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Speaker 4: How you doing, I'm doing awesome, Jesse. Yeah, it's a
magical time of year where you get to enjoy the
Latvian World Junior Championship team that got a historic upset.
I'm sure my Canadian friends are not thinking of it.
It's so fondly, but yeah, it's a great time. Been
watching the tournament during time with the family. How you been?
Speaker 2: I'm good. I was making all those Lotvian jokes during
our draft too. Luckily nothing has happened on the cosok
side of that. But yeah, I saw that the US
lost to Finland. But hey, guys, Finland, Okay, Finland, Latvia?
Which one of those would you rather lose to? Finland?
Is some pretty good stuff. Plus we got the overtime loss.
But Victor, that is not what we're here to talk
about tonight. We are here we'll get to that in
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Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal, folks. If you have not yet listened
to Keeping Carlson that came out this week, you probably
I hate to have you do this, but you ought
to pause our show and go listen there because this
is a two part episode. It's a crossover episode. It
starts with Keeping Carlson and it then proceeds to us
here on Fantasy Hockey Life, where you will hear the
second half of a draft. But right after this break,
we will be returning to the second half of the
draft with Elon Debrowski and Brian Kam of Keeping Carlson.
So check this out and we're back and to reset
where we are in this draft. First of all, as
I said before, you should go listen to the Keeping
Carlson feed for the first half of this episode, the
first half of this draft. Here's how it works if
you haven't been listening. It's a thirty two round draft.
We rotate picking a team, and of the team, the
four of us each have to pick one player who
is less than seventy percent rostered in fantracks leagues right now,
and in the end you have to emerge with twenty
four forwards and eight defencemen and it rotates around. So
there's strategy. If you didn't pick it up before, it's
probably too late for you. But you'll get it now
and it's back to me. I happen to have the
first pick of this second half of the draft, and
we are going to go in this event very boringly
with the Minnesota Wild strategy. I swear it is because
in the Minnesota Wild there are excellent players, wonderful players
like Gorial capriz Off, Matt Boldie, brock Faber, Joel Ericson, Eck,
Matts Zucarello, and Marco Rossi. Unfortunately you can't have any
of them because they're all over seventy percent rostered. But
in their stead there is Jared Spurgeon, who I am
going to take because number one, he's a defenseman. Number two,
I don't like any of the other guys for the
Wild who were here. There's one who I did, and
then he's injured and out for a while. But Spurgeon
has been consistently getting power play one minutes. Heck, in
mid December, he had two games where he had more
than six minutes of power play toime on ice in
consecutive games. And he's also got to go on assist
here just in the last week of December, so that
is going to start the wild I was so nice
to you the last time around. I don't know whether
you consider the second blessing or whether just picking from
this whole team as a curse for you.
Speaker 3: Elan, Look, I don't mind it. Jesse. You just took
your fifth defenseman.
Speaker 5: I guess I might as well just take my fifth
defenseman as well, because the other options here are pretty putrid.
Speaker 3: So yeah, give me Yonis.
Speaker 5: Brodein was having not a bad season, actually eleven points
in twenty seven games. He missed some time with injury,
but if you paste that out, that'd be a thirty
three point pace, which wouldn't be too shabby, similar to
his pace from last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could do worse.
Speaker 5: Right, there's a couple fowards, I guess, so we're going
to get a few more points than Brodean, but probably
not too many, So I don't mind it. Victor, you
get to go next here on Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Gross, super gross, but yeah, good, I guess It's a
good pick, Jesse, if you get one of the better options.
I don't have any of these forward options, and the
best update I can tell from Jake Middleton is that
he's going to be out another week or so, and frankly,
that might be as good as taking any of the forwards.
So I think I'm just gonna take Jake Middleton and
hope he looks into a few more points. He's actually
behind favor the defenseman who has the most points per
game on this list, actually surprisingly more than Supersia and Burdein,
just based on the number of games he's played and
points he's looked into. I don't think that'll continue, but
if he's anywhere close to that, it'll be salvageable. But yeah,
Jake Middleton, you know him for his hits and blocks,
not for his points.
Speaker 1: I think it's hilarious that we have two defensemen gone
and they're still not to forward them, like, yeah, they
fell to me. I think, God, what I'll do is
I'll go with just the best. Marcus Felino is not
in the best deployment situation. Ryan Hartman and Marcus Johansson
are presently with Caprizov Advilina playing with Joela ERICSONEK Marcus
Johansen is doing that thing where he stops shooting. He's
also stopped playing a lot. His ice time has been
really down. He's someone that I do like for an
occasional hand. Ryan Hartman has no zero points in eighteen games.
He last pointed on November twenty first, when he had
two assists against Edmonton. He's done nothing since but a
lot of consistent shots. And he's playing with ericson eck
right now, and his ice time is it's fine, like
it's middle six. So I guess I'm trying to talk
myself into Ryan Hartman over Marcus Felino, who, of all
the guys still available, has the most shot. Oh no, sorry,
I'm trying to talk myself into Marcus Fellino, who of
all the guys available, has the most points in the
last month six points and fourteen games, twenty five shots.
But you know what, Ryan Hartman has thirty two. I'm
going to take a leap of faith here and go
for a guy who hasn't pointed in eighteen games. He
must be due. I'll take Ryan Hartman.
Speaker 3: It's the fourth pick on Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with like fifty the last couple seasons. Something's got
to give here. He's shooting five percent.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of that had to do with
playing with Caprizov, But I will see how he does
with Joel Rick Sinek if that sticks. Okay, we're going
now to my pick, and I am going to go
to New Jersey and take a guy that I've been
looking at for a while and kept passing on. I'm
glad no one else took him because I don't know
about these other options over on New Jersey. I guess
they're not the worst. But Stephan Nason somehow has turned
himself into a pretty solid fantasy asset this season. He's
getting great deployment a lot of the time. In the
last game against Carolina, Nason was playing on the line
with Meyer and he Shear, and it was also on
the top hour play with he Sheer, Brad Hughes, and
Dougie Hamilton. You can't really beat that. Nason has three
points in his last four games. He's taken a decent
number of shots. He's pacing for fifty five points this year.
I don't know like how he's doing it or like
where he's been the rest of his career. He's thirty
one years old and now he's like breaking out. But whatever,
I'm not gonna question. I'm just gonna take Stephan Nason
first on New Jersey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good pick. I was thinking about going
to New Jersey next because I think he's head and
shoulders above the rest, although I think there's a clear
next best. So again, Elon doing a fairly solid there
for me, so appreciate that. And I'm just going to
take Dawson Mercer. I think he's the next best available.
