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Put up a bump around Bangor Management Fantasy Hockey
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podcast. Woo woo woo for Josh that's not
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here once again. Welcome in one and all from far
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and Wide to Bangor Management, The Fantasy Hockey Podcast with
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your two finalist hosts, Jake and Kevin.
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By that I don't mean that we're like some sort of game show
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spinoff. I mean that we're playing each
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other in the finals in our league of record.
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If you haven't been listening to the most recent episodes, we've
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been talking about that a lot. We're going into the thick of
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it. It's a real make it or break it
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weekend we're going into. We're recording this before the
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Saturday themes so this is to go live Sunday morning for you
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guys. So still a lot of hockey left to
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play with the Saturday Sunday games, but it's looking pretty
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tight. I have an interesting goalie
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situation. I don't like my odds but we'll
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see. It's been a hard fought battle.
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Jaggies used already all his ads.
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He used his last ad for a Friday on to pick up Martone, who I
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know has been a topic of discussion in Discord.
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I was debating I did not. So I still got 2 ads left and
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might have to use them on goalies just to hit my start.
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So you love to hear it. Something crazy so they
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apparently like made Martone when he started playing for the
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Flyers a few games ago or I don't know.
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Like was heavier damage. Coffee was just before that.
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What? No listen to this?
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He apparently either started the year at like 190 and now he's
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215 and lost 3% body. Fat like OK, we'll do just puts
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on muscle like it's his day job. I know what his day job but like
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still easy. Actually like what an absolute
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tank 215 already. It's kinda heavy, but like
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that's like I think 6263. I mean, yeah, OK, that's a good
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weight for somebody that size. But I mean, that's just, that's
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just like that's goals right there.
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I dream about being able to do that for my body.
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Well, how many months is that? Few months.
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Like no, no, like I think it's like like from like the
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beginning of the season, so. Like OK, I thought you.
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September, whatever, whenever they're like, yeah, but like,
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still, like, that's just, that's monster of stuff to do in the
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season, you know? People do that over like 2 years
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usually for hitting the gym stuff.
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Don't quote me but I feel that's a good range putting on like 9
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lbs of muscle a a year. Really, that's normal if you're
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like young and like trying to. That's nine shots on goal that
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that's some powerful stuff right there.
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That doesn't come from not being insanely strong and being able
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to impose your will on the NHL right away.
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Kind of like Anton Frondel, one of your.
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All Star say he's no front Dell who has the highest registered
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VO2 Max. But listen those further notice.
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Yeah, it's it's crazy stuff. I didn't pick him up for that
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game, just to be clear. But yeah, you picked him up
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right after that game. I think most people.
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Did yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, so today is our week 24
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waivers episode. Speaking of good people to pick
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up going into next week. Follow us on Spotify, Apple
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podcast, wherever you're listening, we are there.
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Of course you are because we're listening on that anyways, Yeah,
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point wherever you get your podcasts, we're there.
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Rates five stars. If you like where you're if
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you're watching on YouTube, give this video a like and subscribe
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to our channel. All the socials are in, you
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guessed it, the podcast description as always and the
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Discord community, you know, wanna talk about talk about not
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from there. You wanna talk about Martone?
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Yeah, that's the place to be. We've been talking to Flyers are
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in and of themselves a lot topic going into the end of the
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season. I mean, Columbus is kind of like
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choking, the Islanders are kind of choking and Phillies just
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like Loki just there. So I mean, yeah, if you get This
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is the last Meal back episode. I think I said like, I just do
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not see there was a hot topics. Yeah, it was a hot topic.
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I said like I just don't see Philly even in the playoff
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picture. I was like, there's no way.
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I mean, there, I know they're close, but I don't see them now.
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Like there's no way changes everything it seems like.
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Yeah, I think I had them like over Pittsburgh or something and
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you had Pittsburgh and there. Was like, yeah, you had like you
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had Pittsburgh missing and you had, I forget, I think you had
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Ottawa missing. Is that possible or?
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Should I Exactly and I had Philly in and the.
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Island. Everybody else leave.
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I believe that's what Detroit doesn't know.
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I forget. It could have been Detroit.
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Yeah, it's gonna, it's a crazy end to the season, so we'll be
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here bringing you guys the content.
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It's gonna be a lot of fun. Let's start with our Week 23
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choices. And I'm extremely excited.
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About this one, just a little caveat though, like Week 23,
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obviously we're still in the midst of it.
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You guys listen to this Sunday morning, we're recording this,
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like I said just before the start of the games and all the
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people that we recommended for week 23 have a back-to-back on
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Saturday, Sunday. So they've only played two games
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as far. But listen, I think the two
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games have been have been stellar.
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Yeah, they have. They have got Patrick Kane 4
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points in two games, my boy. He's been so good.
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Yes, he has against me. I love that.
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This is truly Patrick Kane of old.
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Like I called it, he was on a mission to make sure that the
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Red Wings make the playoffs and he's just he's just non-stop
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right now. It's so fun.
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Alright, we got Michael Grandland.
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He got a power play point in two games.
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Still got two games. Still got two games like you
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said, and then Pavel Zacha 4 points in three games and still
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got two games this weekend. So I put the three games he's
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only played 2IN Week 23, but that third game he played was in
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the Sunday of Week 22. And I'm counting that because
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that kid, that game came out after we recorded the episode
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and we said the pickup Zaka and Zaka got three points that game.
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So listen, if you did, you probably made your semifinals or
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finals. And he's already got a point
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this week. So two more games left.
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How many more? Can you get puts us to 36 and 18
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on the was it a good pickup chart?
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We officially doubled our losses with wins.
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That was a big goal of mine. No matter what happens in the
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finals, at least this is a victory for us all.
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Agree. I mean, listen, there's nothing,
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there's nothing more gratifying than helping other people when
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their fantasy leagues. Yeah, Yeah.
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And losing our own. I was very.
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Alright, that's how it. Feels so OK no, don't do that.
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You know, I feel like Josh has done this for years where he
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complains his way into a victory.
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He. Knows somebody complains, they
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win and I know yesterday that things are not going my way.
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And then I thought you thought you were quiet because things
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are going so well for you. And then and then you tried it
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at the end of the night when things started to go better for
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me. That's it.
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Well, look at you pulled ahead. You're currently winning right
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now. So we'll see how it ends.
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But for a lot of the time, the next episode comes out, you'll
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all the listeners, you're gonna, you're gonna know what happened.
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So you know who's really sad because they won't be on the
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podcast, and who's really happy because they will be on the
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podcast. So that's how it's gonna go.
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That's it. All right, OK, we got some 4
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game teams this coming week, Boston Islanders, New York
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Rangers, Pittsburgh and Washington.
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So 4 game teams. That means that they are the bad
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teams to own because it's over a two week span, so we'll really
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10 days but. 10 days starts. On the Monday, yeah, it starts
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on the Monday and I believe the last games are on the following
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Thursday. So these are the teams you don't
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wanna own. Usually when we say 4 game
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teams, obviously it's good. So this is not that case.
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Those teams that you do want to own the seven game teams, the
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Seattle Cracking and San Jose Sharks.
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So yeah, busy night Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday, Saturday and
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Monday and the off night teams are the Buffalo Sabres, Seattle
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Crack and San Jose. So really San Jose and Seattle,
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and obviously our top ten list definitely reflects that, so.
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Yeah, I was gonna say like those those heavy nice that we just
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mentioned, like you'll have to go look at your matchup right
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now if you're listening to this and have the opportunity to go
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look at next week like your week 24.
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Because honestly, if you're playing in week 24 is because
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it's your championship. There's no other week left,
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right. So if you're still here, you're
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fighting for that chip and those busy nights, Tuesday, Thursday,
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Saturday and Monday, go look if you have to bench anybody on
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those days, because if you have the bench anybody on those days,
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you should make a decision this weekend and decide who am I
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cutting to pick up an off night there to maximize games played.
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That's how you win your championships.
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You need some volume. You have the best team ever.
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If your opponent has 10 more games on you, it's not going to
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matter because the volume will overpower your quality most of
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the time anyways. So be diligent, go look ahead,
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see if you have to bench anybody in the upcoming week and then
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make a decision on who's your guy you're most likely to cut
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and who we're going to talk about today.
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Can you pick up to maximize those off nights?
