games really
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  helped me out. My team popped off.
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  But yet again, it feels like I have games on my opponent
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  because I, you know, plan strategically forward.
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  The semifinals had so many off nights, all my, you know, my
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  Rangers guys, my trocheck, my will coolies and a lot of
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  people, a lot of guys let me down.
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  Like last night I, I had think 6 guys playing and my opponent had
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  two guys playing and we ended the night with the same amount
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  of points. And that would have been like a
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  big night for me to kind of like overtake him in points.
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  Um, but now it's basically 5050. I give myself basically a 40%
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  chance of winning, winning my matchup.
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  So listen better than earlier in the week, but it's going to be
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  tough. Like it's really going to depend
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  on how the goalies go. Goalies, goalies are so
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  volatile. I know everybody in this course
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  is, is super annoyed. Let's say I can use the worst
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  word, but I'll use annoyed. But just people that have
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  carried you all season dropping the ball.
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  Like Alex Lyon had his worst game in the season and a lot of
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  people are running Alex Lyon. Kemper gets a shout out after
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  being so bad. Like it's just the the
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  volatility of everything. Yeah, it's, uh, it's honestly,
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  I, I find that it's a really tough thing to do it with
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  bullies. I mean, Josh is suggested in the
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  past many times just let's just not have goalies in the league.
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  You've got to have, but like, no, it has to know.
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  It's really tough. Like it has to work.
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  There are leagues where bad performances are not scrutinized
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  as much as they are in our league.
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  But I like it. It's so high stakes and I, I
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  don't, I know it's, it's unpredictable to a degree, but
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  it makes it really, really fun. And like right now I mean that
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  my 2 goalies are Dan Vladar and Brandon Bussey.
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  And I'm just like, it could be like, I have no clue how these
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  next they have a back-to-back. So I'm getting one star out of
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  each of them. I have no idea how this is gonna
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  go. It could be like, it's just
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  totally unpredictable. So I'm in the same boat as
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  everyone. Else coordinate playing, you get
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  Vidar's playing Detroit or Dallas.
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  So you gotta hope you guys, Detroit.
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  They're probably actually, I don't know, May I think, I mean,
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  I'd rather Detroit, I suppose. But he did not get the start
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  last game and. Yeah, so he started tonight
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  probably getting Detroit, then Bush's probably getting New
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  Jersey. So.
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  Which would also be better than Montreal.
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  I mean, New Jersey's been hot. I don't know if you've seen
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  Brat. Brat's got 17 points in his last
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  11 games. I'm just putting it out there
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  for all the the Brad haters. I know he's been carrying a lot
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  of people in their fantasy playoffs, me included.
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  And Jake, you might gossip spare back finally.
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  So that should be the day-to-day turned into millennia to
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  millennia forever. But like it's always it's always
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  tough when that happens. But yeah, I know it's anyway
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  definitely in two episodes from now you're gonna hear us talk
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  about our hot topics and the playoff picture will be on
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  there. So be sure to stay tuned for
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  that, which is dropping Thursday the 2nd April 2nd.
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  So yeah, we'll be. But yeah, in the meantime, let's
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  dive into this episode. Once again, it's our Week 23
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  waivers episode. We'll start with reviewing our
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  Week 22 choices. As always, this was a good.
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  One there was. This was finally.
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  One, yes, agree. Yeah, that's big.
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  That's big. I think I have like this real
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  obsession with trying to finish the year with twice as many wins
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  as losses and we're on, we're on like the trajectory to be able.
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  To do it one more week, one more good week.
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  Yeah, yeah. So we had Pablo Zaka and three
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  games played he got one goal, 2 assists, 3 points.
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  We you may hear his name later on.
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  No spoilers then. Frank Nazar, four games, sorry,
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  that would have been pretty insane.
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  Four games played, one goal, one assist, 2 points.
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  That's also a win. Anthony Cirelli, he was our top
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  choice last week. He had four games and three
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  goals, which we are considering a win as well.
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  This, yeah, it brings our record to 39 and 21.
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  Not to pull out, you know, the mathematician side of my brain,
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  but I believe we have to have all three wins this coming week.
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  Which we will. We get the we'd be 4242 and 21
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  and I'd be pretty happy with that.
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  That'd be that'd be pretty groovy.
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  SO2 game teams for this coming week, which I think is tough
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  because these are two spicy teams right now with a lot at
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  stake, so they gotta go all out. You got natural Predators and
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  the Utah Mammoth. Some call it just the Utah.
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  Yeah, it's always the Utah you gotta.
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  Exactly So like I mean, just just before we kind of move on
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  from this, this is oftentimes you like to give a good old
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  profile Chev, who are you dropping from these two teams?
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  I think this is a tough decision because if you're also don't
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  forget context, this is going to be deep.
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  Championship, the final. Of your, you know, fantasy
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  leagues in almost every every league out there, right, like
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  mostly, I think, and in week 23. So this is do or die right now.
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  You don't have the luxury of being patient for two games when
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  you can get 4 from maybe something really productive like
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  it's these are these are must win matchups.
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  You have No, there's no there's no extra life here.
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  It's game over if things go wrong.
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  And both Utah and Nashville, their first game of the week is
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  going to be on a Thursday. So that's Monday, Wednesday,
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  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday with no games for either of those
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  guys. So hypothetically, if you drop
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  somebody, let's say on Sunday, when this episode comes out and
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  you know you're streaming guys on like Monday, Wednesday or
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  like for the off nights or you're streaming guys that play
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  on Tuesday as well. Like you can get like one or two
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  games in your lineup before those guys even like hit your
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  starting lineup. So definitely something to
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  consider. And those Thursday and Saturday
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  games are extremely heavy. Like almost all the teams play
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  on those two games. We got 14 games on the on
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  Thursday and 15 games on on Saturday.
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  So like just fitting them into your lineup on those days is
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  also going to be difficult. Obviously some of these guys are
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  popping out, so let's write awesome names right now like I'm
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  telling. People just to just wanna
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  elaborate before you did that before we get into it.
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  So basically the next week they have six games in the week 24,
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  which spans 2 weeks. So don't get excited in a seven
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  day span they have six games. So it's basically in line with
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  other teams. So really the decision to drop
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  or to pick up if you are in a week 24 final scenario, which I
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  just want to mention as a caviat that really this is really
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  depending on this next week. So like once you're looking into
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  week 24, I actually think one of the good teams to hold because
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  they're competing in the playoff spot.
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  But yeah, list some names and let's see where we're at.
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  I'm gonna just try to take this as a week 23 as your finals.
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  Like that's the. Way, I mean even week, even if
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  your finals week 24, you have to make the finals, right, and you
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  may not make the finals if you have these guys in your roster
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  because your opponents got way more volume over you right.
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  So like to me, I mean a lot of the Nashville have been good,
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  like Stamkos has been great. Forsberg has been great monster.
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  Yeah, Ryan O'Reilly has been great.
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  Like all of these guys have been really solid to me.
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  Ryan O'reilly's the easiest cut, not because he's like a terrible
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  player, just because of like, you know, two games this week
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  and it's on the two heaviest nights to me.
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  I'm cutting going into, you know, the Monday and just trying
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  to maximize some some schedules. Like if you can add two games
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  before he even gets 1, you can honestly even like consider
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  picking him pick up for the second-half of the week.
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  I'm not saying that you need to go into it with that plan, but
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  it's an option. Stamkos and Forsberg is tough
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  because Stamkos has been on fire too.
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  Like I'm playing, I played against him and it was not fun
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  seeing, you know, he got 10 Pimms against me.
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  How does that make any sense? I don't know.
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  I'm cooked for pimps this week, so that's another.
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  I lose all the volatile cats every week, funny enough, but
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  Forsberg too, like Forsberg I think is the only one that I
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  probably wouldn't cut. I can't like I thought about it,
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  I was like, OK, you know, if I do make it to next week, which
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  I'd say I'm at like 3540% chance right now, it's pretty tough.
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  But like he's he's averaged 1.71 in his last two weeks, points
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  per game. It's ridiculous.
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  His shots and hits are solid too.
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  He's getting a block here and there, which is more than you
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  can expect. I can't rationalize dropping him
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  but also. Not as bad because our league is
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  so deep, but it's very rare that we have to bench a player.
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  Like we only have two bench spots and as long as you have
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  like one or two off nights, like you're hitting everybody in your
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  lineup even on the heavy nights. So we don't have the big as big
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  of an issue as, you know, other leagues that have bigger
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  benches, smaller starting lineups that they're
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  consistently making the decision.
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  So, so you know what, we'll get into it.
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  I think as we list off the players in the top 10 like this,
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  like that could be the benchmark, like a Forsberg,
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  Stamkos, that would be good. Shifting over to Utah, I mean,
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  are you dropping like Sergachev? You know, teams on both my main.
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  Leagues. The only guy you are dropping I
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  think is Clayton Keller. I think Gunther.
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  I would drop Gunther. Really.
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  Yeah, alright. Yeah.
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  So it's it's there is. You're trying to maximize the
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  schedule, right? Like that's what I'm talking
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  about here. If I can get, you know, Gunter
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  with two games or, you know, whatever we're gonna talk about
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  at the top of our list today, like a guy that's got four games
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  plus some off nights, like that's just it just feels like
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  you might get even more value out of there so.
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  Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.
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  I mean like a Saint Louis has such a monstrous.
