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

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your source of information and analysis to help you win

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your fantasy hockey league.

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Speaker 2: Block off, hot A, step hit on, staylock.

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Speaker 1: Here's your hosts, Jesse Souvier and Victor Nunio Fantasy Hockey.

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Speaker 3: Live once again, talking with Victor Nunio of Dabber. I

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am Jesse severa fantracks. How you doing there, Victor, I'm

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doing awesome, Jesse.

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Speaker 4: We finished our team preview series and it's time to

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move on to other things, and I'm looking forward to

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discussing that with you.

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Speaker 5: How you doing I'm doing good.

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Speaker 3: I'm yeah, No, it's great times. Yeah, I don't know

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what to do with myself without team previews to keep

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me busy, without editing two episodes a week, without all

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this stuff, We're just like doing normal things now. And

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we know, like this is crunch time for people who

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are listening. You are preparing. You might be doing slow

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drafts as you listen to this, as you wait for

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your turn to come up on the clock, which, of course,

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when it comes to you, you will draft within five minutes,

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even if you have an eight hour timer, because that's

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the right thing and the hygienic thing to do for

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all people.

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Speaker 5: Hey man, Yeah, I'm definitely it's and it's a fun time.

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Speaker 4: We're seeing training camps, we're seeing news, we're seeing the

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media tour, We're seeing all these fun things and definitely

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gets me excited. And I love draft season with slow drafts.

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I have multiple going on right now. That's always really fun.

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Oh I get to make another pick.

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Speaker 5: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Victor.

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Speaker 3: People can celebrate this time of year over on our

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Speaker 2: It's free.

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Speaker 3: Just emails Fantasyhockeylife at gmail dot com. We'll give you

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a link. You can pop in the discord and just

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enjoy your life, just talk to people. You might still

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be able to set up a leak with friends. Just

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say hey, go into the final join my league room

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and say hey, anybody want to do a leak? You

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get together, set up a fan tracks league and to

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have fun with that. But also, in addition to the

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free discord, you have other things to tell people about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can check out all the bonus content at

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Speaker 3: You're right back with a fun one today talking to

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Blake Kreamer. Welcome to the show. Blake Kreamer doing little apples,

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little genos out there doing a little bit of fantasy

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hockey talk with us today.

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Speaker 2: So cool. How you doing today, Blake, buddy. I feel good.

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I'm happy just to be in the presence of two

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legends such as yourselves here at Fantasy Hockey Life.

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Speaker 3: It feels good in terms of length, the amount of

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time that we've just stubbornly continue to put stuff out legends.

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In that case, like legends that no longer anyway.

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Speaker 5: All right, So so.

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Speaker 2: Honest too, Jesse, that's a double thread right there. Yeah,

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all right, I.

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Speaker 5: Think it's more like you guys are still doing that.

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Speaker 3: Really, I thought it was just a legend that you

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guys did that. Nobody's ever seen it in person.

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Speaker 2: I'm learning something today and I feel good about that.

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Speaker 5: We're excited to have you, Blake.

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Speaker 4: We've been enjoying all your content over apples and ginos,

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you and Nate, and as we get closer to the season,

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we start thinking a little bit more about redraft because

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our brain always goes to Dynasty all the time and

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there's no off season, but we also like to partake

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in our redrafts, and so we wanted to get you

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on to talk a little bit about some strategy and

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a little bit about some guys, some sort of depth option.

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There's my guys, guys that you want to get towards

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the end of the draft. How does that sound?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely. I love conversations like this, and this is

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what I'd be doing if I wasn't on camera right now. Yeah,

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it's good to capture this for the people.

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Speaker 4: Heck, yeah, man, I know that we all are on

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the zero G train. That is something that we all

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agree on in terms of our approach. I wanted to

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tell you a little bit of how I think about

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redraft leagues. I'm thinking in the fourteen to sixteen team

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league range where you're getting about eighteen picks, so something

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like that. So my approach is generally the first three rounds,

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get for sure guys that I know are going to

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be top line, top power play, top defenceman. The next

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few rounds, I might take a mild swing, but I'm

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still looking for guys that I know pretty sure, maybe

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some guys like celebring you that are ready to take

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the next step Mitchikoff, guys like that. And then round

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seven to ten, I try to want to take bigger swings,

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mind some value. And then after that I'm gonna get

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my goalies after round ten and then looking at some

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deep sort of guys, maybe look at the schedule, maybe

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look at always looking at off night and things like that.

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or how do you think about that a little bit differently,

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just in terms of like how you structure your draft,

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left wing first or a center for I don't do

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that sort of towards the end, and I don't want to.

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I don't want to come out of the first three

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rounds with three left wings though.

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Speaker 4: That's a problem. So you want to have a little

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bit of an eye on that. But I think you

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value and the sort of safe picks at the front,

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don't you think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that all makes sense to me. Full disclosure. My

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strategies they change all the time based on what the

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draft gives me. I've been thinking about this a lot lately,

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just because I work with Nate and he's so analytical

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and I'm getting there. But it's funny, He's like classical

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music and I'm like jazz, you know what I mean. Like,

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I could just see what the draft is giving me

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and then I adapt my strategy to it. But yeah,

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to your point, I don't want to be taken big swings,

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certainly not in the first round. I want safety. You

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said the top three rounds. I like being somewhat safe

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for the top five or six rounds. That's where I

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are going to produce, that I know their rule is secure,

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and then yeah, I'm definitely on board with zero G.

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pick up a goalie a little bit earlier, still, not

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before the tenth round. I like the tenth round as

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a just a starting point. That's when I start looking

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for goals. But yeah, in category leagues, I might go

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like round nine, round ten, whereas in points leagues, I

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go a little bit later. But one of the things

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that I like to do that is a little bit

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different than what you mentioned here is I like the

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load up on defense early. That is something that especially

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with this season coming up, I feel like defense is

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really drying up. I feel like a lot of people

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it's drying up pretty quick. And I think the value

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over replacement aspect of some of these top guys is

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really important as well, and you just can't get it

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if you don't get some of the top defensemans. So

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I like getting a couple defensemen in my first five

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rounds and then yeah, I'm just looking for upside as

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the draft goes on there.

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Speaker 4: It's funny because I've been doing a lot of mocks

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and it is I agree with you. It's been really

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interesting what I've been seeing because I have my value,

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do my projections, and I look at, Okay, who do

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I want? And I did it a couple different ways.

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it in and I got zero defenseman through eight rounds.

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It's just the way it happened. And then I went

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one strategy went exactly what you said. I was like, no,

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the top picks, and then it was like Sanderson, Cider, Dobson, Lacombe.

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like Thomas and Strom towards the end, and so like

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you put these side aside and you're like, which of

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these teams would I rather have? And it's interesting because

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just straight by the numbers, in terms of how much

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straight up points per player, the forwards probably do more.

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Speaker 5: But then as you said, it completely drops off, so you.

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Speaker 4: Can get some good banger defensemen some guys that have

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all around points, but you're not gonna find power play

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defenseman after the first few rounds, at least not someone

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that's consistently. You might get someone who steps into something

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that wasn't expected, that tends to always happen, but you're

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not gonna get one of those sure things. So I

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think that that's something that I would also be looking

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at in those middle four to six round. Okay, make

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sure I come out of here with a high end

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defenseman and not just nothing but forwards because that could

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be a little bit tricky.

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Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely agree with that. It's an interesting draft this year,

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especially in that first round. What have you noticed there?

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You guys just like the pick nine, ten, eleven, twelve

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for the first round, it doesn't seem as locked in

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as it has in years previous. Right, we got Matt

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Kichuk who's obviously out he's a perennial first round or

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you got guys like zak Arensky and Queen Hughes maybe

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pushing into the first round. What are you seeing out there?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I had nine or ten, and I

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can tell you I hated it. It was awful, totally

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Like the first six or seven, you're like, I'm good

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one of these like mccarr, Pasta, Caprisov like you're pretty good,

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even Brady Kuchuk. But then you're in that range. I

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don't know what is rontin and gonna do? Do I

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take another? Is Ronsky gonna live up to his hype?

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Hughes is off An injured? There's just I feel like

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that range of nine or ten through twelve thirteen is

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where I would definitely not want to be because there's

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just a lot of questions with those guys, and.

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Speaker 5: I feel like that could go reallyside it.

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Speaker 4: They're still gonna get pretty good players, but I don't

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know that you're gonna get the value. I think I'd

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rather just pick towards the end of the second and

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pick up whoever's left there.

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Speaker 5: I feel like that's a lot easier. Is that what

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you've seen?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh sorry, go ahead, Jasey. I'd love to hear

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your take too. First off, Jesse, did you play a

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bunch of redraft leaks? I don't.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I think I'll have two redraft leagues this year,

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but I play majority Dynasty. My toe only dips in

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so far. What I was gonna say, because one of them,

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I won't draft until like opening night. But in the

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other one, somehow Victor contrived for there to be a

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twenty three team Guillotine League and I got picked twenty three.

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So talk about first round rubbernecking, trying to figure out

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what the heck happened here? Yeah, the turn at pick

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twenty three. Let me tell you something. Be thankful if

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you're picked nine and ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it drops off steep, doesn't it. Oh Man?

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, But go ahead, Blake, What was your what

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was your take there? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I don't even remember. I don't know what we were

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talking about there, But yeah, it's to me, like you said, Victor,

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there's lots of stuff that's up in the air, like

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you said, Ranton, And that's an interesting piece this year

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in the first round, because yeah, does he belong there?

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recently with a friend of mine, Jack Eikel. In the

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first round? Is that something we're doing this year? It

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makes sense, right, It definitely makes sense depending on your format.

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And like I said, some of those defensemen pushing up

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into the first round it doesn't feel good, but you

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are getting that value over replacement. So yeah, it's weird

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times there, but I still am a big proponent and

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believer of get d early and faise centers for the

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most part, because there's still going to be a lot

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of good centers later on. And then yeah, like you said,

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just mine for some upside towards the back of your draft.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think if I'm getting Ico at the end

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of the first if it's like a fourteen or sixteen,

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I'm very happy. I would be very worried about reaching

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it for him a little earlier, just because I think

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it'll be fine. But it's one of those things where

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I don't like to I don't like to have question

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marks with my first pick. I feel like every time

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I've drafted with question marks on my first pick this

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season has not gone well. I think it just sets

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the tone for the whole team. And you're just like, oh, man,

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if you don't have one of those, for sure, like

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talk guys like that. Your Koutrov announced he was out

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for the whole year, and people already drafted in the ruin,

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oh yeah, their whole season.

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Speaker 5: That was a different story.

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Speaker 4: But if any of your top if anyone's first round

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pick just has a bad season. It seems like it

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would be a miracle for you to actually make the

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playoffs in that situation, like it's just so much to

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recover from.

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Speaker 2: Yep, for sure. I have a quick question for you guys,

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just because obviously you're both so well versed in dynasty,

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how do you extrapolate the value of a player in redraft?

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Like these young prospects that you guys are really high on,

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how do you translate that value over to a redraft league?

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Is there certain things you look for, Like obviously a

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player like mitchkav or Celebrini, like we know they're good

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to go, right, Badard still good to go now? Yous

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waning a little bit there, But what about some of

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these other guys that you're really into.

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Speaker 4: It's funny for me because I think people always assume

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in my drafts that I'm going to go for the

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young guy, and that is not usually what I do

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because I want the proven track record. But I do

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think it makes a big difference. Guys like Demodov who

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have played professionally played in the KHL, that is a

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completely different situation from a guy who just stepped out

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of the OHL or WHL or even college like it's

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a huge step for them, and unless you're talking about

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these frankly that we've been spoiled with these really excellent

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colder candidates the last few years with Badard and Celebrini.

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I think that Demodov will probably be as good or

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better in terms of points, But he's also had another

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couple of years of experience in the KHL, so it's

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not really the same situation. So I look for who's

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done it at a significant level, because for the most part,

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unless they have or less they've played in the AHL

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already or in the KHL or professional league, I don't

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think you can generally expect much unless they're like a

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generational a type of player. So generally I've fade them

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and people are always taking them earlier than I would think,

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which usually surprised people that are like, aren't you going to

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get them? I'm like, no, dude, Like yeah, why would

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I get him? There's this, for sure, guy that I

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know is going to get sixty seventy points or whatever,

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I'm not gonna take. I would take the chance, was

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it last year? If Celebrini felt till the fifth round

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or something, I would have taken him. But people taking

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him like in the second or like early third, I

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was like, no, Like it ended up working out okay

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for them, But I think that I'm generally more conservative

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with the prospects.

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Speaker 2: Totally. Yeah, I'm in the same place as Victor.

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Speaker 3: You can't really surprise people if you're in a shallow

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enough draft that you really can get with somebody in surprise.

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If I was in some draft where maybe Daniela You're

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Off was there in the thirteenth round or something like

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that and I grabbed. You just never know the competition

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you're playing with. But in the types of leagues that

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we play in, which is a lot with our patrons

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and other people who have a lot of skill, if anything,

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they probably err on the side of overestimating the the

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precociousness of these players.

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Speaker 2: And I'm with Victor.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes better to have an aj Copepeitar than a brand

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new guy coming up. Yeah, I totally with Victor on

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that one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Actually, people want these league winners, don't they.

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That's all I'm so smart. I'm picking this guy. He's

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gonna win me my league. It's this is a luck

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based game at the end of the day. Right, We

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can't just go out just take a bunch of swings

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on people. It doesn't make any sense, not if you

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want to win. So I absolutely agree with what you're

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saying there.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, And I think Jesse inadvertently gave me a perfect

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segue to the first guy we're going to talk about

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talking about and j Copitar, and that relates to the

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first guy, not Copatar, That's not who.

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Speaker 5: We're going to talk about.

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Speaker 4: We talk about quin Byfield because it is I think, finally,

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hopefully fingers crossed prayers, that it is his time, Like

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it just seems like he has been waiting around. He's

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done some really good things. Then actual points haven't popped,

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but you've seen progression and time on ice and responsibility

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going from the wing to the center. And an Jacobitar

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is still a good player, but I think it's finally

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quit in Byfield time, finally time for him to get

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on that top power plan.

