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  But about bound Bangor management fantasy hockey
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  podcast Woo woo. Whoo, nice.
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  Welcome in everyone to Bangor Management, the fantasy hockey
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  podcast with Jake, Josh and Kevin.
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  I maybe got your name wrong over there.
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  Slim Shady. Over there.
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  For all those watching on YouTube today, Josh showed up in
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  the Bangor Management hoodie wearing the hood.
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  That was an anticlimactic reveal, Josh.
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  I was expecting like a haircut or something.
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  Yeah. Like some Scooby-doo shenanigan.
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  Yeah, it's like sarcastic, but on the hood, you know, it's a
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  completely different person. Oh man OK today our week 18.5
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  meaning the second-half of week 18 cause of this huge $8 sign
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  dollar sign Olympic week. It's the waivers episode.
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  Follow us on Spotify Apple podcast wherever you get your
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  podcasts. We are there subscribe on
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  YouTube and give this video a like If you enjoyed Joshi's big
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  reveal to be the same way that. He always is.
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  If you like the reveal, I'll do 1 next week.
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  It builds suspense. If it's something different
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  every reveal know that everyone knows what to expect.
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  But if it's just the same, then sometimes you know you gotta
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  shake things up. Expect the unexpected.
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  That's true. That's my motto with the woos.
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  Yeah, literally, literally. And also all the socials are in
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  the podcast description. Do we have any thoughts on who's
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  gonna win the gold medal game tomorrow?
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  Canada, yeah, we're recording this literally the day before
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  the Goldman game, right? So.
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  Obviously rooting for Canada, but I've not been impressed with
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  them the the two game like it's honest, it's crazy.
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  The prelim games they were killing it and then like
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  everything on the line and they just like play like garbage.
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  Like I think they I don't even think they deserve to win the
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  Chia game. Like I think that they got
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  lucky. You know, it was 1.
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  I mean, that's what three on three overtime is, right?
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  It just takes one individual like, you know, crazy play, but
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  they could have easily lost that one could have easily lost
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  against Finland right down to nothing.
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  I think they got lucky that they, I mean it was a good, I
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  think it was a good call, but like they get lucky to get a
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  power play with like 2 minutes left in the game Well.
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  I mean, if you want overtime, I feel we would have had the
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  advantage in. Overtime, yeah, for sure, for
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  sure. But I mean, like going down to
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  nothing and just, I don't know, I haven't been impressed.
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  Meanwhile, US just steamrolled Slovakia, which is like
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  expected, but like they're doing what you're supposed to be doing
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  that Canada should have been steamrolling their opponents.
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  All have to say like I'm still rooting for Canada, but like, I
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  don't know, they have to figure something out.
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  They have to, They can't. If they follow to nothing down
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  to the US, I don't think it's going to be the same story as
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  with Finland. I don't think you're coming back
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  from that versus this team. After the park, the bus too,
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  like they were, they were basically like 435 minutes just
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  in their zone being like alright please don't score.
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  That's it. They were turtling hard.
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  Canada barely beat Finland, who got smoked by Slovakia, who just
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  got destroyed by the United States.
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  Yeah. Obviously different stage of the
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  tournament, things are a bit different.
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  But by that either. Yeah, that's true.
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  And if he comes? Back with the cross, you know
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  Morrissey. Like he's not gonna be healthy.
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  Like he's not gonna be as effective as he.
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  But he was the third line centre, right?
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  That's like third line matchups for him.
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  I feel like crossing any third line match, no matter his health
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  status, is not the it's not the worst thing.
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  There's a great line 3C moving forward rest of season.
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  Well, I I look I look at her or decor and I'm just kind of like
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  we have NASCAR who can who can have like some offensive spark
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  there. We got Sanheim, we got Paraco,
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  we got Thomas Harley, we got Devon take like all of these
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  guys are like defensive defensemen.
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  Meanwhile, we have like Evan Bouchard at home.
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  Like, could you feel we could have used the Bush bomb at this
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  at some point this tournament, right?
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  It feels like they can't save her.
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  Like, I know that we won four, three versus strategy.
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  We won 32 versus Finland. But watching those games, like
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  it really felt like we just cannot produce any offence.
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  And it felt like what I was saying was that they were just
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  jamming up to like middle of the of the zone, you know, like the
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  middle of the ice. And that's when you need one of
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  these defensemen, these puck moving defensemen to kind of get
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  it through the zone. And you just have a car playing
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  like 40 minutes a night. You know, Like, yeah, look, I
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  think that US is favored going in, especially with the Crosby
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  and Morrissey injuries. We'll see.
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  I mean, Tage was missed part of the game, but they said to go
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  for the game for the gold. So.
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  And he's been sick this tournament.
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  So. Yeah.
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  How do you feel about the Biddington?
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  I feel he's been fine. I feel like he hasn't done
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  anything spectacular. Like Shirky, you know, he didn't
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  let in goals when we needed him not to let in goals.
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  But like, I don't know, I don't think he's been spectacular or
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  anything like that. I think that, I mean, at this
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  point, obviously you're going, you're gonna switch goalies on
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  the game, but I would have rather go Thompson the whole
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  way. Yes, I think he's coming.
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  He's that's a big saves in OT, like he's had some moments, but
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  I just feel like also some of the goals I just feel like are
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  are not like you could have had those, but I feel he could have,
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  I don't know, some of them, like he could have played better
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  there or whatever, But then he makes up for it as you're like,
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  Oh my God, look at the crazy save.
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  You just saved us but like we were in the hole because I feel
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  he could have played better earlier on.
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  Well, it's also like, it's like the goals are like you said,
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  they're not like bad ones that should have had that or
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  whatever. But when the other team is only
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  getting like 17 shots on goal the entire game, you know, you
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  could use that one clutch save that like, you know, on a one
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  that should have been a goal, but you like stop it right like.
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  The Shorty that the score. Like that, that shouldn't go in.
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  And I mean, it was a great, it was a great play by Holly.
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  And it's not on Bennington that they got a break away, right?
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  So it's not like his fault. But you know, could have used
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  some clutch, some clutch there. Yeah, it's tough as a goalie to
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  not get a lot of shots. And then you get one, Yeah,
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  like, you know, sporadically. And then you have to.
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  Yeah, it's. Not.
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  Like so overall you think Canada or United States?
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  Canada, we got the clutch factor.
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  I think we have the tractor. I'm I'm going Canada because,
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  you know, I want, I want it to happen and I'm gonna believe,
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  but I don't know. I'm not feeling great.
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  I was like before, after prelims, I was like, nothing can
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  stop us. You know, after these last two
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  games, I'm like, I feel like anything can stop us.
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  I think they can't stop anything.
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  I'm gonna go Canada as well, but I definitely want to hear all of
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  the listeners thoughts in the discord, you know, during the
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  games, the in game discussion. There's been a lot of fun
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  conversations going on over there, a lot of emotions.
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  In you guys, I was never in the discord.
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  I was gonna Yeah, Josh, you always say the worst things with
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  the receipts are like right above.
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  But if you've been in the Discord, it's been super fun,
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  like talking to everybody in the live the live game channel
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  throughout these Olympics. It's been really fun.
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  So yeah, if not already in there, this might come out like
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  right before the the gold medal game, right?
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  Like we. Usually do gold medal games at
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  8:00 AM. But we our episodes usually go
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  out 7:00 AM. Eastern.
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  OK. True.
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  True. So if you're listening to this
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  at 7:00 AM Eastern on Sunday. There's still time.
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  To this corner you have an hour. Yeah, I know it's great.
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  It's great the, you know, the fans get to see what we're
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  really like in pressure situations.
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  And I just wanna put it out there.
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  Jordan Binnington is currently the most added player on our
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  League of Record waiver wire. So it would have been Borsky,
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  but somebody sniped him earlier this week.
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  Yeah. It's me, I'm someone, and I
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  dropped him for Sutherland. I don't wanna talk about it.
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  I dropped Zetterling for him rather.
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  Than era is over, finally dropped.
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  Him. It's the Zetter Lend and.
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  Kind of that works, yeah. Let's move any any prefetches
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  before we dive in to the to the waivers episode.
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  Uvas Belinsky is a beast. That's all I need.
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  That's that's perfectly enough. OK.
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  So, Josh? Let's dive in.
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  So this is only half a week. So every team either plays two
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  or three times. So the two game teams are
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  Boston, Carolina, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Montreal,
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  Nashville, Rangers, Ottawa, Vancouver.
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  The three-game teams. Are everyone else not going to
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  name every team in the NHL? The busy nights are Thursday and
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  Saturday and then the teams with two off night games we've got
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  Anaheim, Buffalo, Florida, Minnesota, Utah, Vegas,
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  Washington and Winnipeg. Quick note on Winnipeg, Josh
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  Morrissey injured in the Olympics missed pretty well.
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  He played one shift the entire Olympics it feels like and then
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  just missed the entire did that. Did he get injured at Four
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  Nations also or am I making that?
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  Up he did. Yeah.
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  He missed the gold medal game. Yeah.
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  So I don't know, maybe take Evan Bouchard next time that little.
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  That's pretty cut throat, Josh, but.
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  I mean, you know, I I could, I could contribute as much as
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  Morrissey has to this run. Probably, probably a little more
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  actually, maybe a little less if you're on the ice and getting
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  getting gold golf again, so. We've seen that the coaches are
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  not afraid to let a guy sit on the bench the entire game.
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  So, you know, I'd bring up morale just, you know, on the
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  bench, but. Everybody.
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  You got like a penalty for like, jumping on the ice after a goal
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  and celebrating and be like, you're not allowed to get off
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  the bench and be like, Oh, no, they can't tell me mercy.
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  Yeah, sorry, was gonna say. That's my way of getting ice
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  time is I get a penalty and then when I get out-of-the-box, I
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  just don't get back to the bench.
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  I'm on the ice. You can't do anything about it.
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  Polar covalent but like not score a goal.
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  Yeah, just get absolutely. This is never happened before.
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  But you just stay in the penalty box.
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  You like signal to like, you know, like the bench, like
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  someone else. Go on.
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  We don't want him on the first single second OHP man.
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  Yeah. But Morrissey, So we don't know
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  yet the extent. I feel like he was day-to-day
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  for the entire tournament, right?
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  He kept being like, he might come back for this game.
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  No, Might come back for this game, no.
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  So it seems like it's probably not too long term.
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  But do we have an idea of who would replace him?
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  Like I would say Neil Pionk would be my instinct, but Pan's
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  also been injured so I think he should be back.
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  I mean, so my take, and I want to put this out there because
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  somebody discord asked me like, how do you feel about, you know,
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  Morrissey for Adam Fox? And I was just like, I really
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  like acquiring Adam Fox, but you gotta know that like Rangers are
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  the worst team in the league. You know, he's a candidate to be
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  shut down because he's been injured the whole time because
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  he asked me like, well, you know, Winnipeg also sucks, so
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  why would it morsy get shut down?
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  And I was just like, well, Morrissey isn't like hasn't been
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  hurt like Fox the whole season. But then this like injury at the
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  Olympics. It's like day-to-day to day.
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  I was just like, OK, you know, they're being preventative.
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  They keep for the important games, but then you end up not
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  playing any of the important games and he's not going to play
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  in the gold medal game to my knowledge.
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  So it's and I feel like the Olympics is kind of like its own
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  vacuum where if injuries will be pushed through to play because
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  it's such a monumental game where like we I mean, we'll
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  touch on Crosby later, but like, you know, he might play in the
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  gold medal game with like a bionic brace or something.