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  Schedule this week still in Holloway would four games or
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  Dylan gone through with two games?
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  Like give me Holloway any day of the week.
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  Yeah, snuggerud. Well, Dylans, yeah.
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  It's these guys won't be on our show cause over 40% owned.
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  But I'm just saying like putting the names out there.
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  Yeah, they're available like in the shallower type leagues that
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  you're speaking about, they are available in all likelihood tons
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  of four-game teams this week. Don't need to list all of them
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  off, but there are a bunch. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday are
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  the busiest. To add to that, Saturday is
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  Saturday and Thursday are really, really intense.
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  Like I would consider Tuesday to be significantly less because
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  even the. Saturday only two teams do not
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  play. Every other team plays. 30 teams
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  play on on Saturday so. It's 4 on Thursday so.
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  Four teams do not play on Thursday.
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  Yes. Correct.
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  Yeah, exactly. So.
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  But Saturday especially. Yeah, I guess we may as well
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  list those teams. You got Philly and Saint Louis,
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  so. Yeah.
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  Those are the teams that do not play on Saturday.
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  So those are the teams that potentially have great schedules
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  for you in terms of like the off nights because both of those
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  teams early on Friday, Sunday instead of the Saturday.
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  Yeah, exactly. And anything to add?
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  Yeah, the the off night teams, I mean, I I would say that those
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  are like really like the big ones.
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  But you can also look at Anaheim, Colorado, the
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  Islanders, Pittsburgh, San Jose and Vancouver, another subset of
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  off nights. OK, let's get into our list
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  starting at. #10. Or of the Philadelphia Flyers.
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  Speak of the Devils. Well, not the Flyers, I suppose.
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  Yeah, speak of the Flyers. We have the alliteration king
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  Matvey Michkov, Line 3 power play.
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  What? I feel like he's Loki, Josh's
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  nemesis. He hates him.
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  You know, we we definitely were you doing him any favors on the
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  podcast last episode when you missed, we were talking about
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  how he has a, you know, premium subscription to Shady Maple or
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  whatever it's called. But he's he's been hot.
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  He's been hot over the last five games.
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  He's a point per game. So this is the guy that we did
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  not give any love to throughout the season, mostly because he's
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  been out of form. His deployment was inconsistent.
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  He just wasn't producing either. Right now we're near the end of
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  the season. I don't actually think I mean
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  less than Philly is still in the playoff picture.
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  Are they trying to make the playoffs?
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  I don't actually think so. Like their team is not made to
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  not made to make the playoffs, but there's like one point or
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  two points out and they're not like we don't consider them a
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  playoff team, right? So they're still in the running,
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  however, and Mitch Cox is hot. Philly, like we said just
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  before, has a great schedule this week with the off nights.
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  So that's why I think he's on this list as well.
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  Michael is on the worst power play in the league.
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  So listen, you don't love dying, not streaming for power play
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  points, but he's hot right now. He could get you some shots that
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  one or two or zero. That's kind of what it feels
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  like, but it's mostly just like the points I've been flowing in
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  right now. If you need to stream points,
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  he's a name that you watch. Yeah, yeah, Well said.
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  I don't have much to add on to that.
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  Just kind of for like all the players we're gonna talk about,
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  you know, moving forward for the episode.
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  Pittsburgh has five games, so that's kind of something to
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  highlight The only team with five games.
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  Everyone else who were mentioning on this list and the
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  top five bangers list has four games.
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  OK And then we're going to also highlight the Saint Louis and
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  the Philadelphia players who have those off nights the the
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  the two like really the Thursday and the the Saturday off.
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  So that's kind of like I just otherwise you could pretty much
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  assume four games. Like I'm not gonna just read it
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  over anytime. It'll just get annoying for all
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  the listeners and yeah, just just want to point that out.
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  OK, next. At #9. #9 We have Marco Rossi of
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  the Vancouver Canucks. He's been on my on my roof.
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  Do I add him? Do I not listen on while it's
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  this has been a tough one. He's been playing really, really
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  well on the season. He's at .72 points per game.
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  But I feel like the vast majority of that production has
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  come recently and he's getting the ice time.
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  I remember when he when he was drafted, ha ha, classic me.
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  Look at me remembering these things.
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  He he was actually like a really solid profile, but he he just
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  never fit on the wild. And now with the true rebuild in
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  Vancouver happening, it's nice to see that they're giving him
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  all the opportunities. You know, the past five games,
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  he's pretty much averaged over 17 minutes a night, which is
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  great to see. So I think I think this is a
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  really solid option. Yeah, Vancouver has kind of been
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  hot for the last two weeks ish. Like Rossi, if I recall, he's
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  got like 10 points in his last 12 games.
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  A lot of that is coming from 2 specific games where you had
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  three, three points versus Nashville, I think 3 points
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  versus forget the other team. But like they had like A5 game
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  stretch where like that line with Rossi and Besser like went
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  off. So they made my watch list And
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  listen, four games this upcoming week, the power play is not
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  great. It's like slightly below
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  average. So I'm not banking on that.
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  But like the points could come and I'm just monitoring the
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  situation because it's still Vancouver assets at the end of
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  the day. And like, you know you're in
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  your championship, do you want to put your life on the line for
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  Vancouver assets sealing the deal for you?
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  It's tough, but when a player is informed or inform and when
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  they're getting a deployment, getting a deployment and even
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  players on bad teams can succeed, right?
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  So that's why you got to mention the name.
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  He's not a category stopper. So you got to keep that in mind.
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  Like if you're in the faceoff wins league, he's a pure seed
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  and he'll get like some face off wins but he doesn't have a high
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  shot, volume is small so you're just streaming for the points.
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  His hits aren't bad though. Yeah, actually, I wouldn't
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  consider Marco Rossi a guy that like gets to his game, but he's
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  going through a stretch right now.
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  Like he's added some physicality and I don't even like
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  Vancouver's just playing to play right now.
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  It feels like they're, they're already coasting, right?
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  Obviously they haven't been running for quite some time, so
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  they're just gonna feed these young guys with some minutes.
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  And I would expect his minutes to be higher, if I'm being
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  honest. But they've been hovering
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  around, like you said, like 16 to 17 minutes.
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  I wish it was a little higher, but still, it's not.
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  It's not bad at all. Yeah, yeah and listen like since
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  I mean when he got traded he didn't like start playing right
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  away, but since the over the last month he's at a point per
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  game Yeah not notice that you. Know and we do need to profit
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  share just real quick. Do not forget all the guys we're
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  talking about today are less than 40% owned.
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  So if you're going into the finals of your matchup like and
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  you know, come playoff time, a lot of big names get cut because
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  people are trying to be desperate to win their playoff
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  matchups. Like you know, Dylan Larkin had
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  got cut early in the playoffs and hour league.
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  Like if guys like that are available, you know, you should
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  definitely consider them more than the guys were listening.
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  Like Marco Ross is only 12% owned, so it's like a deeper
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  league cut. So just be conscious that if
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  there's a guy in your in your league that's maybe over 40%, he
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  might be way better than the guys talking about today on this
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  list. But we're not going to mention
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  them because he doesn't make the criteria.
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  So be wary. Look at your waiver wire, see
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  who's available. Yeah.
• 18:37
  And make sure your. Diligence, yeah.
• 18:39
  And like, for instance, someone on the brink, Owen Tippett,
• 18:42
  who's been very, very good recently.
• 18:47
  I traded him away earlier in the season, some classic.
• 18:51
  But all this to say, it's like, yeah, I mean like someone like
• 18:54
  him who's on 42%. Of yeah, yeah, it's gonna make
• 18:57
  this little Philly has a great Friday Sunday schedule.
• 19:00
  Yeah, yeah. Alex Laferriere is another one
• 19:03
  at 43 percent on. Yeah.
• 19:04
  So it's like there are those players on the brain, like, you
• 19:07
  know, this does not have to be followed religiously.
• 19:11
  It's just in the deeper leagues below 40%.
• 19:13
  That's deeper leagues are waivers means means more because
• 19:17
  you want to try to make the most of like quote UN quote subpar
• 19:20
  options. But if you have the studs on
• 19:22
  your waiver wire like, you know, prioritize those.
• 19:25
  Yeah, absolutely. OK, let's move on to the next
• 19:27
  one at. #8. #8 We have Igor China Kov since he shed the why
• 19:35
  and joined the Pittsburgh Penguins, he has been thriving 5
• 19:38
  games this upcoming week. As mentioned, he like you can't
• 19:42
  even look at the season average points per game because he was
• 19:44
  really not doing anything on Columbus.
• 19:46
  They simply did not give him the opportunity.
• 19:48
  But he's been such a great pickup for me since I since I
• 19:52
  picked him up. And yeah, I mean over 2 1/2
• 19:56
  shots for the past month .88 points per game is power play.
• 20:01
  Points have been very solid, too.
• 20:02
  The thing with Pittsburgh is that they do not thrive without
• 20:06
  Crosby, and they really can't get by without Crosby and
• 20:10
  Malkin. So with Mulkins there, I think
• 20:13
  like, things can still happen if Crosby's there.
• 20:15
  I mean, things are great when they're both there.
• 20:17
  They've been thriving. I mean, like, I don't even know
• 20:19
  if Pittsburgh is gonna make the playoffs, but we can, we could
• 20:21
  dive into. Should.
• 20:22
  Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that in the Hot Topics episode.
