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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks. Here's

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your source of information and analysis to help you win

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your fantasy hockey league.

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Speaker 2: Block off hot a step hit on staylock block.

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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Sevier and Victor Nuno Fantasy.

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Speaker 3: Hockey Live once again. It's close to the season. He's

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Victor Nuno, the Fantasy Hockey Doctor. I'm Jesse Severe Fan Tracks.

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How you doing today, Victor.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm doing awesome. Jesse, I'm excited for this. How

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you doing, I'm doing good.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing good. This is our annual themed show and wow,

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we'll get to it in the actual show, but it's time.

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We're opening waivers. Waivers are open everywhere. We're making claims.

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Things are happening, and yeah, generally things are just in

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good shape, Victor, and there a need for better shape.

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If you pop into our Fantasy Hockey Life discord where

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there are many people now talking fantasy hockey at many times,

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is email is Fantasy Hockey Life at gmail dot com.

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You get yourself a link and do all those things.

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And Victor, you have other cool things that you want

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to tell people about. What are they?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of other cool stuff, like you can get

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into the tier dynasty of the tidy. You can wear

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it full, but you can guarantate on the wait list

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and be one of the first people added. You can

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get access to the website, the ranks, the tiers, the list,

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all the important things to help you figure out which

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players are better than others. I was just doing a

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roster doctor, which is another feature of the Patreon with

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someone and we were going through all the different players

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and their league has a specific games played limit, and

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they also have people who are left over from previous draft,

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and it's really hard to compare one to the other.

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And he was trying to figure out who the best

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player to add, and it's literally what my list is,

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all the players under one hundred games played and ranked

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by Fantasy Upside. So I recommended for that because it

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really helps you make those decisions and also always happy

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to get DM one on one this guy versus that guy.

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So all that's available over at patreon dot com slash

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Fantasy Hockey Life Tremendous.

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Speaker 3: Victor will be right after back right after this to

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record our show Victor. This is our annual celebratory catchup

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and mustard edition a fun little gimmick, but it concedes

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to the fact, Victor, that we start recording our team

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preview episodes in April. I don't know if you know this,

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but there are moves that happen in the NHL between

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April and September. I didn't know this at the time.

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I discovered it over the summer. Actually teams draft players

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and signed players and do all those things. So in

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the interests of complete I don't know, some kind of

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a twitchy issue compulsiveness that we have, we have to

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go back and discuss anything that happened after the respective

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team previews, which results in catchup, and so we have

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a two part ketchup series. This episode's the West, next

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episodes the East, each team by team going through anything

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that happened after our team preview, and then Victor, we

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do the mustard are hot spicy mustard that we throw

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out there. We are each going to throw out We're

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going to take terms of these teams, and whenever one

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of us is covering the team, we're going to throw

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out two potential hot takes, which will go back and

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review at the end of the season, and we will

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decide the person who's listening will decide which one of

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those takes are spicier, and that the speaker is going

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to be held to as a hot take. So, Victor,

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is this one of your favorites? Do you like this exercise?

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Is it getting old or is this a trademark?

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I think it's fun. I think it's I think having

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spicy takes are really interesting as long as they're grounded

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in some basis of fact or reason. Sometimes people through

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out hot takes that are totally wild, like the Sharks

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are going to win the Stanley Cup this year, obviously ridiculous.

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but there's really no basis in reality for that happening.

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us an idea, an opportunity, as you said, to catch

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up on what we didn't haven't talked about since we recorded,

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which I like from a completeness sake, But also it

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gives an opportunity just to give a kind of feel

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for the team, what we're thinking, what kind of who

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are our guys, guys that we really like, or maybe

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guys that were still skeptical about. So it gives us

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Speaker 4: And I like that as well. Yeah, it's one of

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my favorites. How about you.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I love it, Victor, it is. It

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is one of my favorite episodes the year, my favorite

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double episodes of the year. But without further ado, we

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got to get going. We got a lot of teams here,

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and we're gonna move division by division. As I said,

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Today's Western Conference, West Coast, Best Coast alphabetically, you are

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Speaker 2: I am first up, and the first team is the

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Anaheim Ducks. We recorded I think this is one of

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our first ones back April thirtieth of so long ago,

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and a few things have happened since we recorded. The

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catch up is that they traded for Chris Kreider. They

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also traded away Trevizegris and got Ryan Paling in that

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very interesting deal. They also at long last, Jesse, the

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national nightmare is over. We can finally stop talking about

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John Gibson being traded from the Anaheim Ducks because it

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finally happened. I'm really excited to see what he does.

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am looking forward to that. And they also leaned Damian

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Clard back to the SHL one of their prospect goalies.

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and then for some reason they wanted another goalie and

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signed Really Husso, and then they also signed mcil Grantlin.

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So a lot of things have changed for the Ducks

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since we recorded, and I remember in that episode there

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was a lot of I don't know who are they

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going to play with, not sure because we really did

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not know, and now we know a little bit more.

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And to that end, whereas a couple of things that

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we can say. First of all, if you're not aware

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of the fact that the Ducks have always have amazing

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number of off nights, then that's something you need to

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get in your mind, because it is a huge advantage

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when playing weekly daily starts in fantasy and figuring out

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those guys that have the light days, not the common Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.

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and so it's really useful to get players from their

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team because you can fit them into your schedule all

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most of the time. And it's been rough the last

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couple of years because the Ducks haven't had a lot

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of good skaters that you want to roster. But there

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are a couple more interesting ones this year. I mentioned

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some that you might want to get your hands on,

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but I this is going to relate primarily to the goalie,

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and Lucas Dostell has been one of my favorite prospect

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goalies for a long time, as you all probably know

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if you're listening and have listened for a while. Not

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only is he super good, and I think that he's

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hopefully going to help the Ducks take another step this year.

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way that I like to draft goalies, I'm looking to

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get him everywhere. And the main reason is that if

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you get Lucas Dostal as your starter, you're getting a

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pretty solid, not top tier, but maybe second or third

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tier goalie who's pretty reliable. It should get you a

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lot of fantasy points. But also the off nights, so

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you basically can get two other high volume goalies and

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be able to fit them in pretty much all the time.

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really helps in a lot of ways. And my hot

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takes particularly relates to the fact that I think Doshteal

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tidy settings, and that's not taking an account the off days.

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Speaker 4: So we'll leave that to the side, because.

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Speaker 2: I think you will get him in your lineup more

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often than a lot of goalies. But I'm just saying

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based on pure totally let's say fantasy points per game,

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let's call it that way. So that's my first one.

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The second one is related to Jackson Lacombe, who was

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just incredible this last year, one of the only Ducks

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that was really good, and his underlying metrics were fantastic.

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always talked about him as a solid two way guy,

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and he showed that he can hang at both ends

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of the ice. We've been waiting for one of these

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Ducks defensemen to separate themselves. I really did not think

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it was going to be Jackson lacomb I thought it

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would be paveloman Chukov or Olon Zellweger. Obviously, Drysdale's gone now,

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but they still have some other good prospect goalie defenseman,

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but Lacombe really separated himself last year. He did cook

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a little hot in some of his metrics, but I

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still think that I'm buying on what he did, and

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I think he can take another step.

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Speaker 4: So he had a.

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Speaker 2: Forty seven point pace last year in seventy five games,

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and he did that with a little bit over two

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minutes of power play time on I said, he'd have

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to retain a lot of that and shoot close to

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ten percent, or he just gets more total time and

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more opportunity than the Ducks are better, which I think

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is also going to happen. So I'm going to say

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that he doesn't regress that he takes his forty seven

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point pace and goes up to a fifty five point pace. Jesse,

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which one you want to hold me to do? Staal

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is a top ten goalie in tidy settings or Jackson

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le Comb finishes with a fifty five point pace or better.

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Speaker 3: These are the These are very good hot takes because

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they sit right in that edge of it's pushing the

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thought process. But I can't look at either one of

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these and say it's crazy. I think both of them

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have a certain logic to them. I am going to

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probably hold you to do Staal, not because I dislike Dostaal,

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but because he is going to be facing I think,

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a pretty difficult road this year. He's not going to

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have a great team in front of him. That's going

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to take out some points. He's going to be taxed

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a little bit more than he has in the past.