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  And then just like not playing the regular season for maybe a
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  week or two because they're like, OK, this is actually like,
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  you know, we're not playing for gold medal in week 19 of the
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  fantasy season. So I'm a little worried with
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  Morris. I feel like it's one of those
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  things that we might be worse than we think, but they're just
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  like keeping them day-to-day. Because he wants a chance to
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  play in the gold medal game. But I'm not.
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  I'm yeah. If there was a reason I'm not,
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  I'm not valuable. I don't think it's valuable.
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  Yeah, I don't think anyone who's replacing him is valuable unless
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  it's Pyong for someone of an extended period of time, because
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  Pionk can actually be decent in his own right.
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  And then other than that, they have no real standout offensive
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  defensemen that have been able to sustain any offence for an
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  extended period of time. Yeah, I mean, definitely piano
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  could be the most interesting because he also bangs, right.
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  So even though he has been doing that this year with all the
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  injuries, but yeah, exactly. So I would definitely pick up
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  Payonk if Morrissey's out and Pink is the power play one guy.
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  I think there's a lot of value in a guy even if he is just .5
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  points per game, but also like banging and getting some
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  PowerPoints. I think that's really valuable
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  off the waiver wire for random guys.
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  Look, I wouldn't mind taking a shot.
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  This will obviously hinging on like the assumption Morrisseys
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  out, but like last year they were the first power play in the
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  league. I know this year they're a lot
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  worse, but like you have Connor life Levard, like I think that,
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  you know, sometimes all it takes is a darn radish to come in and,
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  you know, rejuvenate the whole power place.
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  So like, yeah, lucky the guys given the opportunity.
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  I don't mind taking a shot on it.
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  I don't know who it's gonna be if it's not pink, but but I
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  don't hate it. I don't think it's impossible
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  for them to be valuable. But also it's not like if you
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  miss out on it, I don't think it's another radish so.
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  And I do think Winnipeg is still going to try to make the
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  playoffs, so you at least have that like incentive to like, not
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  just like punt the season away and give up, you know?
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  Yeah, yeah. OK, let's see.
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  Let's dive in 10 points. As usual, Under 40 owned Kevin
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  want to get us started off with? #10.
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  Nice #10 we have Anthony Mantha of the Pittsburgh Penguins line
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  2. Possibly power play one.
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  It'll depend on if Crosby's out. So we mentioned that you're
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  going to to Yeah, we were gonna bring that up.
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  So yeah, Crosby got injured in the no.
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  He got injured in the bronze medal game versus Checchia, got
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  Radko Gudas. Of course it's goodest.
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  Man, it's always. Good, like the guy can just take
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  a chill pill. For a second, I mean no that
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  game he was a beast like honestly like he was very
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  noticeable on the eyes like he was just like crashing bodies
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  and just like making great plays.
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  It was, I know it sucks. And they felt like Cross was
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  being targeted. Like they showed like the play
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  where he got injured, it was like 4 different places where he
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  was just getting like, thank you so much.
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  Yeah, exactly. So Cosby gets injured then they
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  don't rule him out until like the last minute for the silver
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  medal game. Now, they still haven't ruled
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  him out for the gold medal game, but I think it's kind of like
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  what Kevin was mentioning with the vacuum.
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  And then like, you know, he might play through like a lot
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  worse to play in this gold medal game, which is obviously such a
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  high stakes like important game. And then come back for the
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  regular season and be like, OK, I need 2 weeks to get ready for
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  playoffs with, you know, like because they're pretty
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  comfortable in a playoff spot. So they don't need him to come
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  back to rush back. So I think there's like, I don't
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  know. What do you guys think?
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  I think he's probably gonna be one to two weeks after coming
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  back from the Olympics. Yeah, that seems fair.
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  I don't think they're gonna shut him out for any longer than they
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  have to because even though they they are in a decently
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  comfortable position, I mean, 2-3 games and Washington could
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  be replacing them second place in the metropolitan, right.
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  So they need their players to play.
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  The East in general is super close.
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  I do like Mantha here. And I think you'd have a leg up
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  on like someone like a China call, for example, who I still
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  like by the way. And if you're in like a deeper
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  league in mouth is not available.
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  I have China call on my team, for instance, so I'm a believer.
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  But yeah. So right now will will Mantha be
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  the replacement? Probably that's the most likely.
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  And if he is, then it's definitely a good pickup.
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  Yeah and even if you look at his game log before the Olympics, he
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  was just on fire. So he was even without Power
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  Play 1, he seems to be able to like produce.
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  He's got three games. He also got four games the week
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  after. So it's like he could be a good
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  two week stream. Yeah.
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  Schedule. Two 4th power play rank in the
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  league, right? So if he's on that point, it's a
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  huge boost for him. That is one of the teams to own
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  on week 21 to 23 in general. Like shows the the lower key
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  guys mount that junior Cobb. Like even in a deep enough
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  league you could do worse. One of my main questions though
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  is that we have met #10 I think if Crosby's confirmed, we don't
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  know right now, you might play gold medal game then maybe he's
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  just like playing regular season, no injuries here.
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  If he does miss time in like they come out across missing 2
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  weeks, I'll put Manta higher on this list in my opinion because
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  I think that's spot when he's on power play one Manta is actually
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  delivered pretty well. Yeah.
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  Are you interested in any Pittsburgh centre that would be
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  bumped up into the top 6 because of the Crosby injury?
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  I'm thinking about like the Ben Kindle or Kevin Hayes.
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  I think is name is back out. There.
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  Yeah. Well, I mean, first of all, with
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  Mantha, to your point, I think it's 2 ifs. 1 is if Crosby's out
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  and the 2 is if he's the guy who takes power play 1 like you
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  should be. But like, you know, if Chekov
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  got it, it's like we'd be shocked, right?
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  Like it's a I still think it's Samantha, but it's not a
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  guarantee. So.
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  But yes, with those two ifs, if that happens, you would be
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  higher up on the list than 10th. And then yeah, in terms of
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  centres that would slot into top 6.
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  I think Ben Kindle is the main one I'd be looking at.
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  Not really interested in Kevin Hayes.
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  Kendall already on PP1 as we speak so like it's him Russ
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  Malkin Carlson Crosby now you have to take into account Raquel
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  coming back to so Raquel probably buns Kindle and then if
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  Crosby out Crosby's out the spot.
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  Do they put Kindle back in? They put Manta?
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  Will have to check. Kindle has shown flashes earlier
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  this season that if he has good deployment he can.
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  He's a category suffer. Like he's actually pretty good
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  for categories once themselves. I would keep it on him.
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  Watch list him if Crosby's out and you see a practice report
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  like being a discord. If you see practice report with
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  Kindle playing in the top 6 or on power play one.
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  I'm slipping. I'm picking him up.
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  Yeah, yeah. I mean pretty much between
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  Kindle and Mantha it's whichever 1 gets power play.
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  One I'm more interested in. Same.
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  OK, let's go to #9 Sorry. Wow.
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  Oh my. God, I'm not editing easy at at.
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  #9 Thank you at #9 We have the captain of Team Finland, Michael
• 17:15
  Grandland, Line 2 power play, one question mark.
• 17:19
  I'm still not sure. I've been following the lines,
• 17:21
  but like, it's kind of messy following the lines after
• 17:24
  Olympics, or at least this point, because all the Olympics
• 17:26
  players haven't returned. There's also some injured guys
• 17:29
  who are returning like Leo Carlson.
• 17:30
  We don't know how everyone's going to slot in together.
• 17:32
  So he was probably 1 before the Olympics, but Carlson was
• 17:36
  injured. So I'm not sure he's gonna end
• 17:37
  up that's lower on the list. But three games this week, four
• 17:40
  games the week after. So schedule wise is great.
• 17:42
  He's got that like triple eligibility and he's shown he
• 17:45
  can, you know, he's not the most consistent, but he can randomly
• 17:48
  get a hat trick for, you know, like so.
• 17:50
  And that lineup is they don't really load the top line.
• 17:52
  I find there. He's trying to like spread the
• 17:54
  wealth among the top three lines.
• 17:56
  So and grand is going to be somewhere in there.
• 17:58
  So it's just the deployment of big question mark, but I like
• 18:00
  Grantland. Everything that is on people
• 18:03
  love him like the actual NHL team.
• 18:06
  So like I was surprised that he was a captain for team Finland.
• 18:09
  Like they got they got like, you know, Sebastian Aho, they got
• 18:11
  Haskins, they got Rantanen like Rupe, like I, I just feel like
• 18:15
  they have some big names that maybe you would have, you would
• 18:18
  think more leadership aspects in them.
• 18:19
  But Brandon is the guy. And I think we see it for
• 18:22
  Anaheim too. Like he's like the the fill in
• 18:24
  stop gap for a lot of these injured guys and any kind of
• 18:27
  ends up keeping better deployment when even when the
• 18:29
  other guys come back. So I think Brandon is sneaky
• 18:32
  value for the rest of season. I think you can have a big part
• 18:34
  to play in this Anaheim team. And we did expect them to be
• 18:37
  better than they were, you know, throughout the middle part of
• 18:39
  the season where they were like atrocious after like the
• 18:41
  excellent start they had. So I think grandma with this
• 18:44
  deployment, I'm very interested. Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest,
• 18:46
  I've been trying really hard to buy some Anaheim players.
• 18:49
  I think they've got a solid schedule rest of season and I
• 18:51
  think. I like Jackie.
• 18:54
  Yeah, no, honestly, like, and I think that they've been so
• 18:56
  underperforming, like and I think the break is going to be
• 18:59
  great for all those young players, a lot of guys getting
• 19:01
  healthy. So I've been, I've been sending
• 19:02
  out offers for like Carlson Terry, you know, college.
• 19:06
  Killorn with your name on it. I will pass, but yeah, so I'm
• 19:13
  I'm very into the to the ducks rest of season.
• 19:16
  I think brands could have could have good value.
• 19:18
  Obviously it depends on how the lines shake out, but yeah.
• 19:20
  Especially the faceoffs, he has a lot of value there.
• 19:23
  That's pretty much all I wanted to add on that.
• 19:26
  And if depending on how the lines shake out, he could have a
• 19:29
  great finish and also his minutes finish fantastic.
• 19:32
  Nice. I will say I arguably would like
• 19:38
  him more than this next guy, potentially, but let's go to
• 19:41
  yeah #8. And #8 this is a big, big
• 19:45
  potential one, so it could be nothing, but it could be like
• 19:48
  the potentials there. It's a Frank Nazar of the
• 19:50
  Chicago Blackhawks Line 2 power play 1, three games this week
• 19:53
  and then three games a week after.
• 19:55
  My thing with Nazar is like, I think I actually kind of like
• 19:58
  the theme of this list is a lot of guys who these young guys who
• 20:03
  showed flashes at points in this season.
• 20:06
  And I'm kind of thinking that this break getting their teams
• 20:10
  getting healthy or them getting healthy and just resetting, I
• 20:13
  think they can have strong finishes.
• 20:14
  So that's why I put Nazar above like, like Granlund or Mantha,
• 20:17
  even though he didn't necessarily like, you know, do
• 20:19
  better than them. Like this season.
• 20:21
  I just think that, you know, a healthy Connor Bizard is going
• 20:24
  to make a big difference. And if you look at his game log,
• 20:27
  like Nasar before the Olympics, like he was shooting a lot, like
• 20:30
  he was averaging like almost like three shots a game.
• 20:33
  And I kind of just, you know, I like his.
• 20:35
  We saw what he could do at the start of the season and this is
• 20:38
  that like kind of like time of year, especially with the
• 20:41
  Olympic break and even resting up where these young guys,
• 20:44
  especially on like teams that are not nowhere near playoffs,
• 20:46
  they're just given free reign to kind of just mess around and and
• 20:50
  be productive. So that's why you'll notice the
• 20:52
  theme with this list is a lot of those.
