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great and come back with victory and welcome everyone. We're doing something a little
bit different today on Fancy Hockey Live. We are live in Vancouver. We
got Mike and Corey Petrie and Mike who goes by pool on the discord.
You guys want to say hi, O game many hockey blood, good times.
We're just in here at a bar. It's a little bit loud,
it's a little bit informal, but we're having a good time. We also
got to go to a WHL game last night, which was super fun my
first time. And apparently people who are living here don't go often enough as
far as I'm concerned. Yeah, I agree. I don't live very far
away from the Langley event Center and I make it down I think I make
it down a couple of times a year there. But there's lots of hockey
variety and in this market to you like. I also watched the PC Hockey
League try to catch the Serie at least a couple of times a year and
then of course the local NHL team, the Vancouver Canucks. Yeah, we're
actually some of us are going to that game tomorrow against the Oilers. That'll
be fun. But yeah, it was a really good time. It was
really good venue twenty five bucks. Canadian got us second row seats, so
that was a pretty good time. Yeah, we liked it. Yeah,
we're having a good time. We're just hanging out. Hopefully the sound quality
isn't too bad. What we decided to do for this episode is talk about
some potential season long holds for your league. So we're looking at guys that
are sub fifty rostered on on a Yahoo and so we're gonna go through and
each one give a guy, talk about why they might be interested in them,
and maybe get a little given back and forth about what we think about
the player. So we think about that formatan sound good sounds good to me?
And do you want to go first? My friend? All right,
don't gonna start out with Marco Rossi of the Minnesota Wild. So he's a
seven percent rostered in Yahoo recent recent upgrade. Not only is he on the
while looks like he's on the team permanently. Not back in the Iowa of
the AHL this year. Not only that, but they are using him on
a scoring line. They have been using him on a scoring line recently with
real papriz Off. That's the important line. Matt Zucarella has been downgraded.
So it's actually as of last game according to the Frozen Tools line combinations on
Dauber, it's the real prize off with Matt and Marco Rossi. So it's
a good comparison between Rossi and Boldie. I think both of them were both
of them are prospects of the Wild organization around the same time. I think
drafted about a year apart. If I'm not mistaken, Rossi was possibly the
slightly better prospect. I think at the time that Moldi has deplixed him.
His NHL career has got off faster. Rossi was dealing with long COVID back
then to set him back for a year, and so he's really needed to
get his career back on track there. But he's still a new prospect.
Don't forget. He's still only twenty two years old, and as of this
recording, he has six points in his last six games, so that's that's
pretty good. Shooting the puck as well, and got four shots on gold
in each of his last two games, in three of his past four game
as well. Anyone who followed this podcast knows that I love Marko Rossi and
I've been a big fan of his for a long time, but he has
really not had this kind of deployment. This is the kind of deployment we
have been dreaming of for a long time. When he was drafted, we
were hoping he can center curl for priestaff someday. That was even before Matt
Boldi became a thing. But he's obviously been shown to be a very capable
scoring forward himself. So yeah, we're all pretty much excited to see that
deployment is happening now. We don't know if it'll stick, obviously, but
there's a pretty good chance. That I mentioned in the preseason, there isn't
a huge bar to clear between other centers on the team. Ryan Hartman's pretty
decent. They have Joel ericson neck, but he's more of a shutdown guy.
So I feel like it can stick. In six points in the last
six games, I think it's reasonable he could get up to seventy plus this
season. You think that's that's a little too rich. Ian, I think
it is right now. I'm still usually with rookies. I think I think
he still qualifies at as a rookie since his maximum games played a nineteen games
played last season. Yeah, he's marked as a rookie and according to Frozen
tools, but I think you can get probably fifty to sixty would be worthwhile
expectation. I think it'd be, especially if he sticks on that top line
like that. I think he's gonna a bit of a post hype sleeper with
him as well, because because he probably none he was first drafted, I
think they were really high expectations and that he was going to jump into the
NHL, but sometimes it takes a few years for these prospects to really get
definitely, and he is color eligible for those wondering like you mentioned, and
he only has a witness, No, he is. He is under the
picture there will stay. But no, he had six in his previous season
or he had nineteen. I can't remember the exact roll off the top of
my head. Actually. Anyways, I definitely agree. I think that's more
a conservative estimate, but I definitely think that the upside is there. So
he's widely available and it seems like he might stick, so at least hold
him for several weeks and see what happens, maybe even season long. I
really like that take. He's definitely one of my guys, so good one
in Let's talk about the first guy that I want to talk about, and
that's Pablo Zaka. Pablozaka Boston Center. I mean, I was pretty skeptical.
