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He's from Elite Prospects. Victor, how you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing awesome, Jesse. Yeah, I've been enjoying thinking about
going through all these teams and all the different so
Hi by Low Hopefully everyone's been enjoying. How have you
been doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Victor, I'm doing great. We are. We're
in the doldrums of the season, but we're not yet
to the Four Nations Cup. I'm trying to side Victor.
When the Four Nations Cup hits, am I going to
be excited? Or Am I just going to be bitter
that I can't set a lineup? We're relieved that I
can't set up on what is going to happen to us? Victor?
How can they do this to us in the middle
of the season. Take time off from fantasy.
Speaker 1: I think you're expressing the exact emotions because I usually
am both annoyed and then instantly relieved, so I appreciate that. Also,
I think it's always fun to watch Best on Best,
so I think it'll just be fun to see everyone
in their country's uniforms and playing together. It's just going
to be a good time.
Speaker 2: All right, All allow a Victor, I'll allow it. Today
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Victor Eastern Conference. Now that we got over the Western Conference,
so we can move on to the East. Why not
and in the Atlantic you are first up?
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. So I'm going to start in Boston
and the buy for me is going to be Jeremy Swayman.
We know that things have been off to a not
so good start in Boston and most of the season
has been not so good for him, for the whole
team and Swayman, who the holdout didn't help, but he
really isn't this bad and I would argue he really
hasn't even been that bad. Mostly it's been the team.
But if you look at the raw numbers, they don't
look good for Swayman. Two point eight nine goals against average,
eight ninety eight save percentage, fifty four percent quality start.
These numbers are the worst of his career by far,
and that he's also had way more really bad starts
than he ever has. He has negative goals save above average,
But if you look at the underlyings, they're really good.
Delta Fenwick is point three to three goal save above
expected as three point six to three. He's better than
Corpor Solo, which is really not a high bar as
far as I'm concerned. But he's the twenty fifth best
goalie if you count all goalies in the league according
to these metrics, and if you look at just volume goalies,
he's fifth. So he's doing really well, and I'm just
not sure that you're ever going to be able to
get him at this value again because of everything around
him and the context of the team. I think it's
a good time to buy on Jeremy Swim And now
I guess the question is the team going to recover?
Are they going to be able to sort out some
of their deficiencies and some of their some of the
needs that they have. They do not have a great
prospect pool, so they'd have to bring guys in that
will fit in need so that they can. They've shown
that they can. One of the nice one of the
things about Boston is that it's one of those markets
that people want to go play in, and so it's
an attractive for that perspective. They have a winning culture,
they have good team management and ownership, so I think
that'll be attractive to some And really, you look at
this roster and it really should not be this bad.
They have some significant holes, but I think they can
fill that a little bit better. I personally would be
buying on Jeremy Swayman. I am not a big and
cap leagues' am not a guy that likes to spend
a lot on goalies, so that would probably be the
exception for me that I wouldn't probably not do this
in a CAP league, but in other leagues I would
or if I could get certainly, if I could get
a retention, I'd be really into that. The cell for
me here is going to be Brad Marshaan he's nearly
thirty seven, and his forty seventy plus point day seem
to be in his rearview mirror. He had a sixty
seven point pace last season, seventy five before that, and
before that he was well over point per game for
several seasons in a row. So it really clearly looks
like a de crescendo here in terms of his point paces.
But he's still an effective player. He still contributes to
the team on fantasy. I'm just not sure it's what
it used to be. His time on ice is down,
his points are down, but none of his metrics are
out of line. That makes me feel like he's just
slowing down in terms of his production. You look at
some of his charts on Hockey Viz, though, and you
still see a strong player. He still see some effects
of that, and offensively, he's still generating more expected goals
than he's converting. So I guess you could argue that
maybe he's doing a little bit more, But I'm still
not sure that he's gonna pop up to seventy plus again,
even with a little bit of positive aggression. But you
can use some of these metrics to sell your case,
especially for a contender. I think for a contender, at
least for this year maybe next, there should still be
some decent value there. But I wouldn't expect it to
take that much longer or to last that much longer. Jesse.
Speaker 2: In this world, you're either a Marshan Mond or you
are a tie Marshan, it seems. But I would I'd
probably acquire him from you if you were selling at
a reasonable level, because, yeah, he is always able to
put up some good numbers, especially over short term, and
like your SG history shows, he's actually up a little
bit this year from where he was before, and it
is at a very high level that he's still performing.
From an underlying perspective, yeah, buy and sell or such
arbitrary I said this last episode. You can talk about
buy and sell in terms of what you're doing relative
to the values, because you can always say I will
buy the most valuable player on a team and I
will sell the least valuable and that's not how this works.
So I would agree with you, Jeremy Swayman is a
great place to invest because this first season has thrown
things off, and particularly I think all the chaos at
the beginning of the season, like you said didn't help. Yeah,
I would like both of those, but I would also
be willing to be on the buy and end of
marchand if it was at a reasonable price, because I
think a lot of people are starting to get ready
to move off him onto the Buffalo Sabers, the team
the franchise that was apparently built over an old Native
American burial ground. If we've learned anything from Poltergeist and
John Jason, John Peterka is my bye pick JJ, as
he is known to his German friends, top forward in
goals above replacement on the Sabers. If you didn't know,
he's got good advanced stats in other words, and thirty
one points in forty two games. That is pretty nice
considering what's going on. The peripherals are rough, so we
need to get his stuff on the scoreesheet. We need
to see goals and assists to really get value out
of Paterca. But it appears more and more that's something
he's going to be able to provide for the long term.
Maybe whatever Buffalo does next it will get better. Maybe
somebody is going to have to slay Ursula from the
Little Mermaid so that all the Little Nightmare plant things
can turn back into Merman when the curse is lifted
for the Sabers and all palm trees are restored to
the Buffalo metropolitan area. I don't know, man. All I'm
saying is that if Buffalo gets better, I think Peterka
will also commensurately be able to improve even beyond his decent,
early decent, early career value. On the cell side, Owen
Power breaks my heart. Victor Owen Power is a guy
we've talked about since his process, his draft days, pre
draft days, and we already knew he was never going
to be the offensive superstar in this team. But did
you know his five on five defenses awful this year?
According to goals above replacement, he, Jason Zucker, and Dylan
Cousins are racing to the bottom of the team. They're
the three worst players on the team at even strength.
That's the whole point of view right now, Owen Power,
maybe he'll have the long kind of Noah Hannafan climb,
even though if you look at his all situation stats,
he's still very fairly high in terms of overall But
like Noah Hannafan, was drafted really highly and then he
wasn't that great at the beginning, but we talked about
he worked his way up and then suddenly he looked
around and he was this real valuable guy coming from Calgary.
