Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Live, presented by fan Tracks. Here's
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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Jesse Sevier and Victor Nuno.
Speaker 3: Fantasy Hockey Live. Jesse severe with you and Victor Nunio
is although you won't hear him just at this moment, folks,
because this is a special episode. You probably already know
that you probably already listened to the first half of
it as a part of our crossover event with Keeping
Carlson Boys. I think that was a good time over there.
This is going to be a good time here. I
know these episodes can be a little bit harder to
follow because it's a whole draft. We are, as we
said at the end, we're going to try to post
up some information, some results so that people can see
exactly what came out of it. But just a couple
of mentions, join our discord. It's free. You can get
in there. Just hit Victor or myself up Fantasy Hockey
Life at gmail dot com. Usually the easiest way to
do it. We send you a link and aside from that,
I'm going to get out of the way now and
let's go to the second half of the draft.
Speaker 2: Already.
Speaker 3: Okay, folks, we are here to do some draft, and
you've already probably listened to the first half of this
draft over on the Keeping Carlson podcast feed. If you haven't,
probably just stop. Probably just go over there and listen.
It's a great show. Just subscribe to it and listen
to You already know what Keeping Carlson is. Anyway, The
point is we are sixteen rounds into a thirty two
round draft. It's the round robin format here. We take
turns picking first, and then it goes through the order,
and then the next player picks first, and so on
and so forth. Just to introduce everybody to the voices,
we've got Brian and Elon here with Victor and myself. Elon,
how you doing today, buddy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, doing good.
Speaker 5: Feeling like I've had an okay start to this draft.
I've knocked out four of my six mandatory defenceman spots,
so I'm gonna come out blazing on this episode.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be all forwards all the time except
for two.
Speaker 3: Oh man, this is gonna get ugly. How about you, Brian,
are you are you feeling it. I know you've been
on some travel. You're you're hanging on there. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, I save it up all day so
I can bring it for fantasy hockey life. So I'm
pumped to be here and I have three. Elan, you
made it sound like, oh, you only have two defencemen left.
Really it's just Jesse. Jesse has five, it needs five more.
Victor needs one, You need two. I need three.
Speaker 4: So we're all going forwards. We're all it's a lot
of four wards.
Speaker 2: If you want to hear the worst defenceman that are like,
are the teams that have the forwards that are so
bad that you'd rather take a twenty point defenseman? Then
listen to the Keeping Carlson version of this episode. So
the forwards, I guess we'll be stuck with forwards on
this one. I still wonder if I should have taken
Brendan Dilan over Andre Pallatte. But we'll see if I
made the right choice at the end of this episode.
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 3: Hey, no, we love having you. And Victor is here. Victor,
how you doing today, buddy.
Speaker 6: I'm doing awesome. Jesse. Yes, annual tradition. It's been a
really fun time doing this the last few years. And
in case it wasn't clear at the beginning of the
other episode, the score cumulative is two for two. Elon
won a couple of years. I won one year, Jesse
one one year. So keeping Carlson has two wins and
Fantasy Hockey Life has two wins. So we'll see what
happens this year. I'm not feeling great about my chances,
but maybe you'll pull it out for us.
Speaker 3: Jesse, well, I'm the defending champion. As I told these
guys at the end of the last year, I'm more
surprised than you are, to be honest with you. So
we'll see how it goes this year. But anyway, let's
get her started. And I actually do have the first
pick today. I'll have the first pick of a round.
How it goes. As we pick a team, we say
what players are going to be available there, and so
in my case, I'm going to take the San Jose Sharks.
Start them off there. We are not allowed to take Maclin, Celebrini,
will Smith or William Ecklin because they're above seventy percent
rostered in fantracks and as was said, there are a
couple of guys. There's a guy who's very, very tempting
on this team. But this is where I'm going to
lean into taking a number one power play defenseman in
John Klingberg and hope that that is going to make
some kind of a difference to me going forward. So
let's take a little John Klingberg in my life, and
now we rotate to Elon as the second picker of
this round.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess at some point you just got to
get those d and that's not a bad option if
he can stay healthy for Klingberg, Yeah, it's interesting now
who to take.
Speaker 4: We're on, Santose.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of fun forwards available here. I feel
like a lot of guys rostered in Mike a couple
division which which must have been there pretty good. I
don't think I can really go wrong here. So once again, Jesse,
you kind of didn't do me a favor. I want
like a solid good second where I'm like better than
everyone else.
Speaker 4: This is just like they're all the same.
Speaker 5: So I'll just take, like I guess, the most stable
option in Tyler to Foley. There's some really good young
rookies that that would be fun to get a piece of.
But I'll just yeah, take the safe pick in to
Folly safe quote unquote hopefully he holds some power play deployment.
I know he's been on and off throughout the season.
Really you just want Celebrinie exposure and he doesn't have that.
To Foli's generally been on the other line. But you
never know if the people who have Celebrini exposure currently
will still have it in a week from now.
Speaker 4: So that's why I'm just going to Foley. So Victor,
you're up.
Speaker 5: You can grab one of the prospects you've probably been
talking about a lot on the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's some exciting options here. Did you say who
you can't have? Jesse I must said yes.
Speaker 4: I believe he said yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Celebraani and know Will Smith, no Eckland. So really
tons of options on this team, and there are some
really exciting options some guys who haven't played too much.
And I think I'm gonna actually go that way, take
a bit of a risk here, but I have been
loving what I've been seeing from Egorernishof And for those
of you who don't know about Egor Turnershoff, but he
fell to the first pick of the second round in
twenty twenty four, and most people had him as a
mid first rounder, so tons of talent. He's a big
right shot winger who's pretty physical, and it's funny the
broadcasts have been talking about, you know, if there's one
thing that that Eklund and Celebriani line needs is someone
to recover pucks and win board battles, and this is
exactly what Turnershop is doing. So I hope that means
he can stick on that line because if he doesn't,
obviously this pick is going to be terrible. But it
looks like he's really found some chemistry there and he
has been really scoring a lot since he's been in
that position. He's got five points in six games, so
if he can keep anything close to that the rest
of the season, it'll end up working out pretty well.
But a bit of a risky pick. But Turner Shot
is my guy, and that leaves a couple of decent options. Still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they're defend I mean, Colin Graff feels like
the obvious choice less obvious to me, like because one
he has eight goals and three sis for eleven points
in his last ten games, and also because of Celebrini exposure.
But Colin Graf has those eight goals on twenty shots,
which is just like, you know, equals on twenty four shots.
Even thirty two shots, I'd be like, okay, not great,
but that's a forty percent shooting percentage for Colin Graf
over this run, which keeps me from believing that even
Celebrini exposure is going to be enough for him to continue,
you know, being this good. I will take a steadier
hand and a presently top power play player in Alex Wenberg,
who is playing with Tayler to Foley and Sorry Graf
is with Wenberg and too Fully. I'm actually, oh no,
I'm on the last three games. Do we have a
They're playing tonight, aren't they? They're playing right now. The
early lines are Tchernis Show, Celebrini, Ecklund and to Fully, Wenburg,
Graf sou Graf Sorry has lost the Celebrini exposure, which
I think someone might have already mentioned. So yeah, give
me Wenberg steady hand boring, but I think has spent
most of the season on the top power play. Will
Smith he's out of the lineup right now, still no
update on his return. He's been week to week for
a couple of weeks. Now I'm gonna guess, like Weinberg
was on the top unit before that injury, I'm gonna
guess he sticks there after. So that's why I'll take
Wenburg fourth on San Jose. And that means we're into
Round eighteen. Elan, this is you've got four first round
picks left. Who's your fourth last first round pick going
to be?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's not like any super exciting options at this point, unfortunately,
Like it's either teams where there's like everyone is good
or kind of like everyone is bad.
Speaker 4: There's not much in between.