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Yeah, well said. And I guess just to add to that
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before getting into the list, what's so great about this San
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Jose and Seattle, those are the two teams to own.
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They are very much fighting for the playoffs, especially San
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Jose. But I I would say Seattle is
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definitely not out of it like they're.
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Still, they're both technically in.
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Like, I like the race. Sorry, not in the playoffs.
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Yeah, exactly. So they're they're fighting for
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it. And I think they will be till
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the very end. Like there are there are, you
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know, teams that maybe won't play their best players as many
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minutes or let's say a lock. There are teams that are kind of
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out of it that maybe, as Josh has alluded to many times, just
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like the Florida Panther ring right now.
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They're still winning games and scoring goals, which makes no
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sense. But I take it back, I can't call
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it Florida Panthers thing because this is like the first
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time that they've ever done this.
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There's been many teams like this is more of like a Vegas
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thing in years past. But yeah, all this to say like
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San Jose and Seattle, 2 really spicy teams and with the best
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schedule. So without further ado, let's
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get into our top ten points, guys under 40% owned starting
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with. Well, I was gonna say starting
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with a PhD, the the reason why the whole season we were saying
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do not have your playoff championship is week 24 is
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because week 24, those last 10 days of the season, we see even
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more shenanigans happen with, you know, these NHL teams and
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their rosters. Like over the last few weeks we
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saw in Florida, every guy that's oh, hurt a little bit is getting
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held out for the rest of the season.
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So these next 10 days, you're going to see a lot of that.
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You're going to see star players on the best teams in the league
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be has bumps and bruises and be held out of the lineup or you
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know, stuff like that happen and it's gonna really suck.
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And we're warning you in advance like that's going to happen.
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So I say be diligent with your ads.
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Maybe wait to see like on the heavy nights after some like I
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think patients will be really rewarded because if you have
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injuries on your team, you want to replace those guys instead of
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like cutting and adding somebody else.
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But that's gonna be hard to predict who's going to give you
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value this week because who's even going to be in the lineup?
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And our deployments are going to change.
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So a lot of volatility around this week.
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We're gonna do our best to give you some good options, but take
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something with a little Asterix and keep that in mind.
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Yes. OK, let's dive into it.
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So starting at. #10. #10 of the Colorado Avalanche, perhaps the
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power play. One official for the next few
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games. Devon Tays six games in Week 24.
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Yeah, he's got six games a week, 24.
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And if you've listened to this podcast in the past, either last
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year or the offseason, like we are certified Devontae's haters,
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we're just gonna put it out there like he's.
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We always say he's too high roster.
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I think the only league that has some value in are like plus
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minus leagues, which hopefully you're not playing the plus
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minus league. But the main reason why he's on
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this list and he's #10 is because, listen, if you can add
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a defenseman that can be valuable for you in fantasy,
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that's already a rare commodity, one that's going to be on a
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power play. One for Colorado.
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I know they have the worst power play, but it's actually been
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pretty decent as of late. Then you gotta keep your eye on.
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This ever since they got Devante.
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I mean, we were hoping it was going to be a Malinsky, but then
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you know, he played one game there and got bumped off.
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He had a sick game by the way. So everybody picked up Malinsky.
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Then you're you're pretty happy about that.
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But he didn't get any power play points and now they're rocking
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Devon taped as the power play one quarterback and kill my cars
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absence. Makar was already ruled out for
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the Saturday Sunday games that are happening tonight and
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tomorrow. So this is just kind of like
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monitor the situation. The Avs are clinched for the
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playoffs, right? Like they don't want to risk any
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extra injuries or whatnot. So if McCormick any extra time
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like Devante is going to be the gun power play 1 and that's what
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gives his value. My car comes back or they swap
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somebody else, then do not pick up Devon Travis.
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Just disclaimer. But right now that's why his
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number 10 on this list, because if you get exposure to the power
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play, it's good. Yeah, well said.
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And we don't hate Devontae because he's not a good player.
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It's just like what Jacob Slavin Davantes is like one of the top
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tier defensive defensemen in the league.
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He doesn't get the opportunity on offence.
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So now that he has it, I mean he's playing with some of the
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best players in the world and they just And company, if you
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will, and. So they just some friends.
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Are good opportunity for him exactly OK moving on to. #9.
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At #9 of the Saint Louis Blues, I actually really like this guy.
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I think he's a really good player.
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We have Phillip Broberg, he's at .71 points per game over the
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last month. Nothing in Shaw's hits or
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blocks. He's just like abysmal at that,
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but in the points category and that's what this section is all
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about. He's been really good six games
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this coming week. So I know yeah, I was gonna say
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I know in week 23, Saint Louis players were hot commodities
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because they played on every single off night.
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So a lot of those guys were picked up and Broberg was a big
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name because, you know, he's the quote UN quote power play one
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quarterback for the Saint Louis team.
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And listen, we're adding another defence.
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Mini knows the bottom of the top 10, but there's the last
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defenseman on this list. And I think it's worth
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mentioning because averaging .71 points per game over the last
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month is not nothing from a defenseman, especially when
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you're getting power play points over the last two weeks has been
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especially hot. It's been a point per game
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player. The thing is, no category
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coverage, less than one shot, less than one hit, less than one
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block, you're getting straight zeros there.
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You'll if you get one assist and it's a power play assist, you're
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happy. That's why this isn't really
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mainly for points leagues. In category leagues, I'm really
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not that interested. Like Jake picked up in our
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matchup on Monday, we both picked up Saint Louis
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defensemen. All of these guys were
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available. Jake went Logan, Maui went
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Colton, Parayko Broberg was just sitting there and he did get a
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power play is the on Monday, but not for either of our teams.
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Yeah, that would be huge for our magic.
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It would actually, yeah, no, he, he uh, he's really just a decent
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player and he's had the opportunity in the past and he's
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been he's been good. It's just the shots hit blocks
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nowhere to be found. Yep.
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So, OK, let's go to the next one.
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Number 8 at #8 we have Jonathan Marchessault of the Nashville
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Predators. He is at .86 points per game
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over the last month. That's actually tremendous
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considering the really rocky season he's at otherwise.
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But, you know, good to see that he's pulling things together.
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And yeah, his shots, he's always been good for shots.
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And that's something that has changed in his game, especially
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over the last month. They've got six games this
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coming week. Nashville is definitely still in
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the playoff race and. Yeah, to everyone's shock,
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Nashville is still in the playoff phrase.
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I feel like throughout the whole season, we were like, the wheels
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gonna fall off. The really gonna fall off.
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The wheels didn't fall off completely, but I think they
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make the playoffs. I don't think so.
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But the fact that it's so close with so little games left is
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impressive in itself. Even though I don't think they
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want to win games. I don't think they think of
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themselves as a playoff team. Like they were selling at the
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deadline. So interesting.
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But Marshall, so on. The season is at like .5 points
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per game over the last two weeks.
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He's at one point the game for last months .86.
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It's really like a recent turn around over the last 30 days,
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but he's gonna get you 2 shots and almost a point per game
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player with some power play points.
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All these guys on this list of this top 10 have either six
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games or seven games this upcoming week and I think Marsha
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so from the right wing position on a Nashville team that is
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still fighting for the playoffs will give you some good
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production. Yeah, I almost feel like he's
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kind of at the exact same level as the next two we're going to
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talk about. Yeah, it's there's definitely
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there are reasons they're higher.
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So let's go to the next one. And once we get the three, we'll
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kind of maybe do a little compare and contrast.
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So at. #7. At #7 we have Trevor Moore.
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He he's one of those guys who just who just kind of seems
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irrelevant but then out of nowhere just goes on this crazy
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tear every season and you want to pick him up 3.47 shots on
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goal over the past month is crazy.
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That's like. Those are.
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Numbers 1.33 hits also. I mean pretty good.
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Pretty darn good. He'll give you some category
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coverage. And this short volume is really
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why I think I put them ahead of Marsha.
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So because if I had to bet purely on points, I'd favor
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March or so, but more will be, I would say like 25% less good at
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points than more, but he'll double than Marshall, but he'll
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double Marshall. So in shots, it feels like
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somebody that can average such a high shot Volume is a rare
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commodity, the one that you can pick up on waivers.
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Elias got six games this upcoming week.
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Like, he can get you some power play points as well.