Ignore the fact that I said you should sell him
last episode, but Byram coming in was really I think
the death knell to Owen Power's superstar upside for our
Fantasy superstar upside, that kind of cooked his goose. And
Owen Power is going to be okay. But if you
can sell him to somebody who still thinks he's going
to be a post hype sleeper who's going to hit
Fantasy D one value, you got to get in on that,
because I don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: What you think, Victor, I think that people listening to
this show probably weren't expecting a little Mermaid reference. But
I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Victor, We're I'm under the sea every day. That's
what's going on here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I was watching the Buffalo game last
night and Owen Power scored. As we're recording this and
Buffalo and the Owen Power scored power play goal and
the announcer said, Owen Power on the power play. Of
course it was Owen Power. And then His partner was like,
did you know that's his first goal of the I
was like, oh, all right, it was a really funny moment.
Of course, he's scoring and doing great. It's about that,
not really, And yeah, I agree with I said this.
I've said this for years. I never thought Power would
be a really big offensive generator, and he has not been.
But he has been decent in terms of the point
pace that I expected. I did not know that he
was struggling so much defensively. Yeah, I think he's taken
on a really hard workload and I think he can
probably crawl himself back to average. But I don't think
he's ever going to be what some people thought he
was going to be, a big offensive producer fifty sixty
plus points. I don't think that's ever going to be him.
So yeah, if you can still get some value for Power,
I would. And in terms of peterca, I love peterka.
I've always loved him. I'm actually surprised that he's scoring
a little bit more than what I expected. Though. I
thought he might end up just being a really good
energy guy. Hut these sixty points, But right now he's
besting that a little bit. And I think that there's
reason to believe that there can be even more there.
From what I've seen from him, there could be some
positive regression with some more points, and there was some
really rough times in Buffalo early this season. They seemed
to be playing a little bit better. So yeah, I
like both of those. I would buy and sell both
of those the same way. Let's move on to my
next guy, and that Shimon Edvonson. Edvonson, we talked a
little bit about him on a recent X Gamers episode,
and he continues to play really well. He is twenty
second in the league right now in terms of expected
goal percent all while playing some of the toughest minutes
in the NHL. He majorly tilts the ice when he's
out there, and we talked about how he and Sider
were doing so good together recently when mclollan took over,
he split them up and that may have hurt his
underlying numbers a little bit, But the reality is that
both are good enough to carry their own line, and
so I think it may make sense to actually to
actually split them up, let them drive their own line,
and I think it's been better for the team overall.
The offense is already coming, although right now he's only
at a thirty three point pace, but you know that
they're making them focus on making him focus on his
defensive game first, which is coming really well. And I
still think that there's more offense there from Edmonton. We've
seen it at times and he flashes that potential, but
he's just an absolute defensive stud. He is generating some offense,
it's well above average, but it hasn't translated all to
the store scoreesheet yet. And I always like to look
at the Wowie charts with them without you and for Edvonson,
it is just hilarious. He is dragging everybody into the
good range. When they're not with him, they're generally much
worse or worse or much worse, and if when they
are with him, they're usually better or much better. That
tells you a lot about the player that he is.
The guy I want to sell is Marco Casper, and
it's nice to see Casper getting a little bit more
of an opportunity. I always thought that he could be
a good middle six, hopefully center for the team, but
he's on a bit of a hat streak now he's
got he's well over point per game in his last
several games. As we're recording this and getting a run
on the top line with Larkin and Raymond, I think
this is the perfect time to cash in on Casper
if you can, if people can think he can be
a top line winger, which I don't think really is
what the team wants from him long term. I think
they want him to be a middle six center ideally,
and whether that's line two or three might depend on
how others developed. But I really think he's going to
be a forty or fifty years point guy, kind of
what Copp and Confer have been or are currently. And
even with this hawstreak, Casper is only on a twenty
seven point pace this season hasn't really helped him that much.
That's where I think about these two guys from Detroit, Jesse.
Speaker 2: How dare you, Victor? How dare you do us in
on Marco Casper. I'm a Casper fan, so I'm hoping
that he will be able to do more than that,
But as usual, I worry that you're right. Simonon Evinson
certainly is a star. Certainly you want this guy and
anybody who is going to believe that he's just going
to be eternally buried behindsight or is not paying attention.
Let's move on to the Florida Panthers, Victor and I'm
going to have a long shot by here, and it's
going to be Nico Mikola. He is first on the
Florida Panthers, believe it or not, in goals above replacement
for even strength offense, and also first on the team
in even strength goals of our replacement on defense.
Speaker 1: What the heck?
Speaker 2: How can that not on the Panthers. Maybe I'm just
showing the limitations of some of these statistics, but it
still is very telling that would be the case. I
don't know why I didn't grab this guy in the
mid season draft that we did with keeping Carlson. He
is with Nate Schmidt after returning from his game injury,
and Nate Schmidt's also got very good advanced stats this year,
so I got Actually, at first, I was like, wow, no,
I wish he would be with eck bladder foresling, But
actually he's doing just fine with Nate Schmid out there.
He is one point five ish per game in each
of the three BASH stats, so he's going to get
you that BASH floor in all three elements of that,
and yeah, Boquist is up while Mikola was out, and
then that kind of ended and Ooquist was out, and
now Bjornfoot is in as k Blad is out. But
Mikola is just having a decent and I think I
feel like you might be able to actually get him
off waivers in a lot of leagues not even have
to buy him. But there are just some signs down there.
There's just some signs that things are potentially going to
get positive. And for the Cell, I'm going to stay
on defense and I'm going to sell Gustav Forsling at
least the same age as Aaron Ecklad. I did not
realize that no power play points all year of this year.
He's not being used in the power play. Do you
even remember he was in security obscurity in Chicago for
the first couple of years of his career, Victor, I
don't even remember being on Chicago. I thought he hatched
from an egg down in Florida at age twenty four,
and that's just where he came from. But you probably
still get something very good from him. Good for him
and his two plus shots per game, but maybe more
than he's actually quote worth for fantasy purposes. So I
think Gusta fors Lane might be a guy I'm willing
to sell. What do you think those two, Victor.
Speaker 1: I want to see that origin story for Gusta fors Ling.
That sounds incredible.
Speaker 2: Wrestling sounds like a fledgling. It sounds like something that
would be a baby hatching out of an egg.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's for slinging, that's what it is,
whatever it is. Yeah, this is interesting. You mentioned the
draft that we did with the Keeping Carlson Boys, and
anyone's wondering. Elon is at one thirty seven. I'm at
one thirty two, Jesse one sixteen, and Brian one to eleven.
So Elon and I are kind of closer to the
top right now. And Mikola was drafted by Elon. I'm
not sure that I'm on board with you, Jesse about
buying Nico Mikola. I definitely so. I have him on
my team right now and on one of my redraft leagues,
and so I would love if he went off like today,
But then after that, I'm just not sure that he's
a good real life player. I think both these guys
are good real life players, better than they are in fantasy,
and I think if you can sell Mikola, I'd be happy.
