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Week 14 News & Updates + Monahan hurt? + Askarov Starter? | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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But about my own banger management fantasy hockey
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podcast. Woo woo, that was indeed not
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Josh on the mic. That was not Josh on the mic.
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Welcome into Bangor Management, the fantasy hockey podcast with
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your favorite host, Jake. And Josh is not here and Kevork
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Unmistakably Kevorkian. So yeah, Josh.
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Josh ditched again. Josh Josh is doing a lot of
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ditching lately, but we'll welcome him back with open arms
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when he once he gets back, if that ever happens, right, Josh?
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You change your tone. I like it.
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Trying to be nicer but I'll slip in some jobs here and there.
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Love it. So yeah, today we're gonna be
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doing our news and updates episode for week 14 of the
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We really appreciate it. So let us get into the tidbits.
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The famous tidbits. Some call these news stories.
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We still don't know how tidbits came into play.
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But it had to be one of us. It wasn't anybody else so can
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figure it out. It was probably me to be honest.
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It was calling me but. I'm almost certain it was not me
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I lolly gagging and tidbits were not a part of.
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My vocabulary I'm logging the. You're lollygagging, that's for
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sure. Maybe let's do Josh's tidbits.
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Just admits but we have a lot of injuries this week again.
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Tons, tons. I, I think it's all Josh's
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fault. Josh isn't here.
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Injuries happen. To be fair, there was more
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injuries last week and Josh was here last week, so I don't wanna
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put all the blame on him. Josh, I got your back.
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But listen, maybe you, maybe you're, maybe you're onto
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something. Yeah, the the players agents
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need to coordinate with you moving forward, Josh, because
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clearly something's going on here.
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But yeah, anyhow, so we have Sean Monahan injured, which
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sucks. He is in a wrist brace.
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It's still ambiguous. And Chantilly would be the
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pickup for the potential 1C spot.
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Yeah, I think this was, I didn't get the chance to fully deep
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dive into what the injury exactly was like.
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I don't know how much time is gonna miss, but from what I did
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see, Columbus did recall a centre from the AHL.
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So if they're recalling a player, that kind of means that
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Monahan's gonna miss some kind of time.
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We just don't know how long yet. He was in a wrist brace, so
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that's not good news for a centre.
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I mean you're taking face offs and the risk is integral.
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So monitor that. But I think that once these spot
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obviously is up for grabs, I think Fantilli would be a option
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there. If you're gonna make a
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speculative ad before the news breaks and you want to get ahead
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of the curve, that's probably the guy.
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I would add they have other options, like even Voronkov
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could play centre, they could play cylinder there.
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So there are options. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't say
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fantasy is the guaranteed #1 but he's a great guy to speculative
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ad. I would say just monitor the
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situation and see what happens with that top line.
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Yeah, I think they called up Luca Del Bell Blues.
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What a name. I would not add him if there was
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a question. Yeah, he he's playing third
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line, so not fantasy relevant at all right now, but it's one of
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those things that you're like, whoa, what a name.
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And then next year at this time we're talking about him.
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He's like a point per game player, rookie of the year
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candidate, so. You'd be shocked, but maybe.
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Yeah, but mainly on Fantilli. Clearly he's the only one who
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really benefits here. Now he's going to be slotted
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between two guys who have been on fire.
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I don't know if he speaks Russian, as we clearly know Sean
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Monahan does, but at this stage, yeah, I mean, Monahan's been
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good for them. So kind of sucks.
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But this team is red hot and they have been honestly for most
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of the year. So given the fact that he's
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gonna play on the power play one, I think it's really good
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for his fantasy potential. Super highly touted rookie also.
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So yeah, definitely keep Ben Tilly, keep a close eye on him
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and maybe you can speculate about, as you mentioned, Kevin
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Cool and Stamkos is hurt, Will Ryan, Carly be on line one
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moving forward? Yeah, we didn't monitor the
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situation as well, but he left the game.
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He left last game with an injury.
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So we haven't really had any updates yet if he's gonna miss
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any time or not. But if he is going to miss time,
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I'd expect Ryan O'Reilly to slot into that one that one sees spot
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right away and maybe even get a look on the 1st power place and
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see already lost the spot to Gustav Nyquist.
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That's the only fantasy implications.
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I would say that second line gets extremely less enticing
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with Ryan O'Reilly off of it because he's been a little bit
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on a heater, right? Maybe the first line also takes
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a little bit of a dip because it was only really productive when
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it was at Trio, Forsberg, Stamkos at March or so.
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So I definitely keep an eye on that.