Speaker 5: So I think I'm just gonna take a guy again,
just like I did for a couple of my other
first where I just know he's like locked in good deployment,
and I think even though other people are gonna get
decent options, they're like more volatile. Maybe, So give me
Jonathan Hubert on the Calgary Flames. Even though he's pointless
in three games, he's having an okay season overall, nineteen
points and thirty four.
Speaker 4: Probably not worth his.
Speaker 5: Contract, which I don't think is a controversial statement, but
you know, he's a top liner on his team, or
at least I guess they run two kind of top
lines for a while. Well, I guess I won't table
talk too much, but his line has gotten a new
member lately. But the guys I can take on Calgary,
those include Rasmus Andersen, Kadre and Wiger and everyone else
is out there, So I just I feel comfortable with
Jonathan Jubberteau, So I'm going there, and then Victor, you
get your pick of the litter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not a not a bad team to go later.
I mean, there's just some pretty similar options here. And yeah,
definitely Huberto is the most talented of the guy's left.
We'll see if he actually produces that way. There's the
guy who's kind of come on lately, the old steady
Michel Backland. He's kind of a boring pick, but he
tends to score a little bit. I'm going to actually
go with one of my one of my favorite guys
in Matt Coronado. I think that he will probably be
similar and he can get a little streaky with his
goal scoring, and and I think that he's someone who
hopefully can do a little bit better than than average.
And he's not currently on the top power play, but
I think he probably should be, and maybe he'll get
back there soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna take Coronado. I thought he would
fall to me just because the recent drought that he's
been in. But I like Elin mentioned Huberto, like everyone's
kind of in a drought in Calgary. Actually that's not
really true. Kadre has eight and eight, Weger seven and eight,
Blake Coleman six points in his last eight and I
skipped over the guy I am taking. Who is Mikhale
Backland The aforementioned He's got eight points in his last
eight games, five of those goals, and I love he's
thirty shots in his last eight games. Michale Backland has
decided to shoot the pack. He's he's going to be
thirty seven years old in just over a couple months
from now, and he's shooting like he's never shot before.
He has three or more shots in uh oh, well,
this is going into tonight in seven in consecutive games,
and he already is two shots against Boston and they're
they're halfway through the game, so I think he's gonna
make it eight straight. Of course, this could all disappear tomorrow,
but hey, I'm here for today, so give meet Mikhail
Backlund and Jesse. I'm curious who you will take fourth
on Calgary.
Speaker 3: Boy, there really are a couple different ways to go here.
You know, Calgary could sell off. There's a couple of
players who could come into more prominent roles or some
sentimental I'm fourth, I can talk about whatever I want,
can't I?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's Morgan Frost, who's playing up there with
Jonathan Huberto Connor. Zerry is a personal favorite. There's Zane Perek,
who could come off the top rope coming back from
the World Juniors. And if Anderson gets traded, he could
be competed with Wiger for the power play one minutes.
You know what, I'm gonna take Perek dog on it.
I need defensemen anyway, and I'm not really going to
miss any of the other Calgary four words that I'm
going to miss out on here. So why didn't you
give me Zane Perrek?
Speaker 2: And uh?
Speaker 3: I think he's supposed to come back. I think he's
going to play for them in the second half. Let's
see what happens.
Speaker 6: That's a it's a bit of a risky pick, but
I like it, and he could he certainly could parlay
that experience that the World Juniors into a strong second half.
We've definitely seen him before, but it's victory.
Speaker 3: It's only it's only a risk if you're risking something,
and I'm risking almost nothing. I feel like with other
Calgary players, maybe Frost, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like Sorry, Yeah, I was considering Markan
Frost too, who like might or might not have a
goal scoring touch to still uncover. But I I also
I did. I did give Paraq a brief moment of
consideration too, And given your D situation, Jesse, I think
it'd be interesting to see if that's au ends up
being a good choice for you to get that D
out of the way there, which means I guess we're
headed to victor leading off round nineteen.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I was just gonna say, I think you're trading
thirty five to forty possible points for maybe zero, Jesse,
So that is a bit risky. I think you'll get
more than that though. But speaking of zamet Brek potentially
starring at the World Juniors and coming back, I'm going
to go to a former World Junior star for the
US blowing the kiss after they won the World Juniors
last year in Gottenberg, and that would be Ryan Letter
of the Washington Capitals. He is still a young player
in this league, but it feels like he's kind of
rounding in the form and he's up to a fifty
one point pace. He's still kind of limited in his
ice time, but his line has been much better lately.
He's been with Protass and Strom and he's been on
the top power play recently, so hopefully he can parlay
that into a few more points. But I'm liking Ryan Leonard.
I know that he has the skill to do it.
Hopefully he can put it all together in the second
half here.
Speaker 2: Well shucks. I was considering Leonard with my first pick
back in the my prior batch, like a seven rounds ago,
and I thought he might last. So you can't take Chakrin, Carlson, Ovechkin,
Wilson Strom and Protest, who I think was probably I
feel like Protests might have fallen below seventy percent in
some leagues this season, but is now it's seventy eight percent.
But you'd buy some recent production. Look, there's not a
whole lot going on in Edmonton outside the names we've
already mentioned, including Ryan Leonard, Washington yeah, yeah, sorry, what
did I say?
Speaker 4: Edmonton? Edmonton, They've got some things going on.
Speaker 2: There's also not a whole lot. Well yeah, I mean, gosh,
it's like, who has a chance to be productive? I
guess I'm gonna go with Okay, I'm going to do
I need an injury update, and I apologize if I'm
blowing up anyone's spot here. I just want to see.
We haven't heard anything from Pierre Luke Dubois, who he
was expected to miss three to four months as of
early November.
Speaker 4: So it was a month or two away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be two months in a week, so then
still one to two months. Yeah, I'm not gonna do that.
I don't think, although it's kind of tempting. I'll take
Conor McMichael and I'll see if he finds his way
into a productive spot again. He's been really disappointing this
season after like having a great start last season and
taking a lot of shots and getting a lot of
ice time, and then he's sort of been bumping around
the depth chart and I just hope he can get
bumped back into a good spot, but the top six
seems pretty hard to crack right now. He had one
productive stretch in mid November and that's been the season
for McMichael. But I think I'm backed into a corner here.
I think Ryan Lennon was a great first pick, and
I'm curious. I am curious to see if I've made
a mistake Elon Jesse, if you unearthed someone who I've missed,
but Jesse first.
Speaker 3: That was excruciating. Yeah, because you were talking all around.
I was like, could he let Connor McMichael go, Not
because Connor McMichael is going to like destroy worlds, but
because I feel like the drop from two to three
is a rough one here. You're really just speculating on
guys you're never going to get the power play minutes
on the defensive end. You're talking about guys who are
trying to fill in for injured because I don't Yeah,
Dodoise not coming back anytime soon. This is this is ridiculous.
But you know, I'm in the nose dive part of
the draft. Now I'm going to take Justin sort of
who is currently on the first line. It was, you know,
a lot of talk like it was a complete joke
when the Caps created for him in the offseason, when
he was kind of a scrub player, but he has
really turned it on and is having himself a decent year.
He's only he's only got nine points to show for
it so far, but I think he'll have some deployment.
Maybe he's going to get me twenty points in the
second half. I'm not sure if I can find another
guy who's gonna get me a lot more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't even know if sort of it's gonna
stick in the lineup, like, but like who knows at
this point. Yeah, I'll just take a boring like since
everyone's boring up, I'm looking like Ethan Frank. There was
like a week where Ethan Frank was doing a lot,
but I could definitely see him coming out of the lineup.
I'll take Rasmus Senden, who's like nothing special, like a
point every three games or so. But I think that's
pretty reliable. But yeah, no, not great. We're not I
don't know if we're filling out the best content here
with our Washington. So I'm glad it's over and we
could move on. Like even like Ryan Leonard, like he's
a third line player right now, so he's been on
the top power play lately though, Like either way, I'm
so happy because I have Tom Wilson and Chickrien in
a couple. They both had a good game today, so
I'm happy with that, even if I'm ending up with
Rasmus Sending here, who does have a couple points in
his last four, for whatever it's worth.