I'd be on the selling end of that. I'm not
sure that there's much more there. He doesn't really shoot much.
His priffs are his priffs are decent, so you've got
a good peripher floor there. But I don't know that
there's going to be much more scoring. His shooting percentage
is quite a bit higher than his career average, and
he he is having a careerre in terms of points.
But is there going to be more than this? I'm
just not sure. So I'm going to disagree with you
on that one. And in terms of selling Foresling, though,
I think that's fine. I think that he's such an
awesome real life even strength player, and there are people thinking, like, oh,
forty point pace, to just give him some more opportunity,
he can do more or whatever. But the reality is
that they were never going to do that. They're never why.
They don't have a reason to do that, because he's
so good at even strength and I don't think he's
that offensive dynamo. I only have vague memories of him
in Chicago. I just remember being the narrative being everyone
was really frustrated with him because he wasn't coming along
as fast as some people would have liked, which was true,
but I'm not sure that he had the best situation.
So yeah, go ahead and sell your foresling shares if
you want. I'm good with that. I don't unless if
you're expecting more than what he's doing now, I think
that you're going to be disappointed. Let's move on to Montreal,
where I think people have been anything but disappointed with
Layne Hudson. That's who I'm going to buy, and it
may seem like a strange strategy to buy high. He's
definitely on the upward trend, on the crescendo. You look
at his pnhly and it's just almost a linear line
straight up. It's currently at one hundred and twenty pnhly,
which is ridiculous. He's got sixty seven point pace for Montreal.
He's getting top power play time, He's doing incredible things
out there. His offensive generation is just insane. He's doing
doing what a lot of other defenders can't do. I
think there's even a bigger ceiling than what he's currently at.
So I think this comes down to he has struggled
to be in his own zone. He has had some
mishaps here and there. If you could zero in and
hone in on those mishaps and say he's not gonna
he's at his cap, he might be like they're pairing
top power play kind of guy, sixty ish point just
in fulk ish kind of guy, or Tory Krug. If
you can convince someone that's his ceiling, then I think
you got a good opportunity here because I think he
has the potential to be even more. I think he
can be point per game plus. I think this sky's
the limit. I think he's getting better at some of
those deficiencies. And his offensive generation is just elite fifteenth
in the league and expected goals four p sixty. That's incredible.
That's best of the best up there. I don't know
that he hits that top pinancially of one hundred and twenty,
but even if he doesn't, that's fine because he's still
so good by high. If you can get a reasonable price,
I'm not saying to sell kill mccarr for him or
anything like that. That would be crazy. If you can
get with a lower package, I would try. I would try.
Maybe someone has bought into the narrative of he has
too many deficiencies to be an elite all around player.
They said the same thing about kill mccarr too, by
the way, remember that they Oh, he can't defend, he's
not strong enough, he's not big enough, and I don't
think they're the same player. But he obviously proved mccar
did that that was nonsense. Let's move on to the
player that I'm going to sell, and that's Michael Hage.
And don't get me wrong, I like Michael Hage a lot.
I think that he's a really fantastic prospect. He was
taken by Montreal this past draft twenty first overall after
a good season in the USHL, and he's transferred to
Michigan and he's been really good. Twenty four points in
twenty games. He's doing a great job. The thing is, though,
I'm just not sure that he's really a top liner
in the NHL, or even a second liner. If he's
a middle six guy, maybe even bottom six. And that's
like a fifty ish score. Is that unless you're in
a really deep league, is that really what you want?
And so maybe you can capitalize on this hype. Maybe
you can capitalize on his potential and get a little
bit more for it. Some of his comps in the
PNHLE model. You got Jason Robertson, which obviously be very good.
Brendan Gallagher, Tyler Ennis. I think he's more closer to
the latter in that middle six role. He might have
some stronger season. So I could be wrong on this,
but I think that if you sell Michael Hage for
a really nice package, you'll be happier now and I
don't think you'll be too disappointed in the long run.
So that's what I'm thinking. My fantasy hockey I have
player card. I have him at a six point seven eight,
so seventy eight percent chance of being a six, which
is just above average. So that's where I'm thinking of him.
Speaker 2: As Jesse Nice, I can't dispute either one of those.
I think you're gonna have to back up a truck
for Lane Hudson, but it could happen. Let me ask
you this, Victor. Last episode, I suggested you could trade
Roman Yosi and get a king's ransom Roman Yo Si
for Lane Hudson. How far off is that from a
trade that could be made between a contender and rebuilder,
and which side of it needs to add what do
you think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lane Hudson is doing right now the point pace
is even better than what Yosi is doing. So I
think that might be hard between contender and rebuilder because
I think that normally you would say the contender wants
to more proven asset and Yosie. But I'm not even
sure that it works so well. I think if you
somehow were contending and had Hudson, I think that you
probably would just keep him. I have him in the
tidy Lord Stanley and where I'm in the middle, so I'm,
you know, trying to push into the playoffs. I think
I'm like, maybe just outside right now and I have Hudson,
I would I don't think I would trade him for Yosi.
Crazy as that sounds. I think that the potential is higher,
and especially in the league like this where I'm hoping
to stay for a couple of seasons more or for
the future. I think that Yosi's value still probably higher
for the next year or two, but I think that
Hudson could match it, So I think I would just hold. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that that just goes to show that you've
proven my point. Let's move on to the Ottawa Senators.
They are next team up. I am going to suggest
that I could buy Jake Sanderson. Please please with somebody
sell me Jake Sanderson. I would really like to have him.
Funny thing is that Thomas Shabbat actually leads the team
and goals above replacement, but Sanderson gets the power play
Tom and ice and Shabbat is doing a lot of
his stuff, I think at his all around game. But
he's actually been perhaps better than some people have perceived
him this year because he's no longer kind of the
top of the line fantasy score that he once was.
He's still very good. But Sanderson is the one that
I'm looking at hard because he's young. Excellent blocks from Sanderson,
not too many hits. Do you know that Ottawa is
tied for sixth in power play goals while we're recording
this in the league this year. It's a very good unit.
So Sanderson being on that is what's that? I said, WHOA, Yeah,
that's what I'm saying, man, That's what I'm saying. So
this is he's captaining or he's quarterbacking a very good
power play And on the cell side, I'm gonna say
Shane Pinto is Pinto going to be a thing. Worried
that Pinto's not going to be a thing. He still
has mildly positive differentials on five offense and defense, so
it's not like he's been a zero. He started with
a very small role in the power play, lost that
kind of immediately and took a mop up role for
the power play in this team. He's not getting top
line mates on the team. He's got fourteen points in
thirty six games, though there was a fourteen game scoreless
streak immediately following his missing some time to injuries. So
perhaps there's perhaps there's something to have hope for there.