People were mentioning that he was going to have this massive outbreak season,
and obviously we all knew that the opportunity was going to be there. But
he's his best season was last season, fifty seven point pace, and people
were talking about point per game Pabozaka. I just I wasn't there. I
think even though his opportunity is glorious, he's still punching way above his pay
grade. And I think the other thing that complicates this issue is that Matthew
Patrau is fantastic. He's really come out of nowhere and done some amazing things.
If you look at his look at these guys's numbers on evolving Hockey,
it's pretty telling. Pabo had some pretty low expected goals against ten corsi against
for sixty and his actual production in terms of goals for way out paces his
expected goals. Quatra is actually way better in terms of his expected goals against,
for and against, So you could say that he is doing better with
less and that might actually be a reason why you might want quatraw and I
think that could be a reasonable strategy in a deep enough league. But I
also think it's pretty clear that Zaka seems like he needs Bosternak and or Marshan
a little bit more than what Trau does. Watra has been doing what he's
been doing with Geeky and debrsque, Zaka with Pasternak and marsh On. I
feel like they might just keep it as it is because Zaka seems to need
those guys more and he's still going to get some pretty good production even if
he's not the best inpended driver. And he was pretty slow to start the
season. I know I drafted him in the Kakupfle and he had no points
through I can't even remember how many games, five or six, and I
was losing patience. But seven points in the last six games has been pretty
good production since then, so he's up to sixty point pace after a slow
start. I still think he can be in that sixty to seventy point range,
but I'm not on board with him doing much more than that. But
the upside is certainly there. Oshanak is point per game plus guy, so
even if he accidentally gets some assists from pasta, I think there's going to
be some pretty good upside there. I definitely I am interested in Zach and
I think he's probably a pretty decent season on hold, what do you think
in Yeah, I had him as a preseason sleeper just because of that big
hole to Boston has in the middle with the free Spurs run and David Brachie
both believing looking at and so far, if you look at ice time,
power play time shots per game, those have all being in favor of Zaka
Gon who bit of a slow slower start with New Jersey. I think this
was a guy I drafted way back when and just simply did not afford to
bounce any longer. But this seems great to Boston. Really helped the value
and of course the opportunity this year power play, he's averaging first unit of
power play minutes, his ice time is up three minutes in game stuff,
averaging almost twenty minutes of game which is which is really good on the Boston
team, and he's streaming and he's taking over two shots two point three shots
per game right now as well. So all of those lean and Zach's favorite,
and Boston just simply isn't. They're not deep enough to really sustain.
To have Zaka playing on say a checking buyer or something, he has to
be the type of players based on their death. He has to be in
the top six. And right now, his most frequent line his line nates.
Right now, most frequent line knights are Brad Marshant and David Passerman.
Exactly the way you want it. They do change. Last game they were
he was actually Pastornack and it was James vand Reemsdyke. It was still okay.
I would still we would still be playing with that JVR be a bit
of a downgrade from Marshan, of course, but but definitely if he has
if he's available when you needed the center, I'm not a bad pick up.
And four seven points in his last six games, all right, Yeah,
No, definitely get Zacha. And if it's a deepen f league,
I would get Pa Trot you can, and certainly in dynasty leagues, I'm
sure he's then scooped up already because that that flex up and down is pretty
fantastic. And he's passed the nine games. He's sticking around, so you're
gonna get the full season out of So that's pretty great. Once you give
us your next one there you know, all right? Next one I have
is Quinton Byfield of the Kings. This is another player they gating young players
here. It seems like Byfield's been in the league in a while, but
he's only twenty one years old. So it's almost like you've got to wait,
we wait a few years or in the hit and but Byfield we've expected
that was going to be the wait anyway, because we're talking about a bigger
forward year six five two five. Usually those guys take longer. If you're
looking at that, just hit that two hundred game mark where where typical prospects
need to hit their strides and break out. The bigger body forwards need longer.
They need as many as four hundred games, which is which is quite
a bit. But right now Byfield it seems to be happening for him.