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They've been red hot as of late anyways, so maybe this kind of
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slows them down a little bit. But yeah, just keep monitoring
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the Samco situation and see if he misses any time.
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I'd add Ryan O'Reilly, who's only added he's only rostered in
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like 30-30 something percent of leagues.
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He'd be a straight up AD but as time doesn't miss any time then
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moot point. So what I think about this
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actually is that because O'reilly's been so good, you
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know, playing with these guys on the second line, it wouldn't be
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a shock to me if they tried to do fitters Peshkov, not
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Sveshnikov Peshkov because he's had limited opportunity, but
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he's been pretty good. So if he gets to play Eshb with
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Forsberg or Mars or so truly whichever 1 it gets to play with
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those two, you'd want to definitely add them because.
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He'd be good and deep leaks too because he's like 0% owned
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pretty much. Exactly like literally 0%.
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So keep an eye on that because whoever slots on that line 1 and
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as far as you mentioned, Kevin for O'Reilly going on the power
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play one, I think that's the obvious next step.
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So hopefully that does happen. If that's the case, we'll see
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how it gets juggled around. Maybe 4 spook would slot at the
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point where Stamkos is now or are these obviously their face
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off guy? So there could be could be
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positive fantasy implications for both O'Reilly and I would
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say Sfgov over like Tommy Novak for instance, so.
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Yeah, I think Tommy Novak also dealing with his own injuries.
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So there's that. But yeah, we should go to the
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next point. Yeah, then you got John Gibson
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heating up as he gonna get more starts as we get closer to the
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trade deadline. I don't think that that would
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change his. I don't think that his usage is
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going to change the stalls when really good all season.
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Like, I know it's obvious that the Ducks aren't a playoff team
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and that at this stage we can pretty much expect like, you
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know, it's gonna be sort of a tandem.
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But no, I mean, if anything, I think they also want to develop
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the stall. They've got a super young team.
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So I think it's going to be more of a ton of moving forward.
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I've definitely said to keep an eye on the situation because
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they've been alternating starts basically one for one.
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But Gibson lately got two games in a row.
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So I definitely something to monitor as well as the goalie
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market heating up because a lot of goalies are not in play in
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the trade on the trade deadline anymore.
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The Ducks, obviously Gibson is one of the biggest names there.
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And from what I've heard listening to, you know, insiders
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and whatnot, the time is looking for a big deal for Gibson.
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They're kind of asking for more than what teams are willing to
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pay. But as we get closer to that
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deadline, I think people get more and more desperate.
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They might get their price or they may drop their price a
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little bit because I think Gibson really wants a move to a
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team that is a contender so he can show that he still has it in
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him to, you know, compete at the highest level and bring a
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championship to a team. So I think he's the biggest name
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on the goalie market right now in terms of potential trade
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asset. So I would not be surprised if,
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you know, I'm kind of slowly maybe gives them the odd game in
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a row instead of giving them to distal just as we as we ramp up
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towards the trade deadline to make him more valuable and
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remind teams that he's a good goalie.
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Yeah, if he does get traded, would you think Dostal is like a
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must add? I know it's a few months.
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Away I mean Dostal is already he's in that type of category of
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goalie where it's like bad team but decent volume.
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The fact is now he has lost a significant amount of volume
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because obviously Gibson is getting basically 50% of the
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starts. But if he's getting was the
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volume that he's he's a must add.
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Like he's in that range of, you know, like a mountain bow or
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potentially like a biddington or a team that's probably not gonna
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make the playoffs, maybe makes a push can with the on game.
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But you're getting like 75% of the starts as a goalie for your
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fantasy team. And that's valuable in a lot of
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leagues. Yeah, exactly.
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There's the goalie of the future.
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That's why I don't think. I mean, yeah, you're right.
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If he does go to a team, Gibson, then of course the still is
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going to slot in. But for now, I still think it's
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going to be a tandem moving forward, but we'll just see what
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happens. So next we got Brock Faber is
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hurt. You got to keep an eye on who's
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going to get the P1 spot as a defenseman there.
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Spurgeon is also still hurt, so it could be a Brodine or a
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Chisholm. I'd be more interested.
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I think both of us would be more interested if it's broadened.
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Brodie's been pretty quietly good as an offensive defence in
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the past few years. Yeah, I mean, he's on a little
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bit of a point streak right now, kind of quietly, but he's he's
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mainly known as a block guy. I think a lot of Minnesota has a
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kind of some block specialists back in their decor, but he's
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one of those guys that can play like above 30 minutes a night.
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We just saw it last game when Faber got hurt, Brilliant played
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33 minutes. So if he's gonna play that
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amount of time and he's going to be on PP1, you're just expecting
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his peripherals to kind of skyrocket because it's gonna be
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on the ice so much. He's already so good at blocks.