But I'm just worried that Pinto's not going to end
up being the player I was really hoping he would
be when he came in, and perhaps I could get
somebody else to invest in him as a post type sleeper.
What do you think to those two victor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I in the draft season, my finger huvered over
Jake Sanderson so many times. I really wanted to do it,
and I love the player. I think he's really great.
I was just really worried that Ottawa wasn't going to
hand him all the opportunity, and Ottawa hadn't been so
good lately, so I was wondering how good would the
power play be. He's already surpassed his power play totals
for all of last season as we're recording this, with
fifteen and nearly half the number of games, which is incredible.
So he's clearly showing out. He's roughly around a fifty
point pace, which is great. I was thinking that he
could hopefully get to that, but I do think there's
potential for more. I would really I would like to
buy him too, if you could, if I could do that.
I don't think that people who have ja Kas Henderson
are really looking to sell him. I think they're pretty
happy with that. Bento is an interesting one. But he
had that four point pace last season after coming back
halfway through, and he looked really good, and so far
this season it just hasn't quite been there. He's been
a bit of a hot streak right now, and I
actually someone dropped him in a Dynasty league and I
tried to get him, but I made him put down
on a fab but I was okay with it because
I didn't I agree. I'm just not really sure that
he's going to consistently be at that level that I
want him to be at, and so I would probably
sell him too. And I probably wouldn't want to buy
Shane Pento because I unless you're like a rebuilding team
or has the space to let him just sit there
and figure it out, because I mean, he is close
to that two hundred game threshold. He's at one seventy six,
So you know, maybe by the end of the season
early next season, maybe he can be consistently closer to
a sixty point player. I'm not too confident in that,
but if you had the roster space you could do that.
Let's move over to the Tampa Bay Lightning. My buy
is going to be Isaac Howard. And Howard was drafted
by Tampa at the end of the first round twenty
twenty two thirty first overall. He was he was at
the USNTDP. Was not super strong year for the us NTDP,
but he was one of their best scorers. And then
he transferred to Minnesota to luth and it didn't go
super well, and then he transferred to Michigan State. In
the last two season since he's been over a point
per game there and he's been really good. I feel
like people have forgotten about him a little bit. He's
a good prospect. I think some people are maybe looking
at the fact that Connor Geeky passed him. Isaac Howard
decided to go back for an extra year of college,
which I don't think is ever really a bad thing.
He's still only twenty he's young for his draft class.
He doesn't turn twenty one until March thirtieth. So he's
going to have this dominant year of NCAA at Michigan
State and hopefully they'll go far in the Frozen Four
and then he'll come out and compete for a role
at the end of the season and next season with
the Lightning. We have to remember, too, these teams that
are really good, it's hard to jump straight onto them, right.
It's a lot easier if they're a lower end, rebuilding
team or whatnot. So the fact that he hasn't cracked,
he hasn't really had the opportunity because he hasn't signed
pro yet. But he hasn't had He hasn't really cracked
a Lightning lineup. People think that's a negative for him,
but I don't really think so. He's trending up more
to be a scorer and geeky is someone who can
live in the middle six and be in contribute even
in a bottom six role, but Howard's should get an
opportunity to play in an offensive role. I think the
Lightning could really use him. I have him at a
six point thirty four, which is a little bit above average,
but I think this season in college, if it continues
the way it is, he's trending to be a little
bit more than that. So I would buy some Isaac
Howard Sharres if I can. Don't get too crazy excited
about it, but I think that he's worth it. My
cell is going to be Anthony Sirelli. Sorelli is a
really interesting guy because I remember too many years ago
I was thinking howard he could be, and that he
could build off the fifty ish point paces that he
was putting up and he could leverage that to more points.
But it hasn't ever really happened until now. And he
has had some runs centering Kutroff, which which is obviously
a really good thing. Kutrov and Hagel mostly and sometimes Genzel,
but Sorelli really is more of that defensive forward and
this is his best points pace by a really wide margin,
in some cases double what he's done previously. He's shooting
at least six percent over his career average, which obviously
is a big red flag, and his po is really high.
So all of these suggest that he's not really going
to continue. I think some of his offensive metrics are
really driven by the strong teammates that he's playing with,
and he's still good defensively, but I don't think this
is really his role long term. So if you can
get someone to buy on the fact that Anthony Cirelli
is now a seventy ish point player, then I would
take that around. Jesse, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I've never really been a Cirelli guy,
so it's been difficult for me to catch on. So
I don't think first of all, I would probably have
him in many places, but I would be willing to
sell him were I to have him at this point.
But at any point, let's move on to the Toronto
mayple Leafs. What can be said about the Toronto maple
Leafs that has not been said already. I'm going to
go to prospect them or near prospectum to try to
get something here. Fraser Minton has been called up with
the John Tavares injury and could he blow up this
year's He played four games last year. He's already had
eleven games this year and scored four points and had
ten points in sixteen games with the Marleys. As I record,
this seems unlikely that he would have a big season
coming out from here. But what if, Victor?
Speaker 1: What if?
Speaker 2: I would be curious just to see. And I don't
feel like he has the same price tag on him
as some of the other guys who are coming up
to the pros at this point. Easton Cowen, on the
other hand, he was gonna be Tavares had the injury
and there was some talk about Kawen. Can you still
get a Toronto boost on a prospect at this point?
I think you probably can. McCowen is production's back slid
in the OHL this year. He wasn't necessarily outstanding in
the World Juniors, and I think there was a lot
expected of him. It's still only nineteen, so it's not
like I would give this guy away. But it feels
like we went from everybody hating on Easton Cowen at
the draft to everybody loving on Eastern Cowen to maybe
something a little more back in the middle, So I
think I would be ready to cash in that chip
if I could get something commensurate to it. What do
you think of those two guys, Victor?
Speaker 1: It's interesting. I think this is the first time that
I've fully disagreed Nice I would flip. Look, I don't
know if I would trade.
Speaker 2: This is the crazy part. I think that Cowen is
valued more than Minton. I don't think that I would
trade Kowen to get min if that makes sense, but
relative to where I think they would be available, I
think I would buy on Minton and selling Cown. But
maybe that's just stuff in my head and not reality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard what you're saying. Sometimes it's better to
sell the better asset and get more value that I
think that there might be some low, lower expectations or
lower perceived value for Cowen, and so maybe you could
get a value there. I still like him better long term,
but Minton I don't think is super exciting or much
more than a middle to bottom six guy. But yeah,
maybe this year rest of the season, maybe he can
do something. I don't think so I think that he's
gonna get relegated to the bottom line or bottom six,
or even be healthy, scratched, but so I would That's
why I would flip these. I would probably sell Minton
if I could, if I had him, and buy Cowen.
Speaker 2: Far enough. Just take a break, come back with the
Metro Division.
Speaker 1: This lead two excellent are serious injury.