Right now, he's got six points in his last three games, ten points
in eleven games this season. Maybe the breakout he's only just pasted one hundred
game mark in his career, so maybe maybe we're really starting to see that,
see him really get to that point now right now, he got something
from me, Yeah, thank you, no so yeah. And and of
course he's been playing on that line with that top line with Mansay colpuitar and
Adrian Campaign, which is important. Hasn't always gotten the ice time and always
got a fairly deep lineup, so he buried him down a little bit.
But right now his ice time is still the hair under fifteen minutes. But
he's not on that first unit of Power Player's not getting those power Play quite
getting those first n of power Play minutes. But it looks like he could
easily make his way on there at some point. So yeah, definitely my
Field is someone to look at anyone who knows the show too. And I
didn't give him these names, he picked them on his own. But I
love quinning Byfield. I've been a stan of his for a long time,
and yeah, he's been maybe a little bit of a slow burn. We
all want every prospect to hit right away and we want them to be amazing,
and we're impatient, but he is only one hundred and ten games into
his NHL career, he had some injuries. As Ian mentioned, a big
body. We always knew it was going to take him longer. But if
he hits, and it seems like he's hitting finally, then the upside is
huge. He's really still not even getting that much ice time fourteen and a
half minutes. I'm you like your top end four to be more than that.
But he's certainly arguably playing with a couple of the best players on the
team. You might argue Fiala or whoever Duba, but he's getting really good
deployment and he's getting a decent amount of power play time, and he's We
always thought he would be a center, and I still think he could be
a center long term. But they have so many good centers in LA.
They have Coke Guitar who seems like he's Benjamin, but they got to know
they got dubas so putting him on the wing is just a really smart idea,
I think, and giving him a specific role, I love it.
I love Byfield. Actually, someone just asking me today, I think it
was Dave actually in our server some of us play together with him, and
he said, I go for Byfield and redrafts, and I think the time
is now. It seems like it's happening right now, and so I definitely
agree, and I'd be pretty excited to have him. Let's talk about my
next guy, and that is none other than Logan Cooley. So Coolly obviously
first year in the NHL, and he has been doing pretty well so far.
He's right now. He has eight points in eleven games, play with
those super high end forward and not be able to point. That just shows
Also he's been pretty unlucky because if you look at his play driving, Barrett
Hayden has actually been really good defensively, his expected goal against in course against
is very good. His offensive production hasn't been great and Coolly, as much
as the production points wise has been there, he's been pretty caved in defensively,
but that might also be a function of the guys he's playing with.
So it's seems reasonable that maybe they would switch the two because Lily is two
way and fully may be able to help a little bit more offensive generation.
He's doing fine on his own a lot of those. He has six point
on the power play, so six of the eight points, so mostly it's
coming on the power play and I think he'll keep that role either way,
but it would be a boon. So he's now on a sixty point pace,
he could have upside for even more. And his peripheral coverage isn't amazing.
Maybe with a little bit more time on ice with those guys, that
might improve a little bit. What do you think about that? And yeah,
I agree, I'm also on board, Polly. I think Arizona's had
some looking at their roster this offseason and it looked like they were going to
be better fully, seemed like a favorite for the Calder Trophy. So far,
eight points in eleven games. That's pretty good. Just one goal as
well, if you're looking at and you're looking at that, he's got a
one, I guess one's still just under a shot per games. So whoever,
we want to see that those shots go up a little bit more.
Certainly the assists are there. Look at secondary assists as well, secondary assist
percentages of low even that can increase the seven assists eleven games and that and
that could potentially go up as well. Power play time as well, averaging
averaging over fifty percent of the oats of power play minutes. And you Steven
Burdon on the power play the six power play points as well, so it's
gonna get he's going to do wealthier power play point total as well. Definitely
on board with with Logan clearly as well as another center. Sounds awesome.
We're in agreement so far. Who's our next one? My next one that
I'm going to go with here is Bobby Braids wrote about him in the in
my most recent ramblings, the ones that appeared on Saturday, and I was
a little I'll say just in the writing, I was a little bit unsure
about him. On one hand, he's got he's hot play right now,
He's got eight points in eleven games. He's getting fairly decent ice time sports
teams to distribute it fairly, fairly evenly. Definitely somebody that you should look
at and keeper leagues. Somebody that I would even in a single season league,
I would I would look at as well. My skepticism Mariah's from sports
though that one minute he could be on the top line, the next man
he could be a healthy scratch. So something I said in the article that
I wrote is that, like Morgan, Cross was a decent option last year,
but then he started off as a healthy scratch. As long as he
keeps those work habits going, then he should be okay the Flyers. As
far as the Flyers go, you have many differently good options, but maybe
not ones that he would quite trust in all leagues. But I think certainly
if you want to get on, if you want to get on with Bobby
Brinks, I think this is this is probably the time of do. I
don't think I would sell him as hard as I would the first two options
I would probably that I listed I would. I would probably go with my
Field and then ROSSI and then Brink. But some of those leagues where by
Field and ROSSI are already spoken for, then I think Bobby Brink might be
might be that kind of option. I'm thinking of one of my leads when
I say this, Yes, yeah, he's definitely maybe not. It's for
sure to maintain this amount of production. I agree with you with about tour.