There's some other decent options below that, and Mercer gets
moved all around the lineup, but he typically gets some
opportunity at least with some of the top forwards, so
maybe he can stick. He probably won't, but he's who
I'm going.
Speaker 1: To take, all right, And that leaves me Andre Pollatte,
who three points in his last three games. A bit
of a hot streak for Pollatte. Actually he's pointed in
seven of his last nine. He took four shots on Saturday,
which is uncharacteristic, but I won't overthink it. And right now,
Pallltte's playing with Bratton Hughes at five on five and
saw some time with them on the power Play. I
should also mention, by the way Jack Hughes, Yesper Bratt,
Nico Hees Here, Dougie Hamilton, Timo Meyer unavailable, as well
as Luke Hughes's like why hasn't eyone taken Luke Ques yet?
Because I some of these numbers, I think I feel
like I noticed a pattern. Is they're juiced because of
all the dynasties on Fantrax. Like the next most rostered
wild player I think was like Zev Boyam or dine
Yurov beyond the first couple of guys that were taken.
So Luke Q's unavailable, I would have I think I'm
not sure it would have been close between him and Platte,
but I am taking Platte and Elan.
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 1: I like Nason first there. He was almost my first,
my last first pick, and I was hoping he'd fall
all the way back to me.
Speaker 3: Good job.
Speaker 2: I'd just like to say that the three of you
are all pretty awful people. For the players you've left
me with no no offense intended, no one, no offense intended.
But no I did that. You guys obviously picked the
right three guys here of it. Yeah, even Pelotte one
would have maybe dreamed that he would slip through somehow.
And when you're at the point of of that, things
are looking bad. I'm going to go ahead and fill
in with with another defenseman, I guess at this point,
and I guess that's going to be let's see, in
this case, I'm going to go with Covid Savage. I
dont think Covid Savage. We'll see if he's able to
do much. He's that guy do you had at the
beginning of every fantasy season when they play like a
couple of games overseas and then there's several days before
the rest of them and you open up the waiver wire,
there's that one guy at the top of the thing
that was never going to do it again. And this
year it was Covid Savage, who had a couple of
points in the beginning of the season games. So now
he's locked. In my mind, he's at least a second
pair of guy. There's really no great choice here, so
I'll go ahead and take him.
Speaker 4: All right, Now, I get the first pick, and we
are going to go down to Sunshine State, down to Florida,
and we are not going to be able to pick
of course, Sam Reynhart, Matthew Kachuck, Alex Barkov, Cardiver Hagy,
Sam Bennett, Aarneck, lad Gus Stuff Forsling. So that leads
me with Anton Lundell, who definitely doesn't have the best deployment,
but he's a solid player. Sometimes he gets to play
with some of the big boys and depending on who's
in or who's out, but he's mostly more of a
middle six guy. But he's a solid enough producer points
sixty four points per game, and I think he's a
little bit ahead of some of the other guys depending
on deployment or opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Florida was not a team I wanted to pick
fourth on I think, so I'm grateful for that. I
don't know if there's much of a difference between second
and third here right now, you know what I think.
I'm just going to go with what I'm seeing presently,
which is Evan Rodriguez playing with Alex Barkov and Sam Reinhart. Rodriguez,
like had some great stretches with great deployment last year,
has not been able to do that at all this year.
Even with good stretches of deployment, just sixteen points and
thirty seven games he's that's a thirty five point pace.
I think maybe he can do a little bit better
the rest of the way. And that's what I'm banking
on by going with Evan Rodriguez second on Florida, which
means I'm passing it on to you, Jesse.
Speaker 2: Oh, that smarts. That one smarts, because picking third on
this team is not something that excites me terribly in Yeah,
and now I'm running hot on defenseman when I'd been
running cold on them most of the time. But you
know what, I'm gonna take out a bequest coming into Florida.
Maybe he'll get some opportunity there. Certainly he had talent
beyond what he was able to show earlier in his career.
Maybe a wasted pick here, but yeah, that's where I'm
going at this point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think bog Fist got scratched too much, though
I'd be worried that you're gonna need to bank on
him getting something in his one of every three games
that he's.
Speaker 2: Right, he gets all the good in every three games
he wanted. He only needs one out of three games
that out of Boquist.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 5: Yes, you're definitely not leaving me with much here. Maybe
I should just go for a defenceman.
Speaker 3: But who would it be? Nico Mikola.
Speaker 5: He might actually be just as good actually as any
of these forwards. Now that I look at it, I'm
looking at looster Ryanan Maki, Samuskavich. Yes we're Bokevist. Mikol
is injured right now. I think he's just day to day.
Who is Nico Mikola. I thinking he's like, actually not
doing so bad in terms of his pace for this season.
Speaker 1: I saw him get at it in some of the
league's I win the trends. He was a Stanley Cup champion.
Speaker 3: I see those guys.
Speaker 1: Are you want to ring on your team? Fifth round
pick of Saint Louis back in twenty fifteen, so he's twenty.
This is age twenty eight season.
Speaker 5: All right, sold, Nicola, that's all you needed to here.
Speaker 3: He's on my team now.
Speaker 1: I think Mikola versus Rodriguez rest of season. I don't
think it's going to be a huge gap, So congrats.
Speaker 5: As long as it's injuries and't serious. But yeah, we'll see.
It was a good spot in the lineup for Rodriguez.
I mentioned him a matchup Maximizer yesterday for those who
subscribe to Keeping Carlson.
Speaker 3: All right, Brian, here you're up.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Carolina, where I can't take Sebastian Aho,
but I can take the second leading scorer in the
last month for the Hurricanes, and yes, that is the
one and only my man, Jack Rosslovic. I don't care
that I can't pick Gossa's bear, Jarvis Svetchnikov or NHS either,
because why would I jack Rosslovik outpointing the mall. Over
the last four weeks, Roslovic on a fifty five point
pace sixteen goals in thirty six games. He's pacing for
an over thirty goal season and powered especially by two
goals on Saturday against the Devils. He added an assist
to that total two. Rosslovic is playing presently on the
top line with Ajo and Jarvis, and that's why I
am happy to add him to my team. I'm very
interested to hear what happens beyond Rosslovic and Carolina, though,
so Jesse, please feel free to illuminate us on who
you would like second on the Hurricanes.
Speaker 2: I really would, Brian, you really are starting to I
can't say snipe because you made the first pick here.
