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But what about Bell Bangor Management Fantasy Hockey
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Podcast? Woo woo woo.
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Karaoke woo. Karaoke again for Jackie, who is
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still not here because he is currently traveling to Japan, I
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think as we speak, during Kyoto actually.
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So crazy he's taking his karaoke tour across the globe.
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It's really serious now. He's like we thought if you guys
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thought we were joking when he was only in Korea.
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Now he's actually in Japan and he's going full force.
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So yeah, listen, am I just be a duo from here on out if Jake his
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career actually takes off, but. Keep an eye out if you're any
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BTS fans, you might see a Jakey collab there.
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That would actually be so cool. I Jaki feeling is the last
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sing actually loves to sing so. And I mean, he's gonna sing for
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us when he comes back, right? That's what he promised us.
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I I do remember him promising that.
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What did you say? He's you said he promised us
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that he was his. Favorite song?
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His go to karaoke song. Exactly.
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So that's great for the viewers talking about things that the
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We hit a big milestone recently, which was 200 Discord members,
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Kevin Booty Shake video, so stay tuned for that.
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It's going to be lit. But yeah, I don't think we
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mentioned we are diving into our Week 12 streamers episode and
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So obviously #1 value is listening to the pod, but where
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But number 2 is joining the discord because we are super
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contributions on there. But but yeah, no, it's a it's
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great. And so, yeah, so let's dive in.
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But seriously, help us help you. Give us all those ratings and
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stars and all that yummy fun stuff for us.
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I'm proud of you, Josh. That was that was a pretty good.
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Never do that part. It's I I did my best.
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And listen, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put it out
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there, guys. I asked for a new complete
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computer for my Christmas list. So Santa better deliver.
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And listen, hopefully we get this stuff figured out.
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Look. If Santa is a fan, which I bet
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he is, you know, there's a lot of hockey in the North Pole, so
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I expect him to deliver the best quality for Kevins that he could
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get back to, you know, showing his booty.
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He's actually did the booty shake just now and the camera
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cut out. They could not handle it.
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Honestly, it's a it's really unfortunate we have to hit
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another 100 people in this court before we get the next.
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Oh no, it was all a ruse the whole time, guys.
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Yeah, exactly a loss. So yeah, let's let's get into
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our reputation stakers, our top three choices from Week 11.
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So last week we recommended Ryan O'Reilly of the Nashville
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Predators. Since then, three games played,
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zero goals, 4 assists, 4 points easy W spoiler.
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He's going to be on our list again.
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What he's been doing is, is pretty incredible for someone
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that, you know, I don't think anyone expects that team to
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provide much offence. So I really expected it to be
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Forsberg and friends. So O'Reilly being over a point
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per game over the past month is nuts.
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That's definitely a big W. We had Ellisland home since
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then, three games played, zero goals, 2 assists, 2 points, both
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on the power play. I'm counting that as the W.
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He's another guy who's like really low roster.
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Well, I mean he's like 34 now, but he's line 1C on Boston.
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He has to play with the two best wingers in the league and David
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Pasternak and Morgan Geekie and I really think that boats going
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up on that one. And then we did have an L which
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was Josh done and that was our top choice because I was really
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hyped on him. So I'm going to take the take
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the blame for that one. But he had a two games played,
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no points. I will say he still has two
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more, yeah or no, he only has one more game this week, but so
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we'll see what happens. He can still turn it around, but
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we're going to keep ourselves honest here and count that as an
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L So that puts us at 20 and seven on the year.
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That's a pretty still, right, still around 75% on our
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recommendations, which is pretty sick.
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Every every week we're recommending 3 players, right?
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So if we're not getting three on three, it's 66% success rate.
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So the fact that we're at 75 means that we're hitting three
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on three more often than not. And also like we we didn't
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mention that yes, Josh Stone, like he had less games than
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these other two. First of all, this this last
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week, but he also has the rest of season upside.
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And that was reason one of the reasons why we put him so high
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on the list because he has great deployment.
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He's on that power play one for Buffalo.
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And listen with Josh Norris is there the Buffalo power play is
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going off. So you want you want exposure to
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it. And I think Josh is still a good
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pickup moving forward, even if you didn't come through for you
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with flying colours this last week.
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Yeah, I fully agree. Like his shots, I like his
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deployment and Buffalo just made a GM change.
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GM says they want to be more competitive.
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So I say keep an eye out on that team and I'm still happy to have
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done on my on my roster. Did you see the the rumors for
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the coaching change too? That would be crazy man Lindy
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Ruff just gets rejected everywhere he goes.
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I mean there's a couple teams that should should have a
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coaching change. Like off the top of my mind, LA
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needs to change coaches. Toronto.
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Toronto coaches, I think Toronto.
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The link that I saw was Peter border Toronto.
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I saw that that would be sick. As a Matthews owner, I'm a I'd
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be pretty hyped about that. The other rumor I'm seeing, I
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mean, as we're recording this, the holiday trade freeze has
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come into effect. So we're not gonna see any
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changes until after the holidays, but um, I saw.
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That gorilla? John Tortorella is probably a
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name of Buffalo would consider even if they probably shouldn't.
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But I also think Buffalo's gonna probably send out a goalie.
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Like I think. Yes, I saw that.
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They got 3 goalies and I think one of them is on their way out
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and. Edmonton.
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The I mean, listen, they just Edmonton, I don't know they they
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all have anymore more cap flexibility, that's for sure.
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And they don't have a second round pick to send for a goalie
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anymore any either. But they do have Chris and Jerry
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on the IR. So as long as that works out
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for. Them Yeah, no goalie.
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It's actually unreal how he immediately got injured as could
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have been predicted by us and was predicted by us.
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But yeah, no, I definitely. I've been seeing that.
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I mean, 3 goalies makes no sense.
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I don't know what Caroline's doing.
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Buffalo, you know, you gotta trade one and run with the two
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that are the best. So The thing is.
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Like wine and PPL have like juice yeah.
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Whereas nobody want they're not they don't wanna trade busy and
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they want to trade Chekov. So who's taking Anderson?
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Someone would take Anderson. I mean, I'm surprised that.
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Leaves are desperate, I think. I guess I mean for the same.
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Reasons Cherry like yeah, that's they want to trade for him and
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then he gets hurt. So that's very fair.
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But in terms of Buffalo, I mean, Colton Ellis has been really
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solid and you know, I feel like you got to trade one of those
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three and they're going to. So it'll be interesting to.
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Keep. Exactly.
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They just have too many. Alright, let's dive into our
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streamers for this week. So this is a weird week.
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Let's preface that by saying that it's the Christmas week
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exactly. So you've got games Monday,
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Tuesday and then Friday, no Saturday, Sunday, but that
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entire middle part of the week is Christmas break.
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Happy holidays, everyone. And and a little break from
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fantasy. I can't.