• 20:54
  So that's why and these are there.
• 20:56
  The strong finish is also something that, like a lot of
• 20:59
  young players generally just have.
• 21:01
  Lefkofsky last year was an example.
• 21:03
  Holloway too. You know, this happens and
• 21:07
  considering, I mean, I know Bertucci's had a pretty decent
• 21:10
  year overall, even though it comes in, it's come in waves.
• 21:13
  It's been a bit of a roller coaster with Bedard hopefully
• 21:16
  healthy rest of season. I think that Nasar would be the
• 21:19
  second best player to own on this team, so I like it.
• 21:26
  Yeah, it's like you said, it's like a potential play, but
• 21:28
  granted maybe gives you a stronger foundation of like long
• 21:32
  term value. So it just depends what kind of
• 21:35
  player you want on your team. Like if you're a really good
• 21:37
  spot, you have a chance to take more of the potential swing, so.
• 21:39
  I also think that Nasar has a better chance at power play one
• 21:42
  than Grandland does. When all helps.
• 21:44
  You. Yeah, when all healthy.
• 21:46
  I feel like I don't know why. I feel they just love grand for
• 21:49
  like the faceoffs and stuff. Like, I mean, I would be
• 21:51
  surprised if they're both power play one, but I mean, if one of
• 21:53
  them gets bumped, I think it's more likely to be grounds.
• 21:55
  But also I don't think either of them is a staple.
• 21:57
  So that's why they're both the number 9 and eight, right?
• 22:00
  So. Yeah, and Anaheim power play
• 22:03
  units are always kind of like quote UN, quote split or
• 22:05
  whatever. Yeah.
• 22:07
  Alright, let's go to #7. At #7 we have Maddie Veneers of
• 22:13
  Seattle Kraken, 3 games this week, three games the week
• 22:15
  after. And this is one that's like both
• 22:17
  one of those, like, potential plays with the young guy.
• 22:19
  But also he was just doing well this year.
• 22:21
  So especially leading up to the Olympics, he was playing really
• 22:23
  well. So I like beers a lot.
• 22:26
  Honorable mention to Eberly, but I'd much rather beers.
• 22:29
  And, and yeah, I think Seattle, they're third in their division
• 22:32
  somehow, you know? I mean, we know it's a weak
• 22:34
  division, but everyone kind of expected LA to be where Seattle
• 22:36
  is right now. I don't think Seattle holds on
• 22:38
  to it honestly. But no.
• 22:41
  But look, the division is bad enough that it's wide open to be
• 22:43
  taken. So I like, you know, line on
• 22:46
  power play one. There's not many line on power
• 22:47
  play 1 centres available to just pick up off waivers.
• 22:51
  Guys, this is the #1C on a playoff team who plays over 19
• 22:57
  minutes a night on a fringe top ten power play like there's a
• 23:01
  lot of like these side metrics that are just very encouraging
• 23:04
  for what managers can do rest of season.
• 23:06
  And don't forget, I mean, first of all, play with the best
• 23:08
  players on this team, play with McKenna, play whatever.
• 23:10
  Like those are two wingers on Seattle.
• 23:12
  You can't ask for much better than that.
• 23:15
  But you know, we're Joshua said they may be bounced out of a
• 23:18
  playoff spot. This team is trying to buy like
• 23:20
  they were in the Panera mistakes, like they offered him
• 23:22
  big time money. He just preferred to go to LA.
• 23:25
  So there's another world where, you know, maybe they're trading
• 23:27
  for some of these other guys. Like what if Jason Robertson is
• 23:30
  not extending in Dallas and he's on the move?
• 23:32
  I don't know. But in and out there, that'd be
• 23:34
  crazy, right? I feel like they really wanna
• 23:36
  high-powered offensive player. Like they need a superstar to
• 23:39
  pair with their potential superstar. 1C.
• 23:41
  Patrick Liney. I would love that for for for
• 23:46
  the haves to get them all for the team, but.
• 23:48
  I saw rumors that he's almost like pretty much a done deal in
• 23:52
  LA King. Really.
• 23:54
  Yeah, I mean, we'll talk about fella after, but I've been
• 23:56
  looking for someone to fill in that gap.
• 23:58
  But Nears, I think he's one of my favorite like young guys that
• 24:02
  ends the year super strong and then next year we're looking at
• 24:04
  him as with a more positive eye on like what he can do for
• 24:08
  fantasy. Yeah.
• 24:10
  And I think I think that's a great point you made on the
• 24:12
  like, they were like, if, if Panarin didn't have a no move
• 24:15
  clause, he would have been a Seattle Kraken because they gave
• 24:18
  by far the best offer not just to the Rangers, but they offered
• 24:21
  Panarin way more money and term than what he got with LA.
• 24:24
  He just didn't want to go to Seattle, which like, no, I mean,
• 24:27
  to me, I feel like it's all West Coast.
• 24:28
  Like it's the difference, you know, but whatever.
• 24:31
  The chance to win, I guess, in concept.
• 24:33
  I guess, yeah, I feel like he just wanted to go to a for the
• 24:36
  vibes, but but yeah, anyways, so I think that's a great
• 24:39
  indication. Like you said, like they're in
• 24:40
  the market for a big name. If a big name pops up, they're
• 24:43
  going to make a swing and I think that's what they need, you
• 24:45
  know, like that's for like so long.
• 24:46
  So so yeah, no, I'm pretty, pretty hyped on Benny or think
• 24:50
  it's a great pick. Yep.
• 24:52
  Alright, let's go to #6. Alright, at number six we have
• 24:57
  Gabe Landeskog of the Colorado Avalanche, captain of team
• 25:01
  Sweden line 2 power play one. Both of those I have asterisks
• 25:05
  next to because I'm not sure how these lines shake out post
• 25:07
  Olympics. But if he's on power play one
• 25:10
  obviously way more interesting. But even without it, he's been a
• 25:12
  solid kind of like bangers guy. Like, he'll get some shots, hits
• 25:15
  and face off wins from a winger position.
• 25:17
  And just being in that top 6 on Colorado, it's one of the few
• 25:20
  places where even without power play time, you could still get
• 25:22
  some decent production. But obviously that power plays
• 25:25
  the place to be if you can. And also, he wasn't healthy
• 25:28
  before the Olympics, right? So people kind of like
• 25:31
  speculatively added him or he's still available and you can grab
• 25:33
  him now. And he was on a pretty like, you
• 25:36
  know, strong run before he got injured.
• 25:37
  So I'll be interested to see what he can do when he comes
• 25:39
  back. Yeah, they, they've had a
• 25:41
  surprisingly bad power play all year.
• 25:43
  It's it's pretty nuts that they're.
• 25:46
  Yeah. 32nd, I was gonna say, is it Josh, is that accurate?
• 25:49
  Is already actually 30 seconds out of 32 teams.
• 25:52
  They I updated these numbers during the Olympic break, so
• 25:54
  nothing's changed. The worst?
• 25:57
  Partly the lead. The Colorado Avalanche could
• 25:59
  kill the car and Nathan McKinnon.
• 26:01
  Yeah, the best team in the league has the worst five.
• 26:02
  Player in the league. Imagine something that out.
• 26:06
  Yeah, wow. Like obviously they've gone on
• 26:08
  on a bit of a cold stretch over their past over their last 10
• 26:11
  games, but I'm still shocked that they're this low.
• 26:16
  That being said, I mean, clearly if they have, they have to start
• 26:20
  winning games. Like for a while it felt like
• 26:22
  they were coasting and they were completely untouchable.
• 26:24
  And right now? They're just fact checked
• 26:25
  myself. By the way, I just went on the
• 26:27
  NHL website. In fact myself, they are indeed
• 26:29
  the worst power play in the entire league this year.
• 26:30
  Crazy. That's.
• 26:32
  Crazy. But anyway, I mean, you do want
• 26:34
  him to be there because at least more deployment and it's really
• 26:38
  nice to see that he's had a good Olympic Games for points in the
• 26:41
  five games that he played. And yeah, hopefully look with
• 26:45
  him, it's always just whether or not he could stay healthy.
• 26:48
  If he can I definitely like him for a stream and potentially
• 26:52
  rest of season hold in a deep enough.
• 26:53
  League if they play him with me couldn't consistently and he's
• 26:57
  slots on the power play one. Like we know the worst
• 26:59
  PowerPoint in the league, but like you still want to be
• 27:01
  exposed there like the potential opportunities there.
• 27:04
  Like he could be like I don't want to say a league winner, but
• 27:07
  like in our league of record, somebody picked them up for free
• 27:09
  couple weeks ago after he got dropped right as an IR stash.
• 27:12
  I was very interested, but I was like, oh, I'll have to wait and
• 27:15
  see how to use my ADS more wisely in my current matchup.
• 27:18
  I may regret and I'll pick you up.
• 27:19
  Landis cog like left wing, right wing, getting face offs, playing
• 27:23
  those minutes without deployment and he was on fire for a little
• 27:26
  stretch. So I think he has some juice,
• 27:27
  but it's all about the deployment.
• 27:29
  Like if he's line 2, I'll be disappointed, but he could still
• 27:32
  produce. But I feel like he's a top 6,
• 27:35
  probably 1.5 type of guy. Like he's either like the first
• 27:37
  man, the last man out of the first man in SO.
• 27:41
  Yeah, potential. And and as we mentioned in the
• 27:44
  playoff primers, Avalanche have a great playoff schedule.
• 27:48
  So that's true. That's definitely something to
• 27:50
  keep in keep in mind. Let's go to the top half of this
• 27:52
  list. All right, breaking into the top
• 27:56
  five we got #5. And #5 we've got my boy Josh
• 28:01
  Stone of the Buffalo Sabres line 3 power play one, but putting
• 28:05
  line three with an asterisk because another name worth
• 28:08
  mentioning. Josh Norris should be back after
• 28:12
  the Olympic break. Where have we heard this one
• 28:14
  before? Guys, I'm monitoring the office.
• 28:17
  Connor McDavid. He's practicing not in a no
• 28:23
  contact jersey like he was in a no contact.
• 28:25
  Then he he shed the no contact contact not so he's in the
• 28:28
  contact jersey as we speak. There's like 2 axes like it has
• 28:32
  like contact with like a red line and line.
• 28:34
  Through it and then another. Red circle not.
• 28:38
  Practicing not in a no contact jersey.
• 28:40
  Not, not, not, not contact. And we can't make it any clearer
• 28:45
  than that. For all your office fans out
• 28:49
  there, yeah, but. Yeah, and by the way, Kevin, I'm
• 28:52
  doing you a favor. I purposely didn't put him on
• 28:53
  the list because I didn't wanna curse him.
• 28:55
  So thank you. I really put him on our list.
• 28:57
  He's gotten injured, so I'm like, you know.
• 28:59
  We put him in the top three. That's true, but I put him in
• 29:01
  like in the same, you know, I put him as a talk about as well
• 29:05
  here with Josh done and as another talk about as well
• 29:07
  before we can talk about all of them and together as Jason
• 29:10
  Zucker as well. I feel like we always these are
• 29:12
  all grouped together, you know, like in my opinion, just kind of
• 29:15
  again, I said that my theme for this list this week because
• 29:18
  those young potential guys who to go on a run rest this season.
• 29:21
  So out of the three that I just listed, I think Josh don't has
• 29:23
  the highest, you know, chance to go on one of those young end of
• 29:27
  season runs. But but I wouldn't follow you
• 29:29
  from either of these other guys over him.
• 29:32
  And I will say though, just Buffalo team like they may
• 29:35
  finish the season very strong, right?