But I'm to the point now where I'm going to
be gifting to Elon and Victor, gifting, absolutely gifting to
them because I like Rosselovich and his twenty two percent shooting,
but I obviously don't have the opportunity to him, and
I'm gonna take yes, Erry kak Kaniemi, believe it or not,
because I'm at a defenseman slots just about I really
can't go with that direction or I'd prefer not to
lock myself in at this point, Elon, Victor, the checks
better be in the mail.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's not so incredible, but yeah, I guess I'll
take my seventh D, which is still we have a
lot of rounds left to go here, so maybe I'll
get to a point where it's like, oh, I shouldn't
have taken I don't know, Perbix back in the but anyway, Yeah,
I'll give you Brent Burns. I don't know, he has
points in his last couple of games. He stinks now,
but I'll just take him, and I guess what you're assuming, Victor.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so Victor will take slave in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Burns is super old, but he still gets a
point every now and then, so that's pretty decent. No,
I'm actually going to take Mtriola Orlov who has a
little bit better points pace. And I don't know that
it'll continue, but I do like the time I said,
he's getting all those guys that you just mentioned, Kasha, Sprolov, Burns,
Slave and are all getting a ton of ice and
the rest of the guys barely play, so I guess
they're all similarly likely. But Orlov is on a almost
forty point pace, so that would be decent enough for
your defenseman who does other things. But we're just looking
at points here, all right, that's it.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting we saw Brent Burns and Orlov picked
in Carolina, or we talked and no one talked about
the fellow who is quarterbacking the top unit today. Does
anyone know anyone want to go for it?
Speaker 3: Ty Smith?
Speaker 1: Ty Smith? As of today, I should say this was
on Saturday. Ty Smith got into the lineup, played sixteen
and a half minutes five and a half on the
power play, which is basically the way Goste Spaar's ice
time is distributed. Without knowing how long gossip spears out,
I sure or I understand why no one might have
wanted to go Ty Smith, but hey, this is a
guy who's had pedigree in the past. He's he's twenty
four years old, and maybe this is a moment for
him to do the gost de Spare move, which is
played a lot on the power play, on a really
great power play and pick up some points. That's more
for I not necessarily for this draft info, but for
your info, dear listener, in your league.
Speaker 5: I'll just say no, like Tya Sith is not shoting
costs of the hair, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, zero is okay, all right, but so let.
Speaker 5: Me It's not like you could just put anyone on
the top power playing Carolina as well as.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say doing well. Tony Dangelo had a pretty
successful season, had a fuse for the Carolina power play,
that's true, but now he's not even in the league anymore.
Ty Smith ten point in thirteen games with Chicago of
the AHL this year, forty three points and sixty three
games with Wilkes Barry Scranton less.
Speaker 3: Okare you're right.
Speaker 5: I do agree that Ty Smith is probably better at
this point to take in fantasy than Tony DiAngelo, But
that's so it's not even the argument I'm making, and
I think you know that very well. Ty Smith might
also not be in the league for any more games
for the rest of the season for all we know.
Speaker 1: All Right, Anyway, I'm looking around and I'm starting to
panic that I might have to pass on a good
forward to try and fill out my defenseman, even though
I went and took Zoub to try and get out
in front of this. But you know what, I still
am going to go ahead and take a forward. It's
just a matter of who I think. I'm going to
go to the team where I'd be most clueless about
my fourth pick, and that's the Jets. I'm gonna go
ahead and take Cole Profetti, who's worked his way up
to twenty three points in thirty seven games. He's he's
poked his head up above a fifty point pace this season,
still not taking the step forward that we hoped, but
he seems pretty locked alongside Nick Eelers at five on five,
and that's good enough for me. Cole Perfetti is number
one to me on Winnipeg because I couldn't take Josh Marcy, Kyle, Connor, Shifley,
Eelers I was actually I was gonna. I was thinking
I'd be sneaky and take Pianc ninety two percent rostered.
That's more than Volardi. Those two guys both unavailable, So
Cole Perfetti for me, Jesse, you're up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an interesting team because there are to
my recording, there are four different players with at least
nineteen points or in other words, in nineteen points in
thirty six games, so over half a point per game
so far this year. That's really pretty good as far
as I'm concerned. And I am going to take one
of those players, Pefetti of course being one. Nino Nita
Writer being the one that I'm going to choose. Near
a Writer, just a consistent option over the years, he
always seems to sneak in there and get his numbers
by the end. Right now, he's not listed on as
high of a line as some of the other guys
who probably will get taken here, but from time to time,
I think he'll be on that top power play and
I just think he'll produce. At the end of the day,
you'll find plenty of points from Nino.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And so Nino's center is out there still for me,
if I wanted to take Adam Lowry, I could go
with the guy playing with Elers and Vladyslav Nemessnikov.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's a toss up between the two
of them.
Speaker 5: I guess I should probably go with the deployment, even
the Lowry has more points per game so far, but
I guess I'll go with the Mesnikov. This is not
very fun. Brian said there's a fourth pick that he
wouldn't want. I'm curious. I feel like I'll after Profetti
and even honestly including Perfetti. I feel like it's just
like Profetti, Nino, Nemesnikov, and Lowry all seem all even
to me, So I'm curious to know who Brian is
like the obvious fourth there?
Speaker 1: Oh, no, to clarify, just third. I wouldn't have known
who to pick. Oh okay, yeah, super Fetti and Nino. Yeah,
I'll take those above the others. Maybe not buy a
huge margin. But no, I didn't know third or fourth.
Speaker 4: Okay, gotcha, and I will just take the other guy
you just mentioned, Adam Lowry. Why not the center not
super exciting but consistently above half point per game, boring
but relatively consistent. And then I get to go first
now and still need three d I'm not sure that
I'm going to do that here. I still have a
couple of teams that I like that I want to
go first with. I think I'm just going to do that.
We're going to go over to LA and I'm just
going to take Alex Leafarier. I know he's been a
little bit cold lately, but he's been getting decent deployment
and has the highest points paced on the team. And
things might get shifted around a little bit, but I
like him. He's been having a great year.
Speaker 1: Okay, in LA, can't take Kempei, Copitar Fiala, Brent Clark.
There's that for the dynasty bias. Although someone who I'm
surprised is not rostered with a dynasty bias, Quintin Buyfield.
He's out there. Even after this recent little scoring run
he's on. He's got five goals in his last six games,
two goals on five shots against Edmonton on Saturday. The
game against Philly tonight is ongoing, but he's at least
got a shot on goal. I'll take that in just
under six minutes of ice time. I oh, but I
do need defense and Drew Dowdy. I'm just realizing is
oh no, he's not available. He's seventy one percent. Great few,
no U turn needed. So I'll take Quintin Buyfield and
stare the defense death straight in the face. I only
have four there's what like what seven teams left?