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Like he has one power play point this season, but it happened
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four games ago. So maybe the tide is turning
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mainly is just for the I feel like reasonable points floor of
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what you can expect from him. But this shot volume is nuts,
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guys on a six game weekly that can be so much volume.
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We're adding to your categories this week, and the hits are.
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Yeah, I agree on all fronts. I do agree on all fronts.
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But I think the PowerPoint point me that may be a little
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ambitious. The top.
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He's averaging more shorthanded points than power play points is
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here, so I could even be better for you.
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Exactly, Exactly. All right, The next one is kind
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of interesting. And I think, yeah.
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So let's go to the next one. Where now I forgot what your
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number at #6 my fingers up. Alright, at number six of the
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Colorado Avalanche, we have Gabe Landeskog.
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He he's kind of the one where I'm like, hmm, would I really
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rather Landeskog over Marsha? So I know the power play in
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Colorado does not say that doesn't tell the full story by
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any means. I'm curious kind of why you
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would be leaning Landeskog over Marcus or more.
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Yeah, to me the reason why I put Landeskog higher is because I
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think he has a fuller profile for category leagues because he
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will not only shoot, he will go and face offs he will hit as
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well. And he's been like hot ish since
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coming back. Like he's at .7 points per game,
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which is not nothing though. The bad thing is though, he lost
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line one power play one. But if he ever got that back,
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either line one or power play 1, I think he'd be easier, better,
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like easily better than both of the guys we spoke about before.
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Now I think like he's better because has the upside of
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getting that, which will completely like blow up his
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volume, his value in a good way, but also like the the category
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coverage is a more well-rounded picture.
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If I had to bet on who's gonna get the most points this week,
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I'd go March or so. But then I think the shots are
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very valuable for more and I think the the shots face off
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wins hits from Landis Cog is even more valuable with, you
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know, the points being a higher floor as well.
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So all these three guys are definitely in the same tier,
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right? That's why they're kind of in
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the middle pack of this of this list.
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They're all good. Options for various different
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reasons. So it just kind of depends.
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But the upside with Landeskog, though, is that what if, you
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know, Colorado, you know, has to rest some guys at the end of the
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season, right? What if nature needs a break?
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What if somebody else needs a break?
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He's the next guy up onto that power play.
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And I think that's why I'm putting him up high.
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But there's so much that can go wrong or change in this week 24
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that's going to be crazy for all fantasy owners out there.
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So I think just because of that risk, I'm putting it up, putting
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them up there. So the fuller profile than the
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other two, I get it like 100% that's that makes.
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Him and the blocks too. Don't forget the blocks.
20:37
Yeah, Yeah, No, I mean, he's he's a great category coverage
20:41
forward, like really he absolutely is.
20:43
But it's literally the last thing that you said, which is
20:46
making me kind of feel like I would want to lean the other
20:49
guys. Because if there's someone who's
20:50
going to sit from Colorado, I think it's going to be Landeskog
20:54
as opposed to the other guys sitting.
20:55
So I'm like, yes, with the upside of him getting that power
21:00
play one or line 1 even without the power play.
21:03
And frankly, yes, I'll put them over Marsha so or more, even
21:07
though I know more is not power play one.
21:09
But even like whatever those guys situations are, it doesn't
21:12
all get better than a line one line discog comparing these
21:14
three players provided the fact that he plays and because of all
21:18
the injury history and I know he really wants to play in the
21:21
playoffs considering how important he is to this team and
21:24
the injury history has had for the past few years.
21:26
I'm like there is a real big asterisk there for me.
21:28
So that's why like if you're going to make the, if you're
21:31
feeling confident going into next week and you want to make a
21:33
pickup for next week, look, I'm not sure, but if you maybe like,
21:39
I don't know, maybe you wait it out a little bit with them.
21:41
But yeah, the upsides higher. I just think that the floor is
21:44
also lower because they may sit them.
21:46
Fair. So listen, I have no shame in
21:48
putting Lanis phone maybe #8 on this list and Marshes number
21:51
six. I feel like all these guys, like
21:53
we said, are in the same team. Even the next guy up, I feel
21:55
like he's in a similar tier. Do we want to get into it?
21:58
Let's do it at. #5. Number that was that one, that
22:04
one hit that one. So I feel like they're always
22:07
good, like, and like sometimes they're great and sometimes they
22:11
just like, whoa, where did that come from that it's authentic
22:16
every time. You know, it's like really my
22:18
job, like a machine playing, playing.
22:20
And this is. Live in the studio.
22:24
There you go alright, cool. So at #5 we have Jordan Eberly
22:29
.8 points per game over the last month and you know what he's
22:33
been consistent all season. That's one thing I will say
22:37
compared to the previous three, which is why I sort of think
22:39
he's in a bit of a tier higher is that he's he has been good
22:42
all season. Yes, it's kind of streaky, but
22:45
it's averaged out to be pretty strong.
22:47
And considering Seattle's fighting for the playoff spot,
22:50
as I mentioned, he's a huge part of their team consistently
22:52
getting 1819 to 21 minutes right.
22:55
I think he he can be really, really good.
22:57
The the shots I wish were a little bit better, but still
23:01
like 2.14 over the last month. I don't know.
23:05
I think he's, I think he's a great option.
23:07
Yep, the reason why I have him above the other guys is Simply
23:10
put, he has one extra game. He's got 7 games.
23:12
I think he's literally just as good as Marshall, so maybe a
23:16
little less good, but he's got one extra game.
23:19
He's still line one power play one on a Seattle team that's
23:21
fighting for the playoffs. Similar profile, right?
23:24
It's like .8 points per game on average, like two shots, some
23:28
power play points. Um, and that's pretty much what
23:31
you can expect from Jordan Eberly.
23:32
Like he's been on this show consistently throughout the
23:34
season. I think he's definitely in a low
23:36
point right now. So it's not the type of player
23:37
that I'm like rushing to pick up on Sunday night or Monday
23:41
morning type of thing. But I do think like if he's on
23:44
your roster, if you have the option to pick him up throughout
23:46
the the week, like I think he could be pretty valuable because
23:50
yeah, he's a little colder right now, but seven games is such a
23:52
big sample size. Like that's two weeks of
23:54
production in one game basically for your fantasy teams rights.
23:58
A lot can happen over seven games.
23:59
And yeah, at a certain point, you know, you want more shots of
24:03
the gun in your in your fantasy matchup, right?
24:05
That's why volume is king and volume helps a lot.
24:08
Just that extra game can mean the difference between the
24:10
championship and not winning championship because of the 7th
24:12
game is the one that he gets like 2 points once in PowerPoint
24:14
and it completely changes the size of your matchup, right?
24:16
So keeping the lines, yeah. And the options are really good
24:19
too. Yeah.
24:21
So it's all good things as you said.
24:24
I really like this next one as well at. #4.
24:28
At #4 We have Jimmy Snugger out of the Saint Louis Blues.
24:32
This is a tear break to me. Yeah.
24:34
I think he's he's like above the other ones, you know, he's.
24:37
Also cheating really cuz he's 42% owned so he doesn't fit in
24:41
our 40% criteria but I felt like if he's on your waivers like he
24:44
has to be a name or considering because of how consistent he's
24:46
been for points and shots lately.
24:48
I think there's a very solid chance by the time people are
24:51
listening to this that he's back under 40% because he's already
24:54
gone two straight games without a point.
24:56
And like the last one was bad. He got straight zeros except for
25:00
one block. So I mean, he may have may be
25:05
inconsistent, but when he's on like I think he's significantly
25:08
better than the other guys we mentioned previously and 3.17
25:15
shots per game and that has has gotten pretty much better and
25:19
better other than the caveat of the last game is it's aren't bad
25:23
either. They're giving him the
25:24
opportunities, they're giving him the minutes and he has the
25:26
pedigree to be a really good player.
25:28
Over the last month, he's at a point per game.
25:30
He's averaging over three shots a game.
25:32
Like that's an elite level player right there.
25:34
The reason why, like, he's so low on is because the
25:37
consistency is what's missing. But we see a lot of times, like
25:39
these young guys really thrive at the end of the season.
25:41
That's what happened. This number, because it was
25:42
nowhere near this, this, you know, point space throughout the
25:45
season, right? He was, you know, a name that
25:48
was thrown into the caller conversation before the year got
25:50
started. I think this end of season is
25:52
kind of proving why. Yeah.