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good hot take. All right. I will go to the

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Calgary Flames next up. They pretty much we recorded on

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June nineteenth, and they signed some restricted free agents. After

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then they extended Dustin Wolf. That was a big deal

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for them. Connor ZERI was a whole thing. Martin pas Basil,

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Jeremy Poitier, Morgan frost all coming back, signed Yvon pros

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vets Off off off the free agent's wires, so they

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they did a little bit. It wasn't all that exciting

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for them, but they did some stuff in free agency,

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and it will be the players coming back and coming

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up who will be the better stories probably for this

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team in the coming year. Because they have some prospects

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who debuted at the end of last season. Two hot

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takes Victor. First of all, the Huberto redemption tour continues.

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I would say next year, I'm saying a seventy point

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pace for Huberto. That's pushing I think, good ten points

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above what he has done in his last couple of years.

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Of course, nowhere like his late Florida years where what

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was he in the nineties and even that hundred. But

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I don't know that anybody is expecting him to get

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anything close to that. Again, Still, I like where he

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was last year. I liked what we heard in our

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team preview. I'm going seventy point pace. And second, Zaane Perek,

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who did debut at the end of last season. I

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will say top three in calder voting. So, Victor, which

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one of those do you want to pin me to?

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Speaker 2: Ooh, those are good ones. Yeah, I think that. I'm

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really excited to see what Perek's gonna do. I think

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he's gonna make the team. I think that they're gonna

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ease him in. I think he's gonna get a lot

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of power play time. You don't have zam PreK on

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your team and not let him run the power play,

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and redraft because I think he's gonna he's going to

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be interesting and I think he's going to get some opportunity.

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it's still a little unlike. I like the Hubrid redemption tour,

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and I think he's been trending back up a little

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bit since really struggling his first season and a half

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or so or more in Calgary. But I'll hold you

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to that one just because it's a little bit of

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a bar to get to seventy and the Flames just

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don't have a whole lot to work with unfortunately. I

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think they have a couple of interesting pieces, but I

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think a few more things will have to go right

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and it could happen.

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Speaker 4: It's reasonable, but I like it. All right.

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Speaker 2: Let's move on to the next one, Edmonton Oilers. We

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recorded this one not too long ago, August twenty second.

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As we're recording this, there's recent comments about McDavid putting

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some skepticism and designing an extension. I think it's going

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to happen. We'll have to wait and see, but that's

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creating quite the kerfuffle up in Edmonton. So the two

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hot takes that I'm gonna mention the first one. We

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talked about this a little bit on the show. There's

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a lot of discussion of Isaac Howard and Matthew Savoy,

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the two young players that are coming into the lineup,

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and there certainly seems like there's opportunity for them to play.

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And of course, any time you can play with McDavid

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or dry Sidle, it's pretty enticing. Even if one of

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them could get on the top power play. So we

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don't know who it's gonna be. I feel like even

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though Isaac Coward hasn't played professionally, he's been playing in

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the NCAA, I still think that he has the better chance.

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I think his two way game is a little bit better.

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bit more versatile on what he can do. So that's

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why I'm putting my money on him. And I'm going

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to say that Isaac Coward has a better point pase

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than Matthew Savoy, and pretty much all that comes down

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to opportunity. I doubt that happens if Howard is buried

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in the bottom six and Savoys in the top six,

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although it could happen, but I think it's really gonna

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be who gets more consistent minutes in the top six

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and potentially a power play time that's gonna do it

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for whoever wins. So I'm taking Isaac Howard putting my

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money there. And the other one has to do with

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the goalies, and I mentioned on this show when we

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recorded that it's extremely frustrating. I think a lot of

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people have been expressing this that the Oilers know what

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their weakness is and they've had it for several years

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now and they continue to not do anything about it.

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They didn't do anything to address the goaltending. Yeah, maybe

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the Pickens were slim, but they're going back at it

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with Stuart Skinner, who just is an underwhelming starting goalie,

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and Kelvin Pickhard as someone we've seen them go on

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some hot streaks, but generally not that great of a goalie.

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So I'm skeptical that they're going to do anything else

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about it because they've just dug their heels and refused

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to do anything about it. So I'm gonna say that

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Stuart Skinner finishes the season in Edmonton with the most

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games played of any of their goalies. I just feel

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like if they haven't addressed it by now, they're not

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gonna And I think that he's gonna continue to be

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their goalie and it's going to continue to be an issue.

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And ride the Stuart Skinner wave, Jesse, who you're riding here?

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The Stuart Skinner wave or the either Coward.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, if it wasn't Howard versus Savoy, I would

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make you ride that Howard thing. But I think Skinner

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was very good in the regular season last year, but

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I think the narrative of the playoffs last year, something

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is gonna happen with him this year. So I will

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hold you to that one, just because I don't know.

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I've got a lot of uncertainty about the other one.

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This would be the spicier one actually for me to

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hold you to. So that is the one I'm going

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to do.

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Speaker 4: Victor.

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Speaker 3: The La Kings also a relatively recent recording July seventeenth.

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There really wasn't any further developments after mister Dennis Bernstein

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was here, and so I'm not gonna really have much

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to say there, but I've got two potential hot takes.

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One of them Brant Clark leads team defenseman and power

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playtime on ice, sur passing Drew Dowdy, and the other

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is and this is the haters take. Actually it might

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satisfy Kings fans. Corey Perry does not make it through

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the year on the team. He's what forty years old?

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At some point he's want to drop off, and maybe

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his game resists that a little bit. But I think

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Corey Perry is going to go the way of Corey

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Perry on Wasn't he the one who got kicked off

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the Blackhawks for saying something about counter Bdard or something. Yeah,

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I think he's not going to make it through another

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year on the big club. Which one you think, Victor.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a good one.

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Speaker 2: I think I desperately want the Kings to hand over

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the keys to the castle to Brent Clark, but I

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just don't think it's going to happen. And we've seen

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when they've had the option of Drew Dowdy for the

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past was it two decades now, they've given it over

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to Drew Dowdy, So I don't think that they're gonna

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let Brent Clark do what he does best. I wish

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that they did, but I'm I'm going to hold you

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that one because if that's the one I'm less confident in,

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and Clark, although has a lot of talent, just can't

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seem to gain the full trust of the coaches. Maybe

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things will be different this year, but that's one we're

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gonna go with. I'm not sure what to make of

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the Corey Perry thing. I think he I think it's

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I think it's more likely he does end up somewhere else.

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So that's what that's where we're gonna go with. So yeah,

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please Kings, let bank Brent Clark do his thing. He's

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good at it, all right. Let's move on to the

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next one, and that would be the San Jose Sharks.

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They did a lot of things since we recorded. I

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don't think any of them super interesting, but they a

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couple of things I guess are mildly interesting. They traded

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an Illegushion for Oscar Lowison. Would have been great if

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they did that right before we recorded with Meg Hanley

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because she could have given us more insight on Allawison.

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And they also traded Henry Thrun for Ryan Reeves, which

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is a head scratcher since Reeves' is borderline and NHL are,

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and I guess Thron is also. Some people are excited

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about Thron, but I think he's a seven eight D

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kind of guy. They claim Nick Letty off Waivers. They

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traded Thomas Bordlicious for Shane Bowers. They traded Alex Nadelkovich

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trade for Alexdlkovich, and then they signed Jeff Skinner, Jacob Shkarik,

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dmet you Orloff, John Klingberg, Adam Goddad, Philim Kershef. They

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signed William Ecklund, They drafted and recently signed Michael Misa,

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and then they traded for Carry Price's contract. So they

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did a lot of things. I think that it's some

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of the things I think are interesting a lot of

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the guys. I think they're just clearing out roster space

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for guys that they can drop or HL ers, and

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so that's strategic. I think having a backup for a

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Scaroff who has played NHL games is very useful, so

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nel Kovich is good for that. And I think having

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just more NHL quality defenseman is going to help insulate

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some of the younger guys like dmet You Orloff and

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Nick Neletti. Even though those guys aren't super interesting, I

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think that they do provide some insulation, which is what

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the Sharks need. And i'd like to say something about

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Michael Misa, but I decided not to make my hot

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take on him. But I do think that he's going

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to be pretty good this year. He'll probably have a

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Will Smith esque season from last year. So my hot

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take revolves around John Klingberg. I think that he's really

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interesting in this setup. I think there's no reason you

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bring John Kleenberg on board if you're not going to

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give him top power play, and so I think he's

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definitely gonna get that, which is something he hasn't really

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had for a few seasons. He got a little bit

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of time up in Edmonton, it was really the heydays

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in Dallas that he had a meaningful power play time.