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If you can, if you can chip in with maybe an extra, an extra
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hit a game or an extra shot. But getting exposure to that top
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line on the power play, I mean, that's he would be an instant
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ad. The only thing is that he's not
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really a power play specialist. So if he does get that
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opportunity, it's nice, but I wouldn't expect it to be, let's
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say, a mainstay without contention.
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But listen, he's worth A speculative at that point to see
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maybe you have some gold on the waiver wire there.
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Yeah, well said. Keep an eye out.
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Keep an eye for him. Did you put this next headline
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to confuse me because I have no idea how to pronounce his name?
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I've been doing fantasy hockey for years.
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I'll give it a try. I think it's grizzly.
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I think it's Chris look. I think that's how you pronounce
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it. But I mean, we gotta better get
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used to it if he's gonna be the one quarterback for the
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Pittsburgh Penguins. Way so, yeah, so grizzly, if
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that even is your name, Cracked power play one quarterback ahead
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of Carlson and Letang. If this sticks.
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He is a great pickup as a PowerPoint 1 defenseman for the
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Penguins that yeah, they're power plays been super hot
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lately. The only thing I'll say about
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this is that during his tenure for the Bruins, he did crack
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power play one and he was a mainstay there.
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Over above McAvoy at the time, right?
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Exactly, and while I like it for points leagues, especially
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because, you know, you're playing with Crosby on the power
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play, good things are gonna happen.
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However, I will say that it's worth mentioning that he's
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pretty one-dimensional for its entire career, so this is more
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relevant for points leagues. To me that's absolutely
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definitely more relevant for points leagues.
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I also wouldn't be shocked if by the time you're listening to
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this, he doesn't get the opportunity on P1 anymore.
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But at the time of this recording, it was the first time
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he ever practiced on PP1 ahead of Letang Carlson.
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And that's kind of tricky because they have three guys
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that can kind of quarterback a top unit.
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Like we've seen Letang do it his whole career there.
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Carlson obviously had a breakout year and then was the power play
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quarterback for most of the year this year.
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But now kind of they kind of split their power plants in two
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and have had a lot of success. They've slowly started to
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consolidate back onto 1 unit and Grizzly was practicing their
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this morning. So if you see a next game, he's
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over there and he's contributing.
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I mean, in points leagues, really deep points leagues, I
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would most definitely add him because you're not really
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getting the opportunity to stache power play one defenseman
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very often. But like I said, you gotta
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monitor the situation because I wouldn't be surprised if, you
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know, they just give it back to Carlson or whatnot.
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Well said. Then you've got Yaroslav
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Askarov. Is he the clear starter moving
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forward? So I picked him up in our main
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league and I'm very excited about this.
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Do you think the San Jose has like the rather sorry.
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Do these San Jose charter? Those are.
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There's only one thing and it's the the.
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Utah don't don't suspect them like that.
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Jo San Jose Sharks, I think the the starter for that team does
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not necessarily have a lot of value moving forward, although
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he has been elite, like his percentages over the past three
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games that he's played, which small sample size, but over 930
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is a save percentage for a goalie of that draft pedigree.
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I mean, this is like the next Vasilevsky conversation guy.
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I mean, it's not there yet and won't be there this year.
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But if the Sharks ever end up, you know, as a force moving
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forward, he's clearly their goalie of the future.
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Past three games is 938960 and 933 save percentage.
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And then, yeah, he's been nuts. A dud before that and then a
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929. So yeah, four out of his 5
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starts for them has been over a 929.
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Like that's wild to. Me, I mean, listen, San Jose is
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not one of the best teams. They're they're not a playoff
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team that I'm close to that so bad.
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So they're actually fun, but they're inconsistent.
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Exactly, they're fun team but you can't really expect many
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wins from them right? So that already hinders your
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ceiling as a fantasy only. The thing is obviously, like you
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just explained, like he's a super highly touted prospect.
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I think Nashville is crazy to get rid of him, but he's finally
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getting an opportunity. And I mean, they just traded for
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Georgiev, right? So that was supposed to be their
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quote UN quote starter, but Askarov has been outplaying him
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and has what, three starts in a row now?
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So he's only 20% owned in Yahoo leagues if he's available.
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And he's like a mainstay starter.
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Like I don't see why he's not as just as good as some of those
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goalies on other teams that are kind of like middling non
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playoff teams as well that are getting the bulk of the starts.
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So I put them in that conversation immediately, like
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Tristan Jarry and Montebello, that kind of thing.
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But clearly he's able to produce some really quality starts.