25:53
But by a lot of people, like it wasn't just us, but I think this
25:56
end of season stretch is what's really kind of like showing
25:59
people that he has value, He's got really good deployment.
26:01
I think Saint Louis is a much different team now than they
26:04
were like throughout the most of the season.
26:07
They're trying to still win games as well, right?
26:09
So I think on a week like this where you need shots and points,
26:14
like there's very few options that can deliver consistently
26:17
like he's been doing recently. Yeah, I think it's a great
26:20
option. And look, I mean even if he's
26:23
not under 42%, only he's up 17% on the week as it stands.
26:27
So either it's still the one thing non bias opinion.
26:32
What? The one thing that I will say
26:34
though, like over the month is that like one point per game,
26:37
but very little power play points.
26:39
Less than 10% of those points are on the power play.
26:42
So I'm not expecting much power play.
26:44
Like I think it's definitely in the range of outcomes for a
26:46
player like this, but you know, the sample size has not knowing
26:50
that this is something that I can expect very often, so I
26:53
wouldn't, but the points are there.
26:55
Yeah, OK. Let's go to the next one #3 at
27:01
#3 one of the best looking players you can't call
27:05
good-looking, apparently because of something that Josh explained
27:08
earlier in the year that I completely forgot.
27:09
But anyways, Alex Wennberg of the San Jose Sharks, I'm sorry,
27:13
that was so funny. When he had that reaction, I was
27:16
like, oh, like, you can't call him good looking.
27:19
It was the whole thing. And it's like, wow, I hope
27:21
people. And then he was like, I hope
27:22
people don't do that to me. Joshua would say that.
27:28
I was like, wow, that that was brilliant.
27:30
Anyway, so every time I think of Alex Wenberg, I think about our
27:32
hilarious exchange with that. All this to say, he's also, he's
27:37
also probably having a career year at this point.
27:40
So he's more than just a pretty face.
27:43
Not apparently, no, sorry. He's just not a pretty face or
27:45
whatever you're supposed to say .86 points per game over the
27:49
last month. Also .36 power play points.
27:53
Like get outta town. He's wow.
27:55
He's been really hot on the power play.
27:57
A lot of that has been. Yeah.
28:01
He's been very not good looking on the power play, but his
28:06
production has been hot. A lot of it has come in business
28:10
form. Yes, he's very much informed.
28:14
For all of you soccer fans out there.
28:16
Jake keeps hitting on me for saying inform.
28:18
Good form, bad form. I actually like it.
28:21
It's just the reason you hate on me.
28:23
You hate on me. No, it's because you said it and
28:26
then you were like, some people are saying that like, do you
28:28
guys know what I'm talking about?
28:29
Is like, yeah, I think I know you're talking about.
28:30
Then the next episode he just kept saying.
28:33
That was filtering myself. Before I was like, I was like
28:37
putting myself down as I can't use all my knowledge, all my all
28:40
my vocabulary, you know? Now I find you finally Let me
28:43
out before you let me bloom. I'm a Peacock.
28:47
You gotta let me fly. On this yes, OK, sorry about
28:53
Wenberg. He's been really hot for points.
28:56
Let me just say it OK, just I can I can use that word.
28:58
OK, he's been really hot. He's online 2 power play, one PK
29:02
1. So he's on the ice for the
29:03
important minutes. He's not a category coverage guy
29:06
like his shots are going to hover around 1.41 point 5.
29:09
The faceoff wins are there, the blocks are there.
29:12
So if you're looking from that for a forward that he's valuable
29:14
option. But it's really just the points,
29:16
power play points and the seven games this week with the off
29:19
nights and like Jackie said earlier, like San Jose still
29:22
fighting for this playoff spot. Like, I think we're gonna get
29:24
it. No, but they're gonna try.
29:25
They're not trying to lose. So that just increases the odds
29:29
that, you know, good things happen to teams like this
29:31
because they're really trying to win.
29:33
So I like when you're. Not really gonna.
29:36
It's gonna be down to the wire with them.
29:37
Like, I don't know if you saw a celebrity's most recent game
29:40
where you went absolutely ballistic.
29:42
Like this can happen so. Especially when you're on the
29:46
same power play as a kid like that.
29:48
Yeah, exactly. He's nuts.
29:49
He's so. Good, but the main reason why
29:51
he's #3 is because he got 7 games and he's been producing so
29:54
hot lately. Exactly.
29:56
He's in great form. Peak form actually.
29:58
The the the best form. So yeah, all right, let's go on
30:04
to the next one. The best number in the entire
30:07
league #2. #2 We have the undisputed alliteration love
30:15
when there's no ambiguity about it.
30:18
The undisputed alliteration king of the Vancouver Canucks, Brock
30:22
Besser, who also has been going crazy this week.
30:26
Nuclear. I wish I picked them up.
30:29
I almost did that on the Monday. I was like, he has, you know, he
30:32
started the week with a week 23 with a Monday, Wednesday off
30:35
night. I was like I could I could
30:36
actually dabble in that. He's been hot.
30:38
Well, I didn't. I didn't and I regret it.
30:41
He he went insane like on April first.
30:46
Three goals, one assist. April Fools to everybody that
30:50
didn't pick him up. And literally, literally that
30:53
was going that's what it is. And it was against Colorado.
30:56
So I mean AN86 win that was everyone predicted that, you
30:59
know. People lost championships
31:01
because they started the Colorado goalie against
31:04
Vancouver, the worst team in the league who like clinched the
31:07
best odds to win the 1st overall pick but they beat Colorado 86.
31:12
The fall of Mackenzie Blackwood needs to be studied.
31:15
Just also the fact that like you probably if you, that was like a
31:18
late game. If you woke up, you know, the
31:21
next morning on April 2nd and you saw all the April 1st post
31:25
about Brock Besser hat trick or whatever, you're like, oh, April
31:28
fools. Nope, actually happened.
31:32
But yeah, he's been, he's been so hot over the last month.
31:35
He's at 1.13 points per game, almost .5 power play points.
31:39
His shot volume has been 2.5 or or higher.
31:42
So it's really just like everything is there right now,
31:45
points, power play, points, shots.
31:47
So the deployment is there. Vancouver's got literally
31:50
nothing to play for, so they're just trying to be spoiler out
31:52
here. And for some reason they're in
31:54
good form right now. So he's got six games this week,
31:57
but he's so high because he's one of the only players on this
32:00
list that's, you know, averaging over a point per game.
32:03
That's very rare, especially when you pick up on waivers for
32:05
less than 40%. Yeah, no, like that.
32:08
That's exactly it. He's really, he's one of those
32:11
guys. It's like they're they're not
32:13
playing for much right now, but he's also not like a superstar
32:17
that they're going to consider shutting down or anything.
32:19
I feel like he's just. He's arguably one of their best
32:21
players, no? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:24
No, he is. But I'm just saying it's like,
32:26
although they really ever do this, but for some teams, it's
32:29
like if, you know, the superstar is kind of like off at the end
32:32
of the season, like they're gonna sure not play him just to
32:34
not risk injury. That's not gonna happen to
32:36
Besser. He's been doing really well, and
32:38
I'd expect that to continue for the rest of the season.
32:40
Like, why not? Yeah.
32:43
OK, then I feel like we should always end with #2 because
32:47
you're more excited to say #2. I'm really excited about this
32:51
one. When they reveal the draft order
32:54
like you know, they do down to three and then they they show
32:58
number one, right. So it's kind of like that, but I
33:02
guess less. Than we should.
33:05
Alright, so let's do it at. Number one.
33:10
At #1 we have of the Seattle crack in Bobby McMahon.
33:17
He's been fantabulous. You I remember like you assessed
33:23
the trade and it was you said it perfectly.
33:25
You're like, I don't think Seattle needs another middle 6
33:30
forward to just go into their lineup like it's not going to
33:33
help them as a team. And I people say to your credit
33:36
of the last seven games, they've won one.
33:41
So you are correct in that assessment completely.
33:45
But it didn't doesn't mean that Bobby McMahon was not going to
33:49
be insane. And he has been way better than
33:51
I think any of us expected him to be.
33:53
So yeah, if he had a better schedule these past few weeks, I
33:56
would have absolutely loved him on my team.
33:59
So now that you have him with a good schedule going into Week
34:02
24, they are still fighting for the playoffs?