Speaker 2: Victor. We're in the Metro now and we're going to
start it out with those Carolina Hurricanes. So let us
know what you got for thoughts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the first guy that I want to talk
about to buy is Bradley Nadou. Some people may be
down on him a little bit after the World Juniors,
a lot of the Canada team wasn't so good. He
led the team in scoring with goal scoring with two,
which is really unfortunate. But I think the other reason
you might be a little down on him is play.
The club play in AHL hasn't been so good. But
the reality is that you have to remember this strange
relationship that Carolina has. They let go of their HL affiliate.
They partner with the Chicago Wolves, who are just independent
and they don't really have any reason to give any
favors to any of the players in Carolina, and so
it's been a difficult season in Chicago. And despite all
that he has eighteen points in twenty seven games, So
some people might look at and think that's not good,
but it's actually, I think, really impressive for a nineteen
year old in the AHL, and I think his stock
remains really high. So if anyone is a little bit
skeptical or down even slightly, I would pounce on that
and I would try to get Nado. I think he's
he almost made the Hurricane out of camp, and I
think he could have a role with them as early
as later this season or most likely the next season.
So that would be my buye for the Hurricanes. In
terms of who I want to sell, it's Shane Gosta Spear.
And the reason Gosta Spear's fine, think what you would expect.
He's been that fifty to sixty point range, which he
has done many times, and he's getting the power play
role a little bit less total time on ice. But
we have Alexander nikkeishin coming, we have Scott Morrow coming.
Both can push Gusta Spear for powerplay time on ice
and scoring roles, and I think that they will. And
sometimes you think about these new players coming in and
need an adjustment period. That may be true for Morow
but I do not think that's going to be true
for Alexander Nikkeishin. He's been playing big minutes in the
KHL for top clubs against elite competition and killing it.
I think that if you can, that might be a
good idea to Shane to move Gosta Spear. He might
find home somewhere else and still have decent value. But
I feel like i'd be if I was a middling
team or a building, I think I'd be fine letting
him go and getting some value back. What do you think, Jesse?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Victor, when you talk about the Chicago Wolves, it
feels friends or loved ones who are in one of
them is in an abusive relationship or just a not abuse.
Let's not talk about abusive, Victor. Maybe I'll hit that out.
Just a bad relationship where it just doesn't seem like
it's going well. You're just like, come on, guys, just
don't do this anymore, and each of you need to
restart your life in some way, because that is just
weird how all that works out. But yeah, Nade is
a guy who actually he was taken this year in
our four sport league draft, and I forget it was
one of our it was a day or something. It
was one of the guys who is in a lot
of our hockey leagues who snapped him up in that
draft and was really smart to do so. But I
do like him, and I do think that despite maybe
a little bit of the shine coming off this year,
I would like him and in god despair, Yeah, he's
a win now piece for people, and I would say
people might be willing to pick him up for that
type of price. The Columbus Blue Jackets maybe the surprise
team of this NHL season as we record this sitting
in a playoff spot for a team that if you
would have told me was like finished last in the NHL,
was going to finish last in the NHL this year.
I think I would have believed you in the preseason
that at least it was within the realm of possibility.
But they are doing quite well for themselves. My buye
for this team right now is going to be Adam
Van Tilly. Certainly he has the prospect pedigree. He hasn't
quite shown it yet this year in terms of his
performance on the score sheet with twenty three points in
forty five games, but he is getting center one minutes
right now, or at least is one of the contenders
moving in. We'll get to why that is the case
in just a moment with the big Russians Gorilla Marchenko
and Dmitri Veronkov, who've just been amazing. Just a smashing
combination of players this year for Columbus. So I would
buy now. The point scoring could suppress his perceived value,
but sometimes that draft capital, once you get a little
bit of performance with it, or a line change like
Vantilly is getting, might move him up to a difficult
place to get the cell. Conversely, Sean Monaghan, I always
want to sell Sean Monhan. It It was hard. It
was hard with this team to come up with it
because Monahan's hurt, He's going to be out a while,
and a lot of teams probably just be like, no,
I'm not trading for an injured player on my playoff run.
What the heck good is he going to do for
me in my playoff run. Maybe somebody thinks they're getting
a buy low, I guess is what I'm counting on here.
But a risk injury, I feel like he's gonna have
less value when he comes back, even on that first line.
And I know Victor you're the doctor guy, and I'm
not the doctor guy, but it seems like wrists are
very important when you're holding a stick and swinging it
at things all the time. And he's a point per
game guy. Has value though, especially if Mark Scheig, who
we've had on the show before and was quoted in
road a wire about this, that he could be back by,
you know, before the Four Nations Cup has concluded so
that he would not miss as many games. But now
if I could get somebody to say I'm going to
buy a low on mon hand, I would be ready
to move on for him personally and let them have them.
What do you think, Victor?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I like both of those a lot.
Ventilly with the draft capital, I mean with the draft,
the pedigree that he has, and he's looked better and
he's on a hot streak. And then yeah, Columbus just
defying expectations. I'm really happy to see that. I think
that they've been through a lot, and so it'd be
good to see. It's nice to see some good stories
coming out of there. And I do think that Venthilli's
on the upper trajectory. He's about to crest one hundred
games played, and I do think that he's coming along,
So I like that. I think even if you're buying
on the upswing, then you're probably still going to be
pretty happy about it. Monahan is a tricky one. He
has been. It looks like he's completely rejuvenated his career
now in Columbus one hundred point per game eighty two
point pace. Is that really going to continue when he
comes back from whatever this injury is? As you mentioned
that that can be really hard for shootings to handling
all the things, and I would worry about that too.
If you can get good value for that, I think
that I'd be ready to move on. I'm not sure
he's thirty. He's had all these injuries. From all accounts
that I've heard, his body feels like it's much older
than that. He has committed in Columbus there for a
few more years, But I also feel like they might
have Jenner, they might they have other options like Cylinder
Johnson be there, can Vntilly be there. I think that
Monahan might end up getting pushed down a little bit,
even once he gets better down the lineup a little bit.
So I like both of those moves a lot. Jesse
Let's move on to the New Jersey Devils, and so
this one's a little interesting. So the first one that
I'm gonna buy is Timo Meyer. And I know tim
O Meyer. It's been hard to quit him ever since
that point per game season in San Jose, and he's
trended down since then. But I refuse to believe that
Meyer is a bad fifty four point pase. I don't
thinks him. He's gotten less time on ice, power play
time on ice. I know that they have other good
options there. I know that the team is going well
and really have no incentive to change that right now,
but I don't think that's going to continue long term.
He is literally the highest paid player on the team
right now in terms of forwards, highest paid forward, sorry,
and I just don't think that they're going to continue
to use him in such a limited role. Maybe there's
some nagging little injury or some reason why, but I
just I don't think that he's a fifty four point player.
