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Week 22 News & Updates + Would You Rather | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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Baby bound Bow banger management fantasy hockey podcast.
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Woo woo tools today. Yeah.
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Welcome and everybody to Bangor Management the Fantasy Hockey
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Podcast with Kevin and Josh. It is the week 22 news and
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updates plus the famous would you rathers on this episode.
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We are only two today. Jakey is caught up with some
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work stuff, but. He is actually still still
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hungover from the absolute crazy Bender he went on after winning
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the quarterfinals against the the number one seed.
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He essentially, if you remember Nikita Kucherov after winning
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the Stanley Cup, you know, shirtless chug and beers.
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Yeah, that's pretty much what happened with Jakey, especially
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because he had control and his team, so he just was trying to
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emulate him. So.
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So yeah, they still recovering. So that's why it's just the two
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of. Us so he he might miss this
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episode he might miss the next episode as well We'll see how
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hard the hangover is but as always, at least you have the
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two best hosts here to provide you with the best information
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possible for your fantasy matchups yeah Jackie, Jackie,
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I've never seen him happier than he was the last few days.
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It looked like on the Wednesday his matchup was over and he was
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going to be like the the top ranked seed, which is crazy.
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I mean hopefully if we have any 8 seeds or 6 seeds in our Bangor
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community that you guys were able to also defeat your first
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seed counterparts. But yeah, what a match up.
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Josh, how do you, how are you feeling?
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I have to go to to do it. I know it's been a roller
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coaster of emotions the last few days.
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Yeah, Well, this is officially the worst fantasy season I've
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ever been a part of, so I've never been eliminated this early
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before. I've always said, well, I've
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played. This is my sixth year playing.
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I've won. I won the first four years and
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then last year I got eliminated in semis and this year in the
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quarter function, I played one year before joining the like in
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a different league and I won that one.
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So it still counts. But but yeah, so so now I got
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eliminated This year I lost dry saddle the day before playoffs.
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I lost McDavid and Scalabrini to, you know, I don't know what
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you would call it, them deciding to be the worst versions of
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themselves for a week. Yeah, hard to come back from.
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So no, it was a pretty brutal week.
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My opponent I don't think had a good team or managed it well,
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but it got very lucky. And clearly I'm still salty
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about it because I have only bad things to say about their team.
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So, um, yeah, no, I'm, I'm obviously upset about it, but
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ready to bounce back for next year, starting to take some
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notes for, you know, my plans for next year's draft.
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I'm excited to overreact extremely hard for next year's
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draft. I will not be drafting a single
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goalie. I've said that multiple times.
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I am willing to put even though like McDavid and celebrity are
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like my two number one enemies after last week's the real, I
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think the real player that cost me my entire season is Darcy
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Kemper, mainly because I drafted him in the eighth round and he
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said he was just full year. So look, I learned my lesson.
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This is the one year I tried not to go 0G and true burned by it
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and I'll never do it again. So anyways, that's that's enough
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of my rambling. But I'm look, I'll be honest,
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the last thing I wanted to do after getting eliminated in this
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fashion is come and talk fantasy hockey.
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Just like the one time a year where like I it's not all I want
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to talk about, but you know, I know the viewers listeners want
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to see me crash out live. So.
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I don't think they want to see you crash out honestly.
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You had a lot of support in the discord.
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Like I know, I know this Sunday was tough and honestly Sunday
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was just me alone talking in the group chat, basically having my
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own crash out from my matchup. Um, I felt really bad the next
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morning looking at the text. I was like, oh boy, like I
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really went hard. But but but it was like, I
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already mentioned some of it in the discord.
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But also to Joshua's credit though, like he built an
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extremely good team. And The thing is like, I don't
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think Josh made any mistakes. It's just one of those things
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like I heard people in discord too, like, you know, they closed
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the whole year. They had the best team by far.
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And then, you know, I know some of you guys got eliminated and
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against like the last place team that made the playoffs.
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And you're just like, there's no way this matchup should be even
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remotely close. And somehow, like all the bad
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things happen and all the good things happen and you end up
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losing your match and it's devastating.
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Like those are the ones that hurt the most because, you know,
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it feels like undeserved. It feels like you did everything
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right. You were set up for success and
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the fantasy gods had their say and for some reason they they
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hated us. And yeah, those are the ones
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that sting. So I've been.
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Definitely tough, cause like, I don't think there's ever gonna
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be another year where I have McDavid, Draisaitl, Celebrity
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and Pasternack on the same team, you know, like.
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That you never know. Never.
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Look, it's definitely possible, but I think it's highly
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unlikely. So this is one of the biggest
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star-studded rosters I ever had. So kind of brutal to lose like
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that. But that's fantasy, baby.
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And and also like if if you are in the same situation as Josh, I
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know it feels bad, but like you also gotta like the way that I
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would reassure myself is that like, no, you did everything
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right and it was just out of your control.
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You're literally unlucky. And in all fantasy sports is
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always a luck component. And that's what makes the high
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so high in the low so low to a certain degree.
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Listen, as long as you make all the good things, some things are
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out of your control is nothing you can do about it.
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You just have to like take it on the chin and and try not to get
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too mental spiral and be like, oh, if I did this, if I did
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that, you did all the right things.
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And sometimes the fantasy guys have their say, but absolutely.
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I mean, the fantasy gods, I think protected me just a little
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bit, just like just enough in my matchup.
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But I posted in the discord, ended up winning the matchup 87
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while losing shutouts, Pimms and shorties, which are the three
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most volatile stats. All of those went to my opponent
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should have technically been like a like 8-4 or like a 8 five
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thing like should not have been that close.
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If if Grieves would have let in one more goal on Sunday, I would
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have lost my match up. And that's because Sorokin ended
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up getting a shutout. Like I projected on the podcast,
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I was like, I'll be fine as long as broken doesn't get a shout
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out. He got a shout out on a
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back-to-back he wasn't supposed to play.
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Oh, that's crazy. It is crazy.
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It it, it did me. They did me dirty.
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And then I went into the after that shut out, I was like, OK,
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as long as Jack McBain doesn't get 12 hits, I'm good.
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He ended the game and I think 9 or 10 hits, which is the fact
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that it was that close. I was like staring at my monitor
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being like, could you just bench him?
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Like you need to score goals. Don't put this guy on the ice
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anymore. You know, a lot of a lot of
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crazy. A lot of crazy stuff happened.
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That's weird stuff. Yeah.
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But we made it. I am now in the semifinals.
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I'm my team was optimized for the semifinals.
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I have like a lot of good Rangers off tonight.
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I have the Ottawa, I have the Ottawa trio on my team battles
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and ketchup and cousin. So hopefully they carry me to
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victory. But no easy matchups left four
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teams and it's always 4 strong teams.
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We we went into the playoffs thinking 8 teams could have won
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the league. Like it was one of those years
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for our league. So hopefully everybody looking
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forward to your management league next year because it's
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gonna be just as exciting. You thought more exciting.
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Like we had some guys in our league of record kind of like,
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you know, bow out near the end of the season where they kind of
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gave up. I know the anger management
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community is not gonna let that happen so.
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No, if it does, we'll shame you live on that.
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Yeah, roast you on the podcast. Exactly.
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But honestly, I think those are gonna be super competitive.
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Like I talked about it. We're gonna try to find the
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structure that works, but we're talking about a relegation
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system. I don't know if you saw that
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conversation, Josh, and the Discord, but I was, yeah, no
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putting the idea out there for like, you know, maybe we make a
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tier based divisions and you know, if you finish in the top
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three of your league, you get brought up to the top division,
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you finish in the bottom three, you get brought down to the
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division. So a relegation system is always
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good incentive to have guys like across the board, you know,
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whether you're in first or last. Tank or anything?