• 20:26
  We'll do a deeper dive. But at the end of the day,
• 20:28
  without those two, I think the whole team is in a tough
• 20:32
  position. And it's like, I guess the
• 20:34
  silver lining is that if they're both not healthy, Igor Chekov
• 20:39
  will be Power Play 1 for sure. So something to mention.
• 20:44
  But yeah, like would you rather them be healthy him play on a
• 20:47
  line with one of them even strength or like for China
• 20:51
  Cobbs, you know, next week prospects?
• 20:54
  Or is it better if they're not playing and he's on power play
• 20:59
  one? What do you think?
• 21:00
  This might be a tricky question, but first of all, people don't
• 21:03
  know that he showed the why. I think we mentioned it here and
• 21:06
  there, but it used to be Yegor Chinos, Igor Chikov and he's a
• 21:11
  whole different player now. First of all, yes, I honestly
• 21:15
  love when he's on power play one like we thought earlier when
• 21:18
  they had some injuries and him on power play one like there was
• 21:21
  a stretch every like .6 power play points per game, which is
• 21:23
  just insane right. We had the famous would you
• 21:27
  rather it was like Chinatown versus I forget who else, but we
• 21:30
  ended up going oh, it was Maverick Bork and we ended up
• 21:32
  going Bork because when she called lost the power play one,
• 21:35
  we didn't know how sustainable this production was going to be
• 21:37
  since large part of it was coming from the power play.
• 21:39
  If he has the power play 1, I think is a phenomenal, even more
• 21:43
  phenomenal asset because this shot volume, like you said,
• 21:45
  Jackie is through the roof like hovering around three shots a
• 21:48
  game. He doesn't hit, but he magically
• 21:50
  blocks like he's been averaging over a block a game for a
• 21:53
  forward over almost over the last like 2-3 weeks.
• 21:56
  So that's not not nothing, especially you're playing in
• 21:58
  those category leagues. I like him a lot.
• 22:00
  He's got three goals in his last four games as we speak like he's
• 22:03
  on fire. Without Crosby's obviously
• 22:06
  tough. Without milk, that's obviously
• 22:07
  tough. I think Malkin should come back.
• 22:09
  Crosby we're still like they skipped their practice on on
• 22:13
  Friday, so we're kind of waiting to see how everything shakes
• 22:16
  out. But I still want part of this
• 22:19
  Pittsburgh Penguins team. Like you're looking at Eric
• 22:21
  Carlson. This guy is like if you took
• 22:24
  only like the last month and a half of the season, like he'd be
• 22:26
  the front runner for the Norris. It's actually insane what he's
• 22:30
  doing. Is is is not humanly.
• 22:32
  He's so good. So it's just the thing with him
• 22:37
  and like, I don't want to get too off track with this, is that
• 22:39
  he's always insane. Yeah, when the timing is off.
• 22:44
  Like on San Jose, like he carried, like he was just by far
• 22:49
  the best defence from that year by like, I've never seen that
• 22:53
  type of discrepancy among a defensemen in that, that I could
• 22:56
  remember even being that dominant compared to the rest of
• 22:59
  the field. But like, it was San Jose, like
• 23:01
  they didn't have a chance to do anything that year.
• 23:03
  And then the last year with Pittsburgh, where it was deemed
• 23:06
  to be the last dance. Yeah.
• 23:07
  And now this is the last dance, you know, again, Part 2.
• 23:11
  Exactly. So I feel like it's just why
• 23:16
  can't you? Why can't they just all fire on
• 23:18
  all cylinders? Cuz Pittsburgh could be a real
• 23:20
  insane force. Anyway, Pittsburgh could be like
• 23:23
  a really serious playoff team. Absolutely.
• 23:25
  Now they have actually good goaltending and that Eric
• 23:29
  Carlson's like this. And if Crosby, Malcolm can stay
• 23:31
  healthy, this team could actually win A7 game series.
• 23:35
  We'll have to see how it shakes out.
• 23:36
  But yeah, China Cobb, I still like him a lot.
• 23:39
  I think for shots, he's one of the better names on this list.
• 23:41
  So like asterisks there being like, OK, monitor that.
• 23:45
  And if Crosby and Malkin are out, he's going to be on power
• 23:48
  play 1. So obviously monitor the lines
• 23:50
  as soon as one of them comes back.
• 23:52
  I think Mantha is going to keep the spot because he's just been
• 23:54
  the guy. It should be Chinaka.
• 23:56
  I think he'd be make more of the situation.
• 23:58
  But yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:01
  And I mean you, you we will talk a bit more about Mantha soon.
• 24:05
  But yes, Long story short, I think it's a really good option
• 24:09
  whether he Crosby or Malkin or there and he's power play one or
• 24:13
  not. Like I feel like it's either
• 24:15
  Wave is line 2, power play one. He's still belongs on this.
• 24:18
  Sorry if he's power play 2, he still belongs on this list.
• 24:21
  He deserves it. OK, let's go to the next one.
• 24:24
  All right #7. At #7 we have someone who I was
• 24:32
  very surprised was on this list last week.
• 24:33
  And then I was like, wow, I was the fan of Bangor Management,
• 24:36
  the fantasy hockey podcast. I'm gonna go pick him up.
• 24:38
  And then this person sitting right in front of me right now
• 24:40
  virtually did so instead. Did you put a bit?
• 24:45
  I did. I did put a bid in for him.
• 24:47
  Yeah. I wanted him over Tye Cartier
• 24:51
  so. So you killed those dreams, but.
• 24:56
  Did you even said her name? What Did you even say the name?
• 25:00
  Ohgi did not. Connor Brown of the New Jersey
• 25:02
  Devils. I was I was reliving because you
• 25:06
  snipe me on two players this week.
• 25:08
  I got Brown. I wanna meet him in the New York
• 25:10
  Rondell. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:12
  I wanted both those guys. And you know, at the end of the
• 25:15
  day, I feel like Brown has just gone so under the radar because
• 25:20
  his entire career he's kind of just been a decent additional
• 25:23
  player. But now with the opportunity
• 25:25
  that they're giving him, it's it's really great.
• 25:27
  He is lined to power play one, but that line 2 is not any worse
• 25:33
  than line 1, so. Realistically playing with
• 25:36
  probably issues and yes, better. And there's a reason why your
• 25:39
  brother is averaging almost 2 points per game over the last
• 25:43
  like few weeks. It's because of Connor Brown.
• 25:47
  I said no, I mean, uh, he's been the the whole devil's team as we
• 25:52
  were talking about is, is not like it's just been really good
• 25:55
  over their their past five games.
• 25:56
  So yeah, Browns, Browns and must pick up territory right now,
• 26:00
  which is crazy because he's 3% owned.
• 26:02
  The needle should have moved between last week and this week,
• 26:05
  but he's got another four-game week this coming week.
• 26:09
  So yeah, definitely like. It he's just not a category
• 26:11
  stuffer and our league is super deep, like just like nobody good
• 26:14
  on waivers pretty much, right? Like basically all the names
• 26:17
  we're talking about today, but he's on waivers except Marco
• 26:19
  Rossi. I streamed Connor Brown going
• 26:24
  into this semifinals matchup that we're currently in.
• 26:28
  He started off hot. He got a point in the first game
• 26:31
  and then last game he ended up getting, he ended up getting it
• 26:34
  was an assist and then they moved it to somebody else's
• 26:37
  goal. So he lost the assistant and he
• 26:38
  ended the game with an assistant.
• 26:39
  Like he's still involved. Like I just want to say like
• 26:41
  he's playing good minutes. He's on an exceptional line,
• 26:44
  arguably playing with the best talent on the team.
• 26:46
  He's still in power play one, which is like huge because it's
• 26:49
  very rare that you're able to pick up a guy that's like less
• 26:51
  than 5% owned playing on a great power place surrounded by great
• 26:54
  power play assets. So if, if you need to prioritize
• 26:58
  the power play, I would say like he's one of the guys on this
• 27:00
  list that I would like strongly consider.
• 27:03
  He doesn't have the most power play production, but just
• 27:06
  exposure to a New Jersey power play 1 is still elite.
• 27:11
  So I, I think he's a great option for that.
• 27:13
  We have to also temper your expectations if people are
• 27:16
  worried about the deployment changing.
• 27:17
  I feel you've been rolling with this like the last three weeks
• 27:19
  and it's been working like they've actually been
• 27:21
  successful. So I'd be shocked if they
• 27:22
  actually changed it, but obviously have to monitor the
• 27:24
  lines. I think it's just one of those
• 27:27
  guys that like, you know, he's 1 dimensional and that he'll get
• 27:29
  you points, PowerPoints, exposure, some shots, but you're
• 27:33
  not expecting like biggest category coverage.
• 27:35
  But you know, in a match up like this, you just need points like
• 27:38
  he's a name. Exactly.
• 27:41
  Yeah, I guess the only way to to, you know, summarize that is
• 27:45
  a lot of minutes on a team firing on all cylinders.
• 27:49
  He's bound to get in the way of something good, you know what I
• 27:52
  mean? That's the way it feels.
• 27:53
  But he's not doing those. He's not doing like Chinaka with
• 27:56
  all the shots and stuff like that, you know what I mean?
• 27:58
  That that's more reliable as a floor.
• 28:01
  But Browns just on a team fire on all cylinders, and he's doing
• 28:07
  good things. He's yeah he hovers around 2 of
• 28:10
  around 3 stuff you need shots at.
