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Week 7 News & Updates + Would You Rather | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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  Barbara Van Baal, Bangor Management Fantasy Hockey
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  Podcast. Whoa, whoa.
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  Whoa, I am back and thrilled to be back.
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  The roast wasn't too bad this time.
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  It's too bad. It wasn't.
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  It was barely a roast. Yeah, yeah, you savaged my bi lo
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  a bit good episode nevertheless. So thank you for kind of
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  remedying my explanation so to. Speak.
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  But yeah, I was in New York and I feel like the Montreal versus
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  New York bagel debate is is in full effect.
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  What were you guys land on that? Montreal baby.
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  I mean, you gotta go Montreal, obviously, but I will say that I
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  had a New York bagel a few weeks ago and I get it's the only
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  place outside Of Montreal that I would actually call it a bagel.
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  Everywhere else it's like around a tourist shaped bread.
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  You know Of Montreal and New York is where they're actually
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  bagels, and then you could debate which ones better.
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  So so how about this, let me give my intro and then for a
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  little a little thing to spice it up, we can call to action
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  some YouTube comments where people just weigh in.
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  So welcome in to Anger Management, the fantasy hockey
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  podcast with guess who's back, me, Jake, Josh and Kevin.
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  Hello. I'm shady.
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  Today today is our week 7 news and updates and Kevins
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  infamously famous. Would you rather episode we?
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  The best? Part love that it's so spicy and
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  I did not peak, I did not. Peak, allegedly.
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  I swear, I swear, I have no idea what's coming and I'm not even
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  going to look at the screen when he's listening them off.
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  I'm gonna be surprised right then.
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  And. There for the first time.
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  Yeah, seriously. Fake news.
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  I am always surprised, but sometimes I look at them as
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  you're reading them and I'm like, well, I got to think
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  ahead. Well, I'm not looking.
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  Truth comes out biggest scandal in Bangor management history.
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  The would you rather, before they happen?
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  Shame, shame. And one comment.
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  Shame in the comment. And also let us know what's
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  worse between this and Watergate.
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  What's more? Scandalous peak gate.
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  It's true. Like, you know, every single
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  thing that they have in the States for any sort of scandal,
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  they always end it with gate and everything.
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  Deflate gate. Deflate gate.
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  Yeah. It's not even just political,
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  it's all things gate. So peak gate was a peak gate.
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  2025 was pretty brutal, but those days are behind us.
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  Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcast, wherever you get your
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  podcasts. Rate US five stars if you like
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  what you hear. Exactly what, Josh?
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  Just did not one, not 2, not Hamani live.
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  Yeah. For all your Harry Potter fans
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  out. There yes, which I feel at this
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  point if they if they're not with our take it away or Annies,
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  it's yeah and the link to all of our socials is in the link tree
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  in the podcast description, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, big
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  time discord fans. We love it there.
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  You should come join the community.
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  We are super active there. We're super ahead of the game.
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  So what's a good thing that happened recently?
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  Like it was just like someone we recommended way before what you
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  referenced on those things recently.
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  But yeah, no, because it was like walk like that's what I'm
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  saying. Like I, I wasn't like, like I
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  was off my phone for like a minute and then like things
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  happened. And then you referenced in the
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  last episode. So it's like we're one of us of
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  all at all times is super active in the Discord at least.
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  So you are getting news and updates there super frequently.
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  There's a venting channel which is super therapeutic.
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  That's just me by myself in the venting channel talking about
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  Matthew Olivier dropping points on me or or.
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  Hey, I'm the one. I'm the latest victim of Matthew
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  Olivia, OK? Jake is next watch out yeah,
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  seriously, but I do I do want to highlight though, like we we
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  just had our buy low sell high episode that came out a few days
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  ago. So and we had people on YouTube
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  comment like, hey, like I'm looking at the YouTube right now
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  are me yes, 7700 commented that he traded Alex Tuck for Dylan
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  Gunther one for one into the episode.
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  I'm seeing that the one there was a bylaw he was able to pull
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  that off. So I also saw people trade like
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  Nick Euler's 4 for Dylan Gunther.
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  So after a recommendation. So a lot of good moves happening
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  and it's just excited to see that people act on the advice
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  and make some really good trades.
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  Like I'm I get jealous. I'm like, I wish I could have
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  pulled that off. Yeah, I think it was like an
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  Adam Chantilly recommendation. When he got one one, we were on
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  it right away and that's what it was.
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  Yeah, exactly. How can I forget?
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  He's my him and big. I love you.
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  Love. Yeah, some tidbits.
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  Yeah, just in the YouTube comments.
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  Montreal or New York bagels. Very important stuff.
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  Please let us know where you stand.
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  Yeah, we need to. Know if you're indifferent?
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  Just in Montreal, please. Yeah.
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  Exactly. For sometime bias.
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  Boomers. It's gonna be hard to be a Homer
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  now with New Hook Hurt and Dog Hurt and Dobish and W Dobesh.
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  Is wait, what? What happened to that?
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  He's fine. He's totally good.
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  He's just bad and Monty's bad and everybody's bad.
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  And Oh my God, OK, we're gonna dive in some tidbits before
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  Cutting loses his mind. House fans were fine, don't
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  worry. OK, alright, starting off with
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  the big one, Radko Gudas will return to the lineup tonight for
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  the talks. He should be a solid addition in
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  bangers leagues and will be interesting to see how this eats
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  into Trouba's ice time. Because obviously True has been
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  one of the biggest surprises of this fantasy season.
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  And I mean, he's still going to be great, but obviously the
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  points we all know is not going to last and this the less ice
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  time, less bangs, right? So we'll see how this affects
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  him. Yeah, I think Trump is kind of
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  cemented himself into a top four role in the defensive pairing.
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  It feels like he's been so solid with the with the extra
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  deployment. So really curious to see what
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  good is good does if you slot in like on the first pairing or
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  that third pairing. Looks like Michkov is the one
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  that's getting the scratch for goodies.
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  So not that it was relevant beforehand, but just noteworthy
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  nonetheless. There was that one.
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  Was it 2 years ago that one leg stretch of like 2 weeks where he
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  was the goat? They brought him up.
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  He was like the power play quarterback.
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  He did well. We were like alright.
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  And then they drafted like Zellweger, and then they got.
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  And then Jackson come turned into a defenseman.
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  Yeah, yeah, no, lots of fun stuff, but goodness is only 17%
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  owned on Yahoo leagues. I think he's not getting the
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  respect that he usually gets in Bangers league.
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  So I picked him up in our league, which I'm pretty excited
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  about. So go grab him if you need if
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  you need of hits and blocks and the pimps should come as well.
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  Yeah, You know, Trump's two points off is like his milestone
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  from last year. He got 14 points last year, is
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  at 12 at the time. Of this meeting.
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  Nuts. Like, you know, this is
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  obviously a function of insane and he basically played a full
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  season last year, by the way. It was 77, yeah.
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  So maybe he hits 30 points this year, but he's not.
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  He's not. Popular game.
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  Yeah, he's not gonna be a boyfriend.
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  Game yeah it's not like an auto draw or anything but hey like.
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  It's no, no for sure not Yeah, yeah, OK Dougie Hamilton is
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  practicing with the team and should be back sometime this
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  week. Yes, Dougie.
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  Owners rejoice until the next injury.
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  We'll see if he gets properly one over Luke Hughes or over
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  Seaman Nemic who got powerfully one for like a sniff of a of a
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  period or a game or something. Or if they go back to splitting
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  like they were before he got injured.
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  It'll be interesting to see. I definitely the fact that
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  Hughes got demoted for an image while Dougie was gone makes me
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  feel a lot better about Dougie's chances at power play one, if
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  that makes sense. I think what we're about to see,
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  though, the situation for New Jersey is very interesting
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  because, I mean, first of all, image has been really hot.
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  So, yeah, you gotta Hattie, which is nuts from a defenseman.
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  I mean, they were kind of feeding him at some point too.
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  But like, did you guys see the third goal for the hat trick?
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  It was a snipe. I was, I was, I was watching
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  that live. I was like, Oh my God.
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  Anyways, he he looks good. The fact that he already demoted
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  Luke uses first of all, not good for Luke Hughes.
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  I'm really enticed about Dougies Valley coming back.
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  But something to mention, though, keep power plays
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  recently have been a product of like balance between archetypes
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  of feels like that's why we're seeing, you know, Dougie and
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  Timo or Mercer and Luke like it's kind of been a combination
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  of what he likes best. But now with with Jack Hughes
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  hurt actually, that kind of throws a wrench into the plans
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  and we might see a combination that we've never seen before.
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  I'm not putting, I'm not putting a like away from from Kiev to
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  run something crazy, but I feel like we might see more stability
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  now given the the Jacques injury that they're playing around with
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  less pieces and they want to have some kind of consistency
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  there. Yeah, I just, I don't see them
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  like the Nemeth thing, I just don't see it lasting even though
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  he made me crazy just because like how can you pay both Luke
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  Hughes and Hamilton what you're paying them and then playing
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  neither of them on your power play one when both of them like
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  that's their main strength. So I really don't see the image
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  thing lasting. And I think it's going to Doug's
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  gonna have the edge over Luke because Luke didn't really do
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  much with it while he had the chance.
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  By going into the next point you kind of mentioned Jack was
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  injured, his hand eating dinner and we'll be out about 8 weeks.
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  Mercer and Meyer both get to be on par.
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  Play one while he's gone and then it's the defenseman.
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  Yeah, this is just like we were talking for the season started
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  right about like injury prone guys and like we don't like
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  considering it. If it's guys who like it's not a
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  recurring injury and there's nothing like leftover from last
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  year. They're coming in fresh.
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  At what point is someone just cursed?
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  You know there's. There's there's not much we can
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  do. Like he wasn't even on the ice.
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  He. Was even in Arizona.
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  We, we talked about this in the, in the bylaws Ohio episode where
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  like trading Horvat for Jack Hughes was a target that we
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  recorded that literally right before they announced he was
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  going to be out for two months with surgery.
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  Like he must have cut his finger off or something like is that,
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  is that what happened? It was if they did say it's
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  finger and they did say he had to get surgery so.
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  So that's just that's just crazy.
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  But eight weeks without Jack uses is a huge, a huge loss for
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  your fantasy teams. He was probably a first round
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  pick or one of the first picks in the second round in most of
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  your leagues. I think the forwards now on the
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  power player set, though, I think it's I think it's Brat.
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  I think it's Timo. I think it's Heather and I think
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  it's Mercer. So the fact that Timo is kind of
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  staple there now, I feel like we might see Doug.
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  You just roll with this and happy for Josh because he's been
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  holding Dougie on his IR. But yeah, maybe some consistency
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  for New Jersey there really injuries struck right now.
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  They're missing a lot of players even in depth roles.
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  So and shout out to greet Sukho. Might get a look in the top 6
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  now and maybe some opportunities in the near future.
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  I mentioned his name before I'm mentioning it, and he's got a
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  little banger in his archetype as well.
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  Like he he's not opposed to getting a 2 three hits in a
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  game, so if he's playing top 6 minutes, I actually like him as
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  a potential breakout breakout candidate.
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  So in like a week and 1/2 from now, what do we think the top
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  five are going to be on this power play?
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  So I think it's gonna be pretty much what Kevin said in terms of
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  the forwards. Like that's pretty set in stone.
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  The only thing that could upset that is if Stephen Mason has his
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  revenge tour and Bob Soft, either Mercer and Meyer, but
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  like or great Zuke honestly, but I don't see it.
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  I think those four are pretty cemented.
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  And then it's just the question of Duke versus Dougie.
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  They could go back and forth, but kind of like Kevin was
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  saying, like I think they might now have a cemented power play
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  one because of the huge injury and not being able to have, you
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  know, putting both Mercer and Meyer on there.
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  And so I think whichever defenseman gets it, and I'm
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  leaning towards Dougie should run with it.
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  I will say that as a doggie owner, if he gets it and is
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  running with it, I'm looking to sell high.
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  I'm just like, I don't wanna deal.
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  I don't deal with the headache. Even if he keeps it all season,
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  it's the headache of, of he can lose it at any moment.
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  And it's the headache of he's super injury prone.
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  So I will. Defenceman.
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  Yeah. Exactly my my take on this is
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  that he sure and Brad are 100% cemented and I actually crazy
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  enough. I know it's been like all over
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  the place, but I think that Dougie's kind of like the third
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  man up most likely to keep the spot.
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  And then I think it's gonna be between Nemitz and Hughes is
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  going to kind of just be alternating and Mercer and
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  Meyer. That's the way I'm.
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  Thinking it might be two defensemen or you're just saying
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  kind of. Like I think it may be two
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  defensemen because look. Like the rolling 2 defensemen?
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  Nemeth was drafted second overall.