Speaker 4: All right, Brian, you're first of two firsts.
Speaker 2: All right? I see two players who are pretty clearly
the like to me, Well, okay, one's pretty clearly the
best player remaining, and you might even quibble and say
I'm not even right based on his own team, But
I'm gonna go ahead and take brock Nelson in Colorado, who,
to be honest, I'm surprised has lasted this long, just
because like we're looking for some raw pointage. I think
brock Nelson he's on a fifty seven point pace right now.
So I can't take McKinnon, McCart hs, lekkinon in the Ushkin,
but I can take brock Nelson. By the way, Elon,
is it a or anyone? It's a fan tracks bug
that none of these players are listed one hundred percent rostered,
right or just like there's some leagues where they're like
illegal to roster.
Speaker 5: Someone made some crazy league, like only defenseman or only goalies.
Speaker 2: That's it, right, So sorry, not a bug, but like
it's a quirk. It's a strange. There's some weird leagues
out there where, Yeah, McKinnon and macar aren't rostered, and
I don't know how many leagues if it's just one league,
if that means they can't be anyway. Brock Nelson having
a good season on and off that top power play,
steady deployment, I don't need to worry about him, like
getting bumped all around the depth chart. He's going to
be there on the second line. He's going to have
at least one quality, maybe two quality wingers to play with.
At the moment, he's with Nachushkin Liknen Uh. And that'll
kick it over to Jesse for Hey, I thought Dushane
was a slam dunk. Second pick. We'll see. I think
it's a slam dunk. We'll see. We'll see if Elin
that cheshire cat grin appears on his face again here
or not. And I think I think, Jesse, I'm making
life pretty easy for you right now.
Speaker 3: This one isn't bad. I'll sure take Gabriel Landeskog with
the second pick power play one line one with Nathan
McKinnon and Martin Chas. Yeah, he's only half a point
per game in his full season coming back, first full
season coming back. But while there's some other guys who
were rostered pretty reasonably remember McKinnon, Nachas, mccar lekkinon Nishushkin
all unavailable here. I think Gibriel Landeskog is a guy
who I will be happy to have on my team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe I should have taken a Nelson or Landeskog earlier,
because yeah, there's a bit of a drop off here,
we leave the top six.
Speaker 4: Victor Olustin had a moment, but that has a long past.
Speaker 5: I think at this point I'm just gonna have to
ride a hot streak fill out my last D spots.
Speaker 4: I guess I just don't have to worry about D.
Speaker 5: But at this point, like it's not even like I
think he's the guy I would take, regardless of forward
or defenseman. But all of a sudden, Sam Gerard is
a pointing machine. He's got a four game point streak.
It's like eight points in his last eight games. Another
assist today against LA probably won't last, but maybe it
will I don't know. Maybe it's a bad pick, but
I'll just take Sam Gerard here because I don't even
like anybody else really well, actually I really like another defenseman,
but I feel like you gotta ride a hot streak
like this.
Speaker 4: I just hope it's the start of something.
Speaker 2: That's his name? Is his name the same? Does he
share a first name with the guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, we all know your love for Sam Lensky. I
don't think you can be quiet about it. Let's see
if Victor takes him.
Speaker 6: I already had him queued up. I love me some
Sam Lensky. I mean, he's actually a really good real
life defenseman, but he's you know, so so in fantasy.
But to your point, I actually added Sam Gerard in
the couple to stream this week, So hope I'm hoping
for this week anyways, that that works out really well
for both of us.
Speaker 4: You got a point so far?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there you go. So I like that, But I
do think Sam Lensky might be a better long term.
Gerard is kind of streaky, and we'll see. I mean,
there's also Brent Burns, who could have been decent, Victor Goloffson,
who has his moments but I'll just finish up my
defenseman and take Sam Lensky, and I think that's decent anyways.
So then back to Brian to start us off on
a new team.
Speaker 2: Back to me, okay, and I'm going to take this.
So Brack Nelson felt to me like clear cut the
best player remaining in this draft. I'm going to take
someone who is not clear cut the best player remaining,
but I think could be. And for that, I'm going
to Columbus and taking top line, top power play, the
new acquisition who got a point tonight against Ottawa to
no Mason Marchman's point streak as a Columbus Blue jacket.
He's four for four four games, points in all four,
three goals to assists. He's taken one single shot in
the last two games, so that's not great. In his
first couple of games he had three goals on seven shots.
He's only taken one shot since. But debuted on the
top power play tonight. Played over five minutes on that
top unit, which could be a good thing. Also could
be a bad thing because that means the power play
was on the ice and not scoring for five minutes.
But they did take a boatload of shots while they
were on the ice, and that's I'm feeling good about
Mason Marchmant in Columbus and he'll be my last first
overall pick of this draft. Oh no, I'll have more
coming up in eight rounds.
Speaker 3: Well, not a not a terrible team to be picking
second at In my opinion, I'm going to go for boring, old,
reliable here, and in this case, that means Sean Monahan.
By the way, Zachwarinsky, Krill Mrchenko, Dimitri Varunkoff, and Adam
Van Tiller were unavailable, thank you. Yeah, Sean Monahan will
be my pick. He's just he's just under half a
point per game right now, but he's seen power Play
one minutes. He's effectively seen Top six four minutes. Just
not quite on as cool of the line as Mason
Marchmt's on. So while I think Marchmant's probably the right
first pick, and there's another guy who I dearly love,
but I gotta take Monahan next. How about you, Elon?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Monahan would have been tempting to me. He's having
a really disappointing season. He's missed today's game, but I
think it was a kind of maintenance injury maintenance because
we know he's playing with something, so I'm happy to
kind of miss him, and I'll take another like equally,
maybe even more injury pro player but healthy for now.
Boone Jenner, he's solid. He's just scored today against the Sens,
second point in three games, So I like Boone, So
I'll take him and then Victor.
Speaker 4: You still have some fun options in Columbus.
Speaker 6: For a brief moment there, I thought Boone Jenner was
gonna fall all the way to the last pick, and
that would have been pretty exciting for me. But yeah,
I think that Charlie Coyle is a fine fourth pick.
He's actually second of the guys available in terms of
points per game. I know he's super streaky. Actually streamed
him last week and he was a total dud, so
that was not super fun. But yeah, I think he's
a fine guy. They have a lot of interesting players
in this area. And actually Monahan wasn't able to go tonight,
but it seems like it's short term, so I don't
think that's gonna hurt you too much, Jesse. But yeah,
he did not play as we're recording, So yeah, Charlie
Coyle and then I get to go first on the
next team, so we're gonna actually go over too. And
this there's not like to me, I don't think there's
this obvious of first teams anymore.
Speaker 4: But I do like this guy.
Speaker 6: So we're gonna head over to Chicago. And right now
it's pretty bleak without Connor Bdard and he's obviously rostered
too high to be selected here, so is Tyler Bertuzzi
and Frank Nazzar. But Andre Berkowski is got pretty decent
points here and right now it's been not so good
with Badard out, but hopefully when he comes back, they'll
be able to point again and he'll get back up there.
And I feel like this is one of those teams
where the next set of options there's a bit of
a drop. But maybe you'll tell me you feel otherwise,
Brian onto you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh yeah, I wasn't prepared to really like, I'm like, oh,
you know, Tevo Terravinen is eligible, but he is pointless
in twelve games, so it's like, I do I want
any part of that? Yeah, so just Bitard, Bertuzzi, Nazar,
I can't take uh you know.
Speaker 3: What, I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just I'm just gonna take a brief moment
here to h I'm just looking at the last few
weeks here. Yeah, I feel you know what I'm gonna take.
I'm gonna take current current defenseman of the moment, current
power play quarterback Rtim Liftshunov, just because I don't see
like I could go Terravine and I could go Donado
and sorry if I don't think I'm blowing anything up here,
but I'll take Livshunov instead. I need a defenseman. I
think it could be close enough. He's been to half
point per game over the last few weeks, and those
points might have come in bunches if I book a
little closer. But hey, that's just where I'm at. I
don't want to be really stuck later on without the
necessary defenseman. So that's my pick. Elon Jesse over to you.