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And if that's the case, I mean, he's only 20 that on right now,
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that will be the time to scoop him right Them all.
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He's hot. Play the matchups if you can.
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And it definitely just adds another goalie into the fantasy
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conversation because I think it's way better than you have,
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if I'm being honest. Yeah, he absolutely is.
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And like I have Askarov and Jerry on my team.
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If I had to get rid of them for like 1 for whatever reason, I
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would rather keep ask her of moving forward so.
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Now more suit. Totally unbiased opinion, and I
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think that that's kind of where we're at with that quick little
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thing. I don't know why these teams
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like Florida and Nashville draft goalies so high if they have
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Bobrovsky and Sara's. Already like it, I mean it's
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like a contingency option. You want to have the next guy
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up, but then those guys end up playing like way longer.
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I mean, Bob, like we thought he was done right.
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And then he kind of revived his career.
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And I mean, Spencer Knight had his own fair share of off the
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ice issues and the asker of one. That's kind of perplexing too.
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I think. I honestly thought they trace
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arrows, but then they reassigned them.
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So that was just like a seal faded for us not really getting
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an opportunity there to be a starter anymore.
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Anyways, we should talk about this next goal.
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First place, Yeah. Great game.
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Sorry, Great game. Great name.
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Jacob Dobes. Jacob Dobbs.
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I guess it's. Called YouTube.
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I don't know. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's been.
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He's been good. He's looked great for them.
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He's been better than Montalbo. 44 Montreal Canadians Yeah, he's
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I mean, he's been really good. He got a shutout in his first
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start and he's been nothing but solid.
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I think this is my this is my perspective on it.
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I think they were looking for another guy that they're able to
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give some starts to take the load off of Monty's shoulders
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because months literally playing every game and that takes a toll
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on the goalie and they've found some really good quality in
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those. Primo was the backup and he was
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the one being an alternative option.
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And he was so bad, he didn't even get claimed on waivers in a
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league where so many teams are scrambling for a second goalie.
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So that is kind of goes to show what the outlook was on him.
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I think Dobby has shown a lot of promise.
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He's only had a few games. But if you're in a really,
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really deep league and you need one start a week, I think he
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could be an option. I mean, the Habs are on a roll
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right now. They're in a wild card spot
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right now. Like, that's crazy.
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I did not expect to have to be anywhere close to that this
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year. So, I mean, just monitor.
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Yeah, you did. You clearly did.
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You have proof. You have recorded evidence.
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I totally have proof. Everyone thought I was crazy.
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I knew that the Habs. We'll have to see how it goes,
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but yeah, the Habs have been clearly way better than expected
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as of late, so if that's the case then he's gonna have a
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better chance than not to get some wins.
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Like keep an eye on him, especially if you're a goalie.
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Need fantasy team? Like Kevin said, what Jobs is
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good for right now is like a star of the week type thing.
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One quick thing with goalies, the way that it works really in
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the NHL is that once they like you know, they see you play a
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few games, they know your weaknesses, this and that.
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Teams are going to start picking blocker side or glove side,
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depending for sure weaknesses. So, you know, ride the hot hand
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for now, but definitely don't get too attached.
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If you pick him up and he has another few good games, of
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course, it's hard to drop him if he continues this ridiculously
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good pace. But at the moment, speculative,
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yeah, Monty is still the starter.
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It's clear. I really only add him if you're
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in a really deep league. You need goalies on your roster
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and let's say the waiver wire is really, really empty with with
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options. Like if you if the jar jar,
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he'll say Yari, the Jari, the Askerov options are not even on
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waivers. Then I think Doves is kind of
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like one of those guys that you next man up you wanna pick up.
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But if you have a lot of options on waivers, I wouldn't.
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I wouldn't take A chance on this just yet, but it is worth
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monitoring because his quality has been really good and maybe
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like to have is kind of like give him some of the hot hand.
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Jacob Dobbs versus Jacob Fowler What's Jacob is going to be the
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goalie of the future? Fowler is the future.
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We'll see. All right then, you got Jonathan
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Droid in the top six and Power Play 1.
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He is widely available and should be rostered, but he's
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super duper injury prone and he gives missing time this year.
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It's hard to draw even if your league doesn't have an R Plus.
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I'll just quickly mention that at the time of his record, this
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recording, he sat out his most recent.
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Game worthy applauds heard again.
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Yeah, it's tough. It's tough.
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The thing is when you're healthy and you're playing with Nathan
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McKinnon on line 1 and on PU one like that's just such a hard
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player to drop, right, Because we don't have ceiling is so high
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when you're when you're being exposed to that kind of
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deployment. But if you're league doesn't
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have an IR plus and he's just gonna be an empty spot on your
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bench, it's tough. Like if these are worst player,
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I would say like I'd be open to dropping.