• 29:37
  Like they they are a team that was on fire leading up to the
• 29:39
  Olympic break. Now maybe they lose all their
• 29:41
  momentum because of the break. But I think it's very important
• 29:43
  to how to conceptualize this Buffalo Sabres team because Josh
• 29:49
  Norris is coming back big, big, you know, help for their middle
• 29:52
  6. I think like he's gonna play.
• 29:54
  He's not the same guy that he was before, but he's gonna play
• 29:56
  important minutes. He's gonna be on the power play
• 29:58
  one which you want exposure to. So you know, he's on this list.
• 30:01
  But I would keep an eye on him. Zach Benson is the only guy that
• 30:04
  has not been back from injury and he was the guy that was
• 30:07
  taking Josh. Josh don't spot on line 1.
• 30:09
  So if Benson is not there for me, it's a no brainer.
• 30:12
  Josh don't see Josh done Tage Thompson, Alex Tuckers at line 1
• 30:16
  and that's where he's thrived before.
• 30:18
  Like we may be able to see like Josh don't really come out of
• 30:21
  this brick on fire. So I would strongly be
• 30:24
  considering him, especially you're able to get three games
• 30:26
  out of him this week and then four games the next week after
• 30:28
  that. He might be a phenomenal pickup.
• 30:31
  I'm really interested. And then put Josh N on that
• 30:34
  power play and you got fireworks.
• 30:36
  Yeah, book. Book goes up.
• 30:38
  Goes up, baby. So we haven't mentioned Jack
• 30:42
  Quinn. I think, I think all the guys
• 30:44
  coming back kind of hampers his yeah, yeah, because he's.
• 30:49
  Been on their best player pretty much for the last 10 games
• 30:55
  they've had. He's gotten like a ridiculous
• 30:58
  like he had one game without points over their last eight and
• 31:03
  he had one like 3 game, 3 point game.
• 31:06
  So it's mainly assists. So like just I guess kind of
• 31:11
  bodes well for his sustainability.
• 31:13
  He's shooting well too. But I I do also see where you're
• 31:17
  coming from that it may bump him off.
• 31:18
  I actually think that like when you mentioned that it's mainly
• 31:22
  assists that makes me think that it's really dependent on this
• 31:24
  deployment, right? Like obviously better players
• 31:27
  who can finish his plays. So I feel like if he does get
• 31:31
  bumped down because of Don Norris, like coming back like
• 31:35
  whatever everyone being healthy, I think that could, you know,
• 31:38
  hurt him. Also, he won't be power play one
• 31:40
  with the noise coming back, which I think, but I think his
• 31:43
  name is definitely worth mentioning because out of all
• 31:45
  these guys, he's the one who's been like look at last month
• 31:47
  averages and he's the one who's got the best.
• 31:48
  So yeah, I think that's a really good, a really good call out.
• 31:50
  How do you guys rank these, the four that we've mentioned
• 31:52
  because all of them are available in most?
• 31:54
  Leagues to me, don't Norris, Zucker, Quinn.
• 31:59
  Yeah. Yeah, I, I, I agree.
• 32:04
  I would say the only thing I'll add to that is that Zucker does
• 32:08
  have the highest floor. If you're in a position that you
• 32:11
  need like steady dividends, Zucker.
• 32:15
  When Norris was healthy, he was pretty steady, like he was up.
• 32:18
  He stopped .9 points per game on the season, like he's just
• 32:21
  playing one five games. But he's.
• 32:22
  Far stop playing. Not playing, but at that point
• 32:26
  I'll just like stream, you know what I mean?
• 32:27
  But I mean, I do like in terms of floor plus ceiling.
• 32:31
  Yeah, in terms of the Zucker versus done though, that's
• 32:33
  exactly how I pictured it as well.
• 32:34
  I think Zucker is like if you just want that consistent, like
• 32:37
  he's not gonna blow up and have one of those like end of season
• 32:39
  runs, you know, don't have that potential, but don't could also
• 32:43
  put up straight zeros. Whereas sucker, I think is more
• 32:44
  likely to game in and game out, you know, contribute to your
• 32:47
  team. So it's really like, I think
• 32:49
  don't more of a like not like a lottery ticket, you know, but
• 32:53
  like I feel like, you know, more potential.
• 32:54
  He can blow up here, which is why I would go for him over
• 32:57
  soccer at this point in the season.
• 32:58
  I feel like you gotta lean towards the guy who can blow up.
• 33:00
  But if you're like, you know, in a really tight match and you're
• 33:03
  like, I just need the like the more consistent stats, then I
• 33:06
  could see going for sucker. He got the bag and then kind of
• 33:10
  just decided to start temping. And no, he did.
• 33:13
  He got the bag and then they put him line three.
• 33:15
  Yeah. So which is crazy like crazy
• 33:17
  like such a mixed signals from the management like we really
• 33:21
  like you. Here's a ton of money.
• 33:22
  Now go play line 3. Well, Crosby's line 3 so you
• 33:25
  could do you know? Line 3, the new line 1.
• 33:28
  You heard it here first. Alright, let's go to the next
• 33:32
  one. I think this is another
• 33:33
  interesting team with a lot of names to talk about.
• 33:35
  Can't wait to talk about him, but let's go to. #4 at #4 we
• 33:40
  have my boy Dylan Holloway of the Saint Louis Blues.
• 33:44
  I put line 2 power play one with an asterisk because I don't know
• 33:47
  how that those lines are going to shake out.
• 33:49
  They have so many guys coming back from injury.
• 33:51
  I feel like, or at least maybe not so many guys.
• 33:52
  But off the top I just him and Tom is coming back is just
• 33:55
  completely shakes up the foundation of the lines, right.
• 33:58
  And then before we talk about Holloway specifically, let's
• 34:00
  also mention Jimmy Snuggerud, Dalborg, Dvorsky, I'll even
• 34:03
  throw Jake neighbors. Like there's a lot of low
• 34:06
  rostered interesting names on this team.
• 34:09
  And I put Holloway because I think he has the highest
• 34:11
  potential of any of these guys. I think we saw it last year
• 34:14
  where he was pretty much point per game with being over a
• 34:16
  double double. And I think that, you know.
• 34:18
  There's 2. Like that's like bangers league
• 34:20
  specifically, I think he has the highest upside and and yeah,
• 34:24
  he's coming back healthy. You know, he had like ample time
• 34:27
  to like get back into it. He and interview was like, yes,
• 34:29
  I'm coming back. I'll be back at the next game.
• 34:31
  You like feeling good? He's been practicing line one.
• 34:34
  But obviously, like I said, the lines are mixed up with like the
• 34:36
  injuries and the Olympics guys not being there.
• 34:38
  But yeah, I'm really hyped on Holloway.
• 34:40
  I got him on my teams, took him from JQ for Sutherland so.
• 34:43
  Everyone who's on waivers, by the way.
• 34:46
  Yeah, but I have a Dorsey now, so I'm.
• 34:48
  Yeah, Happy. Yeah.
• 34:50
  So I'm curious what you guys think about this whole Saint
• 34:52
  Louis. Like you, they can go on some
• 34:53
  sort of run. Like, I know they're gonna make
• 34:54
  the playoffs, that's what I'm saying.
• 34:55
  But do you think they can be not garbage for like the rest of the
• 34:58
  season? I don't think they're going on
• 35:00
  and I think they're selling pieces.
• 35:01
  I think we could see Cairo get moved.
• 35:02
  I think we could see Buchnevich get moved.
• 35:04
  Like there's gonna be a lot of guys here that.
• 35:07
  Yeah, so I'm not super hype on them, but I feel they could be
• 35:11
  one of those teams that even though they're not making the
• 35:13
  playoffs, they still have some fantasy relevant assets that are
• 35:15
  more banger oriented. Like I have Dorsey in a 20 man
• 35:18
  league. I'm really happy with him.
• 35:20
  I've had him for like 3 months at this point.
• 35:21
  Like he got called up. I picked him up right away
• 35:23
  because like in that league, nobody's available on waivers,
• 35:24
  all 0% guys. And you know, he's getting, he's
• 35:28
  getting probably 1 exposure even while the team was healthy.
• 35:31
  So I think she has a lot of potential.
• 35:32
  So kudos to Jackie for picking him up during this Olympic
• 35:35
  break. I'm pretty happy.
• 35:36
  Really jealous that he was able to slot him in there.
• 35:38
  But Holloway could have the best banger potential and I think
• 35:42
  that's if you're in a banger league, that's kind of where I
• 35:44
  would lean. And I just, I just don't see it
• 35:48
  for this team this year. I just don't see it.
• 35:50
  Yeah. Plus I think anything sucks.
• 35:51
  Yeah. But you know, I, I honestly, I
• 35:55
  think that either way, if they do go on a run or if they sell
• 36:00
  pieces, the core guys on this team can still have a very
• 36:03
  strong finish. So it's almost like for for
• 36:06
  their fantasy production specifically.
• 36:08
  I mean, if you're a Blues fan, it, it kind of sucks, but it's
• 36:10
  no good. Devorski and Holloway can all
• 36:14
  have really decent finishes neighbors as well.
• 36:18
  One of the hottest players going into the Olympic break, Like,
• 36:20
  yeah, over the last two weeks, like, he was really hot.
• 36:23
  I actually think the Olympics. Somebody discord said they they
• 36:26
  kind of potentially would rather snuggle it over Mark Stone.
• 36:29
  And I had to defend my boy, you know that, Mark Stone.
• 36:32
  Because I lover right now, I was the one who got in there and
• 36:35
  defended him And you know, it's bad if I'm defending Mark Stone.
• 36:38
  Like this isn't even a conversation.
• 36:39
  You have like a 90 plus percent owned guy to get like a waiver
• 36:41
  guy who's having a hot I mean. It was a conversation about
• 36:44
  like, how are you willing to go for a better playoff schedule
• 36:47
  type of thing? Doesn't have the best playoff
• 36:49
  schedule. But yeah, I think they still
• 36:51
  think Mark sounds like an elite fantasy asset.
• 36:52
  Like yeah, all have him over most guys.
• 36:55
  But yeah, now, but I think also, I think the Olympic break for so
• 36:59
  many guys, it's really good. They get to rest up, they get to
• 37:01
  get healthy, whatever. I think it sucks for subgroup.
• 37:04
  I think a guy who's like on fire like that to just have to like
• 37:07
  sit out for two weeks, like he's not gonna come back and be on
• 37:09
  that same streak. Like I'm not saying he's not
• 37:11
  gonna be good rest of season, but like that just makes it.
• 37:13
  It's hard to keep a streak going when you have a two week break
• 37:15
  in the middle of it. Lines will be changing, so you
• 37:18
  don't know how it's going. Take out, I think the selling
• 37:21
  pieces, like Jackie said, like I don't think that necessarily
• 37:23
  like the way I see it is the more you sell random guys, you
• 37:25
  sell, you know, which navitaire, whatever, that's just more ice
• 37:28
  time for these young guys, right?
• 37:29
  It's more so like clear up all the, you know, traffic, like not
• 37:32
  trash, like clear up all the other guys, you know, give my
• 37:34
  give my boy Holloway, like Torsky snugger, give those guys
• 37:37
  like all the ice time. Let them flourish and get ready
• 37:40
  for next season because the season to wash anyways.
• 37:42
  And I'm really interested to see.
• 37:44
  I think it's it's it's tough though, because there's so many
• 37:47
  guys who could step up and be that guy.
• 37:49
  It's kind of crazy on such a like bad team.
• 37:51
  But like like we said, Holloway, Snuggerud, Dvorsky, neighbors,
• 37:54
  all four of those guys I think could have fantasy relevant and
• 37:56
  like I think one of them, maybe 2 can be like actually really
• 38:00
  good rest of season. Yeah, but we don't know which
• 38:02
  one you're gonna pick up four of them, right?