Speaker 2: Nine? Nine teams? All right, I have ten teams after
this one. So you know who I really wanted was
Trevor Moore. Trevor Moore apparently is injured and gone for
a long time. So I will not be taking Trevor
Moore at this point, not to overly table talk. That's
up to Brian, whether he or elin if he wants
to have more confidence in him as a draft pick
than I have. Oh gosh, see, I don't want to
be doing this right now, but I guess I'm gonna
go ahead and lockdown Vladisov Gavrikov, who's got sixteen points
in thirty four games, a half point per game type
of defenceman. And yeah, that's where I'm gonna go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a kind of a head scratcher there, Jesse.
You're not gonna allow that's your eighth defenseman. You don't
even need any more defenseman. I feel like Phil to
Know is probably gonna double Gavrikov's point pace rest of
the way.
Speaker 3: Give me to know.
Speaker 5: He's got four points in his last four. Not super exciting,
but Gavirikov will.
Speaker 3: He sucks defense.
Speaker 1: But okay, that's with the inflection on that you really
went for it.
Speaker 2: You're coming on my stream and tell me that my
pick sucks, youling, Okay, I see how this goes.
Speaker 5: All right, let's hear your argument for Gavrikov. Lets me
one good thing.
Speaker 2: I don't have a great argument for Gavrikov. The Kings
really like him. Maybe I don't know, man, We're all
just trying to make it out here on these streets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get you. Okay, I'll let it pass. Then, Okay,
so who should I take? Now? I have a first pick?
Speaker 5: But we're getting to a point here where it's either
just teams where everyone's bad or teams where there's just
no big difference between all four. So it's hard to
really make an argument for one over the other. I
think what I'm gonna base this pick on is like
not wanting to have a fourth pick. You know what, No,
maybe I'll just go for the upside, even though No,
I don't want to do that either. Sorry, everyone, I'm
waffling here. I think I'm going to go to I'll
just do it. I'll go to Chicago, okay, and I'm
gonna take Tyler Bertuzzi, And I think there's four decent
picks on Chicago. But Bertuzzi's currently getting deployment with Badard
both even strengthen on the power play. Of course that's
been changing a lot. And yeah, so we'll see who
everyone else takes. I couldn't take Bidard or Seth Jones
and that's it. Everyone else is available. I don't know,
just a little hunch that Bertuzzi maybe we'll have a
little bit of a better second half than he's had
a first half.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 4: Interesting. I feel like I was fine going later on
Chicago because I feel like a few of these guys
are a little bit similar you took Hubertuzzi. Yeah, I
mean like Tarvinen would be decent Tonato. Those guys have
more Taylor Hall, wait, is he available?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can have Taylor Hall go for it all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so recently it's been Bertuzzi, Hall, and Berdard. Who
knows if that elast things have been shifting around a
little bit. I know he's old and not what he
used to be. Right now, Tarror Vinen has the most points.
I was actually thinking that, I know that Alex Flastik
has the most points of who's left, but I think
with that Jones coming back, I'm not sure that's going
to continue. So I'm actually going to go with the
top power play deployment and go with terror Vinen instead.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I was actually when you were leaning away
from terror Vinen, I was like, oh I had him
first on my list. I didn't, And Elon, he's your
favorite tabo Terravinen. You've be smirched him.
Speaker 3: Yees.
Speaker 1: Alex Blastik is the big question here, right Can he
get back on to the top power play. So far
the answer has been no, although it looks like Chicago
spread the wealth on the power play and I'm not
I think that was. I'm guessing it was just a
matter of circumstans in terms of who got the time
against Dallas today. But he's done nothing for six games
and so I'm going to push defense off a little
longer and I'm gonna go with my the tabo Terror
the Tavo to Elon. I'm going with the Taylor to
Brian Taylor Hall, who is playing for all the reasons
Victor just said, playing on the top line with Bidard
right now. What that's worth in the long term not
terribly certain, but I'm just going to take it across
my fingers. Hall has been like, if he's available in
your league. Chicago doesn't have anything special going on this week,
but he has nine points in his last ten games.
That seems to be worth something. No shots and not
a whole lot of ice time tonight, but I'm still
gonna look at that production and say, hey, if a
fraction of it can keep up, or not a fraction
more than if some of it, if enough of it
can keep up, I'll be happy with picking Taylor Hall
third on Chicago.
Speaker 2: I am picking last year, and I'm not incredibly dissatisfied.
I'm going to take the player who, according to Evolving Hockey,
is number one on the Chicago Black Ops in expected
goals above replacement, and that is Nick Felino. He is
He's surprisingly capable of scoring every once and again, and
even though he has not been overwhelming in that this year,
I feel like he could very easily go on a
fifty point pace in the second half, and that's not
a bad thing to get in slot number four. I
lead off this twenty fourth round of the draft, and
I'm going to take from the Boston Bruins. We're going
up to Beantown where David Paster and Ik bradmarschand Charlie
McAvoy and Elias Lindholm, as you might expect, are unavailable.
But I will take Pavelosaka, who is forty four percent
rostered and has sixteen points so far in thirty six games.
But in a thin Boston offensive roster, he is first line,
he is first power play, and I'm just gonna have
to hope that Boston scoring comes around a little bit
here in the second half.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In that Boston lost game against Columbus, they were rolling
two interesting power plays and they won the game. By
the way, Marshan on one and Pastunak was on the other,
and the pastunk one was Pasturenak, Zaka, Morgan Geeky and
Justin Brazio and geek He also plays with Zaka and
Pastronach on the top line, So I guess for those reasons,
give me just Geeky give me as much Posturenach exposure.
Speaker 3: As is left available.
Speaker 5: I guess there's still potentially some marshand exposure that the
other drafters can take, but I'll take the pasta exposure.
Speaker 3: It's over to Victor.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm actually gonna take neither of those options and
go with the young buck defenseman that I need, and
that's gonna be Mason Lorii.
Speaker 1: Who that's so disappointing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not for me, though for me it's very exciting.
He actually has tied for the highest point pace at
least before when I prep this. But he's they're all similar.
He's getting some second he's been he's gotten some top
power play time here and there. He's splitting it mostly
second unit, but he's pretty good and getting some good
time on ice, and I think he's a need. You
some bet about half point per game, as good a
chance as anyone else getting a point on this team.