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But if you know that somebody else would scoop me immediately
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given your waiver situation, then I would try to try to hold
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them. But it's hard.
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Yeah, it is. It is.
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You're right, though. I mean, that ceiling is awesome.
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Not his back. Cats aren't great, but for
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points league it's tough. Yeah, you definitely.
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I mean for an IR plus league it's that's a huge.
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Advantage IR plus not in conversation you just you just
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hold them there. Yeah, and if I don't even know,
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if your league doesn't have that, I'd probably drop them to
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be honest, because it's just going to be too inconsistent.
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But like you said, it's a good plan.
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And last but not least, the Detroit power play under
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McClellan who was supposed to be a defensive minded coach from
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what I understood. But anyway they're doing so well
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it seems to have revived Kanes value.
20:39
Is this sustainable? Maybe look to sell the Detroit
20:42
guys before the honeymoon phase is over.
20:44
I mean, there there over the last 20 power plays, they have
20:47
like 10 goals. So that's just their power is
20:50
working at a 50% rate right now, which is just insane.
20:54
A lot of their fantasy assets, the main fantasy guys on Detroit
20:56
have really benefited from this. You don't really know where the
21:00
line draw the line. Where is it a new coach bump?
21:03
Like how high is the bump? Where does it the bar settle at?
21:09
But I think right now it's honestly really good opportunity
21:11
to sell kind of those fringe guys that have the value.
21:13
I think Kane is one of those, one of those names where, you
21:15
know, he wasn't really fancy relevant beforehand.
21:17
He's on a super hot streak right now.
21:20
The yeah, I mean, what do you think?
21:22
Well, we're gonna have more thoughts on this and the by low
21:25
Sell high episode, so we encourage you to all tune into
21:29
that as well. Overall, though, I don't think
21:32
that this is sustainable at all. Dylan Larkin is someone who
21:35
should be rostered in all leagues, but they're all doing
21:38
amazingly well. These Detroit players.
21:41
It's a bit like, I mean, it's it's more than what did you say?
21:46
Like there are 50% over their past 20.
21:49
Power, like 10 goals in 19 power players.
21:51
It's over 50% technically. It's it's nuts.
21:55
It's absolutely insane. So yeah, no, I I don't trust it
21:59
at all. And I actually think that
22:01
Detroit is a decent like I thought they would be.
22:04
I had them pretty high in my rankings this year overall.
22:08
We'll dive into it more in the next episode.
22:09
But no, I don't think it's sustainable.
22:11
I would sell all the non Dylan Larkin guys at their value.
22:14
I do like to break it actually. I think he's kind of regressing
22:19
towards more where he should be, but like Patrick Kane especially
22:22
is the most glaring kind of overperforming.
22:26
Asset right now, so that's. Where I'm at with that, Cool.
22:29
Let's move on to the would you rathers.
22:32
It's gonna be a little less fun since Josh is not here to give
22:35
his opinion. But listen, we got the two
22:37
better fantasy analysts here to give the correct opinions.
22:40
The thing is, we don't have a tie breaker, so if we disagree,
22:42
we just disagree. But I tried once again to cover
22:47
at least one of every position. You know what that means now,
22:49
Ricky? Yes, 1 ref, one coach.
22:56
OK, so feel free to look up the verses on your Yahoo app while I
23:02
go through this, but my first one for the Would you rather
23:06
King this week is for goalies. Would you rather Joey Decord or
23:13
Bennington rest of season now? The court has been hurt for a
23:17
little while, but before his injury he was pretty hot.
23:21
Just so Josh would say Beddington, like absolutely.
23:25
I don't know if Josh would say Bennington.
23:27
Actually, Josh may not say. Bennington Josh hates Pennington
23:30
Josh Pennington owner and yet even though he just got gifted 2
23:34
shutouts recently, he still hates him.
23:37
This is when you're getting shot.
23:38
He's averaging 750. So that's that's kind of the
23:40
question. Yeah, so for me, I don't think
23:43
this is a no brainer by any means, but I I'm much more
23:46
confident taking Decord moving forward than Bennington just
23:50
because even even like Bennington's best days, like I
23:54
mean, not his first year where he was an absolute monster, but
23:58
like since then, his inconsistency has just kind of
24:01
been baked into the cake and Decor's been a pleasant
24:03
surprise. So there's there's no reason for
24:05
me to believe that the cord wouldn't be the better option
24:08
and we're just looking at their comparison in every single way
24:11
to court has been better this season than Bennington.