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It's a bit bittersweet for me. I mean, I know it's only four
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days, but. Like on the 1.
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Usually spending time with family during those days.
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OK, Merry Christmas. Happy, happy Hanukkah, happy
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Kwanzaa, happy holidays in general.
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Yeah, a fun tradition I have that really pisses off my wife
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and her family is every year around Christmas, I come to, we
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come down, um, and you know, spend it with her family.
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And every year around Christmas, Jakey and I get into trade talks
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and like, it's like an intense, like 3 days of trade talks
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usually will be on the phone, will be texting and it always
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lasts around the holidays. And so they always get upset at
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me. They're like, come on, get off.
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Your holidays with his trade talks.
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Yeah, but I got my trade with Jake out of the way early this
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year, so unless Kevin wants to enter the mix, I should be very
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present for the holidays. But.
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But I think my family would be a lot less accommodating to me,
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you know, messing up Christmas then.
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Is this OK? I just, you know.
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This is not present at all. Yeah, no gay.
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Look, we go to her uncles every year, right?
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And it's like an hour and a half drive.
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And so I'll be on my phone during that hour and a half
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drive and like texting Jakey like trade stuff for the past
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couple of years, right? And they get mad at me for not
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being present on the drive. So I'm like, OK, fine, I'll put
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away. My silent looking out the
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window. And then I start talking to them
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and they're like, stop talking to us.
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We just want you to like, you know, like listen to the music
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and like look out the window. And I'm like, why can't I be
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texting? Cheeky we?
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Want to not do anything he happy about it.
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Exactly. So yeah, so that's some fun,
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some fun fantasy hockey Christmas traditions for us.
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But yeah, let's dive in again. So all that to be said, instead
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of four-game teams and two game teams gonna be talking about 3
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in one because for the average team, they're playing two times
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this week. So there are two one game teams
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this week, that's Utah and Winnipeg.
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Utah, they're they're streak of four-game weeks comes to an end.
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That was a really fun run. I hope people kind of hopped on
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to grabbing a Utah guy like a month ago because it was just a
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four week, 4 game weeks like back-to-back.
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I had Jack McBain that whole time and it was super fun.
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Um, yeah, so one game week for those two three-game teams
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you've got Chicago, Detroit, LA Islanders, Philly, Seattle,
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Tampa, Toronto. Normally I don't go through the
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list. It's a pretty small list, so I
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figured it's easy to get through it.
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The busy nights are Tuesday and Saturday.
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So that is going to be it's going to be it's a weird week.
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There's not a lot of games and the busy nights are really busy.
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So there's going to be a lot of schedule optimization questions.
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So hop in the Discord will be there to add to them.
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And then two off night teams you've got Columbus, Philly,
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Seattle and Tampa. So that has extra value
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obviously on a week like this. So that's Philly, Seattle and
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Tampa are the games that are the teams that have three games and
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two off nights. So keep an eye out on those.
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But let's dive in to our top ten points guys on the week.
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This is more general names than specific schedule optimization,
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but again, hop in the discord and send us your questions if
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you have a sit starts or stuff like that.
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All right, Kevin, let's start off with. #10. #10 we have Luke
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Evangelista of the National Predators.
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He is now line one, power play one because Jonathan Marceau's
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day-to-day. But if he does something with
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it, I don't see him necessarily immediately getting bumped off.
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So we'll see what happens. But even before this deployment,
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he was lined up properly too. And I think he made it on our
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last episode because his shooting volume was just unreal
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and he was like point per game over the past month.
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So definitely a lot of interest there in what could potentially
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be a, you know, longer term hold.
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But at the same time, it's Nashville and Marcelo can come
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back and bump him, so you gotta take that with a grain of salt.
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Yeah, I think it's important to note too, that like with young
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players like this, like we've seen Evangelista kind of get hot
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recently where people are picking him up even without
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having like the, you know, the best possible deployment for his
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for him. But he's the type of young
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player that usually gets better in the second-half of the
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season, which, you know, we're approaching with the holidays
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about to happen. So I can I can really see that.
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You know, Nashville is kind of like a sinking ship right now.
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But they do have a couple of bright spots with young talent
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that they wanna let flourish. And Evangelista, I think is like
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the top name on that list. And so if there's an opportunity
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to be had here, I think he's the one that's going to get it.
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And, you know, Marshall might not be here long term.
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Stamkos might not be here long term, might really you might not
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be there long term. So it really, I think there's
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spots opening up. And right now he's only shooting
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at 6%. Like, here's a high shot volume
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and a 6% shooting percentage is really bad.
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I can see him getting to like 10 or 12.
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So if that happens and it's converting, you know, 2 times
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more often like he, he might be a guy that like could be a a low
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key, not league winning pickup, but really like a guy that makes
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a difference on your roster moving forward.
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Yeah, absolutely. And then obviously this week you
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only has two games, but next week he has four games.
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So that's a guy you can pick up and hold for at least those two
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weeks, if not longer. OK, let's go to number 9.
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I like the throat clear beforehand.
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You know, you gotta, you gotta get it good.
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I love it at #9 We've got Connor Garland of the Vancouver Canucks
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line. One power play, 1 on.
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The Canucks are funny because, first of all, they suck, but
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second of all, they've got so many wingers that, like, have
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flirted over time with being fantasy relevant.
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Yeah. And honestly, over the past two
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years, kind of a surprise last year, but this year I expected
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it a bit more. Garland has been the most
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valuable of those wingers. So talking guys like you've got
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Garland, you've got Besser, you've got Debrusk, you've got,
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you know, Evander, Kane, Kiefer, Sherwood, obviously a different
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story. That's a bangers focus.
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But in terms of like points production, you look at all
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these guys and you're like, OK, someone's got to do something
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with this deployment. And Garland's the one who's been
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doing it the past two seasons. So I like him as a pickup.
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That's another one where he only has two games this week, but
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four games the week after. And and yeah, Vancouver's been
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winning since they traded away locker room cancer.
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Quinn Hughes, clearly. Hey listen, all you need is a
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handful of games for the sample size to be nice, so.
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Yeah, exactly. Vancouver to the Cup.
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It's written in the stars, guys. Yeah, exactly.
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But I do think Conor Garland is a worthy pickup because this is
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a type of guy that usually does a lot when he has deployment.
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So I think that if you know, he keeps this deployment and this
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is what he's been doing this last week is also without Elise
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Patterson, who we know is the best player on this team, who we
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know that when he comes back, like whether you like him or
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not, the power play will get better.
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The wingers around him will get better.
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So I think there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of
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foundation here for ground to just be like a solid fan Inc
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asset. I think mostly relevant in
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deeper leagues. Yeah.
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All right, so let's go to #8 at #8 we have Boone Jenner of the
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Columbus Blue Jackets. Not the best deployment with
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line 2 power play 2, but he's been doing solid category
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category coverage, which is what he's known for over the years.