I don't think he's a point per game player either,
But I think that he's much better than this, maybe
in the seventy to eighty point range. And I think
that they are going to come back to him, and
they're going to give him more of a role at
some point, so I would be buying on him, and frankly,
it's probably not going to cost you that much because
I think whoever has Timo Meyer is really frustrated with
what he has. I have him in one league and
he's been sitting on my bench a lot, and that's
that's frustrating. But I am open to the possibility and
I think that he will improve again, So I am
not too hurt by that. But I think that you
might find some gms that are ready to move along
if you give him a good value. The cell. For me,
the cell is going to be Shimone Nimich, Shimon Imitch.
He's been an interesting project prospect for them. They took
him really high second overall back in twenty twenty two,
and he's six andey pounds right handed d He after
playing some HL time early on, he jumped into the
NHL last season and he did okay sixteen nineteen points
in sixty games, but he struggled with some of the
decision making and pace, I would say. And so this
season he did his nine games and then went back
and then went down to the HL and he's been
down there ever since, and I just as we're recording,
we just saw some news that sounds like he's requesting
a trade. And so if Nemich wants a trade, this
is actually a perfect opportunity to move him, because I
think that a lot of people would be excited about that.
They might think that he's going to go somewhere else
and be this great score. I still don't think that's
going to be the case. I've long said I don't
think he's going to be a big scorer. He's got
great skating and he's got some decent instincts, but I
just don't see him as a big score. He's in
the AHL, he's under fifty percent course, and he has
a high secondary sistraight, so some of his numbers even
look inflated. I would sell Animach and maybe you can
play up that, hey, he's going to go to this
other team and he's going to have this huge breakout
and I'm ready to move on from him and get
something really good. And I don't think that you're going
to be super disappointed. So go do those things if
you like. What do you think about my own Imah there, Jesse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like them. I am also becoming more skeptical
of Timo Myerd, maybe just because I bought him so
high at one point and he doesn't. I don't. It
doesn't seem to warrant that. But he still is much
better than he looks, and depending on how low that
values dropped, he certainly would be worth a purchase. And Simon,
Simon Nimech, I think you warned us the whole time
victory that Nemech might not be our man to relative
to a lot of the defensemen in that draft and
what they were capable of that time. But yeah, so
I like both of those. Let's move on to the
New York Islanders and what do we got there? The
bye I'm still in the throes of thinking about the
World Junior's Tournament. I want Danny Nelson, man, I want
Danny Nelson on my team, even if he's maybe he's
overrated after that, I'm not sure. But the truth of
it is, he is doing very well for himself with
the University of Notre Dame. He was the alternate captain
and did very well at the tournament. And could he
come out this year? I honestly, I need to do
a little more research into what Danny Nelson's plans are.
But this is a team where you would think some
forwards will have some opportunities if they come out and
are able to perform a little bit of the pro level.
New York is not stocked with options. So give me
Danny Nelson man that might be possible, and I bet
you could get him real cheap. In fact, I bet
he's on waivers in some places. Brock Nelson. I am
going to sell on brock Nelson unless you're in my
league with him. And then, once again, see the problem
with the intellectual honesty is I keep saying these are
guys that I would sell, and there are guys that
I'm trying to sell. I'm just destroying the value of
these guys because now my league mates all know that.
Maybe I don't even believe what I'm saying, but I
do believe what I'm saying. He is still performing like
a borderline first liner. According to advanced metrics. He's actually
had four points in four games when he came back
from his injury and was aligned with Matt Barzal and
anders Lee. Although he's still bouncing lines and by the
time you listen to this a couple of days after
a record. I'm not entirely sure what with but Brack
Nelson is always going to have a little bit of
stain power. He's going to have that name value that
is going to make him interesting to others. He's a
lot to stay in the top six for this team,
and he's consistently going to be a score. So I
think it might be the time as he gets into
his thirties thirty three years old now to try to
cash out. My man, what do you think of those
Islanders Specter, you.
Speaker 1: Went Nelson and Nelson. I love it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I he didn't even catch that victory. It's all Nelson,
all the time.
Speaker 1: All Nelson on the island. Yeah. We talked about Nelson
at the World Junior some of the discussions. Talked about
him with Pete over on Dauber Prospects Report, and yeah,
he's great. My evaluation of him went way up. I'm
not saying he's going to be like this incredible score
or anything, but Danny Nelson is for me an absolute
Locke NHLer and I do think to your earlier point
that he could very easily come out this after this
college season and go straight to the NHL and then
maybe next season he goes split some time HL NHL,
but I think the Islanders would probably be happy with that.
And yeah, I think he's probably more that middle six guy,
like fifty ish point, but he's just so effective. He
absolutely dominated when he was out there against the other
team's best players in the world juniors, and yeah, he's
go get yourself some Dandy Nelson. He's a really fantastic player.
Even if the scoring is going to be elite in
a deep enough league like and they're super deep Lee,
look at thirty two team league, I think you should
be even more excited about him because that could be
really good value. And Brock Nelson. I've actually been trying
to buy some brock Nelson shares in one of my league.
The team wants a first round pick and I don't
have one, so I'm trying to figure out how to
get one so I can send it to him. He
is a little overvalued at his six million for what
he's doing this season, but he's been a sixty five
to seventy five point guy the last several seasons, and
so I think he can get back there. I think
the Islanders have always been this sort of weird team
with it just seems like they want to win two
one every night when that's they have the goaltending to
do that, and so they're not always incentivized to score more.
But Nelson's been pretty consistent and this season, yeah, maybe
it's just him slowing down. I'm not quite sure. I
think that you're probably fine to sell Nelson. I also
think that in the right situation, I'd be okay buying,
because I don't think he's quite cooked yet. All right,
let's move on to the other New York team, as
I've one refers to them, the New York Rangers. The
guy that I want to talk about is Adam Fox.
I just refuse to believe that Adam Fox is this bad.
And he's not even bad. He's got a sixty three
point pace, but that is going to be the worst
of his career. Aside from his first season when he
had a very limited role in not as much power
play time, he's still getting tons of power play time
similar total time on ice. His shooting percentage is awful.
He's like less than half what his career average is
two pointy eight percent, just two goals on seventy one shots,
which is part of the problem. When you don't shoot
very much, you are very liable to these big swings
in percentages. And he is shooting less than he ever
has before. In terms of his rate, his periffs are
still fine. I just think that he should be getting
more secondary assists, he should be getting should be scoring
a few more goals, and some of that's just not happening.
And we all know that New York has had lots
of problems this year, but Adam Fox is not done.
He's not cooked. If someone's frustrated, which I have Fox
in a couple leagues, and I am frustrated with him
every time I think I'm going to get a lot
from Fox, it just doesn't seem to be happening as much.
But I would still be. I think the potential is
there still to be buying him, and so I wouldn't be.