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  Guys right like you. Know the junior numbers.
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  You know, well, you know why, but it's actually important they
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  did that because they were so loaded at offence.
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  They just like gassed up on guys like Cutter.
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  Gotcha. That was this was the slave
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  Kofsky year. Actually, Cooley.
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  Yeah, exactly. So which they could probably
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  use, right? Now, yes, they could.
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  Steak knives are flailing around.
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  And then yeah, apparently, apparently that restaurant is
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  getting bad Yelp review. Yeah, like.
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  That's so beautiful, restaurant cook, no pun intended.
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  So the way I see it is that like, I, I'm, I'm gonna like,
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  I'm not excited about anybody on this power play except for
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  Keisha and Brad as far as stability goes, even though
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  there may be pockets of value here and there for the other
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  people. But are we writing off Nimitz?
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  We think once Dougie's back, like Nemesis, is irrelevant.
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  I mean, it's like not approve it, he's got to prove it, but I
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  don't see why they would put you there.
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  Three goals with a sniper cap it off, yeah.
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  And just like both Dougie and Luke are getting paid while like
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  8 mil, something like that. Yeah.
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  So you'd be paying 16 mil for two defensemen not on your first
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  power play unit. That's and they're both
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  offensive defensemen. It's not like you're paying like
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  a slave or something, you know, like you just.
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  Yeah, it doesn't. Make any sense?
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  So listen, they'll do what's best, but they're gonna give the
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  like Dougie didn't lose it because of skill he just got.
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  Exactly. That's it.
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  All right, let's move on because we can talk about this double
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  situation all day. We've got Joey to cord back at
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  practice and should be back within a week or two.
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  He'll take back the starting role.
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  Grubauer. Very exciting for us Joey Decord
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  owners in fantasy. All 5 of you rejoice.
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  There's dozens of us. No, doctor's actually, like,
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  super underrated. I think last year I remember
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  thinking I really wanted him this year, and then I got him.
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  But yeah, he's very underrated. Seattle seems to be very mid
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  this year, but like, I mean that in a positive way.
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  Like, yeah, like, like better than expected I expect them to
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  be. Badly 4th in the division.
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  Sure. I'll give you that.
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  Potentially for the division, so I'll just tie this into the next
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  point and Jared McCann is skating again and could be back
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  within the next two weeks. He should take back line one,
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  power play 1. He bumped Marchman offline one
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  and probably told him from power play 1 and I think that just
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  makes the team a lot better as well.
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  He was off to a really good start to start the season.
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  I like how that affects Jordan Eberly and Maddie Veneers
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  because the three of them were aligned together and we're doing
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  really well to start the season. So as a whole, I'm excited for
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  Seattle with both of these guys coming back potentially in the
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  next week or two. McCann is one of those guys that
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  I feel like is just criminally underrated as like an NHL
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  talent. I feel like the fact that he
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  went to Seattle, he's arguably their best forward when healthy.
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  Yeah, if if he's healthy and playing well, like he has the
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  highest ceiling, he is their best forward.
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  The fact that we forget that is is crazy.
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  For fantasy. He's solid.
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  He's nothing groundbreaking because of the team that he's on
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  in the town that he's surrounded by.
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  But I like him a lot. I like him a lot and I think
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  he's going to help this team. Are you worried at all about
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  this Grubauer who's had like 2 1/2 really good games because he
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  was the worst bully? In I could not be less worried
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  about Phillip Barstein says I will say the only thing that
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  it's not a worry. I think it might actually be
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  better for Joey, But I think that they I think people are
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  saying that the reason he got injured is because they played
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  him like 8 games in a row. And so maybe they'll actually
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  give him a break every like 4 games now because they saw that
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  group hour. You know the reason they were
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  playing him nonstop is the other guys were group power and Matt
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  Murray, right? And they both like.
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  Matt Murray played one game and couldn't finish it and.
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  Then group other than this year has been absolutely awful.
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  So like it makes sense there and of course one of the main
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  reasons they win a lot of their games, right, So make sense.
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  They were just riding with him all the way.
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  But I think the fact is like Jake could speak to this as a
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  goalie, but like I feel like it's such a high level.
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  The NHL just goalies aren't made to play every single game.
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  You know, like even the best ones will get a break after like
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  even halibut gets a break every like 5-6 games, you know, so
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  like it's I think it just takes a toll.
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  And so I could see Grubauer getting one start every like
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  four or five games now, where before he would have gotten only
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  the back to backs. Yeah, which is still like a huge
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  discrepancy, right? It's not like A1A1B at all, No.
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  And yeah, I mean, the days of Marty Brodeur getting like 75
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  stars is not a thing anymore. So crazy.
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  Yeah. So you know what's interesting
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  in this is that at the time of this recording, Seattle is 5th
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  in goals, fourth lowest in goals, 4 per game as a team.
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  So they're scoring the 5th least on average goals against six
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  best. So he's been on monster decor
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  really like this is exactly like what you.
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  Want only on him. What do you mean that I think
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  they're missing? No, but I feel like they're they
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  play a style of hockey that's not like super risky.
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  I feel like it's it's the type of thing that they're going to
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  take what's given, but they're not going to give a lot to the
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  other team. And that's why they're not
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  conceding a lot of a lot of chances.
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  And but the court is also like, amazing.
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  Yeah, no, that's it. And when, you know, come playoff
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  time, you want, I say this a lot, you want like players on
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  teams that are fighting for playoff spots, especially if
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  it's goalies, you know, like you're right.
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  They're they're shut down. He's out of 900 save percentage.
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  It's not that great, but like he's winning games 6, two and
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  three right now. I think that it's it's a really
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  good opportunity to keep him. Like don't drop him, don't panic
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  or anything. And Seattle's not some amazing
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  offensive team. Josh was the highest on them,
• 17:11
  right? It was, yeah.
• 17:11
  Josh is the. Highest Kevin was the highest on
• 17:13
  them was highest on the board. OK.
• 17:15
  Yeah, exactly. The court is just one of those
• 17:17
  goalies that is nobody's gonna try to trade for him.
• 17:19
  Yeah, he's not gonna have any pull in the trade, but if you
• 17:22
  have him on your roster like he's, he's going to do good for
• 17:24
  you. So.
• 17:25
  Yeah, also McCann is there probably their their best player
• 17:30
  should be like, I mean, I've really been pretty good.
• 17:32
  But yeah, I really like to cord this year and sticking with the
• 17:36
  process of like good goalies on teams that are fighting for
• 17:40
  playoff spots. I think that's like a no
• 17:42
  brainer. Works 9 times out of 10.
• 17:44
  Yeah, OK, let's get to the sad news for us Habs fans.
• 17:50
  So Alex Newhook fractured his ankle and will be out for four
• 17:53
  months. That's pretty much until
• 17:54
  playoffs. Big blow for the haves and for
• 17:56
  him since he was having a career year.
• 17:58
  To add on to this kitten Guli, turns out that he can't just
• 18:01
  come rehab without surgery. So he's going to be out for what
• 18:04
  was another 6 to 8 weeks, something like that.
• 18:06
  And then to those, that's to the surprise of no one because
• 18:08
  goalies always a Band-Aid. And then to the surprise of no
• 18:10
  one again, Kirby Duck is also out for what?
• 18:12
  Like was it 46 weeks or 6 to 8 weeks?
• 18:14
  I forget, but either way, I didn't include the details of
• 18:19
  the other ones because they are not the most fantasy relevant.
• 18:22
  But in our hearts, you know, or it sucks.
• 18:25
  It's it's a really rough time. The haves are in a bit of a free
• 18:27
  fall right now. Power plays looking atrocious.
• 18:30
  Nothing's really working. I'm pretty sure that I've been
• 18:33
  reading that Nick Suzuki playing injured.
• 18:36
  And yeah, so it's just it's not looking good for the Habs right
• 18:39
  now. I'm not panicking like Kevin was
• 18:41
  at the start of the episode. I'm panicking.
• 18:43
  I think we're gonna turn. Also playing like dog waters.
• 18:46
  So yeah, that doesn't look, I mean, at the end of the day,
• 18:49
  we're still like second in the division right now.
• 18:51
  And I know where we were on the down spin right now.
• 18:54
  But like if you told us at the start of the season that we'd be
• 18:57
  here this many games into the season, we would have been
• 18:59
  overjoyed. So I'm not panicking just yet.
• 19:01
  No, it's just we lost like really good depth, right.
• 19:04
  So yeah, I think overall the the fantasy thing that I'm taking
• 19:08
  away from this because most of these guys were not on your
• 19:09
  fantasy rosters unless you're playing in like a tremendously
• 19:12
  deep league. Yeah, I think maybe this makes
• 19:16
  pushes pushes the envelope a little further for the hubs to
• 19:18
  make a move for some forward depth or a 2C or something.
• 19:22
  Because all the all the trades usually happen near trade
• 19:25
  deadline, right. But they're allowed to trade
• 19:28
  before the trade deadline. If people forget that, it's just
• 19:30
  nothing really happens because teams are reluctant to trade
• 19:33
  until they know that they're going to be in the competition
• 19:35
  or not. So.
• 19:35
  Do you think Nazim Kadri could be coming to the haves?
• 19:40
  It's got to be AC, right? And I mean, like the big name
• 19:42
  everyone wanted in the offseason, that was kind of a
• 19:44
  stretch was Crosby. But there's no way they're
• 19:46
  getting he's getting traded if that no Penguins are doing this
• 19:48
  well. So that kind of takes that out.
• 19:50
  So. I think they have are gonna
• 19:52
  wait. I think we'd rather get Crosby
• 19:54
  than college, obviously so, but we're only getting crossed in
• 19:57
  your trade deadline if it happens so.
• 19:59
  I think that at this point, the Penguins are too good.
• 20:01
  He's not going to move. A lot can change.
• 20:03
  I mean, if you asked if we could go about how the Habs were
• 20:05
  doing, would say like, we're making, you know, one of the
• 20:07
  presidents trophy. And now it's like it's a long
• 20:09
  season. It's a long way until the trade
• 20:11
  deadline. But as it stands right now, he's
• 20:13
  not getting moved. You got cabin and centering that
• 20:16
  second line. But honestly, he's been good.
• 20:18
  Has been. Good.
• 20:19
  But very good. The loss of new Hook is pretty
• 20:21
  big though. That second line with New Hook,
• 20:23
  like he really was popping off with the two rookies and so
• 20:25
  we'll see what happens. But not too much fun.
• 20:27
  This sucks, but I will say Karpens like the player here
• 20:32
  that I'm very interested in considering because we have Joe
• 20:36
  Vellano who is 1/4 liner and Jake Evans who's actually a very
• 20:40
  good hockey player, but he's never been like he's a fucking
• 20:44
  line guy bottom 60. Pretty.
• 20:46
  Much third or fourth line centre.
• 20:47
  So really the only fantasy implications are, I mean first
• 20:52
  of all Habs in general are going to be worse.
• 20:53
  So goalies will get less wins and capping in having the
• 20:57
  opportunity playing with Bolduc and Demidov, like that's some
• 21:00
  pretty serious line made potential I will say.
• 21:03
  Yeah, it'll be interesting to see.
• 21:04
  It's just it's tough to ever really get too excited about a
• 21:06
  guy who's not getting that power Play 1 deployment, especially
• 21:09
  when it's not like an established guy, you know?
• 21:10
  So a rookie not on power play 1 even though he's been hot to
• 21:13
  start the season doesn't necessarily translate to fantasy
• 21:15
  relevance for this year, but keep an eye on for sure.
• 21:20
  Yeah, Last thing, the only thing I want to mention though, little
• 21:23
  little tidbit is, is Bolduc, like we've seen him tremendously
• 21:25
  slow down from what he was doing in the start of the season where
• 21:27
  he was like scoring every other game.
• 21:29
  But now like his ice time was fluctuating a lot.
• 21:32
  Now the fact that we got 2 injuries, we're kind of
• 21:34
  consolidating into this top six. He's on.
• 21:37
  He's got one of those spots. He's playing with Dev.
• 21:39
  He's on that P1 as we speak as they try to find their mojo
• 21:42
  back. Like he might be the the the
• 21:43
  only beneficiary in this situation where he's getting a
• 21:46
  new deployment that's a catalyst for his value.
• 21:48
  So monitor that and see if he can do something with it.
• 21:51
  Yeah fully agree. OK, some resigning news to make
• 21:56
  free agency even more boring this summer.
• 21:58
  Adrian Kempe was resigned to an 8 * 10.625 mil contract
• 22:02
  extension with LA. Well deserved.
• 22:04
  He's by far their best player. And yeah just every single big
• 22:09
  free agent has not even waited for like 2 months into the
• 22:13
  season to just be like let's just lock it down and and move
• 22:15
  on. You know?