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He had a little bit there in Anaheim, Minnesota, but

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it was not not as much as before. And he

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was a fifty pretty consistent fifty plus point guy back

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in the day when he was able to do that,

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and some of his underlying metrics suggests that he was

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still decent in Edmonton and Toronto at times. But I

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think that if you ask him to do too much,

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he breaks down. So as long as he can be

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paired with someone decent and even strength and then run

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that power play, I think he could get back up there.

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I think he could get easily fifteen power play points

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if the Sharks have a pretty good should have a

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pretty good power play even though they shouldn't probably won't

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be great at even strength, and I don't think they're

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gonna win a ton of game games, but they should

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at least be fun offensively to watch, and I think

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Klingberg can get on board with that. So I'm going

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to say he gets fifteen power play points and clears

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a forty point pace. He hasn't had a forty point

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pace since his split season in Anaheim Dallas Anaheim Minnesota,

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and then before that he was over fifty for many years.

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He's older, he's had the hip surgery, so that seems

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like it might be a little hot.

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Speaker 4: And the other.

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Speaker 2: Thing about Klingberg is you can get him really late

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in your drafts. His ADP is really late, and he's

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sometimes even going undrafted. I find myself sometimes needing an

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offensive defenseman towards the end of the draft, so grab

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him and the other take has to do with Will Smith.

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I really like how Will Smith ended the season. I

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think he was near point per game in the last

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month or two of the season, So I think you

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have some opportunity here to really take a big step,

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and I think that he will. I think that the

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concern I have is if they try to make him

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play center, because he's definitely better down on the wing.

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But if they make them go down the middle, then

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he might have a little less offense, a little bit

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more defensive responsibility. But he should still be on that

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top power play and he had twelve power point plants

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last year. I think he could get another eight or so,

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and I think he gets up to close to a

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seventy point pace. Last season he finished at a fifty

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point pace, but he was seventy plus for the last

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couple months of the season. So I'm going to say

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Will Smith clear's a sixty eight point pace. So Jesse,

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which one do you want to hold me to? Klingberg

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gets fifteen power play points and forty point paces or

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Will Smith clear is a sixty eight point pay.

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Speaker 3: Both of these are plausible. I think either one of them,

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you'd have to bet the field versus them happening, so

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that both of them are under a fifty percent possibility.

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I think that the more likely thing of these two

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then Will. I think Will Smith breaking out to a

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new level is more likely than John Klingberg. I think

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there's a higher possibility that Klingberg is toast at this

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point and not capable of producing that again. So I

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guess I'll do Klingberg. I wouldn't be surprised again if

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he did it, but I think it's a it's an

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adequate hot take and somebody. It's not always that somebody's

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got to do it. But last year was a Walman

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did it. I mean he was on a tear when

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he was a shark, So I think something could happen there.

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On to the Seattle Kraken, they kept some restricted free agents,

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Ryker Evans, Capocaco, Ty Cartier. This episode we recorded way

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back in April, so the draft, the drafting of JC

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O'Brien had not yet occurred. They signed Matt Murray, who

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is the Philip Grubauer replacement as far as I'm concerned.

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Even if Philip Grubauer's back, somehow Matt Murray is going

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to fit into that spiritual role in the team of

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the goalie who might do horrible things to their save percentage.

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Ryan Lindgren also signed in. They traded for Freddy Gudreau,

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and they traded away Joe Veleno to get Andre Berkowsky

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back again, and then they traded for Mason Marchmont, not

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necessarily in that order, but they've beefed up their offensive

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possibilities here. Kovsky is back and forth Hitt and miss

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Frederick Gudrou when he is when he was when he

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was getting with Capro Caprizo. I've had some good moments Seattle.

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I think they did some things to improve their team

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in the offseason, and so my hot takes, the Kraken

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in their division have never had a point per game

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score as in an eighty two games. I'm sure they've

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had a twenty point per game scorer who got hurt

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or something, but I'm going to say one of the

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hot takes they have their first ever point per game

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scorer in a full season. And the second hot take,

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Joey the Cord is top three in the Pacific in

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goals save above expected, So that's total amount of play

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plus quality of play. It does just a little bit

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00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:01,359
if the Kraken stink so Victor, which one of those

475
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,519
am I going to be held to.

476
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 4: I was just thinking, I like Joey to Cord.

477
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: That's a low bar being top three at the pacifictor.

478
00:24:13,519 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 3: Third top three in the Pacific Division. But he's got

479
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,640
Vegas there, He's got La there, He's theoretically got one

480
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,759
of the Edmonton teams that your demp coke could have

481
00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:26,440
a season. So there are a couple of goalies out there.

482
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,519
But yeah, but still this would be an escalation for

483
00:24:28,599 --> 00:24:30,640
Joey to Cord. But it is a lower bar, You're right.

484
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just thinking there are some good teams

485
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,279
in the West in the Pacific, but most of them

486
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,400
I wouldn't say have a strong goalie, especially Skinner. We've

487
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,400
seen what Hill can do win games but be disappointing.

488
00:24:46,559 --> 00:24:50,240
And Kemper, I don't know. He's also older in LA

489
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,200
is good at protecting the goalies, so they don't always

490
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,880
get good save above expected numbers. Anyways, I'm not going

491
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,920
to hold you do that one, as you can probably tell,

492
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,440
because I'm a little skeptical that one is maybe a

493
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,359
little too straightforward. But in terms of the per game,

494
00:25:05,319 --> 00:25:09,480
I absolutely think that's less likely. That's the whole problem

495
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,799
with the franchise with the Kraken is they basically have

496
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,720
twelve bottom sixers or whatever they are. They just their

497
00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:22,759
whole team is like third liners basically, which is really

498
00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:25,599
good when they go fourth line against fourth line because

499
00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:28,200
their fourth liners are a little bit better on average.

500
00:25:28,799 --> 00:25:31,839
But everyone's just very meth very mid and so that's

501
00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:34,039
the problem. So I'm skeptical that they can get a

502
00:25:34,079 --> 00:25:36,000
point per game player, so I'll hold you to that one.

503
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,640
Let's move on to the Vancouver Canucks. We recorded on

504
00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:45,400
August twenty eighth, and so not much has happened since

505
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,920
we recorded. We've heard some more reports about some things

506
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,640
that are happening with the players, like Elyas Patterson coming

507
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,119
into town and being really yoked up and stronger. So

508
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,400
that would be good because he definitely needs to do that,

509
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,359
and we also cantinue to have uncertainty. I would say

510
00:26:03,559 --> 00:26:08,119
with relation to the goaltenders, and yeah, that tric Demco,

511
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,240
as you mentioned previously, maybe good. He certainly usually is

512
00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:13,519
good when he plays, just he hasn't played that much

513
00:26:13,559 --> 00:26:17,680
and so that's a little problematic. So I am going

514
00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:20,839
to say based on that one of them is that

515
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,680
Kevinlankanen will play more than forty two games this season. Now,

516
00:26:26,759 --> 00:26:29,640
last season, Liking and Paid played forty fifty one games,

517
00:26:30,079 --> 00:26:32,799
but that was because Demco was injured, and then she

518
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,160
loves to Pay play ten games, so there was some

519
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,960
competition there and some injury issues. So this is partially

520
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,960
a nice way of saying that Trick Demko is probably

521
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,640
going to get injured again, because that's just what happens.