24:14
Except Bennington has .06 more shout outs per game so whatever.
24:19
But yeah, I'm much happier with the core moving.
24:21
Forward. I think for me the conversation
24:24
is who gets more starts rest of season.
24:26
I think Billington will get more starts just because Seattle
24:30
usually splits a little bit more.
24:33
So because of the quantity, maybe he ends up getting more
24:35
wins. But I think if you're talking
24:38
save percentage the goals against average, I would bet my
24:41
house enjoy the corridor so so that's.
24:45
That poor guy yeah, I I I think this is the house bed as well.
24:50
So I'm. I'm with you there.
24:52
I mean, not not that I'm getting my house.
24:53
That's your thing. I'm.
24:54
No. Yeah, you can bet your house if
24:56
you want. No, that's cool.
24:57
That's cool. Let you do that.
25:00
All right, 4 defensemen. My Would you rather is Jake
25:04
Sanderson or Eric Carlson rest of the season now you're Carlson
25:08
owner, so try not to be too biased.
25:10
No, this is actually a very interesting 1.
25:12
So I've since since the beginning of the season, I had
25:14
offered a few trades to the Sanders and owner because I
25:17
owned Sanderson and some of my other leagues.
25:19
And I do think that in theory, like Tatterson should be better
25:25
than Carlson, especially with the power play ambiguity and
25:28
whatnot. But you know, looking at the
25:30
comparison between these guys, Carlson has just been so much
25:33
better recently. Sanderson has kind of been a
25:36
little bit of a buy low, but he hasn't really bounced back.
25:39
Yeah, it's a it's by low, then by lower and then keep buying
25:42
low as I get a certain point. It's you know, I remember one of
25:47
my biggest success stories so far, as I mentioned Zach Hyman
25:50
and he popped off right away after like we like Sanderson has
25:54
been Bilo eligible for weeks now and it's it's not changing
25:58
really. I mean, I do think he's an
25:59
amazing talent and kind of funny that you put these two in the
26:03
conversation, right, because Carlson used to be the IT guy on
26:05
the senators. But yeah, for me moving forward,
26:09
even with Groszek, Groszek anyway, being the current gone
26:14
power play one, I'm more confident than Carlson moving
26:16
forward. So I'm no longer going to be
26:18
offering those trades where, you know, Sanderson's quote, the
26:21
better end of the deal. Yeah, I think I would go with,
26:26
it's tough because Carlson has so much competition there, but
26:31
Sanderson has no competition, isn't really producing right.
26:34
So it's tough. I think Sanderson will end up
26:36
getting more power play points, but that may not be enough to
26:39
offset how much 5V5 points Carlson is going to get.
26:44
I think Hanson easily gets more blocks, but Carlson more shots.
26:50
So it's kind of tough. It depends what you're looking
26:52
for, but overall, if I had to choose think I'm going, I'm Goin
26:54
Carlson. Nice, nice, Josh.
26:57
Strategy Sanders. And just, you know, I'm kidding.
27:00
Don't know who he'd go with. Here I think, I think Josh would
27:03
go with Sanderson just because of the power play.
27:05
That's what I did. And listen, he might not be
27:07
wrong. It's really 5050 for me.
27:08
This was one of the harder ones when I.
27:10
Put it in there. Difficult, yeah, but I'm
27:12
confident to say Carlson. But it is.
27:14
If Carlson Carlson doesn't consistently stay on PP1, I'd go
27:17
Sanderson. That's my call.
27:20
It's a little bit of a cop out because we're playing with some
27:22
technicalities there, but yeah. Yeah, I'm still I'm still on
27:26
team girls and firmly. Alright, alright, this is an
27:28
interesting one too. Go for.
27:30
It alright, this is I mean a little bit of a buy low and a
27:34
little bit of a cell high, I think, but Rupe hints versus
27:37
Mikasa Banner, Jad and Zibanejad listen, he's been really bad
27:40
slowly on a four point streak now, so maybe he's turning it
27:43
around. But throughout the season, I
27:46
think this is a close one for throughout the season and the
27:49
rest of the season mostly this is what we're looking for,
27:51
right? Would you rather rest of the
27:52
season? Yeah.
27:53
What do you think? Off another tough one it's an
27:59
interesting concept right because you said it's sort of
28:01
like a Bilo slash sell high on the season.
28:03
They're only .03 points per game apart, so it's.
28:08
I mean, this is pretty significant. .66 to .63 I mean.
28:14
0.03 I said point. Three, yeah, no .3 is is say, I
28:18
wouldn't have said no, but and what's interesting actually is
28:21
that the management goals have sucked.