• 22:15
  I think it's definitely the rising cap.
• 22:17
  Not much to say fantasy wise, but it was, I thought it was
• 22:19
  worth mentioning. Yeah.
• 22:22
  OK. Charlie McAvoy, yeah.
• 22:27
  Don't cold where. Charlie McAvoy took a puck to
• 22:30
  the face and is out indefinitely.
• 22:32
  I don't know if you guys watched it, but it was brutal.
• 22:34
  It didn't look. Really hope he's OK because that
• 22:36
  looked really, really brutal. Have Island home on power.
• 22:39
  Play one in his absence. This is not one of those times
• 22:42
  where I'm rushing to Atlanta home.
• 22:43
  I don't know about you guys, but I don't know, I, I feel like
• 22:47
  I'll wait and see. He's definitely like I'll add
• 22:49
  him to my watchlist. But sometimes like a power play,
• 22:51
  one quarterback gets injured and you rush to pick up the other.
• 22:53
  I mean, if it's one of those like, let's say like Bouchard
• 22:55
  got injured or something, you're rushing to pick up the
• 22:57
  replacement. You know, if my car got injured,
• 22:59
  like whatever, you know, here. It's not that because first of
• 23:02
  all, Lindholm is not necessarily the most fantasy relevant
• 23:04
  defenseman on his in his own right.
• 23:06
  And it's not like Boston has the best power play.
• 23:07
  So something to keep an eye on being too crazy.
• 23:10
  Like he'll have it for 2-3 games, then Mason Laura is going
• 23:13
  to get it and they get scratched the next game.
• 23:15
  Yeah, that's how this is gonna go.
• 23:16
  This is not a super exciting thing.
• 23:18
  Yeah, I'm definitely in. Depending how deep your league
• 23:22
  is. I'm definitely interested in in
• 23:24
  Lindholm though. Hampus Lindholm, although Elias
• 23:28
  may be on the come up, but yeah. Speaking of Lynn Holmes on
• 23:32
  Boston, Ellison home is back skating and could return within
• 23:35
  the next two weeks. He'll be back at line one power
• 23:37
  play one when he does. But yeah, back to your your
• 23:39
  Hampus stuff. Just the Segway was too good.
• 23:42
  And defensemen, like I think he's a tier above the
• 23:45
  Klingberg's and whatnot, who are Klingberg potentially getting
• 23:49
  scratched. So yeah, that's that's another
• 23:51
  thing in itself. But he's done some, he's had
• 23:54
  some success with the P1 deployment in the past.
• 23:57
  I think he'll just shoot a lot and maybe he helps them click.
• 24:00
  He's just a completely different player from McAvoy.
• 24:02
  So you're expecting different, different end results.
• 24:04
  Macavoy is way more of like a facilitator and a zone entry
• 24:07
  kind of guy. Whereas Lindholm has, I feel
• 24:08
  like a little more punch to him in terms of like being dangerous
• 24:11
  with the puck while in the zone. So we'll see how that goes.
• 24:15
  But I'm monitoring and if you need a defensive stream I do not
• 24:18
  hate taking a chance on campus and home and seeing how that
• 24:21
  goes. Yeah, it's never bad to take a
• 24:23
  shot at one of these power play 1 quarterbacks, right?
• 24:25
  Even if it's a temporary 1, you never know who might just start
• 24:28
  clicking. Low risk, high reward.
• 24:30
  Bingo. The best kind alright.
• 24:33
  Val Nichushkin is week to week with a lower body injury.
• 24:36
  Surprise, surprise, Arturi Lucanian takes his spot on power
• 24:40
  play. One that's obviously huge for
• 24:41
  Lucanian. Nuka is just always out to
• 24:44
  something or another at some point in the season.
• 24:46
  He's so good when he's healthy, but also like lately, his
• 24:50
  deployment hasn't even been a lock.
• 24:51
  So for me he was an easy avoid this year and I was shocked at
• 24:54
  how early he got taken in our draft.
• 24:56
  Yeah, he still has some named Paul.
• 24:58
  For sure, but like he's not even guaranteed power play 1 and he
• 25:02
  has all these issues of like always missing time due to
• 25:04
  injury or other activities. So yeah, main take away here is
• 25:09
  if you have like an you're really happy if Luckins
• 25:11
  available, go snap him up because I'm I'm like, I'm
• 25:15
  rostering trolls and just because he's on that power play
• 25:17
  1, Lebanon is actually a good player and now he's getting on
• 25:19
  that power play 1. So, so that's definitely a lot
• 25:22
  more interesting. And he's playing line one with
• 25:23
  McKinnon, so that's a huge he's been popping off.
• 25:26
  Like if you have like an this is an honestly a great opportunity
• 25:29
  to sell, to sell high. Yeah.
• 25:31
  So sell them on the deployment, sell them.
• 25:33
  Look how productive he's been with the deployment.
• 25:35
  You can probably get a really good name with how good he's
• 25:37
  been so. Yeah, you may notice a theme
• 25:40
  with every time we're like, you know, this player you have that
• 25:42
  you didn't expect to be doing this well, and now he's popping
• 25:44
  off. Get rid of him now.
• 25:45
  Like don't enjoy it for someone someone who sucks right now but
• 25:49
  is actually a better player, you know, so that's kind of how our
• 25:53
  minds work. And that's how you're always
• 25:54
  tearing up as as Kevin likes to say, yeah, OK, here's an
• 25:58
  exciting one. Zach Hyman returns to action and
• 26:01
  regained line one power play 1. He put up eleven hits and an
• 26:04
  assist in his first game. If you drafted him late, you're
• 26:07
  pretty happy right now. We're talking about this in the
• 26:09
  offseason, right? We're talking about his hits in
• 26:11
  the playoffs. And he's never really he's been
• 26:13
  like a one hit a game type of player in the past, which is
• 26:15
  like still solid, like three shots, one hit.
• 26:17
  You're super happy with that, the point per game, but like the
• 26:20
  playoffs, he was going nuts and we're like, is this just because
• 26:22
  of the higher intensity? Is this the new Heyman?
• 26:24
  Like what's going on? And look, it, it could be that
• 26:28
  he goes back to his one hit a game, you know, regular after
• 26:31
  just being hyped for coming back after so long.
• 26:33
  But the fact that he put up 11 hits, it just shows that that's
• 26:35
  his ceiling, and that's an insane ceiling to have.
• 26:38
  He got 23 minutes that game. That's crazy for a first game
• 26:42
  back from. Injury.
• 26:43
  That's nuts, yeah. That's absolutely wild.
• 26:45
  And then meanwhile, Jack Roslovic still got points.
• 26:49
  And I know it's because news is out and we say that it's like a
• 26:52
  huge part of it is power. Play because he was playing
• 26:54
  against me. That's it, that's it.
• 26:57
  So we we want him to be playing against Josh all the time, but
• 27:00
  scientifically, the way to think about this fixing?
• 27:03
  My glasses. I mean scientifically.
• 27:06
  I don't think we're also Vic is a drop.
• 27:08
  As soon as Nude is back, I'm going to maintain that we could
• 27:10
  get off track with it. Depends how you put it out
• 27:12
  there. Cuz Hyman coming back, he
• 27:14
  stapled power play 1. The hits are not sustainable,
• 27:16
  but I think he's gonna be like a three to four kind of hit guy.
• 27:20
  That's my take. That being said, that's a lot.
• 27:23
  Yeah, but not 11. It's not 11, but this just may
• 27:28
  be his new game. I don't know why you would do
• 27:30
  that the second he comes back from injury, but you do you,
• 27:33
  dude. But like, yeah, Jack Rossovich
• 27:36
  still excited about it. I was gonna say, I remember
• 27:38
  vividly Jackie talking about this in the off season where he
• 27:41
  was talking about how physical Hyman was in in the playoffs.
• 27:44
  And then just kind of like we're trying to, you know, predict
• 27:48
  what's going to happen in the season.
• 27:50
  And I remember the offseason Jake was highlighting how like,
• 27:52
  you know, Hyman was hitting so much.
• 27:53
  Like maybe we see him, you know, have more of that in his game
• 27:57
  this season. No, I don't think anybody can
• 27:59
  foreshadow 11 hits in his first game back.
• 28:02
  But also we called it put yourself in the shoes or the
• 28:05
  states of the player, like 11 hits.
• 28:07
  You have to that's a conscious decision and a lot of effort to
• 28:10
  just like finish your checks. And like, I feel like it's a lot
• 28:12
  of energy or exerting. I don't think you can keep that
• 28:15
  up for so long if you're also supposed to be like a prolific
• 28:18
  goal scorer and yeah, and whatever, right.
• 28:21
  So I can see him like maybe he gets 11, then seven, then five,
• 28:24
  and then he's more like a 2, three hit kind of guy.
• 28:26
  Yeah, I can see that. Kind of.
• 28:28
  Yeah, still say you were not expecting that.
• 28:30
  And it's just kind of like the cherry on top, right.
• 28:31
  So. Yeah, I mean, the way I see it
• 28:33
  is like, he got injured right before the Stanley Cup Finals,
• 28:37
  right? And then he had to watch his
• 28:38
  team lose. And then he's been rehabbing and
• 28:40
  it's been taking a lot longer than he expected.
• 28:42
  And he's just seeing his team gonna get there.
• 28:43
  Like, Butts whooped, you know? And he's he's like, like, just
• 28:47
  get and let me out there, you know, like, let me help my team.
• 28:49
  Like that's the kind of player is, you know, like, yeah,
• 28:51
  exactly. It's like finally gets out on
• 28:55
  the ice and he's just like all like jacked up on adrenaline and
• 28:58
  just hitting everything that moves trying to createspace for
• 28:59
  McDavid and dry said and all that, you know, so I think
• 29:02
  that's the type of adrenaline thing that definitely doesn't
• 29:04
  like you guys said. But he's not gonna stop hitting
• 29:07
  a guy who does 11 hits, doesn't go to zero hits for game after
• 29:09
  that. OK, talking about guys who came
• 29:12
  back and just killed it. Quinn Hughes missed only one
• 29:15
  game due to injury, but then he came back and got 4 assists.
• 29:17
  I think he's OK guys. That's my note.
• 29:21
  Yeah. And obviously bumps Aaronic off
• 29:24
  power play 1 and makes that whole power play a lot better on
• 29:26
  the topic of the cannot. Happen.
• 29:28
  Just just yeah, that's what happens when you don't go to
• 29:30
  steak restaurants. Bingo.
• 29:31
  Honestly, honestly, you know, like the you know, like the
• 29:35
  bubble boy, that's what they need to do to like like the
• 29:38
  Hughes is during the season. It's like, oh, it's in between
• 29:40
  game time. Get back in your bubble.
• 29:42
  You know, honestly they should see if they allowed to just wear
• 29:45
  it on the ice too once we're added but.
• 29:48
  Also the petition. Yeah, exactly.
• 29:50
  But yeah, on the topic of the conducts, Thatcher Demko is out
• 29:53
  week to week. Kevin Lankinen is the starter
• 29:55
  while he's gone. I am so shocked this happened.
• 29:57
  Insert shocked Pikachu face. Seriously.
• 30:05
  Everybody needs to turn on video so you can that was that was
• 30:12
  incredible. If any of our discord fans are
• 30:17
  tech literate I could turn that into a reaction that we can
• 30:19
  start using. Do it again.
• 30:21
  Do it again so we'll. We will pick it up.
• 30:29
  We'll pick it up, yeah. That's so good, yeah.
• 30:31
  But you know, Lankin and he was really good last year for you
• 30:34
  and the Canucks are simply just a better team than they were.
• 30:37
  I'm still not super high on them.
• 30:39
  I don't know if they're going to be making the playoffs, but
• 30:41
  they're definitely they were. Last year was embarrassing and
• 30:44
  you still ended up being good for stretches.
• 30:46
  So very excited to own him this year.
• 30:48
  And frankly, when Demco comes back, I mean, I don't see it.
• 30:54
  I don't see it being impossible that they make.
• 30:55
  It there's no way that Demko's getting a starters workload
• 30:58
  after this like. Exactly.
• 30:59
  It's just he just cannot handle it.
• 31:01
  And yeah, so I think Lankan is gonna get like 50% of the stats
• 31:05
  on demo comes back and like 100% of the starts other than back to
• 31:08
  backs until then. So if you wanna goalie on a
• 31:10
  middle team, there was a starter and LinkedIn actually is a good
• 31:13
  goalie or at least has been playing like at the last two
• 31:15
  seasons, then I'm super happy to pick him.
• 31:17
  Up. Let me, can I give you some
• 31:18
  names? Just curious where you're
• 31:19
  drawing the line in line, because it's not.
• 31:22
  Actually say no and then like next point.
• 31:26
  That's that's it. Follow it.