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Speaker 5: And I think if he does, then he can really cook.

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Speaker 4: So I think where you're getting Byfield right now, we're

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gonna I'm gonna reference fan tracks ADPs. We're seeing him

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at about one fifty, and that's what we're trying to

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focus on here, Like you're one fifty to two to

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fifty range where it's the last several picks of your draft,

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like you really want to try to I think if

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you hit these out of the park, like your team's

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going to be really good and you have a chance

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of winning.

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Speaker 5: So that's what I'm looking at. And I think that.

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Speaker 4: He's going there because he's been boring mid fifties point player.

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But you look at the team around him, you look

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at the context, you look at some shifts that are happening,

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and the fact that Kopitar is taking another step back,

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He's slowing down a little bit. He's still a good player,

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but like he can't be your first line center anymore.

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It's got to be it's got to be Buyfield's turn.

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And so that's a guy that I'm looking at. What

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is your interest level on Buyfield there?

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Speaker 5: Blake?

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Speaker 2: I love him. I love the player obviously, Like you

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just have to watch some of his highlights from last

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year to get jacked about the player. He scored one

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of the sickest goals I've ever seen. I don't know

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if you remember that one where he was in front

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of the net. He had one hand on his stick,

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He's battling a guy. He knocks down a point shot

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with the one hand and then knocks it in with

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the other hand, like the guy's elite. I love Quentin Buyfield.

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My only concern with him is a pathway to offensive minutes.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: We saw the Kings run a five to forward power

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play in the playoffs, and that's fine, right, Buyfield was

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on there. But if they decide not to who gets

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bounced off the top power play? We got Andre Kuzmenko there,

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we got onse Coppatar, who I think should be bounced

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off the top power play. But are they going to

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do that? I don't think so. I like this could

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be his last year. I don't see them knocking Copetar

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off the power play. You got Campe, you got Fiala.

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You know, I think Buyfield might be the odd man

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out if they decide to put someone on quarterback like

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Drew Dowdy or Brent Clark. So that gives me a

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little bit of pause. But I'm definitely into the player.

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This guy is an absolute stud. I think we've projected

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him for somewhere close to sixty some odd points. He's

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really good in all three zones. That's the other thing

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I like, like he has the coach's confidence, so he'll

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get out there for big minutes. That was indicated by

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his time on ice last year, so that's not going

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to change. It's just those offensive minutes that I'm concerned about.

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And it's the power play really because his even strength line.

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Kevin Fiala, Yes, please get that guy in your life.

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He's an amazing offensive player, elite offensive play driver. And

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then Alex Laferrier is another player I'm really interested in

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just on my teams and as a late round pick.

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So I think that second line is really good. We're

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gonna get Quintin Byfield as the two C. What's going

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to happen on the power play? I think that's really

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going to make or break his value for Fantasy this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm disagree with you, but I do think that

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this is the year that we start to see a

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little bit of flip flopping, right, Like maybe not Cobaitar

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on undred percent top power play, maybe not Byfield, but

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maybe they give him a couple of face offs instead

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of Copatar, or maybe they leave Kuzmenko off and put

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Buyfield up there for one of them.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I think that they have to start doing more of

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this transition. And I know when we talked to our

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guests over the summer, that was a big thing that

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Dennis Spernstein talked about, is that they needed, they want to,

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and they need to start doing more of this. And

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they're really happy with Buyfield's progress. I think that, and

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they've been giving him more and more responsibility, which he's

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been handling. So I think that was part of it too.

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They want to see him down the middle, they want

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to they wanted to see him with more responsibility.

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Speaker 5: He's done it.

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Speaker 4: So I think I hear your reservations, but I still

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would be happy to have him that Like, I wouldn't

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be reaching for him, but if he fell into my

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lap in that range, I'd be good with it. Let's

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move on to the next guy. And I heard you.

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I was just telling you before we hopped on. I

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was listening to you and they talk about some of

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these players, and Pavelnevitch was one of them, and he

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is someone that I definitely agree with a lot of

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what you said. And just to reiterate some of the

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things reason why I like him. First of all, he

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he was an absolute stud for me down the stretch

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last season and basically propelled me into the finals of

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my league. So I have a saft spot for him,

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but I try not to think about that. I try

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to just think about what is it that is interesting

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about him? And yeah, the Blues have a little bit

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more mouths to feed now. It's certainly Snugrood is an

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interesting piece that's coming up, and they have some other

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guys there, but he should be on that top line.

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He should be stable to Robert Thomas, who's an way

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underrated elite playmaker. I love the fact that he has

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try eligibility, and I love the fact that.

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Speaker 5: They have off nights.

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Speaker 4: This is a huge underrated play for me and redraft

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is I often will prioritize the the guys on off

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nights just because it makes streaming so much easier, just

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so much easier, especially with goalies, but also any skater

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and you're talking about a tr eligible skater on a

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team that should be a playoff team, stable to one

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of the best centers in the league, and you're getting

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him at one sixty four. Come on, this is a

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no brainer for me. I know that sometimes he doesn't

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do anything. I've definitely seen those games where he gives

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you Dittaly squad and you're.

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Speaker 5: Just like, did you do anything out there?

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Speaker 4: But then he gives you those games where he gives

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you massive Fantasy points, well above sometimes even your superstars,

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and he won me week. So I generally don't like

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that type of player, but at this value, I'm more

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than happy to take Pabouchevitch for that ride and just

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know that some nights he's not gonna give me much,

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but some nights he might win me my week, and

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I'm good with that.

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Speaker 2: How about you, Blake, Yeah, this is a player I'm

473
00:20:25,599 --> 00:20:28,160
way in on this year at cost. It's a no brainer.

474
00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,240
Like you said, I feel like this is a guy

475
00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,000
for two straight seasons now, so it's fair that he's

476
00:20:33,079 --> 00:20:35,519
His ADP has dropped a bit, but he's been inefficient.

477
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,880
He's mostly been a very inefficient or sorry efficient player

478
00:20:39,039 --> 00:20:41,839
throughout his career. Last two seasons not so much. Also,

479
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,359
his performance on the Power Play the last two years

480
00:20:44,559 --> 00:20:47,200
has been declining, and that's where I think that there's

481
00:20:47,759 --> 00:20:51,400
room to grow because, like you said, he's with Robert Thomas,

482
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,160
and I love Robert Thomas. Actually it's hard for fantasy

483
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,400
because Robert Thomas doesn't do a lot of the things

484
00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:02,960
that we want to see fantasy do, like shots, hits, blocks, nothing.

485
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,440
He's doing nothing there. But I absolutely agree with you

486
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,519
that he's elite, maybe one of the best facilitators in

487
00:21:08,559 --> 00:21:11,279
the league, and he's underrated at that Pavel butch Naevich

488
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,200
attached there. I think this is it's only a matter

489
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:15,799
of time, right. He's had a couple of seasons here,

490
00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:17,400
a little bit of a down season. They had a

491
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,559
coaching change, right, you bring in a guy like Jim Montgomery,

492
00:21:20,559 --> 00:21:24,319
who's a pretty elite offensive mind in terms of coaching. Right,

493
00:21:24,759 --> 00:21:28,160
So I think a full training camp under Jim Montgomery,

494
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,160
healthy papuch Nighbors coming into the year, Like, it's a

495
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,359
no brainer to me. This is a guy that he's

496
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,519
at the end of a lot of really high danger

497
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,799
passes from Robert Thomas, and I think that it's going

498
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,799
to be a matter of time for that shooting percentage

499
00:21:40,839 --> 00:21:43,640
to start going up. I also like Jimmy Snugger Rude.

500
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,519
I like him on that line. I hope they start

501
00:21:46,599 --> 00:21:49,000
him there because he's an underrated playmaker as well, and

502
00:21:49,039 --> 00:21:51,880
he had he just showed himself pretty well in the

503
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,079
playoffs there, So I think that's a nice top line.

504
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,680
I love Jim Montgomery as the head coach of the Blues.

505
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,920
I think it's going to equal good things for this team.

506
00:21:59,039 --> 00:22:01,000
And yeah, shigamors at won sixty.

507
00:22:01,079 --> 00:22:06,079
Speaker 4: Yes please or sure, let's move on to maybe one

508
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,960
a little less known and at least in not in

509
00:22:09,039 --> 00:22:10,680
Dynasty Circles but for Redraft.

510
00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:12,559
Speaker 5: Alex Nikishin. Now.

511
00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 4: We've been drooling over Nikishin in Dynasty Circles for a

512
00:22:15,759 --> 00:22:19,960
long time now, mainly because he's been starring in the KHL.

513
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,039
He was the captain of the SKA team and just

514
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,480
looking amazing. We were wondering if he'd ever come over,

515
00:22:24,519 --> 00:22:26,200
and he did, and he suited up for some playoff

516
00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:29,359
games and the first one was an adventure. I think

517
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,759
he had some communication issues, but there was you could

518
00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:34,720
just see when they when he settled in and played,

519
00:22:34,759 --> 00:22:37,720
he was he looked amazing. He was trucking guys, He

520
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,640
had an incredible shot and you could just see him

521
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,759
settling in. I think that he's going to start out

522
00:22:43,759 --> 00:22:46,519
being probably a second or third pair guy, but I

523
00:22:46,519 --> 00:22:49,160
think he moves up. I don't think there's anyone on

524
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,920
the left side that completely blocks him.

525
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:51,079
Speaker 5: Sure.

526
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,799
Speaker 4: KeAndre Miller is a great compliment. Depends on who he

527
00:22:54,839 --> 00:22:57,119
plays with, but I could see nikishin and they might

528
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,960
even want to insulate him with Jacob Slavan on the

529
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,400
other side, and that could be a perfect combination for

530
00:23:01,519 --> 00:23:03,960
some offense and some security there. And the fact that

531
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,519
this guy he bashes like he's a bash master. He's

532
00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:09,720
been that in the KHL. Yeah he's mocking or he's

533
00:23:09,759 --> 00:23:13,640
being drafted around one seventy. I think that's incredible value

534
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,920
because I think this guy by the end of the season.

535
00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:18,480
Might take him a few weeks to a month or two,

536
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,279
but I think by the end of the season he

537
00:23:20,279 --> 00:23:22,640
could end up being one of the top fantasy defensemen.

538
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,799
It all depends on that power play, but even without it,

539
00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:27,240
I think he's going to get a really high floor

540
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,119
and I think you're going to be pretty happy. He

541
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,359
may not be your top defenceman, but he might be

542
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,440
your second or third, depending on how things go. And

543
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,319
I think that he's one of these guys we talked

544
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,319
about the beginning, you can't find these good defensemen.

545
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:38,319
Speaker 5: Later he might be.

546
00:23:38,319 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 4: One that you can and that I wouldn't want to

547
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,839
bet all my chips on, but I think that he's

548
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,839
one who could return tremendous value, so I'd be all

549
00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:47,440
over him a little bit later in drafts. What do

550
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,400
you think, Blake, Yeah, absolutely, Nate's got me stoked on

551
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:50,839
this player.

552
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: So we've had some good discussions about mentionin here. Yeah.

553
00:23:53,559 --> 00:23:55,599
I like what you said about him not needing power

554
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,279
play one to really be fantasy relevant. Obviously because of

555
00:23:58,319 --> 00:24:00,359
the solid peripheral floor that he's bringing here with the

556
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,920
hits and blocks, that's awesome. This guy's going to be

557
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,839
a Beefer right off the bat. He's got experience in

558
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,799
a high level league for a lot of years, so

559
00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:09,960
that's definitely playing in his favor. And I like you

560
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,160
said about Jacob Slaven too. If they put him a Slaven, Yeah,

561
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,839
go for a skate, my guy. Slaven's got it, no worries.

562
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,720
That's one of the best defense defensive defensemen in the league.

563
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,559
So yeah, it's really just about power play time. And

564
00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:24,079
I can't quite get there on the power play with Nikish.

565
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,119
And when you have a guy like Shane Gorostis Spear

566
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,559
here who really has no other role on this team

567
00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:32,279
other than to quarterback, that top power play. Right, He's

568
00:24:32,279 --> 00:24:34,759
not a good defenceman per se, Right, he fits into

569
00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:37,440
the system here. But yeah, if you're not gonna play

570
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,359
Shane gostis Beear on the top power play, Like now,

571
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,240
Shane Gosispear's value just goes in that toilet. He's gonna

572
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,119
be like a fifteen minute guy, right, So I just

573
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,480
don't see him displacing Shane Gossispear there. But if there's

574
00:24:49,519 --> 00:24:53,200
a Shane Gostispear injury, bang, I think Nikkeishen is easily

575
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,599
the next guy up, and he's probably the heir apparent

576
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,880
as well, right, Like maybe they're transitioning depending on how

577
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,480
Nikishon does this year, like to room him for that

578
00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:04,039
role on the top power plays. I definitely like Carolina

579
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,079
this year. Like you said, I think his even strength

580
00:25:06,079 --> 00:25:08,359
minutes are probably going to be pretty good. What kind

581
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:09,680
of ice time do you think he's going to get?

582
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,000
What are you projecting there? Because Nate and I have

583
00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:14,680
him for like just over nineteen minutes on the year,

584
00:25:14,839 --> 00:25:16,279
I should just tell you the rest of our projection.

585
00:25:16,319 --> 00:25:18,519
Year two got him for ten goals twenty six assists.

586
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,920
So yeah, thirty six points for Nikishan with eight points

587
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,119
on the power play, nineteen minutes average time on ice?

588
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:24,839
What do you guys think.