I'd be trying to save your frustration there. And the
guy that I want to sell, actually I don't really
want to sell him, but I'm going to talk about selling,
and that is gay pro and I think this is
much similar to in the last episode, Jesse, how you
talked about selling Roma Yosi. I'm not selling gay Pro
because I want to, or because I'm fed up with him,
or I don't think he's good. I do think he's good.
He was picked by a New York Ranger twenty third
overall back in twenty twenty three. He's been awesome both
at BC and at the World Junior Championships the past
two seasons. I think the questions though, and the athletic
guys talked about this a little bit, and I've heard
Kim and Chris Pieders and a lot of people have
mentioned this is that really there's still questions about gay
Pro and his foot speed and some of his other
attributes that might limit his ability to be a no
doubt first liner. Because if he's a first liner top
power play, then I think he's an eighty to one
hundred point guy superstar. But some of those limitations might
lead him to be more of a sixty to seventy
point guy. His comparables in this PNHLE model are Nick Bittan,
Dylan Strom, Jonathan Huberdo, so that's obviously a wide range.
If he's closer to the Strom Huberdo, obviously you're pretty
happy at least in Huberto's peak years. But he might
be closer to what Huberdoor is now or what Nick
Bittan was, which was not very exciting, and then at
that came at that point, you're you'd be really excited
to get an elite return. So if you can get
just an absolute monster return, then I think I'd be
okay moving off of gay Pro especially and actually our
Tidy Admiral did this. We're going to discuss this on
a future episode. If you can get some really strong
assets now and not have to wait three or four years,
two or three years, however long it is for Pro,
then I think that you can still consider that a win.
And so that's the case, That's what I'm suggesting with Pro,
and you might be able to capitalize on this elite
production at the World Juniors. So I don't want to
sell gay Pro, but if you can get an absolutely
incredible package, then I think you should do it. What
do you think, Jesse.
Speaker 2: Victor, I'm not gonna lie. When you said gay Pro,
how shall I put this?
Speaker 1: Clinched?
Speaker 2: I clinched. I was very tense when you said that
I should sell him because I just paid a fair
bit pick him up in a league. But Iah, no,
you called me down. You brought me back after that
victor because I see what you're saying, I see your
logic and how you go about doing this, and I agree,
Adam Fox has got to be a low ep right now.
Compared to as easy as it would be or as
hard as it would be to get somebody who's a
former resent, a winner and is still at that age,
it does seem like he is not probably gonna have
the value that he did a little while ago. So now, yeah,
pounds if you can pounds. The Philadelphia Flyers are next up.
This was another one that was a little bit of
a challenge. I'm going to be sentimental and take a
guy as a buy who hasn't necessarily shown us a
ton yet this year, and that's Jamie Drysdale, old favorite
Jamie Drysdale. He's had a little bit of success more recently.
There was a nice story on thirty two Thoughts about
him scoring getting cheers from the Philadelphia crowd, and when
you're getting cheers from the Philadelphia crowd that you're doing
something right. Even though I think they were doing it
to taunt the the Blair who went out in that
trade more than it maybe were. They were doing it
a little more out of spite maybe than celebration, but
we'll take it when we can get it. Power Play one,
he's on Jamie Drysdale, and for all these guys in
the Philadelphia Defensive Corps that we thought might be able
to turn into it, there's a very reasonable chance that
it will end up being Jamie. So I'm gonna say
that it's it's just been taking time. He's only two
hard twenty two. He's hardly a post even a fully
post hype sleeper. But nonetheless, and then on the cell side,
I guess if I'm buying Jamie Drysdale, I'm probably gonna
move Travis Sandheim. He's third on the team at Fantasy points,
so he should still have very high value. We've talked
about it, we've celebrated him on an episode not that
long ago. There are contenders to remove him from those
top roles, though as discussed, he could still be perceived
as a foundational the defenseman, and so perhaps there is
a way to get a very decent return for him.
But I think I would move on if I could
get a good value for that. What do you think, victor.
Speaker 1: Or Nations Representative Travis Seinheim. You're selling sell him on that.
Maybe if he has a winning goal for it, then
add fifty percent of the price. There you go. Wait
till after the Four Nations hero Travis Sanheim brings Canada
to do they giving out medals? Is this like a
pride thing? Are they gonna have a podium? I don't
know whatever. Oh once he Yeah, maybe maybe you can
do that. But I agree, I like to sell Sanheim.
This is who he is. He goes on these little
runs and so sometimes maybe you can get some someone
believing that he is the chosen one, or you know,
just also maybe you can just sell them on the
rock steady production, because that's what he's been the last
couple of seasons. Decent to good priffs and a forty
eight point pace in a deep enough league is somewhat exciting.
So good with that. I am just I don't think
I'm ever gonna come around on Jamie Drysdale. I think
I've just moved off of him. I don't think I'm
gonna buy it. I'm not buying it. I'm just not don't.
I don't believe. I think he still struggles with a
lot of aspects of the game and I don't think
his offense at this level has ever been special. You know,
he's gotten some production here there. I think he's he's
certainly going to have a career, and that's good for him.
I'm happy for him. He's getting close to that two
hundred point, that two hundred game played time where sometimes
you see things take off, and I certainly think that's
still possible that he improves from a twenty seven career
point pace guy to more in the thirty five to
forty five. I think he still has that potential, but
I'm not willing to buy on that, so I would
rather sell. I would rather move off of that. I
understand why you might want to, and in the right
team situation, that could be reasonable. All right, I'm moving
on to my last team, and I'm going to buy
yo Old Blumpquist. He was a Pittsburgh Penguin goalie. He
is Pittsburgh goalie. He was drafted second round, twentieth overall
or sorry, fifty seven overall in twenty twenty. That was
the year that they took both Blomquist and Klang and
people were wondering, what the heck are they doing. We
know what they did. They traded one of them for
a skater, Ricardo Kel and he's still on the team,
so that sort of worked out okay, except the team
hasn't been great, but that's for other reasons. The larger
picture here is that Tristan Jarry is no longer in
the NHL, and I'm I don't know if it sounded
like they talk to the athletic beat writer who we've
had on the show, and it sounds like they are not.
It's unlikely that he's going to be an NHLer moving forward,
and so he Tristan Jarry might just be done or
might have a fledgling career moving forward. Adelkovich, who just
had an amazing goal assist game with a win, fantastic.
But I don't think he's the savior. I don't think
he's the star volume starter. I think he's a capable
NHLer and a sort of stop gap. They also the
team talked about want to give Blumpquists more time. His
stats look a little underwhelming right now, which might actually
work in your favor in acquiring him, because I think
that he's much better than He's only had eight NHL games,
so give him a break. But some of his numbers
look better as good or better than Adelkovich's even though
he's had more certainly more experience and more games this year.
So I would buy on Yull Blumpquist. I think that
he's going to He has the potential to be the
volume starter moving forward. How good this Penguins team will be,
I don't know. Maybe not great, but at least you'll
have a guy who should get a decent number of looks.