Speaker 3: Oh Brian, that was brutal man. You've been You've been
very good to me the last couple of times. You've
been setting them up. You're you're you're a nice guy
to draft with.
Speaker 4: Let's shoot off.
Speaker 3: I was really hoping would have fallen to me the
power play one, even on a poor team. But what
a great prospect, and he's coming right along but I
mean Toyvo, Terra Vineen, I'll take him some steady production. Uh,
he kind of does. He always kind of does the
same thing. And right now, you know, Chicago has got
a lot of injuries going on. Hopefully some of those
players will get back in but I think Toyvo will
continue to have a role right now. He's on the
top power play when some of those players come back.
So how about some toybou Terra, Vinen, Elon. You have
the uh cleaning up.
Speaker 5: The scraps here, Yeah, I had some fun choices. All right,
I'll just go Ryan Sanato. I'll just keep it simple.
He's not great. He kind of sucks.
Speaker 4: Brian.
Speaker 5: I still remember when we had a question I think
it was on a Patron cast last year near the
end of the season, of like, how could you justify
taking Badard over Terror or over Donado next season?
Speaker 4: Do you remember that?
Speaker 5: And I was like, yeah, I hear what you're saying.
I think I'd still go Bidar, just like seems like
he has more upside. Imagine if anyone had like flipped that.
But yeah, Dinato has been like not even in the
top six when everyone's healthy, So he kind of sucks,
but so does everyone else. I mean, I know some
people like Nick Lartis. I don't know if he's even
gonna stick with the team once everyone's healthy. So I'm
happy with this, and by happy I mean not at all,
but fine, I'm fine with it. I guess I definitely
was looking at Berkovsky as my because I pick first now,
and I was looking hard at Berkowsky as my pick here.
So I'm kind of mad at you for sniping me here, Victor.
Speaker 4: Okay, but that's okay.
Speaker 5: We move on and I go to my next top
pick and yeah, the options are definitely dwindling here a little.
Let's go to Okay, this is going to be like
a gut feeling like he's not having a great season
kind of everything is going like not amazing, you know what,
As I like, I'm gonna change my mind, I actually
take the guy that I was thinking take.
Speaker 2: But when you do, I want to know who you
were talking about.
Speaker 4: Please, Okay, I'll try to remember for you. Oh man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, these options are getting pretty bleak pretty quickly, you
know what. Okay, I'll go to Florida and I'm going
to take lustain In, which is like a really boring
pick for sure, but he's been like just pretty solid.
He generally is playing with like a Rhinehart or a Marshan.
I know the beginning of the year was like with
Londell and Marshan. That was the hotline from the playoffs. Lately,
Florida's been rolling with luster Rhinan, with ryin Hard and
Londell no power playtime really, but he still has four
points in his last three games. Looks like got another
assist today.
Speaker 4: Seems good. I don't know. Okay, I'm moving on Londel.
Speaker 2: I should mention not available Rostered along with and it
Seth Jones, Cardiver Hagy, Brad Marshand and Sam rein Hurt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that leaves not that many. I guess a
couple of defensemen that piece enjoy.
Speaker 2: A point of clarification, and I should. I'm gonna be
kind and not wait for my turn to do this.
Speaker 5: You can go over six defencemen. Okay, a question, that's
not my question.
Speaker 2: Actually, Okay, it's gonna be like, yeah, that is my
question because I'm being I think I'm being Matthew Kachuck
is not on this list, but I.
Speaker 4: See he's over seventy percent rostered.
Speaker 5: All right, I only included players who have played a
game this year just because Fantucks has a lot of players,
so many players.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you can't take Matthew Kuchuk.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Okay, Victor.
Speaker 6: Darn I was gonna take Matthew Kuchuk. No, I didn't
even realize that, so thanks for pointing that out. But yeah,
he would have been a He would have been an
awesome sleeper pick. But yeah, this is I feel like
a lot of these options are pretty similar. But there
is another guy who's on the top power play and
that's MAKIW. Samyskevitch, and he has often retained that power
play role even when you know their top players have
been back, like he was there at times with Barkoff
and with Kuchuk. So I'm thinking that maybe he can
stay because right now it's Marshawn at least what I'm
saying last three lines, Marshawn, reyn Hart, Bennett, and Samyskevich.
So definitely one of those guys is getting booted when
Kuchuk is back. But I'm hoping Samuskevitch can stay, and
he seems like a reasonable one to continue to get points.
So I'll take that one all right.
Speaker 2: Well, Victor, you saved me from a tougher decision because
I was trying to decide whether, if Samuskevich was available,
if I would take him or Aaron ek Bladd as
a defenseman. Thanks, I'm going to take k Blad, who
has eleven points in his last twenty games that follows
the start of the season. Weererihed four points in his
first seventeen. I'm not sure that it's going to continue
with this clip, but I'm also not sure there's anyone
on on the Panthers like there's a couple of candidates
for sure, and Jesse, I'll let you talk about them
as you like to be able to beat to beat
k Blad from here to the end of the season.
But I'm going to get my fifth defenseman so I
don't have to worry. And also, by the way, no
one took Denton Matt Taichuck on on Columbus. I was
wondering if he would get taken as a as a
d although I think some d cord were already filled.
He scored tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Zky's going to be back soon, so I
think my Taychuk is definitely an excite stream right now,
but he's playing huge minutes because Wrensky's out. Yeah, yeah,
he's there next in line.
Speaker 2: For sure, he's great, But just when you're playing that
many minutes a night, I don't think that opportunity fully
just disappears. And Mitaychuk, for for what it's worth, hasn't
been like his last three points have been not on
the power.
Speaker 4: Play right.
Speaker 2: Back to h Yes, true, Okay, back to Jesse and Florida.
Jesse sor You're You're in a tough spot because we
both need defensemen and I'm just going to keep taking
the ones before you.
Speaker 3: Hey, no, I'm actually this this one worked out fine
for me. Lev Shunoff was painful, but to me, I
Glad and Gus Forslen were kind of a toss up.
So I'm going to take Gustav Fororslen. He's still seeing
some power play time. Obviously, both of them are buried
behind both act Glad and Foresling are buried behind Seth Jones,
But I think they'll both get opportunities at different points
in the second half of the season to uh to
get some second assists, to get some power play points.
So I'm happy with that. Considering it's a fourth pick,
I'm I'm happy with where that one came out. Okay,
let's see. You know, there are cases where there's like
one guy who's way above the other guys are running low,
but there are ones where I'd certainly rather be drafting
near the top than near the bottom. So I am
going to go to the Ottawa Senators next, and I'm
gonna start it out with Claujeru, the timeless legend, who's
got twenty five points in thirty six games at the
current time. He's he's been out there all year long,
and I mean, yeah, he's plugging along. So Claujerue, I think,
is an easy enough pick to get me some points
from this Ottawa Senators club. Elon, I probably set you
up for a fairly decent second pick here right.
Speaker 5: Well, so the players I can't take on Ottawa, which
would be fun if I could, But I can't take
Stutzla Sanderson, Bathurston, Brady, Dylan Cousins or Shabbat And yeah,
I don't know. It's like there's some fun options. There's
not like an obvious second choice. Unless people think I'm
totally missing something. They just got spanked by Columbus today,
and it looks like the lines were changing around quite
a bit. So I don't know if, like Zetterlind is
going to be sticking with Kachuk and Stutzla because they
were together for a while recently and it was going
pretty well.
Speaker 4: But I guess I'll hope that that does stick, and
I'll go.
Speaker 5: Zetterland here and hope that he continues to get top
six deployment with really good players. So, yeah, Zetterland no
points today, but he did have a couple of multipoint
games last week. So we'll see one of Brian's favorites
from last season. I remember you were really stoked from
Zetterland came to the sentence, But okay, over to Victor.