522
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,880
He just missed his game. Hopefully it's nothing serious, but

523
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,519
that tends to be the case. And I think if

524
00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:54,079
you're drafting these goalies, my strategy has been, don't draft

525
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,839
Demco because he's going a little higher, but you can

526
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,279
on the backside, maybe a little bit later, get Kevin

527
00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:01,519
Lincoln in and possibly be just as good or better

528
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,359
in terms of your starts and fantasy points. So I'm

529
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:07,759
going to say that, And the other thing that I'm

530
00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:12,559
going to say is that Elias Petterson bounces back. I

531
00:27:12,599 --> 00:27:16,680
think that hopefully with the distractions of what happened with JT.

532
00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:20,640
Miller out of the way and the organization leaning into

533
00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:23,240
him as their star player and leader, he really needs

534
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,960
to figure this out. And I think that he can

535
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000
get he can bounce back. So he had a fifty

536
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,160
eight point pace last season. Before that, he had eighty nine,

537
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,640
one hundred and five, and seventy point paces, So I'm

538
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,720
just gonna say that he can get over a seventy

539
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,200
five point pace, which would be a huge improvement from

540
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:41,400
last season. Anyone who rostered him last season knows that

541
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,079
how frustrating it was. But seventy five isn't quite as

542
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,400
high as he's had the last two seasons, so I'm

543
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,759
trying to hedge a little bit there. But basically, I'm

544
00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:52,119
believing in a Pederson bounce back, and I'm believing that

545
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,200
Lincolnin is going to score or is going to play

546
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,920
more games than Demco.

547
00:27:57,279 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 3: What do you think, Jesse, Yeah, I think that Peterson

548
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,759
very well could put up a seventy five point pace.

549
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,400
In fact, I would almost expect that, so I'm definitely

550
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,519
not taking that one. I think the lancoln intake is

551
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,480
less likely to me. I think Old Thatcher he can

552
00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:18,680
stay healthy this year, and even without Chilo's there, they'll

553
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,400
have to sign the third goalie. So even if Demko

554
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,480
gets hurt a little bit, I expect there's going to

555
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:26,200
be some other guy who's gonna have to come up

556
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,240
and absorb a couple of beatings, and so Lancolnen won't

557
00:28:30,279 --> 00:28:32,240
get past the halfway points. So I'm going to hold

558
00:28:32,279 --> 00:28:39,480
you to Kevin Lancanen the Vegas Golden Knights. I actually

559
00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:41,960
don't expect. I think I know which one you're going

560
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,079
to go first of all, to catch up, no ketchup.

561
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,880
We just recorded this thing about a month ago and

562
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,440
Vegas hadn't changed a whole lot in the meantime. But

563
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:56,079
my takes, and I think this is fair. Mitch Marner

564
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,920
hits a career high in goals. He's like Jack eichelb

565
00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:02,799
for him. He comes to this team and suddenly hits

566
00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:05,880
an offensive explosion. His career high in goals would be

567
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,359
more than thirty five. And I think, I don't think

568
00:29:09,359 --> 00:29:11,599
you're going to hold me that one, because even though

569
00:29:11,599 --> 00:29:13,799
I think it's fair to have a hot take, whenever

570
00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:16,119
you say that an established veteran is going to hit

571
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,519
a career high in something, I think there's some likelihood there.

572
00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:22,599
But yeah, that's my defense for that being a hot take.

573
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,240
The other is I think probably a little more remote,

574
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,400
but I'm going to put it out there. I'm going

575
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,799
to say a Kira Schmid ends the season with a

576
00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:32,920
higher goal saved above expected than Aiden Hill. So it

577
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,279
is a bit of an upset in the goalie ranks

578
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,279
over there in Vegas. Which one you got, Victor.

579
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: I think you very astutely pointed out that I'm not

580
00:29:43,839 --> 00:29:47,799
touching that Mitch Marner one. I think it's much less

581
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,079
likely that a Kirishmin ends up with a higher goal

582
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:56,359
save above expected. I do think that's possible. But I

583
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,680
think what's interesting here, and we talked about this on

584
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,880
our s SHO, is that Carl Lindbaum has actually been

585
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,200
a pretty decent goalie in the Vegas system, and I

586
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,960
think there's a decent chance that he gets some games.

587
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,400
And I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that Akirishmied

588
00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:17,400
is going to be the for sure backup all season.

589
00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:19,000
I think he's going to start that way, and he

590
00:30:19,079 --> 00:30:21,799
has NHL experience, so they're probably going to lean into

591
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,519
him a little bit. But I do think that there's

592
00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:27,720
a decent possibility that he struggles and that are other

593
00:30:27,759 --> 00:30:29,880
goalie struggles and we've seen this, We've seen this show

594
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,480
before in Vegas that they can have some goalie issues

595
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,519
and dip down to their fourth and fifth string goalie.

596
00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:37,599
But I think Lindbaum is one of the best marinating

597
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,599
in the minors that they have, and so I think

598
00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:41,839
that there's a decent chance that he comes in and

599
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,039
actually plays a decent number of games, which would be

600
00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:48,839
potentially bad for Shmied. Also, I'm just really confused about

601
00:30:49,119 --> 00:30:53,119
what Kirishmied is doing because we've seen him at times

602
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,359
be decent and then we've seen him just completely be awful.

603
00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:01,240
And yeah, we'll just have to wait. So I think

604
00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:03,079
there's more things that can go wrong for you with

605
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,720
your Kishmit take, So I guess I'll hold you to

606
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:05,960
that one.

607
00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:06,279
Speaker 4: Jesse.

608
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,319
Speaker 3: All right, Victor, I say, right now, we take a

609
00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:11,559
little break, come back with the Central Division.

610
00:31:17,119 --> 00:31:31,119
Speaker 5: There's a weapon that you and the missis name on its.

611
00:31:28,319 --> 00:31:32,799
Speaker 3: Back for the second half. But the Western Conference ketchup

612
00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:35,359
and mustard, Victor, we move on to the Central Division.

613
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,759
You started with the first team here.

614
00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:42,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna start with the Chicago Blackhawks. So we

615
00:31:42,119 --> 00:31:43,640
recorded back in early June.

616
00:31:43,799 --> 00:31:47,359
Speaker 2: For the black Hawks. A few things have changed since then.

617
00:31:48,119 --> 00:31:50,799
Number one, they re signed Ryan Donado, so that was good.

618
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:54,119
They drafted Anton Frendell. He won't be in the lineup

619
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:57,119
this season, but we'll be soon. They signed their restricted

620
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,319
free agents Frank Naser at Solder Bloom. They traded for

621
00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:05,240
Sam Lafferty. They bought out TJ. Brody, and they traded

622
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,400
away Andrew Barrokowsky for Joe Vealno. And then they traded

623
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,440
for Victor Soderstrum. Although that might I don't know, that

624
00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:16,440
might just be the contract his contract, but he is

625
00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:18,960
someone who was a pretty high draft pick but has

626
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:19,799
troubled the break.

627
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:23,119
Speaker 4: Into the NHL. So we'll see about that one. It's interesting.

628
00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 2: I am really excited about a couple of players here

629
00:32:26,839 --> 00:32:31,960
in Chicago though, so that's where I'm gonna take my

630
00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:36,720
hot take. One of them is Frank Naser. He was

631
00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:39,960
really good last season in limited sample size. In fact,

632
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,599
he when he was on the team. He didn't play

633
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:46,039
the entire season, but twenty one games in the AHL

634
00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:48,480
and fifty three in the NHL. He made a big

635
00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:50,440
difference when he was out there, and he had scored

636
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,039
some big goals and actually helped them be look somewhat

637
00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:57,480
competitive at times. He had a forty point pace, twenty

638
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,839
six points and fifty three games, I think he takes

639
00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:04,279
a big step forward and gets over a sixty two

640
00:33:04,279 --> 00:33:07,440
point base, So that's a big uptick. I think he's

641
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,920
going to get a lot more opportunity, is going to

642
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,240
get a lot more power play time.