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Yeah, exactly, cause you want to try to avoid getting relegated.
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So good things up in the works though.
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When we have more information I'll let you guys know, but I
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think it's time to get into the news.
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But before that preface, listen, we're 8 minutes into the podcast
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and we haven't even talked about the discord server, so I'm
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This guy single handedly won my match up.
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Rate 5 stars. We really appreciate the
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there for the next couple of days, it's I'm grieving and you
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know, I'll get back in there and that helps support Kevin in a in
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answering all your questions. But yeah, let's and also another
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added incentive for the Discord is for when we start these
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banger management links and stuff, whether we're, you know,
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like organizing it in there or we're getting signups or just
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talking about it throughout the course of the season.
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It's going to be really cool. So it's gonna be fun.
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So definitely even more incentive to join for the end of
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this season and for the start of next season.
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And also anyways shout out to those in the discord.
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I made the that joined the Fantasy Baseball Bangor
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management league. We had our draft Sunday night
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falls drafting while watching my team like slowly lose and then
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ended up winning. But thank you to to the Commish
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Shepard commander who made everything happen.
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It was so hard to find a draft time for 14 people across
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multiple different time zones right before the baseball season
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starts starts on Wednesday. So I'm glad we had that done.
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I'm looking forward to competing in baseball with the with 13
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other crazy 13 other ones. Interview Now in anger
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management leagues, you're in a baseball one, you're in an F1,
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right? That's what's happening.
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Do you have Do you have any others yet or?
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No, just, I mean, listen, next year hockey, maybe we'll do some
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football next year. I don't know if I'm pretty sure.
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I feel there's always a lot of people that wanna play fantasy
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football. So maybe we'll get some anger
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management. Football.
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If you want people to play fantasy F1 with you, you're not
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gonna have any issue finding people to play fantasy football.
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And even though the one season has started, if you're
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interested in joining, it's never too late.
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You can always join. You'll be, you know, a couple of
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race weeks behind, but still a lot of fun.
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I'm currently in 3rd place, just putting it out there out of 10,
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so we'll see. Nice.
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Alright, I think that's enough profile change a lot of let's
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just dive into what's been going on around the league over the
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past week. So let's start with some
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injuries. Corrill the thrill.
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Kaprizov is day-to-day from Minnesota.
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Tarasenko is taking his spot on power play one.
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Also on Minnesota. Erickson Eck is day-to-day.
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Ryan Hartman taking his vampire play one.
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This is the second year in a row that Kaprizov and Erickson Eck
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dip out for fantasy playoffs. I'm wondering like, maybe this
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is just me being like frustrated with the dry side, alright,
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doing it back-to-back years, but now here's another two players,
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including Capris, who's another like elite player doing it
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back-to-back years. Like is there like a point where
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you avoid certain guys here? Like it seems like every year at
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the end of the season they get shut down?
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Or is that just the same thing as like how we talk about, you
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know, certain guys getting injured throughout the year?
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It's just it's random and it is what it is.
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It will never be me avoiding certain players for injury or
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whatever. I mean, I understand some people
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that are like truly risk averse, but The thing is you can be risk
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averse and it can still happen to you.
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So I'm pretty much a risk averse manager.
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Like, you know, I drafted guys in the top three rounds that
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have never been hurt in their career.
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This year they got hurt like Brady and the Trocheck.
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So you could try to avoid it and stumble into it anyway.
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So might as well just pick the guy you think best and and roll
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with it. It really sucks that Capris off
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and Ericsson Neckar, you know this is happening to them in the
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fantasy players. But I did see this morning they
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were practicing, but it was just like we're not sure if they're
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going to play. So it's just one of those
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situations you have to monitor. Yeah, I feel like this is like
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we talked about, you know, the situations where players get
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injured or like banged up a little before playoffs and their
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teams in a comfortable playoff position and they're just like,
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we have nothing to play for. So why would we risk anything
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with our like, top guys? So I don't think they're in any
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rush to bring these guys back. Like they're they're third place
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in the vision is pretty much secure.
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Like no one's coming to pass them and they're not going to
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pass the top two guys. So I feel like they literally
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have nothing to play for, which is kind of the worst spot to be
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for fantasy assets. If you're in a fantasy league
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with no IR plus, are you dropping both of these guys?
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I'm not dropping the price off because if you come back,
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they're like the finals or whatever, like it's just too
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valuable. I would drop Erickson Eck.
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Though, Yep, Eric, enemies drop somebody right before we started
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recording asked me like they were like during a Yahoo Public
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League. So I would say like, quote, UN
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quote, maybe less competitive than usual.
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And he's on a bye week this week.
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Yeah. And he asked if he should drop
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Caprisa for it was like a Mulkin or something.
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And I was like, like, I know he's hurt.
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He was at practice this morning. Like there's no way in my mind
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that you can drop Kaprizov because if he comes back, he's
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extremely more valuable. Anyone else that you're gonna
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find on waivers, especially if you're on a bye week of the
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luxury of waiting extra week and having that information to know
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if he's going to play or not. If come Sunday they're like he's
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still day-to-day or whatever and you're going into your you know,
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semifinal matchup or your finals matchup and you're like, OK, I
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don't have the information is going to play.
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We reassess then with who's available on your waivers and
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you know how deep you're league is.
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But right now I don't think you can do.
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No, no way. I mean, you drop him and then he
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gets healthy and then your opponent picks him up and you
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just gave your opponent yourself.
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Like, that's that's crazy. Yeah.
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Anyways, let's move on to the next one.
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How do you feel? About trying to pull other guys
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though like the terrorizing the Hartman, them getting the
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deployment boost. I mean, The thing is that
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Minnesota has like a garbage playoff schedule.
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Yeah. And it was just being over that
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like a lot of times also like when a player like replace
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someone on power play one, if the player they're replacing is
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the reason that that power play is good in the 1st place, then
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it removes a lot of that value. So that's not the case of their
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connect with Kaprizov. Like obviously Quinn Hughes is a
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math and bolt here like amazing. Like this reason the play so
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good. There's so many players, but
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Capris obviously the guy, right? So losing Kaprizov inherently
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makes that power play worse. Losing price of anarchy and
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neck. Now two of your five guys are
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Tarasenko and Hartman. It's a lot less exciting.
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But power play also like the Minnesota team is kind of just
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slumping right now. Bad playoff schedule.
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I'm not in any rush to grab these guys.
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If they had a better playoff schedule, then I would say
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differently. Like if they had the Rangers
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schedule, I'd be like, yeah, it's a no brainer, but there's a
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chance you grab these guys. You can't even play them this
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week. Yeah.
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I mean, the schedule this week is really peculiar, right?
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Like hopefully you guys listen to our waiver episode that came
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out on Sunday morning, but it feels like there's only three
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games this week that have games pretty much so.
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Yeah, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
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All those days like you're probably benching a lot of guys
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because everybody's playing unless your rosters are super
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deep. So that's why the offsets are
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super valuable to have this week.
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And, you know, Minnesota got none of those and they just got,
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you know, three games on the three heaviest nights.
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So are you gonna play Tarasenko over any of the guys that are
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already in office you been holding all year?
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Probably not. Yeah.
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I will say terror signals the only one that kind of interests
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me just because I know like he's had some value in the past where
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he's, you know, gotten that power play on the exposure.
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Yeah. So he could maybe do something
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with it, but I'm not like he's not gonna be better than the
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other guys are available for games.