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But also he's a point per game since coming back from injury.
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It's only four games tiny sample size, but it's something worth
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noting again with their off night schedule this week and
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four-game week the week after. So that's a schedule
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optimization move. It's rare that we recommend guys
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who are not power play one on here, but but look, it's a it's
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a small, like I said, it's a small week.
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He's been putting up the numbers and he's got the off nights so
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it's worth a look. Do you think you'd ever trade
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him? No, I don't think so.
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I mean, I think they're still trying to trying to compete.
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I mean, they just made they blockbuster trade last night,
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right. They traded for a Mason
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Marchment, trading away a second and a fourth.
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They're they're kind of desperate for any sort of
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offence or good play. So we'll see, we'll see what
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happens with that trade. If it couldn't, you know, spark
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anything from them. But but no, I don't see them
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trading Jenner. I think Jenner is one of the
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guys on this list that definitely has a stronger banger
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focus as well. Like we try to we, we try to
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pick guys that are going to be valuable for your leagues that
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are, you know, highly value points and just, you know, guys
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that will get you points right. That's usually the hardest thing
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to stream, but uh, I think Jenna is one of the guys that will get
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you hits if you're in the face off win leagues.
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Like he's really good at that usually as well.
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I would say less so recently though.
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And um, yeah, I'm but quick tangent on Marshman though.
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What do you think? Like is he is he fantasy
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relevant? Cause to me, I kind of see him
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in my head. I'm picturing like a Tolvanen
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but like less good because he won't get power player 1.
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You know, honestly, like he can get power play one right now.
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Like China. China's on power play one they
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hate. But they bumped Monaghan, so
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it's like I feel like Monaghan has a better chance than March.
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For sure, but I mean it just means that there's not a lock on
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power play one spot. So like, look, am I betting you
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know my house that that he's going to be power play one?
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No, but I mean they did go out and trade for him and they're
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looking for any sort of spark. So I wouldn't be surprised if he
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gets a shot there and then if he does well with it, he'll keep
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it. So that's definitely like I
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mean, right now I'm just watch listing him.
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I'm not going to not rushing to grab him or anything like.
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That you don't make a proactive pick up for a guy that level
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unless you're really deeply. Yeah, exactly.
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It's not like I really doubt that Marchment becomes that
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pickup that you regret for the rest of the season if you don't
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get him. I think you could put up some
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solid weeks for you if if he gets that power play one for a
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bit. I don't see it being like a
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season long thing that'll stick. But in the past he's been solid
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bangers right Shots and hits like you said with the Tolvanen
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comparison. So if he doesn't have power play
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1 not much interest. I mean, he wasn't good on
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Seattle and Columbus is not that much better.
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But he was good when he was on Dallas and he was when he was on
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Florida. That's like he has.
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He has. He has the juice in him.
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Exactly. So any change of any change the
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scenery is always worth at least watch listing.
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And look, if you have the free ad and you wanna give it a shot
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for this week and like if he pops off, you got ahead of the
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curve. You know you can do it.
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But it's not one that I'm, like, necessarily rushing to make.
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Yeah, I feel the same. All right, next one.
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OK, let's go to. #7. At #7 We've got Frank Nazar of
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the Chicago Blackhawks line one power play 1.
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Two reasons he makes this list because he's not necessarily our
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favorite lately. One reason is the schedule.
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He's one of the few teams that played three times and four
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games the week after. So great schedule and #2 is this
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Connor Bedard injury? Where?
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Normally I'd say Bedard being injured just makes all the
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Blackhawks worse. But we talked about this on our
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new episode. The only player who might
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benefit isn't Nazar because he's line one.
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Now, look, I still think in general it'll make him worse
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because that power plays a lot worse.
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But he's the number one centre and he has a great schedule.
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So it's a Kent Kent not include him in a list like this.
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Yeah, I think, I think Nasar, like you said, is is probably
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like the only guy that maybe holds somewhat value with Bidar
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being out because he gets bumped up in in the deployment.
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Like he's going to be the main centre on this team moving
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forward until Bidart comes back. The thing is like his power play
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1 is just not guaranteed. Like I saw them again like last
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practice he was practicing on P2 and it just does not make sense
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to me. And like whether?
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Easy, it's putting instead of him.
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Let me go look right now if they if they updated it to something
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else. But you know, I did see some
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like names like Donato and Colton Dock on there, like.
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They're just throwing. Whatever at the wall and hoping
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it sticks. And it's just kind of like guys
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like, let give some sort of consistency to your players and
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let them figure it out a little. Bit so this is a guy that they
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need slash want to succeed. So I don't get why they're
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trying to like hamstring him, especially with Bedard out once
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and no brainer that he should get the deployment but.
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OK, now Power play 1 is Ryan Green, Nick Lardis, Turbo
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Teravainen, Frank Nazar, and Artem Leafnode.
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So the guys that got bumped currently are Bertuzzi
19:12
Burkowski. Those are.
19:14
See, that's what I'm saying. It's just like one day it'll be
19:17
them, the next day will be Nazar.
19:18
So keep that just in the back of your mind.
19:21
But I think his 585 deployment should be good enough to make
19:24
him valuable with the power play.
19:25
One upside of things like a 75% chance it keeps it, but that 25%
19:29
chance is really annoying. He's definitely not our not our
19:33
favorite, which is why he's lowered down on this list, but
19:34
the schedule kind of made him an include.
19:37
And for bangers like he, he does have some blocking game to him.
19:40
So I would I would just like to throw that little tidbit in
19:43
there. So nice.
19:44
That was a great tidbit. Yeah, talking about guys who
19:47
have a little bit of a blocking game in them.
19:48
Let's go to number six. Number six, we have Alexander
19:53
Wennberg of the San Jose Sharks Line 2 power play.
19:56
One, he's been on fire the past like week, week and 1/2 he has.
20:01
He had back-to-back 3 point games. 7 points in the last four
20:04
games he wins faceoffs. He's he blocks and he's a lock
20:08
on power play. 1 even when Will Smith is healthy, like for some
20:11
reason Weinberg is a lock on that power play unit.
20:14
I picked him up and he did nothing for me.
20:16
So then I dropped him and someone else grabbed him and
20:18
then he pops off. So that always feels great, but.
20:21
Playing with William Ekland, it's hard not to be successful.
20:23
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, No, this one's a super
20:27
kind of random one, but if your league counts faceoff wins in
20:30
blocks and you want that points upside, then then yeah, solid
20:34
pickup. Especially what he's been doing
20:35
lately. Yeah, I think I think Wenberg is
20:39
like one of those names that like I'm almost never interested
20:41
in picking up, but that might just be my biases because in our
20:45
league of record, I'm completely punting face off wins and that's
20:47
one of the best things that he's at.
20:48
So yeah, I I tend to like less value those guys.