28:23
They've been a point to all season and the management has
28:25
been like the one timer guy for them on the power play.
28:29
It's still the same trend last like over the last month though.
28:33
Yeah, that's a .4. So .75 to .36 difference, that's
28:37
a huge discrepancy. I mean, the manager was a
28:40
notorious by low, right? Like he was one of the main
28:42
guys. I mean, the Rangers were awful,
28:44
still awful. They're slowly starting to turn
28:47
it around. Like I said, like the last two
28:48
weeks has been a lot closer. But I mean, they're looking for
28:52
rest of season right now. You gotta call your shot.
28:54
Yeah. So I think rest of season I'm
28:57
probably going to go as a bandage out only because Dallas
29:01
I think is going to score more and there's just too many guys
29:06
on the team with offensive capabilities where whereas the
29:09
Rangers, yeah, I mean, they've got a good team, don't get me
29:11
wrong, but Trocheck is a unreal banger league centre.
29:15
Not their best offence, not the best offensive centre you could
29:18
get. It's a bandage that is their
29:20
offensive centre. That's kind of just what it is.
29:23
So I think they need it to like they need him in order to bounce
29:27
back and much more so than Dallas needs group based.
29:30
So I'm going to go about Ajad. I'm going to rupee in my logic
29:35
is is more so that I think Dallas is a team is better.
29:40
I think I think is a bandage add even though he's turning it
29:43
around right now. I like rupee to I mean, I think
29:46
their points are gonna be in the same range rest of season, but I
29:49
think Ruby is gonna score more goals and I think the goal is to
29:51
be a little bit more valuable there.
29:53
Shots are gonna be about the same zip should get more power
29:57
play points should that's the word I'm using.
30:00
But I mean, I think Ruby is a little bit safer.
30:03
The manager might get traded. I think obviously he's stuck
30:06
there on that line 1. So I'm I'm taking a little bit
30:09
more of the sure thing with Rupa and trying to avoid that Rangers
30:12
playoff schedule and the Rangers kind of turmoil right now.
30:17
This is a really tough one. I I'd actually really be curious
30:20
to know what the listeners think about this because.
30:24
These all, but I'll put it all in and pull in the Spotify
30:27
comments, so make sure you pay attention there and maybe we'll
30:30
run a poll on our socials to see what everybody thinks.
30:32
I think this is a close 1 and I feel you maybe even able to
30:37
trade one for one depending on who you have so.
30:41
Yeah, it's just who do you want? Yeah, exactly.
30:43
That's the question. Anyway, this is a good one.
30:47
Please let us know what you think and.
30:50
Next one, Nikolai Elers or Jared McCann.
30:54
Now if this was a question that you were asking last season, I
30:57
think it was clearly Euler's, right?
31:00
I mean, he's getting more shots. The points were kind of similar,
31:03
but he Steelers lost or did not have any power play one
31:06
exposure. I think this is a little bit
31:07
different and Mckenna's been kind of like in a slump for a
31:10
long time. It feels, it feels pretty
31:14
lopsided if you're, if you're talking like looking at the.
31:17
Start. You said last year you would
31:19
have gathered Ellers but you would have rather McCann.
31:23
Yeah, sorry, I said you was. But I mean, but this year I feel
31:27
like it's a lot closer years on that P1 has like really upped
31:31
his game is giving him a whole new ceiling.
31:34
But McCann kind of has that name value where we know he's like a
31:36
reliable fantasy asset. And Ehlers has been notorious
31:38
for being a little bit inconsistent.
31:40
And I think that if his deployment sticks on PP1 and on
31:45
line 2 or wherever, he's kind of jumping between line one, line
31:49
2, mostly line, line one, line 2.
31:51
Sorry, I'm all over the place right now.
31:53
You kind of threw me for a loop, but I did it for the listeners.
31:57
Listeners, you made me. I was gonna swear again, so I'm
32:01
not gonna do that. Alright?
32:04
Anyways, what are you thinking? Let me gather my thoughts.
32:08
OK, walk of work reboots. My AI capabilities have faltered
32:13
me. Yeah, so, so where I'm at with
32:17
this one is it's actually it says exactly as you said last
32:21
year, McCann kinda would have been a no brainer for me, but
32:24
Ellers has been a really good player throughout his whole
32:27
career. Even even last season, you know,
32:30
the discrepancy was only .78 points per game for McCann and
32:33
.74 for Elers. Not that crazy.
32:36
I'm very confident in choosing Elers for this one moving
32:39
forward rest of the season. I still do think that McCann is
32:42
a buy low but like you know, you could offer a lot less the
32:46
kneelers to get him and if I had to choose one moving forward I'd
32:50
I'd bet Kevin's house on the others.