That's always a bit of a concern. Also, just I love this
guy. He's tiny, he's five eight, but he has produced pretty much
at every level. He's done amazing At the NCAA, he's done fantastic or
pretty well at least with the HL twenty eight points and forty one games last
year, So he seems to be able to produce no matter where he's playing,
and that's a really good sign. And he's a pretty He's not just
like a unidimensional player either. He's not just has a good shot. He
can score in multiple ways and so that's going to help him. Sixteen to
twenty four time on ice is a little bit more than he got last year,
so that's a good sign. And if he can keep it up,
I think there's a decent chance he might be a tough roster in a deep
redraft league. I think the Flyers are proving a little bit more capable than
we thought, so that's hopefully a good sign. Yeah. So my next
one was Nick s Maltz. I didn't intend to go heavy Arizona. That
was an accident. He pointed that out when I sent him my names.
But I don't really understand why Nick Schmaltz is rostered under fifty percent in Yahoo.
I think he was somewhere in the thirties or forties when I last saw,
and that's really criminally low. He's been nearly a point for games this
season, and we've seen him do this before he was had a seventy five
point pace last season, seventy seven the season before, and he's basically just
turned into this high producing, high efficiency player, So what's not to like.
Also, his time on ice has gone up this season. He's got
almost thirty seconds more than he has in the past. And what's more,
his pdo and power play. He actually suggests he deserves more points. And
it's generally true that his prep rows aren't great, but yeah, because he
literally has zero hits and eleven games are just sad. But he's shooting more.
He's got two and a half shots per game, which is at two
point one in the past, so a little bit more peripheral perhaps from Smalls.
He's on the only line that's producing a lot in Arizona, and they've
shown that no matter how bad the team is, he can continue to do
that. Why is his rostership siloian? I think part of the fact that
these plays in Arizona. For one, there's people that openly say don't roster
Coyotes and they're just not a good team. But I think that's turning around.
I mean, just there are players. If you played fantasy sports long
enough, I know that there are good players that can post big numbers even
that they played for bad teams. Schmaltz's point for dam Mids SMALLTI point for
game is actually at least zero point nine points per game, so nearly a
point per game over the last three seasons. But if you want to know
another reason why his roster ship might be lower than it should be, which
I'd say is thirty six it's thirty six percent Yaha league. I'm not sure
what fan practices. I haven't found tracks. But the other reason I was
going to say is that he's been restricted to just sixty three games in each
of the previous two seasons, so he's run into some injury problems, and
I think that affects pre season rankings, like when people look at the I
guess when they do their ranking they look at overall total points and not necessarily
at as injuries put for game averages. So he falls a bit in the
rankings there. But at the same time, you're going to have to look
at the You're gonna have to look at he has an injury risk on frozen
tools. He's band avoid certified, which means that he's going to carry some
injury risk. So when you forecast a player like that, you're probably gonna
have to knock off ten games off of his total. I think that's why.
But I agree that he is rostered in fewer leads and he should be.
How do you feel about that? Because in my general sense is I
don't really care, but they're going to miss ten fifteen games. But it's
not ideal. But I generally don't think too much about that. If I
had a choice between a similarly projected player, I'll say someone who I'm more
confident will play all the games. But in general, especially someone where schmalt
is the terms of rusher ship, I'm not gonna worry about that. I'll
take the production while I can get it, and if they fall off and
gets injured, I'm not too worried about that. How do you feel about
that? I think if you have that player that you can sub in,
then I think you're okay. I have Schmaltz in one league, and I
had him it was a team that I took over a year ago, and
I've kept Schmaltz on my team throughout. I'm okay with that. I think
you can get good at value and maybe as a bonus he will stay healthy
for the entire season. So far, so good as far as the as
far as the injuries go. But I think it depends on your level of
comfort too. Like some some people are okay with that, but having a
guy that this is a few games, I'm but you're talking to a guy
who said, Chrys latang for over a decade and it dealt with all the
injuries. So I'm fine with taking that risk. But other people don't like
that. But you can definitely find good value there. Definitely who's your next
guy. My next guy is Eric Gustafson, and this is because of the
recent injury to Adam Fox. Adam Fox is going to be He's expected to
be out until and around the end of November. He's going to miss a
minimum of ten games. And there's a guy waiting in the wings right there.