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Yeah, exactly. Alright, Tyler to Foley of the
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Sharks is day-to-day with an injury.
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William Eckland. This is powerfully 1 replacement
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exciting for Gavin. And honestly, this is one of
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those cases where the injured player is less notable than the
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injury replacement. This is like the more the more
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important reason to mention this is because like Eckland becomes
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more interesting as a pickup as opposed to the fact that it's a
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massive loss. You have to follow like
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honestly, I don't think they should have been rostered in in
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most leagues at this point. So but yeah, in Eckland.
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Interesting. Three games this week before
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games the week after. If fully stays out for that
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whole span, then that's a nice pick up.
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I mean, obviously Celebrity has been slumping, but Eckland shown
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that you know he's a good enough player.
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Like he deserves this deployment.
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Now that he's getting it, you just need him to be good for two
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weeks. So I don't hate this as a
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pickup. Is line 2 power play OneNote,
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which the power play 1 is the big one because that's the
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obviously the big unit with the big boys.
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The he I can't I feel like is that the perfect guy that you're
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you know is good enough to be on your roster?
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But he's also the easiest cut if you need to like, you know, open
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a spot for a streamer or something to optimize games.
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Like I wouldn't feel bad about cutting him, but depending on
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who you know your options are, he's still a good guy to have,
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especially with power play 1. I feel that's when he's value
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really ticks. Obviously explain what celebrity
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on 585 would be even better, but I don't think that's going to
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happen with how they've been running the lines, even though
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they jumble the lines like every game to get stuff going.
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Like, Will Smith plays like 10 minutes tonight on the fourth
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line sometimes, and you're like, how easy is this really the
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strategy for success when you want to get guys going?
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I don't know. But I don't think the Trucks
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making the playoffs, like, it looked like they were.
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We were ready to pencil them in. And then at some point it just
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became, no, not impossible, but they're just not good enough.
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It feels like, yeah, maybe they need a Dougie Hamilton or
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something. Honestly, maybe in the off
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season we'll see what happens. Jared McCann of the Seattle
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crack in his day-to-day, replaced by Bonnie B McMahon.
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McCann for McMahon. It's crazy.
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Yeah. To like almost identical
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nothings like that's wild. We talked about McMahon a bit
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like a week and a half ago. Obviously Seattle not having
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that great schedule is the one downside.
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But I love him as a double double with points upside.
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He did have he like he started off super hot, then he came down
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to earth. But like I still like him as a
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as a pickup. If you don't mind if you could
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fit him in your schedule? He was a scheduled casualty for
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me last week. I had to decide would either
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cutting Brat for getting 2 skater games or like holding
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McMahon and then cutting McMahon for the Sunday and only getting
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one skidder game out of my my you know stream.
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And I ended up going to the lottery because I thought my my
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win condition was so much better with Brat in the semifinals and
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not with Brats. McMahon, I feel like he's going
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to average out. He's not gonna do what he did
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the first two games that he was on Seattle, right?
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Like, that was crazy. But it's good to know that's in
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his range of outcomes that he can be a solid category coverage
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guy. But I think you'll get somewhere
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in between of what he did the last weekend in the first two
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games. If you can fit him in your
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schedule, I think it's very, very good.
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But make McCann, what are you thinking?
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Cause like he the first reports was like he was a healthy
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scratch. Yeah, no, he's been a drop for a
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while, honestly. Like, I hope that no one held on
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to him this long. And if you did now, this is the
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sign you needed to get him off your roster.
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He had a hot streak at that point this season.
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But he was arguably the best player for a long time, right?
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Like you were saying that. Yeah, but just clearly very
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inconsistent and he's been garbage for awhile.
17:26
So. So yeah, easy drop.
17:28
Alright, some more Florida casualties, obviously, because
17:32
they're just so clearly tanking. Anton Lundell day-to-day Erod
17:36
Evan Rodriguez getting his spot on power play one.
17:38
Honestly, like, I know Florida has the 44 schedule, but I'm
17:42
becoming less and less interested in owning anyone on
17:45
this team. I just think that anyone who
17:47
shows any glimpse of, you know, performing well, they're going
17:51
to take them out. Like that's like he feels
17:53
blatant tanking every day I'm seeing a new name is day-to-day
17:56
for Florida, you know, like it's it's crazy.
17:59
So I'm not rushing to pick up Evan Rodriguez.
18:01
The only I like his his shots on goal and I like his face off
18:04
wins from from triple eligibility.
18:06
But that's always been the case. That doesn't change that much
18:09
with the with this new deployment.
18:10
For Florida specifically, I'm getting first of all, any hope
18:14
for us Sam Reinhart owners or is he just done for the playoffs?
18:17
Most likely cause they said let's.
18:18
Run for the playoffs. Said let's evaluate.
18:20
And then they were like, we're doing some tests.
18:22
Like that's what I saw the testing.
18:24
I think it's just BS. Yeah.
18:25
Honestly, I think he could play. I just think they're they're
18:28
shutting everyone down. Because.
18:29
They don't need to play. And honestly, like, maybe I'm
18:32
just jaded, but I just think it's kind of like, I don't know,
18:35
maybe it's like me being like trying to be whatever, but I
18:38
think it's kind of like, I don't get it.
18:40
I got a bad feeling in my mouth when a team so blatantly tanks,
18:42
you know, it reminds me of like Chicago tanking for Bedard, you
18:45
know, like that year they literally like traded away or
18:48
like every asset they could possibly have, they played just
18:51
only 4th liners. Like it was just so blatant.
18:54
And that's what Florida is doing right now.
18:55
Like they, they essentially shut down their top like 6 forwards
18:59
for the season. And there's no way these guys
19:01
are all unable to play. There's just, it's just not a
19:03
thing. So I kind of like hate that, you
19:05
know, especially. The back champs and just gonna,
19:08
you know, get a top ten pick and then bounce back next year.
19:10
Yeah, exactly. Like look, strategically it's
19:12
great. You know, it's like the same in
19:14
fantasy hockey, right, If that's the way your league works.
19:16
Or like the lower you finish, the higher pick you get the next
19:18
year. Like, yeah, why wouldn't you
19:19
want to finish lower? But like, it's not the spirit of
19:22
the game, right? Like you'd think, like, you
19:24
know, players have more like integrity and wanna play and
19:26
whatever. And for the most part, I think
19:28
that's the case. I think the culture in Florida
19:29
is we don't mind being the bad guys if it means we're gonna
19:32
win. So they don't mind doing stuff
19:33
that's like more morally ambiguous or whatever.
19:35
Look, it's good strategy, but I don't like it in hockey and and
19:38
it sucks for fantasy. I'm getting a lot of questions
19:41
about Sam Bennett too. And they were like, can I draw
19:44
Bennett or I'm debating between this guy and this guy is like
19:48
Bennett or Ricard Raquel. Like, who do I keep on my on my
19:51
on my team this week? Like I have to bench one of them
19:53
the whole week. Might as well cut them and get
19:55
an off night guy. Yeah.
19:56
And it's tough because, I mean, I answered one.
19:58
It was like Bennett or Matthew Noyes and Matthews had one off
20:02
night. Bennett has no off nights.
20:03
I was like. OK, but he has one off night
20:07
like after, but I thought I'd cut knives because I thought I
20:12
think Bennett is better when you plays.
20:14
But it's just like like you said, I just feel like any
20:16
moment can be like, alright, he's too hurt today, he can't
20:18
play and you gonna feel awful if you cut the other guy.
20:20
He plays you, you want to keep betting, then he gets scratched
20:23
or whatever and you're like in a pickle, right?