Speaker 6: Was the obvious guy you're thinking of, Shane Pinto, because
that's who I'm thinking of taking. It looks like he
was out and recently came back today and back today.
So but his point pace is the second best on
the team in his twenty seven games that he's played.
His deployment hasn't been great. It'd be nice to get
someone on that top power play, but those guys are
all taken, so you're looking at second power play guys
and guys are turning to the lineup, so I don't
there's not a whole lot here to suggest that he's
in the best spot right now. But just based on
track record, I like Pento more than some of the
other guys, so I'll take him. Brian down team, right,
who are you going with?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a team I didn't want to
pick fourth on Ottawa actually, and I thought Pinto was
up there with march Man, like Pinto's would have been
my first choice on Ottawa, and I would have picked
hit like I thought maybe his rest of season, like
he was the sort of oh if I want the
best player left available of sort of Pinto marchmant finding
them similar. Anyway, I'm just gonna take David Peran forty
six point pace, pretty locked in within the top six.
Played today with Bathurston and Cousins got wrecked on the
well while they were on the ice that unit, but
second power play. He's just a guy. He's around. If
Shabbat wasn't eighty percent roster, which I'm surprised to see
that he is, I guess he's like a valuable like
peripherals minute guy. Yeah, I probably would take Shabbat over Paran.
But given that he's not, take Peran and I will
send it back to you Jesse for another first rounder.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, But before we do that, let's take a
quick break, come back and close out this draft.
Speaker 4: What is this acrossover episode?
Speaker 3: All right, fellas. Now, by the way, for you listeners,
this is the part of the draft that will be
pain because we're going to the teams that nobody wanted
to pick so far. Maybe sometimes that's because there was
great parody. Sometimes maybe not. Since you're listening, it's probably
hard to follow along the pick the teams that have
not yet been picked. With eight teams left to go, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Toronto, Utah, Vancouver, Vegas,
and Winnipeg, those are the last eight teams to go.
And I will start it out in this case with
let's go with the Vancouver Canucks. And on the Vancouver Canucks,
Nolius Peterson no Philip Peronik, no Kiev Sherwood. And because
this is fan Trax, Nosey Bullam eighty four percent rostered
and fan tracks, and I am going to go with
the guy I consider to be the most likely one
to end the year on this team and to end
it on their top six, and that is going to
be Marco Rossi, who is on pace for fifty two
points right now. He's kind of the hope for the
future for this Vancouver franchise. He's on you know, he's
playing power play one minutes, he's playing top six minutes
with some of the better players, some of these other
guys here, I'm just a little worried they're going to
go somewhere else and they're going to drop down a line,
although there are still some excellent options on this team.
So I'll pass it over to Elon for the second
pick off Vancouver.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm actually surprised you took Rossie.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying it's a terrible pick or anything, but
I think Connor Garland would have been my top pick
on Vancouver. So I'll take him as my said, which
is kind of crazy. I think going into the other's
still another guy or two that maybe would have been
the top of the people remaining. But Garland has been
solid to assists against San Jose recently. We'll see what
he does today against Seattle's. Currently the Canucks are already
down two to one. I doubt that it'll go that well,
Sealison scoring some goals lately, and Lankenin's in nets. We'll
see how this game turns out. But yeah, all right, Victor,
you can take the next Canuck here.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I was definitely this was one of the few
teams left that I was interested in picking first from,
so good job, Jesse. I definitely would have taken Rossie also,
But those two guys are ahead of the rest of
the bunch either way. So right now I feel like
they're all kind of even, and I'm gonna go based
mostly on track record here and take Brock Besser as
the guy who can or at least has been able
to score in the past. He's definitely having a not
great season, like most of the Canucks aren't, but he
I have more faith in him bouncing back than the
other options. But I still think Brian has a decent
option or two.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, so Jake debrsk is benched tonight.
Speaker 5: Uh. Sometimes these players get benched and they come back
super strong.
Speaker 4: They learned whatever the coach was teaching them.
Speaker 2: The quote today is Adam coach Adam Foote says, I
think it's gonna be a good reset for him. There
you go, Yeah, I gotta take him. I think I'm
gonna take the the Jake Debresque or it's Evander Kine.
Speaker 4: He can reset.
Speaker 2: They could all use a reset, like a turn, turn
the Canucks off and then on again. Let's see if
that works. Uh, you know Kine tonight playing with Besser
and Patterson, who was the breast playing with when we
last saw him, Elon, do you do you recall?
Speaker 4: I could bring that up for you.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: Debrusque with Rossi and Besser looks like a couple of
days ago. And then was Kane with Patterson and Sherwood.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know, man, who's that? So you're taking
Kane or debrask right, I'm taking I'm going to take
Debresk because he has more recently been seen on the
top power play.
Speaker 4: I think it's a good pick. And that's that.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he could use a reset. He just yeah. Okay, onwards.
Speaker 5: On words? Is that a reference to something? No, it
could be we should start that we should start?
Speaker 2: Isn't it self referential? Okay? Okay, so everyone sucks? This
is this is Elon realizing he has the first round
pick and noting that there is no one that he'd
like to add to.
Speaker 5: Like, Look, I will say to Seattle fans that they
just have four guys that are good.
Speaker 4: So I don't think take first on I'm.
Speaker 2: Over pick fourth on Seattle. Who cares?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because we had a lot of fun making fun
of Seattle and how no one can stay Fantasy relevant.
Speaker 4: But I don't think that's the case anymore.
Speaker 5: There's there's a few guys that are pretty pretty fun,
including one of our stars of the week last week
told but I'm not I don't think I'm gonna take them,
because what's the point. Oh, by the way, Brian, the
guy was thinking of before that I ended up not
taking was brock Bessler on Vancouver. So and then I
didn't end up even taking him. I ended up taking
Garland over him. But I was just kind of like thinking, like,
he's brock Besser. But then once I started thinking he was,
he was dropped in Mike a cupful division.
Speaker 4: Yeah me too.
Speaker 2: No one made a waiver claim though he was picked
up like two hours after waivers, like after he became
a free agent.
Speaker 4: All Right, We're okay, I know where I'm going.
Speaker 5: This is like ridiculous over here, but I'm gonna go
to Pittsburgh where you can't take Crosby, rust Raquel Carlson
or of getting Malcolm.
Speaker 4: Is Malcoln never coming back?
Speaker 5: By the way, do we know anything about Let's do
an injury check there on Malk This is like his
last season. Also, it'd because of that he's week to
week as of December ninth, and then that's like the
last news we've seen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I saw a report that he was skating, but
he's obviously not back yet, but he seems like he's close.
Speaker 5: So maybe this will like make my pick bad though
maybe good because it'll be like exposure to Malcoln or
whatever is left of Malcolm. But lately Anthony Mantha has
been on the top power play and he's been doing
like pretty okay with that. He had a goal and
assist against Chicago in that route yesterday or on Saturday,
No yesterday goal also versus Toronto in the game before that.
Overall in the season, Mantha's pacing for fifty five points,
which will be his best season since back when he's
on Detroit if he can keep it up. So Mantha,
that's my pick. Such an exciting first pick.
Speaker 6: Victor over to you, Well, Pittsburgh was the last team
that I really wanted to go first, and it's kind
of disappointed with you, but then you ended up not
taking the guy that I wanted, and I really wanted
Justin Brezo, who recently had a hat trick. He's been
hot and cold clearly. I mean, he had a really
hot run when Malkin was there, and he and Mantha
were good with the three of them, but he really
struggled with Malkin out, but then he's kind of refounded
again after he's been back from injury too, So I
think both these guys are going to be decent. So
I hope both our picks work out, Elan, and I
think you're right. Once Malkin comes back, hopefully they reunite
those three and they continue to roll, because they were
really fun lying together. So I'll take Justin Brezo. Definitely
not a name at the beginning of this season that
we thought we'd have any interest in fantasy, but he
seems like he's gonna stay relevant at least for parts
of the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that makes it easy for me. I mean,
I need one more defenseman, and this is a pretty
obvious one to go with Chrys Latang. He's mine eleven
points in his last fifteen forty two point piece. Now
on the season for La Tang. That's That's about all
there is to say about Chris Lisang and the Penguins.