32:53
Wow, I bet your house on McCann. So no, I wouldn't.
33:00
I wouldn't. Everyone loses.
33:02
I wouldn't do that to you, but yeah, no, I think, I think this
33:05
one is kind of one of the more easier choices that I made for
33:07
the doctor this week. But yeah, I think either is
33:10
probably the safest bet. Alright, last one before we wrap
33:13
it up, Marty Natus versus Clayton Keller.
33:18
OHS while that we're even having this conversation now because
33:23
Once Upon A December, it was Marty Natches versus Kyle
33:29
Connor, who to me is like a big step up from Keller.
33:33
But I'm going to go with natures because we've seen the ceiling.
33:36
We've seen what he can do. And although I mean this, he's
33:40
clearly slowed down from what he was doing.
33:42
I mean, he had no choice, Yeah. He couldn't go any higher.
33:45
No, it was crazy. I mean, it's more of like, I
33:49
mean, still doing OK, right As of.
33:51
Late, Yeah, I mean the last, the last month has been his slowest
33:54
month by far. And it's also coincided with
33:57
with I was gonna say Arizona, but the Utah, the Utah's hottest
34:02
month. I mean, if you just look at the
34:03
power play discrepancy, Keller has .75 more power play points
34:11
than Natures over the last month.
34:13
Yeah, that's disgusting. That's like a whole extra player
34:16
on your fantasy team, not even just counting power play points,
34:20
right? So I think moving forward, this
34:22
is kind of like a tough call, right?
34:23
Because Nature started really hot.
34:25
We know his ceiling, we know Caroline is one of the best
34:26
teams, but we know Utah is one of the hottest teams right now.
34:31
They're forms are producing an incredible rate has no choice
34:34
but to slow down. At some point, just how much is
34:35
it going to slow down and how much is nature is going to pick
34:37
it back up. So you gotta you gotta choose
34:39
your side. You gotta make a call.
34:40
Yeah, and like, honestly, I'm looking at this further and of
34:43
course this points have slowed down, but his back categories
34:46
have been decent, you know, 2.43 shots, 1.14 hits.
34:49
That's not comparable at all to to how great Keller has been.
34:54
But I, I just, I mean, yeah, it's literally one point per
34:59
game difference and the huge, huge power play point.
35:03
Discrepancy note to note, I think the shots should be at the
35:06
end of the day, when everything settles, I think they should be
35:09
pretty even. But nature is getting an extra
35:12
hit a game. So if you're in bangers league,
35:14
that definitely makes a difference.
35:16
And the power play should not be this lopsided, right?
35:18
Like I think they're going to end up being kind of like
35:20
similar on the power play. So kind of really just depends
35:23
to me on how much more do you value that extra hit and if the
35:27
hit is not relevant, what do you think the points are gonna be
35:29
rest of the season? Yeah, well said.
35:33
It's just a I mean, it's tough, right, that unfortunately the
35:36
Hurricanes deployment is so all over the place.
35:39
But I mean, he's he's the guy right now on on the 1st power
35:43
play for them. So I'm going to go with natures.
35:47
It's weird though, because I don't know if I would
35:49
necessarily trade Keller to get natures in return, even though
35:52
that's technically what I'm saying.
35:54
But I think with how good Keller's been, maybe you could
35:56
get an hours plus a little bit. That would be a nice Bylo sell
35:59
high transaction. But yeah, if you had to tell me
36:02
redraft right now, today, rest of the season, I would take
36:06
natures higher than I would take Keller.
36:09
Recall, I think for me, this is like the true like, what do you
36:14
believe in? Like where, where, how do you
36:18
how do you hold your opinion rest of the season?
36:19
But I think I if I had to choose, I'd probably go nature.
36:22
I'm just banking on Carolina being just an incredible team.
36:25
The power play has been really bad with gossip spare out.
36:30
Maybe Brent Burns the solution because Ty Smith, I don't know.
36:34
But when Ghost comes back I expect the PowerPoint to be
36:37
better again and rest of the season natures.
36:41
Yeah, cool. Awesome.
36:42
So that wraps up this week's Tidbits and Would You Rather
36:47
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36:51
you? Rather, yeah.
36:53
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Oh my God. I.
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Got out of your system a little bit.
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Geez, huh. OK, I see why I packed it when
37:22
you say it. Kevin, I know, I know.
37:24
I hold up all my anger and resentment through the whole
37:26
week and I just let it out on the pod when I said that
37:27
sentence. Yeah, cool.
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