20:52
But you can't argue with the numbers that he's putting up and
20:55
his ice time, his ice time, he's playing over 20 minutes a night.
20:57
Guys, when somebody's playing that much, it just means that
21:00
the team values their presence and the team values their
21:03
presence means are gonna be on the ice no for crucial moments.
21:06
And that's when good the goals happen.
21:07
So I I do like Greenberg has like end of your kind of like
21:12
not, I don't say end of your bench stash, but if you're in a
21:15
deep legally, he can be guy that you pick up and you hold for a
21:18
decent amount of time. And on a week like this where
21:21
you know, the schedule is so wonky, like I can see myself
21:23
streaming him as well. So he has a good deployment.
21:26
Like what more could you ask for it?
21:28
At the end of the day, that's what we're banking on the most.
21:31
Yeah, absolutely. All right, let's go to number 5
21:36
#5 is a guy that I said I don't have much interest in in the
21:39
asked. And look, he's he's having a
21:43
really good week. Let's just say that I'm still
21:45
not the biggest believer, but we've got a Vlad Tarasenko of
21:47
the Minnesota Wild. It's currently line one power
21:49
play 1 and he's been putting up great numbers.
21:53
This comes with a huge asterisk because first of all, I'm not
21:56
the biggest believer. So I had to like if the guy puts
21:58
up the stats, you gotta you gotta include him in the list.
22:00
And it also was a pretty scarce list this week.
22:03
Like some weeks I feel like there's so many good guys that
22:06
are like below 40%. And this this week I felt like
22:08
it was a there weren't as many slam dunks.
22:10
So that's why I'm including him. But but yeah, I mean, the big
22:15
asterisk is that Marcus Johansson is on the brink of
22:18
returning. So is Matt Zuccarello.
22:20
And I just don't see Tarasenko holding power play one once the
22:24
both those guys are back. And then once he's not power
22:26
play 1, I really think he has no value.
22:29
So it's tough to be saying all that and then also recommending
22:32
him like #5 on this list. But it was just like very slim
22:36
pickings. And he put up a three-point game
22:38
into another leg point. And so he is running a bit hot
22:41
right now. So like it could, you could do
22:42
worse. I will say though, like to your
22:45
point, we're recording this before the Saturday, Sunday
22:48
back-to-back, like right before O as we record this, he has four
22:53
points in his last two games. He's a three out of 3.9 and he
22:56
scored a goal in in his last game.
22:59
That second line of pure Russians is Loki developing some
23:04
good chemistry because him is it's him.
23:07
It's trending who we've talked about being a a banger league
23:10
beast recently and you're of and he doesn't have any power play
23:15
points in the last two games for those four points are all 5V
23:17
fives. So is that just a product of you
23:20
know, that line 1 getting the hardware matchups and that line
23:23
2 having good chemistry, being able to take take advantage of
23:25
like the lesser matchups? I'm not sure, but there's
23:30
there's something here that makes me more interested than
23:33
than just Tarasenko being get bumped out when they get
23:37
healthy. You know what I mean?
23:38
Like, I think I think there's a world where that second line
23:40
stays intact because of the chemistry that they found.
23:45
And then when the other guys get healthy, we see something happen
23:48
that means one of like Boldy or Zuccarello's going to be on a
23:52
quote, UN quote line 3, which is hard to imagine in itself,
23:56
right? So yeah, I, I wonder how it's
23:58
going to play out. But just just know that like,
24:00
there's there's little something here in this situation that is
24:02
not just like black and white. And Tarasenko, I think is a is a
24:06
valuable streamer when those guys are still out.
24:08
Yeah, absolutely. OK, let's go to the next one
24:13
with. #4. At #4 we have William Eckland of
24:20
the San Jose Sharks line to CarPlay one on Kevin's team.
24:24
But he's been, he's been really good lately.
24:26
He's been, he's the type of guy like these young guys.
24:28
I feel like they're very streaky and he was bad for awhile and
24:31
now he's really good and it's really easy.
24:33
Just pick up them, pick them up when they're good and then if
24:35
you're not in the deepest league, could just drop them
24:37
when they're bad. But right now he's good.
24:38
So that's an easy pickup for me. He was this like top 4 I feel
24:43
like as a tear break from the bottom six that we just
24:45
mentioned. So I'm pretty excited about
24:47
Eckland if you have the opportunity to grab him.
24:49
Over the last two weeks, he's averaging 0.83 points per game,
24:53
0.33 power play points and is averaging 3 shots a game, which
24:57
we've seen them kind of hover. I don't want to say he's been
24:59
hovering around three shots a game the whole the whole season,
25:01
but like when he's valuable, that's where he's shooting at
25:03
and then he'll have weeks where he'll get like 1.5 shots or
25:07
something. So his average is closer to like
25:09
2.4, which is still like pretty good if you're if that's what's
25:13
going to be your average to the highs and the lows.
25:16
But this is a guy that you know, is playing on the same power
25:18
play celebrity who we know is. I think you can safely say that
25:22
he's one of the most talismanic players in the league right now
25:24
as well. Absolutely.
25:26
And we love talismanic players here at Bangor Management.
25:30
The only the only thing that I wish is like he was playing with
25:32
celebrity. Strength.
25:34
Yeah, but he gets to play with the other GOAT, Alexander.
25:37
Whatsoever exactly. And also like he can easily get
25:40
bumped up to line one at any moment.
25:42
There's no like, you know, like he could bump what is it calling
25:44
graph or stuff. Yeah.
25:47
Yeah. Right in front of me.
25:48
I'm going to butcher it. Yeah, so anyways, I think like
25:51
there's definitely an easy line to line one if if the coach
25:54
decides it. So yeah, love Eckland doesn't
25:57
pick up. This is definitely more like the
25:59
top 4 is all like more seasoned long hold guys.
26:02
Yep. Depends how deep your league is,
26:04
but I think he's one of the guys that has the potential to be
26:07
somebody that's on your roster for the long term.
26:09
Yeah, absolutely. OK, let's go to the top. #3.
26:17
At #3 we've got mentioned last week as well, but we're
26:21
mentioning him again, Ryan O'Reilly of the National
26:24
Predators line one power play, one like Nashville scored some
26:28
goals and O'reilly's involved and it feels like all of them.
26:30
He's point per game over point per game in the past month.
26:33
And this is just an easy, you know, right while it's hot, if
26:35
you're league counts, face off wins, he's got that going for
26:37
him as well. And he saw, I saw recently a
26:41
quote that said that he doesn't want to get traded from
26:43
Nashville. He doesn't have a new clause,
26:46
but Trots kind of said that like he wants to us all.
26:50
Yeah, exactly. So look, who knows.
26:52
Who knows what that means, but like.
26:54
I didn't see that. So if that's, yeah, that's
26:56
actually huge because. I mean, essentially he
26:59
essentially said I don't wanna just abandon this team.