That's an easy ad and that's Gustofson. Sure enough, Gustafson has has
taken over Fox to spot on the first unit power play for the Rangers.
Scored a goal and then assist in his last game against the Minnesota neither of
which were on the power play. But it's all about opportunity. He got
twenty minutes of ice time in that game. Prior to that, he've only
received twenty minutes in a game just once. Unfortunately, he's been buried down
depth charts on different teams. He's been a very well traveled player, like
a Mike Sillinger or I'm going to date myself here, Brent Ashton type of
player where he's who old enough to remember him, but he's But the thing
about Gustafson is that he hasn't been the guy for any team, but he'd
just been kind of that that spare sub powerplay option. He's often a healthy
scratch. So when Fox is back, there's the chance you might be sending
them back to the waiver wire. But if you need that Fox replacement,
or you just want an inconvenience the Fox, the Fox replaced me, the
Fox owner on your team, then I think you could that you could grab
him and that Ghustupson did a pretty good job and filling in for John Carlson
last year when when Carlson went on the it was a way for quite a
while there. The staff that I've mentioned here in the ramblings about Fox here
is that kids, I believe it was twenty five points in thirty three games
and he accumulated well, Carlson was injured last year, So yeah, you've
got a ready made option here if you if you have the misfortune of Adam
Fox going to your ir box. I have to say, I I'm really
not a fan of guests of sin, but you cannot argue with the opportunity
he's getting, as you mentioned, pretty decent amount of power play time.
He's currently getting the fourth most even strength time on ice, but the most
power play time with Fox down. And some people might have thought that Candra
Miller would have gotten that opportunity if they do have Eric Aesibson there really for
that reason, but there's no other reason really to have him out there.
Candra Miller's a great even strength defenseman and he can ruin the power play.
But you can get gust Ofsen in there. You can give him an isolated
role, give him third pairing minutes and let him feast on the power plays.
I don't hate that. It is interesting though, between those two.
Do you think that you would take Bestison over Miller if you had the chance
in a banger's league where you count all stats. That's a tough one.
Under normal circumstances. I would definitely take Miller in a bangers league. I
think just in this scenario, where is going to get the minutes with fox
Eger, I would take I would take I think Gustavson's short term value is
better, but just I'd have trouble drafting Gustafson and thinking that you should have
him for a full season and keep him on your rosters. Ask Longs,
this is just about opportunity. If you're listening to the podcast in its December,
then this is probably the point. You probably should take our advice on
this, but I said November, definitely get on to Yeah. I think
if you have the opportunity to take Miller, I would take him. He's
probably not available in the many leagues, but I would prefer him for a
season long bald. But for now, Yeah, Gusm's got a great opportunity.
Let's move on to the next guy. Turn your head and Pavel minschew
cough is going to be the next guy. What a stud. This guy
is seven points in ten games for primaries, fifty seven point page. The
thing that's most shocking and hilarious to me is he is already quite literally the
best defenseman on the Azaheim Ducks by a wide margin. His expected goals for
squadruples Radko Dudas, which is also hilarious that he's the next best one,
and then his coursing against I don't think, close your eyes, think about
who do you think the next best defensive defenseman is on the Anaheim Ducks.
Okay, no it's not Cam Fowler. No it's not Jamie draz he's injured
anyway. It's not Jason Leacom, it's not Ratco Goudis. It's Rho Vecha
Niner. That is probably a name that most people haven't heard or thought about.
He's not relevant, but it is interesting that he's the best and mavil
Minchikok is the second best defensively. All this to say he's getting some pretty
fantastic opportunity. What we care about the most is the power play time on
ice, and he's getting over three minutes, almost twenty minutes at even strength.
This guy is such a stud. He is getting, as I mentioned,
ten of power play time and the pariffs twenty two hits and sixteen blocks
in ten games. That would be elite bashed if it weren't for only a
quote unquote sixteen shots I still think that's pretty amazing for a world coverage.