34:04
I think yeah, he's easily the best guy to own.
34:07
And he's number one for a reason.
34:10
Seattle's got 7 games multiple off nights and look at his, look
34:14
at his, you know, fantasy profile.
34:16
He's averaging almost three shots a game, almost two hits a
34:20
game and he's over one point per game.
34:24
Like there's literally nothing to hate about this guy right
34:26
now. He feels like a priority pickup
34:28
in almost every league format, especially if you're in a quote
34:31
UN quote deeper league. He this is the type of guy to
34:34
win to your championship if you pick him up at the right time.
34:36
So you know, going into week 24 and everybody's playing for the
34:40
the chip at this point, he's the type of guy that I really want
34:43
to pick up as soon as the week starts or even beforehand right.
34:46
So literally nothing to hate about what he's been doing.
34:50
The only thing that I can say is that his time, what ice has been
34:53
fluctuating a lot. You'll see some games you'll
34:55
play 20 minutes will play like slightly less than 15, which is
34:57
a pretty big discrepancy. But overall you've just been so
35:01
productive. The power play has not really
35:03
been there. Like it's not super hot.
35:04
Like Seattle has always kind of been like one of the worst power
35:07
play teams. But like the points production
35:09
is like, I think it's more multi point games than single point
35:12
games. So, you know, you take that and
35:15
you run with it. The shot volumes are the hits
35:17
are there. Like there's really nothing to
35:19
hide. Yeah, yeah, I know you.
35:22
You said it perfectly. I yeah, I mean, like, this is
35:26
the only reason that I'm kind of bummed that we don't have Week
35:30
24. Because we could pick up Bobby
35:31
McMahon. Exactly.
35:33
She helped me win my quarter finals.
35:35
There you go. And then I have to cut them.
35:36
He was a roster casualty to stream.
35:39
I feel like you had some karma there because you didn't play
35:43
Jamie Benn after all he's done for you last game.
35:48
There you go in 14 minutes and still, you know, came through.
35:52
All the guys had been literally had like their best game of the
35:54
season. I felt like he got an assist, he
35:56
got 5. Pimms and he was like this ones
35:59
for Bobby. Yeah, we'll call you the same
36:02
thing. I had the bench Will Cooley on
36:04
on Thursday. Manus scored a goal, Six shots,
36:06
six hits. I was like, the only thing he's
36:09
been doing lately is getting zero shots, 0 points and like
36:11
three hits. That's all he was doing.
36:14
But not. Not that they happened though.
36:16
Yeah, yeah, exactly. He was one day late in April
36:19
Fools. Yeah, really full day.
36:21
Cool. That was a good one.
36:24
That was a really good list. I think for Week 24, it's always
36:28
tricky, but we kinda, I feel like just beyond the player and
36:32
their recent production, there is a thesis here.
36:34
And for most of them at least, it's like, I mean, I feel like
36:38
the fighting for the playoffs of it all is gonna really, really
36:41
help. And don't forget like an
36:43
asterisk, like the teams that are fighting for their playoff
36:45
spots are super valuable in this specific week, like Jake has
36:48
mentioned how many times? Because you know, they're gonna
36:51
try their best to win and play all their players.
36:53
The teams that are coaching are already clinched.
36:54
The teams are already out of it. Like they don't give AFA dollar
36:58
sign dollar sign poop. You know what I'm trying to say?
37:02
OHS don't care, don't care. Both going down for them.
37:09
I feel it's been a while since we talked about both but both
37:11
boats going up for a lot of these teams trying to bully
37:14
McMahon and and and Brock Besser on the same boat and that boats
37:17
turned into rocket ship soon somebody other boats are
37:20
crashing down going to the sharks.
37:22
So this was this was a mess, but.
37:25
That's it. Yeah, Man and Brock Besser are
37:29
on Artemis 3. But it's a boat.
37:32
Yes, exactly. I think it's Artemis too.
37:36
That just went up. Anyway.
37:37
They're they're on the next one with it, which is gonna be a
37:40
boat apparently not a rocket ship.
37:41
Heard here first. Can't wait for the sequel
37:43
management. I said OK, let's get into our
37:48
top five bangers under 20% owned.
37:52
Yeah, this is also just, you know, I guess small profile
37:56
change for me. The previous list is 40%.
37:58
This one's 20%, which is good. I mean, high chance that they're
38:02
available in some of your leagues depending.
38:04
And you know what I will say even beyond, you gotta focus on
38:08
the other guys we mentioned for points leagues 100%.
38:10
But if you're in like a really deep points league, it could be
38:13
worth it to take these guys because it hits are worth
38:17
something. Blocks are worth something.
38:18
So yeah, with some of their production recently, not bad.
38:21
Again, more of a last resort type vibe, but not irrelevant
38:24
there. Alright, so we have we have 5
38:27
names plus one honorable mention.
38:29
I feel like we'll, we'll list the five names that we'll talk
38:31
about them because you guys know about these banger guys, right?
38:34
We're trying to give you guys are gonna be valuable for your
38:35
entire week. But also not guys are just like
38:38
2-1 dimensional, even though there is some value to that when
38:41
you need to target a specific cat.
38:42
So I'm gonna give you 5 names. There's three forwards, 2
38:46
defensemen, and maybe we separate them that way.
38:49
So talk about some forward bangers that you guys can really
38:52
look at. This week we got Eli Tolvanen of
38:54
the Seattle Kraken. We have Adam Clarke or Calgary
38:59
famous name on this podcast. Like the guy just all he does is
39:02
hit. All he does is hit hit and no
39:04
matter what literally thought of that right away.
39:07
There you go. And the last name for forwards
39:10
we'll mention is loss and Krauss, who also has been
39:13
quietly putting in some crazy performances.
39:15
Like if you played against Alison Krauss, you know you did
39:17
because you look at your opponents team, you're like, how
39:19
the bleep is this guy doing this to me?
39:23
For defensemen? We have a white cloud of Calgary
39:28
as well. He's been a really stellar
39:29
banger. He served me well during this
39:31
playoff run. And Mikey Anderson, not the
39:34
actress. We're talking about the
39:36
defensemen for the Los Angeles Kings.
39:39
You know what I mean? You my God, I was like who the
39:52
OHS? Easy to confuse you're talking
39:53
about. Yeah, so, so not sound alike,
39:56
yeah. Yeah, not a Nora.
40:01
My yeah. Yeah, I've never met another.
40:06
Another guy named Mikey. That's his actual name.
40:09
Mikey for all all you Mike is out there, let us know as I was
40:14
never and never let somebody called Mikey.
40:16
There were metal, Mikey. Before.
40:18
No, that's that. That wasn't a nickname.
40:19
That was his actual name. Ohe ohe, yeah, OK, but.
40:23
Like I met Mike Michael. I mean, I have a feeling like
40:27
his real name is Michael, but anyways, that's, that's neither
40:31
here nor there. Now Mikey Madison, maybe her
40:34
real, I don't know. Man, this is getting too
40:36
complicated. We we talk about way too many
40:40
advanced topics. On it is it is Michael, but he
40:44
loves to go. Michi.
40:45
Yeah. What's Mikey?
40:46
How to say I'm? Older than Mikey.
40:49
Dang, you really is. Yeah, I am.
40:51
Yeah, that was the worst feeling when it started happening and I
40:56
was like, ohhhhh, ohhhhh. OK, I'm older than these guys
40:59
now and they're in the NHL, and Mikey Madison's real name is
41:03
Michaela. That adds up to Mikeys, Michael
41:07
and Michaela. That makes sense.
41:08
Everyone learn everything. Real name Real name is Mikey.
41:12
Let us. Know your fake name and your
41:14
stage name, your real name. OK, alright, OK.
41:18
So we got, um, I guess I'll give a, I mean, we, we could go in
41:23
whichever order. We'll start with the forwards, I
41:25
suppose. Tolvanen is, I would say easily
41:28
the most well-rounded. He kinda puts up to really solid
41:32
defensemen numbers as a forward and there are those weeks where
41:35
you just gets points and that's pretty fun.
41:38
Then Klopka also extremely one-dimensional, as you said,
41:42
Lawson Kraus, there is a Japanese dip on her kind of
41:47
thing. Corner store really called
41:49
Lawsons. So that's the first thing I'll
41:51
say. That's super important.