589
00:25:25,559 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 4: I think this is one of those things where I

590
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,160
don't necessarily disagree with that. I think you have to

591
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,599
do these projections based on an average of the whole season,

592
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,559
but I don't think that's what it's going to be

593
00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:36,319
the whole season. I think he's probably going to start

594
00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:38,720
off a little below that. I could see him by

595
00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:40,680
the end of the CN being in the twenty two range,

596
00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:42,559
and that's where I think a lot of that value

597
00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:43,759
is going to come. I think that they're going to

598
00:25:43,799 --> 00:25:46,839
trust him more and more. This guy was the top

599
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,160
dog on the best KHL team for years and played

600
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,440
against the best competition out there. He knows how to

601
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,279
handle himself. This is not going to be a problem

602
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,000
for him. Yeah, the smaller ice and the way the

603
00:25:57,079 --> 00:25:59,240
Carolina plays and all those things are going to be

604
00:25:59,279 --> 00:26:00,960
a little bit of a jus. But he's gonna have

605
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,880
all of training camp unlike he did in the playoffs,

606
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,400
and I think he's gonna figure it out. I think

607
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,279
he's gonna be over twenty towards the end will his

608
00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:09,400
whole season. I think you might be dead on in

609
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,160
terms of your average for the whole season, But I

610
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,759
think it's one of those things that's going to creep up.

611
00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:14,839
And so maybe, depending on the size of your league,

612
00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:17,279
you don't draft him, maybe you wait and pick him

613
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,799
up after a few weeks, depending on how things are

614
00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:21,079
going for you. And I think he could end up

615
00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:23,079
being a league winner for you, because I definitely think

616
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,920
by Christmas he's gonna end up being a pretty valuable piece,

617
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,920
and I think at that point he'll probably be close

618
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,400
to if not over twenty minutes. And then I agree

619
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,519
with you on the power play. The whole reason you

620
00:26:34,599 --> 00:26:36,200
have Shane gossis Bear is to play him on the

621
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,799
power play. He's not really effective at even strength, but

622
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,240
we've also seen I don't think Carolina is one of

623
00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:43,319
the teams that would just scratch him and give it

624
00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:45,240
to someone else, like if they are not beyond that.

625
00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:47,319
There are certain teams that probably wouldn't do that, but

626
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,039
I don't think that's Carolina. They're gonna go with whoever

627
00:26:50,079 --> 00:26:52,599
helps him the most, and if they feel like Nikishin

628
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,000
can just do it all, they might give it to him.

629
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,079
I doubt that will be the case, just because he's

630
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,319
got so much to learn it even strength, but it

631
00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:01,599
could happen. If it does, then he'll blow that projection

632
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,720
out of the water. Let's move on to the next guy.

633
00:27:04,839 --> 00:27:08,000
So Cole Profetti, He's been one of my favorites for

634
00:27:08,039 --> 00:27:10,119
a long time. He's just he's so smart, the way

635
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,079
he plays, the way he dissects defenses, and yeah, he's

636
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,160
a little small. This discussion of him not being good defensively,

637
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,960
I just I find that offensive quite frankly, because he

638
00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:21,000
is good defensively. In fact, if you look at his

639
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,400
course against numbers, he's literally like the fifth best on

640
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,960
the team, and in terms of who plays the hardest minutes,

641
00:27:27,039 --> 00:27:31,079
he's definitely up there. And he puts Kyle Connor, Mike

642
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,480
Streifley and Gave Valardi to shame, who are like literally

643
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,039
the three worst defensively on that team. But yeah, he

644
00:27:36,039 --> 00:27:38,000
doesn't provide as much offense, and when you look at

645
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,759
expected goal differential, those guys average out a little bit

646
00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:44,640
better because their offense is so good, but Profetti is

647
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,359
right behind them, and he's he offers a lot in

648
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,799
terms of his offense. Of course, it comes down to

649
00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:51,720
is he going to get on that top power play,

650
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,039
which I think he will. Now that I think that's

651
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:55,799
going to be his and that could make a difference,

652
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,440
but still it might not be so exciting, and centers

653
00:27:59,559 --> 00:28:02,039
are tend to be devalued. Although it's very possibly ends

654
00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:03,920
up on the wing, and I think having that wing

655
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,200
eligibility for Profetti could really swing things in terms of

656
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,640
rostering him, because if he's center only and you don't

657
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,799
have as many skater spots that could shift things. With

658
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,720
wing eligibility, I think that makes it a little bit easier.

659
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,200
So he's going at one eighty nine right now, which

660
00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:20,200
is really late, so I'd be happy to have. It

661
00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:22,160
is hard to define top power play guys that late,

662
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,519
and he should be one of them. And depending on

663
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:26,960
how they structure their power play, he could end up

664
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,359
outperforming what he's done previously, which is at most last

665
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,839
season with fifteen power play points. I think he could

666
00:28:33,839 --> 00:28:36,079
touch twenty or more depending on how things go. What

667
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,079
do you think about that, Blake?

668
00:28:37,599 --> 00:28:40,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, this guy's got a ton of acumen. I've

669
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:42,079
been a big fan of the player as well. But

670
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,119
it is going to be interesting. I do agree. I

671
00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:45,519
think he's going to be on power play one. I

672
00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:48,519
think that makes sense. I know they've run Nino Nita

673
00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:51,359
Rider up there before. Like al, I have follow I

674
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,480
don't know they're putting weird guys up there. Cole Profetti

675
00:28:53,519 --> 00:28:55,759
should have that spot locked down at least at the

676
00:28:55,759 --> 00:28:58,960
start of the year. But his deployment at even strength

677
00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:01,119
is a little bit concerning to me because you lose

678
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:03,480
a guy like Nick Eelers, Right. Nick Eeler's one of

679
00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:05,759
the best play drivers in the entire league, one of

680
00:29:05,759 --> 00:29:08,480
the best rush players in the entire league, just electric

681
00:29:08,519 --> 00:29:11,559
out there, right, And Cole Profetti. I think those two

682
00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:13,519
had some really good chemistry and they played well together.

683
00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:16,240
So now Profetti is going to be looking at playing

684
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,839
with Jonathan Taves, which is which sounds good in theory, right,

685
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,559
If we get Jonathan Taves back to some even close

686
00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:25,880
to a level he was at previously, Like, that's a

687
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,799
nice two see situation for Winnipeg. We got maybe Gus

688
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,799
Nyquist out there, who he can do stuff. He's a

689
00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:33,920
good facilitator. I think that Profetti is going to have

690
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,839
to adjust his game a little bit because with Nick

691
00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:39,279
Eelers out there, he's a bit more of the passenger.

692
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,759
But I do think that Profetti has the skill to

693
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:44,000
be the driver. We just have to see it. We

694
00:29:44,039 --> 00:29:45,680
haven't seen it yet because I think he spent a

695
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,519
lot of his time with a guy like Nick Eelers,

696
00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:50,319
So it's just a player of interest for me for now.

697
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,119
But I do think that the power play deployment getting

698
00:29:53,119 --> 00:29:55,559
more points there, maybe a little bit less at even strength.

699
00:29:55,559 --> 00:29:57,400
I think it's going to equal kind of a similar

700
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,480
season to what we saw last year. Nate and I

701
00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:02,839
projected for fifty four points, nineteen points on the power play. Yeah,

702
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,119
that's exactly what happened. More power play points, a little

703
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,279
bit less and even strengthen it comes out in the wash.

704
00:30:07,359 --> 00:30:10,000
The ceiling case here though, if he truly is an

705
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,839
elite play driver and he's able to up his game

706
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,599
and let's say Jonathan Taves comes back and he's just

707
00:30:14,799 --> 00:30:18,480
good to go, same old defensive stalwart like play connector,

708
00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:20,720
I think that, Yeah, there's a sixty point ceiling for

709
00:30:20,799 --> 00:30:23,240
Praffetti here, maybe more if he really cooks on a

710
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:25,240
power play. But I think it's a swing you absolutely

711
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,839
need to take at that ADP on fan tracks, that's crazy.

712
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.

713
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,759
Speaker 4: If we're talking earlier, I would pass, like super early,

714
00:30:32,799 --> 00:30:35,720
but at that point you have to all right, I

715
00:30:35,759 --> 00:30:37,680
got one more, and I think that you're going to

716
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,480
be a fan of this one. Maybe we'll be out

717
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,759
on our John Klingberg island all by ourselves. Blake, I

718
00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:43,799
don't know, but I think that, as we were saying,

719
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,759
when you get towards the end and you don't have

720
00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:48,599
a top power play quarterback, it can be really hard

721
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:52,680
to find one. John Klingberg's ADP is basically being undrafted

722
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,920
in some leagus. He's gone at two twenty one, and yeah,

723
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,680
I get it. Like the Sharks, in case anyone didn't remember,

724
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,359
he's going to play for the Sharks season and their

725
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,640
top power play will be probably amazing in a few years.

726
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,880
William Ecklin Celebrini to Foley will Smith. But it should

727
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,799
also be pretty good this season. And I think that

728
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,960
he doesn't have to do much, and they haven't really

729
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,680
had anyone who's been able to do even a serviceable

730
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,039
amount of moving the puck, and so I think that's

731
00:31:18,079 --> 00:31:19,200
going to be really huge for them.

732
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 5: And those four.

733
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 4: First of all, they get along really well, and so

734
00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:25,480
that is helpful. They like, they love playing together. I'm

735
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,319
sure Cleveland is gonna fit in seamlessly. There's a couple

736
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:30,079
of Swedes already on the team there, so I'm sure

737
00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:33,240
that'll be fine, and they have nothing to play for

738
00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:35,680
other than fun. Just go have fun and try to score.

739
00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:38,559
So I think that I've seen some projections of Cleanberg

740
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:41,799
down as low as like ten to twenty points, And yeah,

741
00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:44,079
it might be that low, but heck, they could just

742
00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:45,640
get out there and have fun on the power play,

743
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,279
and he could get that many points just on the

744
00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:49,799
power play, let alone even strength. So no one's asking

745
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,680
him to defend, no one's asking him to try to

746
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:52,480
help win games.

747
00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:54,279
Speaker 5: Really, like, that's not really going to be a huge

748
00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:55,200
expectation for him.

749
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,319
Speaker 4: We know he's not great defensively and he's older now,

750
00:31:57,359 --> 00:31:59,519
But I think if I'm staring at him with one

751
00:31:59,559 --> 00:32:01,440
of my last picks, I say, why not Blake?

752
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:01,759
Speaker 5: Why not?

753
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, why not at the klingon the Klingons here,

754
00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:09,400
I'm actually I think this is an absolutely viable pick.

755
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,960
I'm not even like, how dare any fantasy analysts say

756
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,359
this man's gonna only get twenty points?

757
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: No?

758
00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:17,799
Speaker 2: Okay, first off, I love what's going on in San Jose,

759
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,400
and it's nice to talk to you because that's your

760
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,559
team obviously, Victor. But there it's like the way I

761
00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:26,759
want Chicago to be Chicago vibes bad. San Jose vibes good,

762
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,599
even though they're both stinky in terms of point production.

763
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,799
At the end of the day, San Jose's having fun.

764
00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:35,240
They're playing entertaining brand of hockey. And yeah, I think

765
00:32:35,319 --> 00:32:38,759
that John Klingberg, like this guy is, he's Shane Gostisper.

766
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,319
You don't sign John Klingberg unless you're gonna put him

767
00:32:41,319 --> 00:32:43,759
on the power play. And they don't have anybody there,

768
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,839
so it makes perfect sense. Who are you gonna put

769
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,799
on the power play besides John Klingberg. I don't like

770
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:52,000
they were running a five forward set there, but that

771
00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:55,319
was terrible. I've seen like Jack Thompson maybe if he's

772
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,400
if he makes the team even I don't know, Lil

773
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,319
Chagrin sure, but yeah, I love John klinger Also, I

774
00:33:01,359 --> 00:33:04,359
read an interview just in the offseason here that yeah,

775
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,160
he's come to realization about himself, which is I think

776
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,279
he was really reliant on just his talent to carry

777
00:33:10,319 --> 00:33:12,640
him through and he wasn't really putting the effort into

778
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,759
the other parts of the game, the defensive parts. And

779
00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:17,880
we saw in the playoffs with Edmonton, John Kleinberg and

780
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,240
Jake Walman played as a pair they won their minutes

781
00:33:20,279 --> 00:33:22,880
out there, they had a positive course. He four percentage

782
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,039
in the playoffs in a limited role. But Kleinberg was

783
00:33:26,079 --> 00:33:27,960
out there doing stuff. He wasn't getting danced at the

784
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,680
blue lines. He was playing some big minutes on a

785
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,400
team with Stanley Cup aspirations, and I think that kind

786
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,200
of stuck with him as well. He's not going to

787
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,480
be a muffin out there just some offensive guys. He's

788
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,000
going to bring an NHL caliber defense to the San

789
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:43,799
Jose Sharks. Is it? You know, at what degree of caliber?

790
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,480
That's questionable, But I do think Klingberg is not the

791
00:33:46,519 --> 00:33:48,599
same player that we've seen in the past. I think

792
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,240
he's got a little bit more meat on the bone.

793
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:51,960
And yeah, he's going to run that power play. So

794
00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:55,039
we've got him projected for almost forty points. That'll play

795
00:33:55,319 --> 00:33:56,920
right at the end of your draft. You're getting a

796
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,599
guy that could potentially get forty points. You could probably

797
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,720
drop them pick him up again, like people aren't rushing

798
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,079
to the wire to pick up John Klingberg. And also

799
00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:06,119
just on John Klingbery, I don't know what he's doing,

800
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,199
but in his head shots, here put your front teeth

801
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,760
in my man. It's I kind of respect it actually,

802
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,119
because yeah, I'm just looking at his headshot here, zero

803
00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:15,679
front teeth, so he does that, he's Yeah, he seems

804
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:17,320
like a character to me, and I'll draft him for

805
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,360
that reason alone. I don't care.

806
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,079
Speaker 3: Is Brent Burns rubbing off since he's in San Jose now?

807
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 2: Is that what's going on? I don't know, but it's good.

808
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,079
It's a beautiful smile. He's got kind eyes and no

809
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,800
front teeth. So there you go. I love it.