• 31:28
  Would you? Would you rather Lincoln in or
• 31:30
  stole ours? Ah.
• 31:34
  That's a tough one. I think for the season,
• 31:38
  lacrosse, the season hold. Yeah, like, I mean.
• 31:41
  Yeah, it's gotta be reason, yeah, right now on IR so.
• 31:45
  The important part is, is now it's right now like the next,
• 31:48
  let's say the next month until then comes back or and then take
• 31:51
  that into account. I mean, next month I'm taking
• 31:53
  Lincoln installers on IR. Who knows how long he's gonna be
• 31:56
  out and. Matthews hurt.
• 31:58
  And Wall just coming back. Yeah, so pick it.
• 32:00
  Yeah. So let's go, Let's go link it in
• 32:02
  for that one. Bennington Lankinen.
• 32:05
  Yeah, OK, so happy to not. I am so happy to not have
• 32:09
  Bennington on my team. Could Chekov.
• 32:12
  LinkedIn. Really.
• 32:14
  OK. I think it check over.
• 32:15
  There I have no interest in a three goalie situation.
• 32:18
  I still think he's gonna get the lion's share, but we'll.
• 32:20
  See What about Jed Greeves? LinkedIn.
• 32:24
  That would be the judge's holiday blanking Vladar Swamin.
• 32:29
  Swami would take over Lincoln in, but I would take Lincoln
• 32:31
  over Var. Agree.
• 32:33
  OK, so it's kind of just like a low end starter pretty much like
• 32:36
  what does she loves? It's I'm really curious to see
• 32:40
  what happens if like like why Mershon off got that start, you
• 32:44
  know, it wasn't a. Back that got shut.
• 32:45
  Up, yeah, but it was that Stadium Series where like, you
• 32:48
  know, they're traveling a lot, so it could be the equivalent of
• 32:50
  a back-to-back. If she starts like splitting
• 32:52
  starts with Marshall, then I'd rather have LinkedIn.
• 32:54
  But if she loves all that has all the stars other than back to
• 32:57
  backs, then I take she loves. There for sure, because I think
• 33:01
  she, I think that it's confusing because he was on Vancouver last
• 33:05
  year. Yeah.
• 33:06
  That Lankinen is gonna be like the guy for sure over the next
• 33:09
  little while, and she loves too. But you're right, it's a bit us.
• 33:14
  OK last thing, let's say your goalie needed team and you have
• 33:16
  to stream a goalie for the next two weeks.
• 33:18
  Are you picking up Lankinen, Akira, Schmid, Jed Grieves,
• 33:22
  Askerov? Like who?
• 33:24
  Who you prioritizing? Definitely Askerov, but LinkedIn
• 33:28
  would be second. I'd take him over Schmid or
• 33:30
  Grieves. Just like a two week sample
• 33:32
  size, you just need got it. Yeah, yeah, all.
• 33:35
  Right. OK, talking about goalies,
• 33:37
  Joseph Wall is starting his first game of the season
• 33:39
  tonight. Let's see if he can help the
• 33:40
  free falling Maple Leafs, Right, the ship.
• 33:43
  Free falling Maple Leaf. You see what I did there?
• 33:47
  Because it's false. And that too.
• 33:49
  Anthony is out with the upper body injury, so Wall will be the
• 33:53
  starter for now. A lot less exciting to be the
• 33:55
  Leaf starter this year than in years past though.
• 33:58
  Yeah, Matthews out, especially right now.
• 34:00
  I don't like this at all. That being said, we expect that
• 34:05
  the goalies in general, both still ours will always hurt or
• 34:08
  out, whatever. But at this point, like they're
• 34:10
  going to be the goal timing is going to be better moving
• 34:12
  forward. But for right now, I mean,
• 34:15
  Matthews, even though he's been underperforming, should be the
• 34:17
  centerpiece of this team. They're going to be likely worse
• 34:20
  without him. And I don't really, I'm not
• 34:23
  super excited about owning Wall right now.
• 34:26
  The only thing I can you know, he could come in and and just
• 34:30
  kill it, right? I was gonna say that.
• 34:31
  Does. Yeah, go ahead.
• 34:32
  Sorry. Kevin No, the only thing that
• 34:34
  can really like for goalies, like they can really be a
• 34:38
  catalyst for team success. So like he comes in, he does
• 34:40
  really well, like it can improve everybody else's playing as
• 34:44
  well. So that's the only thing maybe
• 34:46
  you look for when you're looking at the situation.
• 34:48
  But he's going to be thrown to the wolves right now.
• 34:50
  They're not really in hot form and he's going to get all the
• 34:52
  stars because the Lars is hurt, so.
• 34:54
  Yeah, and on I like Jake mentioned, Austin Matthews is
• 34:57
  out with a lower body injury. His power play, one spot is
• 34:59
  getting passed around. Currently Cohen has it.
• 35:01
  Last game it was Domi. I wouldn't put too much stock in
• 35:03
  who has it. I don't think it's gonna last.
• 35:05
  I think they're shuffling it around unless something just
• 35:07
  absolutely like pops off and the power play starts killing it.
• 35:10
  I think they're going to keep switching around has that spot
• 35:12
  until Matthews comes back. But Oil has the power play
• 35:16
  quarterback still and he's honestly been looking good with
• 35:19
  it too. So Josh is smiling, but as if I
• 35:23
  don't have Morgan Riley on my team anymore.
• 35:25
  But. Yeah, yeah.
• 35:26
  I mean like how you managed to sell high on him after he had
• 35:29
  lost his power. Play one spot that's actually.
• 35:31
  He had like 9 points in 10 games, but OL has five points in
• 35:35
  his last six games so I mean he's shooting as well with the
• 35:39
  extra deployment. So he's definitely worthwhile
• 35:42
  stream, but obviously not as good while Matthew is out.
• 35:46
  Yep. OK, let's get to some exciting
• 35:49
  stuff for Kevin. Josh Norris is back on the ice
• 35:52
  and could return ahead of schedule.
• 35:54
  Expect him to be line one, power play one when he does.
• 35:56
  Assuming he stays healthy, he could be an amazing pickup.
• 35:58
  He's 13% rostered on Yahoo right now.
• 36:02
  Like I get it, there's been a lot of injuries this year not
• 36:04
  everyone has. Well, I mean he's on IR so you
• 36:06
  don't need the R Plus, but not everyone has that many IR slots.
• 36:08
  So I get he was an easy cut. Let's say you had too many dead
• 36:11
  roster spots. Like it makes sense to cut him,
• 36:14
  but 13% owned for a guy who can do what he can do if healthy, it
• 36:18
  seems like just an easy like no brainer to add.
• 36:21
  And if he's you add him and he gets injured again, just drop
• 36:23
  him. You know, like you're really, I
• 36:24
  mean, this is the exact same conversation we had like week 1
• 36:27
  waivers, right? He was low rostered.
• 36:29
  We were telling everyone, pick up Josh Norris, he's gonna be
• 36:31
  sick. And then he got injured on the
• 36:33
  first face off and we looked really dumb and had to redo our
• 36:35
  entire streaming schedule. Sorry, the last time you saw.
• 36:38
  And then we have to organize our whole schedule so that we don't
• 36:41
  get burned again. But I'll have to be said.
• 36:43
  It's just such a no brainer pickup to me.
• 36:45
  Like you don't get a guy like this available and obviously he
• 36:48
  could just get injured. It just there's zero cost you to
• 36:50
  grab him. He's he's a talented guy.
• 36:52
  We know he's he's hurt all the time.
• 36:54
  That's literally the one gripe with him.
• 36:56
  Like he's just always hurt. He's lived up to his reputation
• 36:59
  this year, evidently. But when he's healthy, he's line
• 37:03
  one power play, one play with Tage Thompson.
• 37:06
  Josh Norris is fantasy profile is he'll score a lot of goals.
• 37:09
  He's actually a good goal scorer.
• 37:11
  He shoots and he hits. Yeah.
• 37:13
  And he's going to be having the best deployment on this team.
• 37:15
  Like in Ottawa, he didn't always, he wasn't always the one
• 37:17
  seeing Ottawa like he was oftentimes the 2C.
• 37:19
  So like he's he would be in the exceptional position for
• 37:23
  fantasy. He's 13% owned and he's IRL
• 37:26
  eligible right now. Like he's just arguably the best
• 37:30
  widely available stash. I've, I remember talking with
• 37:33
  people on the discord being like OHP, who's interesting on my
• 37:37
  waivers and I see Josh Norris and I'm just like, you have an
• 37:38
  IR spot pick up Josh Norris. Yeah, like, Nah, like I bet like
• 37:42
  he gets hurt like a week after he comes back.
• 37:44
  Like, listen, that's in the realm of outcomes.
• 37:46
  Maybe a 5050 chance he gets hurt within the week he comes back.
• 37:48
  But the upside of him being healthy is just tremendous.
• 37:51
  I think like you're missing out on a huge potential player.
• 37:55
  Obviously we're talking about depending how deep your leagues
• 37:57
  are, like he's going to be way more valuable if you're starting
• 37:59
  more than just two pure seas. But yeah, he's he's one of the
• 38:03
  names that I'm like, look at your waiver wire.
• 38:05
  If you have an IR spot, go stash them.
• 38:06
  You'll also probably win that week, to be fair, and that's
• 38:10
  kind of what. We the one we keep there.
• 38:11
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, because like you're
• 38:14
  not giving up anything. Theoretically, you're giving up
• 38:16
  the worst player on your team to like you could do way worse for
• 38:19
  a stream. And then if it turns into a
• 38:21
  season long hold, like you said, Kevin, it's stellar.
• 38:24
  Because he's on my IR spot. Yeah, and you as we know, Kevin
• 38:28
  has been pillaged with injuries like no tomorrow.
• 38:32
  So for him to hold him this long and look, we we're podcast
• 38:37
  hosts. We really love fantasy.
• 38:38
  We know what we're doing. So for Kevin, are you holding
• 38:40
  them? Yeah, pick him up if he's
• 38:42
  available. I mean Kevin definitely also is
• 38:44
  motivated to hold him because he knows I would grab him if you
• 38:47
  trust. Well all why would I drop him
• 38:50
  then? Yeah, no, I mean.
• 38:51
  Exactly, I had 6 injuries and three dead roster spots.
• 38:53
  So that's yeah, it's still, but yeah, he's still held.
• 38:58
  The potential is there. Speaking of the Sabres, Rasmus
• 39:01
  Dahlin returned from his leave of absence and had two
• 39:03
  assistance. Risk came back.
• 39:04
  I wish I had bought low on him when people thought he'd be out
• 39:07
  for months. Unfortunately for me, I am
• 39:09
  people. I thought he would be out for
• 39:10
  months. It's making people.
• 39:13
  Yeah, exactly. It just sucks.
• 39:16
  It's like, oh, that would be such an insane violo.
• 39:18
  Like if anyone had the balls to do that, then, you know, kudos
• 39:21
  to you. I just there was no information,
• 39:23
  right? Like it was.
• 39:24
  It was really. I thought for sure at least one
• 39:26
  month. Right, Yeah, exactly.
• 39:28
  And honestly, if I knew it was a month, I'd easily try and buy a
• 39:31
  low, but the fact that it like in my head it was like at least
• 39:33
  a month, possibly season like you know.
• 39:35
  So yeah, anyways, mad regrets, but great for Dolly and great
• 39:38
  for all Doline. Owners nothing you could do
• 39:40
  about that. And I will say he's he's been
• 39:42
  underperforming this year. But I mean, the Sabres are a
• 39:45
  mess. Yeah, everybody's heard so.
• 39:48
  Yeah, but he'll he'll turn it around.
• 39:49
  I mean, even though Buffalo sucked a lot recently, in recent
• 39:54
  years they just haven't been good.
• 39:55
  He's always good. So I don't really think it's a
• 39:58
  buy low opportunity because he just came back from injury.
• 40:00
  But if you can, still still a great option.
• 40:03
  His value is going to the boat. The boat's gonna.
• 40:07
  Go up with. Josh Norris is back, so by that.
• 40:11
  In and and. Jason.
• 40:13
  Zucker. You know, like.
• 40:14
  This. That's their whole probably
• 40:16
  story pretty much. Yeah, they have a lot of guys
• 40:18
  injured. It's actually funny because last
• 40:21
  week's buy low, sell high, I had Dalene down as my buy low.
• 40:24
  Like I literally had the entire border written out.
• 40:25
  I had all the stats and everything.
• 40:27
  And then he goes on his leave of absence like hours before we
• 40:29
  recorded the episode. And I'm like, oh, well, I can't
• 40:31
  put him as my Bilo now when I genuinely don't know when he's
• 40:34
  coming back. So I had to change it.