• 28:11
  Prioritize Chikov, but 2 is not bad.
• 28:15
  No, not at all. Not at all.
• 28:16
  Alright, let's move on to the next one.
• 28:18
  At #6. At #6 we have Anthony Mantha of
• 28:24
  the Pittsburgh Penguins line 2 power play one.
• 28:27
  As we mentioned when talking about Chekov, his deployment on
• 28:32
  power play 1 is safer. Whether Crosby or Malkin or both
• 28:36
  are back, Mantha still has a chance to stay there.
• 28:39
  Whereas I think with the two of them, Chino called won't be.
• 28:42
  But yeah, Samantha has been pretty solid all season.
• 28:47
  And his last four games have been bad.
• 28:51
  But before that, he was on fire. Like he had a stretch of like, I
• 28:53
  would say like 7 or 8 games in a row where he was like he scored
• 28:58
  in almost all of those games. He was producing.
• 29:01
  His shot volume was high. Now The thing is that deployment
• 29:04
  is still good and getting on power play one now that they
• 29:06
  have injuries, also great. But he's been kind of dry these
• 29:09
  last few days, days like 3 or 4 games, he's been not excellent,
• 29:14
  right? But the deployment is still
• 29:15
  there. So now it's like you're thinking
• 29:16
  about the question, OK, were there other pick up Echinococcus
• 29:19
  better informed with less good deployment or would I rather
• 29:22
  have manta with better deployment, more sustainable
• 29:24
  deployment? But he hasn't been as hot.
• 29:26
  So it's your championship finals.
• 29:28
  You got to make the decision. It feels like it's basically a
• 29:31
  5050 decision. But to me, my process, how I
• 29:34
  work for fantasy hockey, I want to prioritize the guy that's
• 29:37
  going to be on the power play one because with what Eric
• 29:40
  Carlson is doing, with what Ricard Raquel is doing, like I
• 29:43
  just think I want potential exposure to that because the
• 29:46
  ceiling is so high. And that's what I would
• 29:48
  personally in Manta, but I completely understand people
• 29:51
  looking at the game log and being like, look at this guy's
• 29:52
  been so much better lately. I just gotta follow like the
• 29:55
  hotness and listen, there are only two spots apart on our
• 29:58
  list. So it basically feels like a
• 29:59
  coin flip on who's going to have a better week or not.
• 30:02
  But if like we had confirmation at Crosby was like missing the
• 30:05
  entire week or you know, something like that and we can
• 30:09
  pencil in China for power Play 1 consistently, I would
• 30:11
  confidently go there. But that's not the case.
• 30:13
  And we're playing with ambiguous information, and that's why I
• 30:15
  think Mantis ranked slightly higher.
• 30:18
  Yeah, I agree it's a process thing, but I I mean I I'm biased
• 30:23
  cause I have China code yeah I think I like China Qov better
• 30:26
  Fair enough. Like it is a coin for China
• 30:30
  called Brown and Mantha. I really feel like they're all
• 30:33
  in the same kind of bucket right now, but.
• 30:35
  And if Charles is going to be like a really close thing, like
• 30:38
  I'd prioritize Chikov because maybe you get less power play
• 30:42
  points, but that extra like shot to one point 1.2 shots, the game
• 30:47
  extra that Shanov gets over Manta could be a difference
• 30:50
  maker over 5 games, right? That's like a lot of volume
• 30:52
  there. Both are exceptional options
• 30:54
  because five games on a weekly district, the only thing that's
• 30:56
  five games are playing Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
• 30:59
  Saturday, Sunday. So like, it's like doesn't get
• 31:01
  better than that this week. Yeah, yeah, well said.
• 31:05
  OK, let's go to the next one at. #5.
• 31:09
  At #5 we have Chris Kreider of the Anaheim Ducks.
• 31:15
  Before diving into the specifics, I don't believe you
• 31:19
  were there this episode. I think it was a few weeks ago
• 31:21
  where Josh and I were talking about alliteration.
• 31:23
  Alliteration. And like I said, Charlie Coyle.
• 31:25
  I was Josh said you were there for that.
• 31:28
  OK, Charlie Coyle, Charlie Choil.
• 31:30
  And I feel like I feel like this is an interesting one with Chris
• 31:34
  Cryder. It's AC and then a cave, but
• 31:36
  it's the same, you know, Yeah, sounds like it's this
• 31:38
  alliteration now, even though it's not.
• 31:40
  It is or yeah it. Is somebody in the discord?
• 31:43
  I'm forgetting the names, so I really apologize, but you know
• 31:45
  who you are. But they basically said that
• 31:48
  their sister was like an English major or something like that,
• 31:52
  and that she confirmed that both our alliterations like the
• 31:55
  letters and also like phonetically.
• 31:57
  If it sounds the same, it's also in the literation.
• 32:00
  Maybe I just push it. I just lied on the podcast for
• 32:03
  hundreds of people to see, but I I'm pretty sure that's what it
• 32:06
  was. Yeah.
• 32:08
  So we could still call him an alliteration king.
• 32:12
  Bangor management, the linguistic podcast, There you
• 32:15
  go. But yeah, I think, I don't know.
• 32:20
  Anyway, I, I guess we can't expand on the on this more, but
• 32:22
  but if, if someone, I mean, honestly, the people have given
• 32:26
  us the explanation, I feel like we're still not getting it.
• 32:28
  So just all I could do was apologize.
• 32:31
  But yeah, Chris Cryder, maybe the alliteration king of the
• 32:34
  Anaheim Ducks. He has been so, so good in this
• 32:38
  past few games. His power play points there, his
• 32:43
  shots are there. He's also got four games this
• 32:46
  upcoming week, which is nice. And yeah, I mean, you know, what
• 32:52
  I really kind of like about the background sort of process on
• 32:55
  this is that this is a player who they brought in as a veteran
• 32:58
  presence on a Ducks team that I think was ahead of schedule.
• 33:01
  I mean, I remember saying that. There's.
• 33:04
  Yeah, but I thought the Hobbs, like, I mean, I was I think the
• 33:08
  highest on the dark side of all of us.
• 33:09
  You were. And I still thought that the the
• 33:11
  Ducks were like one year behind the Hobbs and I'll just feels
• 33:14
  like they're on the same level. They've really made like amazing
• 33:17
  strides. So I think he's gonna be a very
• 33:19
  important part of this team for the next few weeks and I think
• 33:23
  he can really go off as he has been over the past few games.
• 33:26
  Like, I don't know if you listened to episodes you missed,
• 33:29
  but we got a question on our last mailbag episode where
• 33:32
  somebody asked us to pick like do a snake draft of who we think
• 33:35
  is going to win each division or conference.
• 33:39
  And I ended up going with Colorado.
• 33:41
  And then since I picked Colorado, Josh picked Dallas.
• 33:45
  And then we had to we, we pretended to pick 4 you and who
• 33:47
  you would think would win the West.
• 33:49
  And we, we went for Anaheim for you because we're like, Jackie
• 33:54
  loves Anaheim. He always talks about Anaheim
• 33:55
  so. You mean the West or the
• 33:58
  Pacific? I mean, it was the conference.
• 34:00
  It was like, who? Who's going to come out of the
• 34:03
  West? But you can't pick all run.
• 34:04
  You can't pick Dallas. No, I mean, I got I, I have to
• 34:08
  pick Minnesota. That well, I think that it was
• 34:10
  more than one thing like because I know how much you love them,
• 34:12
  but. Firmly believe that the Ducks
• 34:15
  are gonna win the Pacific and I know that that's like not much
• 34:19
  of A hot take because they have a sizable AKA 5 point lead which
• 34:23
  I feel like this is just the closest the standings have been.
• 34:25
  In here it is. It is.
• 34:27
  Yeah, but anyway, like I like the ducks and yeah, fairpoint
• 34:32
  all. This to say, what I will say on
• 34:34
  Chris Crowder before we move on, though, is like he's been close
• 34:36
  to averaging one point per game over the last month, which is
• 34:40
  really, really impressive. He's like, you know, getting
• 34:43
  into form. The perfect time for everybody's
• 34:45
  fantasy playoffs. Hello there.
• 34:46
  You keep saying that. Now what that that's just how I
• 34:48
  talk. OK, I I have the sports lingo,
• 34:51
  alright. Yeah, but to me, I feel like
• 34:55
  I've been like down grading him a little bit in my mind because
• 34:57
  the points have been coming in bunches.
• 34:59
  It's like 4 point game here, 0.0.0.2 point game, zero points,
• 35:03
  2 point game. So it's like you're either
• 35:06
  getting zeros or getting exceptional game.
• 35:08
  The deployment is still solid. He's like you could consider him
• 35:11
  a power play specialist with like what he does in front of
• 35:13
  the net and and Anaheim, the most important thing to mention
• 35:17
  about them this week is that they have arguably the best
• 35:20
  playoff schedule this upcoming week minus, you know, the
• 35:23
  Penguins. But and I'm and I'm has four
• 35:25
  games this week and three of them are on off nights.
• 35:27
  So that means they're super easy to to to put in your lineup and
• 35:32
  if your lineups already Max out on the heavy days like these
• 35:34
  Anaheim players are going to slot in and just add pure volume
• 35:37
  to your lineup. So like there were there were
• 35:40
  some leagues where I'm getting ready to have a bye week this
• 35:43
  week and going into next week, like made the tough decision.