Speaker 1: Of who's left the victor, I'm frustrated, Like I thought
someone like I thought someone would need would need a defenceman,
and so they'd make that move and sure enough, that
is that's what you did. This was one of the
defensemen I was hoping to just sneak by because I
don't really love any of the other options. Morgan Geeky
seems to be like like this classic example, like Elin,
you picked him eleven points in his last fourteen games,
three of those on the power play. Two of those
happened to be classified as game winning goals. He seems
to be one of these guys that really splits the
eye test and the spread, the numbers test. Everything looks
bad for Morgan Geeky except the score sheet. So we'll
see if that keeps up for you. I'm gonna take
someone who I think could could hang pretty closely with
him a couple picks later, and that's that's Charlie Coyle,
my most hated player in the whole NHL, Charlie Coyle,
who's playing right now with Brad Marsham and eliasln Holm
and at five on five and on the power play.
That's that's where I'll settle. But now I'm really starting.
What happens if I don't take eight defensemen. I guess
you just forced me.
Speaker 3: Like the last four.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see if it comes down to that. That
could be fun. I'm open to it, all right, all right.
Speaker 2: That is seventy five percent of the draft done on
the Fantasy Hockey Live feed. We will take a break,
could be back right after this.
Speaker 1: What is this acrossover episode?
Speaker 2: We're back and in round twenty five, I kick it
off once again. And for this round, ladies and gentlemen,
I am going to pick the top scoring player in
the NHL who has not who is available in this
draft and has not yet been taken in this draft,
and he is the captain of the New York Islanders,
anders Lee for the New York Islanders. Who was it
who was not available? By the way, Noah Dobson, met
barzal Bo, Harvat and Brock Nelson. Now, anders Lee has
had three goals in his last two games. He's got
twenty nine points so far this season. I believe fifteen
goals and fourteen assists if I'm counting correctly, something like that. Anyway,
anders Lee is is my choice. I'm happy to get that.
There's a little bit of flatness on this in this opportunity,
this New York Islanders roster for people to take, but
I'm happy to start off round twenty five with Lee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Islanders are interesting. They've been really shifting around
these lines, trying to figure out how to make something work.
Lee's I'm playing with Barzial and Pagot Declaire, as I'm
playing with Nelson and pal Mary. Horrorvat's I'm playing with
Azekis and Simon Holmstrom, which doesn't seem so good for
bo Horvat, but he's on a hot streak. He's got
five points in his last four games, so maybe it's
fine for Horvat either way. Yes, I guess for me
it's between to do Claire and a Pageot and a
Paul Mary. I feel like I could almost flip a
coin between the three of them. Who should I land on.
I guess I'll take dou Claire. Should I Yeah, I
don't love it, but I'm gonna go with Douclaire. He
seems to have the upside potentially. I guess the other
guys do too, But that's that's my gut feeling here.
So Victor, would you have taken to Claire or someone else?
Speaker 4: I think it's really a coin flip between those two.
I don't think you can go super wrong. But he
is fresher. He had that injury, just came back, so
maybe he's got a little bit more gas left in
the tank. But you made my choice easy for me,
because then I'll just take Paul Mary for all the
reasons you just said. He is the other next most
reasonable option I think, except for Holmes from is on
the top power play. So I don't think you get
a bad pick here.
Speaker 1: Brian Elon has said, were you to leave a Maxim
Ziplokov from your list?
Speaker 5: He's starting to get demoted recently, but no, I like
zip A Coff, He's another he was my this year's
Verroonkov in my dynasty. Just finding a random Russian that
came over that I thought might be able to do something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is okay, Like this is one of
those moments where wonder, like how affected by this moment
I am? Because Sipilokov is on like a still like
a half point per game pace, very recently demoted. Holmstrom
is getting better deployment now, but will that be true
in a week don't know. And I'm also looking at
a defenseman in I guess Ryan Poolock to try and
figure out what the calculating what the expected difference might
be between those guys, I don't know, not huge. Dennis
Chelowski's actually been the most productive and like Romanov and Poolock. Okay,
you know what, I'm just gonna I'm gonna try and
preemptively toss a defenseman out there, and I'm just gonna
see who's getting the most time on ice. It's after Dobson.
Of course, it's Ryan Poolock. So I'll take I might
regret this one, especially from but Siplkov and Holmsterm. I
can't feel like any of them are in there. And
so rather than just take a random shot because the
other guy's going to be worth very little, I'm going
to just get a defenceman.
Speaker 3: Okay. Actually I would have taken maybe Pigot at this point.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, I had knocked him off of
my list, but I don't know why. I think I
heard no Pigot is the correct pick. But I will.
I've made my bed and I will lick in it.
Speaker 3: You'll be fine.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going to go to the Leafs next, I think,
because I just don't know if fourth would be good here,
and I feel like I would just get thrust into
the fourth pick on Toronto against my will. So there's
a couple options here. I think I'm going to go
with Pacaretti, and it's a risk because he could get injured,
but he seems to be doing pretty decently lately. He's
been getting some good deployment, playing with Tavarus and Marner
in the last game. And yeah, Patrady hasn't been too bad.
He's up to now twelve points and twenty four games.
He hasn't assist in each of his last couple. There's
another guy in Toronto that I like just as much,
and I could have gone between them, but and Patrady
does have that injury risk, but I've already made it,
so I don't love it. But that's where I'm going
over to you, Victor.
Speaker 4: I think the teams to pick from that you really
want are dwindling. I think they're a little bit more
even now. I actually wanted Paturetti too. I think that's
a good pick Elan, especially with the current deployment. Who
knows the phil last, But he does score goals and
he's going to be in an offensive situation, so I
think that's a good pick. I there's some other good
options here. Currently the most points per game on the
team of who's left, but you know there's some other options.
I'm gonna go with Oel though, fill up one of
my d spots. He's pretty consistent, not like super exciting
for points, but he gets some. And if we know that,
they don't mind putting him on the top power play
every now and then from Morgan Riley or if he
gets injured. So that's a decent one to pick up here.
Speaker 1: All right. I'm glad I took a defenseman because I
was counting on Oel becoming mine. I don't know, Elan,
I'm curious. Please let us know after who the one
guy that's you were considering alongside patch Aretti is. Because
I see a bunch of guys and I don't see
much difference between them. By the way, if you're all
like Matthew, NIC's seventy percent rostered, and of course tavar Is, Riley,
Neilander and Matthews and Marner are all unavailable. Unavailable Morgan Riley,
by the way, you're snooze in if you still have him,
it's time.
Speaker 3: You think you would drop Morgan Riley if you had him.
Speaker 1: I just do you know how little he's done?
Speaker 3: He's pointless in four yeah.
Speaker 1: And do you know how little he has done before that?
He has three points in his last twelve games, five
points in his last nineteen. He's not shooting anymore. It's
he is back on the top power play for the
last handful of games, but nothing doing. He hasn't put
up a power play point since November thirteenth, and that's
what you need from Morgan Riley.