There's a couple guys I could have gotten cute with,
but I'm not going to risk not having a defenseman
at the end of this, So that's my choice. Jesse,
I'm sorry, you are now free to help yourselves to
self to Oh you weren't going to take a defenseman?
Speaker 3: Huh, well, I would have taken To be clear, I
would have taken La Tang, but this is at the
end of the world. I am going to take Benjamin
Amazon Kindle read this guy like a book. I love him.
Speaker 4: Well, no, it's he How many more of these you have?
Speaker 3: Elon, I can go all night? No, Benjamin Kim's He's
slowed down a lot since the beginning of the season,
but still there's some exciting signs that he's actually going
to be able to stick. Maybe I'm just over hyped
from the fact that this guy made the miraculous run
from supposedly being over drafted in the middle of the
first round. To getting legitimate minutes with Pittsburgh in his
his d one year. And yeah, I think that there's
always possibility Pittsburgh's going to sell off more and some
of these young guys are even going to get more
of a role this year. So give me Benjamin Kindall.
He'll give me a couple points the second half, probably
not crazy points, but maybe he'll get me another, you know, twelve,
thirteen points, fifteen points, something like that.
Speaker 2: I will now that Pittsburgh's done, I will just shout out.
If I wanted to get real cute, I would have gone.
Yegor Chinnikov traded to the Penguins today. I assume he
might get I saw that, Yeah, yeah, could get a look.
I mean, I don't know if he's ever Yeah like it,
it'd be interesting. It'll be fun. Littang I couldn't look past.
But if La Tang was gone, I like a kindle Chinnikov,
and I like the thoughts someone's going to get some
opportunity down the stretch, Like I could see these guys
being desirable in like fantasy playoffs if it comes down
to that. But enough of me blab and when it's
not my turn, Victor. You're up first round, Round twenty seven.
Here we go.
Speaker 6: I feel like all these first picks now are relatively unexciting,
but I will pick the team we're going to go
to Detroit, and there's some pretty good players that are
not available. Lucas Raymond, Alex Sabrinke, Patrick Kane, Dylan Larkin,
Mo Cider. They have some interesting players and you know,
some interesting lines here. Would have definitely liked a different
team to go first with. But Emmitt Finnie is an
interesting player. He came out of the gates scorching hot,
then kind of went through some dry spells, but he's
currently still up playing with Larkin and Raymond and on
the top power play So this late in the game,
finding a top power play forward is kind of difficult.
So I'll be relatively happy with em At Finnie. I
just hope he can continue some production and keep going
at the pace he was going at the beginning of
the season. But I think a lot of these guys
here are relatively similar, so except for there's a bit
of a drop off, but that there are decent defenseman
for those of you who need that.
Speaker 4: But that's not me, by the way.
Speaker 5: If you don't mind, sorry, Brian, Just a quick correction
to what Victor said. Patrick Kane is back, and so
Finny has been bumped from the top power play at
least not last game versus Toronto, but still a good
pick still on the top line. If I just wanted
to make sure our listeners, this is your listeners, don't
your listeners to be mislet Well.
Speaker 2: They're our listeners. They're all of our listeners, like absolutely
along knowing it. Hi, Carol, Okay, I'm gonna uh look,
I could go for the power play quarterback.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna's power play quarterback in Detroit.
Speaker 4: Oh, they bumped, They bumped Sider again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Axel Sandean, Pellic Peller crazy.
Speaker 4: They're crazy.
Speaker 2: They're crazy. That's it. And tomorrow could be ed Vincent
and the next day it could be Cider. I don't know. Listen.
Andrew Copp has been doing really well lately, and he
seems to be settled between Patrick Kine and Alex to
brink It. I like him in that spot Marco like
he's the he benefits from Marco. Kasper just basically free
falling this season. But Cop, you look at his numbers,
solid the last thirteen games before that solid enough. So
he's someone I generally refuse to add in fantasy because
I'm disappointed every time. Let's see if that changes with
this pick of Andrew Copp on the Red Wings. So Jesse,
it's up to you. If you want to throw a
dart at a demon here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll throw a dart at a d man. It's
it is tough again, not table talking in front of Elon,
but it's there are a couple of defensemen still here,
and I think I'm I think I'm gonna give in
to recency bias and go with Axel, Sandy and Pelica.
Speaker 2: I tell you I was.
Speaker 3: It's not just because he's just on the power play tonight.
I was watching the Red Wings Maple Leafs game the
other night and he made some really great plays. I mean,
he was doing some really good offensive stuff out there.
He's kind of finding his stride. You know, there's tough
competition for defensive minutes. But this is why I wasn't
as worried about rushing the defenseman earlier, because there's a
couple teams late in this draft where there's multiple defensemen
who are reasonable choices. So I'll take Axel Sanding Pelica here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now it's like I wish I didn't use up all
my d I could have taken who should I have
not taken instead of Sam Gerard, I could have taken
no One, I guess instead of Rasmus Sandy. I don't
even know who I would have taken some of those picks.
That's probably at some point there was a better person
I could have taken it. Maybe on Boston I should
have taken Arvidson over Hamphis lind Home.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I think I'm gonna go Edvonson, even though
that it's me over because I don't really know who
else I would take. It's pretty crazy what's happened to
Marco Casper. But here we are and he's like just
even getting scratched sometimes not that interesting. So that will
be my Detroit pick, Simon Edvonson, and now Brian is.
Speaker 2: Up all right, So it's my last first round pick,
and I hate literally everybody. I don't want first pick
on any of these teams. I don't want second pick,
I don't want third pick. I want to quit the
draft and just then do points per game because all
these guys are gonna just they're not gonna be helpful.
So I guess it's who do I believe in the most.
I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go
to man. Obviously, clearly I'm struggling, but I I don't
want to prolong this because I'm gonna say something and
it's going to be really boring. So I'm gonna go.
You know what, Let's go to Toronto. Nope, let's go
to Winnipeg, just because there's there's there's limited opportunities in Winnipeg.
Do I want gusta freaking Niquist? I don't know, man, Uh.
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Need a rider? Is pointless than thirteen, even though he's
the like Cole Profetti was supposed to be good this
year and that's not happening. He's pointing the A seven
points in twenty three games. He hasn't done anything for
a while. Niquist is pointless and three. Oh my gosh,
I want to like forfeit this pick. I don't want it. Okay,
hang on, I'm going to go back to Toronto. While
I I like that Nick Robertson is taking a bunch
of shots, but I don't like that he's on the
third line. I do like that. Mattias Mitchelli is on
the top power play apparently. Okay, I'm gonna go. They
all stink, Okay, I'm going to Vegas. Everyone sucks here.
I'm going to Vegas. I'm just gonna pick. I'm gonna
pick Noah Hannafan. He's like he's been doing stuff for
like the last five games. Let's see if that continues.
He's on the top power play right now. He did
nothing all season until the last week. You've heard what
I think about the players and every other remaining team.
I'm going Noah Hannafin in Vegas for no good reason.
Speaker 3: My favorite part of this is tune back in in
five minutes and Brian has to go first for another team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I know it's going to be. Well. I've
eliminated all the other teams that I can't take that
I don't want. There's only the one so Icle, Marner's Stone, Theatre, Hurdle, Dura,
and Barbaschev. I couldn't take in Vegas. Barbaschev seventy percent.
I would, that would have been so easy, But I went.
I went hand off, and even though I'm already full
for d so Jesse, I don't know, have it it? Yeah,
good luck, it's fun.
Speaker 3: This this all stinks. Yeah, it would have been. It
would have been a nice thing to be able to
handifin is a is a good opportunity to kind of
fill out the defensive core. But uh yeah, I mean
there's guys who are hurt, and there's guys who aren't
getting much of a role. Uh I'm going to go
ahead and take Riley Smith boring as heck, not getting
in a whole lot of points this year, but somehow
I feel like you will. He's always in Vegas's plans.