20:25
So it's tough. Do you just want to get rid of
20:27
that headache now and just not taking the chance or you're
20:29
willing to like hold because the value of him when he plays is
20:32
enough to make up for the fact that like, you know, there's the
20:35
risk. There.
20:36
I mean, it's tough because nice has been so garbage, right?
20:39
Yeah. So like like in comparison
20:41
there, like I'd rather the upside of Bennett playing
20:45
because nice is just straight zeros, right.
20:47
So like may as well, you know, have the upside of not straight
20:51
zeros. But if it was another player I
20:52
was more excited about, then I'd be fine cutting Bennett.
20:54
Like I'm really. I'm betting or Rachel.
20:58
I would take Raquel no even though he just put up a game of
21:00
straight Heroes I. Know still and on the Sunday of
21:02
my financing matchup. I know.
21:04
Yeah. But anyways, let's go to the
21:07
last one. Morgan Riley of Toronto Maple
21:09
Leafs Day-to-day Ekman Larsson's taking us on power play 1.
21:12
Toronto is another one of these teams where if anyone's injured,
21:15
they're not going to play them. They just have no reason to.
21:17
But I think Riley's going to come back.
21:19
I don't think it's like, it's not the same like Florida.
21:21
They're really, they're actively trying to shut people down,
21:24
Toronto. He just happens to be injured
21:25
and they're not gonna rush him back for no reason.
21:28
What do you think? About the I'm not interested in
21:30
OL what? What do you think about Toronto
21:32
in terms of like, they're the guys that are on that team rest
21:35
of season? Cause I know like, you know,
21:37
Matthews is out, Taveras has been kind of solid, you know,
21:40
under has been OK, but like, nice has been bad.
21:42
And it feels like anybody else on this team has been like too
21:44
inconsistent or just not not valuable at all.
21:46
Yeah, I know in our league, like both goalies are on waivers too.
21:50
Yeah. I I mean, it's you know, it's
21:54
hard to say because it's been years since this has happened,
21:56
but Toronto one of the worst teams in the league.
21:59
There's no reason to own either goalie and there's no reason to
22:02
own anyone not named to virus or Nylander.
22:03
Honestly, like nice is like the the fringe case, but because of
22:07
how bad he's been and it's playoffs, like you gotta just do
22:09
what you gotta do. And I would not want to have him
22:11
for the next two weeks. If OEL is on a power play one,
22:14
are you interested at all? No, not even.
22:18
I mean, look, it can context dependent, right?
22:21
Like if you know if you can fit him perfectly in your schedule
22:24
and you need a defenseman and you need the chance, that's
22:27
power play points and there's no one better on waivers like.
22:31
Recov. I'll take Gavrilov.
22:34
Even though he's not on power. Play 1 Cup, I think that's a
22:38
good line because never comes the perfect guy.
22:40
That's like he doesn't have the special teams deployment, he
22:42
doesn't have the banger category coverage, but he gets you points
22:45
here and there. He's just he's on a hot streak.
22:48
He's got a way better schedule. That's what it comes down to
22:51
alright, and then some 22 big returns from injury in the past
22:54
week. We have a Sidney Crosby of the
22:57
Pittsburgh Penguins coming back line on power play 1 bumping off
23:00
Anthony Mantha from the power play.
23:02
Massive, massive return for anyone who has Crosby.
23:05
Pretty crazy. I feel like I expected him to be
23:07
out longer than this, but but I mean, that's he, this guy hates
23:11
to not play hockey. Like all he wants to do is play
23:13
hockey. And you know, that's a player
23:15
right there, you know, not these CVS Florida guys who are just
23:17
pretending to be injured for the season.
23:19
Shots fired. Yeah, anyways, like like super
23:22
exciting for him. I think it makes everyone around
23:24
him other than Mantha better because Mantha lost the
23:27
deployment. Eric Carlson, obviously the best
23:28
player in the NHL. So like, you know, now that
23:30
probably is back. It just it just makes them even
23:33
better. And now it's really huge having
23:35
him back. It's funny because the team that
23:37
just missed playoffs in our league because they made a bad
23:41
pick up, like they had Crosby and if they made the playoffs,
23:44
they would have gotten him back. And you know, could have been a
23:46
whole other story. But yeah, Jake wouldn't have
23:49
been in like knocked out the first seed.
23:50
Like, yeah, crazy. Somebody what ifs right?
23:54
And then Jake might end up and go win the league this year, who
23:56
knows. And he he was two points away
23:58
from making the playoffs because the team right behind him in 9th
24:00
place made a dumb pick up and lost.
24:02
Out. Yeah, crazy how things happen,
24:05
but Mantha, it becomes an immediate drop.
24:07
I know a lot of people streamed him going into the playoffs
24:09
because of the deployment and the schedule and everything.
24:12
As soon as he got bumped off the power play one like he doesn't
24:14
even have good 5 deployment like cut him.
24:16
But does not mean that he won't be able to have like good games
24:18
here and there. Like he said, I can take shots
24:20
and score goals, but just I'm not banking on it with a
24:23
deployment that probably 1 is now full, full force.
24:26
And listen, Pittsburgh is still in the playoff race too.
24:28
I think maybe that's why no Crosby came back as fast as he
24:31
did too, because I think Pittsburgh needs to help.
24:33
The goal is just starting to fall off as well.
24:36
Like, you know, she loves having some bad games.
24:37
I think Stuart Skinner has a one in a while.
24:40
So it's it's gonna be a tight battle in the East.
24:42
I think to for who gets those last playoff spots right now, if
24:46
you have to guess, who are you putting your money?
24:47
On I mean, I still think Pittsburgh safe just because
24:49
like, I mean, honestly, I think Columbus could pass them, but I
24:52
think they're still going to be in the top three in their
24:54
division. I don't think Islanders are
24:56
jumping back into that top three.
24:57
And then I think top three in Atlantic.
24:59
I mean, obviously Buffaloes locks, Tampas locked.
25:02
I mean, I don't think I'm being too biased when I say I think
25:05
the haves will end at 3rd. I don't think we're by any means
25:07
a lot. I just think we will end up in
25:09
3rd and division and then top two wild cards.
25:11
I'm going to Boston and Ottawa. I think even though Larkins
25:15
coming back, I don't think Detroit has the juice.
25:16
I think they've been kind of like petering out.
25:19
But I mean, we did mention him being talismanic.
25:20
So we'll see. We'll see if he can turn the
25:22
ship around. I just feel like Ottawa's on
25:24
fire and and they're just like, I think they're going to make
25:27
it. And I don't think I don't
25:28
believe in the Islanders think the Islanders are pretty much
25:30
entirely Elias Sorokin. You know, could definitely bring
25:34
yeah, ugly could definitely bring you to the playoffs, but I
25:37
just think Ottawa is just a much better team and they're gonna
25:39
catch up and Loki funny, I was just looking at the standings.
25:42
I mean this is 100% not gonna happen but like do you realize
25:45
Phillies only like 1 point behind Ottawa I?
25:46
Know but if they don't crazy playoffs they don't know they
25:49
have team. I don't know.
25:51
But like, they're not going to because there's too many teams
25:53
in front of them and they're not a good team.
25:54
But it's kind of crazy. Like, you know, yeah, it's it's
25:58
nuts. So that's what happens when the
26:00
coach lets Mishkoff play on his actual wing instead of forcing
26:03
him to be. It makes no.
26:04
Sense. But anyway, people.
26:07
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
26:08
Now he's Jack. We've got another.
26:10
Gonna say though, before we spoke on the Islanders just a
26:13
little bit, but last year I did what Josh did this year and I
26:18
drafted goalies in like the middle rounds.