27:01
Like I'd rather be help be part of the solution which people
27:05
took really offence to because when he was in Buffalo he was
27:08
like, I'm abandoning this team, wanna deal with this.
27:11
I mean, I think he just learned from his previous mistake and
27:14
just is saying that in public. But when they trade him, be
27:16
like, oh guys didn't want this like.
27:19
Oh no. Yeah, exactly.
27:21
Then he goes and wins the cup with the Avalanche.
27:22
Yeah, exactly. So we'll see what happens, but
27:26
but I don't think a trade is imminent.
27:28
It would be closer to the deadline.
27:29
So, so right now look, he's he's running hot.
27:32
So it's an easy grab. And this is, listen, we're not
27:35
going to go too much into weeds of this one because I feel like
27:37
he's been a mainstay in recent episodes.
27:39
The fact that he's still below 40% on like he's only at 32% as
27:43
we as we record this on Yahoo, but over over the last month
27:47
he's still over point per game. Yeah, that's that's not nothing
27:50
guys, we'd like we know Rhino Riley has quality in him.
27:53
He's just super 1 dimensional. Like you're going to pick him
27:55
up. We're recommending him here
27:56
because if you need points, he's one of the guys that can
27:59
deliver. But he's not gonna get you
28:00
shots. He's not gonna get you hits or
28:01
blocks and the power play points I would say are going to hover
28:05
around, you know .25 is my guess like between 1:15 zero point 15
28:11
and 0.3 ish. So you you know that you can get
28:15
the points, but I'm not expecting him to get me anything
28:18
else. Yeah, I will say he's.
28:20
Also trade bit I think like you have him on your roster and
28:23
somebody you know, you you add him into like a 2 for one and
28:26
being like, you know, I wanna make this move that seems quote
28:29
UN quote like lateral. You throw in Ryan O'Reilly who
28:31
just picked up off waivers. He's been over a point per game
28:34
like that. That can be enough to get you
28:35
over the hump. Yeah, absolutely.
28:38
And I will say, I think blanket statement for our top three
28:40
guys, they're all pure C and they're all under 40% and they
28:42
all feel like they should be higher than all attribute a lot
28:44
of that to them being pure C's because I think that's the
28:47
deepest position. So a lot of leagues that aren't
28:49
as deep might not have room on their rosters for them.
28:52
But but yeah, these guys are all all guys who should be rostered
28:55
right now. So let's go into our. #2.
28:59
At #2 he's back in our top three.
29:03
Look, if a guy's gonna play this well, he's gonna make it into
29:05
our top three. I look, I couldn't resist.
29:07
Well, I'm ready to be heard again.
29:09
And so is he, probably. So we're talking about Josh
29:13
Norris of the Buffalo Sabres line 2 power play one currently,
29:17
he is just on an absolute terror.
29:19
I mean, if you haven't heard the tales of Josh Norris, go check
29:22
out his game log since coming back from injury.
29:25
I think he's a point in every single game.
29:26
The power place clicking, he shoots, he wins faceoffs, hits.
29:29
I mean, the hits have slowed down.
29:30
But like, yeah, he can he he's shown he can do that in the
29:33
past. And yeah, this is just a no
29:35
brainer. I mean, we talk about this every
29:37
single week it feels like. If I feel like there's no, no
29:40
bigger Josh Norris fans than first of all, me and maybe you,
29:44
Josh, I don't know. I don't.
29:45
Fan I definitely want to do in the draft this year like look, I
29:48
mean the every every injury he gets just makes me like, you
29:52
know, more and more wary of him. But I've never doubted the skill
29:55
or the deployment. I know for a fact that he's a
29:57
steel wherever you get him in the draft.
29:59
Because of that, it's really just about the health.
30:01
But you know, look, it's it's a it's a waiver pickup.
30:05
Grab him always hot and drop him if he gets injured.
30:07
So it's a no brainer. As we speak, he's only 33%
30:09
owned. I think Buffalo is on the come
30:12
up like since since the GM changed, like they've actually
30:15
been pretty solid and I can expect, you know, them to be
30:18
competitive rest of season. I'm not going to say they're
30:21
going to be good, but I'm going to say they're going to try and
30:24
that's more than some teams so. Absolutely.
30:27
I mean, something interesting with the standings is that in
30:31
the East at least, the worst team in the East is like 5
30:35
points out of a playoff spot. It's so, so close.
30:39
And that makes it that like there's not really any clear
30:43
tanking teams in the East. You look at some of the teams
30:44
are playing awful and they're still in the playoff hunt.
30:47
Whereas in the West it feels like there's much more clear,
30:50
you know, these teams suck, they're going to start tanking.
30:52
So, you know, it kind of makes it that I think it's a bit more
30:55
interesting for these bottom teams in the East.
30:58
They're still trying to win. So they'll still, you know, try
31:01
and produce and make moves and deployment and whatever that'll
31:05
need to wins. So yeah, you look at Buffalo,
31:08
who's like, you know, pretty far down that list in the standings.
31:10
And then you look at how many points out they are and they're
31:12
like, yeah, why shouldn't they compete?
31:13
So Norris, a guy who's like their best centre is a I mean,
31:17
unless you count teaches the centre because he's playing
31:20
there now. But I don't see that lasting.
31:22
But yeah, so this is a no brainer.
31:24
And I do think that, you know, we are at a certain point, like
31:27
we love looking at the numbers. We love looking at the
31:29
statistics and the averages and what we can expect guys to
31:31
either regress up, regress 1. But we do also watch all the
31:35
hockey games. And when you watch Josh Norris
31:37
play, he's actually good. Did you see his last goal?
31:39
The way his body moves on the ice is just.
31:42
If only Jake was here, he'd be thrilled to hear you say that.
31:45
Exactly. But did you?
31:47
Did you see the last goal? Yeah, just.
31:49
Philly. It has some talent, guys.
31:52
It's not just, yeah, I mean. There's a reason they traded him
31:54
one for one for like Dylan Cousins, right?
31:56
Like it wasn't like 1 was like, that's a dumb trade because of
31:59
the injury history. Yeah, but you take out the
32:01
injury history, that's a perfectly reasonable trade.
32:03
Yeah, I think he was due for a change of scenery.
32:05
And like you said, like the injury history, like it can't be
32:07
avoided at this point. We talk about guys being
32:09
squishy, like he's top of that list for when it comes to
32:11
squishy. But when he's not being squishy,
32:13
he's. Still sick when he's not being
32:15
squished and he's at full, you know, shape or whatever then.
32:18
It's such a high ceiling too, because you're picking them up
32:21
off waivers like you're giving value from your from your team
32:24
in a trade and and hoping that he stays healthy.
32:26
Like you're just picking him up expecting him up off waivers.
32:28
If he gets hurt, it's like you nothing happened.