• 35:45
  Like I cut like Zach Hyman, who I know, like I was probably not
• 35:50
  going to start in this next week for like a Crider or somebody
• 35:55
  else we're gonna mention like a Seneca or like a grand because
• 35:57
  that just adds four games to my to my lineup or three games to
• 36:00
  my lineup. Yeah, and the volume is just
• 36:02
  massive at that point. Plus the guys informed, right.
• 36:04
  So if you have the option to pick up, I think it's a great
• 36:07
  option this upcoming week. Even though I feel like a
• 36:10
  discord, my sentiment around them has been like people are
• 36:12
  giving me like start bench one out of these four guys and it's
• 36:15
  like 4 studs on. It's like you gotta bench Crider
• 36:17
  this week. But yeah, yeah, doesn't feel
• 36:20
  good. Yeah, that's it.
• 36:21
  That's it. And I guess the only thing I can
• 36:23
  add there, Anaheim Ducks are playing not the strongest
• 36:28
  opponents next week. They're playing Toronto, San
• 36:30
  Jose, Saint Louis and Calgary, and for context, San Jose and
• 36:36
  Toronto. Two other those games have the
• 36:38
  second and third worst goals against per game.
• 36:41
  Which season? They could realistically win all
• 36:43
  four games. I would probably say they win at
• 36:45
  least two of them, Probably three, yeah.
• 36:47
  So. Yeah.
• 36:48
  And they they get like demolish the other teams and yeah, I
• 36:52
  mean, even San Jose is kind of not been as good as they have
• 36:56
  been all season. So I really think that yeah,
• 37:00
  celebrating don't talk about Jake is never wrong.
• 37:03
  Just early. My whole thing was like how
• 37:04
  could he keep this up? Like you got bet on generational
• 37:07
  and then he just as soon as the playoff starters like whoa, how
• 37:11
  do you hockey again like they. Slowed down tremendously.
• 37:14
  It's very sad. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:16
  They've lost their last six games.
• 37:17
  So I mean, like, that was their only four.
• 37:20
  That was Anaheim's only formidable appoint opponent this
• 37:22
  coming week. And yeah, I think, I think
• 37:26
  that's why. They're far.
• 37:27
  From Formidable pick exactly. All right, let's go to the next
• 37:31
  one at. #4. At #4 we have one of the people
• 37:37
  we thought had a chance to win the Calder Trophy.
• 37:40
  Doesn't look like it's gonna happen, but he's been very solid
• 37:42
  nonetheless. Of the Saint Louis Blues, Jimmy
• 37:44
  Snuggerud, who has been insane for shots.
• 37:48
  I feel like he's a, he's kind of like a mini cutter goatee.
• 37:51
  That's the way I see snugride. And then we got four games, two
• 37:55
  of the off night ones, right? So, so that's really good.
• 37:58
  I think that this is simply the process is there.
• 38:02
  He's also on line 1 power play one his minutes have been very
• 38:08
  good and just like I mean, if you look at the shots on goal, I
• 38:10
  just cannot believe I dropped this guy no.
• 38:12
  So the the main thing would snug.
• 38:14
  Don't forget he's got four games this week.
• 38:16
  Obviously like everybody else on this list besides the Pittsburgh
• 38:18
  guys. But they also play on the off
• 38:21
  nights like Saint Louis plays on Monday, on Wednesday, on Friday
• 38:25
  and on Sunday. They have the best schedule for
• 38:29
  off nights. They don't play on any of the
• 38:30
  heavy nights, which is blasphemous, but for fantasy.
• 38:35
  That's a good. Way for fantasy.
• 38:36
  We love it exactly so like all the other Blues players that we
• 38:39
  aren't naming because they're over 40% so like that Dylan
• 38:41
  Holloways, like the Robert Thomas we're dropping some
• 38:44
  leagues like when he's healthy, like these guys are going to be
• 38:47
  exceptional players this upcoming week and there's very
• 38:50
  little to hate what's not over the last month he's at a point
• 38:52
  per game like that's nuts. And this guy is currently 24%
• 38:56
  owned, so widely available 3. He's averaging three shots a
• 39:00
  game. Excellent point per game.
• 39:03
  The bad thing with snug though, is that that power play is kind
• 39:06
  of a dollar sign dollar sign poop.
• 39:08
  So so you're not you're not betting on the power play
• 39:15
  production like it's a bottom 4 power play and you can see it in
• 39:17
  the statistics. So, but the production is still
• 39:20
  there. He's got great deployment, great
• 39:22
  minutes, great shot volume. Like very little to hate.
• 39:24
  I would love to have a Blues player snug rug specifically on
• 39:28
  my Ross this upcoming week. I do not.
• 39:30
  So I am sad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well said.
• 39:35
  Look, as it stands right now, he's actually Power Play 2.
• 39:38
  I just kind of. Want to point St.
• 39:40
  Louis with the power plays are always a little janky so.
• 39:42
  Yeah, I guess it's like, yeah, don't read too much into it if
• 39:46
  you see him. It's really kind of all over the
• 39:49
  place with that. And, you know, is Saint Louis
• 39:52
  totally out of the playoff? Picture, they're totally out of
• 39:54
  the playoff picture. They're not making the playoffs.
• 39:56
  I mean, are they? The thing is they're gonna try
• 39:59
  to make the playoffs because they're not punting like some
• 40:01
  other teams, but they're the second worst team in the
• 40:04
  Central, although it is still competitive.
• 40:07
  Like technically it's still an option, but I'm not betting on.
• 40:11
  77 points there in the last wild card spot, 7 They have a game in
• 40:15
  hand on Saint Louis, who has 71. That's a six point difference,
• 40:19
  yeah. There's less than 10 games, so
• 40:21
  that means they have that means. 1111 to be exact.
• 40:24
  But yes, it's still, I mean, I don't think that it's.
• 40:30
  Basically win out and they'd have they need the teams ahead
• 40:33
  of them to lose half their games, which they're just.
• 40:36
  They're just not in like total, like let's go out there and have
• 40:40
  fun. Mode.
• 40:41
  No, they're still trying to win games.
• 40:42
  They're still competing, which is fun exactly for fantasies,
• 40:45
  severely because it means the guys are still like producing.
• 40:48
  But yeah, I'm not getting my house.
• 40:50
  I'm making the playoffs. That's.
• 40:51
  For sure. No, no, no, that's not the
• 40:53
  point. It's just more like they have
• 40:54
  something to play for. It's like, you know, in Harry
• 40:57
  Potter. It's have anything to play for,
• 40:59
  but they are playing like they do have fighting for, yeah.
• 41:01
  Yeah, well said. Alright, let's move on to the
• 41:06
  next one at. #3. At #3 we have Patrick Kane of
• 41:12
  the Detroit Red Wings line 2, power play 1.
• 41:17
  I picked him up. He's been very solid for me.
• 41:21
  I think that I think that what's going on right now is Kane
• 41:25
  realizes, you know, he doesn't have many more years left in his
• 41:27
  career and he's on a team that that had it and that lost it.
• 41:32
  Realistically, like they're they're out of the playoff
• 41:35
  picture right now, which is wild, but there's there's a
• 41:37
  wagon. They're they're right there like
• 41:39
  they're for the playoffs. They're they're more of a chance
• 41:42
  to make it the same than Saint Louis.
• 41:43
  Yes, but all of this to say, I think that what's happening is
• 41:48
  that he's like, OK, I need to make sure that this team that
• 41:51
  I'm playing on makes the playoffs.
• 41:52
  I feel like he's really going all out and they're keeping him
• 41:55
  on power play one, which thank God, cuz that was that was
• 41:59
  annoying to deal with. So hopefully that there's no
• 42:03
  funny business there before games this upcoming week.
• 42:05
  The way his short volume has been there, his production
• 42:07
  recently, I think he's a tremendous pickup.
• 42:09
  Yep, I arguably personally would have probably put Snuggerud
• 42:13
  ahead of him just because of all the extra off nights and but
• 42:17
  you're missing out on the power play production.
• 42:19
  So but the schedule this upcoming weekly, the heavy
• 42:21
  nights are super heavy. So getting like those off nights
• 42:24
  to me is very valuable. But with Kane like over the last
• 42:28
  two weeks, is that a point per game over the last month?
• 42:30
  Is that like .86 point 87 around there?
• 42:33
  And like a lot of guys we've mentioned on this list already
• 42:35
  hovering around three shots game with some decent power play,
• 42:38
  like Detroit has an excellent power play.
• 42:40
  They've consistently been top five this whole season.
• 42:42
  Now they've had some injuries and some slumps like Larkin just
• 42:45
  is coming back. So that helps a lot.
• 42:49
  But Kane, like when he he was like a drop like last month
• 42:53
  because he got bumped off the deployment.
• 42:54
  He was like line 3 power play 2 at some point that was
• 42:57
  disastrous for his value. But now he's back on power play
• 43:00
  one, which is the main thing and in the top six.
• 43:02
  That's important. So great option.
• 43:05
  Yep. Yeah, well said.
• 43:06
  OK, let's go to the next one at. Number.
• 43:09
  Two number. 2. The best number we have make
• 43:14
  Kale Grantland of the Anaheim Ducks Line 2 power play, one
• 43:19
  with four games this coming week.
• 43:21
  He has really been very, very good, Very good.