• 40:35
  But no Jake, you're absolutely right before he left, he was a
• 40:38
  great buy low. So very excited about that.
• 40:41
  Alright, more good news for Kevin Brady could Chuck is
• 40:44
  traveling with the team. He was set to be out six to
• 40:46
  eight weeks and it's been 5 weeks to this day, which means
• 40:50
  that he can return as soon as next week.
• 40:52
  He's on travel, he's on the road trip.
• 40:53
  So there's definitely a chance that's crazy exciting for any
• 40:56
  rate you could Chuck owners. He's only 98% owned somehow.
• 40:59
  So if you're not 100% go grab Yeah, but no, this is obviously
• 41:05
  nuts. I mean, if anyone other than
• 41:07
  Kevin had him in our league, I would have been sending nonstop
• 41:10
  by low offers, but obviously Kevin wasn't going to do that.
• 41:13
  But yeah, so the the window has closed or maybe it's about it's
• 41:16
  I mean, it's not like it's confirmed these back yet, but I
• 41:18
  don't know if anyone held him this long that they're like,
• 41:20
  alright, I'm holding on to him now that it's news that he's
• 41:22
  skating again. But it would have been a good
• 41:24
  video. If you're Brady owner is not
• 41:26
  super in the weeds and they're only going to read like the
• 41:29
  Yahoo tidbit news thing that the AI writes for them, that's
• 41:33
  always awful. Like just trying to try to go
• 41:35
  send an offer. But yeah, I'm very excited as a
• 41:39
  Brady owner, I'm just very looking forward to this.
• 41:42
  I hope it's in week, in one week.
• 41:44
  But I don't want him to rush back and then get hurt again.
• 41:46
  So, like, take your time, Brady. But like, can't wait to have
• 41:48
  you. Yeah.
• 41:51
  Brady, take my finger or my hand.
• 41:54
  Just say my finger. Yeah, exactly.
• 41:59
  John Carlson of Washington Capitals is day-to-day with an
• 42:02
  upper body injury. Interestingly enough, Ryan
• 42:04
  Leonard getting a shot at power play one with him gone that I
• 42:07
  think Carlos is going to be back and he's going to be bumped off.
• 42:09
  But it's always interesting to see who the next guy up is,
• 42:11
  right? You don't.
• 42:11
  That's not like a stat you can really look up until someone
• 42:14
  gets demoted so or it gets injured.
• 42:16
  So I always like looking at that, even if it's not going to
• 42:18
  last. You now know that number six on
• 42:20
  that depth chart for power play 1 is Ryan Leonard.
• 42:22
  So just something to note for the rest of this season or also
• 42:25
  for future seasons. Yeah, you'd think that
• 42:28
  Washington would be better than they are, but they're like last.
• 42:31
  In the Metropolitan like you could have seen this. 1 You
• 42:35
  could have, but Thomson is an absolute machine like you think
• 42:40
  and. He's still a cell high.
• 42:41
  You listen to our episodes. I hope you did.
• 42:43
  Yeah, he he is. But there they have the 5th
• 42:48
  right on top of Seattle, actually 5th best in goals
• 42:51
  against per game this season. They just cannot score.
• 42:54
  So where this leads into Ryan Leonard is that if he starts
• 42:58
  doing really well, like I don't think they're married to this
• 43:00
  power play one right now at all. So.
• 43:03
  Only one person who's locked onto power play 1 and his name
• 43:05
  is Alex Ovechkin. Yeah.
• 43:07
  And two. Yeah, exactly.
• 43:10
  And 0 defensive zone like exactly.
• 43:14
  Yeah. So, so I'm quite excited by this
• 43:17
  because I think, I mean, after what he did last year, Chicken
• 43:20
  cemented there as the number one defenseman, I believe.
• 43:23
  I know he didn't really start with it this year and they kind
• 43:25
  of shuffled it around, but he should.
• 43:27
  He should be the guy. Look, if Leonard does well
• 43:30
  though, I don't think it's impossible for him to keep it at
• 43:32
  all. Plus his bank accounts are
• 43:34
  great. He shoots a lot 7 and five shots
• 43:37
  over the past few games and has games with like 3-4 hits so I
• 43:42
  I'm not like extremely high on him but if he's around you
• 43:44
  should pick him up for sure. Bankers.
• 43:47
  I mean, I don't. Know yeah, I don't know like
• 43:49
  like you have to be a pretty deep bangers league for him to
• 43:51
  be like a pick him up for sure, especially cause Carlson might
• 43:53
  just come back, but I'm definitely interested in him
• 43:56
  like in like a keeper slash dynasty type of league, like I
• 43:58
  think in future, in future years, I'm very interested this
• 44:01
  year. I don't know how much value is
• 44:02
  gonna have but but it's still very interesting to see.
• 44:05
  More 12 or 14 manly. That's what I mean.
• 44:07
  He's getting the deeper ones with a lot of rosters.
• 44:09
  He's definitely one of the names that I anticipate his value to
• 44:12
  be much higher in the last two months of the season where I
• 44:15
  feel like maybe Washington as much and and then he's able to
• 44:20
  have a cemented top six role with a lot of minutes, I will
• 44:22
  say. Things like those are league
• 44:24
  winning pickups. It's like 2 months left in the
• 44:26
  season. The trade deadline has come and
• 44:27
  gone and you know, teams know they're not making the playoffs
• 44:30
  and they're like, you know, I'm just gonna play my young guys
• 44:33
  and kind of let them run wild. And if you pick up those guys
• 44:35
  that have like, you know, they didn't do much all season, look
• 44:38
  at their season average is pretty garbage, but all of a
• 44:40
  sudden they get promoted to line one power play 1 and just given
• 44:43
  like free reign to kind of discover what they can do in the
• 44:45
  NHL. Those are league winning
• 44:46
  pickups. Yep.
• 44:47
  Yep. OK, let's move on to some Dallas
• 44:51
  Stars news. Jamie Benn has been upgraded to
• 44:53
  day-to-day from LTI. Mean, he's still technically on
• 44:55
  LTIR, but he's now day-to-day and he should be back within the
• 44:58
  week. I'd expect him to be power play
• 45:00
  too and he'll either bump Sam Steel out of the top 6 or he'll
• 45:03
  be line 3 centre. I'm not sure what they're going
• 45:05
  to go with if they want to spread the wealth a bit more.
• 45:07
  Not like they've been having trouble with how things have
• 45:09
  been going. So they probably more line 3
• 45:12
  power play 2 to start at least. But but he's been solid for
• 45:15
  bangers in the past. I'm not dying.
• 45:18
  This is not like a Josh Norris like IR stash.
• 45:20
  I'm like dying to get when he comes back, but it's worth
• 45:23
  keeping an eye on. No, exactly, completely agree.
• 45:26
  Yeah, but that's but. You and then Thomas Thomas
• 45:31
  Harley is out week to week and he didn't have power play 1.
• 45:34
  So there's not like anyone taking his spot there.
• 45:36
  But this could be an opportunity for some other stars defenseman
• 45:38
  to get more ice time. I know we had mentioned the
• 45:40
  Discord Leanne Birchell, that's for that's how we're pronouncing
• 45:45
  his name on the pod, but no Liam.
• 45:48
  Fisher's like a menace on the shell.
• 45:51
  It's like an elegant name. I.
• 45:53
  Know like. Composer or something like.
• 45:58
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 46:01
  So he's been having some great bangers games.
• 46:03
  And that's like we always talk about, you know, more ice time
• 46:06
  means better for bangers. So I think that's really one of
• 46:08
  the main beneficiaries of this Harley.
• 46:10
  Lost the only beneficiary. Yeah.
• 46:13
  Yeah, because I was going to say with him, the only thing is he's
• 46:17
  known as a hits monster, right? People try to make him and Lozon
• 46:20
  and good is kind of like the same.
• 46:21
  But the difference is like he doesn't block, he doesn't block,
• 46:24
  he doesn't shoot. The other guys shoot, but the
• 46:26
  blocks are really the big Prince.
• 46:28
  How you get more blocks, you're on the ice more.
• 46:30
  So if he's playing 20 minutes a night now because of the extra
• 46:32
  opportunity and he's looking into or just actually getting
• 46:36
  more blocks, that makes him extremely fantasy relevant than
• 46:39
  bangers leagues because he's one of those guys that because he's
• 46:42
  so one-dimensional, even in bangers league, he's not always
• 46:45
  on a roster just because it's only hits and zeros everywhere
• 46:48
  else, right? So that's more of a stream.
• 46:50
  But if he's getting 20 minutes a night, he becomes way more
• 46:53
  fantasy relevant and one of those guys that's going to be in
• 46:55
  the same category as like the good is the true, but the Luzon,
• 46:58
  the insert X name that gets over four hits game, but like nothing
• 47:04
  else, you know? Yeah, hey, skin still loves Sell
• 47:06
  high. Don't forget.
• 47:08
  I know that because like a big asterisk was like, ooh, after
• 47:12
  the contract, maybe Harley will take back power, play one,
• 47:14
  etcetera. I still maintain he was myself
• 47:16
  high this week. I'm still sticking with that.
• 47:18
  That Haskins still high. It's a production.
• 47:21
  The production is so high. That's why it's so high.
• 47:23
  Exactly. OK, Boone Jenner of the Columbus
• 47:27
  Blue Jackets is out with an upper body injury.
• 47:29
  Jake is getting PTSD, and I think his days as a cat beast
• 47:33
  may be behind him. I think that now Columbus
• 47:36
  actually has a lot more young talents coming in.
• 47:38
  And he's not really, not that he was ever necessarily the star of
• 47:41
  the show, but he got enough ice time and deployments that he was
• 47:43
  able to be that cat beast while also chipping in the points.
• 47:47
  But I think with all these injury history, I'm getting
• 47:49
  older and just the younger guys kind of taking the reins.
• 47:51
  I think his days of like being like, Oh my God, I can't believe
• 47:55
  I got him in the 11th round, you know, in a bit like a bangers
• 47:57
  league with faceoff wins. It's just I don't know how much
• 48:00
  how interested I am in having him on my roster anymore.
• 48:03
  The one thing I will say now is just it just gives an extra
• 48:05
  opportunity in the top 6. And finally they're putting
• 48:09
  Yagor Tinkov in a in a top six role is going to be playing with
• 48:12
  Monahan on that second line. And this is a guy that wanted to
• 48:16
  be traded. He was like, I'm not happy here.
• 48:17
  I'm not playing like I want to get traded.
• 48:19
  They said, no, we're not trading you.
• 48:20
  So already that's kind of just like a feud with the team and
• 48:22
  the player. And then when he as of like not
• 48:26
  getting traded, he's staying on the roster, but they're playing
• 48:28
  in the fourth line and. 7 minutes a night.
• 48:30
  Yeah. So what's, what's the point now?
• 48:32
  What are we doing here? But he's a guy that we've seen
• 48:33
  like being the top 6 previous Columbus that actually be pretty
• 48:36
  talented. Like he can shoot a lot.
• 48:38
  Like he's actually a good player when he's like.
• 48:40
  Happy. Yeah.
• 48:42
  Before Voronkov like, took that spot from him, he was, it was it
• 48:45
  was Chekov, Marchenko and Monahan.
• 48:47
  And then they I don't know what like who's you know, wifey slept
• 48:52
  with or like, like in management.
• 49:00
  I don't know what he did, but management hates him.
• 49:03
  They're like, not only are we not gonna play you, but we're
• 49:05
  not gonna trade you away. We're just gonna force you to
• 49:07
  play fourth line minutes. And and yeah, it's.
• 49:09
  Something she can get this period and.
• 49:11
  Yeah, exactly. Seeing him get this chance is
• 49:13
  definitely, definitely add him to the watch list.
• 49:15
  I added him to the watch list. Right away, that was wild.
• 49:19
  Watch list and if he sticks here and he's playing like 15 plus
• 49:21
  minutes a night, like I'm sure his shot volume will be good and
• 49:24
  that's interesting and deeper leagues.
• 49:25
  Yeah, yeah. OK.
• 49:27
  Frank Nasar returned to the lineup and is back on power Play
• 49:29
  one for now because Tyler Bertuzzi is day-to-day cell
• 49:32
  while you can. I mean, he's been a cell high
• 49:34
  for so long. Then he was injured, then he was
• 49:37
  a you sell low, but like you don't sell low, obviously.
• 49:40
  But now he's back on power Play 1.
• 49:41
  And maybe people won't realize that that's only because of her
• 49:43
  today's injury. So maybe you could be like what
• 49:45
  he did at the start of the season with the deployment.
• 49:47
  He got it back. And you know, you don't have to.
• 49:49
  Not every trade has to be for like a blockbuster.