32:30
Exactly cut him. Yeah.
32:31
So I I strongly recommend this guy can have rest of season
32:35
impact for your fantasy team. So what are the odds that now
32:37
he's made it back in our top three that he gets injured?
32:39
If it if it does happen, it's because you made a little
32:42
comment about his injury history as you were saying his name.
32:44
So putting him in the top three because he didn't get injured
32:48
when we didn't put him in the top three, but every time we
32:50
have he, he's gotten injured so. Was an honorable 3.5 or
32:54
something? Yeah, exactly.
32:56
OK, let's go to #1 sell it. OK.
33:02
Number one, we've got Elias Lindholm of the Boston Bruins
33:06
line, one power play, 1 centre. He gets to play, like I said,
33:09
with the two best wingers in the league, which is the Pasternack
33:11
and working geeky. And I love saying that.
33:16
And Boston's power play is #4 in the league still.
33:20
Look, we're we're far enough into the season that I think
33:22
they just have a good power play.
33:23
Like I don't think this is like one of those things where
33:25
they're gonna drop off and become like 25th in the league
33:28
over the course of the year. So this is the number one centre
33:32
on a team with one of the best power plays in the league gets
33:34
to play with amazing wingers and Boston has the best playoff
33:37
schedule of anyone tied with the Rangers.
33:39
So this is such a no brainer pick up to me.
33:42
I have him on my team. I got him as kind of a throw in
33:44
a trade where I also got Pasternak and it was just
33:47
unreal. Unreal.
33:48
Thrown over a point per game over the past month.
33:49
He wins faceoffs. He like doesn't shoot that much
33:53
but like he can also contribute at hits and looks like one of
33:55
each per game usually. So I love him.
33:58
I'm super happy to have him on my team.
34:00
Yep, everything Josh said I I agree with unfortunately,
34:04
because Josh does have him on his fantasy team, but the the
34:08
points have been there. The power play exposure is
34:10
there. He's a double digit face off
34:12
winner. And I will say like obviously
34:15
he's kind of like a rhino Riley, but like slightly better in the
34:17
back categories where like he'll shoot like guys, nothing crazy.
34:21
It's like 1.3. You're not expecting much.
34:23
His his can fluctuate. He can like have a week where
34:26
he'll get you a six game hit and then have 6 game hit 66 game.
34:32
Yeah, sorry, I was like, what is English?
34:34
But then he can get like straight zeros there for like 6.
34:37
So it's just kind of really weird.
34:39
Here's Here's a classic Elias Lindholm stat line for someone
34:42
who doesn't have him on his team.
34:43
You're gonna get one assist, one point.
34:45
It's gonna be a power play assist.
34:47
You're gonna get one shot on goal, 8 face off wins, one hit
34:51
and one block. That's like a classical Island
34:53
home game, and that's great. You take that?
34:56
And then sometimes you'll have games where he'll get you, you
34:59
know, 0 points, one shot, 12 face off wins, six hits and one
35:05
block. And you're like, what even
35:07
happened here? Yeah, exactly.
35:09
So we take those and we move on. Exactly.
35:11
So, yeah. So that's our our top three.
35:13
Let's dive into some bangers with a hard B Bangers week.
35:17
There we go. So let's start with #5 and #5 I
35:24
think this guy is firmly cementing himself as a hits
35:28
beast. I think he might be leading the
35:30
league still. But we've got Yakov Trenin of
35:33
the Minnesota Wild. He's averaging 1.3 shots, 4.7
35:37
hits, and that's over the season.
35:38
He's been even better recently. And yeah, and now he's online,
35:42
too. Look, who knows how long that
35:44
lasts once they start getting guys back.
35:45
But this is just a very, very pure hits but elite hits type of
35:50
play. Again, only two games this week,
35:52
but four games of the week, so it's a solid 2 week stream at
35:54
the very least. And there's a guy in a bangers
35:56
who can stay on your roster rest of the season, just to warn you
35:58
that hits category. Yep, here's value definitely
36:01
depends on how valuable bankers are.
36:03
Like if you're in a categories league and you're in your league
36:05
is pretty deep, you can have a lot of value because he can
36:08
completely change. You know, that one category just
36:11
on his on his lonesome or if you're in a lead of values, you
36:16
know, hits in terms of points and like you get one point for
36:19
every hit. Then let's say two hits equals
36:22
like an assist. Like he can basically get you
36:24
like 2 assistant night, if not 3 pretty much if you're counting
36:27
it like that. Yeah.
36:28
So I I think he can be very valuable.
36:30
And like Josh said, like this is the only guy on the list that he
36:33
might have two games this week, but he's got four games the next
36:36
week. So some long term potential
36:38
there for you to hold them for like this weekend, next.
36:41
Yeah, OK, let's go to #4 and #4 the staple of this list.
36:47
We've got Radco Goutis of the Anaheim Ducks.
36:51
I mean, we can't not include him.
36:53
He's like the quintessential Bangers defenseman and he's
36:56
never above 40%. So like, why are we gonna
36:58
recommend worse guys when we have him available to list?
37:01
So he's 1.4 shots, 2.4 hits, 1.8 blocks on the season and only
37:08
two games this week, three games a week after.
37:09
But again, this is a season long hold.
37:11
Like, I don't even know. Like I feel like everyone who's
37:13
listening, who's in a Bangers league, he's all, he's already
37:15
rostered. But like like I said, our rule
37:17
is under 40%, so we got to keep including him.
37:20
Yeah, usually we put them higher on this list, but I think he's
37:23
he's slowed down a little bit over the last two weeks, I would
37:25
say. Yeah, but that's not uncommon
37:27
for these bangers guys to like they'll they'll have weeks where
37:29
they're getting like five hits, five blocks, it feels like for
37:32
stretches of games and they'll have the odd week where it's
37:35
like they'll get some zeros there and you're like, I just
37:37
picked them up. How the hell is he getting
37:38
zeros? He's averaging over 5A game.
37:41
Like how is he getting zeros? It honestly makes no sense, but
37:44
it happens. And I think Rocco good.
37:46
This is like, no going through right now where you're not
37:49
getting the blocks from. I don't think the hits are still
37:51
there and he's doing what he usually does in shots at any
37:54
point is kind of just a cherry on top.
37:55
So always one of the best bangers.
37:58
Yeah, I think these these next couple of guys, the reason I put
38:01
them higher is because they have three games this week as opposed
38:03
to the 2. So obviously we're trying to
38:05
optimize schedule, but let's go to. #3.
38:08
And #3 we've got a guy who actually wasn't on our list for
38:11
a few weeks, but we're bringing him back with a nice schedule.
38:14
We've got a meal. Heineman of the New York
38:15
Islanders still averaging on the season. 1.9 shots, 3.4 hits, and
38:20
again, that three-game schedule this week is going to be really
38:23
nice for him. So I like him.