41:54
Yeah. There you go.
41:55
Yeah, They they got, you know, like those egg sandwiches that
41:58
are famous at 7:11. Looks like they got they got
42:01
them there too. Anyway, nice small world, but
42:04
yeah. Kraus has been insane.
42:06
Obviously the Pimms have been knots, the shots, hits, blocks.
42:09
So if he has any, well, I mean, I guess the Pimm's caveat came
42:13
from one game, but still, if he can do that for you in Week 24,
42:18
that would be fantastic. And for the defensemen, look, to
42:23
me, I don't really see much of a difference.
42:26
I think it kind of could go either way.
42:27
But the the blocks are there in that that I expect to stay.
42:31
So I'd probably rather Anora over White Cloud.
42:36
Alright, we got a new nickname. There we go.
42:38
I love that. You should state that.
42:40
That'd be great. Hopefully he's relevant.
42:42
It's a good one. Josh is gonna come back and be
42:44
like who the heck Annora is like looking at his appearing like
42:48
what are you guys talking about? I didn't know she played hockey
42:51
as well. That's what I will say about
42:54
crowds, though, is that, I mean, listen, you look at this game
42:57
log, you saw that game against LA where you had three points.
43:00
If you played against him that week, you're really upset about
43:02
it. But he's been like quietly
43:04
really good for hits and shots and that's kind of been his
43:09
thing his whole career. But now he's also playing line
43:11
one with Nick Schmaltz. So and not only Nick Schmaltz,
43:14
he's also playing with Clayton Keller.
43:16
So just the deployment bump right there is something to know
43:18
to be noteworthy of going into this, you know, period of them
43:22
playing so many games. So if he's got the banger, you
43:25
know, architect to him as well attached with like the increased
43:28
deployment upcoming for this week, I think like he could be
43:31
one of those sneaky guys. If you're one of those deeper
43:33
leagues, he could be a valuable pickup.
43:36
And yeah, what Mikey Anderson, I think he's more well-rounded in
43:40
terms of like having like a double, double in shot hits and
43:43
blocks for defenseman. That's really good.
43:45
White Cloud, I think has the higher ceiling for blogs and I
43:48
really want to focus on the blogs for these defensemen
43:51
because his is way easier to stream, right?
43:53
There's so many guys that average like four hits plus like
43:57
a clap guard or something that you can just pick up and get the
43:59
hits that you need. But blocks, it's hard to find.
44:00
Guys are like valuable to blocks and other stuff.
44:03
So guys like White Cloud, guys like an Aura, Mikey, Mikey
44:07
Anderson are, are really valuable for your fantasy
44:09
leagues. The type of guys you pick up
44:11
early in the week and you know, just get the quantity from those
44:13
categories. Yeah.
44:16
I guess one more name I kind of have to mention, and this is
44:19
sort of regardless of the schedule Sean Walker is under.
44:24
My bad. Well, he's under 40.
44:26
He's under 40, yeah. That'd be under 20.
44:29
That's true. That's true.
44:30
And the honorable mention, though, Jack McBain, Mendoza.
44:35
Mendoza, yeah, he's, he's been, he's been fantastic.
44:40
He's, you know, he's not technically on this list because
44:44
he's day-to-day right now. Yeah, he got his last game on
44:46
Easter. He didn't finish it, but if he
44:49
was healthy and we were sure he was healthy, like he's the type
44:51
of guy that like he's also averaging over 4 heads a game.
44:54
He can get you points, he can get you some face off, win some
44:56
shots, very well-rounded. So I would take him over, clap,
45:00
go, let's say if I knew he was going to be healthy, absolutely.
45:02
And with these other guys would be close.
45:04
Yes, OK, well said. Let's move on to the top three
45:09
quantity goalies. These are under 40% owned.
45:12
Again, I'll list them off. You got Kevin LinkedIn.
45:18
This is tough. I get it.
45:19
I do get it, but I got it. There's not a lot of bullies
45:22
that are less than 40% owned. That's true.
45:24
That's true. We got Freddie Anderson and
45:27
Connor Ingram. The reason it's tough for me and
45:30
then we'll go in order is because he is just not good.
45:34
And I don't understand what like, I never knew this Rod
45:38
thing translated to goalies too, but it does.
45:42
It's everywhere, it's not damage.
45:44
Seriously. OK, let's get into your your
45:46
namesake, Kevin Lankinen. Yeah, I mean, listen, I do gotta
45:50
preface right here. Like it's Week 24.
45:52
We're gonna see a lot of crazy things happen with goalies.
45:55
You're gonna see maybe some guys that are not even in the NHL
45:58
right now get brought up and get some games because teams have
46:01
nothing to play for or, you know, they just want to give
46:04
some young guys a chance to play.
46:06
So it's kind of rare to find a guy that's like not really well
46:08
owned, reliable for starts and is not just kinda like ruin your
46:11
categories the whole time. So Lincoln, I mean, started for
46:14
Vancouver, the worst team in the league.
46:16
He'll get you the games. Will it be a lot of wins?
46:18
Absolutely not. Will it be good volume?
46:21
Yes, it will. And you're just hoping the
46:23
quality doesn't, like ruin you. I know it's not a glowing
46:26
recommendation, but at this point, less than 40% owned
46:29
goalies are hard to come by. The ones that are gonna get you
46:31
like consistent stars. And it's A7 game week, right?
46:33
So maybe you don't have to pick up pick up a goal that you need
46:38
to hold the whole week or something like that.
46:39
And maybe you can just like pick and choose goalies that will win
46:42
you your matches. If you're in the finals right
46:43
now, you probably have semantic goalies and it's just about kind
46:46
of picking the ones that can win your matchup with extra volume
46:50
or a good quality start, right? So these names are worth
46:53
mentioning, but I don't think they're gonna be game Breakers
46:56
for you. Jackie has a Freddie Anderson
46:58
hatred, so him and him and Brandon Bussey have been
47:02
alternating stars here and there in Carolina.
47:04
Still a good team they can play. Spoiler is I would say the same
47:09
percentage will hover around 900 or just below.
47:11
It's kind of been like that consistently.
47:13
They just don't have the save. They don't get enough shots
47:16
against to have higher state percentages because if they let
47:18
in two goals, it's never gonna be 900 pretty much.
47:20
Yeah, I just, I don't really understand why they're doing
47:23
this. Like Bush's had a great year and
47:25
he's been playing like not his best.
47:28
He's he's fell off like the last month and 1/2 has been really
47:31
rough. Blake look, take the last three
47:35
games and he's won all three, and 885 and 895, and then a 920.
47:40
OK, after the 920, you think they'd play them again against
47:43
the team that he'd demolished, right?
47:45
It was Columbus. He got a 920.
47:47
And then Friday, Anderson plays the next game and they win 51.
47:51
Anderson got 9 saves on 10 shots.
47:56
Jerry, come on. Like, like, yeah, OK, they're,
47:59
they're good and he'll get you the win.
48:01
But I'm just like. I'm just like the whole season.
48:04
But he like, like, it's really since the Olympic break that
48:07
they're just like, alright, no, Brandon, you've done super well,
48:11
but I just decided I don't like alliteration anymore.
48:14
So you're just not gonna play and we're gonna play Freddie
48:18
Anderson. And it's just, it's been very
48:20
questionable. And they're like they're giving
48:23
him games in succession. So look, I don't get it anyway,
48:27
Whatever the whatever it is, it's happening.
48:30
Even if I don't like it. And it's, yeah, I mean, I
48:34
definitely come up. And the last goal you're worth
48:37
mentioning is Connor Ingram. Listen, the starter for
48:40
Edmonton, he's had some really good games in the in the recent
48:43
past, but it's like very rare you're able to pick up a goalie
48:46
like this that's only currently 28% owned.
48:49
His last game was a shutout. And then they played, they
48:52
played Tristan Jarry the next game, which was not a
48:54
back-to-back. So they were like, OK, you just
48:55
gotta shut up. How about we give Tristan Jarry
48:57
the next game? Jerry didn't like completely
49:00
pooped the bed either. So at least there's that.
49:02
Like Edmonton is really just like goaltending away from being
49:04
a standing and tender when they're all healthy.
49:06
I mean, they're still missing dry saddle, but they've won four
49:09
games in a row and you're able to pick up the quote UN quote
49:11
starter for this team for your championship week potentially.