I think he's making a pretty solid case to win the Calder fifty seven point
pace, and it seems like he's only getting better. He's not going anywhere.
Ten games under his belt and he's sticking around. I was thinking of
the beginning season, maybe they've split some time between him and Zelwegger, but
he's just been so good. I can't imagine them sending him down, and
he just seems like he's earning this top row. So he's right now forty
eight percent on Yahoo. He has been up I think about ten to fifteen
percent since I did this prep two days ago. You better go get your
Pablo Minschikov before it's too late, because he is going to be way too
rostered and not too long. What do you think about him in Yeah,
I agree, it's almost like the door is closing on him with nearly less
than fifty percent. He's just barely under fifty percent right now. So yeah,
hot, hot player right now, five points in the last five games,
nineteen years old, doing this all of us while he's nineteen years old.
I feel like there might be some some speed bumps along the way.
With such young players off feel fantastic starts right now, he's the power play
guy in Anaheim. That's oftentimes what we've look for in defenseman tenth overall picks.
So he's got some pedigree. Doesn't seem to be really anybody in else
and Anaheim an often right now. They have other guys in their system.
They have it is like Belwagger, Jamie Drysdale, like you, we're thinking
of that. Jackson will call me even is another name who's stuck with the
young defenseman and stuck with the Ducks all year. But I vick there.
This is meant he's been amazing so far. All right, who's your next
one? My next one here is going to be a I'm probably more of
a deep lead reach. But he's been making enough noise and he's a one
time rostered in all leagues option that you shouldn't be paying attention to him again.
And that is Sean Monahan. I took a flyer on him in a
salary calf league in the summer. I didn't do too much in my team,
but I saw Monahan become available. I'd less than two million dollars his
salary. I thought, what the heck, maybe pay off. He's battles
some injuries, obviously had some pretty serious injuries, and his production slowed way
down during his the end of his time in Calgary. But if you haven't
noticed, Monahan has ten points in eleven games so far on a hot streak
five points in the last five games as well. Importantly enough, he's also
getting dobs an average over sixty percent of the haves available power play minutes,
so he's got three power play goals already. The shooting percentage is a bit
high right now, is that twenty percent? So that's probably going to regress
the gold they're gonna would probably come down in a at a slower pace.
But the thing, you know, as long as Monahn can say healthy,
he's gonna get the ice time. And I say this because you might remember
the Kirby Dock is out for the season again, so they're gonna need They're
gonna need to rely on money hand even more playing on a veter line.
It's mainly been playing on a veter line here with Tanner Pearson and Brandon Gallagher,
which isn't too appealing for fantasy purposes. But again, that powerplay time
I think is what's really going to do with the health And I've got a
good line. I think that one in hand line would be a good line
to supplement the Nicko Suzooki could cof field a unit in Montreal. Yeah,
this it's been quite surprising. I must say, I did not really see
this for surgeons after last season. There was certainly some signs, but I
mean before that he was really pleasant. Surprise last season how well he did,
and I think a lot of us remember those really high end seasons he
had in Calgary and then he seemed like he fell off a cliffs. It
was nice to see him recover a little bit last year. But yeah,
you really can't argue too much with the production right now, and he's getting
the time on ice and the shooting percentage. Like you mentioned, some of
these things are going to come down, but he still seems like he's getting
a pretty good amount of time on ice and he's getting apparently the third most
actually, just behind Sazooki and top Pill. I don't know how many people
would have guessed that coming into the season. So yeah, he definitely seems
like he's sticking around, and unfortunately the center of eligibility be nice if he
had winger, but that's not bad if you need a good depth option,
I definitely agree with that one, all right. So my last one is
going to be Uko Pekka Lucan and UPL is someone that we've been talking about
for a really long time, and he's disappointed, he's pledged, he's been
fledgling. He currently is only fifty one games into his NHL career, and
he didn't really have a whole lot of opportunity until last season, where he
was pretty bad. His expected the goals number were pretty bad. He had
a relatively high bad start percentage, low quality start. But before this last
start that he had, which was pretty bad, he was actually good and
had one goal above save. But I respected a really high delta Fenwick he
had just in four starts. But I think this conversation is more than just
about UPL. It's about Eric Comery and Devin Levi, who are the other
options. I have zero faith in Eric Comery that he can deliver a long,
solid season of continued production. Devin Levi is the question mark. I
retally liked Levi and I thought that he could get a substantial chunk of the
starts and do well, but he's so far showed that he struggled a little
bit, and I don't think the doors shut on him. I still think
that he has a good opportun tunity this year. But Buffalo has been pretty
bad, and I think they're just going to ride whichever hand is there,
and UPL certainly is more experienced, he has a little bit more tenure there
with the team, and he's certainly going to be motivated to do the best
he can. I could see UPL getting a majority of the starts, and
I think Buffalo can be a better team than what they've already showed. Their
expected goal share is actually quite poor, surprisingly, but he has that they
could improve and he could be part of that, part of that goal part
of that turnaround. And so I like him just because I wanted to put
a goalie on the list, and I wanted to pick someone who I thought
could be decent, has shown some signs and could really take this job and
run with it, and there weren't a whole lot of goalies that really fit
that exact criteria. So it's not that I love him and think he's amazing,
but I think that he's in a pretty good opportunity and he could be
great. So what do you think of Upli In Yeah, I think at
the end of the season, and I predicted this before the season started.