• 43:26
  So, yeah, I mean, I think that, like, you know, we've talked
• 43:29
  about this with Crowder before. We kind of gave the overview on
• 43:31
  Anaheim. I guess the only scary thing
• 43:33
  with Grantland is that during his insane stretch recently,
• 43:35
  it's all goals different. Last four games, one goal, one
• 43:40
  goal, two goals and then a hatrick.
• 43:42
  Yeah, I mean, but what I like is that he's shooting.
• 43:44
  And if you are in a league with face offs, with the triple
• 43:47
  eligibility getting this volume, I love that.
• 43:51
  And even if you're not in a face off league, over two shots on
• 43:55
  goal per game with one goal per game over the past two weeks,
• 43:59
  that's really. Great.
• 44:00
  Like we mentioned with Crowder earlier, Anaheim has a great
• 44:03
  schedule because of the offline that they do have.
• 44:05
  And I mean, listen, ground can be kind of scary for some
• 44:08
  people. Was coming back from his injury
• 44:10
  that was like the post Olympic break.
• 44:12
  He was dry AF for like 2 weeks and then all his production came
• 44:17
  from these last four games and it doesn't get any better than
• 44:20
  this. I think he has the best like,
• 44:22
  you know, shot to goal conversion rate in the last four
• 44:26
  games or last week or so because nobody scored more goals than
• 44:30
  him. He's got insane amounts of
• 44:31
  goals. So does he keep this up?
• 44:35
  I don't think so. Like I'm definitely not betting
• 44:37
  my house on it um that he's going to keep scoring every game
• 44:40
  like he's been doing recently, but that doesn't mean he won't
• 44:43
  be getting some assistance. Instead.
• 44:44
  I just think Anaheim is really flowing right now and he's like
• 44:47
  honestly like a pretty important part of like the team success.
• 44:49
  Like we saw when he came back from injury.
• 44:52
  We definitely saw Anaheim get better as a team.
• 44:54
  He was he was a captain for his international team, like, you
• 44:57
  know, on Finland, they had Rantanen and some other guys and
• 45:01
  they were like Michael Grand is our captain, right?
• 45:03
  So I think he just he holds some responsibility and he holds some
• 45:06
  like authority in the dressing room.
• 45:08
  And I think that's important for team that's pushing for the
• 45:10
  playoffs and for fantasy. I think it's it's great.
• 45:13
  Do I expect him to score every game?
• 45:14
  No. So, you know, add him temporary
• 45:17
  expectations, but I still think he's a shoe in for points on a
• 45:21
  four-game week with off nights. Like it's hard to get a better a
• 45:23
  better option. Yeah, agreed.
• 45:25
  I don't expect them to score every game, but I also expect
• 45:28
  them to get an assist here and there, which he doesn't, you
• 45:30
  know what I mean? Yeah.
• 45:31
  So it's like it's one of those that I think that he will
• 45:34
  produce, especially given their opponents.
• 45:37
  All right, and last but not least at.
• 45:41
  Number one. At #1 we have Pavel Zacha of the
• 45:47
  Alliteration Kings of the NHL Boston Bruins.
• 45:52
  That one I know is right. So I just wanted to make sure
• 45:55
  that victory alright. He has been also really good.
• 46:00
  He he led the charge in us having a solid chance of
• 46:04
  doubling our wins to losses record this year.
• 46:06
  So I think we owed him the respect to put him there.
• 46:10
  He he's got four games this coming week.
• 46:12
  Boston had a great playoff schedule and he showed up big
• 46:15
  for them. I have accepted the reality that
• 46:17
  they're that they're likely going to make the playoffs,
• 46:21
  which I was totally not a believer of your many, many
• 46:27
  moons. But yeah, no, he's just done
• 46:29
  really well with his deployment. And I think that there's hello
• 46:32
  hello for those all watching on YouTube.
• 46:36
  Kevin's cat just walked. In front so her feet are just so
• 46:38
  she was sleeping next to me. Now she's hungry, funny, but
• 46:44
  yeah, it's a it's a nice mix of shots and hits.
• 46:46
  So there is sustainability there.
• 46:48
  He's not a category stuffer, but there are those games where he
• 46:51
  has like 3 to four shots or hits or both a game.
• 46:54
  That game, two goals, one PowerPoint, four shots, four
• 46:57
  hits and seven face off weeks. If you put 7 faceoff wins.
• 47:00
  If you play with that, amazing. All this to say, he's
• 47:03
  consistent, yet also has those games where he goes off.
• 47:07
  That's just kind of been it recently, so I love.
• 47:09
  It he's been one of the better players for Boston recently, all
• 47:12
  spurring from the conversation where I put the would you rather
• 47:15
  Osaka versus Lindholm rest of season going into the playoffs.
• 47:18
  And I was firmly on the Zaka side for everybody that was
• 47:21
  listening. They know I was there.
• 47:24
  But yeah, he's just been really great.
• 47:25
  Boston has four games this week. No, they only got 1 off night on
• 47:29
  the Sunday. So it's not a, you know,
• 47:31
  schedule optimizer type of ad, but he's just been so consistent
• 47:34
  on a great power play playing with, you know, on a play with
• 47:36
  pastrnak. It's just it's hard to, you
• 47:39
  know, be exposed to better players and so that's why I
• 47:42
  think it makes has such a great option.
• 47:44
  No, absolutely. OK.
• 47:47
  That is our top ten points, guys, under 40% owned.
• 47:51
  Let's move on to our top five bangers.
• 47:53
  Apache here. It's under 20% owned.
• 47:56
  Under 20%, definitely prioritizing his, but the guys
• 47:59
  that can do hits, blocks and shots are definitely more
• 48:02
  valuable. Let's I'll write it off the five
• 48:04
  names in order from 5:00 to 1:00 and then we can kind of talk
• 48:07
  about them a little bit. But all of these guys also have
• 48:09
  four games except one, obviously going to Pittsburgh guy on here,
• 48:12
  and that guy's got five name 5 the game.
• 48:15
  So should I just go through? Them let's do.
• 48:17
  It alright at #5. We got Ben Sharat of the Detroit
• 48:20
  Red Wings #4 we got Tight Cartier #3 Brendan Dillon #2
• 48:26
  Jordan Stall, who almost ended my season last week, and #1
• 48:31
  Connor Clifton of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
• 48:34
  So listen, I think we named all these guys and all of them
• 48:37
  averaged over two hits a game, which first of all you love to
• 48:40
  see. All of them got four games
• 48:42
  except Cliftons. Cliftons got five games.
• 48:44
  I think that's why at #1 what do you, how do you feel?
• 48:48
  So Sharad, unlike Josh's wife, I don't feel any sort of special
• 48:53
  way. The the only the the main
• 48:57
  special thing about him is that he's average.
• 49:00
  He's the only guy on this list on average is 2 two hits and two
• 49:03
  blocks like that double double for defenseman is valuable.
• 49:05
  The fact that he's so handsome and you know, the major crush of
• 49:08
  Joshua's wife is just an extra bonus.
• 49:11
  She is correct. He is a handsome dude, and he's
• 49:15
  got that like, you know, shouldn't squat.
• 49:19
  I was gonna say that, like, come home for the holidays and, you
• 49:23
  know, meet his high school sweetheart and teach her the
• 49:26
  meaning of Christmas vibe, you know?
• 49:27
  Like it wasn't a hockey player he'd be making Hallmark movies.
• 49:29
  As what? Exactly it.
• 49:33
  Alright, so that's not on Sharat Cartier.
• 49:37
  Cartier, based on how insane and dominance he's been in both
• 49:42
  shots and hits recently, does not know the meaning of
• 49:44
  Christmas at all. He's just been going off, you
• 49:48
  know, like this week, eight hits and seven hits in.
• 49:52
  Consecutive games, yeah. Nuts nuts.
• 49:55
  He's literally, if I like he has weight, OK, yeah, not exactly
• 50:01
  half, but he has over a third of my entire teams hits this.
• 50:05
  Week and two games. This Yeah, Yeah.
• 50:09
  So it's it's crazy. He's been awesome.
• 50:11
  And the shots are there too. I actually like his opportunity.
• 50:14
  Like to be honest, even apart from just hits playing with JT
• 50:16
  Miller, I know that. Not that JT is good, but this is
• 50:21
  better linemate wise than you have for anyone else on this
• 50:26
  list. Though is that like he used to
• 50:29
  be just kind of like pure hits guy, but he's slowly growing his
• 50:32
  game to touch more of like the shots and, and the blocks here
• 50:36
  and there. And he's he's better exposed to
• 50:39
  points. He's in the best point situation
• 50:41
  that he'll be because he's playing on quote UN quote, line
• 50:43
  3 or line 2 or whatever you want to call it with JT Miller, who
• 50:46
  you know, like what you, however you feel about JT Miller, like
• 50:49
  he's still one of the premier players on this Rangers team.
• 50:51
  So if you're playing online with him, you're going to get decent
• 50:53
  minutes. And we've seen his minutes grow
• 50:55
  slowly from like your average 11 minutes tonight.
• 50:57
  And now he's averaging like maybe like 16 minutes a night
• 50:59
  just because he's playing with that deployment.
• 51:02
  So but mainly hits. This is the guy that you would
• 51:05
  probably want to go home because the ceiling is just so high.
• 51:08
  Yeah, exactly. OK, Brendan Dillon, very, very
• 51:12
  solid with the hits and blocks. You just can't deny it.
• 51:16
  And yeah, I mean that that's it though.