643
00:33:12,279 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 4: I know they wanted to him.

644
00:33:13,319 --> 00:33:15,799
Speaker 2: To drive a second line, which might be a little

645
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,440
tough for him, but I think that he has the

646
00:33:18,519 --> 00:33:20,200
talent to do it and take another step.

647
00:33:20,319 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 4: So that's one of them.

648
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:27,079
Speaker 2: The other one is related to Sam Frenzel, the defenseman

649
00:33:27,359 --> 00:33:29,599
who was really good and in fact, in one of

650
00:33:29,599 --> 00:33:32,960
my recent articles on the journey, I went through some

651
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,599
of the numbers and when he was in the lineup,

652
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,440
Sam Frenzel, they were actually a pretty decent team. They

653
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,920
were competitive on most nights, they won nearly as many

654
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,799
games as they lost, and a couple a couple overtime losses.

655
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:48,039
Speaker 4: There.

656
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,079
Speaker 2: He was a big difference, and I think he's going

657
00:33:51,119 --> 00:33:53,319
to get even better this year, and I think that

658
00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:56,200
he might even take the power play. And so my

659
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,599
take has to do with Sam Frenzel having the best

660
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,000
power play play point pace of any black Hawk defender pace. Okay,

661
00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:05,359
so I do think he's gonna play all the season.

662
00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:07,640
If it's not most of the season, and when he

663
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,760
wasn't there, he did get the power play time. They

664
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,840
might offer it to left shoon Off or even Korchinski

665
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,440
or someone else plastic, but I think it's gonna be Renzel,

666
00:34:15,559 --> 00:34:18,000
and I think he's gonna make good on it. So

667
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,760
Frank Mazar gets over sixty two point paces or Sammaranzelle

668
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,599
ends up at the best power play point pace of

669
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:24,599
any black Hawk defender.

670
00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:25,639
Speaker 4: Jesse, which one you got?

671
00:34:26,519 --> 00:34:29,599
Speaker 3: Okay? I want to I want to clarify one or

672
00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:33,079
make you clarify a little bit. With this best pace?

673
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,440
Is there got to be at least a minimum number

674
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,159
of games, like half the season or something like that.

675
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,360
If he gets in for fifteen games and has the

676
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,599
best pace, that that can't be right. I mean, we

677
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:46,760
can push it if it's an injury or something, but

678
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:48,280
that's fine.

679
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,519
Speaker 4: What do you want the minimum to be?

680
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: Just half a season? Just forty one games. Let's start

681
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,320
it as forty one games and then I'll hold you

682
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:54,800
to that one.

683
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 4: That's fair.

684
00:34:57,039 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Let's move on to the Colorado Avalanche that

685
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,679
The episode was recorded mid July, well after free agency,

686
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,639
and yet much changed after that date. As far as

687
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,880
I can tell. I think I had these right, because

688
00:35:11,039 --> 00:35:15,119
I have them signing Victor Olifson and Joel Kaviranta after

689
00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:19,239
that date, trading Oscar Olison for Danielle Gushin, which we

690
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,679
talked about with them, and that's San Jose right, And

691
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,679
they traded away Charlie Coyle, who was a big deadline addition.

692
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,440
So Colorado still in flux, trying to put it together,

693
00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:33,599
trying to make one more championship. I'm sure under Nathan

694
00:35:33,679 --> 00:35:37,079
McKinnon now that they have the goalie situation put together,

695
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:42,400
and I will do two hot takes, one positive, one negative.

696
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,679
I think I know which one you're gonna take, but

697
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,199
I'm going to do them both. Gabriel Landi Scott plays

698
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:54,320
seventy five plus games. I say, poohy to game management victory.

699
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,760
This is hockey. We don't manage our games. We get

700
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,320
out there and we rough it up for the whole

701
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,360
eighty two. So I'm gonna give I'm say, Gabriel landiskog

702
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,079
at least seventy five plus games. I think that's remote,

703
00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:07,679
but dog on it, I'm gonna do it. And the

704
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,920
other is I think that brock Nelson is on the

705
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,960
decline and even though I think he's getting plenty of

706
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,079
hype with his future in Colorado. I say, he fails

707
00:36:18,079 --> 00:36:20,480
to hit fifty five points this year, what do you

708
00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:21,599
got me for me, Victor?

709
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I've what I saw in at the

710
00:36:28,679 --> 00:36:32,599
end of the season from brock Nelson. It was a

711
00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:36,159
little concerning about him being able to keep up. I

712
00:36:36,199 --> 00:36:38,599
wonder if it's the style. I wonder if it's the

713
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,719
being traded and not fitting in.

714
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 4: I think that he could.

715
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 2: Probably turn things around, but as of now, it seemed

716
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,760
a little it seemed a little difficult. But also a

717
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:54,039
fifty five point pace would be the lowest he's had

718
00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:57,000
since twenty twenty twenty one, which was a very weird

719
00:36:57,039 --> 00:36:58,639
season for a lot of people, and before that it

720
00:36:58,679 --> 00:37:00,519
was a couple of years before that, so it's been

721
00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:03,719
a while, and I think they'll probably get him enough

722
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,840
opportunities to beat that. That's actually probably right about where

723
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,639
I put the over under this year. So I think

724
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,039
I'm just gonna take the other one instead. So I'm

725
00:37:13,039 --> 00:37:15,400
going to take the Leneskag playing seventy five plus games,

726
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,440
I think there's more that can go wrong there, and

727
00:37:19,519 --> 00:37:21,840
so that's the one that I'm going to pick with,

728
00:37:22,039 --> 00:37:26,440
just because he did look good at times in the playoffs,

729
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,320
and I think he's an emotional guy and he certainly

730
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,519
wants to play, but there's some limitations to what his

731
00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:35,239
body's going to allow him to do, and some things

732
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,119
might creep up, and if they're doing really well, they

733
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:40,360
might just let him sit. So I think it's more

734
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:45,800
likely that he misses seven plus games. So I'll hold

735
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,400
you that one. But I like those both. All right,

736
00:37:48,519 --> 00:37:51,280
Let's move on to the next one. Dallas Stars. There

737
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,400
wasn't much catch up we recorded in that August. There's

738
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,480
a couple of things here, though, One that I'm skeptical

739
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:01,199
of how Miko Renton and is to do in Dallas.

740
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 4: He put up.

741
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,159
Speaker 2: A seventy four point pace in his time in Dallas,

742
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,440
eighteen points in twenty games. Now I know that was

743
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:14,079
a little bit different because he had just been traded,

744
00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:15,800
and he had been traded twice, and there was a

745
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,000
lot of just things that were wonky about that. And

746
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:19,960
I think that they'll do better at integrating him into

747
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,960
the offense and making sure the lines are said. He

748
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,039
has a good role, but I still worry that there's

749
00:38:26,079 --> 00:38:28,400
too many miles to feed in Dallas and they've gone

750
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,400
to a little bit more of a balanced attack, and

751
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,880
so that makes me skeptical that he'll get all the

752
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,039
opportunity that he needs. And I'm going to say he

753
00:38:35,119 --> 00:38:36,880
has a little bit of a lower ceiling than he

754
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,360
did in Colorado. So Miko Rontinen has been above and

755
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,079
eighty point pays and eighty point pays were above since

756
00:38:44,119 --> 00:38:47,320
his very first season when he had seventy five.

757
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:48,599
Speaker 4: Games and forty two points.

758
00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 2: So I'm going to say that he fails that he

759
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,920
puts up under an eighty five point pace, and the

760
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,800
only time he's done that since being in the league

761
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,760
since that first season is the twenty nineteen twenty season

762
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,199
when he had just eighty points in forty two games

763
00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:07,599
with some injuries. So I think that's going to be

764
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,199
the case for Miko Roundson an eighty five point pace

765
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,440
or under or under an eighty five point pace. I

766
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,519
just think we have to recalibrate our expectations of what

767
00:39:15,559 --> 00:39:17,320
he can do. I don't think there's gonna be one

768
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,559
hundred points. I don't think there's going to be a ninety.