• 38:04
  So. Yeah, I do think Holloway is
• 38:06
  both the safest and best pick here.
• 38:09
  So he is the one that's ranked #4 sorry, waivers trying to undo
• 38:14
  what I did before. But anyway, so so I'm, I'm
• 38:18
  definitely taking him like more confidently than I am taking
• 38:21
  done as opposed to the other Buffalo guys because he's proved
• 38:25
  it last year. And even though he had pretty
• 38:27
  bad start to this year before the injury, he was doing very
• 38:30
  well. So I think Holloway is the pick.
• 38:33
  And if you're in a deep enough league like, you know, like a
• 38:36
  shot on the other guys like Devorski or snugger at I like
• 38:41
  it. But Holloway to me, stands out
• 38:42
  as the best one of those. So if the other ones, how do you
• 38:45
  rank them, let's say like snug, Morski, neighbor, Saudi ring?
• 38:48
  Those Holloway, Snuggerud, Dvorsky neighbors.
• 38:52
  I think similar both from you, Yeah, yeah.
• 38:55
  Alright, let's go to the next one.
• 38:57
  Crack it into the top three we got #3.
• 39:00
  All right, at #3 we have Pierre, Luc Dubois, Pilda of the
• 39:06
  Washington Capitals line 2, power play 1 again.
• 39:10
  Like, I feel like everything, like I've been following the
• 39:13
  lines really hard, but it's just really hard with all the Olympic
• 39:15
  guys not returned yet and some injured guys are still getting
• 39:18
  eased back in. So it's hard to say for sure.
• 39:20
  But he was power play 1 before the break and I think that'll
• 39:24
  be, you know, a lot of his value will hinge on that.
• 39:26
  But he had one game healthy before the break and he put up
• 39:29
  two goal, 2 points and goal and an assist.
• 39:31
  He had shots face off wins from the winger position, a hit.
• 39:35
  He looked really good out there. And I think I've been seeing
• 39:37
  like over the Olympic break, he's been like just practicing
• 39:39
  non-stop trying to get back into like game shape.
• 39:41
  I think this is one of those cases where the break was
• 39:43
  amazing for him because like the timing worked out really well
• 39:45
  for me. Got to have one game under his
• 39:46
  belt and then just kind of like keep ramping up over the past
• 39:49
  two weeks to be just like ready to go.
• 39:52
  So I think this could be a really high high, like a quality
• 39:55
  pickup for rest of season. Tough thing is like this week
• 39:58
  has three games. The week after there's only two
• 39:59
  games. So I think it's the type of
• 40:02
  thing where you can pick him up for the rest of this week and if
• 40:04
  he doesn't blow your socks off, you can drop him for the two
• 40:06
  game week. But the potential is there.
• 40:09
  Yeah, he could be really good. I actually think this is the
• 40:12
  exact opposite of what you said with Snuggerud when, you know,
• 40:15
  he was on a tear and and now but like this is just great.
• 40:18
  Washington has only two players in the Olympics, Wilson
• 40:22
  obviously super fantasy relevant and then Ferrari.
• 40:25
  So I think that for a veteran team like this that wants to
• 40:28
  make the playoffs and is definitely, you know, poised to
• 40:32
  at least have a chance to do so because the East super tight
• 40:36
  everywhere. I think that this is going to be
• 40:38
  really, really and a strong finish to them for them the rest
• 40:42
  of the season. Sorry I forgot Logan Thompson
• 40:44
  but he's not playing many games but.
• 40:46
  Unfortunately. Yeah, here's the number one
• 40:50
  Biddington hater. I, I just, I do feel a little
• 40:55
  bit bad because I mean, I was, I mean, listen there.
• 40:57
  I don't think he's gonna average like 3 points per game for the
• 40:59
  rest of the season. Purely Dubois.
• 41:01
  But this is the guy that I believed in in the past that
• 41:03
  I've kind of had like, you know, more optimism on than my
• 41:07
  co-host, let's say. And I mean, I was a little bit
• 41:12
  not hesitating, but like when he was coming back, he was
• 41:14
  available on waivers and I consciously did not pick him up
• 41:16
  because I was just like, I don't wanna I need the ads are league
• 41:20
  record are so valuable, right? Like every matchup can be super
• 41:22
  influenced with one ad. So it's like I don't have the
• 41:25
  luxury to just pick up a stache. Then he comes back and he gets 3
• 41:28
  points and I told people like they were like PLD or like some
• 41:30
  of these other names. I was just like all these other
• 41:32
  names are just better. You know, you're getting already
• 41:34
  like PLDS. Then he comes back one game and
• 41:36
  he goes off. So I'm like, OK, but powerfully
• 41:39
  1, you think he can get it over? I think it's him and Ryan
• 41:43
  Leonard pretty much. I think those are the 2, the two
• 41:44
  kind of slots up for grabs because he's not going to bump
• 41:46
  off, you know, Chicken and Tom Wilson, Ovechkin or Dylan
• 41:50
  Strome, right? So it's one of those calls if he
• 41:53
  gets power play 1, I think he could be really good rest of
• 41:55
  season if he ends up power plate line 2, power play 2.
• 41:58
  I feel like his upside is definitely capped and his
• 42:00
  production will come more from the 5V5 and he's playing with
• 42:03
  Tom Wilson and the gold protest. So watch out.
• 42:07
  For yeah, I was gonna say, is this?
• 42:09
  Yeah, I think. The small, small correction it
• 42:12
  was, it was 2 points and I hope that makes you a little bit
• 42:15
  better because before that any game, any game that he's played
• 42:20
  that he was healthy this season, he played six other games and he
• 42:23
  did not get any points all season.
• 42:25
  So. Yeah, I mean, it was definitely.
• 42:28
  No, it was. It's a risky pickup like it is.
• 42:32
  I anticipate that they'll give him a chance at power Play 1 and
• 42:36
  even without it, though, playing between yes Produce and Tom
• 42:40
  Wilson, I suppose some towers, Yeah, yeah, that lie That's
• 42:45
  that's hella yeah. My gosh.
• 42:47
  But I do think they don't have the best power play either.
• 42:49
  So it's kind of like we're talking about the same thing,
• 42:51
  like it's bottom 5 power play. It should be better.
• 42:54
  That's why you have more optimistic and you care about
• 42:56
  the power play deployment. But with the two game schedule,
• 42:59
  he's gonna be a cut candidate for me.
• 43:00
  Like you pick him up right now to end the week 18 pretty strong
• 43:04
  and then week week 19 you evaluate your situation, but
• 43:07
  he's going to be one of the top guys to cut.
• 43:09
  If you're two game two game week and you can pick up some with
• 43:12
  four games, you can no brainer at that point.
• 43:14
  Yeah, obviously that depends on how he does in these three
• 43:16
  games, though, right? Like if he can keep up some
• 43:17
  ridiculous pace, then then you won't drop him.
• 43:19
  But yeah, in terms of him versus Leonard, it seems like he's got
• 43:22
  the edge over Leonard. Leonard really slowed down even
• 43:25
  before PLD came back, and then PLD slotted into Power Play One
• 43:27
  when he came back. I'd be more worried about an
• 43:30
  outside acquired acquisition taking power Play One because I
• 43:34
  know that Washington was another one of the names out there for
• 43:36
  Panera. And they've said even before
• 43:37
  Panarin was like made available, they've been saying all season,
• 43:41
  want to acquire a top offensive guy to.
• 43:44
  Look for something. 100% and I think that that would be the
• 43:47
  like whoever if they trade for a top offensive guy, that guy's
• 43:49
  getting that last power play spot.
• 43:51
  So I'm more worried about that than Leonard taking a power play
• 43:53
  1 from. Not worried about Ethan Frank or
• 43:55
  Justin Sword if don't sleep on sort.
• 43:59
  Of I'm only worried about sort if any week that I play against
• 44:02
  him on what I'm playing if I play Jakey.
• 44:04
  Other than that, I feel like Nah.
• 44:07
  All right, let's move on to #2. That's his favorite, alright.
• 44:12
  So good guys. It's been way too long.
• 44:15
  He's been like that every night. He's like, when do I get to say
• 44:17
  #2 again at #2 again? I mean, he's this is one of
• 44:23
  those like names that we, you know, kind of we did with Ryan
• 44:26
  O'Reilly for like 6-7 weeks where six.
• 44:29
  Yeah, I know. I knew it as I said it, where he
• 44:33
  just kept appearing because we were like, how is this guy not
• 44:35
  over 40% owned? So that's the plural of Matt.
• 44:38
  It's Matt Zuccarello on from the Minnesota Wild land on power
• 44:41
  play 1 three-game week this week and next week. 6th power play in
• 44:44
  the league by the way. And that's including, you know,
• 44:47
  that's all season average. That's including pre QBQ before
• 44:52
  Quinn. But yeah, like they're they're
• 44:56
  just nuts. The fact that someone on like a
• 44:58
  lock on power play on Minnesota is this widely available who
• 45:00
  plays with capris at even strength is kind of a joke.
• 45:03
  Mostly don't understand it. Like it's not even like he's
• 45:05
  been off and on injuries. He was just injured for awhile,
• 45:07
  but now he's back. So like, you know, pick him up.
• 45:09
  He's a no-brainer. He's 24% owned on Yahoo.
• 45:13
  Over the last month he's been a point per game with close to .6
• 45:16
  power play points on the season is at .87 points per game in
• 45:19
  light .35 power play points, which for top five power plays
• 45:23
  kind of realistic to maintain and he's just hovering around
• 45:26
  two shots a game. He's basically what you wanted,
• 45:27
  yes, for Brat to be this season, just a little less and picking
• 45:30
  him up for free in the week 18.5 of the fantasy.
• 45:33
  Season it doesn't make. Me while I'm holding Jasper
• 45:35
  Brad. Yeah, like sometimes, like I
• 45:39
  feel like a lot of time that owns percentage makes sense, you
• 45:41
  know, on Yahoo, like I think it could be a good indicator for a
• 45:43
  lot of stuff, but sometimes these glaring ones were just
• 45:45
  like, it does not make sense. Zuccarello should be on more
• 45:48
  even though he's #2 on the list this week, Like he's always, you
• 45:51
  know, he should be owned a lot more.
• 45:53
  Pick him up if. You want takes us 39.
• 45:55
  Then own Yeah, just I literally just looked up dude.
• 45:58
  No, honestly, like. I think to defensemen for some
• 46:01
  reason just on as a whole have a much higher owned percentage.
• 46:04
  Maybe because like leagues hold more, I don't know, but defence?
• 46:07
  Is 20% owned sucrose 24%. OK, that's a perfect.
• 46:11
  It makes sense. That makes no sense.
• 46:12
  I mean, keep your leagues maybe, I don't know.
• 46:14
  Maybe it's just like the teams that draft and the one inactive
• 46:17
  and think 1 was drafted and. Was injured at the start of the
• 46:21
  season so whatever all that to say, pick him up.
• 46:24
  There's not like I don't need to tell to have heart into this is
• 46:26
  another one of those Riley's where we're gonna mention every
• 46:28
  week until he's 40%. Owned And if you can, I would
• 46:31
  say the only thing I would add is if you can trade him, I'm
• 46:33
  absolutely trying to do so because, you know, this week
• 46:35
  he's got three games, which is nice.
• 46:37
  Next week you got three games, which is OK.
• 46:38
  And then, you know, Minnesota and I think both formats, 21 to
• 46:42
  2322 to 24, they have one of the worst playoff schedules.
• 46:44
  Yeah. So if you can add him as a piece
• 46:47
  to tier up. I'm still trying to up.
• 46:49
  This might be the last episode you listened to before trade
• 46:52
  deadlines hit in your league. So caveat there.