810
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 3: I love it, like you say, that's worth drafting him alone. Mate,

811
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,960
you can upload the image of John Klingberg's face and

812
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,119
make it your team icon.

813
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,679
Speaker 2: And I should be in good shape, all right.

814
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 3: And I'm going to give you a couple of my

815
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,320
guys here, Blake, and you can tell me. I'm gonna

816
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:50,079
start with keeper Sherwood, winger of the Vancouver Canucks, and

817
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:53,440
look in redraft maybe you can still get him. I'll

818
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,840
tell you where I'm living in dynasty. I ain't getting

819
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,239
him because whoever had him on his team last year

820
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,360
or her team is not going to give that player up.

821
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:05,679
And keep in mind, everybody, I play in bash leagues.

822
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,760
I play in leagues where hits are valued and that's

823
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,559
part of the story. For Q for Surewood, it was

824
00:35:12,599 --> 00:35:15,320
actually fairly close to half a point per game his

825
00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:18,519
last year in Nashville, half a point per game in Vancouver,

826
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,880
which is fine for a guy who lives off something

827
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,559
else two shots per game considering the rest of his profile.

828
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,840
And all right, I have burying the lead. Four hundred

829
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,800
and sixty one hits. Just stop in basking that for

830
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,199
a minute. Five point nine to one hits per game.

831
00:35:34,639 --> 00:35:38,679
Tom Wilson's career average for hits per game is three.

832
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,599
It's half what Keith for Surewood had last year in

833
00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:47,840
a category league. That's a category winner. That's better than

834
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,119
Connor McDavid.

835
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:49,679
Speaker 2: Is at assists.

836
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 3: All right, you're just gonna win hits if you get

837
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,480
something like this. And in our tidy format, our tier dynasty,

838
00:35:57,039 --> 00:36:01,400
minor penalties and negative Fenwick are risks for bruisers. You

839
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,159
can actually take negative points in our format, and that

840
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:10,079
doesn't really happen with Sherwood. He never last year. I

841
00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:13,119
looked at his game log. He never had fewer than

842
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:18,280
two Fantasy points in one game all year in our format.

843
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:23,079
That's just steady. That floor is amazing. If you rely

844
00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:25,119
on a guy for goals and assists. You're gonna get

845
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:26,960
a lot of zeros, You're gonna get a lot of

846
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,199
goose eggs. But when he's thrown six hits a night,

847
00:36:30,519 --> 00:36:33,199
you always have that floor. And god forbid, you're in

848
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,199
a salary league one point five mil. Are you kidding me?

849
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:41,159
And Okay, I get that. The case against this guy

850
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,840
is he's only done it once. He's thirty years old.

851
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,519
He's a late bloomer. But you might also say he

852
00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:48,960
was in a premo role. Vancouver was in kaot He

853
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,480
wasn't in a premo role last year. He didn't have

854
00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:56,480
padded minutes, and he was playing with kind of not

855
00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:59,039
to insult them, but let's just say he was playing

856
00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:01,760
with some of the less prominent members of the Vancouver

857
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,760
Canucks forward lineup blueger is an Einen and Peels Suitor

858
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,320
and Dakota Joshua. There were the guys. He was not

859
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,639
out there with Elias Petterson all that much. He was

860
00:37:11,679 --> 00:37:14,840
not out there with Brock Besser or whatever. The Patrick

861
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,960
Johnson our guests who came on to talk about the

862
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,880
Canucks said that the Elevander Kane could take his role.

863
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,000
I think there's probably more than one of these physical

864
00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:26,000
roles on this team and the other thing for all

865
00:37:26,039 --> 00:37:29,559
that violence one major penalty last year from sure what

866
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,000
one fight out of after five and after four hundred

867
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,280
and sixty one hits. The second place hitter in NHL

868
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,960
last year, Matthew Olivier had fifteen majors and he had one.

869
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,800
So if that just takes you off the ice, and

870
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,920
in some formats it could cost you. Point out some

871
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,559
formats it might gain you points. So I guess keep

872
00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:53,119
that in mind. But I feel like, yeah, keep for

873
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,280
sure what's getting drafted. He's certainly got a heck of

874
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,239
a lot more value than last year, but only one

875
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,719
eighty one ADP Blake, Have I sold you or were

876
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:02,320
you sold?

877
00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:05,519
Speaker 2: Did I have you at Hello? What's the deal? You know?

878
00:38:05,679 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 5: Damn?

879
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,679
Speaker 2: I was sold on key for sure with Oh yeah, buddy,

880
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,079
this guy's an absolute unit. I like to call him

881
00:38:11,159 --> 00:38:14,960
Hunter beef Castle. Yeah he does that. But obviously the

882
00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:17,880
hits are great, Right, that's unbelievable, And I agree with

883
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,280
what you said. It's not like he got so much

884
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,119
more opportunity. He just got a defined role on this team,

885
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,199
and that role was the third line grinder. Go out

886
00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:28,519
when your minutes, hit people get off. He had a

887
00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:31,039
career high in ice time, which I don't think is

888
00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:33,280
going to go much higher, So that would indicate he

889
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,400
was getting more opportunity. I don't think that's gonna happen,

890
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,239
but yeah, forty points. Like this guy. It was basically

891
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,559
one of two or three players on the Canucks last

892
00:38:41,599 --> 00:38:44,719
year that made the team watchable because other than that,

893
00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:48,599
oh man, it was a sad trombone all year. Something

894
00:38:48,639 --> 00:38:51,199
I do like about Sherwood as well. He's not just

895
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,960
a beefer, right, this guy. He's pretty damn good at

896
00:38:55,079 --> 00:38:57,840
things like rush shots, like generating shots off the rush.

897
00:38:58,079 --> 00:39:01,199
He's really good at zone entries, right, That's unexpected for

898
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,000
a grinder. You would think, like these guys are, they're

899
00:39:04,039 --> 00:39:07,159
just dumping the puck in and trying to bang. Surewood

900
00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:09,440
does that as well, but he also is pretty adept

901
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,719
at carrying the puck in, which is something you like

902
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,960
to see and is a kind of an indicator of

903
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,280
potential offense. He's also amazing on the four check, so

904
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,039
if they do dump the puck in, sure what's going

905
00:39:18,119 --> 00:39:20,599
to get it? He's excellent to that. I'm just I

906
00:39:20,639 --> 00:39:24,320
think that the problem with Sherwood is the offensive talent

907
00:39:24,519 --> 00:39:26,800
just isn't there. Right. He had a pretty efficient year

908
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,079
last year, shot thirteen point six shooting percentage for nineteen goals.

909
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,119
I think that's going to regress a little bit. Not

910
00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:35,119
nothing crazy, right, He's he's definitely found his stride here

911
00:39:35,119 --> 00:39:38,079
with Vancouver and we love him out here. But I

912
00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:39,760
could see him taking a little bit of a haircut

913
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,800
on the goals. But he's still generating a bunch of offense.

914
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,159
He's still hitting like a mac truck. I could see

915
00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:48,039
him getting over four hundred hits again this year. He

916
00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:50,559
does some stuff shorthanded as well. I just think you

917
00:39:50,559 --> 00:39:52,400
could do a hell of a lot worse than picking

918
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,000
up Keith for Surwood. It's interesting you mentioned McDavid, right, because, yeah,

919
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:58,360
if you're in a category league, that's what key for

920
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,079
Surewood is he's basically like Austin Matthews of hits. Right,

921
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,280
He's going to win it, There's no question. It is

922
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:05,760
an interesting piece though, and I'd love to get your

923
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,320
guys take on, like how when do you prioritize players

924
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,519
like this that are just really good at one category.

925
00:40:11,519 --> 00:40:13,159
They're going to win you that category, but maybe the

926
00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:15,000
rest of the stuff is not quite there. Are you

927
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:17,880
prioritizing players like this? Are you looking for players that

928
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,920
kind of cover more categories as you go along?

929
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 3: This is why people don't like category leagues. I used

930
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,320
to love the category leagues, but this is why people

931
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:29,039
play points anymore. Is and I've tried to advocate at

932
00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:33,159
some points, maybe we could make goals and assists categories

933
00:40:33,199 --> 00:40:35,679
that are worth double what the other categories are worth

934
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,280
in a head to try to equal out this because

935
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,199
people just don't pass the sniff test of keeper. Surewood's

936
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,960
as valuable as Austin Matthews. But yeah, I here's the thing.

937
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,360
When you go about targeting these guys, you'll have so

938
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,679
many people who'll be like, you'll always find a guy

939
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,880
like this off the waiver wire. You don't need to

940
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,440
go out looking for somebody like this. Here's the thing

941
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,679
with Sherwood. It's an underrated thing that he can still

942
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,800
get two shots and half a point per game. There's

943
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,039
plenty of the biggest bangers in the league do not

944
00:41:06,159 --> 00:41:09,440
get that. They're more like a fifteen point one shot

945
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,320
a game type guy.

946
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 2: And that's huge.

947
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 3: That's an enormous bit on your margin. So there's a

948
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,159
reason to value something like that. But yeah, if you're

949
00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:20,480
playing in a true categories league, you can take this

950
00:41:20,559 --> 00:41:24,000
guy at a point where other people's eyes will pop

951
00:41:24,519 --> 00:41:26,840
and it will still be a wise choice and not

952
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:27,519
first round.

953
00:41:27,519 --> 00:41:29,079
Speaker 2: But depending on who you're playing with.

954
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 3: Who knows. All right, let's go to our next guy,

955
00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:35,599
and I'm gonna go to the post hype sleeper zone.

956
00:41:35,599 --> 00:41:38,400
I'm going to go to the guy who somebody overdrafted

957
00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:41,840
a couple of years ago and now might just be

958
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,880
coming back into view. And that's Bran Clark, defenseman for

959
00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:48,320
the Los Angeles Kings. It was his first full year,

960
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,400
really last year, twenty two year old. It was an escalation,

961
00:41:52,519 --> 00:41:54,800
It was a big jump. He showed it in the OHL.

962
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,840
He showed it in the EHL. Almost a point per

963
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,679
game in the AHL for a defenseman, pretty darn good.

964
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:04,679
Before last question is the way he was traded during

965
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,679
the season by the coaching staff. He was jerked around

966
00:42:08,159 --> 00:42:11,960
at to some point, he was sent down to he

967
00:42:12,119 --> 00:42:15,000
was benched, he was moved down to lower lines. The playoffs,

968
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,519
they didn't give him nearly as much run, although he

969
00:42:17,559 --> 00:42:20,760
did score two goals for the Kings in that one series.

970
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,519
In the playoffs, but at some point the talent is

971
00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:27,199
going to be undeniable. I think we should maybe just

972
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,519
relax about his deployment in his real year one. Jordan

973
00:42:31,599 --> 00:42:35,239
Spence and are both gone now the right d on

974
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,320
the team. You got your Drew Dowdy, sure, and then

975
00:42:38,519 --> 00:42:41,519
it's Brank Clark and newcomer Cody CC. There is no

976
00:42:41,639 --> 00:42:47,119
way that Cody CC in a just universe, Cody CC

977
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,880
cannot play above Bran Clark. He does not have that

978
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,760
upside and he's made plenty of mistakes over the years either.

979
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,559
If that's the problem they've got, I think the guys

980
00:42:56,559 --> 00:42:59,559
they brought in this offseason in defense are guys who

981
00:42:59,599 --> 00:43:02,639
are more defensive defenseman, which would be great to put

982
00:43:02,639 --> 00:43:06,519
with Bran Clark. That's exactly what would benefit him. Yeah,

983
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,039
his defense, even string defense, was a little below water,

984
00:43:10,559 --> 00:43:14,199
but his offensive goals above replacement, according to Evolving Hockey,

985
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,599
was behind only Quinton Byfield and Adrian Kempe on the

986
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:21,320
whole team last year. The defense wasn't great, but Joel

987
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,960
Edmondson was a whole lot worse. So don't tell me

988
00:43:24,119 --> 00:43:27,079
that he was the one outlier. I wish he took

989
00:43:27,119 --> 00:43:29,760
more hits or made more hits, but he blocks and

990
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,800
he shoots, and at some point I think he he

991
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,079
is the heir apparent to surpass drough Dowdy at some point.

992
00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:39,519
I don't know if it'll be this year. Dowdy is

993
00:43:39,559 --> 00:43:41,559
already starting to show a little bit of wear and tear.

994
00:43:42,039 --> 00:43:43,760
I think we're going to get to the point where

995
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,320
we see fifty five point Brant Clark maybe this year,

996
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,400
maybe next twenty average time on ice, If he had

997
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,800
twenty minutes on ice, he would have almost been on

998
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,639
pace for that last year. I'm saying maybe close to

999
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,559
three shots per game, maybe more like two blocks, maybe

1000
00:43:59,599 --> 00:44:03,079
half a hit. That's all gonna significantly beat the draft

1001
00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:05,320
slot of one to eighty five that he's at right now.

1002
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:06,840
What are you feelings on Bran Clark?

1003
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 2: They're blake. I love it. I love the take for sure.

1004
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,239
I'd love to see Brent Clark hit for fifty points.

1005
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,159
Oh man, that'd be incredible. Yeah, we're looking at a

1006
00:44:15,199 --> 00:44:18,599
player that is really good under the hood, that yeah,

1007
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,800
is unfortunately just not getting the deployment needed. And LA

1008
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:26,760
has a very distinct identity as a defensive squad and

1009
00:44:26,039 --> 00:44:28,320
you got to fit into that. And I don't think

1010
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,639
Bran Clark does. We've heard Jim Hiller talk about Bran

1011
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,840
Clark at times, not in the most glowing way, and

1012
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,719
I don't like to hear that he hasn't been poop

1013
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,760
pooing on him or anything like that, but just the

1014
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,880
fact that he is getting sent down, he's not getting

1015
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,679
the deployment right average only sixteen minutes average time on

1016
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,440
ice last year, when there was a role for Brent Clark,

1017
00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:47,760
he could have stepped up and done something right. You

1018
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,920
look at the King's power Play last year. What was

1019
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,239
it like, twenty seventh overall in power play percentage? Come on,

1020
00:44:53,519 --> 00:44:56,079
you got this guy's elite. He should be running the

1021
00:44:56,119 --> 00:44:58,199
power play right and then instead of that, they went

1022
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,000
to a five toward set in the playoffs and little

1023
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:00,679
bit at the end.