Speaker 5: So what do you think he's just like bad now,
like he's lost his abilities.
Speaker 1: No, I I guess I just he's done so little
for so long, and maybe that he's maybe it's the
wrong time that he's just back on the top power play. Yeah,
I don't know. I dropped him to make a hell
Mary move to win the matchup today in one of
my leagues, I dropped him for David Riddick. I could
go and put a claim on him to get him back,
but I was just I was really over it. I
feel like there's enough peripheral producing d because it's been
almost two full months since Morgan Riley was Fantasy relevant. Okay, fair, Yeah,
so I think. But I've got to choose a forward here,
and I think it's Gonnat. This Domie Robertson make manline
has been doing pretty well lately. Robertson's ice time seems
to be pretty capped. McMahon has done well with mid
six ice time, but a lot of goals and not
a whole lot of shots. He's got five goals on
his last twelve shots if I'm doing the math right,
and Max Domi has been assisting on those goals since
scored a few himself. Again, I'm really having a hard
time picking between them. I'm gonna knock Robertson out just
because of the low ice time and flip a coin
between Domi and McMahon. Let's see who's got the better
point pace for the season. I think it's McMahon, right, Yeah,
forty two point pace against Domie's thirty seven point pace.
I'll take Bobby McMahon because I think there's a he's
got a chance of popping back into the top six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's once deciding between.
Speaker 2: Yeah, once again. Toyed with my heart is is Brian
Kalm Biba McMahon second on the team in offensive X
effected goals above replacement. Only William Nilander has more than
the six point five x CAR that McMahon has on offense,
and that's far better. Max Domi is from an advanced
stats perspective a nightmare. I'm gosh, I'm gonna go with
Nick Robertson instead. I think he's just playing a little
bit higher quality of play right now, and let's see
if he's able to hang on to a role. Maybe
someday he'll pass Victor's curse that he's only the second
best Robertson. Since Jason seems to be on the downward trajectory,
maybe Nick will we'll pass him on the way up. Victor.
Speaker 4: Anything's possible. I would not count on that. All right,
So I get to go first here, and we're going
to go to Buffalo, and we're going to take Jason Zucker.
Not the most exciting, but he is topower, top line
with Tuck and Thompson. Recently, he's actually been one of
the most consistent and decent players in Buffalo who's had
a really tough season. He's also on the top power play.
I guess him and Cousins have been trading off or Quinn.
But yeah, pretty happy with that. How you're going to
take Brian.
Speaker 1: The d You might be thinking, Brian, this is your
chance to take your own power. I can't take boone Byram.
I can't. I also can't take JJ, Peterka, Alex Tuck,
Rasmus DeLine, and Tage Thompson. I'm gonna go with the
guy who is going to be my first pick on Buffalo,
which is Dylan Cousins. I like that he is doing
well lately. I think that's all of a sudden, Buffalo
was like doing so badly, and now there's a zucker
like grit. Nice pick Victor. He's picking it up and
playing with Tuck and Thompson at five on five and
on the power play. But there's suddenly a few guys
in Buffalo where it's like I am ready to give
them another look, and Dylan Cousins is one of them.
He had two straight two point games before going pointless
today against Saint Louis. But I like to see some
signs of life from Cousins, who had a fifty point
pace last season and a seventy point pace this season before.
So let's see if Cousins can get a little reignited. Here.
Still his age twenty three season, so there's room for
him to grow.
Speaker 2: That's the top two guys I would have picked Andy order.
I would have picked them in One of the rules
of this game is if a guy gets traded, the
points on his new team's account just the same. And
I have a feeling Jason Zucker. I feel like Jason
Zucker should be traded in the second half. Some of
these younger guys probably not as likely to go. I'm
just starting that rumor myself. I'm not getting that from anybody.
Sucker always gets traded. So yeah, those are two good picks.
I like Zack Benson as my choice here. He's had
goals in two straight games. He just had six shots
in his last game, and I think his guys continue
to clear out from this team, He's going to continue
to find his legs below him. Yeah, he's only got
twelve points so far this season, but I think will
he will improve as time goes on. And he's third
inexpected goals of replacement for the Sabers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it comes to me fourth on Buffalo, and I
guess I'm gonna take a guy who I was so
excited to draft and make a couple draft in like
round eleven or twelve, Like I thought I was getting
a steal of a fun guy who was slayd to
be top line, top power play, and he was going
to be so great, and then it was like a
big like it was so little and nothing. But guess
what Lately, Jack Quinn has come back. He's got six
points in his last three games, three straight multipoint games
for Jack Quinn. I don't know what happened, but all
of a sudden, he's someone I would recommend grabbing in
one year league like the A couple and definitely I'm
happy to get him with a fourth pick here. Maybe
he can disappear again. But Quinn's been getting looks like
top power play in the last game. Yeah, Poterka Thompson,
Zucker Quinn and Dalen Jesse. I don't know about that
Zach Benson pick, I'd be I'd be going to do
a side bet with you, Quinn over Benson.
Speaker 2: Wow, these they were my last two. I was going
between the two of them. I think Quinn's a good
pick too.
Speaker 5: All right, Okay, I think Benson was a good pick.
I don't know why I'm being so like good.
Speaker 1: When Elon offers you the side bet, that's like the
ultimate oh crap like that. I never want Elan to
offer me the side bet.
Speaker 5: I think I'm just like being more aggressive in this
episode because it's like late, and I'm just coming out
at you for all of you for making me stay
up so late. So I'm coming at your man with
my commentary on your picks all of your phone. Oh boy,
all right, so Brian's up here.
Speaker 1: I am okay. So I have two first round picks
and then I have three, and I have three defencemen
to take, and so I either have to take a
D first or just commit to taking the D on
the teams that I don't select here, which you know what,
I think I'm getting comfortable with here. I'm just looking
at the dregs of the teams remaining. And I might
regret this because there is a defenceman who's had some
juice in Seattle who would be available, but I'm not.
I'm not going to do it. I'm going to take
him off the table. To me, Monturin Dunn the most
rostered Kraken players, and mckenn is the only other one
above seventy percent. I'm going to go with. Yeah, one
of my all time faves here, Oliver byork' strand, who
has fourteen points in his last fourteen games thirty shots
over those fourteen games, which is second on the crack
and roster. In that time spin, he's pacing for fifty
seven points, which is about what he did last year.