• 46:55
  If you have Zuccarello. I'm really trying to package
• 46:57
  them 2 for one to get a better player.
• 46:59
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's tough to do that
• 47:02
  because you're just picking someone off waivers, you know
• 47:03
  what I mean? Yeah, but if you're in a deeper
• 47:05
  league, maybe you have the. Opportunity.
• 47:06
  But the numbers, the numbers show that he should just be
• 47:09
  simply rostered more than he is so.
• 47:11
  Yeah, alright, let's go to. Number one.
• 47:17
  Alright, number one we have of the LA Kings, Alex Laferriere
• 47:22
  line, one power play, 2 asterisk, because I'm not sure
• 47:25
  how it's going to shake out. Three games this week, three
• 47:27
  games next week. Power play ranks 29th in the
• 47:30
  league. So you know, you might think
• 47:31
  it's not that important. Why did we put him at #1 I think
• 47:33
  there's just so much going on here.
• 47:35
  But first thing, the biggest thing, alright, Timmy Panera and
• 47:37
  trade to LA. They finally released some
• 47:40
  preliminary lines and it looks like Affair is playing centre
• 47:45
  with Panarin and Kempe when he returns from Olympics.
• 47:48
  That's what they're going into the season.
• 47:49
  They're going back into the season doing.
• 47:52
  That's like you cannot ask for better deployment than that.
• 47:54
  You throw that deployment on a guy who's already averaging like
• 47:57
  three shots and three hits a game.
• 47:59
  And and they also mentioned that, you know, Field is out for
• 48:02
  the season, right? And they just acquired Panera
• 48:05
  and. The owners.
• 48:06
  Yeah, and the the coach said Panarin being here alters the
• 48:10
  whole dimension of the power play.
• 48:12
  So I think I think it's going to be it's anyone's to take right.
• 48:16
  You're gonna have Panera and you're going to have Tempe.
• 48:18
  I think it's the only two guys who are guaranteed a spot on
• 48:20
  that power play 1 unit. And I think the other three
• 48:23
  spots for graphs look should be Clark.
• 48:24
  I wouldn't be surprised if they put down there because the coach
• 48:26
  is an idiot. So we'll see.
• 48:28
  But but I mean, in terms of at least like it'll be a defenseman
• 48:31
  and then like you'll have those two forward spots.
• 48:34
  I don't think Kopitar guaranteed that spot.
• 48:36
  I don't think Byfield guaranteed.
• 48:37
  I think Laferriere has as good a shot as any of those guys.
• 48:39
  You had that even strength deployment with the potential
• 48:41
  for power play with the hits and the shots.
• 48:44
  And it's like, this is a serious, serious pickup you
• 48:47
  could be making. In bangers leagues too like the
• 48:50
  fact that if you could pick them up in a bangers league right
• 48:52
  now, it's it's actually insane like he's right below the 40%
• 48:55
  because that's 38% right now. So hopefully he's available in
• 49:00
  your league. If he is he's triple eligible as
• 49:02
  well on Yahoo. So there's just so much to love
• 49:04
  you guys. When I saw when I saw that the
• 49:07
  potential lines there, I posted in the discord right away.
• 49:09
  So if you're not there another shout out get in the discord.
• 49:11
  You're gonna see these lines ASAP.
• 49:13
  And the coach said he went to Panera and he was just like,
• 49:17
  what do you want? Yeah.
• 49:18
  And Para was just like, Panera is a right hand shot, plays on
• 49:20
  the left wing. So he wants a right, like a
• 49:22
  right winger. That left hand shot.
• 49:24
  He's like, OK, let's put him with campaign.
• 49:26
  And Laferriere is just the guy there.
• 49:28
  Can you imagine him just being like, alright, I'll play here.
• 49:30
  Like yeah, OK, I'll play between Panera and Tempe if you want.
• 49:34
  I will say in the past though, we've seen the Laferriere centre
• 49:37
  be the second line centre, but like any centre playing with
• 49:40
  Panera and Tempe, the two best players on the team is gonna be
• 49:42
  line 1 centre so. Yeah, like when he's listed,
• 49:45
  like when they list the lines, they're listed as the second
• 49:47
  line. But line 1 is what, Kopitar
• 49:49
  Byfield and like Kuzmenko or something or some jokes like
• 49:52
  that or like more, you know, like.
• 49:53
  What goes obviously, Kevin? Fiala Yeah, exactly.
• 49:56
  That's obviously not the Line 1. So yeah, no, I think this is a
• 50:00
  monster pickup. Schedule he wants, yeah, but
• 50:05
  it's like he's getting that much pull.
• 50:06
  There's literally the coach. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams
• 50:10
  in The Notebook. So what do you want?
• 50:11
  It's not that simple. But like he, he chose and he
• 50:14
  chose it was left barrier. So that totally makes sense as
• 50:20
  to why he's #1 on this list. And it could be this could be
• 50:23
  elite. This could definitely be a
• 50:25
  league winning pickup. Yeah, He hasn't really had many
• 50:28
  shots on power play one throughout the season either,
• 50:30
  even though he's had heightened deployment.
• 50:32
  If he gets power play 1 now and the power play becomes like
• 50:35
  instead of 29th maybe they're 20th.
• 50:37
  Yeah, well, look at that. Yeah, exactly.
• 50:41
  That's still a huge bump in in percentage of conversion, so.
• 50:45
  Yeah, I think this like even without the power play 1, the
• 50:48
  shots hits combo and that line 1 deployment like just makes them
• 50:51
  so unreal. But but yeah, the hope of power
• 50:54
  play one as well just is an even bigger upside.
• 50:56
  Look, I will say that I don't think he's a lock on that line
• 50:59
  one right. I wouldn't be surprised if they
• 51:01
  put like replacing with Byfield or something.
• 51:03
  He was going. To But I think when you have a
• 51:05
  guy who just shoots and hits like that, like even if he
• 51:08
  doesn't get the deployment, you're still happy to have many
• 51:10
  teams. Floor is already so high and the
• 51:12
  stealing is just ridiculous. So I think that's a great
• 51:14
  pickup. He's I just lasting.
• 51:16
  He's just like he's been .5 points per game on the season
• 51:19
  with like no power play points. Could I see him finish the
• 51:22
  season with like .7 averaging? You like close to three shots,
• 51:25
  three hits, some faceoff wins and maybe like a .15 power play
• 51:29
  points. Like that's a really guy you're
• 51:30
  able to pick up actually week 18.5, you know?
• 51:33
  Yeah, that's a filthy averages. OK, let's go to the top five
• 51:40
  bangers. Bangers with a capital B.
• 51:43
  Bangers. Yeah.
• 51:45
  And a caveat moving forward, I we are doing bangers under 20%
• 51:49
  owned instead of under 40% owned.
• 51:51
  We got some feedback that all the bankers were naming were
• 51:54
  just too widely owned in Bangor leagues.
• 51:55
  And I think that's fair because just inherently since there's
• 51:58
  fewer bangers leagues, the own percentage is going to be lower.
• 52:00
  So like the equivalent to 40% owned could be like 20%.
• 52:03
  And so we'll do this for a cup for maybe rest this season and
• 52:06
  if even that still you're like all these guys are still owns,
• 52:09
  maybe drop it like under 10%, something like that, you know?
• 52:11
  So yeah, so just keep giving us feedback because as you can see,
• 52:15
  we do adapt to it. And I think it was a really good
• 52:17
  note. I was already kind of thinking
• 52:18
  it, but seeing someone kind of pointed out was like, you know,
• 52:20
  this is good, let's implement this so you won't be seeing some
• 52:23
  of the regular names. No more Radko Gudas.
• 52:24
  He's actually only like 21%, but still alright, let's get into
• 52:30
  it. Alright, at #5 at #5 we have a
• 52:35
  geeky favorite Bobby McMahon of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
• 52:39
  So he's a shot hits guy a double 33 games this week, four games
• 52:44
  the week after. But another fun note about him
• 52:46
  is his name is everywhere in trade rumors.
• 52:48
  I don't know if you guys have seen this yes.
• 52:50
  I think that Toronto really wants to get a first for him.
• 52:52
  I don't think they're going to, but I think they'll get a
• 52:54
  similar return to key for sure would like 2 high seconds.
• 52:58
  And I don't know where he's going, but he can play like he
• 53:02
  can play in the top 6 and on power play 1, you know, like
• 53:04
  it's it's a it really depends what team that requires him,
• 53:08
  what they want, what they need. But I think anywhere he goes,
• 53:11
  his employment is gonna be deployments gonna be better than
• 53:13
  on Toronto. As a player like on this list as
• 53:17
  not for Bangor specifically, not for hits like yes, I understand
• 53:20
  why his number 5, but overall like he's my favorite person to
• 53:23
  own that's on this list. He can sneak into the points,
• 53:26
  Section 2. In my opinion, it's really good.
• 53:29
  He he's playing with Matthews. I mean, you know, you can't ask
• 53:32
  for money. For this, that's a trade trade
• 53:34
  thing. Like they're like, yeah, trade
• 53:36
  show, but he's put them online but for his value right now.
• 53:39
  Yeah, like line 1 and 2 has been pretty consistent.
• 53:41
  So I think he's great and we'll see where he goes, but it's
• 53:45
  tough to predict as the situation is right now.
• 53:47
  I definitely like this pickup. Yep, three games this week, four
• 53:52
  games the week after. So you're happy holding him
• 53:54
  closer to the trade deadline too?
• 53:56
  So I think I think he has like he's one of those guys that like
• 53:59
  he's getting you the peripherals that you want from a banger
• 54:01
  pickup. He has a points upside and he
• 54:04
  has the trade potential as well, which a lot of boxes you're
• 54:07
  taking with this player. I just wanted to add that before
• 54:09
  you get to the next one that this is the banger management
• 54:12
  lower. I still remember last year when
• 54:14
  Jakey, Jake and Josh were were conversing about a trade.
• 54:16
  They were like Wheeling and dealing.
• 54:18
  It was trade deadline. I think that's the same day that
• 54:20
  Josh and I made the trade or especially Calvin Antares and
• 54:23
  Jake went on like this for ran for like an hour of like Bobby
• 54:26
  Mcmahan be like playing. Exactly.
• 54:30
  And I was like, Bobby McCain is not gonna sway whether like he's
• 54:33
  not a piece in a trade. I'm not interested in trading
• 54:35
  for him. And then I'm like, I told
• 54:37
  Jackie, I'm like, I'm like in the next week you're gonna drop
• 54:40
  him. He's like, no, no way.
• 54:41
  Like 4 days later he dropped him.
• 54:42
  Last year, Last year McMahon was 2.28 shots and 1.8 four hits.
• 54:48
  This year he's 2.07 shots, 2.25 hits.
• 54:50
  Like you could do worse. Like this is a roster bull
• 54:53
  player I think. He's a fantastic pickup.
• 54:55
  I don't think he has any. Chance.
• 54:56
  How much more are you expecting out of Holloway than McMahon as
• 55:00
  an example? Yeah, a lot more.
• 55:02
  Really, points, gonna shoot more.
• 55:04
  I expect him to hit more and I expect him to get a lot more
• 55:06
  points, yeah. OK, well I think it's like a
• 55:09
  double. Double with like .6 points is
• 55:11
  pretty reasonable for both of them.
• 55:14
  I mean, yeah, I could see that. Could be like, that's like
• 55:16
  always like, you know, Florin McManus like stealing, I feel
• 55:18
  like. Yeah, we'll see.
• 55:20
  Let's move on to the next one. I don't care.
• 55:22
  I don't have. I don't have.
• 55:23
  Any of either yet trade for Mcmath.
• 55:27
  Did you better leave it all right at #4?