26:20
And I thought I had got like extreme great value on Ilya
26:23
Sorokin and I had laid ground value on Darcy Kemper.
26:27
And honestly, like for the most for the large part of the
26:30
season, like Sorokin was like my worst pick in the draft.
26:32
And it was like, I can't believe I spent, you know, my seventh
26:35
round pick on a goalie and he's so awful, costing me every week.
26:39
Even though Darcy Kemper was really good last year, Sorokin
26:42
was so bad that it did like it just wasn't a good match.
26:45
The end of the season not turned up.
26:47
But in this season, Sir, OK was probably the best pick for
26:50
goalies, Yeah, and it's just not because he went later than.
26:53
He was the worst. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
26:56
I would happen. This is why we say goalies are
26:57
so volatile. You can't always predict.
26:59
Like Connor Hellebuyck was a first round pick in literally
27:01
every draft this season. He was arguing with the worst
27:03
pick in fantasy this season because of how you had to draft
27:05
him and how bad he was for your fantasy team.
27:07
So This is why we we preach, you know 0 goalie drafted late.
27:11
Don't draft them at all. Make do with the waivers and and
27:13
you'll probably be fine either way because you.
27:15
Know it's like. These picks wrong.
27:17
It's just so impactful. You know, it's gonna be
27:19
interesting is like we're gonna do anger management league,
27:22
right? And it's gonna be like 8 people
27:24
who, you know, either like our hosts or listen to vendor
27:28
management and you know, I'm not saying everyone follows exactly
27:31
what we say, right, but there's a decent chance that all eight
27:33
people are 0 two people, right? Yeah, like that's gonna
27:36
interesting draft like when do you bite, you know on some of
27:38
these like like how far these goalies gonna.
27:39
Draw them because at some point they do become a value, right?
27:43
It's going to be really interesting because let's say
27:45
like, you know, round one, no one picks a goalie.
27:48
Round two, no one picks a goalie all of a sudden in round 3 and
27:50
you've guys, guys like NASA Levski available like whatever,
27:52
you know, like when do you? We see it in football all the
27:56
time. Like I do a lot of redraft
27:57
leagues and for football, like goalies are quote UN quote like
28:01
the quarterbacks, like it's a onesie position.
28:03
Like they hold a lot of value, but there's a lot of good ones
28:06
and you only need to start 1. So that like it makes them less
28:08
valuable by nature. So in, you know, quote, UN quote
28:12
more casual leagues, you'll see goalies get picked up like the
28:14
end of the first or in the second.
28:16
And then you play in more competitive leagues and it's
28:17
just like, you know, the quarterback always gets drafted
28:19
in the second round, is available in the fourth round.
28:22
And you're like, OK, is this one I have to bite?
28:25
And then you gonna start a run or something.
28:27
So like, the values get shifted. You gotta make do you gotta, you
28:29
know, risk reward. It's fun.
28:31
Yeah. So it's gonna be, it's gonna be
28:33
really interesting to see cause there's definitely, I mean,
28:35
that's kind of like what led me this year to not going full 0G
28:38
is because I knew you and Jake were both doing it.
28:40
I knew that like a few people were gonna do it.
28:42
And I was like, OK, maybe there's going to be some weight
28:44
value on goalies like or mid round value on goalies, you
28:47
know, to like kind of like reverse against the meta or
28:49
whatever. But I clearly overthink it.
28:52
And yeah. And yeah, so we'll see what
28:54
average next year, but I'm not drafting a single goalie, even
28:57
if Maslowski is available in Round 15.
28:58
I'm just, no, I'm kidding, obviously.
29:01
Obviously I would, but but I'm I'm going pretty hard next year,
29:04
so we'll see. We got last return from injury,
29:06
another captain, Gabe Landeskog with Colorado Avalanche.
29:09
Last I checked he was line to power play too, but that can
29:11
change in a heartbeat. It was line one power play 2
29:14
last I saw. OK, line 1.
29:18
The, you know, Landy McKinnon and natures and natures.
29:22
First of all, McKinnon, I feel like it's been a disappointment
29:24
these fantasy playoffs thus far, like a lot of people had making
29:27
throughout the whole season, obviously carried you guys who
29:29
maybe top of the standings and then you kind of not know showed
29:31
completely. But it's been pretty, pretty bad
29:34
in the playoffs. But nature has been like a
29:36
monster. I know Josh played against
29:37
nature last week and I went down.
29:38
I'm playing against the got eliminated Josh and I'm looking
29:41
at like natures. This guys been averaging almost
29:43
2 points per game for the last month.
29:44
How is this even happening? Yeah, and you also have the joy
29:47
of playing Brock Nelson, the best enter on the Colorado
29:49
Avalanche. So enjoy.
29:51
Yeah, no, it's yeah. So anyways, landscape coming
29:53
back, I think definitely caught you getting bumped off line once
29:55
a massive hit to his his value. He still power play one for now,
29:58
but again I wouldn't be surprised if next game
30:01
landscapes properly. 1 So yeah, I really seems at this point,
30:03
obviously McKinnon and Makar are the goats, but it feels like
30:06
right now the two most valuable guys done on Colorado are Nature
30:09
Centre and Nelson. I was going to say because
30:12
Landis car was a hot topic in our in our discord.
30:14
People are being like he's he's back.
30:15
He played one game like is he must pick up like my dropping
30:18
you know this guy for us called discover on this car guy.
30:21
I in my mind, I feel like he's almost a must pick up before he
30:24
gets the power play 1 cause he does get that play.
30:26
I feel his roster is gonna shoot up the roof.
30:29
Is that a thing? Shoot up the roof or you know
30:31
what I mean. Though I know you're going with
30:33
and I know there's something like that.
30:35
I don't think that's it, but we'll just go through the roof.
30:37
Sounds like violent. I don't know.
30:39
I know. I think he's like a must pick up
30:41
and I feel just at least one worst guy on your team you're
30:44
probably able to drop like Landis cock for Sam Bennett.
30:46
Would you do that? Yeah, he's yeah.
30:49
Yeah, even without the guaranteed technique, that
30:51
doesn't get. Yeah, I just like Landeskog to
30:53
category coverage. I think that baseline, you know,
30:56
he's gonna get you some shots, face off wins, hits, blocks,
30:58
Pimms maybe like, you know, and then line 1 deployment like we
31:02
always mentioned throughout the year, the Colorado power play is
31:04
garbage anyway. So like it's nice to be on it
31:07
for extra ice time and like obviously it will lead to some
31:09
PowerPoints here and there, but not having it's not the end of
31:11
the world. It's the even strength which is
31:13
more important. I answered this, would you
31:15
rather in the discord like right before we started recording land
31:18
Discog or Raquel for like the next two weeks?
31:20
I think I'm still going Raquel. I think Pittsburgh has one of
31:23
the best power plays in the league.
31:24
They just got Crosby back. Raquel is a cat stuffer as well.
31:27
And you know, the three five versus 3/4.
31:30
So it's one extra game as well. Um, yeah, so I'm going Raquel.
31:33
I like Landeskog but I don't think you have to drop like a
31:36
guy like for California. That was the same answer that I
31:39
had. I said probably gets, you know,
31:41
maybe more shots and hits and better overall category
31:44
coverage. But I feel like, you know, I'm a
31:47
I'm a power play SLU T So yeah. And Pittsburgh is the top five
31:51
power play and you know, they've been clicking hard.
31:54
So I'm feeling you're missing out too many points if you go
31:56
the opposite way So. Absolutely.
31:59
All right, let's get to the famous Would You rathers for
32:02
this week. Did you peek?