I think that you would be all should be receiving more starts out of any
goalie in the Buffalo system. And I agree with you on what you say
about Tomry and don't quite think Tomry is a starter. I'm also thinking about
Devin Levi and you're not quite ready. Many people have jumped on board.
The Savers seem to really have faith, and it surprised me how they've handled
Levi because because goalie is that young, with that lack of experience and don't
ever seem to be they don't even seem to be started right off the bat,
and I almost think that they're doing him to disservice by putting him in
so quickly. Upl he's not had and he's gonna be with the Sabers through
his struggles, or he hasn't performed half bad. I don't think he's an
elite goalie, but at the same time, he's only twenty four and the
goalie's been surprised that can. He's definitely not at the age where he's going
to keep. The numbers are still so so with him bolt against average just
about three save percent of the around nine hundred quality start. If you need
a goalie, I think I don't think he's a bad option. A lot
of much aren't really much in the way a goalie is available, But if
he's there, I'd say, why not take a chance on him. The
Savers are going to be better this year and that's going to help and get
some wings and of course though the downside is that the Savers do have none
of that three headed monster there. Yeah, do you have any other ones?
I'll throw one more at you here, Okay, one that I picked
up today in one of my leagues, a little bit behind in the in
hits, and I wasn't sure, quite sure if Timo Meyer would get the
job done, so I decided to go big and add the NHL's league leader
and hits, and that's Kegan Polissar of the Vegas Golden Knights. Not much
in the way of scoring, just one assist in twelve games. I'm not
here to tell you that he's going to score. It probably will pick up
the scoring a little bit, but I'm here to tell you that if you
need hits. He is a single category wonder if you're losing faith in rad
Coo Buddhas And if you go to Dauber Hockey you can check out our deep
of the week there where Ryan Brudener aka top Chatter tells you that Rat goodas
his hits are down since joining the Ducks and he's more might be more of
a streaming option. Now, this is what I've got Fullosar here. I
don't think Fulosar is going to stay on my roster for very long. This
team isn't deep enough. But if you need a single player or category filler
for hits, he's got to hit two and seventy nine hits last season,
two hundred and thirty six with Seeds before that, I won't be surprised.
I'm not surprised that he's leading in the league. He hits right now and
he could buy the by the end of the season. If you can watched
Vegas play with very physical player, very strong player up there, the type
of player they can help you win the Stanley Cupanies isn't windows of those battles
for you. Kind of getting a little bit away from the fantasy realm here,
but just pointing out heating fulisar as a single category hits ouption if you
need it. Guys, putting up almost four hits a game in under eleven
minutes time on ice, that's ridiculous, FIRS. And yeah, I don't
know that he will make it much further past I don't know twenty twenty five
points, but he's gonna put up a ton of hits. So that's a
good one, all right, any other ones, That's all I've got.
All right, thanks for your insights on these players. It was super fun
meeting you in person and going to the WHL game and been here talking hockey
in person. So why don't you let the people know where they can find
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I've been closing words. How do we do? He didn't have to
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of Byfield, so a lot of them still. Yeah, and you were
a big by Fild investor early on. And yeah, let's say mc taviat
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mentioned him, but he's seventy five percent rostered in yeahoo now, so
he's going to pass. I added him out a week ago when he did.
He did wonders to see. Yeah, he's exploded in terms of thutingly.
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