• 55:31
  At #4 we have Yakov Trenin of the Minnesota Wild.
• 55:35
  He's been on and off this list all year.
• 55:37
  I mean, 4.81 hits per game on the season, 3 games this week,
• 55:41
  three games the week after. Not much to say.
• 55:42
  This is a pure, pure hits play. And I mean, he's been a lead at
• 55:46
  it for long enough that you could just bang on them.
• 55:48
  Yeah. Not the best schedule, but if
• 55:50
  you want a lot of hits, this is your guy.
• 55:53
  Yeah, yeah. All right, let's go to #3.
• 55:56
  At #3 we got Mendoza. They're so looking forward to
• 56:01
  saying that. We have literally my best friend
• 56:04
  in the entire world, Jack McBain of the Utah averaging 1.4 shots,
• 56:08
  3.4 hits .65 blocks. He's getting face off from your
• 56:13
  position. More importantly, do you know
• 56:14
  what line he's playing playing on at?
• 56:16
  Practice line 1. Not the number.
• 56:18
  Do you know who his line mates have been?
• 56:20
  Oh, I mean he's been playing with Dylan Hunter before.
• 56:22
  Unless that. Changes.
• 56:22
  Yeah. You know, you know what line it
• 56:23
  is now? It's Jack McBain, Dylan Guenther
• 56:26
  and Logan Cooley. Ooh.
• 56:29
  And I mean, yeah, that hurts the face off wins.
• 56:30
  But like, literally they, I, I was like looking into like,
• 56:34
  their lines and what they been doing in practice.
• 56:36
  And the reporter essentially said three of the four lines
• 56:39
  have been constantly shifting and like, they've been messing
• 56:41
  around with them. The only line that's been
• 56:42
  sticking together for all the practices is McCain, Cooley and
• 56:45
  Guenther. I wouldn't be surprised if
• 56:47
  McCain isn't taking the faceoffs and stuff and they want you to
• 56:51
  leverage coolies offensive capabilities and give me the
• 56:54
  defensive responsibilities on the line.
• 56:56
  I would not be shocked, yeah. Can you edit really hype How
• 56:59
  hype This isn't McCain owner. It's it's pretty sick.
• 57:01
  Like you have him for the for the bangs and then he's just
• 57:04
  also playing on like a ridiculous line with ridiculous
• 57:06
  line mates. He's like a mini left ear.
• 57:09
  Yeah, honestly, like it's kind of crazy.
• 57:12
  And like, look, I'd only picked him up.
• 57:14
  I picked him up months ago. Like this guy's been on my
• 57:16
  roster for months and he's just been constantly delivering for
• 57:19
  those, for those bad cats. But like he also randomly gets
• 57:22
  games with like 3 points, you know, ever since especially like
• 57:24
  being combined with like Gunther and especially when I play
• 57:26
  against Kevin, you know, it's just like, I love that.
• 57:29
  Yeah, but he's been shooting too.
• 57:30
  You know, he had a game like 7 shots.
• 57:31
  Again, this was against Kevin. And yeah, like I think he just
• 57:35
  has really high like floor and high potential.
• 57:38
  If he's playing with Julian Gander, it's really fun, really
• 57:40
  fun own. And this would be if that
• 57:42
  sticks, it would be great news for Nick Smells too, who we've
• 57:45
  talked about maybe losing deployment because Logan Cooley
• 57:48
  is coming back. If they're keeping that Keller
• 57:49
  Smalls intact and then Logan Cooley, McBain and Gunther stays
• 57:53
  on the line. And then you got Perk on Hayden
• 57:55
  somewhere else like that's the mutants are fun team.
• 57:59
  Yeah, but you know, it's actually a fun fact I when I was
• 58:02
  just fact checking that Colorado has the worst power play in the
• 58:05
  league, you know, has the second worst power play in the.
• 58:07
  League. Is it Utah?
• 58:08
  It's Utah, isn't that nuts? That's crazy.
• 58:10
  I just. Got the actual power play
• 58:12
  quarterback? Undersea on there, Yeah.
• 58:16
  No, but it's that's crazy to me. I thought they were doing so
• 58:18
  much better than they were. I mean, I think this Logan
• 58:20
  Cooley returned, assuming he even slots into power play one
• 58:23
  over Jack McBain, you know, But yeah, I think that could be a
• 58:26
  big boost for them. But yeah, I was really surprised
• 58:28
  to see that. So it's something to keep in
• 58:30
  mind. But that doesn't matter to
• 58:31
  McCain. He's not a power play one guy.
• 58:32
  He is just an absolute stud at everything else.
• 58:36
  Let's go to the best number in the league #2.
• 58:39
  Alright, at #2 we've got Jacob Melanson of Melanson.
• 58:44
  I don't know of the Seattle crack in this guy's averaging
• 58:46
  five. Yeah, that one.
• 58:48
  Three games to see 3 is next week.
• 58:49
  He's averaging 5.3 hits per game on the season.
• 58:51
  But that's not, that's like if you don't look at his game log,
• 58:54
  the last like six games before the Olympic break, he was
• 58:57
  averaging like eight hits a game.
• 58:59
  Like this is the most insane. But like Seattle version.
• 59:04
  But even more, twice as much, Yeah, like it's, it's actually
• 59:07
  like insane what this guy's been doing.
• 59:09
  Like, look, he does literally nothing else.
• 59:11
  So that's why I didn't pick him up, you know, because like.
• 59:14
  His per minute. He had a game where you play
• 59:17
  like 6 minutes or 4 minutes because of penalties also and he
• 59:20
  got like 10 hits so how is that possible?
• 59:23
  What else are you doing? I as as honestly insane, but
• 59:26
  yes, if you need hits, you need pure hits will not contribute
• 59:29
  anything else to your team. Pick this guy up.
• 59:31
  I know there's a lot of points with weird weird points systems
• 59:33
  right where hits can be worth almost as much as you know
• 59:36
  actual points are like if hits are worth a lot in your league,
• 59:39
  then grab them. If your team is like my team's
• 59:41
  perfect in every way, but I just suck at hits.
• 59:43
  He could turn the hits category for you alone.
• 59:45
  And those are the situations where I like him or just week by
• 59:47
  week, if you need to flip the hits category in any single
• 59:49
  given week, he's a great stream. So, but yes, his hits have been
• 59:52
  absolutely absurd and we have to mention.
• 59:53
  Him I, I will say I'm not banking on the shots, but his
• 59:57
  shots prevented are not bad either.
• 1:00:00
  Like he had a game. 8 minutes played, 12 penalty minutes,
• 1:00:04
  three shots, two hits. Yeah, that was his worst hits
• 1:00:07
  game like this season because he got.
• 1:00:09
  This is the shooting. And sitting in the back penalty
• 1:00:11
  box, yeah. Yeah, he had a game with 9
• 1:00:14
  minutes, 56 seconds played. Twelve hits.
• 1:00:16
  Yeah, it's insane. Do that.
• 1:00:19
  It's more than a hit a minute. It's pretty, yeah.
• 1:00:22
  It's there's a few of those in this game log.
• 1:00:25
  So yeah, he's a monster with the head.
• 1:00:27
  He wasn't named. That kind of popped up the
• 1:00:29
  discord pretty often. People like, what do you think
• 1:00:31
  about this guy? Like this guy is like Tank and
• 1:00:33
  everybody. And it's hard when these
• 1:00:35
  one-dimensional guys because like, yeah, hats are good, but
• 1:00:37
  if that's the only thing you're getting, it might be overkill.
• 1:00:40
  So that's why I think that lowers his value a little bit.
• 1:00:42
  But also like trying to points, like there's some leagues out
• 1:00:45
  there that like, you know, two hits equals an assist.
• 1:00:47
  Like this guys getting 12 his, let's say, 3, three to six
• 1:00:50
  assists a game for some leagues out there like that.
• 1:00:53
  Could you imagine that being a scoring metric?
• 1:00:54
  But that's just not no, I love you.
• 1:00:59
  Alright, let's go to number I was at.
• 1:01:02
  It I did it alright at. Number one feel almost pull the
• 1:01:08
  key there when I get to make fun of him at #1 we have a guy who
• 1:01:12
  barely made the cut. He's 20%.
• 1:01:14
  I'm counting it smaller or equal then, but we've got Jeremy loss
• 1:01:18
  of the Vegas Golden Knights. He's just been a bangers 3 games
• 1:01:22
  this week, four games the week after so great schedule
• 1:01:25
  averaging 3.7 hits, 1.7 blocks, one shot penalty minutes.
• 1:01:29
  He just does everything you want from bangers defence bin and
• 1:01:32
  look 20% owned. He's owned in probably most
• 1:01:34
  bangers leagues, but you know that's 80% of leaks he's not
• 1:01:37
  owned in. So there's a chance that he's
• 1:01:39
  available in years and he's a great pickup.
• 1:01:41
  He's gotta be #1 when he's available.
• 1:01:43
  So yeah, not much to say. What?
• 1:01:44
  I feel like he's been here forever.
• 1:01:45
  Everybody knows the name at this point.
• 1:01:47
  One more percent than he'll be off the show.
• 1:01:50
  Somebody do it for us, please. Exactly.
• 1:01:55
  Names for the 20% like it's a. Bunch of Yeah, it's different
• 1:01:59
  names. We're talking about yeah.
• 1:02:00
  It is, yeah. I think it's a lot better, but
• 1:02:02
  we'll see if we stop talking about the same near 20% guys,
• 1:02:05
  you know, we'll see what happens.
• 1:02:08
  Alright, so for the goalie section, since it's only a half
• 1:02:11
  week and there's no teams that play more than three games, um,
• 1:02:14
  there actually are no goalies under 40% owns that.
• 1:02:17
  I can guarantee you will get multiple starts.
• 1:02:20
  So we're going to skip the quantity section and go straight
• 1:02:22
  to the quality section for this half week.
• 1:02:24
  Spot starts maybe? Yeah, so let's go to. #3.
• 1:02:30
  And I will say what the spot starts also like even these were
• 1:02:32
  hard. There's not that many options
• 1:02:33
  out. There's not that many like many
• 1:02:35
  back to backs where you can guarantee 1.
• 1:02:36
  So some of these take this number three guy, one of the two
• 1:02:40
  starts is a fantastic one of those more of a difficult one,
• 1:02:42
  and we're kind of hoping he gets the easy one.
• 1:02:44
  O at #3 We've got our tours. She logs the Latvian GOAT.
• 1:02:48
  Fun fact about Latvia, I don't know if you guys noticed this
• 1:02:50
  watching the Olympics, I feel like every name, like all their
• 1:02:54
  first names and last names end with an S.
• 1:02:57
  Judge mentioned this and it was like a plate break moment for
• 1:02:59
  me. Like I was like, there's no way
• 1:03:01
  I can look at their players. Just like Elvis Presley, kids
• 1:03:04
  like you Miss Belinski's. Yeah, you was.
• 1:03:06
  Like there's like, like I can give you the entire roster.
• 1:03:09
  I'm actually curious if there's a single player on that roster
• 1:03:11
  whose first name and last name don't both end with an SI.
• 1:03:14
  Like it must be a Latvian thing. But but yeah, it was kind of a
• 1:03:17
  kind of crazy for me. Like like watching the games and
• 1:03:19
  I'm like, holy wow, that's. Crazy.
• 1:03:21
  I'm just for dense. Yeah, debugger is not the Yeah,
• 1:03:26
  the there, it's already cooked. Yeah, Teddy.
• 1:03:28
  Blueger. I didn't realize he was on the
• 1:03:31
  team. Literally almost everyone.