769
00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:22,039
I think it'll be in that range a little bit below.

770
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:24,440
That's still good, but not as the lead of a player.

771
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,360
I hope he proves me wrong because I have him

772
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,599
on a couple of teams. But that's what I'm worried about.

773
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,840
The other one has to do with Thomas Harley and

774
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:35,840
Meyer heiskin In. I know he skinIn missed some time

775
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,360
last season and so there was some more opportunity for

776
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:42,400
Thomas Harley, and he looked great when he got it,

777
00:39:42,559 --> 00:39:47,239
but there was still some issues in terms of when

778
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,159
they were both in there. This is what we don't

779
00:39:49,159 --> 00:39:52,000
know is what's going to happen when they're both in there.

780
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,880
But Maror heiskin In on average had more than a

781
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,400
minute of power play time on ice on average, and

782
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,880
Thomas Harley did. I think that's gonna flip this year.

783
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,440
And I think that Thomas Harley is going to have

784
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,880
more power play time on average than mirror Heigskin, and

785
00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:11,440
not based on any total amounts, but just an average

786
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,559
of their time on ice when they are out there

787
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,440
for the power play Jesse, which one are going to

788
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,519
hold me too, rontin In under eighty five points or

789
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,159
Thomas Harley with more average power play time on ice.

790
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:28,199
Speaker 3: I love Tomas Harley, but I'm going to say that

791
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,679
Mirro hayskinin hangs on to that role a little bit longer.

792
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,800
So let's put you on the Thomas Harley train and

793
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,880
I'll take the merroor Hei skin inside of that equation.

794
00:40:43,159 --> 00:40:47,079
Minnesota Wild. We recorded this one again about two months ago.

795
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:50,639
Since then they have extended Marko Rossi. That was a

796
00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:54,559
whole thing and the hot take this is a little bit.

797
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,840
We try to make these things where they will end

798
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,800
at the end of the regular season, because I used

799
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,679
to do team playoff predictions or something, but that we

800
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,320
like to record this right at the end of the

801
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,719
regular season, where we know point totals and stuff like that.

802
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,880
I'm gonna say Carill Caprizo does not sign a new

803
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,920
contract before the end of the season, putting all of

804
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,119
hockey media into a tizzy, because that seems to be

805
00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:20,920
the tizzy therein now, and I think it will just

806
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,119
extend for the whole year. And the other one that

807
00:41:25,199 --> 00:41:27,280
I'll do, which is maybe a little more irrelevant to

808
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,880
performance on the ice, Brock Faber bounces back to his

809
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,480
rookie year form. He hits fifty points this year, and

810
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,960
we come back to thinking that Faber is the man

811
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,760
in this defensive line what do you say, Victor, Between

812
00:41:41,119 --> 00:41:44,880
Kaprizov not signing and faber balling out which one you

813
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,119
got which one of you more against?

814
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,760
Speaker 2: These are so interesting, they're so completely different. One of

815
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,559
them has to do with a contract and the star

816
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:57,400
player playing chicken with his team, which I think is

817
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,960
a completely different thing to predict.

818
00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:02,639
Speaker 4: So I feel like that's really hard. I have no idea.

819
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 2: We heard about him not signing the most lucrative contract

820
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,639
in Antel history, and I know that people have been

821
00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:12,840
talking about the fact that there may be bigger offers

822
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:13,199
out there.

823
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know.

824
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 2: I get the feeling that he wants to stay there

825
00:42:17,039 --> 00:42:20,079
and so that he probably will, but I don't know

826
00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:23,039
how to decide whether to choose that versus an actual

827
00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:26,960
on ice performance, which is completely different. And I think

828
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,760
I'm just going to go with that one because I

829
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,400
don't know how to predict whether I was going to

830
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,880
sign or not. We don't really have enough information about that.

831
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,880
And I do feel like he will, like they'll get

832
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,320
it done and he won't want it to be a distraction.

833
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:41,679
So I guess I'm going to hold you to that.

834
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,760
To the favor one and part of that is also

835
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,920
because I really love brock Favor. I think he's an

836
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,400
awesome real life player. It's just so good at shutting

837
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:57,840
down top players, top opponents. But I also think that

838
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,960
first season was a bit of an aberration for points,

839
00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:02,519
and so I'm not sure that he's gonna get back there.

840
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,559
And so I'll hold you to them not hitting fifty points.

841
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,599
Fifty points a fifty point pace, because fifty points is

842
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:10,599
even less likely.

843
00:43:10,639 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, no, let's do fifty points. You're

844
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,039
gonna go. You're gonna go, big, Victor.

845
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,639
Speaker 2: All Right, I love it. I can see my win

846
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,320
total chalking up already. All Right, let's move on to

847
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,360
the next team, the Nashville Predators. We recorded at the

848
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,440
end of May, and a couple of things happened since then.

849
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,239
They traded Colton Sciszens for Jeremy and Jeremy las On

850
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,920
for Nick Hague, who should be interesting on the back end.

851
00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:39,039
Traded for Ari Koala, helps alidify in that middle six.

852
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,239
They drafted Brady Martin, who just might make the team

853
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,599
and play some games for them. I think he'll probably

854
00:43:44,599 --> 00:43:46,840
just play nine and then go back to junior. They

855
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:52,039
signed Nick Perbicks, and they so the things I want

856
00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:53,159
to bring up here.

857
00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 4: A couple of things.

858
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 2: One is that I know goalies are hard to predict,

859
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,159
but Yuci Sara's has been a good goalie for many

860
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,679
years now, and I think last year was an aberration

861
00:44:05,119 --> 00:44:08,679
and not indicative of any sort of decline or anything.

862
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,440
I think he's way better than what he showed, and

863
00:44:12,559 --> 00:44:16,679
I think that he's going to get back to form

864
00:44:16,679 --> 00:44:20,400
a little bit. He actually was still pretty useful, pretty

865
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,400
good last year compared to some other players, but he

866
00:44:24,599 --> 00:44:27,400
was just so much underwater that it was hard to tell.

867
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,039
But I think he's going to get back. I think

868
00:44:31,079 --> 00:44:34,039
we have more evidence of him being good than we

869
00:44:34,159 --> 00:44:39,159
do of him being bad. And I think that the

870
00:44:39,199 --> 00:44:42,639
team I don't think can possibly be as bad. I

871
00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:44,960
think that they might not still might not be a

872
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,280
great team, but I think he'll be better. So I

873
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,000
think that Stars returns to forms from his previous season,

874
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,679
but I'll quantify that because I know that'll be hard

875
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,320
to say. I was looking at his goal save above expected,

876
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,960
and two years ago he had forty five goals above expected.

877
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:06,760
In twenty twenty one he had seven point seven five,

878
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,760
and then last season he had. Two seasons ago he

879
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,039
had seven point five one goal save above expected, and

880
00:45:11,039 --> 00:45:13,480
then twenty one to twenty two he had twelve goal

881
00:45:13,519 --> 00:45:18,320
save above expected. So he's basically been at or around

882
00:45:18,519 --> 00:45:20,960
seven and a half goal save above expected or way

883
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,920
better in the last five years, except for last season

884
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,559
where he was under So I think he's going.

885
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 4: To get to eight AGLs.

886
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 2: Seven above expected is way better than he did last season.

887
00:45:31,119 --> 00:45:33,679
It's a little bit better than two of his other

888
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,320
best seasons in the last five years, and be not

889
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,840
quite as good as those amazing ves anun Worthy seasons.

890
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,199
And I also going to put in his Delta Fenwick

891
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,920
being at least point six, and he hasn't had a

892
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,239
point six Delta Fenwick since a couple of years ago

893
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,639
when he had that amazing season, so that's a pretty

894
00:45:51,639 --> 00:45:55,639
big improvement. The other thing I'll give you as an

895
00:45:55,639 --> 00:46:00,519
option is related to Steven Samcos, and I I know

896
00:46:00,559 --> 00:46:02,159
that going to a new team after you've been the

897
00:46:02,199 --> 00:46:05,280
captain and fitting in and all that can be really tricky,

898
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,880
but I don't think Steven with Samcos is this bad.