And so I think, I just I don't know that
there's a whole lot of separation between him and the
rest of the Kraken. I guess neither do you all,
because you did not stick try and take any of
these Kraken as your first pick. But he's going to
be mine Oliver byork Strand in Seattle, which means Jesse,
you get the second pick on the Kraken.
Speaker 4: Oh boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Kraken are the answer to that accusation that
every child gets a participation trophy these days, because every
Kracken gets the first line position on this team because
everybody's getting played about the same amount of the time.
It's yeah, york Strand is a good pick. There are
so many guys to choose from him. This is one
where I really would not have minded going forth. I
am sentimentally, even though I know he's been run down
in some quarters. I'm still Maddy Beanier's man. He's gonna
come back victory. This is the time, I believe it.
This time, Victor, this is the time for Maddy Beaniers.
He's coming to my team. He's scoring forty in the
second half.
Speaker 5: I definitely wouldn't mind Brian and I have him in
our dynasty, and it would be sweet if Beaniers wasn't
a total dud. I still believe in him as well.
Speaker 3: Jesse.
Speaker 5: We're not trying to win this year, so it's fine.
So hopefully he'll still be bad for just this year,
so that my pick turns out to be better.
Speaker 3: And that pick.
Speaker 5: There's so many fun options here. You're right, there's so many,
Like they just got Copo Coco. He's been playing with Beniers,
but I'm not gonna take Coppa Cocco. Just give me
Jayden Schwartz. I hope he doesn't get injured. He seems solid,
But you're right, there's a million options you can take care.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is definitely one where I don't mind going forth.
I think that there's some pretty good options. Actually, Chandler's wait,
no one took Chandler Stevenson.
Speaker 3: You could have Chandler Stevenson.
Speaker 5: Yep, he's like a five to six million dollar player.
Come on, I know it's like my Brady Shaye pick.
It's follow the money with your picks in this draft. Yeah,
I also have Pierrelo Dubois. We should do a calculation
after I who's spent the most nos of cap space.
Speaker 2: Maybe I might want to recalculate some picks here.
Speaker 4: I'm tempted to take a defenseman, but I'm just gonna
take Chandler Stevenson because so I guess I will too.
He's clearly going to continue to get deployment, even if
he likes to do cardio sessions.
Speaker 1: Okay, and I think that brings it back to me
from my last first round pick, which can.
Speaker 5: I reset something Brian before you pick? So Brian has
five defencemen and you need to have eight. And there's
four rounds left, which means he needs three more. So
Brian needs a defenseman three of the next four rounds,
just for the drama for everyone. Me and Victor each
need one defenseman, and Jesse has filled his up. Okay, sorry,
back to you.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna do all the defenceman wanting folks a favor.
This is this next one's for you, all right, I
think I'm going to or am I you know what,
I'm not gonna do anyone a favor. Actually, yeah, do
this for you, Brian I'm looking out for number one.
I'm gonna take Cam Fowler and Saint Louis power play quarterback.
He's got one power play point so far in Saint Louis,
but he's seen a majority of the power play times
since he's arrived. I've never liked Cam Fowler on the
power play. I don't think suddenly we have a solution here.
Saint Louis isn't going to score a lot of goals,
but he has five points in his last five games
as a Saint Louis Blue, including a goal and to
assist against Nashville on Friday. That's it. So everyone else
enjoy the defenceman buffet that is the Saint Louis Blues.
Speaker 2: Very few are going to be able to enjoy it.
But Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyu, Pablo Buchnevitch all ineligible on
this team. And I am going to take Dylan Holloway,
signed away from the Edmonton Oilers, a Wisconsin Badger product
and also a power play one product who has been
scoring pretty well for himself so far this year. At
last checked twenty two points in his first thirty six games.
So Dylan Halloway from the Saint Louis Blues.
Speaker 5: Okay, so yeah, so I could take a defenseman and
I guess Broberg and Pereco are the two that jump out,
or I could save my defenseman for a later round.
I think that I will save it. Let's have some fun,
let's see who will be around later. I'm gonna go
with Braden Shen as my pick here and the victor.
You can take one of those d if you want.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why not? You're right, Brian, this is a good
team for defenseman, which is why went mich Handler Steveton.
I was gonna go with Riker Evans in Seattle, but
I figured I could get one of these three d. Actually,
I didn't even want Cam Fowler, so that's funny to
me that he picked him first. No offense, but I
think that he has gotten the power play, but he's
also been the most boring power play quarterback whenever he's
had it. So I'm fine taking the guy that gets
a ton of even strength time, and that's Colton Preco.
And he doesn't necessarily score a lot, but he's out
there a lot and he can luck into some points.
Colton Preco for Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a coin flip to me between Fowler
and Pareco, who keeps producing against the odds? Hey and I. Hey,
there's been a lot of picks where I think we
would have liked to swap. It'll be interesting to see
when it all adds up, which I'm sure will do. Okay, Victor,
it's your last first pick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is so not exciting because the options are
not great. So who do we have left? We have Montreal,
New York Rangers, and Philly, and neither of them have
a super exciting top player. But I'm just going to
go with the guy on the team who has the
most current points and there's a little bit of a gap.
I don't necessarily think this is going to continue, but
Will Cooley of the New York Rangers currently is on
almost point seven points per game pace. He's not getting
necessarily the best deployment, but he is getting moved around
a lot. The Rangers are a mess. Maybe they'll finally
fire their coach and things will get moved around. Who knows,
but Will Cooley is someone who is a more skilled
Matt Rempey. I think this guy could be physical, but
he can also score. And the guys that we can't take,
of course, Adam Fox, Adam Ermy Peneren, Vincent Trocheck, Mika's Avantajead,
Alex Lefrenier, and Chris Kreter.
Speaker 1: Okay, And that leaves me with so little New York again,
a real tough team to project. I see at least
some deployment that I like and some skill that I like,
but no one has both of those things going for them.
I think I'm going to This is going to sound
like a stretch, even though like it's crazy. I'm going
to go ca Andre Miller. He is not pacing to
be the most productive blue liner that's available here, but
he is on the second power play unit. His shooting
percentage is down for what that's worth, and he plays
a lot of minutes. So whenever the Rangers figure things out,
I hope ca Andre Miller will figure it out alongside them.
Speaker 2: Things are rough with the Rangers. One would think that
some of their older guys will be open for some trades,
but as far as I can tell, Riley Smith has
at least a it's a RSM and TC according to
cap wages and no trade clause of some sort. Yeah,
it's not clear to me, but I wonder I think
he might not get traded. I think that he's gonna
potentially have opportunity with this team. And he's already scoring
about half a point per game here in the first
half over there on the right wing. So give me
Riley Smith the right winger.