• 1:03:33
  Of our I mean, yeah, there's only there's view other than
• 1:03:39
  Teddy Blueger, there's no one whose name ends with like, like
• 1:03:42
  who doesn't end with an S either their first or last.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, most both, but yeah, yeah, for for a few of them.
• 1:03:49
  Edwards well. Taral Marks.
• 1:03:55
  You sure it's not blue Teddy's burgers?
• 1:04:00
  He changed his name. Yeah, anyways, fun fact.
• 1:04:05
  But yeah, so Archer Sheloves, he's playing either the Rangers
• 1:04:08
  or Vegas. We all know which one we'd
• 1:04:09
  rather him play Rangers minus Panera.
• 1:04:11
  And it's just even more of a joke than, you know, they've
• 1:04:14
  been all season. So yeah, we're definitely hoping
• 1:04:16
  for the Rangers with this pickup.
• 1:04:18
  And Pittsburgh has been solid. I mean, obviously like minus
• 1:04:21
  Crosby is a is a big, big loss if if he's not playing.
• 1:04:24
  But like I said, it's pretty slim pickings for this week on
• 1:04:27
  spot starts you can guarantee. So everyone.
• 1:04:30
  I have Skinner. I think that they can win both
• 1:04:32
  these games. Crosby, obviously the Rangers
• 1:04:34
  are more desirable the because they're not going to be nearly
• 1:04:38
  as as offensively as Vegas. But yeah, I don't know.
• 1:04:42
  I think that with Crosby, like, I'm happy regardless of which
• 1:04:45
  game he has, obviously. But yeah, obviously much rather
• 1:04:48
  than Rangers, for sure. All right, Kevin. #2 let's go.
• 1:04:56
  #2 we've got Phillip Grubauer of the Seattle Kraken.
• 1:04:59
  This is another one where like one of the games is Dallas for
• 1:05:02
  the other game is Saint Louis. So it's like we obviously know
• 1:05:04
  which one we prefer he gets and he's been playing really well.
• 1:05:07
  I mean, he's definitely slowed down and the court has been
• 1:05:09
  picking it up. So I think it's moving more
• 1:05:11
  towards that starter and backup than than the kind of split that
• 1:05:15
  we saw like midway through the season.
• 1:05:17
  But for a spot start, he's going to get one of them.
• 1:05:19
  And again, obviously we'd rather Saint Louis.
• 1:05:21
  We can't guarantee it, but the pickings were slim and Seattle
• 1:05:24
  playoff team and Dallas also was pretty bad going into the
• 1:05:26
  Olympics, right? Like they weren't super scary.
• 1:05:28
  So I think either of these games Seattle could win and Andrew Out
• 1:05:31
  can have a good game in either. Yep.
• 1:05:34
  You know, and he's been just giving us quality for a while at
• 1:05:36
  this point. So you're not really super
• 1:05:38
  intimidated to play him. I know Jodari has one rule in
• 1:05:41
  the Discord is just like, never play your goals against Dallas,
• 1:05:44
  which is really for a month has not been the worst.
• 1:05:46
  Yeah, like you haven't been the best, right so.
• 1:05:48
  Even Colorado wasn't like that rule was like, don't play your
• 1:05:51
  allies against like Colorado, Dallas and Edmonton, you know?
• 1:05:53
  Yeah. And like, I feel like both
• 1:05:54
  Colorado and Dallas have not been that's, that's scary
• 1:05:57
  lately. I don't have those rules.
• 1:05:59
  I play with no rules, but but I don't blame anybody.
• 1:06:04
  It's always like one of those things that like I should like
• 1:06:06
  it happens. You actually play him and then
• 1:06:07
  you get you get screwed and then yeah.
• 1:06:08
  And then you're like, oh man, should have followed my rule.
• 1:06:10
  But then, yeah, sometimes you miss out on good.
• 1:06:12
  Perfectly, My rule is I don't bench goalies.
• 1:06:14
  I play. The only time I bench goalies is
• 1:06:16
  if I'm guaranteed to win the categories and like you know,
• 1:06:19
  there's no upside in me playing them.
• 1:06:21
  But otherwise, like I'm like, why am I rostering this guy if
• 1:06:23
  I'm not going to play him? Early week, I'm always playing
• 1:06:25
  goalies and then later it just, you know, Saturday, Sunday,
• 1:06:28
  that's match with dependent with the categories on the line and
• 1:06:31
  stuff, Yeah. Exactly, always pulling out my
• 1:06:33
  calculator and be like alright what type of game does my goalie
• 1:06:36
  need to have for me to like lose save percentage or?
• 1:06:38
  Lose 35. Save Shutout.
• 1:06:39
  Yeah, that's. Like the rate of outcome?
• 1:06:41
  Exactly. Yeah, so I'm always, I'm always
• 1:06:43
  doing that kind of athlete in the week, but early week I'm
• 1:06:45
  always playing my guys. Alright, and let's go to number
• 1:06:49
  one at #1 we have Connor Ingram of the Edmonton Oilers.
• 1:06:54
  Here finally is 1 where I'm happy with both matchups,
• 1:06:56
  Anaheim and LA, although LA with Panarin, maybe it's scarier, but
• 1:06:59
  they lost Fiala. So yeah.
• 1:07:01
  But I honestly both those matchups are one I'm pretty,
• 1:07:03
  pretty confident in for Edmonton.
• 1:07:04
  Yum hasn't been great leading into the Olympics, but Skinners
• 1:07:07
  as Jerry has been even worse. So, so yeah, so like I looking
• 1:07:14
  at like Jerry's game log, like they're splitting starts.
• 1:07:17
  So, you know, if there was a goalie who might get you more
• 1:07:20
  than one start, maybe it would be Ingram in terms of in
• 1:07:22
  addition to the spot start. But but yeah, I like him as a as
• 1:07:26
  a top pick up here just because both of the matchups are good as
• 1:07:28
  opposed to only one of them. Do you think he has the
• 1:07:30
  potential to run away with the job?
• 1:07:33
  I just he's been bad also. Yeah, like I think they're
• 1:07:36
  probably gonna do a tandem for for like in all likelihood.
• 1:07:41
  So I would anticipate you only gets one game this week because
• 1:07:44
  Jerry still did get, you know. The Yeah.
• 1:07:46
  They they want him to be the guy and it's definitely not liking.
• 1:07:49
  He's on that with. It yeah, you know, it's crazy.
• 1:07:51
  Jerry's own percentage in Yahoo is like 46%.
• 1:07:55
  Is that nuts? It's full of people living in
• 1:07:57
  management. I mean, that to me, like he
• 1:07:59
  almost he was almost eligible to be on this show.
• 1:08:02
  That's crazy. That's the starter for the
• 1:08:03
  Edmonton Oilers. Like, quote, UN quote starter.
• 1:08:05
  Yeah, yeah, I mean, but like, yeah, all things considered, he
• 1:08:08
  has the starter, you know him like, you know, it's not gamers
• 1:08:10
  playing well. I think that Ingram has the
• 1:08:12
  potential. Run with it, run away with it.
• 1:08:14
  I think it's gonna be 1 can play well.
• 1:08:15
  And right now the answer is either.
• 1:08:17
  So they're splitting it. But if either of them is,
• 1:08:19
  they're like, please one of you take the job.
• 1:08:20
  And they're both like, I think I'm good, you know, like I don't
• 1:08:24
  get paid more by playing more. So yeah, exactly.
• 1:08:27
  Did you guys? See the rumors that people were
• 1:08:29
  saying like, you know, Bennington wins gold with
• 1:08:30
  Canada. Yeah, you know, Edmonton is like
• 1:08:32
  they need a goalie, man. I'm more liking the rumors that
• 1:08:36
  the celebrating McDavid connection is too strong and one
• 1:08:40
  is gonna trade for, you know, either McDavid to San Jose or
• 1:08:43
  celebrity to Edmonton. I I.
• 1:08:47
  I drizzle for celebrity. It would be impossible, right?
• 1:08:52
  Like, yeah, well, I wonder if I don't.
• 1:08:55
  Even want to entertain the celebrity McDavid conversation,
• 1:08:57
  but is that even possible? Yeah, I think Saint Louis would
• 1:09:01
  have loved to getting him off their team and I think Edmonton
• 1:09:03
  is just the dumb enough GM to do it.
• 1:09:05
  So that's kind of. That would be a big upgrade.
• 1:09:09
  Like, all kidding aside, like Bennington's not like the best
• 1:09:13
  goalie in the league, but he's definitely better than.
• 1:09:15
  Yeah, he's better than. Kerry or Ingram for.
• 1:09:17
  Sure, Pickard, yeah. Yeah, it's.
• 1:09:20
  It's just like it's just it just did you have anything so dumb,
• 1:09:24
  you know, like you're you're making you're giving up assets
• 1:09:26
  on all these trades for like the slightest of upgrades.
• 1:09:29
  Like if you're gonna give up assets, give up assets in one
• 1:09:31
  trying to get a big swing. Yeah, to actually get like, you
• 1:09:34
  know, get a wall stud or something like that.
• 1:09:35
  You know, like why are you like, you know, first of all, the
• 1:09:37
  Jerry 1 was just a straight up dislike was an improvement
• 1:09:41
  department. I don't know, you know, whatever
• 1:09:43
  it was just a downgrade. This improvement exactly added
• 1:09:46
  to the list. Yeah, so that was just a
• 1:09:49
  straight downgrade, this improvement.
• 1:09:51
  So yeah, I don't know what they're doing, but look, I don't
• 1:09:54
  think it's gonna happen. But I think, like I said, I
• 1:09:56
  think Saint Louis would love to make that happen and I think
• 1:09:59
  Edmonton is dumb enough to do it, so we'll.
• 1:10:01
  See, we'll see. We'll see.
• 1:10:02
  That would be that would be interesting.
• 1:10:03
  They'd have to send probably Jerry back or something.
• 1:10:06
  They like to make the money work.
• 1:10:07
  Like you can't be paying Jerry to like, not.
• 1:10:09
  Nudge or I know they paid Yammer.
• 1:10:12
  Didn't, no. I think they'd give us avoid
• 1:10:15
  some of the younger guys. Just wanted to throw it in there
• 1:10:18
  and. Like.
• 1:10:19
  Being rid of him. I'm thinking mostly like less on
• 1:10:21
  the assets and more on like the cap side of it.
• 1:10:23
  Like Edmonton doesn't have the cap to take on Bennington
• 1:10:25
  without giving some cap back. Let's give Darnell nurse.
• 1:10:27
  I think all sounds would be happy.
• 1:10:30
  I'm sure everyone would love that.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah, well. We'll see, but for now, Ingram
• 1:10:34
  best on this list that we mentioned.
• 1:10:37
  And yeah, I think he'll win whichever one of the games he
• 1:10:40
  gets, but I anticipate it's only gonna be 1.
• 1:10:43
  Do you think we wrap it up here? Yep.
• 1:10:45
  Yeah, I think that makes sense. Yeah.
• 1:10:48
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• 1:11:30
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• 1:11:33
  and why you should pick up Laferriere before anyone else.
• 1:11:35
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• 1:11:40
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• 1:11:42
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• 1:11:45
  Would you just have a concert live stream?
• 1:11:47
  Even when we're sleeping? Just like, you know, we're going
• 1:11:49
  to build this night. Honestly, like sometimes like in
• 1:11:52
  the middle and I'll be like, Oh my God, I have to pick this guy
• 1:11:54
  up. You know, it just hit me in a
• 1:11:56
  dream. And we were dreaming about
• 1:11:59
  hockey players. So that's it.
• 1:12:03
  Alright, Ernie, take it away. But about Bow Bang, your
• 1:12:07
  management fantasy hockey podcast?
• 1:12:09
  Whoa. Whoa.
• 1:12:12
  OK.