899
00:46:08,039 --> 00:46:09,840
He had a fifty two point pace. He hasn't had

900
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,639
a fifty two point pace since literally his rookie year,

901
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:15,639
where he had a forty eight point pace and he's

902
00:46:15,679 --> 00:46:17,440
still really good. I think he just needs to figure

903
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,000
out They need to figure out a little bit different

904
00:46:19,039 --> 00:46:22,079
ways of using him. And I think that there's obviously

905
00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:24,880
a lot of that's gone into this offseason in Nashville.

906
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,119
So I'm going to say specifically that Samkos gets over

907
00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:31,079
a thirty three goal pace. And now last season he

908
00:46:31,119 --> 00:46:33,480
had twenty seven goals, so this isn't that far off,

909
00:46:34,599 --> 00:46:38,360
but he had forty before that, and thirty three before

910
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,519
that and forty two three years ago, so he's had

911
00:46:41,559 --> 00:46:45,519
a lot more than that recently. And what's going to

912
00:46:45,599 --> 00:46:47,760
make this even harder is last season he was literally

913
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,840
the worst predator and expected goals four for sixty, literally

914
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,000
the worst in terms of a race. That that's crazy

915
00:46:53,039 --> 00:46:57,000
because he's no way he's that bad. So I'm going

916
00:46:57,079 --> 00:46:58,840
to give you those two, Jesse, which one you pick

917
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,639
in the Sorrows or stamco Both of.

918
00:47:01,639 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 3: Them are a little bit juicy, a little bit juicy,

919
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:10,440
So you're either betting against Juicy Sorrows getting back up

920
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,960
to a previous pace or Steven stamp Coast. I am

921
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,400
going to pick against mister Stampcoast. I think at this point,

922
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,960
I think the context is just not there for him

923
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,800
to be able to do the things that he used

924
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,480
to be able to do. And I think we are

925
00:47:27,559 --> 00:47:31,119
probably seeing the decline of a great player. So I

926
00:47:31,159 --> 00:47:34,360
will We'll go against Steven stampcost right now. Make you

927
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,840
hold on to that one. Seeing Lewis Blues the hot

928
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,119
team at the end of the season, they catch up

929
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,000
not much because again we recorded that less than a

930
00:47:43,039 --> 00:47:46,480
month ago. The hot takes. I do this one just

931
00:47:46,559 --> 00:47:49,440
for you, Victor. Jordan Bennington with thirty wins next year,

932
00:47:49,519 --> 00:47:52,159
your favorite goalie, even though you traded for him in

933
00:47:52,159 --> 00:47:55,079
one of my leagues. But I know everybody who backs

934
00:47:55,159 --> 00:47:57,760
up Jordan Bennington is always your favorite goalie as long

935
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,960
as I can recall. Maybe you'll may from the look

936
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,239
on your face you don't agree with that anymore, But

937
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,039
I don't remember you being a fan. And the other

938
00:48:06,159 --> 00:48:08,880
Dallaboard of Orski gets Calder votes this year, I think

939
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,880
I have five guys getting Calder votes. Maybe that's difficult

940
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,920
to prove, but which one of those two is less.

941
00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 4: Likely to you? I think Divorski getting Calder votes is

942
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,239
probably a little less likely.

943
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,639
Speaker 2: We have seen a little bit of a roller coaster

944
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:28,039
yo yo season from Bennington. But also we've seen the

945
00:48:28,119 --> 00:48:31,239
highs and the team. They seem to be effectively doing

946
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,800
a retool here. They've added some pieces around the edges.

947
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,239
They've gotten some prospects that have graduated and come up

948
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:40,320
and look pretty decent, specifically Snug Rued, which I'm excited

949
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,679
about getting. Dylan Holloway and Philip Roberg have been really

950
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,559
good and so overall they've really fleshed out the edge

951
00:48:47,559 --> 00:48:49,760
of the team really nicely and had some growth internally.

952
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,639
So I think that they're going to be a decent team,

953
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:56,079
and I think Bennington can at least be pretty average,

954
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,039
So I think that one's a little more likely.

955
00:48:58,679 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 4: Divorski.

956
00:48:59,559 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 2: I'm pretty skeptical of Divorceki, and my what I've seen

957
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,599
from him is he's got a lot of pretty good offense,

958
00:49:05,639 --> 00:49:08,800
but he also I think he really struggles too way,

959
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,360
and I'm not sure that he's gonna earn enough trust

960
00:49:11,519 --> 00:49:15,079
to be able to leverage all that offense, and so

961
00:49:15,559 --> 00:49:17,880
I'm worried that he's gonna have a hard time really translating.

962
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,760
So we'll see, and I certainly don't think he's gonna

963
00:49:23,159 --> 00:49:26,480
you said, gets Calder votes. What does that mean at

964
00:49:26,559 --> 00:49:28,639
least one or what are we talking about here?

965
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:30,559
Speaker 5: Yeah?

966
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 3: What should I say? Top six Calder? How about top

967
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:34,559
six Calder?

968
00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 4: I'm good with that. Yeah, I'll take the I'll take

969
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:40,039
the under on that.

970
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 2: I think that he might get some opportunity, he might

971
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,440
flash some skill, but I don't I'm skeptical that he'll

972
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,360
get enough. Of course he certainly could. He has the

973
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,280
offensive tell him, but I'm just not sure his two way.

974
00:49:49,159 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 4: Game is good enough.

975
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to the Utah Mammoth. We

976
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,880
recorded this one in early June, so a few things

977
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,920
have happened. We At the time, Connor Ingram was in

978
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,239
the Player Assists program and he's been clear to return,

979
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,360
so that's going to be interesting. Now they have three

980
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:08,199
goalies there with Fanchek and Phil Meka. They also traded

981
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,639
away Matias Mitchelli, who really struggled last year. We talked

982
00:50:10,679 --> 00:50:13,119
about him in Toronto episode. I'm really excited about him.

983
00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:15,159
I think he's got a lot of upside. They traded

984
00:50:15,159 --> 00:50:18,320
away Michael Kustering and Josh Done for JJ Peterca. Everyone

985
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,840
was talking about how much they won that trade, and

986
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:22,760
I like that piece for them. Custom Ring I think

987
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,519
is a really good real life defenseman and don't has potential.

988
00:50:26,039 --> 00:50:29,800
They signed Jack McBain, beat Tech, Benichik, Nate Schmid, Brandon Tanev,

989
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:34,880
Scott Prunovich, and Kyler Yamamoto. All those guys are pretty

990
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,280
decent depth pieces, and I think that overall they improved

991
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,599
their team and a lot of their young guys are

992
00:50:40,639 --> 00:50:42,800
just ready to take another step forward, so that's exciting.

993
00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 4: My hot takes.

994
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 2: Revolve around a couple of guys that I absolutely love,

995
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:55,000
and that is Dylan Gunther and Logan Cooley. Basically, my

996
00:50:55,119 --> 00:50:57,159
take is that these guys are awesome and I think

997
00:50:57,159 --> 00:51:00,280
they're going to be awesomer next season. So that's what

998
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,800
I'm banking on to put some granularity on that. I

999
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,639
think Dylan Gunther is like one of the next great

1000
00:51:07,679 --> 00:51:10,480
goal scorers in our league. He's got an amazing release

1001
00:51:10,519 --> 00:51:12,719
and he gets it off really quickly and easily finds

1002
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,639
those good spots to score. He went from six to

1003
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,920
eighteen to twenty seven goals last season. I'm saying he

1004
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,599
gets over thirty five goal pace. This is a guy

1005
00:51:21,639 --> 00:51:24,360
I think one day who could approach fifty. I think

1006
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,039
that might be a few years away, but this will

1007
00:51:27,079 --> 00:51:28,880
be a big step for him going from twenty seven

1008
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:33,079
to thirty five goal pace. And we can put the

1009
00:51:33,159 --> 00:51:35,400
caveat in there that any of these pace things they have.