• 49:51
  If you can get NASCAR for like a Fantilli or something like that,
• 49:54
  I would be so happy with that. And I don't think that's like
• 49:56
  the craziest, you know, even if you have to like throw maybe
• 49:59
  something a little extras like a sweetener, like that's not crazy
• 50:02
  yet until he hasn't popped off yet as we expect.
• 50:04
  I mean, he kinda has like 5 points in the last four games,
• 50:06
  but like, that's just the start for him.
• 50:08
  So that's the type of thing I would be looking to do with
• 50:10
  Nazar. Nazar is the perfect player that
• 50:12
  I think is like the throw into a trade to get it over the hump.
• 50:15
  Like let's say you have a centre and you're looking to upgrade
• 50:18
  centre. Like let's say you want to go
• 50:19
  from like he sure to I don't know, I'm just giving you an
• 50:23
  example like a Suzuki and you're like, OK, like what do I do to
• 50:26
  bridge the gap here? Like, you know, they're kind of
• 50:28
  close. Glad Frank Nazar, you know
• 50:30
  you're gonna drop him when he's not on people one anyway.
• 50:31
  So like just throw him in. Don't try to get like extreme
• 50:35
  value for him, but like as a throw in it can make it happen.
• 50:37
  So. Yeah.
• 50:38
  That's just an example that trade probably doesn't get done,
• 50:40
  but. Yeah, but anything but dared
• 50:43
  adjacent like that is the selling point there.
• 50:45
  That's what you gotta bring up because Bedard is an absolute
• 50:48
  machine. And I mean he wasn't performing
• 50:51
  at this level Bedard at the beginning of the season when
• 50:54
  Nazar was amazing. So it's like, oh wow, now that
• 50:56
  he's back healthy, you know, like imagine what they could do
• 50:58
  together and whatever that there's a lot of ways that you
• 51:02
  can angle it. But Bertuzzi was doing super
• 51:05
  well and the whole the basis of this organization right now is
• 51:10
  let's make Bedard elite and the pieces, we'll put the pieces of
• 51:13
  the puzzle together as time goes on.
• 51:15
  So Nazar is a plan in their future.
• 51:18
  He got a good contract, he's a good player.
• 51:19
  But for fantasy relevance this year, it's gonna be an absolute
• 51:22
  roller coaster. You want something better and
• 51:24
  you can add him as a sweetener like Heaven said.
• 51:26
  Yeah, OK. Marco Rossi is week to week with
• 51:30
  a lower body injury. Ryan Hartman took his line one
• 51:32
  spot, but then he got injured too.
• 51:33
  So now, Daniela, you're off. With the big boys.
• 51:37
  I knew it. You can't predict all the
• 51:43
  centres on the team getting injured and then he gets his
• 51:45
  shot and you're like I called it, I knew he was gonna get it
• 51:48
  was someone to check your basement.
• 51:52
  York the last few days. That is such a good point, Oh my
• 51:56
  God. It just so happens everybody
• 51:59
  else gets hurt more than. Watch out.
• 52:05
  It always happened something, yeah.
• 52:07
  Yeah. Anyways, I'm not interested in
• 52:10
  picking up anyone right now for that and it's like any of them
• 52:12
  are getting power play 1 so it's just something to mention.
• 52:15
  But I mean, I guess like it is nice to be playing with Kaprizov
• 52:18
  and if it's Boldy or Garello. If he shows out, like increased
• 52:24
  opportunity could be coming his way.
• 52:25
  So that's that's the exciting part.
• 52:27
  But yeah, I don't know. Not really interested right now.
• 52:31
  Hill to climb. Yeah, a massive hill to climb,
• 52:33
  but he has alright haha insert you guys making fun of me.
• 52:37
  His starts in the case shown, he and Demidov both were like the
• 52:43
  record setters for what they did for their age group.
• 52:46
  So obviously Demidov has the pedigree that you're off does
• 52:49
  not have, but you're off has Kaprizov and that's huge if he
• 52:56
  really does like stay there for a few games.
• 52:57
  Also speaking Russian and not everyone in the NHL speaking
• 53:01
  Russian like they could like communicate with each other.
• 53:03
  Telepathically, I'm actually over here behind all these
• 53:07
  defensemen, but they can't understand because I'm speaking
• 53:09
  in Russian. That's exactly how I thought.
• 53:14
  Oil of our plans. So, so watch list.
• 53:18
  Uh, I, I would watch list. I'm not like, yeah, thinking
• 53:21
  it's irrelevant, but it's a huge help to climb like you said.
• 53:24
  Yeah, OK, let's get to everyone's favorite section of
• 53:28
  the episode. OK, Kevin's favorite section of
• 53:30
  the episode, the would you rathers.
• 53:33
  All right, I'm excited for these ones because I think we got some
• 53:37
  spicy ones today. Last week, I feel like I was a
• 53:39
  little bit disappointed in myself.
• 53:41
  I didn't really split the difference here, but today I put
• 53:43
  extra effort into it. It's always hard.
• 53:45
  I'm trying to pick the two players that you guys are going
• 53:48
  to feel differently about. So yeah.
• 53:50
  But. This is a fun one.
• 53:52
  I feel like we're starting off hot.
• 53:53
  Hopefully you guys haven't peaked.
• 53:55
  I never peek. Hey Josh, never peaks.
• 53:59
  Yeah, he always peaks. Andrew Peak.
• 54:05
  OK, go. No, this is your first time
• 54:07
  listening to one of our Would You Rather episodes.
• 54:11
  Happy to have you. Congrats, you made it.
• 54:13
  But now we go through five with your brothers.
• 54:18
  Try to split the difference between making Josh and Jackie
• 54:20
  pick each player on one of these sides and we go through one of
• 54:25
  every position. So one left wing, right wing,
• 54:26
  centre defence and goalie. So let's get started with left
• 54:31
  wingers starting off hot. Would you rather newly healthy
• 54:37
  big boy, Zach Hyman big boy or Jake Gensel rest of season?
• 54:43
  Ohio. I like that one a lot.
• 54:47
  We got one game of Hyman under our belt as we speak.
• 54:50
  Buddy out eleven hits. He's playing in top 6IN
• 54:53
  Edmonton. Jake Guentzel we know is going
• 54:55
  to be playing with Kucherov on that power play.
• 54:58
  Hyman had, what, fifty goals? A few seasons?
• 55:02
  Ago. I know who I'm going with, I'm
• 55:05
  going to go with. That wait wait, wait.
• 55:06
  No, sorry. Where did that influence your
• 55:09
  decision? Making No, I was gonna say that
• 55:11
  to really. Yeah, because you can go first,
• 55:15
  then I'll, I'll chime in. OK, for me, I know, I mean we
• 55:18
  talked about in the offseason, we know exactly what we're
• 55:20
  getting with Denzel and it's great.
• 55:21
  We're getting one point per game, three shots and some power
• 55:25
  play, let's say like .25 to .3 power play like that.
• 55:28
  He is so consistent, you know exactly you're getting.
• 55:30
  So it's very easy to compare with with Hymen, I see him, he
• 55:34
  can easily get a point per game. I think they should end up with
• 55:36
  similar points. I see Edmonton power play being
• 55:39
  a lot better because I mean Tampas struggling right now.
• 55:42
  I think they gonna turn it around.
• 55:43
  Maybe not a lot better but I see Edmonton powerfully being better
• 55:45
  so he'll get more power play points shots I see being
• 55:48
  similar. But then Hyman's got the hits
• 55:49
  and I'm not expecting to get 11 hits per game, but even 1.5 to
• 55:53
  two hits per game is 1.5 to two hits more than Gensel is going
• 55:56
  to get. So I think that's the main
• 55:57
  difference maker for. Me neither.
• 55:59
  I remind you though that Hyman last year had a garbage 0.6
• 56:04
  points per game and .16 power play points.
• 56:08
  Last season, one point per game, .35 power play points.
• 56:12
  Like all these, all these Tampa guys usually hover around .4
• 56:15
  power play points. Like that's pretty elite, so.
• 56:19
  And I'm just I'm, I'm a big believer in the Heyman bounce
• 56:21
  back this year. Yeah.
• 56:23
  So same with the Hymen bounce back also like let's not forget
• 56:29
  that just in general Tampa is underperforming.
• 56:33
  So like there, there is that component.
• 56:35
  But I think if you look at it last year, it's such a clear
• 56:39
  outlier as far as production goes.
• 56:42
  Like for Hymens, since he went to Edmonton, his previous worse
• 56:46
  was 54 points in 76 games and then last year was 44 and 73.
• 56:50
  Other than that, he exceeded a point per game in one year and
• 56:53
  basically was point per game another year.
• 56:54
  It's obvious and glaring that that was the year that he
• 56:59
  underperformed. Additionally, this concept of
• 57:02
  him hitting is is new and adds on to what should be like a
• 57:08
  point 9 point per game player. I think if you can get like a
• 57:12
  double double at least from him with the goals, should he should
• 57:17
  get more goals than assists. I think that this is not a clear
• 57:21
  Heiman. It's a very good question, but
• 57:23
  to me like the edge is there for him to get it.
• 57:26
  I'm going Jake Denzel. I believe in.
• 57:28
  I believe in the points difference being here.
• 57:31
  I think Hyman probably gets around point 7.8, but I think
• 57:33
  Jake Guentzel gets a point per game and um yeah, I know the
• 57:37
  human will hit, but I don't know, I don't think it'll be 11.
• 57:40
  I think he's gonna average around 2, which is already
• 57:42
  great. But I I want the consistency of
• 57:45
  I know what I'm getting with gentle week in and week out.
• 57:47
  I don't want to risk getting that high Mens or .6 season once
• 57:50
  again. So.
• 57:53
  Fair enough. Wow.
• 57:54
  Yep. That's that's close.
• 57:56
  Is lovely, close and and like I said, like gentle right now is
• 58:00
  performing well, but I think his ceiling is even higher when
• 58:03
  Tampa starts clicking properly so quick.
• 58:05
  Question, given all the metrics with his hits, how many hits per
• 58:08
  game do you need hymen to get in order for you to pick Hyman over
• 58:12
  Denzel? That is a great question.
• 58:14
  I mean, it's a great question and there's no perfect answer,
• 58:16
  but I think. It is what the numbers that you
• 58:20
  expect them. So let's say let's say cancel
• 58:22
  gets the one point per game and Hyman ends with .75.
• 58:25
  Yeah. Yeah, but I think it's more than
• 58:27
  just the question of the points difference.
• 58:29
  It's like the thresholds as well.
• 58:31
  Averaging over a point per game is is hard.
• 58:33
  And like Denzel can do that. I don't think Hyman gets a point
• 58:35
  per game this season does If he was averaging like three or four
• 58:39
  hits, maybe I I take the discount.
• 58:42
  But yeah, yeah, I don't have like an exact number of like,
• 58:46
  OK, it's 2.7 I'm good, but 2.8 I'm not type of thing, you know
• 58:50
  what I mean? But.
• 58:50
  Yeah for sure, but I mean I feel like is a no brainer.
• 58:53
  Whatever. Yeah.
• 58:54
  That's it. If it's at 3:00 with the metrics
• 58:56
  you laid out, I think it's clear and I just, I think that it's
• 58:59
  gonna be like a .1 points per game difference as opposed to
• 59:02
  .25. Yeah, that's a good one.
• 59:04
  What do we got? Next, alright #2 we're talking
• 59:06
  right wingers. This one is a hot commodity now.
• 59:09
  Two guys that have started the season as incredibly polarizing
• 59:14
  players, I will say. Ohhhhh I wonder how this is
• 59:17
  gonna be. Would you rather Andre
• 59:20
  Svechnikov, the new height man of the NHL, or Nick Schmaltz,
• 59:26
  one of the hardest starting players in the season?
• 59:28
  That's easy sketch, easy for me. Really.
• 59:31
  OK, Yeah, easy. Yeah, I think, I think what he,
• 59:35
  and I know, I know Schmaltz has been, has been unreal.
• 59:38
  But like Husbands, we've talked about this like Schmaltz was
• 59:40
  such a cell high. Yeah.
• 59:42
  And he has slowed down the whole Utah team slowed down a bit.
• 59:45
  But yeah, I think what Speech is doing is is legit.
• 59:48
  I think that he's going to keep this deployment.
• 59:50
  I think he might go through stretches where Rod gets pissed
• 59:52
  at him and put him on line for power play too, for like a week.
• 59:54
  But for the most part, I expect him to stay line one, power play
• 59:57
  one with with how well he's been doing and and he's going to be
• 1:00:01
  closer to the player people drafted him as from here on out.
• 1:00:05
  Then the player he's been to start the season in my opinion.
• 1:00:08
  Over the last month, Nick Schmaltz is still averaging over
• 1:00:11
  a point per game, Which is very impressive.