• 51:19
  You're not getting like any reliability as far as shots and
• 51:22
  certainly no points. As I said that I'm sure he's
• 51:24
  gonna have a career week in points and just get 2 points per
• 51:28
  game. I would say I honestly prefer
• 51:32
  Sharat over Dylan. I just basically see Dylan as
• 51:36
  slightly worse than Sharat, like slightly worse in blocks.
• 51:40
  Like trouble get 2 Dillons at 1.3.
• 51:43
  Dylan will get more hits. He's more like 2.5 restaurants
• 51:46
  more around 2 again. But then she will get you the
• 51:48
  extra shot a game as well. So it's kind of just like
• 51:50
  averaging out. She'll plays more minutes as
• 51:52
  well, so more confident in that. Like, he can, you know, hit more
• 51:54
  categories, but he's just like same kind of boat where you want
• 51:58
  to stream a guy for hits and blocks and you need a despot.
• 52:00
  This is a guy you want to add for games this week.
• 52:03
  Yeah, exactly. Jordan stall, Jordan stall.
• 52:07
  He he almost ended the season last week.
• 52:10
  He did. And he, I mean, like, don't
• 52:13
  forget, he like unlike everyone else on this list, he actually
• 52:17
  has it in his arsenal to be a solid, well-rounded player with
• 52:22
  points potential. Like if anyone, I mean, Karchi
• 52:24
  also, you know, has been decent for points.
• 52:26
  But as far as reliability goes, he's got three points in his
• 52:30
  last four games. Jordan Stall in a phased off
• 52:33
  league faceoff win league. He's actually tremendous.
• 52:36
  And but yeah, he's really he's here for the hits.
• 52:39
  And those hits have been very solid lately.
• 52:41
  In the last five games he has four hits and four of those five
• 52:44
  games in the game that he didn't get four hits, he got three
• 52:46
  hits. So like the hit level has been
• 52:48
  really high. He got his first short handed
• 52:51
  point of the season since last week to almost end my season and
• 52:54
  then he matched the game after he got a power play point.
• 52:57
  So power play goal, so like Jordan Stall, he can do it all,
• 53:02
  but not not not mostly for the shots, but if you're getting
• 53:05
  like face off wins hits and some good some good exposure for the
• 53:09
  points as well. Like in terms of banger guys
• 53:12
  like he's a really good, good option.
• 53:13
  He's only 9% on as well. So there's like a deeply cut
• 53:16
  right there. Yeah, all these guys pretty much
• 53:19
  I feel like are, are, are any of them over, you know?
• 53:23
  They're all like 20%. Less than 20, yeah, but I feel
• 53:26
  like most are like really, really not.
• 53:29
  I mean, barely the charges 12% own and he's up 10% on the on
• 53:35
  the week, you know what I mean? So these are these are deep cuts
• 53:38
  and it's really just because of the because of the schedule and
• 53:41
  the amount of games and volume for this category is huge.
• 53:44
  So that's why at #1 with Connor Clifton, it makes sense.
• 53:47
  He's the guy with the five games.
• 53:49
  And I mean in those five games he could get you 20 hits.
• 53:53
  I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, the more probably like
• 53:56
  he's averaging four hits a game, but significantly, like
• 54:00
  oftentimes he's getting like 7-8.
• 54:02
  So yeah, he can do it. You wish the blocks were a
• 54:06
  little higher. And also the main thing with
• 54:07
  Connor Clifton is that people are worried that he gets
• 54:09
  scratched because he's gotten scratched in the past.
• 54:11
  And like when getting scratched for one game is honestly
• 54:13
  detrimental. You do not want to pick up a
• 54:14
  guy, get scratched for a game. But Pittsburgh keeps getting
• 54:18
  injuries, especially on the back line.
• 54:19
  So he keeps like not cementing his spot in the lineup, but also
• 54:24
  like they love his physicality. Last, I think it was like 2
• 54:27
  weeks ago, he like fought for the team when I forget who got
• 54:31
  hurt, but like you went after them and like be like, like
• 54:34
  defended the team. And people love the fact that he
• 54:36
  was able to be that guy for, for the Penguins because you know,
• 54:39
  during this playoff push too. And we always talk about playoff
• 54:41
  hockey and how you need the guys that like, you know, you don't
• 54:43
  want to mess around with. So he's that type of player.
• 54:46
  I think that just cements his role in the lineup.
• 54:47
  But when he's in his role as cemented, that means less chance
• 54:50
  of getting scratched and then more chances of him getting 25
• 54:53
  hits for you and your championship matchup.
• 54:56
  Yep. Yeah, well said.
• 54:57
  OK, let's move on to the top three quantity goalies.
• 55:01
  These are guys that are gonna get 2 plus starts under 40%
• 55:05
  owned. I'll list these off at three.
• 55:07
  We have Freddie Anderson and #2 of Connor Ingram and at #1 I
• 55:11
  think by mile Dobesh. Yeah.
• 55:15
  And this is not being a Homer, but he has been crazy lately.
• 55:19
  I guess we'll start at #3 because there's a lot of
• 55:21
  enthusiasm for rubbish right now.
• 55:22
  Yeah. So yeah, Freddie has regrettably
• 55:27
  seemed to. Really hurt.
• 55:29
  Out of nowhere. What?
• 55:31
  Yeah, he's kind of been pulling away with the better starts.
• 55:34
  Yeah, I don't really get it. I mean, like what happened?
• 55:37
  The chronology is Brandon Bossy plays super well, exceeds all
• 55:42
  sorts of expectations. The Olympic break happens.
• 55:45
  They give him what seemed like a quite the lowball contract, like
• 55:48
  $2,000,000 a year. And they were like, on top of
• 55:50
  that, we're just gonna stop playing you and you're gonna
• 55:52
  lose. Yeah.
• 55:54
  Hey, I don't understand. You don't like generation games.
• 55:57
  Exactly, Exactly. Like, I don't know what the
• 56:02
  sequences there and why this manifested the way it did, but I
• 56:06
  mean, yeah, Busy has just gotten like less than the 50 fifties
• 56:10
  were before when he was getting all of the games in sequence
• 56:13
  other than back to backs. He was winning every single
• 56:17
  game. So this is just ridiculous.
• 56:19
  Another question mark in Rod's way of handling things, I
• 56:24
  suppose. But yeah, Anderson has been has
• 56:27
  been good and Caroline is a good team actually, you know, scratch
• 56:30
  that. He has not been good.
• 56:31
  He's been very not good yet. He will get the volume.
• 56:35
  And because it's Carolina, they could win versus any team.
• 56:38
  That's that's my way of looking. At it that's that's the main
• 56:41
  thing right here, right. We're looking at guys that are
• 56:43
  less than 40% owned. You guys are in your
• 56:45
  championships or your semifinals of your leagues.
• 56:48
  And sometimes you just need a guy is going to get you starts.
• 56:50
  And I think Carolina is a team that, you know, is dominant.
• 56:54
  Like they're gonna go into most games being competitive.
• 56:57
  You're never gonna be like, this is gonna be a blowout.
• 56:59
  They do have some hard matches. I think Columbus is a team
• 57:01
  that's on fire right now. And then, you know, the Island
• 57:04
  is in Ottawa, both our teams that are fighting for the
• 57:05
  playoffs. So they give it their all.
• 57:07
  But I think, you know, Anderson could realistically get three of
• 57:09
  these stars potentially. I would say he gets at least
• 57:11
  two. And you're gonna have like a
• 57:13
  5050 chance to win most of those games.
• 57:15
  It feels like that's number three and not higher on the
• 57:18
  list. But in terms of like being able
• 57:19
  to pick up a starter like doesn't, you don't always have
• 57:22
  the option so. Yeah.
• 57:24
  And like, just as an example, Anderson played the Habs.
• 57:29
  They lost 521 of them, was an empty net goal.
• 57:32
  He lived four goals on 18 shots. And then we'll talk about how
• 57:36
  great Dobesh was that game momentarily.
• 57:38
  But all this to say, like, yeah, Carolina had more than double
• 57:41
  the shots and the Habs did. And that, you know, losing a
• 57:44
  game like that is not going to happen all the time.
• 57:46
  All this to say, Carolina is good and can compete against
• 57:49
  anyone. So yeah, we get it.
• 57:51
  All right, Let's move on to Connor Ingram.
• 57:53
  Ingram has been also bad. This is kind of the same way.
• 57:58
  I see this as the situation Carolina without the evil
• 58:04
  character arc of Rod Brindamour just destroying Brandon Bussey
• 58:07
  and all his fantasy owners dreams.
• 58:09
  But yeah, this is like another guy with a sub 900 save
• 58:12
  percentage. Although as we discussed, the
• 58:14
  save percentage is not that high in the league overall.
• 58:17
  But in a deep league, for instance, where good goalie cats
• 58:21
  are rewarded, I still felt confident dropping him when he
• 58:25
  didn't have, you know, the like, when there were better options
• 58:29
  on. All this to say, they're playing
• 58:31
  Seattle, Chicago, Vegas. Vegas has been horrible
• 58:35
  recently, Seattle hasn't hasn't been great and Chicago is never
• 58:39
  a team that you're intimidated by.
• 58:40
  So I think the matchups honestly easy.
• 58:42
  I'm not saying easy, but they could realistically win all
• 58:46
  three games that I wouldn't be surprised type of thing.
• 58:48
  But it still Connor Ingram, I think you're gonna basically
• 58:50
  expecting around a 900%. You could get games that he's,
• 58:53
  you know, drops in 860, but they win.