1024
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 3: Of the year.

1025
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 2: There. Yeah, I love the player. I just again, I'm

1026
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,039
concerned about the deployment. I do what you said though,

1027
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:08,639
about a couple defensemen leaving and who's in here to

1028
00:45:08,679 --> 00:45:11,440
take his minutes now, Bran Clark, Cody CC no, right,

1029
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,920
it's not gonna happen. So there should be more of

1030
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,000
a role for Brent Clark. We project them at Apples

1031
00:45:16,039 --> 00:45:18,760
and ginos here for rough flee, what do we do? Yeah?

1032
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,400
Forty one points, so ten goals, thirty one assists, forty

1033
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,920
one points. Bran Clark. I like that, and we have

1034
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,280
them just under nineteen minutes average time, and I so

1035
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,639
slowly being brought along. I think the stuff that you're

1036
00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:31,400
bringing to the table here, though, Jesse, I think that's

1037
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,960
absolutely in the wheelhouse if they, like you said, in

1038
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,800
a just world. But is it a just world here, Jesse,

1039
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,920
I'm not sure about that. But that said, if this

1040
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,039
guy gets over twenty minutes, yeah, now we're looking at

1041
00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:44,320
a fifty point defenseman. We're looking at good power play

1042
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,039
numbers with ceiling for more. I think that this guy

1043
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,599
is in the same vein as a player like players

1044
00:45:49,599 --> 00:45:52,360
that we really like, guys like Lane Hudson. Right, I'm

1045
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,320
not saying he's Lane Hudson, but they have offensive acumen

1046
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,199
and they need to be put in a position to

1047
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,599
reach that potential. Lane Hudson was in Montreal. Bran Clark

1048
00:46:00,639 --> 00:46:03,639
hasn't been given that opportunity here in La so time

1049
00:46:03,679 --> 00:46:06,719
will tell. I think he's absolutely draftable though, certainly like

1050
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,519
one of these defensemen, if you miss out on some

1051
00:46:08,559 --> 00:46:10,599
top guys. You can wait much later and get a

1052
00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:14,639
guy like Bran Clark, Nikish and ze Buyam Zamperak. These

1053
00:46:14,639 --> 00:46:17,320
guys are all the same style of defenseman to me.

1054
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,679
But I would prioritize Bran Clark a little bit more

1055
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,320
just because he's already been in the league for one

1056
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:23,719
year and I think that there's a pathway.

1057
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:27,159
Speaker 3: Two minutes, listeners, we're going to take a break during

1058
00:46:27,159 --> 00:46:29,920
this commercial. I want you to contemplate whether we're living

1059
00:46:30,039 --> 00:46:30,920
in a just world.

1060
00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 2: I'll be right.

1061
00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:34,760
Speaker 3: Back with Blake Kramer, the jazz man of Fantasy Hockey,

1062
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,599
ready to talk about a few more guys who are

1063
00:46:37,639 --> 00:46:39,039
a little bit my guys this year.

1064
00:46:42,639 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 2: Nothing you could take jem me away from my guy.

1065
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 5: Nothing you could do.

1066
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 3: Because I'm so, I'm sticking my claim. I'm going on

1067
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,840
the hills for Marco Rossi. Marco Rossi the average strap

1068
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:05,639
position to eleven point nine, and I say he's gonna

1069
00:47:05,639 --> 00:47:09,199
beat that. There are playmakers on the wings, Caprill Capriz

1070
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:13,000
of Danila Euroff, He's gonna have another opportunity. He had

1071
00:47:13,079 --> 00:47:16,440
sixty points in his age twenty three year. That's not

1072
00:47:16,599 --> 00:47:19,679
so bad, and the tidy rank last year he had

1073
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,119
already beat out his ADP for this year. Now he

1074
00:47:24,199 --> 00:47:26,039
went to war with the team in the offseason, or

1075
00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:28,440
the team went to war with him. Bill Garon came

1076
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,719
into the offseason saying, they really need to focus on

1077
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,239
getting another center, and that kind of feels like he

1078
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,639
was talking about Rossi. They negotiated hard with him on

1079
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,320
that contract, but he signed it and they ended up

1080
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,119
getting that done. He's got to find a way. His

1081
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,039
production dropped a little bit in the second half, as

1082
00:47:47,039 --> 00:47:51,840
Bell Garon pointed out publicly somehow, So again we're talking

1083
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,840
about a team of a player who's values a little

1084
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,320
bit suppressed because of the questions with his team. So

1085
00:47:57,559 --> 00:48:00,559
I'm betting against that and saying he's going to come

1086
00:48:00,559 --> 00:48:03,760
back Hungary something to prove. This guy has overcome some

1087
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:08,480
serious heart issue COVID. He's overcome serious stuff in his

1088
00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:10,880
life and in his career already. I think he's got

1089
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,880
the makeup and this offense the lily your off's getting

1090
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,559
plugged in. It's getting better around him. I think he'll

1091
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:19,920
be good. And my last my appeal to authority here

1092
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:22,719
the logical fallacy of appeal to the authority. Scott Wheeler

1093
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,639
just ranked him his number sixty one, Dynasty player, the

1094
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:30,960
prospect boys over the athletic. So, Marco ROSSI are you

1095
00:48:31,039 --> 00:48:33,880
willing to bet against what Bill Garon is trying to

1096
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:38,119
do here and see the Rossie rising, the Rossie Rising.

1097
00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:42,639
Speaker 2: I was like, Marco Polo, Yeah, that's a great game. Yeah,

1098
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,480
the Rossie Rising, I'm here for it. I love the player.

1099
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,360
I am like in redraft, I am concerned about this

1100
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,360
whole narrative. In the offseason, I feel like he signed

1101
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,719
the contract because he had to, Like they couldn't get

1102
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,239
any trades done. I know the Canucks were pushing really hard.

1103
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,519
I was really hoping that would happen. That would have

1104
00:48:58,519 --> 00:49:00,599
been amazing because I do love this player. All the

1105
00:49:00,599 --> 00:49:02,679
stuff you said holds water. This guy had sixty points

1106
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,960
last year. He's been underrated his entire career, and I

1107
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,320
do think he will come out with a B and

1108
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,000
his bonnet. But is he going to get that deployment

1109
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,079
like that? That's really the question. And yeah, he averaged

1110
00:49:13,119 --> 00:49:15,719
eighteen minutes fifteen seconds time on ice last year, but

1111
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,360
in the playoffs it fell off a cliff. He averaged

1112
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,719
eleven minutes. They just went another way and it didn't

1113
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,079
really make any sense I didn't get it at the point,

1114
00:49:24,119 --> 00:49:26,519
I thought Rossi had a really strong season. Yeah, and

1115
00:49:26,559 --> 00:49:29,400
then when you got your GM publicly outing you like,

1116
00:49:29,639 --> 00:49:31,320
it's just not a good look. We saw that happen

1117
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,280
in New York last year, right with Chris Drury and

1118
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,639
a bunch of players on that team, like it's not good.

1119
00:49:35,679 --> 00:49:37,639
Guys need to feel good to play good. And I'm

1120
00:49:37,639 --> 00:49:40,440
not sure. I don't know what's going on behind closed doors.

1121
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,639
Maybe Rossi and Garin are good and he's excited about

1122
00:49:42,639 --> 00:49:44,960
the season, But I wouldn't be surprised if Rossi's playing

1123
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,559
for another team this year. They got they signed the contract,

1124
00:49:47,599 --> 00:49:50,159
get it done, and maybe trade him away right just

1125
00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:52,320
to buy themselves some time, because I'm not sure that

1126
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,480
he's in their plans here. But if he is, yeah,

1127
00:49:55,639 --> 00:49:57,920
I think he's the two seat with a bullet for sure.

1128
00:49:57,960 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 5: He should be.

1129
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 2: And we got Matt Boldies, Like if Boldie's not playing

1130
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,960
with Cap and Jeek, now Marco Rusk gets to play

1131
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,360
with Matt Boldie, who is an elite shot producer, an

1132
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,679
elite offensive driver, right, and Rossi's no slouch either, And

1133
00:50:09,679 --> 00:50:11,280
then who you're gonna get on the right wing there,

1134
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,800
like you said, maybe Daniela, you're off. That's an interesting piece,

1135
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,119
Ryan Hartman. Tarasenko's there now, so he's got some good

1136
00:50:17,159 --> 00:50:19,400
even strength deployment. I don't think he's gonna get power

1137
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,000
play one unless somebody gets injured or they go with

1138
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,679
a five toward set, which I don't think they will.

1139
00:50:24,199 --> 00:50:26,800
But yeah, I do like Rossi certainly in Dynasty. I

1140
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,239
think this guy's future is extremely bright. I'm just not

1141
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,880
sure what's gonna happen here this year. And for that reason,

1142
00:50:33,199 --> 00:50:35,039
unless I'm picking him up with one of my last picks,

1143
00:50:35,039 --> 00:50:36,159
I'm probably out on the player.

1144
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 3: All right. I could go on about players, but I'm

1145
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,920
fired up to get to some of your guys here, Blake.

1146
00:50:43,199 --> 00:50:45,559
I want to know a listener's probably they're listening to

1147
00:50:45,559 --> 00:50:47,599
your show, they're hearing it. But I need to know

1148
00:50:47,639 --> 00:50:50,199
who your guys are this year once you start him out.

1149
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 2: All right, let's get the biz on that first guy

1150
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,159
I want to talk about. I gotta go with my boy,

1151
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:56,880
Philip heatl Oh.

1152
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:57,199
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1153
00:50:58,239 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been talking to you guys about this all

1154
00:51:00,199 --> 00:51:03,039
but I'm always interested in a player that's doing all

1155
00:51:03,079 --> 00:51:05,199
the right things under the hood when it comes to

1156
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,599
offensive production and is now in line for an increase

1157
00:51:08,639 --> 00:51:11,880
in deployment and opportunity. And that describes Philipetal to a

1158
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,519
tee for me. Up to this point in his career,

1159
00:51:14,599 --> 00:51:17,679
Hetal's been a third liner. So now he's penciled in

1160
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,880
for the two C in Vancouver. They've tried to pick

1161
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,519
up another center, right, there's no trade partners, right, so

1162
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,360
I think they're going to have to do it internally.

1163
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,199
And Philipiito is the guy. There's no one beneath him

1164
00:51:27,199 --> 00:51:29,400
on the depth chart here in Vancouver. That's going to

1165
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,880
be the two CE over Philipetel. I'm excited about that.

1166
00:51:32,119 --> 00:51:34,000
For better or for worse, Philipetal's the guy. And I

1167
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,440
also think that he has a really good shot at

1168
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,400
power play one here with the team, so I imagine

1169
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,840
that he'll starts there. One of the things, one of

1170
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,760
the many things I like about Philipetal and the reason

1171
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,039
he's exciting to me, is because of what he brings

1172
00:51:44,039 --> 00:51:45,519
to the team. And I did listen to you Patrick

1173
00:51:45,599 --> 00:51:48,519
Johnson interview there and he mentioned as much. Right, this guy,

1174
00:51:48,639 --> 00:51:51,920
he's bringing something different to the Canucks right speed, rush play,

1175
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:54,719
the ability to drive offense, rush play, in particular, like

1176
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,639
Vancouver was one of the worst teams in the league

1177
00:51:56,639 --> 00:51:59,239
at generating shots off the rush last year. That is

1178
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,239
hard to watch. Okay, that's They've been doing this to

1179
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,480
us for a bunch of years now. So a guy

1180
00:52:04,519 --> 00:52:06,239
like Philipito coming in here is like a breath of

1181
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,400
fresh air. And you guys may or may not know.

1182
00:52:08,519 --> 00:52:11,480
I like to look at Corey Schneider's All Three Zones

1183
00:52:11,519 --> 00:52:14,039
microstat project. That's something that I'm really into. He For

1184
00:52:14,079 --> 00:52:16,599
those that don't know, he manually tracks things like zone entries,

1185
00:52:16,639 --> 00:52:20,199
scoring chances, assist shot assists, these zone retrievals, all kinds

1186
00:52:20,199 --> 00:52:22,920
of stuff that would provide context for why a player

1187
00:52:23,199 --> 00:52:26,280
may or may not be performing. And in Corey's data set,

1188
00:52:26,639 --> 00:52:29,320
Philip Hetel is third in the entire league in zone

1189
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,800
entries that lead to scoring chances per sixty Philip Hedel,

1190
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,280
he did that, all right, that's excellent. And that's behind

1191
00:52:36,559 --> 00:52:38,960
Jack Hughes, who is ahead of him, and Joel Ferrabee

1192
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,599
for some random reason. So yeah, Philipido was number three

1193
00:52:41,599 --> 00:52:43,440
in that metric, and that just says a lot about

1194
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,159
his ability to make offense happen. So when a guy

1195
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,360
like that has that going on under the hood, and

1196
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,719
now he's playing with better players, which he should, it's

1197
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,000
reasonable to expect that more of those scoring chances get converted,

1198
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,079
meaning more points for Philipetels. So yeah, in terms of

1199
00:52:57,119 --> 00:52:59,159
projection for him, we've got him for twenty four goals,

1200
00:52:59,199 --> 00:53:03,239
thirty one assists, fifty five points for Philly. Yeah, pretty

1201
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,440
nice stuff. Only fifteen points on the power play, so

1202
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,360
I think there's a little bit of room there. Average

1203
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,360
time on ice, we've got him for sixteen minutes and

1204
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,519
forty five seconds, which would also be a career high, right,

1205
00:53:12,559 --> 00:53:14,039
and he could get more than that. Right. There was

1206
00:53:14,079 --> 00:53:16,199
a couple games last year with Vancouver he played over

1207
00:53:16,199 --> 00:53:19,480
twenty minutes. So I just think everything is really lining

1208
00:53:19,519 --> 00:53:22,639
up for Philip Heetel to have a big time increase

1209
00:53:22,679 --> 00:53:25,199
in opportunity and deployment, and I think he's good enough

1210
00:53:25,199 --> 00:53:27,320
to do something with it. There's an interview this offseason

1211
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,599
as well with Philip Hetal where he was talking about

1212
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,159
the whole offseason. He's just working on his shot, right.