• 1:00:15
  I mean, I'm not saying he's going to do that for the rest of
• 1:00:18
  the season, but you know that you're you're getting a good
• 1:00:20
  player in a Utah top six and he's, I would say like pretty
• 1:00:23
  tied to the success of this team, even though they've been.
• 1:00:26
  Slumping resolution lot. I just I'm pretty high on
• 1:00:28
  switch, which is crazy because I held him through the lows and
• 1:00:31
  then traded him right when he. Got his lows were literally a
• 1:00:34
  waiver wire. Like his roster percentage
• 1:00:35
  dropped to like 40%. Yeah, but now it's back up to
• 1:00:38
  like 65 or something. So yeah, which is not as high as
• 1:00:40
  you would want for a guy that you know, it was a 5 or 6 round
• 1:00:45
  pick. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:47
  Anyways, I'm going to sketch, but maybe not easy, right?
• 1:00:49
  I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend the the.
• 1:00:50
  Would you rather? Master, thank you.
• 1:00:52
  I'm gonna go with I'm yeah, I agree.
• 1:00:56
  I'm gonna go with Speechnow call but it's more of a referendum on
• 1:01:00
  schmaltz that being anything pro because the inconsistencies are.
• 1:01:05
  From but he said something positive about space.
• 1:01:07
  No, it's like, well, like because I mean it's look, I mean
• 1:01:10
  people have been listening to us know that we think the rod
• 1:01:14
  issues are real. And it's not that his new
• 1:01:17
  production is necessarily here to stay.
• 1:01:20
  It's really just Aho and Jarvis. These are the only two reliable
• 1:01:23
  guys on this team, and I guess this bear is creeping into that
• 1:01:27
  conversation, to be honest. Yeah, but it's really like it's
• 1:01:31
  just Ajo and Jarvis to me that I can expect consistencies.
• 1:01:34
  That being said, he should be there logically, and which is
• 1:01:39
  like a nice plus. But the real crux of it all is
• 1:01:42
  that we have enough of a sample size from Schmaltz to know that
• 1:01:45
  Schmaltz is a very good player for certain stretches of the
• 1:01:47
  season. And this is a fun offensive
• 1:01:50
  team, but to me it's just at least you have the base of the
• 1:01:54
  shots and the hits from Shenkuu V.
• 1:01:56
  So whether he is line 4 for you know, a week and sure it's a
• 1:02:00
  bummer to hold them through that, you'll still get overall
• 1:02:03
  better production when it's all said and done so.
• 1:02:06
  And I will say for his deployment, one thing that makes
• 1:02:10
  me think he's more likely to keep line one power play 1 is
• 1:02:12
  actually how well Elers has done on line 2.
• 1:02:15
  So that line 2 is really clicking.
• 1:02:17
  So there's no reason for Rod to want to promote one of them to
• 1:02:21
  bump stretch down and. Then we don't know like his he
• 1:02:25
  could get bumped down to line 3 and they could put somebody
• 1:02:27
  else, not healers like I don't know definitely.
• 1:02:30
  I think you lost the won't go to line to 1 because they like what
• 1:02:32
  he's doing on line 2. But it doesn't mean Splash won't
• 1:02:34
  get bumped down to line 3 or 4 for somebody.
• 1:02:36
  Else you're definitely in the realm of possibility.
• 1:02:38
  But like I think that makes it more likely that he keeps saying
• 1:02:41
  it's just fewer players who could dump him down because they
• 1:02:43
  like that line too. And then for power play 1, the
• 1:02:45
  power play started clicking once he kind of got put back onto it.
• 1:02:49
  I mean, it also helps that Gospel got healthy at the same
• 1:02:51
  time. But Switch has some power play
• 1:02:52
  goals in the past week or two and he's been a big asset to
• 1:02:55
  that power place. I really think that he's
• 1:02:57
  cemented his deployment. Yeah, he's a great playing.
• 1:02:59
  He's he's a great player. He has a tremendous ceiling.
• 1:03:01
  That's why he gets drafted so high.
• 1:03:03
  I will say like the hits have definitely decreased in recent
• 1:03:06
  years. Like you're not getting over two
• 1:03:07
  hits anymore. Like you're getting 11.5.
• 1:03:10
  That's kind of like his baseline now.
• 1:03:11
  But the thing with smells like I am also going to switch just
• 1:03:14
  because I think his archetype is more valuable and I think he has
• 1:03:17
  a higher ceiling. But I want to give small some
• 1:03:19
  credit because I think first of all, you can trade Nick schmaltz
• 1:03:21
  force fetch if you're in a I mean such as really hot right
• 1:03:24
  now. So if the manager is like
• 1:03:25
  looking at the last two weeks only, then it's going to be a
• 1:03:28
  crazy sample size. Bushmaster has been having
• 1:03:30
  success the whole season and I think Schmaltz has always been a
• 1:03:34
  like .8 type of player and like hovers between two and three
• 1:03:37
  shots, which is really good for a guy that usually doesn't get
• 1:03:40
  drafted in fantasy leagues. But he hasn't played on the Utah
• 1:03:43
  team with this much talent in a long time.
• 1:03:45
  So I'm expecting the baseline to be over .8.
• 1:03:47
  Like right now he's over a point per game.
• 1:03:49
  I don't think he get his point per game this season, but can he
• 1:03:51
  hit like point 9.95 with this deployment?
• 1:03:54
  Like I, I think he's a very safe player to have the fantasy
• 1:03:57
  decision and he's one of those guys at the game doesn't like
• 1:04:00
  the name value and like the production doesn't match.
• 1:04:02
  And those guys are good to have in fantasy because you can get
• 1:04:06
  better deals on them when you're trying to trade for them.
• 1:04:07
  So. Yeah.
• 1:04:09
  Yeah, I agreed. All right #3 talking defenseman
• 1:04:13
  now. Two guys that have been hot,
• 1:04:15
  hot, hot. Let's go with Josh Morrissey,
• 1:04:20
  arguably the hottest defenseman in the NHL right now.
• 1:04:23
  Or Adam. Fox type.
• 1:04:25
  And I'm not talking looks. I'm talking production, baby.
• 1:04:30
  OK, let's see what they've been doing.
• 1:04:32
  Yeah, my first instinct here and I'm gonna still have to ponder
• 1:04:38
  before I solidify it, but it's gonna be Morrissey because he,
• 1:04:43
  this is not like just one year like Morrison, excellent
• 1:04:47
  offensive defenseman and it's been years of this already.
• 1:04:50
  Last 14 days average you got 1.33 points to .71 for Fox.
• 1:04:54
  Obviously that's huge .67 power play points, which is
• 1:04:57
  unsustainable. 6/7. Alright.
• 1:05:02
  OK. But essentially, like I, I just
• 1:05:07
  think like with the blocks probably being safer as well to
• 1:05:11
  me, that this one and the Adam Fox name is a little flashier,
• 1:05:15
  but I'm gonna go with Morrissey. I'm also going more see I am a
• 1:05:21
  certified Rangers hater now. I've been converted.
• 1:05:24
  How was it was it was pretty GTA.
• 1:05:26
  All it took was owning JT for so long in the season and
• 1:05:29
  Lafreniere and it was a miserable experience.
• 1:05:32
  I do think Trocheck coming back has revitalized the team, but I
• 1:05:36
  think Fox's ceiling is what Morrisseys like.
• 1:05:39
  Not floor, but like, like Fox, you wish he's doing what more
• 1:05:42
  he's doing now. Obviously more he's going to
• 1:05:43
  slow down and I could see Fox picking it up.
• 1:05:46
  But I think that best case for Fox is they meet in the middle,
• 1:05:49
  Morrissey blocks more Fox like shoots a little bit more so far,
• 1:05:52
  but I don't see that being a big difference.
• 1:05:54
  So I don't see why you would pick Fox when you have like the
• 1:05:58
  more stable like sure thing and more see for the same market
• 1:06:02
  type of player. Come, let me ask you a question
• 1:06:04
  that's gonna maybe shed some clarity on the situation and
• 1:06:07
  make you guys reevaluate your pics, OK?
• 1:06:10
  Let me tell you why you're wrong.
• 1:06:11
  What was Who had the best power play in the NHL last season?
• 1:06:15
  Winnipeg. OK.
• 1:06:16
  Who was the probably quarterback for Winnipeg?
• 1:06:18
  Morrissey. Yes.
• 1:06:20
  OK, how many points did 2 Morsi average last season?
• 1:06:23
  Let me check. You let me help you was he was a
• 1:06:26
  .78 points per season points per game last season.
• 1:06:30
  OK .28 power play points. What do you think?
• 1:06:33
  Fox average last season? .82.
• 1:06:36
  Yeah. Is that more?
• 1:06:37
  More than it? Yes.
• 1:06:40
  So I'm just saying that if you're looking at mass
• 1:06:42
  production, he was already on the best power play in the
• 1:06:45
  league and the average .8 points per game.
• 1:06:47
  And Fox averaged slightly more on a Rangers team that was
• 1:06:51
  abysmal. Right now, yes, he's averaging
• 1:06:54
  1.2 points per game over the last few weeks.
• 1:06:57
  But is that sustainable? We, I remember early in the
• 1:06:59
  season when Josh Morrissey was getting zeros for like weeks and
• 1:07:02
  people were worried like, but now the fact that he's super hot
• 1:07:05
  is like, OK, we're we're set. I think Fox is just one of those
• 1:07:08
  names that you know you're going to get.
• 1:07:09
  I think the floor is .8. I think now that the Rangers are
• 1:07:12
  clicking, we can see a ceiling that we haven't seen yet.
• 1:07:15
  He can be a point per game defenseman.
• 1:07:16
  I don't think Morris will end the season as a point per game
• 1:07:18
  defenseman. I just don't like I know we all
• 1:07:21
  were all thinking like, oh, church came back and the Rangers
• 1:07:24
  all of a sudden learned how to not get shut out at home every
• 1:07:26
  time, you know, like the bar was so low.
• 1:07:28
  Like, yes, they had a couple of good games and I do think
• 1:07:30
  trocheck makes team a lot better, but I don't think that
• 1:07:33
  guarantees that all of a sudden all their issues are fixed and
• 1:07:35
  they're gonna be the wagon that, you know, we we kind of hope
• 1:07:38
  that they would be this year. So I I think that Morris is just
• 1:07:41
  a safer bet. He's obviously not going to keep
• 1:07:43
  the he's doing right now, but he's just on a lot better team,
• 1:07:46
  I think, and he has that power play was first in the league for
• 1:07:49
  a reason last year and they replaced dealers with Profeti.
• 1:07:51
  I don't think that's a big downgrade.
• 1:07:52
  I think that they should still be a super hot probably this
• 1:07:55
  year, whereas Rangers are struggling.
• 1:07:57
  I mean, no shade to Will Cooley, but if he's, if he's on your
• 1:08:00
  power plate, you know, versus like.
• 1:08:02
  Making it work. No, he look, I actually think
• 1:08:05
  he's a really good player, but like, that's not the necessarily
• 1:08:08
  like seal of excellence I'm looking for when I'm making a
• 1:08:11
  bet on who's going to be better. Is anybody willing to be your
• 1:08:13
  bet me for rest of season points between these two these two
• 1:08:16
  defensemen 'cause I'm on the Atom Fox side?
• 1:08:18
  Yeah, I would be right you. Rest of season as of today, who
• 1:08:21
  gets more points between now and the rest of the season?
• 1:08:24
  I assume they have similar games played to make it.
• 1:08:27
  There actually haven't tracked exactly, I just thought of this
• 1:08:29
  right now but. Yeah.
• 1:08:31
  Yeah, at the time, Josh Morrissey has played eighteen
• 1:08:34
  games. Adam Fox has played 20.
• 1:08:37
  OK, I'm down. OK.
• 1:08:40
  I'll call the rest of season points per game pays.
• 1:08:43
  Sure, we could do that. If you wanna do the math on the
• 1:08:46
  on the date and all that stuff, I'll do the math.
• 1:08:48
  OK, cool. Alright, lock it in.
• 1:08:50
  Jake, you don't want any part of this.
• 1:08:54
  Alright, so. Is this is this our first beer
• 1:08:56
  bit of the in season or? But we haven't had one in like
• 1:09:00
  over a month. So like, yeah.
• 1:09:02
  Baby. Oh.
• 1:09:03
  Yeah, alright. So Kevin Betts, Josh dot, Adam
• 1:09:06
  Fox has a better points per game pace between now and the rest of
• 1:09:09
  the season. Yeah, dating this back to
• 1:09:11
  November 17th. Yeah.
• 1:09:13
  OK. Let's move on to the next one.
• 1:09:14
  I think we should. Try.
• 1:09:15
  Yeah, we gotta wrap this up. We're running long on time, but
• 1:09:18
  we're talking centres right now. Baby.