Speaker 5: Okay, wow, some fun options here for me here on
the Rangers. I guess there's heatel Zach Jones plays defense
and he gets scratched. I remember Victor told me he
really like Zach Jones at some point. I'm assuming you
don't feel that way anymore, Victor, he's.
Speaker 4: Gotten a lot better actually defensive well, but yeah, they
just have a logjam in front of him. It's like
the real problem along with all the other problems they
have an New York right now, they.
Speaker 5: Have a few problem I like Brett Berrard, like for
one day. I don't know if it's the right pick
right now, but pretty impressive that he's come in and
already put up like a few points, getting a few hits.
But I guess give me Heatle fourth pick on the Rangers.
I still need a defenseman only now me and Brian
need defenseman with two rounds to go, So Brian weorth
the same.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a showdown.
Speaker 5: We'll see who we both end up with. But I
get the first pick in this round coming up, So
it's co Cole Kawfield's Zuki Matheson, Lane Hudson, Lione s Lefkowski.
So yeah, we'll see. Doc got a good second half
at some point a few years back. I'm not loving it,
but that's where I'm gonna go. So over to Victor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lan, I can't believe you left high scoring left
guy on the team Jake Evans for me. What a surprise,
What a treat. I'm just kidding. Obviously, his thirty percent
shooting percentage is not going to keep up, but he
does have twenty three points in thirty six games and
is on a massive heater right now. Hoping that continues.
I don't think it will. He's playing with Joel Armia, Emmilheineman,
not really seeing any power play time. This is all
from the depths of the bottom six. But hey, if
it continues, cool, Jake Evans, He's my pick for Montreal.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: Right before we go to you, yeah, may I just
say yeah, if you recall a couple episodes ago, I
brought up three Canadians to you that, I was like,
are any of these hot streat interesting?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I brought up Evansman and who was the third one?
Speaker 3: It was someone else. Army is doing stuff. Army up.
Speaker 5: All three of them have continued to get points like
every single game since then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all together on the third line. Things are really
going well for them. I don't think it'll continue, but like,
I don't blame anyone for hoping it will. And at
this point, like I had Jake Evans on my draft
list to say, yeah, maybe I will go ahead and
take him and see if you can have another run
like this once or twice more. Montreal doesn't even have
a second power play guy available like other teams might,
because Matheson Hudson both aren't out there. I think I'm
gonna go ahead and take Kayden Gooli. I think he's
more likely. I think it's less likely that one of
the remaining Montreal forwards pulls away from him than philly
Ford pulls away from York and Drysdale. As you mentioned, Elon,
you all have your pick of those guys anyway, and
I will take Kayden Gooley.
Speaker 2: It's like the movie Wore Games. The only winning move
is not to play, but since we have to, I'll
take Alex Newhook to close out the Montreal Canadians, and
I get the first pick on the last team, and
I guess that means that I'm going to be taking
a Philadelphia Flyer. So let's see who can't we take
on the Flyers. There is Travis ConnectNY, matt Vey, Mitchikoff,
Travis Sanheim, and Owen Tippett are all four players who
are not eligible to be taken over there on Philly,
which leaves me with a top pick. It's got to
be a forward, and I'm going to take Coots Sean Couturier,
who is still a first line center. He's still a
top line power player, a top power play guy, and
hopefully he's going to continue to come back around into
form like we've seen from the good old days of
Sean Couturier.
Speaker 5: All right, and then I'm gonna go Cam York. Here
I will mention to Victor that even though you need
at least eight defenseman, the rule isn't you need exactly
eight defenseman. So if you wanted to have some fun,
you could always take Drysdale just to make Brian's sweat.
Speaker 3: Just throw on that out of though, there are some fun.
Speaker 5: People actually available on phisy putting a guy who's recently
playing with a kuturier who's on a hot streak right now,
so maybe you're gonna want to go him, or I
know there's a few young players.
Speaker 3: I'm curious where you'll go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would take Jamie Drysdale, but he's not very
good at scoring points, so I'm not ready to do that. Yeah,
I this is definitely a team that I had pegged
is just wait because and that's exactly what happened is
there's some pretty decent options that are all similar, and
I'm gonna take who I think is the top line center.
He doesn't always act like it, they don't alway give
him the minutes like it. But Morgan Frost playing between
Tippet and Mitchikoff. I like him. I think he has
pretty good opportunity, just a boy as much as anyone else.
I think you were referring to Scott Lawton, who I
don't think Brian's gonna dick because he needs a defenseman
and he did have a hat trick yet.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, I don't need it. He doesn't even need
a defensive umb full I did it.
Speaker 3: Ryan's good. Yeah, I could take Scott Lyton.
Speaker 2: He's cool.
Speaker 4: He scores hat tricks every once in a while.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, So will it be enough?
And I think really the whole point of this exercise
was to spend two and a half hours going through
the process to get to highlight the ultimate question, which
is will the difference between Kayden Gooley and Alex Newhook
be greater or less than the difference between Jamie Drives
Cam York. I'd probably take Cam York or Sandheim, I
don't even know, and whoever I end up taking, which, Yeah,
Frost and Couturier are gone, and I know Forrester has
actually been the best performing flyer who's available ten points
in his last thirteen games twenty three shots too, that's nice.
And then you have Scott Lawton who has thirty shots
in the same period and the same number of points
and is currently playing with mitchkov which will change five
times before tomorrow. I'm just gonna go give me Scott Lawton.
We'll see if he can string something together here as
the final pick of this just marathon of a draft.
Speaker 3: We did it. Scotty to Lottie Scotty to Lottie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the real point of the draft was all the
bad picks we met along the way. That was the
real quest. Does anybody have anything they want to plug?
Keeping Carlson is obviously a podcast that everybody here knows
and should know and should listen to.
Speaker 5: Just to not take that for granted, we would definitely
welcome any new listeners. Contrary to what Jesse says, Brian
and I aren't like kazillionaires with our billions of listeners
that we get every episode. Yeah, but we're working hard.
We're churning out episodes. We've got a mega show every Sunday.
We've got short shifts twice a week to cover the
little things that have happened that we don't want to
wait till Sunday to talk about. I also do a
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week's schedule. So it's a feed full of fantasy hockey
info that should help you be successful in your fantasy leagues.
I guess we focus mostly on your one year leagues,
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all your leagues. So please check out Keeping Carlson if
you haven't yet, or if you haven't didn't like it,
We've gotten a lot better if you listened to it before.
Speaker 3: I didn't like it, it's better now. Trust me.
Speaker 2: You say you're not rich, but they can't see. You're
both wearing these Armani suits with the matching cop hats.
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