49:15
I think he's the only guy that if he's available on waivers and
49:18
I was I didn't have like a sure thing goalie situation, I would
49:21
go and I would pick him up because Edmonton doesn't have
49:23
the best schedule for week 24. But the fact that I can bank on
49:27
on Ingram getting most of the starts on a team like this
49:31
that's winning games, I would be significantly interested.
49:35
Um, and I don't know if you have anything to add you, but we
49:38
would do something honorable mentions that I want you guys to
49:40
keep an eye on. Yeah, like I just in general, I
49:43
mean he is the clear #1 on this list.
49:46
Would you take him over a Binnington?
49:49
Was it 48% owned? Yeah, 100% you would have been
49:53
in the splitting starts for Saint Louis.
49:55
St. Louis does have a six games this
49:58
upcoming week. And also you have to, you have
50:00
to keep in mind that like a lot of games are back-to-back.
50:03
So there's some goalies that have like necessarily 2 back to
50:05
backs, but you have to hold them for those back to backs being
50:09
far apart type of thing. And that's not always fun
50:11
because it feels like a dead roster spot most of the week.
50:14
So I don't like doing that per se.
50:18
Whereas for Edmonton, like their last game of the season is
50:21
against Colorado. Like what is that Colorado look
50:23
like? I don't know.
50:25
But they also play, you know, they have a back-to-back with
50:27
Utah and San Jose, I think. I mean, it can be when both of
50:29
those games and then they play the Kings, who the King will be
50:31
trying to win, but I feel like Edmonton always got their number
50:34
so. Yeah, Speaking of the Kings, are
50:37
you dropping Kemper for for Ingram?
50:41
For Ingram, I think, I think at this point you have to like,
50:46
it's the fall of camper also needs to be studied him in black
50:49
with our besties. But LA has arguably the easiest
50:53
strength of schedule going into this week 24.
50:57
And it's like, OK, we have to talk about it too, because
51:00
Forsberg has been kind of like saving their butt recently.
51:03
I wanted to do a segue for that. That was perfect.
51:06
Segue was complete. I was like, are you gonna do it?
51:08
Are you gonna do it? Yeah, yeah.
51:11
Thought process. So we finish each other's
51:13
sandwiches. OK, yeah, we do.
51:17
Speaking of sandwiches, I mean, Anton Forsberg, he's just he's
51:22
just sandwiching those pucks and that crease, baby, nice.
51:25
But no, I mean, listen, the the Kings are desperate.
51:28
They're they're in desperado mode trying to make the playoffs
51:31
right here. And Kemper is just not getting
51:33
it done. Like they just lost against
51:34
Nashville in the shootout to me. Listen, we're recording this
51:37
before the games on Saturday, but if, um, if Forsberg gets the
51:43
next game, like we don't know if he's gonna play that game yet or
51:46
not, But if he plays that game, I feel like there, it's just the
51:48
tide has been changing. And unless he poops the bed in
51:51
that game, I think they might roll with him for the rest of
51:53
the season. And that's why I'm saying keep
51:54
an eye on horseback. Can't in good conscience
51:56
recommend them right now with the information I have right
51:58
now. But what we've seen, like he's
52:00
played better than Kemper. Kemper just lost against
52:02
Nashville and LA's desperate. So I would not be surprised if
52:05
they roll Forsberg and say he has gives us the best chance to
52:08
win right now. And if he becomes a starter and
52:10
with the schedule to Ellie has, I would be really interested.
52:13
Like I'm I pick him up over Freddie Anderson over Lankinen
52:16
and be close between him and and Connor Ingram from you.
52:19
Yeah, yeah. And then we got another one more
52:22
honorable mention here as. Well, yeah, Carter Hart of the
52:25
Vegas Golden Knights, he came back.
52:27
I know a lot of people in Discord were asking me questions
52:29
on if you're picking up Connor Carter Hart and if we're playing
52:33
him. I said, listen, I do like Vegas
52:35
to be a better team. They just did a coaching change.
52:38
New coach Bump Aiden Hill has been questionable for most of
52:40
this season. They don't like what they had
52:42
from Akrish Meade. Carter Hart, they went and got
52:44
him for a reason. He was awful before he got hurt.
52:47
So I don't necessarily think he's a great goalie right now,
52:50
but he's on a great team that's going to win games.
52:52
I know they've been in the slump, but no new coach bump.
52:55
They might be turning around. So keep an eye on it.
52:57
I don't know right now if he's going to take over the starting
53:00
job from Aiden Hill, but he came back and the first game he
53:02
played, you won even though it was a shaky start.
53:05
Maybe he gets more starts the rest of the season.
53:07
Like he's the guy that they kind of like run to the playoffs
53:09
with. It's just monitoring the
53:10
situation. But he's like a name that might
53:12
stand out. It's a weird one because if it
53:14
was the same coach, I feel like I would not be as interested.
53:18
I'd be like, you know what, the Cassidy Cassidy's kind of
53:22
defaulted to Hill all season. And like, I also went so hard.
53:26
Had exactly like Heart had the injury too, right?
53:30
Yeah. So when Hart was was healthy, I
53:33
know it was kind of a question mark, but it but at that point
53:36
for most or all of it, if I remember correctly, Hill was not
53:39
in the picture. So this is kind of the first
53:41
time they're both there and with the new coach, like, I mean, if
53:45
he gets the next game and it does play well, then I'm
53:47
definitely interested. Vegas was bad.
53:48
Like they were losing a lot of games.
53:50
Like they got to a point where they were like, OK, there's a
53:52
chance they might not make the playoffs.
53:53
Like realistically nobody was even talking about it.
53:55
But if you look at the standings, like it was close now
53:59
it looks like a little bit better for them.
54:01
But it all happened so fast. It was like, oh, yeah, Carter
54:03
Hartley is he might return from injury soon.
54:05
And the team definitely wants to give him some games before the
54:07
end of the season. Then it's just like, Oh yeah, by
54:09
the way, he's starting the next game and we're like, OK, so it's
54:11
it's happening right now. It happened.
54:13
They ended up winning, but he got a lot of goal support in
54:15
that game. So take that with a grain of
54:18
salt. But I'm just curious to see if
54:19
he gets the next one. And if he does, I'm actually
54:21
like, OK, listen, like he might be an option for you in your
54:24
fantasy fantasy leagues in Week 24.
54:26
All right, now we have the top three quality goalies.
54:31
This requires a huge Asterix because I feel like everybody
54:35
has already seen how goalies are playing back to backs.
54:38
Now it's the end of the season and you feel like you can't
54:42
necessarily rely on a back-to-back giving you split
54:46
starts anymore. If a team is fighting for the
54:49
playoffs or still in that picture, it feels like they're
54:51
they're likely to play the same guy on the back-to-back if it
54:54
gives them the best chance to win.
54:55
We've seen it with Swami, Sawed, Sorokin, we've seen it with
54:58
grieves in the past. So just really, really monitor
55:02
the situation. But these these back to backs
55:04
have way more risk now than earlier this year.
55:08
So I just need to make sure people know.
55:11
So I I kind of think that that this is interesting.
55:14
OK, I'll list them off. And then we could kind of talk
55:17
about like which games we think they'll get.
55:20
We got Jacob Fowler Archer she loves and Alex Nedeljkovic.
55:24
So OK, the way I see this is that the Habs are the most sure
55:31
thing, I think out of all these teams.
55:34
And it's kind of bold, I would say, to to say that there are
55:38
more Kieran Pittsburgh. But I do think that they.
55:41
Are things especially. Because I think they are too.
55:44
So I'm glad we're on the same page there.
55:48
Pittsburgh is sort of tried to go to skin or more.
55:50
Yeah, doesn't. Work been yeah it has not worked
55:54
it and like it's crazy because in the when they do the one game
55:58
one game Skinner plays well and then when Skinner gets two games
56:00
in a row at top and twice yeah not good not good.
56:03
So I think that they're in quite the situation now as far as
56:09
things go. I think that if if you're
56:11
depending on one's to get a start it's gonna be it's gonna
56:16
be Fowler. I think because at the same time
56:20
they they are fighting for a playoff spot, but they also kind
56:24
of want to make sure that they like rest Dobesh, who I think is
56:27
a shoe in to start in the playoffs.