38:24
I mean, the points have definitely dried up.
38:26
Hornets outdated day when he comes back that definitely
38:29
increases his point potential, but in terms of pure bangers,
38:32
not going to complain with having him for three games this
38:34
week. Yeah, a guy that you're able to
38:35
get two shots out of and over three hits out of, like that's
38:38
very rare. I think that's why Emily
38:40
Heineman is one of those guys that has kind of I, I would say
38:43
come out of nowhere and be valuable for fantasy this season
38:46
where we expected him to be somewhat good like we used to be
38:49
on the halves. Like we really loved him.
38:50
It was sad to see him go, but this is the type of guy that
38:53
like he wasn't relevant on the House and on on the Islanders.
38:56
He's got a little bit of juice to him.
38:57
So if you need hits and some shots like there's no, there's
39:01
not many better guys this week. I think that you can stream.
39:03
That's it. It's a really tough week to
39:05
stream so. So he's a nice one.
39:07
Alright, let's go to #2 at #2 we've got Jake McCabe of the
39:12
Toronto Maple Leafs. This is more of a switch up.
39:14
This is for blocks leagues more than more than hits leagues.
39:17
So he still hits. He's averaging 1.5 hits on the
39:20
season. He's averaging 2.6 blocks.
39:22
He's also pimping if your league counts that and he's got that
39:25
three-game week. So he's averaging 22 minutes a
39:28
night and he's a great banger, but very blocks focused.
39:30
Most of all the other guys on this list are hits focused.
39:33
So thought I'd throw in a blocks guy for the lease that count
39:35
that. Yeah, I think McCabe also is
39:38
like, he's kind of low-key cementing himself as, you know,
39:41
a guy that you kind of hold for the season given the categories
39:45
that he's that he's able to influence, like 2.6 blocks is
39:48
elite, elite numbers. There's, if you look around the
39:52
league, there's not a lot of defensemen that are hitting that
39:54
threshold that are like good at anything else.
39:57
And I think Jake McCabe is one of the few names that like,
39:59
yeah, you wish his hits were a little higher, but he's playing
40:01
22 minutes a night. And he might not get you a shot,
40:05
but the block, the blocks are so elite that in a categories
40:08
league, I think he has more value than in, let's say, a
40:11
points league that has individual points values for
40:14
hits, blocks and shots. Absolutely.
40:16
All right, let's go to. Number one.
40:21
The GOAT number one, we have Big Ben Sharon of the Detroit Red
40:26
Wings. He's got a three-game week.
40:28
So that great schedule, he's averaging over two hits over 2
40:31
blocks over a shot per game. He slowed down a bit over the
40:34
past week, but if you look at his past month, past two weeks,
40:37
season long averages, they're all kind of unreal.
40:40
And, and we we love him here. You know, I, I've always been a
40:44
bench rock fan. Kevin now has him on his team.
40:45
So maybe between the bench? But but yeah, no, this is a a
40:51
great pickup, especially with that three-game week coming up.
40:54
Yep. I mean, listen, we just
40:56
highlighted with good is slowing down a little bit in the blocks.
40:58
I think Sharon just had one of those worst weeks of the season
41:01
and yes, he's on my roster, so I'm sad, but he didn't really
41:04
come to delivering the hits and blocks this last week.
41:07
But I think this upcoming week, like you listen, it's the
41:09
holidays. He's gonna be mean.
41:11
Maybe, maybe he gets a little more of those.
41:13
Yeah, he's going to be full of holiday food and just like
41:17
throwing that body around trying to work off the calories.
41:19
So it's it's going to be a good week.
41:21
Listen, but some of the mindset of an NHL player that wants to
41:23
burn out the calories from the holiday meal, I think.
41:25
No brainer. Exactly.
41:27
OK, let's jump into the goalie zone of the episode.
41:32
We've got the top three quantity goalies.
41:34
These are guys who should get you 2 plus starts.
41:36
I will say this week was very difficult to find 3 quantity
41:40
goalies because most teams only play twice and there's not many
41:43
pure starters available under 40%.
41:45
So I think I came up with some good ones, but there's going to
41:47
be some asterisks involved, so let's dive in with. #3.
41:52
At #3 We've got Alex Lyon of the Buffalo Sabres.
41:55
They play Ottawa and Boston this week.
41:57
He's been starting every single game for the past week and a
42:00
half, Two weeks. He's going to cement himself as
42:03
the starter on that team. But any week where there's only
42:07
two games, you know, if they just decide he's played six
42:09
games in a row, we're gonna give him a break.
42:11
It's possible. So again, there's an asterisk on
42:13
all these quantity ones that maybe they don't get both
42:16
starts, but he's guaranteed getting you one and has the
42:18
chance of getting you both. And I think I really like what
42:21
I'm seeing from Buffalo lately, right?
42:23
Like they've won. They're on a four-game win
42:24
streak as we speak. Not saying they're never gonna
42:27
lose a game, but the line may also be playing for a new job
42:31
too, like so he he might either become the the starter for
42:36
before the rest of the season or be traded to a team that needs
42:39
goalie help. So I think there's a lot to like
42:42
with Alice line right now. We've seen him have stretches of
42:45
strong quality in the past, so you know he's got it in him.
42:48
Absolutely. He's got that dog in him.
42:50
He. Does got that dog?
42:51
Or or that lion and him, I guess.
42:54
OK, OK, let's go to #2 at #2 we've got Anton Forsberg of the
43:02
LA Kings. They play a back-to-back of
43:04
Columbus and Seattle and then they play Anaheim.
43:06
So he's guaranteed getting one of them back-to-back starts.
43:09
And then if Darcy Kemper is still out, he'll also get
43:11
Anaheim. So that's another one of those
43:12
asterisks. And like we mentioned in our
43:15
news episode, Forsberg is not necessarily a guy we're like
43:18
running to grab. We don't think it's like a
43:19
season winning grab if Kemper's out for some time.
43:21
But these are all easy opponents and LA, despite not being able
43:25
to score goals, they don't let in that many either.
43:28
So I like him for this week. Yeah, I think Forsberg listened.
43:32
The best thing is we saw we talked about Kemper being one of
43:35
the main guys as to why LA is being successful in winning
43:38
games that they're winning. But we've seen Forsberg have a
43:41
couple of good games here and there.
43:42
Like I'm not saying that he's the most reliable, but if you
43:44
need quantity like he's the main starter right now.
43:47
So on a schedule like this like and you need 2 starts and you
43:50
need to make a pick up early in the week, I think he's the guy.
43:52
Yeah, exactly. Alright.
43:55
And then at number one, I was going to say we've got slim
43:59
Pickens this week in terms of quantity goalies, or should I
44:02
say slim Pickards because we got Calvin Pickard of the Edmonton
44:08
Oilers. Listen, I admire the thought and
44:12
attempt. Thank you.