• 58:54
  You could get games where he drops on 940 and they win or
• 58:57
  lose. So you really don't know, but
• 59:00
  still Edmonton team that is still trying to win teams
• 59:02
  currently and he was cemented as the starter.
• 59:05
  The team is going to go with him playing these games and you're
• 59:08
  able to pick him up. I I think there's worse things
• 59:10
  you can do in picking up the Edmonton Stardust named Tristan
• 59:13
  Jarry, so. Yeah, no, you're definitely also
• 59:15
  correct about Vegas not being good, and that's been something
• 59:19
  to see. Chicago, on the other hand, I
• 59:21
  actually thought was better than they were because Bedard has
• 59:25
  been so good. And, well, anyway, all this to
• 59:28
  say, yeah, they could win and they need to win.
• 59:32
  I think he's going to get at least two of the games plays on
• 59:34
  this list, but. No, he could.
• 59:35
  He could even get all three technically so.
• 59:38
  Yeah, yeah, he could. All right.
• 59:40
  And then I mean, Dobesh, Dobesh should not be under 40% on.
• 59:43
  He's got 39 as we speak. So even by the time you're
• 59:46
  listening to this, he may be over the edge, but still
• 59:48
  possibly available in your league.
• 59:50
  He's been crazy. That Carolina game that I
• 59:52
  mentioned where Anderson let in four goals on 18 shots, he saved
• 59:56
  41 of 43, letting in only two goals.
• 59:59
  And then the next game, he came back two days later.
• 1:00:02
  So it wasn't a back-to-back, but.
• 1:00:04
  You know, still, like, I don't think I'll get the back-to-back,
• 1:00:06
  but he's gonna get the majority of, you know, all these.
• 1:00:08
  I wouldn't be surprised if he gets three games this coming
• 1:00:10
  week. He saved 25 on 26 against a red
• 1:00:13
  hot Columbus. Team yeah, he he was the reason
• 1:00:15
  why Columbus, you know, lost that game.
• 1:00:18
  And Columbus is a team has been on fire.
• 1:00:19
  They've been extremely hard to stop.
• 1:00:22
  So the fact that the best played so well, like he's if he's
• 1:00:25
  available on your waves and you need a goalie, like he's a
• 1:00:26
  priority pickup. I'm using #1 waiver priority.
• 1:00:29
  I'm dropping a lot of my fab. It's go time right now.
• 1:00:32
  Like just put it all on Dobesh. And he, he seems like the guy
• 1:00:36
  that's going to be delivering run right.
• 1:00:38
  And like these this week are not easy, but still like the Habs
• 1:00:41
  are such a good team. They're still fighting for a
• 1:00:44
  playoff position, right? Like there's really not a
• 1:00:46
  realistic chance. But like they're not cemented,
• 1:00:48
  right? Like if they lose too many
• 1:00:49
  games, like they could realistically miss the playoffs.
• 1:00:51
  So they're in win now mode to get a ride with the giving them
• 1:00:54
  the wins. And Dobesh is just like he's
• 1:00:56
  been incredible. It's hard to find a better
• 1:00:59
  goalie that's this widely available.
• 1:01:02
  I, I there's nothing bad to say about him.
• 1:01:05
  The only other person I'm gonna mention is because he's been on
• 1:01:07
  this list for the past few weeks.
• 1:01:09
  Joel Hofer has been nuts too. Absolutely crazy.
• 1:01:14
  He's at 44% owned. Would you rather Dobesh or
• 1:01:19
  Hoefer this coming? Week Dobesh and because mostly
• 1:01:22
  Binnington has also kind of had a couple games that have been
• 1:01:25
  solid, so I could see them kind of like alternating a little
• 1:01:28
  bit. Whereas Dobesh, I know that like
• 1:01:30
  Follow is going to get the back-to-back and Dobesh is gonna
• 1:01:32
  get every other start because he's the guy that's giving wins
• 1:01:34
  for the hubs. Fair enough, Fair enough.
• 1:01:36
  OK, And the top three quality goalies we have Jacob Fowler,
• 1:01:42
  Archer Sheloves and Villi Whoso Sheloves.
• 1:01:48
  OK, we'll start with the third one.
• 1:01:50
  Fowler is going to get either the New Jersey Devils or the New
• 1:01:53
  Jersey Devils. Yeah.
• 1:01:58
  Yeah. And Fowler.
• 1:01:59
  Fowler is a decent goalie in his own right.
• 1:02:01
  It's just that it's just the Dublish has been so monstrous
• 1:02:05
  that I think that that one beat reporter who said that Fowler
• 1:02:08
  will absolutely be the Hab starting goalie in the playoffs.
• 1:02:11
  Nope. No, that's not good.
• 1:02:13
  That's not going to be the case. But yeah, they could.
• 1:02:16
  Even though New Jersey's been trying their best.
• 1:02:20
  Hobbs are also. They need a win.
• 1:02:23
  In these are like Jackie said, the quality starts, so spot
• 1:02:26
  starts and I think, you know, a Habs team that is trying to win
• 1:02:28
  games versus the Devils team that is kind of out of the
• 1:02:30
  playoff picture but has still been hot.
• 1:02:31
  The matchup is really good. Yeah, Archers, Sheloves.
• 1:02:35
  Then also, you know, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh really kind of been a
• 1:02:41
  bit of a mess. They're they're pulling out
• 1:02:44
  wins. They are, but it's it's a real
• 1:02:47
  tough one. And their schedule is
• 1:02:50
  essentially Islanders, Detroit and then Florida Panthers
• 1:02:53
  back-to-back. Interesting.
• 1:02:54
  You got a few teams playing each other back-to-back this week.
• 1:02:57
  But yeah, I mean, I don't like this one at all.
• 1:03:01
  Not that I don't like, I mean, I understand why he's here, but I
• 1:03:07
  feel the same way about Skinner as I do about Sheila's.
• 1:03:09
  Like, I just don't trust Pittsburgh goaltending, right?
• 1:03:11
  Now, how about you? I mean, to me, it's just like,
• 1:03:13
  if you need to stream for one game, you definitely want one of
• 1:03:16
  those Florida games in the back-to-back because Florida
• 1:03:18
  just keeps like crossing guys off their lineup.
• 1:03:20
  Like just this morning they crossed off Sam Bennett like
• 1:03:23
  he's not going to be playing the Saturday game.
• 1:03:26
  So yeah, I got that started notification coming while
• 1:03:31
  recording and he's on his fantasy team.
• 1:03:33
  So we people were worried about this with Sam Bennett, the fact
• 1:03:37
  that like, you know, Florida could just shut down guys at any
• 1:03:39
  moment and for no good reason. So Sam Ben is the next one to
• 1:03:43
  hit, hit the shelf or bite the dust or whatever you want to
• 1:03:46
  say. So I just think that just makes
• 1:03:48
  Florida both Florida matchups, no matter which one he plays on
• 1:03:51
  the Saturday or Sunday. Like I would stream of
• 1:03:53
  Pittsburgh goalie against them. Just make sure, you know, keep
• 1:03:55
  track of who's playing which game because she loves and
• 1:03:58
  Skinner alternate a lot. Skinner I will say, like last
• 1:04:01
  game was very impressive. So I wonder if Pittsburgh starts
• 1:04:03
  to break the rotation and go with one of these goalies.
• 1:04:05
  It'll just be poetic for them to break the rotation going into
• 1:04:08
  this, you know, championship week when they've been opening
• 1:04:11
  every game and suddenly they just go with one guy for two
• 1:04:12
  games in a row. I don't want it to open play for
• 1:04:16
  Pittsburgh. I think they should go to give
• 1:04:17
  him the best chance to win. Both guys have been sold, but at
• 1:04:19
  some point it's crunch time. You gotta win games.
• 1:04:21
  So I don't want you for fantasy purposes because that's just
• 1:04:24
  sucks. But yeah, playing for one of the
• 1:04:26
  Florida games even earlier, the back-to-back is like I would if
• 1:04:30
  I need it, but not ideal. No, I think because it's like 2
• 1:04:34
  games break one game break 2 games, he's gonna get 2.
• 1:04:39
  Yeah, yeah, he would. Like, I think like at least two,
• 1:04:43
  but we shall see. And then at #1 on this list,
• 1:04:46
  Ville Husso, you know, he was my boy a few years ago.
• 1:04:52
  Ray Lewis, well, that absolute terror.
• 1:04:55
  And he's he's actually, I think poised to win whichever game is
• 1:05:01
  that. We spoke about the Ducks
• 1:05:02
  schedule earlier. They're not playing tough
• 1:05:03
  opponents. No, the Ville Husso, he'll be
• 1:05:06
  the starter for Anaheim for one of those games and playing
• 1:05:08
  either Saint Louis or Calgary, you kind of hope because
• 1:05:10
  Calgary, because Calgary is one of the worst teams in the league
• 1:05:12
  and Anaheim is just a better team than both of these guys.
• 1:05:15
  So you can stream a better on a team that's on a goal that's on
• 1:05:19
  a better team and a better goalie and a bad team.
• 1:05:21
  So it goes together. Yes, I wasn't sure how you were
• 1:05:27
  you were, you know, you gotta be on YouTube for that boat.
• 1:05:31
  You were you were docking that that, you know, chip that went
• 1:05:34
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• 1:05:38
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• 1:05:43
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