1213
00:53:32,199 --> 00:53:35,480
He wants to be a more efficient shooter and that'll play, right.

1214
00:53:35,519 --> 00:53:37,880
This guy's been inefficient for years, right, So if he

1215
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,840
can put the biscuit in the basket at a higher rate. Obviously,

1216
00:53:41,039 --> 00:53:42,719
that's going to be great for fantasy, and he's playing

1217
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:44,760
with better players, so he should be in better positions

1218
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,000
to do that. I don't know, guys, what do you think,

1219
00:53:47,039 --> 00:53:47,639
Philip Hetel?

1220
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,199
Speaker 4: I hate to be the poor of cold Water, but

1221
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,239
I don't know that I can get there with you. Like,

1222
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,280
I don't disagree with your reasons, other than some of

1223
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,559
it sounded a bit like someone has to score in

1224
00:53:58,559 --> 00:54:01,119
that two s role, and I don't necessarily agree with

1225
00:54:01,159 --> 00:54:04,320
that philosophy. No, they don't have to score there, and

1226
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,280
I don't think that's super rich fifty five points. Certainly,

1227
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:08,760
if he is on the top power play, I think

1228
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,840
that's the huge difference. I feel like it. I think

1229
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,880
besser and better center locks. So then is it Garland Debrusk?

1230
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,079
Does he displace one of them? It certainly seems reasonable,

1231
00:54:18,079 --> 00:54:21,599
but also it could not be or he could share time,

1232
00:54:21,639 --> 00:54:25,159
he could alternate, and in those cases then I think

1233
00:54:25,199 --> 00:54:27,840
that might not work out so well. The other thing,

1234
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,599
which you also alluded to, is that it's really bleak

1235
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,760
beyond him. There isn't really a next best option, and

1236
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,920
so I think he's going to have to do a

1237
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:37,679
lot of the dirty work to drive play just to

1238
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,039
keep them out of their own end, and that's a

1239
00:54:40,079 --> 00:54:42,840
lot to ask. I think Teddy Blueger is great in

1240
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,840
terms of the bottom six center, like he's fine, Like

1241
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:47,320
he can do some of that. But I think they're

1242
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,199
gonna they're gonna ask Filipedo to do a lot and

1243
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,519
that just might be tough to get all the way

1244
00:54:52,559 --> 00:54:55,320
past fifty. So that'd be my concern. I could certainly

1245
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,440
see it. And I think that where is he going?

1246
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:58,519
I didn't hear that part.

1247
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 2: I did look at his ADP here, but let me

1248
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,400
find it here. I think it's really late. Yeah, ADP

1249
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:04,599
for him two seventy.

1250
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,599
Speaker 4: Four, Okay, so and a lot of that not being drafted.

1251
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,159
So yeah, in that case, then I think that you

1252
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,599
probably could do worse. But if he's going in the

1253
00:55:12,639 --> 00:55:15,800
same range as Prefetti, that's not a difficult decision for me.

1254
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:18,679
Speaker 2: No, I can dig it for sure. What do you think, Jessie?

1255
00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 3: Nah? Yeah, I old Philly heat Man, You'll never give

1256
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,719
up on that guy. But I don't know. Yeah, it's

1257
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:26,719
very hard to say.

1258
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 5: I did.

1259
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,079
Speaker 3: I can't get a read on Vancouver. All I can

1260
00:55:29,119 --> 00:55:31,360
say is if he's with Philip, if he's with Keith

1261
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:32,599
for Sherwood, he'll be fine.

1262
00:55:33,119 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 2: Philly Heat.

1263
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:34,519
Speaker 3: I love that.

1264
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,119
Speaker 2: Can I use that? Jesse? You mind that?

1265
00:55:37,119 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 3: That wasn't any What were those guys called? It was Bennette?

1266
00:55:41,519 --> 00:55:42,519
Rip ben Burnett.

1267
00:55:42,639 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not deadbody. He doesn't glad to hear. Oh,

1268
00:55:45,559 --> 00:55:49,199
I know professionally rip. He's alive and well. All right

1269
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,320
to shout out to ben Burnette. I love you, Ben.

1270
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,079
Speaker 3: You're not listening, but I love you. But yeah, Philly Heat.

1271
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,800
They used to what was it, They would microwave a

1272
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,960
glass of beer. Yeah, when Philly when Philipeedle scored, and

1273
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,079
they would drink it down immediately. It was a strange

1274
00:56:03,079 --> 00:56:04,719
thing that they did, but they were really into him,

1275
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:05,639
those Ranger fans.

1276
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,079
Speaker 2: These guys sound like people i'd like to hang out with.

1277
00:56:08,199 --> 00:56:10,599
All Right, that sounds good. Yeah, nothing better than microwave beer.

1278
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,840
All right, let me tell you another player here that

1279
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,239
I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get you go. I'm

1280
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:15,599
gonna get you with one of these here, all right,

1281
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:20,199
Next player, Josh Norris. All right, the Buffalo Sabers. I

1282
00:56:20,199 --> 00:56:24,159
feel people are forgetting about Josh Norris. And what his

1283
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:27,039
potential role with the Sabers might be this upcoming season.

1284
00:56:27,199 --> 00:56:29,039
That's what his ADP is telling me anyway, Like it's

1285
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:31,679
way down there, and for me personally, I'm seeing a

1286
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,039
much bigger role for Josh Morris this upcoming year with

1287
00:56:34,039 --> 00:56:35,840
the Sabers. I think that he's gonna be the one

1288
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,519
see here in Buffalo. I know some people might think

1289
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:40,800
that it's Uri Kulik. He was there at the end

1290
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,119
of the year playing with Tage Thompson. He's also showing

1291
00:56:44,159 --> 00:56:46,639
there on daily face off as a top line center.

1292
00:56:46,679 --> 00:56:48,719
But I'm not here for it all right. I think

1293
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:52,239
that Uriy Kulik was playing there because Norris was injured, right,

1294
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,760
He had an oblique injury to end the year. I'm

1295
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,599
also looking at Norris's contract, right, this guy's the highest

1296
00:56:57,599 --> 00:57:00,199
paid forward on the team. That's first line money. Okay,

1297
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,239
he's getting paid more than Tage. You're play him with Tage, Okay.

1298
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,840
But that's not really good analysis there. But that's fine.

1299
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,639
I do think that Koulik is a good young player,

1300
00:57:07,679 --> 00:57:09,760
but I think Tage was just on a here and

1301
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,679
Koulik was a passenger there this year. I think it's

1302
00:57:12,679 --> 00:57:15,599
gonna be Tage Thompson, Josh Norris, and Zach the Butler

1303
00:57:15,639 --> 00:57:19,119
Benson Online one to start the year, and I should

1304
00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:22,039
mention as well. With Norris, there's so many things that

1305
00:57:22,079 --> 00:57:24,159
he does well. One of them is four checking. This

1306
00:57:24,159 --> 00:57:26,400
guy's an elite four checker and he's also a Beefer,

1307
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,400
so big time hits, so you're gonna get a good

1308
00:57:28,599 --> 00:57:32,039
for a full floor with hits shots, yeah, and all

1309
00:57:32,039 --> 00:57:35,199
those like he's he four check pressures, like his four

1310
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,760
check pressures for sixty huge right, So he's gonna win

1311
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:39,920
his fair share of board battles as well, which should

1312
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:41,960
really extend zone time for the sabers there in the

1313
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,440
offensive zone. So that said too, nor should be a

1314
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,440
staple on power Play one all year. I don't see

1315
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,679
anyone that's challenging him for minutes. They need his face

1316
00:57:49,679 --> 00:57:51,559
offs out there. And in the past he's been a

1317
00:57:51,559 --> 00:57:55,280
pretty effective power play performer as well, especially in Ottawa,

1318
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,559
but he was never given the reins there in Ottawa

1319
00:57:57,559 --> 00:57:59,400
they always did a one B or kind of like

1320
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,159
a sixty already split, Whereas I think in Buffalo this

1321
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,400
year it's gonna be a true power Play one and

1322
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,599
Norris is gonna be on it. I think he's gonna

1323
00:58:06,599 --> 00:58:08,679
help the team there. Buffalo has had the twenty third

1324
00:58:08,719 --> 00:58:11,320
best power play percenters last year. I think they're too

1325
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,320
talented to be that low. I could see them middle

1326
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,000
of the pack there, like fifteen fourteen and around there.

1327
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,360
And I do feel like the value on Norris is huge.

1328
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,679
This guy's been left for dead. Just do his injury

1329
00:58:20,719 --> 00:58:23,320
history there, which is valid, But I don't know he's

1330
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,400
fully healthy going into the season. I don't really draft

1331
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,519
for injuries unless it's like a repeat injury to the

1332
00:58:27,519 --> 00:58:30,000
same place. There are just very few players who I

1333
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:33,079
will fade due to the injury narrative. Actually, one thing

1334
00:58:33,119 --> 00:58:35,440
I will say I do try and avoid players that

1335
00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:38,400
aren't healthy going into camp. That's not something I'm interested in,

1336
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,679
like drafting players that are still rehabbing an injury or

1337
00:58:41,199 --> 00:58:43,920
not fully there. I want to hear, yep, I'm here,

1338
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,239
I'm good to go. A's something you guys do really

1339
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,039
well here at Fantasy Hockey Life. With all your beat

1340
00:58:48,079 --> 00:58:50,719
reporter interviews, we get all the insider news at is

1341
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,599
super helpful just how players are doing. So kudos to

1342
00:58:53,639 --> 00:58:56,840
you guys, great offseason content here. Thank you for your service.

1343
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,639
But yeah, long story short Top six player power play

1344
00:58:59,639 --> 00:59:01,960
one Josh Norris. It's a dunk to me where he's

1345
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,800
being drafted. Wow, I'm going to clip that. Do we

1346
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:05,719
do ads anywhere?

1347
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,679
Speaker 3: Victor? Do we place ads? I need to clip what

1348
00:59:07,719 --> 00:59:10,039
Blake just said. That was very nice of you. Yeah,

1349
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,840
it's with Norris. The whole thing is the injuries, right

1350
00:59:13,039 --> 00:59:15,280
do you if you believe that what he's had has

1351
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:19,639
been transitory and it's not going to come back, you're

1352
00:59:19,679 --> 00:59:22,440
in good shape. The shoulder has been the chronic thing

1353
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:25,000
that's been the scary one. Last year it was the oblique,

1354
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,280
but the shoulder stuff has been the stuff. He's had

1355
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,760
multiple surgeries and missed time over and you just worry

1356
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,360
that kind of thing has been debilitating. But like you, man,

1357
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,440
that one stretch where he was healthy and just producing,

1358
00:59:38,519 --> 00:59:41,760
I can't unsee it, and I think he's I've gotten

1359
00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:44,599
lower offers in one of my dynasty leagues for him

1360
00:59:44,599 --> 00:59:47,400
over the years. I just can't forget that stretch he

1361
00:59:47,519 --> 00:59:49,079
was on a couple of years ago where he was

1362
00:59:49,199 --> 00:59:52,320
just a man of fire. And you're right, they've moved

1363
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,519
out a lot of people in Buffalo. No JJP, no

1364
00:59:55,639 --> 00:59:58,559
Casey middle stat and yeah, there's there's been a lot

1365
00:59:58,599 --> 01:00:01,320
of guys that they've moved out, so now it may

1366
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:05,840
be the time for Josh Norris. I here's my take

1367
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,599
from your Lips to God's Ears. That's my take on

1368
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:10,719
Josh Norris being a sleeper this year.

1369
01:00:10,719 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 2: But I love it.

1370
01:00:11,519 --> 01:00:14,559
Speaker 3: I really hope that kid breaks out with Buffalo. There's

1371
01:00:14,599 --> 01:00:17,239
also the Buffalo factor of that sometimes where players go

1372
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,119
to die. But yeah, we'll try not to scout the

1373
01:00:20,159 --> 01:00:22,639
laundry too hard this time, Blake.

1374
01:00:23,559 --> 01:00:25,639
Speaker 2: No, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's good stuff to meet.

1375
01:00:25,679 --> 01:00:28,280
Josh Norris is a great reason to fad centers as well. Right,

1376
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,559
you got a guy like Josh Norris available way late

1377
01:00:30,599 --> 01:00:32,840
in your draft, like stock up on those wingers, stock

1378
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,119
up on those defensemen early. You got players like him

1379
01:00:35,159 --> 01:00:37,679
waiting for you. That again, I think people have really

1380
01:00:37,679 --> 01:00:40,840
forgotten about victory. You got anything on Josh Norris?

1381
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:41,199
Speaker 5: What do you do?

1382
01:00:42,239 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 4: I think I agree with Jesse I. If fantasy were

1383
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:47,920
played on a per game basis, I would be all

1384
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:49,039
over for like Josh Norris.

1385
01:00:49,159 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 5: But the fact that he.

1386
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 4: Gets injured, and frankly, I'm just done trusting Buffalo players

1387
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,360
to do anything unless your name is Dollen or Thompson.

1388
01:00:58,639 --> 01:01:02,840
I'm probably gonna look elsewhere because someone will probably be okay,

1389
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,440
but I'd rather just stream them than bank on them.