He's always going to get in there. And there's other
guys who maybe are going to be a little bit
more of a flash in the pant, even if they've
had better seasons so far. So give me Riley Smith.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll go Bradon Bowman. I know he's slowed down
a lot, but he's stuck on the lineup, which is
pretty good. And who knows if he gets back on
the power play at some point, but I guess yeah,
right now, Hanafin is on that top power play with
theatre out doing pretty well, but with kleback, maybe Bowman
could go back with Ekle or something, So I'm okay
with that as a third pick on Vegas here with
all the good players not available, So Victor, who are
you going to take?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 6: I was just checking to see when William Carlson is
going to be back because he would be a good pick.
But it looks like before the Olympics, which may not
be soon enough. Not a lot of good options here. Yeah,
this is not good.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the end of the draft.
Speaker 6: Win are the Olympics February early February? Maybe that is
a good pick.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like all of February. Yeah, we got
no hockey for like three weeks or something.
Speaker 6: We have Brett Howden, Brandon Saad, Egan, Cola, Sar Like,
these are really awful options. I think I'm going to
just take William Carlson, even though he might miss the
next few weeks. He's he might end up with more
points than all those guys. So yeah, thanks Brian for
the awful choice of taking.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, look, and I'm not gonna do any better
for you this last round. I'm just going to take
the team that I want the last pick the least,
so and I'm going back to Winnipeg. I'm gonna take
cold Perfetti and we'll see if he can turn things around.
Speaker 4: That's that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take cold Perfetti. Maybe he gets a
second crack after the Olympics, at the deployment he was
offered at the start of the season, maybe he gets
a reset moment like Jake Debresque team reset over here.
But I'm going for Fetti because I don't know who
I would take fourth or even third on Winnipeg otherwise.
Speaker 3: So Jesse, you're right, Yeah, yeah, because no Kyle Connor,
no Mark Schifley, no Gabriel Bollardi, and no Josh Morrissey.
So I, my friends, I'm going to take Nino need
a Writer because I already have toybou terra Vinern and
in my mind, those two names are completely intertwined. For
some reason I've had. It's like some people can't see
red or green when they see a picture. Same thing
happens to be with Toybo tarra Viner and Nito need
a Writer.
Speaker 5: That's a pretty fun reason, I guess. I guess they
both have some alliteration there, which is fun.
Speaker 3: That's exactly it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have thought maybe it would have gone D.
Fill out your last D with like a Neil Pianc.
But I don't want Neil Pianc. But Brian is right,
there's not too many great options, especially like even Nino
is gone, who's always been like kind of my solid guy.
So why not Maybe I'll take Gustav Nik. Christy has
been on the top power play lately. So has he
played all the games this season? That's my one qualification
at this point, I just want a guy. How is
it that only four Winnipeg guys are unavailable and yet
there's like no one else to take. I guess that's
the reason why they're like not at the top of
the league now at the bottom of the league this year.
Speaker 4: Pretty wild.
Speaker 5: How stacked their top line is and then just nothing.
They have a top line Morrissey and then they have
Hella buccannet and that's the team. But yeah, so it's
been Taves, Neino and Nikevist and then Nikefist on the
top power play lately. He's played twenty eight games. Good enough, okay,
Nike vest okay, over to you, Victor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Elon has discovered why the Winni Big
Jets are not good because they have they have no
one good after that top line and top goalie.
Speaker 4: What happened last year? How are they so good last year? Is?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 4: Didn't they have the same people?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well they had a they had a better performing
and Elers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Elers Apparently.
Speaker 6: He can drive a whole line on his own and
that's all he needs. Yeah, these options are awful. Morgan
Barron Alex I follow Jonathan Taves. Could he rediscover some magic? No?
Probably not. Yeah, I think I'm going to go with
ax Alafollo, who is not terribly interesting and not on
the best line he's been last three games with Perfetti
and the Mesnikoff. Sometimes he gets on that top power play,
sometimes he gets moved up, but I don't have a
lot of faith that he's going to do much. But
these options are all kind of similar. So I follow
it is and we're going to go to my last
choice of a first pick, And yeah, there are not
good options here. Winnipeg was definitely a decent choice, Brian,
just in that they don't really have any other good options.
So I am going to I'm just going to go
to Seattle because even though they don't. They're not like
the best team to pick first from. They have some
decent options, and more recently, Jordan Eberley has kind of
been on fire. We can't take Jored McCann, Brandon Montur,
Vince Dunn. I think Jared mccannon is marginally better than
Jordan Beverley. Tolvenin's also been hot. I don't think that's
spoiling it for anyone, but the rest of the options
are kind of similar, so I think Everly hopefully can
keep keep that up and at least separate himself from
the rest of the pack a little bit. But yeah,
there you go, a little bit of a of a
gift to you, I think, Brian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's just a matter of which Kraken who's
the crack end of the day today. I think I'd be.
I think I can't ignore Ellie Tolvenin just going off.
I mean, a couple of empty night goals have helped
him on the way. But I'm just double checking the
list of who I can't take, and it's short. Yeah,
it's done. Montour and McCain again just on the on
the brink at seventy percent. I'm going to take Toulvenin
and hope he keeps he keeps rolling the way he's
been rolling. The NHL second Star of the Week last week,
which is a stat that we never reference on our show,
so I did it on yours. All right, Jesse, you
can go ahead with your third choice.
Speaker 3: I see what you did there, Yeah, I see what
you did. I'm going to take Maddy Biniers. He's getting
power play one time, he's a top six guy. He's
getting over half point per game so far. Yes, has
he been kind of a little bit of a disappointment
after his rookie year, sure, But as the third pick here,
I'm pretty happy with that. I think Matt Benier is
going to be able to do some things for me, and.
Speaker 5: That leaves me very happy with my fourth pick because
I'll just take Chandler Stevenson, who's coming off that long
point strink he had still then came back and got
an assist against La Goald, insist against Philly today against
Vancouver pointless. Oh no, maybe I'm catching him right when
he's about to go twenty games without a point.
Speaker 4: But I feel like Chandler is going to be okay.
Speaker 5: So Stevenson's pretty good for a fourth pick, which is
why there was none of us where I guess rushing.
Speaker 4: To grab Seattle.
Speaker 5: So that leaves me, Okay, it's my turn, and I
could either go Toronto or Utah. And yeah, the problem
with Toronto is, of course all the good guys are taken.
You can't take Matthews, Tavars, Nlander, Nis Morgan, Riley.
Speaker 4: Or even Oel.
Speaker 2: Give me Oel, Come on, what.
Speaker 4: Are these whirls on fantracts?
Speaker 5: Why maybe next year we should do this like a
couple percent rostered and like just like anyone who's like
under ninety five or something.
Speaker 4: I thought that would be too restrictive. And you can't
even take Oel.
Speaker 3: You know, Fantracks is based in Toronto.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, so you think they just made a bunch of
test leagues and drafted all the leak happened, So yeah,
it doesn't leave too much on the leafs.
Speaker 4: Or you can go to we can go to Utah,
where there's also not too much.
Speaker 5: But I am gonna go to Utah and I'm gonna
do a hunch pick here and grab Laws and Kraus,
who has been getting good deployment lately playing with Gunther.
I guess that's with Cooley injured, someone has to play
with him. So it's been Hayten and Krause and Gunther
and Kraus is.
Speaker 4: Like not really good.
Speaker 5: So it's not really a good pick. But there's not
really any other options. And I feel like who I
get in Toronto will probably just be fine as the
second pick. So you'll take like whatever robertson and I'll
take Bobby McMahon or vice versa or whatever. So I'm fine,
I'll just take Loss and Cross and we'll see who
else goes on Utah. Here, someone should take a defenseman
just to burn Jesse because Jesse has last pick in
the stay.
Speaker 4: I think that would be the strategic thing.