32:04
I've never peeked in my life and I never will.
32:07
Just as I like it. Do you think we have a serial
32:09
peaker on our hands and he's not on the podcast today.
32:12
I think last last news episode where did would you rather was
32:15
like one of the best ones because I actually hit the would
32:18
you rather from our show doc and Jake was actually pleasantly
32:21
surprised at some of the questions caught him off guard A
32:23
little bit less time to prepare. But the ones this week we're a
32:26
little tough because I want to go guys are like waiver
32:29
important. We're in the playoffs.
32:31
It's either your semifinals or, you know, maybe your finals in
32:35
some leagues or your quarter finals in some leagues, I don't
32:37
know. But mostly waiver guys will see,
32:39
you know, where we can draw the line.
32:41
But it's always hard to find guys that are like back-to-back
32:44
in value. So let's just have the
32:45
conversation. But let's start with the right
32:49
wing position if you're new here, I do one of every
32:51
position, right wing, left wing, centre, defenseman, goalie, and
32:54
try to split the difference between two guys and have our
32:57
opinions split today. Josh and I, usually Jake is the
33:00
easy one to split because he always has some eccentric takes.
33:03
Sometimes Josh and I are on the same wavelength usually, but it
33:06
will all do my best. Alright, yeah, so right wing a
33:08
guy that I picked up, Connor Brown, who was I feel like a hot
33:13
pick up this coming week with the four games.
33:15
Yeah, he was on our way for. Show Yep.
33:17
Or Gabe Perot of the New York Rangers, who as you're listening
33:21
to this, has already played one game, but.
33:24
Yeah, well, I haven't seen what he's done, but I'm expecting
33:26
zeros. I've I I would go with with
33:30
Brown over Perot. If Perot was power play one, I
33:32
would take him. So I mean, big caveat, if you
33:36
could only fit in Brown for like 2 games and you could fit in Pro
33:40
4, I'm taking Perot. But assuming you could fit them
33:43
both in for four games, I'd rather Brown.
33:45
I mean, he's been doing better. He's got better deployment or is
33:49
the better player, but you know, at the end of the day it's the
33:52
deployment and who's been hot and that's brown.
33:54
So for me it's a it's an easy one.
33:55
There I'm, I'm also going Brown, but to Josh's point, like if you
33:59
can fit more games of Peru, it might be more valuable there.
34:02
But I do think Connor Brown is just a better player.
34:04
I think the power play 1 and the, you know, the exposure to
34:07
playing with Jack Hughes and yes, for Brad is very valuable.
34:11
I picked them up in, in, in our league of record for $2.00.
34:14
The only other person that bid was JFK and Jackie bid $1.00.
34:17
But Jackie only has $2.00 left to his name, have $4.00 left to
34:20
my name. Everybody else has like 30 or
34:22
$40.00 left. But I'm out here with like
34:23
nobody so happy I outbid him. But I'm hoping I get some good
34:28
production of Carter Brown this week.
34:29
I'm just on an hour waivers. They were so scared.
34:31
He was one of the only guys that had like good power play
34:33
exposure and, you know, good 5 E 5.
34:35
So it felt like a no brainer. So we'll see if that pays
34:37
dividends. But yeah, Perot is was a hot
34:39
name to in the discord. Everybody wants to know, like,
34:41
you know, who do I drop to pick up parole for, you know, the
34:44
four games this week on the off nights.
34:46
No I mean really like the only reason that Perot has so much
34:49
hype around him is 1 because when Miller was out he was
34:53
really good and two it's because of the Rangers schedule.
34:55
But honestly, if the Rangers didn't have the schedule, I
34:57
would never pick up a guy like that.
34:59
I mean, I've always said recently that like, I'm not
35:02
super high on him just because he's too 1 dimensional for me.
35:04
It's just like, you know, you'll get one assistance, zero, then
35:06
you'll like it. Like, yeah, that's kind of how
35:09
it's felt. But there is value to that in
35:11
some leagues too, especially points leagues.
35:12
But in categories, leagues, I just rather pick up the guy
35:14
that's gonna get me like, you know, maybe two hits who blocks
35:17
a hit or shot or whatever, and maybe no points.
35:21
But I think that's more valuable.
35:23
Yeah, for sure. It's it's all scheduled
35:24
dependent. That, I think is why he's his
35:26
name pops up so much. Alright, going to the centre
35:29
position, Josh's new nemesis, Shane Pinto, one of Josh's
35:35
nemesis, Nemesi. Yeah, I'm playing, I'm playing
35:39
against him this week. And listen, we're recording this
35:42
right before this goes live on Tuesday morning.
35:44
So we're recording this Monday night and Windows already got a
35:46
power play goal against me, so pretty, pretty happy about that.
35:49
Obviously. Meanwhile, Brittany could Chuck
35:51
Dylan Cousins, Drake Baptisms got no points, but at least
35:55
Pintos got that part of the goal.
35:56
Yeah. So would you rather Pinto or the
36:00
GOAT of the Boston Bruins? My guy Pavel Zacha, who I said
36:05
Sacha was better. Now I'm going Zacher for sure.
36:08
I think Pinto sucks. I think he had a lucky weekend.
36:11
I can feel the hatred, the passionate hatred in your, in
36:13
your voice. Yeah, because I'm tired of
36:15
getting wrecked by guys who shouldn't be rostered.
36:17
I got wrecked by bleeping Noakes last week.
36:20
Go look at his game log and it's average for the last month and
36:22
give me give me a non hatred take.
36:25
OK. Cause even tonight, like he's
36:28
got a power play goal, he's got two shots, 4 face off wins, one
36:31
hit, and they're halfway through the second period.
36:33
So he's been a category guy and he's delivering on the points,
36:38
the shorties. Yeah, I mean like look, I like
36:41
the cats actually I really like the guy said Yeah cause his
36:45
shots hits have been. Very have been excellent.
36:48
I just don't like his deployment.
36:49
I think that but. He's been doing this with the
36:52
same deployment for a while now, that's the thing.
36:54
For sure, but I mean, Zach has also been hot and he has power
36:57
play 1. So for me, that's like enough of
36:59
a enough of a big difference there.
37:01
And I will say Ottawa, like look at his minutes, look at Pinto's
37:04
minutes. They're still pretty good.
37:06
Like even Brady, I have Brady and I have Cousins and they play
37:09
like 16 minutes a night, 17 minutes a night.
37:12
Like if the Line 1 and the other team is probably playing 20 plus
37:15
minutes on Ottawa, they get 1617 minutes and you're happy about
37:18
it. Yeah, they rolled the lines at
37:20
least the top, the top 9 pretty well.
37:23
Yeah, No, it's for me. At the end of the day, it comes
37:25
down to deployment. Zach's power play won, Pintos
37:28
not. Both have been hot.
37:29
Pinto has better category coverage, but I mean in terms of
37:32
points in power play points, I think Zaca has a has the edge
37:35
for sure. If you're into categories league
37:37
with shorties does that sway you in any way?
37:40
Being like 1 Shorty from pit to get sway one category and be
37:43
really. Impactful random look going into
37:45
the week. Last week I thought I was in a
37:46
great spot for shorties. I had Sean Monahan with two
37:49
shorthanded points. In the past like a week I had
37:51
Paget who had like 3 shorties. In the past week I had Owen
37:54
Tippett was putting up shorties. I had like every Shorty guy you
37:57
could have ended the week 0 short handed points.
37:59
He Anthony Cirelli got his first short end point of like the
38:01
year. I don't know, like, you know,
38:02
like it's anything could happen with shorties.