1010
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,199
Speaker 4: To play at least half a season, So I think

1011
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:37,760
that's fair.

1012
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 2: I wouldn't claim victory if he got whatever, like five

1013
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:42,880
goals in ten games and then it was out.

1014
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 4: The rest of the season.

1015
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,159
Speaker 2: That wouldn't really That wouldn't really be in the spirit

1016
00:51:46,159 --> 00:51:48,760
of the take. And the other one has to do

1017
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,519
with Logan Kooley, and I think Logan Cooley is amazing.

1018
00:51:51,559 --> 00:51:53,760
So Guntherer with his goals got a seventy point pace

1019
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,639
and he was getting seventeen minutes time on ice. I

1020
00:51:56,639 --> 00:51:58,639
think it's pretty clear that Logan Cooley is now their

1021
00:51:58,639 --> 00:52:00,639
top line center, and I think he's gonna get more time,

1022
00:52:00,639 --> 00:52:02,920
whin ie, more responsibility, more power play time.

1023
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 4: He also just cleared a seventy point pace.

1024
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,119
Speaker 2: He had a seventy one point pace, and I think

1025
00:52:08,159 --> 00:52:09,760
he pushes all the way up to point.

1026
00:52:09,519 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 4: Per game pace Logan Cooley.

1027
00:52:11,039 --> 00:52:15,039
Speaker 2: So Dylan Gunther thirty five goal pace, Logan Cooley, point

1028
00:52:15,079 --> 00:52:16,559
per game total points.

1029
00:52:16,599 --> 00:52:17,559
Speaker 4: What do you think of Jesse.

1030
00:52:18,599 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 3: In terms of fun This may be the funnest set.

1031
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:26,079
This may be the set of hot takes that would

1032
00:52:26,119 --> 00:52:28,519
both delight me the most if they happened. I think

1033
00:52:28,559 --> 00:52:32,360
they'd both be a lot of fun if they happened. Boy,

1034
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,840
that's a major escalation for Logan Cooley. I think that

1035
00:52:37,039 --> 00:52:39,480
is probably a year or two away. So I will

1036
00:52:39,519 --> 00:52:42,400
hold you to Logan Cooley going over point per game

1037
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:47,159
for this year. Now we'll go to the last of

1038
00:52:47,199 --> 00:52:49,880
the Western Conference, the Winnipeg Jets. That again was only

1039
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:54,599
about a month ago, so no major moves to report,

1040
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,719
and my hot takes. Gabe Vallardi will be in the

1041
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,960
top three and scoring for the Jets. He wasn't too

1042
00:53:00,079 --> 00:53:02,800
far outside that category last year. But number one, you're

1043
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:08,079
betting against the health and number two, you'd be betting

1044
00:53:08,079 --> 00:53:11,199
against the the his ability to stay up at that

1045
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:17,960
level without eelers. But that's my rationale is yeah, without eelers,

1046
00:53:18,199 --> 00:53:20,800
and given his performance last year, he takes another step.

1047
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,360
And the other is Brad Lambert sixty games in the

1048
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,039
put in the NFL. Yeah, no, I'm not that would

1049
00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:29,559
be an extremely hot take.

1050
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,519
Speaker 4: I'm thinking hold to that one.

1051
00:53:34,039 --> 00:53:36,559
Speaker 3: He plays every game for the next four years in

1052
00:53:36,599 --> 00:53:39,559
the NFL No, I'll say sixty games in the end

1053
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,480
HL for next year. Lambert is just who knows what

1054
00:53:43,559 --> 00:53:45,440
to make of that guy. But what do you think, Victor?

1055
00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:49,199
Speaker 4: I really wish I had the NFL one back, and

1056
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:53,280
that's an easy decision. Yeah, I think that.

1057
00:53:54,639 --> 00:54:01,280
Speaker 2: Obviously, with Eelers gone, I doubt Valardi overtakes Connor and Shifely.

1058
00:54:01,559 --> 00:54:06,639
So it's really basically saying without saying in as many

1059
00:54:06,639 --> 00:54:09,079
words as I Valardi is going to continue to outpoint

1060
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,000
called Praffetti, who I think is his prime competition there,

1061
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,960
and I think that's pretty likely. I think Valardi has

1062
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,960
been staple to those top two and been on the

1063
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:22,119
top power play. I think it's pretty reasonable that Profetti

1064
00:54:22,159 --> 00:54:24,039
could challenge him, and I think it's possible that he

1065
00:54:24,079 --> 00:54:27,280
overtakes him. But I think I'm going to hold you

1066
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,639
to the Lambert one just because there's a lot more

1067
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,639
uncertainty there and who knows I want him. I think

1068
00:54:33,679 --> 00:54:35,920
it'd be really fun for them to bring him up

1069
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,639
to the NHL. I've been come around on him as

1070
00:54:39,639 --> 00:54:42,280
a prospect and he's shown really well in the AHL,

1071
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,880
so I'm really hoping they do, and I think that

1072
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,519
he can be a decent player down the middle, just

1073
00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:53,400
as good as maybe Kupari or a domestic cough. I

1074
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:56,480
think the Jonathan Tave saying might have hurt his chances

1075
00:54:56,519 --> 00:54:57,639
to play this many games.

1076
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1077
00:54:59,199 --> 00:55:01,119
Speaker 2: They could also slight them over the wing, which should

1078
00:55:01,119 --> 00:55:02,480
be just fine. So I'll hold you to the Brad

1079
00:55:02,519 --> 00:55:04,599
Lambert one just because I think that there's a little

1080
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:09,000
more uncertainty there in terms of what's going to happen.

1081
00:55:09,199 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 4: So we'll do that one very good.

1082
00:55:12,199 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 3: Okay, that is going to do it for the or

1083
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,039
the Western Conference edition. Come back next week for the

1084
00:55:19,079 --> 00:55:33,280
Eastern Conference. Before I leave you, Fantasy Hockey Life is

1085
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That is why you can play your dynasty leagues three

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these leagues where yeah, we'll end the season and our

1093
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staff will maybe come back in four months. No, you

1094
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can't play a dynasty league. That way most options, scoring, saleries, contracts,

1095
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rookie eligibility, slow drafts, rookie drafts, anything you want. Fantrak's

1096
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HQs content too. You're seeing the positional ranks pop up

1097
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there on Fantasy Hockey, and there's articles on other fantasy

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sports too. But if you look over in that right

1099
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hand column when you're on your roster screen, I bet

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00:56:26,159 --> 00:56:30,599
you're going to see some ranking articles. FHL's team is

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legion and strong. I like to think we like to

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00:56:34,599 --> 00:56:40,159
thank our whole crew every episode. The Tidy leagues are roland,

1103
00:56:40,199 --> 00:56:43,000
they're heating up. We're going to have content very soon

1104
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related to them. Tim Ryan, Simo Krafter are the commissioner team.

1105
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,599
Tony and Patrick are our lead scouts. They got us

1106
00:56:50,599 --> 00:56:52,599
through the summer. They're going to get us through the fall.

1107
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:58,519
They're already planning for more scouting reports. Brandon is huge

1108
00:56:58,519 --> 00:57:02,400
helping out with that website. Respect ranks, visualizations, and if

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you've got skills you'd like to lend the show. We're

1110
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always looking to do something new and cool. Victor. We

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need your help to do anything ideas, but more to

1112
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the point, help us if you'd like to do that

1113
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Victor would love to hear from me in the discord,

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Dynasty sports. This week it is the second half preview

1120
00:57:37,239 --> 00:57:41,400
of the NBA Team Changers. I don't do a thirty

1121
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,039
two episode series on basketball. We do a two episode

1122
00:57:45,079 --> 00:57:47,199
series where I have a great guest, cost Us from

1123
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Rasball come on and we talk about the players who

1124
00:57:49,639 --> 00:57:53,960
changed teams, a much abbreviated, no beat writer, no prospect

1125
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version of the team previews. Because it's in two hours.

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