And if you're someone who values goalies like I do,
where you don't want to invest too much, now's the
time to go get a goalie like that. I would
rather spend an extra asset or two to get a
goalie who's ready to contribute, like yu Ol Blunkfist, than
to draft one and hold him for five years and
then have him flame out. Get yu Ol Blunkfist. The
guy that I want to sell is Harrison Bernike and
Bruneck was drafted just this past year forty fourth overall,
two hundred pound, sixty three, right handed d He's playing
in the WHL. He has been with kam Luke's past
several seasons. He has twelve points in fifteen games so far.
He had an injury, though, and that was partly he
was actually looked like he was going to be on
Team Canada, and which was interesting because at the time
they invited him to to the selection camp over Zaan
PreK and Kardi Yakimchuk, which made everyone look sideways. And
then he didn't. He wasn't able to participate because of
the injury, and he still hasn't played many games because
of that. But he was really close to making the
Penguins out of camp this year. There's been a lot
of impressive play from him, but I think a lot
of this from Bernickey comes down to his real life
projection is really strong. I think he's going to be
a strong, real life, even strength all situations player. I'm
not sure he's going to be a big scorer, though
his bash does look like it might be elite, so
you have a high priff guy, but I just don't
know that the scoring is going to be there. So
if you can pass on the bash upside, which I
think is much easier to find in free agency, and
if someone is buying the hype on Bernike, then maybe
you can sell him and I would probably recommend that.
Speaker 2: Jesse, Yeah, that sounds good, and blanc Vist is a
guy I've rostered for a long time in a couple
of leagues. I'm a definite fan of his, so I
love that shout and I'm hoping that he is going
to mature the way it looks you talked about. I
think last episode you talked about Kukuple and being offered
Nadelkovich in a trade.
Speaker 1: Is that right, Victor, Yeah, And I will tell you
the funny thing is, I actually picked him up for
the game that where he scored the goal, assistant got
the win, two goals allowed, and forty some shots and
it was a really strong performance. And I got the
trade offer during the game and I just picked him up.
So I'm like, okay, yeah, oh, so you have him
and somebody's asking to trade for him. You're saying, yeah,
the trade hasn't executed yet. By the time you listen
to this, it probably will. But the offer was Bobrovski
and Lekkanen for Barzal and Nidelkovich.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I was gonna say because little known fact,
I was asked and I came off the bench. I
am in kokupfle right now. Elon asked me to hop
in for a team that is really bad. And then
immediately Jari, who was one of my goalies, went to
the miners and I picked up Nadelkovich. And now I'm
salty that I don't get to count goals and assists
in that format for my guys, but I like it.
Washington Capital is the final team, and we're going to
start with a little bit of captain obvious here. Aleksha
Protas has been the man of the hour, the man
of the season in some ways for Washington, at least
in my heart. Some people might think that the little
magical run that he's been on is over. The it
present thirty six points and forty five games. That's where
the counter is right now. He does not. Somehow, this
enormous beastly man does not.
Speaker 1: It was a huge, beastly, bulging man.
Speaker 2: Get hits, and I don't understand why. Come on, Alex said,
you could get hits and not even noticing that you're
giving hits because you're that big. You could just be
running over peace people. Let Tom Wilson give you like
ten percent of his hits, just for fairness. But I
don't think the magic is over. And I did acquire
Protas in a couple of leagues, and if there's somebody
who thinks that they're selling high, that is sometimes a
way to zag if somebody else thinks they're selling high.
I'm going to get in on that, and that's where
I'm going to go, and then the sell Victor. The
big climax of this episode, I gotta say, it's got
to be Alexevetchkin. I think it's got to be Alexevetchkin
because he's headed for that goal Chase. It's going to
be so much fun to have him on your team
for that goal Chase. You could just take that and
pocket it, or you could try to prop it up
that But after this season, if he breaks the record,
is even going to stay in the NHL. I got
to go back and look at his contracts. I think
is I don't think he's got contract pass this year.
I'm not sure, but he could just leave. He could
be gone and you're going to enjoy that walle it's there,
but I wouldn't be. So there's always been talk he'll
go back to the KHL toward the end, and he
finally broke down and had an injury this year. So Victor,
I'm gonna sell Alex Lovechkin because once again, you are
never going to get more back for him than you
are right now. And if people believe he is going
to keep up the pace until he breaks the record,
good for them. If I'm thinking it all past this year,
I'm willing to do it, Victor, and I've actually done
it in a couple of leagues, so it's not just
it's not just talk. What do you think, Victory? Am
I being a trader? What's the deal here?
Speaker 1: No? I don't think so. And Alexevechkin has one year
after this. He's signed for the twenty five to twenty
six season at nine point five million, So yeah, no,
I think that's a good a good option certainly if
you can get good value for him. And he definitely
is going to keep pushing this year as he continues
to get that record. It seems inevitable that he's going
to get it this year. So yeah, I don't know
what next year is going to bring. That's interesting. Maybe
he'll walk away, or maybe he'll want to push that
number up even higher. I like that. In terms of protass,
I totally agree to. I had a trade offer sitting
in my inbox Jesse early in the season when protass
was going off. It was protests for Cam York in tidy,
and I was thinking, is this real? Is this real life?
Is this my imagination? Is this going to continue? And
I waited just long enough for the person who sent
it to realize they wanted to keep protests, and I
was like, ah, I should have just I should have
made it, should have made it happen, because I agree.
I think it looks It really looks sustainable to me.
You look at his underlying metrics and his even string
offense and offensive generation creation. It's elite and it's in
par with what he's doing. His expected matches, his results,
and defensively is the same thing. So it just seems
like he's figured it out. He's turned the corner. He's
doubled his point pace. I think that he's probably in
this fifty five to sixty five point range. Maybe there's
upside for more. Right now he's a little bit above that,
but it's also he's been cold. I think he can
hit more than that, and I think it's reasonable. It's
probably a good time to buy him, actually have him
on a couple of teams, even though I didn't get
him in that one trade, and it's been frustrating, but
it's only been frustrating because he's been doing so well
before now, so it's like, what are your expectations? They
were zero coming into this season and now they've increased
a lot. He's actually helped win me weeks, especially when
he and Strom go off who I have together and
so that's lovely, but that hasn't been happening mainly, so
that's been frustrating. But yeah, I totally would endorse that
buy sell, and yeah, I think there's something to be
said for the fun aspect too, and have a movie
on your team when he breaks the record is definitely
a selling point that I think you could probably lean into.
Speaker 2: Any more thoughts on this Eastern Conference exercise that we've
had your Victor.
Speaker 1: No, hopefully you found it useful and definitely let us
know if you're contemplating some moves you want some suggestions,
hop into the discord chat about it.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it too, Victor. We'll be right back after
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