38:04
I never put any stock in that. Like you can stack, you can
38:07
stack the deck in your favor and you'll still lose it.
38:09
I feel the same. I went against Jordan Stall last
38:11
week who got his first short hand to point in like 2 years
38:14
against me and my championship quarterfinals or whatever
38:17
playoff quarterfinals. So yeah, I think Zachary is a
38:20
safer option. Like Pinto just kind of feels
38:22
like the she's gonna drop at some point and you know, the
38:24
points will dry up a little bit. Maybe the categories will still
38:26
be there, which is always nice, but Zach has got pretty
38:28
categories as well. Yeah, he's got face offs from
38:31
the left wing position, so if that's an extra bonus in your
38:34
face off league, that's great. The Ottawa schedule is pretty
38:36
nice though, but Boss has got a great schedule too so.
38:39
Yeah, it's the same pretty much. All right, this one will
38:43
probably be lopsided, but let's say Bangers League obviously
38:47
like our league of record. Picture that categories.
38:50
Would you rather rest of season Public Enemy #1 Mendoza, Jack
38:56
McBain, the guy who almost ended my fantasy season and who Josh
38:59
regrets dropping, or Jagor Chikov of the Pittsburgh
39:02
Penguins? I mean rest this season, I feel
39:05
like you gotta go China go just because of the schedule, right?
39:07
Both of them have three games this week, but next week it's
39:10
five games to two games. That's an insane difference.
39:13
So if it was the same amount of games, I'd go Mendoza, but but
39:18
A5 game against two game week is just two massive of a
39:21
difference. Like honestly I'm trying to
39:23
think. Of semifinals 2 though.
39:26
This week I'd rather have a. So where do you draw the line?
39:29
Like how much of this week is more valuable than, you know
39:32
next week? Because you could have between
39:34
now and then cut them and then pick up somebody else.
39:37
You won't get China, but maybe you get somebody else.
39:40
Yeah, I mean, look, I don't think missing out on Shinnecock
39:42
is like the end of the world, you know?
39:45
So like if you're just focused on this week and you're like,
39:48
I'll, you know, I'll pick up McCain for this week and then
39:50
I'll drop him for someone with a better schedule next week, then
39:53
I would take him over over China Golf.
39:55
But if like everything, I wanna. Make like Pimms like can get you
39:59
15 hits in two games like you know.
40:01
Yeah, I mean, I'm just like for next week it took to me is a no
40:06
brainer. You gotta go with the five game
40:07
guy over the two game guy. But for this week, I love what
40:10
McCain's been doing. So I would definitely prefer
40:12
him. So so yeah.
40:13
So pretty much if you're just focused on this week, I would go
40:15
McBain. If you're focused on rest of
40:16
season I would go China Gov. OK, yeah, I mean, I'm in the
40:19
same boat. Like at some point volume is
40:21
king. And maybe let's say you do miss
40:22
out on the, let's say go make Bane and you know, you don't get
40:25
China cover the finals. Like I feel you can find a
40:26
serviceable replacement. But if you had to pick between
40:29
the two, I think I'm taking like the five games over 2 games.
40:31
It just feels like a no brainer the lead for the category
40:35
coverage, like the shots that hits even the blocks that Pimms
40:38
like there's been nobody that's more reliable for Pimms in
40:42
recent weeks than Jack McBain like he's he got 10 Pimms alone
40:45
against me in my in just in one match up right.
40:48
So it's like crazy. But alas, Chikov still solid
40:51
even though he doesn't have to let's say top tier deployment
40:54
that he could have. Alright, talking about
40:55
defenseman now this was hard to find like relevant defensemen
40:58
that are like more on waivers, but would you rather Guava Rakov
41:03
or Thomas Shabbat? That's tough, because Sanderson
41:05
should exactly in the next. We're projecting in 23 for
41:10
Sanderson. It looks like either like the
41:11
first game or the second game of week 23 seems like the projected
41:14
return date. Yeah, I mean, honestly, like I
41:19
wouldn't fault, I mean, this is coming out Tuesday, right?
41:22
So like tomorrow morning, you know, we already missed out on
41:25
one game of of Gavrilov for this week.
41:27
But I think with how elite the Rangers schedule is this week
41:30
and how good Gavrilov has been, despite me believing that it's
41:35
sustainable in the slightest, I think I would go Gavrilov,
41:37
especially with the Sanderson return.
41:39
Like like coming back. If Sanderson wasn't coming back,
41:42
it would be Shabbat, no brainer. But if he, like the second
41:44
Sanderson, comes back to me, Shabbat shouldn't be rostered.
41:47
He still has some decent category Uruma he has like yeah,
41:50
not a bad like shots, blocks combo.
41:52
Yeah, it could still be better. Than kabob though.
41:56
That's true, but I mean, Gavrilov just for some reason is
41:58
putting up points like don't tell, don't ask me why.
42:00
I don't, I don't get it. But it's there.
42:02
So. And something with the off
42:04
night. Yeah.
42:04
And this week specifically with the off nights, I think it's
42:06
just like the guy you can fit into your lineup.
42:09
Fair. Honestly I think for me I'd go,
42:12
I think I'm going to Shabbat and then if it's like when Santa
42:15
comes back I have to cut Shabbat.
42:16
Like I feel like I'll I'll be OK with whoever I can pick up to
42:20
replace him even though it's not Darkov type of situation.
42:23
Yeah, I definitely don't think you're like missing out.
42:25
I don't think Avakov like this, like must pick up or whatever.
42:27
And I think Shabbat was Anderson out is better.
42:29
I just think that like, there's a lot of people who just won't
42:31
be able to fit him in their lineup this week, and then next
42:33
week Sanderson might be back already.
42:35
Alright, let's talk about goalies.
42:37
This one was also difficult. It feels like we're getting a
42:39
lot of it's seasoned goalie heroics.
42:42
Yeah. But would you rather Joel Hofer,
42:46
the percentage beast, or Dan Vladar, who's got quantity and
42:50
quality? That's a really close one
42:52
actually. I mean, I really like both of
42:55
them. I've been a Feldar believer for
42:56
awhile. Hope for won me over as well.
42:58
I think they're both quality goalies and I think they're both
43:01
quantity. I trustful Dars quantity more
43:03
obviously because Hofer in Bennington have been splitting
43:05
it a bit. Honestly, like I have to go
43:07
check like the matchups and schedule based on the map.
43:09
Yeah, based on the matchups at that point.
43:11
Because now also, I think something that throws a wrench
43:14
in it is, you know, in Week 21, the Blues had two games.
43:18
And I think everybody almost thought like with 90% chance of
43:21
ever getting both of those games, played the first game,
43:23
Bennington ended up getting the second game.
43:25
So now it kind of throws a wrench into like, how to predict
43:28
this rotation. You don't necessarily know if
43:31
Bennington's going to go back to being like a backup or they
43:33
gonna rotate every game. Like, we don't really know.
43:36
We have the ambiguous situation. They do have a good schedule,
43:39
though. And Philly, I feel like right
43:41
now the Blues are better team Philly.
43:43
Yeah, although Philly in their last 10 is.
43:46
I know what I'm saying, like Chili's also like good, like we
43:48
pictured them when we visualize Philly, we're not thinking about
43:50
a good team, but then on paper like they're getting results.
43:53
So I feel like that's with Vladar with the consistency of
43:56
like, you know, is the main starter there, right, Like and
43:57
you know, you can get you might have some stinkers here and
44:00
there that may cost you, but you can rely on like above 900 save
44:03
percentage for very often, even if he's only winning, you know,
44:06
half of his games, but has been really solid percentage wise on
44:09
a quote UN quote better team, but more ambiguous level of
44:13
starts. That's where I think, you know,
44:15
we have to answer the question. Let me look at the matchups.