Speaker 5: And who's the remaining team Toronto Toronto, and who's the
Toronto's best It would be like Jake McCabe. McCabe, But
on Utah, you can get Utah, you can get Sean
Dursey's like at least something.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: We're just all going to talk about every player here
at this point. What's going on?
Speaker 5: Man, Well, we're just sorting out what we're going to
do to You just got to get some intrigue into
this podcast because these last twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 4: I've been really dull.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie collusion, all right.
Speaker 5: You do, you do what you need to do.
Speaker 3: Content that's im I'd be willing to include for that.
Speaker 2: What can I do to the ball?
Speaker 4: All right? Victor?
Speaker 6: Well it was really fun because I thought you were
going to stick in Toronto and I much prefer the
second pick in Toronto to the second pick in Utah,
so that's gonna suck for me. But yeah, not not
great options here. Keller, small, Koolie, Gunther, Peterka, Circuit, I
have all not available and the rest of the options
are not great, so you know, it's uh, there's some
guys here like that are playing with decent other players,
but they just never do anything. So I'm actually gonna
just go with Michael Carconi, who doesn't isn't super exciting,
but he has got some points every now and then,
even though he's kind of stuck in the bottom six,
so not the most exciting pick. I actually did stream
him a couple of weeks ago and like a couple
and he actually got a couple of goals, so that
wasn't too bad. But yeah, what are you Brian?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean I don't want to be mean,
but Danille Boot has done very little. Barrett Hayton has
no deployment, although he's been somewhat of a contributor lately.
You know what, for kicks, I'm going to take Sean
Jersey just to see what happens next. Jesse, I feel
like some sense of guilt although this also I just
want you to know this does help me in the
next round, because you'll like, I'll get the third four
on Toronto this way instead of the fourth. Not that
I'm sure there's much of a difference.
Speaker 5: But well, he can take a defenseman, he could take
a defense That's true.
Speaker 2: That's true. Okay, so let's see how this plays out.
I'm taking Shondersey, though You're gonna have to pay if
you if you want, if you want to take a
Toronto forward, there's there's now a price for it.
Speaker 3: Look, here's the deal. I understand that I won this
league last year, so you're all coming for the King exactly,
all right. I get that, I get that. Gut No,
I'm just yeah, I sure would have liked Shon Jersey.
But you know what I'm gonna take. I'm going to
take Marino at this point, John Marino, who has seventeen
points so part of this season, and he's playing the
second most minutes among all the defenseman. Shon Jersey is
the more talented offensive player, but with his deployment, I'm
hoping that John Marino, since I need one more defenseman,
is going to do the job. And that takes us
to the last round where we have the Toronto maple
Leaves last in the draft. First in our hearts. I'll
go ahead and take Bobby and McMahon to start out here.
He is getting first line deployment. I think he is
getting some power play time here and there, at least
I think he is. Yeah, he's getting some So yeah,
McMahon right now, Who the heck knows what's going to
happen in Toronto, but you know he's sold him onto
a role right now, and darn if we won't see
if he can keep it for the rest of the year.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, like if I'm just looking at the Lions,
then it would seem like I should go Michelli because
he's been playing lately with Tavarus and Nys on the
second line and also on the top power play. But
I don't think it'll last not that there's like many,
like much better options, to be honest, So actually I
have talked myself into it. I'll just take Michelli, Okay,
Matias Mitchelli, because it's the points only at least. So,
by the way, did we mention for Utah, I don't
think we did. Gunther Kellers, Sergachev, Cooley, Schmaltz, and Poterka
were unavailable, so that's why we were in those dregs there.
Uh yeah, we're really like giving nothing of value to
the listeners in terms of players that are good. Can
I say something unrelated to the draft that I'm kind
of excited about, which is maybe not nice, but uh,
I dropped Buyfield last week in a couple.
Speaker 4: And then he had a good game, and I was
really annoyed at my you know that feeling.
Speaker 5: Then I think I was telling you guys off air,
like it's just like one of those things where like
I tried not to let beat myself up after one
game because like that always happens you drop a guy
that he does well. So now it looks like this
game is over between LA and Colorado. Colorado's won five
to two and Buyfield back to his old self pointless
a couple shit, you just coming?
Speaker 3: Did you just come into Victor's house and disc quintin Buyfield?
Did you just come into Victor's house.
Speaker 1: And do that?
Speaker 3: Because I don't know, Man, Victor's up in this draft.
I I don't know if I can contain him at
this point to be.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, is Victor is still a big Buyfield? Hey,
Brian and I seed left Buyfield in our dynasty. But
aside from that one game against Anaheim, he's not doing
much at all. Another fun thing going on, by the way,
is I'm Stephen Stamkos just scored two goals. I'm gonna
win my fantasy week, I think, sorry to King. Okay,
so that's the content there that no one cares about.
But all of a sudden, since we've since I last
talked to a lot of fun things have happened for me. Okay,
Victor your pick on the leafs.
Speaker 6: You keep doing this, Helon. You're like, I'm not going
to take the guy that I should take. I'm gonna
give Victor this really good pick. Oh No, I am
going to take him nevermind, and just ruin my evening.
I did mention those Utah guys. By the way, but
it's good that you mentioned them again. So on Toronto,
no Kneelander, no NAIs, no Tobors, no Matthews nowhere Marson,
I think you mentioned that already. Definitely not sure that
Michelli is going to stick on that top power play.
I would have liked that though, because I think there's
some chance that he could. Don't really love a lot
of the other options. They're all just kind of but
I'm really hoping that Nick Robertson can find a little
bit more opportunity. He's he seems like he's got some
juice when he gets it, but he just seems to
not get it very frequently. But there's not a lot
of good options left, so I'll just take Nick Robertson.
Brian closed us out, all right, and yeah.
Speaker 2: By process of elimination, that leaves me Jake mckitt, no
Max Dolmy. Max dolmy who's playing with Matthews and mckinn
in the most recent game that was on Saturday or
Sunday against Detroit and also the second power Play had
a couple of good games and a couple stinkers since
at least fantasy wise, but he is remaining with Matthews
for the moment. So there it is. Max Domy is
the last player on whatever miss missed. Like I would say,
mister irrelevant, but it feels like even worse, Like we
need a moremic word.
Speaker 3: All right, fellas. Yeah, we've been through thirty two rounds.
I think we're losing steam. I think this has been
This has been hard on all of us. This has
been a taxing time. Please you know, we appreciate your
thoughts at this difficult time for our family.
Speaker 5: But this is our promotion of keeping Carlson on your podcast.
This is like our cross promotion when everyone's going to
listen to this and the point of us doing this
and then they'll be like, oh, now we're gonna check
out this podcast. They seem really cool and fun. And
it was just like Brian rambling for like five minutes
deciding whether to take Winnipeg or Vegas at one point.
Speaker 3: You know, the challenge is part of the point at
the end of the draft, because yeah, it really gets
difficult at this point and after doing all this stuff
we've been doing. But yeah, I don't think we probably
need to recap these drafts. I think we've probably given
a lot of information do we have a place that
we can like post this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's say.
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Speaker 4: What do we call it? Not crossover? Let me just
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I know it's difficult to follow, but I had a
great time. Any boy keeping, Carlson Boys, You got any
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we're having a really fun season we've been.
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Speaker 2: What you think, right and you, Brian, everything good, Everything's good.
Thanks so much for having us. It's nice to be back.
I look forward to coming a distance fourth after the
effort I've put in, but I think it'll be fun.
It'll be fun to watch. We'll see how it turns out.
I ended up with eight defensemen, go figure, but.
Speaker 3: They're not bad ones and and Victor any wise, words
for the audience before we head out.
Speaker 6: I know, thanks everyone for listening, and don't don't take
our difficult struggles with trying to find some of these
death players as a sign of our lack of enthusiasm
with fantasy hockey. But you know, sometimes your face with
these tough decisions, and you know, hopefully we provided you
some value. But yeah, thanks for doing this, Elon and Brian.
It's a fun time and we'll find the track rest
of season.
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