56:29
Yeah, I mean, to me, Fowler made Low Key be my favorite because
56:34
of the guarantee. What are you?
56:37
No, I feel the same and it really just depends on like
56:41
you're not picking these guys up in advance, right?
56:42
You're picking them up either the same day that you know
56:44
they're confirmed playing on the back-to-back or the day before
56:47
in anticipation of game, getting the game on the back-to-back.
56:49
So you're never making these as an advance and there's so many
56:53
back to backs in this next 10 day stretch because there's so
56:56
many games left in the season. So there's a variety of options
57:01
and I think these are the ones that I kind of like targeted for
57:03
the matchups. I do like followers if there's
57:06
major back-to-back where they either Columbus or the Islanders
57:09
and both teams are choking their playoff spots right now.
57:12
And Fowler has been decent. The haves are great team,
57:15
arguably one of the best teams in the league right now.
57:17
So I'd be confident in, you know, Fowler's ability to play
57:20
well in those games and then she loves.
57:22
Listen, unless Pittsburgh really falls out of the picture, it
57:25
feels like they're trying to find one of these goalies to run
57:27
with it. I still think they're gonna keep
57:28
alternating on the back-to-back. I expect both Skinner and she
57:31
loves to get one of these games. She loves this.
57:33
Less than 40% on skinners, like 43 or 44% owned.
57:35
So he's on a consideration here, but both have not been great.
57:39
So it's kind of just like, you know, hoping that you get a good
57:42
performance out of them. They play the Caps on a
57:44
back-to-back so they can find out the most threatening team
57:46
right now either. Like they're not really in the
57:48
playoff picture right now. So Pittsburgh could win those
57:51
games and Pittsburgh wants to win games too.
57:53
So I'm happy about that. But this last one thing is my
57:55
favorite. So Nedeljkovic has a
57:57
back-to-back. I think it's the last two days
58:00
of the games of the season. Where do you play?
58:02
Chicago and Winnipeg and San Jose is a must, must win
58:05
territory like they might. It might be that, you know, they
58:08
need to win out to to make the playoffs.
58:10
And ask just came back from injury.
58:11
He looked good. But Nedeljkovic has been like
58:13
really good as well recently. So I think they split that
58:17
back-to-back. And I would not be surprised if
58:19
that hasn't really good game against either of those teams.
58:22
I guess the reason that I was like for quality purposes still
58:27
more on the Fowler trainings because Ned could have a bad
58:30
game like under 7. 100 they're also selectable to that.
58:35
I would say followers definitely on the best him he, but I think
58:38
his matchups are a little harder because he's playing desperate
58:40
teams, which I don't think Chicago and Winnipeg or
58:44
desperate teams like maybe I think Winnipeg is probably gonna
58:46
be eliminated from the playoffs at that point and Chicago just
58:49
play with house money. They're just a fun team.
58:52
Right, right. I think, I think the thing with
58:54
the Dalvik is that he'll get, he'll get the starts like I, I
58:57
really do think that Fowler's gonna get one, maybe 2 or as I
59:01
would say in a Delkevic is, I think you could get 3.
59:04
I don't think that's crazy. No, they have seven games this
59:07
upcoming week. He could get 3 or 4.
59:08
Like I think they put the back to backs and then besides that I
59:12
think they gonna run with the guy gets them the most chances
59:14
of wins. As we speak to currently on a
59:15
four-game win streak and both guys have played during that
59:18
stretch. Ashcraft just came back from
59:20
injury. So I think it's just like you
59:22
better and you make sure that you know the goal you're picking
59:25
up is actually going to plan the day you want them to.
59:27
And that's not the point. We're all crossing our fingers
59:30
and hoping for some good quality from these guys.
59:33
Yeah. I usually anything can happen.
59:35
After, Yeah, yeah, After we cover the goalie section, I'm
59:38
usually like, I really like the quantity guys more than the
59:40
quality guys. I think that this is a different
59:42
story because this is like this is that week where anything
59:45
could happen. Guys this is what we say, go 0
59:49
genier drafts. Goalies that have been really
59:52
good the whole season can have off weeks and that can ruin your
59:55
whole league, so might as well not invest your top picks on
59:57
them like we saw Ottinger. We do do and get, you know,
1:00:01
people eliminated from the playoffs in the semis, in the
1:00:03
quarter finals. And then this upcoming game, he
1:00:05
just got a shutout and helped a lot of people out, right?
1:00:08
But he was like, so bad before the people didn't wanna start
1:00:11
him. Then you have Temper, who has
1:00:12
been so bad that nobody's starting him and then he gets a
1:00:14
shout out and then you're like, Oh my God, yeah, Temper.
1:00:16
Then he plays again. He's sucks.
1:00:18
So it's just kind of like, you know, how are we supposed to be
1:00:22
rational about any of this? It's too crazy, but it's so.
1:00:25
Fun. Yeah, Sorokin let's six goals in
1:00:28
and then he they play him again in the back-to-back and he gets
1:00:30
a shout out on the back-to-back. He said he can't make this up.
1:00:33
I know, I know, it's not OK. Thank you everybody for
1:00:37
listening to our Week 24 waivers episode.
1:00:42
I like it. I'm not in Week 24.
1:00:45
As we spoke about, I don't have any leagues in Week 24.
1:00:47
Do you have any leagues in Week 20?
1:00:48
Four. Yeah, I'm in a few Yahoo public
1:00:52
leagues just for for fun and to keep a pulse on how those
1:00:57
leagues look like. And those are all Week 24
1:00:59
championships. So I think honestly, in every
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league I'm in there, which is not many, I'm probably going to
1:01:05
be a shoe in for the championship.
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So hopefully I take those home because I'm probably gonna lose
1:01:09
against Jackie and look at my watch.
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But you can see my timeline for my watch.
1:01:15
Yeah, if you had your existent watch and if it happened to be
1:01:19
able to see NHL scores, you would know that Vladar is not
1:01:22
getting a shower right now, so. No, he's only like winning three
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one against the Islanders. Yeah, that.
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Yeah, exactly. Not 3.
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Zero. Yeah, yeah, shut up.
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You just needed a good. You just needed a good game.
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I could have definitely used the shutout Mr. Shorthanded point on
1:01:40
Monday. Yeah, and you got a shorthand
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the point yesterday, but you don't.
1:01:45
Monday, it doesn't matter anyways.
1:01:50
Stay tuned for the next episode where you'll find out the result
1:01:53
of what happened, how it happened.
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Or the discord cuz I'm gonna be sad in there.
1:01:59
You're you're doing the Josh thing.
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We've we've all been doing the job thing the whole year.
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I just it's a different level. I know, but like it works, you
1:02:09
know, I think it's it's. Well he got bounced in the first
1:02:12
round so don't work for him. This.
1:02:15
Year, I guess you can't go overboard, you know what I mean?
1:02:17
You gotta be like, there's a lot cautiously optimistic What?
1:02:19
There's a line and you gotta find.
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It that's it, that's it. Alright, this one was week 24
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waivers. Thank you to everybody for
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listening. Follow us on Spotify, Apple
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podcast, wherever you get your podcasts.
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We are there rate is five stars. If you enjoyed which how could
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you not, it's best to host Bank Imagine the fantasy hockey
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podcast. Exactly.
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The discord, we talk about it all the time.
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Make sure to join the community over there.
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We're we're well over 300 right now would be a great place to
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be, but you know, the more the merrier.
1:02:47
So definitely definitely come on in and it's been really fun
1:02:50
interacting with you guys all year, especially Kevin's done an
1:02:53
amazing job with that. So thank you, Kevin.
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All the socials are in the podcast subscription.
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Follow us on Instagram TikTok the other one.
1:03:03
All of the other ones were there, yeah.
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Myspace. Yeah.
1:03:10
No, actually, not a Myspace, unfortunately, not yet.
1:03:13
Yeah, maybe next season. Maybe, maybe one day, maybe one
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day, but I feel like it doesn't even exist anymore.
1:03:19
I don't. Know it's like Club Penguin and
1:03:21
how does era and what an error it was.
1:03:23
All right. Are you going to be earning or
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am I going to be earning? I can be Ernie.
1:03:27
I'll do my best Ernie impression.
1:03:29
Take it away, Ernie. Bang your management in fantasy
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hockey podcast. Woo woo.
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That was a strong that. Was a that was good.
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That was great. That was great.