1390
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,480
And he's someone that he probably will end up being

1391
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,480
a streamer at some point, Josh Norris, and I'll probably

1392
01:01:10,519 --> 01:01:12,840
just pick him up. There is probably is where I'm

1393
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,559
thinking though in a deep enough league, late enough then

1394
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,599
you could certainly do worse. And when he produces, he's fine.

1395
01:01:18,639 --> 01:01:20,159
I'm just not a fan of I'll just throw him

1396
01:01:20,159 --> 01:01:21,920
on ir No. I want someone that's going to be

1397
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:23,760
in there all the time they don't have to worry about.

1398
01:01:24,239 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 2: Yep, that's absolutely fair. This guy hasn't finished the season ever,

1399
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,440
it makes sense, it's valid. I feel like this is

1400
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,480
the year. Is this the year? Boys? This is it?

1401
01:01:32,559 --> 01:01:35,280
All right? Josh Norris, eighty two games book it. We

1402
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:36,079
feel good about that.

1403
01:01:36,559 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 5: All right?

1404
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:38,679
Speaker 2: Let me move on to my next player here, all right,

1405
01:01:38,719 --> 01:01:43,320
I gotta talk about a guy in Calgary, Matt Coronado. Okay, yeah,

1406
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,639
big fan of this player, obviously really solid. Just secured

1407
01:01:46,679 --> 01:01:50,000
the bag, all right, seven years, forty five million dollars.

1408
01:01:50,039 --> 01:01:52,760
That's pretty nice. Big vote of confidence there from management

1409
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,360
for Cornaro and when players, young players like this sign

1410
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,280
a contract like that, it indicates to me that they're

1411
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:02,119
gonna have a bigger role moving forward. And Coronado already

1412
01:02:02,119 --> 01:02:03,840
had a decent role on this team to begin with.

1413
01:02:04,159 --> 01:02:06,559
Obviously we know for Fantasy power Play one is king

1414
01:02:06,599 --> 01:02:08,119
and I think Coronado is going to be on it.

1415
01:02:08,159 --> 01:02:10,639
There In Calgary, they also just locked up Connor Zari

1416
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,559
as well, but at a lower B. So yeah, that's

1417
01:02:13,559 --> 01:02:15,639
an interesting development that we'll need to watch. But I

1418
01:02:15,679 --> 01:02:17,920
do think top six deployment is secured for Coronado. I

1419
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,920
think Powerplay one is there. Calgary's power play was serviceable

1420
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,639
last year. Coronado had seventeen points there, pretty nice, only

1421
01:02:23,639 --> 01:02:25,880
a fifty two percent powerplay share, So I think that

1422
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,239
goes up right, and that to me means his power

1423
01:02:28,239 --> 01:02:30,679
play points should probably go up as well, maybe when

1424
01:02:30,679 --> 01:02:33,119
the twenty to twenty five range. I feel good about that.

1425
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:35,199
This is a guy that has a great shot and

1426
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,719
he's a good facilitator as well. My thing with Coronado

1427
01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:40,639
that I'm hoping gets better this year wish casting. I'm

1428
01:02:40,639 --> 01:02:43,440
wish casting that it gets better this year. Even strength deployment.

1429
01:02:43,559 --> 01:02:45,960
It's definitely leaving something to be desired. He spent most

1430
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:49,000
of last season with two distinguished gentlemen, Blake Coleman and

1431
01:02:49,079 --> 01:02:51,719
Michale Backland. Okay, that's not a great place to be

1432
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:54,320
for fantasy, Ozley, these guys are a couple of slugs.

1433
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,280
They should probably be on the third line. Honestly, it's

1434
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:58,480
not a second line to me. But they play to

1435
01:02:58,639 --> 01:03:01,039
Calgary's identity. They do it really well and I just

1436
01:03:01,079 --> 01:03:02,920
want to see Coronado pop off for fantasy, right, I

1437
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:04,400
don't care if they win games. I want to see

1438
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:06,800
Coronado smashing for fantasy. And I think he needs to

1439
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:08,719
get away from those two guys to do it. He

1440
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,880
needs better facilitators. Obviously, we want puck possession guys like

1441
01:03:12,039 --> 01:03:15,000
Nasam Kadri Jonathan Huberto, and he did spend some time

1442
01:03:15,039 --> 01:03:17,360
with those players last year, but so did Connor Zara. Right,

1443
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,159
Like I said, we're gonna have to watch in training

1444
01:03:19,199 --> 01:03:22,280
camps who gets that deployment. But if he can get

1445
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:24,960
on a line with Cadri and Huberto, Cadre, the guy's

1446
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,679
an underrated play driver. He's incredible. He's another reason to

1447
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,840
fade centers. You can get this guy after pick one hundred.

1448
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,679
In a lot of leagues. And then Huberto is still

1449
01:03:31,679 --> 01:03:33,760
an elite passer, right, He's not one hundred and ten

1450
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,360
point Huberto and never will be again, but he's still

1451
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,960
a pretty darn good passer. And yeah, I think Coronado

1452
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:40,599
would do really well with a player like that on

1453
01:03:40,679 --> 01:03:43,159
his line. Fun fact here, this is something I've been

1454
01:03:43,199 --> 01:03:46,639
touting with Matt Coronado all offseason. Corey, Corey schneiders track

1455
01:03:46,719 --> 01:03:49,400
data again. Matt Coronado. He led the entire league in

1456
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:53,199
offense originating in the neutral zone per sixty. Matt Coronado

1457
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:56,199
led the entire league and no one was even close.

1458
01:03:56,519 --> 01:03:58,639
And for you people out there, offense originating in the

1459
01:03:58,639 --> 01:04:00,599
neutral zone for sixty, it's just a measure of how

1460
01:04:00,639 --> 01:04:04,360
effective players are at turning neutral zone possession into actual

1461
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:07,039
offense once they cross the blue line. And Coronado was

1462
01:04:07,079 --> 01:04:09,880
the best at that. He was the best. So that's neat.

1463
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:12,519
I think it's a potential predictor of success, right, It's

1464
01:04:12,559 --> 01:04:15,960
a small p potential predictor for success, but it's just

1465
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,360
a neat data point. I think the players that excel

1466
01:04:18,559 --> 01:04:21,039
in that metric kind of are able to sustain offensive

1467
01:04:21,039 --> 01:04:24,440
possessions and actually do something with them, interesting stuff. I

1468
01:04:24,559 --> 01:04:26,880
like the opportunity coming for Coronado. We've got a projective

1469
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,960
for twenty four goals, twenty seven assists, fifty one points.

1470
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:31,880
Pretty damn nice. And what do you guys? So what's

1471
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:32,679
your take on Coronado.

1472
01:04:34,119 --> 01:04:35,039
Speaker 5: I love Coronado.

1473
01:04:35,119 --> 01:04:36,559
Speaker 4: This is definitely what I'm gonna agree with you on

1474
01:04:36,639 --> 01:04:39,480
because I've loved him ever since his draft season. Thought

1475
01:04:39,519 --> 01:04:42,320
he was one of the best picks. Certainly where he went,

1476
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:44,760
which was a little bit later than I thought he

1477
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:48,199
should go, and he is. He's a scorer, he's fast,

1478
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,599
he's You mentioned all the things the transition data like

1479
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:53,880
underrated playmaker, and I think a big thing is exactly

1480
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:55,920
what you said. He did not play with their best

1481
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:58,920
and Calari doesn't have that many great players, to be fair,

1482
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:03,239
but he certainly if he plays with Cadre and Huberto

1483
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,079
most if not all, the season, I think he could.

1484
01:05:06,239 --> 01:05:08,119
I think I take the over on fifty one. Actually,

1485
01:05:08,239 --> 01:05:10,159
I think that's a good place to start. I think

1486
01:05:10,199 --> 01:05:12,320
he can hit that. And where you're getting him is

1487
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,920
found money. He should for sure be on that top

1488
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:16,920
power play and I think that they could do a

1489
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,599
little bit better. I think the Flames were struggling with

1490
01:05:19,719 --> 01:05:21,519
what do we embrace a little bit of this youth?

1491
01:05:21,559 --> 01:05:23,599
Did we stick with some of these older guys? And

1492
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:25,599
I think that they saw that if they play the

1493
01:05:25,599 --> 01:05:28,000
way that they want to play, this aggressive, fast style,

1494
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,559
they can be a competitive and fun team, and I

1495
01:05:30,559 --> 01:05:32,360
think that that's what they're going to be this season.

1496
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:36,119
Especially really excited about Zamee Perrek. He's another one that

1497
01:05:36,199 --> 01:05:38,960
I think you could probably get way late in your redrafts,

1498
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,199
and I think there's a very good chance that he

1499
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:44,719
ends up being a very good top offensive defenseman. Just

1500
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,880
depends on how many even straight minutes he can get,

1501
01:05:47,199 --> 01:05:49,880
But I think that there's a world where he could

1502
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:52,000
help that power play really cook. Not that there's anything

1503
01:05:52,039 --> 01:05:54,119
wrong with Vigor and Anderson, but zame Perek is on

1504
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:57,199
a completely different level. He might not get there this year,

1505
01:05:57,239 --> 01:05:58,960
but when he does, that power play is going to

1506
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,760
be very elevated. And Coronado is a big piece of

1507
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,719
that too, Like he is for sure one of the

1508
01:06:03,719 --> 01:06:05,239
best offensive players on that team.

1509
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:06,079
Speaker 5: So I like it a lot.

1510
01:06:07,119 --> 01:06:10,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I'm fired up. I'm all about Matt Coronado.

1511
01:06:10,159 --> 01:06:13,840
I'm all about those right Calgary Flames. Yeah, you don't

1512
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:15,800
have to You don't have to tell me twice. But

1513
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:17,639
you got another guy here, don't you, Blake.

1514
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,519
Speaker 2: Let's hear your fourth one. You bet your sweet bit

1515
01:06:20,599 --> 01:06:25,000
by buddy, I'm talking about Jackson Blake of the Carolina Hurricanes. Yeah.

1516
01:06:25,119 --> 01:06:27,760
I've done some digging in on Jackson Blake here after

1517
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:31,400
he signed his contract. I started to, yeah, just become interested,

1518
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,719
like what are they seeing in this player? And there's

1519
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:35,679
some bits and pieces here to Jackson Blake, some really

1520
01:06:35,679 --> 01:06:38,960
interesting stuff. Obviously an eventful summer for him. Signed seven year,

1521
01:06:39,079 --> 01:06:42,960
fifty six million dollars deal. My god, I'm pretty darn nice.

1522
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,840
Obviously there's some captionanigan's going on there so they can

1523
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,840
defer salary before the CBA kicks in. What a coup

1524
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,280
to lock up a young player like this for good

1525
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,480
money in a contract that's probably going to age pretty well.

1526
01:06:53,519 --> 01:06:55,960
I like the signing. I think it's a glowing endorsement

1527
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,199
from Eric Tolski obviously like what he saw from Jackson

1528
01:06:58,199 --> 01:07:00,000
Blake last year, especially towards the end of the year

1529
01:07:00,119 --> 01:07:02,599
and into the playoffs. And that's what gets me excited

1530
01:07:02,599 --> 01:07:05,360
about the potential for Blake moving forward. Found himself on

1531
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,280
power play one right in the last quarter of the season,

1532
01:07:07,519 --> 01:07:09,840
once they move Ranto out of there. Right, Jackson Blake

1533
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:11,559
was on the power play and it was pretty good.

1534
01:07:12,039 --> 01:07:14,280
Had it all off in the postseason as well. We're

1535
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,000
gonna have to see what happens now we got Nikolai

1536
01:07:16,039 --> 01:07:18,880
Eilers in town. He's definitely taking a power play one spot,

1537
01:07:19,119 --> 01:07:21,639
so to me, on the top power play, it's gonna

1538
01:07:21,639 --> 01:07:24,719
between Jackson Blake and Andre Speshnikov, and that's just gonna

1539
01:07:25,039 --> 01:07:27,239
We're gonna have to see what RBA Rod Brandanmore wants

1540
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:30,519
to do there. Svetch has been in the doghouse for years, right,

1541
01:07:30,639 --> 01:07:32,519
but he just had a really good playoffs, didn't he.

1542
01:07:32,719 --> 01:07:35,440
So I feel like because of the playoffs that Svetch

1543
01:07:35,559 --> 01:07:38,599
just had, he's probably earmarked for top power play right

1544
01:07:38,639 --> 01:07:41,079
off the bat. But I think it's a pretty short

1545
01:07:41,119 --> 01:07:44,039
lease with Svetch, Right, he's Rod Brandanmore is shown to

1546
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:46,800
move him down the line up pretty consistently. Right, he's

1547
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:50,039
either top line with Ajo or now he's moved down

1548
01:07:50,079 --> 01:07:52,880
to the third line with Jordan Martin Nuke, right, which

1549
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,199
is not where I want to see Speshnikov playing. But

1550
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:58,679
Spesshiankov's loss Jackson Blake's game. I think Jackson Blake is

1551
01:07:58,719 --> 01:08:00,719
gonna be top six for sure, and I think he

1552
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,440
has a really good shot at power play one. We've

1553
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:06,760
projected him for only eleven power play points this upcoming season,

1554
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:08,880
but that's light, right, there's a lot of room to

1555
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,280
grow there. We baked in the fact that him and

1556
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,599
Svatch are probably going to be switching up and Jackson

1557
01:08:13,639 --> 01:08:15,960
Blake's not going to get the full treatment all year,

1558
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,119
but he can do it, and they like him in

1559
01:08:18,119 --> 01:08:20,479
that position. Rod Brindemore likes him in that position. They

1560
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:22,760
did it when the games mattered the most, they had

1561
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:24,640
Jackson Blake out there playing on the power play. So

1562
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:26,720
I really like that. A couple other quick things I

1563
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,319
like about Jackson Blake really adept at setting up scoring

1564
01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:32,039
chances for his teammates all three zones I talked about.

1565
01:08:32,079 --> 01:08:33,920
They had the Jackson Blake in the top twenty five

1566
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,520
in the entire league and scoring chance assists per sixty right,

1567
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,640
not goals, but just setting up scoring chances for his teammates.