• 1:09:22
  The one of the hottest names in the league.
• 1:09:25
  Also one of the most attractive players in the league, Suzuki.
• 1:09:29
  True. No Homer bias or Leo Carlson
• 1:09:33
  rest of season. That's a Suzuki for me and I
• 1:09:37
  know that Carlson literally like ranking Cousins little ranking
• 1:09:40
  number one in our league or has been for like a while.
• 1:09:43
  And look, I'm assuming that assuming that Suzuki could
• 1:09:47
  either get healthy while playing through this injury, that we.
• 1:09:50
  Think he has? Or yeah, yeah, like I do think
• 1:09:53
  that's slowing him down though. I mean, he literally had a quote
• 1:09:55
  being like, I don't need to be the fastest to still, like,
• 1:09:57
  produce out there, you know? So I think like he is being like
• 1:09:59
  hindered a bit by injury, but like you said, he still could
• 1:10:01
  power through it. It's just that Leo Carlson is
• 1:10:04
  such a cell high for me that you drafted Leo Carlson at like in
• 1:10:08
  like around like 1415. Suzuki was drafted second round
• 1:10:11
  in our league and I think that's a fair spot for him.
• 1:10:13
  So obviously, like a certain point in the season, who cares
• 1:10:17
  where someone got drafted? It's just about the value.
• 1:10:19
  But I just think Leo Carlson is playing out of his mind and it's
• 1:10:21
  not sustainable, whereas Suzuki, what he's doing, I think is
• 1:10:24
  sustainable. OK, I'm, I'm not as quick to get
• 1:10:29
  to the results as you are, and mainly because, you know, like
• 1:10:35
  just Leo Carlson's been absolute insane.
• 1:10:38
  If Leo Carlson has one fan, it's me.
• 1:10:40
  If Leo Carlson have no fan, it's because I'm dead.
• 1:10:45
  That is great. What if you had to save Nick,
• 1:10:47
  Suzuki and Leo? Carlson Hell, you put it this
• 1:10:50
  way. It's, you know, he's ranked so
• 1:10:55
  high, I would say mainly because his Pimms have been kind of
• 1:10:58
  crazy for some reason and his shorthanded points.
• 1:11:01
  So in our league, that does carry a lot of value.
• 1:11:04
  Yeah, not holding anything against like that, 1.4 points
• 1:11:06
  per game or anything like that. No, no.
• 1:11:08
  But that's why this one. Yeah.
• 1:11:10
  Yeah, you know what I mean. Like they're completely correct.
• 1:11:12
  Something that something that's insane to see 2.71 Pimms.
• 1:11:16
  Like what the heck is he? The game is called Doctor feels
• 1:11:20
  like. Yeah, and he still producing at.
• 1:11:22
  This does it all. Anyway, to me, to me it's
• 1:11:25
  extremely close because of Suzukis injury issue.
• 1:11:30
  If that maintains like that's a big problem because the Habs
• 1:11:35
  have like 0 depth right now it seems with all the injuries we
• 1:11:38
  spoke about. So I don't really know how
• 1:11:41
  that's going to go. I'm still going to go Suzuki.
• 1:11:43
  It's much safer bet he's he has like a better track record in
• 1:11:47
  his career because you know, Carlson, it's it's his sophomore
• 1:11:49
  year, 3rd year. But hmm, yeah, I mean, it's,
• 1:11:54
  it's closer to me, Josh. No, no, it's super close.
• 1:11:58
  I'm just, I think that's just Suzuki is so, so good and I
• 1:12:01
  think Carlson's really good. But just honestly, when I see
• 1:12:03
  someone forming that well, it sketches me out if that person's
• 1:12:06
  name is not McKinnon or McDavid or like Kucherov, I'm like, OK,
• 1:12:10
  I mean, he's unsustainable. He's gonna come back down to
• 1:12:12
  Earth, but it's like, where is Earth?
• 1:12:14
  You know, like is, is it Nick Suzuki or is it crazy or is it
• 1:12:19
  chiefly or, you know, where's, where's the line for Leo
• 1:12:22
  Carlson? That's kind of like the goal.
• 1:12:24
  Here so you gotta protect. Suzuki, Kevin.
• 1:12:28
  I, I think I, I mean, listen, if as we record this tomorrow, Nick
• 1:12:32
  Suzuki is missing time, like I'll change my decision.
• 1:12:34
  But right now it's, it's gotta be nicer to you, I think in a
• 1:12:36
  Trader Joe's Mitsuki plus. Yeah.
• 1:12:38
  So I think. That's and I will try to do
• 1:12:40
  that. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:12:41
  Obviously has to be healthy at the time that you're listening
• 1:12:43
  to this for that answers all. Right.
• 1:12:45
  Let's quickly wrap this up with the goalie position.
• 1:12:48
  I want to provide some context here as well, but would you
• 1:12:50
  rather the best goalie in the league, Yaroslav Askarov?
• 1:12:55
  He knew he carries this putting his own guys are performing
• 1:12:58
  well. Or Philip Gustafson of the
• 1:13:04
  Minnesota Wild, who is playing ahead of a yes for Walston,
• 1:13:08
  who's got back-to-back shutouts as a rookie.
• 1:13:10
  Yeah. Is there gonna be a single thing
• 1:13:13
  that Jake is wrong about this year?
• 1:13:15
  Yeah. Like, he's like rookies.
• 1:13:18
  This is a weird year, OK. Like I've never seen so many
• 1:13:21
  rookies. Not only just like.
• 1:13:22
  To be right so many times, you gonna say?
• 1:13:25
  Yeah, no, so many of these like young, like, not to say rookies,
• 1:13:27
  like let's say like year 2 guys just come out of nowhere and not
• 1:13:30
  just be like way better than they were the year before, but
• 1:13:33
  be like the best players in the league.
• 1:13:34
  Like I've never, I've never seen this happen with so many
• 1:13:37
  players. You're looking at like Carlson,
• 1:13:38
  Sabrina, I like Bedard coming out of there now, like walking
• 1:13:41
  back to Buckshot his cutter go. Yeah, like where where did this
• 1:13:44
  come from? Right.
• 1:13:44
  Like maybe it was a couple trades happening.
• 1:13:46
  I don't know, Like, yeah, like it's crazy.
• 1:13:49
  It's it's really exciting. It's a, it's a fun time for the
• 1:13:51
  league. It's tough for me because I
• 1:13:53
  usually tend to draft more conservatively and avoid the
• 1:13:55
  unknowns like that. But no, it's super, super
• 1:13:59
  interesting. Yeah, I it's funny because I was
• 1:14:04
  like looking at the standings and the Sharks are not doing
• 1:14:06
  very well. They're second to last, but
• 1:14:07
  they're basically like one win away from this central.
• 1:14:11
  In the water recently. Or, sorry, this is the Pacific.
• 1:14:13
  Yeah, there's a very close division, so I'm gonna take full
• 1:14:19
  credit for saying that the Sharks are going to be decent.
• 1:14:21
  So thank you guys on that. But I will say that Phillip
• 1:14:23
  Josephson was my Week 5 by low. I maintain that Gustafson is
• 1:14:28
  going to be the starter for the duration of the season.
• 1:14:30
  That being said, I think I believe in the Sharks to make to
• 1:14:36
  be a decent team. I'm gonna go ask her all.
• 1:14:39
  I'm gonna go ask her all over there.
• 1:14:42
  So crazy. Yeah, I will say I screw up does
• 1:14:45
  not have a wall stud problem. I disagree actually.
• 1:14:49
  I think that net is a serious concern for me in making this
• 1:14:52
  decision because the reason Askarov got all those starts in
• 1:14:55
  a row is because Ned had a personal leave but now need's
• 1:14:57
  coming back. Obviously ASK played out of his
• 1:14:59
  mind so you think that he would just run away with it, but
• 1:15:01
  that's not always how it works in practice, right?
• 1:15:03
  Like I wouldn't be surprised if they go back to alternating, um,
• 1:15:06
  the fact you're. Seeing the two stars, one star,
• 1:15:08
  two stars, one star type of situation, which is not the
• 1:15:10
  worst either. It's not the worst, but I don't
• 1:15:12
  think it's even a guarantee. Like I said, I know After has
• 1:15:14
  been nuts and if we were to coach, we'd be like, yeah, take
• 1:15:16
  all the starts, you know, like, I think there's definitely
• 1:15:19
  something to be said for that. Let me take a quick look at what
• 1:15:21
  Gus has been up to, regardless of the Walstead stuff.
• 1:15:23
  Yeah. I like both of them by the way,
• 1:15:27
  but I. Think, I think I've still gotta
• 1:15:30
  go with the Gustafson does wanna.
• 1:15:33
  I don't think that whilst that's going to take the job looking
• 1:15:36
  like I thought that originally I was like, well, back-to-back
• 1:15:38
  shutouts, that's something here, you know.
• 1:15:40
  But then just looking at Justin's been doing, he hasn't
• 1:15:43
  been bad. Like he was a good buyer like he
• 1:15:44
  said, and then he's been stringing together some good
• 1:15:46
  starts and I was the lowest on Minnesota out of all of us.
• 1:15:48
  But I'm like even lower on the Sharks, even with how fun
• 1:15:51
  they've been. I just don't think like I don't
• 1:15:53
  understand how this defence isn't letting in like 6 goals a
• 1:15:57
  game. And I know ASK was a big part of
• 1:15:58
  that. Like he's been really, really
• 1:15:59
  good. But to me, I just see that as
• 1:16:01
  like a room for regression. I just don't see how like who's
• 1:16:05
  their best defenseman? Like, I mean clinging scratch,
• 1:16:07
  not that he's defensive like your love or love and you have
• 1:16:10
  Super Mario Ferraro, you know, like I love obviously, but like
• 1:16:13
  I just don't believe in that in that in that defenseman core at
• 1:16:16
  all. So it's not because I also in
• 1:16:18
  the offseason said I don't believe in Minnesota's defence
• 1:16:20
  court at all. But I think I just got to go
• 1:16:23
  with the more, the more kind of safer bed of Gustafson.
• 1:16:27
  How about you? I'm obviously going to ask her.
• 1:16:30
  I'm going to ask her. I'll be home around here.
• 1:16:33
  He is saved by goalie, my goalie position for my for my team.
• 1:16:36
  So I have to put the I have to put some stock in that.
• 1:16:39
  But but I'm just saying, I feel like ask Rob's floor is higher
• 1:16:44
  than Gus's floor right now. Like I've seen Gus have mixed
• 1:16:47
  performances and like, yes, maybe Jasper is not ready to be
• 1:16:51
  like the the starting all games goalie for this team right now,
• 1:16:55
  but he's definitely putting some pressure on a situation.
• 1:16:57
  And if Gus falters, will have 0 hesitation to just go with with
• 1:17:01
  a Walstead moving forward or give him a string of games.
• 1:17:04
  Whereas I think Askerov can struggle.
• 1:17:07
  And I don't think Nadel Kamich is an exceptional goalie.
• 1:17:10
  We've seen him be like honestly terrible in in recent years.
• 1:17:14
  He he was like this year, yeah, he's been good this year.
• 1:17:16
  So it's making me think like, maybe there's something about
• 1:17:19
  the the Sharks that, you know, is helping these goalies out a
• 1:17:22
  little bit. I have no idea.
• 1:17:23
  But I do think Ask Rob is better than Ned.
• 1:17:26
  I think Askerov is the goalie of the future.
• 1:17:28
  And I think right now he's in the 1A were so I feel like the
• 1:17:32
  situation is better for him, Whereas Gus, I feel like at any
• 1:17:35
  moment, like Walt said, can just like develop and be the guy and
• 1:17:38
  they'll roll with him so. I think it's.
• 1:17:41
  Nothing is likely. I'm just saying it's like it's
• 1:17:43
  part of the risk that I'm banking.
• 1:17:45
  Into it I just think that the net risk is bigger this season
• 1:17:48
  at least than the walls at risk but but I think it's fair to
• 1:17:51
  have the European as well, especially with hot ass girl has
• 1:17:53
  been and he's been on your team so you've been experiencing all
• 1:17:56
  that joy it's. Very, I'm not saying nothing's
• 1:17:59
  gonna be like get all the stars. Like I can see this be like he
• 1:18:02
  gets 2 minimum two games every week pretty much is kind of how
• 1:18:05
  I'm viewing the situation. Whereas I can see Gus be like a
• 1:18:08
  guy that like at some point can be a minimum one game.
• 1:18:11
  And Minnesota isn't necessarily the best team this year either,
• 1:18:13
  right? So.
• 1:18:14
  Yeah, called it. Alright, that's true for asker
• 1:18:18
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• 1:18:23
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• 1:18:26
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• 1:18:28
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• 1:18:33
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• 1:18:35
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• 1:18:37
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