44:18
I don't have it all stop in my head.
44:19
Let's see. OK.
44:20
So this week, Hofer is going to be playing the Capitals.
44:24
No, they play Capitals on Tuesdays so that they just comes
44:26
out, you know, in the afternoon, you'll know.
44:28
We know who's starting the Capitals, then San Jose, then
44:31
Toronto. Yeah.
44:33
So he might get two of those games.
44:35
I think all of those are easy matchups.
44:37
They're all at home. So I like that.
44:39
And he should get two of those three.
44:41
And then Philly, you've got Columbus, then Chicago and then
44:44
a back-to-back Detroit, Dallas. So for this week, I'd rather
44:46
hope for with those matchups. And then let's look at the week
44:49
after that. So week after that, Saint Louis
44:52
has got San Jose, LA, Anaheim and then Colorado.
44:55
And then Philly has Washington, a back-to-back of Detroit and
44:59
Islanders and then Boston. Honestly, I think I'm going to
45:02
go home for because also with like the way the way the Saint
45:04
Louis one is Colorado's the last day of the week.
45:06
You can just drop him before, like you don't have to play in
45:08
the Colorado game. You can hold them for the first
45:10
three games that weekend. That week, though, it's all away
45:13
games. They're on a road trip the whole
45:14
week. Does that, yeah.
45:16
Change your mind in any way. No, I mean half of Phillies
45:19
games are away and I don't put too much stock in that.
45:22
I mean, like San Jose's been garbage lately.
45:25
Ellie's awful, Anaheim's like you know, they're either garbage
45:29
or amazing, you know, in between.
45:31
And then like I said, I would probably just, I wouldn't hold
45:33
him for the first like until Friday and then drop him on
45:35
Saturday for like a Saturday, Sunday streamer and just not
45:38
play him against Colorado. Yep, I'm also going.
45:41
However, I just feel like the the matchups really lend to him,
45:44
even though you know that like he might only get No2 games this
45:49
week, two games next week, but those two games should be good
45:51
quality. Listen, anything can happen to
45:52
any goalie, right? Quality versus quantity.
45:54
But radar is not, it's not impossible for him to have a bad
45:58
game either, right? And he's got a little bit of the
46:00
harder matchups. I think that's a difference
46:01
maker for me. Yeah, no, I fully agree.
46:04
Alright, alright, once yeah, it was hard to this week to find
46:07
you know like relevant would you rather is that people can
46:09
actually like pick up but also like that are valuable to your
46:12
lineups. Well, it's like, I think you did
46:14
a good job because also like these would you rathers are like
46:18
questions that a lot of people are probably thinking in their
46:21
heads like, you know, like, like literally this week looking at
46:23
their phone, like who am I gonna pick up this week?
46:25
I'm gonna pick up Perot or am I gonna pick up Connor Brown said
46:28
Connor Brown. Yeah, exactly.
46:29
So it's like this is literally like a question that I'm sure
46:32
went through like a ton of people's heads.
46:34
So it's very, very applicable. You know, like earlier in the
46:36
season. They're more kind of like like
46:38
trade related, you know, So it's like, you know, it's just to
46:41
give people ideas and about how to rank like different players,
46:44
which is obviously still super valuable.
46:45
But here it's like a thing that like is actionable by like
46:48
almost everyone who's listening. So I think it's it's.
46:50
Great. And I just want to give some
46:52
closing advice for you. If you're in your no semifinals
46:55
right now or quarterfinals, I, I genuinely feel like the advice
46:59
that I want to give is that if you're in a categories league
47:01
where you know, you're playing, you know, 415 categories up for
47:05
grabs or 13 categories up for grabs with how the schedule is
47:08
lined up this week. Think patience is key because
47:11
it's really hard to pick up guys to optimize for quantity since
47:15
everybody's playing on the same nights and there's only like a
47:17
few teams that have the true off nights, but also limits the
47:20
quality of the player you're able to pick up because a lot of
47:23
the best guys already rostered, right.
47:24
So like is like, you know, a very average guy on a Rangers
47:28
better than, you know, a quality guy on a another team that's
47:31
playing. So I think you're going to
47:33
categories league. I think patience is good because
47:36
you'll have, as your sample size grows, you'll know what you need
47:39
to target and you can make your more accurate pickups, you know,
47:42
to be more influential in your lineups.
47:45
If you're in a points league, that's when you just kind of
47:47
want to stack up points as much as possible waiting for patients
47:50
to get you anything because like Josh has said before, it's point
47:53
soup, right? Like if I get 2 games or three
47:55
games, I want three games because more points soup.
47:56
So different strategies, but I encourage patients during this
48:00
week with how the schedule is. Yeah, I think that's a great
48:03
point. And The thing is that, like
48:04
players on waivers, what makes someone a good player is when
48:06
they could hit multiple categories.
48:08
But there's a billion players on waivers who are really good at
48:11
one category. So you can wait until, you know,
48:14
Saturday night before making like, you see what you know, oh,
48:17
I need to flip blocks. Grab a guy who literally only
48:19
does blocks, right? There's so many of those guys
48:21
available. You know, you need hits.
48:23
Pick a guy who all he does is hit, you know, So like it
48:25
definitely, you know, that's when you're that late in the
48:28
week, you know, exactly what category needs to be flipped.
48:31
And there's a lot of that available.
48:32
So that's definitely a good point on the on the patients.
48:35
In my quarterfinals, I waited like pretty late to make my 2:00
48:38
last pickups. I made my, I made one pick up
48:41
on, I forgot it was Thursday or Friday, but I realized that
48:45
blocks was gonna be like the crucial category for my matchup.
48:47
And I ended up waiting and picking up Dylan Samberg, who
48:50
had two games instead of picking up a guy with three games not
48:52
knowing if I was going to blocks or something else.
48:54
And even though Sandberg had like 2 blocks in one game and
48:56
zero blocks in the next game, like I was hoping for maybe four
48:59
blocks out of two games, I still think it was the right move.
49:01
And then I, I usually used one for one game on Sunday and I
49:04
picked up Connor Dewar of Pittsburgh and he got me like I
49:07
think five hits and one block and I won my match up by three
49:11
hits and felt like it was, you know, 5 relief a little bit
49:13
there. So patients help sometimes.
49:16
Patience is key. But that's gonna wrap this
49:19
episode up. If you're if you made it this
49:22
far, we really appreciate it. Hopefully you guys are all in
49:24
the semifinals or the quarterfinals of your fantasy
49:26
leagues. I know you know, it's been a
49:28
long season, but now it's crunch time.
49:30
And you know, you're never down and out, right?
49:32
Like, I feel like even though matchups may seem lopsided on a
49:35
Tuesday or Monday, there's still so much hockey left to play.
49:38
So listen, you hang on until the very end until the, let's say,
49:42
until the fat lady sings. I don't know if we can still say
49:43
that, but maybe I'll cut that out.
49:45
We'll see, but the yeah, it's never over, so don't give up.
49:50
And hopefully if you have any questions, let us know in the
49:52
discord. But on that note, I guess you
49:54
can take it away, Ernie. Barbara Bound Bound Bangor
49:59
Management Fantasy Hockey Podcast.
50:01
Whoa, whoa. It is like the end of the second
50:05
period and the Rangers have four shots on goal.
50:07
Ottawa's got like 22. Isn't that that's crazy.
50:10
That's crazy. Is it like?
50:12
20 auto washing.