44:14
I'll take it. So yeah, Kevin picked up the
44:18
Edmonton Oilers. Surprising absolutely no
44:19
interest in Shari got injured immediately after joining the
44:23
Edmonton Oilers. Now we've got a back-to-back
44:25
this weekend. Calvin Pickard and Connor Ingram
44:28
are gonna get both those starts. And I think whichever one of
44:31
those two performs better, unless they perform the same,
44:34
it'll go to Pickard. But if Ingram has a great game
44:37
and Picard has a garbage game, then let's flip this
44:39
recommendation to to Ingram. So wait and see on this weekend.
44:43
But next week they only have two games, but they're both against
44:46
Calgary. Super easy matchups and I think
44:49
that they're going to go with the same goalie for both.
44:51
So look, I think it's going to be picked, but crazier things
44:54
have happened. Even though Ingram putting
44:56
terrible HL numbers, sometimes HL and NHL numbers don't
44:59
translate. So keep an eye on that.
45:01
And again, slim, slim pickards for this week.
45:04
You're obsessed with Olympic cards, but listen, you're
45:07
picking up this, you're picking up the starter, the starter on
45:10
an Edmonton team that has less competition, though.
45:15
Like guys, we I, I told you guys that no, we were getting some
45:19
some some negative feedback. Let's put it that way on our
45:23
Tiktok where we talked about how you.
45:24
Know have you gone into gloat now?
45:26
I have already gone into gloat and they have completely moved
45:29
the goal posts. They've been like, well, it's
45:30
not that good anyways. So I'm like, yeah, at least it's
45:33
healthy and playing on the ice. And we literally mentioned that
45:35
this was a terrible treat for Edmonton because they treated
45:38
for a guy that's double the salary, older, injury prone and
45:42
they had to give give away not only a warm body and defensemen
45:45
to make up for the cap that they're getting and also a
45:48
second round pick just for a lateral move for a goalie that
45:50
week in is already heard. So and in all the games that he
45:54
played for Edmonton did not get one game over a 900 save
45:57
percentage. So what are we gloating about
45:59
here, guys? I just I don't know, but I think
46:02
I think now Edmonton would really like to have Stuart
46:04
Skinner on their rosters. All I'm gonna say, but they get
46:08
Calvin Pickard and they don't have a choice.
46:09
So that is that. And listen, maybe, maybe this
46:13
gives you opportunity for Picker with nobody breathing down his
46:16
neck because Jerry is hurt. Maybe he can run with it.
46:19
Like listen, if he, if he gets good, like I don't want to say
46:23
he's he can be the starter even when Jerry is healthy because
46:26
they just traded for him. They want Jerry to be healthy
46:28
because or else people are getting fired.
46:30
Um, but yeah, listen, it's a situation.
46:33
You're picking up the starter on a great team.
46:35
Yeah, and I mean two games of Calgary, I'm taking that every
46:38
day of the week. Alright, let's go to the top
46:41
three quality goalies. Still not still slim pickings
46:45
for this week, but at least there were a couple back-to-back
46:47
that was able to choose for us. So let's start with. #3.
46:51
At #3 we've got Jonas Johansson, Yonas Johansson.
46:56
I'm just going to look it up so that next time he's on the.
46:57
Episode Jonas Johansson. OK.
47:01
I feel like I've mentioned that every time we reach we we record
47:05
and we mentioned his name. You're always like, is it Jonas
47:07
or Jonah? Like it's Yodas and you're like,
47:08
I don't know what it is yet, but I'm just gonna say.
47:11
Always. One of these days I'll figure
47:13
out what Jonas Johansson's name is.
47:15
But. Getting away with this.
47:19
Yeah, so he's the backup goalie for Tampa.
47:23
Now that Vasilevski's back, they have a back-to-back of Florida
47:25
and Montreal. Look, I don't love these
47:27
matchups, but it's Tampa. Tampa could beat any team so and
47:31
again, there wasn't much to choose from.
47:32
So that's why he is on the number three spot for this week.
47:35
Yeah, you pay attention to which of these games is going to
47:38
start. My hope is that he plays the
47:39
Montreal game because I do think Florida is a little more
47:41
menacing. But either way, if I need a
47:44
quality start like you're streaming the Tampa goalie and
47:46
there's worse, there could be worse options so.
47:49
Yeah, it's a glowing recommendation.
47:51
Is it could be worse. That's a tricky week, my friend.
47:54
It is. Alright, let's go to #2 at #2
47:59
We've got David Riddick of the New York Islanders.
48:03
I still hate him from like 3 years ago for like this one
48:05
random goal he let in. But anyways I'm over it and
48:09
they've got a back-to-back Rangers in Columbus.
48:12
Neither team is a team I'm worried about too much.
48:15
Islanders have been pretty solid.
48:16
They're always a good defensive team so I like Riddick as a spot
48:19
start for this week. Yep.
48:22
And he I would say like he's had some good quality in him at
48:26
times this year. I'm not trying to put too much
48:29
stock into that because we've seen what he can do in the past.
48:32
But yeah, in a week like this, like he's a good stream option.
48:38
Yeah, all right, and let's go to number one.
48:42
Number one, we've got Sam Erson of the Philadelphia Flyers.
48:45
They get to play Vancouver and Chicago on a back-to-back two
48:48
matchups. I am loving because they both
48:51
suck. Chicago without Bedard is
48:52
nothing, Vancouver without Quinn Hughes is.
48:55
I mean, unbeatable apparently, but but pretty much nothing.
49:00
And Philly is randomly actually sick this year.
49:03
Look, not necessarily in terms of their.
49:05
Actually sick is a is overemphasizing.
49:08
They are not bottom five in the league.
49:11
Yes, thank you. I don't think they're bottom 10.
49:13
They're they're like they're in the mix, which is way better
49:16
than I expected. I'm also a bit biased because I
49:19
have a folder on my team and he's been unreal.
49:21
So yeah, I kind of like what Philly look.
49:23
I don't think they have the best offence that they are talking is
49:26
very defensive minded coach and it's showing in the goalie stats
49:29
so I love this as a this is definitely my top pick up for a
49:33
single start this week. Yeah, I agree.
49:36
And Ersin also has it like he's one of the only guys that, you
49:40
know, you, you, he has it in him to potentially be the guy one
49:44
day. Like Vadar is like, I feel like
49:46
he's got the job this year. It feels like unless he really,
49:49
his play really, you know, deteriorates.
49:52
But Ersan is the guy that they could have for the future type
49:55
of thing. So that if the level of play
49:57
changes, he always has a little bit of upside there compared to
49:59
these other guys that, you know, are always going to be pure
50:01
backups. Yeah, but nonetheless, you're
50:04
just streaming him for one start this upcoming and it could be a
50:07
good one. And that's the whole point.
50:09
Yeah. All right, that wraps up our
50:12
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50:17
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