1568
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:42,840
He was in the top twenty five in the entire league.

1569
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,399
That's really nice for a young player, a rookie, right.

1570
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,720
He only had thirty four points in eighty games, but

1571
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,319
he was in the top twenty five and setting up

1572
01:08:49,319 --> 01:08:51,720
scoring chances for his line mat It's really nice thing there.

1573
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:54,720
That's a great metric, just to see how goals are scored. Right.

1574
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,359
He's also incredibly involved on the ford check right with

1575
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:00,199
fits in beautifully with Rod the Bod's chaos to me

1576
01:09:00,199 --> 01:09:00,960
here in Caroline up.

1577
01:09:01,119 --> 01:09:01,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1578
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 2: Again, just another example of a player that's doing a

1579
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,239
lot of good things under the hood that I think

1580
01:09:05,359 --> 01:09:08,399
is potentially walking into some good opportunity. Talk to me

1581
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:10,399
about Jackson Blake. What do you think his potential is

1582
01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:11,279
to this upcoming season.

1583
01:09:12,279 --> 01:09:15,640
Speaker 3: First of all, again the appeal to authority. The Hurricanes

1584
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:19,039
paid him, and the Hurricanes tend to know what they're doing,

1585
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,800
so that is good. We had our guests on the

1586
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,520
Carolina Hurricanes, Ryan Hankel of the Hockey News come on

1587
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:26,800
a few weeks ago, and he was a little up

1588
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,880
and down on whether Blake would end up locking in

1589
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:34,000
that first line position with the other moving pieces around there.

1590
01:09:34,039 --> 01:09:36,760
But Blake played the last quarter of the season with

1591
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:40,399
Jarvis and Aho and he thrived and they thrived. So

1592
01:09:41,079 --> 01:09:42,359
why would you do something different?

1593
01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1594
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 3: I mean like you say, and just because maybe camp

1595
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,479
gets broken one way doesn't mean that for good or

1596
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:51,119
for ill, it's going to stay that way for the

1597
01:09:51,119 --> 01:09:53,840
whole season. He's going to get good deployment throughout the year.

1598
01:09:54,279 --> 01:09:55,079
Speaker 2: They value him.

1599
01:09:55,119 --> 01:09:57,560
Speaker 3: Look, if you're worried about the fact that he only

1600
01:09:58,159 --> 01:10:01,239
listeners are worried about the fact that throughout last year

1601
01:10:01,279 --> 01:10:03,479
he only had thirty four points in eighty games. He

1602
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,399
didn't have a ton of minutes, and he was less

1603
01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:09,119
than one year removed from living in North Dakota. People,

1604
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:12,800
it takes almost a full year to thaw after you've

1605
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,159
lived in North Dakota. When you move down south, your

1606
01:10:15,279 --> 01:10:17,760
joints are still sluggish. Point, So it's going to take

1607
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:21,119
a while. Yeah, you gotta be a little sluggish, little sluggish.

1608
01:10:21,119 --> 01:10:23,199
She gotta get going again. I've lived up in the North,

1609
01:10:23,439 --> 01:10:26,520
so yeah. But he really improved as the year went along.

1610
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,000
That's what you want to see. And this guy's barely

1611
01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:31,079
tasted the NHL so far.

1612
01:10:31,279 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 2: I like it.

1613
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 3: I don't know how strong he will go this year,

1614
01:10:36,159 --> 01:10:38,560
but certainly is a long term play. And I also

1615
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,880
think just for the value of a guy who could

1616
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:44,239
be on that first line in Carolina could be powerplaying

1617
01:10:44,279 --> 01:10:46,960
one in Carolina. You have to value that because he's

1618
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:48,159
shown he can produce with it.

1619
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 4: You know, I, Jesse, I disappointed you mispronounced North Dakota

1620
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:53,039
by a lot.

1621
01:10:54,159 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 3: You started saying I mispronounced something, and I'm like, how

1622
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:58,359
did I screw up Jackson Blake?

1623
01:10:58,560 --> 01:10:59,199
Speaker 5: I screw up.

1624
01:10:59,079 --> 01:11:03,600
Speaker 3: Every game on this Jackson Blake is a layup man Black.

1625
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:04,640
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1626
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,520
Speaker 3: Oh there you go, thank goodness.

1627
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:08,880
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, man, No, I like it, Blake.

1628
01:11:09,079 --> 01:11:12,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. Any last thoughts on this upcoming season are you? Oh?

1629
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:13,279
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Victor.

1630
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say about Jackson Blake. I totally agree.

1631
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I love this guy.

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Speaker 4: I think he should have won the Hobe Baker a

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couple of years ago. His season at North Quota was incredible,

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and I thought he would be good. I did not

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think he would be this good right off the bat

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in the NHL, he was so impressive. In fact, if

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you look at his evolving hockey metrics, he was literally

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the third best and expected gold differential on the team

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behind Ajo and Jarvis. And you might think, oh, he

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just he played with them the whole season.

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Speaker 3: No, he did not.

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Speaker 4: He only played with them about twenty percent of the time,

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and you have to see the rest of the guys

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he was playing with Kakayami, Jack Drewy Nikoff, all these

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other guys, Like he is incredible and not just offensively,

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which is very good offensively, but defensively he's picking guys

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01:11:58,279 --> 01:12:01,560
pockets like a seventeen years like he is just really

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smart and that's why he's getting so much ice time.

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Rob Branda More loves him, and I was also looking

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at this in terms of just offensive generation. He was

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on a per sixty rate in the same neighborhood as

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Miko Rontinen, which is incredible considering how amazing Rontin it is.

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So yeah, this guy's awesome. I'm not sure he gets

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top power play, as you were saying, Blake, but I

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do think he's gonna be with Aha and Jarvis. I

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01:12:25,399 --> 01:12:28,039
think he compliments that line just so well, so at

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01:12:28,079 --> 01:12:31,239
even strength he'll probably get a lot and then hopefully

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:33,680
be able to get some power points to push his

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point totals a little bit higher. I think in general

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he suffers from the Carolina Hurricanes problem of just having

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01:12:39,159 --> 01:12:41,760
too many good forwards that they spread around, but the

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01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:44,079
player himself it's great. It's one of those things where

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I don't really like to prioritize Hurricanes players early in

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the draft, but for streamers or later in the draft,

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01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:52,840
it's great because they all get such similar opportunity except

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for Aho and Jarvis, but the rest are pretty even,

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01:12:56,039 --> 01:12:58,039
and so you don't want that at the beginning, but

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you definitely want that at the end.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff, Blake. This has been a great tour through

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some of our guys. With the reactions flying back and forth,

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everybody knows where to find you. Nonetheless, I'm gonna let

1672
01:13:12,199 --> 01:13:14,159
you say it, how do people get a hold of

1673
01:13:14,279 --> 01:13:17,600
mister Blake Kremer's work out there in the public domain?

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01:13:18,159 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 2: You bet, buddy, appreciate that. Hit us up on X

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01:13:21,079 --> 01:13:23,399
I'm at Blake creamer ag. Also on Blue Sky at

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play creamer Ag. We at Apples and Genos at Apples.

1677
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,039
Gino's hit that up as well. We're doing stuff over

1678
01:13:29,079 --> 01:13:31,880
there also. I'd love to just quickly promote we just

1679
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released a Fantasy Hockey draft guide. It's one hundred and

1680
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:37,640
sixty seven page document. It's basically what I did with

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01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,239
my summer right. It was really fun. We got yeah,

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01:13:40,279 --> 01:13:42,359
like three hundred and seventy five over three hund and

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01:13:42,399 --> 01:13:46,319
seventy five player projections, team previews for all thirty two teams, Sleepers, Busts.

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It's licensed, it dices, it's Julie as it does it

1685
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:53,319
all right. Yeah, if you're interested in that, definitely all

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01:13:53,399 --> 01:13:55,199
head on over to the Apples and Geno's Patreon. It's

1687
01:13:55,199 --> 01:13:57,640
a standalone purchase there, you can do that. I'm gonna

1688
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:00,399
send YouTube studs a couple of free copies because you're

1689
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:02,920
just so awesome at life, all right, and you can

1690
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:05,319
help your feedback on that. But I really appreciate you

1691
01:14:05,319 --> 01:14:07,039
guys having me on the show. This is great work

1692
01:14:07,079 --> 01:14:09,159
you do here. I've really enjoyed listening to you all

1693
01:14:09,199 --> 01:14:11,920
off season here with your beat reporter interviews and your

1694
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,000
elite banter. So shout out to you guys here in

1695
01:14:14,039 --> 01:14:16,640
fancy Hockey Life. Hey, I'll tell you what, Blake.

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01:14:17,039 --> 01:14:19,279
Speaker 3: You don't need to do that because your co host

1697
01:14:19,399 --> 01:14:22,159
sent it to us last week, so we've been enjoying it. Man,

1698
01:14:22,159 --> 01:14:25,560
this is some professional looking production, I'll tell you what.

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This is some slick graphics work here, and not only that,

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01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:32,600
but great information. So yeah, I'm using it already. I'm

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01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,600
going to use it to try to beat Victor in

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01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:35,920
every league I play against him in.

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01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,159
Speaker 2: I need some help to beat Victor because he basically

1704
01:14:39,199 --> 01:14:41,279
just rinsed me the entire year last year and in

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01:14:41,359 --> 01:14:43,279
multiple leagues. So I don't know what's going on, Victor?

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01:14:43,319 --> 01:14:45,840
What did I ever do to you?

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01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:47,359
Speaker 4: Now? I think you might have got me in one

1708
01:14:47,359 --> 01:14:50,119
of them, now great or one? Didn't you beat me

1709
01:14:50,119 --> 01:14:52,279
in that one? But we were randomly in several different

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01:14:52,319 --> 01:14:52,840
leagues together.

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01:14:53,079 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 5: How that had ended up?

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01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:57,600
Speaker 4: But yeah, it sometimes, like you said, so much luck involved.

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01:14:58,119 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, you had a great season.

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01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 5: Nobody, thank you?

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01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,039
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for coming on.

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01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:15,159
Speaker 3: Big your Nuno. We are on the verge of the

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season and many of us are doing drafts, and for

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that there is a special offer we have for some

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Speaker 5: What is it?

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Speaker 3: That's right?

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Speaker 4: Jesse Dabber Hockey gave us a couple of guides earlier

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in the summer, and they have generously decided to give

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us several more free copies of their amazing Fantasy Hockey Guide.

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Speaker 5: It is the Bible.

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01:15:37,199 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 4: It's amazing, has so many projections, breakdowns by team, schedule analysis,

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01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,199
amazing content in there. I use it as my bible

1728
01:15:45,199 --> 01:15:48,800
to reference everything. What's going on it's constantly updated based

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on different news that's happening.

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Speaker 5: How can you get yours?

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01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:54,199
Speaker 4: All you have to do is leave us a five

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01:15:54,239 --> 01:15:56,720
star review that's new as of when you heard this

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01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,960
message on Apple Podcasts or the podcast app of your choice.

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Send me a screenshot to me victor via email DM,

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on Discord, Twitter, or however you want to get it

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01:16:06,319 --> 01:16:09,520
to me. Make sure you can actually see your name

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01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:12,199
and the review in the screenshot so I can verify

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01:16:12,279 --> 01:16:14,119
who it is and that was you, and then we'll

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01:16:14,119 --> 01:16:16,520
select the winners from everyone who enters. Thanks so much

1740
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:18,079
and happy drafting.

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Speaker 3: Our shows brought to you by fantracks dot com. You

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So many different sports to play, so many different options

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guillotine draft this year. Is there a guillotine format, No,

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01:16:36,319 --> 01:16:39,000
not yet, but you can make it happen, and that's

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01:16:39,039 --> 01:16:42,399
what we're gonna do. We set ourselves up a twenty

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three team slow draft and are playing that out so

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you can do about anything. On fan tracks, there's also

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fantasy content. You can look for some positional ranks going

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up there right now. At Fantracks. Hq FHL's team is Legion.

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We have many people who are helping make things happen here.

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Tim Ryan, Shimohon and Kraftz are the commission team for

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the Tidy Leagues. The tidy is up and running. The

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waivers will have almost run by the time you listen

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01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:19,760
to this episode. Tony and Patrick leed scouts, making all

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01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:22,760
the scouting reports you here happen. Mike, Steven and Matt

1758
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:25,800
helped us out with show prep all summer long, and

1759
01:17:26,279 --> 01:17:28,600
I don't forget them. That's burned in my memory. How

1760
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:31,600
much good work those guys did. Brandon helps with the

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01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:35,960
website prospect Ranks visualization. So much going on there and

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01:17:36,199 --> 01:17:38,319
if you'd like to help, Victor would love to hear

1763
01:17:38,359 --> 01:17:41,439
from you in the discord, email or on social media.

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01:17:42,079 --> 01:17:45,720
Dabra Hockey Dabra Prospects sponsored the show. Victor's an editor there.

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01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:49,000
He writes the column The Journey, which you would like.

1766
01:17:49,079 --> 01:17:51,960
It's good prospect related content. I do a solo show

1767
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:54,319
called Dynasty Sports Life. I talk about all the different

1768
01:17:54,359 --> 01:17:58,039
Dynasty sports. This past week's episode was about some early

1769
01:17:58,119 --> 01:18:02,079
fantasy football dynasty players. Change our minds, follow us on

1770
01:18:02,119 --> 01:18:06,560
social media. Victor Nuno twelve is Victor's ex handle, Mine

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01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,560
is fan Hockey Life, or you go over to Blue Sky,

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01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:13,079
Jesse Severe's Mind and the One Victor with the one

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being in numeral is Victor's rate and review us, Apple pod, Spotify,

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01:18:18,039 --> 01:18:22,039
wherever else you get your podcast. Thanks for listening to

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01:18:22,239 --> 01:18:33,399
my guys. Until next time, keep living that fantasy hockey life.